ANN ARBOR – Theatre NOVA, Ann Arbor’s resident nonprofit professional theatre, is thrilled to announce the World Premiere of “Doctor Moloch” by Carla Milarch. The production runs July 12- Aug. 4, 2024.
It’s 2029, and tech startup VitalAI is about to launch the first humanoid robot doctor, capable of personalized medicines and single-cell cancer detection. There’s only one problem: the good doctor has no empathy. When actress Serena Blaise arrives to teach him how to “be human,” she gets much more than she bargained for.
Directed by Briana O’Neal, featuring Shelby Bradley, Louie Chen, and Artun Kircali. The production and design team includes scenic designer Paul Taylor, lighting designer Jeff Alder, costume designer Marley Boone, sound designer Kennikki Jones-Jones, assistant director Mady Thetard, and properties designer/ stage manager Carolyn Pierce.
Proud to produce the hottest new plays at affordable prices, Theatre NOVA offers a subscription program as the best way to see quality programs at a discounted price. Season subscriptions for our 10th anniversary season, which features all world premiere plays, are available now. Subscribers save on single ticket prices and guarantee their seats for all six plays through August 2025.
Subscribers get easy exchanges, no per-ticket fees, a pass to our Michigan Playwright’s Festival, and our eNewsletter, keeping them up to date on future events at the theatre. If patrons prefer to pick and choose which productions they’d like to see and when they would like to see them, our popular Flex Pass offers six tickets to use for any show and any date.
Theatre NOVA is located at 410 W Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48103. Performances are on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. General admission tickets for plays are $28. Theatre NOVA continues to make theatre accessible by offering pay-what-you-can tickets for those who need them. The general public may purchase tickets, memberships, flex passes, and subscriptions online at www.TheatreNOVA.org. Tickets may also be purchased in person one hour before each performance. Seating in the theatre will begin 30 minutes before each performance.
There is ample free parking and quick access to the city’s restaurants, bars, bakeries, and coffee shops. New patrons can find Theatre NOVA across Huron Street from Ann Arbor’s YMCA through a parking lot entrance on the north side of the street. For more information, visit www.TheatreNOVA.org.
Theatre NOVA’s mission is to raise awareness of the value and excitement of new plays and playwrights and to provide resources for playwrights to develop their craft by importing, exporting, and developing new work.
Carla Milarch (Playwright) is Founding Artistic Director of Theatre NOVA. As a dramaturg, director and artistic director, she has brought over 25 brand new plays to world premieres, as well as hundreds to staged readings, including those at the Michigan Playwrights Festival, the Fireside New Play Festival, the National New Play Network (NNPN) National Showcase of New Plays, and the Kennedy Center’s MFA playwright’s showcase. She served as a board member on the NNPN for 10 years, and co-founded the Michigan Equity Theatre Alliance, on which she served as Board President from 2011-2014. Carla’s love and experience for both sides of the stage have taken her from producing theater at The Barn Theater in Port Sanilac Michigan, to co-founding a theater in Amarillo, TX with her Purchase classmates, to working at MiraMax Films in New York City, to helping establish Performance Network as an artistic leader in Michigan, to producing theater in a barn again, this time in the middle of a world class city, at Theatre NOVA. She is a proud resident of Ann Arbor, where she lives with her husband Phil Powers and son, William Tyrone, a proud producer of regional theater, and a proud advocate of the American New Play.
Briana O’Neal (Director) is a stage manager, designer, and director who has been working with Theatre NOVA since 2019. She is a proud graduate of Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts and Political Science. Some of her favorite credits with Theatre NOVA include directing What the Constitution Means to Me and Splattered!; stage managing Arabic to English, Apple Season, The Language Archive, Sanctuary City, and Death of a Driver; and designing sound for Fortune and the ripple, the wave, that carried me home. She is so proud of the work being done at Theatre NOVA and loves helping bring new plays and voices to this community. She is so grateful to the cast and creative team for bringing this exciting and brand new play to life!
FACT SHEET
WHO:
Serena- Shelby Bradley
Mo- Louie Chen
Doctor Moloch- Artun Kircali
Director: Briana O’Neal
Stage Manager: Carolyn Pierce
Set design: Paul Taylor
Lighting design: Jeff Alder
Costume design: Marley Boone
Sound design: Kennikki Jones-Jones
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
“Doctor Moloch” by Carla Milarch
July 12-August 4, 2024
Fri., July 12, 8:00 p.m. Opening Night
Sat., July 13, 8:00 p.m. Student Night
Sun., July 14, 2:00 p.m.
Thurs., July 18, 8:00 p.m. – audience masked
Fri., July 19, 8:00 p.m.
Sat., July 20, 8:00 p.m.
Sun., July 21, 2:00 p.m.
Thurs., July 25, 8:00 p.m. – audience masked
Fri., July 26, 8:00 p.m.
Sat., July 27, 8:00 p.m.
Sun., July 28, 2:00 p.m.
Thurs., August 1, 8:00 p.m. – audience masked
Fri., August 2, 8:00 p.m.
Sat., August 3, 8:00 p.m.
Sun., August 4, 2:00 p.m.- Closing Night
WHERE:
Theatre NOVA, 410 W Huron, Ann Arbor, MI 48103
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