Starring -
Kallie Filanda
Nicole Lopez^
Alex Smith
Jon Turner
^member of the Wasatch Theatre Company Ensemble
Playwright - Aaron Posner
Director - Jim Martin
Stage Manager - Nicole Lopez^
Lighting Designer - Riley Merrill
Sound Designer/Operator - Philip Vernon
Set Designer/Builder - Zac Curtis
In case you didn't know, this is a Wasatch Theatre Company production. Tell people about Wasatch Theatre Company. We're for real. We've been around for 26 years.
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
This play is in style of Bertolt Brecht’s epic theatre. It is meant to be theatrical and not realistic. Throughout the course of the show, the four actors will “don” (literally) the character of John Quincy Adams. The sequence of scenes can be found on the back of this playbill.
Time: 1776-1847
This show will run approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
Prologue--all
What Did You Do? 1776
John Adams: Jon
JQA: Kallie
Just Do It! 1794
George Washington: Jon
JQA: Kallie
What Men May Do... 1809
Louisa Adams: Kallie
JQA: Alex
We Do What We Can Do--1817
Abigail Adams: Nicole
JQA: Alex
Do It! Compromise! 1825
Henry Clay: Jon
JQA: Nicole
Be Careful What You Do--March 1829
Andrew Jackson: Alex
JQA: Nicole
Do Better--1834
Louisa Adams: Nicole
JQA: Jon
Do More! 1845
Frederick Douglass: Alex
JQA: Jon
Do Right--1847
Abraham Lincoln: Kallie
JQA: Jon
WASATCH THEATRE COMPANY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jason Archuleta
Lori Brock
Amy Brown Coffin
Zac Curtis
Mindy Curtis
Sharon Daurelle
Jim Martin
Stephanie Stroud
Wasatch Theatre Company produces timely, relevant, and entertaining theatre by supporting diverse artists and providing opportunities for unique voices to stimulate conversation, increase empathy, and empower positive social change.
CORE VALUES
Diversity and Representation
Engagement
Empathy
Empowerment
Creativity
Accountability
Kallie Filanda
Nicole Lopez^
Alex Smith
Jon Turner
^member of the Wasatch Theatre Company Ensemble
Playwright - Aaron Posner
Director - Jim Martin
Stage Manager - Nicole Lopez^
Lighting Designer - Riley Merrill
Sound Designer/Operator - Philip Vernon
Set Designer/Builder - Zac Curtis
In case you didn't know, this is a Wasatch Theatre Company production. Tell people about Wasatch Theatre Company. We're for real. We've been around for 26 years.
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
This play is in style of Bertolt Brecht’s epic theatre. It is meant to be theatrical and not realistic. Throughout the course of the show, the four actors will “don” (literally) the character of John Quincy Adams. The sequence of scenes can be found on the back of this playbill.
Time: 1776-1847
This show will run approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
Prologue--all
What Did You Do? 1776
John Adams: Jon
JQA: Kallie
Just Do It! 1794
George Washington: Jon
JQA: Kallie
What Men May Do... 1809
Louisa Adams: Kallie
JQA: Alex
We Do What We Can Do--1817
Abigail Adams: Nicole
JQA: Alex
Do It! Compromise! 1825
Henry Clay: Jon
JQA: Nicole
Be Careful What You Do--March 1829
Andrew Jackson: Alex
JQA: Nicole
Do Better--1834
Louisa Adams: Nicole
JQA: Jon
Do More! 1845
Frederick Douglass: Alex
JQA: Jon
Do Right--1847
Abraham Lincoln: Kallie
JQA: Jon
WASATCH THEATRE COMPANY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jason Archuleta
Lori Brock
Amy Brown Coffin
Zac Curtis
Mindy Curtis
Sharon Daurelle
Jim Martin
Stephanie Stroud
Wasatch Theatre Company produces timely, relevant, and entertaining theatre by supporting diverse artists and providing opportunities for unique voices to stimulate conversation, increase empathy, and empower positive social change.
