Paul and Émile
World Premiere
by Kai Maristed
directed by Sasha Brätt
September 20 – October 12, 2025 | Previews September 18 & 19
Please be sure to credit Michael Karchmer & Michael Kerouac for all production images used. Thank you!
CAST
Abe Goldfarb* Émile Zola
Todd Scofield* Paul Cézanne
Anna Marie Sell* Mamselle
CREATIVE TEAM
Christopher Ostrom Scenic, Lighting, & Projection Designer
Carol Sherry Costume Designer
Matt Otto Composer & Sound Designer
Holly Buczek Casting Director
Aléjandra Lucero* Production Stage Manager
Sophie Harris* Assistant 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, lighting, sound, and projection designers of this production are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829 of the IATSE.
BIOS:
Kai Maristed (Playwright) was born in Chicago, studied economics and political science in Munich and at MIT, and has worked as a broadcast journalist and playwright in Germany, as an international business consultant for BCG, and on the faculties of universities in Europe and the United States. She is the author of three novels: Broken Ground (2003), Fall (1996) and Out After Dark (1993) and a collection of stories, Belong to Me (1997). Her shorter work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, Zoetrope, The American Voice, Ploughshares, AGNI, the Iowa Review and elsewhere. She is a frequent book reviewer for print and online, and occasional translator from German and French. Kai volunteered and served for three years as CFO with a rural hospital in Haiti, has taught at the MFA level at Harvard, Emerson College, and the Warren Wilson Program. She lives in Paris, France and on Cape Cod, when not on the move.
Sasha Brätt (Director) is an award-winning stage director based out of Hartford, CT. For almost two decades he has staged works from New York to DC, Connecticut to Cape Cod, the Berkshires to Boston. At WHAT, he has directed Raging Skillet and Straight White Men. Sasha has been a champion of new works for many years both as a director and as a reader for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, the Source Festival, and as well as other institutions. In addition, Sasha served as the Director of New Works for Playhouse on Park for eight years where he launched their “Playwrights on Park” New Play Reading Series.
Todd Scofield* (Paul Cézanne) DC Area: Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Henry VIII, Merry Wives of Windsor, others; Arena Stage: Holiday, City of Conversation, Sovereignty; Shakespeare Theatre: King Lear, Our Town, Richard III, others; Round House Theatre: Ink, Oslo, The Book of Will, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, others; Signature Theatre: Ragtime; Kennedy Center: Mister Roberts; Theater J, Studio, Ford’s, Olney, Adventure Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Everyman Theatre REGIONAL: Arden Theatre: Freud’s Last Session; PlayMakers, Charlotte Rep, and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Television: recurring role in seasons 3 and 5 of The Wire.
Abe Goldfarb* (Émile Zola) is an actor, writer and director based in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He’s been on Broadway (in Beetlejuice), voiced Pokémon (several) and emceed burlesque shows all over the world (seriously). His multiple award-winning film First Time Caller is now streaming.
Anna Marie Sell* (Mamselle) Wellfleet Harbor debut! Favorite regional credits: Chapter Two, The Prisoner of Zenda, Steel Magnolias, Dial M for Murder, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Hollow, and Not Now, Darling. New York highlights: A Wilder Christmas, State of the Union, Kingdom of Earth, Separate Tables, The Merchant of Venice, and Goodnight Soldier, a solo cabaret. On-Screen: Redrum, Mare of Easttown, Frisco, Lonely, and NY Historical Society.
PAUL AND ÉMILE
by Kai Maristed
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: Thursdays through Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 3:00 p.m., September 20 – October 12, 2025; Preview performances September 18 and 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Outermost Performing Arts Center
2357 State Highway Route 6
Wellfleet MA 02667
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