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Midwestern Gothic

Mar 14 – Apr 30, 2017
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A world premiere thriller with a musical twist. Not all is well in a little town in the middle of continental nowhere. With no options of escape, the occupants seek other, stranger, diversions. With a bold, brash and gorgeous score, Midwestern Gothic is like nothing else you’ve seen before―and will leave you breathless.

Book by Royce Vavrek
Music by Josh Schmidt
Lyrics by Royce Vavrek and Josh Schmidt

Performance Information

  • Running Time

    Approximately one hour and 30 minutes, with no intermission

  • Content Warning

    Midwestern Gothic is intended for adult audiences (18+) and contains graphic situations, imagery and language.

  • Effects Warning

    The performance will have live gunshots, theatrical haze, depictions of drug use and smoking (herbal scent).

Specialty Nights

Discussion Nights

April 4, 12 & 19, 2017

Pride Nights

April 21 & 28, 2017

Open Captioned Performances

April 9, 2017 at 2PM and April 11, 2017 at 7:30PM

Sponsored by

Cast Members

Timothy J. Alex

Timothy J. Alex

Red

BROADWAY: Tuck Everlasting; Motown: The Musical; How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying; Elf; Pal Joey; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Never Gonna Dance; Man of La Mancha; Thou Shalt Not; Sweet Smell of Success; Chicago: The Musical. OFF-BROADWAY: Nickel Mines; Judas & Me; Encores!: Stairway to Paradise, Pardon My English. NATIONAL TOUR/KENNEDY CENTER: Titanic: The Musical. REGIONAL: The Old Globe Theatre San Diego: Robin & the 7 Hoods; Paper Mill Playhouse: Pippin; Pirates!; Kiss Me, Kate. TORONTO: Ragtime; Fosse; Sunset Boulevard; Crazy for You; Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat; Cats. TV: National TV Commercials and Voice-Over Artist. VIDEO GAME: Grand Theft Auto IV. EDUCATION: Sheridan College Musical Theatre & Performance Graduate.

Evan Casey

Evan Casey

Hired Boy

SIGNATURE: An Act of God, Midwestern Gothic, The Flick (Helen Hayes Award Outstanding Lead Actor nomination), Sunday in the Park with George, Company, Really Really, The Hollow, The Boy Detective Fails, Urinetown, Ten Unknowns, Allegro. OFF-BROADWAY: New Victory Theatre: Elephant and Piggie. NEW YORK: NYMF: River's End, York Theatre: NEO 8 Concert. DC AREA: Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre 2ndstage, Rep Stage, 1st Stage, Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre-MTC, Annapolis Shakespeare Company. REGIONAL: North Carolina Theatre, Everyman Theatre, New London Barn Playhouse. FILM: Of Dice and Men (IndieCapitol Award Best Actor nomination), 10-42, The Phages, Union. TV/WEB: House of Cards, Missing Person’s Unit, Stage Fright, Thurston. OTHER: Capitol Steps, GraphicAudio.

Sherri L. Edelen

Sherri L. Edelen

Deb

SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Midwestern Gothic, Gypsy, Cake Off, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables.  NATIONAL TOURS: Me and My Girl, Nunsense, Big. NEW YORK: Disney Theatricals: Freaky Friday; Fringe Festival: Citizen Ruth. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along; Arena Stage: DAVE (pre-Broadway), Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Vanya...Spike; Shakespeare Theatre: Design for Living; Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Round House Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank; Theatre J: Copenhagen. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre Company: Caroline, or Change; Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Light in the Piazza, Elegies; Fusion Theatre Company: Outside Mullingar; Stages St. Louis:  Annie Get Your Gun. DIRECTING: Riverside Center for the Performing Arts: Steel Magnolias, On Golden Pond (starring Joyce DeWitt). AWARDS: Helen Hayes, Barrymore.

Morgan Keene

Morgan Keene

Stina

BROADWAY/FIRST NATIONAL TOUR: Newsies. NEW YORK: NAMT and Le Poisson Rouge: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown; AEA Developmental Lab: Fat Camp; Daryl Roth Theatre: Sticks and Stones. REGIONAL: Paper Mill Playhouse: New Voices Concert; Coeur D’Alene Professional Summer Theatre: The Sound of Music; Spokane Civic Theatre: Next to Normal, Grease, Happy Days, Annie, Jane Eyre, Songs for a New World.

