Playbill
Little Devils - 6 short plays by the Helltown Players
February 8 - 18, 2024
Thurs. - Sat. at 7:30pm, Sun. at 2pm
Provincetown Theater
February 29 - March 10, 2024
Thurs. - Sat. at 7:30pm, Sun. at 2pm
The Academy of Performing Arts
Plays
(in order of appearance)
Karen
by Fermin Rojas
Directed by: Jess Wilson
Eden Allegretti - Rochelle
Lauren Foster - Amari (Ptown / Orleans - 2nd week)
Sallie Tighe - Amari (Orleans - 1st week)
19DEF
by Ian Ryan
Directed by: Ian Ryan
Ian Ryan - Sean (Ptown)
Joanne Callum Powers - Grace (Orleans)
Wil Moser - Young Man
Dump
by Gary Garrison
Directed by Rebecca Berger
Eden Allegretti - Pauley
Peter Toto - Cory (Feb 8, 9, 15, 16, March 1, 2, 3, 7)
Katie Pentedemos - Corinna (Feb 10, 11, 17, 18, 29, March 8, 9, 10)
A Twist of Lemon
by Lynda Sturner
Directed by Jess Wilson
Fermin Rojas - Joey
Alison Blake - Binnie
Triangulation
by Meryl Cohn
Directed by Rebecca Berger
Steve Ross - Stanley
Randy Doyle - Stanley (Feb. 9th performance)
Wil Moser - Max
Eden Allegretti - Tara
Double D
by Jim Dalglish
Directed by Jim Dalglish
Bonnie Fairbanks - Mary
Bill Salem - Nigel
Little Devils is approximately 90 minutes in duration.
There will be no intermission.
Please silence personal devices before the show begins.
No recording of any kind is permitted during the show.
Technical Team
Sami Parazin - Stage Manager / Board Operator
Chris Paige - Technical Lead
About Helltown Players…
Helltown Players is a collaborative of dramatists and theatre enthusiasts from the Outer Cape whose mission is to produce new plays written by Cape Cod playwrights.
Helltown Players was founded in the Spring of 2023 by eight playwrights and theatre enthusiasts with Outer Cape connections who wished to support local, home-grown theatre. These eight playwrights are the trustees of the organization.
Helltown Players is a registered non-profit corporation with the State of Massachusetts. Helltown Players is a registered tax-exempt non-profit under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRS).
Helltown Players Trustees…
Jim Dalglish - Founder/President/Trustee
Ian Ryan - Secretary/Treasurer/Trustee
John Dennis Anderson - Trustee
Meryl Cohn - Trustee
Gary Garrison - Trustee Emeritus
Fermin Rojas - Trustee
Lynda Sturner - Trustee
Margaret Van Sant - Trustee
Helltown Players Benefactors…
Helltown Players thanks the following individuals and organizations for their support. We would not have succeeded as an organization without you!
Scott Allegretti
Jerry Birdwell
Barbara Boone
Jadah Carroll
Kevin Chandler
John Greiner-Ferris
Jarice Hanson
Wendy Levine
Jane Macdonald
Pamela Painter
Judith Partelow
Rob Phelps
Patrick Riviere
Mike Syers
Victor Stein
Wenifred Watson
The Jaqueline I. Kroschwitz Fund
Special Thanks To…
Mass Cultural Council
Mass Cultural Council Card to Culture
David Drake, Gary Garrison, the administrative staff, & the board of the Provincetown Theater
Cape Cod Theater Company - Home to the Harwich Junior Theater
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Provincetown Dental Arts / Scott A. Allegretti, D.D.S.
