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The Theatrical Event of the Season!

Two Tony Award-winning plays performed in repertory, alternating nightly, with one set, overlapping casts and unlimited firepower! One is a celebrated American classic and the other a celebrated smash hit. See them both and experience every exhilarating moment

by Yasmina Reza
translated by Christopher Hampton
directed by Marco Barricelli
Segerstrom Stage

Jan. 23 – Mar. 21, 2026

SEASON PRODUCER
Apriem Advisors

LEAD REPERTORY PRODUCER
Michael Ray

REPERTORY PRODUCERS
Richard & Lisa Rawlins de Lorimier

HONORARY PRODUCERS
Elaine & Mike Gray

CORPORATE PRODUCERS
Haskell and White

MEDIA PARTNERS
LAist

Support for this production provided by
The Nicholas Endowment

GOD OF CARNAGE

In gentrified Brooklyn, a playground fight between 11-year-old boys brings four parents together to resolve their sons’ conflict. At first, diplomacy rules. But as each parent reveals their demands, the living room peace summit spirals into a riotous free-for-all of opposing parenting styles, conflicting personalities and marital tensions. A brilliant and biting comedy of manners (without the manners) Variety called “Elegant, acerbic… Reza’s sharpest work since Art.”

Previews: Jan. 23-28, 2026
Opening Night: Jan. 30, 2026
Regular Performances: Jan. 31 - Mar. 21, 2026
American Sign Language Performance: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026 at 2 p.m.

Recommendation: Ages 16+

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About the Creative Team

Dan Donohue

Dan Donohue* (Michael) returns to SCR, where he last appeared as Francis Henshall in One Man, Two Guvnors. On Broadway and on the national tour, he played Scar in The Lion King. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he appeared in more than 30 productions playing such roles as Richard III, Iago, Prince Hal, Henry V and Hamlet. His work has also been seen at Yale Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and many others. Film and television work includes Magazine Dreams, “High Potential,” “Government Cheese,” and recurring roles in “Wonder Man,” “For All Mankind,” “Longmire,” “Damnation,” “Strange Angel,” and “The Last Tycoon.” He is an inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.


Melinda Page Hamilton

Melinda Page Hamilton* (Veronica) Her theatre credits include Rear Window (Hartford Stage), Cornelia, Bell, Book And Candle and All My Sons (The Old Globe); The Royal Family (Ahmanson Theater, Arena Stage); To Fool The Eye (Guthrie Theater); Cyrano (Cleveland Play House); The Seagull (George Street Playhouse) and numerous productions at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre. Television credits include series regular roles on “The Peripheral” (Amazon Studios), “Messiah” (Netflix), “Damnation” (FX) and recurring roles on “Mrs. America” (FX), “Devious Maids” (ABC), “Desperate Housewives” (ABC), “Mad Men” (AMC), “How to Get Away With Murder” (CBS ) and many others. Her film credits include Sleeping Dogs Lie, for which she was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor; M.O.M. and God Bless America. She received her MFA from NYU. She is delighted to be making her SCR debut 33 years after her father, Frank Hamilton, appeared in the original production of Prelude to a Kiss here in 1988.


Derek Manson

Derek Manson* (Alan and Michael Understudy) returns to SCR after appearing in last season’s Little Shop of Horrors (Orin). Past SCR credits include Snow White (Four), Tiger Style! (Russ), You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Snoopy) and the 2022 and 2023 Pacific Playwrights Festivals. Recent credits include Musical Theatre West’s Into the Woods (The Baker), and Disney’s Frozen with McCoy Rigby Entertainment in La Mirada. Last fall he was seen in Inkwell Theater’s world premiere play Paper Walls on the Broadwater Main Stage in Hollywood. Los Angeles stage credits include The Bicycle Men, Neil Simon’s Musical Fools, The Gary Plays, Room Service, The 39 Steps, Life Expectancy, The Brat Pack, Love Actually in Concert, Sunny Afternoon, King Dick, 1984, The Bewildered Herd, Making Paradise and Second City This Week. Television and and voice over credits include “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “The Last Tycoon,” “UnREAL,” and SNL’s “Best of TV Funhouse.”


