Kumu Kahua is excited to present The Work, featuring the premiere of a new script: Bro, Yes, Bro by Malia Wessel
Who will direct it better?
Join your host Jason Kanda, for a hilarious good time with directors
Julia Frazier and Malia Aiello, as they go head-to-head!
Each director is allowed a limited amount of time to stage the same prepared—but unrehearsed—scene by a local writer, using the same actors. While the actors have a chance to memorize their lines, the directors will not know the identities of the cast or tech crew until the night of the show. The directors will each have just 15 minutes to direct the actors in the same scene while you, the audience, look on.Then they perform their piece and you be the judge of who did it better!
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Malia Wessel grew up in Hawai’i and attended the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa for a bachelor’s in Theatre, before pursuing a Directing Masters at the University of East Anglia in England. In 2018, they received the Myrle Clark Award for Promising Undergraduate Creative Writer. The following year, their first play, Tony the Fantastic Fireman! Live: One Show Only, was nominated for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play. Since then, they have explored different areas of the theatre, such as design, directing, dramaturgy, and performance.
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Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by the NME Fund of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, the Island Insurance Foundation, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi, The AAPI Community Fund, The Richard Aadland Fund, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The John R. Halligan Charitable Fund, Spectrum/Charter Communications, ABC Stores, the Gloria Kosasa Gainsley Fund, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, H. Hawaii Media, Simply Storage, The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, Vacations Hawaiʻi, Zippy’s Restaurants, Hawaiian Electric, Edric Sakamoto, Ron and Rachel Heller, Lenard and Charlotte Chow, Hawaiʻi Conservatory of Performing Arts at Windward Community College, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.