Our next Singular Play!
Starring Drew Ledbetter and Andrus Nichols
Directed by Ricky Oliver
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner
An Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit that transferred to the West End with critical acclaim
At The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens Gallery
1 Green Hill Road
Washington Depot, CT
Saturday, January 31st at 6 pm
Sunday, February 1st at 3 pm
Oliver can’t imagine Bernadette being called anything else, but Bernadette doesn’t think she can be summed up in one word. Bernadette really loves Oliver’s music, but Oliver hates qualifiers. And Dan… well, he’s great at talking about cats.
Thrust into a world where speech is limited, the poignancy, power, and particularisation of language are revealed, as this couple asks themselves if they will ever truly know each other the way they did before. –Tori Jo Lau, London Critic
Andrus Nichols: Acting Credits include: Off Broadway: Terra Firma, (The Coop, Shana Cooper, dir), The Saintliness of Margery Kempe (The Duke, Austin Pendleton, dir.), Sense & Sensibility (Bedlam; Drama League nomination, Best Revival; Off Broadway Alliance Award winner), Hamlet, Saint Joan (Bedlam; Lucille Lortel nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress; Off Broadway Alliance Award, Best Revival). Other New York: The Seagull, What You Will, and Twelfth Night (all with Bedlam); They Promised Her the Moon, The Libertine. Regional: The Odyssey (A.R.T., Shana Cooper, dir.), Shirley Valentine (Katonah Classic Stage), Constellations (Ancram Center for the Arts), A Lesson from Aloes (Hartford Stage, Darko Tresnjak, dir.), Ivo Van Hove’s A View From The Bridge (The Kennedy Center/The Ahmanson Theatre/The Goodman Theatre; Jeff Award nomination, Outstanding Performer); Hamlet, Saint Joan (Bedlam/Olney Theater Center/Central Square Theater; Helen Hayes and Elliot Norton nominations, Outstanding Lead Actress; IRNE Award, Outstanding Visiting Performer); Hamlet (title role), Iphigenia and Other Daughters (We Players/Alcatraz Island); others. Film: Notice to Quit, DownEast, Wash Song (New Orleans Film Festival Grand Jury Finalist), and South Mountain (SXSW Grand Jury Award Finalist; Hilary Brougher, dir). TV: “Rise,” “The Blacklist.” “The Equalizer,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Murder at the End of the World,” “Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” “The Savant.”
Drew Ledbetter is a theater-maker based in Northwest Connecticut. Recent acting credits: Constellations (Ancram Center for the Arts- Berkshire Theater Critics Nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Play), Succession (HBO), The Blacklist (NBC), Hamlet (Pittsburgh Public Theater), and Fly (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). Recent directing credits: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, A Christmas Carol, and Peter Pan (Sharon Playhouse YouthStage) and Our Town (Sharon Playhouse MainStage, Assoc. Director).
The company of Three Musketeers: 1941, workshopped during CTX 2025, and will have it’s world premiere at Connecticut Repertory Theatre in March, 2026.
I just wanted to send a heartfelt thank you to each of you for the experience of working together at the 2025 Connecticut Theatre Exchange. It was such a joy—and a privilege—to collaborate with such a talented, generous, and kind-hearted group of artists.
CTX was a truly warm and welcoming environment, and I’m grateful to have been part of it. My only regret? That our time together was far too brief. But I have no doubt our paths will cross again—onstage, offstage, or somewhere in the liminal space between rehearsal and discovery.
Connecticut Theatre Exchange (CTX) exists to bring together theatre artists from various backgrounds and identities to support their process of developing new projects and new skills in a nurturing environment that is both accessible and affordable.
We do this by:
- Offering residencies for playwrights and screenwriters and their teams in various forms of development
- Providing low-cost residencies to existing ensembles to experience an uninterrupted and deeper developmental rehearsal process
- Giving space and time for professional artists to study new skills and new ideas, contributing to their artistic process
- Garnering resources for historically under-represented or under-supported populations and actively identifying ways to remove barriers to the CTX experience
- Welcoming the public to free showings of new work and inviting curated feedback
- Programming a variety of free or low-cost workshops of exploration of the artistic process
- Developing partnerships with organizations that promote equitable development of creative work
Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center (TPAAC)
Frederick Gunn School
Washington, CT
For inquiries on project ideas, please email us kentburnham4@gmail.com and tracylizmiller@gmail.com. We want to hear your ideas!