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Weston Playhouse Theatre Company Presents Weston Playhouse Theatre Company presents Sponsored by Sponsored by THE VERMONT FOUR SEASONS COUNTRY STORE SOTHEBY’S WRITTEN BY STARRING DIRECTED BY ANDY BRAGEN CHARLY EVON SIMPSON ZI ALIKHAN POPPY LIU KNUD ADAMS PETER J. KUO DAVID CALE ALENA SMITH MICHAEL BRAUN SUSAN PARK JADE KING CARROLL KENNY LEON VICHET CHUM TORREY TOWNSEND JULIANA CANFIELD JAKEEM DANTE POWELL MIKE DONAHUE COLETTE ROBERT WILL ENO NOELLE VIÑAS LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS ERIN ROCHÉ REGINALD L. DOUGLAS CELINE SONG MELISSA LI ELSE WENT DANA DELANY AARON ROSSINI LEE SUNDAY EVANS MEI ANN TEO DAEL ORLANDERSMITH JOSH WILDER JOSH HAMILTON DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA ESTEFANÍA FADUL EMMA ROSA WENT JEN SILVERMAN KIT YAN MARIN IRELAND SHANNON TYO SUSANNA GELLERT WHITNEY WHITE MILES G. JACKSON ALFRE WOODARD CASTING BY EDITED BY LAURA STANCZYK Screened on YouTube TIM JOY August 7, 2020 at 7:30pm PIECES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE A ROOM OF NOBODY ELSE’S EXECUTIONERS Writer............................................................................................................................Will Eno Writer............................................................................................................Torrey Townsend Director...................................................................................................................Kenny Leon Director...................................................................................................................Celine Song Actor..................................................................................................................Alfre Woodard Actor...........................................................................................................................Zi Alikhan Actor................................................................................................................Miles G. Jackson Actor....................................................................................................................Aaron Rossini MEMORIES OF NEW YORK and other things that are gone Writer....................................................................................................................Andy Bragen THE VISITATIONS Director.................................................................................................................Knud Adams Writer...................................................................................................................Jen Silverman Actor....................................................................................................................Josh Hamilton Director..............................................................................................................Mike Donahue Actor......................................................................................................................Dana Delany RITA Writer......................................................................................................................Josh Wilder LOOK AT THE WALLS Director.....................................................................................................Reginald L. Douglas Writer.....................................................................................................Charly Evon Simpson Actor.......................................................................................................Jakeem Dante Powell Director............................................................................................................Colette Robert Actor.........................................................................................................................Erin Roché THE ACTOR Writer.......................................................................................................................David Cale ZOOM INTERVENTION Director.........................................................................................................Lee Sunday Evans Writer.....................................................................................................................Noelle Viñas Actor.....................................................................................................................Marin Ireland Director..............................................................................................................Estefanía Fadul Actor..............................................................................................................Liza Colón-Zayas GOODNIGHT NOBODY Writer......................................................................................................................Alena Smith MIRROR GAME Director...........................................................................................................Susanna Gellert Writer.........................................................................................................................Else Went Actor....................................................................................................................Michael Braun Director........................................................................................................Emma Rosa Went Actor..................................................................................................................Juliana Canfield FRONT & BACK Writer...................................................................................................................Vichet Chum ROOM FOR WORK Director............................................................................................................Whitney White Writer..........................................................................................................................Melissa Li Actor..........................................................................................................................Susan Park Director..................................................................................................................Mei Ann Teo Actor.......................................................................................................................Shannon Tyo before the witching hour / pandemic blues Writer.......................................................................................................Dael Orlandersmith TO DO Director.........................................................................................................Jade King Carroll Writer...............................................................................................................................Kit Yan Actor..........................................................................................................Daphne Rubin-Vega Director...................................................................................................................Peter J. Kuo Actor............................................................................................................................Poppy Liu WRITERS ANDY BRAGEN (Memories of New York and Other Things That Are Gone) Andy Bragen’s DAEL ORLANDERSMITH (before the witching hour / pandemic blues) Previous works honors include Workspace and Process Space Residencies with the Lower Manhattan include Stoop Stories; Black N’ Blue Boys/Broken Men; Horsedreams; Bones; The Blue Album, Cultural Council, the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, and a Jerome Fellowship. in collaboration with David Cale; Yellowman (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Drama Desk Award His produced plays include This is My Office(The Play Company), Don’t You F**king Say a nominee); The Gimmick (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); Monster; Forever; Until the Flood; Word (59e59/ABTP), and Notes on My Mother’s Decline (Playco/ABTP). Andy is an alum Lady in Denmark. Awards: New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, The Helen Merrill of New Dramatists and has an MFA from Brown University. He teaches playwriting at Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Guggenheim, the 2005 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Barnard College. Award, a Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights Fellowship, and an Obie Award. DAVID CALE (The Actor) David Cale’s recent works include the solo play Harry Clarke, JEN SILVERMAN (The Visitations) Jen’s plays include Witch (Writers Theatre, The Gef- starring Billy Crudup (2018 Lucille Lortel Award) and his solo musical memoir We’re fen); Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties… (Woolly Mammoth, Southwark Playhouse Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time, for which he wrote the book, lyrics, co-composed in London, MCC); The Roommate (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre the music with Matthew Dean Marsh, and starred, and which was developed at Weston Festival, Steppenwolf directed by Phylicia Rashad, etc); and The Moors (Yale Repertory Playhouse (2019 Jeff Award, 2020 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination, 2020 Drama Desk Theatre, The Playwrights Realm). Jen is the author of The Island Dwellers, a collection of Award Nomination, 2020 Outer Critics Circle Award, 2020 Obie Award). interlinked stories published by Random House. Her first novel, We Play Ourselves, is forthcoming with Random House in 2021. More info: jensilverman.com VICHET CHUM (Front & Back) is a Cambodian-American playwright and theater maker. His plays have been workshopped at Steppenwolf, Magic Theater, Alley Theatre, CHARLY EVON SIMPSON (Look at the Walls) Charly Evon Simpson’s plays include UCROSS Foundation, Fault Line, Crowded Outlet, Second Generation Productions, Behind the Sheet, Jump, form of a girl unknown, it’s not a trip it’s a journey, and more.
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