Pacific Playwrights Festival Highlight: "Pleasers" by Avery Deutsch
Evan wants to get into Yale. Each week he works on his college essays at Miriam’s house. Tyler, her 28-year-old son, wants to be Evan's friend, trying each week to impress him. But Evan would rather be Miriam’s friend. And Miriam has a lot going on—so she just wants her boys to be good.
See the staged reading on Saturday, May 2, at 10:30 a.m.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Avery Deutsch is a playwright and actor from Katonah, New York. She is the winner of Clubbed Thumb’s 2022 Biennial Commission, The Hearth Theater’s 2024 virtual retreat and a recipient of an EST/ Sloan Project commission. Her play The Age of Mary is the winner of the 2025 The Terrence McNally New Play Incubator. Her play Sick Day was nominated for the 2025 Venturous list by Eboni Booth. She is a proud member of EST Youngblood and she recently graduated from UT Austin with an MFA in playwriting.
Montana Repertory Theatre proudly announces the next installment of our popular Plays on Tap Series, Lost & Found, running November 13-23, 2025 at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N Pattee St, in downtown Missoula. Thanks to the generosity of Northwestern Energy, tickets are Pick-What-You-Pay, with $25 suggested. Available now at montanarep.org/tickets (link in bio).
“Welcome to your local art museum, now sponsored by the U.S. Department of War. We want to assure you that all rumors that the museum has become in any way abnormal or unsafe in recent weeks are entirely untrue. And there is absolutely nothing to the hearsay that our beautiful artworks are having profound metaphysical interactions with our patrons.”
The Rep partners with the MAM to bring you this unique blending of live theatre and visual art. Join us as four playwrights – Paul W. Kruse, Madeline Sayet, Habib Yazdi, and Avery Deutsch – explore what it means to lose something and, perhaps, find it again.
This on-site performance of four new plays includes mature themes and language. Audiences will move throughout the art museum during the show.
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And then the remarkable @trimblenator (who is truly kindness personified) captured our ceremony and party—tears, magic trick, debauchery and all. A total dream.
Two months ago we got married in Prospect Park (where we met!!). Our amazing friend @danielterna , who Brenden has known since he was nineteen, took these unbelievable portraits. I love them so much.
One more Winter Guard post— can’t get over these production photos or these people. What a gift!
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Photos by Kenneth L. Stilson
Directed by Kenneth L. Stilson
Caroline: Kinya Kairigi
Jess: Ally Wukitsch
Lucy: Lizzie White
Liz: Cecilia Hartney
Maya: Isabel Kissel
Mindy: Jodi Lloyd
Zoe: Anne Roach
Ensemble/ swings: Elise Bowles, Evie Rodenbaugh, Paris Heaver
Costume design: Emma Whetton
Lighting Design: Chris Haug
Scenic/ projections: Amber Marisa Cook
Choreographer: Trudy C. Giasi
Sound Design: Hankyu Lee
Stage Manager: Kyra Ankrom
Assistant Director: Gabriel Lawrence
Dramaturg: Kitt Lavoie
