Current Company

B. Stanley (director) co-founded Theatre Du Jour in Washington, DC in 1982. An actor, director, pedagogue, puppeteer, and performance artist, he has performed with The Living Theatre, Theatre Du Jour, Protean Forms Collective, The Hungry Fetus, The Puppet Company, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Cherry Red Productions, and a myriad of unusual solo performances with his puppet, Ubu. From 1989 to 1993 he trained under Ingemar Lindh at the Institute for Scenkonst (Institute for Scenic Art) in Pontremoli, Italy, where his roles ranged from directing and acting to light design and pedagogy. He has directed every Theatre Du Jour performance except The Pig and Zoo Story, and performed in Bigger Than Life, Go, Blindness From Looking Too Hard at the Sun, Five Count, Ubu Cuckolded, Pygmalion, The Shadow, Poor Oedipus, Purlie Victorious, Zoo Story, I, Jack am the Knave of Hearts, Vincent, and Prepare for Democracy!

Kris Roth (actor/assistant director) began training with Theatre Du Jour in 1998 and has performed in Poor Oedipus, The Shadow, Last Minute, Ritual Play, Self Accusation, and The Accidental Pilgrim. She also worked as Assistant Director for There Is No More Firmament and directed Zoo Story. She was in the company that performed Self Accusation at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006.

Jerry Herbilla (actor) began working with Theatre Du Jour in 2006 and has performed in There Is No More Firmament, Self Accusation, Zoo Story, Nightmerica, Sandra and Salvador Rosa, The Mad: A Fracking Fairytale, To Have Done with the Judgement of God and The Accidental Pilgrim. He was in the company that performed Self Accusation at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006 and worked as production assistant for Prepare for Democracy!

Rachel Reed (actor/assistant director) worked from 1996 to 98, performing in Tower of Babel and Ubu Cuckolded. She was in the company that performed Tower of Babel at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. She returned in 2005, performing in There Is No More Firmament, Nightmerica, Sandra and Salvador Rosa, The Mad: A Fracking Fairytale, To Have Done with the Judgement of God, The Accidental Pilgrim, and assistant directing Self Accusation. She was in the company that performed Self Accusation at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006.

Jacquelyn Paulin (actor) first worked as assistant director on The Shadow in 2002. She began working in earnest in 2012, performing in Nightmerica, Sandra and Salvador Rosa and To Have Done with the Judgement of God.

Annetta Dexter Sawyer (actor) started in 2012, performing in Sandra and Salvador Rosa, The Mad: A Fracking Fairytale, and To Have Done With The Judgement Of God, and The Accidental Pilgrim.

Past Company Members

Daniel C. Awkward, Jr. (actor) worked from 1995 to 2003, performing in The Spurt of Blood, Tower of Babel, Pygmalion, Poor Oedipus, The Shadow, and Last Minute.

Jenifer B. Deal (actor) worked from 1993 to 94, performing in Tower of Babel and Five Count.

Joe (Ajax) Drayton (intern) worked from 1984 to 85 and contributed during performances of Blindness from Looking Too Hard At The Sun.

Amy Driesler (actor) worked from 1995 to 97, performing in The Spurt of Blood, Tower of Babel, and Ubu Cuckolded. She was in the company that performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996.

Michael Horsley (technician) worked with Theatre Du Jour from 1986 to 87 as light and sound technician for Blindness From Looking Too Hard At The Sun.

Tina K. Frantz (actor) worked from 1995 to 96, performing in The Spurt of Blood and Tower of Babel. She was in the company that performed Tower of Babel at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996.

Anders Kallstigen (actor) worked with Theatre Du Jour in 1993, performing in Tower of Babel.

George Kaperonis (actor/writer/co-founder) was a major force in Theatre Du Jour from its beginning in 1982 through 1987. The early performances of the group were his short plays, poems and songs combined to create the larger, named performances. He wrote and performed in Bigger Than Life, Go, Blindness From Looking Too Hard At The Sun, and Compilations 1 – 4.

Becky Kemper (actor) worked from 1995 to 97, performing in The Spurt of Blood, Tower of Babel, and Ubu Cuckolded. She was in the company that performed Tower of Babel at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996.

Martha Mendenhall (actor) started work with The Spurt of Blood in 1995 and continued, with breaks, until 2004. She performed in Poor Oedipus, The Shadow, and contributed to the creation of Ritual Play.

Lisa Miscio (assistant director/technician) started in 1985 as assistant director and technician for The Spurt of Blood; in 1998 she returned to work on Pygmalion and in 1999 directed The Pig, and from 2001 to 02 worked as technician on Poor Oedipus and The Shadow.

Michael Price (actor) worked with Theatre Du Jour from 1996 to 2001, performing in Ubu Cuckolded, Pygmalion, The Pig, Purlie Victorious, and Poor Oedipus.

Kenneth Plant (musician) played Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet live with each performance of Blindness From Looking Too Hard At The Sun, 1985 to 87.

Sian Richards (actor) worked with Theatre Du Jour from 2002 to 2005, performing in The Shadow, Last Minute and Ritual Play.

James K. Richardson (technician) served as light and sound technician, sometimes designer, from 2003 – 2006. He worked on Last Minute, Ritual Play, and There is No More Firmament.

Valerie S.S. Taylor (technician, costume designer) worked from 1983 to 87 handling light and sound both at home and on the road. She worked on Bigger Than Life, Go, Compilations 1 – 5, and Blindness From Looking Too Hard At The Sun, for which she designed and created the extraordinary costumes.

Petra Vogt (actor) worked with Theatre Du Jour in 1993, performing in Tower of Babel.

Chronology

2022 Prepare for Democracy!
adapted from Progressive Principles by Theodore Roosevelt

2017 The Accidental Pilgrim
by Theatre Du Jour

2016 To Have Done with the Judgement of God
by Antonin Artaud

2015 The Mad: A Fracking Fairytale
adapted from The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux

2013 Sandra and Salvador Rosa
by Joseph White

2013 I, Jack am the Knave of Hearts
by John Carter

2012 Nightmerica
by Theatre Du Jour

2010 Zoo Story
by Edward Albee

2008-09 Vincent
by Leonard Nemoy

2007-08 Self-Accusation
by Peter Handke

2006 There is No More Firmament
by Antonin Artaud

2004 Ritual Play
by Theatre Du Jour

2003 Last Minute
by Theatre Du Jour

2002 The Shadow
based on pulp novels featuring The Shadow, adapted by B. Stanley

2001 Poor Oedipus
based on texts by Sophocles and Jean Cocteau, adapted by B. Stanley

1999 Purlie Victorious
by Ossie Davis

1999 The Pig
by Yong-Su Gim

1998 Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw

1996 Ubu Cuckolded
by Alfred Jarry

1996 Tower of Babel
by Theatre Du Jour

1995 The Spurt of Blood
by Antonin Artaud

1994 Five Count
by George Kaperonis

1993 Tower of Babel
by Theatre Du Jour

1985-87 Blindness From Looking Too Hard at the Sun
by George Kaperonis

1983-87 Go
by George Kaperonis

1982-85 Bigger Than Life
by George Kaperonis