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2008 season


Butterflies Are Free
Leonard Gershe
directed by Robin Dale Robertson
February 7-10, 14-17, 21-24 2008Young bachelor Don Baker moves into his first apartment to escape from his overbearing mother and meets the free-spirited actress living next door, but Don 
  • Don Baker.....Zack Turner
  • Jill Tanner.....Katrina Munday
  • Mrs. Baker.....Debra Gillingham
  • Ralph Austin.....Alex Wharff

12th Annual New Play Festival
Various Local and Emerging Playwrights
April 25-27, May 2-4

An exciting festival of never-before-produced works by authors under 18 years of age. Previous plays have been highly acclaimed and some have gone on to productions across the country. Local writers and educators guide the young playwrights through workshops to prepare the plays for their premiere.

To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday
Michael Brady
directed by Ken Cressman
June 19-22, 26-29, July 3-6 2008David has cut himself off from his family and his life since the death of his beloved wife Gillian. Now his family has gathered at David. 
  • Gillian.....Maggie Miller
  • David.....Alex Wharff
  • Esther.....Michelle Gagliano
  • Paul.....Kevin Wilson
  • Kevin.....Christy Grantham
  • Rachel.....Michelle Crabtree
  • Cindy.....Sarah Burns

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The Beard of Avon
Amy Freed
directed by Robb Mann
August 14-17, 21-24, 28-31
A bumpkin named Will Shakespeare longs to be an artist and flees his filthy barn, his homebound wife and her incessant chores. In London, this stagestruck dreamer becomes a front man for the Earl of Oxford, who is too proud to admit he scribbles plays for the unwashed masses. In the process of putting his name to the Earl 
  • Will Shakespeare.....Joel Hodge
  • Anne Hathaway.....Pam Grier
  • Edward De Vere, Lord Oxford.....Steve Coley
  • Queen Elizabeth I.....MC Erny
  • Geofrey Dunderbread.....Langley McArol
  • John Heminge.....Carl Guthrie
  • Henry Condel.....Lauren Campbell
  • Lord Walsingham.....Doug Dodson
  • Old Colin/Lady Lettice.....Tamica Katzmann
  • Richard Burbage.....Richard Davis
  • Henry Wriothesley/Earl of Derby.....Caylan McKay
  • Lord Burleigh/Player 2.....Bri Lindsey
  • Fitch/Sir Francis Bacon.....Randall Lucas
  • Understudy: Geofrey Dunderbread.....Hank Blanton
  • Understudy: Richard Burbage.....Robb Mann
The Night Thoreau Spent In JailJerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
directed by Jacki Booth
January 15-18, 22-25 and 29-30In 1846 Henry David Thoreau spent the night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes since his money might be used to support slavery or the Mexican-American War. This famous act of civil disobedience resulted in this script, a play about ideas, political and personal, and about each person's responsibility to ensure independence and democracy. 
  • Henry David Thoreau.....Kevin Wilson
  • John Thoreau.....Jeff Boardman
  • Mother.....Chris Brown
  • Waldo Emerson.....Ken Cressman
  • Lydian.....Erin Hunter
  • Baily.....Josh Lowry
  • Deacon Ball.....Rocco Poveromo
  • Ellen.....Lauren Campbell
  • Sam.....Tony Moore
  • Edward.....Lexi DiBenedetto
  • Williams.....Victor Ragland
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