Director – Laura Kepley+

Stage Manager – Adam P. Blais*

Lighting Design – Michael Reidy

Sound Design – Nicholas Drashner

+ member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the union of professional stage directors and choreographers throughout the United States.
*members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States

Tarah Flanagan*

*member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

Duncan Macmillan
Plays include: PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS (2015-2017, National Theatre/Wyndham’s Theatre, West End); 1984, adapted from George Orwell (2013-2017, Headlong/Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, West End, Broadway, international tours, co-adapted/co-directed with Rob Icke); EVERY BRILLIANT THING (2013-2017, Paines Plough/Pentabus Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, UK and international tours, HBO); CITY OF GLASS, adapted from Paul Auster (2017, 59 Productions, HOME, and Lyric Hammersmith); 2071, co-written with Chris Rapley (2014-2015, The Royal Court/Hamburg Schauspielhaus); THE FORBIDDEN ZONE (2014-2016, Salzburg Festival and Schaubühne Berlin); WUNSCHLOSES UNGLÜCK, adapted from Peter Handke (2014, Burgtheater Vienna); REISE DURCH DIE NACHT, adapted from Friederike Mayröcker (2012-2014, Schauspiel Köln, Festival d’Avignon, Theatertreffen); LUNGS (2011-2016, Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres/Studio Theatre, Washington, DC); and MONSTER (2006, Royal Exchange Theatre).

Jonny Donahoe
The co-creator and original performer of the acclaimed worldwide smash Every Brilliant Thing, he created the show alongside his friend Duncan Macmillan, performed the show over 400 times across four continents. The show and his performance at Barrow Street Theatre in New York was made into a film for HBO.

• “MY SON! I had him at 42 and couldn’t believe I was pregnant. He was born beautiful and brilliant and remains this way now that he’s 10 😭. I call him my “”miracle baby.” – BF
• My brilliant thing has got to be my husband, kids and definitely my fur-babies! I have 3 ginger cats and they are protective and do an amazing job at healing us with their purrs! – MP
• My hammock chair in September – CL
• Bubbles – LD
• My love of animals. – JD
• Teaching my grandchildren how to fly kites at OOB. Makes my heart smile with all their laughter. 😍 KC
• Haircut – LH
• “REMEMBRANCES: seeing reminders of the departed in the faces of their descendants.
  • seeing my Grammy’s smiling eyes in those of her sister
  • seeing my sister-in-law’s face in that of her granddaughter
  • seeing my grandfather’s nose on my son’s face
• little things that keep my heart happy – CJF”
• Ice Cream Cone – TB
• hugs from friends – TB
• The brilliant part of my day is the smiles from my elderly early birds when I walk into work at 7:30. They are genuinely happy to see me and I feel the same. The tone to the day starts out brilliantly! – BN
• campfire burning brightly with everyone enjoying a summer evening – SC
• A Good nights sleep – SI
• my friend’s three year old.  My three sons are all adults.  This past fall has been rough – forced to move, loss of pets, new position at work…  Spending time with a 3 yo really allows you to put life in perspective and provide some focus.  Sometimes, better than therapy! – RB
• Waking up next to my wife of 50 years wondering what new adventures lay ahead. – P & MBW
• Glistening spider webs in the trees on a foggy morning – LS
• to sit out on my deck with my fire pit on & reading my book , life can’t get any better then that – CC
• The smiles on our grandkids faces every morning when we visit, they sneak down to the guest and jump on the bed and wrestle with us. It warms our hearts to see their bright smiles and laughter to wake Grammy and Papa up! Then we lay in bed and just chat about everything!! I can’t think of a better way to begin the day! – PF
• One brilliant thing in my life was the way my dad would hang my childhood stories, drawings, and crafts up in the hallway at Christmas, even into adulthood. – MG
• Twinship! I’m a twin, married to a twin. My twin sister is married to a twin & she has twins herself. I have a set of twin aunts & 3 sets of twin cousins. A few of my coworkers are twins & I love meeting twins & sharing stories. We share a special bond that “singletons”  unfortunately don’t have. Twin power, yay! – PA
• Grandchildren – K & AJ
• Married to a wonderful woman. – RL
• Putting out meal worms in the morning and watching the Eastern Blue Birds come to feed while I sit, drinking my morning cup of tea.  My daily meditation, come rain or shine. – PP
• Laying in bed on a Sunday morning, listening to music, reading the Sunday paper while enjoying the snow gently falling in the backyard. – C
• every day making my clients feel “more beautiful” in my salon chair!!!!😍❤️😍 – KP
• My cat gently placing her paw on my face attempting to wake me up in the morning – EK
• when my 11 year old (going on 20) granddaughter called back to say: ”I didn’t get to say good bye. “Good bye, I love you”. – S & PS
• fresh sheets off the clothesline in springtime! Ah so relaxing! – PP
• surviving menopause (and my husband did too!) 😂 – SV
• my 18 month granddaughter who makes every minute fun and special especially after losing both of my parents recently. – RC
• There is nothing like witnessing a sunrise. – PT
• Going outside on a bright sunny day after a fresh snowfall and creating a new snowshoe path through dense woods that mysteriously opens to a large clearing and the new powdery snow is glistening off the bare branches appearing as  millions of diamonds sparkling in the sun! – NK
• NATURE, (woods, animals, lakes) etc… – JP
• our Golden Retriever, Tommy, who finds joy each day in the simplest of things…..and gives us all more joy than we could imagine! – PD
• “A walk in the deep woods while it is snowing beautiful snow flakes! s.  not a blizzard! – BN
• Well of course my children. – TP
• The first sentence of a new book that makes you excited to keep reading. – SD
• When the sun shines after a day of rain 🙂 – LJ
• Duck Butts sticking up out of the water – LF
• Our “Sibs” text thread born at the start of Covid lockdown and still going strong. – FM
• A vintage hand muff/purse to keep my hands warm while the car heats up. – AR
• Laughing really hard, like the first time I heard Jonathan Winters. – CD
• New moon wishes❤️ – PM
• “I was 16 when I had my first son 18 with my second son. Watching them grow up to be good men and fathers. And giving me 3 amazing grandkids.- DRR”
• Going to my mailbox and finding a handwritten letter from my 8 and 12 year old granddaughters – JMB
• Putting on my socks with no holes! – CN
• Eating fresh hot chewy brownies I didn’t burn this time around. – NR
• “Tucking my grandchildren into bed every night – CO
• “The first smell of lilacs on a new spring morning! – CAE
• My 4 year old granddaughter deciding to sleep with us and then crawling into bed and cuddling with us – GF
• my father getting his new hip!! – RB
• A smile to someone and they smile back! – LG
• My Grandchildren – MW

What are your “Brilliant Things”?