Stop & Shop
Westies Shoe Outlet of Cape Cod
Cape Cod 5
Julie Knowlton at Slate Casting
Julie Rockett
Matthew Brock Fox
Fermin Rojas
Brian Fitzgibbons & Veronica Vandersnatch
Bios…
(in alphebetical order by last name:)
Eden Allegretti (Karen - Rochelle • Dump - Pauley • Triangulation - Tara)
Eden Allegretti is excited to be performing in Helltown Players inaugural production, Little Devils. During the day, you can find her at the Provincetown Theater as the Marketing and Communications Associate, where she organizes children’s programming and co-founded The B Plot Reading Series. When she is not at the theater, she enjoys traversing the dunes, interviewing folks for her WOMR podcast (Seaside Storytime) and writing poetry.
John Dennis Anderson (Trustee of Helltown Players)
A native Texan living on Cape Cod, John is a performance studies scholar and Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Communication Studies at Emerson College, where he taught for 27 years. He performs nationally in solo performances as the writers Henry James, William Faulkner, Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, Marshall McLuhan, Christopher Isherwood, and others. He will be performing as Robert Frost at several Cape venues in March and as Louis Bromfield for the Ashland Chautauqua in Ohio in April. He recently appeared in “Casa Valentina” at the Provincetown Theater, and his plays “Isherwood” and “A Cultivated Friendship” were read in the first and second new play reading series of the Truro Playwright Collective. He is a member of the board of the Open University of Wellfleet.
Rebecca Berger (Director of Triangulation & DUMP)
Rebecca Berger is a washashore director and stage manager who is thrilled to be telling stories on Cape Cod. Favorite directing credits include: The Fade-Away Advantage (Truro Playwrights Collective); What The Constitution Means to Me (Provincetown Theater); Tiny Beautiful Things (The Provincetown Theater); The Wolves (Bates College); Dry Land (Bates College); Straight White Men (Asst., Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); As You Like It (Asst., Saratoga Shakespeare Festival). Rebecca would like to thank Meryl, Gary, Jim and the wonderful casts for this lovely experience!
Alison Black (A Twist of Lemon - Binnie)
Alison Blake is an artist and performer who just moved to the Cape from NYC, where she finished an MFA. Originally from the Bay Area, she spent her early years acting and directing in Kaufman plays. Later, her creative expression led her to Burlesque stages in San Francisco. She is delighted to be returning to the theatre in Provincetown. When she's not being dramatic, Ali is a freelance Graphic & Web Designer. You will often find her at the beach with her dog Mellow or on a sailboat with her partner Phil.
Joanne Callum Powers (19DEF - Grace)
Joanne is a theater artist who’s work as a playwright, actor, director, and choreographer has found its way onto many New England stages. Joanne’s plays, My Marbles are Perfectly Fine, and The Couch, have been produced by Cape Rep Theater and The Cape Cod Theater Company. Her play, Miss Delta Township, premiered at Cape Rep Theater in 2021, under the direction of Mo Hanlon. Miss Delta Township was an award nominee at the International Dublin Gay Theater Festival. The show traveled to The Nomadic Theater Company of Newton, and New Jersey Rep and soon to return to the Cape for performances in Fall 2024. As a dancer, Joanne performed with Marta Renzi and Company in the films, “Mountain View” and "you little wild heart” for PBS. Ms Powers directed the dance program at Cape Cod Community College where she premiered over 25 full stage productions. Collaborating with the Extremes Dance Theater, she directed and wrote, “It’s a War Out There”, “To Reveal”, “Grow Up and Act Your Age” among others. Joanne lives in Brewster.
Meryl Cohn (Author of Triangulation)
Meryl’s playwriting awards include the ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, Mass Cultural Council Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist (twice), The Eventide Arts Theater Award, Curve Magazine's Lesbian Theater Award, and Hear Me Out Monologue Finalist. Reasons to Live was named a Favorite Play by The Cape Cod Times. Her work has also been produced or developed at WHAT, the Skylight Theater, The Open Fist, TOSOS, The New York International Fringe Festival, The Soho Playhouse, The Cherry Pit, and Smith College, among others. The Siegels of Montauk was published in Lesbian and Queer Plays from the Jane Chambers Prize; an excerpt from And Sophie Comes Too was published in the Smith and Kraus Best Monologues for Women. She is the author of the humor book Do What I Say: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette. She studied psychology at Smith College and earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Meryl is thrilled that her new play, The Fade-Away Advantage, will be produced at the Provincetown Theater in October of 2024.
