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The CAKE 

BY BEKAH BRUNSTETTER

DIRECTED BY ARIA VELZ

in association with NextStop Theatre Company
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View the Program for The Cake
ABOUT THE PLAY:
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.

Recommended for adults only
Mild sexual content, coarse language, and partial nudity
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RUN TIME:
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90 minutes, no intermission
PERFORMANCE VENUE:
​Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H St. NE 
Washington, DC 222
PERFORMANCE DETAILS:
February 2, 2023 - February 26, 2023
Thursdays, 7:30pm

Fridays, 7:30pm
Saturdays, 2:30pm & 7:30pm
​Sundays, 2:30pm

Adult Tickets: $35
discounted tickets ($25) for seniors, students, educators, and military members
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Pay What You Can Tickets:
EVERY Thursday (2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23) &
Friday, Feb 3 7:30pm + Saturday, Feb 4 2:30pm

photos by DJ Corey Photography

THE CAST

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Clockwise from upper left:
Nicole Halmos - DELLA
​Sabrina Lynne Sawyer - MACY
Tara Forseth* - JEN
Sam Lunay - TIM
​* denotes a member of Actors' Equity Association

The Production Team

Aria Velz - DIRECTOR
Alexa Duimstra ​ - COSTUME DESIGNER
Helen Garcia-Alton - LIGHTING DESIGNER
​Christie Johnson - PROPS DESIGNER
Justin Schmitz - SOUND DESIGNER

Jason Tamborini - SCENIC DESIGNER
Sierra Young - INTIMACY DIRECTOR
Katie Buchwell - PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
​Caroline Johnson - ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

about the playwright

Bekah hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles.

​As a TV writer and producer, she has written for Switched at Birth, American Gods, This is Us, and Maid (Netflix, 2021.) She is currently developing a TV adaptation of the musical Oklahoma! with John Lee Hancock and Skydance Television. She has previously developed content with Bad Robot and Hulu. 

As a playwright, her work has been staged and developed by The O’Neill Playwright’s conference, the Atlantic Theater, Portland Center Stage, The Old Globe, the La Jolla Playhouse, Naked Angels, South Coast Repertory, The Echo theater, and Ojai Playwright’s conference. Her play The Cake has been produced over 80 times worldwide, as ran off Broadway at  Manhattan Theater Club. She is currently working on Commissions for South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theater Club, Barrington Stage, and Playmaker’s Rep. She is currently developing a musical adaptation of The Notebook with Ingrid Michaelson.

She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writes group, Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, and the Women’s Project Lab, and the Echo Playwright’s Group. 

BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama.  bekahbrunstetter.com

Hear Bekah talk about on why it was important to her personally to put a conservative person at the forefront of a play.   
TICKET PRICING DETAILS:

Pay What You Can Tickets
Tickets for the first three performances PLUS every Thursday performance are Pay What You Can.  You have the option to either purchase these tickets in advance, online or purchase them in person at the Atlas Box Office. 
  • Pay What You Can tickets sold online are available in increments of five dollars from $5 to $30 plus any applicable Atlas online transaction charges. 
  • If you purchase Pay What You Can tickets in person at the Atlas Box Office you can name your own ticket price in any amount starting at $1 ($4, $18, $50 - literally anything you want to pay for your ticket!). 
This type of ticket pricing is designed to allow the utmost in pricing flexibility for our audience members.

General Adult Admission - $35 
Applicable for all performances beginning with the opening night performance Saturday, February 4, 2023 through closing on Sunday, February 26, 2023.  

Discounted Adult Admission - $25
Available to Students, Seniors, Educators and members of the Military and their families for all performances beginning with the opening night performance Saturday, February 4, 2023 through closing on Sunday, February 26, 2023.

Industry Tickets - $15
Available for all performances, beginning with opening night, to all members of the theatre community including all artists, stage managers, directors, designers, and administrators; use discount code INDUSTRY15 to purchase in advance online or request an industry ticket at the Atlas Box Office. 

**If you require ADA accommodated seating, please choose an ADA ticket on the Atlas Website when making your ticket purchase.

Group Tickets
If you are interested in purchasing 10 or more tickets, please contact Christie Johnson at ​cjohnson@prologuetheatre.org for assistance
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