Ever in the Glades | Boston University School of Theatre Program

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Directed by NICK VARGAS

MARCH 1-3, 2024

CFA 109

855 COMMONWEALTH AVE

BOSTON, MA

BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Runtime: 1 hour and 30 minutes, with no intermission

Caution: This production includes the simulated use of a gun, the use of handheld flashlights, and depicts moments of physical violence, abuse, and assault

CAST

AMES

JUNKER G Z DELIA

THIS GUY/OLD LADY SIMMS/MR. G

REVEREND BROWN/CHARITY SIMMS/MR. STICKS

ELIJAH

MERCY JOHNSON/MAMA BROWN

Ambria Benjamin

Luigi Bianchi

Lucas Brown

Eva Luna Cirilo

Dany Dakhlallah

Lillian Devlin

Zachary Kautter

Kennedi Young

PRODUCTION TEAM

DIRECTOR

STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

SCENIC DESIGNER

SOUND DESIGNER

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Nick Vargas

Maddie Koury

Ash Strange

Sirena Lopez

Ash Strange

Gavin Mariani

DIRECTOR

Nick Vargas (he/him/his) is the Interim Artistic Director & Associate Director of Education at Wheelock Family Theatre at Boston University and is grateful for the opportunity to be working with this dedicated company on “Ever in the Glades”. WFT@BU directing credits include “The Addams Family”. “The Wizard of Oz”, “Walking the Tightrope” (a collaboration with BU SoT), “Little Women the Musical”, “Ragtime”, “Stuart Little”, “Seussical” (Boston Children’s Museum), “A Year With Frog & Toad” (Boston Children’s Museum), “Nightfall with Edgard Alan Poe” (Teen Ensemble), & “The Drowsy Chaperone” (Teen Ensemble). Additional directing credits include, “The Spitfire Grill” (Emerson Stage), “Bigger Than You, Bigger Than Me” (Field Trip Theatre) & “Fallbeil” (Field Trip Theatre). He previously served as the Casting Director and Artistic Associate at Imagination Stage, in Bethesda, MD and was a founding member and Artistic Director of Field Trip Theatre in Washington, D.C. Nick holds a BA in Theatre Education & Directing from Emerson College and a MBA in Social Impact, with a concentration in Leadership & Organizational Transformation from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.

PLAYWRIGHT

Laura Schellhardt is a playwright and adaptor. Her original works include “Upright Grand”, “Air Guitar High”, “Auctioning the Ainsleys” (Jeff Award Nominee), “The Apothecary's Daughter”, “How to Remove Blood From a Carpet”, “The K of D” (Jeff Award Nominee, 2010 NYC Fringe Festival Best New Play Award), “Courting Vampires”, “Shapeshifter”, “Inheritance”, and “Je Ne Sais Quoi”. Adaptations include “The Phantom Tollbooth”, “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick”, “The Outfit” (Jeff Award Nominee), and “Creole Folktales”. She is also the author of Screenwriting for Dummies. Schellhardt is a recipient of the TCG National Playwriting Residency, the Jerome Fellowship, the New Play Award from ACT in Seattle, and a Dramatist Guild Playwriting Fellowship. She has participated in the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Women Playwrights Festival at SRC, The Kennedy Center's New Voices/New Visions Festival, The Bonderman TYA Symposium, and the O'Neill National Playwright's Festival. She received her graduate degree from Brown University, under the tutelage of Paula Vogel. Schellhardt oversees the undergraduate playwriting initiative in the Northwestern University Department of Theatre.

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