Sam Ludwig

Anderson

Sam Ludwig SIGNATURE: A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Midwestern Gothic, Titanic (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical), The Hollow, [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Show Boat, Partial Eclipse, Les Misérables. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: How to Succeed... (Helen Hayes Award, Lead Actor in a Musical), Avenue Q, Big River, 1776; Theatre J: Sons of the Prophet; Ford’s Theatre: 1776; 1st Stage: The Farnsworth Invention (Helen Hayes nomination for the Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play), Proof; MetroStage: Jacques Brel is Alive...; Rep Stage: Speech and Debate; Theatre J: Sons of the Prophet; Creative Cauldron: Monsters of the Villa Diodati (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical); 3D Theatricals: The Secret Garden.

Jp Sisneros

Jp Sisneros

Hired Boy

DC AREA: THE Theatre Co.: bed. and 315 (Playwright), The House of Yes (Producer); Monumental: The Talented Mister Ripley (reading). EDUCATIONAL: MC: Les Misérables, The Pajama Game; Catholic University: La Perdida, The Merry Widow, The Drowsy Chaperone. EDUCATION: Catholic University, Santa Fe Opera Young Voices. www.LeakedArtist.net

Chris Sizemore

Hired Boy

SIGNATURE: Midwestern Gothic, Titanic, Crossing, Miss Saigon, Spin, Crossing in concert, Spin, Chess, Sweeney Todd, Show Boat (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble), Les Misérables (Helen Hayes nomination for Supporting Actor, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble). NATIONAL TOUR: Kennedy Center: Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Fiddler; Ford's Theatre: Freedom’s Song, Violet, 1776, Parade, The Civil War (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble); Shakespeare Theatre: Two Gents...Rock Opera, Candide (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble); Olney Theatre Center: 1776, Fiddler, Cinderella; Toby's: Miss Saigon, Beauty & The Beast, Grease, Seussical. REGIONAL: Serenbe Playhouse: Miss Saigon.

Bobby Smith

Bobby Smith

Dwayne

he/him SIGNATURE: No Place to Go, She Loves Me, Midnight at The Never Get, Assassins, Grand Hotel, Passion, Light Years, A Little Night Music, Titanic, Simply Sondheim, Company, Midwestern Gothic, Road Show, Threepenny Opera, Disney's Freaky Friday, La Cage aux Folles (Helen Hayes Award), Spin (Helen Hayes Award). BROADWAY: Crazy for You. OFF-BROADWAY: Forever Plaid, The World Goes ‘Round, Of Thee I Sing. NATIONAL TOURS: Brigadoon, The World Goes ‘Round. DC AREA: Theater J: Two Jews Walk Into a War; Studio Theatre: Fun Home, A Class Act; The Long Christmas Ride Home; Caroline, or Change; Grey Gardens; Reefer Madness; Jerry Springer: The Opera; Ford’s Theatre: Elmer Gantry, Liberty Smith, 1776, Violet; Metrostage: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Helen Hayes Award). AWARDS: 2018 Anderson/Hopkins award.

Stephen Gregory Smith

Stephen Gregory Smith

Hired Boy

SIGNATURE: Midwestern Gothic, Titanic, The Fix, Elmer Gantry, Miss Saigon, Whorehouse, Brother Russia (Prince Felix), Hairspray (Corny Collins), The Boy Detective Fails (Billy Argo), Sunset Boulevard, Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Into the Woods (Jack), My Fair Lady, Assassins (Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald), Pacific Overtures, The Highest Yellow, One Red Flower (Billy), Allegro (Charlie), 110 in the Shade (Jimmy, 2004 Helen Hayes Award). DC AREA: DCAC: High Fidelity (Rob); Studio Theatre: Adding Machine: A Musical (SHRDLU), MetroStage: tick, tick…BOOM! (Jon); Ford’s Theatre: 110 in the Shade, Freedom's Song, Violet, The Civil War, Meet John Doe; Arena Stage: Oliver!, Damn Yankees; Kennedy Center: First You Dream, Regina; Olney Theatre Center: Avenue Q (Nicky/Trekkie).  

Rachel Zampelli

Luann

SIGNATURE: Heisenberg, Midwestern Gothic, The Gulf, The Fix, Dying City, Brother Russia, Chess, See What I Wanna See, The Happy Time. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Lost in the Stars, Gift of Nothing; Folger: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Comedy of Errors, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Midsummer Night’s Dream; Olney: The Amateurs, On the Town, The Crucible, Annie, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Godspell, Avenue Q; Ford’s: Into the Woods, The 25th Annual...Spelling Bee, Shenandoah; Studio: Bloody...Andrew Jackson, POP! (Helen Hayes nomination, Supporting Actress), Jerry Springer: The Opera, Reefer Madness; Round House: Stage Kiss; NRTC: Stop Kiss; Adventure: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. REGIONAL: Two River: Orestes: A Tragic Romp; New Rep: Romeo and Juliet, Into the Woods; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Breast Entanglements.

Creative Team

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