*A nail-bitingly tense classic thriller!*
**JUNE 23 - JULY 9**

By Frederick Knott
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed By Jackson Gay

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NOTE: At this time, all patrons, staff, and volunteers will be required to wear face masks in indoor common areas and during performances. Health & Safety Protocols.

ABOUT THE PLAY

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June 23 - July 9
WAIT UNTIL DARK - Regional Revival

By Frederick Knott
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed By Jackson Gay

A new adaptation of the Broadway play that inspired the 1967 Academy Award-nominated film starring Audrey Hepburn.

Inside the quaint 1944 Greenwich Village basement apartment of Susan and Sam Hendrix, murder, secret identities, and a switchblade set the stage for this white-knuckle thriller that will leave you sleeping with the lights on. While Susan’s husband is away on business, a woman is murdered and a mystery begins to unravel, leaving Susan tangled up with a ruthless con man. The climax builds, light becomes dark, and a battle of wits ensues, all leading to this classic thriller’s chilling conclusion.

“ the scariest stage denouement this reviewer has ever seen — rather, experienced. This was truly exciting — and rewarding — theater.”

— Jim Lowe, Rutland Herald

**PLAY NOTES:** Learn more about Wait Until Dark

The play *WAIT UNTIL DARK* premiered on Broadway in 1966 - click below to learn more about this iconic masterpiece.

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Wait Until Dark (Hatcher) is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.

Wait Until Dark is produced by Dorset Theatre Festival.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

FREDERICK KNOTT - PLAYWRIGHT: Frederick Major Paull Knott (28 August 1916 – 17 December 2002) was an English playwright and screenwriter known for his complex crime-related plots who completed a small number of plays in his career. Two have become well-known: the London-based stage thriller Dial M for Murder, later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock, and the 1966 play Wait Until Dark, which was adapted to a Hollywood film directed by Terence Young. He also wrote the Broadway mystery Write Me a Murder.

ADAPTED BY - JEFFREY HATCHER: BROADWAY: Never Gonna Dance (book). OFF-BROADWAY: Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club; Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw at Primary Stages; Lucky Duck (book w/Bill Russell) at the New Victory; Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom) at The Minetta Lane; Murder by Poe, The Turn of the Screw, and The Spy at The Acting Company; Neddy at American Place; and Fellow Travelers at Manhattan Punchline.

OTHER PLAYS/THEATERS: Complete Female Stage Beauty, Mrs. Mannerly, Murderers, Mercy of a Storm, Smash, Armadale, Korczak’s Children, To Fool the Eye, The Falls, A Piece of the Rope, Jeffrey Hatcher’s Hamlet, The Scarecrow and His Servant, All the Way with LBJ, The Government Inspector, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and others at The Guthrie, Old Globe, Yale Rep, The Geffen, Seattle Rep, the Huntington Theater, Shakespeare Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Arizona Theater Company, San Jose Rep, The Empty Space, Indiana Rep, Children’s Theater Company, History Theater, Madison Rep, Intiman, Illusion, Denver Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Actors Theater of Louisville, Philadelphia Theater Company, Asolo, City Theater, Studio Arena, and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad.

FILM/ TV: Stage Beauty, Casanova, The Duchess, Mr. Holmes, The Good Liar, and episodes of Columbo and The Mentalist.

GRANTS/AWARDS: NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Barrymore Award Best New Play, and 2013 Ivey Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a member and/or alumnus of the Playwrights’ Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild, and New Dramatists.

JACKSON GAY (Director) Upcoming: Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl (People’s Light); The Mousetrap (Hartford Stage). Recent: Karen Hartman’s Goldie, Max & Milk (Volt Festival 59e59); When Harry Met Rehab (Jeff Awards Recommended and the 2021 Chicago Reader’s Best New Play Award); Lucy Thurber’s Transfers for Audible, MCC, and New York Stage & Film; Lover Beloved with Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik (Alley Theater); God’s Ear and The Seagull (Juilliard); Kleptocracy by Kenneth Lin (Arena Stage); These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones with music by Billie Joe Armstrong (New Neighborhood, Atlantic, Geffen, Yale Rep – Critics Pick Time Out NY, Best Production and Adaptation LA Sage Awards, Time Out Los Angeles, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Best Production and Best Director). Jackson is a 2021 Guild Hall Artist-in-Residence and co-Producing Artistic Director of New Neighborhood https://www.newneighborhood.net.

