written by Paige Esterly
directed by Kristan Seemel
7pm curtain, Open Jar Studios
1601 Broadway - 11th floor (entrance is on 48th Street, just west of B'way)
A waitress experiences an immaculate pregnancy. Dead deer turn up in the driveway. A woman returns to a small town to settle the affairs of her estranged mother. This play is, first and foremost, a ghost story.
Cast:
Abby Wilde*
Jennifer Soraya Rose
Jed Dickson*
Christine Pollnow
Leslie Burby*
Tasha Milkman
*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.
Paige Esterly is an NYC based playwright, producer, and director. Her full length plays include The Torso (Theater for the New City), Whittier, Alaska (American Lore Theater), The Great Lesbian Love of Eve Adams (The Space at Irondale; The Tank), and C. Lingus, Independent Journalist (SERIALS @ the Fled), among others. She is the creator and producer of Fucked-Up Play Fest, a recurring theatrical festival showcasing new work by local playwrights, performed as a drinking game for the audience! Member of The Road Theater's Under Construction 5 Playwriting Group, administrative director for @serialsnyc. Paige works as a script editor for Complexly, helping college professors adapt their courses into accessible YouTube series. BFA: New York University Goldberg Dept. of Dramatic Writing, playwriting concentration. Instagram: @poutywriter. Check out her work on NPX!
Kristan Seemel is passionate about new writing and his directing projects include the recent premieres of HYPE MAN by Idris Goodwin, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love by Mallery Avidon and The Electric Lighthouse by Ed Himes (all at The Flea). Other new plays Kristan has directed include Bars and Measures by Idris Goodwin (urbanStages), Mutt by Lava Alapai (Many Hats Collective) and The Verspiary by Matthew Zrebski (Stark Raving Theatre) as well as Pacific Northwest regional premieres of Carlos Murillo’s Mimesophobia (Sand & Glass Productions), The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel (TheatreVertigo) and Mac Wellman’s A Murder of Crows (defunkt theatre). Recent favorite revivals include Bad Penny by Mac Wellman (The Flea), Brecht & Weill’s The Threepenny Opera and Hamlet (CoHo Productions). All theater is post-apocalyptic.
Abby Wilde New York: Ira (Shrunken Shakespeare Company), The Other Other Woman (Turn to Flesh Productions), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Red Monkey Theater Group), King Lear (Barefoot Shakespeare). Los Angeles: Twelfth Night (Vanguard Rep), Romeo and Juliet (Vanguard Rep), The Seagull (The Antaeus Company), The Cripple of Inishmaan (The Antaeus Company). Regional: The Steward of Christendom (Mark Taper Forum), Ten Chimneys (Artists Repertory Theater). Television: Zoey 101, iCarly, Sam & Cat. .
Jennifer Soraya Rose
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.
Christine Pollnow is an actor and voice actor. She can be seen regularly performing downtown with Serials. Recent credits include: C. Lingus, Independent Journalist (The Tank), Role for Initiative (Ars Nova), Love is Respect (Breaking and Entering), Hamlet (Shakespeare on the Sound), Women Without Men, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Stella Adler Studio), Gathering Blue (First Stage Children’s Theater. Christine attended NYU Tisch and the Stella Adler Studio. When she’s not onstage or in her voiceover studio, Christine loves to spend time outdoors with friends and family, or curled up with a good book and her cat Cleo.
Leslie Kincaid - 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.
Tasha Milkman New York: Richard II (Boomerang), The Sweet Spot (American Bard, 59E59), Sincerity Forever (The Flea), At First Sight (Broken Box Mime Theater, IT Award for Outstanding Ensemble). International: Henry IV Part I (Shakespeare’s Globe), Double Take (BKBX/Dutch Kills/Edinburgh & Adelaide Fringe). Regional: Two Noble Kinsmen (Philadelphia Shakespeare), Frankenstein (BKBX/Kennesaw). Film & TV: Best Medicine (Fox), The Woods Are Real (Amazon Prime Video). MFA: Rutgers. www.tashamilkman.com