A witty, realistic, and revealing World Premiere comedy about how people change... or don't.

JULY 21 - AUGUST 5

By LIA ROMEO
Directed by
ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT


ABOUT THE PLAY

Thirty years ago, Helen and Mark broke up, but they never completely forgot about each other. When they meet for dinner to catch up, the flame is rekindled... but Mark is running for Congress, and Helen has a secret that could derail his bid. Lost love is revisited and an avocado goes flying in Lia Romeo's whirlwind world premiere comedy about getting older, political divisions, and roads not taken.

A story for anyone who's ever wondered: "what if?"

STILL has a run time of 70 minutes with no intermission

Such a discovery is Lia Romeo.
— TheatreMania

ADVISORY: This production includes adult language and mature themes.

Still is produced by Dorset Theatre Festival.

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STILL was developed at the Road Theatre Company and at SOMA Stage in collaboration with the South Orange Performing Arts Center.

MEET THE CAST

 
  • Jayne Atkinson has enjoyed a long and varied career as an actress, director, and producer. A graduate of Northwestern University and Yale Drama School, she has appeared in regional theatre, off-Broadway, and Broadway.

    Jayne made her Broadway debut in a revival production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Other Broadway credits include The Rainmaker (Tony nomination), Our Town with Paul Newman, Enchanted April (Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination; Outer Critics Circle Award) and Blithe Spirit with the wonderful Angela Lansbury . She has also appeared off-Broadway in a number of productions, including The Art of Success (Drama Desk nomination) and The Skriker (Drama Desk nomination).

    Jayne’s feature film credits include Free Willy 1&2, The Village, Syriana and most recently Baby Ruby. On television she has recurred on the mega hit series 24, Criminal Minds, and House of Cards. In 2019 Jayne was a Series Regular on the NBC series Bluff City Law and has since recurred on the CBS drama Clarice. In 2023 she will be seen in the Hulu Limited Series Career Opportunities in Murder & Mayhem opposite Mandy Patinkin.

    Directing and producing credits include benefit productions of Motherhood Out Loud and Can You Hear Me, Baby?, for WAM Theatre and the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers. She also runs Jadana Productions, which specializes in entertainment development. Her other areas of expertise include coaching and teaching. In her spare time, she promotes women’s causes, travels, participates in fundraisers. She is married to actor Michel Gill and mother to actor Jeremy Gill.

  • Tim Daly is an Emmy-nominated actor, director, producer and philanthropist, beloved by Dorset Theatre Festival audiences for his critically acclaimed performances as Mark Rothko in Red by John Logan, Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck and in The Scene also by Theresa Rebeck. Theatre: The Exonerated; Six Degrees of Separation; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; Henry Flamethrowa; Coastal Disturbances; Oliver, Oliver; Buried Child, The Ruins of Civilization. On the big screen, Tim stars in Brian Helgeland’s upcoming film Finestkind which will premiere in September. Most recently he has appeared in Amy Shumer’s Life and Beth on Max and alongside Kerry Washington in Onyx’s Unprisoned. Tim is well know for playing the role of Henry McCord in the hit CBS series Madam Secretary as well as for his past roles as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings, as Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series, and as the drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Behind the camera, Tim produced the documentary film Poliwood. He also produced and starred in Edge of America, which earned the Humanitas Prize, Peabody Award, Writers Guild Award and Directors Guild Award. Tim is also the longtime president of The Creative Coalition, which is a non-profit, non-partisan, social and political advocacy organization in which members of the entertainment community promote issues of public importance, specifically in the areas of First Amendment rights, arts advocacy and public education.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM

  • Lia Romeo is a playwriting fellow at Juilliard. Her plays have been developed at the O’Neill, La Jolla Playhouse, the Lark, and elsewhere, and have been produced off-Broadway at 59E59 as well as regionally around the country. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays are published by TRW, Broadway Licensing, and others. She is the associate artistic director with Project Y Theatre Company, and she teaches playwriting at Primary Stages/ESPA and in the M.A. program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

  • Adrienne Campbell-Holt is a NYC-based director and choreographer and the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Recent world premieres: Dodi & Diana by Kareem Fahmy (Colt Coeur at HERE), Afterwords, by Emily Kaczmarek, music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak (5th Avenue Theater, Heileman & Haver Award for Best New Musical), NY premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector (Colt Coeur), Other World, by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann McNamee, choreography by Karla Puno Garcia (Delaware Theatre Company, BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Musical), We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater, Pittsburgh), Hatef**k, by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), Joan by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck starring Tyne and Tim Daly (Dorset Theatre Festival & Primary Stages). Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award, "25 Women to Watch on Broadway" (2022). AdrienneCampbellHolt.com.

  • Alexander Woodward is a New York based multi-hyphenate, designer, organizer, and artist focused in scenic and costume design for live performance in theatre, opera, and dance with credits all over, including the world and Broadway premier of The Sound Inside and the world premiere of the ballet Their Eyes Were Watching God. Born and raised in Vermont, they are thrilled to be returning to DTF! Previous credits for Dorset include Mrs. Christie, Pride and Prejudice, Baskerville, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. ! In addition to their design work, Alexander is a co-founder of "In The Wings a Design/Tech Showcase" for young artists at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and serves as the Area Head of the BFA & MFA Design/Tech program at the University of Connecticut.

