Booking 2026-2028
NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN
a mellow meditation on change, permanence and our place in the natural world
created by rude mechs
Writing: Kirk Lynn
Original Music and Sound Design: Peter Stopschinski
Direction: Thomas Graves & Shawn Sides
“A serious yet whimsical series of episodes with a meditative, soothing effect—[and] plenty of laughs along the way.”
About the Production
Not Every Mountain is a groundbreaking theatrical experience that explores the life cycle of mountains through innovative stagecraft and natural sound design. This mellow meditation presents the processes by which mountains are born and eventually laid to rest—an invocation of tectonic force and geologic time.
Using string, cardboard and magnets, the production invites audiences to watch the collective effort of making and unmaking a series of interlocking mountain ranges. We witness minutes, or perhaps centuries, unfold as mountains rise and fall, clouds dance, birds alight and depart, and a moon delicately hangs overhead.
The show features music and sound created using Earth’s most prominent natural frequency, The Schumann Resonance, and is underscored by poetic recitation—or perhaps a spiritual incantation.
Touring Overview
Company:
6 Performers
1 Stage Manager
1 Musician
1 Lighting Supervisor
Technical Overview:
The Stage - NEM requires a clear, uninterrupted level playing space that is 24’ x 30’ and no less than 13’ to the bottom of the grid. Audience seating on four sides around the space. Detailed Tech Rider available upon request.
About Rude Mechs
Rude Mechs is an ensemble-based theatre company that creates original plays that they produce in Austin, TX and tour internationally. The Rudes have seen four Off-Broadway premieres and toured to top national venues such as The Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN), The Wexner Center (Columbus, OH), and Woolly Mammoth (Washington D.C.). They seek to participate in the international community of artists by contributing to festivals such Austria’s SommerSzene, the Galway Arts Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (winner Total Theatre Award for Best New Play by an Ensemble), the Kiasma Festival, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, and the Under the Radar Festival in NYC.
Touring productions include Field Guide, Not Every Mountain, Grageriart’s Design for Everyone, The Cold Record, Replacement Tapes, Stop Hitting Yourself, Now Now Oh Now, The Method Gun, Get Your War On, How Late It Was, How Late, Cherrywood, and Lipstick Traces. They are deeply proud to represent Texas as a home for cutting-edge theatrical practice.
The Co-Producing Artistic Directorate comprises Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw, Madge Darlington, Thomas Graves, Lana Lesley, Kirk Lynn and Shawn Sides
FDR’S VERY HAPPY HOUR
Conceived by Regan Linton & M. Graham Smith
Written & Performed by Regan Linton
Directed by M. Graham Smith
Part Happy Hour, Part Seance, Part History Lesson… shake well and serve!
About the Production
Featured in the New York Times as one of the top Plays to See in the U.S. this Fall, FDR's Very Happy Hour is an immersive civics experiment conceived by Regan Linton and M. Graham Smith. It asks: how might FDR's triumphs and failures illuminate our own civic health?
Inspired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's tradition of hosting nearly daily cocktail hours at the White House—welcoming folks from different backgrounds to sip martinis, laugh, and connect—this 90-minute play (no intermission) mixes humor and history to build community in challenging times. As FDR invites us to ponder life, a complicated legacy, and the pursuit of connection, strangers become friends—and perhaps, together, we can find ways to talk with our neighbors again.
