All Nighter

All Nigher runs approx… If you require any accommodations, our staff will be happy to assist.

Please do not bring outside food or drinks into the theatre.

Darcie — Naomi Zhanel Kalter (u/s: Brynn Aaronson)

Lizzy — Mea Allen (u/s: CC Meade)

Tessa — Emma Samuelson (u/s: Rachel Katz)

Jacqueline — Becca G Anderson)

Wilma — Emma Dunlop (u/s: Miranda Montgomery)

Production Team
Clara Zucker — Director
Sophia Urban — Asst. Director
Karina Patel — Dramaturg
Emily Newmark — Line Producer
Maddy Brown — 2nd Line Producer
Amanda Tancioco Rokosz — Stage Manager
Isabella Boudreaux — Asst. Stage Manager

Designers
Satya Chávez — Sound Designer
Tina Arfaee — Props Designer
Joseph Nelson — Lighting Designer
Maggie McGlenn — Costume Designer
Kat Monty — Scenic Designer & Lead Carpenter

Staff
Jane Hobson — Director of Marketing
Naomi Kalter — Artistic Associate
Emily Waskowitz — Marketing Associate
Camila Ramirez — Brand Strategist
Kat Monty — Director of Development
Emma Byerwalter — Treasurer
Dane Roberts — Community Partner Liaison
cairna — Head of Operations

Natalie Margolin is a playwright, television, and film writer. Her first play, The Power of Punctuation, which the New York Times called "a smart and incisive wee hours comedy" premiered off-broadway in 2016. During lockdown, her written-for-zoom play The Party Hop was produced in high schools and colleges across the country throughout the pandemic. In 2025 Natalie's latest play All Nighter premiered Off Broadway in a buzzy sold out run at the Newman Mills Theatre at The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theatre Space. Her plays have been developed with Broadway Video, The WP, The Hearth, Colt Coeur, and Fault Line Theatre. She is currently developing a television project with Lorne Michaels Broadway Video and Universal. She has both a television and film project in development with Mark Gordon Pictures.

I graduated from a tiny liberal arts college tucked away in rural Ohio. Like the fictional campus in All Nighter, fewer than 3,000 students lived in what often felt like its own universe. Every friendship, relationship, and hookup felt heightened because you couldn't escape the people around you. You'd see them in class, at the dining hall, in the library. The friends you made freshman year often remained your friends until graduation. Falling out wasn't really an option.

All Nighter lives in that moment when identity is more intertwined with the group than the individual, and there is real danger in individualism. These young women contort themselves to preserve their friendship, shutting off parts of themselves and distorting the truth in order to stay united.

In a 2014 interview, playwright Natalie Margolin described her college experience, saying, "I can't imagine a place richer in stories than a campus of 1,600 hormonal students isolated atop a hill.” More than a decade later, she was still drawn to write this play. I understand why.

These characters inhabit a world where Obama is president and the #MeToo movement has not yet reshaped our cultural vocabulary. Consequences feel distant, and truth is surprisingly slippery. In 2026, it's impossible not to bring our current relationship to truth into the room. We live in a moment when facts feel deeply contested, and we see the damage that comes from manipulating reality, especially in politics.

All Nighter doesn't ask us to excuse these characters or condemn them. It asks us to sit with the messy consequences of their choices and remember that how we treat one another, and the truths we choose to tell, matter.

- Clara Zucker

Director of All Nighter

The ancient Greek poem The Odyssey, written by Homer, is one of the oldest pieces of surviving literature we have today. The Odyssey is the second epic poem attributed to Homer and serves as a sequel to The Iliad, which recounts the events towards the end of the ten-year Trojan War. The poems are believed to have been written around the 7th century BC. Filled with monsters, nymphs, sirens, and the Greek's beloved gods, the poems were told and performed centuries before being recorded.

At the beginning of The Odyssey we find ourselves following the protagonist of the poem: the king of Ithaca, Odysseus. Following his victory in the Trojan war, Odysseus sets sail with twelve ships full of his men all eager to return home to Ithaca. Odysseus is especially desperate to get home to his wife Penelope and their son Telemachus who was only a baby when his father departed. Along their journey, Odysessus and his men face challenges; from battling Cyclopes, landing on the famous witch Circe's island, surviving man-eating Sirens, and even sailing into the Underworld, Odysseus barely makes it out alive. Despite receiving life-saving help from gods Athena and Aeolus, most of Odysseus's men are killed on their quest.

Desperately seeking sustenance, Odysseus's crew slaughters sacred cows of the gods. As punishment, the remaining men are killed in a brutal storm dealt by Zeus, king of the gods. Without men or supplies, Odysseus is swept ashore on Ogygia, home and prison of the exiled nymph Calypso.

The first textual appearance of Calypso is in The Odyssey, and as far as we know she is Homer's literary creation. In Greek mythology, Calypso is said to be the daughter of the Titan Atlas, sent to live in eternal exile on Ogygia after the Titans lose their war against the Greek gods. From the poem, we know that Calypso is immortal and possesses some divine powers. She spends her days weaving on her loom, singing, and living in forced solitude.

The words enchantress, seductress, and captor have all been used to describe Calypso throughout history. She is the one who holds Odysseus back from returning to his family. She distracts him with immortality and paradise, offering him only the illusion of choice. Yet while so little is revealed about Calypso, what we do know is that she herself was given no choice. She is trapped on the island, condemned to remain there forever for supporting her father, never able to leave and never able to die. When Odysseus arrives she shelters him, offering food, rest, and healing.

His presence offers Calypso a glimpse of god-like control, but ultimately she can only remain as she was: a prisoner.

Calypso's story mirrors Odysseus's, reflecting the tension between power and powerlessness. Though immortal, Calypso is bound by the same chains that bind mortals: fate and love. This makes her both timeless and tragically human. Calypso's story serves as a profound reflection of The Odyssey itself. A journey not only across seas, but through the depths of love, loyalty, and loss.

The Village Theater would like to extend a special thank you to Tara Mallen, Trisha Hooper, Erica Slater, Claire Wolfson, AJ Paramo, Davis Brinker, Parker Hickey, Emma Byerwalter, Mary Anne Montgomery, Tory Montgomery, Cami Ramirez, Rebecca Kaese, Petra Jungbluth, and Lauren Holmes for their generous support.