The Thin Place by Lucas Hnath
September 12-28 at The Savoy Denver
October 3-26 at the Dairy Arts Center (Grace Gamm Theater)
*Please note: Our evening performances will now begin at 7:00 pm.*
See more details below about our PARENTS PAINT THE TOWN EVENT - October 19th at 2pm!
DENVER
Friday, September 12, 7:00 pm – Preview
Saturday, September 13, 7:00 pm – Opening
Sunday, September 14, 2:00 pm
Friday, September 19, 7:00 pm
Saturday, September 20, 7:00 pm
Sunday, September 21, 2:00 pm
Friday, September 26, 7:00 pm
Saturday, September 27, 7:00 pm
Sunday, September 28, 2:00 pm
BOULDER
Friday, October 3, 7:00 pm – Preview
Saturday, October 4, 7:00 pm – Opening
Sunday, October 5, 2:00 pm
Friday, October 10, 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 11, 7:00 pm
Sunday, October 12, 2:00 pm
Friday, October 17, 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 18, 7:00 pm
Sunday, October 19, 2:00 pm
Friday, October 24, 7:00 pm
Saturday, October 25, 7:00 pm
Sunday, October 26, 2:00 pm
“You can never guess from moment to moment how the plot will turn. This puts the audience, if it’s willing, in a constant state of ears-up readiness. More than once I actually thought I saw a ghost.”
About the Play
Can we communicate with the dead if we try hard enough?
Hilda thinks she can, and she’s befriended Linda, an eccentric but persuasive medium to transport her to “the thin place,” the fragile boundary between the living and the dead.
Is Linda a con artist preying on the grief and suffering of the living, or is she bestowing the gift of believing upon her willing subjects? Lucas Hnath’s play will transform the theater into an intimate seance, putting all of us who meet there into a very spooky state of mind.
A New York Times Critics’ Pick, The Thin Place won rave reviews when it was first produced in 2019.
Run Time
The Thin Place is expected to run approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.
Content Considerations
The Thin Place is best suited for audiences aged 12 and above. BETC does not offer more specific advisories about the subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person. If you have any questions about content or age-appropriateness, please call the BETC Office at 303-351-2382.
Parents Paint The Town
Parents, we want to treat you!
PARENTS PAINT THE TOWN is our new initiative to welcome parents to see a BETC show while their kids go to a FREE creative workshop with top-of-the-line teaching artists just down the hall.
This time, we’re honored to partner with the Boulder Ballet to offer kids (ages 5-11) a workshop in drama and dance.
Parents get 50% off tickets to The Thin Place for October 19! Simply register your child for the workshop and use the promo code provided, OR email branden.smith@betc.org voicing your interest.
Oct. 19, 2pm at the Dairy Arts Center
Enroll your child today! Space is limited
Tickets & Discounts
Subscriptions
The Thin Place is part of the 2025-2026 Season Subscription package. Using the code provided to them, subscribers will receive 10% off of additional single tickets beyond their subscriptions.
Single Tickets
Single tickets are on sale through BETC (for the Savoy) and the Dairy Arts Center.
Single tickets for the Friday-Sunday performances are $42.00. Tickets for the Previews are $25.00.
Students can get $15.00 tickets and must show a valid student ID at the theatre.
Tickets purchased through BETC will be emailed to you automatically from ‘Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company.’ Purchased tickets from the Dairy Arts Center will be emailed to you directly from the box office, and copies can be found on your Dairy Arts Center account.
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Group Sales
Looking to purchase tickets to a show for a group of 10 or more? BETC offers generous discounts for groups of 10+. If you are seeking special group arrangements, please call us at 303-351-2382.
