RUNNING TIME
approx. 60 minutes without an intermission
CAST
MICHELLE RENEE JOHNSON (writer / performer / producer) Originally from Jonesborough, Tennessee, Michelle grew up performing onstage and assisting backstage at local community theatres. She moved to New York in 2018 and, after a decade-long hiatus which included a global pandemic, she reignited her passion for performance by taking a year-long program at the Barrow Group. Through this opportunity, she was introduced to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and inspired to create and perform in her own work. Extra Dry is her first solo show, and she is excited to share her stories with those outside of her inner circle. Apart from performing, she enjoys running marathons, binging reality TV, and eating carrot cake.
DESIGN + PRODUCTION
LILA RACHEL BECKER (co-creator / director) is a Brooklyn-based director and writer. Her work explores how individuals and societies are shaped by power, history, and inherited trauma, and is deeply informed by her activist upbringing and experience living in communities across the US. Born and raised in Washington DC, she has directed and developed work with theaters all over the country, including Luna Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Portland Stage Company, Folger Theatre, the First National Tour of THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, and the Source Festival. Her play Flatbush Lysistrata is finalist for the Jewish Plays Project and a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. BA Wesleyan University; MFA University of Iowa. Associate Member, SDC.
lilarachelbecker.com
PATTI PANYAKAEW (scenic designer) is a Thai set designer with an M.F.A. from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Her recent credits include The Mountaintop (Playhouse on Park), Macbeth (LIU Post Theatre), X#*! You Very Much, Mom (TheaterLab), Notes on Killing (Yale Repertory Theater), Fucking A (DGSD Yale); Hedda Gabler (Bangkok); and Constellations (Yale College); associate and assistant credits include Mexodus (Minetta Lane Theater), and the upcoming film Thumb. She also costume illustrated 3 Summers of Lincoln; The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (La Jolla Playhouse); Redwood (Broadway), and the upcoming All My Sons (Berkeley Rep).
RYAN GAMBLIN (sound designer) (they / them) is a sound designer, composer, and performance-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. Their practice centers found media, original composition, and the use of systems as instruments. Recent: Spare Parts (Theatre Row), Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard / The Civilians), Bowl EP (Vineyard / National Black Theatre), For All Your Life (Leslie Cuyjet / BAM), Manon (Heartbeat Opera), Weathering (Faye Driscoll / New York Live Arts), Time Signatures (Exponential Festival), Godbird (Exponential Festival), The March (Big Dance Theater / PACNY), The Following Evening (600 Highwaymen / PACNY). Recent solo work: SPLICE (Reforesters Laboratory). Ryan is a current fellow at the Target Margin Theater Institute.
ryangamblin.com | @sound.by.ryan
REBECCA MAHAR (lighting designer) is an Edinburgh-based lighting designer who has been designing professionally for theatre, dance, and opera for nearly two decades, as well as working extensively as a head electrician and light board operator. Notably, she previously served as President of IATSE local 918, Guest Lecturer in Lighting Design and Head Electrician at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Master Electrician for Anchorage Opera. Some previous lighting design clients include: Hawaii Shakespeare Festival, Ohana Arts, Peiling Kao Dances, Anchorage Concert Association, Out North Theatre, A/Park Productions, Necessary Cat Ltd., Hā Hā Hawaiʻi. When not lighting up the stage, Becca can be found working on or behind it as an actor, fight director, intimacy director, dramaturg, and educator. She is currently completing her PhD in European Theatre at the University of Edinburgh, where she also teaches English Literature and Interdisciplinary Research Methods.
MAEVE ROSE (costume designer) is thrilled to be a part of Extra Dry! Associate Designer: Spelling Bee at New World Stages, Maggie at Goodspeed Opera House, Dakar 2000 at Manhattan Theater Club, The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire at The Vineyard Theatre. Designer: The Outside at Metropolitan Playhouse, Casual with We Who Wander. The Public Theater, Audible Theater, The Civilians, Actors Studio Drama School, Clubbed Thumb.
ALLISON PARKER (line producer) is a freelance producer with her company, A/Park Productions. With A/Park, Allison produces shows both in NYC and for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recent NYC credits include: EXTRA DRY (Under St. Marks, NYC Fringe), IN THE DEVIL'S HANDS, EYES GLIDING OVER ME (Zoopraxic), THE WHOLE OF TIME (The Brick), R.U.R.: ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS (a reading with SCLA, Czech Center), SATURN'S CHILDREN (a reading, Torn Page) and LA MUSICA DEUXIÈME (Torn Page). Recent Edinburgh credits include: DO THIS ONE THING FOR ME (Bedlam, 2024), UNSEEN (Zoo Playground, 2024), and FUNNY GUY (Greenside George Street, 2024). Allison is excited to return to the Edinburgh Fringe this August with EXTRA DRY and LITTLE PINK DRESS! EXTRA DRY will perform at Greenside Riddles Court August 7 - 29. Love to my boys: Stephen, Desmond, Parker the pup and Baby Boy on the way.
SPECIAL THANKS
New Georges
Zoopraxic
Blythe Irish
Diego Quintanar
Aislinn Frantz-Nava
Marjorie Chamberlain