“The familiar, whitewashed story of Pilgrims and Native Americans chowing down together gets a delicious roasting from expert farceurs.” – The New York Times
BY LARISSA FASTHORSE
NOVEMBER 23, 2024
7PM
“Very, very funny... this clever satire is something for which to be truly thankful.” – Hollywood Reporter
Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally woke teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.
CAST
Alicia
Jessie Cannizzaro
Jaxton
Jeremiah Clapp
Caden
Andrew Goebel
Logan
Sarah Alice Shull
Directed by Kimille Howard
JESSIE CANIZZARO
Jessie Cannizzaro (Alicia) Select Theater: The Gods of Comedy (The Old Globe), Puffs (New World Stages), Romeo and Juliet (Lincoln Center), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (Wellfleet), Orlando (Theatre Row), and the title role in Hamlet (American Theatre of Actors). Select Film/TV: The Equalizer (CBS), Nella the Princess Knight (Nickelodeon), and Selah and The Spades (Amazon). Jessie trained at UCB, and is an alumna of Ars Nova’s comedy residency.
JEREMIAH CLAPP
Jeremiah Clapp (Jaxton) returns to Sea Dog Theater having done previous readings of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark and Bibliogrand. Select REGIONAL THEATRE credits: On The Grounds of Belonging [World Premiere] (Long Wharf Theatre), Hamlet (The Colonial Theatre), Luna Gale (Cleveland Play House), Damascus (Florida Repertory Theatre}, Henry V (Ohio Shakespeare Theatre); New York City THEATRE credits: Vatican Falls (The Tank), Plantation Black (Playwrights Horizons [READING]); FILM/TV credits: The Gilded Age (HBO), The Mega Brands That Built America (History Channel), No Place Is Home (Indie Short). A proud member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA and a proud father to two fantastic daughters, there is so much to be thankful for.
ANDREW GOEBEL
Andrew Goebel (Caden) is honored to be returning to Sea Dog Theater where he previously performed in the reading of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Selected Credits: New York: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black; The Floor is Lava; Diaspora; Ragtime; Beardo; Summertime; Shelter. Regional: Sweeney Todd; Beauty and the Beast; Much Ado About Nothing; Macbeth; Titanic: The Musical; The Fantasticks. Thank you to the cast and Kimille as well as the team at Sea Dog! Love to Erika for always supporting me. @marioandy9021
SARAH ALICE SHULL
Sarah Alice Shull (Logan) (she/her) has been seen in several off and off-off Broadway productions, readings, and workshops at various theaters such as Playwrights Horizons, Joe’s Pub, The Flea Theater, The Sheen Center, The Tank, and various comedy venues. Sarah Alice is a UCBNY Comedy school alum, was a part of the inaugural class of Freestyle Love Supreme’s musical Improv academy at Ars Nova, and she was a member of the BARS program’s 5th cohort at The Public Theater. Sarah Alice is a former Bat, a Resident Acting Company member, at The Flea Theater, and a founding member of The Fled Collective.
KIMILLE HOWARD
Kimille Howard (Director) is a director, deviser, writer and filmmaker. She’s an Assistant Stage Director at the Metropolitan Opera and the Artistic Director of the Lucille Lortel’s NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship. Recent directing credits: Orlando the Musical (Theatre Row), Two Corners (Finger Lakes Opera), The 2024 New Works Collective (OTSL), Sanctuary Road (Virginia Opera), The Oscar Micheaux Project (NAMT Fest), Treemonisha (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson (Glimmerglass/WNO, Opera Carolina), The Italian Girl (Tulsa Opera), B.R.O.K.E.N Code B.I.R.D Switching (Berkshire Theatre Group). Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud (Assistant Director). She is a recipient of OPERA America’s 2023 Robert L. B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize.