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Join us for a Relaxed Performance on Saturday 11/15! We’ll be hosting a Touch Tour that evening starting at 6:45P. Click here for more info.

The Pilon runs 2 hours 20 minutes, including a 15 minute intermission. Seating is general admission. If you need seating accommodations, our box office staff will be happy to assist.

Concessions and drinks from the bar are welcome in the space; however, please no outside food or drinks.

Society demands our identities to be rigid. These boxes and labels we are given provide security. But, when our wants, our needs, our authentic selves push against these static boundaries we’ve been forced inside, we risk losing everything. That terrifying fear of the loss of our stability, relationships, and home can keep us silent.

In The Pilon, we are immersed in the cozy, unique Wax Harvest Card Shop. Here, we find ourselves up close with people on the fringes of mainstream society, each with a common desire for their special, niche hobby to move in the direction they want it to go.

Through humor, love, and arguments about cardboard rectangles, The Pilon asks us to face that vulnerable moment of truth. What will we do when we step up to the plate? Will we let the moment pass us by? Or will we swing for the fences?

Game on!

Jessica

RHONDA | Delia Kropp

CORBIN | Rio Soliz Ragazzone

LEX | Jo Tannous

MARC | Josh Razavi*

GRIFFEY | Harper Levander

RHONDA (U/s) | Kailen Lee

CORBIN (U/s) | RJ Cecott

LEX (U/s) | Elijah Cox

MARC (U/s) | Ryan Finn

GRIFFEY (U/s) | Silas Smith

*indicates Red Theater cohort member

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SCENIC | Manuel Ortiz

LIGHTING | Jack Goodman

SOUND | Sebby Woldt*

COSTUME | Haleigh Kent*

PROPS | Chas Mathieu

INTIMACY & FAMILY LIAISON | Jamie Macpherson*

*indicates Red Theater cohort member

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DIRECTOR | Jessica Love*

PLAYWRIGHT | Zach Barr*

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | Morgan Kingsley

STAGE MANAGER | Ella Johnson

DRAMATURG | Daniel Bird Tobin

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR | AJ Mueth

CHARGE ARTIST | Phoebe Huggett

PHOTOGRAPHER | Faith Decker*

CASTING DIRECTOR | Becca Holloway*

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION | Hunter Cole*

COMPANY MANAGER | Mary T. Cahoon*

CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | Clare Brennan

CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | Wyatt Kent

*indicates Red Theater cohort member

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Reading, Freshly Brewed at The Understudy Coffee & Books (2025)

Semi-Finalist, Seven Devils New Play Foundry (2024, 2025)

The Pilon would not have been possible without the generosity of the following collaborators and supporters: Amelia Seidel, Caitlin McCarthy, Chicago Green Theatre Alliance, Chicago Printworks, the League of Chicago Theatres, Pastor Kristin and the Edgewater Presbyterian Church, Marisa Macella, and the rest of Red Theater’s Board of Directors.

Special thanks to our season support donors:

• Heidi Graham

• Tom & Dacia Kent

• Marisa & Chris Macella

• Aimee Kleiman

• John & Catherine Brennan

• Jamie Macpherson

• Ansley Valentine

• Edward Brennan

• D.D. Wigley

• Meredith Ernst

• Elizabeth Lovelady

• Robert & Jean Marie Koon

• Matthew Flickinger

• Ruth Johnston

• Jen Sloan

Red Theater is funded in part by grants from The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Clinton Family Fund, and the Illinois Arts Council.