by Jen Silverman
Directed by Kit Colbourn
Sat Matinee 2pm | Sat 3/8
Utterly spellbinding.
A charming devil arrives in a quiet village to bargain for the souls of its residents. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a “witch,” but her soul is not so easily bought. Unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed. An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, this sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.
Witch is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com
If you’ve seen the bumper sticker ‘well-behaved women don’t make history,’ you’ll have a sense of what Silverman is shrewdly exploring: If your unsold soul is so disrespected by your community, then why not give some handsome devil a try?Chicago Tribune
CP2 Readers Theatre is an exciting series at County Players which offers an opportunity for actors, directors, and audience members to experience theater in a fresh way: selected plays with full dramatic readings, no costumes, no sets, no props, and the actors perform with scripts in hand. These shows are an incredible opportunity to experience great theater stripped to its essence: the playwright’s words.
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WHO’S WHO:
CAST (in alphabetical order)
has performed on the County Players stage in Incorruptible (Brother Olf), Seven Keys to Baldpate (Kennedy), Molly Sweeney (Frank), Prelude to a Kiss (Dr. Boyle), Almost, Maine (Lendall/Phil), The Drowsy Chaperone (Underling), Once on This Island (Armand), and H2$ (Gatch/Ovington). Other credits include: The Fantasticks (thrice!), Finnegan’s Farewell (twice!), Seussical the Musical, Pinkalicious the Musical, Frankenstein the Musical, Chess, Sweet Charity (twice!), Grey Gardens, The Pirates of Penzance, and Candide. He is an organist and leader of song at the Church of St. Mary here in Wappingers Falls, and was one of the first cantors certified by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Thomas serves on the board of directors of several nonprofits, including the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players. By day, he is a Senior Software Engineer with Dassault Systèmes Americas Corporation. He thanks Kit for yet another opportunity to learn from and work with her!
is thrilled to join the cast of Witch! Previous credits include: Becky’s New Car (Kenni) at the Ridgefield Theater Barn, Hello Dolly! (Dolly), Grease (Rizzo), and 42nd Street (Maggie) at North Salem High School; The Gazebo (Nell) and Little Shop of Horrors (Crystal) at Trinity Pawling School, and RENT (Joanne / SoL Soloist) at The Pulse. In the past few years, Samantha has spent free time singing in a band, attending the theater, hiking with her dad and dogs, buying her first home with her partner Matt, adopting two kittens, and volunteering with birds of prey at Green Chimneys. “Congratulations to the cast of Witch! So appreciative to be part of the County Players community, and to participate in many more productions to come! Thank you to my family and friends for always supporting my love of the arts.” County Players debut!
hails from the Finger Lakes region of New York, and he has lived all around the country. Since arriving in the Mid-Hudson Valley in September 2022, he has had the pleasure of performing in County Players productions of The Cake (Tim) and Photograph 51 (Raymond Gosling). Prior to returning to NY, Casey lived in Los Angeles where he was cast in numerous student films, a student TV pilot, and other exciting projects. He had moved to Los Angeles after completing rehearsals for On Golden Pond (Norman/Bill) in Tillamook, Oregon, but the production which was cancelled due to the pandemic. Historically, he completed a certificate in film at New York University, and numerous acting and screenwriting trainings. When not pursuing creative projects or fishing on his boat, Casey provides psychiatric nurse practitioner services at his private practice in Beacon.
is happy to return to the County Players stage. Their previous shows with County Players are Ragtime (Tateh), An Ideal Husband (Vicomte de Nanjac / Harold), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Hysterium), Native Gardens (Pablo), and Young Frankenstein (ensemble). Their other past performances include Peter and the Starcatcher (Mack / Fighting Prawn) and Avenue Q (Rod) with Up in One Productions, Shrek the Musical (ensemble / Farquaad swing) and Rent (Benny) with CENTERstage Productions, Safe (ensemble) with Rhinebeck Theatre Society, and Fiddler on the Roof (Motel) and Arsenic and Old Lace (Lt. Rooney) with New Deal Creative Arts. They’d like to thank their family and friends for all of their continued support.
is an actor/writer based in Kingston. Recent regional credits include Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett), and Private Lives (Amanda) at Winnipesaukee Playhouse, The Moors (Huldey) at Bridge Street Theatre, The Thanksgiving Play (Logan) at WAM Theatre, House of Blue Leaves (Bananas) and Emilie: La Marquise de Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight (Emilie) at Wellesley Rep, and Papermaker, The Ladies Man at Shadowland Stages. “Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.” – Alan Rickman
started volunteering at County Players in 2017 and has since been involved in several productions including 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 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 inaugural 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.
(Sir Arthur Banks)
(Winnifred)
(Scratch)
(Cuddy Banks)
(Elizabeth Sawyer)
(Frank Thorney)
CREW
is managing her second set of CP2 readings for County Players. She stage-managed Native Gardens on the main stage last season and Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt 2B earlier this season. She has also managed productions of Bat Boy, Little Women, Hello! Dolly, Something Rotten!, She Kills Monsters, and other shows on various stages with various production companies around Dutchess County. Up next, she is stage managing Godspell at The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.
