Kumu Kahua is excited to present The Work,featuring the premiere of a new script:
Kumu Kahua is excited to present The Work,
featuring the premiere of a new script:
Fishing by Daniel A. Kelin II
Join your host Jason Kanda, for a hilarious good time with directors:
"Reigning Champion"
Reyn Afaga
and the
"Challenger"
Jonathan Clarke Sypert,
as they go head-to-head!
Audiences are invited to the next round of “The Work”—Kumu Kahua Theatre’s
hilarious head-to-head showdown between two directors. Join Jason Kanda, creator of The
Work as he hosts this raucous creative challenge. Right in front of the live audience, each director will be allowed a limited amount of time to stage the same unrehearsed scene from
playwright Daniel A. Kelin II, using the same actors. At the end of the showdown, the audience
gets to be the judge of who did it best!
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When: Monday, February 10th at 7 p.m
The Work with Fishing by Daniel A. Kelin II
will be presented at Kumu Kahua Theatre, located at 46 Merchant Street in downtown
Honolulu. Tickets are $5 each and available at the door— save a space now for one of the
hottest tickets in town (with seats known to sell out in hours!) by calling the box office at
(808) 536-4441 or buying tickets online. Entry opportunities for the Go Try PlayWrite
contest are ongoing. To learn more, visit www.kumukahua.org.
Daniel A. Kelin II has been affiliated with theatres and youth organizations in the US, across the Pacific and in India and awarded multiple fellowships, including three Fulbright-Nehru fellowships in India. His work highlights lesser known and underappreciated stories, collaborating with youth and adults to cultivate their ability to express themselves. Points of pride include: premiering his solo play ‘Shipwreck’d on the Body Beautiful’ at Kumu Kahua Theatre about a cross-culture encounter in mid-19th century that led to the first US public presentations of tattoos (honored with an acting Po‘okela); working with island storytellers on the book ‘Marshall Islands Legends and Stories;’ collaboratively devising performance events around social issues with multi-national casts of young artists in the Marshall Islands and in India; directing Kumu Kahua’s ‘Moa a Mo‘i’ (honored with a directing Po‘okela) and producing a shadow puppet film about Hawai‘i’s endemic kāhuli. The film, ‘After the Endling,’ was awarded a grant from Pacific Islanders in Communication and nominated for Best Short Film in the Hawaii International Film Festival 2022. The film has been featured in eight international film festivals as well as appearing on Hawaiian Airlines and PBS. His latest play, ‘Whorled Away,’ will be a part of a play development program in NYC this coming summer.
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Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, 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 Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, 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, Vacations Hawaiʻi, Zippy’s Restaurants, Highway Inn, Generations Magazine, CVS/Longs Drugs, HMSA, Hawaiian Electric, MonkeyPod, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.