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Meet GOODY GARLICK: A dramatic reading from LUCY BOYLE’s latest play and a talk with HUGH KING about the true and local story that inspired it

  • The Church 48 Madison Street Sag Harbor, NY, 11963 United States (map)

Tickets

  • General Ticket: $25

  • Member Ticket: $15

Join us for an evening of history and culture as we invite audiences to a dramatic reading from LUCY BOYLE’S latest play in progress, titled GOODY GARLICK.  In 1658, Thirty five years before allegations of witchcraft swept through Salem, Massachusetts sparking the infamous witch hunt, there was a trial here on the East End of Long Island that rocked the village of East Hampton. Meet Goody Garlick!  Featuring a cast of incredible actors including, JENNIFER MUDGE, CHRIS COFFEY, and REILLY ROSE, LOLA LAMA, MATTHEW SCHIAVONI, and joined by her incredible director SHERYL KALLER, Boyle takes audiences back in time with a modern perspective of the events unfolding.

 In addition to the reading, local historian HUGH KING will share with us the true story of the East End woman, Elizabeth Garlick, who stood accused of witchcraft, being marked responsible for a string of mysterious occurrences and a death in the then English settlement.  Hugh’s intimate knowledge of Goody was inspired by the book It Were As Well to Please The Devil as Anger Him, by Lorretta Orion, his late wife. In collaboration with the East Hampton Historical Society, Hugh will lead a walking tour on Saturday, October 19th. More information for the walking tour can be found here.

This reading and discussion kicks off The Church’s Fall festival, a full weekend of Spooky spirited activities and events. Join us as we welcome the beloved Sag Harbor Halloween spirit to our village.

LUCY BOYLE

Playwright

  • Lucy Boyl’es full-length plays include The Blue Deep (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and Girls' School Gothic (Hangar Theatre). An alum of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood Playwrights Collective and the Dramatists’ Guild Fellows, she has had readings and short plays produced at Roundabout Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Guild Hall in East Hampton among others.  As a TV writer, she staffed for the ABC Family television series HUGE, created by Winnie Holzman. Her articles and essays have appeared in New York magazine, The Cut, the Wall Street Journal online, and the Los Angeles Times.

HUGH KING

Historian

  • Hugh R. King was a teacher at the Springs Union Free School District for 31 years. He is currently The Historic Site Director for the Village of East Hampton and Director of Home Sweet Home Museum. He also is both the East Hampton Town and Village Historians and Town Crier.

JENNIFER MUDGE

Actor

  • Jennifer Mudge can currently be seen on HBO’s critical hit Somebody Somewhere and in the upcoming Apple+ series Your Friends and Neighbors starring Jon Hamm. She has appeared on Broadway, in box-office record-breaking show in the Wes End, off-Broadway (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominee), and many beloved regional theaters. In film and TV, she’s worked with Martin Scorsese and Hal Hartley, starred in indies, and been on a slew of NY-based shows. She and Lisel Tommy produce under the banner Crocodile Eyes, where they have projects in deep development with partners such as Lynn Nottage, Alex Dinelaris, Sister Pictures, Wagner Johnson Productions, and NBC-Universal, among others

CHRIS COFFEY

Actor

  • Chris Coffey will be seen next on The Madness for Netflix starring Colman Domingo this November.  He has originated roles on & off-Broadway and regionally in numerous world premieres, including Bekah Brunstetter’s Public Servant, Eric Simonson’s Bronx Bombers (Broadway), Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful (Second Stage), Neil LaBute’s Happy Hour (LaMama), Gina Gionfriddo's Can You Forgive Her? (Huntington), both Richard Nelson’s Frank's Home (Playwrights Horizons, Goodman), and How Shakespeare Won the West (Huntington), and with Arthur Miller in Resurrection Blues (Old Globe). Also: Actors Theatre, Alley, DTC, Yale, Williamstown, Dorset, Mint, etc.  Selected TV & Film: And Just Like That…, Chicago Fire, Mrs. Fletcher, Law & Order (trifecta), Instinct, Good Wife, The Good Nurse, Trust, many others. Social Outreach: Theater of War, AITAF, Waterwell. Graduate, Yale School of Drama.  

REILLY ROSE

Actor

  • Reilly Rose is an actor, musician, comedian, and writer raised on the East End and based in New York City. She stars as the romantic lead in the coming-of-age feature film Lily Darling, streaming on Pure Magic Pictures. Her other credit highlights include feature films The Squatchers, Aitana Needs A Gun, and Face the Music Grayson Grey. On the stage, she played Balthazar in Romeo + Juliet at Guild Hall dir. Josh Gladstone, she hosted The Orchestra Sings at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and performed in ensemble roles in Manhattan Concert Production’s The Secret Garden dir. Stafford Arima at Lincoln Center and Buzzfeed Live at Webster Hall.

    Reilly Rose is an alumnus of NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she concentrated on ‘The Ethics and Aesthetics of Storytelling’.

LOLA LAMA

Actor

  • Lola Lama (she/her) is a NYC and Long Island-based actor, singer, and performer. She is a BFA Summer 2024 graduate of the New Studio on Broadway at NYU Tisch, with previous training at the Atlantic Acting School and Interlochen Arts Academy. This past Summer, she studied abroad in Amsterdam at the International Theatre Workshop with The Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. Lola is drawn to feminist narratives; her artist's mission is to uplift and empower voices that are silenced, especially those of women. Offstage, she enjoys playing around with makeup (highly inspired by RuPaul's Drag Race) and exploring the historical sites & beaches of her hometown, Sag Harbor. Lola is also a lead singer in a multi-generational (almost) all-female 80s cover rock band, The Cherry Bombs (@cherrybombsmusic). For more information about Lola’s work and upcoming endeavors, please visit lolaritalama.com or follow her @_lolalama_ on Instagram. 

MATTHEW SCHIAVONI

Actor

  • Matthew Schiavoni is an actor and writer born and raised in Sag Harbor, now based in New York City. His recent credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Eastline Theater), Macbeth (Eastline Theater), and Ripcord (Hampton Theatre Company.) Matthew graduated with a BFA in Acting from SUNY Fredonia and continues his studies with The Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Heidi Marshall Studios, and The Barrow Group.

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