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Next up on Kitchen Theatre Company's Kitchen Sink Series is a staged reading of the brand new play The Stars Are All Imposters by Jenni Kuhn, one of KTC's artistic interns. The Stars Are All Imposters inspects the maddening world of perpetual human curiosity and our inability to accept that we cannot know all of the answers to all of life's questions.

Heather, a curious and reckless young artist, stumbles into a bathroom during a house party feeling sick but suddenly finds herself feeling perfectly well and standing in a dingy white room. The two other occupants of the room, Shi and Savi, are alarmed by Heather's sudden appearance in their existence. Shi, a harsh and seemingly unfeeling man, is eager to preserve his daily routine and get rid of Heather, ignoring her pressing questions about the strange room.

Savi, far more sympathetic to Heather's confusion and distress, is less concerned with Heather's destructive potential than with helping her escape. Escape seems futile, however, and Heather begins to accept her new reality...Until she stumbles across the secret of the room, hidden for nearly eternity. Shi and Savi can no longer ignore their isolating madness as their structured world unravels.

This reading features several Kitchen Sink Series debuts! Iris Garrison-Driscoll appears as Heather in her first Kitchen Sink performance. Her recent credits include Smudge and The Crucible at Ithaca College. Victoria Apodaca makes her Kitchen Sink debut as Savi.

Victoria has worked as a director, stage manager, props designer, and costumer with various companies around Ithaca. Jordan Dunn-Pilz debuts as Shi. His recent credits include The Good Person of Setzuan and Transformations at Ithaca College. Zoe Benditt, an artistic intern at KTC, directs for the Kitchen Sink for the first time. She most recently directed The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East by Naomi Wallace and assistant directed Columbinus at the University of Pittsburgh.

This will be playwright Jenni Kuhn's first reading at the Kitchen Sink with previous readings and a production of her play Last Seen at the University of Oregon.

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