Touch(ed) by Bess Wohl, directed by Trip Cullman, Williamstown Theatre Festival, August 3-14, 2011, by Michael Miller
Touch(ed)
by Bess Wohl
directed by Trip Cullman
Williamstown Theatre Festival, Nikos Theatre
August 3-14, 2011
Creative Team:
Scenic Design - Andromache Chalfant
Costume Design - Emily Rebholz
Lighting Design - David Weiner
Sound Design - Jill BC DuBoff
Production Stage Manager - Hannah Cohen
Production Manager - Jeremiah Thies
Billy - Michael Chernus
Kay - Lisa Joyce
Emma - Merritt Wever
Touch(ed) is a terrifically effective and well-constructed play by a young actress and playwright who has managed to gather an impressive amount of experience in some very good places: after Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she has spent four previous seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Company. Director Trip Cullman [third WTF season] is a Yale School of Drama graduate, as is Emily Rebholz, costume designer. Andromache Chalfant hails from Tisch, and actor Michael Chernus [second WTF season] from Juilliard. There was a tightness and consistency about the various elements of this show that made me wonder about the connections among the principal creative forces. There is something seriously encouraging about such a successful creation coming from top Northeastern schools. It doesn't always happen.

