SALVAGE
A HEARTWARMING NEW COMEDY
JUNE 20 - JULY 5
By LENA KAMINSKY
Directed by M. BEVIN O’GARA
ABOUT THE PLAY
At her small town dump, Carla attempts to junk the overwhelming collection of mirrors from her childhood home. Instead, amid other people’s trash, she finds the treasure of two new friends she didn’t know she needed. Past lives and future plans intertwine – and sometimes collide – as together these neighbors sort through what to toss and what to take away. And maybe, discover the magic potion for moving on? A funny and heartwarming new play by Lena Kaminsky about what can happen when we allow ourselves to be seen.
“As a newcomer to a small town in upstate New York during the heart of the pandemic, I started writing SALVAGE following my first visits to the town transfer station. What started as dropping off my trash turned into something else. I found myself lingering, laughing, and getting to know my neighbors. In those exchanges, I rediscovered the power of connection that had been lost in those early days of isolation. I also found, to my surprise, that the dump was a beautiful place. I first went there thinking it would be, well…a dump, and I was all wrong. Instead I found a place where order and tidiness arose from chaos and mess. One of those times that life presents you with the thing you didn’t even know you needed. Dorset Theatre Festival is the perfect home for this story and I am so excited to share it with this community. Much like the rural town that inspired this play, I think the themes of community and connection will resonate with the audience here, and folks will leave feeling hopeful. See you at the dump!”
SCHEDULE
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FRIDAY, JUNE 20 - 7:30 PM (PREVIEW)
*SATURDAY, JUNE 21 - 7:30 PM (OPENING NIGHT)
SUNDAY, JUNE 22 - 2:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 - 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 - 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, JUNE 26 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 27 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 28 - 2:00 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 28 - 7:30 PM
SUNDAY JUNE 29 - 2:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 - 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 - 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, JULY 3 - 2:00 PM (Matinee Performance)
FRIDAY, JULY 4 - 2:00 PM (Matinee Performance)
SATURDAY, JULY 5 - 2:00 PM (Closing Performance)
MEET THE CAST
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Eva Kaminsky (Carla) is thrilled to be making her DTF debut, especially working with her sister Lena! Broadway: Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, The Lyons. Off-Bway: A Bright New Boise (Signature Theatre), The Lucky Star (Director’s Co) Rape of the Sabine Women…(Playwright’s Realm), Made in Poland (Play Company), The Language Archive (Roundabout), The Groundling (Axis). Selected Regional: Hartford Stage, Old Globe, Long Wharf, Baltimore Center Stage, Alley Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, CATF, Syracuse Stage, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Pasadena Playhouse, Cleveland Play House. Film: Song Sung Blue (upcoming), The Dark Tower, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and the short film Little Mouse written and directed by her sister. TV: Recurring and guest starring roles on “The Gilded Age”, “FBI: Most Wanted”, “Chicago Med”, “Madam Secretary”, “New Amsterdam”, “Manifest”, “Billions”, “The Sinner”, L&O:SVU” and many others. Eva is also an audiobook narrator, having recorded over 400 titles. Member of The Actor’s Center. Love to B, who keeps her from her own metaphorical mirrors.
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ROBBIE SUBLETT is an actor/writer/director who’s appeared on Broadway and Off: Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, Barrow Street Theatre. Regional: Williamstown, Chicago Shakes, NJ Shakes, Actors’ Theatre Louisville. He’s the co-writer/creator of You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents’ divorce which ran off-Broadway and at Williamstown. His award-winning web series “IF I’M ALIVE NEXT WEEK…” (starring Joyce Van Patten, Peter Friedman and Richard Kind) World Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021 before taking top honors at Nashville, SeriesFest, Catalyst and Stareable TV Fests. Select Film/TV: I Don’t Know How She Does It (dir. Doug McGrath); Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (dir. Lasse Hallström); Mystery Team; “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; “The Equalizer”; “FBI: MW”; “Chicago PD”; “The Blacklist”; “BULL”; “Taken”; HBO's “Codes of Conduct” (dir. Steve McQueen); “SVU”; “Blue Bloods”; “Golden Boy”; “Person of Interest”; recurring on “The Good Wife”. Associate Artist, The Civilians. BFA, NYU. For more visit: ifimalive.com
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NY Theater: “The Voices In Your Head” (2025 Drama Desk nominee for Unique Theater experience), “The Trees”, “Mary PageMarlowe”, “Small Mouth Sounds” (Drama League Award nomination) and other work at Second Stage, Ars Nova, NYSF, Playwright’s Horizons, as well as numerous productions with the Drama Desk Award winning company, The Barrow Group, of which she is a founding member.