CAST
Tara Falk (AEA) (LINDA) is a Denver-based actor whose credits include: Broadway- Metamorphoses, The Constant Wife and Enchanted April. Off-Broadway: This Is Our Youth and There’s The Story. Regionally: POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumb Ass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive and Time Stands Still at Curious Theatre. You Lost Me and Sweat at the Denver Center, plus shows at the McCarter, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Eugene O’Neill, Cleveland Playhouse, Rep. Theater of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Alabama Shakespeare Fest, and more. TV: The Black Donnellys, As The World Turns, Guiding Light, and many commercials and voice-overs. Directing: Tomorrow in the Battle, Steel Magnolias, Moon for the Misbegotten and Silent Sky. Training: BFA Boston University College of Fine Arts. She is also a teaching artist and coach for Denver Center Education.
Madison Taylor (HILDA) is thrilled to be returning to this wondrous company! She last appeared with BETC as Jo in Little Women. Off-Broadway: Roxane in Cyrano (Titan Theatre Company). Shakespeare highlights: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Helen in All’s Well that Ends Well, Miranda in The Tempest (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Desdemona in Othello (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks), and Viola in Twelfth Night (California Shakespeare Company). You can stream her work as Morgan in the feature film Seance Games Metaxu (AppleTV+, dir. Tane McClure). Other favorite onscreen credits include Sparrow Spirit in the indie pilot Rachel Rama, and Joyce McCray as a young Dee Wallace in The Day is Young with dir. Taymour Ghazi. Big love to my soulmate JP, my starshine Savannah, and my lil comet, Juni. www.madisontaylor.net
Maggie Tisdale (SYLVIA) holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch/Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. Regional credits include Steel Magnolias (Theatre SilCo) Dial M for Murder, Sister Act, and Shakespeare in Love (Fine Arts Center), The Pavilion, Freaky Friday, and Caroline, or Change (Aurora Fox), and Sister Act (Arvada Center). Maggie is a company member with The Catamounts, where she has appeared in Ghost Quartet, Impossible Things, Small Ball, Shockheaded Peter, United Flight 232, You on the Moors Now, and The Rough. TYA credits include Goodnight Moon (Denver Center), Sleeping Beauty and Ramona Quimby (Denver Children’s Theatre), A Year with Frog and Toad, Junie B. Jones, and Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web (Arvada Center).
Jihad Milhem (AEA) (BETC ENSEMBLE) (JERRY) is a proud ensemble member of BETC and was last seen on the BETC stage in The White Chip. Regional credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (DCPA); The Crucible (Miner's Alley Playhouse); You Can't Take It With You, King Charles III, Hamlet, Pericles, As You Like It (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing (CSF in the Schools); Glengarry Glen Ross, The Nance (The Edge Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Guards at the Taj, The Rembrandt, Christmas at Pemberley (BETC); She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange (square product theatre). Jihad’s voiceover and motion capture work can be seen in the Deck Nine video game The Expanse: A Telltale Series as Arlen Morozov. Jihad can also be seen as Prince Ahmed Saleem in season one, episode four of The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger on INSP TV. He received the 2022 Henry Award Winner for Lead Actor in a Play (Tier 1) and is represented by Radical Artists Agency in Denver. His hip-hop album called THE HEALING, under the name Jihad, is available on all streaming platforms. jihadmilhem.com.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Jessica Robblee (BETC STAFF) (DIRECTOR) has directed for BETC, Buntport Theater for All Ages, the Arvada Center Black Box Rep, UpstART Theatre, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and the DCPA's Off-Center. She's co-developed projects with the Denver Art Museum, Warm Cookies of the Revolution, the Arts Students League, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and East High School. Her artistic work has received True West, Colorado Theatre Guild, Onstage Colorado, Westword and Denver Post honors, and feedback from a kindergartener with a drawn-on moustache who said the play he'd just seen her in “sure was a long movie.” She is excited to continue serving as BETC's Producing Artistic Director and to direct BETC’s upcoming production Every Brilliant Thing.
