THE STRAIGHTS
December 5 - 21, 2019
In T. Adamson’s scorcher of a road trip, best friends Phoebe and Nina navigate hitchhikers, shoplifting, drugs, and a flood of selfies as they hurtle through the heart and heartlessness of America. A kaleidoscopic new play with unlimited mileage.
Playwright: T. Adamson
Director: Will Detlefsen
Associate Director: Michael-Anthony Souza
Assistant Director: Kalina Ko
Scenic Design: Corey Umlauf
Lighting Design: Marika Kent
Costume Design: Sarah Lawrence
Sound Design: Steven Leffue
Video Design: Tyler Isaacson
Production Stage Manager: Sara Minisquero
Assistant Stage Manager: Megan Rielly
Associate Producer: Christian Bufford
Featuring: Jennifer Paredes*, Mary Glen Fredrick*, Neo Cihi, William Thomas Hodgson*, Emily Shain*, Lisa Ramirez*, Tony Castellanos*, Cat Crowley and Boscoe Barles
*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Performance Dates & Times
All performances will begin at 7:30pm EST.
Thursday December 5th, Friday December 6th, Saturday December 7th,
Wednesday December 11th, Thursday December 12th, Friday December 13th, Saturday December 14th, Sunday December 15th, Wednesday December 18th, Thursday December 19th, Friday December 20th, Saturday, December 21st.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
T. Adamson (Playwright) (he/him/his) is a writer and theater-artist based in NYC. Plays include The Natural Horse (Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks Reading Series), The Straights (JACK, BAPF finalist), Endless Summer (Hunter College),Mermaiden; Or, The Monogamy (Spring Street Social Society), Gun City (Dixon Place), and House & Variations: A Naturalistic Family Drama (Dixon Place's HOT! Festival). T. is an alumnus of Fresh Ground Pepper NYC’s Playground Playgroup, Exquisite Corpse Company's Fall Writer's Lab, and Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers' Group. Heideman Award Finalist, Irv Zarkower Award, Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, Falco/Steinman Commission from Playwrights Horizons. MFA: Hunter College.
Will Detlefsen (Director) (he/him/his) is a Bay Area-born New York-based freelance director. He is also the Artistic Director of Access Theater. Previous work at JACK: Machinalia by Steph Del Rosso. Select directing credits: The Funfair by Simon Stephens (Cal Rep), Larvae by Kelsey Torstveit (Alchemical), Blasted by Sarah Kane (Duo Theatre), Strange Men by Will Snider, Go. Please. Go. by Emily Feldman, Lear by Young Jean Lee, and Vieux Carré by Tennessee Williams (UC San Diego). Assisting credits include: Trip Cullman, Chay Yew, Tyne Rafaeli, Tony Taccone, Des McAnuff, Alex Timbers and Rachel Chavkin. 2013 Drama League Fellow, 2017-2018 Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow, 2018-2019 Playwrights Horizons Directing Fellow. Current: National Director’s Fellowship 2019-2020. SDC Associate. BFA: NYU Tisch. MFA in Directing: UC San Diego.
Will Detlefsen (Director) (he/him/his) is a Bay Area-born New York-based freelance director. He is also the Artistic Director of Access Theater. Previous work at JACK: Machinalia by Steph Del Rosso. Select directing credits: The Funfair by Simon Stephens (Cal Rep), Larvae by Kelsey Torstveit (Alchemical), Blasted by Sarah Kane (Duo Theatre), Strange Men by Will Snider, Go. Please. Go. by Emily Feldman, Lear by Young Jean Lee, and Vieux Carré by Tennessee Williams (UC San Diego). Assisting credits include: Trip Cullman, Chay Yew, Tyne Rafaeli, Tony Taccone, Des McAnuff, Alex Timbers and Rachel Chavkin. 2013 Drama League Fellow, 2017-2018 Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow, 2018-2019 Playwrights Horizons Directing Fellow. Current: National Director’s Fellowship 2019-2020. SDC Associate. BFA: NYU Tisch. MFA in Directing: UC San Diego.
Corey Umlauf (Scenic Design) design work has been presented by Actors Theatre of Louisville, Emerson Stage, Field Art, and Hearts on the Wall. New York associate and assistant credits include work with The Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater Company, Lincoln Center, Primary Stages, Soho Rep, and Ars Nova. She has assisted on projects at The National Theatre (London), Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Alley Theater, Steppenwolf, Long Wharf, The Huntington, Goodspeed, George Street Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Woolly Mammouth, and Shakespeare Theatre Company. Corey is also the resident Associate Scenic Designer for the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference. She is a graduate of Emerson College's BFA Theatre Design/Technology program. www.coreyumlauf.com
Sarah Lawrence (Costume Design) (she/her/hers) is a graduate of Parson's The New School for Design, a Brooklyn based artist, costume designer, and musician. While pursuing her design degree and creating her own sustainable hand-crafted fashion line (www.gravexsl.com), Sarah found her way into theater as Assistant Costume Designer for Thomas Bradshaw's Fulfillment produced by The Flea Theater in the fall of 2015. She has since designed shows such as Witness Relocation's The Loon (Dir Daniel Schaefer, 2016), New York Times Critics Pick Inanimate (written by Nick Robidou, Dir Courtney Ulrich, 2017), and Goodspeed Musical’s Cyrano (Dir Erica Schmidt, 2018); as well as performing in the freaky feminist folk music duo, Pretty Polly (@_prettypolly_). Sarah is thrilled to lend her abilities to the force that is The Straights.
Marika Kent (Lighting Design) (she/her/hers) is a New York City based designer of new and classic plays, musical theater, opera, dance, experimental theater, puppetry and site-specific performance. Recent / Upcoming: Reconstruction (The TEAM); The Jazz Singer (Abrons Arts Center) 25th Annual... Spelling Bee (ACT of CT); No Child; Memphis; Peter and the Starcatcher (Cape Fear Regional Theater), Ajijaak on Turtle Island (IBEX Puppetry, The New Victory), Roan @ The Gates (Luna Stage), Chimpanzee (HERE, World Puppet Festival), Perp; Abigail's Party (The Barrow Group), Generation NYZ; Alaxsxa/Alaska; Beyond Sacred (Ping Chong + Co), Skinnamarink; Now is the Time... (Little Lord), Cheryomushki; Albert Herring; The Snow Maiden (Manhattan School of Music Opera) She; No Words; Rhapsody in K (Ariel Rivka Dance). Proud member of Wingspace Theatrical Design. www.marikakent.com
Steven Leffue (Sound Design) he/him/his, is a sound designer, musician, JACK co-founder & board member, professor of sound design at Ohio University: www.stevenleffue.com
Tyler Isaacson (Video Design)(he/him/his) is a filmmaker and photographer with expertise in creating large format and immersive video installations. He holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and currently lives and works in NYC.
More information and cast biographies at www.thestraightstheplay.com
Photo Credit: Will Detleftsen, Edits by: Mary Glen Fredrick