Film: upcoming indies: “The Big Game”, “The Allegory”, “On the End”, “The Philosophy of Dress” as well as “Gazer”, “Sometimes I Think About Dying”,”Booger” ”Funny Pages”, ”That’s What She Said”, ”Bride Wars", "13 Going on 30", "L.I.E.", and “Angela’s Ashes” among others.
TV: recurring roles on “Heels”, “The Other Two”, “Time Traveler’s Wife” “Almost Family”,“OITNB,“Homeland” and “Lipstick Jungle” as well as roles on “Elsbeth” “The Blacklist”, “High Maintenance”, “Sneaky Pete”, “Divorce”, “The Big C” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. Marcia has a BA in Theater Arts from UCLA
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
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Lena is an actor, writer, and filmmaker. As an actor, she has worked in tv, film, and regional theaters around the country. Salvage received its first production at Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine (dir: Kathryn Markey). Short plays: Crime of Curiosity, The Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Patchwork Playfest (Audience Award), The Snowball Effect, Cherry Picking ’24 series. She has written and directed two short films Last Hope, currently screening at film festivals (premiered at Santa Barbara International Film Festival) and Little Mouse (premiered at Dances With Films NYC, Audience Award). Member of The Dramatists Guild and The Actors Center. She lives with her wife and their dog, Red Dog. A special thanks to the town of Stanford Transfer Station.
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M. Bevin O’Gara is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston Conservatory in Directing and Musical Theatre. She was the Producing Artistic Director at the Kitchen Theatre and spent most of her career at the Huntington Theatre Company in a variety of roles.
As a Director credits include: Huntington Theatre Company, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage, Company One, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Lyric Stage Company, Central Square Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, and others.
Bevin is the proud recipient of the Lois Roach Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Boston Theatre Community. She holds a BFA from Boston University. mbevinogara.com
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DTF: Dig, Queen of the Night, Wait Until Dark, Scarecrow, Thirst, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, True Art. Previous designs with: Goodspeed Musicals, Signature Theatre, Hartford Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Geva Theatre Center, Two River Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, People’s Light, George Street Playhouse, Everyman Theatre, Miami New Drama, Resident Ensemble Players at UD, Weston Theater, Primary Stages, Red Bull Theater, Fiasco Theater, Tectonic Theater Project, The New Victory Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Lincoln Center Education, York Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Penguin Rep, Shadowland Stages, IBEX Puppetry, Trusty Sidekick, A$AP Rocky, Sotheby’s, 2020 Summer Olympics, Big Apple Circus, National Geographic. www.cjswaderdesign.com
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M.L. Dogg has designed for such companies as UW School of Drama, Swim Pony, Seattle Rep, Feast, Intiman Theatre, Alley Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Primary Stages, Second Stage Theatre, Actors Theatre Of Louisville, MTC Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, New Group, Women’s Project, Signature Theatre, New York Stage And Film, Huntington Theatre, Playwright’s Realm, Page 73 Productions, Playwright’s Horizons, American Repertory Theatre, Waterwell Productions, Colt Coeur, MCC Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Royal National Theatre, Debate Society, Ars Nova, South Coast Repertory, Pearl Theatre, Public Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, 13P, Classic Stage Company, Shakespeare and Company, and Nicholas Ward Productions. Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!; Here Lies Love; Straight White Men; Oh, Hello On Broadway; The Pee-wee Herman Show. Lortel, fringeNYC awards; Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, IRNE, and IT nominee. Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.
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Joe Gery has worked extensively in theater with Caparelliotis Casting since 2014, as well as with Meredith Tucker Casting in film & television. His most recent theater credits include the Broadway productions of Good Night and Good Luck, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Sam Gold's Macbeth, and The Minutes, as well as off-broadway productions at Signature Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Vineyard, and Ars Nova. Television credits include all three seasons of The White Lotus (HBO), Godfather of Harlem (EPIX), Ray Donovan (Showtime), and the final season of The Bold Type (Freeform).
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Select credits include Macbeth in Stride, Wish You Were Here (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Carlotta Festival, Cleansed, Color Boy, WAKE (David Geffen School of Drama); The Day the Butcher Shop Closed and UDO (Yale Cabaret); Alabaster, Northwest 10, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Oregon Contemporary Theatre). Other theatrical credits include Co-Executive Artistic Director of Yale Summer Cabaret Season 50 Greenhouse, sound design for Arlington (Yale Cabaret Season 56 Sandbox), and The Betrayal Project (Yale Summer Cabaret: Development Studio 49). They hold a Bachelor of Science in Theatre Arts and Anthropology from the University of Oregon and upon completion of their thesis, will hold a Master of Fine Arts in stage management from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
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