I entered Redmoon for the first time when I came for my Boneyard Prayer audition. I was shown several large sheets of brown craft paper and masking tape. Then I was asked to make a baby out of them, a ghost baby I could haunt someone with, and I needed to do it in three minutes.

Being a disenchanted actress fed up with status quo of the acting world, the audition was like finding water in the desert. The rehearsal process, though often tiring and baffling, has proved much the same. Redmoon treats theater as the beast it is. Before a rehearsal one day, Frank referred to it as such: he spoke of an animal that, while not allowed to run rampant, mustn’t be stifled into submission (at least not before opening night). The result is a piece that varies greatly from its original conception. It is a piece that has absorbed the voices and inspiration from every artist involved. It is a piece that has been given the time and space to attain its true potential, and hopefully, to touch on truth.

Countless scenes and songs and gestures have fallen by the wayside in the beast’s journey to opening night (even my craft paper baby is lost), but I’ve found that every moment, from the audition to now entering tech, has served to nourish the animal, making it stronger and more beautiful than any one person could have imagined.

-Alice Wedoff, Gravedigger