Playbill
More Little Devils
6 short plays by the Helltown Players
Cape Rep Theatre
Friday, March 28 at 7:30pm
Saturday, March 29 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 30 at 2:00pm
(ASL Interpretation offered for the Sunday Matinee)
The Academy of Performing Arts
Friday, April 4 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 5 at 7:30pm
Friday, April 11 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 12 at 7:30pm
The Pilgrim House
Thursday, April 17 at 8:00pm
Friday, April 18 at 8:00pm
Saturday, April 19 at 8:00pm
Sunday, April 20 (Easter) at 4:00pm
Plays
(in order of appearance)
No Surrender
Candace Perry – Playwright
Scott Cunningham – Director
Sallie A. Tighe - Prologue
John Dennis Anderson – Robert
John Shuman – George
P. Adams-Riviere – Beau
Rolando
Wendy Watson – Playwright
Florence Heller – Director
Leanne McLaughlin - Girl
Jimmy C. Jules - Rolando
Colour My World
Melinda Buckley – Playwright
Judith Partelow – Director
Janet Moore - Nancy
Bill Jacobs - Malachy
Chelsey Brown - Janine
The Pros and Cons of Implosion
R. D. Murphy – Playwright
Mary Arnault – Director
Neil McGarry - Mr. Gordon
Leanne McLaughlin - Allie
Remembering When I Used to Remember
Patrick Riviere – Playwright
Florence Heller – Director
John Dennis Anderson - Marty
Bill Salem - Tucker
Dustin Ross - Jimmy
Convergence
Bill Jacobs – Playwright & Director
Jonathan Rodman - Freddie
John Hanright - John
Wil Moser - Blond Guy
More 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.
Strobe lighting effects will be used during the show.
Production Team
Jim Dalglish - Producing Artistic Director
Robin Joyce Miller – Dramaturge
Florence Heller – Technical Director / Board Operator
Emma Engelsen – Stage Manager
Susan Nicholson – Lighting Designer / Technician Cape Rep
Tori Mondello – Sound Engineer / Technician Cape Rep
Jennifer Kangas – Lighting Designer / Academy of Performing Arts
Jim Dalglish, Bill Jacobs, & Florence Heller – Sound Design
Jim Dalglish, Bill Jacobs, & Florence Heller – Projection Design
Donna Rockwell – Poster Design / Illustrations
Janine Perry – Cape Rep Theatre
Judy Hamer & Missy Potash - The Academy of Performing Arts
Ken Horgan – The Pilgrim House Provincetown
Laurie R. Shaffer & Wendy W. Watson - American Sign Language interpretation
Melanie Braverman - Talkback Facilitator / Co-founder of AFSC
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.
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/Producing Artistic Director/Trustee
Ian Ryan - Secretary/Treasurer/Trustee
John Dennis Anderson - Trustee
Lynda Sturner - Trustee
Margaret Van Sant - Trustee
Meryl Cohn - Trustee Emeritus
Gary Garrison - Trustee Emeritus
Fermin Rojas - Trustee Emeritus
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
Karen von Bismarck
Barbara Boone
Jadah Carroll
Maureen Condon
Meryl Cohn
Kevin Chandler
John Greiner-Ferris
Jarice Hanson
Elizabeth Hogan
Wendy Levine
Jane Macdonald
Delane & Richard Moser
Pamela Painter
Judith Partelow
Rob Phelps
Carl Pritkat
Laurence Ramin
Fermin Rojas
Patrick Riviere
Mike Syers
Victor Stein
Wenifred Watson
The Jaqueline I. Kroschwitz Fund
Joan Patchen Art and Activism Fund
Provincetown Local Cultural Council
Mass Cultural Council
Cape Cod 5
Special Thanks To…
Janine Perry and Cape Rep Theatre
Judy Hamer and Missy Potash and The Academy of Performing Arts
Ken Horgan and the staff of The Pilgrim House Provincetown
Mass Cultural Council
Mass Cultural Council Card to Culture
Jenn Pina and Cape Cod Theater Company - Home to the Harwich Junior Theater
Provincetown Dental Arts / Scott A. Allegretti, D.D.S.
