People in the Wind

By William Inge

Presented by Haven Theatre as part of Director’s Haven 2018

A girl bursts into a roadside diner, panicked. Something on the greyhound bus she has been riding cross-country is not right. But everyone else is also on the run, fixated on the hope that this Kansas wind will blow them as far west as possible. So what’s a girl to do? William Inge’s one act, which would eventually become the first draft of his play Bus Stop, explores the chaotic effects of the American Dream, and how the quest for a perfect life can make us blind to the pain of others.

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CAST

ELMA: Kristen Alesia  (UNDERSTUDY ELMA: Sophie Neff)

GIRL: Kylie Anderson 

PROFESSOR: Lynne Baker 

OLD LADIES Grayson Heyl, Hillary Horvath

DRIVER: Gregory D. Hicks 

GRACE: Amy Hunt 

MAN: Andrew Rathgeber 

TEAM

STAGE MANAGER: Liz Larsen 

PRODUCTION MANAGER: Angela Salinas  

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Josh Sobel

SCENIC: Will Tople 

COSTUMES: Amanda Rabito 

LIGHTING: Blake Cordell

PROPS: Emily Boyd 

SOUND: Sarah D. Espinoza

OBJECT DESIGN: Jurrell Lewis 

CASTING: Nik Whitcomb

DRAMATURGY: Abhi Shrestha