Devised by Whit MacLaughlin and Members of our Professional Actor Training Program
Directed by Whit MacLaughlin
Created in collaboration with and directed by Whit MacLaughlin, Artistic Director of the OBIE award-winning New Paradise Laboratories, Cold Empty Terrible is a resuscitation of a theatrical debacle embedded inside Anton Chekhov’s 1896 masterpiece, The Seagull. Members of our Professional Actor Training Program and MFA design students turn molehill into mountain by devising an original work for the stage that aims to prove that a century of theatrical experimentation must be good for something. Is it a moving spectacle of a ruined world 200,000 years in the future? Or a complete waste of time? You be the judge.
This show contains adult content, adult language, and brief nudity. Recommended for ages 17+.
Cold Empty Terrible program (PDF)
| Whit MacLaughlin | Director |
| Sam Tower | Assistant Director |
| Christopher Donoghue | Actor |
| Sunam Ellis | Actor |
| Anna Lamadrid | Actor |
| Joseph Ngo | Actor |
| Andrea Salaiz | Actor |
| Moises Castro | Actor |
| Tré Cotten | Actor |
| Claire Fort | Actor |
| Christen Gee | Actor |
| Rebekah Patti | Actor |
| Rudy Roushdi | Actor |
| Tera Velan | Actor |
| Zach Virden | Actor |
| Julia Welch | Scenic Design |
| Maya Ogasawara | Costume Design |
| Thorn Michaels | Lighting Design |
| Whit MacLaughlin | Sound Design |