The Play That Goes Wrong

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• From the Artistic Director
• About the Show
• For Our Patrons
• Cast
• Creative Team
• To Go Wrong, Everything Has to Go (REALLY) Right
• About the Cornley Drama Society
• This Fall, Level Up Your Learning with Seattle Rep Studios
• Your 2025/26 season is here.
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Dear Friends,

Welcome to The Play That Goes Wrong, the first show of Seattle Rep’s 2025/26 Season. The Play That Goes Wrong is a part of London-based Mischief Theatre’s renowned and highly successful slate of “Goes Wrong” plays (and a television show on Amazon Prime), which continue to delight audiences of all ages in London, New York, and around the world. This co-production with Portland Center Stage features a cast and creative team made up of theater-makers from both cities. We’re glad you’re here to experience the first-ever local professional production of this comedic juggernaut before it moves on to Portland in the new year. 

Mischief’s plays are love letters to the unpredictable and eternally hopeful spirit of live theater. We’re not here to make fun of the well-meaning, theater-loving, ever-intrepid Cornley Drama Society as they strive to make you forget the nearly 200 stage mishaps you’re about to see today. Still, as things go wrong during their “opening night” performance of The Murder at Haversham Manor, we can’t help but laugh out loud in shared recognition. The troupe’s unwavering determination to carry on—and their unshakable belief that their luck will somehow turn around—is a hallmark of the human condition. What else can we do but our best when chaos reigns and things don’t go our way?

The theatrical magic of this play lies not just in its humor, but in the intricate craft required to make the on-stage mayhem seem effortless. It takes precision, timing, trust, and collaboration behind the scenes for everything to go wrong in all the right ways. In that sense, The Play That Goes Wrong is also about our theater community working in harmony. This blend of laughter and optimism (no matter how naïve!) made it an easy choice to kick off our season.

Looking ahead to the rest of the 2025/26 lineup, we’re excited to offer a variety of productions, from stirring new works like The Heart Sellers and Fancy Dancer to award-winning dramas like Mary Jane and Appropriate. We’ll also bring you a special 10th anniversary re-imagining of the beloved Come From Away during the holidays, and spark dialogue this winter with the national tour of Tectonic Theater Project’s Here There Are Blueberries, a new, high-stakes detective story based on real events. With so many diverse stories to experience, there’s something for everyone. We can’t wait to share these plays with you, your friends, and family.

I hope that you’ll be inspired to continue to join us throughout the season. Many thanks to the several thousand subscribers who have already signed on for many returns in the months ahead. Subscriptions offer flexibility, discounts, and the opportunity to discover plays you may not have expected to love. It’s also a great way to share never-more-needed time in community, to put away your screens, and to experience the full range of artistry that we hope will get you feeling, thinking, and talking. We’d be thrilled to have you as part of our subscriber family!

With gratitude,

Dámaso Rodríguez
Artistic Director

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dámaso Rodríguez   |   MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeffrey Herrmann

By Henry Lewis, Henry Shields & Jonathan Sayer

Directed by Dámaso Rodríguez

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service under license from Mischief Worldwide Ltd.

The Mischief Production of The Play That Goes Wrong was originally produced on the West End Stage by Kenny Wax & Stage Presence and on Broadway by Kevin McCollum, J.J. Abrams, Kenny Wax & Stage Presence

The Play That Goes Wrong is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service imprint. (www.dramatists.com)

Producing Partners

Gary & Parul Houlahan 
Charlotte Lin & Robert Porter 

Season Sponsor

August 28 – September 28, 2025 | Bagley Wright Theater

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ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES: We offer select English and Spanish Open Captioned, Audio Described, ASL-Interpreted, Sensory-Friendly, and mask-required  performances. Find dates here or contact the Box Office for more information.