Sloan Hewitt (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) is making his BETC debut! As a new Colorado resident, he is thrilled to have previously worked with Colorado New Play Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Emerge Pathways, and the Denver Botanic Gardens. Stage Management highlights include Arden of Faversham (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), I and You (Oral Roberts University), Matilda the Musical (Children’s Musical Theatre), and more. Follow his work at @s.hewitt_design on Instagram.
Anthony DeCosmo (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) is very excited to join BETC for another production as ASM. He has been involved with the local theatre scene for about three years now. Previous production credits of his include The Ballot of Paola Aguilar (BETC), A Christmas Carol (Denver Center), and shows at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, all of which were backstage production roles. A lighting technician and stagehand by trade, he is always looking for new ways to challenge himself and to level up his theatre experience with new and fun projects. He would like to thank BETC for this opportunity, and he hopes you enjoy this production.
Tina Anderson (BETC ENSEMBLE) (SCENIC DESIGN) has been the scenic designer for many BETC shows, including Cry It Out, The White Chip, Hope & Gravity, Little Women, What the Constitution Means To Me, Coal Country (True West Award) and Eden Prairie, 1971 (Henry nomination). Elsewhere, she’s designed 39 Steps and The Fantasticks (Creede Rep); Twelfth Night and Sweeney Todd (Off Square Theatre); Dracula- a Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really and The Laramie Project (Arvada Center); POTUS and Cullud Water (Curious Theatre); Heartbeat of the Sun and Headliners (Cherry Creek Theatre); and What the Constitution Means to Me, POTUS and Hurricane Diane (Thunder River Theatre Company).
Erin Thibodaux (BETC STAFF) (LIGHTING DESIGN) is a lighting designer, director, and writer whose work has been seen across the country. Last season, she joined the BETC team as an Associate Producer. Recent lighting design credits include: Cry It Out, The White Chip, Enemy of the People, Coal Country (BETC); Sweeney Todd (The Arts HUB); Waitress, Shakespeare in Love,Matilda, Rent (Quincy Community Theatre); Alice by Heart, Annie, Little Women, SPACE, The Prom, Lost Girl, The Play that Goes Wrong (Ghostlight Theater Camp). She also recently directed the staged reading of Spain as part of BETC's Plays with Fire series. Erin is excited to continue her work with BETC.
Max Silverman (SOUND DESIGN) is a Composer and Sound Designer originally from Boulder. Max is a 2023 True West Award recipient, three time OnStage Colorado Award winner and six time Henry Award nominee. Most recently Off-Broadway: Gene & Gilda at 59E59, Madwomen of the West at the Actors Temple Theatre and Mr. Parker at Theatre Row. This fall, you can hear his work locally in The Mousetrap and Disney’s Frozen at The Arvada Center, Job at Curious Theatre and Nice Work If You Can Get It at Lone Tree Arts Center. He has written music for podcasts, advertisements and short films. max-silverman.com
Sarah Zinn (COSTUME DESIGN) is from Boulder, CO. She is the Costume Shop Supervisor at the University of Denver, a draper at Opera Colorado, and a freelance costume designer and technician. She received her MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Mason Gross School of the Arts. She was awarded the Henry Award for Outstanding Costume Design for BETC’s 2022 production of The Royale. Recent designs include The Tempest and Richard II (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), White Chip (BETC), Baskerville (Lone Tree Arts Center) and The Moors (University of Denver). This is her fourth season with BETC.
Katie Hopwood McCleaf (BETC STAFF) (PROPS DESIGN) is excited to be working with BETC again! Her prop work was most recently featured in BETC performances Cry It Out, White Chip, Hope & Gravity, Enemy of the People, Holly, Alaska!, The Children, The Royale, Eden Prairie, 1971, and the touring truck shows- Amelia’s Big Idea and Dorothy’s Dictionary. Her prop work has also been featured in Curious Theatre Company shows Exhibit and Downstate. She graduated from Salisbury University with a degree in Theatre Production. She looks forward to working on more productions in the community!
