JAN 18 - FEB 12 2023
Grab your picket sign and get ready to march! Later banned in Boston and New Haven, the first performance of Waiting for Lefty by the Group Theatre started a riot. The mysterious disappearance of Lefty, the head of the strike committee, during a union meeting prompts a series of flashbacks that reveal the intensely personal reasons behind a group of taxi workers’ rallying call to action. With the fight for living wages and safe, equitable workplaces continuing to cause political debates, Clifford Odets’ iconic collage of the American working class illustrates the power of individual protest and the right to reform.
CREATIVE
Kyle Haden
Director
Lindsay Fuori
Set Designer
Elizabeth M. Stewart
Lighting Designer
Zhang Yu
Costume Designer
Chris Lane
Sound Designer
John “JP” Pollard*
Stage Manager
Gray Rogers
Assistant Stage Manager
Nora Gair
Assistant Director & Intimacy Coordinator
J. Bean Schwab
Props Designer
CAST
Monroe Barrick
Dr. Barnes
Rachel Brodeur
Fayette / Clayton
Lee Cortopassi
Irv / Gunman
Doug Harris*
Joe
Michael Liebhauser
Dr. Benjamin
Daniel Melo
Sid
Kimie Muroya
Miller
Katherine Perry
Florrie
Buzz Roddy*
Fatt
Angelica Santiago*
Edna
DON’T WAIT FOR LEFTY!
Post-show Conversation
Join Dr. Meghan Brodie, Associate Professor of Theater at Ursinus College, Kate Isabel Foley, and Daniel Ciba, Director of Education, after the matinee to participate in a conversation about Clifford Odets, the New York Taxi Strike of 1934, and political theatre.
Meghan Brodie, PhD, is Associate Professor of Theater and Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Ursinus College. She teaches dramatic literature, theater history, and dramaturgy. Directing credits include work by Sarah Ruhl, Charlotte Jones, Emma Donoghue, Angela Carter, Germaine Tillion, Holly Hughes, Diana Son, Ellen McLaughlin, and Paula Vogel, among others. Meghan has previously written about queer casting and feminist directing, co-edited two anthologies of performance pieces written by LGBTQ youth and allies, and partnered with the Remember the Women Institute on several projects about women, theater, and the Holocaust. For more information on Meghan Brodie, please visit meganbrodie.com.
Kate Isabel Foley is a senior Theater and English honors student at Ursinus College. Kate’s playwriting credits include Pride & Prejudice at Pemberley College, a contemporary, queer adaptation of Jane Austen’s much-loved classic, and Captain Darling, a dark reimagining of Peter Pan in which Mrs. Darling takes center stage and must decide how far she will go to save her children from a surprising foe. Kate was the dramaturg for Ursinus’s production of Angela Carter’s radio plays Puss in Boots and The Company of Wolves. Recent performances include roles in Pride & Prejudice, The Oldest Profession, and Execution of Justice; she will next appear as Joan in Small Mouth Sounds at Ursinus College.
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