CORE VALUES
Diversity and Representation
Engagement
Empathy
Empowerment
Creativity
Accountability
Note: WTC does not write, edit, or necessarily endorse any of the content in the following bios.
Riley Attridge (Lighting Designer) is an SLC based freelance Lighting Designer working for local community theaters and dance companies. Recent work includes the Dance For Life Suicide Prevention Charity Gala at the Capital Theater and The Page to Stage Festival at the Regent Street BlackBox. Recent hopes include overcast autumn weather and Pizza for dinner. Recent fears include the recurring nightmare of being in the woods at night and the spider that might be in living in my car. Some of Riley's work can be seen at rileyrmerrill.wixsite.com/portfolio
Kallie Filanda (JQA/Louisa Adams/Abraham Lincoln) is an actor, theatre teacher, and producer based in Salt Lake City. She graduated from Westminster College, where she received her BFA in Theatre Performance. Regional acting credits include: The Duchess of Malfi (The Cardinal) with ThreePenny Theatre Company, The Sin of Self Love (Demetrius) with An Other Theatre Company, As You Like It (Phoebe) with MadKing Shakespeare Company, King Lear (Oswald) with New World Shakespeare Company, The Merchant of Venice (Jessica) with Grassroots Shakespeare Company, Machinal (Helen Jones), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Helen McCormick), and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Panthino), all with Westminster College. She also currently works as the Tour Manager for Plan-B Theatre Company's Free Elementary School Tour.
Nicole Lopez graduated from Southern Utah University in 2019 with a BS in Theatre and since then has been doing smaller projects on the side. Some of her more notable roles have been Cleon in "Pericles", Tasha in "Unstable Connections", and Bianca in "The Museum Project". Nicole is very passionate about all aspects of theatre and has been honored to be the Assistant Theatre Coach at Jordan High School for the past year.
Alex Smith is thrilled to be making his debut with Wasatch Theatre Company. He has most recently been seen in a Stage reading of Let Down Your Hair at Salt Lake Acting Company. In the greater Salt Lake area, Alex has been seen as Ken Roberts in To Saints and Stars at Good Company Theatre, and Orlando in As You Like It with Mad King Productions. A graduate of Utah State University, his favorite roles there include Gower in Pericles, and Frankie in Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors. Alex hails from San Diego county and is doing his best in managing the colder weather. He would like to thank all of his friends and family for their ever present love and support.
This is Jon Turner's debut with the WTC. He recently played Roy Cohn in Kalisti Theatre Company's Angels in America. Past performances with New Shakespeare Players include King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Polonius in Hamlet. Jon is an alumni of Theatre 138 of Salt Lake and the Pioneer Courthouse Players in St.George, Utah.
Philip Vernon - Masters in Sociology (specialty in cross-ethnic communication), veteran of Chicago stage and mostly on camera, currently working on a recording project with his band Groove Intruder and hoping to have an EP out by late Spring. Met Wasatch Theatre’s Jim Martin while slumming the corridors of the Eccles Theater and offered to lend a hand with audio after learning of Wasatch’s noble efforts . . . and glad I did.
Aaron Posner is an American playwright and theatre director. He was co-founder of the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia and was the artistic director of Two River Theater from 2006 to 2010. He has directed over 100 productions at major regional theater companies across the country. He has won six Helen Hayes Awards, two Barrymore Awards, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the John Gassner Prize, a Joseph Jefferson Award, a Bay Area Theatre Award, and an Eliot Norton Award.
WTC Ensemble
WTC has an Ensemble of artists. These individuals have shown amazing talent and energy toward making WTC a success. As Ensemble members, they earn recognition on the WTC website and in playbills. They also have opportunity to contribute to WTC seasons and other ideas. They are the first to be considered when casting a show and have an automatic "in" when it comes to the Page-to-Stage Festivals and any staged readings. We are thrilled to have these artists associated with WTC!
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