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2024 / 2025 season

IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY) by Sarah Ruhl '97, '01 MFA Directed by Ishani Sharma ’25 *** In the Next Room is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat ‘hysterical’ women (and some men), the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household. *** Featuring: Olivia Bendich '25 as CATHERINE Owen Shipley-Dean '27 as DR. GIVINGS Gui Sequeira '28 as LEO Destiny Kristina Smith-Sarter '27 as ELIZABETH Mia Tretta '27 as ANNIE Locky McCann '27 as MR. DALDRY Isa Marquez '26 as SABRINA Production Team: Assistant Directed by Nat Konowicz ’28 Stage Managed by Andrew Imbens ’28 Production Managed by Matthew Lam '27 Set and Lighting Design by Ellie Chang '27 Costume Design by Clara Beatty '28 Props Design by Samdol Lhamo Sichoe '28 Sound Direction by Andrew Imbens '28 Assistant Sound Direction by Ellis Picuri '28 Intimacy Coordination by Mo Aig-Imoukhuede '26, with support by Irene Zhiyi Chen '25 Photography by Lulu Cavicchi '25 Executive Produced by Lulu Cavicchi '25, Emma Jeong '27, and Nikhil Das '27

THE FOG written and directed by Jesse Rusche ’25. *** THE FOG is a one-act Queer play about two people who come together at a time of need but soon find their relationship is unhealthy, and who are surrounded by The Fog, an embodied representation of the illusion of capitalism. The play is gritty, combining poetry and dance and messing with tempo and repetition.  *** Featuring: Nat Konowicz '28 as DELIA Naile Ozpolat '25 as LOREN Ani Delgado '27 as THE FOG Production Team:  Assistant Directed by Eric Hadley '26 Stage Managed by Grace Martin '26 Lighting Design by Lizzy Steeves '25 Choreography by Siji Soetan '25 Sound Direction by Ari Cleveland '25 Costume Design by Charlotte Knutsen '25 Poster Design by Lulu Cavicchi ’25 Executive Produced by Navaiya Williams '25 and Thomas Ward '27

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