Colossal

Colossal

By Andrew Hinderaker

Directed by Will Davis

Originally produced at Olney Theatre Center, Olney, MD.

September 8, 2014 through October 5, 2015


About the Premiere Production

Sure to be the must-see new play of 2014, Colossal is an extraordinary story of emotional and physical endurance, love, and family. Structured like a football game (performed in four quarters with a pre-show training session and half-time show), Colossal tells in vivid, physical flashback the story of Young Mike, a college football player who took a hit in a game that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Mike now relives the memory of his accident with the help of a live football squad onstage, finally confronting his demons in the play’s extremely powerful and uplifting conclusion. Featuring Michael Patrick Thornton, star of ABC's Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice. Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award.


Director: Will Davis

Cast: Joseph Carlson, Sam Faria, Will Hayes, Jeff Kirkman III, Michael Litchfield, Steve Ochoa, Jon Hudson Odom, KenYatta Rogers, Michael Patrick Thornton, Matthew Ward, James Whalen


Additional Funders: Kevin White and Rossana Salvadori and Patricia Woodbury and FTI Consulting