Due to the illness of someone we’ve never even met,
Halloween Hoopla
has been CANCELLED!
Sadly, someone’s extended illness has had a ripple effect and caused one of our actors to be unavailable for the production. It is with great regret that we have been forced to cancel the performances. We apologize to the writers and to the cast and to you, our audience, because you will not be able to see their wonderful work.
Stay tuned for new events and classes in the near future!
You can still visit the Pumpkin Patch at Fleming Island United Methodist Church (7170 US Highway 17, Fleming Island, Florida). Get your seasonal decor!
Who: Recommended for mortals 12 and older. Younger spirits may grow restless.
When: October 17 – 19 & October 24-26
Showtimes: Fridays at 7 pm | Saturdays at 2 and 7 pm | Sundays at 3 pm
(Come early and visit the FIUMC Pumpkin Patch for your Halloween pumpkins!)
Where: Fleming Island United Methodist Church, 7170 US Highway 17, Fleming Island , FL
Admission:
Adult (Age 18-64) – $20
Senior (Age 65+) or Military (Active/Retired) – $17
Student (Age 12-17 or with Student ID) – $10
Group Sale Discount available. Please call 917-902-7210 or email boxoffice@clamourtheatre.org for groups of 10 or more.
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Halloween Hoopla
No Tricks!
Lots of Treats!
5 terrific ten-minute plays
by
5 fun writers
with
4 fabulous actors
Who: Recommended for mortals 12 and older. Younger spirits may grow restless.
When: October 17 – 19 & October 24-26
Showtimes: Fridays at 7 pm | Saturdays at 2 and 7 pm | Sundays at 3 pm
(Come early and visit the FIUMC Pumpkin Patch for your Halloween pumpkins!)
Where: Fleming Island United Methodist Church, 7170 US Highway 17, Fleming Island , FL
Admission:
Adult (Age 18-64) – $20
Senior (Age 65+) or Military (Active/Retired) – $17
Student (Age 12-17 or with Student ID) – $10
Group Sale Discount available. Please call 917-902-7210 or email boxoffice@clamourtheatre.org for groups of 10 or more.
For secure online ticket purchase using credit card or PayPal, please choose date & time below. [Note: If you don’t immediately see all dates, please click on any white space in expanded area to see all available dates.]
THE PLAYS
(in alphabetical order)
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER by Rita Anderson
DARKNESS by Elaine Smith
HALLOWEEN PLOTTING by Laurie Spector
MISFORTUNE by Mark Harvey Levine
SUGAR DADDIES by Brett Hursey
THE WRITERS

RITA
ANDERSON

BRETT
HURSEY

MARK
HARVEY
LEVINE

ELAINE
SMITH

LAURIE
SPECTOR
Rita Anderson
Rita Anderson is a neurodivergent playwright from the LGBTQIA community. She has an MFA Creative Writing and an MA Playwriting. Rita served as a Dramatists Guild Regional Representative and as Faculty for Interlochen. She went on scholarship to The O’Neill, and her play, Frantic is the Carousel, was the National Partners of American Theatre nominee. Rita won the Ken Ludwig Playwriting Award, the top national prize from The Kennedy Center for “Best Body of Work,” the 2024 B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Original Script, and she is a 2024 Finalist (Top 4) for the Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting Award. Rita has had numerous productions and literary publications to include Smith & Kraus’s BEST NEW 10-MINUTE PLAYS, BEST WOMEN’S MONOLOGUES, and BEST MEN’S MONOLOGUES (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). Early Liberty, Final Conversations, The 27 Club, Woman Hollering Creek, and Saint Somebody are “Best Selling Plays,” and Rita has a play in She Persisted: Thirty New Ten-Minute Plays by Women 40+. (Introduction by Theresa Rebeck. Applause Books.) Rita was Playwright in Residence at Lakeview Performing Arts Center, and she has developed work with The 24-Hour Plays Project, Soul Rep Theatre, The Barrow Group, Axial Theatre, Woven Theatre & The Loom New Works Festival, Creede Repertory Theatre, The PlayGround Experiment, Pegasus Theatre, Madison New Works Laboratory, Reading Theater Project, Texas State University, Illinois College, Missouri State University, James Madison University, Moving Parts Theatre (Paris, France), and Rita was a pilot playwright for Hyde Park Theatre Writers’ Group, but the highlight of her emerging career so far was sitting on a playwriting panel with Christopher Durang, and sharing a playbill with Caridad Svich. Rita is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her books: The Entropy of Rocketman (Finishing Line Press) and Watched Pots (A Lovesong to Motherhood). Rita is a Moderator for HONOR ROLL!, an advocacy group for womxn playwrights 40+ whose goal is our equal representation in theatre. Contact Rita at rita@rita-anderson.com
Brett Hursey
Brett Hursey’s plays have appeared in over two hundred and fifty theaters across the country including venues in Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hollywood, as well as internationally in England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Australia, South Korea and Canada. He’s also had over sixty off/off-off Broadway productions in Manhattan.
Mark Harvey Levine
Mark Harvey Levine has had over 2300 productions of his short plays everywhere from Bangalore to Bucharest and from South Korea to South Africa. His plays have been produced in more than 30 countries and have been published in over two dozen anthologies. Full evenings of his work, like “Didn’t See That Coming” and “A Very Special Holiday Special”, have been shown around the world, including at Edinburgh Fringe. Currently, an evening of his work is playing in Brazil (in Portuguese!) as “Surpresa”. Previous Clamour Theatre shows saw his play “Oh Tannenbaum.”
Elaine Smith
Elaine Smith is a playwright, actor, and director. Produced plays: Angels and Ministers of Grace (NJ Rep 2014—Broadway World Regional Awards: Best Drama, Best New Work), The Looking Glass (The Wharton Salon), Passing the Baton (multiple productions, 2017-2020), and short plays (miss) Mary Edwards (Theatre Brut 2017, published in All About Eve, Smith & Kraus, 2017), Liars’ Poker (Heideman Award Finalist 2010, Theatre of Light 2019), and Ten Minute Life (The ArtsCenter 2014, ABET 2019). In April 2026, Elaine’s new play with music about the history of the Penney Retirement Community will be produced as part of PRC’s year-long Centennial celebration. A member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatists Guild, she is the founder and artistic director of the Clamour Theatre Company in Clay County, Florida.
Laurie Spector
THE PERFORMERS

