.​World Premiere of THIS MUCH I KNOW by Jonathan Spector (09.27.22-10.02.22)

Shaun Tuazon serves as Lead Props for the World Premiere of...
THIS MUCH I KNOW
By Jonathan Spector
Directed by Josh Costello 

Runtime: 2 Hours
There will be a 10-minute intermission and a 5-minute intermission.

The writer of Eureka Day returns to Aurora with an explosively theatrical interrogation of agency and culpability. Through his all-too-personal lectures on psychology, Lukesh attempts to unravel a mystery with his wife Natalya at the center. What happened to Natalya? The search for answers will launch us on a time-hopping fugue, weaving together the stories of Stalin's daughter defecting to America, the son of a white supremacist growing to doubt the beliefs he was raised with, and the secret despair of an accidental killer. How do we truly make decisions? How do we change our minds? And what does it mean to be complicit?
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Jonathan Spector’s writing is “lively, alarming, and entertaining... [Spector is] observant and empathetic.”
— Ben Brantley, NEW YORK TIMES

Read the This Much I Know dramaturgy article here

SINGLE TICKET PRICING:
$75 for Opening Nights
$40 for Previews
All other dates are based on the number of tickets sold, $41–$66. Buy early for the best prices! There will be a $6 processing fee added to each order. 
We also offer Pay-What-You-Can Tickets, $20 Rush Tickets, and other discounts.
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POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS
Please join us for a discussion of Aurora's production of This Much I Know by Jonathan Spector, hosted after the show on the select days listed below. Discussion host, Dawn Monique Williams, may be joined by the actor, director, community members, and or local storytellers.

Friday, September 9
Tuesday, September 13
Wednesday, September 21
Thursday, September 29

Check out Shaun's work as Lead Props. This one was a lot of fun! 

Tickets & Information

ARTISTS

CAST
Rajesh Bose*
A/Lukesh
Anna Ishida*
B/Natalya
Kenny Toll*
C/Harold

CREATIVE TEAM
Jonathan Spector
Playwright

Josh Costello+
Director

Ulises Alcala**
Costume Designer

James Ard
Sound Designer

Jordan Battle
CDO Consultant

Christian Cagigal
Magic Consultant

Monique Crawford
Directing Fellow

Cheryle Honerlah*
Stage Manager

Maxx Kurzunski
Video/Projection Designer

Sarah Rose Leonard
Dramaturg

Colleen Nicole
Assistant Costume Designer

Tanya Orellana**
Scenic Designer

Lisa Anne Porter
Dialect Coach

Jeff Rowlings**
Lighting Designer

Saluja Siwakoti
Assistant Stage Manager

Shaun Tuazon
Lead Props

Dawn Monique Williams
Intimacy Director

 * Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional  Actors and Stage Managers,
**United Scenic Artists Member, +Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Member


JONATHAN SPECTOR
Jonathan Spector’s award-winning, critically acclaimed play Eureka Day will have its European premiere in September at London’s Old Vic, starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt. His newest work, Best Available will be part of the Ashland New Play Festival in October.
Jonathan’s plays have been produced across the country and abroad at theaters including Asolo Rep, Aurora Theater, Colt Coeur, Custom Made Theater, InterAct Theater, Mosaic Theater, Mugwumpin, Syracuse Stage, Spreckles Theater, The State Theater of South Australia, and Just Theater, where he was the long-time co-Artistic Director. He has developed work with Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Crowded Fire, New Harmony Project, The Lark, Manhattan Theater Club, PlayPenn, Roundabout, and South Coast Rep, among others.
Honors include the Edgerton Award, Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Theater Bay Area Award, Global Age Prize and Rella Lossy Award. He is a Core Writer at Playwrights Center, and has been a MacDowell Fellow and a Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation. Jonathan has received commissions from Roundabout Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Manhattan Theater Club, South Coast Rep and Aurora Theater. He is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone.



JOSH COSTELLO
Josh Costello (Artistic Director & Director) At Aurora and previously as the founding Artistic Director of Impact Theatre and the Artistic Director of Expanded Programs at Marin Theatre Company, Josh has worked to make theatre more accessible for more people, sharing a passion for the visceral experience of live theatre with new audiences and underserved communities. Josh has directed several productions at Aurora, including Exit Strategy, The Importance of Being Earnest, and the world premiere of Eureka Day, which won every Bay Area new play award. His world-premiere production of Aaron Loeb’s Ideation with the San Francisco Playhouse in both SF and NYC won the Glickman Award for best new play in the Bay Area and the Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding Direction, and was named a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Other directing work includes My Children! My Africa! at Marin Theatre Company, House of Lucky at Magic Theatre, and his adaptations of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother and Aphra Behn’s The Rover. Josh holds a BFA in theatre from Boston University, and an MFA in Directing from the University of Washington, Seattle.


RAJESH BOSE
Rajesh Bose* (A/Lukesh) has performed extensively off-Broadway and throughout the country – favorites include three productions at Bedlam Theatre (Persuasion, The Crucible, and Pygmalion),  Henry VI (National Asian American Theatre Company),  Against The Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Indian Ink (Roundabout), King Lear (Northern Stage), Oslo (St. Louis Rep), Mary Stuart (Folger Theatre), Guards at the Taj (Capital Stage), Disgraced (Playmakers Rep, Huntington Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre – Connecticut Critics Circle Award, IRNE Nomination),  Invisible Hand (Westport Playhouse, Hartford Theaterworks), and The Who & The What (Gulfshore Playhouse, Hartford Theaterworks).  Rajesh has guest starred on several network television shows, including Bull, Elementary, Damages,  Blue Bloods, and Quantico among others — he appears in the series finale of The Sopranos, and the Academy Award nominated film Frozen River. Rajesh made his professional directing debut earlier this year at Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ, where he directed the East Coast premiere of The Giant Void In My Soul.  Upcoming:  Life of Pi at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA.





ANNA ISHIDA
Anna Ishida (B/Natalya) was last seen at the Aurora as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest. Currently based in the Bay Area but also performs on the East Coast - recent credits include: Olga in The Three Sisters (Two River Theater, NJ), The Antelope Party (Dutch Kills, NYC), Shipwreck (Woolly Mammoth, DC), Moby-Dick (American Repertory Theater, MA), Henry VI Parts 1 & 2 (NAATCO, NYC - Drama Desk Nomination: Best Revival), Trigger (Leviathan Lab, NYC), It Can’t Happen Here (Staged & Radio Play @ Berkeley Rep, CA), Mr. Burns: a post-electric play (American Conservatory Theater & The Guthrie, CA/MN), Water by the Spoonful (Theatreworks Silicon Valley, CA), Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage (Shotgun Players/Banana Bag & Bodice: US/UK tours).  Film: I Am a Ghost & Bitter Melon (writer/director/composer: H.P. Mendoza) www.annaishida.com – Thank you all for coming tonight and thank you to mom and papa and my deep Bay Area roots & community.


KENNY TOLL
Kenny Toll is an LA native and a graduate of San Francisco State University. He was last seen at Aurora in The Heir Apparent. He originated the role of Mr. Wickham in Lauren Gunderson's The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley. Most recently he has been seen in Frost/Nixon at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Lobby Hero at Capital Rep in Albany NY, Shakespeare in Love at Marin Theatre Company, and Richard II at Kingsmen Shakespeare in Los Angeles. He is a proud member of AEA.