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Ian Bond

Jonathan, Fight Captain

Ian Bond is an actor, fight/intimacy director, and educator. He has performed at Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, Taproot Theatre Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, and ACT. He has directed fights and intimacy for The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Rep, Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT, ArtsWest, The Seagull Project, Taproot Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare, and Book-It. Ian is a co-founder of PNW Theatrical Intimacy and a motion capture artist. ianbond.org, @ian.bond.180

Phillip Ray Guevara

Swing (Chris, Max, Jonathan, Robert)

Phillip Ray Guevara is classically trained with a B.F.A. in Acting from Texas State University and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Washington. He is on faculty and teaches movement at the University of Portland and lives with his beautiful wife and two wonderful children. Regional credits include The Hombres (Artists Repertory Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Much Ado About Nothing (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Julius Caesar (Titan Theatre Company), and Native Gardens (Intiman). @philliprayguevara

Darragh Kennan

Dennis

It is always a treat to return to Seattle Rep, where Darragh works upstairs during the day as the Director of Major Gifts. He has worked as an actor and director here in Seattle and nationwide, including ten seasons with American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. He is the proud recipient of Seattle’s Gregory Falls Award for his performance of Hamlet with Seattle Shakespeare Company in 2010. Other favorite portrayals include Sherlock Holmes at Seattle Rep and Ebenezer Scrooge at ACT. Darragh lives on Vashon Island with his amazing wife Jessica and incredible kids, Finn and Máire.

Cassi Q Kohl

Annie

Seattle Rep debut! Cassi extends a huge thank you to the incredible Seattle stage managers who inspired this acting role. You might possibly recognize Cassi (despite the excellent work of hair and makeup teams) from The Last Five Years (ACT), The Little Mermaid (The 5th Avenue Theatre), The Hello Girls (Taproot Theatre Company), or a few fun turns on the Village Theatre stage. When she’s not on stage she can be found biking around town, drinking gluten-free IPAs, and befriending neighborhood cats. Love to her fiancée Amanda for always setting out her favorite breakfast! @thunderdyke

Ashley Lanyon

Swing (Annie, Sandra, Trevor, Dennis)

Seattle Rep debut! Since moving to Seattle in 2023, Ashley Lanyon (she/her) has appeared in four productions at The 5th Avenue Theatre, most notably Something’s Afoot, all while completing her M.F.A. in Arts Leadership at Seattle University. Favorite collaborations include productions at Paramount Theatre (Aurora, IL), Drury Lane Theatre, Mercury Theater Chicago, and Peninsula Players. Endless thanks to her husband, Harter, for keeping her sane and fed. @ashley.lanyon

Chris Murray

Max

Chris Murray (he/him) is thrilled to be making his Seattle debut at Seattle Rep! Chris is based in Portland (so based) and has worked at Artists Repertory Theatre on Playboy of the Western World and The Liar, both directed by Dámaso Rodríguez. Regional credits: 38th Humana Festival at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (RIP); Portland Center Stage: Sense and Sensibility, Major Barbara, Astoria: Parts One & Two, The Oregon Trail, Great Expectations, Our Town, Futura, Crossing Mnisose, and Sometimes a Great Notion. Favorite roles include this one you are about to see. Thanks to Jena for the love and dog-shuffling.

Darius Pierce

Chris

Darius (he/him) is thrilled to make his Seattle Rep debut with this show! He is a Portland-based actor and director. He has worked with Portland Center Stage, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Portland Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Fiasco Theater, and others, and is co-founder of Anonymous Theatre Company. TV/Film: Pig, Timmy Failure, “Grimm,” and “Documentary Now!” He thanks his family for their endless support. And thinks you should know he collects turtles. dariuspierce.com

Setareki

Robert

Thank you to Seattle Rep for welcoming me with an open heart into their beautiful Theater and community. Thank you deeply to Dámaso Rodríguez for their generosity and support throughout this tremendous journey. Thank you to the sensational cast, crew, and management for their kindness and radiance. Immense thanks to our wonderful audience, who still come out to watch and support live theater. Your presence is an integral part of live performance as we endeavor to experience, for a brief time together, our shared joy and humanity through storytelling. M.F.A. Yale School of Drama. @setareki_ikerates

Chip Sherman

Trevor

Last seen at Seattle Rep in The Skin of Our Teeth and Fat Ham. Chip (they/them) is an ACT Core Company member, known along the West Coast as Isis in and out of the Drag Duo LüChi and as one of the founding parents of the kiki ballroom house The Royal House of Noir. Beloved local credits include The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (The Feast); Macbeth (Seattle Shakespeare Company); Corduroy (Seattle Children’s Theatre); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Book-It Repertory Theatre); A Christmas Carol and Alex and Aris (ACT). @chi.sherman