Cape Cod 5
Wellfleet Adult Community Center
Wellfleet Elementary School
Wellfleet Rec
Eastham Council on Aging
Dennis Memorial Library
Alzheimer's Family Support Center (AFSC) of Cape Cod
Laurie R. Shaffer and Wendy W. Watson (American Sign Language interpretation)
Terri Frazier
Matthew Kohler
Becky Rosenberg
Mary & Andy Arnault
David Samuels
Kathleen & Jeff Korgen
Valerie & Jeffrey Greene
Cole Cook
Bill Jacobs
John Killwey
Bill Salem
John Dennis Anderson
Fern and Ben Heller
Melanie Braverman
Florence Heller
Margaret Van Sant
Playwrights Bios
Melinda Buckley
Author of Colour My World
Melinda Buckley is a former Bway performer and author of Mother (and me), Colour my World and Off Leash. My connection to Cape Cod is my association with the Alzheimer's Family Support Center of Cape Cod. I've performed Mother (and me) as fundraisers for them all over Cape Cod from the Cape Playhouse to Cotuit to Provincetown Works and Town Hall. Also, I'm a MA girl who vacationed on the Cape every summer growing up!
Bill Jacobs
Author of Convergence
Bill Jacobs is a director, writer, cinematographer and producer living full-time in Wellfleet, MA. Bill worked many years at Columbia, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles before starting his media production company, Shooting Star Creativeworks. Currently, Bill is in the final stages of postproduction on the independent feature film, When the Moon Was Twice as Big, a project that he wrote and directed, and coproduced with his husband, John Killwey.
“I would like to express our deepest appreciation to John Killwey for his masterful creation of the set pieces used in the performance; to Mary Arnault for providing her rehearsal space and loaning various props; and to Florence Heller for her expertise in programming sound and light cues—as well as for her friendship!”
R. D. Murphy
Author of The Pros & Cons of Implosion
R. D. Murphy is a member of Actors’ Equity Association; the Screen Actors Guild; and the Dramatists Guild. An actor, playwright, and painter, he has performed on New England stages for over 25 years. R.D. was named a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Dramatic Writing in 2015. In August 2022, his play "Pros and Cons of Implosion" was included in the 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in NYC. In 2023, R.D. produced THE FIRE ESCAPE PLAYS, a program of four of his short plays, which was funded by the Mass Cultural Council. Three of his scripts: "Pros and Cons of Implosion"; "Glenda Jackson in a Bodega (I Am Not)"; and "Scrapgoat" have been produced in the annual Boston Theatre Marathon and "Glenda Jackson..." was published in the BTM XXII Anthology. "That Thing You Do With Your Tongue"; "Bollywood Ending"; and, in 2025, "Pros and Cons..." are published in Smith & Kraus Best 10-Minute Plays anthologies.
In 2019, under the auspices YASPLZ LLC, R.D. co-produced and performed in a festival version of "Noir Hamlet" by John Minigan at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has served on the executive boards of Boston’s Theatre Community Benevolent Fund and STAGESOURCE; for over a decade, he has adjudicated for the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild (METG). .
Candace Perry
Author of No Surrender
Candace Perry’s short and long plays have been performed in festivals and theaters in the US and Ireland. Regionally, she’s won awards, been selected as a commissioned playwright, and served as a playwright-in-residence. Though she’s written and published in other forms, she finds that the making of a play presents the greatest opportunity and challenge for creating work that might change the world, or nudge it in the right direction. Her writing life has been enriched and interrupted by relationships, activism, teaching, travel, open water swimming, and her clinical social work career. Growing up, she lived in Ohio, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Nicaragua, Florida and Louisiana, She now lives in Wellfleet, MA with her husband, Charles Thibodeau.
