A Radio Play Presentation
Wally World
Written by Isaac Gómez
Directed by Isaac Gómez and Lili-Anne Brown
Steppenwolf NOW
ABOUT THE SHOW
It's Christmas Eve and a group of Wally World employees are about to lose it. On the one day of the year the mega-department superstore is supposed to close its doors, secrets come to life that may destroy more than their holiday cheer. Their manager Andy is doing everything in her power to keep her store in line and her employees in check. But can hard truths from her past ruin everything she's ever worked for? Wally World is a festive, poignant examination of finding magic in the mundane as 10 employees do everything they can to find purpose in a place that has never seen purpose in them.
Originally commissioned and developed through Sideshow Theatre Company Freshness Initiative.
Wally World received a developmental workshop at DETOUR: A Festival New Work at WaterTower Theatre in Addison, Texas in 2018.
Developed in the Colorado New Play Summit by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company.
Additional Staff: Joel Moorman (Creative Director), Martha Wegener (Sound Engineer), Lowell Thomas (Video Producer), Matthew Chapman (Music Coordinator), David Chu & Captioning Coalition (Captioning)
Special Thanks to Erin Cook, Rashaad Hall, Elise Hausken and an extra special thanks to Andrea Gomez and her associates at a superstore a lot like Wally World, who inspired many of these characters.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for nonprofit professional theater.