EVIE
NOWACK
DAY

JAMES
LOPEZ

SAMANTHA
PASCOE

BAILEY
PAULSON
EVIE NOWAK DAY
Evie is from Orange Park and graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. She currently is pursuing a career in the voiceover industry and can be heard recording, shouting, and sobbing in her home studio daily. A lifelong actress and educator, her love of the stage was solidified in middle school, and some notable credits include Sally in Theatre Southeast’s world premiere of SALLY AND GLEN AT THE PALACE and Lady Macbeth in ABET’s 2016 production of MACBETH. Evie most recently played a grieving mother in Theatre Jacksonville’s WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE as Madeline Livingston. You may also remember her as Mrs. Van Daan in their 2023 classic, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK. Evie has been seen annually at the Dickens on Centre Festival as the Wicked Winter Witch with Jason Woods Productions. Off the stage, she is a homeschool mom to a teenager and during the week she wrangles up to 60 children in after-school care, so nothing scares her anymore! She has been a homeschool drama teacher and presenter, a youth acting coach, and an annual director of the Living Stations at St. Luke’s Church. Evie would like to thank her family for all their sacrifices that have allowed her to be on this stage today. Follow her on Instagram @eviedayacting or for voiceover needs: Evie@evieday.com
James Lopez
Samantha Pascoe
Samantha Pascoe is excited to return to the stage with Clamour after being in the company’s first production, ZONA, THE GHOST OF GREENBRIER. Other community theatre experiences include working with The Island Theatre group in which she had the honor of playing Whore #3 in LES MISÉRABLES. In all four years of high school, she was part of the theatre program. Her favorite roles were Maria (WEST SIDE STORY) and the Wicked Witch of the West (WIZARD OF OZ). Samantha thanks her fellow cast members, director, and accompanist for their unwavering support, but is especially grateful to Grace, her dog, for tolerating being serenaded.
Bailey Paulson
DIRECTORS

ELAINE SMITH
Elaine Smith
ELAINE SMITH (director, producing artistic director) has acted on stage and film regionally and in New York City. She has directed for Abingdon Theatre Company, New Dramatists, Lincoln Center Institute, Women’s Projects & Productions, and Immigrants’ Theatre Project, among others. She is an award-winning playwright with productions and readings at several professional theatres. In addition, Elaine has been a script reader for the Princess Grace Awards for emerging playwrights and for Women’s Project & Productions. She has an M.A. in Theatre from the Univ. of Denver and a B.A. in Theatre from the Univ. of Delaware. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, of SAG-AFTRA, and of the Dramatists Guild. Elaine is a past member of Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU) and their producing mentorship program as well as of the League of Professional Theatre Women. Her roots in Clay County run deep. A granddaughter of Hazel Cartwright, the first employee of the Clay County Library system, and niece of Milford Cartwright, long-time owner of the Brown & Cartwright Ace Hardware in Green Cove Springs, Elaine remembers seeing the county from the passenger seat of the bookmobile, Saturdays spent at the Clay Theatre, and afternoons at Spring Park. After more than 20 years in NYC as a small business owner and theatre professional, she has returned to the area and plans for Clamour Theatre Company to be Clay County’s first professional theatre company.
MUSIC DIRECTOR

ELLEN MILLIGAN
Ellen Milligan
Ellen Milligan (Music Director, Pianist, Vocal Coach, Clinician) has been an active part of the Northeast Florida arts community for over twenty-five years. During this time she has worked on more than 200 musical theatre productions as Musical Director and/or pianist, including the national tours of “Wicked”, “Shrek”, and “A Chorus Line”. As a piano performance major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she also studied accompanying, and decided it was more enjoyable working with other performers than doing solo work. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at Jacksonville University. In addition to her musical theatre involvement, she has accompanied or performed in 55 classical recitals and concerts. She has also coached voice for over twenty years, and is proud that so many of her vocal students have established careers in classical music, on Broadway, or on Broadway tours. In the last five years, she has added Musical Theatre Workshops to her resume. The workshops focus on how to perfect the art of auditioning and embracing your talent.
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