A Performance of Lady Gregory's Play The Workhouse Ward

On Saturday January 13th at 4PM the Elting Memorial Library will host a performance of Lady Augusta Gregory's play The Workhouse Ward. In the event of snow the play will be performed on Sunday January 14th at 4PM. This production of The Workhouse Ward is produced and directed by Jo Gangemi.


The production will star David LeVine, Mark Varian, and Anne Wandres.


David LeVine
A jack of many trades; logger, fisherman, and then for the last 35+ years a lighting technician for television commercials and films. But his first love has always been the theater. When he wasn’t seeing great roles; he might be whispering in the ear of the assistant director - suggesting how the director should explain his view to the actor in order to get the
performance he’s looking for! After having had small roles in many school plays along the way, and enjoying drama workshops whenever possible, he is ready to embark upon his career in regional theater with this role of Michael McInerney in The Workhouse Ward!

Mark Varian
Mark returns to the theatre after a forty-year detour managing his family’s New York City construction firm. During the 1970s and the early 1980s Mark performed with several regional theatres, including the Alley Theatre in Houston, The Virginia Museum Theatre, The Alaska Repertory Company, and the Alabama and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals. He also appeared in several Off-Off Broadway productions.

Anne Wandres
Anne studied at Webber-Douglas Dramatic Academy in London and Herbert Berghof Studio in New York in the best decade of the last
century. She got her Actors Equity union card doing light plays in barns and lost it doing shadowy drama Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, and not paying her dues (in more ways than one). Anne loves community theatre because she meets diverse people who have great fun creating organized havoc. She hopes that everyone enjoys the show.

Jo Gangemi
Jo’s interest in theatre began when she was a child in Cleveland where she joined “The Curtain Pullers” at The Cleveland Playhouse. She majored in theatre in spite of hearing from her Aunt Josie “You’re breaking your mother’s heart by majoring in theatre.” Undaunted, she moved to New York City and participated in community theatre over the
years. It was ultimately in New Paltz where she found her true calling of producing and directing one act plays. This is her third.

Lady Augusta Gregory (1865-1933) was an Irish Playwright,folklorist and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland, which she ran for decades with WB Yeats and was the heart and soul of the company. She was a cultural sensation and was generally regarded as a rock star.