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A FRESH LOOK
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Using lecterns, a stage-directions narrator, and no technical elements, these readings focus entirely on the story and the actors--literally, the play's voices. |
ALWAYS FREE!
These concert readings, developed by artists from around the Midwest, are just as professional and compelling, but slightly more economical than our major productions. Therefore, in the interest of making live theatre more accessible, these concerts will have NO admission charges. DON'T MISS THESE! THIS SEASON... Trapped in your hometown, trapped in your own lies, or trapped in love, these productions have something exciting and desperate to say about our complicated existence. |
Box Office Now Open!SynopsisNot only did Sarah Boyd build her company, Tactix, from scratch using nothing but willpower and fortitude, she also sits on the precipice of truly saving this planet by ushering it into the post-plastic era. With her eyes steady on her next round of funding, Sarah must persevere through a late night interview with a particularly tough reporter, a lawsuit aimed at a person from her past, and the waffling of her CTO. It's a heavy load, and Sarah knows that she is the only one great enough to bear it.
Actress: Katie Braden; Video Editing: Claire Boston; Script: Claire Boston; Original Music Composition: Kyle Shedeck.
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SAT. Feb. 12 | 7:30pm (cst)
SUN. Feb. 13 | 2:00pm* (cst) *Talk back with cast & company to follow at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden -or- online stream. ALWAYS FREE! |
The Company
ACTING - TheatreMidwest: Thanksgiving Play. The Phipps Center for the Arts: 84 Charing Cross Road, Population 485, Savannah Sipping Society. YellowTree Theater: Expecting Isabel, Steel Magnolias. THEATRE SERVICE - The Phipps Drama Council and Play Selection Committee. STAGE COMBAT CHOREOGRAPHY and TRAINING - St Catherine / St Thomas Universities: Richard III, Good Morning Juliet, Good Night Desdemona, Antigone. Sandbox Theatre: Zelda Wonderland. Red Performance Lab: Ravenous. Zanzibar Productions Full Frontal: Love and Lobotomies. Simpson College Theater: Henry 5, Noises Off, Kiss Me Kate, several workshops. EDUCATION - University of Missouri – Columbia: BA Theater Arts. University of Nebraska – Lincoln: MFA Theater Performance. Actors Center Chicago: 4 semesters Meisner Technique under Victor D’Altorio and Eileen Vorbach; Society of American Fight Directors: Actor Combatant, Proficiency in Hand to Hand, Rapier + Dagger, and Quarterstaff, ongoing training in Found Object, Knife, Short Sword, and Broadsword.
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CAST
Sarah Boyd --- Katie Braden Jennifer Weaver --- Erin Tracy Alexis Lyons --- Jacklin Stonewall Narrator --- Audrey Kaus PRODUCTION CREW Director --- Jennifer Allton Stage Manager --- Eliz Tomaras Dramaturg --- Claire Boston Vertical Divider
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Katie Braden - Sarah Boyd
ACTING - TheatreMidwest: When the Messenger is Hot, Atlas of Mud. Ivy Theatre Company (NYC) Co-Founder: A Real Boy (59E59), Reach, Mill Fire, Outside/Inside, The Perfect Wife, Like Poetry (LaMaMa), Incongruence, Black Ice. The Secret Theatre (NYC): The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Romeo and Juliet, Edward II, The Spanish Tragedie. Shakespeare Forum (NYC): The Scarlet Letter, Romeo and Juliet. Workshop Theater (NYC): Acting: Full Frontal. Directing: Turtles & Bulldogs, After, Vowed & Wowed, Food for Thought. FILM - Wherever You Go Pictures (NYC): Unpacking. EDUCATION- Gregory Abels Training Ensemble, NYC, Certificate. Simpson College, Iowa, BA Theatre Arts. 