Ashley Song

Sandra

Ashley Song is making her Seattle Rep debut! She would like to dedicate this production to anyone who could use a little bit more joy in their life. Some recent stage credits include Mother Russia (Profile Theatre), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Portland Center Stage), and The Other Place (21ten Theatre). Recent film credits include Empano Gleasium, Appliance of Science, and Song of Summer. Ashley is a workaholic so when she isn’t acting, she’s running her film studio, teaching musical theater to teenagers, and producing documentaries and movies. @ashleysongofficial, @desertislandstudiospdx

Henry Lewis, Henry Shields & Jonathan Sayer

Playwrights

Henry, Henry, and Jonathan met while training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). All core members of Mischief Theatre, they had already worked in comedy together for several years before becoming a writing team. The three’s first piece was The Play That Goes Wrong (Olivier Award for Best New Comedy), which started in the London and Edinburgh Fringe before touring the UK and internationally. Playing since September 2014, the show has become the longest-running comedy in the West End. The show played on Broadway from 2017–2019 and has since been performed in over 20 countries around the world. Other works: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (West End, UK Tour, BBC), Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (BBC), The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (West End, UK Tour – Olivier Nomination), "The Goes Wrong Show" (BBC), The Comedy About Spies (now playing on the West End). @mischiefcomedy, mischieftheatre.co.uk

Dámaso Rodríguez

Director

Seattle Rep Artistic Director since July 2023. Select directing credits: Laughs in Spanish, The Skin of Our Teeth (Seattle Rep); The Heiress, The Little Foxes (Pasadena Playhouse); Paradise Lost (Intiman); Romeo & Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Kings (South Coast Repertory); We the Invisibles (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Wolf Play, La Ruta, An Octoroon, Everybody, Tribes, The Humans, Cuba Libre, 1984 (Artists Repertory Theatre); El Huracán (GableStage); Desire Under the Elms, Blithe Spirit, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, The Doctor’s Dilemma (A Noise Within). damasorodriguez.com

Tom Buderwitz

Scenic Designer

Tom Buderwitz has designed scenery for Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, The Second City, Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Intiman, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Antaeus Theatre Company, A Noise Within, and many others. Six LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (31 nominations), three LA Drama Critics Awards, three Emmy Award nominations, and Art Directors Guild Award nominee. Adjunct faculty, USC School of Dramatic Arts. Proud member of USA 829.

Melanie Taylor Burgess

Costume Designer

Melanie Taylor Burgess has designed costumes for over 200 productions for Seattle Rep, Seattle Opera, The 5th Avenue Theatre, ACT, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Intiman, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and many others. Regionally for Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, PlayMakers Repertory Company, and more. Melanie is the recipient of two Gregory Awards for Outstanding Costume Design and several other regional awards. She is a professor of Costume Design at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University.

Connie Yun

Lighting Designer

Connie (she/her) is delighted to return to Seattle Rep where her work was last seen in Blithe Spirit. Other recent designs include Tosca (Seattle Opera), Dial M for Murder (Village Theatre), P.O.T.U.S. (ACT), The Rake’s Progress (Des Moines Metro Opera), The Elixir of Love (New Orleans Opera), and La Boheme (Opera Colorado). Upcoming productions include An Enemy of the People (ACT), Don Giovanni (Florentine Opera), and La Boheme (Madison Opera). Connie is a member of USA 829 and a mentor with the ETC Fred Foster Mentorship Program. connieyun.com

Rodolfo Ortega

Sound Designer & Composer

Rodolfo received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Arizona and his Master’s of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied piano and composition. He has composed music for Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Romeo & Juliet, The Tenth Muse), Denver Center for the Performing Arts (The Three Musketeers, Romeo & Juliet), Santa Cruz Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar), Cleveland Playhouse (Native Gardens), and South Coast Repertory (The Monster Builder). At Seattle Rep he has composed and designed sound for Metamorphoses and Laughs in Spanish.

