DIGITAL PROGRAM
presents
LIFTED
by Charlie Thurston
directed by Josh Short
directed by Josh Short
presented outdoors at the
WaterFire Arts Center
October 21 - November 13
WaterFire Arts Center
October 21 - November 13
Content Warning: This production contains physical violence and blood, sexual situations, multiple gun shots, and flashing strobe lights. It includes references to substance use disorder, death, suicide, abduction, child abuse, and molestation. All representations of violence and intimacy have been staged by a professional.
CAST
in alphabetical order
Daraja Hinds as Ria
Victor Neto as Shawn
Jim O'Brien* as Wayne
*Appears courtesy Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
CREATIVE TEAM
Lifted
By Charlie Thurston
Directed by Josh Short
Light Design by Emily Hardy
Costume Design by Lizzy Pegler
Projection Design by Max Ponticelli
Sound Design by Andy Russ
Intimacy Direction by Susie Schutt
Set & Props Design by Monica Shinn
Stage Management by Allison Marchetti*
Assistant Stage Management by Melie Hayes
Assistant Sound Design by Brian Miranda
Assistant Direction by Jessie March
Scenic & Props Assistance by
Dave Carney, Ian Doran, and Edward Galts
Front of House Management by Christine Treglia
Volunteer Management by Renee Bessette
Production Photos by Erin X. Smithers
Publicity by Niki Healy
Thank you to our Volunteers!
Shoshana Adler, Beth Alianiello, Davis Alianiello, Paul Anderson, Clare Blackmer, Chance Boas, Maureen Brown, Richard Corso, Darcie Dennigan, Brayden Fanti, Meredith Gabor, Gayle Hanrahan, Niki Healy, Dennise Kowalczyk, Donald Laliberte, Brien Lang, Devra Levy, Elena Nicolella, Maggie Papa, Lee Rush, Katherine Sherman, Carol Varden, Maxine Wolfson
Directed by Josh Short
Light Design by Emily Hardy
Costume Design by Lizzy Pegler
Projection Design by Max Ponticelli
Sound Design by Andy Russ
Intimacy Direction by Susie Schutt
Set & Props Design by Monica Shinn
Stage Management by Allison Marchetti*
Assistant Stage Management by Melie Hayes
Assistant Sound Design by Brian Miranda
Assistant Direction by Jessie March
Scenic & Props Assistance by
Dave Carney, Ian Doran, and Edward Galts
Front of House Management by Christine Treglia
Volunteer Management by Renee Bessette
Production Photos by Erin X. Smithers
Publicity by Niki Healy
Thank you to our Volunteers!
Shoshana Adler, Beth Alianiello, Davis Alianiello, Paul Anderson, Clare Blackmer, Chance Boas, Maureen Brown, Richard Corso, Darcie Dennigan, Brayden Fanti, Meredith Gabor, Gayle Hanrahan, Niki Healy, Dennise Kowalczyk, Donald Laliberte, Brien Lang, Devra Levy, Elena Nicolella, Maggie Papa, Lee Rush, Katherine Sherman, Carol Varden, Maxine Wolfson
*Appears courtesy Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
CAST + CREATIVE BIOS
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Daraja Hinds, Ria
Wilbury Group: God Talks to An Agnostic, Fun Home, The Burn / More Weight, The Climate Change Plays, Spring Awakening, Mr. Burns: a post-electric play, Straight White Men, and Ui [oo-ey]. Other theatres (select): A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet (Boston Theater Company); Me, Myself and Three, Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical (Ocean State Theatre Company); Theory of Seduction (Appolinaire Theatre); Legally Blonde, Caucasian Chalk Circle, In the Next Room, All My Sons, Avenue Q, Metamorphoses (URI); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Mad Hat Theatre). |
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Victor Neto, Shawn
Wilbury Group: Dance NationOther theatres (select): The School for Lies, Polaroid Stories (Burbage Theatre); Tanta Bulla y Pa Que?/Much Ado (RILA/Trinity Rep). Victor, an East Providence native, is studying theatre performance at Rhode Island College. He is a first generation Brazilian and is fluent in Portuguese. |
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Jim O’Brien*, Wayne
Wilbury Group: The Race, You Got Older, How I Learned to Drive, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Other theaters (select): A Human Being Died That Night, Black Bird and Lonesome West (The Gamm Theatre); Lonely Planet (Counter-Productions Theatre Company); The Glass Menagerie (Gentleman Caller at Portland Stage). Jim is a graduate of Trinity Rep Conservatory and an artistic associate at The Gamm Theatre. |
Charlie Thurston, Playwright
Playwright Charlie Thurston's plays Radical (Co-written with Deborah Salem Smith) Lifted, A and B, Empire, A Demonstration by Patient Edward, and The History Room have been developed or produced at Huntington Theatre, Trinity Rep, The Filigree Theatre, The Wilbury Group, Brown University, Cornell College, and Creede Repertory Theater. He was the 2012 recipient of the Trinity Repertory Company’s David Wickham Memorial Playwriting Prize. He holds an MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep where he studied playwriting under Erik Ehn and Deborah Salem Smith, and has been a member of the Trinity Rep acting company since 2013.
