EVERYTHING

tHAT RISES

MUST CONVERGE

From a story by Flannery O'Connor  and created for the stage by Karin Coonrod,  this is  a tragic-comic interracial seat-shifting dance by whites and blacks on a bus in America's deep South.

Playing and speaking the  original text verbatim, eight actors create all the characters and  give us all the narration. Georgia's red earth is slammed up against the eternal and O'Connor's voice embodied in a company of performers carries the power of this apocalyptic comedy right into the audience.

2024

La Sapienza University; Oratorio del San Francesco Saviero at Caravita, Rome (September 2024); University of St. Thomas, Houston TX; Belmont Abbey College, NC; Bronx Community Reentry Center;  Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY; St. Paul's Church in Brooklyn, NY (October 2024)

CAST

Christopher McLinden
Paul Pryce
Stacey Scott
Ean Sheehy
Elizabeth Stahlmann
Carlton Terrence Taylor
Welker White

Creative Team

Karin Coonrod (Adaptor, Director)
Carlton Terrence Taylor (Assistant Director, Music Director)
Oana Botez (Hat Design)
Costume Coordinator (Damarius Kennedy)
Light Design (Christopher Akerlind)
Jacob Russell, Kasper (Production Stage Manager)
Anna Crivelli (Company Manager)

September 21 - 28, 2019,
at Fordham-Bronx, Loyola University - Chicago, and Yale - New Haven

Loyola University of Chicago
Newhart Family Theatre 

Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music 
Marquand Chapel

Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus
The Curran Center for American Catholic Studies

Cast

Juliana Francis Kelly

Robin Galloway

Dion Graham

Jacqueline Gregg

John Kroft

Olivia Oguma

Jake Austin Robertson

Carlton Terrence Taylor

2015   

On tour in the United States

Loyola University (Chicago), Yale Institute of Sacred Art, St. John the Divine (NYC)

Cast

D’ambrose Boyd

Ayeje Feamster

Mary Christopher

Christopher McClinden

Randolph Curtis Rand

Gordana Rashovich

Carlton Terrence Taylor

Jessica Wagner

Creative Team

Direction: Karin Coonrod 

Costume Design: Oana Botez

Light Design: Chris Akerlind

Music Director: Paul Vasile

Assistant Director: Misti Wills

PSM: Kelly Ice

ASM: Brooke Rowzee

Administrative producer: Alyce Dissette

Photography by: Paula Court

2014

On tour in the United States

Georgetown University, Emory University, Bowdoin College, LR/Elisabeth Irwin HS (NYC)

Cast

Jacqueline Antaramian

D’Ambrose Boyd

Ayeje Feamster

Abigail Killeen

Julienne Hanzelka Kim

Christopher McClinden

Randolph Curtis Rand

Carlton Terrence Taylor 

Creative Team

Direction: Karin Coonrod

Costume Design: Oana Botez

Light Design: Chris Akerlind

Assistant Director: Misti Wills

PSM: Larry Smiglewski

Musical Director: Paul Vasile

2009

Convegno Internazionale su Flannery O’Connor

Pontificia Università Della Santa Croce Rome, Italy

Cast

Ledlie Borgerhoff

Ayeje Feamster

Roderick Hill

Jeffrey Jones

Julienne Hanzelka Kim

Randolph Curtis Rand

James Stovall

Janet Sarissa

Creative Team

Direction: Karin Coonrod

 Light Design: Chris Akerlind

Assistant Director: Heidi Carlsen

Music Director: Paul Vasile

Photography by: Ashley Noronha