Brian Danner

Movement & Fight Director

Brian Danner is entering his third decade as a fight choreographer, stunt coordinator, and combat professor. Danner, the owner of Sword Fights Inc., is a multi-award-winning sword fight specialist in Hollywood, having trained Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman, Madonna, Nathan Fillion, Leslie Odom Jr., Sir Ben Kingsley, and more. He is excited for his first project with Seattle Rep. Credits: Master and Commander, "Castle," "Modern Family," The Three Musketeers, Deadpool the Musical Parts 1 and 2, and multiple shows for the Pasadena Playhouse and Furious Theatre Company. swordfightsinc.com

Kate Drummond

Intimacy Consultant

Kate is a Seattle-based director, intimacy choreographer, and teaching artist. She is the co-Artistic Director and founder of Dacha Theatre and a founding member of the PNW Theatrical Intimacy Collective. She’s worked locally with The 5th Avenue Theatre’s Rising Star Project, ArtsWest, and the University of Washington School of Drama, among others. Recent intimacy credits: The Skin of Our Teeth (Seattle Rep); Late: A Cowboy Song (UW); Emma and the Dice Series (Dacha). Associate Member, SDC. M.F.A. in Directing, University of Washington.
kate-drummond.com

Bret Torbeck

Stage Manager

Bret Torbeck (he/him) is thrilled to be joining the Play That Goes Wrong company. Previous work at Seattle Rep includes The Skin of Our Teeth, The Tempest, What the Constitution Means to Me, The Time of Your Life, Restoration Comedy, Proof, and Topdog/Underdog. Recently he has enjoyed working at ACT and Seattle Opera. His day job is getting to work with the inspiring students at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University as Associate Professor of Stage Management. He is a board member of Seattle Public Theater.

Shay Trusty

Assistant Stage Manager

Shay Trusty (they/them) is excited to be back at Seattle Rep, having last stage managed Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales: Together Again, Again! Select stage management credits include Little Women, The Tempest, How I Learned What I Learned (Seattle Rep); Golden, The Dina Martina Christmas Show (ACT); Sense and Sensibility, Little Shop of Horrors, and Mamma Mia! (Village Theatre). Shay is also the Resident Stage Manager at Tantrum Theater in Athens, OH. Much love to Ben and LC!

Did You Know...? Seattle Rep is one of the few arts organizations in the region to have on-site production shops in the same building as our theaters, rehearsal halls, and administrative offices. Our skilled local artisans come together to create the costumes, props, and scenery—plus design the environmental details like lighting and sound—that bring stunning worlds to life on Seattle Rep’s stages. 

The Play That Goes Wrong is a show that needs not only comedic skill and timing, but virtuosic production design and execution to support the action on stage. The set itself is really another character in the play! With safety at the forefront, designers and artisans are tasked with creating a setting where every object, every wall, every piece of furniture can be used—often in unconventional ways—to communicate increasing chaos and destruction at every turn. Everything on stage needs to go really right in order to go really wrong.

Take a peek behind the curtain at the artisans behind the magic.

Photos by Sayed Alamy

Cornley Drama Society is a dedicated group of theater makers (kind of) from the UK, delighted and deeply bewildered to have found themselves touring throughout the Pacific Northwest. They are performers of the highest quality who make brilliant plays come are alive.

Rave Reviews of the Society’s production of The Murder at Haversham Manor!

This was...a play[!]

—  Nathaniel Cuddlethorp,
The Seattle Times

I loved when it ended[!]

—  Bertha P. Nuttingsworth,
The Stranger

The actors were...on the stage [and] the lights were...on[!]

—  W. Riversclock-MacPhibb,
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Up Next with Cornley Drama:

As the troupe makes its way through Seattle, Cornley’s dedicated thespians are thrilled to share with you their upcoming productions of beloved classics, adapted to appeal to local audiences:

A Streetcar Named S.L.U.T. South Lake Union Transit
A Long Day’s Journey to Tacoma
A View from the West Seattle Bridge
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Still Waiting for the #8 Bus

The Murder at Haversham Manor is now playing through September 28, 2025 in Seattle Rep’s Bagley Right Theater

^This is not right
But this is Right
No, it’s not Right, it’s Wright!!!

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