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About the Show
Step into the ring for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a Pulitzer-Prize finalist comedy that body-slams the world of pro-wrestling, pop culture, and the performance of identity. Told through the eyes of Macedonio “The Mace” Guerra, a gifted wrestler stuck being paid to lose to a bigger-named star in the ring, this knockout satire takes on cultural stereotypes, media spectacle, and the courage it takes to say no. A bold, tour-de-force comedy that leaves it all on the mat!
Audience Advisories:
strong language, simulated violence/fighting, racial stereotypes, flashing lights and haze effects.
The 2nd Sunday matinee of the run will be a mask required performance. Please bring a mask or one will be provided to you.
Meet the Artists
Kristoffer Diaz, Playwright
Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright, screenwriter, musical librettist, and educator. His teaching interests include dramatic writing and contemporary US theater, with a special focus on new American plays and musicals. His musical Hell's Kitchen (created with Alicia Keys) was nominated for 13 Tony Awards (including Best Book), won a Grammy, and is currently running on Broadway, with a national tour beginning in fall 2025. His play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and has gone on to more than forty productions nationwide.
Stefan Sittig, Director
Stefan Sittig has a multi-disciplined theatre background as a Helen Hayes Award nominated director, choreographer, fight director, intimacy & movement coordinator and author. He has been involved in 140+ productions including work in New York City (Off-Broadway), internationally in Brazil, Uruguay and Canada, at various regional theatres, and in most of the major theatres in the D.C. area. Favorite directing credits include: Xanadu (Helen Hayes Award nomination) at Workhouse Arts Center, Volver/Return, Church & State, Mothers & Sons (Broadway World Award nomination Best Director) and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadway World Award Best Director) at MetroStage and Trabajadores (World Premiere of the Spanish version of Stephen Schwartz’s Working) at Teatro Aventura in Montevideo, Uruguay. Half-Uruguayan and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Stefan is proud to work on theatre that centers the Latine experience, and his book Latinidad in Musical Theatre was published this year by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama. At NextStop Stefan has worked on various productions including Footloose, The Shawshank Redemption, Nunsense A-men! and In The Heights (Helen Hayes Award nomination Outstanding Choreography) and many other productions in various capacities (actor, choreographer, fight director) in this space over the last three decades. www.stefansittig.com Instagram: @stefansittig