Gruesome Playground Injuries at KNOW Theatre

Gruesome Playground Injuries is not your typical love story. Doug (Joshua Sedelmeyer) and Kayleen (Jessica Nogaret) meet at the nurses office in their elementary school shes got a painful stomachache, and hes all banged up from a running dive off the roof of the school. Over the next 30 years, these scar-crossed lovers meet again and again, brought together by injury, heartbreak and their own self-destructive tendencies. With great compassion and humor, Joseph crafts a compelling and unconventional love story about the intimacy between two people when they allow their defenses to drop and their wounds to show.Directing KNOWs production is Bernie Sheredy, with Jeff Tagliaferro and Scott Fisher as videographers / editors. Joseph has penned 14 produced plays over the past two decades, including 2009s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which opened on Broadway in 2011 with Robin Williams in the lead role. A Los Angeles Times review called Bengal Tiger "the most original drama written about the Iraq War."Joseph also wrote for Seasons 3 and 4 of the Showtime TV series Nurse Jackie, as well as co-writing the films Draft Day (2014) and Army of One (2016) with Scott Rothman

Authors

• Rajiv Joseph