ABOUT THE PLAY
The devil arrives in a small village to recruit souls, and business has never been better. Everyone is scrambling to bargain for something. Love, riches, and personal validation top the list.
But one woman is having none of it, and she happens to be the woman whom everyone thinks is the town witch.
Jen Silverman’s reworking of the 1621 drama, The Witch of Edmonton, is wickedly funny, surprisingly moving and dangerously entertaining.
The play poses the question, “How much is a soul worth in a world where hope is increasingly hard to come by?”
DENVER TICKETS — BOULDER TICKETS
RUN TIME
Witch is expected to run approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.
CONTENT CONSIDERATIONS
Witch contains adult language and violence.
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.
“A devilishly clever, deliciously laugh-packed look at gender, class, and the future of life as we know it.”
BOULDER
The Dairy Arts Center (Carsen Theater)
Thursday, August 6, 7:00 pm - Preview
Friday, August 7, 7:00 pm - Preview
Saturday, August 8, 7:00 pm - Opening
Sunday, August 9, 2:00 pm
Friday, August 14, 7:00 pm
Saturday, August 15, 7:00 pm
Sunday, August 16, 2:00 pm
Monday, August 17, 7:00 pm - Industry Night
Friday, August 21, 7:00 pm
Saturday, August 22, 7:00 pm
Sunday, August 23, 2:00 pm
SHOW SCHEDULE
DENVER
The Savoy Denver
Thursday, July 23, 7:00 pm - Preview
*Friday, July 24, 7:00 pm - Preview / Happy Hour*
Saturday, July 25, 7:00 pm - Opening
Sunday, July 26, 2:00 pm
Friday, July 31, 7:00 pm
Saturday, August 1, 7:00 pm
Sunday, August 2, 2:00 pm
*This performance will have a happy hour event prior to the show!
Enjoy a drink and dress in your best Ren Faire attire in the spirit of the show!*
TICKETS & DISCOUNTS
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Witch is part of the 2026-2027 Season Subscription package. Using the code provided to them, subscribers will receive 10% off of additional single tickets beyond their subscriptions.
TICKETS
Single tickets for the Friday-Sunday performances are $42.00. Preview tickets 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.
DENVER TICKETS — BOULDER TICKETS
ARTS INDUSTRIES
Are you a member of a not-for-profit arts and cultural organization or work in the theatre community?
Reach out to us for any questions about ticket discounts offered at tickets@betc.org.
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.
“Often funny, sometimes poignant, and always questioning the resilience of the human spirit when all hope seems lost.”
CAST
Bryan J. Black* (CUDDY BANKS) is over the moon to be making his BETC debut! Some random credits: Dracula: a Comedy of Terrors (Denver Center), Baskerville (Lone Tree Arts Center), A Christmas Story (Walnut Street Theater), 25th Annual…Spelling Bee (11th Hour Theatre Co.). Training: BFA Musical Theatre, Minor in Music Comp. from University of the Arts (RIP). Endless thanks to the crew and cast, his family, C (promise, promise), and of course YOU for supporting live theatre!
Cam Davis* (FRANK THORNEY) Cam is thrilled to return to Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company after appearing in The Royale in 2022. Other theatrical credits include Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare & Company), Macbeth and How to Catch Creation (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and productions with Creede Repertory Theatre, Curious Theatre Company, Vintage Theatre, and Lone Tree Arts Center. Cam is a BFA Performance graduate of Southern Oregon University and is honored to be back with this company and community.
Elizabeth Harlen (WINNIFRED) Is thrilled to be in her first BETC production. Recent performances include Come from Away, Once Upon a Mattress (Arvada Center), A Christmas Carol (Denver Center Theatre Company); The Human Comedy (New York City Center’s Encores!); The Sound of Music, Clue (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Philoclea in Head Over Heels (Theatre Silco); and originating the role of Rosetta Tharpe in Elvis the Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre). Training: Bachelor of Music at Manhattan School of Music. @elizabethharlen
Torsten Hillhouse* (SIR ARTHUR BANKS) NYC credits/Off Broadway: The Polish Play, The Odyssey, NY Classical Theatre, 59E59 Theatre. Regional and International credits: American Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage, Capital Repertory, Shadowland Stages, Stonington Opera House, Theatre at Monmouth, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Commonwealth Theatre, Off Square Theatre, BETC, Arvada Center, Miners Alley Theatre, Theatre Aspen, Creede Repertory Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Film: Adam and Where God Left His Shoes. Television: The Blacklist, FBI, Bull, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, As the World Turns. MFA from ART/M.X.A.T. at Harvard University. Visit torstenhillhouse.com for more
Jessica Robblee (ELIZABETH SAWYER / PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) Her BETC acting credits include Brooklyn Laundry, The Belle of Amherst, What the Constitution Means to Me, and This. She has performed with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Arvada Center's Black Box Repertory Company, the DCPA Theatre Company, Theatre Aspen, Curious Theatre, Square Product Theater, Sis Tryst Productions, Wild Blindness Productions, UpstART Theatre, Off Square Theatre and Buntport Theater. Robblee received a Henry Award for her work in The Belle of Amherst (BETC), True West Awards for her work in Frankie and Johnny (Miners Alley) and Electric Baby (Arvada Black Box), and Westword recognitions for her work in The Moors (Arvada Black Box) and This (BETC).
Marco Alberto Robinson* (SCRATCH) is a Denver based actor. Some credits include Emma, A Little Night Music, The 39 Steps, Rattlesnake Kate, Wild Fire, Xanadu, A Christmas Carol (Denver Center). A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Waitress, I Do! I Do! (Arvada Center). Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Cyrano de Bergerac, Love's Labour's Lost, (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Lucas Colmenero in Deck Nine’s Life is Strange: Double Exposure.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Tina Anderson (SCENIC DESIGN) Tina’s most recent designs for BETC: Mary Jane, Brooklyn Laundry, The Thin Place, 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). Other set designs include Pump Boys and Dinettes, Assassins (Miner’s Alley); True West, What the Constitution Means to Me, POTUS and Hurricane Diane. (Thunder River Theatre Company); What The Constitution Means to Me. (Silco Theatre); The Little Mermaid, Twelfth Night, Sweeney Todd. (Off Square Theatre) Dracula, a Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really & The Laramie Project. (Arvada Center); POTUS & Cullud Wattah.(Curious Theatre Company) Tina is always grateful for design opportunities.
Adara Baltazar (STAGE MANAGER, SOUND DESIGNER) is delighted to be returning to BETC for both sound design and stage management. Sound design credits include The White Chip, Every Brilliant Thing, Brooklyn Laundry (BETC). Recent stage management and assistant stage management credits include The Diva Royale, Assassins (MAPAC), Every Brilliant Thing, The Ballot of Paola Aguilar (BETC), and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (DCPA). She is a graduate of the University of Denver with a distinction in stage management and recently graduated from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology with her Masters in forensic psychology.
Josh Hartwell (DIRECTOR) is an Artistic Company Member at Curious Theatre Company, and an Ensemble Member at Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC). Directing credits include HIR and 39 Steps (Miners Alley); Grounded, Ghost-Writer and Hope and Gravity (BETC); and Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, and The Motherf*cker With the Hat (Edge Theater Company). He also wrote and directed the immersive play The Estate Sale (Catamounts). An award-winning and internationally produced playwright, Hartwell earned feature film and Off-Broadway contracts with Starry Night Entertainment with his play Contrived Ending (Ovation Award and Henry Award nominees). His The DEVOlution Revolution, is a wild jukebox musical/sci-fi/comedy honoring songs and philosophies of the beloved 1980s new wave band, DEVO. Hartwell was Colorado’s first Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild, and a two-time finalist for The O’Neill Festival’s New Play Conference.
Katie Hopwood McCleaf (PROP DESIGN / OPERATIONS COORDINATOR) Katie’s prop work was most recently featured in BETC shows: Mary Jane, Brooklyn Laundry, Every Brilliant Thing, The Thin Place, Cry It Out, Holly, Alaska!, The Children, The Royale, Eden Prairie, 1971, and the touring truck shows- Amelia’s Big Idea and Dorothy’s Dictionary. She graduated from Salisbury University with a degree in Theatre Production.
Jen Silverman (AUTHOR) (they/them) is the author of the story collection The Island Dwellers (Random House, 2018; longlisted for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize) and debut novel We Play Ourselves (Random House, 2021). Plays include Witch; Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; The Roommate; and The Moors—they have been produced off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally, and are published with Concord Theatricals (US), Oberon Books (UK), and S. Fischer Verlage (Germany). Stories and essays have appeared in Vogue, the Paris Review Daily, Ploughshares, the Gettysburg Review, the Sun, and LitHub, among others. Silverman holds degrees from Brown University, the University of Iowa, and Juilliard. Silverman is a three-time MacDowell fellow, and the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council fellowship, and the Yale Drama Series Award judged by Marsha Norman. Silverman also writes for TV and film.
Erin Thibodaux (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a lighting designer, director, and playwright whose work has been seen across the country. Recent lighting design credits include: Mary Jane, Every Brilliant Thing, The Thin Place, Cry It Out, The White Chip, An Enemy of the People, Coal Country (BETC); Cabaret (CU College of Music), Waitress, Shakespeare in Love, Matilda, Rent (Quincy Community Theatre, IL); Alice by Heart, Annie, Little Women, SPACE, The Prom, Lost Girl, The Play that Goes Wrong (Ghostlight Theater Camp, ME). She also serves as Co-Artistic Director for Menace Theatre Company.
Sarah Zinn (COSTUME DESIGNER) is the Costume Program Manager at the University of Denver, a draper at Opera Colorado, and has designed many BETC shows, most recently The Thin Place, Enemy of the People, White Chip, and Coal Country. Other recent credits include Romeo and Juliet (Arvada Center), Medea (DU) Richard II and The Tempest (Colorado Shakespeare Festival) and Baskerville (Lone Tree Arts Center). She received her MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Mason Gross School of the Arts. She was awarded the Henry for Outstanding Costume Design for BETC’s 2022 production of The Royale.