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playcastplus 2021 SEASON P1 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORG
From the Founder & Producing Director
ED HERENDEEN
WELCOME
It is with great pleasure I welcome you back
to our artistic home. I am looking forward to
being with you again and celebrating Summer
2021 with our partners Shepherd University
and Shepherdstown. Let’s be together on the historic
streets of our friendly small town and enjoy LIVE dynamic music, poetry,
and two CATF playcasts.
It’s time to be together again. It’s time to connect and enjoy the art of
conversation. It’s time to breathe fresh air and celebrate summer in West
Virginia. We miss you. We miss telling you stories and sharing the power,
the excitement, and the thrill of the Contemporary American Theater
Festival. It’s what we do! It’s what we do together that matters. We are
happy to be with you again.
Welcome Home!
Ed Herendeen
FOUNDER & PRODUCING DIRECTOR
P2 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORGWe believe that
BLACK
LIVES
MATTER.
We believe that every voice
must be heard.
We believe that every person
must be seen.
We believe that together,
we have the power to
build a better world.
CATF IS IN SOLIDARITY WITH
BIPOC AND AAPI COMMUNITIES.
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ED HERENDEEN TABLE OF CONTENTS
Founder & Producing Director
PEGGY MCKOWEN LETTER FROM THE PRODUCING DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Associate Producing Director
EBONÈE HELMICK SOLIDARITY STATEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Business Manager
CATF INSTITUTIONAL FUNDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
TRENT KUGLER
Production Manger
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
CHASE MOLDEN
Production & Props Supervisor LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
JEN ROLSTON BOARD OF TRUSTEES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Graphic Designer
NICOLE M. SMITH MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Company Manager
DONOR IMPACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
GABRIELLE TOKACH
Public Relations Manager
SUPPORT CATF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
VICKI WILLMAN
Director of Development CATF LEADERSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
COMPANY LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Contemporary American
Theater Festival at
Shepherd University PLUS EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
PO Box 429 THE PLAYCASTS
Shepherdstown, WV
25443
SHEEPDOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
681-240-3383
www.catf.org THE HOUSE OF THE NEGRO INSANE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
CATFatSU
CATFUNMUTED PODCAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
@thinktheater
ABOUT THE 2021 PLAYCASTPLUS COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
PRODUCTION HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SPECIAL THANKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
CATF CONTRIBUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
PLAYCASTPLUS SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
P4 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORGTHANK YOU
The Contemporary American Theater Festival’s 2021 Season is
supported, in part, by the following foundations, corporations,
institutions, and government agencies.
THE ALFORD FOUNDATION JEFFERSON COUNTY CONVENTION &
VISITORS BUREAU
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION
KINNETT CPAS, INC.
THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION
MARION PARK LEWIS FOUNDATION
BRAD KUHN & ASSOCIATES, LLC
MID-ATLANTIC ARTS
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB FOUNDATION
MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK THE NORA ROBERTS FOUNDATION
OF WEST VIRGINIA
ROGERS RISSLER FOUNDATION
CLAUDE WORTHINGTON
SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY
BENEDUM FOUNDATION
SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
DELAPLAINE FOUNDATION
THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION
THE EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - THE TED SNOWDON FOUNDATION,
THE HOME HILL CHARITABLE FUND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MRS. SNOWDON DURHAM BYRON
THE EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - THE TROY FOUNDATION
THE STRAUCH FAMILY FUND TRUIST WEST VIRGINIA FOUNDATION
ECOLAB FOUNDATION THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
FAYETTE COUNTY CULTURAL TRUST WEST VIRGINIA COMMISSION ON THE ARTS
FIRSTENERGY FOUNDATION WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF
IBM FOUNDATION MATCHING ARTS, CULTURE AND HISTORY
GIFT PROGRAM WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL
INSURANCE OUTFITTERS
The Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University is proudly affiliated with
Actors’ Equity Association, United Scenic Artists, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society,
National New Play Network, and Theatre Communications Group.
P5 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORGWelcome from the President of the CATF Board of Trustees
MARELLEN AHERNE
This summer CATF celebrates 31 years providing audiences with
new and daring theater. Our 30th and 31st seasons were and are
quite different from our first 29 years. Yet, behind the scenes,
the theater continues to make things happen! We are so
pleased to be with you again this summer.
In my own life, I have a lot of things to be grateful for.
Eight and a half years ago when I moved to Shepherdstown,
I was optimistic. I hoped to find friends, cultural activities, and
opportunities for education. Shepherdstown and Shepherd University have provided
more than I could have envisioned. My life is rich in all the things I was looking
for. Though this last year and a half has been challenging on so many levels, this
community has not let me down. Shepherdstown and Shepherd University have
worked hard to provide safety, community, opportunities for joy, and support for us all.
I for one am staying put. Who wouldn’t want to live here?
The team of Shepherdstown and Shepherd University is only made richer by the
participation of a third player – the Contemporary American Theater Festival. During
these months, CATF and our collaborators have been the recipients of an outpouring
of love, interest, and support from the community, state, and town. None of us could
have gotten through the days of COVID alone. Our partnerships are our strength.
Gratitude abounds.
Welcome back to CATF! This summer provides a different look at theater. We bring you
these four Fridays of programing with deep appreciation to the artists who help made
all this happen under challenging circumstances.
We will be back with live theater next summer. Mark your calendar for July 2022!
Marellen Johnson Aherne
PRESIDENT, CATF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
P6 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORGA Letter from the President of Shepherd University
DR. MARY J.C. HENDRIX
It is with great excitement that I welcome you back to live events
during the summer of 2021 with our partners: Mayor Auxer and the
Shepherdstown Town Council and the Contemporary American
Theater Festival.
For over 30 years, since the founding of the Theater Festival in
1991, this partnership has culturally and financially enhanced our
community, region, and the lives of creative artists and audiences from
38 states, the District of Columbia, and international countries. Together,
Shepherd University, the Theater Festival, and our home Shepherdstown, have
weathered
the global pandemic and we now begin an exciting journey forward to re-connecting
with our community as we re-grow the arts, academics, and the economy of the
Eastern Panhandle.
The CATF playcastplus Street Parties in July will feature Shepherdstown and global
majority artists and the release of audio dramas by playwrights Kevin Artigue and
Terence Anthony. In August, Shepherd University is poised for a re-opening of in-
person learning to welcome our students, faculty, and staff back to campus. All of us
at Shepherd University have longed-for the return of in-person festival, theater, art,
athletic, historical, and other community events.
As we get together again, I hope you will take advantage of all that is offered by the
Theater Festival this summer, historic Shepherdstown, and Shepherd University. CATF
evinces Shepherd’s dedication to excellence, innovation, and opportunity. We are
extremely proud to be a partner of the Contemporary American Theater Festival, and
play a collaborative role in transforming the future.
With many best wishes,
Mary J.C. Hendrix, Ph.D.
SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
P7 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORG2021 Contemporary American Theater Festival
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MARELLEN JOHNSON SHARON J. ANDERSON HONORARY BOARD
AHERNE* JOHN BACHNER JENNY EWING ALLEN
PRESIDENT BETH BATDORF JON AMORES
ROBIN BERRINGTON JASON AUFDEM-BRINKE
S. ANDREW ARNOLD* MARY I. BRADSHAW* MARTIN BURKE
VICE PRESIDENT
ROBERTA L. DEBIASI, M.D. ELLEN CAPPELLANTI
JAMES J. EROS CARMELA CESARE
ALLISON MARINOFF CARLE*
NANCY FELDMAN BRIDGET COHEE
VICE PRESIDENT
HANS FOGLE* BILL DRENNEN
PAUL KESSLER* ANN M. HARKINS* MARY CLARE EROS
TREASURER DR. MARY J.C. HENDRIX THOMAS S. FOSTER
ED HERENDEEN* LILY HILL
RICK SHAFFER* DIANA HORVAT PETE HOFFMAN
SECRETARY TRIPP LOWE CATHERINE E. IRWIN
STEPHANIE MATHIAS* JUDITH W. KATZ-LEAVY
ELIZABETH MCDONALD SUSAN KEMNITZER
PEGGY MCKOWEN* KATHA KISSMAN
KAKIE MCMILLAN* DEMI LEWIN
SUSAN L. MILLS STANLEY C. MARINOFF, M.D.
FRANKLIN C. MOORE TIA MCMILLAN
DAVID RAMPY NOAH MEHRKAM
PATRICIA F. RISSLER ANDREW D. MICHAEL
FALYNN SCHMIDT* JEANNE MUIR
DAVID EMERSON TONEY JOYCE CAROL OATES
DEBBIE VENEY KAREN RICE
ALAN N. YOUNT AUDREY ROWE
MICHAEL SANTA BARBARA
EX OFFICIO
R.B. SEEM
DR. ROB TUDOR
LYNN SHIRLEY
SYLVIA BAILEY SHURBUTT
EMERITUS BOARD
STEPHEN SKINNER
RONALD JONES
MARY HELEN STRAUCH
LINDA RICE
KEVIN STRUTHERS
DR. SCOTT BEARD ‡
KIRSTEN TRUMP
SHIRLEY MARINOFF ‡
MARJORIE WEINGOLD
*MEMBER OF CATF’S MICHAEL PROFFITT ‡
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SCOTT WIDMEYER
‡ IN MEMORIAM LISA YOUNIS
P8 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORGOUR DONORS JUNE 30, 2021 – JUNE 29, 2021
CATF extends a special thank you to the following FESTIVAL FRIENDS While we make every effort to
provide a complete and accurate
who gave donations to support and sustain the Theater Festival between acknowledgement of our contributors,
June 30, 2020 and June 29, 2021. if we have made an error, please accept
our apologies and contact Vicki Willman,
Director of Development, at vwillman@
catf.org or 681-240-4044.
PRODUCER’S CIRCLE Stephanie Mathias & R.B. Seem
PRODUCER’S CIRCLE $10,000+
Marellen Johnson Aherne Liz McDonald PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE $5,000-$9,999
AGENT’S CIRCLE $2,000-$4,999
Mina Goodrich & Lawrence K. Dean Susan L. Mills DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $1,000-$1,999
ARTIST’S CIRCLE $500-$999
Dr. Stanley C. Marinoff and Allison Franklin C. Moore & Erich D. Hosbach PATRON’S CIRCLE $100-$499
FRIEND’S CIRCLE TO $99
Marinoff Carle & Eric Carle Helen & Ed Moore
Bolded listings indicate donors who
Betsy Nicholas & Paul Kessler Jeanne Muir & Jim Ford increased their contribution by 10%
C.M. & Stephanie Partridge David & Leah Rampy
or more in comparison to the
previous season.
Patricia Rissler & James Rogers Falynn Schmidt of OTJ Architects
Rick & Sheila Shaffer Robert & Mary Helen Strauch
Deb Weisbacher Deborah Veney & Heather Hiles Stephen G. Skinner
Alan Yount & Scott Widmeyer Peter & Victoria Smith
PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE
Bev & Frank Kristine Barbara Spicher & Martin Burke
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
Kakie & Andrew McMillan Sharon J. Anderson & Emma J. Stokes
Richard & Nadine Osborn Adrienne Haddad Hugh & Marty Talton
Louis & Shirley Puneky, Fredrick & Christine Andreae David Emerson Tony
In honor of Allie Punekii Anonymous Marie Tyler-McGraw &
Nan Beckley Howard M. Wachtel
AGENT’S CIRCLE
Yolanda & Frank Bruno Hank & Dale Walter, Bill Drennen,
S. Andrew Arnold & Carmela Cesare
Frederic & Anne D’Alauro and David Drennen
Anonymous,
In honor of A. Playwright Anita Difanis, Marjorie Weingold
In memory of Richard Krajeck Pat & Beth Winkler
John Philip & Patty Bain Bachner
Isa Engleberg & Allan Kennedy
Beth K. Batdorf & John S. Bresland
Erdem & Joan Ergin ARTIST’S CIRCLE
Robin Berrington
Ed & Sue Herendeen Marianne Alexander,
Mary I. Bradshaw & In memory of Duane F. Alexander
Donald H. Hooker, Jr. Tom & Kay Horst
Susan Coady Kemnitzer John Arrington & Linda King
Roberta L. DeBiasi, M.D.
Katha Kissman Rick & Burma Bochner
James & Mary Clare Eros
Nancy & Cary Feldman Tripp Lowe Marc & Judith Briod
Mary Fortuna & Chris Kuser Harriet McGuire Jeffrey A. Clark,
Peggy McKowen In memory of Jo Ricks
Ann M. Harkins, In honor of the
30th Anniversary Season Lex & Pam Miller Bill & Ellen Conner
Dr. Mary J.C. Hendrix Martha Moss Mimi & Mark Dickinson
Diana Horvat Margaret Ann Ross Rosemary & Paul DuMont
John & Gail Howell Drs. Sylvia & Ray Shurbutt Elaine & David Fishman
M.A. Mahoney Delacey Skinner CONTINUED ON PAGE 29
P9 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORGDONOR IMPACT
THE ED HERENDEEN FUND ARTISTIC FUND
FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATER
In 2020, CATF announced the creation of the Artistic
CATF extends its sincere gratitude to the following Fund to support new play commissions, artistic
individuals and businesses for their leadership in projects that support BIPOC artists, and professional
supporting this critical endowment fund for future development opportunities for the staff.
artistic initiatives and programming.
The fund was seeded with a special $30,000 gift by
Skip Adkins Noah Mehrkam Rick & Sheila Shaffer. The first additional $30,000 in
gifts to the Artistic Fund are being matched dollar-
Jenny Ewing Allen Harriet McGuire
for-dollar by Rick & Sheila.
John & Joyce Allen Tia & Bob McMillan
Contemporary American Theater Festival
Matthew & Jan Birch Andrew Michael Artistic Fund Contributors:
Sondra Birch & Robert Myers, In honor
Lawrence Hamer of Catherine Irwin Rick & Sheila Shaffer, Judith Katz-Leavy, In
Lead Gift memory of Edward Leavy
Martin Burke & Lisa M. Poulin, In
Barbara Spicher honor of Joan Marie Anonymous (3) Clyde & Judy Kernek
& Normand Poulin Jannon Baer Michele Lowe
Conoco Phillips
Company Proffitt & Associates Mary Bell & Kent Shaffer Anna Thérése McGowan
Architects
Reggie Govan
Robin Berrington Harriet McGuire
Stephen Skinner
Ann M. Harkins Mary I. Bradshaw Kakie & Andrew McMillan
Robert Stein &
Margaret & Elizabeth F. (Betsy) James McNeel
Gina Daddario
Fontaine Hooff Brown, In memory of
Kirsten Trump Mary Palmer Brown Enid Mirkin
Gary Horowitz
Elizabeth Tyson, Ed & Mary Boutté, Sally & Charles Neustadt
Ernest &
In honor of In memory of Grace C.M. & Stephanie
Joan Johnston
Catherine Irwin Valentine Partridge
Karen &
Mikki Van Wyk, James Chervenak Samuel & Charlene
Douglas Kinnett
In honor of Phillips
Jessica Fusillo, In
MajorGiving.com Jenny Ewing Allen
memory of Alice E. Fusillo Daniel & Florence
Eugenia Grohman Rosenblum
Mike & Sue Hall kb saine, In honor of
CATF’S OVATION SOCIETY Shepherd University’s
Chisa Hutchinson Contemporary Theater
CATF wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary Studies Program
Catherine E. Irwin, In
members of the Ovation Society who have provided honor of Marellen Aherne Matt Schutz
for the future of the Festival in their estate plans.
Susan Coady Kemnitzer Emma J. Stokes
Jenny Ewing Allen Dr. Stanley C. Marinoff
Anonymous Susan L. Mills
RC Howes Sheri & Raymond Wolfe
Jeffrey Longhofer &
Jerry Floersch
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CATF.ORGJULY 9 - AUGUST 9
MONTH OF GIVING
The Trustees of the Alford Foundation have challenged us to raise
$5,000 for the Month of Giving to support the future of the American
theater: the art on CATF stages; dynamic talktheater events; the new play
development process; and the talented Intern Company.
CATF is also investing in our community to celebrate the
value and importance of partnerships. A portion of the
donations CATF receives during the Month of Giving associated
with the Listening Party & on-demand audio drama of
The House of the Negro Insane by Terence Anthony will support the
Eastern Panhandle Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.
DONATE AT CATF.ORG TODAY
TO HELP US MEET THE ALFORD FOUNDATION CHALLENGE
P11 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORGCATF LEADERSHIP
PEGGY MCKOWEN** (she/her)
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Peggy McKowen’s association with CATF began
in 2006, when she designed the costumes for Mr.
ED HERENDEEN*** Marmalade and Jazzland. She joined the full-time
FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR staff the following year. As a designer, her work at
CATF includes: costumes for Antonio’s Song/ I Was
Ed Herendeen founded the Contemporary American
dreaming of a son, The Welcome Guest, The Wedding
Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in
Gift, Not Medea, Everything You Touch, 1001, H2O, and
1991 with the mission to produce and develop new
Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah; and scenery
American theater. Through his leadership, and operating
for From Prague, Wrecks, and Gidion’s Knot.
under an LORT D Actor’s Equity Association contract,
the theater festival has produced 133 new plays – Previously, Peggy was the resident designer for the
including 56 world premieres and 11 commissions – Obie-award-winning Jean Cocteau Repertory in NY and
and has gained a reputation as one of country’s most the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. Her regional theater
important curators of new work. Hosted on the campus work has been seen at Arkansas Repertory Theatre;
of Shepherd University, CATF produces a four-week Barrington Stage; Tennessee Repertory Theatre;
season of six plays in rotating repertory and attracts Texas, Dallas, and Houston Shakespeare Festivals;
a national audience and an ever growing international and Perseverance Theater. International theater work
audience. CATF was presented with the Governor’s includes the B.A.T. Studio Theatre (Berlin, Germany);
Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1999 and the the Teatro Alfa Real (Sao Paulo, Brazil); and the E.T.A.
Governor’s Award for Leadership in the Arts in 2012. Hoffmann Theatre (Bamberg, Germany). Additionally,
Peggy designed the first full-length English speaking
Ed has also worked at The Milwaukee Repertory
production of The Tempest performed in Beijing, China,
Theatre, The Missouri Repertory Theatre, The Old
and the first Mandarin translation of How To Succeed
Globe, The Lyceum Theatre, and the Williamstown
In Business Without Really Trying for the Seven Stages
Theatre Festival. Ed was honored with the College of
Production Company in Beijing.
Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award in Theater from
Ohio University and has served on the Admissions She is a member of United Scenic Artists 829 and has
Committee for New Dramatists, as a panelist for the served on the board of the National New Play Network.
National Endowment for the Arts, and has served on Peggy was the featured artist in the exhibition High
the board of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the Drama: Costumes from the Contemporary American
national service organization for American theaters. Theater Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts, Washington
County and a four city traveling show through West
Virginia. In 2018, Peggy was named West Virginia
Artist of the Year at the Governor’s Arts Awards and
was recognized by WV Living Magazine as one of the
2019 Wonder Women of the Year. Peggy is also the
co-editor of the anthology, Plays by Women from the
Contemporary American Theater Festival.
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CATF.ORGCATF LEADERSHIP
EBONÉE HELMICK TRENT KUGLER CHASE MOLDEN
(she/her) (he/him) (he/him)
BUSINESS MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER PRODUCTION &
PROPS SUPERVISOR
Ebonée Helmick joined the theater Trent began working full time with
festival in 2019. She obtained the festival in 2020 after spending Chase graduated from Otterbein
her Master’s Degree in Public the previous 10 years working University in Westerville, Ohio
Administration and a Certificate seasonally with CATF and serving with a BFA in Theatre Design/
in Non-profit Management. Prior as Technical Director for the Technologies. He first started
to joining CATF, Ebonée worked departments of art, theater, and working with CATF in 2005, while
with several organizations in music at Shepherd University. He still in college. During the year,
various management positions in continues to serve at Shepherd as Chase works as the Technical
North Central West Virginia. Most an adjunct instructor of technical Director with the School of Arts,
notably, she was instrumental in theater. Trent obtained his BFA in Humanities, and Social Sciences
the development of the Fairmont Theater Design/Technology from for Shepherd University. Other
Community Development Otterbein University. His interest credits include: The Barter Theatre,
Partnerships affordable rentals in robotics and building small The Albany / Berkshire Ballet
program, overseeing the acquisition electronic contraptions resulted Company, The Pennsylvania
and rehabilitation of real property in his first published paper by Re n a i s s a n ce Fa i re, a n d
in Marion County, West Virginia, as USITT and a Tech Expo “Best The Shakespeare Theatre
well as streamlining the financial in Show” award for his work A of New Jersey.
and organizational management Realistic and Interactive LED
of the Partnership. Candle in 2015.
