A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

Adapted by Ursula Rani Sarma

Based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini

Original music written and performed by David Coulter

A.C.T. & THEATRE CALGARY, 2017

"This theatrical presentation, a collaboration between San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater and Canada’s Theatre Calgary, is in many ways more modern than the novel that inspired it. Directed with a sure hand by Carey Perloff, the production is more atmospherically suggestive than literal. Perloff, who is stepping down after a long and distinguished tenure as artistic director of A.C.T., where “Suns” had its premiere last year, has created a theatrical environment that’s agile enough to handle the novel’s sweep of history."

– LOS ANGELES TIMES

"The real test of a stage adaptation is not whether the play can match the book, but whether it can be valued for its own artistic merits. I feel confident that Theatre Calgary and A.C.T. will ace this test."

– KHALED HOSSEINI

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, A.C.T., 2017,

Nadine Malouf, Photo by Kevin Berne

2017

A.C.T. CAST

BARZIN AKHAVAN

NADINE MALOUF

DENMO IBRAHIM

HAYSAM KADRI

KATE RIGG

JASON KAPOOR

POMME KOCH

NIKITA TEWANI

NEEL NORONHA

RINABETH APOSTOL

KAISO HILL

TERRY LAMB

MELODY PERERA

CREATIVE TEAM

KEN MACDONALD, SCENIC DESIGNER

LINDA CHO, COSTUME DESIGNER

ROBERT WIERZEL, LIGHTING DESIGNER

ANDREW GRIFFIN, ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DIRECTOR

JAKE RODRIGUEZ, SOUND DESIGNER

BETH LAKE, ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER

STEPHEN BUESCHER, MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

MICHAEL PALLER,  DRAMATURG

JANET FOSTER, CSA,  CASTING DIRECTOR

HUMAIRA GHILZAI, CULTURAL CONSULTANT

KIMBERLY MOHNE HILL, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

LYNDSAY BURCH, SDC OBSERVER

NANCY BENJAMIN, DIALECT COACH

JONATHAN RIDER, FIGHT CONSULTANT

ELISA GUTHERTZ, STAGE MANAGER

DANI BAE, STAGE MANAGER

2017

THEATRE CALGARY CAST

BARZIN AKHAVAN

JESSE LYNN ANDERSON

DENMO IBRAHIM

HAYSAM KADRI

JASON KAPOOR

LINDA KEE

POMME KOCH

NADINE MALOUF

MIKA'IL MAMDANI

TREVOR MATHESON

BEHRAD MOSHTAGH

KATE RIGG

NIKITA TEWANI

2018

THE OLD GLOBE/A.C.T./SEATTLE REP CAST

DENMO IBRAHIM

HAYSAM KADRI

LANNA JOFFREY

YOUSSEF KAMAL/JOHN FARRAGE

ANTOINE YATES

NIKITA TEWANI

JASON KAPOOR

MONDIS VAKALI/RINABETH APOSTOL/FATIMA WARDAK

KRIS ZARIF/KUNAL PRASAD/HISAM GOUELI

NADINE MALOUF/RINABETH APOSTOL

CREATIVE TEAM

KEN MACDONALD, SCENIC DESIGNER

LINDA CHO, COSTUME DESIGNER

ROBERT WIERZEL, LIGHTING DESIGNER

JAKE RODRIGUEZ, SOUND DESIGNER

BETH LAKE, ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER

STEPHEN BUESCHER, MOVEMENT DIRECTOR

MICHAEL PALLER,  DRAMATURG

JANET FOSTER, CSA,  CASTING DIRECTOR

HUMAIRA GHILZAI, CULTURAL CONSULTANT

KIMBERLY MOHNE HILL, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

ELISA GUTHERTZ, STAGE MANAGER

JUSTIN BORN, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER