Sacco and Vanzetti’s Divine Comedy
by Kevin Rice
directed by Tim Habeger
June 27 – July 26, 2025 | Previews June 25 & 26
Running Time: 2 hours 30 Minutes, including one intermission.
Please be sure to credit Michael A. Karchmer and Mike P. Kerouac for all production images used. Thank you!
CAST
Robin Bloodworth * Bailiff
Christopher Eastland * Nicola Sacco
Kathy McCafferty * Rosina Sacco
Stephen Russell * Judge Webster Thayer
Jon Vellante * Bartolomeo Vanzetti
CREATIVE TEAM
Christopher Ostrom Scenic, Projection, & Lighting Designer
Liv Curnen Costume Designer
Chris Tsambis Sound Designer
Jess Brennan* Production Stage Manager
Sophie Harris* Assistant Production Stage Manager
* appearing through an agreement between this theater and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
The scenic, projection, and lighting designer of this production is represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829 of the IATSE.
The director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
Kevin Rice has written eleven plays, several of which have been staged at WHAT or Payomet Performing Arts Center where he serves as Executive Director. Among them, The Pickleball Wars, Under The Radar, Hopper’s Ghosts, One Night In The Life Of Denise Ivanovich, and an adaptation of Oblomov which was also produced in Russia.
Robin Bloodworth (Bailiff), is glad to be returning to WHAT and to collaborate with both Kevin Rice and Tim Habeger again. Other credits include: Artist Descending A Staircase, A Doll’s House, The Kritik, Everything is Established, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Weir, The Deer and the Antelope, Buried Child, Tiny Beautiful Things, Lenin’s Embalmers, The Pickleball Wars, The Young Man from Atlanta, Hopper’s Ghosts, Nick’s Flamingo Grill, (Alliance Theater), Girl Science (Ensemble Studio Theater). Vanity Fair, Time Stands Still, Clybourne Park, (Suzi Award winners), Ah, Wilderness! (75th anniversary revival), Cloud 9 (20th anniversary revival). TV/Film: The Air He Breathes, Stars Fell Again, Those Who Deserve to Die, Anatomy of the Throat, Halt and Catch Fire, Your Worst Nightmare, Swamp Murders, Necessary Roughness, The Game, Midnight Edition, Talk Show, The MLK Tapes, 13 Tales of Halloween, Annawakee.
Christopher Eastland (Nicola Sacco) is making his WHAT debut. He’s an actor, educator, and clown originally from Texas. Favorite credits include An Iliad (The Poet), A Christmas Carol (Cratchit, Marley, et al.), Clue (Wadsworth), Stevie the Real World (Peter), Hit the Wall (Cop), A Contemporary Guide to a Successful Marriage ©1959 (Narrator), Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Tom), The One-Act Play that Goes Wrong (Robert), Distracted (Dad), Pippin (Charles), The Drunken City (Eddie), and Our Town (Sam Craig). Education: MFA @ MSU, MA @ BGSU, & BFA @ Baylor.
Kathy McCafferty (Rosina Sacco) Kathy is thrilled to return to WHAT where she was previously seen in The Pickleball Wars. Recent favorites include Barbara in August: Osage County, Bridget in Thirst, Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Regina in The Little Foxes, Boeing Boeing, John Cleese’s Bang Bang! opposite Sean Astin, The 39 Steps, Plaza Suite. Broadway Tour: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, 59E59 Theaters. Regional Highlights: The Huntington Theatre Company, Ahmanson Theatre, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Portland Stage, Arkansas Rep, Boise Contemporary Theatre, Maltz Jupiter, Premiere Stages, Arts Center of Coastal
Carolina, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Shadowland, Bay Street, Rep. Theatre of St. Louis, and others. TV/ Film: And Just Like That,The Gilded Age, Little America, House of Cards, 30 Rock, Law & Order: CI, Law & Order: SVU. Company Member of The Actor’s Center.
Stephen Russell (Judge Webster Thayer) This production is a welcome reunion with Kevin Rice, with whom Stephen worked in the summer of 2000 on One Night in the Life of Denise Ivanovich, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and with WHAT, where he has been acting since 1987 (Greater Tuna). Twenty years later he was in the cast of the first show on the Julie Harris Stage, The Clean House. Other favorites include Nixon’s Nixon, Ashes to Ashes, Indian Blood (with his son, Peter), The Hound of the Baskervilles (with his daughter, Robin), and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, with Ms. Harris herself. Stephen is the Book Buyer for the Wellfleet Marketplace, has voiced a bunch of interactive games, and released his debut album of original songs, The Trouble with Time, in 2023. Stephen’s play, The Very Sad Tale of the Late Mr.
Stiltskin Stiltskin is being performed this summer by Your Theatre in New Bedford.
Jon Vellante (Bartolomeo Vanzetti) is a Boston-based stage & screen actor making his
Wellfleet debut. Recent credits include Beyond Words (Elliot Norton Award Nomination –
Outstanding Featured Performance, Midsize Theater); A Raisin in the Sun and DIASPORA! (New Repertory Theatre); Julia (HBO Max); Fairview (Speakeasy Stage Company); Megalopolis (Coolidge Corner Theater w/Francis Ford Coppola in attendance); and the short film Automate (Winner – Best Actor, London Shorts). Jon is also a company member of Theater Espresso, performing interactive historical courtroom dramas for schools throughout the state.
Tim Habeger (Director) is a writer/director and Co-founder of PushPush Arts, an artist-run incubator in Atlanta focused on national and international collaborations and the development of original work. He began his career in New York with La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart and assistant to Joe Chaikin on Sam Shepard’s When the World Was Green for the 1996 Cultural Olympiad. He developed the movement curriculum at AMDA and was an ensemble member at The Neighborhood on Theater Row, while working at The Bitter End and CBGB’s. He has created new work in Berlin for the past two decades. Recent projects include Antigone/4D (2022), and Worth #3 (2025). He is currently adapting Brecht’s Fear and Misery in the Third Reich. His mentors include Murray Mednick at Padua Playwrights in LA. Former students include Donald Glover, David Cross, Deborah Kampmeier, and Sahr Ngaujah. Upcoming projects include GRFX, an international series on the creative class, and 13 Poems in a Draft, about Western poetry seen through Eastern eyes.
Michael Sottile (Original Music & Lyrics): As Composer/Lyricist, Off-Broadway: Inappropriate, One Day, Who’s Holiday!, I Like It Like That, End of the World Party.
Regional Productions: Oh, Well (Blank Theater, Los Angeles), The Snowman in the Dunes (Provincetown Theater), Inappropriate (Coronet Theater, Los Angeles), Derin Brockovich (Provincetown Theater), We Are Not Strangers (LaMama). As Musical Director: Jonah (Public Theater), The Pied Piper (Manhattan Theatre Club), Jerusalem (Delacorte Theater), Groundhog (Manhattan Theater Club), The Red Sneaks (Perry Street Theater), Swing (Brooklyn Academy of Music).
SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY
by Kevin Rice
Tickets: $55 ($52 seniors, $15 students); previews $30; balcony (Partial View) $15;
Community Access Tickets: $65 (pay a little more to support ticket initiatives for members of our community)
When: June 27 – July 26: Thurs. – Sat. 7:00 p.m.; Sunday, July 6 at 5:00 pm; previews June 25 & 26, 7:00 p.m.
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Outermost Performing Arts Center
2357 State Highway Route 6
Wellfleet MA 02667
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