About the Show
The women of 1980s Chinquapin, Louisiana, gather each week in wise-cracking Truvy Jones’s popular beauty salon where she does the hair of such locals as the rich curmudgeon Ouiser, the eccentric millionaire Miss Clairee, and the socialite M’Lynn whose daughter Shelby is about to get married. As these women make their way over life’s many ups and downs together, they find comfort, love, friendship–and a fair amount of verbal ribbing–in one another’s company.
Lead Artistic Staff
Director––Melissa Maxwell
Assistant Director––Laura Nelson
Stage Manager––Terence Orleans Alexander^
Assistant Stage Manager––Fiona Misiura
Production Assistant––Marisa Figueras
Scenic Designer––Jo Winiarski
Costume Designer––Lauren Roark
Lighting Designer––Jessica Greenberg
Sound Designer/Original Music Composer––Scott O’Brien
Voice/Text/Dialect Coach––Gwendolyn Schwinke
Fight/Intimacy Director––Jason Spelbring
Cast
In order of appearance
Truvy Jones––Alia Shakira^
Annelle Dupuy Desoto––Valerie Martire
Clairee Belcher––Sarah Shippobotham
Shelby Eatenton Latcherie––Amara Webb
M’Lynn Eatenton––Olivia D. Dawson^
Ouiser Boudreaux––Evelyn Carol Case
Understudies
Whitney Black––Truvy; Jan Broberg––M’Lynn/Ouiser/Clairee; Taya Christiansen†—Annelle; Mikki Pagdonsolan––Shelby
^ Member of Actors’ Equity Association
