Tremolo
An Irons in the Fire Project
June 16, 2025 @ 6:00pm
Open Jar Studios, 12L
By Regan Moro
Directed by Sammy Zeisel
Synopsis
Nicola, Con, Sorel, Paulie, Masha, Devyn, Alex, and Nina are old friends. Every summer they spend a week on Sorel and Paulie’s dock talking about theater and dykes and sex and aging and the loons that circle below. This is the last summer they’ll ever do this, but they don’t know that yet. Anyway. Tonight Con’s making everyone listen to their new play. (They seem better this year, right?)
A love song to ambition, art-making, and heartbreak, Tremolo is at once a radical queer reimagining of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” set on the dock of a dark lake; and a singular portrait of an intergenerational found family on the precipice of great loss.
Playwright
REGAN MORO (she/they) is a playwright and actor. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan and spent a year as an apprentice in the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. As an actor, they’ve worked with The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla Playhouse, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geva Theatre Center, Syracuse Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Mad Ones, and New Georges, among many others. She also appeared on HBO’s Succession. As a playwright, they’re a member of the 2024-2025 Playwrights Cohort at Play Penn, were a member of the 2022-2023 Emerging Writer’s Group at Primary Stages, is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Appalachian Center for the Arts’ Vitality Playwright Commission, and have been a finalist/semi finalist for Ars Nova’s PlayGroup, the Workshop Theatre’s Spring 2024 Intensive, and the New Roots Artists Residency. Her play, burn for You recently had a NYC Industry reading directed by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor, was a selection for the 2024 Great Plains Theatre Conference and The Road Theatre Company’s 2024 Summer Playwrights Festival, a finalist for the 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and a second rounder for the 2024 Austin Film Festival. She’s the middle of three sisters, and the funny gay aunt to four little boys. She's represented by Jamie Kaye-Phillips at Paradigm Talent Agency. For more, check out www.reganmoro.com!
Director
SAMMY ZEISEL (he/him) is a theater director and filmmaker originally from Bethesda, MD. He recently completed his MFA in Directing at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University where he was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in directing. He is currently the directing fellow at Rattlestick Theater.
Sammy has assisted directors including Les Waters, Lee Sunday Evans, Jessica Thebus, Meredith McDonough, Michael Patrick Thornton, John Vreeke, Devon DeMayo, and Marti Lyons, and worked at institutions including Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and The Actors Theatre of Louisville. He is an alumnus of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Directing Apprenticeship and Northwestern University where he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in theater.
Poster Sketch by Sean Devare