COMING UP NEXT FOR SHAKESPEARE & FRIENDS

A Staged Reading, complete with lights, sound and sets…

 Kimberly Akimbo

David Lindsey-Abaire’s Side-Splitting Comedy!

October 29 | 7:30 PM

Tickets: $20
plus taxes and fees

Tryon Depot
22 Depot Street
Tryon, NC 28782

Meet the Levaco Family!

Kimberly Levaco is a typical snarky 16-year-old girl—except for one thing: She suffers from progeria, a disease that has been rapidly aging her since birth. She may be a teenager, but she looks like an elderly woman. As if teenage angst isn’t enough, her mom is a hypochondriac who is about to give birth, her hapless dad is a little too fond of the bottle, her ex-con, homeless and scheming aunt shows up with some sketchy ideas, and on top of it all, there’s Jeff, another misfit who befriends Kimberly. As she copes with her over-the-top family and comes to terms with her own mortality, she now faces the most terrifying experience of all: the possibility of first love.

The Cast (In order of appearance)

KIMBERLY ………….. Darlene Cah

BUDDY ……………… Jon Stockdale

JEFF ……………….... Jo Seagal

PATTIE …………….... Lori Corda

DEBRA ……………… Marianne Carruth

Show runs approximately 90 minutes without an intermission - General admission seats - Matures themes and language

Meet the Director

Catherine Gillet (Director) is a playwright and director, whose plays have been produced in numerous venues Off Broadway and around the country.

 Wyoming, the recipient of a grant from The Jerome Foundation, was produced in New York at the 78th Street Theater Lab and it was Playbill’s “Pick of the Week” for Drama for its entire run.

 Pumpkins for Smallpox is published in the anthology: Best Plays and Playwrights and was a finalist for the Louisville Actors Theater Heideman Award.

 Anomalies of the Heart was workshopped at Lanford Wilson’s Playwrights Retreat in Sag Harbor.

Gillet currently lives in Tryon where she is a founder and the creative director of the local theater company, Shakespeare & Friends. She has directed several staged readings and full productions at Tryon Fine Arts Center, Tryon Little Theater, Rogers Park, Orchard Inn, The Upstairs Artspace, Attic Salt, and The Gunter Theater at The Peace Center, and The 92nd Street Y.

 Her directed plays include: A Streetcar Named Desire, Constellations, The Last 5 Years, Laramie Project, Outside Mullingar, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, True West, Dancing at Lughnasa, The 24 hour Plays, Our Town, Enchanted April, The Light in the Piazza, A Doll’s House, Short Shorts, 7-Up, Scenery, Shirley Valentine, Lennon- the Mobster & the Lawyer, The Climate Change Plays, Love Letters, Kimberly Akimbo and several evenings of her original one-acts.

Gillet is a member of The Dramatists Guild, and New Circle Rep Theater Company in NYC.