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

First ten tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)
 
Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.

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

Writer/performer: Kim Ima
Director: Megan Paradis Hanley
Dramaturg: Kendall Cornell
Lighting: Federico Restrepo
Costumes: Gabriel Berry
Lighting Designer: Federico Restrepo
Costume Designer: Gabriel Berry
Set Designer: Mary Olin  Geiger 
Sound Designer: Leonie Bell 
Sound Assistant: Sophie Yuqing Nie
Stage Manager: Amanda Reynoso 
Associate Producer: Marina Celander

Bios

Kim Ima is a theater maker, writer, baker and community events enthusiast. Longtime member of the Great Jones Rep, the NY Day of Remembrance Committee and The Trojan Women Project. Theater credits include playing Cassandra in La MaMa’s groundbreaking production of The Trojan Women directed by Andrei Serban and composed by Elizabeth Swados and more recently performing as a guest artist with Monica Bill Barnes & Company in Lunch Dances at the NYPL and Sur, a devised theater piece adapted from the short story by Ursula K. Le Guin in the Ellen Stewart Theatre in April 2025. Kim is a founding member of The Trojan Women Project (thetrojanwomenproject.org) and 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. Her piece, We Are So Happy You Are Here, will be a part of the Great Jones Rep’s Creatures inhabitation of La MaMa’s 74A E 4th, Oct 23-Nov 2.

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