Two outsiders claim the back patio of a Vermont coffee shop. When a shy teenage employee becomes part of their daily conversations, an unexpected bond forms. With humor and aching honesty, Annie Baker's "The Aliens" is a quietly powerful play about connection, art, and feeling like you're from another planet.
CAST
Danny Jones*
Nik Doner
Conor Craggan
PRODUCTION TEAM
Directed by: Benjamin McFadden & Lindsay Welliver
Stage Manager: Brandon Eller
Producers: Nik Doner & Danny Jones*
DESIGN TEAM
Set/Props Design: Robin Macartney
Lighting Design: Sumer "Dean" Munroe
Sound Design: Nik Doner
Costume Design: Meaghan Darling
Music Consultant: Jon Lutyens
Promotional Photos: John Ulman
Rehearsal Photos: Giao Nguyen
Poster Design: Miles Kalbach
* denotes member of AEA
White Rabbits Inc
Stories that Serve
White Rabbits Inc is (for lack of a better term) a production house that composes theatrical productions to serve distinct communities of those who suffer.
White Rabbits Inc produces on a project-by-project basis and donates 100% of any and all profits to a pre-specified non-profit related to the themes/ideas of the particular production.
Previous donations have been made to Shatterproof and the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
You can make a tax deductible donation here.
Past Projects
"Cuddling with Strippers" by Nik Doner (2017)
Directed by Hannah Victoria Franklin
Nik Doner got sober in 2014, found a box of writings and home videos from when he was drinking and diagnosed with testicular cancer, and put them into this humorous and poignant autobiographical “slightly-solo” show about mistakes, memories, and second chances through the blurry lens of the addiction that blacked out many of his nights.
This multimedia devised piece, workshopped and performed twice in 2017, is an irreverent, ironic, and layered look at addiction, mortality, and memory. Telling his story through humor, video, and choreographed dance, Nik dives into what he thinks he remembers about his past, asking whether or not you really know yourself, when you spent so much of your life lying.
"Blackbird" by David Harrower (2019)
Directed by Paul Budraitis
Ray, fifty-six, has a new identity, assured that his past can't find him. Una, twenty-seven, has arrived unannounced at his office. Guilt, rage, and raw emotions run high as they recollect the passionate relationship they had fifteen years ago, when she was twelve and he was forty.
Blackbird is a story about living with the consequences of abuse and trauma. Is it possible deconstruct a shared past and reclaim your life?
Organizations Supported
Fiscal Sponsor
White Rabbits Inc is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike.
Shunpike is the 501(c)(3) non-profit agency that provides independent arts groups in Washington State with the services, resources, and opportunities they need to forge their own paths to sustainable success.
More info at shunpike.org