 The Arctic Circle (and a recipe for Swedish Pancakes)
written by Samantha Macher and directed by Bob Moss
February 14-18
Tuesday through Saturday at 8PM (also 2PM on Saturday)
Waldron Stage 20 Church Avenue
Featuring Todd Ristau, Susanna Young, Drew Dowdy and Chad Runyon
The Arctic Circle (and a recipe for Swedish Pancakes) is a comedy about a woman in a troubled marriage who travels through time, space and Sweden to reexamine her past relationships for solutions to her newly found troubles. Unable to find the clear answers she needs, she must look inside herself to find what she is looking for.
This production will run for six performances at Mill Mountain Theatre before transferring to New York City for six performances at the 440 Studios in Manhattan.
Produced by the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University in cooperation with Mill Mountain Theatre as part of the Marginal Arts Festival.
$15 at the door
$10 if purchased in advance through Brown Paper Tickets
 Samantha Macher is an MFA Playwright from Hollins University and a Playwright-in-Residence at SkyPilot Theater in Los Angeles, California. Since 2007, she has had a variety of workshops and productions and readings across the country. Full productions include TO THE NEW GIRL and REWIND, at SkyPilot Theatre, ICEBERG TO NOWHERE at Theatre of NOTE, LA, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and at the Hell-Tro Theatre Collective, IMPROVED BUSH at Sacred Fools (LA) Fast and Loose Festival. She has also been a writer for Mill Mountain Theatre’s OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS festival in Roanoke, Virginia. Readings include, FOLKS LIKE YOU, THE COLD EARTH, ICH LIEBE DICH, and THE ARCTIC CIRCLE at and THE VEIL with Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University, in affiliation with Mill Mountain Theatre and Studio Roanoke. Her play THE ARCTIC CIRCLE was a Reva Shiner Comedy Award Finalist and a Dolce Revolution Playwriting Contest finalist. Her play FOLKS LIKE YOU is a Delauney Prize Winner for Best New Play at the University of Virginia in 2008. TO THE NEW GIRL had a run of sold-out performances in Summer of 2011 and will be remounted with SkyPilot Theatre in Fall of 2012, it will also be running at Studio Roanoke in June of 2012.
Bob Moss ran the Edward Albee Playwrights' Unit from 1970-71. He founded and ran Playwrights Horizons from 1971 to 1981. He was the Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York from 1983 to 1996. In the Fall of 1996, he became the Artistic Director of Syracuse Stage, and ran that theater until January 2008. In the summer of 2008, Moss took the reins of the Hangar again, as they searched for another new Artistic Director. He ran the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (an affiliate school of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts) for more than ten years. He has guest directed at theatres across the country. Prior to all this directing and running of theaters, he was an active stage manager, a career that culminated with the APA Repertory Company in residence at the Lyceum Theater on Broadway.
Poster (PDF)
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