Season finale: A Wrinkle in Time

Although it is hard for us on staff to realize that we are already less than a month away from our closing production of 2016-2017, designer/director Jeff Salisbury has been hard at work planning this area premiere for nine months now, and we are all getting more and more excited about bringing a new adaptation of this significant novel to our afO stage.

The first thing many will be wondering is, “Who is in the cast?”  That is easily answered:  12 actors and actresses, SIX of whom are new to the afO Home Stage, who portray over two dozen characters.

CAST LIST

Meg Murry:   Alanna Gough*

Charles Wallace Murry:  Elias Kroeker*

Calvin O’Keefe:   Reed Maibach*

Mrs. Whatsit:  Katherine Nash*

Mrs. Who:  Christine Newman-Aumiller

Mrs. Which:  Rachel Maibach

The Man with Red Eyes:  Dennis Nichols

Mrs. Murry: Brittany Scantlin* (also Camazotz citizen 2, Aunt Beast’s Voice)

Mr. Murry:  Colin Aumiller (also Goul)

Kristin Wilder as The Happy Medium, Principal Jenkins, Camazotz citizen 3

Ben Wilder as Henderson, U.V. Double, Son, Beast

Katie Detweiler* as Teacher, Skeleton, U.V. Double, Camazotz 1

Sarah Hobson as Post Mistress, U.V. Double, Daughter, Beast

* indicates first appearance on afO stage

PRODUCTION TEAM

Jeff Salisbury                                 Director/Production Designer/Lighting Design

Catherine Bougher                      Stage Manager

Deanna DeTurk                            Costumer

J. Scott Kump                                 Sound Design and Original Music

Christine Newman-Aumiller    Prop Design and Construction

Larry Nolan                                   Set Construction

Emily Contrares                           Video Animator

In our next post, we’ll give a short synopsis of the play, and its background as an awarding-winning children’s novel.