A UNIQUE THEATRICAL EVENT
Directed by Craig Fols
ROTATING CASTS - A "NEW" SHOW EVERY WEEK!
September 6 - October 14
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM
Tickets: $35 General Admission, $30 Seniors*
$20 Students & Military | Ages 12 and under are always free
* LOVEFEST REPEAT VIEWING DISCOUNT - Please note that with six different casts, audience members can come back each week to experience the show again with new actors; just bring your original ticket to the box office for $10 admission! Use as many times as you like. Cash only, please.
September 6 - October 14
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM
Tickets: $35 General Admission, $30 Seniors*
$20 Students & Military | Ages 12 and under are always free
* LOVEFEST REPEAT VIEWING DISCOUNT - Please note that with six different casts, audience members can come back each week to experience the show again with new actors; just bring your original ticket to the box office for $10 admission! Use as many times as you like. Cash only, please.
Join a rotating cast of couples for this funny and poignant portrait of love and friendship.
Meet Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, two childhood friends who share a lifetime of correspondence, beginning with birthday party thank-you notes and ending with a heartfelt goodbye.
Meet Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, two childhood friends who share a lifetime of correspondence, beginning with birthday party thank-you notes and ending with a heartfelt goodbye.
BIOS - WEEK 3
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NANCE WILLIAMSON* (Melissa) has been a professional actress for thirty-nine years performing in theater, television, film and in numerous commercials. Most recently She can be seen in the movie The Hating Game. On TV Nance can be seen in The Walking Dead-The World Beyond, The Good Wife, Law and Order, Law and Order-Criminal Intent, Law and Order SVU, The Fringe, Dawson’s Creek among others. On Broadway, Nance played in Cyrano, Romeo and Juliet, and at Lincoln Center Henry IV, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass. Off-Broadway, Nance has performed in Cyrano, Pride and Prejudice, Marvin’s Room, Two Gentlemen of Verona for the New York Shakespeare in the Park, An Empty Plate at the Café du Grand Beouff and The Seagull among others. Regionally, Nance has performed across the country in plays classical and contemporary. Nance and her husband, Kurt Rhoads have been members of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival for over 22 summer seasons where her favorite roles include Martha Washington in The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, The Nurse in Rand J, Mrs. Malaprop, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, and recently Juliet to Kurt’s Romeo in an age-blind Romeo and Juliet. Nance was a member of the Dallas Theater Center Acting Co for 10 years as a student, journeyman and professional actress, and 5 seasons with the Dallas Shakespeare Festival. Nance received her BA from St. Olaf College and MFA from Trinity University. She and her husband have been married for 39 years and have performed together in 72 theatrical productions.
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KURT RHOADS* (Andrew) is excited to make his debut at East Lynne Theatre Co. He has performed and directed at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival for 25 seasons. Credits at HVSF: the poet in The ILIAD; Romeo, Macbeth, Tartuffe, Antony, Petruchio, Benedick, others. On Broadway, Kurt has appeared in Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington. Off Broadway: Fashions for Men at the Mint Theatre; Othello and The Good-Natur’d Man at the Pearl Theatre. Regional: Toby Belch in 12th Night at Two River Theatre Co. How I Learned to Drive at Arena Stage, Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar at Shakespeare Theatre. Beauty Queen of Leenane at Delaware Theatre Co. Other theatres: PlayMakers’ Rep, Old Globe, Denver Center, Trinity Rep, San Jose Rep, Arizona Theatre Co, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, others. Education: University of Chicago and DePaul University. Film/TV: The Walking Dead: The World Beyond; Law and Order; The Blacklist, Walker, Texas Ranger. This is the 73rd production with Nance Williamson.
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BIOS - WEEK 2
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VEANNE COX* (Melissa) Broadway: An American in Paris, A Free Man of Color, La Cage Aux Folles, Caroline or Change, The Dinner Party, Company, Smile. Off Broadway shows at Vineyard, TFANA, Signature, NYTW, The Public, MTC, MCC, Playwright's Horizons, Women's Project, Rattlestick. Shakespeare Theatre Company: Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Merry Wives of Windsor, Way Of The World, The Beaux Stratagem. TV/FILM includes: Summoning Sylvia,The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Mandalorian, New Amsterdam, NCIS New Orleans, Seinfeld, Cinderella, Erin Brockovich, You've Got Mail. Web Series: Indoor Boys and Cady Did. She has been nominated for Tony, Emmy, Outer Critics and Helen Hayes Awards, and has received special Drama Desk and Obie Awards for excellence in the Theatre.