Kim Martin-Cotten

Kim Martin-Cotten* (Annette) is a producer, director, actor and educator. From Fall of 2021 to Summer of 2025 she held the positions of SCR’s Associate Artistic Director and Co-director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Before joining SCR she held the positions of Artistic Producer and Associate Director of New Works for Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Prior to that, as the founding Artistic Producer of Off-Broadway company Hang A Tale, she was producing in New York from 2014 through 2019, developing new work and reimagining classics. As an actor, she has performed regionally across the country, and in New York, she has been seen both off and on Broadway. Her latest work as an actor was covering both Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney in the rotating roles of Regina and Birdie for the Broadway production of The Little Foxes. She also performed in Merchant of Venice as Portia opposite Al Pacino on Broadway in Lily Rabe’s absence. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance as Josie in Moon for the Misbegotten at Pearl Theatre. She has also taught acting at Yale School of Drama. As a director, she recently directed The Old Man and The Old Moon at Outside SCR, and co-directed Million Dollar Quartet. Other directing projects include The Dumbwaiter, Cabaret, Death of A Salesman, Proof and The Taming of the Shrew. She also served as Project Assistant to Anna Deavere Smith on her initial production of House Arrest: First Edition at Arena Stage.


Brian Vaughn

Brian Vaughn* (Alan) returns to SCR after playing Georg in She Loves Me. He recently finished touring the country in the Tony Award Winning Best Musical Revival of Parade and before that in the Broadway first national tour of Beetlejuice. Recent credits include Sweet Smell of Success at Jazz at Lincoln Center and Claudius in Hamlet at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Vaughn appeared in more than 60 productions in over 25 years at the Utah Shakespeare Festival and 13 years as a Resident Company Member at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Regional credits include Arizona Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Northlight Theatre, PCPA, Skylight Music Theatre. Favorite roles include Hamlet, Henry V, Cyrano de Bergerac, Iago in Othello, The Poet in An Iliad, Charlie in Stones in his Pockets, Javert in Les Misérables, Harold Hill in The Music Man and Mozart in Amadeus. brianvaughnofficial.com / @brianvaughn11


Paige Lindsey White

Paige Lindsey White* (Annette and Veronica Understudy) appeared at SCR previously in Abundance and Kings. Other favorite credits include Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (Pasadena Playhouse); Pericles, Polonius and Malvolio (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Sierra Repertory Theatre); Other Desert Cities (Arizona Theatre Company and Indiana Repertory Theatre); At Home at the Zoo (The Wallis); Titania/Hippolyta in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Disney Concert Hall); Fallen Angels and Hamlet (Ensemble Theatre Company); Rapture Blister Burn (San Diego Repertory Theatre); Trying and Ghost-Writer (International City Theatre); The Children, RII and With Love and a Major Organ (Boston Court Pasadena); Walking the Tightrope (24th Street Theatre) and the international tour of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (The Actors’ Gang). On television, she appeared in “Shameless,” “American Woman,” “Corporate,” “Days of Our Lives” and “TV Funhouse.” She is the winner of a LA Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Lead Performance. paigelindseywhite.com

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes, produced worldwide and translated into 35 languages. She has written seven plays (Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of WinterArtThe Unexpected Man, Life X 3, A Spanish Play, God of Carnage, How You Talk the Game) and six novels (Hammerklavier, Une Desolation (Desolation), Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L'Aube, le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Dusk or Night)). Films include: Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz, directed by Didier Martiny and Chicas, written and directed by the author.

Christopher Hampton’s plays and musicals have so far garnered four Tony Awards, three Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; prizes for his film and television work include an Oscar, two BAFTAs, a Writers' Guild of America Award, the Prix Italia, a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year, and The Collateral Award at the Venice Film Festival for Best Literary Adaptation. Original plays: Appomattox, The Talking Cure, White Chameleon, Tales from Hollywood, Treats, Savages, The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse and When Did You Last See My Mother? Adaptations from novels: Youth Without God (Horváth), Embers (Márai), and Les Liasons Dangereuses (Laclos). Musicals: Stephen Ward, Dracula: The Musical and Sunset Boulevard. Libretti: Apptomattox, The Trial and Waiting for the Barbarians (all for Philip Glass).
Translations include plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Molière, Horváth, Yasmina Reza, and Florian Zeller. Film includes: Ali and Nino, A Dangerous Method, Chéri, Atonement, The Quiet American, Dangerous Liaisons, The Good Father, The Honorary Consul, Total Eclipse, Mary Reilly, Tales From The Vienna Woods, and A Doll’s House. He wrote and directed Imagining Argentina, The Secret Agent and Carrington. Television includes: The Thirteenth Tale, "The Ginger Tree," "Hôtel Du Lac," "The History Man," and "Able’s Will."

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