Waverly Performance Studio
Rattlestick’s 2024-2025 season will usher in a new era of supporting theatrically expansive new works called the Waverly Performance Studio. This one-of-a-kind approach to the act of theater making will include commissioning support, multi-year development, and presentation commitments with week-long workshops with the entire creative team called Production Incubators, all building towards an eventual Off-Broadway premiere.
Sin Padre
by Arturo Luíz Soria
Directed by Danilo Gambini
January 2025
Sin Padre thrusts us into the heat of the kitchen where Turo drunkenly fumbles to make his Nonno's famous tomato sauce for his niece. Following the sudden death of his brother, he’s left to pick through the pieces of his life as he grapples with what it means to be a queer man thrust into a father figure role.
Arturo Luíz Soria is an Obie Award winning actor and writer. His solo show, Ni Mi Madre, premiered at Rattlestick Theater and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, Outer Circle Critics Award, a Drama League Award, and won the Obie Award for Best Performance. Ni Mi Madre will be playing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer at The Pleasance Theatre. Arturo received a NYSCA Grant and commission from Rattlestick Theatre to write his follow-up solo show, Sin Padre. And, recently received another commission from The Alcove New Play Development Program at the Lucille Lortel Theatre to work on a new play called a La Kasa Mita’echo. As an actor, Arturo made his Broadway acting debut in The Inheritance (Tony Award for Best Play) and was also seen Off-Broadway in Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons) and Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre). He can be seen on television in “Insatiable”, “The Blacklist”, “East New York", and “Found”. He holds an MFA from David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University. www.arturoluizsoria.com
Danilo Gambini is a director, writer, and producer, originally from São Paulo, Brazil. He is currently the Associate Artistic Director at Studio Theatre. Recent directing credits include the world premieres of Ni Mi Madre (Rattlestick/ OBIE Award Winner, Drama Desk Nom., NYT Critics Pick), and the musical Sabina (Portland Stage Maine, co-directed with Daniella Topol), as well as Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress at Yale Opera. His production of Agreste at Spooky Action Theater in DC has recently received six Helen Hayes Awards nominations, including Outstanding Director. Upcoming productions include WIPEOUT by Aurora Real de Asua, at Studio Theatre. Other credits include Fun Home, The Tempest, Rock Egg Spoon (Yale School of Drama), Agreste (Drylands), Bakkhai, The Swallow and the Tomcat, Truck (Yale Cabaret). Opera: Don Giovanni, Ariadne Auf Naxos, Eugene Onegin (Theatro São Pedro). Before Studio Theatre, he was the Associate Artistic Director at Rattlestick Theater, Co-Artistic Director at Yale Summer Cabaret, and a member of Roundabout Director’s Group. He has developed work at The Public Theater, Joe’s Pub, The Old Globe, NYTW, Ars Nova, Milwaukee Rep, Chautauqua Opera, Yale Opera, Gulfshore Playhouse, among others. Danilo holds an MFA in Directing from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, a BFA in Film and Television (Curso Superior do Audiovisual) and an artist diploma as an actor from the School of Dramatic Art (Escola de Arte Dramática – EAD) both from the University of São Paulo. www.danilogambini.com
Untitled Ballet About the Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Bar
Directed and Choreographed by Will Davis
Spring 2025
Artistic Director Will Davis will begin work with his collaborators on a brand new dance-theater piece about… the rise and fall of a lesbian bar.
Will Davis: As a director and choreographer, his work has been seen Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre, City Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Soho Rep. Regionally, his work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and ATC in Chicago where Davis previously served as Artistic Director. He received a Helen Hayes award for best direction for his work on Colossal at the Olney Theatre Center, was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for his direction of Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons, and is the recipient of a Princeton Arts Fellowship. Davis is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater.