Mud People by Keith Huff

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Directed by Carlo Lorenzo Garcia and features Richard Cotovsky, Mary Jo Bolduc, Michele Gorman, Todd Lahrman, Daniel Behrendt, Buck Zachary, Laura Sturm, Dereck Garner, and Zach Overstreet.

Designers include William Anderson (set), Stefin Steberl (costumes), Matthew Gawryk (lights), Joe Court (sound), Adam Miller-Batteau (fights), Colleen Elizabeth Miller (special fx makeup). Stage Management by Jen Poulin. Assistant Direction by Shannon Clausen.

About:
Set in a dilapidated greasy spoon in rural Claybourne Rising, Mud People is a hilarious and altogether uplifting story that highlights the importance of hope and faith in a world full of harshness and cynicism. The lives of these "mud people" are changed by the intercession of a mysterious stranger who has to power to inspire child-like hope as a means of finding freedom from the mistakes of the past.

Mud People was first developed as staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference. It was a winner of the Cunningham Prize for playwriting and awarded an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for playwriting. It was a winner of 7 Drama-Logue Awards in Los Angeles including best new writing.

Keith Huff has seen his work on many a Chicago stage including the highly acclaimed and award-winning A Steady Rain (Chicago Dramatists), Birdsend (Mary-Arrchie), The Bird and Mr. Banks (LiveBait), and Pursued By Happiness (Steppenwolf).