Program
SETTING: The Cloisters, a sanitarium in Massachusetts in the 1950’s.
OnStage Atlanta Presents
THE CURIOUS SAVAGE
By John Patrick
Cast
Bobbie Elzey
Ethel Savage
Bobbie Elzey (Mrs Savage) is looking forward to playing with this incredible cast. Her more recent roles in theaters around town: Helga Ten Dorp in Deathtrap, Eileen in Rasheeda Speaking, Lucille in Cemetery Club, Sissy in Quartet, Dorothea in Eleemosynary, Roxanne in Morningside, Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy, Sister Aloyisius in Doubt, Clairee and Ouiser in Steel Magnolias, Ethel in On Golden Pond. She is a member of the artistic company at OnStage Atlanta. During the day she is a fitness professional and trainer. She is represented by Houghton Talent.
Cam Pratt
Jeff
Cam Pratt (Jeff) Love and thanks to Paula, Ally, Gandalf and the whole cast (also previous casts). Thanks to you, the reader, for supporting OnStage Atlanta. Please laugh, gasp, and cry loudly! It is the fuel you make the choice to provide any show. I want to provide an excerpt from a poem important to my role: “Forward, the Light Brigade!”/Was there a man dismayed?/Not though the soldier knew/Someone had blundered./Theirs not to make reply,/Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die./Into the valley of Death/Rode the six hundred. (from The Charge of the Light Brigade by A. Tennyson)
Daniel Carter Brown
Hannibal
Daniel Carter Brown (Hannibal) returns to OnStage Atlanta after a hiatus to focus on parenting. At OSA, he previously played Ken in Rumors, George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life, and Don in Leaving Iowa. He also directed Love From a Stranger. In the before times, he frequently worked with the Shakespeare Tavern and Out Of Box Theatre. He is also a playwright; his play The Outrage Machine was produced by Essential Theatre in 2022 after winning their 2020 award. Love to Emily—thanks for handling all the bedtimes so I can do this!
Demmarie Boreland
Fairy May
Demmarie Boreland (Fairy May) is an actor, improviser, director, and playwright. She is a member of the Academy Theatre's improv troupe, Improvability Theory, and a co-host of Another Fanfic Podcast (available to listen to everywhere podcasts exist). In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her pets (shoutout to Zelda, Saria, and Midna), playing video games, and working on her horror novel. Demmarie would like to thank her best friends Faina, Anthony, and Zach as well as her mentor Robert Drake for their endless supply of support, laughter, food, and love.
Frankie Earle
Ms. Paddy
Frankie Earle (Ms. Paddy) studied at Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in NYC with Sanford Meisner. Her favorite roles in Atlanta include Ethelene in Lakebottom Proper, Sister Acacius in The Divine Sister (MAT nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy), and Ruth in Bad Mama. ILYEQW
Hunter Showalter
Titus Savage
Hunter Showalter (Titus Savage) is humbled and excited to be performing for you at OnStage Atlanta! He most recently appeared as 'Booga' in A Miracle on Elf Street here at OnStage. Other past favorite credits include Maytag Virgin (Jack; Centerstage North), The Diary of Anne Frank (Mr. Frank Player's Guild at Sugar Hill), The Lion in Winter (Richard; Lionheart Theatre), Misery (Paul Sheldon; OnStage Atlanta), Daniel Guyton's from the Cribb to the Grave (Miles Cribb; Lionheart Theatre), and Karen Ruetz's For a Good Time Mary? (Jason; Canton Theater).
Janie Hitchcock
Lily Belle Savage
Janie Hitchcock (Lily Belle Savage) is an actor, director, writer, award-winning choreographer and professional tarot reader and teacher. A Decatur native, Janie holds a BA in Theatre & Performance Studies from Kennesaw State and is dedicated to the art of storytelling. Janie most recently appeared on the OSA stage in Almost, Maine. Other favorite roles include Proof (Claire), Closer (Alice), The Women (Mary), Blithe Spirit (Elvira), The Glass Menagerie (Laura) and Steel Magnolias (Shelby). Janie is so grateful for this and every opportunity to tell stories and create art with others. "The more voices, the more powerful the sound."
Jimmy Spearman
SaMUEL sAVAGE
Jimmy Spearman (Samuel Savage) returns to OnStage with Samuel in The Curious Savage. Other roles include Val from Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Wardell from Sordid Wedding. Here's to a great evening!
kIM sALOME
dR. eMMETT
Kim Salome (Dr Emmett) is very pleased to be on the boards again at OSA! She was seen last in last year's production of Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Beauty Pageant, where she reprised her role of Beatrice from 2023's sold out 4 Old Broads on the High Seas. She was also in the holiday happy Christmas Belles as the always helpful Geneva; before that as Mrs. Boyle in the thriller Mousetrap and OSA's productions of Misery as Annie, and LaVonda in Sordid Wedding. Other favorite roles include The Reptile Woman in the OnStage production of The Sugar Bean Sisters and Clairee in Steel Magnolias. She would like to thank, as always, her husband Hays for his constant support, her friends and family for their encouragement and this cast and crew. Let your light shine!!.
LeeAnna Lambert
fLORENCE
LeeAnna Lambert (Florence) Is thrilled to be back at OnStage Atlanta. She was last seen at OSA in A Very Sordid Wedding, Second Samuel, The Actors Nightmare & Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, as well as Incorruptible. She will be back this summer teaching OSA Summer Camps. She has been acting and teaching acting in Atlanta for the last 20 years. Some favorite roles have been Doreen in Tartuffe, Stella in A Street Car Named Desire, Audrey in Leading Ladies and Cherie in Bus Stop. Thank you to Husband Mark for sharing me with my first love, the Theater!
