play. New Jersey Premieres he
has directed, at Premiere Stages
and elsewhere, include Rabbit
Hole, Snakebit, Boy Gets Girl,
Soldier’s Heart, Shmulnik’s
Waltz and last season’s celebrat-
ed production of Linger.
The accomplished Actors’ Equity
Association cast includes James
Gushue, previously seen on televi-
sion’s “Guiding Light” and “Law
and Order: SUV”; Wayne Mau-
gans, whose distinguished re-
gional credits include The Glass
Menagerie at Yale Rep and True
West at Two River Theater in Red
Bank; Kathy McCafferty, recently
seen in the Broadway Tour of The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time and the American Pre-
miere of John Cleese’s Bang
Bang!; and Kelley Rae O’Donnell,
who recently appeared inOccu-
pied Territories at 59E59 and the
10x10 New Play Festival at Bar-
rington Stage Company.
The season also includes a free
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staged reading of Ms. Berry-
man’s Walden (June 14-16), run-
ner-up for the 2019 Premiere Play
Festival. Set in the not-so-distant
future, Walden imagines a world
where climate change has inten-
sified and scientists are recom-
mending that humans colonize
other planets. Cassie, a NASA
botanist, returns from deployment
in space and is shocked to find
her sister, Stella, a former NASA
architect, engaged to a man deter-
mined to stick it out on Earth. As
the twins grapple with questions of
rivalry and love, humanity hangs in
the balance. Mia Walker, who will
serve as Associate Director on the
upcoming Broadway musical
Jagged Little Pill, directs.
Kean University’s Bauer Boucher
Theatre Center is located at 1000
Morris Avenue in Union, NJ. Per-
formances take place Thursdays
and Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays
at 3:00pm and 8:00pm, and Sun-
days at 3:00pm.
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