JEN ROLSTON
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Jen’s love for CATF started with her internship in 1992 (Season 2!). Starting in 2001, she
began working with CATF on an annual basis under her mission-based creative agency,
Eden Design. A West Virginia native and graduate of Shepherd University’s BFA program,
Jen has primarily worked with small businesses, non-profits, and arts organizations
using her expertise to help clients achieve visions that often nurture communities and
improve local economies. She serves on the Board of the Eastern West Virginia Community
Foundation and is a member of the Jefferson County NAACP.
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CATF.ORGCATF LEADERSHIP
NICOLE M. SMITH* GABRIELLE TOKACH VICKI WILLMAN
(she/her) (she/her) (she/her)
COMPANY MANAGER PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
MANAGER
Nicole holds a BFA in Theatre Design Vicki joined CATF in January
& Technology. Her career in Stage Gaby has been a part of the festival 2016 following over two decades
Management took her from her since 2010, when she joined the box of fundraising positions in the
hometown in Arizona to Washington performing arts, public radio and
office team. She graduated from
D.C. and New York. Nicole worked television, eldercare, and higher
West Virginia Wesleyan College,
with Roundhouse Theatre, Sitar education. Vicki was first drawn to
where she majored in Musical
Arts Center, The Juilliard School, the development profession through
and Theatreworks USA where she Theater and Arts Administration.
volunteering with a community
traveled across the United States. After earning her Master’s Degree
orchestra and public radio station.
It was her work in New York that in Arts Management from George
brought her to CATF for the first Mason University, she joined She joined the development staff
time in 2012 and introduced her CATF’s full time staff. While at of Prairie Public Broadcasting as a
to Company Management. After GMU, Gaby served on the executive Corporate Support Associate. Vicki’s
three summers at CATF, Nicole rebuilding of the radio network’s
committee of the Graduate Arts
worked with the Arizona Theatre sponsorship base led to successive
Management Society and received
Company as their Assistant positions with Wisconsin Public
the Erin Isabelle Edwards Gaffney
Company Manager for a season. Television in Madison, WI, and
Award. Still involved at her alma
From 2015 to 2018, Nicole served Maryland Public Television (MPT).
as the Housing Coordinator in the mater, Gaby is an active member
For eleven years, she served as the
Company Management department of the program’s Alumni Working Director of Development with the
at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Group. She’s served as a panelist Maryland Symphony Orchestra.
as well as the Stage Manager for for workshops at the Theatre
the Rogue Valley Symphony & Prior to joining MPT, she briefly held
Communications Group and
the Southern Oregon Repertory other development positions in her
WV Arts Day, and has directed
Singers. In 2018, Nicole returned native North Dakota with The Sacred
productions at Shepherd University
to Shepherdstown as a full-time Heart Benedictine Foundation and
(Wondrous Strange, Dog Sees God)
staff member at CATF and Adjunct at her alma mater, the University of
and in the community (The Miracle Mary, where she earned her BS in
Professor of Stage Management
Worker). Gaby has also worked Music Education. Vicki has served
at Shepherd University. She also
serves as a Board Member for the with Woolly Mammoth Theatre as a music panelist for the Maryland
Shepherdstown Visitors Center Company, Arvold Casting (History State Arts Council and performs
and is a member of the Jefferson Channel’s The Wars), and Scrappy regularly as a timpanist with the
County NAACP. Cat Productions. Frederick (MD) Symphony Orchestra.
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CATF.ORG2021 Contemporary American Theater Festival
COMPANY LIST
ED HERENDEEN*** CREATIVE TEAM ACTING COMPANY
PRODUCING DIRECTOR
Nehemiah Luckett Issa Malak Best
PEGGY MCKOWEN** COMPOSER
Michael Bryan
ASSOCIATE PRODUCING DIRECTOR Mark Van Hare
Sol Marina Crespo*
EBONÉE HELMICK COMPOSER
BUSINESS MANAGER Cherrye J. Davis*
Kirsten Trump
DIALECT COACH Tabatha Gayle*
TRENT KUGLER
PRODUCTION MANAGER Theresa M. Davis Candace Grace
DRAMATURG
CHASE MOLDEN Christopher Halladay*
EQUITY LIAISON
PRODUCTION & PROPS
SUPERVISOR Michael Frederic*
Sharath Patel**
SOUND DESIGNER Danny Lemache
JEN ROLSTON
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Lori M. Doyle* Eric T. Miller*
STAGE MANAGER
NICOLE M. SMITH* Tim Nicolai*
COMPANY MANAGER Seth Freeman Joel Perez*
PHOTOGRAPHER
GABRIELLE TOKACH Jens Rassmussen*
PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER Jen Rolston
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Myxolydia Tyler*
VICKI WILLMAN
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Jared Scheerer William Oliver Watkins*
PLAY IMAGES
John Zdrojeski*
PLAYWRIGHTS Quiet Events
HEADPHONE RENTALS
TERENCE ANTHONY FESTIVAL STAFF
KEVIN ARTIGUE Welsh Sound
LIVE EVENT SOUND PROVIDER Jaechelle Johnson
ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER
DIRECTORS Zach Grappone
RECORDING ENGINEER & Electra Judson
MELISSA CRESPO DIALOGUE EDITOR BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATE
THERESA M. DAVIS Caleb Addy Madison Kersten
TAMILLA WOODARD RECORDING ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT
Violette Furton Serafina Maerten
DIALOGUE EDITOR MARKETING & PR FELLOW
Jack Dempsey, Nathan Fiore,
Caleigh Holmes, Korinne Myers,
Danica Rodrigues, Grayson Spinney,
Justin Stoute, Jason Whitaker
FRONT OF HOUSE ASSOCIATES
Shepherd University
Contemporary Theater
Studies Students
This Theater operates under an agreement between the League Of Resident
Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and
Stage Managers in the United States.
*Actors’ Equity Association **United Scenic Artists
***Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
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LIVE! Street Parties
In July, CATF is throwing several street parties —
and you’re invited! Grab your personal pod, get dinner
from your favorite downtown restaurant, and join us behind
the library for some socially distanced human connection
that celebrates art and artists – musicians, actors, poets, and
others - that inspire the work of CATF.
JULY 9 - VENUE CHANGE: MARINOFF PARKING LOT
Kick off the playcast plus season with a Sneak Peek filled
with live entertainment from local artists: Shepherd
University Jazz Quartet; from CATF’s The Cake, actress
Erika Rolfsrund with a short scene and song; blues guitarist
Billy Thompson and singer Mary Hott; from CATF’s Stick Fly,
actor David Emerson Toney with trumpeter Mike Burton;
The Speakeasy Boys; and Laughing Hat Photo Booth.
SPONSORED BY DEB WEISBACHER
FREE; RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.
JULY 16 - C
elebrate global majority artists that inspire the artists
of CATF, as you enjoy an evening of live entertainment:
Washington Guzheng Society; from CATF’s Stick Fly, actor
David Emerson Toney and the Working Song Singers; poet
Hope Maxwell Snyder; classical and gospel singer Nicole
Davis; R&B, funk, soul band The Groovemasters; painter
Hiromi Katayama; and Shepherd University performance
artist Kay Dartt.
SPONSORED BY CITY NATIONAL BANK & JEFFERSON COUNTY CVB
FREE; RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.
WHO’S COMING TO DINNER?
