THE STORY: This is a fresh and heartfelt play about love, time and the infinite directions in which two lives can travel. Hope and Charles are a pair of lonely twenty-somethings about to end a supremely uninteresting first date. But just as they say good night, the myriad possibilities of their futures and a life shared together come rushing to meet them. From their first kiss to their first child, from a horrible tragedy to a second chance, each moment moves with breath-taking speed. A love story told with theatrical flair, AN INFINITE ACHE is as dazzling as it is insightful.
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Max Katz
Charles
Max Katz is a native New Yorker actor and musician. He has appeared off-off-Broadway in productions War Stories (The Tank) and The Count of Monte Cristo (Hudson Classical Theatre Company). Other of his past performances have taken place in London at the White Bear Theatre and the Platform Theatre, in St. Albans, UK, and in Montréal’s Fringe Festival. Short films
include Mama Duke (Pan African Film Festival) and the upcoming Gold Status. Max completed his MFA training at Drama Centre London and the Boris Shchukin Institute in Moscow. He is very close to being able to walk on his hands.
Cynthia Yiru Hu
Hope
Cynthia Yiru Hu is a New York based multilingual actor from China. Selected New York credits include Would You Set the Table If I Asked You To (The Tank), Fifth Planet & The Man Who Turned Into a Stick (ASDS Rep), War+Lover (Theatre Row), The Giving Tree (Unfix NYC 2021). Film credits: Ten Months(New York Shorts International Film Festival, New Faces New Voices Film Festival, DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival, SOMA Film Festival). Cynthia holds an MFA in Acting from The Actors Studio Drama School. cynthiayiru.com
Samuel Pignalosa
Charles (understudy)
Sammy Pignalosa (He/Him) is an actor/singer living in New York City and a recent graduate of The Institute for American Musical Theatre. Theatre: Simon and His Shoes (The Tank); The End of All Flesh by Greg Kotis (The Players Ring); Against the
Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theater). Film/TV: Law and
Order (season 22), Like Sunday Like Rain, The Bar Mitzvah
Club. Commercial: IHOP’s Singing Syrups. Huge thank you to everyone at IAMT and my family for their constant encouragement and love.
Kimi Handa Brown
Hope (Understudy)
Kimi Handa Brown (They/Them) A Multi-Hyphenate Artist making their NYC debut! From screen to print to stage to studio, they spend their time doing many things. 2022 includes Intimacy Directing for Plan B’s Spring Theater Season and Choreographing for YTU’s Production of Matilda JR in Salt Lake City, Utah. New works recorded and presented online include: their play SHAKESPEAREAN SUPPORT GROUP (streaming on all platforms) and their play turned film MANIC PIXIE NIGHTMARE on Youtube (most recently screened at LABELED FEST May 2022). Said farewell to Salt Lake City by performing in Salt Lake Acting Company’s “SLACabaret: Down the Rabbit Hole.” Support
their work by following them on Instagram: @kimilawls and enjoy the show!!