Playwright Charlie Thurston's plays Radical (Co-written with Deborah Salem Smith) Lifted, A and B, Empire, A Demonstration by Patient Edward, and The History Room have been developed or produced at Huntington Theatre, Trinity Rep, The Filigree Theatre, The Wilbury Group, Brown University, Cornell College, and Creede Repertory Theater. He was the 2012 recipient of the Trinity Repertory Company’s David Wickham Memorial Playwriting Prize. He holds an MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep where he studied playwriting under Erik Ehn and Deborah Salem Smith, and has been a member of the Trinity Rep acting company since 2013.
Josh Short, Director
Wilbury Group: Dolores Goes to Poetry City; Krapp’s Last Tape; Decameron, Providence; RESCUE! Or, The Fish; Fun Home; The Pirates of Penzance; The Skin of Our Teeth; Spring Awakening; Ui [oo-ey]; Jerusalem; Dry Land; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; This Beautiful City; Blasted; Detroit; The Threepenny Opera; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Josh Short is the Artistic Director of Providence's award-winning Wilbury Theatre Group, where he’s produced work by local and world-renown artists with a commitment to artistic excellence and community engagement since 2010. For more about Josh, visit thewilburygroup.org/leadership
Jessie March, Assistant Director
Wilbury Group (acting): Dry Land, 10,000 Things, Not I, Spring Awakening, The Revel (FringeFest 2017), Sound (FringeFest 2019). Jessie is a recent graduate of Skidmore College where she studied Theater and Gender studies and many other fabulous things. She is so excited to have worked with such an amazing team on Lifted, what a fantastic adventure this has been!
Emily Hardy, Lighting Design
Wilbury Group: debut. Other theatres (select): The Secretaries (Skidmore Theater Company); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Skidmore Theater Company); Escuadra Hacia La Muerte (Skidmore Theater Company); La Traviata(Querido Arte); Ice Factory (New Ohio Theatre). Emily is a recent graduate of Skidmore College, where she studied technical theater.
Lizzy Pegler, Costume Design
Wilbury Group: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Other theatres (select): Crimes of the Heart, Fools, Zombie Prom, The Diary of Anne Frank, Murdered to Death (Brownville Village Theatre); Dido and Aeneas (Rhode Island College); Asst. Costume Designer on A Tale of Two Cities (Trinity Rep) and Puddin' and the Grumble (Lied Center for Performing Arts). Lizzy works as a Costume Technician at Trinity Repertory Company and is originally from Nebraska. She is currently pursuing her MA in Arts Leadership and Management online through Wichita State University. www.lizzypegler.com
Max Ponticelli, Projection Design
Wilbury Group: Dolores Goes to Poetry City; Krapp’s Last Tape; Constellations (2019); Hype Man: a break-beat play; How I Learned to Drive (TD); FRINGEPVD (TD); Jerusalem (Lighting). Other theatres (select): The Wolves, Women & War (URI); Designer/TD Dancing Lessons, Baby with the Bathwater, The Tribute Artist (2nd Story); Designer/TD Alice in Wonderland at Plymouth Plantation, An Awfully Big Adventure (Bridgewater State); Fight Dir. Henry IV Part 1, Hearts Like Fists (Clark University); Max is the General Manager at The Wilbury Theatre Group, and a full-time Lecturer and Designer for the University of Rhode Island Theatre Department. For more about Max, visit thewilburygroup.org/leadership
Andy Russ, Sound Design
Wilbury Group: Dolores Goes to Poetry City; Krapp’s Last Tape; God Talks to An Agnostic; Constellations; Fun Home Red Bike (lights/sound); Hype Man: a break-beat play (lights/sound); How I Learned to Drive (lights/sound/projections); The Pirates of Penzance (lights/sound); The Skin of Our Teeth (lights); The Caretaker(lights/sound); Spring Awakening (lights); Mr. Burns (lights/sound); Betrayal (lights/sound); Di and Viv and Rose (sound); 10,000 Things (lights); Ui (oo-ey) (lights/sound); Jerusalem (sound); Cain + Abel (sound); Andy is the Artistic Director of Passive Aggressive Novelty Company, based in Providence, RI.