TakeOut & Talk
JULY 20 & JULY 27 AT 6PM
Wherever you are – order dinner from your favorite local
restaurant and hop online for a chat moderated by CATF’s
? Producing Director Ed Herendeen.
? Each conversation features some of your favorite CATF artists,
but it’s a surprise! You won’t know who the guest artists are
until you get in the Zoom Room! FREE. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.
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Amina Ryan
MYXOLYDIA TYLER JOHN ZDROJESKI
VOICEOVERS
CHERRYE J. DAVIS TIM NICOLAI
DANNY LEMACHE JOEL PEREZ
ISSA MALAK BEST SOL MARINA CRESPO
MICHAEL FREDERIC
PRODUCTION TEAM
Stage Manager Casting Director
LORI M. DOYLE PAT MCCORKLE, CSA
Dramaturg & Dialect Coach
Equity Liaison KIRSTEN TRUMP
THERESA M. DAVIS
Covid Compliance Officers
Composer TRENT KUGLER
MARK VAN HARE NICOLE M. SMITH
Sound Designer
SHARATH PATEL
TIME & SETTING
Summer, 2017 / A home in suburban Cleveland
WARNING: Contains mature themes and language.
Recorded at Dubway Studios.
Originally Produced by South Coast Repertory.
SHEEPDOG was presented as part of the New Works Festival at
the playcast Long Wharf Theatre (Joshua Borenstein, Managing Director).
The audio drama artists are supported in part by the generous
gifts of Yolanda & Frank Bruno, Anita Difanis (In memory of
DIRECTED BY Richard Krajeck), Erdem & Joan Ergin, Bev & Frank Kristine,
MELISSA CRESPO Louis & Shirley Puneky (In honor of Allie Punekii), Margaret
Ann Ross, and Robert & Mary Helen Strauch.
SPONSORED BY
C.M. & STEPHANIE PARTRIDGE
KEVIN ARTIGUE writes plays, TV, and film. He was raised in Redlands, CA and calls Brooklyn
home. His play Sheepdog (Dramatists Play Service) was a recipient of an Edgerton New Play
Award and a finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association
2020 New Play Award. Sheepdog premiered at South Coast Repertory in 2019 and at Shattered
Globe Theatre in Chicago to critical acclaim. Kevin is a member of the resident playwright
company at New Dramatists, class of 2026. He’s also a current member of the Dorothy Strelsin
New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, and an alum of The Working Farm @ SPACE at Ryder
Farm, Interstate 73, and the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group. His plays have been performed and developed with
South Coast Rep, Shattered Globe, Golden Thread, Page 73, The Public Theater, the National New Play Network, NYTW,
Long Wharf Theater, Portland Center Stage, and the Playwrights' Center. MFA: Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
EXTRAS
Watch: The Making of Sheepdog | Watch: Interview with Kevin | Read: The Dramaturgical Companion
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Attius Madeleine
WILLIAM OLIVER WATKINS TABATHA GAYLE
Effie Henry
CANDACE GRACE CHRISTOPHER HALLADAY
VOICEOVERS
JENS RASMUSSEN MICHAEL BRYAN
ERIC T. MILLER
PRODUCTION TEAM
Stage Manager Casting Director
LORI M. DOYLE PAT MCCORKLE, CSA
Dramaturg & Dialect Coach
Equity Liaison KIRSTEN TRUMP
THERESA M. DAVIS
Covid Compliance Officers
Composer TRENT KUGLER
NEHEMIAH LUCKETT NICOLE M. SMITH
Sound Designer
SHARATH PATEL
TIME & SETTING
1935 / A workshop on the far edge of the property of
the Taft Hospital for the Negro Insane in Oklahoma.
WARNING: Contains mature themes and language.
Recorded at Dubway Studios.
THE HOUSE OF THE NEGRO INSANE is presented by special
arrangement with the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency, Inc.
THE HOUSE OF THE NEGRO INSANE was developed in part with
the playcast the 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and PlayPenn’s 2017 New
Play Development Conference.
The audio drama artists are supported in part by the generous
gifts of Yolanda & Frank Bruno, Anita Difanis (In memory of
DIRECTED BY Richard Krajeck), Erdem & Joan Ergin, Bev & Frank Kristine,
TAMILLA WOODARD Louis & Shirley Puneky (In honor of Allie Punekii), Margaret
Ann Ross, and Robert & Mary Helen Strauch.
SPONSORED BY
BETH K. BATDORF AND JOHN S. BRESLAND
TERENCE ANTHONY is a playwright, artist, and communications specialist based in Oakland,
CA. He has been awarded writing fellowships to the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the
Santa Fe Art Institute, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation.
Terence’s plays include Burners (nominated for four 2017 Ovation Awards), Euphrates (Max K.
Lerner Playwriting Fellowship), Tombolo (Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference),
and Blood and Thunder (LA Weekly Award Winner). Terence’s plays have been performed and developed
at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, PlayPenn, Moving Arts, Radar LA, La Jolla Playhouse, the Segerstrom Center, Chicago
Dramatists, Company of Angels, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference.
EXTRAS
Watch: The Making of The House of the Negro Insane | Watch: Interview with Terence | Read: The Dramaturgical Companion
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CATFUNMUTED
I NT RO DU CING THE N EW
CATFUNMUTED Podcast
CATF’s new podcast gives you a backstage tour of
developing new plays – from the first draft to opening night!
The inaugural podcast season showcases the storytellers,
characters, and playmakers who are bringing Sheepdog and
The House of the Negro Insane to life.
FIND CATFUNMUTEDPOD ON APPLE PODCASTS, GOOGLE PODCASTS, OVERCAST,
AND POCKETCASTS, WHICH ARE ALL FREE APPS!
Episode Release Dates:
SHEEPDOG SERIES
JULY 10 – M
eet the Storytellers
PLAYWRIGHT KEVIN ARTIGUE AND DIRECTOR MELISSA CRESPO
JULY 14 – Meet the Character
AMINA
JULY 17 – Meet the Playmakers
SOUND DESIGNER SHARATH PATEL
SHEEPDOG SERIES SPONSORED BY MARJORIE WEINGOLD
THE HOUSE OF THE NEGRO INSANE SERIES
JULY 21 – Meet the Storytellers
PLAYWRIGHT TERENCE ANTHONY, DIRECTOR TAMILLA WOODARD,
AND DRAMATURG THERESA M. DAVIS
SPONSORED BY MARTHA MOSS
JULY 24 – Meet the Characters
ATTIUS, EFFIE, MADELEINE, AND HENRY
SPONSORED BY JOHN ARRINGTON & LINDA KING
Terence Anthony, Kevin Artigue, Melissa Crespo,
Tamilla Woodard, Theresa M. Davis, and Sharath Patel JULY 25 – Meet the Playmakers
COMPOSER NEHEMIAH LUCKETT
SPONSORED BY MARTHA MOSS
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DIRECTORS
COMPANY BIOS
MELISSA CRESPO** TAMILLA WOODARD**
DIRECTOR DIRECTOR
Sheepdog The House of the
Negro Insane
Melissa is a director of new plays, Tamilla is the Co-Artistic Director
musicals, and opera. She is thrilled of Working Theater as well
to return to CATF. Recent credits: I as the co-founder of PopUP
and You (Syracuse Stage), The Theatrics, which has created
Cooking Project (Dominican Artist immersive and participatory
Collective/NYTW Artist Instigator), theatre for audiences in Europe,
Promenade (NYU Tisch Artist- South America, Mexico, and the US
in-Residence). Her play Egress, since 2007. She’s an alum of The
co-written with Sarah Saltwick, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, a
will receive a world premiere usual suspect at New York Theatre
at Amphibian Stage this fall. Workshop, and alum of the WP
Fellowships and Residencies: Theater Directors Lab, which she
Stonehenge NYC Still Standing currently facilitates. She was the
Residency (Current), Time Warner Associate Director of Hadestown
Fellow (WP Theatre), The Director’s on Broadway, and recently named
Project (Drama League), Van one of 50 Women To Watch on
Lier Directing Fellow (Second Broadway. Tamilla is a graduate of
Stage Theatre), Allen Lee Yale School of Drama, where she
Hughes Directing Fellow (Arena also currently chairs the acting
Stage). She is currently the department.
