CHALFANT TO STAR IN RED DOG HOWLS, DRAMA OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, MAY 14 IN CA
By Adam Hetrick

Playbill.com
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March 28 2008
NY

Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant will star in the world premiere of
Red Dog Howls – a drama about family secrets relating to the early
20th-century Armenian genocide – at North Hollywood’s El Portal
Theatre in May.

The cast also includes Matthew Rauch (Prelude to a Kiss, Edward the
Second) and Darcie Siciliano (Don’t Hug Me, First in Flight). Red
Dog Howls begins performances May 14 and will continue through June 13.

Opening is May 19.

Penned by Drama Desk nominee Alexander Dinelaris (Zanna Don’t!), Red
Dog Howls "deals frankly with the terrible legacy of the Armenian
genocide, and brings to light the human toll of one of the darkest
chapters of world history… It tells the story of Michael Kiriakos,
a young man who is forced to confront his family’s most terrible
secret, in order for him to move forward with his own life."

Rauch will play Kiriakos, with Siciliano as his wife, and Chalfant
as his secret-revealing grandmother, Rose.

Michael Peretzian directs the drama with a design team including
Tom Buderwitz (set design), Bobby Pearce (costume design), Michael
Gilliam (lighting design) and original music composed and performed
by Ara Dabandjian.

Kathleen Chalfant – who currently stars in New York City productions of
Dead Man’s Cell Phone and Vita & Virginia – earned a Tony nomination
for her work in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium
Approaches. Chalfant’s credits include her Drama Desk, Outer Critics
Circle, Obie, Drama League, Lucille Lortel and Los Angeles Ovation
Award-winning performance in Wit. Her additional credits include
I>Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, M. Butterfly, Racing Demon,
The Vagina Monologues, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You,
Henry V, and Nine Armenians.

Tickets, priced $42-$65, are available by phoning (818) 508-4200,
or by visiting

The El Portal Theatre is at 5269 North Lankershim Blvd. in North
Hollywood.