2019-2020

Reading Series Success!

Nov 12, 2019
We would like to extend a huge thank-you to everyone in our Spooky Family for coming out to support our Staged Reading Series this past month! The New Works in Action program's main mission is to provide playwrights with a testing ground for their works while they're in their final stretch, which would be impossible without your support! 

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The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers
by Tennessee Williams

directed by Natsu Onoda Power
September 21, 2019

Cast: 
Dylan Arredondo
Melissa Carter
Jared Graham

Set Design - Natsu Onoda Power
Puppet Design & Construction - Natsu Onoda Power, Melissa Carter

The Kennedy Center 2019 Page-to-Stage Festival
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Bread
​by Jaclyn Enchin

directed by Shanara Gabrielle
August 31, 2019 

Cast:
Michael Russottoo
Christopher Crutchfield Walker
Brandon McCoy
Maya Jackson
Katie McDonald
Megan Graves
Matt McGee
Joseph Delguste
Jonathan Holmes
Tro Shaw

Torgus and Snow
​by Christine Evans

directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer
March 23-24, 2019

Cast:
Kathryn Zoerb
Omar Cruz
Julia Capizzi
Mary Myers
Matthew Aldwin McGee
Nanna Ingvarsson
Matthew Pauli
​Michael Kevin Darnall

2018-2019

The Kennedy Center 2018 Page-to-Stage Festival

Torgus and Snow 
by Christine Evans

directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer
September 3, 2018

Cast:
​Robert Bowen Smith
Tia Shearer
Gianna Rapp
Ashley Nicholas
Jessica Lefkow
Matt Bassett
Tyler Herman
Gwen Grastorf
Drew Kopas
Emily Whitworth

The Demon Hunter
​by Nat Cassidy

directed by Samantha Wyer Bello
​June 23-24, 2018

Cast:
Dan Crane
Natascia Diaz
McLean Jesse
Greg Ongao

Assistant Director - Alex Pipe
Lighting Design - Max Doolittle
Projection Design - Kylos Bannon
Sound Design - David Crandall

2017-2018

Shoah Business
by Jennie Berman Eng

directed by Kate Bryer
December 2-3, 2017

Cast:
Daniel Westbrook
Taylor Robinson
Emily Whitworth
Megan Dominy
Jimmy Whalen

Stage Manager - Brittany Truske
Set & Costume Design - Deb Sivigny
Lighting Design - Max Doolittle
Sound Design - Gordon Nimmo-Smith
Choreographer - Rachel Dolan
Props Master - Liz Long
​Dramaturg - Gillian Drake

2016-2017

The Orbit of Mercury
​by Bob Bartlett

directed by KenYatta Rogers
March 25-26, 2017

Cast:
Justin Weaks
Elliott Bales
Desmond Bing
Matthew Alan Ward
Kashayna Johnson
James J Johnson
Clayton Pelham, Jr. 
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Stage Manager - Katie Bucher
Lighting Design - E-hui Woo
Sound Design - David Crandall
Props Design - Elizabeth Long

The Yellow Bird
by Randolph Curtis Rand

based on the works of Tennessee Williams
directed by Randolph Curtis Rand
​December 3-4, 2016

Cast:
Elizabeth Anne Jernigan
Scott Sedar
Hilary Kacser
Desmond Bing
Lynn Sharp Spears
Matthew Marcus
Lisa Galperin
Rafael Sebatian
Annie Houston
Mary C. Davis

Stage Manager - Max Frost
Lighting Design - E-hui Woo
Sound Design - David Crandall
Costume Design - Hiram Orozco

Motherless Children
by Jenn Tash

directed by Bridget Grace Sheaff
​August 27-28, 2016

Cast:
Dallas Millholland
Amy Horan
Kelly Armstrong
Joe Brack
Liz Dutton

Stage Manager - Lena Salins
Set Design - E-hui Woo
Sound Design - Gordon Nimmo-Smith
Props - Becky Mezzanotte

Jenn Tash, Playwright

Bridget Grace Sheaff, Director

2015-2016

Bell and Bliss
​by Fly Steffens

directed by Rebecca Holderness
November 23, 2015

Cast:
Elliot Bales
Jefferson Breland
Michael Kevin Darnall

The Bison Beast of DuBois
​by Mario Baldessari

directed by Lynn Sharp Spears
August 22-23, 2015

Cast:
Bill Aitken
Jen Bevan
Robert John Biedermann
Susan S. Porter
Melissa Robinson
Jonathan Lee Taylor

Stage Manager - Sarah Magno
Lighting Design - Autumn Caset
Costume Design - Rachael Knoblauch
Sound Design - Jess Hoover
Props Design  - Becky Mezzanotte

2014-2015

Can't Complain
by Christine Evans

directed by Richard Henrich
August 16-17, 2014

​Cast:
Hilary Kacser
Caren Hearne
Natasha Gallop
Ron Heneghan
Wendy Wilmer

Stage Manager - Cody Whitfield
Lighting Design - Colin Dieck
Scenic Artist - Katie Wertz
Sound Design - David Crandall
Costume Design - Molly Abraham

Curiouser 
​by Brett Steven Abelman

directed by Jason Schlafstein
August 2-3, 2014

Cast:
James Flanagan
Genevieve James
Kari Ginsburg
Christopher Herring
Ann Fraistat
Katie Jeffries
Paul Resiman
Ryan Alan Jones

Composer - Bob Manzo
Stage Manager - Cody Whitfield
Scenic Artist - Katie Wertz
Lighting Design - Colin Dieck
Costume Design - Collin Ranney
Asst. Costume Design, Wardrobe - Molly Abraham
Props Consultant - Tim Jones

2013-2014

Dire Wolves
​by Kristen LePine

directed by Kristy Simmons
September 21-22, 2013

Cast:
Noah Chiet
Katie Culligan
Ilona Dulaski
Melissa Flaim
Peter Orvetti
​Graham Pilato

Lighting Design - Christina Giles

Fisker Fights for His Life
​by Ernie Joselovitz

directed by Lynn Sharp Spears
September 14-15, 2013

Cast:
Amy Baska
Jamie Boyd
A.J. Whittenberger
Autumn Seavey Hicks
Alan Hoffamn
Andrew Ferlo
Bette Cassatt
Chad Fornwalt

​Lighting Design - Christina Giles

Klytmnestra
An Epic Slam Poem
​by Dane Figueroa Edidi

directed, choreographed, and performed by Dane Figueroa Edidi
August 23-24, 2013