Meet the Centennial Celebration Play Festival Actors!
The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine is proudly celebrating 100 years of Children’s Theatre! 2023 marks the Centennial of the country’s longest-running children’s theatre.
Centennial Celebration Weekend
CMTM will mark 100 years of performance and play with a Centennial Celebration Weekend of theatre-focused events for adults, children, and their families from May 18 - 21, 2023.
The festivities include a two-day play festival for children and families on May 20 and 21. Over a dozen original plays written by local and national youth and adult playwrights will be performed throughout the weekend. CMTM’s exhibits inspired the plays that will be performed throughout the facility.
Guests attending the Centennial After Dark: Theatre event (May 18, 7-10 pm, 21 +) will also be able to see pop-up plays written by adult playwrights. Learn more about After Dark: Theatre here.
Theatre History
Having journeyed from parks to flatbed trucks, storefronts, and temporary locations across Portland since 1923, the Children’s Theatre of Maine merged with the Children’s Museum of Maine in 2008. Organizational leaders dreamed of one day finding a permanent home for the museum and theatre that allowed both to flourish and weave together narrative, play, performance, and learning all under one roof. The new Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine at Thompson’s Point is the realization of that dream and the product of 100 years and countless individual’s hard work to retain a precious community resource for current and future generations.
Play Festival Actors
The Centennial play festival will feature fifteen original plays by sixteen adult and youth playwrights. These plays include 49 different roles, performed by a cast of 29 talented actors!
Read on to learn more about the Centennial play festival actors!
Alice Cummings stars in An Unlikely Story by Kelsey Tribble.
Annabelle Beam stars in The Tale of the Lost Seal Skin by Tatiana Esbjorn-Hargens.
Beckett O'Hanlon stars in The Tale of the Lost Seal Skin, by Tatiana Esbjorn-Hargens and An Unlikely Story by Kelsey Tribble.
Brie Roche stars in Dr. John Dactylian Telmer Under the Sea by Elliot Nye and Finding Sheila by Zack Handlen.
Caroline Smith stars in Sources of Light by Ciara Neidlinger and The Bush Creature by Pearl Rockers.
Carrow McLean stars in The Color Constellation by Sloan Willows and Maeve Narbus.
Cass Snider stars in Granny Fairy and the Boomsy Feather Cake by Jessie Raspbury.
Ciara Neidlinger stars in Dr. John Dactylian Telmer Under the Sea by Elliot Nye and Finding Sheila by Zack Handlen.
Danny Gay stars in The Tale of the Lost Seal Skin by Tatiana Esbjorn-Hargens and Speed Lobster Trap by Eleanor Keniston.
Maya Williams stars in Roller Coaster Caper by Annika Johnston and Nolan Ellsworth.
Evangeline Cambria stars in The Emotion Song by Nathan Lapointe.
Hillary Perry stars in The Legend of the Night Moose by Megan E. Tripaldi.
Isabelle Grignon stars in The Color Constellation by Sloan Willows and Maeve Narbus and The Legend of the Night Moose by Megan E. Tripaldi and Dr. John Dactylian Telmer Under the Sea by Elliot Nye.
Jared Mongeau stars in Sources of Light by Ciara Neidlinger and An Unlikely Story by Kelsey Tribble.
Kristen Gilhooly stars in Dr. Winkle and the Nightmare Factory of Doom by Jessie Raspbury and Roller Coaster Caper by Annika Johnston and Nolan Ellsworth.
Mabel Peterson stars in The Color Constellation by Sloan Willows and Maeve Narbus and Speed Lobster Trap by Eleanor Keniston.
Maggie Evans stars in Insect Play 1: Metamorphosis by Charlotte Wimple and The Legend of the Night Moose by Megan E. Tripaldi.
Merritt Holman stars in Sources of Light by Ciara Neidlinger.
Nora Courtney stars in The Color Constellation by Sloan Willows and Maeve Narbus and The Bush Creature by Pearl Rockers.
Prophett stars in Dr. John Dactylian Telmer Under the Sea by Elliot Nye and Dr. Winkle and the Nightmare Factory of Doom by Jessie Raspbury.
Rachel Gallagher stars in Finding Sheila by Zack Handlen.
Rachel Henry stars in Sources of Light by Ciara Neidlinger.
Amanda Eaton stars in Adrift by Linda Shary, The Legend of the Night Moose by Megan E. Tripaldi and Roller Coaster Caper by Annika Johnston and Nolan Ellsworth.
Sabrina Gallego stars in Granny Fairy and the Boomsy Feather Cake by Jessie Raspbury and Roller Coaster Caper by Annika Johnston and Nolan Ellsworth.
Savannah Irish stars in The Emotion Song by Nathan Lapointe and Granny Fairy and the Boomsy Feather Cake by Jessie Raspbury and The Tale of the Lost Seal Skin by Tatiana Esbjorn-Hargens.
Tanner Pines stars in The Color Constellation by Sloan Willows and Maeve Narbus and The Emotion Song by Nathan Lapointe.
Schuyler White stars in Adrift by Linda Shary and Dr. Winkle and the Nightmare Factory of Doom by Jessie Raspbury.
Sal Butcher stars in The Bush Creature by Pearl Rockers.
Emmy Scott stars in The Color Constellation by Sloan Willows and Maeve Narbus and Speed Lobster Trap by Eleanor Keniston.
To learn about the Centennial Weekend Play Festival adult playwrights, visit:
To learn about the Centennial Weekend Play Festival youth playwrights, visit:
To learn about the Centennial Weekend Play Festival directors, visit: