The Rainmaker Creative

Director

Adam Singleton

Adam has been volunteering at Abilene Community Theatre for just over a decade. Most recently he was The Narrator in Puffs, Joe Pitt in Angels In America, and is learning to like donuts again after playing Norman Bulansky in The Boys Next Door. Previously he directed Other Desert Cities at ACT in 2020. He recently celebrated 15 years at KTAB where he produces KTAB 4u and Big Country Politics. In his spare time he enjoys camping, video games, and runs the Healthcliff/New Yorker mashup account The Heathyorker.

Assistant Director

Keith May

Stage Manager

Cheyenne Karst

Cheyenne was last seen on stage as one of the fake Annie Wilkes in Misery, since then they have helped with Boys Next Door, and Puffs. Cheyenne is a cosmetologist who enjoys reading, crocheting, cooking, doing hair, and welding.

Assistant Stage Manager

Marcia Straughn

Intimacy Choreographer

Emelie Clements

Emelie is Group Fitness Instructor at Crunch Abilene, self-employed Health Coach, and full-time distance graduate student at Luther Seminary! Her debut performance at ACT was as Megan Jones in Puffs. She has also performed in Legally Blonde The Musical (Courtney the store clerk/Law Student/Chutney Wyndam) with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay,

Assistant Intimacy Choreographer

Babak Akavan

Babak was last seen as Wayne Hopkins in Puffs and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. He is currently a theatre student at McMurry University. He enjoys cooking, gaming, writing, and taking his dog to the park.

Original Creative Team

The Rainmaker premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1954 under the direction of Joseph Anthony.

“The Rainmaker” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

N. Richard Nash (1913-2000) wrote with distinction for the theatre, television, film, poetry and fiction. He is best known for The Rainmaker, which has been translated into nearly 40 languages. Nash wrote the screenplay for Porgy and Bess and the libretti for The Happy Time and 110 in the Shade.

Novels: East Wind, Rain and The Last Magic. TV: one of that select group of writers associated with the period in media history known as The Golden Age of Television. Many radical plays and novels were also written by him under the name of John Roc. Awards: the American Dramatists, the Maxwell Anderson Verse Drama, the Orbeal Prize, the Wilhelm Gosse, the Cannes Prize for Literature and Drama, the Geraldine Dodge Award and the New American Play Award. He taught at Bryn Mawr College, Haverford, Brandeis, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and Princeton.