Susie Schutt, Intimacy Director
Wilbury Group: Former Director of New Works, It’s A Spaceship Now (dir.), Veja Doolittle: Live in Concert (dir.), The Teller (dir.), Rapture Blister Burn (dir.), Cain + Abel (dir.) Other theatres (select): Paul, Festen, Hedda Gabbler, Big Meal, Blackbird (Gamm Theatre-asst. dir.). Susie is the Director of Education & Drama Therapist at the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre and a clinician and drama therapist for Thrive Behavioral Health, both in Warwick, Rhode Island. Additionally, she works as an intimacy director for local theatre companies and serves on the board of the Warwick Center for the Arts. She received her MA in mental health counseling and drama therapy from Lesley University and is a graduate of the University of Michigan, with a BA in sociology and social inequality.
Monica Shinn, Set & Props Design
Wilbury Group: Krapp’s Last Tape; Dance Nation; You Got Older; Fun Home; Blasted; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Dry Land; Jerusalem; 10,000 Things; How I Learned to Drive; The Flick. An accomplished designer, painter, steel fabricator, and electrician; having a technician’s knowledge and a fine art training informs all of Monica Shinn's design work and her painting. As a theatrical designer, Monica's work has appeared with Perishable Theater, the Providence Black Repertory Company, and the Brown Playwriting Festival. As a visual artist Monica's paintings describe her neighborhood, bits and pieces of daily life in Providence and other places. She composes as a colorist, pushing depth and dimension with the force of color rather than traditional time perspective. Her drawings tend more toward reality than realism and her spare works on paper are often achingly stark and true. www.monicashinn.com
Allison Marchetti, Stage Manager
Wilbury Group: Fringe Festival 2020, Constellations, The Race, Fringe Festival 2021, The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins. Educational (URI): The Wolves, A Little Night Music, She Kills Monsters, The Radio Plays, Miss Nelson is Missing. Allison is thrilled to be a part of another Wilbury production this year. She graduated in Spring 2021 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from URI in Theatre with concentrations in Stage Management and Theatre Design/Technology.
Melie Hayes, Assistant Stage Manager
Wilbury Group: Constellations (Camera Operator). Other theatres: TedXURI 2021 (URI); Spamalot (URI); As a designer/technician, Melie has worked on multiple productions, and has won the Achievement in allied design award through Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Melie is currently a theatre design/technology major at the University of Rhode Island.
Wilbury Group: Dolores Goes to Poetry City; Krapp’s Last Tape; Decameron, Providence; RESCUE! Or, The Fish; Fun Home; The Pirates of Penzance; The Skin of Our Teeth; Spring Awakening; Ui [oo-ey]; Jerusalem; Dry Land; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; This Beautiful City; Blasted; Detroit; The Threepenny Opera; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Josh Short is the Artistic Director of Providence's award-winning Wilbury Theatre Group, where he’s produced work by local and world-renown artists with a commitment to artistic excellence and community engagement since 2010. For more about Josh, visit thewilburygroup.org/leadership
Jessie March, Assistant Director
Wilbury Group (acting): Dry Land, 10,000 Things, Not I, Spring Awakening, The Revel (FringeFest 2017), Sound (FringeFest 2019). Jessie is a recent graduate of Skidmore College where she studied Theater and Gender studies and many other fabulous things. She is so excited to have worked with such an amazing team on Lifted, what a fantastic adventure this has been!
