showtimes

 Fridays and Saturdays, Dec.1 – Dec. 16
Special Preview on Thursday, Nov. 30
All performances at 8pm

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A rag-tag carnival with a secret, terrible mission finds and takes-in an abandoned and half-dead member of a cult while crossing a wasteland that used to be the United States of America.

​Cast

Colleen Dunne
Maestra

Colleen Dunne is usually working on 12 things at once and finishing none of them.  Currently included in this list are her Fight Club cross stitch, finally reading The Casual Vacancy, updating her resume, and writing the next great American song parody.  

Dallas Ray
Boy

​Dallas dabbles in the performing arts while trying to prepare himself for the culinary field. He's currently studying Pastry Arts at CSCC to obtain a degree to go alongside his BA in English, which is doing nothing for him. He started performing in Columbus again as an interactive theater actor, but by joining the It's All Been Done Radio Hour troupe he was slowly but surely coerced into joining MadLab's ensemble.

Stephen Woosley
Actor 1

Stephen Woosley is excited to be in another Jennifer Feather Youngblood play. He is a Main Force Patrol officer tasked with maintaining law and order on the roads of a dystopic Australia. Stephen is quiet, rarely speaking to any great extent, and never paying much attention to his steadily increasing reputation. 

Kate Jones
Actress 1

Kate Jones is elated to join this cast for her first show at MadLab. She has recently been seen as Kepler in Actors' Theatre of Columbus' 'Emporer of the Moon'. Kate would like to thank God, her husband, family, and friends for their love and support.

Anita McFarren
Actress 2

Anita is thrilled to join her first MadLab production!  Anita received her BA in Musical Theater from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  Some of Anita's favorite roles include Hunyak (Chicago), Heather (American Idiot), and Isabel (Scrooge), all with ShadowboxLive, Louise (Play, On!) with SRO Theatre, and Doatsey Mae (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) with Imagine Productions.  She also acts in local films and dabbles in runway modeling.  By day, she is the Receptionist at Continental Real Estate Companies.  In her spare time, she enjoys taking classes at Artisan Dance Studio, Bikram Hot Yoga Columbus, and Balanced Yoga.

Travis Horseman
Actor 2

Travis Horseman has eyes too big for his stomach when it comes to the arts. If he had a family crest, its motto would be DO ALL THE THINGS in 3-inch screaming caps and feature the image of an over-caffeinated lemur. A usual suspect at MadLab since 2009, Travis has been an actor, director, and playwrighting mentor, though not all at once (yet). Around Columbus, he has recently appeared in Julius Caesarwith Actors Theatre of Columbus and Dracula with SRO Theatre. Not content with all that, he has also just completed a three-part graphic novel series, Amiculus: A Secret History, set during the fall of Rome, and would love to know what you think of it (www.amiculusrome.com).

Matt Schlichting
​Actor 3

Matt Schlichting makes his full-length debut at MadLab in Kitezh. He appeared with FFN, performed in the 2017 Young Writers showcase, and participated in a staged reading of The Belle's Stratagem this season at MadLab. He also assisted with set building on Counter/Top and And Then They Fell, where he received an alarming amount of autonomy with saws and power tools.

About the playwright

Jennifer Feather Youngblood is the author of three full-length and nineteen one act plays which have been performed across the US and Canada. Primarily a performer, Ms. Feather Youngblood has been seen locally with various theatre groups such as The Actors Theatre of Columbus, Columbus Children's Theatre, MadLab, and The Ohio State Theatre Department.

About the director

Amy Drake is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Board member of the International Centre for Women Playwrights and Theatre Communications Group. Amy’s plays have been performed in New York, Chicago, and other US cities. Her recent play, Eyes like Opaque Gems, was voted Most Popular Play in the Midtown International Theater Festival (MITF) Short Play Lab, NYC.  Home Body received a staged reading at The Ohio State University New Works Lab in 2015 and was nominated for four awards in MITF, New York. She was voted Theatre Roundtable Best Director for Night Must Fall and was assistant director for the Actors’ Theatre production of Servant of Two Masters, which ranked among The Columbus Dispatch Top-10 shows of 2012. Amy is also a stage actor and director, commercial actor, an author, academic writer, conference speaker, and poet. She holds a B.A. from Ohio Dominican University and a M.S. degree in marketing and communication from Franklin University. Her education includes play writing, creative writing and history summer programs at Cambridge University, UK, Reed Hall, Paris, Kenyon (College) Summer Institute, and Yale University.

Assistant Director
Roxy Knepp

Roxy Knepp is a Columbus native, actress, and director who currently does theatrical work in Columbus and New York City. She received her BA in theatre at The Ohio State University and moved to New York shortly afterwards. Roxy's past directorial works include God Bless Phyllis Schlafly (NY), Eyes like Opaque Gems (NY), and The Detox Game (OH). She runs a Youtube channel in her spare time called Roxy AKA Drakes Wife.