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Capital T presents the Austin premiere of
Killer Joe
by Tracy Letts
Directed by Mark Pickell
June 4th-27th
Thursday-Saturday at 8pm
Hyde Park Theatre
511 W 43rd St. Autsin, Texas 78751
Tickets $15-$25 (Sliding Scale)
www.capitalT.org or 479-PLAY
running time: 2 hours with one 15 minute intermission
Heads roll, shatter and blow in KILLER JOE, the savagely funny, pitch-dark comedy by
Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright Tracy Letts (AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY).
The play focuses on the Smith family, a greedy, vindictive clan of trailer-trash Texans
who hatch a plan to murder their estranged, naggy, alcoholic matriarch to cash in on
her insurance policy. Unable to bring themselves to do the deed, they hire Killer Joe
Cooper (Ken Bradley), a full-time cop and part-time contract killer. Once he steps into
their trailer, their simple plan quickly spirals out of control.
Killer Joe has a killer cast including multiple B Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table
Nominees and Winners Ken Bradley and Joey Hood as well as the talented chops of
Katie DeBuys, Melissa Recalde, and Joe Reynolds. The mix of these great actors and
this dark script could be volatile.
Warning: Killer Joe contains nudity, cigarette smoke, gunshots, violence, and adult situations
About the Play
Originally staged at the famed Steppenwolf Theatre KILLER JOE has gone on to be
performed in 15 countries in 12 languages since its Chicago debut. It won top honors
at the Edinburgh, Scotland, Fringe Theater Festival in '94, then played to sellout
audiences at London's The Buck and West Theater during a four-month run in which it
won the Time Out Award as the Best Play of 1995. In 1998 it found an off-Broadway
home at the 200-seat Soho Playhouse.
About the Playwright
Tracey Letts is a Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright as well as an accomplished
actor. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his searing family drama AUGUST: OSAGE
COUNTY. His other plays include THE MAN FROM NEBRASKA (Pulitzer Nomination),
BUG (Made into a feature film with Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr.), and most
recently SUPERIOR DONUTS. He is a company member of Steppenwolf Theatre in
Chicago. His mother, Billie Letts (an accomplished novelist WHERE THE HEART IS) said
of his work "Everybody in Tracy's stories gets naked or dead."
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About the Cast
Killer Joe - Kenneth Wayne Bradley
Kenneth has worked as an actor in the Austin area since 1991.
Kenneth is a core company member of Hyde Park Theatre where
his more recent roles include Ariel in THE PILLOWMAN which
earned him a Critics Table Award, Ham in HAM, Carl in GLORY
OF LIVING and Lance in SOMETHING SOMEONE
SOMEPLACE ELSE. Kenneth also works with some of Austin’s
most noted theatre companies. Recently, he was Gould in the
Austin Playhouse production of SPEED THE PLOW, Ervin in a
Chick and A Dude’s BRASS RING, Cassius in the Austin
Shakespeare Festival's version of JULIUS CAESAR and
participated in the ‘09 Austin Scriptworks, Out Of Ink Festival
(Time Steps) where he was seen in HARROWING by Kathy
Catmull and COWBOY FANTASIA by Sarah Saltwick. In
February of this year, Kenneth played Abner in the premier of a
one-man show which he wrote called WICKER CHAIRS,
directed by Ellie McBride.
A Screen Actor's Guild member, Ken has appeared the feature films Stop Loss, Holy Hell, Living The Life, No Pain No
Gain, Hope Floats, Little Boy Blue, The Burden, Making Change, Two Mothers For Zachary, (an ABC Movie Of The
Week), Junior, Martha, Room which ran at both the Sundance and the Cannes film Festivals, and Last Lullaby which
will premier in Louisiana later this year. He has also appeared as the Doctor who delivers the bad news to Travis Tritt in
the highly lauded music video of the smash hit country song Tell Me I was Dreaming. Kenneth has been seen on
television as Gary Powers the Alabama Recruiter in two episodes of Friday Night Lights. He has also starred in
episodes of Prison Break, Walker Texas Ranger, and America's Most Wanted. Kenneth has also appeared in several
national television commercials including Celebrex with golfer Tom Kite, and Prilosec OTC which was filmed for the
purpose of airing during the 2004 Superbowl. Kenneth has a degree in Fine Arts from Sam Houston State University and
studied acting under Yale University Professor Jim Miller.
