Virtual Performance Dates
October 24 and October 30 at 7:30 pm. Video will be viewable right below on the Studio Players website. The performance is free, but please consider a donation to Studio Players to help us with the upkeep and maintenance of our 100+ year old facility.
The Halloween Trilogy
By Celilia Fannon and John de Lancie
Directed By: Claire Bochenek Stage Manager: Sam Silver
Thank you for watching this special performance. we hope you join us for another.
The Mark of The Beast
Adapted from the novel by Rudyard Kipling
Fleete, a landowner newly arrived in India, overindulges in alcohol at a New Year’s party, and commits an outrage against the Indian ape-god Hanuman by grinding his cigar into the forehead of a temple-statue in Hanuman’s likeness.
CAST: MARK OF THE BEAST
PREACHER – Melinda DelPizzo
HUGHES – Cyndi Owgang
FLEETE – John AC Kennedy
STRICKLAND – Jessica Phelan
INDIAN/PRIEST – Justine D’Souza
WEISS – Mark Leibert
The Canterville Ghost
Adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde
A girl befriends the ghost haunting Canterville Chase and helps him cross over into the afterlife. Horace B. Otis and his family move into Canterville Chase, which is haunted by the ghost of Sir Simon, who killed his wife there.
Cast: THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
VIRGINIA – Isabella Pepe
MOTHER – Debbie Buchsbaum
FATHER – John Fraissinet
WASHINGTON – Justine D’Souza
CANTERVILLE – Mark Leibert
MRS UMNEY – Lorriane Andrea Federico
SIMON – Jack Pignatello
ANGEL OF DEATH – Jesse Dubanowich
The Cask of Amontillado
Adapted from the short story by Edgar Allen Poe
The story of a man named Montresor who decides to seek revenge against a man named Fortunato, who has insulted him. He meets Fortunato at a carnival, lures him into the catacombs of his home, and buries him alive.
CAST: CASK OF AMONTILLADO
MONTRESOR – Michael Smith-Gallo
BOATMAN – Emma Blair-Manley
FORTUNATO – Eric Najimian
CARAMELLA – Danielle Craig
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