Production Program
Written by Kate Douglas
Directed by Chad Brinkman
From The Producing Artistic Director
Every year, as I put together this message, I look back at what I wrote the previous year. Most years my comments are all about our season and what we’ve built for the year ahead and while that’s still true, the world in which we’re living has changed. Our world is darker and more dangerous now. We’re standing on a precipice at this moment in American history and only the future will tell us how we, as a country and a people, will choose to respond.
As I look at the plays we’ve selected for our 2025-26 season, they all reflect this world in some way. Every play in our season is, again, a premiere for the Greater Cincinnati area with several of these titles coming from across the Atlantic. Yet despite some plays being written in different countries, they all speak loudly and clearly about the challenges and dangers we face in America right now.
The topics are wide ranging…from gun violence to ecological issues…from historical perspectives to future times we can only imagine…but each one in its own way addresses something urgent and important that’s facing us right now.
However this is not a season of doom…far from it! It’s an exciting, energized season of plays that explore powerful topics in fascinating, often funny or even absurdist ways. Theatre has never been more important than it is right now and each play we’ve selected for this season contains a message of past, present and future that speaks to current events while at the same time transcending them.
Welcome…to Falcon’s 2025-2026 season!
Sincerely,
Ted Weil
Producing Artistic Director
CAST (in order of appearance):
Cece/Kara/Anna/Bryn — Anna Hazard
Pilar — Natasha Boeckmann
Gwen — Amanda Marasch
Zora — Rachel Mock
PRODUCTION TEAM
Production Stage Manager — Katie Ruwe
Scenic Design — Chad Brinkman
Lighting Design — Chad Brinkman
Sound Design — Ted Weil, Samantha Joy Weil
Props Design — Kathleen Leone
Set Decor — Katie Ruwe, Chad Brinkman
Costume Design — Averie Shutters
Lighting & Sound Execution — Katie Ruwe
Set Construction — Ted Weil, Clint Ibele, Chad Brinkman
Graphic Design — Steve Luhn
Lobby Display — Samantha Joy Luhn
Dramaturg — Julie Carpenter
Marketing — Rachel Mock, Kara Ann Scullin
House Staff Coordination — Clint Ibele
Photography — Claudia Herschner
Box Office — Kathleen Luhn, Clint Ibele
Falcon thanks these organizations for their support:
Special Thanks
Turpin High School
Wooden Cask Brewery
Urban Chick Bar & Bottle Shop
Cast Biographies
Anna Hazard (Cece/Kara/Anna Bryn) Anna Hazard is excited to be back at Falcon for this beautiful show. Anna has most recently been seen in Rabbit Hole at Mariemont (Izzy), staged readings with American Legacy Theatre, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window at Mariemont (Iris), Sweet Charity with CMT (Nickie), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Mariemont (Maggie). She is continually elated to have D’Waughn, her sister, parents, and friends here for everything this life brings.
Natasha Boeckmann (Pilar) Natasha is buzzing with excitement to be back on stage at Falcon Theatre performing with this amazing cast/crew! She was last seen Falcon’s stage as a disembodied head in The Head of Pearl Bryan and a very pregnant Agatha in Frankenstein. She has had the privilege to work with several other amazing theatre companies throughout the area including Mariemont Players (where she also serves on the Board of Directors), CMT, CincyLAB, and Footlighters. Some of her favorite roles include Woman (Turn of the Screw), Paige Caldwell (The Outsider), Lindsey/Betsy (Clybourne Park), Sylvia (Sylvia) and Susy Hendrix (Wait Until Dark). As always, she is eternally grateful for the love and support from her family and friends. You’re un-bee-lievably awesome!
Rachel Mock (Zora) Rachel is thrilled to return to Falcon and work with these fantastic artists! Recent credits include: Silent Sky (Henrietta Leavitt) with The Drama Workshop, Julius Caesar (Casca) with Magnolia Theatre Company; Mindgame (Nurse Paisley), Home, I’m Darling (Judy), Two Point Oh (Melanie), and Breaking the Code (Pat) with Falcon Theatre Company; and Cry It Out (Jessie) with Mariemont Players. Rachel is a proud MFA graduate of Ohio University. Much love to Eric, who ignores her when she talks to herself.
Amanda Marasch (Gwen) Amanda Marasch is a boomerang Cincinnatian with a degree in Theatre and Dance. She spent eleven years living in New York City, where she worked in the stage, TV, and film industries. Her favorite projects include OITNB and HBO’s Girls. Amanda loves teaching and directing the next generation of artists. Amanda designed a costuming and thrifting class she teaches locally and she is currently directing her fifth show of the season. Amanda is thankful to be The Falcon’s resident intimacy coordinator and now to be on stage. Gratitude to her talented cast and crew. Love to her family and especially her Baby Bee, Calloway.
Production Team Biographies
Chad Brinkman (Director) Chad’s career spans more than a hundred productions including work in theatre, film, dance, and music. Some of Chad’s representative credits include WHITE ELEPHANT, a new work brought to life through puppetry, movement, mask, super 8 film and live music at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and has included work at the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Atlantic Theater Company. Chad has also served as a guest teaching artist at NYU, directing and designing for the BFA and MFA playwriting programs. Locally, Chad has acted in, directed, produced, and designed numerous productions for several organizations. Chad is excited to work again with this incredible team at Falcon Theatre. He gives love to Amanda, Calloway, and the rest.
