2011-2012 SEASON•Buried Child

Cast & Credits

The Cast:

* Dodge - Matt Orme
* Halie - Carol Tyree Williams
* Tilden - Andrew Pyle
* Bradley - Barrett Cooper
* Vince - Ty Leitner
* Shelly - Julane Havens
* Father Dewis - Dale Strange

The Creative Team:
Director - Steve Woodring
Producing Artistic Director - Juergen K. Tossmann
Artistic Associate - Matt Orme
Stage Manager -Gwen Bronson
Scenic Designer - Lily Bartenstein
Lighting Designer - Chuck Schmidt
Technical Director - Greg Karaba

Showtimes

NEW! THIS SEASON-OPENING NIGHTS ARE FRIDAY
Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983).

Buried Child

by Sam Shepard

June 8th-24th - Buried Child is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national fame as a playwright. Buried Child is a piece of theater which depicts the fragmentation of the American nuclear family in a context of disappointment and disillusionment with American mythology and the American dream, the 1970s rural economic slowdown and the breakdown of traditional family structures and values.