The Waterfall was workshopped at The Old Globe (San Diego, CA), July 26-29, 2023, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, with Andrea Patterson and Leovina Charles, stage managed by Kira Vine, and facilitated by Danielle Mages Amato, Director of New Plays and Dramaturgy, Sonia Desai, Literary Associate, and Kim Heil, Associate Artistic Director.
The Waterfall was workshopped by The Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York, NY), September 12, 2023, as a part of their Obie-winning playwrights group Youngblood, Bloodwork’s Reading Series, directed by Colette Robert, with Magaly Colimon Christopher and Margarette Odette, and facilitated by RJ Tolan, Co-Artistic Directors Estefanía Fadul and Graeme Gillis.
The Waterfall was workshopped by Thrown Stone Theatre Company in partnership with WP Theater and Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center (Ridgefield, CT), September 19-23, 2024, directed by Taylor Reynolds, with Leovina Charles and Magaly Colimon Christopher, stage managed by Julia Sprung, and dramaturgy by Amrita Ramanan.
The Waterfall was developed as part of The New Harmony Project’s 2025 Production in Residence (New Harmony, IN), May 22-June 1, 2025, directed by Taylor Reynolds, with Malika Samuel and Patrice Johnson Chevannes, stage managed by Grace Donnelly, and dramaturgy by Kristin Leahey.
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States
The Director is a Member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.
United Scenic Artists • Local USA 829 of the I.A.T.S.E represents the Designers & Scenic Artists for the American Theatre
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About this Theater
WP Theater stands on Lenape Land. Before this building came into existence, this was wooded land filled with villages of families active with trading and gathering spaces. While descendants of those first families live in this area today, many Indigenous People were forcibly removed with the arrival of European settler colonists. It was on an empty corner lot of this land that a small church was built, then taken apart and rebuilt into this building.
The “skyscraper church” that holds this theater, once the Manhattan Congregational Church, has housed many businesses and residents since its construction in 1930, including 200 WAVES during World War II. In 1969, the first-floor auditorium of the church was transformed into the Promenade Theatre, named after its inaugural production: the María Irene Fornés musical, Promenade, a show recently revived at Encores! Off-Center.
Though WP’s theater sits on the third floor, we are delighted to produce work in a building with a theatrical history forged by Fornés, a woman whose leadership of the off-off-Broadway movement and longtime collaboration with WP helped secure the legacy of this institution and paved the way for future female theatremakers.
In 1979, Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman co-founded Second Stage Theatre and made this their permanent venue in 1984, dubbing the theater McGinn/Cazale after the late actors Walter McGinn and John Cazale. McGinn’s widow Robyn Goodman and Cazale’s fiancée Meryl Streep wanted to honor the actors’ passion for their craft and commitment to the New York theater community in the dedication of this theater and Second Stage’s first ever production. WP made the McGinn/Cazale our home, in partnership with Second Stage in 2015, as WP Theater had not had a permanent home since the closing of the Julia Miles Theater, named after our founder, in 2011. As of 2022, the theater is now wholly run, year round, by WP Theater.
To encourage this growth, Jann Leeming, Board Chair Emerita, and Executive Director and Senior Trustee of the Royal Little Family Foundation, generously gifted WP a founding grant to support our first three years’ residence in this building. WP Theater now celebrates nearly 50 years of challenging preconceptions about the kinds of stories Women+ tell and working towards gender parity in theater. Since WP Theater mounted its inaugural production in this venue, the New York premiere of Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl, we have been honored to make this storied theater a home for Women+ to reach their full potential.
Executive Producer
$5,000+
- In memory of Linda Almira
- Dean & Theresa Miller
- Kate Schardt
Diamond
$2,500+
- Christine & Jeff Boris
Sapphire
$1,000+
- Jon & Kim Jodka
- Tom & Michele Quindlen
- Bob & Vicki Trainer
- Rich & Carol Vazzana
Corporate Matches
- PepsiCo Foundation
- WSHU Public Radio
Emerald
$500+
- Anonymous
- Gino & Ali Barbera
- Daniel & Margaret Curtin
- Amanda Curtin & Jonathan Winn
- Jennifer Rose DiLaura
- Jennifer Dineen & Terrence Mahon
- Renee Fozouni
- Mary Joyce
- Andrew & Jeanine Levine
- Jason & Alana Peck
- Allison Stockel
- Emily Wilson
AQUAMARINE
$100+
- Anonymous
- Marc Alan
- Lydia Armstrong
- Sarah Blandford
- Earl Crittenden
- Maureen Devane
- Laura Fox
- Mark Gilliam
- Steven Hauck
- Lenore & Robert Herbst
- Rhonda Hill
- Heather Hillman
- Joseph Hoermann
- Jeffrey & Linda Krulwich
- Lisa McNulty
- David Perlmutter & Sara Kaplan
- Laurel Peterson
- Claudia Sciaretta
- Richard Taylor
- Fran Walton
- Ann White
AMETHYST
$50+
- Anonymous
- Ruth Feldman
- Deborah Laufer
- Cynthia Rigby
- Vivian Sorvall
- Wendy Vickrey
QUARTZ
$25+
- Anonymous
- Ronald Blumenfeld
- Sherreida Reid
- Marie Reynolds
- James Steele
- Seth Weintraub
Special Thanks
- Actor’s Equity Association
- Nan Barnett
- City of Norwalk
- Dee Dee Colabella
- Amanda Curtin
- Sean Dowd
- Sabrina Godeski
- John Harmon
- Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center, Hildegard Grob, Executive Director
- Cheryl Kemeny
- Kristen Leahy
- Rudy Marconi
- Michael McGuirk
- Lisa McNulty
- Tony Meneses
- Larry Morley
- Monday.com
- Gene Morrell
- Glori Norwitt
- Mariner Pezza
- Tlaloc Rivas
- Town of Ridgefield
- Michael Sag
- Lisa Scails
- Jack Singewald
- Mike Singewald
- Dexter Singleton
- Paul Stoogenke, CMA, EA
- Michael Valladares
- Abbie Van Nostrand
- Jenni Werner
- Corinne Woods