Clubbed Thumb’s
Summerworks 2025
May 14 – July 1, 2025
Business Ideas
by Milo Cramer
directed by Laura Dupper
with
Brittany Bradford, Laura Scott Cary, Annie McNamara
and Mary Wiseman
sets Emmie Finckel
costumes Avery Reed
lights Emily Clarkson
sound Caroline Eng
production stage manager Andie Burns
A mother-daughter duo, tenuously clinging to middle-class status, brainstorm get-rich-quick schemes while their exhausted, lovable barista tries to find more gainful employment. A rags-to-rags comedy about desperation and service work.
Not Not Jane’s
by Mara Nelson-Greenberg
directed by Joan Sergay
with
Jordan Bellow, Sam Breslin Wright, Yonatan Gebeyehu,
Sue Jean Kim, Susannah Perkins and more
sets Corey Umlauf
costumes Mel Ng
lights Marika Kent
sound Johnny Gasper
production stage manager Heather Englander
A young woman gets a grant to start a community center—but at her mom’s house. A play about being at the whim of billionaires, pornos-with-no-sex, and trying to get a piece of the pie.
Cold War Choir Practice
Script, Lyrics + Music by Ro Reddick
directed by Knud Adams
Music Direction by Ellen Winter
a Co-Production with Page 73
with
Stephanie Berry, Alana Raquel Bowers, Will Cobbs, Nina Grollman,
Andy Lucien, Grace McLean, Mallory Portnoy and Suzzy Roche
sets Afsoon Pajoufar
costumes Brenda Abbandandolo
lights Masha Tsimring
sound Kathy Ruvuna
movement Baye & Asa
production stage manager Christina Woolard
A prominent Black conservative brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays, setting long simmering tensions with his estranged family to boil. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults—underscored by the Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.