Meet the “You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!” Cast

You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!, which runs on the Segerstrom Stage from Apr. 5-May 3, requires the kind of talented cast that can portray both a heartfelt family story and an irreverent, magical theatrical event.

Joel de la Fuente makes his SCR debut as Greg. Since 2012, he has been performing Jeanne Sakata’s one-person play, Hold These Truths, all over the country, which won him a Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role in 2018. He has appeared in the award-winning streaming shows “Hemlock Grove” and “The Man in the High Castle,” as well as “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.” He received his MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.

River Gallo returns to SCR and the role of M, having previously appeared in the reading of You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! at the 2024 Pacific Playwrights Festival. They are the writer, producer and star of Ponyboi, the first narrative feature created by and starring an out intersex artist in cinema history. Gallo’s varied credits include Cordelia and Fool in King Lear at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the television show “Love, Victor” and the documentary Every Body. They are a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Rafael Goldstein makes his official SCR debut as Will and others, though you may have noticed him in the program as an understudy for SCR’s production of Joan. Some of his recent roles include Laertes and The Player in Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet and Jake in the world premiere of Keiko Green’s Sharon at Cygnet Theatre. He is a resident artist at A Noise Within in Pasadena.

Anna LaMadrid makes her SCR debut as Lila and others. She is best known for her role as Fake Angela in HBO’s docu-comedy series “The Rehearsal.” Some of her recent television credits include recurring roles in “This Fool” and “Shining Vale.” She has performed on stage at Pasadena Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Company, Antaeus Theatre Company and Boston Court Pasadena. She earned her MFA at University of Washington.

Sharon Omi returns to SCR as Janet and others, having previously appeared as Elishiva in Galilee, 34 last season. Some of her recent theatre credits include My Home on the Moon at the San Francisco Playhouse, The Great Wave at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and No No Boy and Innocent When You Dream at LA Theatre Works. She starred in the film Eat with Me, for which she won an award for best actress at the Out on Film Festival in Atlanta.

Alysia Reiner makes her SCR debut as Viv. She is best known for her roles as Fig in 7 seasons of “Orange is the New Black” and Agent Sadie Deever in “Ms. Marvel,” with other television credits including “The Deuce,” “The Diplomat,” “Broad City” and “How to Get Away with Murder.” Reiner has performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Apollo Theater in Harlem, among others, and some of her New York theatre credits include My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre at the Public Theater and Jesus in Manhattan at Ensemble Studio Theatre.