HELL MOUTH

[NoHo Arts District, CA]  – The Road Theatre Company and Founder/Artistic Director Taylor Gilbert are thrilled to announce the final show of its 2025-2026 season, the world premiere of HELL MOUTH, written by Tom Jacobson and directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.

About HELL MOUTH

Torn between his Oklahoma parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century.  Heretical theology, miraculous hair growth, microscopic art theft and a visit to the Valley of Hell.  Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women List.

The Cast

The cast features (in alphabetical order): Tony Abatemarco as “Russell/Spencer,” Taylor Gilbert as “Lois/Samara,” and Danny Lee Gomez as “Tim.”

The Team

TOM JACOBSON (Playwright) has had more than 100 productions of his plays, including Off Broadway: The Twentieth-Century Way, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and Boston Court (five Ovation Award nominations, four Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle nominations, one GLAAD Award nomination, Fringe Festival Award for Outstanding Production of a Play, PEN Center Award for Drama).  In Los Angeles: Plunge at Son of Semele Ensemble, Tar at Playwrights Arena, Mexican Day at Rogue Machine Theatre Company, The Orange Grove at Playwrights Arena, the award-winning Bunbury, Tainted Blood, Ouroboros and The Friendly Hour at The Road Theatre Company, Making Paradise:  The West Hollywood Musical at Cornerstone Theater Company, Sperm and The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) at Circle X, House of the Rising Son at Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA (Critic’s Choice in Back Stage West and Los Angeles Times, nominated for a GLAAD Award and winner of two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards), Diet of Worms at Chalk Repertory, Captain of the Bible Quiz Team at Rogue Machine Theatre Company (Top Ten Stage Raw, Drama Critic’s Circle Award), The Devil’s Wife at Skylight Theatre, and Walking to Buchenwald and The Bauhaus Project at Open Fist Theatre Company.  He has been a co-literary manager of Boston Court, a founding member of Playwrights Ink, and a board member of Cornerstone and Boston Court.  Films include: Prairie Sonata (based on The Friendly Hour).  Opera: Hopscotch, commissioned by The Industry.  Recent productions include Crevasse co-produced by Son of Semele and the Victory Theatre (LADCC Award for Playwriting) and Mrs. Christmas at Aurora Theatre.

ANN HEARN TOBOLOWKY (Director) has been a long-time member of two theatre companies in Los Angeles: Theatre 40 (since 1980) and The Road Theatre Company (since 2015). Primarily an actor, Ann Hearn Tobolowsky began directing in 2004 with Sally Nemeth’s beautiful play Holy Days at Theatre 40 and steadily developed a following as a director and all-around theatre enthusiast.  Ann directed three critically acclaimed plays by Steve Yockey: Sleeping Giant (2025), Mercury (2024), and Reykjavík (2021), which was a filmed live play production, honored with laurels at several international film festivals (Sweden, Paris and Buenos Aires).

For the Road, she also directed Scintilla, Through the Eye of a Needle and numerous readings for The Word, Under Construction and Summer Playwrights Festival. At Theatre 40 she directed Beatnik Girl, The Half-Light, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Silent Sky, Good People, As Good As Gold, Bus Stop, Holy Days, Driving Miss Daisy, and Another Part of the Forest. In Los Angeles, Ann also directed the world premieres of The Civil Twilight by Shem Bitterman, The Favorite by Joe Correll, and Forever Bound by Steve Apostolina, as well as the classic Misery with actress Julie Dove.  As part of Center Theatre Group’s 2022 LA Writers’ Workshop at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, she directed the reading of Jami Brandli’s play The Magician’s Sister.

The design team for HELL MOUTH is as follows: Scenic Design by Mark Mendelson; Lighting Design by Derrick McDaniel; Projection Design by Nicholas Santiago; Sound Design by Matt Richter; Costume Design by Jenna Bergstraesser; Properties Design by Ava Guggenheim. The Production Stage Manager is Maurie Gonzalez.  HELL MOUTH is produced by Danna Hyams and Taylor Gilbert.