The Right Room

An immersive and intimate 20th century love story, about who we are and where we feel we belong, in which the audience simultaneously inhabits and experiences the 1930s, 1950s and 1990s. An intra generational tale of love, loss, and commitment.

BorderLight Theatre Festival presents THE RIGHT ROOM with three performances on Friday, July 18, 2025
5:30 PM*
7:00 PM
8:30 PM
*masked audience

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Creative Team

Playwright ... David Hansen

Director ... Jasmine Renee

Intimacy Director ... Julia Fisher

Stage Manager ... Lindy Warren

Costume Design ... Serenity Grace Tate

"If You Were a Train" performed by Bradley Wyner

Acting Company (in order of appearance)

Fanny ... Rachel Gold

Mason ... Cole Tarantowski

Aubrey ... Dani Schmaltz

Steven ... Evan Joslyn

Mathilda ... Nicole Coury

Charles ... Zach Palumbo

Lucille ... Kayce Kvacek

Leif ... Brad Hughes

Jasmine Renee (Director) Directing work in Cleveland includes Measure for Measure with Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, Alice in Wonderland Jr. for Fairmount Center for the Arts, and Shrek the Musical at Fairmount Center for the Arts. Jasmine is an Actor-Teacher for Great Lakes Theater and a Teaching Artist with Fairmount Center for the Arts.

Julia Fisher (Intimacy Director) (she/her) is an intimacy director and playwright whose work has been seen in professional theatres throughout Northeast Ohio. She is a Certified Intimacy Director through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, where she also worked for two years as a Teaching Artist and Curriculum Developer. She currently serves as Dobama Theatre's Resident Intimacy Director, and she has intimacy directed over 40 productions, including shows at Dobama Theatre, Rubber City Theatre, Cain Park, Ensemble Theatre, convergence-continuum, Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre’s Test Flight, Near West Theatre, LatinUs Theater, Broadview Heights Spotlights, the University of Akron, Ohio Northern University, and Case Western Reserve University. She is also a 4-time BorderLight artist, where she and her collaborators won the Near West Theatre Emerging Artist Award in 2022 and the Producer’s Choice Award in 2021.

David Hansen (Playwright) (he/him) has participated in Cleveland’s theater renaissance as a founder of Guerrilla Theater Company and artistic director for Dobama’s Night Kitchen and Bad Epitaph Theater Company, as well as an actor and director at theaters across Northeast Ohio. BorderLight Theatre Festival audiences may have seen his plays Step Nine (2023) and The Toothpaste Millionaire (2024). His award-winning solo performance on stillbirth, I Hate This (a play without the baby), was recently adapted into a film. His published works can be found at Pioneer Drama Service, Playscripts, and YouthPLAYS. David is Education Outreach Associate for Great Lakes Theater and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. David lives in Cleveland Heights, City of Great Writers.

Lindy Warren (Stage Manager) Production management work includes The 39 Steps at Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Great Lakes Theater. She has also served as Director for the youth musical program at Lakewood Congregational Church for six years. Most recently, Lindy has worked for Great Lakes Theater’s education outreach program, performing and teaching in schools all over northeast Ohio.

Serenity Grace (Costumes) (they/them) is a Costume technician and designer with a BFA in theatrical costume technology from Kent State University. They have worked as a craftsperson and First hand for Great Lakes Theater since spring 2022 as well as filling various roles for Playhouse Square and touring productions throughout Northeast Ohio.

Bradley Wyner (Music) has worked as a music director at Cain Park (Rent and School of Rock), Blank Canvas (Hedwig, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, One Man Two Guvnors, many others), plus Cleveland Public Theater, Dobama, Kalliope Stage, Cleveland Play House. Proud of his many years as a teaching artist (Case Western Reserve, Cleveland School of the Arts, and more); students have gone on to careers as teachers, non-profit leaders, journalists, artists, musicians, and actors on stages from Broadway to Cleveland. Bradley also works as the Director of Education at Milestones Autism Resources.

Acting Company

in alphabetical order

Nicole Coury (Mathilda)

Performance credits include I’m Alive … and Always Will Be (Lang) with Nightbloom Theatre Company, Aida (ensemble/fight captain) at Karamu House, Language Archive (Emma) and Ada and the Engine (Ada Byron) at Clague Playhouse, Bedroom Culture (Mia) at Cleveland Public Theater, Acts of Clay (various) at Wizbang Theater and Executing Eve at Convergence Continuum.

Rachel Gold (Fanny)

Rachel is an actor, director, fight choreographer, and educator in the Cleveland area. Acting work includes The Body Play at Cleveland Public Theater (Amy); Grand Concourse with Seat of the Pants (Emma); Little Women at Dobama Theatre (Jo/Meg/Bhaer Swing); Merry Wives of Windsor (Mrs. Ford/Page Swing), Murder on the Orient Express (Hubbard/Princess Swing), Dracula: The Bloody Truth (Actor 3 U/S), and As You Like It (Rosalind U/S) with Great Lakes Theater; Measure for Measure (Lucio) and Hamlet (Rosencrantz) with Cleveland Shakespeare Festival (CSF). Rachel is also the Artistic Director of the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. Directing credits include King Lear (CSF), The Tempest (Beck Center for the Arts), and several radio plays with Radio on the Lake Theater. She will be guest directing at her Alma Mater (Baldwin Wallace University) in the fall.

Bradley Hughes (Leif)

Bradley is currently a BFA Acting Major at Baldwin Wallace University. His recent credits include: King Lear at the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Measure for Measure, and The Dining Room at Baldwin Wallace University; and The Rescue of John Price (workshop) at The Oberlin Wellington Rescue Theatre Project.

Evan Joslyn (Steven)

Evan currently works as an actor-teacher with Great Lakes Theater. Acting credits: Demetrius (u/s) (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Tranio (STNJ Next Stage Ensemble tour). Playwriting credits: The Sleepwalker of Holstenwall, an immersive experience based on The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Columbus Children's Theatre). Training: Denison University, Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin, Ireland), Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, American Players Theatre.

Kayce Kvacek (Lucille)

Kayce is a Cleveland based actress and playwright. She received her BFA from Boston University and has trained at The Academy for the Performing Arts and LAMDA (London). Some of her favorite roles have included Viola in Twelfth Night, May in Fool for Love and Camille in Horse Girls. Her first one act play, Ships in the Night, was accepted to the Boston Playwrights 24 Hour Play Marathon and has since been published & performed across the country.

Zach Palumbo (Charles)

Favorite credits include Broadway Bound (Eugene) at Beck Center for the Arts, Twelfth Night (Feste) and The Wizard of Oz (Professor Marvel/Wizard of Oz) with the Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour Krelborn) and the Cleveland premiere of The SpongeBob Musical (SpongeBob SquarePants) at Blank Canvas Theatre, and the world premieres of David Hansen's Savory Taṇhā and Jonathon Morgan's Experts in a Dying Field with Cleveland Public Theatre. He has also performed with Karamu House, none too fragile, convergence-continuum, Rubber City Theatre, Lakeland Civic Theatre, Near West Theatre, French Creek Theatre, and Western Reserve Playhouse, as well as music directing for Clague Playhouse and the CWRU Department of Theatre. His rock opera Future Perfect, co-written with David L. Munnell, premiered at last summer's BorderLight Festival.

Dani Schmaltz (Aubrey)

New to Cleveland, Dani is an Actor-Teacher at Great Lakes Theater. Previous acting credits include: The 39 Steps at The Appalachian Center for the Arts, Energy Game Changers educational tour with The National Theatre for Children, world premiere musical The Suffragist at Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Nerd at St. Croix Festival Theatre, and Dry Land at Rising Fire Theatre.

Cole Tarantowski (Mason)

Acting work in Cleveland includes A Midsummer's Night Dream with Cleveland Shakespeare Festival where he played Demetrius, Acts of Clay at Wizbang Theater, and he played a role in Karfuffle in Parmadoro 2 as part of the 2024 Micro Theatre festival. Cole also has begun his journey as a playwright, with his first full length play, Handlebar Brakes being recently presented as a staged reading at Cleveland Public Theater as part of their Test Flight theater festival.