Miss Delta Township

Joanne Callum Powers is a theater artist whose work as a playwright, dancer, director, and choreographer has found its way onto many Cape Cod stages. Joanne was a long-time member and choreographer of the Extremes Dance Theater where she co-wrote, It’s a War Out There, To Reveal, and Grow Up and Act Your Age among others. Her short play My Marbles Are Perfectly Fine was performed at Cape Rep in 2017. Miss Delta Township will be traveling to Dublin May 1 to be included in the International Dublin Gay Theater Festival and to Weston Arts and Innovation Center May 13 and 14.

Maura Hanlon (Director) is the Associate Artistic Director at Cape Rep Theatre and is delighted to be remounting Miss Delta Township with Joanne. Mo’s most recent directorial credits include Waiting for Ham with the 2022 Young Company, our 2021 season’s Noises Off, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and the world premiere of Joanne Callum Powers’ one-woman show, Miss Delta Township. Favorite directing credits include Edward Tulane, Indecent, Men on Boats, Failure: A Love Story, Jerusalem, Eurydice, Wintertime, The Rose Tattoo (Cape Rep) and Peter Pan and Wendy (HJT). A sometime-actor, she was last seen on stage at Cape Rep as Rosie in Mamma Mia! and Helen in Fun Home. She is a frequent sound designer (Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise, My Name is Asher Lev, to name just a few), and an occasional playwright (Good Bye Mary Rose, Dinosaur Pirates from Outerspace!, which she also composed, and Alice in Wonderland, along with many adaptations for YoCo with Janine Perry). Mo is a Holy Cross grad, studied acting and directing at Trinity Rep Conservatory and received her MFA in directing from UCSD. Extra-special thanks to her incredibly supportive family, Art, Paddo, Seamus and Macklin.

Ryan McGettigan (Scenic Design) Ryan is a Houston-based scenic designer of theater, opera, and dance working across the country and Europe. He is the Resident Designer at Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster, MA as well as a Company Artist with Prague Shakespeare Company and the Classical Theatre Company of Houston. Regional Credits: Theatre under the Stars, Stages Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare & Company, Cape Rep, Abilene Shakespeare Festival, Legacy Theatre, Prague Shakespeare Company. Opera and Dance: Glimmerglass Festival, New Orleans Opera, Opera San Jose, HGOco, Open Dance Project, and the Houston Ballet. More at www.RyanMcGettigan.com

Susan Nicholson (Lighting Design) Susan is northeast based Lighting Designer. Starting in 2005 she has been a part of over 35 productions as well as VetCo, YoCo, Footlight Fantasies and many benefits and special performances at Cape Rep. Favorite show credits include-The Full Monty (the first time), Xanadu, UMPO, Merrily We Roll Along, Rough Crossing, Billy Elliot, and Boundless. She is an events lighting designer in NYC doing projects such as Hospitality at the US Open, John Wick 3 premier party, and various other Corporate Events and Parties. Member USA 829. susanmnicholsondesign.com

Julie Allen Hamilton (Stage Manager) is an Associate Artist at Cape Rep Theatre where she is an actor and a director as well as the Box Office and Front of House Manager. Julie has worked as a stage manager throughout New England, and is the Stage Manager/Coach for Cape Rep’s Young Company (YoCo) and Veteran’s Company (VetCo).

Alison Weller (Voice/Dialect Coach) has been dialect/speech coach at Cape Rep on Jerusalem, Woman in Black, Billy Elliot, and all YoCo productions. She was last seen in Mamma Mia! Broad- way: Coram Boy. O Broadway: is Beautiful City (Vineyard Theatre), Gone Missing (Barrow St. Theatre), and Aphrodisiac (PS 122). As an Associate Artist with the Obie Award-winning Civilians: original collaborator on the long-running Gone Missing and critically-acclaimed is Beautiful City, also The Ladies (Chashama), and The Modern World Project with Anne Kauffman. Other NY: The Female Terorist Project ( The Committee), Out from Under It, and Blue Lila Rising (New Georges). Regional: Portland Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, WHAT, and seven seasons at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. With Cape Rep: Billy Elliot, Men on Boats, Outside Mullingar, and many others. Alison is proud to have been in the company of American Records’ ReEntry, performing at naval bases in VA, CA, and MS for sailors returning from deployment. Her play Boundless premiered at Cape Rep in 2017. She is teaching an investigative theatre class at e New School in this fall. BA, Harvard; MFA, UCSD