In the lounge Ed and Mo Maggie Crane & Molly Bicks

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 at which she now 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 know you needed.

About the Artists

Maggie Crane is an actress and playwright from Williamstown, Massachusetts. 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 in 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. She is a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.

 

Molly Bicks is a theater producer, director, writer, and actor. Bicks is an alumna of Sarah Lawrence College as well as The National Institute of Theater at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. At Sarah Lawrence College, she was the co-director of the theater company The Melancholy Players. She is now the artistic producing assistant at Exquisite Corpse Company, where she is currently assistant directing The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte. Recent projects include Lily, a new play presented in the Dixon Place Lounge works-in-progress series (writer), Love in The Spring Time, written by Patrick Vermillion for the SHWRT festival (director), Romeo and Juliet, produced by Women’s Naked Shakespeare, directed by Carsen Joenk (Performer), 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 Lusck and Chris Aldrich, and Shakespeare’s Pericles.

Friday, October 28th at 7:30pm

Free Admission

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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Credits

Written by

Maggie Crane

Directed by

Molly Bicks

Produced by

Raquel Loving

Sound design by

Bre Northrup