Salt Lake Acting Company - Cast and Creative

I Want You by Kathleen Cahill

A comedy about a married couple...what they said, what they never said, what they wish they had said. Like the lyrics in Billy Joel's song: “Please open the door, nothing is different, we've been here before. Pacing these halls, trying to talk over the silence.”

Cast:

Creative Team:

CREATIVE TEAM BIOS:

KATHLEEN CAHILL (PLAYWRIGHT | she/her)
Kathleen is a graduate in Musical Theatre at the Tisch School of the Arts. Her  awards include three Edgerton Foundation Awards, the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, and a Drama League Award. She was a DGF Travelling Master in 2019. Her play The Persian Quarter was nominated for a Steinberg Award (published by Dramatic Publishing). Her produced musicals include Friendship of the Sea (North Shore Music Theatre) Dakota Sky (Olney Theatre) an opera, Clara, two opera/cabarets, A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties (Maryland Center for the Performing Arts), a comic opera cabaret, Fatal Song (Utah Opera)  a short opera, and The Better Man, (Utah Opera)) Her plays include the comedy Course 86B in the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago) the comedy, Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio) Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare; Taffety Punk, Washington D.C., New Hampshire Theatre Project, among others) The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep.) Harbur Gate, an NNPN commission. (Salt Lake Acting Company, 16thstreet Theatre, Chicago.)   Henry, Louise and Henri (one act) and The Robertassey at Women’s Playwrights Initiative, Ivoryton Playhouse, CT; The Robertassey  was the featured play at the 2019 Seven Devil’s Playwrights Conference and in the New Play Sounding Series at SLAC. Silent Dancer a groundbreaking dance/play premiered at the Salt Lake Acting Company in April 2019. A new musical, LATE, about the effects of gun violence on a small group of high school students, was recently awarded a $60,000 development grant from  Berklee College of  Music in Boston, and is a development project with Moonbox Productions in Boston.: Her play One Stone was a semi-finalist at the Gary Marshall New Play Festival, and the first prize winner in the Women’s Voices Festival at Mad Cow Theatre, Orlando. Retitled Mrs. Einstein, it was workshopped at the Durango New Play Festival and will received a staged reading at New Jersey Rep next month.  Madera Canyon was produced in “The Seven Festival” at Fusion Theatre, Albuquerque.  She wrote the screenplay for the independent feature, Downtown Express.

ADRIENNE MOORE (DIRECTOR | she/her)
Adrienne has a long association with SLAC, having served as director or dialect coach on many productions. Directing credits for SLAC include Rapture, Blister Burn, 4,000 Miles, How to Make a Rope Swing, Circle Mirror Transformation, Hold Please and staged readings of Amerikin and Trees in Their Youth. Dialect coaching for SLAC includes Bald Sisters, Silent Dancer, The Cake, Hand to God, Surely Goodness and Mercy, Streetlight Woodpecker, Tribes and Angels in America. Additional directing credits include A Shayna Maidel (Apex Theatre Florida) Into the Breeches, Clybourne Park, Macbeth, Wait Until Dark, (Lyric Repertory Company) The Thanksgiving Play (Westminster College) and numerous productions for Utah State University. She has provided dialect and text coaching for productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival and Pioneer Theatre Company. Adrianne is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and SDC (The Stage Directors and Choreographers union.)

JENNIE SANT* (EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION MANAGER/PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER | she/her)
Jennie has been at Salt Lake Acting Company for over a decade. During that decade she has Stage Managed over 30 shows and has been the Production Manager for the past 4 years. Previous NPSS readings include, Beloved King, Sunny In The Dark, The Value, Let Down Your Hair, Daddy Issues and Egress to name a few. Upcoming shows include Bat Boy: The Musical and SLAC’s Sumer Show 2025.

CAST BIOS:
LATOYA CAMERON* (MARY | she/her)
Latoya has assisted with developing new plays at Salt Lake Acting Company, Plan-B Theatre Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Seven Devil's Conference, Kayenta New Play Lab, Playwrights' Center, New York Musical Theatre Festival, to name a few. She recently performed at SLAC in The Turnaway Play and You Will Get Sick. Other SLAC performances: Passing Strange, Four Women Talking About the Man Under the Sheet, The Cake, and others. She dramaturg for SLAC's Summer Show: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and recently co-directed Whitelisted. Grateful to be a part of this process.

