THE K OF D, an urban legend

About the Show:

Woolly company member Kimberly Gilbert (Martha, Josie & the Chinese Elvis) brings an entire town to vivid life in this riveting supernatural fable. After a reckless driver kills her twin brother, young Charlotte McGraw becomes a fascination to others when it appears she has received an eerie power from his dying kiss. Gilbert delivers a dazzling tour de force performance in this world premiere.

“DYNAMIC…a tour de force…Gilbert is understated yet MAGNETIC…sheer storytelling pleasure”
– The Washington Post

“Gilbert shimmeringly portrays all 12 characters with protean ease…director Vreeke makes the language dance like water beads on a hot skillet”
– The Washington Times

“brilliantly captured by a single actor…[Gilbert] brings passion & honesty to her town full of characters…
a beautifully crafted script”
– DC Theatre Scene

“a spooky, richly-layered mystery…as much a triumph of staging, tone and mood as it is of story…[Gilbert is] one of DC’s most prodigious onstage talents”
– DCist.org

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Who's Who

PLAYWRIGHT

LAURA SCHELLHARDT received her MFA in playwriting from Brown University under the direction of Paula Vogel. Her plays have been produced in New York (SPF, The Hangar), Washington, DC (The Kennedy Center), Seattle (ACT, Seattle Repertory Theatre), Chicago (Northlight Theatre, Citadel Theatre, New Leaf Theatre, Serendipity Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop), Providence (Trinity Repertory Company, Brown University), Minneapolis (Theatre Limina), North Carolina (Center for Performing Arts), and Provincetown, Massachusetts (Provincetown Theatre Company, Provincetown Rep). Original works include THE K OF D, THE CHAIR, COURTING VAMPIRES, SHAPESHIFTER, THE OUTFIT (Jeff Award Nominee), INHERITANCE, JE NE SAIS QUOI, and SEARCHING FOR LOCHNESS. Adaptations include THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK, and CREOLE FOLKTALES. She is a 2007-08 Jerome Playwriting Fellow, a recipient of the New Play Award from ACT in Seattle, a 2005 Dramatist Guild Playwriting Fellow; she also participated in the 2006 SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab. THE K OF D was workshopped as part of the 2006 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference and will be produced by Woolly Mammoth in winter of 2008. Her play, THE CHAIR, will receive a workshop at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence as part of the 2007-8 TCG Playwriting Residency. She is also the author of “Screenwriting for Dummies.” Laura currently teaches playwriting at Northwestern University, and is the director of Northlight Theatre’s education academy.

CAST

KIMBERLY GILBERT is one of Woolly Mammoth's newest company members. She has been seen in Woolly's Martha, Josie & the Chinese Elvis (Helen Hayes nomination), Big Death & Little Death, and Cooking With Elvis. Other DC credits include: Let X with Taffety Punk Theatre Company, A Light In The Storm at The Kennedy Center, Othello at the Folger Theatre, By Tooth Or By Tongue at Source Theatre and Antony and Cleopatra at Washington Shakespeare Company. Kimberly is a graduate of the 2001 class of The Shakespeare Theatre's Academy for Classical Acting.

 

Schedule & Prices

 

January/February

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
13	14	15	16 8pm PWYC	17 8pm	18 8pm Club Woolly	19 8pm
20 7pm	21	22	23	24 8pm	25 8pm	26 8pm
27 7pm	28	29	30	31 8pm	Feb 1 8pm	2 8pm
3 7pm	4	5	6	7 8pm	8 8pm	9 8pm
10 7pm

 

General Admission:

• Regular price: $18
• Ages 25 and under / Subscribers: $15
• PLEASE NOTE: there is no late seating for this production

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Directions & Parking

Address:

641 D Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

Nearby landmarks:

Woolly Mammoth is located in the bustling Penn Quarter neighborhood on D street between Oyamel and Rasika restaurants, around the corner from TicketPlace and down the street from Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh theatre. We are two blocks north of the National Archives and National Gallery of Art and two blocks south of the Verizon Center and the Smithsonian American Art Museum/Portrait Gallery.

Metro

Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter (Yellow & Green lines) — one block away
Gallery Place (Red, Yellow & Green lines) — two blocks away, use Verizon Center exit to 7th & F.

Metrobus

The 70, 71, D1, D3, and D6 buses stop at the corner of 7th & E.
The P1, P2, P6, 13A, 13B, 13F, 13G, and 54 buses stop at 7th & Pennsylvania.
Not all of these buses have the same route for both directions, so please use WMATA's Trip Planner at www.wmata.com

Parking

LAZ, on D Street, directly across from the theatre, offers a $10 rate if you mention you're going to Woolly Mammoth.

There is limited metered street parking in the Penn Quarter near Woolly Mammoth, in addition to the following parking garages:

• Interpark Liberty Place, 325 7th St. NW. Open late during Woolly productions.
• Colonial Parking, 601 Pennsylvania Ave (entrance at 6th & C). Open until midnight Monday - Saturday and until 11 pm Sunday, $10 flat evening and weekend rate.*
• Interpark, 616 E St NW. Open until 11pm Sunday - Friday and 1am Saturday, $9/hour (maximum $20).

* Limited facilities for mobility-impaired patrons; please click here for more information on accessibility.

Garage prices and hours subject to change without notice

Driving Directions

From Virginia via I-395: When crossing the river bear left towards the 14th Street exit. Follow 14th Street, until Constitution Avenue and take a right. Turn left on 6th Street and another left onto D Street NW. (Note, earlier directions indicated the 12th Street Exit, which is currently closed for construction.)

From Virginia via I-66: Take I-66 into the District when it becomes US-50. Turn left onto 7th St NW. Turn right onto D St NW.

From Bethesda, Rockville, Potomac and points west: Reach Wisconsin Ave., NW via either Interstate 270 and River Road or Rockville Pike (which becomes Wisconsin Ave.) Remain on Wisconsin Ave. until reaching Massachusetts Ave., NW just south of the National Cathedral. Take Massachusetts all the way to 9th St. Turn right on 9th. Turn left on D St.

From Rt. 50, Baltimore and points east: Reach New York Ave., NE via either Rt. 50, I95 or the Baltimore Washington Parkway. Remain on New York Ave. all the way downtown to 6th St., NW. Turn left on 6th St. Turn right on D St.