MICHAEL BARRA (Carlino) is excited to make his Dorset Theatre Festival debut with this amazing team. Past credits include: A Bronx Tale The Musical (OBC & 1st national), Man Of La Mancha (National Tour), Pal Joey (workshop directed by Tony Goldwyn & Savion Glover), The Awesome 80s Prom (Off-Broadway), Hairspray (Ivoryton Playhouse), The Foreigner (Bristol Riverside Theater). Film/TV: The Greatest Showman, The Amazing Spider-Man, Gotham, Blue Bloods, City On A Hill, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Law & Order: SVU. Recently, Michael was thrilled to be an answer on his favorite TV show, Jeopardy! Thank you to my managers at CLA Partners and my always supportive family.

ACADIA COLAN (Gloria) is making her regional theatre debut at Dorset Theatre Festival. Past favorite roles include new musical workshops Diana & Navy & The Golden Tooth as young Alex (Phoebe Nir/Tomás Doncker), and Stare Into The Mirror as Lolita (Z Sauce Music), as well as Julie in End of the World, With Prom to Follow (Ballibay). Film/TV: Saul at Night (Amazon), Chapelwaite (EPIX), Moonshine (CBC), The Last Library. Acadia has also starred in more than a dozen short films. Thanks to her agents, parents and three siblings, and friends for their support, and to faculty at Dwight School for helping to make this dream possible!

KEITH D. GALLAGHER (Roat) Dorset Festival debut. Chicago: When Harry Met Rehab (WHMR Productions at Greenhouse Theatre); Mary Page Marlowe and Marie Antoinette (Steppenwolf); Graveyard Shift; Shining City (Goodman); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Beyond Caring (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Breach (Victory Gardens); The Gospel of Franklin; Man In Love (Steppenwolf First Look); Awake and Sing; Lieutenant of Inishmore (Northlight Theatre); Arcadia (Court Theatre); The Real Thing (Remy Bumppo); Tracks (TUTA). Regional: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (McCarter Theatre Center); Macbeth (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); A Raisin in the Sun (Geva Theatre Center); The Gospel According to James (Indiana Repertory); Lieutenant of Inishmore (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). TV: Chicago Med; Chicago P.D.; Chicago Fire; Empire. Film: Relative; Orders; Gray Talent Group.

ERIC GILDE (Sam) is an actor and writer based out of New York City. Regional credits include The Glass Menagerie (Weston Playhouse and Gulfshore Playhouse); Constellations, Clybourne Park, and The History Boys (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Our Town, Hamlet, and Romeo & Juliet (Pioneer Theatre Co.); Red Light Winter, Mary’s Wedding, and Last Train to Nibroc (The Kitchen); Lungs (Wharton Center); Red and The Tempest (Virginia Stage Company); The Crucible (Arkansas Rep.); The Miracle Worker (Syracuse Stage); and The Nether (Florida Studio Theatre). New York acting credits include The Nosemaker’s Apprentice (Terrible Baby), As You Like It (Happy Few), The Tempest (Porpentine), Edgewise (Cherry Lane Studio), and Wedding Pictures (EST), as well as readings and workshops at The Public, Primary Stages, The Lark, and Youngblood, among others. Film credits include Cryptid, Love & Communication, Old Enough, and Veral. He is co-host of the baseball movie podcast “Take Me In to the Ballgame,” and his plays Accidental Hostages, the goodbye room, and We’re Haunted are available on New Play Exchange. He holds a BA in English Literature and MFA in Acting from Yale University.

SARA HAIDER (Susan Hendrix) is a singer and actor from Karachi, Pakistan. Recent credits in the United States include Cressida in Troilus and Cressida (The Juilliard School) and Narrator in Letters from Detention (Center for Constitutional Rights). MFA in Acting from Juilliard (Class of 2023).

MANU KUMASI (Mike) Manu has fallen in love with Vermont and is thrilled to make his Dorset Theatre Festival debut. Selected previous work includes NYC: Soulagraphie (La MaMa, E.T.C.). REGIONAL: Twelfth Night (Yale Repertory Theatre), Lost in The Stars (Washington National Opera/The John F. Kennedy Center), Darius & Twig (The John F. Kennedy Center), Hamlet (Annapolis Shakespeare Company), Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theatre Company). TV/FILM: EVIL (Paramount+). MFA Yale School of Drama. Instagram: manu.kumasi

LORI ANN ZEPP (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Jay Johnson: The Two and Only. Selected Off-Broadway: Moscow x6; Collective Rage…; Transfers; and YEN (MCC); An Ordinary Muslim (New York Theatre Workshop); Somebody’s Daughter; The Layover; King Liz; The Other Thing; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; The Substance of Fire; Murder For Two; The Tutors; Modern Terrorism; Warrior Class; Lonely, I’m Not; All New People; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Bachelorette; Year Zero; Wildflower; Becky Shaw; Animals Out Of Paper; Next to Normal; Election Day; Some Men; Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage); Daphne’s Dive and The Mound Builders (Signature Theatre); I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic Stage 2); Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1, 2, 3 (Public Theatre Lab); A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons); Dog Sees God… (Century Center). Regional credits include Seder; The Piano Lesson; The Body of an American (Hartford Stage); Other Desert Cities (Alley Theatre); The Power of Duff and Becky Shaw (Huntington Theatre Company).

