During the summer of 2024, students of Crash Acting and Helena Walsh Empowerment Studio came together to organize a play reading of Kin by Bathsheba Doran. There was enough interest that they were able to have two casts! Below are each of the recordings.

Please enjoy. They absolutely did ♥️

THE STORY
Anna, a Texan Ivy League poetry scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal trainer, hardly seem destined for one another. But as their web of family and friends crosses distances both psychological and geographical, an unlikely new family is forged. Bathsheba Doran’s play sheds a sharp light on the changing face of kinship in the expansive landscape of the modern world.

Cast Sun

ANNA: Colleen Brady
HELENA: Angela Bruning
LINDA: Carolyn Donnelly
SEAN: Sebastian Stephenson
MAX: Padraic McGinley
ADAM: Rick Negron
KAY: Victoria Libertore
RACHEL: Jenna Anderson
SIMON/GIDEON: Conor Duffy
STAGE DIRECTIONS: Rachel Zapata

Cast moon

ANNA: Johanna O'Brian
HELENA: Rachel Zapata
LINDA: Carolyn Donnelly
SEAN: James Whelan
MAX: Padraic McGinley
ADAM: Erik Jorn Sundquist
KAY: Victoria Libertore
RACHEL: Becky Jenkins
SIMON/GIDEON: John Young
STAGE DIRECTIONS: Colleen Brady