Audrey Kaus - Narrator
THEATRE: TheatreMidwest: Stripped, Hitler's Tasters. Des Moines Playhouse: The Addams Family. Stagewest: Carrie, the Musical. Theatre Simpson: Kiss Me Kate, Tartuffe, These Shining Lives, Waiting for Philip Glass. OTHER: Into the Woods, Thoroughly Modern Millie. |
Erin Tracy - Jennifer Weaver
AUDIENCE SERVICES TheatreMidwest: The Friendly Hour; Simpson College: Box Office Manager, House Manager, Audience Services (Undergraduate Assistant.) THEATRE DESIGN Theatre Simpson: Eurydice (Costumes), Festival of Short Plays (scenic), A Year With Frog and Toad (Hair & Makeup); ACTING/DIRECTING TheatreMidwest: Nickle and Dimed. Theatre Simpson: Spring Awakening, Necessary Targets, Henry 5, The American Dream, Pride and Prejudice; Carroll Community Theatre: Steel Magnolias, Wizard of Oz, Annie, Peter Pan (Director); Kuemper Catholic High School: Speech Coach, Assistant Musical Director 2011-2021. BUSINESS: Graphic Illustrator - Taylored Expressions. GRAPHIC/AD DESIGNER The Graphic Edge, Carroll Daily Times Herald, Kingman Row Entertainment, Carroll Library, Donna Reed Foundation, 
Eliz Tomaras - Stage Manager
STAGE MANAGEMENT - TheatreMidwest: Brilliant Traces, The Thanksgiving Play. Theatre Simpson: A Year With Frog and Toad, The Servant of Two Masters, Fall From Grace (Festival of Short Plays 2011) DRAMATURGY - TheatreMidwest: Nickel and Dimed. DESIGN - - Theatre Simpson: Back Story, Betrayal, Women Beware Women, Festival of Short Plays 2012. ACTING - - Theatre Simpson: Henry 5, Peer Gynt |
Jacklin Stonewall - Alexis Lyons
STAGE MANAGEMENT Theatre Midwest Hitler's Tasters COSTUME DESIGN East Marshall Performing Arts: Sister Act ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE: Martha Ellen Tye Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar, Company, Nunsense EDUCATION: Iowa State University Aerospace Engineering (BS), Industrial Engineering (MS) 
Claire Boston - Dramaturg
ACTING - TheatreMidwest: Dairy Queen, Atlas of Mud, When the Messenger is Hot. Giving Tree Theater: Silent Sky, Pride and Prejudice, Puffs, The Tin Woman. Theatre Cedar Rapids: Dracula, Underground Play Festival. Dreamwell Theatre: Visages. London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art: Twelfth Night, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. REPRESENTATIVE ROLES - Mirrorbox Theatre: Rolling. Dreamwell Theatre: The Humiliation Play. 50/50-An Arts Production Co.: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Dracula, All the Natalie Portmans. DIRECTING- Theatre Cedar Rapids: A Walking Shadow. EDUCATION - Buena Vista University: BA Theatre. London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art: Classical Acting Diploma. |
The Playwright
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Rachel Bublitz is an award winning and internationally produced playwright. Her full-length play “Ripped” had its World Premiere with Z Space in San Francisco, directed by Lisa Steindler, and was awarded the 2020 Will Glickman Award for the best premiere play of the Bay Area in 2019. “Ripped” was developed around the country with readings at the Problematic Play Festival, San Francisco Playhouse, Athena Theatre Company, Wyoming Theater Festival, and the Road Theatre Company. “Ripped” won the 2018 Detroit New Works Festival, and the production at Z Space received seven nomination in the 2019 Theatre Bay Area Awards, including Outstanding World Premiere Play.
In her move to Salt Lake, Rachel found a wealth of new theaters and artists to collaborate with. In Salt Lake she’s received multiple readings with Salt Lake Acting Company (“Ripped” and “Burst”) and joined the Plan-B Lab. In Park City, Rachel’s had three commissioned works from the Egyptian YouTheatre; “Cheerleaders VS. Aliens” (a sci-fi comedy directed by Alicia Washington, World Premiere in 2018), “The Night Witches,” (directed by Alexandra Harbold, World Premiere in 2019, at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival to a sold out run, a remount is planned for Spring 2020 in Park City), and “The Summer I Howled” (a horror comedy, to be directed by Jamie Wilcox, World Premiere in October 2020). Plan-B Theatre will tour Rachel’s play “Presenting: Super Cat & Reptile Robot In The Tremendous Tickle Trouble” for their 2019/2020 Elementary School Tour. In Cedar City, at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Rachel had the pleasure of having the first public reading of her full-length environmental thriller “Burst.” Rachel has published plays with Dramatic Publishing ("The Night Witches"), Playscripts ("Ghost House"), Stage Partners ("The Red House Monster"), Pioneer Drama Service (“Cheerleaders VS. Aliens”), Eldridge Plays & Musicals (“Much Ado About Mathletes”), YouthPLAYS (“Cleaver Catherine”, “No Talking Allowed!,” and “The Elves”), and PlayGround Publishing (“Reading Babar in 2070”). She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. When she isn’t writing, she’s chasing after her two viking-like children. |