Jim Dalglish (Author / Director of Double D)
Jim is a playwright, director, filmmaker, and producer with more than 30 plays and films to his credit. These works have been produced and screened around the world and have won awards in New York, Boston, London, and Dublin. A few of his plays have been anthologized in best play collections. Jim has directed more than two dozen theatrical productions, five of which he also independently produced. He has been employed by a variety of theaters in New England as a managing director, marketing director, and box office manager. Jim has a master’s degree in creative writing/ playwriting from Brown University. His thesis advisor was Paula Vogel. When he isn’t busy writing, directing, or producing plays and films, he and his husband Rob Phelps enjoy sailing Delphina – their 17-foot O’Day Daysailer – along the sheltered harbors of New England.
Randy Doyle (Triangulation - Stanley)
Randy Doyle is thrilled to be making his debut with The Helltown Players. Randy’s most recent appearances on the Cape have been as Clarence in It’s A Wonderful Life The Musical in Falmouth, as Ali Hakim in Oklahoma in Orleans, in “Grownup” Grease as Doody in Cotuit and as Bud in Bridges of Madison County The Musical at Falmouth. Other local performances include Shakespeare in Something Rotten, Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins, Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Charles Guiteau in Assassins, Walter Hobbs in Elf the Musical, Professor Buddy G in Muskrat Love -1 & 2, Oberon in A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Cook in Mother Courage and multiple characters in Under Milk Wood. Randy is a Theatre graduate of Bridgewater State College and a BMI Recording Artist. “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” -Pablo Picasso
Bonnie Fairbanks (Double D - Mary)
Bonnie is thrilled to be making her debut with the newly-formed Helltown Players in “Little Devils”! This is her fourth partnership with brilliant playwright/director Jim Dalglish, having previously appeared in as the feisty Yvonne in his 2015 reading of “Unsafe,” the selkie storyteller Maria in 2018’s world premiere of “Dark Tales” (both at Cotuit Center for the Arts), and as Principal Edwards in the 2021 original film “Teacher of the Year” (also a world premiere and joint production of CCftA). Local audiences will also remember Bonnie from various and sundry productions at the Falmouth Theatre Guild, Woods Hole Theater Company, and Cape Rep. She is a classically trained mezzo soprano, and has performed musical and non-musical roles from Shakespeare to Sondheim to Andrew Lloyd Webber, with companies ranging from New England to Europe. Bonnie’s performance is dedicated, as always, to The Parentals.
Lauren Foster (Karen - Amari)
Lauren Foster is thrilled to be making her Helltown Players debut! She is a Boston-based actress. She was last seen in Little Wooden Head with imaginary beasts as 2nd sister in the Boston Theater Marathon XXV and the Midsummer Puppet Slam at Puppet Showplace Theater. She has previously appeared in Blood Water Paint (Artemisia Gentileschi), Revolutionary Spirits (Radika), Peggy Shippen is… (Woman 1/George Washington), Pilgrim Girl (Narrator/May), The Winter Panto 2020: Hansel & Gretel (Fraulein Morgenstern), Unusual Things Have Happened: Tales of Everyday Horror (Elizabeth), The Winter Panto 2019: Paul Bunyan and the Winter of the Blue Snow (Nip, the Frost Fairy), Picnic at Hanging Rock (Girl 5/Albert), Still, Now (Dr. Beltram). She is also a singer, musician, and Irish Step dancer. Special thanks to her twin sister Jackie who always supports her and to Jay and Fermin for the accommodations in P’town!
