DON’T SEND ME TO THE SEA
written by Catherine Weingarten
Directed By Leslie Kincaid Burby
It’s the 1900s. Marie has “hysteria” and is being “sent to sea.” Can her bff Cassandra help her from a chic fate?
Thursday, September 17 @ 7:00 pm
Open Jar Studios
1601 Broadway - 11th floor
New York, NY 10019
Cast:
Spencer Cramer
Susan Myburgh*
Sarah Spring*
Jed Dickson* (Stage Directions)
*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.
A Workshop Theater Lab Reading - Pay What You Wish with a $20 suggested contribution
Catherine Weingarten is a friendly jewish chick from an obscure area of Pennsylvania! Honors Include: the Scott McPherson Award and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She is a new georges affiliated artist and has previously developed her “girly, trashy” work with Dixon Place, The Tank, Less Than Rent, Sam French OOB Short Play Festival, Last Frontier Theater Conference and has been awarded residencies through Bethany Arts Community, The Studios of Key West, Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB and Monson Arts. Catherine has participated in Art House Production’s INKubator Writer’s Group, New Perspective’s Women’s Work Short Play Lab and The Shelter’s Virtual King Lear project. BA: Bennington College MFA: Ohio University catherine-weingarten.squarespace.com/
Leslie Kincaid Burby - award-winning director, dramaturge, performer. Films Robin Hood, and Mercy recently won multiple awards in Hudson International, AMT, and Inwood Film Festivals. NY Innovative Theatre outstanding director award for Drama Desk nominated production The Navigator (The Workshop Theater) and NY Fringe Overall Excellence award for direction Zamboni. Always delighted to return to her acting roots, Leslie performs frequently with The Workshop Theater and UP Theater. She is a graduate of the Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts.
Spencer Cramer is thrilled to be back working with Catherine after appearing in her Fyre Fest Was so Fun last summer with Girl Pox NYC, and even more thrilled to meet and work with with new faces at The Workshop Theater! Recent theater credits include boyfriend boyfriend boyfriend girlfriend (William Sydney/Life World) C*caine F*gg*t (Bob Laine/ artxnyc) Over the Moon (BCTR) Cemetery Soup (Jess Barbagallo/The Brick)
Susan Myburgh is a New York based actor and educator. Her film and television work include Chicago Fire (NBC), 1923 (Paramount+), and Yellow Rose (SONY Pictures). In New York she has developed work with 59E59, The Brick, and Rattlestick. Regionally she has worked with Chicago Shakespeare, Austin Shakespeare, Red Twist, and Theater en Bloc, among others. She has appeared in various commercials for brands like Chase, Lowe’s, Facebook, NAPA, Georgia Lottery, and Cox Communications. Susan is an Assistant Professor at LIU Brooklyn's BFA Acting Program. She also teaches at Juilliard and Brooklyn College, where she received her MFA in Acting and served as Interim Head of MFA Acting from 2024 - 2025. www.susanmyburgh.com
Sarah Spring is an actor, educator, and the creator of the social media channel Shakespeare Made Clear. Past credits include Viola in Twelfth Night, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Regan in King Lear, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Isabella in Measure for Measure, and the Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost. She has performed and taught Shakespeare internationally, including at the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival and with the Prague Shakespeare Company. She is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Fordham University at Lincoln Center. @shakespearemadeclear
Jed Dickson has performed off-Broadway in The Mask and at several venues in and around the city including NY Theater Workshop, the Lark and the Fringe Festival. Regional credits include Berkeley Rep, Arkansas Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Crossroads Theater, and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. He had over 40 appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman and had featured or recurring roles on All My Children and As the World Turns. He has a BA in English from Cal Berkeley and had over 10 years of freelance magazine writing experience. Jed has worked extensively over the past 20 years in new plays and new play festivals as an actor, playwright and dramaturg.