is an Emmy Award winning Hudson Valley native and audio engineer professionally credited with the live television musicals Annie, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray, The WIZ, Peter Pan, and Sound of Music LIVE! (NBC), and A Christmas Story LIVE! (FOX). Additional shows include Great Performances for WNET-PBS and BroadwayHD.com, Good Morning America’s Summer Concert Series (ABC), CMT Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, The 77th Tony Awards (CBS), plus live coverage of the State of the Union and this year’s political conventions and debates for ABC and NewsNation. Local credits include numerous productions at County Players, The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, and Marist College. Mark is a member of the County Players Board of Governors and would like to thank the patrons, performers, and personnel for choosing to make time and space in their lives for the collaborative art of theatre. verylimitedproductions.com
is also a novelist and screenwriter. Plays include: The Roommate (Broadway: The Booth Theatre; Regionally: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Repertory Theatre, etc.); Highway Patrol (The Goodman); Spain (Second Stage Theater); Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Woolly Mammoth, MCC, Southwark Playhouse London); The Moors (Yale Repertory Theatre, The Playwrights Realm) and Witch (Writer’s Theatre, The Geffen, The Huntington). Books include: the debut novel We Play Ourselves, story collection The Island Dwellers and novel There’s Going to be Trouble from Random House. Silverman also wrote the bestselling narrative podcast The Miranda Obsession for Audible, starring Rachel Brosnahan. Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of New Dramatists and a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris. They write for TV and film, including Tales of the City (Netflix) and Tokyo Vice (Max). Their OSCAR-qualifying short film Troy screened at 70 festivals internationally, including the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and is featured online in The New Yorker’s Screening Room. Honors include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim. jensilverman.com
CREATIVE TEAM & PRODUCTION CREW
- Publicity/Marketing/Ads
- Thomas G. Byrne, Christine Crawfis, Stacy Greenspan, Joe Pettignano, David J. Ringwood
- Production and Publicity Photography
- Louisa Vilardi
- Postcards/Programs/Brochure
- Thomas G. Byrne, Christine Crawfis, Stacy Greenspan, Joe Pettignano, Louisa Vilardi
- Box Office
- Julie Eads Woolley, Laurie Brown, Jody Coleman, Dylan Parkin
Information in “Who’s Who” is provided by those listed. Any opinions expressed are of the players and not necessarily of County Players.
Just for Testing
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by Jen Silverman
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CAST (in alphabetical order)
has performed on the County Players stage in Incorruptible (Brother Olf), Seven Keys to Baldpate (Kennedy), Molly Sweeney (Frank), Prelude to a Kiss (Dr. Boyle), Almost, Maine (Lendall/Phil), The Drowsy Chaperone (Underling), Once on This Island (Armand), and H2$ (Gatch/Ovington). Other credits include: The Fantasticks (thrice!), Finnegan’s Farewell (twice!), Seussical the Musical, Pinkalicious the Musical, Frankenstein the Musical, Chess, Sweet Charity (twice!), Grey Gardens, The Pirates of Penzance, and Candide. He is an organist and leader of song at the Church of St. Mary here in Wappingers Falls, and was one of the first cantors certified by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Thomas serves on the board of directors of several nonprofits, including the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players. By day, he is a Senior Software Engineer with Dassault Systèmes Americas Corporation. He thanks Kit for yet another opportunity to learn from and work with her!
is thrilled to join the cast of Witch! Previous credits include: Becky’s New Car (Kenni) at the Ridgefield Theater Barn, Hello Dolly! (Dolly), Grease (Rizzo), and 42nd Street (Maggie) at North Salem High School; The Gazebo (Nell) and Little Shop of Horrors (Crystal) at Trinity Pawling School, and RENT (Joanne / SoL Soloist) at The Pulse. In the past few years, Samantha has spent free time singing in a band, attending the theater, hiking with her dad and dogs, buying her first home with her partner Matt, adopting two kittens, and volunteering with birds of prey at Green Chimneys. “Congratulations to the cast of Witch! So appreciative to be part of the County Players community, and to participate in many more productions to come! Thank you to my family and friends for always supporting my love of the arts.” County Players debut!
hails from the Finger Lakes region of New York, and he has lived all around the country. Since arriving in the Mid-Hudson Valley in September 2022, he has had the pleasure of performing in County Players productions of The Cake (Tim) and Photograph 51 (Raymond Gosling). Prior to returning to NY, Casey lived in Los Angeles where he was cast in numerous student films, a student TV pilot, and other exciting projects. He had moved to Los Angeles after completing rehearsals for On Golden Pond (Norman/Bill) in Tillamook, Oregon, but the production which was cancelled due to the pandemic. Historically, he completed a certificate in film at New York University, and numerous acting and screenwriting trainings. When not pursuing creative projects or fishing on his boat, Casey provides psychiatric nurse practitioner services at his private practice in Beacon.
is happy to return to the County Players stage. Their previous shows with County Players are Ragtime (Tateh), An Ideal Husband (Vicomte de Nanjac / Harold), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Hysterium), Native Gardens (Pablo), and Young Frankenstein (ensemble). Their other past performances include Peter and the Starcatcher (Mack / Fighting Prawn) and Avenue Q (Rod) with Up in One Productions, Shrek the Musical (ensemble / Farquaad swing) and Rent (Benny) with CENTERstage Productions, Safe (ensemble) with Rhinebeck Theatre Society, and Fiddler on the Roof (Motel) and Arsenic and Old Lace (Lt. Rooney) with New Deal Creative Arts. They’d like to thank their family and friends for all of their continued support.
is an actor/writer based in Kingston. Recent regional credits include Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett), and Private Lives (Amanda) at Winnipesaukee Playhouse, The Moors (Huldey) at Bridge Street Theatre, The Thanksgiving Play (Logan) at WAM Theatre, House of Blue Leaves (Bananas) and Emilie: La Marquise de Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight (Emilie) at Wellesley Rep, and Papermaker, The Ladies Man at Shadowland Stages. “Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.” – Alan Rickman
started volunteering at County Players in 2017 and has since been involved in several productions including 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 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 inaugural 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.