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Cast
Hannah J. Rolfes
Actor
Julia Weiss
Actor
Ashley Rose Wellman
Actor
Creative Team
Brandon Monokian
Director, Playwright
Kaela Mae-Shing Garvin
Playwright
Charlotte Lang
Playwright
Ashley Rose Wellman
Playwright
Sharon Wellman
Costume Designer
Plays
CEO & Crow
Written by: Charlotte Lang
Starring:
Julia Weiss-------------------------------- CEO
Hannah J. Rolfes -------------------------- Crow
Ashley Rose Wellman --------------------- Card Girl
our own kind voice that we whisper into our own blood
Written by: Ashley Rose Wellman
Starring:
Hannah J. Rolfes -------------------------- Sloane
Ashley Rose Wellman ---------------------- Hazel
Julia Weiss -------------------------------- Crow
I HAVE BEEN SO AFFRIGHTED
Written by: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Ashley Rose Wellman ------------------------- Robin
Julia Weiss -----------------------------------Peregrine
Peregrine ------------------------------------Crow
midnight radio: the rise and bloody fall of local legend candy lane
Written by: Brandon Monokian
Starring:
Julia Weiss ------------------------------------ Candy Lane
Ashley Rose Wellman -------------------------- Libby / The Goddess
Hannah J. Rolfes -------------------------------The Child
Meet the Company
Hannah J. Rolfes
Actor
Hannah J. Rolfes is thrilled to be performing again after a nine-year hiatus. This is her seventh collaboration with Brandon Monokian since 2012, including choreography for echo, narcissus, narcissus, echo; Revolutionary Readings for the Page to Stage Series at the Princeton Public Library; and her dance-theater comedy PottyTime that debuted with Love Drunk Life at Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ. She had the pleasure of acting in two of Monokian's comedies: as stoner "Red" Riding Hood in Grimm Women, directed by Megan Greener, and as a yogi with dreams for the stage in Happy Yummy Chicken. From 2007–2017, she was a company member of moe-tion dance theater under the artistic direction of Maureen Glennon Clayton. She cultivated a love of theater crafted with movement in favorite company repertoire such as "Rant," "Sense of Being," and "Funked." Most recently, she became licensed in New Jersey as a Physical Therapist Assistant.
Julia Weiss
Actor
Julia is a Minneapolis-based improviser, actor and teacher. She is delighted to be back at TCHF in this caw-lection of short plays written by her favorite people.
Ashley Rose Wellman
Actor
Ashley Rose Wellman is a playwright, screenwriter, and actor based in Los Angeles. Her play KILL SHELTER won five LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, including the Ted Schmitt Award for World Premiere of an Outstanding New Play, co-sponsored by The Black List. KILL SHELTER was named a Distinguished Production at the Stage Raw Awards, won ten StageSceneLA Awards, and three LATheatreBites Awards. She won the Humanitas PLAY LA Award, is a two-time Finalist for the O'Neill, and was highlighted on the 2020 Kilroys List. She has been produced at Pasadena Playhouse, Theatre of NOTE, EST/LA, The Blank, Antaeus, IAMA, Midnight Summit Ensemble, Red Cup, Spinning Plates, USC, UAA Anchorage, Great Plains Theatre Commons, and the Valdez Theatre Conference. This is Ashley’s second time returning to the Twin Cities Horror Festival after acting in Brandon Monokian's "Let's Summon a Demon at Debbie's" last year, and she's thrilled to be returning to this wonderful community of artists as both an actor AND a writer this year!
Brandon Monokian
Director, Playwright
Brandon Monokian’s play Let’s Summon a Demon at Debbie’s had a sold out run at the 2024 Twin Cities Horror Festival and was recently published by 1319 Press. The script is available at 1319press.com. Other plays include amethyst. (written as an Artist in Residence for EveryLibrary), Echo & Narcissus Blast Third Eye Blind Outside a Diner in New Jersey at 2am, Quiche, and Zombie Cheerleaders, A Teenage Witch & The Demonic Voice on the Other End of the Phone. He has spent time workshopping plays at the Sewanee Writers Conference, Valdez Theater Conference, Luna Stage’s New Moon series and The Tank. He wrote and appeared in the feature length film Happy Yummy Chicken. His creative work is dedicated to Suzzanne Douglas.
Kaela Mae-Shing Garvin
Playwright
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (they/she) is a writer, theatermaker, educator, and new work advocate. Their plays include Corners Grove (published with DPS), Ping Pong Play (2024 Leah Ryan Fund Prize Winner, 2025 O’Neill NPC Finalist), Tiger Beat (2021 BAPF), and Harpers Ferry 2019 (2022 Know Theatre of Cincinnati). Their work has been developed or produced by Ma-Yi Theater, Second Stage, the Alliance Theatre, Breaking the Binary, and others. Kaela has received six Kennedy Center awards and commissions from the Atlantic, EST/Sloan, Montana Repertory Theatre, Yangtze Rep, and more. Kaela has taught playwriting and performance at Cornish College of the Arts, Freehold Theatre, and Indiana University, and currently teaches at Salem State University.
Charlotte Lang
Playwright
Charlotte Lang’s work has been performed in New York, London, Alaska, Baltimore, and Minneapolis. She was a 2018 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar and a participant in the Valdez Theatre Conference (2022, 2023). She was a two-time finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and a finalist for the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. In addition to her stage work, Charlotte wrote and directed the short film I Guess This Is the End for London-based Faded Neon Films. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Ashley Rose Wellman
Playwright
Sharon Wellman
Costume Designer
