"THE PRETTY TRAP" & "INTERIOR: PANIC"
Limited industry targeted performances of one-acts by Tennessee Williams presented at Torn Page in NYC. This production originated at the New Orleans and Tennessee Williams Festival in March 2024. Company members performed a scene from “The Pretty Trap” at the Delta Tennessee Williams Festival in March 2024. The acclaimed production will run in May 2025 at Houghton Hall in New York City.
“Jaclyn Bethany is unforgettable”
Award winning writer and author of Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Heroine
“Lin Gathright is emotionally devastating”
Williams Scholar, Baruch College, City University of NY
Company
Jaclyn Bethany
George Copeland
Lin Gathright
Ross Michael Pasquale
Sarah Schuler
Company Stage Manager Grace Curley | Artistic Directors Jaclyn Bethany & Lin Gathright
Producers
The Fire Weeds is a new female driven immersive theater company, boldly interpreting classic and new work founded by Jaclyn Bethany and Lin Gathright. The Fire Weeds is committed to producing innovative and engaging work from the female perspective in New Orleans and beyond.
FutureHome is a multimedia, multi-disciplinary development and production incubator seeking to leave the world more hopeful than they found it. Drama League Award-nominated co-producer/investor on Broadway's Gutenberg! The Musical!, Appropriate, and The Wiz. Additional recent and current projects include: GOON, a proof-of-concept heist short; the short films Whole and Six Feet Apart, selected for Oscar-qualifying festivals; Godvein, an immersive theatre-RPG fantasy roleplaying experience with a 4-course meal; The Femininity Project, a "docu-mythologia" about masculine fear of the feminine; and Awake & Narcoleptic, a solo show about invisible disability (Playbill Pick, Edinburgh Fringe 2023). Upcoming: Crossing The Desert, a Bengali-English coming-out short film; The Hunting of the Snark, an immersive Lewis Carroll adaptation (2024 Hollywood Fringe).
Lin Gathright is the co-artistic director of New Orleans’ new female focused theater company, The Fire Weeds. She is an actress in theater, film and television. Most notably as Triple Lexxx in Killing of A Lesbian Bookie and Sylvia Mills in American Horror Story:Freak Show. She is also known as burlesque icon Bunny Love. She is a fan of Tennessee Williams and has had the pleasure of bringing many of his characters to life, and is thrilled to present the inaugural Fire Weeds production in conjunction with The Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. Thank you to the cast and all female crew for all their hard work!
Jaclyn Bethany Jaclyn Bethany is an actor and Emmy award winning filmmaker, writer and Director. She holds an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute, an MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School and a BA in Theater Performance from Fordham University. As an actor, she can be seen in lead and supporting roles in numerous indie and studio films. Jaclyn has directed eight feature films and one Emmy award winning digital series The Rehearsal. Her films have played festivals worldwide (Berlinale, Santa Barbara, among others) and have been released by companies such as Giant, Bohemia and Icon, among others.
the venue
torn page
Torn Page is an event space located in Chelsea, Manhattan, in the former home of award-winning actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. Torn Page recently produced the New York premiere of Romina Paula's The Whole of Time, which received a 2024 Drama Desk nomination for Best Adaptation. The Fire Weeds is thrilled to collaborate with Torn Page on this production.
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Thomas Lanier Williams III (1911-1983), born in Columbus, Mississippi, and known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.
Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. After college, Williams moved to New Orleans, a city that would inspire his writing.
On March 31, 1945, The Glass Menagerie opened on Broadway and two years later A Streetcar Named Desire earned Williams his first Pulitzer Prize. His subsequent work from this period included Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. Many of his plays were adapted for film starring the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Ava Gardner, Geraldine Page, Paul Newman and Vivien Leigh.
Tennessee williams
the playwright
This production was originally presented with the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. The NYC transfer is Executive Produced by Carl Black and co-produced by FutureHome Productions at Torn Page.
The Pretty Trap by Tennessee Williams is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Interior: Panic by Tennessee Williams is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatrcials.com
The Pretty Trap (A Comedy in One Act) is presented by Special Arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Interior : Panic is presented by Special Arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
The Fire Weeds is supported by the New Orleans Theatre Association, The Threadhead Cultural Foundation, Carl Black and BKE Productions. The Fire Weedsis a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit organization. The Fire Weeds wishes to thank Executive Producer, Carl Black our supporters, grants and donors for their support on this production.