Regan Linton (Writer/Performer/Co-Creator) (she/her) is a multi-genre creator, writer, actor, director, and internationally-recognized leader in the arts, specializing in disability aesthetics and accessible design. Her eclectic creative and leadership experience includes co-directing the award-winning documentary imperfect about professional actors with disabilities (30+ film festivals, now streaming) and writer/director of the short film Jack and the Beanstalk with Warner Bros/Discovery Access’ Reframed: Next Gen Narratives. Featured original plays include FDR”s Very Happy Hour; The Menagerist, and Squishy But Firm: Sexcapades of a Crip Girl, and TYA shows for DC's National Theatre. Regan spent five years as Artistic Director of the preeminent disability affirmative Phamaly Theatre Company in Denver, and has led comprehensive accessibility curation of countless creative projects, including David Byrne's immersive experience Theatre of the Mind; Regional acting includes Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mixed Blood, Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Off-Center, Phamaly, The Apothetae, and voiceover for Audible audiobooks and virtual gaming. Regan is a featured columnist for New Mobility Magazine covering topics such as body image, sexuality, and self-actualization; and guest lectures at countless academic, government, business, and nonprofit institutions across the world. MFA in Acting UC San Diego, Master of Social Work University of Denver, BA from USC. Regan hails from Denver, CO and lives with a T-4 complete spinal cord injury. www.reganlinton.com
M. Graham Smith (Director/Co-Creator) (he/him) is a freelance Director, Educator, and Producer. Recent directing credits: World Premieres of Obie winner Christopher Chen’s Home Invasion, Kevin Rolston’s Deal with the Dragon (Magic Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe), The Mortification of Fovea Munson (The Kennedy Center); Father/Daughter (Aurora); West Coast premieres of White Chip (B Street), Pickleball (B Street), You for Me for You (Crowded Fire), and White (Shotgun). He teaches at A.C.T. and Berkeley Rep. He’s a graduate of Wesleyan University where he directed the first workshop of In The Heights.
Alexandria Wailes (Performer) has worked as an actor, director, choreographer, and American Sign Language (ASL) consultant in television, film, music videos, web series, Broadway, and Off Broadway. She toured with the Deaf West Broadway production of Big River, served as the associate choreographer for the Tony-nominated Deaf West production of Spring Awakening, was a member of the Heidi Latsky Dance Company, worked as a museum educator for the Whitney Museum of American Art, and was a teaching artist with Theatre Development Fund and Interactive Drama for Education and Awareness in the Schools Inc.
Touring Overview
Traveling Company 2 performers, 1 Stage Manager, 1 Company Manager & 1 Deck Manager
The Stage FDR requires a clear, uninterrupted level playing space that is roughly 26’ x 26’. Detailed requirements in Rider.
Accessibility This project prioritizes accessibility for the fullest human spectrum possible, with Open Captioning, ASL Interpretation, Audio Description, and wheelchair-accessible design integrated into the production. We will work with the presenter to create accessible Front of House, Backstage and House for FDR for their communities.
FDR’s Very Happy Hour was originally commissioned by PAC NYC. The play has previously received developmental workshops at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, American Conservatory Theater, Washington Center for Performing Arts, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.
It premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville in October 2025.
Tour Producer: HIGH HARD HEAT
Dominick Balletta opened HIGH HARD HEAT in 2024 as a way to centralize all of his activities in the world of performing arts. His work spans both the commercial and non-profit sectors. With National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, he was the NYC Originating Producer for Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s HARMONY, which transferred to Broadway in October of 2023 following an award winning sold out run Off Broadway in 2022. He was also the lead producer of the 2022 revival of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF IN YIDDISH, directed by Joel Grey, at New World Stages, and the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie’s opera THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS in partnership with New York City Opera. In November of 2023 he produced the world premiere of AMID FALLING WALLS, presenting through Yiddish music and poetry rescued from ghettos, displaced persons camps and other locations, first person testimony of how Jews lived and resisted the forces of the Holocaust. AMID FALLING WALLS received the 2024 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue. As a theatrical producer he received a Tony Award nomination as a producer of Moisés Kaufman's 33 VARIATIONS, starring Jane Fonda, a highlight of his thirteen year tenure with Tectonic Theater Project. In film, he is a Producer of Scott Freiman’s DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES series, as well a pair of films directed by Jonathan Demme: Executive Producer of ANOTHER TELEPATHIC THING and Associate Producer of I’M CAROLYN PARKER.
“By coming together, there is hope and empowerment. By the end of the 90-minute play, the audience feels that truth, daring to ask: What might we build by working together and talking outside the algorithm? ”
OPEN by Crystal Skillman
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Performed by Megan Hill
About the Production
A spellbinding story of love, loss, and the impossible—OPEN is now available for booking. This electrifying production, developed through the Tank with All for One Theatre, captivated Off-Broadway audiences in summer 2024 at WP Theatre (presented by Midnight Theatricals in association with The Tank and The Flying Carpet Theatre Company).
