GIDION'S KNOT Comes to Theater On The Edge

Local actors Kyrstal Glover and Natalie Bulajic will star in Johnna Adams' 2012 drama Gidion's Knot. Directed by Pam Harbaugh, Gidion's Knot will play for a limited run from June 16 - July 8, 2018 at the emerging Theater On The Edge.

Gidion's Knot was originally produced at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in July 2012.

Over the course of a parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother (Natalie Bulajic) and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher (Krystal Glover) have a fraught conversation about the mother's troubled and suspended son, Gidion. Gidion may have been bullied severely-or he may have been an abuser.

As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion's act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.

Theater On The Edge is known for its hyper-realistic set design and in-depth performances, and received much acclaim for its previous productions of American Buffalo, Tape, Superior Donuts, and most recently, Orphans and Proof.

Krystal Glover says, "I am so thrilled to be working and learning from the incredible team at Theater On The Edge! Gidion's Knot has deeply impacted me from my very first time reading it, and I'm so grateful to be able to bring these characters to life!"

Marco DiGeorge, Theater On The Edge's Artistic Director, as well as co-Founder of Truthful Acting Studios, says, "It's always an amazing experience to be able to work with such a hard working team, striving to bring the depth needed for a story like this one."

Tickets on sale now at www.TheaterOnTheEdge.org and prices range from $18 to $26.

CAST & CREATIVES BIOGRAPHIES

KRYSTAL GLOVER is thrilled to be working and learning from the incredible team at Theater On The Edge. Gidion's Knot has deeply impacted her from her very first time reading it, and she is grateful to bring these characters to life. Krystal has been training over the past two years at Truthful Acting Studios and is excited for this opportunity. She would like to thank Marco, Pam, and Sam for their wonderful leadership, her friends for their unending support, and her family, especially Cynthia and Warren Young.

NATALIE BULAJIC is grateful, humbled and exciting to be working at Theater On The Edge. This show has been challenging and intense, and has been a chance to bring awareness to the suicide epidemic in our society. She is a graduate of the Truthful Acting Master Meisner program. Natalie would like to thank her husband (her inspiration), her brother (her rock), her acting teachers, Marco and Robb, whom she respects and adores, and Pam, who she thanks for this opportunity. She is honored to be part of this amazing production.

PAM HARBAUGH studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Acting Institute in NYC. She received her degree in theater from UCF. A member of the American Theatre Critics Association, she writes for BrevardCulture.com and FloridaTheatreOnStage.com and has also participated in an American Theatre magazine "Offscript" podcast. Recent directing work includes I And You and Ugly Lies The Bone at the Henegar Center in Melbourne, Florida. Her original play, Snowfall, was produced last year for the Henegar's New Works Festival. Pam restaged Venus in Fur for Theater On The Edge in spring 2016, and then followed up at TOTE directing American Buffalo in fall 2016, and TAPE and Superior Donuts in 2017.

SAMANTHA DIGEORGE has a deep love for creativity and design, and this has propelled her into her passion as Set Designer for Theater On The Edge, where she is also one of the founding members. Sam has a passion for transforming and repurposing anything and everything artistic that she can get her hands on, and she received much acclaim for her hyper-realistic 1975 junk shop set she created for American Buffalo, her seedy 1999 motel room for TAPE, her aged Chicago donut shop for Superior Donuts, her 1989 run-down north Philadelphia row house for Orphans, and her 2000 Chicago back porch for Proof. She is grateful to be a part of such a creative team and working alongside her husband Marco. In addition, Sam also works for Truthful Acting Studios as Director of Operations, where she takes care of all business operations.