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| Saturday, March 20,
2021 8 PM (Plays through 3/24/21)   What if we can't see the future, together? directed by Rachael Langton featuring Erinn Holmes, Eric Emil Oleson, Jammie Patton Graphics by Katie McGeorge with a post-show talk, led by Carol DeBoer Langworthhy, PhD Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program, Brown University Editor-in-Chief, Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies |
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On a remote farm,
following the death of her husband, Rachel Westcott
envisions a new life, no longer confined by expectation
and responsibility. Her devoted brother-in-law
Jacob sees an opportunity as well, but their contrasting
visions of the future tragically collide.
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 Neith Boyce (1872-1951)
was a novelist and journalist, as well as a
playwright, and she was among the founding
members of the Provincetown Players.
Though she was born in Indiana, her father moved
the family to Los Angeles, where he co-founded
the Los Angeles Times, and she began works as a
journalist in her teens. After the family moved
to New York, she wrote for Vogue and The
Commercial Advertiser, and it was there
she met her future husband, novelist and
journalist Hutchins Hapgood. By the
1890's, she was a part of a Greenwich Village
literary and cultural scene, and with
Hapgood supported the work of Mabel Dodge,
Djuna Barnes, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia
O’Keeffe, and Gertrude Stein. Her own
writing included seven novels, as well as four
plays, all of which received first productions
at Provincetown: Constancy
(1914), Enemies
(written with Hapgood, 1916), Two
Sons (1916), and Winter's Night
(1916).Photo courtesy
of the Yale Collection of American Literature,
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University |
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 Carol DeBoer Langworthhy
(Commentary) is a Senior Lecturer in
English at Brown University, where she teaches
writing about food, science, biography, letters
and diaries—and other forms of creative
nonfiction. A scholar of lifewriting in its
myriad forms, she also edits a major publication
in the field and has been working, bit by bit,
on a literary biography of the American woman
writer Neith Boyce for 40 years. Drawing by Charlotte Silveman |
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 Erinn Holmes (Rachel
Westcott) is a native of Illinois, now
based in New York. Recent Zoom readings
include the Metropolitan Playhouse production of
The People, the
Alternative Theater Company’s BelieveAbility
productions Holy Corona and Invisibility,
and the Workshop Theater’s reunion reading of
The Guest at Central Park West.
Recent screen projects include the web series
Naysayer; short films Jump, Nesting,
Home Sweet Home, and Water Melts
(2019 Tribeca Film Festival); and the TV pilot Franklin
Street Station. Recent NYC stage
credits include Catapult! (Theater for
the New City), Dick Pix (Theaterlab),
and Jericho (The Attic Theater
Company). Other past highlights: Disgraced
(Fulton Theater), From the Inside, Out
(FringeNYC), Sweet Love Adieu (Hudson
Shakespeare Company), The Young & the
Restless (CBS), All My Children
(ABC), and Guiding Light (CBS). Acting
MFA, University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
www.erinnholmes.com. Also: The People |
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| Rachael Langton (Director) |
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| Katie McGeorge (Graphic Design) |
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 Eric
Emil Oleson (Jacob Westcott)
Metropolitan: East Side Stories.
NYC: The Lathe of Heaven, Rudolf II,
Iphigenia at Aulis, and Velvet
Oratorio (UTC#61); Tragedy of Arthur
(Guerrilla Shakespeare Project); and Lathem
Prince (Hunger & Thirst.)
Regional: Spider’s Web and Gross
Indecency (Cortland Rep); Bach at
Leipzig (Cider Mill Playhouse); Our
Town and Pygmalion (Arena
Stage); Coriolanus (Shakespeare
Theatre.) TV: Damages. Film: The
Last Cyclist. www.olesoneric.com Also: Old Love Letters |
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 Jammie Patton (Sarah) Jammie Patton is
a native of Ohio, but currently lives in Brooklyn, NY
where she enjoys working both in front of and behind the
scenes. Some notable, theater credits include FLYNT
(Shadowland Stages), East Side Stories,, Vol. 14
(Metropolitan Playhouse) The Call (Vermont Stage),
A Midsummer Night's Dream, To Kill a
Mockingbird (Northern Stage), The Blacks (Classical
Theater of Harlem, *off Broadway at the Classic Staging
Company), Freeda Peoples, Faith OnLine (Billie
Holiday Theater) in which Patton played the title
roles. TV Credits include Dr. Death
(NBC) Justified, It's Always Sunny in
Philadelphia (FX), God Friended Me
(abc), Inventing Anna (Netflix) as well as many
national commercials (AFLAC, Dunkin' Donuts, Nike,
Walgreens...). Currently, Jammie stars as 'Keena' in the
digital series Compersion, housed on YouTube's
Enchant TV.Also: East Village Trader Joe's |
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