CAST

Preston Campbell
Andrew Carlile
John Jimerson
Carl Martin
Dan Oliver
Jim Roof
Laurel Ullman

TEAM

Director: Steven Roten

Production Stage Manager: Juliana Frasca

Sound Designer: Juan Isler

Costume Designer: Beth Gargan

Technical Director: Barry Jaked

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About the Playwright

N. Richard Nash was born Nathan Richard Nusbaum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 8th, 1913. He was the youngest and only male amongst six children. His father would often take him to political meetings while his mother managed the family grocery store through the Great Depression. He dedicates his success to the protection and care throughout his childhood from his older sister Mae, who inspired the character Lizzie in The Rainmaker.

Nash attended the University of Pennsylvania and later taught drama there, as well as Bryn Mawr and Haverford College. He worked on screenplays and Broadway plays, continuing to write plays until he died in 2000. He took the pseudonym, John Roc during the 70s as American theatre changed. Some of his other well-known works are A Handful of Fire, The Vicious Years, and Cry Macho. 

Themes

• Family
• Gender roles
• Economic struggle