I Found a Zipper

by Milo Cramer. Directed by Kim Rubenstein.

About the Show

An alien comes to earth looking for love and ends up at the Costa Mesa Walk-In Clinic where
cures are hard to come by and nobody seems to have any answers. In a phantasmagoric world
where nothing and no one is what they seem, I Found A Zipper... asks: What is love? And is love
the answer?

Content Warning

Sexual harassment, medical malpractice, child abuse, slapstick violence

  The Cast

About the Director

Kim Rubinstein was most recently Long Wharf Theatre's Associate Artistic Director where she directed Guys and Dolls, Midsummer Night's Dream, Private Lives, Santaland Diaries, and The Cocktail Hour. This past summer she directed Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Other regional credits include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Portland Center Stage and San Jose Rep), Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare), Love's Labour's Lost (Next Theatre), The Tempest (Southwest Rep), The American Plan and Eloise and Ray (Roadwoarks), Pan and Boone (Running with Scissors), Baby With The Bathwater (Roundhouse Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival), Beckett Shorts (Berkshire Theatre Festival, Splinter Group's Buckets O'Beckett Festival. She was Associate Director with Michael Mayer and Tour Director of the National Tour of Angels In America.

Her other teaching credits include ten years on the acting/directing faculty at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Brown/Trinity Consortium, Wesleyan University, NTI at The O'Neill Center and a ongoing teaching gig with the School at Steppenwolf. Kim has been very active in the development of new plays and has directed many readings and workshops at places like New Dramatists and Long Wharf.

Ms. Rubinstein is a recipient of the TCG/NEA directing fellowship and was nominated for the Alan Schneider Directing Award, among other awards for her directing and teaching. Upcoming projects: SANTALAND DIARIES at the Long Wharf, THE AMERICAN PLAN at The Old Globe.

About the Playwright

Milo Cramer’s solo musical School Pictures is upcoming at Playwrights Horizons, after premiering last year at The Wilma in Philadelphia (“charming from start to finish … beautifully heartbreaking” - Talkin’ Broadway). Other works include Cute Activist at The Bushwick Starr (“a brilliant match of material and theater… a fable for our times” - New York Times), and Minor Character: 6 Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time (“delightful… a spring green forum on youth’s discontents” - Helen Shaw, The Village Voice), created with New Saloon and presented at The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival. Milo’s audio play BOY FACTORY can be heard on Playwrights Horizons: Soundstage, and their newest play Deep Purple Wiggle is upcoming at Theater Battery in Seattle. Milo has developed work at SoHo Rep, Ars Nova, SPACE on Ryder Farm, EST/Youngblood, and MacDowell, and is currently under commission from Clubbed Thumb. He is a 2nd-year Playwriting MFA candidate at UC San Diego. Representation: Emma Feiwel, WME.