OKLAHOMA CITY REPERTORY THEATER
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER
PRESENTS
REP FEST
One Weekend. Three Plays.
November 20-23, 2025
Te Ata Theater at Oklahoma Contemporary
THE COMEUPPANCE
by BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS
directed by ELIZABETH DRAGOO
Featuring:
RONN BURTON* | THOMAS CHAVIRA* | JONATHAN LYNCH*
DE'ONNA PRINCE* | SUSAN RILEY* | KARSTEN TATE*
WILLA DARIAN*
Stage Manager: JENNA NORTON*
World Premiere produced by Signature Theatre, New York City
Paige Evans, Artistic Director / Timothy J. McClimon, Executive Director
PRIMARY TRUST
by EBONI BOOTH
directed by BRANDON J. BURTON
Featuring:
DERRICK PARKER* | VERONIQUE PARKER*
ALEXI SMITH* | ROB STURMA*
WILLA DARIAN*
Stage Manager: LAUREN BROOKS*
PRIMARY TRUST was developed at the 2021 Ojai Playwrights Conference: Robert Egan, Artistic Director/Producer
Developed By
Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IllinoisKen-Matt Martin, Artistic Director
Roxanna Conner, Acting Managing Director,
as part of IGNITE CHICAGO Festival of New Plays 2021
Originally Produced in New York City by Roundabout Theatre Company
At the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre / Laura Pels Theatre On May 4th, 2023
JOHN
by ANNIE BAKER
directed by MADISON NIEDERHAUSER
Featuring:
MARILYN GOVICH* | BEN KAHRE*
RENEE KRAPFF* | ASHLEY J. MANDANAS*
WILLA DARIAN*
Stage Manager: COURTNEY SMITH*
World Premiere produced by Signature Theatre, New York City
James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director Erika Mallin, Executive Director
*Appearing through an Agreement between OKC Rep and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Learn more at actorsequity.org/aboutequity
Welcome to RepFest! I’m thrilled that you’re joining us for OKC Rep’s inaugural play reading festival. I LOVE play readings because they present an opportunity for audiences to share with artists in the act of imagination. THE COMEUPPANCE, PRIMARY TRUST, and JOHN are all very special plays. They address meaty topics, ask big questions, and do it all with that little bit of magic that you've come to expect from an OKC Rep show. To top it off, they're all written by some of the very best living American playwrights.
All of these plays lend themselves to creative use of the beautiful Te Ata Theater—the very room we're in today. As you enjoy today's performance, I hope you'll take a moment to imagine for yourself some of the ways that the play might show up physically in this space.
The sky is truly the limit.
Over the past six months, I've had the pleasure of attending play reading festivals at other theater companies across the region. The performances were electrifying, and I was in good company with hundreds of other attendees on the edges of our seats. No matter where you are, or what your experience with theater has been, to observe a play reading is clearly to be a part of something special. I'm so glad to share it with you.
Emily Comisar, Executive Artistic Director
The team at OKC Rep wishes to thank:
Brittnei Beauchamp Nixon, CNS, Tucker Dragoo, Seth Gordon, Isis Husanadeen, Zachary Scalzo
