As a part of this year’s Cincinnati Fringe Festival’s FringeNext Series
The Walnut Hills Group Theatre proudly presents
A NIGHT WITH THE DREAM KEEPER by Austin Lamewona
Cincinnati, Ohio – May 21, 2016 – For the first time in history, an audience is welcomed into the private library of the Dream Keeper, a supernatural being who watches and records people’s dreams. For one night, the Dream Keeper will weave through the dreams and subsequent real-life sequences of four very interesting characters who come from four very different walks of life.
Austin Lamewona is the winner of the Against The Grain Student Playwriting Contest, an international competition that received submissions from six continents, seventeen countries, and featured one high school winner to receive a workshop with professional actors, directors, and designers in New York. His winning play, A NIGHT WITH THE DREAM KEEPER, will be showing in the Art Academy Auditorium as a part of this year’s Cincinnati Fringe Festival.
A NIGHT WITH THE DREAM KEEPER saw its premiere on May 18, 2016 in the Walnut Hills High School Recital Hall with a full house. The show is produced, directed, and performed entirely by WHHS students. It has been in the works since August and features Seniors, Austin Lamewona, Maddie Eaton, and Claire Patterson, and Juniors Devin Knott and Kayla Fiasco.
Austin Lamewona, wrote, directed, and also plays Unk in the production of A NIGHT WITH THE DREAM KEEPER. He has had another play, Next, published by the online publisher, Off the Wall Plays. Maddie Eaton plays the Dream Keeper, the title character and bubbly hostess of the evening. She has not only won local awards for her roles in WHHS productions, but will also be attending the Michigan University school of theatre in the fall. Claire Patterson plays Kourtney, the good-natured antagonist of the show. She has also been a mainstay in the Walnut Hills theatre department and will be studying Psychology and will be studying psychology and early childhood education at Belmont University in Nashville.
“Being able to finally show what the students can do and show what they’ve learned just from high school theatre and being mentored by truly talented teachers” sums up what the experience of a student-run production is like to Junior, Devin Knott. And judging from the success of the May 18 premiere of this charming and poignant piece, these students comprise quite the dream team.
A NIGHT WITH THE DREAM KEEPER will be performed in the Art Academy Auditorium at the following dates and times:
June 4 @ 7:15
June 6 @8:45
June 7 @ 8:00
June 9 @ 6:30
June 11 @ 1:25
Tickets for the Show can be purchased at https://know.tixato.com/buy/a-night-with-the-dream-keeper
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