Gary Garrison (Author of DUMP)
Gary Garrison’s professional work and creative life has centered on a being a playwright, educating and nurturing playwrights and administrating a variety of playwriting organizations, educational programs and theatre companies that promote dramatists and the development of new plays. From 2007-2017, Gary was the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America – the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers headed by our nation’s most honored dramatists. Up to the spring of 2020, he was also the Director of the Dramatist Guild Institute – a premier educational institution dedicated to the continued education of dramatists throughout the country. Prior to his work at the Guild, Garrison filled the posts of Associate Chair, Artistic Director and Master Teacher of Playwriting in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he produced over forty-five different festivals of new work, collaborating with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. In 2014, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts instituted the National Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award given to the best ten-minute play written by a university dramatist.
Jennifer Kangas (Stage Manager / Board Operator - Orleans)
Jennifer Kangas has a B.A. in Education and 20+ years of teaching music and coaching. Along with teaching music for K-6, she directed several musicals. This past year she was musical director for Nauset Regional High School’s performance of “the Drowsy Chaperone” and the Academy Playhouse’s “Winnie the Pooh” and “Red Riding Hood.” She performed with the Octavio Singers, Cape Cod Opera Company, and in many productions at The Academy Playhouse, Chatham Drama Guild, Harwich Junior Theater/Cape Cod Theater Company, Eventide Theater and Cotuit Center for the Arts. She helped direct and performed with the Cape Cod Carolers since 2018. She is currently doing light and sound design at the Academy Playhouse. This summer she will be Musical Director for “Lion King - Kids” and in the fall she will direct “Oliver!” at The Academy Playhouse.
Wil Moser (19DEF - Young Man • Triangulation - Max)
Wil Moser has committed at least three deadly sins in preparation for his debut with the Helltown Players! Film credits include Tommy: The Documentary; Sucking Wind; By the Water; Teacher of the Year; and Runner. Awards include: IRNE Award (Most Promising Performance by a Young Actor) for reprising his title role in The Little Prince at New Repertory Theatre; 2018 Cape Cod Rising Star. Education: The Hartt School (Actor Training); EducationalTheatre credits include: Lysistrata (Demostratus), The Grail Project (Perceval); Recent regional theatre credits include: Next to Normal (Gabe) at Eventide Theatre Company; Tommy (Tommy) at Cotuit Center for the Arts; American Idiot (St. Jimmy). Wil has been acting on the east coast for more than a decade, is a self-proclaimed “cool dude,” and wishes to thank his phenomenally incredible parents for everything, as well as everyone involved in this project for welcoming him into their lives with open arms.
Chris Paige (Technical Lead)
Born and raised on Cape Cod, Chris got his start in theater at The Chatham Drama Guild. Over the past two decades, he worked for many other regional theaters including The Cape Playhouse, Payomet Performing Arts Center, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Provincetown Theater, Cape Rep Theater, and many other local venues including The Art House, The Wellfleet Beachcomber, The Pilgrim House, and The Crown & Anchor. He has toured as the audio engineer for the Martha’s Vineyard based band Entrain, and has been the lighting designer for three nationally touring shows with The Three Redneck Tenors.
Sami Parazin (Stage Manager / Board Operator)
Sami graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a double major in Theater Arts and Anthropology, with a concentration in Technical Theater and has been working in all aspects of technical theater since high school. She has worked as a Stage Manager, Lighting Designer, Assistant Technical Director, and more at Mount Holyoke College. She has also previously worked at The Sembrich and Double Edge Theater before joining the team at Provincetown Theater as their Technical Theater Assistant and occasional Stage Manager. She is thrilled to work with the Helltown Players for this production!
Katie Pentedemos (Dump - Corrina)
Katie is a local teacher, actor, improviser and a founder/performer in Outer Cape's very own IMPROVincetown. Katie has been improvising and acting for 13 years and performed on the ImprovBoston Mainstage and National Touring Company, among other teams. Katie can be seen on stage at Wellfleet's Preservation Hall and The Provincetown Theater. Katie is so excited to be a part of Little Devils!
