This show runs a little under an hour and a half, no intermission.
This show was made possible by support from The Rockwell and donations from the community:
Rainbow Muses
Hollis Finley, Fiona Perry, Thom Cleland, Anonymous
Star Supporters
Meredith Bailey, Sarah Marina Diana Huang, Michael Baranofsky, Robert Thorpe II, Gregory Holden
Production Team
Producer: Matisse DuPont
Lighting and Sound Designer: Lilienne Rapoza
Stage Manager: Correy Denihan
Slay Manager (Costumes and Props): Eden Leach
Emcee: JB - Joanne Baranofsky
Short Scenes
Writers: Caitlin Donnelly, Erica
Director: Caitlin Donnelly
Actors: Nathaniel James, Raminta Holden, Eric Roberts
One-Act A
Writers: Han Taub, Adrien Callahan
Director: Theo Linger
Actors: Trae Wier, Dani McPeak, Serena Wong
One-Act B
Writers: Marlee Schulman, Maegan Clearwood
Director: Carson Morrissey
Actors: Maya V.O.C., Julia Morales, Austen Halpern-Graser
One Act C
Writers: Dash, Rachael Beaumont
Director: Layne Alexandra
Actors: Finn Kilgore, Sarah Nathanson, Aurora La Veglia, Maggie Cee
Meet the Company of the 48-Hour One-Act Festival
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Aurora La Veglia
(she/they)
Aurora is a former theatre kid and current lesbian who is rediscovering her love of the art form, but in a gayer way than she could have ever imagined!
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Austen Halpern-Graser
(he/him)
Austen just moved to Boston from NYC, he won the audience choice award at the New York Fringe Festival once and he has a cat named Big Lincoln who is regular sized.
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Caitlin Donnelly
Caitlin is the ring of dried milk on the bottom of the spoon left in your cereal bowl after a week. They have been acting and directing with QA&P since 2021. Please clap.
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Carson Morrissey
(they/he)
Carson is a presence we found in the basement that has taken physical form, making their third appearance as a director and second as that guy in the corner during a QA&P show.
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Correy Denihan
(he/him)
Correy is a goofy, plant-obsessed potter & techie who’s stoked to be back with QA&P and stage managing this big ol’ monster of a production.
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Dani McPeak
(she/they)
Local cat mom and harm reduction enthusiast, Dani is psyched to be in another QA&P production!
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Dash
(they/he)
Dash lives for the whimsical, the silly, the outrageous. Often swoons over an IPA, a juicy read, or a vibrant painting!
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Eden Leach
(they/them)
Eden is an autistic creator desperately seeking out Massachusetts-based tattoo artists because they got their first tattoo recently, which is great, but now they’re HOOKED, which is maybe a little less great.
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Eric Roberts
(they/them)
Eric is a passionate nerd who loves collaborative expression and has a cat that makes better art than they do. Their first role was Smaug, the dragon, in a stage production of The Hobbit, and they have been chasing that high ever since.
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Erica
(they/them)
Erica is a recovering English Lit scholar who is happiest when riding their bike, loves going to plays, and revels in joyously creating theater magic with QA&P, which they first joined last summer for the annual ShakesQueer production!
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Finn Kilgore
(he/they)
Finn Kilgore is a 17 year old actor and playwright who loves dying onstage, his favorite backstage credit is being a human sandbag for the Play That Goes Wrong, and their favorite acting credits include a barricade boy in Les Mis, and Doug.
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Han Taub
(they/them)
Han is a an artist, director, dancer, electrician, set painter, teacher, and dyke about town; you can catch them, cryptid-like, in the Trader Joe's snack aisle or lurking on the catwalk of any number of Boston area theaters.
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JB - Joanne Baranofsky
(she/her)
JB was once an all-powerful siren luring sailors from the Aegean Sea. Now she takes the ferry to her job in the financial district.
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Julia Morales
(she/they)
Julia is cave-dwelling, mafia informant from New Jersey who spends all her time rock climbing to escape the FBI, running to escape the FBI, and doing pottery.
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Layne Alexandra
(they/she)
Layne, a reformed horse girl, spends almost all of their time doing theater things. Otherwise, they are aloof like a cryptid, hiding in dark places and trying not to be perceived. Please approach cautiously and with a little treat.
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Lilienne Rapoza
Fulfilling the prophecy destined for them when they first started community theatre a century ago, Lilienne is ecstatic to LD for this project and make wildly crazy tech decisions with such this amazing and ambitious cast.
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Maegan Clearwood
(they/she)
Maegan is an educator, writer, theatre critic, martial artist, tarot reader, crafter, and most of all a practitioner of queer-utopian-joy-filled theatre as rehearsal for the revolution.
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Maggie Cee
(she/her)
Maggie Cee is a queer fem(me) ballet teacher who can be seen dancing and talking about her feelings in her solo show “Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar, 1938-1969.” This is the first time she’s been in a play since Beauty and the Beast in 8th grade.
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Marlee Schulman
(they/them)
Marlee is a nonprofit admin turned pet care professional whose true passion is doomscrolling on Instagram.
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Matisse DuPont
(they/any)
Matisse is a D&D-loving, ink-slinging artist who spends too much time online but is actively learning to touch grass with the help of antihistamines; this bio sponsored by Zyrtec.
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Maya V.O.C.
(she/her)
Maya is sleep-acting right now- PLEASE don’t wake her.
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Nathaniel James
(he/him)
Nathaniel James is a mesh-wearing Ken doll whose jobs are beach, dance, and good boy.™️
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Rachael Beaumont
(she/they)
Rachael is a chronic in-door kid and full-time college admin who gets their adventures through playing ttrpgs, theater, and digging through vintage markets; and while they cannot tell you the exact rules of many sports they do love the Green Bay Packers if only because the cheese curds and fun chants.
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Raminta Holden
(she/her)
Raminta is a life-long theatre kid who teaches preschoolers by day and sometimes performs as a drag king by night.
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Sarah Nathanson
(she/her)
Sarah is an actor, yogi, and Olympic-level worrier who copes with life’s chaos through pasta, cats, some light kvetching, and a dangerously dependent relationship with chocolate—she is always within six feet of either a carbohydrate or an existential crisis.
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Serena Wong
(she/her)
Serena eats cereal with water, and has just graduated high school - where her greatest achievement was becoming cool and discovering free will.
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Theo Linger
(he/they)
Theo is a weird little hermit, except for when he comes out of his cave to pretend to be extroverted for public history or theatre reasons.
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Trae Wier
they/them
After a brief hiatus to explore the art of paying bills on time, Trae is returning to the stage, the screen, and the craft services snack tent. Exposure is for now but string cheese is forever.