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ONE MOMENT CHANGED THEIR LIVES FOREVER

Sara and Callie's first kiss should have been the start to a new romance. Instead, their lives changed in ways neither could have predicted. Jumping backward and forward in time, the two are forced to look at the little moments that built their relationship and decide if they were meant to be or if they should cut their losses. Don’t miss this Obie- and GLAAD Media Award-winning play by Diana Son!

Single tickets go on sale about one month before opening night.

GENERAL INFORMATION

DATES

June 12-29, 2025, at Gremlin Theatre in Saint Paul. Opening night is June 14!

Special/accessible performances:

• open captions during the evening performances on June 21 & 28

• mask requirements on June 15, 22, & 29

• ASL interpretation, audio description, and talkback dates to come.

PRICE

We strive to voice the stories of the Asian American community, and in order to bring performances to those communities whose stories they tell, we are committed to making them as accessible as possible. PAY AS YOU ARE pricing asks those who routinely pay market value for theater tickets to choose to pay that amount; it is the actual fair market value of the ticket. If an audience member needs to pay less, they can choose to pay less—as little as $10 per ticket.

Seating is general admission.

VENUE INFO

Stop Kiss will take place at Gremlin Theatre, located at 550 Vandalia St., #177, Saint Paul. Free parking is available in the large lot on Wabash Avenue near the water tower.  There are additional lots around the building on the west side, street parking on Wabash, and another parking lot on the north side of Wabash. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Meet the Cast

Understudies: Michelle de Joya (Callie), Sydney Lin (Mrs. Winsley, Nurse), Jenny Tam (Sara), Keivin Vang (Detective Cole)

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT

DIANA SON (she/her) is an Emmy-nominated TV showrunner and writer/producer, and an award-winning playwright. She is currently developing TV projects for Netflix and ABC and is executive producer of the upcoming Amazon series Butterfly starring Daniel Dae Kim. Other TV projects include Genius: Aretha, season one of Thirteen Reasons Why, ABC’s American Crime, Dirty John, Southland, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, West Wing, and others. Plays include Stop Kiss (GLAAD Media Award, Obie Award, Berilla Kerr Award for playwriting, John Gassner Playwriting Prize nominee), Satellites, BOY, and R.A.W. (‘Cause I’m a Woman). Diana is co-emcee of the Writer’s Guild of America East’s Showrunner Bootcamp, a past recipient of an NEA/TCG residency at the Mark Taper Forum, a past Brooks Atkinson fellow at the National Theatre in London, and was program chair of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Playwriting Fellowship (2013-19). She is the mother of three sons and lives in Brooklyn. 

Meet the Director

KATIE BRADLEY (she/her) served Theater Mu as interim artistic director from July 2024 through spring 2025, but she has worked with the company in many different capacities since 2006. As an actor at Mu, she has appeared onstage in several productions, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Into the Woods, and The Kung Fu Zombies Saga: Shaman Warrior & Cannibals. She made her directorial debut in 2022 with Mu’s production of Man of God and recently directed the world premiere of Hells Canyon. Outside of Mu, Katie has acted with several theater companies including the Guthrie Theater, Ten Thousand Things, Children’s Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Pacific Conservatory Theatre.

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