    As a designer and educator, Alexander is an avid proponent for advancing arts advocacy, exploring all aspects of our medium as a form for social change & a tool to shape the environment around us. In recent years Alexander has served on the executive board for Wingspace, a non profit organization that promotes conversation on design, our community, and furthers activism within the industry. MFA Yale School of Drama, proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Instagram @alexanderwoodwarddesign and at alexanderwoodward.com.

  • Barbara is pleased to be back at DTF where she designed such shows as Theresa Rebeck’s Way of the World, Outside Mullingar, Mousetrap, Dial M For Murder. Other designs include Morning’s At Seven, The Show-Off (Peccadillo Theatre), Crumbs From the Table of Joy (Juilliard School), It’s a Wonderful Life, Child's Christmas in Wales (Irish Repertory), A Thousand Pines (Westport Country Playhouse), The Saintliness of Margery Kempe (Duke Theatre), Doctor’s Dilemma (Peterborough Players), Disgraced, Venus Rising (Northern Stage), Widowers' Houses (TACT Theatre/Gingold Theatrical), Heartbreak House (Gingold Theatrical), Soldier (HERE Theatre), Trip to Bountiful, The Seafarer, Driving Miss Daisy (Capital Repertory), Clybourne Park (Barrington Stage), Tenderly, To Kill A Mockingbird, Raisin in the Sun (Weston Playhouse). Designed 43 shows at Pearl Theatre Company (NYC) which included Taste of Honey, Uncle Vanya, Figaro, Vieux Carre, Bald Soprano. Recipient of Princess Grace Award for her Pearl Theatre designs. www.barbarabellcostumedesign.com

  • Reza Behjat is an Obie Award winner lighting designer based in New York City. His works have been shown on Off-Broadway and in regional theaters across the United States such as MCC Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater, Minetta Lane, Lucille Lortel, The Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, and many more. Reza won an Obie Award in the design category for his work on two productions of ENGLISH and WISH YOU WERE HERE in 2023. In addition, alongside the cast and the creative team of ENGLISH, he received a Special Citation from the Obie Award. Also, in 2019, he received the prestigious award of The Knight of Illumination Award for NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN.

  • Hidenori is a New York-based sound designer, mixer and engineer. Design: mɔːnɪŋ [morning// mourning] by Gelsey Bell (Prototype Festival, NYC), A Gift of Love with Adam McKnight (Alliance Theatre), Dodi & Diana (Colt Coeur), OCTET by Dave Malloy (Berkeley Rep), Other World (Delaware Theater Company), Hold These Truths (People’s Light), Autumn Royal (Irish Rep, Drama Desk nom., and Henry Hewes Design Awards nom.), Moby Dick (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award), Guys & Dolls (Guthrie Theatre), OCTET (Signature NYC, Obie Award Special Citation, Drama Desk nom., Lucile Lortel nom., Henry Hewes Design Awards nom). Associate design: Camelot! (Broadway), The Kite Runner (Broadway), The Front Page (Broadway), Darlin’ Corey (Alliance Theatre), Benny & Joon (Old Globe). Broadway assistant design: The Lightning Thief, Be More Chill, Allegiance, and Gigi. He served as a translator/coordinator for the productions of Japanese theatre companies: One Green Bottle by Noda Map (La MaMa) and several others for Lincoln Center Festival 2015-17.

  • Rebecca C. Monroe has done a show before.

  • has been casting with Dorset Theatre Festival since 2009. RECENT THEATER: Kerrigan/Lowdermilk/Lauren Gunderson’s Justice (Arizona Theatre Co.); Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong (Woolly Mammoth tour); Lloyd Suh’s Bina’s Six Apples (CTC/Alliance); Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick (Woolly Mammoth/Huntington/Pasadena); Antigone, Light It Up, and The Three Musketeers (Cleveland Play House); and A Christmas Carol (McCarter). TV/FILM: Hallmark’s Redemption in Cherry Springs, Big Dogs season 1(Amazon), One Moment with Danny Aiello, Separation, Hurricane Bianca, Lost Cat Corona, Gold Star. Artios Award nominee for Best Webseries Casting, PT Barnum Award recipient. Former faculty with Columbia University’s MFA film program, Harlem School of the Arts, & NYU/Strasberg. https://www.judybowmancasting.com

Also from director Adrienne Campbell-Holt at Dorset Theatre Festival:

Downstairs


2017

“Directed with striking clarity and command by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, “Downstairs” is a well-constructed play of whipsaw moods”

— THE NEW YORK TIMES

RED

2014

“Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt smoothly raises and releases tension in her blocking choices and establishes the foundation for a tight, two-person performance..."

~ SEVEN DAYS

SCHEDULE

WEEK ONE: 

FRIDAY, JULY 21 - 7:30 PM (PREVIEW) 

*SATURDAY, JULY 22 - 7:30 PM (OPENING NIGHT) 

SUNDAY, JULY 23 - 2:00 PM 

WEEK TWO

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26 - 2:00 PM 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26 - 7:30 PM 

THURSDAY, JULY 27 - 7:30 PM

FRIDAY, JULY 28 - 7:30 PM 

SATURDAY, JULY 29 - 2:00 PM

SATURDAY, JULY 29 - 7:30 PM 

SUNDAY JULY 30 - 2:00 PM


WEEK THREE: 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 - 2:00 PM 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 - 7:30 PM 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 - 7:30 PM 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 - 7:30 PM 

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 - 2:00 PM 

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 - 7:30 PM (Closing Night)


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