Dead Man’s Cell Phone

CP directing credits include The Language Archive, It’s Only a Play, Photograph 51, Yankee Tavern, Witch, Almost, Maine, Seven Keys to Baldpate, Incorruptible, and Lips Together, Teeth Apart. CP acting credits: Into the Breeches! (Celeste Fielding), Calendar Girls (Chris), Native Gardens (Virginia Butley), Our Town (Stage Manager), You Can’t Take It with You (Mrs. Kirby), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Muriel Eubanks), and Chapter Two (Jenny). Elsewhere and NYC: The Lion in Winter, The Language Archive, Other Desert Cities, 1984, Blithe Spiri, and Tartuffe. CP Board Member, B.A. in theatre from FSU, Associate Broker (Realtor) at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. She is deeply grateful to this talented cast, our amazing production staff, family, friends, and everyone who supports live theatre in any way.

has stage-managed readings of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Witch, The Burdens, Admissions, and The Niceties, as well as main stage productions of Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, Native Gardens, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt 2B, and Something Rotten! here at County Players. She has managed productions of Every Brilliant Thing, Godspell, Bat Boy, Little Women, Hello! Dolly, Something Rotten!, She Kills Monsters, and other shows on various stages with various production companies around Dutchess County. She is the treasurer of the County Players Board of Governors.

started volunteering at County Players in 2017 and has since been involved in several productions including Bullshot Crummond (Otto Von Brunno), Into the Breeches! (Stuart), Perfect Arrangement (Jim), Silent Sky (Peter), Constellations (Roland), Calendar Girls (Lawrence), The Drowsy Chaperone (Man in Chair), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Freddy). Local credits also include Braille Garden and The Covid Confessions at The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, The Weekend People and Let’s Misbehave at Round the Bend Theater, Into the Woods and Tough Love at New Deal Creative Arts Center, and Ex-Gay Bar with both Howl Playwrights and ArtsWestchester. He also directed for and performed in the Hudson Valley Theatre Festival. Dylan holds a bachelor’s degree in Food Science from the Culinary Institute of America and works for an ice cream manufacturer in Congers, NY. He also serves on the County Players Board of Governors.

has been involved both on and off stage in many County Players productions, and is excited to be back at it as SM for this CP2 Series! She recently staged-managed A Few Good Men (February 2026), Misery and Dracula (CP2 Series 2025), Bullshot Crummond (2025), Eleanor and Underneath the Lintel (CP2 Series 2024). Jenn has also assistant stage-managed Big Fish (2025), An Ideal Husband (2024), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2019), and Our Town (2018). She would like to thank her people (they know who they are) for their patience, support, and guidance, but they never read these things anyway.

thanks everyone at County Players for this opportunity.

plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Melancholy Play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss, Dear Elizabeth, Eurydice, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Orlando, Late: a cowboy song, and a translation of Three Sisters. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony award nominee. Her plays have been produced on and off Broadway, around the country, and internationally, where they have been translated into over fifteen languages. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University. She has received the Steinberg Award, the Samuel French Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Whiting Award, the Lily Award, a PEN Award for mid-career playwrights, and the MacArthur Award. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her family. SarahRuhlplaywright.com .