Salt Lake Acting Company is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the upcoming Regional Premiere production of You Will Get Sick by Noah Diaz. The cast is made up of veterans of SLAC’s stage, as well as several newcomers. The show will run in our upstairs theatre from February 7th to March 3rd, 2024. Tickets are available here.
SLAC alum include Ben Young (Climbing With Tigers), Latoya Cameron* (Passing Strange, Form of a Girl Unknown), and Marion Markham* (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City). They are joined in this production by SLAC newcomers Josh Tewell and Scotty Fletcher.
From Top Left: Ben Young, Latoya Cameron*, Marion Markham*, Josh Tewell, Scotty Fletcher
You Will Get Sick will be directed by Christopher DuVal; he is joined on the production team by Cassandra Stokes-Wylie* (Asst. Director), Dennis Hassan (Set Designer), Nancy Hills (Costume Designer), Michael Horejsi (Lighting Designer), Cynthia L. Kehr Rees** (Sound Designer), Erika Ahlin (Props Designer), Theresa Martinez and Annie Fukushima (EDI Dramaturgs), Jennie Sant (Rehearsal Stage Manager/Production Manager), and Bridgette Lehman (Rehearsal Asst. Stage Manager/Run of Show Stage Manager).
Joining us as part of Salt Lake Acting Company's Professional Theatre Program, promoting learning and experience opportunities for both seasoned artisans and students, will be Melanie Valera (Asst. Set Designer). The Professional Theatre Program for Emerging Artists supplies opportunities to theatre artisans in multiple disciplines to learn and develop their skills in professional productions. To date, SLAC has created more than 150 production-based paid positions for actors, assistant stage managers, assistant directors and assistant designers. For more information on the program, click here.
Watch out for more information on this joyous, fantastical, and funny tale which explores what it means to live in your own body as you struggle with the hard parts of being human.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
**The Sound Designer for You Will Get Sick is represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 of the IATSE.