Emily Hardy, Lighting Design
Wilbury Group: debut. Other theatres (select): The Secretaries (Skidmore Theater Company); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Skidmore Theater Company); Escuadra Hacia La Muerte (Skidmore Theater Company); La Traviata(Querido Arte); Ice Factory (New Ohio Theatre). Emily is a recent graduate of Skidmore College, where she studied technical theater.
Lizzy Pegler, Costume Design
Wilbury Group: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Other theatres (select): Crimes of the Heart, Fools, Zombie Prom, The Diary of Anne Frank, Murdered to Death (Brownville Village Theatre); Dido and Aeneas (Rhode Island College); Asst. Costume Designer on A Tale of Two Cities (Trinity Rep) and Puddin' and the Grumble (Lied Center for Performing Arts). Lizzy works as a Costume Technician at Trinity Repertory Company and is originally from Nebraska. She is currently pursuing her MA in Arts Leadership and Management online through Wichita State University. www.lizzypegler.com
Max Ponticelli, Projection Design
Wilbury Group: Dolores Goes to Poetry City; Krapp’s Last Tape; Constellations (2019); Hype Man: a break-beat play; How I Learned to Drive (TD); FRINGEPVD (TD); Jerusalem (Lighting). Other theatres (select): The Wolves, Women & War (URI); Designer/TD Dancing Lessons, Baby with the Bathwater, The Tribute Artist (2nd Story); Designer/TD Alice in Wonderland at Plymouth Plantation, An Awfully Big Adventure (Bridgewater State); Fight Dir. Henry IV Part 1, Hearts Like Fists (Clark University); Max is the General Manager at The Wilbury Theatre Group, and a full-time Lecturer and Designer for the University of Rhode Island Theatre Department. For more about Max, visit thewilburygroup.org/leadership
Andy Russ, Sound Design
Wilbury Group: Dolores Goes to Poetry City; Krapp’s Last Tape; God Talks to An Agnostic; Constellations; Fun Home Red Bike (lights/sound); Hype Man: a break-beat play (lights/sound); How I Learned to Drive (lights/sound/projections); The Pirates of Penzance (lights/sound); The Skin of Our Teeth (lights); The Caretaker(lights/sound); Spring Awakening (lights); Mr. Burns (lights/sound); Betrayal (lights/sound); Di and Viv and Rose (sound); 10,000 Things (lights); Ui (oo-ey) (lights/sound); Jerusalem (sound); Cain + Abel (sound); Andy is the Artistic Director of Passive Aggressive Novelty Company, based in Providence, RI.
Susie Schutt, Intimacy Director
Wilbury Group: Former Director of New Works, It’s A Spaceship Now (dir.), Veja Doolittle: Live in Concert (dir.), The Teller (dir.), Rapture Blister Burn (dir.), Cain + Abel (dir.) Other theatres (select): Paul, Festen, Hedda Gabbler, Big Meal, Blackbird (Gamm Theatre-asst. dir.). Susie is the Director of Education & Drama Therapist at the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre and a clinician and drama therapist for Thrive Behavioral Health, both in Warwick, Rhode Island. Additionally, she works as an intimacy director for local theatre companies and serves on the board of the Warwick Center for the Arts. She received her MA in mental health counseling and drama therapy from Lesley University and is a graduate of the University of Michigan, with a BA in sociology and social inequality.
Monica Shinn, Set & Props Design
Wilbury Group: Krapp’s Last Tape; Dance Nation; You Got Older; Fun Home; Blasted; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Dry Land; Jerusalem; 10,000 Things; How I Learned to Drive; The Flick. An accomplished designer, painter, steel fabricator, and electrician; having a technician’s knowledge and a fine art training informs all of Monica Shinn's design work and her painting. As a theatrical designer, Monica's work has appeared with Perishable Theater, the Providence Black Repertory Company, and the Brown Playwriting Festival. As a visual artist Monica's paintings describe her neighborhood, bits and pieces of daily life in Providence and other places. She composes as a colorist, pushing depth and dimension with the force of color rather than traditional time perspective. Her drawings tend more toward reality than realism and her spare works on paper are often achingly stark and true. www.monicashinn.com
Allison Marchetti, Stage Manager
Wilbury Group: Fringe Festival 2020, Constellations, The Race, Fringe Festival 2021, The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins. Educational (URI): The Wolves, A Little Night Music, She Kills Monsters, The Radio Plays, Miss Nelson is Missing. Allison is thrilled to be a part of another Wilbury production this year. She graduated in Spring 2021 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from URI in Theatre with concentrations in Stage Management and Theatre Design/Technology.
