Apr 11-May 4

Act 1 - 58 minutes Act 2 - 27 minutes

Tickets

$35 Adult/Sr.
$22 College/Educator
$15 Youth
A $3 restoration fee will be added to each ticket at checkout.

Moliere’s witty classical verse comedy skewers the haughty pretensions of a women’s self-educating salon amid love triangles that scandalize the household.

Cast

HENRIETTE: Aleah Colón-Alfonso      

ARMANDE: Nicol Moeller

CLITANDRE: Zachary Tudor

BÈLISE: Linda Ramzell

PHILAMINTE: Nancy Menaldi-Scanlan

CHRYSALE: Ken Basque

ARISTE: Kevin Fewell

MARTINE: Megan Hendrick

TRISSOTIN: Cameron Darkes-Burkey

VADIUS: Tanmart Selby

A NOTARY: Peg Harvey

LÈPINE: Seth A.L. Grayson

JULIEN: Charles Lindas

Getting Here

Pinkerton Theatre

At Venice Theatre
140 Tampa Ave. W.
Venice, FL 34285

Directions

Located inside our main building on the west side. Seating is general admission, however season subscribers with “Golden Tickets” have reserved seats as a subscriber benefit.

The Pinkerton Theatre inside Venice Theatre

Benny Sato Ambush

Benny Sato Ambush

Director

Benny Sato Ambush is a veteran professional director, institutional theatre leader, educator, published commentator, and consultant. He has been Artistic Director of TheatreVirginia (Richmond, VA), Oakland Ensemble Theatre (Oakland, CA), and Rites and Reason Theatre Company (Providence, RI). Previously, he was Associate Artistic Director of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater; Co-Artistic Director of San Francisco Bay Area Playwrights Festival; PEW Charitable Trust/TCG Director-In-Residence for Manalapan, Florida’s Florida Stage; and Associate Artistic Director of Anna Deavere Smith’s Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue at Harvard University.

He has directed at numerous professional regional theatres and has taught and directed at many university training programs (partial list): Old Globe Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival-Portland, South Coast Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, Geva Theatre, Playwrights Horizon, Ford’s Theatre, Triad Stage, American Repertory Theater Institute, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, Lincoln Center Theater Institute, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, Actors Guild of Lexington, KY, Alaska Theatre of Youth, International Theatre Festival of Chicago, Sacramento Theatre Company, National Black Theatre Festival, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Gloucester Stage Company, New Repertory Theatre, TheatreSquared, The Lost Colony, Underground Railway Theater, Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, Circle in the Square Theatre School, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Brooklyn College.

Ambush has a BA in Theatre Arts and Dramatic Literature from Brown University and an MFA in Directing from the University of California, San Diego. In 2020, he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.

* indicates member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
‡ indicates member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)

Sponsors

John & Rose Morse

Karen Kelly - In Memory of Bix Sandke