SPECIAL THANKS TO
Festival Producer Laurie Bernhard

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 7:30pm

burn for You
by Regan Moro

A blistering August in upstate New York. No rain in 3 months. And the little daughter of Lila, a young worship leader at a charismatic church, doesn’t wake up one morning. Lila’s estranged sister Franny, a lesbian who fled the church seven years prior, returns home for the first time for what she thinks is a funeral; only to find that her sister and the church she left behind are determined to pray for the toddler’s resurrection—no matter how long it takes. A play about incongruous faith, sisters, and what happens when we pray for something dead to come back.

There will be a 10 minute intermission.

ARTISTIC TEAM
Director: Lindsay Allbaugh
Dramaturg: Adrian Centeno
Stage Manager: Mikayla Bettner*
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Intern: Claire McNerney

CAST
Franny: Jacqueline Toboni*
Lila: Emily Stout*
Beth: Donna Simone Johnson*
Mark Lucas: Kanoa Goo*
Evan: Josh Bywater*
Stage Directions: Claire McNerney

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

REGAN MORO, Playwright
Regan Moro is a playwright and actor from the North Country of upstate New York. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan, was an apprentice in the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and is an incoming fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School. Her play "burn for You" recently received an industry reading directed by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor, was a Finalist for the 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and received developmental reading at the 2024 Great Plains Theatre Conference. Her play "Tremolo" is a 2025 Irons in the Fire project for Fault Line Theatre, was a Finalist for the 2025 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and a semifinalist for the 2025 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator. Regan is a recipient of the 2024-2025 Vitality Playwrights Commission from the Appalachian Center for the Arts, and a residency from Millay Arts. She’s the middle of three sisters, and the funny gay aunt to four little boys.