A woman called The Magician appears to perform tricks, but there's no illusion—she's attempting the impossible: saving her partner, Jenny. OPEN is a powerful, funny, and deeply moving play about love's ability to defy hate in magical ways.
Megan Hill stars as The Magician under the direction of Jessi D. Hill. Featured in The New Yorker's Summer Culture Preview, the show's 2019 sold-out run at The Tank earned a New York Times Critics' Pick, with Elisabeth Vincentelli writing: "Kristen [The Magician] executes magic tricks because she is the one who needs to believe. The miracle this lovely show pulls out is that by the end, she does — and so do we."
Touring Overview
Tours with one performer, one director, one stage manager and 1 tech supervisor.
No set.
Detailed technical rider available upon request.
About the Artists
Crystal Skillman (Playwright) is an internationally award-winning dramatist. Plays include NYTimes Critics’ Picks Cut, Geek, Open, as well as King Kirby, co-written with Fred Van Lente about the life of Marvel’s co-creator, artist Jack Kirby, which is now a podcast series on Broadway Podcast Network. Her new play commission, The Rocket Men, will receive a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at three NNPN theatres around the country in their 2025-2026 seasons, starting this fall (Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis; Synchronicity Theatre, Atlanta; Angels Theatre, Nebraska). During the slow-down of the pandemic, Crystal’s plays made their international debut with Rain and Zoe Save the World. The play premiered in Jermyn Street’s season in the UK with Drew & Dane Productions, who have also optioned Mary and Max, which she is the bookwriter of, for Broadway. Featuring music by noted composer Bobby Cronin, the musical is based on animator Adam Elliot’s award-winning film. Crystal’s first graphic novel has just come out from Rocketship Entertainment; she has previously written for Wondery Kids, Adventure Time comics, and Marvel comics. She is a proud alum of the WP Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and Youngblood at EST, where she is a member. She is represented by Brian T. Sherman (IPEX Artists Agency).
Jessi D. Hill (Director) (she/her) Recent: Small (2024 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Nominations), The Ask by Matthew Freeman at wild project (2025 Drama Desk Nomination). New York: NYTW, Public Theater/Joe’s Pub, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, LAByrinth, Rattlestick, Women’s Project, 59E59, P73, New Group, Keen Company, LaMama, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, wild project, Musical Theatre Factory, The Acting Company, Barrow Group, New Dramatists, Playwrights Realm, New Georges. Regional: Old Globe, George St. Playhouse, A.R.T, People’s Light, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Diversionary, TheatreSquared, Orlando Shakes and others. International: Edinburgh, London, New Zealand, Berlin, Hamburg, Brussels, Ukraine and Rome. She currently teaches directing at Fordham and Barnard. MFA Directing: Yale
Megan Hill (The Magician) is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer. As an actor, she has originated roles in the world premieres of Zoe Geltman's A(U)NTS!; Sandy Rustin's The Suffragette’s Murder; Ramiz Monsef’s The Ants; Leah Nanako Winkler’s The Brightest Thing in the World and Kentucky; Crystal Skillman’s Open and Cut; Amy Staats’ Eddie and Dave; Mara Nelson Greenberg’s Do You Feel Anger?; Rob Askins’ Hand To God; Joshua Conkel's The Sluts of Sutton Drive and Lonesome Winter (which she also cowrote);and Joshua Conkel and Matt Marks’ The House of Von Macrame. Megan was nominated for two Helen Hayes awards for her work in POTUS at Arena Stage. She also received a Drama Desk Award nomination and was named one of the Best Comedic Performances of the Year by The New York Times for her portrayal of David Lee Roth in Eddie and Dave. Her play The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play has enjoyed runs in New York, DC, and Seattle. BFA Acting/Original Works: Cornish College of the Arts. MFA: ART/MXAT IATT at Harvard.