“Earl, I gotta know you’re with me, ‘cause if you’re not, then I got nothin’.”
— Ruby

Ruby and Earl: a married couple getting by on cigarettes and sausages amidst the Great Recession of 2008. The couple’s life flips upside down when a joke goes too far, and a plot against Ruby’s parents becomes tangled with their new next-door neighbor Janelle. Familiar Kill wrestles with the forces of poverty, passion, and jealousy, and how they blur the lines of what a person is willing to do to survive.

Warning: storyline contains explicit sexual vocalizations and conversations that may not be appropriate for some audiences.

Directed by Maureen Hawkins. Featuring Kathy Hsieh as Ruby; Ronnie Hill as Earl; and Molly Hall as Janelle..

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Creative Team

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Barbara Lindsay (she/her)
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Barbara Lindsay (she/her)
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playwright, creative team

Barbara Lindsay’s first full length play won the NY Drama League’s 1989 Playwriting Award and was given its premiere production in London in 1991. Since then there have been more than 400 performances of her plays, monologues, and screenplays in 33 States, 13 countries, and on every continent except Antarctica. Babs is also an actress and writing coach. Thank you to Shattered Glass for your awesome support of Familiar Kill.

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playwright, creative team
Maureen Hawkins (she/her)
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director, creative team
Maureen Hawkins (she/her)
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director, creative team

Maureen Hawkins has enjoyed directing shows for some of Seattle’s small stages and in area schools over several decades. Familiar Kill marks her first directing project in this medium which has provided performing artists with some, albeit limited, creative expression throughout the past 10 months. She is truly thrilled to be working with this beautiful script and with these inspiring actors.

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director, creative team
Featured
Kathy Hsieh (she/her)
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cast member, Ruby
Kathy Hsieh (she/her)
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cast member, Ruby

Ruby

Kathy Hsieh is an award-winning actor, writer and director. Recent projects include many Zoomlandia ones including The 14/48 Projects’ Theater Anonymous version of It’s a Wonderful Life and Harlequin Productions’ radio version of Snow in Midsummer. She has also worked with SIS Productions, Pratidhwani, Pork Filled Productions, Raisins in a Glass of Milk, Sound Theatre, ReAct, Seattle Rep, Book-It, ACT, Intiman, Taproot, ArtsWest, Living Voices, Seattle Shakespeare’s Wooden O and more.

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cast member, Ruby
Molly Hall (she/her)
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cast member, Janelle
Molly Hall (she/her)
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cast member, Janelle

Molly Hall has been a theatre artist all her life as an actor, choreographer, writer, and drama educator. Favorite recent roles include Miss Honey in MATILDA (Bainbridge Performing Arts), Debra in KIMBERLY AKIMBO (As If Theatre Co.), and Tanya in MAMMA MIA! (Kitsap Forest Theater). She has her MFA in Acting from the University of Washington and is a proud co-founder of As If Theatre Co. She is thrilled to be making art in whatever way possible during this unprecedented chapter in the world, and is beyond thankful to all the artists involved with The Shattered Glass Project for making that possible.

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cast member, Janelle
Ronnie Hill (he/him)
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cast member, Earl
Ronnie Hill (he/him)
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cast member, Earl

Earl

Ronnie Hill is a local Seattle Actor/Singer. Some of his more recent work around town include appearances at Seattle Public Theater, Lakewood Theater, and Book-it Theater where he was nominated for an award for acting excellence by Seattle Theatre Writers for one of his favorite roles as Uncle Willie in Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

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cast member, Earl
“She makes me feel nine feet tall, ya know? Like I’m the only guy was ever good to her. Like I’m the only guy she ever loved. Believe me, Ruby and me, we’re fine.”
— Earl