Olivia Drumgoole
mISS wILLIE
Olivia Drumgoole (Miss Willie) is an Atlanta based actor, singer, and seeker of adventures. Most recently, she had the pleasure of performing in Arís Theater’s holiday panto production of Aladdin as Jasmine. In her spare time, she practices aerial dancing and attempts to be funny with Improvability Theory at Academy Theater’s Sunday Variety Show. She would like to thank her phenomenal parents, her amazing siblings, her spectacular nieces and nephews, her fantastic friends, and her wonderful mentor for all their love and support.
Lory Cox
Understudy Mrs. Paddy
Lory Cox (Understudy Mrs. Paddy) is pleased to be a part of The Curious Savage. She thanks DeWayne, Bill, Angie, Cathe, Barry, Charlie, Harley, Kathy B., as well as the cast and crew, for this happy adventure!
Crew
Director – DeWayne Morgan
Stage Manager – Bill Byrne
Set Design – Angie Short
Costume Design – Kathy Buraczynski
Props Design – Cathe Hall Payne
Lighting Design – Harley Gould
Sound Design – Charlie Miller
OSA Managing Director – Angie Short
DONORS LIST
We would like to thank the following donors who have helped and continue to help support us.
Pledge A
Susan Atkinson; Tom Gillespie; Scott Overcarsh
Pledge B
Nat Martin & Gene Lewis; Patricia & Jon Mosley Nelson; Sandra Owen; Katherine Scharer; Barry N West
Pledge C
Joyce Abrams; Joanna Brooks; Dona Cucich; Nancy H Marsh; Cathe Hall Payne & Angela Short; Stuart Schleuse; Sandi Still; Steve & Patsy West
Pledge D
Susanne Bagby; Pamela Frain; Russ McCoy; Lockey McDonald; Beverly McElroy; Aleisa McKinley; Dianna Milhollin; DeWayne Morgan; Gabriel & Robbie White
Pledge E
D. J. Dammann; Deborah DiBona; Michael Knee; Timothy Lindquist; Richard Vitaris; Alan & Janie Yorker
Producer – $1000.00 +
Marc & Kathy Buraczynski; Craig Hardesty & Jim Farmer; Mona Freund; Warren Gump; Charlie Miller; Jenny Mittleman & William Thompson; Jearl Nix; Louis Rodriguez; Scott Rousseau (the Estate of); RS Still; Mary Wellington; The Shannon Foundation
Playwright – $500.00 – $999.00
Tom Broyles; Deporres & Barbara Cormier; Stephen Hagen; Meg Lewis; Patti Mactas; Dr & Mrs. Stanley Tenenbaum
Director – $100.00 – $499.00
Willie Atkinson; Shelly Barnett; Barbara Blair; Michael Blair; Richard Bragg; Lee Buechele; William Carmichael; Kimberly Corn; Lory Cox; Robert Craig; Da’non Dastugue; Margaret Dawe; Kathleen Delaney; Margo Doers; Robert Drake; Kathy Egan; Bobbie Elzey; Scott Evers;Leah Farmer; Jackie Fears; Shannon Franklin; Nancy Gallagher; Phyllis Giller; Rusty (Elyse) Haber; Marie Hall; Joanne & Joan Karpeles Harwood; Barbara Haworth; Anne Hayden; Leigh Jason; Gary Kapp JR; Carolyn Kennedy; Terry & Jean Krugman; Gary Lindsey; Ernest Minarich; Ed & Betty Mitchell; Robert Mosca; Catherine Mullins; Bruce Neal; Charlotte Neil; Donna Nelson; Michele NeSmith; Christine Noel; John O’Brien; Marion Owen; Lenny Pallats; William Price; John Robinson; Carl Roebling; Steven Rosen; Michael & Ramona Sauter; Ken Skalitzky; Paul Spadafora; Susan Stiefel; Judy Tennell; Barbara Washington; Kitty Wimbish; Betty Yaschik; Howard Yorek; Jessie Zaretsky
Actor – $25.00 – $99.00
Ellen Arney; Tricia Berrett; Lila Bradley; Mary Bradley-Bailey; Bragg. Susan; Sheila Brock; Thelma Burks; Marjorie Cooper; Brenda Crayton-Pitches; Glenda Cucher; Peter Dakutis; Stacie Deaton; William Dillard; Portia Dischinger; Margaret Dixon; Shyler Edwards; Mike Ellsworth; Dale Farmer; Ann Farnell; Anna Finkelman; Dominique Glover; Jannah Goodell; Jeanie Gushee; Rich Hammett; Elizabeth Hanfelt; Paul Heller; Elisabeth Howard; Beverly Howell; Lauren Hudlow; Ashley James; Ellen Jones; Linda Judson; Richard Kelley; Hank Kimmel; Victoria Kingsland; Judy Knighten; Jessie Kuipers; Jason Lamb; Bonnie Marshall; Redge Martin; Sherree Meyers; Vanessa Miller; Karen Montgomery; Matthew Morgan; Ted Morrow; Deborah Palmer; Amber Rampy; Timothy Royer; Varda Sauer; Kathleen Seconder; William Seright; Leslee Sinclair; Patrece Stark; Rachel Street; Zachary Stutts; Susan Tabnik; Tim Talley; JoAnne Taylor; Edith Walls; Teresa Weaver; Joan Well; Marcia Wessels; Dennis Whitney; Mary Williams; Nancy Wilson; Viki Woodard