Commencement
Written by:
Clay McLeod Chapman
Written by Clay McLeod Chapman
About
Cast and Crew
Hanna Cheek will bring her no holds barred performance of
COMMENCEMENT to the Red Room for a one night only event. See the show
that SEE Magazine says "... will leave you wringing your hands in
helpless empathy."
Clay McLeod Chapman
(Playwright)
Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of The Pumpkin Pie Show. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel -- both published by Hyperion books. He teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.
Hannah Cheek
(Performer)
Hanna Cheek has been a part of The Pumpkin Pie Show since 2001, performing in: Junta High (PS 122), The Cardiac Shadow (PS 122), Saint Hanna: The Patron Saint of The Pumpkin Pie Show (The Kraine), Ringside Seats (Belt Theatre), Rise Perverts Rise!, Big Top, and The birds and The bees (The Red Room). She and playwright Chapman also teamed up in 2008 for the critically acclaimed Hostage Song at the Kraine Theater in NYC. Hanna is a member of the Drama Desk nominated Waterwell Theatre Company with whom she has devised and performed in #9 (59E59), The/King/Operetta (Barrow St. Theatre), Marco Millions...based on lies (Perry Street Theatre), Sweetness & Light (Alternate Stages), and Chill & Serve (Ground Floor Theatre). Other NYC credits: The Amulet (78th Street Lab), First You're Born (Playwrights Horizons), and Broken Boughs (Blue Heron Arts Center). TV credits include: “Titus”, MTV's “Undressed: and “The West Wing”.
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