Wild Ginger Productions

A Theatrical Production Company which seeks to build an inclusive creative community for women and nonbinary theatre artists that broadens opportunity, strengthens artistry, and deepens story-telling.

The Summoning

By Charlotte Ahlin

Roommates and co-dependent best friends Morgan and Circe are longing to do something great with their lives. With below average records and nothing to lose, they devise a plan to summon a great ancient deity that has the power to grant them extraordinary lives. The spell only requires one thing: the blood of a virgin. A slapstick comedy about female relationships, facing the future, and a brush with the other side.

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Cast & Creative

Samantha Blain / Morgan

Sam is Co-Artistic Director of Hit The Lights! Theater Co. based in NYC. She is a multi-disciplinary artist, trained singer and musician. She has performed Off-Broadway, Regionally, on National Tours, numerous Broadway workshops, and TV/film. Highlights include Ars Nova, La Mama, New York City Center, York Theater Co., Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Drama League, and performing alongside Tony-Winner Anika Noni Rose in her musical workshop of Morgan Street. Samantha is an alum of Emerson College BFA Musical Theater and Atlantic Acting School (special merit award recipient). She is also a teaching artist and director in NYC

Mouna R'Miki / Circe

Hi there. I have a website, therefore I finally am (?). Take a look if you'd like www.mounarmiki.com or just come say hi in person for a chat, I know...so vintage…

Erica Knight / Lily

Regional: Four Seasons with Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, including Kitty in Charley’s Aunt, Timon of Athens, and tours of Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth; for Centenary Stage Company, The Nether (Detective Morris), Harvey (Nurse Kelly), and The Liar (Lucrece). New York: Independence (Kess, ITA Nomination for Best Revival); Rollo’s Wild Oat and Self (Metropolitan Playhouse). TV: “Gossip Girl,” “One Life to Live.” Erica holds a BFA from Marymount Manhattan College, and drums with the all-female Afro-Brazilian percussion band Batalá New York.

Charlotte Ahlin / Playwright

Charlotte Ahlin is a writer, playwright, artist, performer, and lifelong New Yorker. Her past work includes The Summoning, which was awarded with Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Production at the SheNYC Summer Theatre Festival. Her other work has been produced at the Lucille Lortel, the Barrow Group, Dixon Place, the People's Improv Theater, the Tank, the Producer's Club, City Lore, and various other venues around New York City. Her play Dido, Queen of Carthage is published with Red Bull Theater. She holds a B.A. in creative writing from Oberlin College, and serves as the associate artistic director of the non-profit theatre company Fat Knight Theatre. She's also a founding member of Page Break Writers Group and a co-host of the Shakespeare podcast What You Will. Right now she's reading ’70s science fiction and drawing sad cartoons.

Kat Yen / Director

Kat Yen is an American director of indigenous Taiwanese descent who hails from Queens and the Bronx in NYC. Recent directing credits include Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play; Othello, Shoot Her, Shooter (Yale School of Drama), Two Mile Hollow; Fade, This Is Not Art, and It’s Just Asian (Yale Cabaret). Off-Off-Broadway: am i? am i? am i? (Flea Theater); Everyday Afroplay, Static (JACK/Bushwick Starr); I Am This For You (Ars Nova); and The Other Kids Ran Away (New Ohio). Regional: References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot (Harvard/ART).

She was also the co-artistic director of Spookfish Theatre Company for 7 years in NYC and while there directed, produced, and set designed The ABC's Guide to Getting Famous (FringeNYC); Relax Alice, Advance Guard (Horse Trade), Pornography for the People (HEREArts); i wrote on ur wall and now i regret it (Wild Project); and Usual Girls, Destination Oasis (Columbia University). Assistant Directing credits include Somebody's Daughter (Second Stage) and Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Yale Rep and American Conservatory Theater). She holds an MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama, is also an alumna of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a former Resident Director at The Flea Theater, a member of New Georges, and was the 2016-2017 Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage Theater.

Elissa Goetschius / Assistant Director

Elissa has directed for Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ugly Rhino, the Austin Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Charlotte, Catholic University, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Glass Mind Theatre, EMP Collective, Wandering Souls, and Forum Theatre. Formerly the Literary Manager at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in DC, she has trained with the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, SITI Company, LAByrinth Theatre Company, Sojourn Theatre, and the Movement Theatre Studio. She studied at the British American Drama Academy, holds a degree from Columbia University, and is a first year MFA Directing candidate at Brooklyn College

Lizzie Milanovich / Understudy

Lizzie is an actor, writer, teacher, and all around proponent of having a good time. Recently relocated from Boston, some of their previous credits include As You Like It, A Doll's House, Lucky Stiff, and A Bright Room Called Day. Their writing has been produced at Emerson College and Yale School of Drama. Favorite things include: rehearsal days that start with new pages, teaching young people to speak good, and watching a single actor's entire filmography

Paige Felger / Associate Producer

Paige is an NYC based Producer, Actor and Writer. She recently co-produced a production of Independence by Lee Blessing alongside Teryn Gray and Erica Knight. Independence was nominated for a NY Innovative Theater Award for Best Revival of a Play. Paige is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she received a BFA in acting. When Paige isn't producing, you'll catch her playing the spunky younger sister in a variety of theatre, TV and film projects as well as writing her first feature film. Paige seeks to support and put a spotlight on women-led work in the arts and advocate for greater representation of women in all facets of the artistic process.

Teryn Gray / Associate Producer

Teryn Gray is an actor, producer, and singer based in NYC, and is currently in London earning her MFA at LAMDA. Select theatrical credits include: Jo in Independence (Actor/Executive Producer along with Paige Felger and Erica Knight; ITA Best Revival of a Play nom; Directors: Srđa Vasiljević and Elizabeth A. Davis), Ilse in Spring Awakening (Director: Stafford Arima), Who’s Crazy Now? (NYU Tisch StageWorks), Salome (NYU Tisch), Crazy for You (San Juan Cap, CA). She has also worked on various tv and film productions. Teryn earned her BFA from NYU Tisch, and has additionally trained with the Matt Farnsworth Vocal Studio. Teryn has worked extensively in experiential production, working on exciting irl & digital projects with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, American Express, Pantene, and more.

Rachel Oshrin / Stage Manager

Rachel Oshrin is an NYC-based stage manager, actor, and educator. Most recently, her stage management work has been seen at Dixon Place, The Secret Theatre, The PIT, and The Fresh Fruit Festival. BA Theatre (Acting/Stage Management), Muhlenberg College.