Award winning playwright Meg Miroshnik transports her audience to Poor Prairie, the dusty, desolate town where fifteen-and-a-half-year-old Jean has been exiled as caretaker for her wild-child cousin, Almeda. It’s a grim, dangerous place to eke out an existence as a teenage girl—until a handsome man with a past arrives, and a brand-new basketball in tow. As the town’s girls come together to form a team set on making it out of Poor Prairie, a murky committe of townspeople threatens to stamp out girls' sports altogether. Inspired by the flourishing and the decline of high school girls' basketball teams in the 1930s rural Midwest, The Tall Girls asks: Who can afford the luxury of play? And what is the cost of childhood? Featuring a stong ensemble of female characters, The Tall Girls examines issues of class and gender amidst the historic 1930s Dust Bowl.
Cast: Lauren Boyd, Veronika Duerr, Kally Duling, Emily Kitchens, Hayley Platt, and Travis Smith
Director: Susan V. Booth
Cast: Vanessa Cardenas, Daisy Chase, Brigie Coughlin, Mike Mihm, Lucy Schmidt, and Emily Verla
Director: Jane Mandel

