Presented with Rogue Theater Festival
Two years after a world-wide nuclear war, four souls collide on the road to recovery. Mac is a professor, Cam is a chef, Lez is an actor, and Tal is a scientist. For what any of that means when it all disappears. With jobs to do, pasts to wrestle, ghosts to settle, and a future to secure, the question becomes: if you can't look back, how do you move forward?
Cast + Creative
Collin McConnell (Mac)
Collin is thrilled to join the Clean Slate team! Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Malvolio, Twelfth Night (all with Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional: The Lehman Trilogy (The Phoenix Theatre Company, Arizona premier). Select New York Credits: The Thanksgiving Play (Voice Theatre, Hudson Valley premier); Henry V, Macbeth, Hamlet (First Maria Ensemble); Pony Up (The New School, wr. Mallory Jane Weiss, original cast); The Magic of Mrs. Crowling (Royal Circus, original cast); Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc (Gorilla Rep); The Tempest, Midsummer (Tom's River); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, Macbeth, 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus (Adirondack Shakespeare Co). Collin is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. Proud parent to an 8-year-old rabbit named Rhino. @rhinobun. collinmcconnell.com
Kaitlin Gould (Lez)
Kaitlin Gould is an actor, writer, filmmaker, and aerialist. She received her MFA from East 15 Acting School in London, where she trained with industry professionals, including at Shakespeare’s Globe, and GITIS (Russian Academy of Theatre Arts) in Moscow. She has performed internationally, including the Arcola Theatre, Tristan Bates Theatre, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In New York, she has performed at Under St. Marks, The Tank, Access Theatre, Teatro LATEA, House of Yes, The Deep End, CirqueHaus, and The Muse. Her play Mirrors has had various workshop productions, and is published in an anthology series titled ‘Their Own Devices’.. Her short film Expectations has screened at various film festivals, and won Best Cinematography with Toronto Female Feedback Film Festival. Currently, she performs in NYC as an aerialist and actor. Instagram: @kagerage www.kaitlingould.com
Parker Jenkins (Cam)
Parker Jenkins (he/him) is an actor, playwright, and designer originally hailing from North Carolina. He holds an MFA in Acting & Stagecraft from the Actor’s Studio Drama School @ Pace University, and studied the intersection of neuropsychology and dramatic art at UNC-Chapel Hill. Recent acting credits: The Great Garbage Monologues (The NuBox), Point Loma (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), Looking Up and Dying For Love (The Tank), SCRIPTURE (ASDS Rep 2024), The Laramie Project (ASDS Rep 2024), Black Mayo (Cultivate Theatre Project). Recent writing credits: The Edge of Tonight (NY Equity Library Theatre, “Best Play”), What We Choose To Breathe (The Tank). Recent lighting credits: Sign of the (End) Times (The Tank), Diamond As Big As The Ritz (ATA Sergeant Theatre), Love, Science, & Magic (The Tank). Parker is also a member of the Dramatists Guild. Huge thanks to his friends, family, the entire Clean Slate team, and his Keurig coffee machine for always supporting his dreams. IG: @_parkerjenkins_ / www.parker-jenkins.com
Rachel Leighson (Tal/Playwright)
Rachel Leighson (she/her) is a bi-coastal playwright, performer, and fight director. Off Broadway: The Christians (Playwrights Horizons), Lili Marlene (St. Luke’s Theatre), Before a League (The Actor’s Temple), Little Egg, Big World (Theatre Row). Other theatre credits include: The Polar Express Musical (Warner Bros.), Henry V (First Maria Ensemble), Shakespeare in the Garden (Adirondack Shakespeare Co.), Henry VI (Parts 1+2) (CAGE Theatre Co.), Barges (Chain Theatre), Eden (The Cell), and Compulsion (Teatro LATEA). TV: Scamanda, Evil Lives Here, NY Homicide, Diabolical, A Body in the Basement. Writing credits include: Blood on my Mother’s Apron, Little Egg, Big World (Jane Chambers Award Honoree), and Clean Slate. She was one of three inaugural writers with Cultivate Theatre Project and has written commissions for Feminist Fairytales. Plays from her Jewish Short Play series, The Play’s The Minyan have been performed by Jewish organizations around the country. All her love and gratitude, as always, to Stephen and the fluffy children for keeping her sane. rachelleighson.com, @rachelleighson
Courtney Seyl (Director/Stage Manager)
Courtney Seyl (they/she) is a playwright, director, and stage manager based in Brooklyn, NY where they reside with their black cat, Toothless.They graduated from the University of Puget Sound with their BA in Theatre Arts and English. In the summer of 2018 they received training as a part of the Intiman Emerging Artist’s program in Seattle, WA. In 2021 they were accepted into the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. They’ve taken classes with ESPA at Primary Stages and have worked with The Playground Experiment, Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, and The National Queer Theatre. Their play REVOLUTION premiered at The Tank theatre in 2021 and was nominated for 8 Off-Off Broadway awards and won for Best Actress in a New Play. Recent credits include: Mirrors by Kaitlin Gould, Today You Are a Man by Michael Witkes, and Little Egg, Big World by Rachel Leighson. courtneyseyl.com | @courtneyseyl