A captivating theatrical experience in Los Angeles.
SENTIENCE
written and directed by C. JAY COX
95 minutes, no intermission
This workshop production is being done in accordance with Actor's Equity 99 seat agreement.
SETTING
ACT 1: LUKE'S APARTMENT
SCENE 1: AFTERNOON
SCENE 2: THE NEXT MORNING
SCENE 3: SAME DAY
ACT 2 LUKE'S APARTMENT
SCENE 1: THREE WEEKS LATER
SCENE 2: THREE WEEKS LATER
SCENE 3: THREE WEEKS LATER
ACT 3: LUKE'S APARTMENT
SCENE 1: THE NEXT MORNING
SCENE 2: THREE HOURS LATER
SCENE 3: THAT EVENING
SCENE 4: THREE DAYS LATER
SCENE 5: THREE WEEKS LATER
Meet The Team
C. JAY COX
PLAYWRIGHT/DIRECTOR
is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter, playwright, and director. After a successful public reading, he is currently workshopping his original three act play SENTIENCE for it's first performance in Spring 2025. Most recently, his film Latter Days celebrated it's 20th anniversary with a special reunion screening for the "Back to the Drive" campaign, a fundraising initiative that serves to support Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library and their Stonewall National Education Project.
C. Jay lives in Los Angeles, where he often builds random things, tends to his koi pond, and cooks a lot of fresh pasta.
ALEX PEREZ
LUKE
Alex Perez is a Los Angeles based actor/writer who has been seen on television shows such as Modern Family, Young and Hungry, and The Arrangement. A graduate of Duke University, Alex is (hopefully) completing his master’s degree in East Asian Studies (Japanese) at UCLA this month and is happily skipping his commencement ceremony to be a part of Sentience. His ultimate dream is to be cast as an evil Jesuit priest/Japanese translator on Shōgun season 2!
NICK EXUM
AL
Nick Exum is a writer, actor, and visual artist with an MFA in acting from the University of California, Irvine. He wrote and starred in Restoration, premiering at the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival. When he’s not acting, he’s working on writing and illustrating a fantasy comic and trying to organize a game night with friends.
@nick.i.exum
ABHIMANYU KATYAL*
PORTER
Abhimanyu (Abhi) Katyal / (Porter Anad) is delighted to participate in his first Hollywood Fringe production. REGIONAL: Olney Theatre Center: A Nice Indian Boy, Fulton Theatre: Disgraced [2016/17 Robbie Award Best Actor in a Play], Hanover Theatre: A Christmas Carol (Timothy Cratchit). FILM: Music, Ladybird. TV: New Girl, How to Get Away with Murder, Castle, Fresh Off the Boat, Saturday Morning All Star Hits!, Ghosted, Casual, The Thundermans, General Hospital. EDUCATION: A.B., Stanford University (International Relations). www.abhiactsup.com