Written and Directed by Rex Daugherty
Best for children ages 2 - 6 and their families
One cold December morning, a young girl named Skip wakes up to find the entire neighborhood covered in a thick, dazzling blanket of white snow. A playful (if not a little mischievous) winter elf takes her on an adventure – showing her just how magical snow can be! Join Skip as she experiences all the excitement, joy, and wonder of her very first snow day. This nonverbal production features live music and lots of wintertime fun, just in time for the holiday season.
Best for children ages 2 - 6 and their families
One cold December morning, a young girl named Skip wakes up to find the entire neighborhood covered in a thick, dazzling blanket of white snow. A playful (if not a little mischievous) winter elf takes her on an adventure – showing her just how magical snow can be! Join Skip as she experiences all the excitement, joy, and wonder of her very first snow day. This nonverbal production features live music and lots of wintertime fun, just in time for the holiday season.
W-3 Theatre at the Workhouse Arts Center
December 3-14, 2014
Atlas Performing Arts Center
December 18-22, 2014
Study Guide
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Continue the experience at home with our Snow Day Study Guide. Enjoy activities inspired by the show and extend learning beyond the production.
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Review
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Snow Day received amazing feedback. Our Kids raved about Snow Day commenting, "It was unbelievable how captivated the children were by the facial expressions, story line, props and music YET they were not overly stimulated." To read the entire review, click on the PDF.
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Artistic Team
Rex Daugherty (Director and Playwright) is a DC based director and actor and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Solas Nua. Other directing credits include: Night Falls on the Blue Planet (world premiere) at Theater Alliance; Late: a cowboy song (DC premiere) at No Rules Theatre Company; Yours, Isabel (world premiere) at Edinburgh Fringe; Suite Surrender (DC premiere) and The Prince and the Troubadour at 1st Stage; The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Electric Chair Gallery; Bad Dates at Wayside Theatre; As an actor, he has performed at The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Folger Theatre, Solas Nua, and Off Broadway at 59E59. Daugherty has received three Helen Hayes nominations as part of Outstanding Ensembles and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Rex will be directing another early childhood play this winter at Imagination Stage called Wake Up, Brother Bear.
Dorothy Barnes Driggers (Costume Designer) is a costume designer and technician in Washington, DC. Her most recent design credits include Mary Poppins at Central Piedmont Summer Theatre, Madeline’s War at the Volks Theatre in Vienna, Austria, and the 2012 spring season at Seaside Rep in Seaside, Florida. While she is not designing, she has worked as a freelance costume technician at The Washington National Opera, Folger Theatre, The University of Maryland, and Arena Stage. She is delighted to be joining the design team for this remount production of Snow Day.
Sarah Conte (Set/Props Designer) works as a stage manager and properties artisan. Sarah is an Associated Artist with Faction of Fools Theatre Co. and works as their Production Manager. Regional: Stage Manager: Faction of Fools, HUB Theatre, No Rules Theatre, American Century Theatre, Imagination Stage; Properties: Constellation, Round House Theatre, Faction of Fools, Longacre Lea, First Stage. BA, SUNY New Paltz (Theatre Technology and Design).
Mary Alicia Sells (Resident Stage Manager) is a proud company member of Arts on the Horizon. A local freelance stage manager, she has had the privilege to work on over 30 productions with such companies as Adventure Theatre, Arena Stage, Folger Theatre, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Olney Theatre Center, Signature Theatre, The Source Festival, Spooky Action Theater, Studio Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a BA in English, History, and Theatre.
Cast
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Natalie Cutcher (Jane Frost) made her debut with Arts on the Horizon in Snow Day last year. Other local collaborators include Faction of Fools (Our Town, Plays on the American Mask, Quattro Senari), Rorschach (Glassheart, Six Impossible Things), Flying V (The Pirate Laureate and the Kind of the Sea, Flying V Fights: Love is a Battlefield), The Washington Rogues (In The Forest, She Grew Fangs, Mitzi's Abortion), Source Festival (Perfect Arrangement, F2F, Uses of Enchantment--workshop), The Inkwell (Kennedy Center's Page to Stage: A Showcase of Local Inklings, First Contact Showcase: Mysteries of Body and Soul), Arts Alive (All This Intimacy). She earned her BA from Muhlenberg College and studied Physical Theatre abroad in Italy. Upcoming: Night Falls on the Blue Planet with Theatre Alliance, Snow Day & Point A to Point B with Arts on the Horizon.
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Amanda Forstrom (Skip) is thrilled to be returning for another Snow Day! DC: Shakespeare Theatre Co: Tartuffe; Taffety Punk Theatre Company: Riot Grrrl’s The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, BOOTLEG Pericles, Bloody Poetry, Charm; Rorschach Theatre: Very Still & Hard To See, She Kills Monsters; SCENA Theatre: Handbag; WSC Avant Bard:Orlando; Folger Theatre: Julius Caesar (AD) Twelfth Night (Viola U/S). Regional: The Lost Colony; P3 East: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Off-Broadway: Irondale Ensemble: Julius Caesar, Color Between The Lines. |
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Daven Ralston (Musician in Remount) is delighted to join Arts on the Horizon for their remount of Snow Day, while also fulfilling her long-time dream of playing the kazoo. She was last seen onstage in WSC Avant Bard's Friendship Betrayed. Other recent credits include productions with Center Stage, The Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, WSC Avant Bard, Venus Theatre, Young Playwrights' Theater, Prince George County Shakespeare Festival, and Theatre Lab. Daven moved into DC in 2013 to attend Theatre Lab's Honors Acting Conservatory. Upcoming shows include playing Puck in WSC Avant Bard’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as understudying for Constellation Theatre’s Journey to the West.
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