Katie Ruwe (Stage Manager) Katie is pleased to be joining this production of The Apiary. Born and raised in Cincinnati and a graduate of NKU, she has worked throughout the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region. At Falcon Theatre, she has also managed Crocodile Fever, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, The Secretary, The Shark is Broken, Mr. Parker, POTUS, The Other Place, Breaking the Code, Vincent, Lifespan of a Fact, Silent Sky, Ben Butler, The Agitators, and Yankee Tavern. She has also stage managed with Queen City Opera on productions of Cenerentotla, Iolanta, Der Freischütz, Die Valkyrie, and the world premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Undina Eco-Opera. She has also managed Spinning Into Butter with American Legacy Theater, 100 Days with the KNOW Theater of Cincinnati, Steel Magnolias with The Story Collective, as well as several Fringe Festival shows with many different and wonderful creative minds. She would like to thank her fiance for his outstanding support and the staff at Falcon for their continued trust in her. She sincerely hopes you enjoy this show as much as she has enjoyed working on it!
Kate Douglas (Playwright): Kate is a writer, composer, and performer. Recent work includes The Apiary (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Tulipa (New York Stage & Film), Centuries starring opposite her co-writers Matthew Dean Marsh and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez (Ancram Center for the Arts), and hag with Grace McLean (Vivace Award). She is a recipient of The Civilians/Princeton University’s Next Forever commission and has been awarded residencies at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat,Millay Arts, and Goodspeed Musicals, among others. Alum of the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, Colt Coeur, Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, and The Orchard Project Greenhouse. Previous performance credits include Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (where she also held the title of Associate Artist), Liz Phair’s 30th Anniversary Tour of her seminal album Exile in Guyville, Fernando Rubio’s Everything by my side, Third Rail’s The Grand Paradise, and Kansas City Choir Boy starring Todd Almond and Courtney Love.
Falcon Theatre Management Board
Chad Brinkman – Technical/Artistic Consultant
Piper N. Davis – Diversity & Inclusion Director
Clint Ibele – Falcon Takes Flight Director, Volunteer Coordinator
Katie Ruwe – Resident Stage Manger
Samantha Joy Weil – Company Coordinator
Ted J. Weil – Producing Artistic Director
Patrons for our 2025-26 Season
ANGEL:
Douglas & Carol Burks
BENEFACTOR:
David Derringer
Elden Golden
Lynn Krabacher
Kathleen & Steve Luhn
Sophia McAlister
Terry Miller & Dale Hayes
Barbara & David Reaman
Susana & Randy Waterhaus
Michael & Susan Whitehead
PLAYWRIGHT:
Sharon Butler & Karl Dye
Tom & Angela Ogonek
Greg Schaper
Wendy & Andrew Vogel
Ted & Samantha Joy Weil
DIRECTOR:
Anonymous
Amy Alig
Robert Arlinghaus
Rebecca Campbell
Tom & Chris Comte
Robert Clary
Rob Dorgan & Steve Bolia
Diane Larson & Steve Forrester
Clint Ibele
Lisa Koepke
Janet Mott
Joe & Norah Mock
Liz Smith
PRODUCER:
Anonymous
“My favorite theater in the Cincinnati area”
In memory of Renee Alper
Dan Cohen
Patrick Cusick
Joseph Collier
Patricia Hoffman
Hogan Market Research
Anthony Howser
Rita Larkin
Jane MacKnight
Dana Noeske
Phil & Marjorie Paradis
Allison Rapp
Roberta Schultz
Liz Smith
Hope Taft
DESIGNER:
Anonymous
Toni Carman
Linda Callahan
Brady Dunn
Vickie Ellis
Terri Foltz
Rilla Foster
Nancy Jentsch
Shannon Rae Lutz
Douglas Ignatius
Elizabeth Leigh Smith
Tim & Sylvia Smith
Judy Stober
Elizabeth & Leigh Smith
Stephanie Vogel
STAGE MANAGER:
Toni Alterman
Vyneta Barnett
June Broadbeck
Bridgit Chayt
Cheryl Cox
Keith Fischer
Susan Frank
Gail Ginther
David Lazarus
Kim O’Connel
Jean Reynolds
Sue Thompson
Aaron Whitehead
ACTOR:
Lisa Arnette
Peg Bach
Doreen Beatrice
Eric Chase
Karella Cruz Martinez
Ruth Daley
Julia Douglas
Karen Faaborg
Leslie Hilner
Erik Jensen
Jeffrey Limberg
Charles Massarella
John Martinson
Dave Osberg
Claire Rechnitzer
Linsey Rogers
Ross Royce
Phillip Shepard
Brian Shircliff
Allison Stickles
James Troutt
Susan Tyler
Julie Walls
Sam Wilderschein
Alex Zygmunt
Your Support Makes It All Possible!
Falcon has been creating quality theater for our audiences since 1989 and we remain committed to our vision to lead our community through artistic expression and inclusive creativity. Like all arts organizations, we can’t do it without you. Your tax-deductible donation helps us continue to produce affordable theatre while offsetting the cost of creating professional productions. The generosity of patrons continues to allow Falcon Theatre the opportunity to expand its horizons, reaching new audiences, new markets and a new generation of theatre minds. Your gift goes a long way in helping us grow, thrive and continue this success.
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Patron Levels:
- Angel $5000+ (Includes 2 five-show Flex Passes)
- Benefactor $1000+ (Includes 1 five-show Flex Passes)
- Playwright $500+
- Director $250+
- Producer $100+
- Designer $50+
- Stage Manager $25+
- Actor Up to $25
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