Cookin’ with Gus 

A comedy by Jim Brochu

Gussie Richardson is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her she’s been offered her own daily network television show. She wants to do it, but her husband Walter is dead set against it, and Gussie discovers she has stage fright and can’t open her mouth in front of a camera. Everybody tries to help her get over it . . . her husband, her agent, and even her wacky neighbor! Just when she thinks she’s cured, the taping turns into a comic nightmare concluding in an all-out food fight that almost ends the show and her marriage.

Directed by Janet Sharpley

Presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals, Samuel French

Show Dates: June 16 – 25, 2023

Co-Director: Janet Sharpley

Co-Director: Renea Runnels

Stage Manager: Robert Wise

Lighting/Sound: Vanessa Pearson

Gussie Richardson: Janet Sharpley

Walter Richardson: Jeff Luchsinger

Bernie Luskin: Lorenz Lopez

Carmen: Teresa McLemore

The Education of Angels

Written by Matthew Carlin

Two unlikely characters, Jenna and Nick, are two angels in training who are sent back to earth to help Dave who is having cold feet on his wedding day. The journey is hilarious, the resolution poignant, and the comedic situation is only enhanced by the fact that not everyone can see the Angels.

Directed by Matthew Carlin

Presented by special arrangement with Heuer Publishing

Director: Matthew Carlin

A Little Piece of Heaven

May 3-12, 2024 Written by Matthew Carlin

An unlikely relationship is forged in the quirky tourist shop called, “A Little Piece of Heaven”. A restless biker Mike, who works in the shop, finds a friend in the sassy, elderly Lily, although their relationship doesn’t start out that way. But there’s something odd about this little shop owned by the equally odd Elizabeth and Henry. Suspicion and disagreement turn to respect and trust in this place where long lost things are finally found.

Directed by Kathy Pero

Presented by special arrangement with Heuer Publishing

Director: Kathy Pero

Director: Renea Runnels
Assistant Director: Lorie Halford
Stage Manager: Robert Wise
Tech: Tammy Pearson

Judy Alhorn                   Julie Owen
Karelia Alexander           Stephanie Patrisso
Elle Anders                     Vanessa Pearson
Michael Betts                 Steve Quimby
Kathy Edge                    Bonnie Reichel
Jeff Luchsinger               Janet Sharpley
Jennifer McLaughlin       Brianna Thoutt
Brett Owen                    Robert Wise

Doublewide, Texas

by Jones , Hope and Wooten.  Comedy

In this hilarious, fast-paced comedy, the inhabitants of one of the smallest trailer parks in Texas—four doublewides and a shed—are thrown for a loop when they realize the nearby town of Tugaloo is determined to annex them. And it’s not as if they don’t already have enough to deal with.

Director Julie Owen

License: Dramatists

Director

Asst. Director

Stage Manager

Sound/Light Tech

Julie Owen

Michael Betts

Robert Wise

Brett Owen

Big Ethel Satterwhite

Georgia Dean Rudd

Lark Barken

Baby Crumpler

Haywood Sloggett

Jovetta Crumpler

Caprice Crumpler

Lomax Tanner

Starla Pudney

Julie Owen

Marla Miller

Linda Rodriguez

Jeff Merriman

Michael Betts

Heidi Scherer

Judy Ahlhorn

Robert Wise

Nori Head

A Very Holly Moosemas

by Jean Ciampi

Christmas Play

Director Julie Owen

It’s August in Atlanta but Holly Anderson is convinced she can transform a movie set into a wooded, mountain Christmas masterpiece. With the blessed assistance of a scotch-drinking retired nun, she has to navigate the crotchety host of her AirBnB, an unexpected case of salmonella, and a Scrooge of a boss. If she could only find her phone. Joy is where you create it – even unconventionally – in this high energy, off-season holiday romp.

Not Published

Bruce Blifford

Bert Matthews

Brett Owen

Bear Matthews

Linda Rodriguez

Holly Anderson

Alec Wimmer

Jake Anderson

Debbie Owen

Frances Griffin

Renea Runnels

Trace McAllister

The Outsider

by Paul Slade Smith

Director Kathy Pero

Ned Newley doesn’t want to be governor. He’s terrified of public speaking; his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently. Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for … the worst candidate to ever run for office. A timely and hilarious comedy that skewers politics and celebrates democracy.

(Playscripts)

Director – Kathy Pero

Assistant Director – Ann Dolbee

Stage Manager – Charleen Smith

Sound – Mike Pero

Paige Caldwell – Priscilla Anderson

Dave Riley – Hunter Mehrens

Louise Peakes – Donna Bane

Ned Newley – Christopher Lowe

Arthur Vance – Steve Quimby

Rachel Parsons – Nori Head

A.C. Petersen – Jeff Luchsinger

Beer for Breakfast

by Sean Grennan

Director Revis Bell

A group of middle-aged buddies reunite for a “guys’ weekend” in a snowed-in cabin to eat chili, drink beer, and relive the good old days. Despite divorce, unemployment, and a stroke, spirits are high until Jessie, the wife of absent friend Adrian, shows up in his place. An epic battle of wits and stamina ensues: will the men win their right to an all-out guy fest, or will woman be crowned the stronger sex after all?

(Playscripts)

Assistant Director

Lighting/Tech

Stage Manager

Revis Bell

Robert Wise

Vanessa Pearson

Brett Owen

TJ

Jessie

Mark

Richard

Jeff Coletta

Debbie Broadhead

Revis Bell

Mark Stanley

The Bold and Bob

A Comedy written and directed by Jean Ciampi

When “Bob-O” a high school teacher with the spine of a jelly-fish, is forced to deal with his mother’s passing, help arrives in the form of an aging flower child next door, a funeral directordriving a taco truck, and a Vietnam vet in need of a new apartment. But when his mother’s boss shows up, everything 

Bob-O thought he knew about his mother unravels in hilarity.

Jean Ciampi

Valerie Puente

Brett Owen

Reanna Gautreaux

Jeff Merriman

Kristin Bond

Jeff Luchsinger

Julie Owen

Edward Maas

S. G. Heideman

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Our Lady of the Tortilla

A Comedy by Louis Santeiro
Directed by Crystal E. Mata

Nelson Cruz, the youngest son of the Cruz family, is returning home for the weekend to introduce his girlfriend to the family. He comes home only to find everyone in the household occupied with their own plans. Nelson’s mother, Dahlia, is obsessed with retrieving her husband from his new girlfriend; Eddie, the eldest son, shows up with his pregnant girlfriend; and pandemonium strikes when Dolores, Dahlia’s sister, sees the face of the Holy Virgin in a tortilla. The miracle brings hordes of believers and reporters to camp out on their lawn. As they struggle with beliefs and conflicts, the endurance of family love is revealed to be the real miracle. 

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License: Dramatists Play Services, Inc.

CRYSTAL E. MATA
Director