Editor for 3Views on Theater and
tamilla.com
received her MFA in Directing from
The New School for Drama.
melissacrespo.com
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ACTORS
CANDACE GRACE CHRISTOPHER
TABATHA GAYLE*
(she/her) ACTOR HALLADAY*
ACTOR The House of the ACTOR
Negro Insane The House of the
The House of the
Negro Insane Negro Insane
Candace Grace is a New Orleans
Tabatha is a black multi-disciplinary native. A 2020 MFA Acting graduate Off-Broadway: In Masks Outrageous
creator and performer. As a of Mason Gross School of the and Austere (World premiere
director, actor, writer, and poet, Arts at Rutgers University, Grace of Tennessee Williams’ last
she has worked with companies received a BFA from University of full-length play) at the Culture
and off-Broadway theaters such Louisiana at Lafayette. The House Project, The Actor’s Company
as HERE Arts Center, Musical of the Negro Insane marks the first Theatre, The Ensemble Studio
Theater Factory, Poetic Theater professional theater/audio role for Theatre, Abingdon Theatre.
Productions, Ars Nova (ANT Fest), Grace since graduating. Regional Theater: LunaStage,
Prelude Festival, Out of Chaos Palm Beach Dramaworks, South
(UK), The Tank, New York Musical Coast Repertory Theatre, A Noise
Festival, The Bushwick Starr, New Within, Pasadena Playhouse,
York Theater Workshop, The Shakespeare Orange County, Mile
Resident Acting Company of New Square Theater, Montréal Fringe
York, and Virginia Stage Company. Festival. TV: FBI, Ray Donovan,
She is a Resident Artist with New God Friended Me, The Blacklist, Mr.
Light Theater Project. Robot, Limitless, The Unusuals, All
My Children, Guiding Light. Film:
American Insurrection, Tale of the
Wet Dog, Stella’s Last Weekend,
Movie Night, February, Hide the
Sausage. He is an Adjunct Professor
of Acting, Theater Appreciation,
American Contemporary Theater,
Theater History and Stage Make-
Up. He currently teaches at Rutgers
University and the American
Academy of Dramatic Arts. Former
instructor at Rider University, New
York Conservatory of Dramatic
Arts, and Montclair State University.
christopherhalladay.com
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MYXOLYDIA TYLER* WILLIAM OLIVER JOHN ZDROJESKI*
ACTOR WATKINS* ACTOR
Sheepdog ACTOR Sheepdog
The House of the
Off Broadway: The House That Will John is an actor and singer/
Negro Insane
Not Stand (Spring 2017 Reading songwriter based out of New
at Manhattan Theatre Workshop); York City. Off-Broadway: Heroes
Stage: Jordan (Northern Stage
of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights
A Season to Unravel (Signature world premiere), Thirst (CATF world
Horizons, Special Citation Obie);
Theatre’s workshop production). premiere); Sweat, Ruined, Jackie
Before We’re Gone (13th Street
Regional Highlights: Detroit ’67 & Me, One Night in Miami, As You Theatre); Monster (Potomac
(McCarter Theatre and Hartford Like It (Denver Center); Snakeskin Theatre Project). Regional:
Stage); Well Intentioned Whited Suit, Nodding Off (EST world Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth
People (Barrington Stage); A premieres); Othello, Twelfth Night Shakespeare Company and
Raisin in the Sun (Arkansas Rep); (Cincinnati Shakes); Antigone, Huntington Theatre Company);
All The Way (St. Louis Rep); The 10x10 (Barrington Stage Company);
Camp Logan (Nat’l Black Theatre);
Mountaintop (Vermont Stage The Kite Runner (New Repertory
The Christians, Merchant of Venice
and Baltimore Center Stage). Theatre). Film/TV: Evil (upcoming),
(Gulfshore Playhouse); Great
Television: New Amsterdam, The Breakdown Parables
Expectations (Syracuse Stage);
Manifest, Homeland, I am (upcoming), Billions, The Code,
Lombardi (Cleveland Playhouse);
Homicide. Teaching: Lincoln Center Madam Secretary. Education: NYU
Moss Hart Story (Good Theater); (MFA) and Boston University (BFA).
Education, Pomona University,
Nursery Rhymes at the 99, Duck His debut EP Primitive is available
Harlem School of the Arts, The
Sauce (AND); I Knew King When He on all streaming services.
Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts
Was Nobody (Abingdon); A Raisin
of Film and Television, The Acting
in the Sun (Studio Arena). Screen:
Studio. She is a Hermitage Artists
Fellow and just finished writing her 40-Year Old Version (Sundance
first commissioned production of Best Direction Award Winner);
Freebird: The Early Life of Sarah Bull; Wu-Tang’s American Saga;
Vaughan for NJPAC Education L&O; SVU; Blindspot; The Blacklist:
Assemblies Program. Myxolydia Redemption; Madam Secretary;
can currently be seen in the Forever; Nasty Baby; Nurse Jackie;
starring role of Berta in Everyman Rescue Me; NY 22; Canterbury’s
Theatre’s current production of Law. Training: BFA from Webster
Berta, Berta, which had its world Conservatory. Will is originally
premiere at CATF in 2018. from Cincinnati, OH.
