Falmouth, Massachusetts, June 14, 2022 – The Cape Cod Theatre Project’s (CCTP) all-female playwright season opens with Gina Femia’s The Violet Sisters, featuring Lucy DeVito and Sarah Schenkkan, directed by Taylor Reynolds. Reynolds is the 2021 LPTW Lucille Lortel Award recipient and most recently the director of critically-acclaimed Tambo & Bones at Playwrights Horizons.
Lucy DeVito (Hulu’s Deadbeat) and Sarah Schenkkan (Amazon Studios’ Z), star in three staged readings to be held on June 30th, July 1st, and July 2nd at 7:30 pm ET at Falmouth Academy.
In The Violet Sisters, siblings Sam (DeVito) and Pam (Schenkkan) return to their Red Hook, Brooklyn home post-Hurricane Sandy. Pam has come back after an attempt to “make it” in LA and is greeted by an angry sister, a dilapidated house, and a past she can’t escape.
Playwright Gina Femia infuses humor and dark secrets into the script, as the off-beat sisters are forced to deal with time they let slip away. Femia is the Core Writer for the Playwrights Center and has been nominated for and won several awards and honors, including the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a Neukom Award, and a Drama League award. Selected plays include: Allond(r)a, We are a Masterpiece and The Mermaid’s Parade. This is Femia’s and director Taylor Reynolds’ first appearance at CCTP.
Lucy DeVito has appeared in Hulu’s Deadbeat as Sue, and on Freeform’s Melissa and Joey. Film credits include The Comedian, Sleepwalk with Me, and The Secret Art of Human Flight. She has also appeared in the original off-Broadway productions of Love Loss and What I Wore, Hot Mess, and more recently, Bump.
Sarah Schenkkan currently appears in Amazon Studios’ Z. She has guest-starred on Gotham as Magpie and on 30 Rock. Other credits include the national tour of Wicked and in The Heart of Robinhood for which she won the Jerry Herman Musical Theatre Award.
The Cape Cod Theatre Project’s distinctive and intimate process sets it apart from other theatrical ventures. For four weekends in July, a new play is presented as an in-person, staged reading at the Simon Center for the Arts at Falmouth Academy. Here, the development of the play is the goal, and each performance includes a post-show talkback in which thoughtful feedback for the playwright, director, and actors is encouraged.
CCTP will host a season kick-off for All Access Pass-holders at the Falmouth Yacht Club on June 23, just days prior to The Violet Sisters’ opening. Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me) and her partner, acclaimed director Kip Fagan will be honored as special guests. Audience members will have a chance to mix, mingle, and ask questions in a brief Q&A while reflecting upon this season’s focus on four, female-driven stories and playwrights.
All-Access Passes, granting admission to all 12 performances and an invitation to the season welcome event with Heidi Schreck and Kip Fagan, are available for $100 per person. Individual performance tickets will be available for $25. Buy tickets here, and find more information.
About the Cape Cod Theatre Project:
The Cape Cod Theatre Project began as an experiment between two actors in 1995. Andrew Polk and Jim Bracchitta sensed that Cape Cod offered the perfect sanctuary for developing new work, combining an idyllic atmosphere with a community that enjoys and engages with the arts. Led by Artistic Director Hal Brooks since 2012, CCTP continues to support established and emerging voices in the American theater.
Each July, four playwrights are invited to develop new plays, utilizing a full week of rehearsals with a director and actors that culminates in a series of readings and talkbacks. CCTP also offers a weekly, free, behind-the-scenes StageTalk discussion with the playwright and director.
Plays developed with Cape Cod Theatre Project have achieved great success: 77 of the 101 plays developed have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, at regional theaters, and internationally.
Several have also been nominated for Pulitzers, Oscars, Tonys, Obies, and more. Most recently, 2018 CCTP alum Will Arbery saw his Heroes of the Fourth Turning become a Pulitzer Finalist and win several Obie Awards; 2017 Writer-in-Residence Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me was also a Pulitzer Finalist, a Tony Nominee, and is currently on Amazon Prime; and Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton developed here in 2015, had a Broadway production starring Laurie Metcalfe and John Lithgow
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