Charlie’s Waiting by Mêlisa Annis
2017 Parity Development Award Winner

Poster art of the play Charlie’s Waiting by Mêlisa Annis. Arm of a couch wtih five vases on the floor in a black and white living room

March 28th - April 20th, 2019
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TEAM

Playwright: Mêlisa Annis (she/her)
Director: Ludovica Villar-Hauser (she/her)
Assistant Director: Judith Binus (she/her)
Dramaturg: Jennifer Kranz (she/her)
Production Designer: Meganne George (she/her)
​Lighting Designer: Miriam Nilofa Crowe (she/her)
Sound Designer: Caroline Kittredge Faustine (she/her)
Stage Manager: Jenna Ng Lowry (she/her)
Assistant Stage Manager: George Weinhouse, M.D. (he/him)
General Manager: Isabella Jane Schiller (she/her)
Additional Casting By: Jamibeth Margolis, CSA (she/her)
​Production Management: Intuitive Management

CAST

Xanthe Elbrick (she/her) – Louise
Stephanie Heitman (she/her) – Kelly
Amy Scanlon (she/her) – Annie




Charlie’s Waiting, a world premiere by 2017 Parity Development Award winner Mêlisa Annis, follows two women the night before their wedding. A pregnant Louise is busy with all the planning while her fiancée Kelly busies herself feeding the goats. Everything is going to plan, that is until Louise is forced to confront questions of trust and intimacy, and she discovers how quickly plans can get derailed.

"...a taut, very funny, and brilliantly played dance of wits and emotions."
 - Jon Sobel, Blogcritics

“…demonstrates its young author’s flair for weaving comedy and drama together, as well as a wicked imagination.”
 - Leslie R. Herman, Off Off Online

"Playwright Mêlisa Annis provides a thought-provoking, well-crafted script."
 - Shoshana Robers, Theatre Is Easy

"Ludovica Villar-Hauser, the play's keen eyed and eared director... paces the fine actors for the ultimate tension, making the most of every innuendo."
 - Joel Benjamin, Theatrescene.net

Special thanks to our partners Dog and Bone and The Churchill

Pictured (clockwise from top left): Xanthe Elbrick as “Louise,” Amy Scanlon as “Annie,” and Stephanie Heitman as “Kelly.”
Photography by John Quilty.

Pictured (left to right): Xanthe Elbrick, Amy Scanlon, and Stephanie Heitman. Photography by John Quilty.

Collage of actors and playwright in readings of play Charlie’s Waiting by Mêlisa Annis.

Parity Productions 2018 Developmental Readings. Pictured (clockwise from top left): Xanthe Elbrick, Mêlisa Annis (playwright), Xanthe Elbrick, Stephanie Heitman, and Amy Scanlon. Photography by Ashley Garrett.

Collage of actors in readings of play Charlie’s Waiting by Mêlisa Annis.

​Left Pictured: Annual Parity Gala, October 2017. Anna Frankl-Duval and Liz Jasicki. Photography by Carlotta Brentan.
​Right Pictured: Annual Parity Gala, September 2018. Maggie Mason and Liz Jasicki. Photography by Ashley Garrett.

 
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