The Phantom Bride is the first experience created especially for the Go Play! app, which you can download here:

Follow along as Beth, a UM senior, takes an internship with a narcissistic public-access tv host that leads her deep into the life of Mary MacLane—a feminist writer, filmmaker and Butte local from the early 20th century.

The Phantom Bride is a 12-part media experience that starts at Kettlehouse South and ends at Conflux Brewing Company. At points along the walk, a new short chapter of the show unlocks on your map.

cast

Beth - Rachel Hoerth

Steve LaFoy - Jeff Medley

Keith - Jeremy Sher

Arthur - Craig Menteer

Marjorie - Kendra Mylnechuk

Callers - Stephen Jay Clement, Jadd Davis, Ciara Griffin, Ann Peacock

PRODUCTION

Director - Michael Legg

App Developers - Clarissa Spain & Miya Fordah

Recording Engineer - Tom Berich

special Thanks

The Roxy Theatre, the Boone & Crockett Club, the Missoula Public Library, Conflux Brewing Company

production stills

Bios

Jean Ann Douglass is the playwright of The Fog (Montana Rep), and The Providence of Neighboring Bodies, which was named one of the Best Shows at the Edinburgh Festivals in 2018 by the Guardian.
Jean Ann has received new play commissions from Playwrights Horizons and Montana Rep. Her play Seneca Falls is a 2021 Weissberger Award Nominee & 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee. Her work has been produced or developed by Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Montana Rep, Dutch Kills Theater, and WildWind Performance Lab. With her partner Eric John Meyer, she is the co-director of Human Head Performance Group, a company best-known for The Truck Project: a series of plays performed in Budget rental trucks for small audiences. Jean Ann is an Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award winning audiobook narrator, and her narration of LIKES by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum was named one of the Ten Best Audiobooks of 2020 by Slate. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a former Artist-in-Residence at MASS MoCA, and was an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at Brooklyn College. Jean Ann holds an MFA from Brooklyn College in Performance & Interactive Media Arts, and a BFA from Tulane University in Dance & Theatre.

Eric John Meyer's plays have been developed or presented by Playwrights Horizons, Theater Wit, The Lark, Clubbed Thumb, Vineyard Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Dutch Kills Theater Company, and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, among others. His play THE ANTELOPE PARTY was nominated for the 2018 Weissberger Award and is available from Broadway Play Publishing. He has been a resident at SPACE on Ryder Farm and has received new play commissions from Playwrights Horizons and Montana Rep. Eric is also a co-founder of Human Head Performance Group and The Truck Project, both of which he established with his partner, Jean Ann Douglass. He received his MFA in Theater from Sarah Lawrence College.

Rachel Hoerth is ecstatic to be making history through this unique and exciting style of theatre while simultaneously making her Montana Repertory Theatre debut! Rachel grew up in the tiny town of Hope, ID and is now a Junior in the BFA musical theatre program at UofM. She recently played Tess in the university’s production of Six Degrees of Separation and understudied multiple characters in UM’s Mother Courage. She has a deep passion for creating and teaching theatre, song writing, and for inspiring and being inspired by others. In a world where theatre is temporarily scarce, she feels blessed to be a part of creating this interactive and new bit of theatre. Matt. 5:16

Jeff Medley - From humble beginnings in Mexico, Missouri, and following a four year stint in the navy, a geography degree, a couple years teaching English in Japan and numerous odd jobs in Missoula, Montana, Jeff Medley began his acting career in his mid 30s as an aggressive leper in a community theater production of Jesus Christ Superstar. He continues to occasionally grace the stage as mostly quirky characters. He made his film debut as a racist clerk in Winter in the Blood. He's been in several low budget talking dog movies (only one as a dog) and recently joined SAG-AFTRA after playing a character called Skull of Ugly in the yet-to-be released Michael Polish series Bring on the Dancing Horses. Medley is so very honored to be included in this app based experiment.

Craig Menteer has been active in the Missoula theater scene since 1980 when he became a founding member of The Clark Fork Actors’ Alliance. A 1983 graduate of the University of Montana’s MFA theater program he is honored to have worked with the last three artistic directors of The Montana Repertory Theater. Other Regional Theater credits include Seattle Public Theater, ACT Seattle, Seattle Repertory Theater, On The Boards, Spokane Interplayers, Montana Players, and Magic Movers Dance Theater. As an artist making original performance work Craig has received commissions from the Seattle Art Museum, Center On Contemporary Art/Seattle, Montana Committee for The Humanities, and Montana Education Association.

