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#CoHoSummerfest Week 1<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/b>Mad & A Goat<\/b><\/h2>\n

by <\/b>Diana Lynn Small<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

June 15 – 18<\/b><\/p>\n

Student Loan Debt. Goat Farm Cult. Beer & Biscuits.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

MAD & A GOAT is a two-women show about one woman who, to free herself from college debt, joins a Wyoming goat farm she inherits from her occult-leader birth parents. There is seduction. There is beer. There are biscuits. And let\u2019s not forget about the goats.<\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cbrutally funny\u2026 commanding, utterly in-sync performances\u2026told in equal parts narration and movement\u2026Exciting and raw\u2026\u201d <\/span>\u2013 Santa Barbara Independent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nMad & A Goat<\/span><\/a>\n

Production Credits<\/b><\/h3>\n

Written and Directed by <\/span>Diana Lynn Small<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Performances by Heather Johnson and Paige Tautz<\/span><\/p>\n

Lighting Design by Rachel Alulis<\/span><\/p>\n

Production Design by Madison Blaize-Russ and Diana Lynn Small<\/span><\/p>\n

Developed with support from ScriptWorks’ Seed Support Fund. For more information about ScriptWorks, visit <\/span>www.scriptworks.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

About the Artists<\/h3>\n

Diana Lynn Small<\/b> (Writer\/Director)<\/span><\/p>\n

Diana writes, acts, and directs for the stage. She is a Co-Artistic Director of <\/span>Salvage Vanguard Theater<\/span><\/a> in Austin, TX with Florinda Bryant and Jenny Larson. Diana earned her MFA in playwriting from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. \u00a0Her two-woman show <\/span>Mad & a Goat<\/span><\/i> has toured to six cities since it was developed in 2013. Her play <\/span>Good Day<\/span><\/i> was selected for the 2015 Great Plains Conference PlayLabs, Kitchen Dog Theatre\u2019s New Works Festival and was a finalist for the 2015 Play Penn Conference. \u00a0Diana has worked with paper chairs theatre company in Austin having directed Elizabeth Doss’s play <\/span>Mast <\/span><\/i>and performing\/dramaturging Doss’s play <\/span>Poor Herman<\/span><\/i> and sharing the world-premiere of her play <\/span>Hot Belly <\/span><\/i>with The Syndicate in NYC. She is pursuing a Master of Divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Diana returns to stories about the American West, past and present. She grew up in Martinez, California three miles south of the Shell Oil Plant and three miles east of the John Muir Historic House. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rachel Alulis<\/b> (Lighting Designer) lives in Brooklyn, NY. Rachel holds an MFA in Lighting Design from UT Austin. Rachel works for the Lighting Design Group at CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heather Johnson<\/b> (Performer) lives in Fort Collins, CO. Heather is the founder and Co-Producer of the Fort Collins Fringe Festival and Co-Director of La-De-Da Performing Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paige Tautz<\/b> (Performer) lives in Santa Barbara, CA. Paige is a company member of Lit Moon Theater Co. in collaboration with the Bitola International Shakespeare Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

Special Thanks<\/b><\/h3>\n

Deborah Small and Bethany Small<\/span><\/p>\n

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