Patrick Riviere
Author of Remembering When I Used to Remember
Patrick Riviere is an award-winning playwright, actor, arts administrator/educator and documentary filmmaker and grateful to be involved with More Little Devils. He has written a plethora of plays, children’s stories and poems and his full-length play, The House of Nunzio, was named Festival Winner at The First Annual Playwright Festival at Barnstable Comedy Club and was named a semi-finalist for the Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Competition, the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award and the Road Theatre Summer Playwrights Festival. Remembering… celebrated its World Premiere last year as part of the inaugural Queer Voices Festival with Boston Theater Company at Boston Center for the Arts. His one-act, The Days After, was read at the WOMR Davis Room and then selected for The Dramatists Guild Footlight Series. He founded All Seasons Theatre Company, co-founded The Emerging Artists Project and founded the successful and nationally recognized arts ed program PIE (Projects In Education) Story Theatre. He has held administrative positions at NYU’s Tisch SOA, Second Stage Theater, The Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center, Arts Horizons, PTV and WHAT.
Wendy Watson
Author of Rolando
Wendy Watson is a singer, actor, and most recently, a budding playwright. Wendy has been performing on stages since the age of 5 and has worked in NY, London and Hawaii. She is also an American Sign Language Interpreter and has interpreted over 40 shows on and off-Broadway, as well as large venues in Boston. Wendy co-created the musical revue Mama and Her Boys which premiered at Cape Rep Theatre, her theatrical “home” on Cape Cod. She has also performed in Provincetown for Counter Productions, as well as Harwich Junior Theater, Bluestone Actors Project, and years of Great Music Sundays. Wendy has lived in South Dennis since 2000, where she and her wife found a lovely crack house to renovate!
Director Bios
Mary Arnault
Director of Pros & Cons of Implosion
MARY ARNAULT (Director) holds an MFA in acting from NYU and was for years Co-Artistic Director of Odyssey Theater Company in NYC. Since moving to Cape Cod she has directed productions for many Cape theatres including CCTC-HJT, CCftA, Cape Rep, Eventide and Provincetown Theater Co. Mary and her husband Andrew co-wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for HJT which received the NETC Aurand Harris Award and is published by Dramatic Publishing.
Scott Cunningham
Director of No Surrender
Scott Cunningham is a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory and spent many years working in theater, soaps, commercials, print, industrials, and voice-overs in NYC. He came to Provincetown in 2008 to appear in David Drake's production of Two Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter's Night for a six-week run. He's still here, is the owner of ScottCakes on Commercial Street and has been involved in many readings, festivals, and productions in and around Provincetown.
Florence Heller
Director of Remembering When I Used to Remember and Rolando
Driven by a passion to make people feel less alone, Florence Heller is a director, writer, and storyteller who uses her unique ability to work with actors to ground her storytelling with the intricacies of humanity. Florence holds an MFA in Film and TV Production (with a focus in directing) from USC School of Cinematic Arts, a certificate from FAMU (NYU’s 35mm film program in Prague), and a BFA in Theater (with a focus in directing) from NYU Tisch. Florence worked many years in Los Angeles for leading productions companies such as PRETTYBIRD, Golden LA, and was Head of Creative at Ruffian. Now, Florence freelances in the commercial industry as a visualist and writer while also in the midst of writing her first feature film. Identifying as a New Yorker and a “washashore” Fleetian, Florence currently contemplates the world from the winding dunes of the Outer Cape. When Florence isn’t working on film and theater, you can find her in front of the television screaming at a NY Giants football game, uncontrollably dancing in supermarket aisles, or hiding out at the beach trying to catch some waves. www.florenceheller.com
Bill Jacobs
Director of Convergence
Bill Jacobs is a director, writer, cinematographer and producer living full-time in Wellfleet, MA. Bill worked many years at Columbia, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles before starting his media production company, Shooting Star Creativeworks. Currently, Bill is in the final stages of postproduction on the independent feature film, When the Moon Was Twice as Big, a project that he wrote and directed, and coproduced with his husband, John Killwey.
