Episode 21 - Losing My Religion by Hannah C. Langley (Part 1)

Charity, a prized daughter of America's premier radical anti-gay Church, struggles with her faith and temptation after failing to convert a nice Jewish boy over Twitter.

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Playwright

Hannah C. Langley is a 26 year old playwright, novelist, and screenwriter from Valencia, California. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and a third-year Dramatic Writing MFA Candidate at University of Southern California, Hannah writes political plays that explore the internal, emotional, and spiritual lives of young woman with a mix magic and modern theatricality. 

Her second full-length play, Ambitious Card, was featured inthe Fountain Theatre’s Spring 2017 Rapid Dev Series. Hannah’s thesis play, Losing My Religion (in 140 Characters or Less) received a workshop directed by Emily Chase in April 2017 and anotherreading at Cypress College thisJuly. Since then, the play has earned Semi-Finalist statusin both The Road and Sanguine Theatre’s summer play festivalsand a spot in the Fountain Theatre’s latest Rapid Dev Series. 

If you like Hannah’s work, you can follow her on Twitter (@HannahCLangley) and check out her website. She’s thrilled that the amazing At the Table team took this project on andthather weird play about religious extremists and Judy Garland has a permanent home. ​

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Cast

Abby Church - Charity

Broadway: How to Succeed…(Rosemary u/s), White Christmas.  Tours/NY:  Billy Elliot (1st Nat’l), 42nd Street (Asia), City Center Encores, Irish Rep. Regional favorites: Zelayna in the US premiere of Legendale (Human Race Theatre) Cinderella in Into the Woods(North Carolina Theatre), Polly in Crazy for You (Riverside Theatre), Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone (Cider Mill Playhouse), and shows at Goodspeed, Kennedy Center, Muny, Engeman, NSMT, Hangar, Atlanta TOTS. Numerous commercials and print for everything from Dunkin' Donuts to Chase Bank. BFA in Acting, Ithaca College.

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Max Crumm - Adam

Broadway: Scott, DISASTER! (The Nederlander), Danny, GREASE (Brooks Atkinson). Off-Broadway: Max, HOT MESS & Matt, THE FANTASTICKS (Both @ The Jerry Orbach Theater), Scott, DISASTER! (St. Luke's Theatre), Christian Mohammed Shwartzelberg, BROOKLYN CRUSH {formerly: F#%KING UP EVERYTHING} (Elektra Theatre). Festival/Regional: Woody Harrelson, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY VS. THE DEVIL (NYMF 2017), The Situation, JERSEY SHORESICAL (NY Fringe Festival). Walter Paisley, BEATSVILLE (Asolo Rep.), Andy, LEGENDALE (Human Race Theatre). Film/TV: Easy A, Killing Diaz, Deception & Echoboom. @MaxCrumm

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Aneesh Sheth - Harley

The Public: Southern Comfort, Twelfth Night: Mobile Unit. Regional/Tours: Bombay Dreams (1st National), Around the World in 80 Days (Village Theatre). Film/TV: A Kid Like Jake, High Maintenance (HBO), Difficult People (Hulu). Other credits include Lincoln Center Theater, La MaMa Etc., York Theatre, NAMT, NYMF, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and the Asian American Theatre Company (San Francisco). Proud AEA member. Training: B.F.A.NYU/Tisch/CAP21. aneeshsheth.co

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Isabel Keating - Joyce

Isabel is currently changing the weather on Broadway as Madame Morrible in Wicked, directed by Joe Mantello, at the Gershwin Theatre. Prior to this, she played with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play, directed by Jack O’Brien. For Broadway’s The Boy from Oz, in which she starred opposite Hugh Jackman, she garnered Tony Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations and won the Drama Desk and Theatre World awards. Also on Broadway, she starred in Hairspray (directed by Mr. O’Brien); Enchanted April (Michael Wilson, director); and the original cast of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark (Julie Taymor, director). Off Broadway, she has appeared at Primary Stages (in Cusi Cram’s A Lifetime Burning directed by Pam MacKinnon); Atlantic Theatre Company; Ensemble Studio Theatre; Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, and more. Keating won the Helen Hayes Award for her performance in Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink for Washington, DC’s Studio Theatre, directed by Joy Zinoman, and has appeared regionally at Arena Stage (as Birdie opposite Marg Helgenberger’s Regina in The Little Foxes), The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Bay Street Theatre (with Richard Kind in Tom Stoppard’s Travesties), Williamstown, and others. For television, she guest starred in “The Path,” “3 lbs,” “L&O: CI,” and provided her voice for the Emmy Award-winning PBS American Masters “Judy Garland: By Myself.” Her films include James Schamus’s feature film directorial début Indignation; The Nanny Diaries and Life Before Her Eyes. For her narration of the memoir A Woman in Berlin, Isabel received her 6th Audiofile Earphones Award, and is included on the list of Best Audiobooks of 2017. Isabel is honored to be making her At the Table début with this wonderful ensemble bringing to life Hannah Langley’s unique play. (She posts pictures about plays and music, with the occasional spate of flowers, on Instagram @isabelkeating)

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