The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow by Rolin Jones directed by Kirsten Brandt, The Old Globe Theatre

Scenic Design by Michelle Riel, Costumes by Mary Larson, Lighting by David Lee Cuthbert, Sound by Paul Peterson. stage managed by Diana Moser. Brendon Fox, casting director.

Seema Sueko, Steve Pickering, Kelly VanKirk, Jordan Baker, Zachary Quinto, Michelle Wong

PRESS:

San Diego Critics Circle Award for “Outstanding Direction”

…in the nimble hands of director Kirsten Brandt – yes, that’s the Sledgehammer Theatre boss – the Globe’s new production of this original, wide-awake script is more lively and insightful than SCR’s. It’s one terrific breakthrough for Brandt, the Old Globe and the immensely talented lead actress, now a San Diego resident, Seema Sueko… Brandt, with revisions from Jones, beautifully calibrates the revelations that deepen this mostly hilarious evening. -CRITIC’S CHOICE San Diego Union-Tribune

Under Kirsten Brandt’s sharp direction, the Cassius Carter rivals a circus for activity. Brandt, Sledgehammer Theatre’s artistic director, specializes in bold physicality… But Brandt does something else. In the wrong hands, the play could devolve into a jokefest, spoken in “Dude” and laced with, like, four-letter words. But Jenny Chow is also about roots and relativity, real and imagined fears. It resembles Stephen Wadsworth’s recent Don Juan, at the Old Globe, in that both alternate the comic and the deeply serious. And Brandt stages scenes, back-to-back, that shift from funny to touching on a dime.  -CRITIC’S CHOICE San Diego Reader

And as a drama, the play also provides intense emotional opportunities that permit director Kirsten Brandt and her astonishingly good cast to propel this young playwright’s words into that theatrical hyperspace where they sprout unsuspected dimensions. – CRITIC’S PICK, Backstage West