October 31 – November 2
Leeds Theatre, 83 Waterman Street
Directed by Josiah Davis ’20 MFA
kemps is a queer epic set in the pine-woods of the poconos. the season’s summer. sleep-away camp, where every girl is a winner. lip-syncs, line-up, lil-miss, and that marilyn manson poster you’ve always loved. a sticky play about finding yourself when you’ve been here the whole time.
Performances
Thursday, October 31: 8:00PM
Friday, November 1: 8:00PM
Saturday, November 2: 2:00PM
Saturday, November 2: 7:00PM
CAST & CREW
Emma Horwitz ’20 MFA (playwright) is a writer from New York City. Her plays have been produced by or developed with Two Headed Rep, The Flea, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Tank’s Pride Fest, Tiny Rhino, Fresh Ground Pepper etc. Her work in fiction has been published in print and online at Moon Missives, Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s Sunday Stories, Joyland Magazine, Two Serious Ladies, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, etc. She currently lives in Providence, RI, pursuing her MFA in Writing for Performance at Brown University, where she received the Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship. Previously, she worked as the Literary Consultant at Alchemation. BA: Bard College, Written Arts. www.emmahorwitz.com
Josiah Davis ’20 MFA (director) is a Los Angeles based director, choreographer, and actor from Dallas, TX. Josiah’s work melds expressive movement, live music, emerging technology, and ancestral ritual to give new life to physical storytelling. He is a graduate from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, a current Brown/Trinity MFA Directing Candidate 2020, and is the Associate Artistic Director of On The Verge Repertory Theatre in Santa Barbara. He also does work in projection, video editing, sound, and lighting design. His directing credits include: Outcry by Thais Francis (CAA), Sweet Child by Roxie Perkins, From White Plains by Michael Perlman, Trouble In Kind by Caridad Svich. At Brown/Trinity Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks, Mirage by Kyla Searle, Mary Got Hers by Emma Howitz, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and How We Got On by Idris Goodwin, Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage at Theatre at Monmouth. He has Assistant Directed under William Friedkin, John Rando, Tyne Rafaeli, Oliver Butler and Rainn Wilson. He works in production at The Geffen Playhouse, the Walt Disney Concert Hall REDCAT Theatre, The Los Angeles Theatre Center, and Steppenwolf West. He has also appeared on Transparent, Glee, Idiotsitter, Killer Kids, and Buzzfeed.
onthevergefest.org www.josiah-davis.com
Cast:
Eastlyn Frankel ’22
Jenny Greener ’20
Maxime Hendrikse Liu ’23
David Kleinman ’20
Maaike Laanstra-Corn ’21
Sarah Lewis ’23
Julia Moore ’21
Haley Wong ’20