Fermin Rojas (Author of Karen / appearing as Joey in A Twist of Lemon)
Fermin is a producer/filmmaker, actor, writer and co-founder of DKR Films. He is a member Helltown Players, Desert Playwrights’ Retreat, and The Truro Playwright Collective that presented a reading his feature-length play Liberty Talks that will have its world premiere production in fall 2024. DKR’s award-winning documentaries include There Are Things To Do (about LGBTQ activist Urvashi Vaid), Alumbrones, The Black Mambas and King Philip’s Belt: A Story of Wampum, which screened at The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian. Narrative film credits include executive producer for The Ali’i King, written and directed by Christine Kunewa Walker and consulting producer of Best Place by Marco Calvani. Along with husband Jay Kubesch, Fermin produced Cuba’s first and only gay men’s singing ensemble Mano a Mano. Favorite roles have been in The Laramie Project, You Can’t Take It With You, Company, Lonestar, Into the Woods, and Hair to name a few. Fermin is also proud to be a past board member of Provincetown Theater.
Steve Ross (Triangulation - Stanley)
Steve Ross (Stanley/Triangulation) has been performing/directing on Cape stages since 2008 when he performed in his first show at CCftA as John Hancock in “1776.” He most recently directed "Next to Normal" @ Eventide Theatre Co in Oct and was cast as Horace Vandergelder in "Hello Dolly" @ Cotuit Center for the Arts in July. Additional acting credits include "Death and the Maiden,” “Sweet Charity,” “Gypsy,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest,” “Company,” “12 Angry Men,” “It’s a Wonderful Life, the Radio Drama,” “Anything Goes,” and Treasure Island,” (CCftaA), among many others. Directing credits include “A Few Good Men,” “Of Mice and Men,” “Arsenic & Old Lace,” and “God of Carnage,” among others. When not on stage or in the audience, Steve can usually be found at the beach, on the disc golf course, dining out at the many amazing Cape restaurants, or spending quality time with friends and family.
Ian Ryan (Author of 19DEF / Appearing as Sean in 19DEF)
Ian Ryan is an actor, director, and playwright with more than twenty-five performances to his credit. He has appeared in regional theaters since finding his voice in 2002, and has since endeavored to make art where he lives. He has written, directed, and produced plays, and served in theater in positions from stagehand to president of a theater board. In addition to deliberately integrating art into his everyday life, he uses his legal, finance, and business management background to create safe and sustainable environments for other artists to thrive.
Bill Salem (Double D - Nigel)
Bill has enjoyed a long-run as an actor in all the cities in which he has lived including NY and LA. Some Boston credits include The Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre, Zeitgeist Stage, and many Shakespeare roles with Boston's Public Theater. Now living on the Cape, he has performed three seasons with the Tennessee Williams Festival in P’town and several plays and play readings with The Provincetown Theater. His most recent stage performance was as Clarence in Eventide Theatre Company's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. His theater training has included The Riverside Shakespeare School and Meisner training with the Acting Studio, both in NYC. His love of Shakespeare has prompted a one-man show most recently performed at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.
Lynda Sturner (Author of A Twist of Lemon)
Playwright: No Show Baby won 3rd place in Eventide Theater’s 2023 new play contest. A Talented Woman written with Jim Dalglish was produced by Cotuit Center For The Arts. Lynda’s short plays have been produced and published in New York City, Provincetown, Tokyo, Alaska and California. She won Best Actress Award at The Dublin International Theater Festival for Super-Lubricated, a play she co-wrote and performed with Jim Dalglish. Other acting credits include Broadway, Oliver, and (many roles in Provincetown including, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The Moon-Marigolds (best actress award), The Food Chain, The Allergists Wife and The Perfect Ganesh. Member: The Actors Studio; The Woman’s Project; co-president The League of Professional Theater Women. Artistic Director Playwright’s Forum in NYC .