Judith Partelow
Director of Colour My World
Professional Actress: Member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA; Theatre, Film, TV and Voiceover actress. Playwright: A Woman’s Heart; Neighbors (collaboration). Published Poet: Chapbooks: A Woman’s Heart, and Carry Me Back, A Woman’s Life in Poetry. Latest 2024 collection: Passion & Provocation, Selected Poems by Judith Partelow (Amazon, B&N, Atmosphere Press). Director: Colour My World (More Little Devils 2025); Neighbors: Staged Readings, on Cape Cod (2022-2025); A Woman’s Heart: Written, directed, acted in productions from Provincetown to Cotuit (2017-2019); One World, Three Voices: Cultural Center of Cape Cod (2019); First Dance, PTC (2010); A Child’s Christmas in Wales & The Gift of the Magi, PTC (2009); Sleeping Indoors, PTC (Fundraiser for the Homeless 2008); Not to Be, PTC (2007); Reflections for a Warm Day, Yarmouth Cultural Center (2007); West Kerry: PTC (2007); Wrinkles, by Jacqueline Loring, Yarmouth Sr. Center (2007); The Last Thing, Tennessee Williams Festival, PTC (2007); Robert Mapplethorpe’s Flowers, Provincetown Fringe Festival and Off-Broadway, by Gregory Fletcher (2004); Snow Queen, HJT (1993); The Lantern (1991); Working: Provincetown Theatreworks (1991); and in the 1980’s: The Telephone Play, APA; The Fisherman and His Wife, APA; Home for Christmas, APA; Evening in Spoon River, Cape Cod Tour; Seascape, PTC; Yearbook, Riverview School; Beauty and the Beast, APA.
Dramaturge Bio
Robin Joyce Miller
Dramaturge for Convergence and Rolando
Robin Joyce Miller is a retired educator, artist, author, poet, and public speaker, who taught for 30+ years in the NYC school system. She spent the first half of her career teaching learning disabled students and the next half as an art teacher. Miller was also a NYC Blueprint for the Arts Facilitator, leading workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum.
After retirement she and her husband have maintained two residences in NYC and Cape Cod. After George Floyd’s murder, Robin and her husband, James, began presenting a BLM Series with the Cotuit Center for the Arts. These programs focus on African/African American history and are available to the public on Cotuit on Demand - YouTube. She is on the Bd of Directors at the Cotuit Center. Miller is also a Peace and Racial Harmony advocate. She speaks at churches, schools, universities, and libraries on the subject of race. You can view more of Robin’s work on www.robinjoycemillerart.com.
Actor Bios
P. Adams-Riviere
No Surrender (Beau)
Recent credits: Oscar in Jim Dalglish’s White Gays (O’Neill Festival of New Works and Truro Playwright Collective) and Scott in Fermin Rojas’s Cold War (Truro Playwright Collective). He sang lead baritone for Patti Lupone in Don’t Monkey With Broadway (Provincetown Town Hall) and starred in a commercial that debuted during Super Bowl LII for which he won a Gold Telly. He played Smee (Campfire Quorum), William Bradford in The Witch (The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival) and Chaz Fitzgerald in Myra Slotnick’s play, The Beachcomber Boys (NYC and PAAM). He sang for the inaugural season at Tin Pan Alley and was a soloist for two seasons at Great Music on Sundays. He appears “briefly” in the feature film, High Tide and is currently filming a co-starring role in a feature film shooting in Acton, MA.
John Dennis Anderson
No Surrender (Robert), Remembering When I Used to Remember (Marty)
Credits: Tom in The Glass Menagerie, August in Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Clerk in The Municipal Abattoir (Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival); The Judge/Amy in Casa Valentina, Dennis Shepherd and others in The Laramie Project, and Mr. Kirby in You Can’t Take It With You (Provincetown Theater). In Chautauqua performances nationally, he portrays the writers Henry James, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Washington Irving, Lynn Riggs, Marshall McLuhan, Christopher Isherwood, Louis Bromfield, and Henry Beston. He is a member of the Truro Playwright Collective, which has presented readings of his plays Isherwood, A Cultivated Friendship, and Beston; a board member of the Open University of Wellfleet; and a Trustee of Helltown Players. Website: jdanderson.org
Chelsey Brown
Colour My World (Janine)
Select Cape Cod credits: Prelude to a Kiss, Mamma Mia!, Next to Normal, Evita, The Light in the Piazza, Jerusalem, (Cape Rep Theatre). California Bay Area credits: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Grease (Broadway by the Bay), Mamma Mia (Center Rep), Rock of Ages (PCRT), She Loves Me (RVP/Mountain Play) and Spamalot (Marin Shakes). She holds a BFA from Montclair State University.
