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The Thanksgiving Play
The Thanksgiving Play
by Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Dev Luthra
Assistant directed by Gabrielle Hatcher
Stage Managed by Heather Hamilton Gallagher
Show Dates: November 7 - 22, 2025
Cast:
Logan - Brit Barone
Caden - David Foster
Jaxton - Kenny Kelleher
Alicia - Sarah Logsdon
Larissa FastHorse’s shocking and hilarious satire flips the bird on one of America's most prolific myths. Four well-intentioned white creatives set out to devise a politically correct Thanksgiving play that honors Native American Heritage. As their misguided attempts spiral into absurdity, their earnest efforts expose the pitfalls of performative activism and the comedy of trying too hard to “get it right.”
FastHorse’s sharp, fearless wit turns this classroom rehearsal into a riotous reflection on privilege, identity, and the uneasy dance of cultural representation. The Thanksgiving Play invites audiences to laugh, cringe, and question—sometimes all at once.
Content Advisory: Please be advised this production includes the use of recorded gunshots.
While the play is written to tackle topics such as diversity, indigeneity, and equity with humor, note that the content and language may be upsetting for some audiences, particularly those who identify as Indigenous. We encourage you to put your own self-care first if this material is challenging or activating.
Photo credit: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Larissa FastHorse (playwright)
Larissa FastHorse (playwright)
Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, a Professor of Practice (Literature) in the Arizona State University Department of English, an award-winning writer and choreographer, and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, the nation’s leading consulting company for Indigenous arts and audiences.
FastHorse made her Broadway debut in the 2022-2023 season with her satirical comedy The Thanksgiving Play, becoming the first known female Native playwright to be produced on Broadway. The Thanksgiving Play is one of the most-produced plays in America, at 300 productions and counting.
Other produced plays by FastHorse include Fake It Until You Make It, For The People, The Democracy Project, What Would Crazy Horse Do?, Landless and Cow Pie Bingo, Average Family, Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation, Fancy Dancer, and Cherokee Family Reunion. She develops work with top U.S. theatres including Center Theatre Group, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, and Arena Stage.
Meet the Creative Team
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Dev Luthra (director)
Dev Luthra (director)
Dev brings an exacting humor, sharp insight, and playful precision to his direction of The Thanksgiving Play—skewering privilege with a smile. You won’t want to miss it!
Dev trained at East 15 Acting School in London, England and at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA.
Directing credits include Doubt (New Hampshire Theatre Project); Alice in the Looking Glass (Underground Railway); As You Like It (Merely Players), as well as touring productions of Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth with Shakespeare Now!. From 2005 to 2022, Dev served as Production and Artistic Director of And Still We Rise, a theater company whose actors were all impacted by the prison system.
Dev has performed on stage with many companies including the Apollinaire Theatre Company, Actors Shakespeare Project, Arlekin Players, and Hub Theatre.
Burlington Players audiences may remember Dev onstage in his excellent autobiographical, one-man-play ‘Secret Asian Man’, co-produced by the Burlington Players and the Asian American Playwright Collective as part of The Dragonfly Plays.
Gabrielle Hatcher (Assistant director)
Gabrielle Hatcher (Assistant director)
Gabrielle is a Cambridge-based interdisciplinary artist, actor, & educator. She’s taking on her first directing role with this production, bringing her signature creativity, excellent taste, and distinct artistic voice. She’s also had a hand in just about everything: from set dressing and scenic painting to props, hair & makeup, and costumes!
Talk about multi-talented. We’re absolutely thrilled (and so grateful!) to have her on the team!
Some of Gabbie’s favorite onstage roles include Lucy Westenra in Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy (Umbrella Stage Company), Sara in Stop Kiss, and Reggie in Some Girl(s) (Hovey Players).
Her recent design work includes costumes for Appropriate (Hovey Players), hair and makeup for Sense and Sensibility (Concord Players) for which she won a DASH Award, Middleton Heights and Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy (Umbrella Stage Company).
heather hamilton gallagher (stage manager)
heather hamilton gallagher (stage manager)
Smart, funny, kind, incredibly capable, and infinitely patient, Heather is the kind of person every production dreams of having on their team. We’re so lucky to have Heather Stage Managing this show and keeping everything running smoothly on stage and off!
Heather is a DASH-nominated Stage Manager for the Best Musical nominee tick, tick…BOOM! with the Colonial Chorus Players. She has also stage managed with the Concord Players, performed with the Quannapowitt Players among other theaters, and is currently serving as the President of EMACT. At the Park Playhouse, Heather stage managed First Night and kindly offered her time and expertise on our Play Reading Committee. We are always thrilled to have Heather back at the Burlington Players!
brit barone (logan)
brit barone (logan)
Brit Barone is a playwright, actor, and arts educator out of Salem, MA. It was a very happy day for the Burlington Players when Brit joined us earlier this year for her Burlington debut in Working for Crumbs. She is an exceptionally talented and charismatic artist, both onstage and off. We are so excited to welcome Brit back!
With (as she says) “a student loan debt in Acting and a graduate debt in Theatre Education, I have been in some plays and written some plays and directed some plays — you know the drill. “ Recent-ish shows include Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night with Olde Essex Stage Company. Other favorite North Shore acting credits: Dr. Frank N. Furter (The Rocky Horror Show), Harper Pitt (Angels in America), Van’s Sister (Dog Sees God) and Reverend Billy Hightower (Bat Boy The Musical) -- out of Salem and Lynn, respectively.
Brit enjoys writing for children, as well as writing scripts that children should never, ever read. Works of note include: Kings (2017), The Quest of Queen Thomas (2014) and Sidewalk Cracks (2008)
kenny kelleher (jaxton)
kenny kelleher (jaxton)
This is Kenny’s first production with the Burlington Players! He's been performing around the country for the past 20 years and has gotten back into the Boston theatre scene in the last year. Some recent roles onstage include Daddy Murphy (Bright Star), He (Stage Kiss), as well as appearing on TV in “Law & Order: Organized Crime” (NBC) and “American Crime Story” (FOX).
Kenny is an actual force of nature, and we are so happy to have him at the Burlington Players! When not performing, he's probably playing softball, taking an early morning ocean plunge, or hanging with his dad. He sends thanks to the best cast & crew, and to his whole fam for their support. Enjoy the show! ig: @kennyk33
You don’t want to miss seeing Kenny and the rest of this incredible cast in The Thanksgiving Play at the Burlington Players, now through November 22nd.
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