About This Reading

We welcome back Emily Dendinger! In Emily Dendinger’s The Grand Illusion Show, Adelaide Herrmann must fight her nephew Leon with wit, will, and magic to win the rights to her dead husband’s magic show. “This play is a magic trick, and like all good magic tricks, what you think is happening in the text isn’t necessarily what’s really happening in the story.”

Creative Team

Director: Timothy Williams
Stage Manager: Sydney Whittaker
Stage Direction Reader & “GHOST”: Cameron Francis*

Cast

Adelaide Herrmann: Sissy Anne Quaranta
Violet Winters: Sarah Yarborough
John Bolton: J.D. Sutton*
Leon Herrmann: Ben Cohen
Christopher Dalton: Hayden Palmer

*Member Actors’ Equity Association