Melie Hayes, Assistant Stage Manager
Wilbury Group: Constellations (Camera Operator). Other theatres: TedXURI 2021 (URI); Spamalot (URI); As a designer/technician, Melie has worked on multiple productions, and has won the Achievement in allied design award through Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Melie is currently a theatre design/technology major at the University of Rhode Island.
YOUR SUPPORT MAKES IT POSSIBLE
Thank You to Our 2021/22 Annual Fund Supporters
$5,000+
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(anonymous)
$100 - $999
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Lisa and Oliver Dow
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In Memory of James L. Seavor
(anonymous)
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Paul Mooney
Melissa and Gregory Pezza
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Wells and Marguerite Pile
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Josh and Christine Short
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James Farley
Seth Finkle and Ilana Fishman
Anneke Frazer
Freeman T. Freeman
John Garrity
Zachary Gibb
Jeff Ginsberg
Liz Glatzer
Marie and Maryanne
Elizabeth and David Kaplan
Linda Katz
Sheryl Kopel and Andrew Bell
Bill Lattanzi
Paul M. Altieri and Mark E. Lima
In Memory of James L. Seavor
(anonymous)
Milly Massey
Paul Mooney
Melissa and Gregory Pezza
Karen Pigeon
Daniel and Lorraine Procaccini
Wells and Marguerite Pile
Tom Roberts
Anne Scurria and Barry Press
Betsy Short
Josh and Christine Short
Sarah Sinclair
Jason Tranchida and Matthew Lawrence
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Yarnold
Jared Wright
$10 - $99
Ana Abrantes
Steven Adler
Analía Alcolea
Karen Atkinson
Kathleen Babcock
Alex Bandazian
Joey Barbee
Sandra Basile
Troy Battle
Phylllis Belkin
Worm Bell
Edgar L. Bessette
Pragati Bhowmick
Mathias Biernacki
Chris Bissanti
Tim Blankenship
Dennis Boisvert
Anna Bradley
Daria Brashear
Kelsey Briggs
Elaine Brousseau
Joanna Brown
Jeb Butler
Alexandra Cagen
Seth Callina
James Caron
Sharon Carpentier
Elaine Carroll
Thomas Casey
Barbara Clark
Kelly Cleveland
Dawn Cole
Rafael Corniel
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David Goldenberg
(anonymous)
Bianca Gray
Michael Greene
Elsa and Jerry Grieder
Sarah Havens Millinery
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Hartwell Hooper
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Sophia Jackson
Karen Johnson
Annie Kammerer
Michael Kaplan
Jennifer Keenan
(anonymous)
(anonymous)
Kasia Kidd
Jacob Kilcoyne
Mimi Kj
Maggi Knox
Jeffrey Kulie
James and Elizabeth Leach
Laura LeGant
Tim Lehnert
Kim Levinson
Jonathan Leviss
Mary Ellen Lewis
Irene Lozach
Samantha Makuch
Judy Malin
Susan Marchetti
Stephen McArthur
Kyle McElroy
Briana Mcelroy
Jane McGuirk
Sonya McPhaul
Ryan Melendy
Elizabeth Mellen
Linda Meyer
Blanche Milligan
Dan Mitrovic
Kim Mongeon
Patricia Moriarty
Joseph Morra
Danielle Naugler
Martha Nielsen
Gay Parrish, in honor of Rose Weaver
Leslie Pasternack
Anne Pedro
Heather Pelletier
Joan Peralta
Carol Pilkington
Lisa Pisaturo
Luke Politelli
Scott Porter
Peter Pristawa
Alexis Rappaport
The Read Family
Jason Reed
Jessica Regelson
David Richards
Michelle Rickerby
Marina Rodriguez
Alison Russo
David Sackal
Carla Salizzoni
Enrique Sanchez
Mark Sawtelle
Nina Schou
Jan Schusswohl
Mackenzie Segreto
(anonymous)
Klarwein Serafine
Jason Shipman
Barbara Simon
Anna Slate
Eleonora Sordoni
Ali Steinberg
Jo-Ann Tillinghast and David Steinbrick
Matthew Stephens
Cynthia Strieter
Lauren Sullivan
Sharon Sullivan
Tracey Swanson
Irma Tabellione
Helena Tafuri
Jen Thum
Ariel Troncoso
Peter Turner
Emily Varden
Georgi Vogel-Rosen
Eliza Vorenberg
Rachael Warren
Esther Watrous
Juji Watrous
Jennifer Wilson
Susan Wilson
Martina Windels
Joanna Wood, in memory of Wendy Overly
Irene Yibirin
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Ana Abrantes
Steven Adler
Analía Alcolea
Karen Atkinson
Kathleen Babcock
Alex Bandazian
Joey Barbee
Sandra Basile
Troy Battle
Phylllis Belkin
Worm Bell
Edgar L. Bessette
Pragati Bhowmick
Mathias Biernacki
Chris Bissanti
Tim Blankenship
Dennis Boisvert
Anna Bradley
Daria Brashear
Kelsey Briggs
Elaine Brousseau
Joanna Brown
Jeb Butler
Alexandra Cagen
Seth Callina
James Caron
Sharon Carpentier
Elaine Carroll
Thomas Casey
Barbara Clark
Kelly Cleveland
Dawn Cole
Rafael Corniel
Kennedy Crowder
Jackie Davis
Cristine DeMarco
John Denney
Hollie DiOrio
Tyler Dobrowsky
Brian Donaldson
Ellen Doyle
Carol Drewes
Yovanska Duarte Velez
(anonymous)
Danielle Farmer
(anonymous)
Joseph Francis
Mary Frappier
Jessica Frazier
Christina Fuchs
Elyssa Gaffin
Martin Galligan
Kim Gardner
Gayla Gazerro
(anonymous)
David Goldenberg
(anonymous)
Bianca Gray
Michael Greene
Elsa and Jerry Grieder
Sarah Havens Millinery
Chris Henderson
Lori Herz
Cynthia Hiatt
Hartwell Hooper
Jillian Hughes
Sophia Jackson
Karen Johnson
Annie Kammerer
Michael Kaplan
Jennifer Keenan
(anonymous)
(anonymous)
Kasia Kidd
Jacob Kilcoyne
Mimi Kj
Maggi Knox
Jeffrey Kulie
James and Elizabeth Leach
Laura LeGant
Tim Lehnert
Kim Levinson
Jonathan Leviss
Mary Ellen Lewis
Irene Lozach
Samantha Makuch
Judy Malin
Susan Marchetti
Stephen McArthur
Kyle McElroy
Briana Mcelroy
Jane McGuirk
Sonya McPhaul
Ryan Melendy
Elizabeth Mellen
Linda Meyer
Blanche Milligan
Dan Mitrovic
Kim Mongeon
Patricia Moriarty
Joseph Morra
Danielle Naugler
Martha Nielsen
Gay Parrish, in honor of Rose Weaver
Leslie Pasternack
Anne Pedro
Heather Pelletier
Joan Peralta
Carol Pilkington
Lisa Pisaturo
Luke Politelli
Scott Porter
Peter Pristawa
Alexis Rappaport
The Read Family
Jason Reed
Jessica Regelson
David Richards
Michelle Rickerby
Marina Rodriguez
Alison Russo
David Sackal
Carla Salizzoni
Enrique Sanchez
Mark Sawtelle
Nina Schou
Jan Schusswohl
Mackenzie Segreto
(anonymous)
Klarwein Serafine
Jason Shipman
Barbara Simon
Anna Slate
Eleonora Sordoni
Ali Steinberg
Jo-Ann Tillinghast and David Steinbrick
Matthew Stephens
Cynthia Strieter
Lauren Sullivan
Sharon Sullivan
Tracey Swanson
Irma Tabellione
Helena Tafuri
Jen Thum
Ariel Troncoso
Peter Turner
Emily Varden
Georgi Vogel-Rosen
Eliza Vorenberg
Rachael Warren
Esther Watrous
Juji Watrous
Jennifer Wilson
Susan Wilson
Martina Windels
Joanna Wood, in memory of Wendy Overly
Irene Yibirin
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ABOUT
Staff
Josh Short, Artistic Director
Max Ponticelli, General Manager
Christine Treglia, Front of House Manager
Renee Bessette, Volunteer Manager,
Niki Healy, Publicity
Brien Lang, Director of New Works
Josh Short, Artistic Director
Max Ponticelli, General Manager
Christine Treglia, Front of House Manager
Renee Bessette, Volunteer Manager,
Niki Healy, Publicity
Brien Lang, Director of New Works
Board of Directors
Milly Massey, President
Daniel Procaccini, Vice President
Joe Zappala, Vice President
James Tackach, Secretary
Tom Roberts, Treasurer
Alexandra Binek
Lili Desisto
Seth Finkle
Daniel Procaccini
Josh Short, ex oficio
Eugene Spector
Christine Treglia
Milly Massey, President
Daniel Procaccini, Vice President
Joe Zappala, Vice President