Chris - Joey Hood
Joey is an Hyde Park Theatre core company member. This is his
first appearance with Capital T Theatre. He was most recently
seen in HPT's production of Bombs in Your Mouth by Corey
Patrick. Also a member of Rude Mechs, Joey has been seen in
productions including Have You Ever Been Assassinated? The
Water Principle, The Glory of Living (Austin Critics Table
Nomination Best Actor) Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Austin
Critics Table Nomination Best Supporting Actor) The
Metamorphosis (B Iden Payne Nomination Best Actor) Blur (B
Iden Payne Nomination Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy), Fish
(B Iden Payne Nomination) and Stadium Devildare. Joey is
originally from South Mississippi and has been treading Austin
stages since 1997.
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Ansel - Joe Reynolds
Killer Joe marks Joe's first appearance on an Austin stage and his
first collaboration with Captial T. Joe Reynolds has acted
regionally at Yale Rep, (The Skin of Our Teeth and The Beaux
Strategem), Utah Shakespeare Festival, (Henry IV, Comedy of
Errors and The Winters Tale) and The St. Louis MUNY Theatre
in 1776. In Los Angeles he was seen in Texmas at Theatre Three,
Absolution at The Court Theatre, U.S.A. at The Met Theatre,
Haplet: Prince of Brooklyn (co-author) at The Globe Playhouse
and many others. On television he appeared on Frasier, Medium,
Deep Space Nine and State of Grace. He won best actor at the
Chicago ALT Film Festival in the indie film Dead Dogs. He holds
a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in acting
from Yale University.
Sharla - Katie DuBuys
Kate is a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico and a graduate of
Northwestern University, currently working toward an MFA in
acting at UT. Last summer, Kate appeared at the Texas
Shakespeare Festival as Olivia in Twelfth Night and Portia in
Julius Caesar. Most recently at UT, Kate played Titania in A
Midsummer Night's Dream and Aglaya in The Idiot. Some of her
favorite past roles include: “Gwendolen” in The Importance of
Being Earnest, “Cleopatra” in Antony and Cleopatra, “Helga” in
Katzelmacher, “Claire Gurney” in The Ruling Class, and “The
Stepdaughter” in Six Characters in Search of an Author. This is
her first collaboration with Capital T.
Dottie - Melissa Recalde
Melissa Recalde is entering her 3rd and final year as a company
member of the M.F.A. Acting program at the University of Texas
at Austin. She is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University,
double majoring in both Theatre and English. Her favorite roles at
SFA include “Li’l Bit” in HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE,
“Nan/Lina” in THREE DAYS OF RAIN, "Grace" in STATES
OF GRACE and “Jeanie” in HAIR: THE AMERICAN
TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL. In Austin, she has most
recently been seen as “Helena” in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S
DREAM, “Hannah” and “Eva” in Capital T’s US premiere of
THE BIRD and THE BEE, “Varya” in the world premier of
Dostoievski’s THE IDIOT, and the David Mark Cohen New
Works Festival’s THE SEVEN. She can be seen next as
“Elizabeth” in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE in the B. Iden Payne
Theatre this fall. This marks her second collaboration with Capital
T Theatre Company.
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About Capital T Theatre Company
Capital T Theatre Company is an artist-driven company devoted to the transformation of both the artist and
the audience through a shared theatrical experience. Under the artistic direction of Mark Pickell, Capital T
strives to develop new talent by creating opportunities for artists of vision at an early stage in their career.
Capital T has met with great critical and popular success since its launch in 2006. Recently they produced the
US premiere of THE BIRD AND THE BEE by Al Smith and Matt Hartley as well as the Regional premiere of I
GOOGLE MYSELF by Jason Schafer. Last year they produced the Austin premiere of Samuel Beckett’s
HAPPY DAYS starring Katherine Catmull (Austin Critics Table Nomination for Outstanding Production of a
Comedy, and Actor in a Leading Role, B Iden Payne Nomination for Best Comedy, Supporting Actor, and
Katherine Catmull won Outstanding Leading Actor). Other productions include the August 2007 production of
MR. MARMALADE (B. Iden Payne nomination for outstanding actress in a comedy) the February 2007
production of LA DISPUTE (Austin Critics Table Award nomination for Best Production of a Comedy), as well
as the June 2006 production of A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY (Two B. Iden Payne nominations
and one Austin Critics Table Award nomination for acting).
Capital T Theatre is a sponsored project of the Austin Circle of Theatres. Capital T is funded in part by the
City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Special Note Warning: Killer Joe contains nudity, cigarette smoke, gunshots, violence, and adult situations
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