Ready For Company and Other Family Tales – November 6-23
November 6 – 23, 2025
The Downstairs
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
Tickets:
Adults: $30
Students/Seniors: $25
La MaMa Members: $10
A one woman play by Kim Ima
ABOUT
Ready For Company and Other Family Tales: a one-woman play about family and legacy. An inheritance of stories and unfinished quests from this Jewish-Japanese-American family tree.
With a complicated family history, Kim excavates meaning from small remembered moments, inherited souvenirs, the oft-repeated family tales (as well silent secrets) left for her to unpack. Told with music, movement and “show-and-tell” objects, this one-woman journey of nostalgia and discovery portrays with humor the beautiful and enigmatic paths of immigration – and what we choose to carry forward.
Refreshments will be served!
…I want to tell you something about my mother….and my grandma Rosie…and my pop, and… and, and…Camp. That camp. The one we don’t like to talk about camp.
Camp, camp, camp, camp, camp.
Camp.
And cake. We also need cake.
CREDITS
Costume Designer: Gabriel Berry
Bios
Kim Ima is a theater maker, writer, baker and community events enthusiast. Longtime member of the Great Jones Rep. La MaMa credits include playing Cassandra in La MaMa’s groundbreaking production of The Trojan Women directed by Andrei Serban and composed by Elizabeth Swados; many GJR shows directed by Ellen Stewart; The Trojan Women Project’s Sur; and We Are So Happy You Are Here, as a part of the Great Jones Rep’s Creatures.
Other credits include Lunch Dances with Monica Bill Barnes & Company at the NYPL, The Seven Deadly Sins, directed by Anne Bogart at The New York City Opera with the SITI Company, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the National Asian American Theatre Company and a zoom/soap opera-style The Cherry Orchard directed by Rachel Murdy. Kim was the owner of The Treats Truck, a Vendy Award winning food truck in NYC, and The Treats Truck Stop, a bakery cafe in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn. She is the author of the cookbook, The Treats Truck Baking Book, published by HarperCollins.
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