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.