CHRISTOPHER & JUSTIN SWADER (Scenic Designers) are scenic designers for theatre and live events. DTF: Dig, Queen of the Night. Previous designs with Dallas Theater Center, Two River Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Miami New Drama, Tectonic Theater Project, New Victory Theatre, Resident Ensemble Players, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Lincoln Center Education, York Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Kitchen Theatre Company, Penguin Rep, Luna Stage, IBEX Puppetry, Trusty Sidekick, A$AP Rocky, Sotheby’s, Big Apple Circus, National Geographic. Lucille Lortel nomination, Henry Hewes nominations, AUDELCO, IRNE & Carbonell Awards. www.cjswaderdesign.com

FABIAN FIDEL AGUILAR (Costume Designer) Attended the Yale School of Drama for his MFA and Boston University (BFA) to pursue theatrical costume design. Credits include: Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Max Makes a Million, Winnie the Pooh (Alliance Theater), Slow Food, Queen of the Night (Dorset Theater Festival), Afterglow, Safeword (Midnight Theatricals), Recent Alien Abductions (Play Co.): Mlima’s Tale, In the Heights, Man of La Mancha, Romeo and Juliet (Westport Country Playhouse); ¡Bienvenidos Blancos! or Welcome White People! (Team Sunshine, Philadelphia), A View from the Bridge, Seven Spots on the Sun, The War Boys (NYC); Sotto Voce (Portland Stage); Midsummer, The Moors (Yale Repertory Theater world premiere); He Left Quietly (SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto). In his spare time he likes to paint watercolors.

PAUL WHITAKER (Lighting Designer) New York credits include work at The Public Theater, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company and others. Regional credits include The Guthrie, The Alley, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Denver Center, The Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, The Children’s Theatre Company, The Long Wharf Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Minnesota Opera, San Diego Opera, and others. Paul is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Paul is a Principal Lighting Designer/Theatre Consultant for Schuler Shook. www.schulershook.com www.paulwhitakerdesigns.com

Fitz Patton (Sound Designer) Broadway: The Rose Tattoo, Choir Boy (Tony; Drama Desk Awards), Bernhart/Hamlet, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Drama Desk Award), Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Blackbird, The Father, An Act of God, It’s Only a Play, Airline Highway, The Other Place, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina. Off-Broadway: Greater Clements, The Mother, Torch Song; Napoli, Brooklyn; Yen; Prodigal Son; The Other Place (Drama Desk nomination); and When the Rain Stops Falling (Drama Desk; Lortel Awards). He is the founding editor of Chance Magazine, a serialized art book on performance and design.

UNKLEDAVE’S FIGHT-HOUSE (Fight-Direction Team) is a 2-time Drama Desk Award-nominated team of fight/intimacy directors who create illusions of violence and intimacy for theater/film/tv. Dorset Theater Festival credits: Queen Of The Night; Laughing Wild; Whipping Man; Sherlock Holmes & The Case of the Jersey Lilly; Superior Donuts. Broadway: Girl From The North Country; Escape To Margaritaville; The Great Society; Tuck Everlasting; An American In Paris; Disgraced. Film: “Redemption’s Child”; “Poor Behavior; “Con Dios”; “Emoticon”. TV: “AnnieLive!”

JUDY BOWMAN, CSA (Casting Director) 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. www.judybowmancasting.com

BARBARA A. BELL (Associate Costume Designer) 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). 43 shows at Pearl Theatre Company which included Taste of Honey, Uncle Vanya, Figaro, Vieux Carre, Bald Soprano. Recipient of Princess Grace Award for her Pearl Theatre designs; Theresa Rebeck’s Way of the World, Outside Mullingar, Mousetrap, Dial M For Murder (Dorset Theatre Festival); 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) barbarabellcostumedesign.com

MOLLY MORGAN (Associate Costume Designer) Molly is originally from North Carolina and is thrilled to be returning for her third season in Dorset. She has worked both as a tailor and assistant costume designer on movies and TV series for Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, and HBO. She has worked in various costuming roles for theatre produced at Goodspeed Musicals, Victory Gardens, Western Carolina University, the University of South Carolina, and of course, Dorset Theatre Festival. She holds a MFA from USC. See her work on Instagram @mollya.morgan.