THIS STRETCH OF MONTPELIER
Produced by Southern Comfort Productions in Association with Party Productions and The Fire This Time Festival
written by Kelley Nicole Girod
directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser
The 14Y Theater at the 14th Street Y, July 12-July 27, 2023
On a hot and humid summer day In Montpelier, Louisiana, a community of isolated neighbors -- divided by property lines, race, class and tradition, but bonded by overlapping personal and cultural histories-- reckon with the truth and their uncertain fates as they look for refuge in unlikely places.
Kelley Nicole Girod is a 2021 winner of our Annual Parity Commission.
CAST: Donovan Wayne Christie Jr.* (Felonius, he/him), Josephine Florence Cooper (Francis, she/they), Tandy Cronyn* (Kacky, she/her), Jordan Donaldson (Boniface, he/him), Dorothi Fox* (Mae, she/her), Joyce Griffen* (Janice, she/her), Carole Monferdini* (Ruby, she/her), Bailey Macejak (Caroline, she/her)
* Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association
Dramaturgs: Jaye Hunt (they/them), Jennifer Kranz (she/her)
Costume Designer: Nicole Brooks Sanwandee (she/her)
Sound Designer: Emma Lea Hasselbach (they/she)
Set, Lighting, and Props Designer: Yang Yu (she/her)
Co-Production Stage Manager: Dexter Warren (he/they)
Co-Production Stage Manager: Jenny Herdman Lando (she/her)
Co-Production Stage manager: Schuyler Seitz (she/her)
Stage Management Assistance: Becca Silbert (she/her), Maddie Jewell (they/them), Erin Bradford (she/her), Mirit Skeen (they/he)
Partially Cast by Sujotta Pace, CSA (she/her)
Key Art by Marc Ella Roy (they/them)
Produced by Southern Comfort Productions in Association with Party Productions and The Fire This Time Festival
written by Kelley Nicole Girod
directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser
The 14Y Theater at the 14th Street Y, July 12-July 27, 2023
On a hot and humid summer day In Montpelier, Louisiana, a community of isolated neighbors -- divided by property lines, race, class and tradition, but bonded by overlapping personal and cultural histories-- reckon with the truth and their uncertain fates as they look for refuge in unlikely places.
Kelley Nicole Girod is a 2021 winner of our Annual Parity Commission.
CAST: Donovan Wayne Christie Jr.* (Felonius, he/him), Josephine Florence Cooper (Francis, she/they), Tandy Cronyn* (Kacky, she/her), Jordan Donaldson (Boniface, he/him), Dorothi Fox* (Mae, she/her), Joyce Griffen* (Janice, she/her), Carole Monferdini* (Ruby, she/her), Bailey Macejak (Caroline, she/her)
* Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association
Dramaturgs: Jaye Hunt (they/them), Jennifer Kranz (she/her)
Costume Designer: Nicole Brooks Sanwandee (she/her)
Sound Designer: Emma Lea Hasselbach (they/she)
Set, Lighting, and Props Designer: Yang Yu (she/her)
Co-Production Stage Manager: Dexter Warren (he/they)
Co-Production Stage Manager: Jenny Herdman Lando (she/her)
Co-Production Stage manager: Schuyler Seitz (she/her)
Stage Management Assistance: Becca Silbert (she/her), Maddie Jewell (they/them), Erin Bradford (she/her), Mirit Skeen (they/he)
Partially Cast by Sujotta Pace, CSA (she/her)
Key Art by Marc Ella Roy (they/them)
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Photos by Allison Stock
Previous Development:
Public Reading, November, 2022
Closed Developmental Reading February, 2023
Kelley Nicole Girod (she/her) is an award-winning playwright whose work centers on her Black Cajun/ Creole Louisiana heritage. Awards include Sundance IDP 2021 grantee, City Corp Artist Grant 2021, Atlantic Launch New Play Commission 2019, Sheen Center Fellow 2019, Stein and Liberace Fellow 2007, and John Golden Fellow 2008. Her work has been developed/presented at Atlantic Theater Company, Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, The Fire This Time Festival, Harlem 9, Primary Stages, Project Y, Poetic Theater Productions, Classical Theater of Harlem, Frigid NYC, Planet Connections Theater Festival, The Field, and Dixon Place. She was recently commissioned by Stanford University’s TAPS Program and completed a commission of a children’s play about Covid through a collaboration with Erin Brown under a City Corp Artist grant. On a hot and humid summer day In Montpelier, Louisiana, a community of isolated neighbors -- divided by property lines, race, class and tradition, but bonded by overlapping personal and cultural histories-- reckon with the truth and their uncertain fates as they look for refuge in unlikely places.
Previous Development:
Public Reading, November, 2022
Closed Developmental Reading February, 2023
Kelley Nicole Girod (she/her) is an award-winning playwright whose work centers on her Black Cajun/ Creole Louisiana heritage. Awards include Sundance IDP 2021 grantee, City Corp Artist Grant 2021, Atlantic Launch New Play Commission 2019, Sheen Center Fellow 2019, Stein and Liberace Fellow 2007, and John Golden Fellow 2008. Her work has been developed/presented at Atlantic Theater Company, Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, The Fire This Time Festival, Harlem 9, Primary Stages, Project Y, Poetic Theater Productions, Classical Theater of Harlem, Frigid NYC, Planet Connections Theater Festival, The Field, and Dixon Place. She was recently commissioned by Stanford University’s TAPS Program and completed a commission of a children’s play about Covid through a collaboration with Erin Brown under a City Corp Artist grant. On a hot and humid summer day In Montpelier, Louisiana, a community of isolated neighbors -- divided by property lines, race, class and tradition, but bonded by overlapping personal and cultural histories-- reckon with the truth and their uncertain fates as they look for refuge in unlikely places.
