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.
The Lab Theatre at Convergence
1819 N. Quaker Lane
Alexandria, VA 22302
December 1-16 2017
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H St, NE
Washington, DC 20002
December 17-19; 27-30, 2017
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 actor and director and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Solas Nua. As an actor, he has performed at The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The National Theatre, The Warner Theatre, 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. Directing credits include: Wild Sky, Little Thing, Big Thing, Coolatully (Solas Nua) Night Falls on the Blue Planet (Theatre Alliance); Late: a cowboy song (No Rules Theatre Company); Suite Surrender, The Prince and the Troubadour (1st Stage); Wake Up, Brother Bear (Imagination Stage); Snow Day (Arts on the Horizon); Yours, Isabel (Edinburgh Fringe); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Electric Chair Gallery); Bad Dates (Wayside Theatre); Angels in America (assistant - Forum Theatre); The Flick (assistant - Signature Theatre). Rex will appear at Signature Theatre later this season in their world premiere production of 4,380 Nights. See what else Rex is up to on his website, www.rex-daugherty.com.
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 works as a freelance draper at The University of Maryland. 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).
Lauren Pekel (Stage Manager) is a freelance stage manager and a recent DC transplant. Her DC theatre credits include Studio Theatre and the Capital Fringe Festival. Regionally, she has worked in opera, theatre, and dance with the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco Opera's Merola Opera Program, Skylight Music Theatre, and Your Mother Dances among others. Lauren holds a BFA in Stage Management from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Cast
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Natalie Cutcher (Jane Frost) is a DC-area actor and teaching artist. She originated the role of Jane--the mischievous winter elf--in Arts on the Horizon's production and remount of Snow Day. Other local collaborations include Constellation (Journey to the West), Faction of Fools (Merchant of Venice, Our Town, multiple Fool for Alls), Rorschach (A Bid to Save the World, Six Impossible Things, Glassheart), Theater Alliance (Night Falls on the Blue Planet), WSC Avant Bard (The Good Devil [In Spite of Himself]), Flying V (The Pirate Laureate and the King 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). She is a proud company member and teaching artist for Arts on the Horizon and hopes you enjoy the show!
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Amanda Forstrom (Skip) is a DC-area actor and teaching artist, and a proud company member of Arts on the Horizon. With Arts on the Horizon: Adventures with Mr. Bear, Snow Day, Point A to Point B U/S; Off-Broadway: Irondale Ensemble: Julius Caesar, Color Between The Lines. DC: Shakespeare Theatre Co: Tartuffe U/S, Folger Theatre: Julius Caesar (Assistant Director) Sense and Sensibility U/S, Twelfth Night U/S. Keegan Theatre: Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Taffety Punk Theatre Company: Riot Grrrl’s The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Bloody Poetry, Charm; Rorschach Theatre: Very Still & Hard To See, She Kills Monsters; SCENA Theatre: War of the Worlds, (Prague Fringe Festival) Antigone Now (Preseren Festival) Handbag, Lady Lay; WSC Avant Bard: Orlando; Regional: The Lost Colony; P3 East: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. |
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Esther Covington (Musician) is an actress, singer, pianist, and violinist in the DC area. She has worked at a number of theatres in the area to include Studio Theatre; Baltimore Shakespeare Festival; Wayside Theatre; 1st Stage; Imagination Stage; American Century Theatre, and Toby’s Dinner Theatre. She has an MA in Theatre, and has been playing the piano since age 5 and the violin since age 7. She is also trying to master the accordion, guitar, ukelele, and recorder. Love to Henry Winchester III, who hates getting his paws wet in the snow.
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