Janet Geist Moore
Colour My World (Nancy)
This past year Janet played Baby Barretta in the new play The Fade-Away Advantage at the Provincetown Theatre. The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet with the Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival at Chatham, and Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Cotuit Center for the Arts. Other favorite roles include Mother Superior in Agnes of God, and Kate Keller in All My Sons, Maureen in Beauty Queen of Leenane, Josie in Moon for the Misbegotten, and Liz Morden in Our Country’s Good. A wash ashore from Brooklyn NY, Janet has worked in various media including WBAI Radio’s Sci-Fi Series James Scott: When Worlds Need Heroes, Audio Book Robot City, on TV in As the World Turns, The Cosby Show, and Cosby, and Film in New Jack City, Heaven Help Us, and Malcolm X. Janet has an MFA in Acting from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
John Hanright
Convergence (John)
John Hanright is very excited to be in the Helltown Players’ production of this brand new work! In addition to acting, John is a playwright, an ESL teacher, and a published author/poet. His play, The Finishing Touch, premiered in September 2023 at the Academy of Performing Arts (APA). Recent credits: The Final Say (O’Neill Festival of New Works), The Fade-Away Advantage (Truro Playwrights Collective), An Inspector Calls (Barnstable Comedy Club), and Dracula (world premiere: Chatham Drama Guild). John wishes to thank Bill, Jim, his fellow cast members, and as always, his family and friends for all their support.
Bill Jacobs
Colour My World (Malachy)
Bill is beyond delighted to be making his Cape Cod acting debut and working with Helltown Players. As an actor and voiceover artist, Bill has worked on projects for entertainment icons such as Disney and Sid & Marty Krofft, as well as providing character voices and narration for countless commercials, documentaries, short films, and corporate image pieces from Los Angeles to New York City. And in what seems like a lifetime ago, Bill has graced the stage as Harold Hill in The Music Man, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside in Auntie Mame, Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, and King Arthur in Camelot—wearing Richard Burton’s original tunic from the show’s Broadway premiere!
Jimmy C. Jules
Rolando (Rolando)
Jimmy C. Jules is a versatile actor known for his dynamic stage presence and captivating performances. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Medford, Massachusetts, Jimmy is bilingual, speaking Haitian Creole and French before mastering English in just six months after arriving in the United States. His early immersion in the arts, participating in chorus, talent competitions, and starting a wedding and events filming business at the age of 13, laid the foundation for his future career in performance.
Although his initial career path involved music and filmmaking, where he worked with prominent names in hip-hop, reggae, and R&B, Jimmy ultimately turned his focus to acting. His dedication to the craft led him to study under seasoned mentors, refining his skills through both formal training and practical experience.
Jimmy’s career took a significant step forward when he worked on Rian Johnson’s acclaimed film Knives Out in 2019. There, he gained invaluable insights working alongside stars like Daniel Craig, LaKeith Stanfield, Chris Evans, and Jamie Lee Curtis. This experience strengthened his acting technique and deepened his passion for storytelling through performance.
Since then, Jimmy has delivered memorable performances in both lead and supporting roles in short films and independent projects. His film credits include Bad Voodoo, and he has appeared in commercials for major brands such as Honda. In 2020, he founded Jules Family Vision, a production company through which he has been developing the series What Are the Chances…?
With a passion for film, tv, theater and an unwavering dedication to his craft, Jimmy C. Jules is committed to bringing compelling and authentic performances to the stage.
Neil McGarry
The Pros and Cons of Implosion (Mr. Gordon)
Recent work includes: Year 11 of touring A Christmas Carol - A Solo Performance, Private Lives at Saco River Theatre, the Paramount Plus mini series Miss Fallaci (Joseph Cotton), the films Sisters and Hill Of Vision, both streaming on Amazon Prime. Neil was the founder and artistic director of The Bay Colony Shakespeare Company and has recently returned to the US after nine years in Italy. He is currently teaching Shakespeare and directing The Prom at Cape Cod Community College.
