Don Reed’s
The DMV
Moves to The Marsh San Francisco Studio!
Written, Performed, Produced, & Directed by Don Reed
Creative Consultant – Bob Ettinger
Creative Consultant – Enss Mitchell
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Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
October 25 – November 22, 2024
Fridays at 8pm
Ticket Information
Tickets: $25 – $35 General Seating sliding scale | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
75 minutes | No Intermission | Ages 17+
Please do not bring infants to the show
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About the Show
“…the most fun you will ever have at the DMV.” KQED
“The characters in [DMV] are all recognizable “types,” but the point of the play is that each eventually defies our conceptions of who we think they are and what we think they can do.” KQED
NPR award-winning storyteller Don Reed introduces you to 8 characters, placing you in the line all of America loves to hate – The DMV. Experience the pre-judgments made on age, class, race, physical ability, homelessness, and more in a series of monologues and dance sequences ranging from the laugh-out-loud funny to the moving to the deeply dramatic —all set in America’s melting pot, the DMV. The show was hailed as “Hilarious! Amazing! The most fun you’ll ever have at the DMV” by KQED.
“Don Reed is soooo good that if you caught Can You Dig It? or his other shows, you’ll be back for more… You know these characters… and in the diasporic crapshoot that’s the DMV, you are these people. That’s the great gift of Don Reed—and of killer actors in general, and good solo performers in particular: paying attention enough to embody some truth and bring it back home for all of us.”
—Stark Insider
Artist Biography
Don Reed, (HBO/Snap Judgment/CBS) was the 2016 Theatre Bay Area – WINNER – for Outstanding Solo Production East 14th and is Co-Producer of filmmaker Robert Townsend‘s solo hit Living the Shuffle. A San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Nominee and NAACP Triple Nominee for Best Actor & Best Playwright played one of the lead roles in the Amazon Prime comedy series Bartlett which was co-financed and recurring role starred Lin Manuel Miranda (creator of the Broadway smash HAMILTON). Most recently Reed secured an agreement with Carson Entertainment Group to access the entire library of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson to tell his Hollywood tale of the importance of not giving up in his solo juggernaut The Never Too Late Show. He is currently the host/curator and producer (along with Mike Ghiringhelli) of Redwood Nights: Storytelling Under the Stars at Deer Park Villa and the host/curator of True Funny: Storytelling for Laughs.
Don has performed, written and directed for film, television and theater. You may have heard his voice on Spiderman, Johnny Quest, SNL and as the voice of the cat on 2 Broke Girls. Additionally, Don has written, directed, produced and starred in short films for HBO. He has written and starred in work for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN and can be seen in the Netflix feature film Unleashed alongside stars from Showtime’s Shameless. Reed was the opening act/warm-up comedian for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for over 1,000 episodes, and recently shared an excerpt story from the aforementioned East 14th – on NPR/WYNC’s Snap Judgment so compelling that it was woven into the graduate writing curriculum at American University in D.C. See it here…“I Miss Toni”