Kendra Mylnechuk Potter is a Native (Lummi) theatre artist and filmmaker currently based in Missoula, MT. The NY Times once called her "a skilled collaborator." Her film performances screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and other festivals around the world. In 2013, she won best actor in NBC/Universal Pictures Short Cuts Film Festival. NY theatre includes both off and off-off Broadway venues. Regional work includes a national tour as Shelby in Steel Magnolias for MT Rep, and productions in LA, OR, and MT. She developed a theatre and storytelling program at N'Kwusm Salish language school with William Yellowrobe, created and implemented 2017 curriculum for Missoula County Public School’s Sparks program on Native American Studies using theatre in education techniques, and presented work at Thinking Its Presence '15 and '17, a conference on race, creative writing, and literary study. In 2015, she co-founded MT+NYC Collaborative, and directed two of the company's first productions: "The Woodstove," and "Dido of Idaho", and performed in "The Wolf" before co writing and performing the titular role in “The Buffalo Play”, which enjoyed a workshop in Missoula before its premiere in NY in the 2019 season at The Tank. She helps run annual writing retreats with MT+NYC Collaborative. With BetweentheLines Theatre, she directed "In the Snow" by Kate Morris. Kendra is producer and subject of a documentary called DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD about her adoption and reunion with her biological mother and Lummi heritage, currently making its festival circuit, with a premier at Maoriland, an indigenous film festival in New Zealand on March 25, 2021.

Jeremy Sher lives and works in Missoula, where he’s performed with Montana Repertory Theatre, BetweenTheLines, MT+NYC Collaborative, The Colony, Bare Bait Dance and other companies. Prior to that he lived in Chicago, working with The Neo Futurists, Writers Theatre, Redmoon, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens and many others. Regionally he’s performed at St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Shakespeare Theatre D.C., and Off-Broadway at New Victory Theater. He has worked overseas in Spain and France, and he’s created several original works including “The Dirty Sexy Chocolate Show,” which has toured the region since 2014 to popular acclaim. Jeremy is also a voice actor and will be featured in the forthcoming audiobook “Mike Monsoon’s Song Journal” to be released this year. 

Stephen Jay Clement is a Missoula-born actor, singer, and songwriter. Go Play is Stephen’s second production with Montana Repertory Theatre, previously portraying Gil in The Fog (2020). Follow Stephen on Instagram (@stephenjclement) to keep up with their new work, including their upcoming debut album, Noise.

Jadd Davis spent his career as an AEA actor, voice coach, casting director and artistic director prior to attending UM for an MFA in Directing. His voice appears on several albums, most notably the original cast recordings of A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL (Sony) and BRUNDIBAR (Naxos). Missoula audiences would recognize him as Booth in ASSASSINS at UM, Guillaume in THE BAKUNAWA with Montana Rep's Bitterroot Lab - and a number of "in residence" performances at The Downtown Dance Collective. Jadd serves on the 2021-2022 faculty at Gonzaga University and will begin a second Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at UM in fall 2022.

Ciara Rose Griffin is a multidisciplinary artist. Her NYC theatrical work includes FCKNLZ On Broadway (Museum Of Art And Design), Three Day Hangover's Twelfth Night, Or Sir Toby Belch's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Hamlet Project, Spem In Alium (MT + NYC Collaborative), and Astronauts Wanted (Dixon Place). Recent Montana credits include The Buffalo Play, Dido Of Idaho, and The Woodstove. Film Credits include The Triangle, The Case Of Josephine H, and Two Guys. In 2005 Ciara became a founding member of the Buttenik Ensemble (Butte Montana, Seattle Washington) and spent several years at Annex Theatre in Seattle as a company and staff member. In 2015 Ciara founded The MT + NYC Collaborative with Kendra Mylnechuk Potter.

Ann Peacock is thrilled to be a part of Montana Rep’s new innovative play “ The Phantom Bride”. For the past 27 years she has had the pleasure of working with such wonderful companies as Montana Rep, MCT, BetweenTheLines, Third Ear Productions, The Good Works Studio, Zoola Writers and Viscosity Theater. Some of her recent favorite productions include “Go.Please.Go”, “Room Service”, “HIR”, “4000 Miles” and “Time for a Quickie”. When she’s not acting you can find her in the garden. Future goals include an intensive acting workshop in Ireland and the Chelsea Flower Show in England.