Leanne McLaughlin
The Pros and Cons of Implosion (Allie)
Rolando (Girl)
Leanne is thrilled to be working with the Helltown Players! When she is not acting on stage, she is producing and acting in film projects. In 2022, Leanne and her partner finished their first feature film “Strange Kindness” and they have plans to make their sophomore film on Cape this winter. Www.Strange Kindness.com
Wil Moser
Convergence (Blond Guy)
Wil Moser (Blonde Guy, Convergence) has been to Hell and back again, but decided it’s a lot better down where it’s hotter. Awards include: IRNE Award for reprising his title role in The Little Prince at New Repertory Theatre; 2018 Cape Cod Rising Star. Film credits include: Tommy: The Documentary; Sucking Wind; Teacher of the Year. Education: The Hartt School (Actor Training); Recent theatre credits include: Little Devils (Max, JT) with the Helltown Players; Next to Normal (Gabe) at ETC; Tommy (Tommy) at CCftA. Wil has been acting on the east coast for more than a decade, is a self-proclaimed “cool dude,” and is forever grateful for his loving parents, incredible friends, and, of course, the Helltown Players. wilmoser.com
Jonathan Rodman
Convergence (Freddie)
Jonathan is an aspiring actor who you may recognize from many shows around the Cape. He specifically operates at Cotuit Center for the Arts and Falmouth Theater guild. You may remember him from their productions of Legally Blonde, Little shop of Horrors, Hello Dolly, Something Rotten and more! Jonathan is so excited to be joining the Little Devils and Convergence. He has had so much fun getting to be surrounded with such talents. He feels as if he has learned a lot and is honored to be able to perform for so many and continue doing what he loves. This will be one of his last shows before he goes to his next venue…College! He hopes that you all remember him when he is famous in the future!
Dustin Ross
Remembering When I Used to Remember (Jimmy)
Dustin returned to the stage after a 20+ year hiatus with Provincetown Theater’s sold out (and later revived) run of Casa Valentina, where he played the role of Jonathan/Miranda. Since then he played Christopher Isherwood in a reading of I Am a Camera, Louis Bromfield in a reading of A Cultivated Friendship, and was featured in the reading of Write Now for the Eugene O’Neill Festival of New Works.
Bill Salem
Remembering When I Used to Remember (Tucker)
Bill has enjoyed a long-run as an actor in all the cities in which he has lived including NYC, SF, 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 with The Provincetown Theater, Eventide Theatre Company, three seasons with the Tennessee Williams Festival, Hell Town Players as well as many new play readings. He is most grateful to Patrick for casting him in his lovely play about gay affection and memory loss. Being a hospice volunteer with Broad Reach Hospice makes Tucker's dementia very poignant for Bill to portray on stage along with John and Dustin under Florence's insightful direction. He will be performing his one-man Shakespeare program as part of ARTS WEEK sponsored by the Orleans Cultural District on April 24th @ 6:30 pm at the historic Methodist Church at the corner of Main St. and Rt. 28 in Orleans.
John Shuman
No Surrender (George)
Since arriving on Cape Cod John has been teaching theatre for Open University of Wellfleet and Improvisation with Winter Wednesdays and Wellfleet Elementary School. He has given a number of readings of his written work at the Orleans Pop-Up Practices and The Schoolhouse in Wellfleet. When not teaching or writing he can be found on Great Island communing with a whale he calls Jeremy.
Sallie A. Tighe
No Surrender (Prologue)
Ms Tighe is a wash ashore to Cape Cod for over 50 years and who now lives in Truro with her husband of over 39 years and their cat Mr. Nibbs. Sallie is a Mother, a sister, a grandmother, an activist, a WILFPer, actress, poet, an ArtpeaceMaker, an assembly delegate, fashionista, lover of life, and girlfriend. Honored to once again be a part of the Helltown Players!
