Georgia O’Keeffe

(1887-1986)  First exhibited her work in 1916 at 291, a gallery owned and operated by Alfred Stieglitz in New York City. She quickly gained prominence as an artist and is best known today for her landscapes of the American West, large paintings of flowers, and through the photographic images taken by photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

 Alfred Stieglitz

(1864-1946)Photographer, arts humanitarian and patron. He is credited with introducing Modern Art to the United States through his galleries 291, The Intimate Gallery, and An American Place. Editor of several photographic journals, most notably 291 and Camera Work, he is best remembered for the intimate photographs of his wife, artist Georgia O’Keeffe.

Lucinda McDermott (playwright, Georgia O’Keeffe)  is an actor, playwright, musician, director, visual artist, teaching artist, and theatre maker; Lucinda McDermott has created O’Keeffe! to honor a woman, the creative spirit, and to give her  passions an outlet. O’Keeffe! premiered Off-Broadway at The William Redfield Theatre in 1992 after a workshop production at Virginia Commonwealth Univ. to rave reviews, and went on to successful runs at Primary Stages and the Womenkind One Person Show Festival in NYC. A tour followed taking O’Keeffe! throughout the the USA, Bermuda, and Mexico

Other acting credits include Off-off Broadway and cabaret stints including Thou Swell, Thou Witty, Thou Rogers and Hart, winner of the MAC award for Best Revue 1986 and recently in her son Dante Piro’s play, A Good Play. She has performed in West End, London in the staged reading of Woman of Light by her dear friend Michele Wagner. Regionally, Lucinda has performed at Firehouse Theatre-Richmond, VA, Wolfbane Theatre in Lychnburg, VA, The Virginia Rose-Richmond, Virginia Stage Company-Norfolk, VA,  Mill Mountain Theatre and Roanoke Children’s Theatre in Roanoke, VA. She has toured with Theatre IV and Celebrity Cruises.

Lucinda has done numerous independent films, TV, commercials, voice overs. Several of her plays including O’Keeffe! and Feeding On Mulberry Leaves, are published through Playscripts Inc, (www.playscripts.com). She is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild of America. Lucinda holds a BFA in acting from Va. Commonwealth Univ., and a MFA in Playwriting from the Univ. of Virginia. She studied acting in New York with Michael Moriarty and at HB Studios.

Lucinda lives in the New River Valley of Virginia where she and her husband play music as the Americana acoustic duo Ball & Chain.

Dr. Jan Powell  (Director) was the founding Artistic Director of the innovative Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company at the Center for the Performing Arts in Portland Oregon, then served as Artistic Director of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival before relocating to Richmond, Virginia as the Producing Artistic Director for Richmond Shakespeare.  In 2018, Jan transitioned into her position as resident Richmond Shakespeare Associate Artist, and continues an active schedule of professional directing, including The Father for Richmond Shakespeare opening at the end of January ’25. She has served as an Assistant Professor at Randolph-Macon College for the last two years, and is a proud member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild/AFTRA, and the American Guild of Musical Artists.  

Jonathan Piro (Composer/Sound Design)

Jonathan Piro has designed and/or operated sound for theatre productions Agency at Synchronicity Space in NYC, Copacabana at Mill Mountain Theatre, The Annual Cabaret for SUSI at Radford Univ., The Vagina Monologues at Radford Univ., Chicago, Playboy of the Western World, An Evening with Bill Irwin, Into the Woods, with compositions written for Who Will Carry the Word?  all at the Univ. of VA.

He has operated sound for numerous sound companies and bands including June Rich, Carbon Leaf, Lake Trout, On Beyond Zee, Blind Venetians. He is a recording engineer who has worked with a variety of artists.

Jonathan Piro has performed solo and with many bands as guitarist, bassist, and vocalist. Currently, he plays with the original acoustic Americana duo Ball & Chain, with his wife Lucinda McDermott. He is currently in the process or recording a new album for Ball & Chain.

Elizabeth Weiss Hopper, Costumer

is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre at the School of the Arts, VCU in Richmond, VA where she served as Head of Costume Design for 32 years.  Professionally she has designed costumes for over 300 productions in theatre, dance and opera including the Company of Fools, Hailey, ID; the Confederation Center of the Arts, Canada, the University of Massachusetts, Theatre VCU, Theatre IV, Barksdale Theatre, The Production Company, the University of Richmond, James River Chamber Opera, Richmond Shakespeare, Cadence Theatre, and Virginia Repertory Theatre. She is an expert on 1920’s and 1930’s women’s clothing having co-authored two current books: Women’s Wear of the 1920’s: with complete patterns and Women’s Wear of the 1930’s: with complete patterns published by Player’s Press. Lucinda’s Note: Liz was also my beloved costume professor at VCU when I was an undergrad, a beloved friend and mentor.

Andrea Stratton, Lighting Designer

Andrea loves sitting in dark theaters and creating light scapes. Some of her favorite show designs include: La Sirene (California Revels); She Kills Monsters (San Leandro High School); Almost Maine (B8 Theatre Company, San Leandro High School); A Midsummers Nights Dream (B8 Theatre Company, San Leandro High School); Jubilee (B8 Theatre Company); In the Heights (Throckmorton Theater); Cinderella (Curtain Call Theater Company); Once On this Island (Curtain Call Theater Company.), and of course, O’Keeffe! She currently resides at Brava Theater Center as the Technical Director.