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EZRA BARNES* (Andrew) appeared in East Lynne’s A Tale of Two Cities earlier this summer and is very happy to be back. Select credits include: Off Broadway: Breakfast With Mugabe, Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird (Queens Theatre in the Park), In White America (New Federal), Far and Wide (Mint). Regional: McCarter, Geva, Portland Stage, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Denver Center, Pioneer, Paper Mill. TV: currently, the hit YouTube series Group, an innovative show about a therapy group, previously on New Amsterdam, Jessica Jones, Orange is the New Black, The Sinner, Bored to Death, Law & Order, SVU. Film: Motherless Brooklyn, birth/rebirth, Unintended, Noah, Joshua, Once More With Feeling. Ezra was awarded the Connecticut Critic’s Circle Award for Outstanding Direction for his production of Diary of Anne Frank at Playhouse on Park. He is the Founding Artistic Director of Connecticut’s Shakespeare on the Sound festival and lead the company from 1996-2008. Ezra is a Brooklyn resident, where he runs the Young Actors Workshop.
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BIOS - WEEK 1
VERONIQUE HURLEY* (Melissa) (She/Her) It is always a pleasure to return to East Lynne Theater. Currently, co-hosting the comedy podcast: Grumble Goat @grumblegoatpodcast. Recent credits include: Who Am I This time?, The Rainmaker, Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Silent Sky (East Lynne Theater) Off Broadway Theatre Credits include: The Tempest, As You Like it, Twelfth Night, Hunting and Gathering (The Glass Eye), and Women are crazy because men are A*holes (Cherry Lane Theatre); Regional Credits Include: Noises Off, To Kill A Mockingbird, Christmas Carol, (The Hartford Stage Company) The Straight Marriage Plays, Moon Over Buffalo (Cape May Stage), Around the World in 80 Days (Playhouse on Park) (won best ensemble, Broadwayworld.com). Member AEA @verhurley Veroniquehurley.com
MAT LABOTKA* (Andrew) An alum of Chicago’s Second City Conservatory and Marquette University, Mat is both classically trained and freshly comedic. Previous East Lynne credits include The Rainmaker (File), Who Am I This Time (Harry Nash), and Sherlock Holmes (Announcer). Next month Mat can be seen in the new play, Honor at ART NY Theatre in New York. Mat also hosts the delightfully comedic podcast, Grumble Goat. matlabotka.com Member AEA.
A.R. GURNEY (1930-2017) The author of 61 plays, Gurney was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2004. His shows for Broadway include LOVE LETTERS, SYLVIA, SWEET SUE and THE GOLDEN AGE. LOVE LETTERS debuted on Broadway in 1989.
His other plays include: SCENES FROM AMERICAN LIFE, THE DINING ROOM, THE MIDDLE AGES, RICHARD CORY, WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER, THE PERFECT PARTY, ANOTHER ANTIGONE, THE COCKTAIL HOUR, LOVE LETTERS, THE SNOW BALL (adapted from his novel), THE OLD BOY, THE FOURTH WALL, LATER LIFE, A CHEEVER EVENING, LET’S DO IT (A COLE PORTER MUSICAL), LABOR DAY, FAR EAST, DARLENE AND THE GUEST LECTURER, ANCESTRAL VOICES. Opera: the libretto for STRAWBERRY FIELDS, with music by Michael Torke. Novels: “The Gospel According to Joe,” “Entertaining Strangers,” and “The Snow Ball.”
Awards: Drama Desk, N.E.A., Rockefeller Foundation, New England Theatre Conference, Lucille Lortel, American Association of Community Theatres, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Honorary degrees: Williams College and Buffalo State University. Gurney was on the faculty of M.I.T. until 1996. The husband of one, father of four, and grandfather of six.
His other plays include: SCENES FROM AMERICAN LIFE, THE DINING ROOM, THE MIDDLE AGES, RICHARD CORY, WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER, THE PERFECT PARTY, ANOTHER ANTIGONE, THE COCKTAIL HOUR, LOVE LETTERS, THE SNOW BALL (adapted from his novel), THE OLD BOY, THE FOURTH WALL, LATER LIFE, A CHEEVER EVENING, LET’S DO IT (A COLE PORTER MUSICAL), LABOR DAY, FAR EAST, DARLENE AND THE GUEST LECTURER, ANCESTRAL VOICES. Opera: the libretto for STRAWBERRY FIELDS, with music by Michael Torke. Novels: “The Gospel According to Joe,” “Entertaining Strangers,” and “The Snow Ball.”
Awards: Drama Desk, N.E.A., Rockefeller Foundation, New England Theatre Conference, Lucille Lortel, American Association of Community Theatres, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Honorary degrees: Williams College and Buffalo State University. Gurney was on the faculty of M.I.T. until 1996. The husband of one, father of four, and grandfather of six.
Craig Fols (Director) is the Artistic Director of East Lynne Theater Company. READ MORE