Production Team
Melanie Braverman
Talkback Moderator / Co-founder of the AFSC
Molly Perdue and Melanie Braverman co-founded the Alzheimer’s Family Support Center (AFSC) in 2014. An author and educator, Braverman serves as Executive Coordinator and Cultural Director of the AFSC.
Jim Dalglish
Founder / Producing Artistic Director / Trustee
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.
Emma Engelsen
Stage Manager
Emma is a Cape-based actor and artist, previously working on last year’s production of Little Devils. She is thrilled to be back with Helltown Players! She made her professional debut in the ensemble of Reefer Madness: The Musical at WHAT last summer. She also served as the Production Assistant for the world premiere of Liberty Talks at WHAT. Upcoming: The Academy Playhouse’s productions of Grease (Jan) and Gypsy (Ensemble). Notable credits: Poshington Manor (Lady Beatrice) at improv Cape Cod, Stage Kiss (Millicent/Laurie) at The Academy Playhouse,It’s a Wonderful Live… Radio Play (Violet Bick) at Eventide, Actor in the 23.5 Hour Play Festival at The Cape Playhouse. Aside from acting, she is a content creator on social media, self-proclaimed dog enthusiast, and regularly collaborates with other local artists on film, acting and theatrical projects. Emerson College ‘23!! She would like to thank Jim and everyone in this company, as well as her family and friends for their continued love and support.
Jennifer Kangas
Lights - The Academy of Performing Arts
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.
Susan Nicholson
Lighting Designer - Cape Rep
Susan Nicholson is a northeast based lighting designer. Her theatrical work has been seen at Cape Rep Theatre (20th season), Prospect Theatre Company, Collage Dance Collective and many others. Her corporate work has been seen all over the country and world including events such as US Open Hospitality, John Wick Cast and Crew Party, Conservation International Gala, United Nations Day Concert at the UN, the Oculus Holiday Kick Off Party, Coldwell Banking Annual Meeting at Radio City Music Hall and Headliner’s Acts on the Norwegian Prima. She is works for Creative Technology. She has a BA from Purdue University and MFA from the University of Memphis. Member USA 829. Check out her work at susanmnicholsondesign.com.
Laurie R. Shaffer
American Sign Language Interpretion
Laurie R. Shaffer has been interpreting theatre for the past 30 years, from touring productions of Broadway blockbusters to the avant-garde in black-box theaters. Her first big musical was "Phantom of the Opera" at the Wang Center in Boston. She had the opportunity to interpret at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She also did numerous Shakespearean productions including at the Black Friar's Theatre in Staunton VA. She is honored to provide access for this showcase with her beloved friend and colleague, Wendy Watson.
Wendy Watson
American Sign Language Interpretation
Wendy has been interpreting in performance and community settings for over 30 years. Stage work has included 52 plays, musicals, and concerts from Broadway to Boston (at last count!). Some favorites have been RENT, Little Shop of Horrors, Pippin, The Corn is Green, She Loves Me, Sister Act, Gem of the Ocean, Ripcord, Movin Out, and Breath Boom. Wendy is thrilled to get to be part of this performance in multiple ways!
Partners and Sponsors…
Made possible in part by the Joan Patchen Art and Activism Fund and the Provincetown Local Cultural Council.
The Alzheimer’s Family Support Center(AFSC) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing cost-free supports and services to families and individuals who are living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related diseases from Provincetown to Plymouth. Based in Brewster, the AFSC also has a full-service community center at the Cape Cod Mall.
What’s Next for Helltown…
Venues and Dates
Cape Cod Museum of Art
(Downstairs Hall)
60 Hope Ln, Dennis, MA 02638
April 24, 25, and 26 (Thursday - Saturday) at 7:30pm, April 27 (Sunday) at 2pm. May 1, 2, and 3 (Thursday - Saturday) at 7:30pm May 4 (Sunday) at 2pm.
Cotuit Center for the Arts
(The Sigel Black Box Theater)
4404 Falmouth Rd, Cotuit, MA 02635
May 22, 23, 24 (Thursday - Saturday) at 7:30pm. May 25 (Sunday) at 2pm. May 29, 30, 31 (Thursday - Saturday) at 7:30pm. June 1 (Sunday) at 2pm.
