Welcome to

Venus in Fur
by David Ives

Directed by Jeff Catanese

​Stage Manager: Mikhale Sherrill

Lighting Design: Rachel Cort
Costuming: McKinney Gough
​Intimacy/Fight Coordinator: Gabby Bailey
Sound Design: Roger Bindy
Set Design/Build: Falluja Rain

For Attic Salt Theatre Company:
Marci Bernstein - Executive Director
​Jeff Catanese - Artistic Director
Cast:
​VANDA ...................................... Kate McGunagle
THOMAS .................... Alex McDonald Villarreal

Place: A Rented Audition Studio in Manhattan
Time: Present

The play is approximately 1 hour and 55 minutes long and is presented without intermission.


​Special Thanks to

​Asheville Community Theatre
Asheville Theater Alliance
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Cast and Crew:

Kate McGunagle (Vanda) 
Kate is thrilled to be making their Attic Salt debut (and their dad proud) with Venus in Fur. Past credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page), She Kills Monsters (Kaliope), and The Glass Menagerie (Amanda). All her love to her people in the audience tonight.

Alex McDonald Villarreal (Thomas) 
Alex hails from Texas, but has been on WNC stages for over a decade. He's been seen recently in his one-man show, ETHNICALLY AMBIGUOUS, which will return to Asheville in August 2026. He received a BFA in Acting from Texas State University, where he studied abroad with The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.

Mikhale Sherrill (Stage Manager)
is 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!!!

Rachel Cort (Lighting Designer)
is excited.

Gabby Bailey (Intimacy/Fight Coordinator)
Gabby can kick your ass.
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​Jeff Catanese (Director) 
Jeff is a writer, director, actor, and teacher who lives in Asheville. He is the Artistic Director of Attic Salt Theatre Company and co-author of three drama education books for Scholastic, Inc. Recently, Jeff has directed Noises Off at Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater, Doubt at Mars Hill University, and Miss Julie here at Attic Salt Theatre Company. 

David Ives (Playwright)
Ives is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is perhaps best known for his comic one-act plays. In 1997, The New York Times called him the "maestro of the short form". Ives has also written dramatic plays, narrative stories, and screenplays, has adapted French 17th and 18th-century classical comedies, and adapted 33 musicals for New York City's Encores! series. 

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