The Sister
By Eric John Meyer. Directed by Jess Chayes
8/5 - 8/28 2016 in The Studio at Paradise at St. Augustines
In 2016 Dutch Kills proudly took The Sister to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to delight and challenge our critics and our early bird audiences alike.










Praise for the sister in Edinburgh
“**** Gripping... told with punchy, slick dialogue and very good acting...both mesmerising and memorable...
the tale remains in your head long after you leave.”
“*** Eric John Meyer’s engagingly strange play The Sister takes a familiar domestic set-up and plays games with it ... There’s an intriguingly off-kilter quality to the writing... Pleasingly weird in a dreamlike way, and New York company Dutch Kills is not short of imagination.”
“**** [A] Beautifully realised production that delights... the cast do an excellent job... This is a play that revels in its strangeness... This production is invigorating, captivating, and adventurously bizarre. The fascinating dynamics and well-crafted performances make for a gripping show.”
“*** Brings to mind David Lynch’s Twin Peaks or Blue Velvet”
Eric Meyer - Writer
Jess Chayes - Director
Alley Scott - Leanne / Producer
Ben Beckley - Bob
Erin Mallon - Colleen
Justin Yorio - Terry
Allison Raynes - Stage Manager
Asa Wember - Sound Design
Derek Wright - Lighting Design
Deanna Frieman - Costume Design
Sara Walsh - Set Design
Jean Ann Douglass - Production Manager
Sean Meehan - actor
Andrew Boyd - Stage Crew
Blake Habermann - Stage Crew
Dinah Berkeley - Stage Crew
Ben Jourdan - Stage Crew
Esther Jourdan- Stage Crew
Catherine Boyd - Stage Crew
3/22 - 4/13 2013 at the 4th Street Theater.
In the spring of 2013 Dutch Kills produced its first full length play. Eric John Meyer’s chilling and unflinching examination of domestic life was presented at the 4th street theater with critical success.













Praise for the sister
“A fever dream ... at once thrilling and terrifying ... unpredictable and chilling”
“It defies genre and expectation in artfully embodying the panorama that is the human condition. ... It is gratifying to watch and inspiring to discover such bold and talented new voices.
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“Meyer’s bluntly funny and mean play proves to be something like his mysterious offstage machine itself: abrasive, hurtful, but inexplicably necessary.”
“Up close and personal.”
“Jess Chayes directs the piece with razor-sharp precision and an enormous amount of understanding and insight... Ms. Chayes has shaped the piece beautifully and allows it to come forth in all its strange beauty.”
“ Jess Chayes’ expert close-quarters staging on designer Sara C. Walsh’s ingenious set”
“Alley Scott (Leanne) is captivating to watch in her descent from power to submission, her desperation one of the most harrowing moments of the evening.”
“Erin Mallon is enthralling as Colleen, magnificently reconciling the character’s naive submissiveness and righteous fury.”
“The excellent Jeb Kreager plays Bob with booming volatility”
“Erin Mallon finds incredible depth in her nuanced portrayal of Colleen, from the childlike, frightened, captive to the grounded woman she later becomes.”
“A superbly calibrated sound design by Asa Wember”
“ Jeb Kreager (Bob) is excellent in all his petrifying alpha male power”
Alley Scott - Leanne
Asa Wember - Sound
Emily Larson - Assistant Stage Manager
Noah Parks - Stage Hand