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PRODUCTION
THERESA M. DAVIS LORI M. DOYLE* JAECHELLE JOHNSON
EQUITY LIAISON, STAGE MANAGER ASSISTANT
DRAMATURG, & STREET Sheepdog PRODUCTION MANAGER
PARTIES DIRECTOR The House of the
The House of the Negro Insane Jaechelle Johnson is a Brooklyn
Negro Insane based production manager and
It’s Lori’s 12th CATF season, sound engineer. She is a graduate
Theresa M. Davis is an Artist- and might have been her 13th of UNC School of the Arts School
Educator in 3-D (Dramaturg- if not for… Lori is ever pleased of Design and Production. This is
Deviser-Director) working to and honored to be a part of this
her sixth season with CATF and
expand the boundaries of creating wonderful company. Her most
her third as Associate Production
culturally specific work in academic recent theatrical credits are Once
Manager. She can typically be
institutions and beyond. It is at Bucks County Playhouse and a
her steadfast desire to produce found at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Ars
concert version of Celebration! at
events that speak to diverse Nova, MCC, and New York Theater
York Theatre Company. Broadway:
audiences and communities – Workshop. Since quarantine began,
The Visit, You Can’t Take It With
revolutionary theatre that inspires she has been consulting with
You, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
growth and fosters intercultural (1st revival), Fela!, Jane Eyre: The individuals and organizations on
co m m u n i ca t i o n . Th e res a Musical, 1776 (1st revival), Say how to create diverse and equitable
collaborated as a dramaturg Goodnight Gracie, and 11 main- theatre spaces.
with the Contemporary American stage productions and numerous
Theater Festival’s productions of gala events for The Roundabout
The Ashes Under Gait City and Dead Theatre Company. Regional:
and Breathing. She is also CATF’s multiple productions at Actors
Hostel YOUTH! Director. Tenured Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore
at three different institutions, Center Stage, La Jolla Playhouse,
Theresa has taught at Kalamazoo Westport Country Playhouse,
College, West Virginia University, Hartford Stage, The Huntington
and the University of Virginia Theatre Company. Off-Broadway:
where she joined the faculty in 2econd Stage Theatre Company,
2007 as an Associate Professor of RTC @ The Laura Pels, The NY
Cross Cultural Performance. As a Shakespeare Festival, The Lambs
director she has also enjoyed Guest Theatre Company, Circle Rep, and
Artist residencies at Macalester The American Jewish Theatre.
College and Purdue University. Additional: 82+ Corporate & Special
Her directing credits include The Events with 32 different production
Colored Museum, The Miser, A companies.
Piece of My Heart, Flyin’ West, The
Canterbury Tales, Twelfth Night,
Mo Pas Connin, for colored girls
who have considered suicide/when
the rainbow is enuf, Seven Guitars,
The African Company Presents
Richard III, Day of Absence, Every
Tongue Confess.
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PRODUCTION
ELECTRA JUDSON NEHEMIAH LUCKETT SERAFINA MAERTEN
BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATE COMPOSER MARKETING/PR FELLOW
The House of the
Electra Judson is a third-year Negro Insane Serafina Maerten is a recent
box office associate with the graduate from Shepherd University
Contemporary American Theater Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, with her B.S. in Communications
Festival. While still a Shepherdstown and now a resident of New York and Marketing. She will be
local at heart, she has recently City, Nehemiah Luckett has been attending WVU in the fall to peruse
moved to Atlanta to pursue acting. leading and accompanying choirs her master’s in data marketing.
It has been an incredible honor for more than 25 years. From an This is Serafina’s third summer
for her to continue working with early age he connected his deep working with CATF in the Front
the theater company that made love of music to the transformative of House Staff and marketing
her fall in love with this artform. power of building community department.
through breathing and singing
with family and friends. He is a
freelance composer, performer,
teacher, and music director. Current
projects include composing an afro-
futurist queer Bible-based opera,
Jonathan and David, and two new
musicals: A Burning Church with
collaborators Zhailon Levingston
and Alex Hare, and Triple Threats
with Tracy Conyer Lee.
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PRODUCTION
SHARATH PATEL*** KIRSTEN TRUMP MARK VAN HARE
SOUND DESIGNER DIALECT COACH COMPOSER
Sheepdog Sheepdog Sheepdog
The House of the The House of the
Negro Insane Negro Insane Mark Van Hare is a composer,
sound designer, and audio engineer
Sharath is a Portland, Oregon-based Kirsten is a Professor of Theatre working in New York City. Recent
designer who works nationally at Shenandoah Conservatory in credits include: Oh My Sweet
and internationally focusing Winchester, VA where she directs Land and Villa with The Play
on experimental, commercial, and teaches Voice and Speech for Company; Life Sucks at the Acorn
academic, and political and socially the Actor, Dialects, and Voiceover. Theatre; Brother Toad at Kansas
conscious theatre. Recent designs
Most recently at SU, Kirsten City Repertory Theatre; Refuge
have been at Portland Center
directed the Caryl Churchill Malja and Lost Boy Found in Whole
Stage, Rep Theatre of St. Louis,
adaptation of Strindberg’s A Foods at Portland Stage (Portland,
Seattle Children’s Theatre, Folger
Theatre, ACT Theatre, Artist Rep, Dream Play filmed for a virtual Maine); Paris! and Nutcracker
American Rep, Seattle Rep, Yale audience. She coached a Wisconsin Rouge! with COMPANY XIV at
Rep, Cal Shakes, Alabama Shakes, dialect for LAByrinth Theater’s Irondale Theatre; Men On Boats,
EastWest Players, Marin Theatre command Zoom performance The Wild Party, and Icarus with
Company. Additional work in New of Our Lady of 121st Street by The Yale Dramatic Association.
York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Stephen Adly Gurgus, and her Mark is currently the technical
Norfolk, Raleigh, Aspen, India, voice could be heard in CATF’s director for ‹The Get Up› podcast
France, England, Germany, and summer of 2020 performance on Spotify.
Romania. He has previously served series in Ushuaia Blue by Caridad
as a visiting assistant professor, markvanhare.com
Svich. She is a published voiceover
lead designer, guest artist,
artist, lyricist, and poet. Her first
instructor, or lecturer at Reed
book of poetry, Songs from the
College, Whitman College, Yale,
Sleepy Creek was published last
Fordham, Columbia, Willamette,
Ohio, Portland State, and Butler year. Kirsten’s CATF connection
Universities. He is a member of spans three decades, having
USA829 as well as the Theatrical collaborated on many initiatives
Sound Designers and Composers and coached over 25 plays.
Association. Sharath is also an Arts
Envoy for the U.S. Department
of State and a Resident Artists
at Artist Rep. He is excited to
be returning to CATF. MFA: Yale
School of Drama.
