The cast: Atlanta Black Theatre Festival 2023
Alethea McCollin is a writer, director, producer and actor. She has presented her work in various cities nationally. This multi-hyphenate theatre artist is the founder of Orange Stilettos Productions. Her plays include The Stilettos Monologues, Styx and Gunz, and Pastor Willie. Alethea serves on the board of James River Writers, is a member of Dramatists Guild, and is an unabashed shoe addict, who
Evelyn LeTeshia is a South Carolina native with notable credits in television, film, & theater. She's the owner and
creative genius behind her freelancing entertainment business, Evelyn LeTeshia LLC.
Kelseigh Redmon Past roles include: Singin’ in the Rain (Dora Bailey), Ain’t
Misbehavin’ (Armelia McQueen), The Color Purple (Olivia, Ensemble) (Centre
Stage), RENT (Joanne Jefferson) (Anderson Market Theatre), and A Raisin in the Sun (Benethea Younger) (William Carey University). Kelseigh currently
resides in Greenville, South Carolina.
Wendi Rodgers previously appeared in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Centre Stage in
Greenville, SC. She enjoys serving the community as a Meals on Wheels volunteer and championing the
services of Project Host. She is grateful for the support of her amazing parents, family, and friends.
The Crew
Ari Silva (Stage Manager), they/she, has performed as Olivia (Legacy of Light), Missy (Jump Baby), and Papa Ge (Once on This Island) at Brightpoint Community College. She has also been an Assistant Stage Manager at Firehouse Theatre (Sound of The Guns).
Nigel McCollin (Sound) Nigel is an actor and sound technician, and continues to savor the joys of working in theatre.
He has been featured in many productions including Herod in Christmas Behind the Headlines and Bantu in Dinner with Bantu.
About the Stilettos Monologues
About the Play
The Stilettos Monologues is a modern, episodic play set on the fictional island of St. Iletto (Saint Ill-let-toe) where the stiletto stands as a metaphorical representation of womanhood in all its complexities. There, sixteen characters – women and female gendered shoes – tell dramatic and humorous stories on love, desire, identity, relationships, and female empowerment. Monologues integrate African American cultural expressions as characters reveal portions of their lives. From the first monologue, “Shoes” – a jazzy poetic celebration of shoes, each monologue takes a journey through personal or public conflicts amid revelations of power, scandal, infidelity and more, and culminates in the sorority inspired “Stilettos Divas”.
About the Playwright
Alethea McCollin is a playwright, director, producer, actor, and founder of Orange Stilettos Productions, llc. She has written numerous stage plays and other works of fiction, and has produced her work in various cities nationally. For more on her latest production The Stilettos Monologues .
Plays Etc.
Full Length plays
The Stilettos Monologues
Pastor Willie
Styx and Gunz
Christmas Behind the Headlines
Symbols
It's Complicated
Re-Naming Shaim
Referendum
In Fulfillment
The Trees Done Die and The Grass Look Funny
Grace's Afterlife ...
Rap...
Adaptations
Handel's Messiah - An Interpretation
In Fulfillment
Symbols
short plays
Were You There?
The Comfort Club
The Next Great Writer
The Dead Make No Noise
Screenplays
The Vegetarian
Fifty Years ...
The Secret Book
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