The Beauty Queen of Leenane

CAST 

 Artistic/Production Team 

SETTING  

Leenane, a small town in Connemara, County Galway. 

THERE WILL BE ONE 15 MIN INTERMISSION 

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Service.

Company Biographies

 GRACE FAY BROOKS (Maurenn Folan) is a 21-year-old senior with double majors in Psychology and Theatre Arts (Option in Acting), and minors in Dance and Standardized Patient Training. She has been seen in past PSU Productions of Dracula’s Decadent Dinner Party (Sherlock Holmes),  Sweet Charity (Baseball Player & Angry Elevator Woman), and Much Ado About Nothing (Sister Francis & Messenger). She is excited to tackle her first show using a dialect and would like to thank her family and friends for always supporting her growth and coming to one of her last performances at PSU!

MADALYN PERSONS-CUTTING (Assistant Stage Manager) is a first-year Theatre Design/Technology major with a focus in Stage Management! She has had the greatest time working as the Assistant Stage Manager on her first college production with this absolutely joyous bunch! Previous Stage Management credits include: Guys and Dolls, Seussical The Musical, The Laramie Project, The Crucible, and Nora’s Lost. She wishes broken eggs to all cast and crew, enjoy the show!

ELIZABETH DAILY, (Mag Folan) is a Professor of acting, voice/speech and American Sign Language at Plymouth State University. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro; she is also a teacher of the Alexander Technique, completing her training at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee in 2018. Professional acting credits include roles at The Barnstormers, Winnipesaukee Playhouse, North Country Center for the Arts, New Hampshire Theatre Project, Advice to the Players, Stage One Productions, Canterbury Shaker Village, the Belknap Mill Society and Little Church Theater. Her most recent role was in Deathtrap (Helga ten Dorp). Other professional work includes directing, voice-over, voice/speech coaching and individual or group Alexander Technique lessons. She has directed and enjoys devised physical theatre productions, musicals and straight plays. Recent most directing credits include: Quilters, Mary Poppins, Shadows, Merrily We Roll Along, The Birthday Party, Dottie, Dracula and Love, Loss and What I Wore. Thanks to all the fabulous cast and production crew for a fun collaboration!

SCOTT FOISY (Ray Dooley) is a senior Theatre Arts major with an option in Acting. Some of his recent credits include Our Town (Joe Stoddard), Game Night (Jesse)  Much Ado About Nothing (Borachio), Danny Zuko (Grease). He also works with the University System of New Hampshire as a simulated patient. He is also the Business Director of Plymouth State’s all male A Cappella group, Vocal Order. He would like to thank his friends and family for supporting his career and passion.

ANNA SKALA (Stage Manager) hesitantly calls herself a first year transfer here at PSU, originally from the corn fields of Illinois and one year wiser from UConn. She is a shepherd’s pie of musical and technical theatre and thinks the whole ordeal is extremely neat. This is her first “oh-fish-al” stage managing experience and is grateful for the opportunity. She assumes you’ve probably never seen her in a production, so she won’t list them for you to skim over. She offers blessings to her family, friends and associates near and far.

MARGIE SALAVATORE (Scenic Design)- graduated Plymouth State University in 2015 with a concentration in Theatrical Design and a minor in Art History. From there, she’s managed to keep herself firmly in the arts in some way or another. In 2018 she spent the year making roots in Wellington, New Zealand completing a Graduate program in Spatial design, at Massey University. While concentrating in both performance and exhibition design, she also was heavily involved as an art department hand doing stop motion, puppet making, and puppeteering. Currently, she works as a gallery/framing assistant, along with being a freelance artist. She’d like to thank her friends, family, and especially Catherine, Matt, Bob, and Paul for their superbness throughout this production and inviting her to create and collaborate back at Plymouth State University.

JEROME J. TORRES (Pato Dooley) is a senior Music Theatre major and is thrilled to be performing as Pato Dooley in The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Past PSU credits include Bert in Mary Poppins, Vittorio Vidal in Sweet Charity, and various ensemble roles in Merrily We Roll Along, Our Town, Oedipus The King, and The Trial. Over the summer, Jerome performed in West Side Story and Evita at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre. He is very thankful to those who have made his education and performing possible! 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

An Enemy of the People 

February 26 – 29, 2020 

The battleground is set in Henrik Ibsen’s modern classic An Enemy of the People. This late-nineteenth century drama, which is peppered with comic exaggeration, features a clash between science and politics, public health and environmental issues and town economics, and facts and alternative facts. As the play opens, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer for the Municipal Baths, has discovered that the town’s natural spas, which are a major attraction, are infected with bacteria and dangerous to the wellbeing of any potential user. He intends to announce his findings in the town newspaper. Peter Stockmann, the town mayor and Thomas’ supervisor, as well as his brother, does not want the public alarmed by this information. In this manner, the battle between brother and brother is set. Tensions rise throughout the play and eventually grow into a full riot as Dr. Stockmann is declared to be “an enemy of the people.” Has science, the public welfare, and truth been abandoned or will Dr. Stockmann ultimately win his fight? An Enemy of the People is directed by Timothy L’Ecuyer.  

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

March 26 – April 4, 2020 

This exceptionally funny, fast-paced musical, which won the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, provides audiences with embarrassing gaffes, hilarious mishaps, and escalating laughs. In The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee a half-dozen tweens compete for the ultimate title of “Putnam County Spelling Bee Champion.” As each competitor journeys towards victory or defeat, they openly share their life experiences, hopes, dreams, ambitions, and insecurities. As we get to know each speller, the musical twists and turns from being hysterically funny to beautifully touching. With a brilliantly crafted book by Rachel Sheinkin and an engaging and dynamic score by William Finn, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is the perfect show for audiences of all ages. By the way, audience members have a shot at the title too! The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is directed by Fran Page with choreography by Lisa Travis and music directed by Cassandra Cutting.

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