Peter Toto (Dump - Cory)
Peter Toto is very excited to be performing in Dump written by his pseudofather and mentor, Gary Garrison, alongside his best friend, Eden Allegretti, while being directed by the incredible Rebecca Berger, and sharing a role with the marvelous Katie Pentedemos. Peter last appeared in The Fantasticks at the Provincetown Theater and Farmyard Follies at the Crown and Anchor. Peter is the Artistic and Production Associate at the Provincetown Theater where he co-founded the B Plot Reading Series with Eden Allegretti. He can be seen at Tin Pan Alley on Saturdays from 6-9pm as well as various other gigs around Provincetown.
Sallie Tighe (Karen - Amari)
Ms Tighe is an poet, activist, and an actress. She has performed on many stages on the Cape; from Woods Hole, to Provincetown, Wellfleet, Cotuit, and in between. Her love for the stage and the written word can been seen by her many diverse characters she has played. Such as Mrs Lena Younger (A Raisin in the Sun); Mrs Levinson, Divine Sisters’; Jonathan Brewster, Arsenic and Old Lace; Viola in Dirty Laundry; Dr Chausable, The Importance of Being Earnest; Mrs. Mueller, Doubt; Beth Sanders, Along the River Road; Janet Burmeister, The Full Monty; The Duchess, Hats! The Musical; Reba, You Can’t Take it with You; Satan, The New Orleans Funeral for Stella Brooks; Florence Unger, The Female Version of The Odd Couple; Madame, in The Maids, and Lola, Prom Queens, just to name a few. In addition, she has appeared in four movies: The Night of the Living Dead; Ribbons; The Black Emperor of Broadway; and The Art Thief. Ms. Tighe has been in over 100 readings and performed for 12 years in the 24 Hour Plays. Sallie has performed in the Holiday Extravangaza at the Provincetown Theater for several years. She is a member of the Wellfleet Branch of Artpeace Makers. She is honored to be a part of this presentation of Karen, in the Helltown Players debut. As always, she is thankful for the continued support of her loving husband, family members, friends, and especially cast members. Thank you Fermin.
Margaret Van Sant (Helltown Trustee)
Margaret has directed classic and contemporary theater, and has a special focus on the development of new scripts. At Long Wharf Theater she managed the Stage II program of new script development, and at the PTC she established the Playwright’s Lab and the Playwright’s Festival. The most recent PDA development project was the O’Neill Festival of New Works where six playwrights presented workshops of their scripts, including her play “ Portraiture.” Two of her plays, “Portraiture“ and “Goody Hallet,” were finalists for the Kaplan Playwriting Award. Her play “Pulse,” one of four plays in “Quickies,” was performed at the Red Room Provincetown, International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and The Art House in Provincetown. Her play “Wartime in Provincetown, was commissioned by the Tennessee Williams Festival. She has directed at Virginia Stage Company, Long Wharf Theater, Arena Stage, Yale University (National Conference on Portuguese Theater), Yale Cabaret, Berkshire Theater, City Studio Payomet, and Provincetown Theater. She takes plays by Cape playwrights to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. She is a proud member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Jess Wilson (Director of A Twist of Lemon & Karen)
Jess is a consultant, trainer, and speaker with extensive experience as an actor, tech, designer, producer, playwright, dramaturg, teaching artist, and director. Jess is the Artistic & Managing Director of the Watermelon Alligator Theatre Company and co-Founding Director of Danu Pictures film company. An experienced actor-combatant, they also work as an Intimacy Director, Fight Captain, and Safety Coordinator for stage and film. Recent directorial credits include The Way It Is, Seminar and Fat Pig (all with WATC/CCftA), Fiveplay (CCCC), Leading Ladies (Nemasket River Productions), Much Ado About Nothing (Midsummer Shakespeare), and the short films Broken and Conscience (Danu Pictures). When not in rehearsal, Jess spends much of their time working to dismantle inequities in the performing arts, healthcare, and the world.