sharathpatel.com
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2021 playcastplus 2012 Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams*
The Exceptionals by Bob Clyman
2020 CATFUNMUTED In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute
Captors by Evan M. Wiener
2019 My Lord, What A Night by Deborah Brevoort*^
Support Group For Men by Ellen Fairey Barcelona by Bess Wohl*
Wrecked by Greg Kalleres* 2011 From Prague by Kyle Bradstreet*
A Welcome Guest: A Psychotic Fairy Tale Race by David Mamet
by Michael Weller**
Ages of the Moon by Sam Shepard
Chester Bailey by Joseph Dougherty
We Are Here by Tracy Thorne
Antonio’s Song / I Was Dreaming Of A Son
by Dael Orlandersmith & Antonio Edwards Suarez* The Insurgents by Lucy Thurber**
2018 The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter 2010 The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show
by Max Baker & Lee Sellars*
Berta, Berta by Angelica Chéri*
Lidless by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Memoirs Of A Forgotten Man by D.W. Gregory*^
Breadcrumbs by Jennifer Haley*
Thirst by C.A. Johnson*
Inana by Michele Lowe
A Late Morning (In America) With
Ronald Reagan by Michael Weller* White People by J.T. Rogers
The House On The Hill by Amy E. Witting*
2009 The History of Light by Eisa Davis
Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz
2017 The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess
Welcome to Fear City by Kara Lee Corthron* Dear Sara Jane by Victor Lodato
Wild Horses by Allison Gregory*^ Fifty Words by Michael Weller
Byhalia, Mississippi by Evan Linder Farragut North by Beau Willimon
Everything is Wonderful by Chelsea Marcantel* 2008 Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond
We Will Not Be Silent by David Meyers* A View of the Harbor by Richard Dresser*
Pig Farm by Greg Kotis
2016 pen/man/ship by Christina Anderson
Not Medea by Allison Gregory*^ WRECKS by Neil LaBute
The Wedding Gift by Chisa Hutchinson* The Overwhelming by J.T. Rogers
20th Century Blues by Susan Miller* 2007 Lonesome Hollow by Lee Blessing*
The Second Girl by Ronan Noone My Name is Rachel Corrie from then writings of Rachel
Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
2015 World Builders by Johnna Adams* The Pursuit of Happiness by Richard Dresser
Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan
1001 by Jason Grote
On Clover Road by Steven Dietz*^
WE ARE PUSSY RIOT by Barbara Hammond** 2006 Augusta by Richard Dresser*
The Full Catastrophe by Michael Weller* Jazzland by Keith Glover**
Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle
2014 The Ashes Under Gait City by Christina Anderson* Sex, Death and the Beach Baby by Kim Merrill*
One Night by Charles Fuller
Uncanny Valley by Thomas Gibbons*^ 2005 Augusta by Richard Dresser+
North of the Boulevard by Bruce Graham Jazzland by Keith Glover++
Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez
Dead and Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson*
On the Verge or the Geography
2013 A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisbile of Yearning by Eric Overmyer~
World by Liz Duffy Adams* The God of Hell by Sam Shepard
Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us American Tet by Lydia Stryk*
and How We Learn to Love Them by Jon Kern Father Joy by Sheri Wilner*
H2O by Jane Martin**
Heartless by Sam Shepard 2004 Amazing by Brooke Berman~
Flag Day by Lee Blessing*
Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah
by Mark St. Germain** Rounding Third by Richard Dresser
Homeland Security by Stuart Flack
The Rose of Corazon: ATexas Songplay
by Keith Glover**
Father Joy by Sheri Wilner+
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2003 Whores by Lee Blessing* 1996 Tough Choices for the New Century by Jane Anderson
Flag Day by Lee Blessing+ The Nina Variations by Steven Dietz
Bright Ideas by Eric Coble The Nose by Elizabeth Egloff
The Clandestine Crossing by Keith Glover+ Octopus by Jon Klein*
The Last Schwartz by Deborah Zoe Laufer Bad Girls by Joyce Carol Oates*
Wilder by Erin Cressida Wilson
1995 Betty the Yeti by Jon Klein
2002 Thief River by Lee Blessing Maggie’s Riff by Jon Lipsky
Rounding Third by Richard Dresser+ Psyche Was Here by Lynn Martin*
Silence of God by Catherine Filloux** Voir Dire by Joe Sutton
The Late Henry Moss by Sam Shepard
Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright*
1994 What are Tuesdays Like? by Victor Bumbalo*
Melissa Arctic by Craig Wright+ Shooting Simone by Lynne Kaufman
Spike Heels by Theresa Rebeck
Forgiving Typhoid Mary by Mark St. Germain
2001 Tape by Stephen Belber
Carol Mulroney by Stephen Belber+
Silence of God by Catherine Filloux++ 1993 A Contemporary Masque by Stephen Bennett
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa by John Olive* Dream House by Darrah Cloud
The Occupation by Harry Newman* Alabama Rain by Heather McCutchen
The Pavilion by Craig Wright Black by Joyce Carol Oates
Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright+
1992 The Baby Dance by Jane Anderson
2000 Something in the Air by Richard Dresser The Swan by Elizabeth Egloff
Mary and Myra by Catherine Filloux* Still Waters by Lynn Martin*
Miss Golden Dreams, A Play Cycle Static by Ben Siegler
by Joyce Carol Oates*
Hunger by Sheri Wilner*
1991 Accelerando by Lisa Loomer
Welcome to the Moon by John Patrick Shanley
1999 Coyote on a Fence by Bruce Graham
Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher**
Flo’s Ho’s by Julia Jordan*
Tatjana in Color by Julia Jordan++
The Water Children by Wendy MacLeod
1998 Gun-Shy by Richard Dresser
Interesting Times by Preston Foerder**
Carry the Tiger to the Mountain by Cherylene Lee**
BAFO by Tom Strelich
** world premiere; commissioned by CATF
* world premiere
1997 Lighting Up the Two Year Old by Benjie Aerenson ^ NNPN Rolling World Premiere
Below the Belt by Richard Dresser ++ staged reading; commissioned by CATF
Demonology by Kelly Stuart + staged reading
CATF Dance Ensemble ~ CATF Actors’ Lab Workshop
P27 • JULY 2021 • playcastplus • CATF.ORGSPECIAL THANKS
SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY PARTNERS COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Adam Paige Mayor Jim Auxer & the Shepherdstown Town Council
Department of Contemporary Art & Theater WV State Legislative Members of the Eastern Panhandle
Faculty & Staff
Randall Reid-Smith, Lance Schrader, &
Dr. Rob Tudor West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History
Holly Frye Chelsea A. Ruby, West Virginia Tourism Office
Jack Shaw Eric Waggoner, West Virginia Humanities Council
Jacquelyn Fluker Adam Booth & the Speak Story Series
Jayne Angle Annette Gavin Bates & Jefferson County
kb saine Convention & Visitors Bureau
Liz Sechler & Residence Life CATF Board of Trustees
President Dr. Mary J.C. Hendrix CATF Honorary Board of Trustees
Shelley Shaffer & Facilities Staff Club Quarters Hotel, World Trade Center
Shepherd University Campus Police Dr. Stanley C. Marinoff
Sonya Sholley & Office of the President Staff Dubway Studios, NYC
Traci Morris Adam Booth, Speak Story Series
Valerie Owens The Asam Family & Cindy Schott, Bavarian Inn
Eastern Panhandle Alumnae Chapter
of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.
MEDIA PARTNERS
Experiencing Shepherdstown Staff
Broadway World
Greg Kandel & Stephen Richards,
DC Metro Theater Arts Management Consultants for the Arts
Martinsburg Journal Guy Avey & City National Bank
MD Theater Guide Heather McIntyre & Jefferson County
The Observer Chamber of Commerce
Shepherdstown Chronicle Jennifer Lee & American Conservation Film Festival
Spirit of Jefferson Patrick Sell & HBP, Inc.
The Washington Diplomat Sarah Bellamy, EDI Consultant
The Washington Post Seth Freeman Photography
The Washington Times Spektrix Support Team
WEPM & WLTF, West Virginia Radio Corporation Sue Herendeen
West Virginia Public Broadcasting Tom & Michele Maiden & Insurance Outfitters
WRNR, Talk Radio Tripp Lowe & The Clarion Hotel & Conference Center
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