TYSON BAKER (BILL | he/him)
Scotty is extremely excited to return to the SLAC stage. They graduated from the BFA Acting program at Utah State University back in 2020. Recent credits include: You will Get Sick at Salt Lake Acting Company; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Zebulun) at the Eccles Theatre; James and the Giant Peach (Ladahlord) at Hale Center Theatre Orem; West Side Story (Bernardo) and In the Heights (Sonny) at the West Valley Performing Arts Center; Beauty and the Beast, The Nutty Professor, The Light in the Piazza, Hello, Dolly!, Treasure Island, and The Little Mermaid (Jetsam) at The Hale Centre Theatre Sandy. You can also find Scotty performing with the Hale Centre Theatre’s educational outreach program, The Story Weavers, and monthly in the Viva La Diva Celebrity Impersonation and Drag Show at Metro Music Hall. Scotty would like to thank their loving partner for all his support, their generous family for all their time, and their professors and mentors for their patience and goodwill. Lastly, Scotty would like to thank their father, Russell, who has always found time to sit through a show or coach a game. 

RATANAK UNG (READER | he/him)
Ratanak is so excited to be apart of the telling of this hilarious and beautiful new work. He is currently a freshman pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre at the University of Utah. He wants everyone to know that even in these times of uncertainty, to find the good in all of the big and small things alike. Ratanak would like to thank Jordan Reynosa and the whole SLAC team for this opportunity. “Life goes on. You think it’s going to stop. But it doesn’t. It keeps going.”

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

 SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation and the Salt Lake County's Zoo, Arts, and Parks program whose support allows our growing audiences to attend the New Play Sounding Series at no cost.

THE TURNAWAY PLAY
by Lesley Lisa Green

PANELISTS:
Josephine Holubkov
Jackie Morgan
Representative Angela Romero
Annabel Sheinberg (Moderator)
Erica Torres

CAST LIST:
Latoya Cameron– Serena, Angel, Kiara
Jazmin Delgado – Luisa, Sofia, Martina
Adriana Lemke – Rhonda, Amy, Brenda
Tracie Merrill-Wilson – Dr. Foster

PRODUCTION TEAM:
Director – Cynthia Fleming
Production/Stage Manager – Jennie Sant
Lighting Designer – Elliot Moore
Projection Programmer – Bridgette Lehman 
Hat Designer – Erika Ahlin

BIOS:

PANELISTS:

Josephine Holubkov
Josephine Holubkov grew up in Salt Lake City and was interested in reproductive justice and political activism from a young age. While attending West High School, Josephine was on PPAU's Teen Council for two years, serving on the Teen Council Advisory Committee for one year. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Josephine worked the 2020 election as a grassroots organizer with Planned Parenthood North Central States. In college, she worked as a Communication and Consent Educator (CCE) for three years, and was promoted to be a Project Coordinator during her senior year, where she developed a community-centered framework of survivor support. After receiving her B.A. in Linguistics from Yale University, Josephine is now preparing to apply to veterinary school, and plans to continue advocating for survivors and racial and reproductive justice while pursuing her career.

Jackie Morgan
Jackie Morgan is a seasoned political strategist, with years of experience working on political and issue campaigns, public affairs, and legislation. She has worked in Utah politics for over 10 years, helping numerous campaigns, candidates, and causes including as the Deputy Communications Director on the Mike Weinholtz for Governor campaign, Volunteer Director on Better Boundaries, and Campaign Manager or Senior Advisor for more than 25 local candidates. She most recently served as the National Campaigns Director at Stand for Children where she worked with nonprofit and advocacy organizations to drive educational equity and racial justice across the country. Currently, Jackie is a Senior Partner at Elevate Strategies, where she focuses on helping Democratic candidates in Utah make meaningful progress and change. Through Elevate, she leverages data-driven strategies, mentoring, and support to reshape Utah’s political future.

Representative Angela Romero
Representative Angela Romero represents House District 25 in the Utah State Legislature and is currently the House Minority Leader. She heads the first all-female House minority leadership team in the Utah State Legislature.

At the state legislature, Representative Romero has been a champion for women and children. Representative Romero works on legislation for victim’s rights, human trafficking, and sexual assault and domestic violence prevention. During her service, Representative Romero successfully passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act and the Statewide Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence Prevention Program appropriation request of 3.6 million dollars. She also worked diligently to secure funding to end the rape test kit backlog. Representative Romero also sponsored legislation creating Utah’s Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives Task Force.

Outside her legislative capacity Representative Romero works with local government, overseeing community programs and initiatives in the Division of Youth and Family Programs, including supervising the YouthCity Government Program and My Brother’s Keeper. Representative Romero is dedicated to ensuring youth have access to the political process and civic engagement.

Annabel Sheinberg
Annabel Sheinberg is a member of The Turnaway Play Team with a long history of working to advance sexual and reproductive freedoms in Utah.  She has a special interest in projects focused on youth development, community organizing, non-profit management and promoting democracy and justice. During her career she worked in several states including 15 years with Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. She is thrilled to partner with SLAC in bringing The Turnaway Play to Utah for the first time.

Erica Torres
Erica Torres is dedicated to uplifting and empowering communities through a strong commitment to social and reproductive justice. She strives to create meaningful change through education and community engagement. With a background in Public Health focused on community health, Erica brings over 15-years of experience in women's health, including a decade specializing in abortion care, contraceptive counseling, pregnancy options education and community health education.

Currently, she serves as an instructor at the University of Utah's School for Cultural and Social Transformation, where she teaches Reproductive Justice. Additionally, she works as a Community Engagement and Training Specialist at the ASCENT Center for Reproductive Health within the Family Planning Division of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah; a role that she is also able to sprinkle in some research to keep her work exciting and impactful.

ACTORS:

Latoya Cameron
Latoya Cameron (she/her) is thrilled to be part of this important reading at SLAC during such a crucial time. She is an actor, singer, writer, director, and an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Dramaturg. She recently co-directed Whitelisted which is currently in performances in the Upstairs Theater at SLAC (if you have not seen it yet, you do not want to miss it! If you have, THANK YOU and come again with some friends). You might have seen her at SLAC in: You Will Get Sick, Passing Strange, Four Women Talking About the Man Under the Sheet, Form of A Girl, Stupid Fucking Bird to name a few. Other stages: The Clean-Up Project (named the Utah Review's Top Utah Enlightenment Moment in 2022), Singing to the Brine Shrimp, A/Version of Events, Mama, Ruff!, Different = Amazing, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, (Plan-B Theatre Company), Rocky Horror Show (2014 & 2015), Elf, the Musical (2013), RENT (Pioneer Theatre Company), Shakespeare in Love, Treasure Island, As You Like It, Henry V, Mary Poppins, Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival), The Color Purple, Closer (Wasatch Theatre Company), A Christmas Carol (Denver Center of the Performing Arts), Shelter, the Musical (New York Musical Theatre Festival). Directed: Whitelisted (co-directed with Tito Livas), Sankofa, this Journey: Go Back and Get It! (Salt Lake Acting Company and UBLAC collaboration), Town Hall (University of Utah), Title of Show (The Grand), RENT (The Ziegfeld Theater). Thank you for being here tonight.

Jazmin Delgado
Jazmin Delgado (she/her) graduated last May with a BFA in musical theater from the University of Utah! Previous credits include Natasha u/s in Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Pioneer Theatre Company), Annabeth u/s in The Lightning Thief (Babcock Theatre), Juniper in Smoke and Mirrors (Lagoon) and Teresita in West Side Story (West Valley Arts). Jazmin would like to thank SLAC for the opportunity and she dedicates this show to the upcoming election. Instagram: @jazmin.viquez

Adriana Lemke
Adriana Lemke (she/her) is a Salt Lake City based theatre-artist and movement professional. She was last seen on SLAC’s stage in the NPSS reading of Burst by Rachel Bublitz. As fight and intimacy director, her work has been part of SLAC’s productions of Whitelisted, Hairy & Sherri, and Sleeping Giant. Some of her favorite acting credits include Fabiana Cunningham in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and Des-Neiges Verrette in Les Belles Soeurs.

Tracie Merrill-Wilson
Tracie Merrill-Wilson (she/her) is always grateful to work with SLAC, and is excited to be among this amazing group of artists. Previous SLAC credits include The Wolves, Rapture Blister Burn, Ice Glen and the 2010 Fearless Fringe Festival (SB Dance’s Yoga Confidential and The Harvey Girls). Other favorite local and regional works include: PG Anon, One Big Union, Lady Macbeth, and Di Esperienza with Plan-B; Eleemosynary, Selma 65, Cheat, and Stop Kiss with Pygmalion; Rings at The Grand Theatre; Dracula at PTC; Rare Bird at the U; The Rainmaker at Hale; Metamorphoses and As You Like It at the Clarence Brown Theatre; La Bete and The Tempest at Theater at Monmouth; and three Shakespeare tours (Taming of the Shrew, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet). Film and TV credits include 127 Hours and Disney Channel’s Den Brother. A member of AEA, she received her MFA from UT-Knoxville and a classical degree from Weber Douglas Academy in London. Tracie also takes great pride in being involved in readings to develop new plays. Endless love to her family, and huge thanks to her Dad for hours spent running lines.