Death and the Maiden is a taut, electrifying drama about truth, memory, and the price of justice in a society emerging from tyranny. At once intimate and explosive, it’s a riveting psychological thriller and a powerful exploration of trauma, trust, and the challenge of confronting the past.

Death and the maiden

All are 1 pm indoor performances at Grizzly Peak Winery. Wednesdays—Sundays, October 14-November 1. The performance runs 85 minutes with no intermission. $40 ($45 at door).

October 14 Preview: Discount tickets. $30

October 15 Opening: Show followed by wine or sparkling water and a talkback with the director and actors. Benefit for Planned Parenthood SW Oregon. $50 ($55 at door).

Ticket benefits and discounts: Wine Wednesdays (October 21 and 28), Talkbacks Thursdays (October 22 and 29) , Friend Fridays (October 16, 23, 30). Click here for more info. Tickets are non-refundable and may not be transferred to a different production. You may exchange your tickets for another performance of Death and the Maiden (subject to availability) for a $5 fee per order, payable at check-in. Email here. You may also donate your tickets back to the theater or transfer them to another person for a $5 fee per order, to be paid by the new ticket holder.

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Meet the Artists

Nancy Carlin (Director)
Nancy performed in RTC’s Ripcord last year, and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 38 years ago. She has performed and directed extensively in regional theaters, including the American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, The Jewel, Center Rep, B Street, Shotgun Players, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Favorite recent roles include Ouiser in Steel Magnolias (TheatreWorks) and Ma in Torch Song (Marin Theater). A former company member of A.C.T. and associate artist with Cal Shakes, Carlin is a theater arts lecturer with UC Berkeley and SJSU. She holds a BA in comparative literature from Brown University and an MFA in acting from A.C.T. Ms. Carlin is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and SDC. Nancy co-authored the musical Max Understood, co-produced the film Haiku Tunnel, and can be seen in Eleanor Coppola’s film, Love Is Love Is Love. www.nancycarlin.com

Ariel Dorfman (Playwright)

Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean-American author of numerous works of fiction, plays, poems, screenplays and essays in both Spanish and English, holds the Walter Hines Page chair at Duke University. His books have been translated into over forty languages and his plays staged in more than one hundred countries. His play DEATH AND THE MAIDEN won England’s Olivier Award for Best Play 1991 and was produced on Broadway, made into a feature film by Roman Polanski and was revived in London’s West End starring Thandie Newton in late 2011; it continues to be produced all over the world. WIDOWS and READER have won awards from the Kennedy Center and also been staged worldwide. Other plays include PURGATORIO – which ran in Madrid in 2011 starring Viggo Mortensen, THE OTHER SIDE/DELIRIUM, (Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 2012) PICASSO’S CLOSET and SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER. In 1995, his film PRISONERS IN TIME, a BBC Teleplay co-written with Rodrigo Dorfman, won Best Feature Film screenplay WGGB Awards. Other original screenplays include SHAHEED, BURNING CITY and an adaptation of his novel BLAKE’S THERAPY. In 2011 FEEDING ON DREAMS was published, a sequel to his memoir HEADING SOUTH, LOOKING NORTH (pub. 1999), from which the Oscar short-listed documentary, A PROMISE TO THE DEAD is based. He is active in the defense of human rights and his articles are published in the most important broadsheets worldwide. In 2010 he delivered the Mandela Lecture in South Africa. New plays include ALLEGRO! and ADIOS, CERVANTES written in 2016 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’ death. He is currently working on a new opera, NACIKETA for Opera Circus with composer Nigel Osborne. www.adorfman.duke.edu

Nell Geisslinger (Paulina)

RTC debut! Nell was last seen in Ashland at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as Rosalind in As You Like It and Cinna in Julius Caesar (both in 2025). In 11 seasons at OSF, favorite projects include: Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Louison in The Imaginary Invalid; Black Swan Lab 2012, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Henry IV Parts I and II, Bus Stop, Oedipus Complex, Daughters of the Revolution and The Visit. Other Theaters: Utah Shakes (Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night, Boeing Boeing), South Coast Rep (Clean/Espejos, Red Riding Hood), Berkeley Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Los Angeles Women’s Shakes. Film/TV: On Call (Amazon); Tales from the Explorer’s Club (Discovery). Thanks to those who have taught, advised and supported me over the years in Ashland’s theater scene. This one goes out to my husband Kevin – deep thinker, patient listener, most righteous dude I know. 

Jamie Newcomb (Roberto)

Jamie is happy to be back at Rogue Theater Company after readings playing Reverend Tooker in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sheriff Deon Gilbeau in August: Osage County. Other theaters: The Old Globe: Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing. San Diego Rep: Honky, Zoot Suit, Brooklyn Boy, The Illusion. North Coast Rep: The Homecoming, Christmas Carol (as told by one man who cares - Streamed), How the Other Half Loves. Cygnet Theatre: Roy Cohn in Angels in America (Craig Noel award). Other Theatre: OSF (14 seasons), Denver Center Theatre (nine seasons), The Public Theatre, B.A.M. Utah Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare & Company (founding member), The Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, Portland Center Stage, Missouri Rep, Arizona Theatre Co., and Geva Theatre. Representative roles: Oxford Society Award for Richard III (O.S.F.) Drama Logue Award for Touchstone, (S.S.C.), Coriolanus, Iago, Bottom, Feste, and The Duke in Measure for Measure. T.V.: “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle,” “Honky” (P.B.S.), and “I Want To Keep My Baby” (CBS). Film: “Lone Wolf”. Directing: Much Ado, Midsummer (USD Graduate Program), Lone Star, True West, and Found a Peanut (National Theatre Conservatory). Fight Director: SD Rep, SD Opera, The Old Globe, L.J.P. , O.S.F., Chicago Shakes, Idaho Shakes, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Shak&Co. Continuing Lecturer: U.C.S.D. Graduate Theatre Program.

Elijah Alexander (Geraldo)

Linda was last scene at RTC in the reading of August: Osage County. In 25 seasons at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Linda has appeared in over 50 productions, including Into the Woods, The Importance of Being Earnest, Wit, Indecent, Tartuffe, Humble Boy and Saturday, Sunday, Monday!, which she also co-translated.  Other OSF writing projects include The Three Musketeers, Napoli Milionaria!, Tracy’s Tiger and Great Expectations.  Shanghai, her original play, has been chosen for development by Artists Repertory Theatre, LaunchPad, San Diego Rep, Desert Island Studios and Portland Shakespeare Project. As a Resident Artist at Artists Rep in Portland, Linda played leading roles in The Children, Doll’s House Part Two, The Quality of Life, The Cherry Orchard and many others.  She has also appeared at Portland Center Stage, Intiman, Off Broadway, Cincinnati Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Portland Shakespeare Project, Rogue Theatre Company and others.  A Fulbright Senior Scholar in Taiwan, Linda was also a Fulbright Specialist Grantee in Pakistan.  She won a US Embassy Cultural Affairs that brought Pakistani artists to the OSF Greenshow, a Dramalogue Best Actress Award and Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship.  She is a graduate of The Juilliard School.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SEASON SPONSORS

Carol Fellows and Tim Bewley, Carolyn Mandell, Donna Ritchie, Stan Schiffman, and Dick and Elaine Sweet

SHOW SPONSOR

JoAnn Weisel

HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO RICHARD HAY