The sedate lives of the characters in Our Town are upended when Medea, fleeing the denouement of her drama, crashes her dragon-pulled chariot into Grover's Corners. She develops a yin-and-yang friendship with the Doctor's Wife, who secretly yearns to escape while Medea seeks a quiet refuge to write her first play. They discover the chariot will take its rider to any opening night in theatre history. The curtain rises on My Fair Lady in fifteen minutes, can the Doctor's Wife get there in time? Will Medea write a play for the ages? In the end, don't we all just come home to the theater?
| cast | |
| Doctor's Wife | Alina Phelan |
| Medea | Cherish Monique Duke |
| Stage Manager | Tony Foster |
| Doctor's Son, ensemble | Sean Faye |
| Doctor's Daughter, ensemble | Kate Huffman |
| Medea's Nurse, ensemble | Lynn Odell |
| crew | |
| scenic design | Joyce Hutter |
| costume design | Linda Muggeridge |
| lighting design | Matthew Richter |
| sound design | Jaime Robledo |
| music director | Ryan Thomas Johnson |
| social media marketing | Gloria Ines Olivas |
| publicity | Scott Golden Publicity |
| art design | Scott Vandrick |
| stage manager | Jordyn Ryan |
Doing this play is a celebration of Theatre. Everything that is, was and will be.
-- Tony Foster
bios
Alina Phelan (Doctor's Wife) has been seen in many LA theatre productions including For the Love of (or, the Roller Derby Play) CTG Kirk Douglas (Block Party), Year of the Rooster, Rio Hondo and Hearts Like Fists (Theatre of NOTE), Dead Man's Cell Phone (ICT), and other shows with Sacred Fools, Circle X, Open Fist, and Ghost Road, among others. Partial TV/Film credits include: NCIS: LA, NCIS, Lucifer, 911 Lonestar, Grey’s Anatomy, and How to Get Away with Murder. She can’t wait to get started on this amazing production!
Cherish Monique Duke (Medea) is a multiple award winning actress whose LA theater credits include: Beloved, At The Table, Friends with Guns, Through the Eye of a Needle (The Road Theater Company), Everybody (Antaeus Theater Company), August Wilson's Seven Guitars (A Noise Within), The Mountaintop (Garry Marshall Theater). TV Credits: Black-ish, Jane the Virgin, Pearson, Criminal Minds, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London. She serves on the Artistic Board of The Road Theater Company and is a proud member of the Antaeus Theater Company and Interact Theater Company.
Tony Foster’s (Stage Manager and Playwright) acting credits include these ephemeral afternoon engagements: The Short and Boring Life of Hickory Frisbee, The Day the Earth Became Flat Again and Ugly People. Other plays you may have missed include The Murder of Gonzago, Nine Worthies and Pyramus and Thisbe. His grandmother thinks he’s a genius. He can count among the many acclaimed L.A. productions of his plays Asleep on a Bicycle, Craftsman, Underwear for Christmas and Come Back!
Sean Faye's (Doctor's Son, ensemble) most recent credits include Mason in Three Can Keep a Secret at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Bailiff in Playground Games for Short+Sweet Hollywood, and First Lord Dumain in All's Well That Ends Well with the Porters of Hellsgate. Sean is a Producer and Resident Artist with the Porters of Hellsgate.
Kate Huffman (Doctor's Daughter, ensemble) is an actor/writer whose theatre credits include Reasons to Be Pretty (Geffen Playhouse), The Little Flower of East Orange and 100 Saints You Should Know (The Elephant Theatre, LA Theatre Critic's Best Supporting Actress winner, LADCC nom), Friends with Guns (The Road Theatre, LADCC nom), and Bright Half Life (The Road Theatre, The District Theatre Indianapolis) among many others. Her world-toured, award-winning solo show I'm Too Fat for This Show explores decades of eating disorders and led her on her path to body positivity speaking and coaching. TV credits include Fresh Off the Boat, Castle, and Physical. katehuffman.com
Lynn Odell (Medea's Nurse, ensemble) has been acting, directing and producing in NYC, San Francisco and LA for 50 years and is the happiest on a stage. Her acting credits include For the Love of (or, the Roller Derby Play), Rio Hondo and Entropy (Theatre of NOTE) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Sacred Fools Theatre). She couldn't be more excited about being cast in this wonderful show!
Jaime Robledo (Director) is an acclaimed Los Angeles based director and playwright. Jaime has been recognized by LA Weekly, Stage Raw, The LA Stage Alliance, and the LA Drama Critics Circle for his direction. His play, Watson, was given a Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
Jaime's highly inventive style and commitment to new work was nurtured by Sacred Fools Theater Company. There he directed such shows as Watson, Stoneface, Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Mr. Burns a Post-Electric Play. The Southern California premiere of How We Got On went on to garner eight 2024 NAACP Theater Award nominations.
Other stage credits: Rio Hondo (Theatre of NOTE), Kong: A Goddamn 30-Foot Gorilla (Skypilot), Easy Targets (Burglars of Hamm), and Wicked Lit (Unbound Productions).
Jaime has also collaborated theatrically with Disney Creative Entertainment, Dreamworks Animation, Kraft-Engel Entertainment, and the Razzie Awards. And the past two years he has been a writer for Wondery, Amazon's podcast network. Visit www.jrobledo.com for more information.
Paul Hoan Zeidler (Producer) is a director, playwright and producer based in Los Angeles. Productions of his full length plays include Time's Scream and Hurry (2009 New York Fringe), WOOF-WOOF (2014 Hollywood Fringe, Winner Encore Producers Award, Spirit of the Fringe Award Nominee) and Nude/Naked (Stanley Drama Award Finalist, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist), which premiered in January 2019 on Hollywood's Theatre row in production that garnered Stage Raw nominations and made L.A. critics' ten best lists. He adapted and co-directed LRT's US veteran outreach production We Got Your Six (Vol.1) in the spring of 2022. Then adapted, wrote and helmed We Got Your Six (Vol. 2) in the 2023 Hollywood Fringe. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and co-founder of Lightning Rod Theater
Charles Pacello (Executive Producer) A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Charlie studied at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles and attended the Midsummer in Oxford program, a summer-long Shakespeare intensive workshop at Oxford, England. Los Angeles theatre acting credits include: We Got Your Six (Vols. 1&2); Glennie & Maple Break Up; Acts of Possession; and Time's Scream and Hurry (L.A. and New York Fringe), all with Lightning Rod Theater. Waiting for Godot and Hamlet with the Stella Adler Lab; One Fell Swoop and In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings at the Elephant Theatre. He is the co-founder of Lightning Rod Theater
Special thanks to: Aaron Lyons, Padraic Duffy, Amir Levy, Victoria Hoffman, Poonam Basu, Jeffrey Han, Cj Merriman, Gina Garrison, Heather Schmidt, Heather Roberts, Alexandra Hoover, Liesel Kopp, Cheryl Bricker, Gerard Marzilli, Lauren Campadelli, Demetris Hartman, Nicole Gabriella Scipione, Brittany DeLynn, Bruno Oliver, Joel Daavid, J.J. Pyle, and Tara Thomas.
This performance is made possible in part by grants from the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the American Rescue Plan, and by donations from people like you.
