Evelyn in Purgatory

December 3-6 at Ye Olde Opera House​

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Character Descriptions 

Candace Metzger (Addison Cross) holds the most authority in the room despite having the least qualifications for it. Beneath her tough exterior, she is misty and a bit lonesome.

 

Evelyn Reid (Olivia Mendez) is a likeable and resourceful Massachusetts native in her 20s. Her working-class formative years taught her never to enter a fight she doesn't intend to win, and she has taught herself to present very well in spite of her background. She is conflicted, cheerful, and calculating.

 

Lila Wadkins (Kay Cross) is calm, maternal, thoughtful, and witty. An Upstate New York native with some residual hippie traits around the edges, she is comfortable stepping into the role of the voice of reason—the art teacher everyone wishes they had—even when it isn't requested.

 

Toby Fleming (Demitre Ellis) is a Brooklyn native in his 20s who is quiet, perpetually uncertain, socially dysfunctional, but deeply decent. While his education prepared him to teach his subject matter, it left him unprepared for the actual realities of being a teacher, and he has yet to figure out what to do about it.

 

Fred DiSalvo (Carl Haakenstad) is a bombastic, funny, and somewhat bullish gym teacher from Hell's Kitchen. Overly didactic and suspicious, he finds himself shaken to his core by a changing world that he fails to understand and defensively rejects.

 

Roberta Burke (Jen Solberg) acts as the self-appointed queen of all she surveys. She possesses razor-sharp wit, zero patience, and an uncanny ability to spot the weaknesses in everyone around her.

 

Atwood (Mary Deters/Rachel Storlie) is the unseen head of the disciplinary panel and serves as the invisible voice of absolute authority, sincerely believing in the value of the panel's work.

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