Festival Producer | Anne Taubman

Associate Festival Producers | Matt Thoman

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 3:00pm

The Collectivists
by Jaclyn Backhaus

Following years of estrangement, Moisés returns to his mother’s home in the Southern Nevada desert for his sister’s wake. Set against an apocalyptic landscape where supernatural forces loom, old grudges boil to the surface, and secrets are revealed as this family drama catapults into a mythic tale of Biblical proportion.


ARTISTIC TEAM
Director: Andrew Scoville
Dramaturg: Annie Jin Wang
Stage Manager: Lydia Runge*
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Intern: Clio Calvin


CAST
Shell: Elizabeth Alderfer
James: James Morrison*
John: Zach Villa*
Cathleen: Jacqueline Wright*
Margot: KT Vogt*
Maggie: Kimberly Scott*
Stage Directions: Clio Calvin

There will be a 10 minute intermission.

Content Warning: Explicit language

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

JACLYN BACKHAUS, Playwright (she/her)
Jaclyn Backhaus is a playwright, screenwriter, and educator hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. Her Off-Broadway plays include Out Of Time (NAATCO, The Public Theater, dir. Les Waters), Wives (Playwrights Horizons dir. Margot Bordelon), India Pale Ale (MTC, Winner of the Horton Foote Prize, dir. Will Davis), Men On Boats (Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, dir. Will Davis), Folk Wandering (Pipeline, dir. Andrew Neisler), and You On The Moors Now (TRE, dir. John Kurzynowski). Other plays include Dana During Tech Week, The Collectivists, Heathcliff!!, and End-Of-Life. TV/film: As Far As The Eye Can See (Sundance Episodic Intensive 2025), Preeti Popped It (1497 Features Lab). Adjunct professor of playwriting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the Departments of Drama and Dramatic Writing. Creative director of Fresh Ground Pepper NYC. Jaclyn is a New Dramatists resident playwright, a Hermitage Fellow, a Tow Foundation Playwright, and a former member of The Kilroys.