James Tackach, Secretary
Tom Roberts, Treasurer
Alexandra Binek
Lili Desisto
Seth Finkle
Daniel Procaccini
Josh Short, ex oficio
Eugene Spector
Christine Treglia
Resident Artists
Beth Alianiello
Darcie Dennigan
Shannon Hartman
Daraja Hinds
Jeff Hodge
Christopher Johnson
Keri King
Brien Lang
Sarah Leach
Marcel A. Mascaro
Don Mays
Jennifer Mischley
Jason Quinn
Matt Requintina
Shey Rivera Ríos
Andy Russ
Monica Shinn
Phoenyx Williams
Beth Alianiello
Darcie Dennigan
Shannon Hartman
Daraja Hinds
Jeff Hodge
Christopher Johnson
Keri King
Brien Lang
Sarah Leach
Marcel A. Mascaro
Don Mays
Jennifer Mischley
Jason Quinn
Matt Requintina
Shey Rivera Ríos
Andy Russ
Monica Shinn
Phoenyx Williams
Our Mission
An award-winning*, not-for-profit professional theatre company, the Wilbury Theatre Group engages our community in thought-provoking conversation through new works, reimagined classics and adventurous playmaking. We are idealistic, ambitious, and stubborn in our resolve to create theatre that entertains, enlightens, and inspires.
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
Our Core Values
We are committed to the pursuit of Creative Excellence and the highest level of Artistic Expression, welcoming multiple modes of performance and collaboration with a diverse group of ground-breaking artists.
We provide a platform for Diverse Voices and Perspectives, with performances that tackle a wide range of contemporary themes and incubate new ideas through clear storytelling and artistic innovation.
We accept that Personal Integrity and Fiscal Accountability are essential to our Sustainability, continually reviewing, reflecting on, and revising our approach toward creating an environment in which we can create our best work.
We embrace Partnership and Collaboration, with our Resident and Visiting Artists, with our Olneyville and Providence neighbors, and with the Rhode Island, New England, and National arts and education communities.
We are Courageous, Fearless, and Provocative, in our pursuit of staging boundary-pushing productions that are consistently edgy, always intimate, and often unexpected.
We are committed to the pursuit of Creative Excellence and the highest level of Artistic Expression, welcoming multiple modes of performance and collaboration with a diverse group of ground-breaking artists.
We provide a platform for Diverse Voices and Perspectives, with performances that tackle a wide range of contemporary themes and incubate new ideas through clear storytelling and artistic innovation.
We accept that Personal Integrity and Fiscal Accountability are essential to our Sustainability, continually reviewing, reflecting on, and revising our approach toward creating an environment in which we can create our best work.
We embrace Partnership and Collaboration, with our Resident and Visiting Artists, with our Olneyville and Providence neighbors, and with the Rhode Island, New England, and National arts and education communities.
We are Courageous, Fearless, and Provocative, in our pursuit of staging boundary-pushing productions that are consistently edgy, always intimate, and often unexpected.
About Our 2021 / 22 Season
Join us at Providence's home for groundbreaking artists and adventurous audiences. Membership includes admission to all our 2021/22 productions, including our upcoming premieres of Lifted by Charlie Thurston and Shey Rivera Ríos' AntigonX, season two of Don Mays' God Talks to an Agnostic, the Tony award-winning musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy, and more.
