SMOKE
SEASON 15
In a world where consumerism is king, distraction is everywhere, and public discourse is shot, a couple from New York City arrive at a rented McMansion on a hill to attend a family wedding. SMOKE is a darkly funny play about what happens when truth is up for grabs.
By Enid Graham
Direction by Anna Senechal Johnson
May 22-June 7, 2025 at Firehouse Theatre
Cast
Alice … Laine Satterfield
Mark … Brian K. Landis
Mindy … Debra Wagoner
Dave … Gordon Bass
Joleen … Kendall Walker
Kelsey … Maggie Horan*
Rick … John Mincks
Chase … Adam Turck
VOICEOVER ARTISTS
Alien Abduction Video … Caroline Emily Johnson, Melissa Johnston Price, Roger Price, Whisper Recording, Inc., Alana Wiljanen
Siri … Melissa Johnston Price, Whisper Recording, Inc.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the U.S.A.
Production Team
Director … Anna Senechal Johnson
Production Stage Manager … Isabel Stone
Assistant Stage Manager … Elise Bailey
Scenic Design … Joseph Lavigne
Scenic Painter … Emily Hake Massie
Costume Design … Sarah Grady
Lighting Design … Jake Mitchell
Sound Designer … Justice Craig
Sound Associate … Julie Vo
Intimacy Coordinator … Stephanie Tippi Hart
Fight Choreographer … Aaron Orensky
Properties Designer … Anna Senechal Johnson
Set Decorator … Michael Maddix
Production Manager … Todd LaBelle
Technical Directors … Todd LaBelle, Emily Vial
Assistant Directors … Terra Comer, Adam Valentine, Alana Wiljanen
Running Crew … Terra Comer, Elise Bailey
Board Operators … Isabel Stone, Justice Craig
Administrative & Marketing
Artistic & Managing Director … Anna Senechal Johnson
Director of Education … Laine Satterfield
Graphic Designer … Julie Basinski
Playbill Designer … Caroline Emily Johnson
Photographers … Jason Collins Photography, Scott Elmquist,
The Sunroom Video Production Co.
Marketing & Communications … Creasy Woolfolk Concepts, Sara Krivanec, Liv Wilson
Social Media … Sara Krivanec, KdentsTV Student Leaders
Videography … Kingbird Studios, The Sunroom Video Production Co.
Bookkeeper … Jill Porcelli
Webmasters … Emma Roth, Skye Shannon, Leah Silverman
Curtain Speech … Joey Luck
About the Playwright
Enid Graham is a writer and actress living in New York City where she is a 2022 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at Juilliard. Most recently, Tenderness and Gratitude Number Four was seen as part of the Scripts in Hand series at the Westport Country Playhouse and received a reading at the Chance Theatre in Anaheim, CA. Her play A Long Time Ago in a Dark Yard at Night was performed in a 2022 reading series at the Hudson Stage Company, and her short play for Zoom, Do Not Go, My Love was performed in an online reading series, also at Hudson Stage. Golden was presented in audio format for The Falconworks Theater Company. What Martha Did received a preview production in the Launch Pad series at UCSB and was a finalist for the National Playwrights’ Conference and a semi-finalist in the Blue Ink Playwriting Festival in Chicago. Her play Ruth was chosen for the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center and the New TACTics New Play Festival in NYC.
Other plays include: SMOKE (2022 NPC finalist), Pathological Venus (2020 NPC finalist), Something Unrecognizable, The Plans I Have for You, How To Save Ourselves and Saint Vegas. As an actress, her credits include numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions such as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and Honour (Tony Award nomination), and Television/Film including The Sinner, Boardwalk Empire, Margaret, Mare of Easttown, and Rabbit Hole.
Snapshots
Photos by Jason Collins Photography
Bonus Content
SMOKE Promo 2
INSTRUMENTAL
SMOKE Theme Song
CAST INTERVIEW
Publicity & Reviews
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“SMOKE tells the story of a cosmopolitan couple from New York arriving for a wedding at a rented McMansion where different political viewpoints among family members bubble up into conflict. ‘My play starts out with a typical scenario that is very recognizable,’ says Graham. ‘Then it kind of turns into a bit more of a wild ride.’”
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“SMOKE doesn’t promise a tidy ending—it offers a crack in the dam. It’s an opening for the conversations we keep avoiding: climate change, division, and the way capitalism keeps us fighting over crumbs while the real problems burn quietly in the background.”
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“SMOKE takes a short and richly layered text to reflect the current state of nihilism, masculinity, gullibility, condescension, and existential dread. It drives you to the promontory with the best view of its’ devastation, and kicks you over the edge.”
Sponsors
This production was made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors: