Ed and Mo Maggie Crane, Molly Bicks, Rat Queen Theatre Company

About This Show

Catholic school was wrong about hell. It’s not fire and brimstone or gnashing of teeth. Hell is Madison Wisconsin. Mo hates everything about Wisconsin: the people, the quiet, the cold, the psychiatric hospital where she works. Everything, that is, until she meets Ed, the blunt and kind-hearted patient with a dark and infamous past. Through bad jokes, imagining New York City with no humans in it, and writing letters to Frank Sinatra, the two form a bond that they share with no one else. From Catholicism to serial murder, Ed & Mo is a dark comedy that examines finding the people you never knew you needed.

about the artists

Maggie Crane is an actress, writer and stand-up comedian. She has acted in numerous productions in companies such as Shakespeare and Company in Lenox MA, Sarah Lawrence Theatre Department, The Melancholy Players, Downstage Theatre Company, Dublin University Players, and in the Dixon Place Lounge works-in-progress series (Lily by Molly Bicks). Her proudest accomplishment as an actress was winning Best Ensemble at the 2015 Irish Student Drama Awards for her work in Wondering Rocks, a devised show she co-wrote. Her playwriting credits include One Small Step produced in Dublin University Players’ Myth Fest 2015 and Til’ Death produced by The Melancholy Players in 2015. She has written and directed two short films, Bucey Man and Charlie Loves Louise. Her one woman show, ComaToast will be put up at The Dixon Place this coming May. She is a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and if you need her to stand up and tell jokes at you she is more than down to do that.

Molly Bicks is a theater producer, director, writer, and actor. Bicks is an alumna of Sarah Lawrence College as well as The National Theater Institute at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. She is a co-founder of Rat Queen Theatre Company.  Bicks is also the Associate Artistic Director of Exquisite Corpse Company. Recent projects include: Dustin Breber: An American Love Story produced by the PIT’s annual SOLOCOM (co-writer/director), Love in The Spring Time, written by Patrick Vermillion for the SHWRT Festival (director), Jew Vs. Malta directed by Jesse Freedman produced by LaMaMa ETC (Stage manager), Lily, a new play presented in the Dixon Place Lounge works-in-progress series (playwright), The Blackest Shore by Mark Schultz produced by the Melancholy Players (director). Line producer credits with The Melancholy Players include: Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, Boxes and Wemedge by Zac Lusk and Chris Aldrich, and Shakespeare’s Pericles.

Wednesday, February 22 at 7:30pm

General Admission

$15 in advance

$18 at the door

Stu./Sen./idNYC

$12

Estimated Runtime
90 minutes

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Credits

Directed by

Molly Bicks

Written by

Maggie Crane

Produced by

Rat Queen Theatre Company

Assistant Director

Bre Northrup

Stage Manager

Alex Emond

Set Design

Kate Pincus-Whitney

Light Design

Thomas Miller

Line Producer

Raquel Loving

Photo Credits

Bre Northrup

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