WAVE Productions Presents: STOP KISS

11/13/2017

We are excited to share production photographs for family and friends who missed our live performances!
© Melissa Cagan Photography

Wave Productions Fall 2017
Directed by Zoe Johnson
Produced by Janet W. Lee

11/02/2017

Before we open tonight, we want to thank our beautiful team, or as we like to call it, our family.

11/02/2017

"It was the summer before my junior year of high school and the county fair was going on. I had been flirting with this guy for like four whole months and finally we planned a date to the fair. The evening was the appropriate amount of awkward and full of expectations. I was convinced that we would kiss on the ferris wheel, but when we got on it he sat across from me, making it so that there was a several foot gap between us. Somehow, an hour or so later, we ended up sitting next to each other on a bench beneath the lights of the fair. At a lull in conversation, we kissed. It, just like the night, was the appropriate amount of awkward. "
- Julia Mann, Assistant Producer

11/02/2017

Check out North by Northwestern's article about our show and family!

Stop Kiss opens TOMORROW!

“It balances realism and happiness, which I think is really important when you tell q***r stories.”

10/31/2017

"It was a stage kiss, my junior year of high school! I was playing Eliza Schuyler in a 10-minute large group speech production of Hamilton. I had to kiss the football-player-turned-actor who played Alexander Hamilton at the end of Helpless, it was kinda sweaty and in a rehearsal room."
-Elisa Swanson, Assistant Props Designer

10/25/2017

"When I was in middle school I knew this boy. We had a mutual interest in each other and decided that we should meet on a random Saturday in November. I had rehearsal in the morning, and of course I couldn't drive because I was 13, and I wasn't going to ask my parents to take me to meet this boy they had never heard of. So I walked three or four miles to meet him near his house. We met on a street corner, and started walking to where I assumed he lived. We enter the back of an apartment building, and I'm like, "Amazing! I'm going to meet his parents. This is fantastic!" He pulls me into a hug and says "look at me," but not in a creepy way or anything. I'm a little freaked out, so I say "no," and we continue with this pattern until I finally look up and see this FACE coming at me. Then we STOP and KISS, but it's not like this sweet little peck, it's a long, sloppy kiss that I was not expecting. I finally pull away and tell him that I'm feeling faint. This is a normal thing for me, and I'm not freaked out, but of course he is. I ask if he could get me some water to which he responds, "I'll catch you if you fall." Not at all what I wanted. I told him that he needed to go get me water, and I assume that he was going to take us to his apartment. Wrong. He runs out the door then comes back and says "don't leave," then runs back out. I lay on the floor and close my eyes, trying not to feel so dizzy. Eventually he comes back with water and we awkwardly resume this awkward not date. Essentially, I passed out after my first kiss and lived to tell the tale."
- Allyson Snyder, Hair & Makeup Designer

10/23/2017

"I kissed a guy behind a shed at band camp."
-Mia Cavener, Nurse

10/20/2017

"After I came out as gay, there was a quirky little party in the summer with a bunch of friends and acquaintances, and I ended up kissing a girl who insisted that I must "at LEAST" be bi because it "felt right" to her. It didn't feel right to me, obviously, but it happened. It was a terrible experience, but also unfortunately my first real kiss."
- Lennart Nielsen, Assistant Producer

10/16/2017

"In 8th grade, I dated the son of my Tae Kwon Do instructor. But, in the fashion of middle school relationships, we really didn't get to see each other all that much, so our ~first kiss~ was a pretty momentous occasion. We were at a Tae Kwon Do tournament, and wandering around the hotel in the evening, purposefully separated from the rest of the kids. We walked up to the 21st floor, and spent some time looking out a big, glass window, before I got tired of waiting for him to make the move and was the one who initiated that first kiss, which, in that moment, was utmost magic."
- Erica Fada, Props Designer

10/13/2017

"It was my senior year of high school, and it was the first time that a guy had been interested in me. We sat next to each other in precalc, and one day, we started playing footsie under the desks. I invited him over that night to "study" math. We kissed. And kissed. And kissed. That "romance" didn't last for long however, and suddenly, I got very distracted in the math."
- Samuel Maude, Marketing Director

10/05/2017

"So, it’s spring of my freshman year of high school and I had just gotten cast in a one act play. It was a two person play called “The Kissing Scene,” and my scene partner was none other than the guy I had gone on one date with over the summer, “dated” for a few days after, never kissed, then awkwardly broke up with. We were supposed to kiss no fewer than 17 times. I counted. I showed up to our first rehearsal, which was in the computer lab of our school library, and sat down next to my ex-“boyfriend,” mortified, while my 60 year old director stared at us, waiting for us to do the scene. And we did, and in that computer lab I had my first kiss. Apparently it was not very good because our friends laughed every time we kissed during the performance."
- Olivia Zapater-Charrette, Stage Manager

09/29/2017

We have a Family!

Congratulations to all, and thank you to everyone who auditioned!

Get ready to STOP KISS!

Callie: Hailey Brunson
Sara: Allison Towbes
George: Jonathan Connolly
Peter: Griffin Johnston
Mrs. Winsley: Danielle Kerr
Detective Cole: Maya Pearson
Nurse: Mia Wu Cavener