In 1893 a Devil roamed the White City at the Chicago World’s Fair.

The Devil was Herman Webster Mudgett, a medical doctor who went by the alias of Henry Howard Holmes, America’s first known serial killer.

When captured Holmes penned a pamphlet pleading his innocence, but quickly changed his tune when William Randolph Hearst offered a small fortune for the true story.

Holmes then wrote a lurid account of murdering men, women and children in a Hotel he built for the Fair, and selling their bones to medical schools.

“One pictures him scurrying into the cellar to dissect a corpse,” wrote Robert Bloch, author of PSYCHO, “then hurrying through a concealed passageway to join his latest inamorata in an upstairs bedroom. The comings and goings, the opening and closing of doors as though on cue, are reminiscent of a French farce.”

VILLAINY is Holmes’ Own Story as a sometimes scary, sometimes funny tale of murders & marriages, seductions & swindles, and… a whole lot of skeletons.

Written by John Strysik

Directed by Jeff G. Rack

Produced by John Strysik and Mike Carroll

Lightning Design by Derrick McDaniel

Set Design by Jeff G. Rack

Costumes by Shon LeBlanc

Music & Sound Design by Jay Woelfel

Solo Cello by Jennifer Novak Chun

Make Up & Wigs by Judi Lewin

Technical Director Bandon Loeser

CAST (In Order of Appearance):

ERIC KEITEL

Henry Howard Holmes

TOR BROWN

Herman Webster Mudgett + Ben Pitezel + Ned Conner

JENNIFER NOVAK CHUN

Mrs Holton + Carrie Pitezel + World’s Fair Woman & Chorus

McKENZIE ECKELS

Clara Lovering Mudgett + Julia Conner + Nannie Williams + World’s Fair Woman & Chorus

NATHALIE RUDOLPH

Myrta Belknap Holmes + Minnie Williams + Alice Pitezel  + World’s Fair Woman & Chorus

TANYA RAISA

Emeline Cigrand + Georgiana Yoke Howard + World’s Fair Woman & Chorus

Wednesdays at 8 PM, Oct 3 – Nov 7, at Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.

Six performances only.

Valet Parking available at Augustine Wine Bar 1/2 block east of the Theatre.

Halloween is coming. And so is VILLAINY.

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3510956