Seesawing

Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn, Writer

Jonathan currently works at Idyllwild Arts Academy where he serves as the Director of College Counseling and Director of Arts Enterprise Laboratory. He grew up in Selma, Alabama and attended the University of Southern California, where he received both his BFA in Writing for Screen and Television and his Master of Professional Writing degree. He has performed multiple times at The Moth and for the Two Truths & A Lie podcast. His work has received staged readings and performances through Hollywood Fringe Festival, PlayGround LA, Exposition Review, Fast & Furious Festival, Laughing Pig Theatre’s Monologue Café, Paragon Festival, Crafton Hills College New Works Festival, Magnetic Theatre One Act Play Festival, Carrollwood Players, and Redwood City Co-Exist Festival.

Alina Phelan, Director

Credits: CTG Block Party & Theatre of NOTE: For the Love Of (or the Roller Derby Play). ICT: Dead Man’s Cell Phone, All In The Timing. Chalk Rep: Family Planning, Circle X: Lascivious Something. Open Fist: All Night Long, Love Water. Theatre of NOTE: Rio Hondo, Entropy, Niagara Falls, Hamlet: The First Quarto (Winner-Garland Award) I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Disassembly & Hearts Like Fists. TV: How to Get Away With Murder, Grey’s Anatomy, Shameless, Criminal Minds. Thank you to Kelly and her incredible team for putting this show together, I’m honored to be a part of it.

Meet the Cast

Jenny Soo, Melanie

Jenny holds a BFA from NYU and an MFA from A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard. She has performed in various theaters all over LA, including Gloria at the Echo Theater Company, for which she won a Stage Raw Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and was mentioned by the LA Times as one of the best of LA theater in 2018. Favorite LA theater credits include: Dry Land, Hot Cat and West Adams. Film/TV: Parks & Rec, LA to Vegas, and Reverie.

Yolanda Snowball, Emily

Yolanda is a graduate of Spelman College and has studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse and The American Conservatory Theater.

Yolanda's theatre credits include work with, The Theatre of Note, The Actor's Gang , Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Lower Depth Ensemble Theatre. Her television credits include, This is Us,

NCIS, Good Trouble, Fresh Off the Boat,

Parks and Rec, American Horror Story ,

and Gray's Anatomy. Yolanda is honored to be apart of this production .