Welcome to
The Thanksgiving Play

Written by Larissa FastHorse

Directed by Gabby Bailey

​Stage Manager: Mikhale Sherrill

Lighting Design: Rachel Cort
Costuming: McKinney Gough
Sound Design: Jeff Catanese
Set Design/Build: Mikhale Sherrill & Jeff Catanese 

For Attic Salt Theatre Company:
Marci Bernstein - Executive Director
​Jeff Catanese - Artistic Director
Cast:
ALICIA .................... ...................... Emily Greene
​LOGAN .............................. Christy Montesdeoca
CADEN ..............................................Alan Steele
JAXTON ...................................... John Stockdale

Place: A High School Drama Classroom, somewhere in America
Time: All too now

The play is approximately 95 minutes long and presented without intermission.


​Special Thanks to

​Lizzy Maze
​Asheville Catholic School
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Cast and Crew:

Emily Greene (Alicia) 
Emily is thrilled to be making her debut at Attic Salt in The Thanksgiving Play. After stepping away from the stage for over a decade, this production was the perfect project to bring her back! Recent credits include the audio drama Under the Sycamore Tree.

Christy Montesdeoca (Logan) 
Christy is an actor around WNC, previously been seen in such productions as Boom, Dinner With Friends, and Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, at Attic Salt, as well as Sweeney Todd and Avenue Q at ACT. Fluent in Spanish, she is also a Certified Healthcare Interpreter in WNC, often found working in clinics, doctor's offices, schools and more. Her most important role is Mama/Transportation to her kiddos! Happy to be back on stage, she was last seen in SART's production of Noises Off. 

Alan Steele (Caden) 
Alan is "thankful" to be working with old friends and making new ones in The Thanksgiving Play. This summer he made his Asheville debut with the Monford Park Players, playing John Heminge in The Book of Will and Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. He is a graduate of The National Shakespeare Conservatory of Acting in NYC. 

John Stockdale (Jaxton) 
Jon is very happy to be making his first appearance with Attic Salt Theater Company in such a serious, trenchant exploration of personal politics and identity. Recent credits include King Lear (Edmund), Noises Off (Lloyd Dallas), The Book of Will (Henry Condell), Stupid F*cking Bird (Trigorin), and Romeo and Juliet (Romeo). He is a core ensemble member with Nemesis Theatre Company.

Gabby Bailey (Director) 
Gabby is a WNC based director, fight choreographer, performer, and member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. With recent Assistant Director credits on Into the Woods, and She Kills Monsters, this production marks her directorial debut. She can be found on stage and off at many Asheville theaters throughout the coming year.

Mikhale Sherrill (Stage Manager)
is excited. 

Rachel Cort (Lighting Designer)
is also excited. 

McKinney Gough (Costumer)
McKinney does costumes primarily at Attic Salt and Parkway Playhouse. She spends her daytime hours as a general contractor for Turnwright Construction, where she specializes in complex renovation and preservation work. Thank you for supporting live theater!!!

Larissa FastHorse (Playwright)
Larissa FastHorse is a Native American (Sicangu Lakota) playwright and choreographer based in Santa Monica, California. In 2023, she became the first known female Native American playwright produced on Broadway with The Thanksgiving Play at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater. That same year, she joined Arizona State University as a professor of practice in the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Department of English with long-time collaborators, Michael John Garcés and Ty Defoe. In 2024, Peter Pan: The Broadway Musical with an adapted book by FastHorse began an international tour.

FastHorse grew up in South Dakota, where she began her career as a ballet dancer and choreographer, but was forced into retirement after ten years of dancing due to an injury. Returning to an early interest in writing, she became involved in Native American drama, especially the Native American film community. Later she began writing and directing her own plays, several of which are published through Samuel French (a Concord Theatricals Company) and Dramatic Publishing. With playwright and performer Ty Defoe, FastHorse co-founded Indigenous Direction, a "consulting firm that helps organizations and individuals who want to create accurate work by, for, and with Indigenous peoples." Indigenous Direction's clients include Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Guthrie Theater. FastHorse is a past vice chair of the Theatre Communications Group, a service organization for professional non-profit American theatre, and current vice chair of the board of directors for Playwrights Horizons. (Bio from Wikipedia)

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