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Jun 13, 2023 · Three Questions for LETTIE Playwright Boo Killebrew. Within moments of the beginning of Boo Killebrew’s Lettie, one sister is saying “soon” and another, “Let’s give it a minute.”. The interchange reminds us of the role time and timing plays in the lives of families, on stage and off.
Jul 14, 2016 · WILLIAMSTOWN — Ever since Boo Killebrew was a little girl growing up in Gulfport, Miss., she’s rebelled against traditional gender roles and conventional notions of femininity. When she and her...
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Apr 16, 2018 · Alvarez leans into Killebrew's gallows humor with a frank self-possession that serves as a welcome contrast to Neff's wariness. Lettie is not a play that indulges in fairy tales or unearned...
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- An Uneven Production
Killebrew does her best work in establishing the fraught dynamic between Lettie and the children who have largely been raised with their biological mother as an idea, rather than a person. Layla attempts to smooth the waters, warmly embracing Lettie and involving her in her life. (She’s starring in a school production of Annie, a musical about an o...
The acting cannot be faulted for the play’s deficits. Skraastad chips away at Lettie’s tough edges, gradually showing how struggles with sobriety, rejection from her family, and a general sense of rootlessness in the world weigh on her soul. She is the rare actor who inhabits the skin of a working-class actor without an ounce of condescension. Skra...
But the production itself, directed by Abigail Adams, leaves something to be desired. A turntable set would be preferable to demarcate the distinct spheres in Lettie’s world—the halfway house where she and Minny live, the locker room of the welding factory where she toils, Frank and Carla’s modest but warm suburban home—but Daniel Zimmerman’s carpe...
Boo Killebrew is a playwright, actress, and co-founder of CollaborationTown Theatre Company. She is a Lila Acheson Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School, an alumnus of the 2013 Emerging Writers Group at The Public, a recipient of the 2013 NYFA Fellowship, an alumnus of TerraNova's Groundbreakers, and an Affiliated Artist and Kitchen ...
Aug 31, 2017 · 'Miller, Mississippi': Playwright Boo Killebrew paints a portrait of white supremacist as a young man. The Mississippi native has been working on the play since 2014, but the show's debut at...
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