The Carpenter

CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright: Robert Askins
Director: Will Davis
Assistant Director: Peter Ton
Artistic Director: James Black
Fight Director: Luke Fedell
CAST
Kip: T. Ryder Smith
Claire: Jessica Savage
Steve: Buddy Haardt
Terry: Valeri Mudek
Dan: Ken Wulf Clark
Gene: Wade McCollum
Jesse: Molly Carden
Cheryl: Cass Morgan
Venus: Brooke Wilson
Photos by Lynn Lane
Alley Theatre
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Regional - 2019

Production Photos
Theatre Reviews
"[Wade] McCollum and [Ken Wulf] Clark are perfectly cast as Gene and Dan, with each of them doing an excellent job of emulating the other when they are pretending to be their opposite."
Culture Map Houston
"This Texas-set world premiere farce from Cypress, Texas-born playwright Robert Askins takes a wedding party, long lost relatives, angry strippers, a DYI gazebo building, and mistaken identity to the ultimate comic extremes."
Houston Theater
"A funny, surprising, original, well written, directed and acted play. I've never heard a crowd laugh so much. Truly brilliant comedy."
Houston Press
"In one of the most graceful and slowly building double-takes in memory [Brooke Wilson] turns to the audience and flashes the slyest of smiles when she tricks the clueless family. She’s got us firmly in the palm of her hand forever after."
San Francisco Chronicle
"[The show’s] best moments are scenes of pure comedy, epitomized by Brooke Wilson, playing an angry heartbroken stripper out for revenge."
Houstonian Magazine
"Cass Morgan as Cheryl is wonderful as the drama queen mom with the perfect Texas twang and rejoinder for every comment thrown her way; her fake news hypochondria is a marvel to behold."











