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GHOSTS CAN'T PAY RENT

WRITTEN BY SARAH RUTTAN
DIRECTED BY BENNETT COUSINS
PERFORMED JUNE 4TH-22ND, 2023

ABOUT GHOSTS CAN'T PAY RENT

A wisp, a witch, and a waitress all learn to live in an apartment where the souls are as overdue as the water bill. Olive struggles to keep up with the unending obligations of being alive; her rent, her job, and most of all her friend Cas, a ghost that’s lived in their apartment for over 60 years. She begins to come out of her shell after meeting her new roommate Priya, a trendy writer with pagan principles. Cas, however, feels that Priya is driving a wedge between herself and Olive. Slowly, feelings she never wanted to unveil bubble to the surface and the unseen trauma that haunts the apartment begins to unravel. This sapphic saga of loving and loathing in a world of occultic observations proposes the query, just what or who are we willing to endure through life, death, love, and regret?

Ghosts Can't Pay Rent ran for five performances across the month of June at The Actor's Company Theater. It performed as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Park Lytle produced this show as a contracted member of MB Stage Productions.

MEET THE TEAM

CAST:

Olive: Nala Clophus

Cas: Fernanda Vilela

Priya: Seneca Avelar

 
CREATIVE TEAM:

Playwright: Sarah Ruttan

Producer: Park Lytle

Co-Producer: Brooke Harbaugh

Director: Bennett Cousins

Stage Manager: Alysia Cruz

Stage Manager: Cassy Sottile

Scenic Designer: David Evan Stolworthy

Scenic Designer, Set Foreman: James Brock

Technical Director: Lacey Shaw

Hair & Makeup: Katie Lynn Mapel

Costumes: Makenna Rae Tynan

Propmaster: Mel Glickman

Sound Designer: Kensaku Shinohara

Intimacy Coordinator: Lauren Sperling

ASL Interpreter: TL Forsberg

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