Welwarewell is slated for a 20-show run at the Curtain Club Theatre in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Directed by Sharon Dykstra, the show will be running January 27th to February 11th. This production is in easy access to Esmerelda’s Toronto fans.

Esmerelda and the girls will be on stage at the Odyssey Dinner Theatre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan this upcoming spring.

Directed by Layla Shuparski, the show will run in April and May 2012.

Theatre Jax, supporting Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida, will host a production of Welfarewell from October 14th to 29th, 2011.

Directed by Shirley Sacks, Esmerelda will finally get a chance to be exposed to the southern sunshine.

Welfarewell, directed by Toni Holm, goes up at the Olympia Little Theater in Olympia, Washington, USA October 28th, 2011.

The show runs until November 20th, and casting is underway.

Director of the May 2011 production of Welfarewell in Austria, Michale Darmanin, and his University of Salzburg colleague, Andreas Schachermayr, are set to translate Welfarewell into German. Darmanin’s troupe, The English Drama Group, are staging Welfarewell in its original English form in Salzburg and Vienna. Mr. Darmanin has received numerous inquiries from German-language theatre groups [...]

Esmerelda’s name will be up in lights. Cat is pleased to announce that Big Nickel Motion Picture Factory has optioned the screenplay rights to Welfarewell. Plans are underway to secure top talent to direct and act in the film. Right now this is under development and we’ll keep you posted on progress, including who will [...]

the cast and crew at West Mifflin High School in Pennsylvania for their outstanding efforts in staging Welfarewell. They had an 18-year-old actress, Becky, playing 80-year-old Esmerelda!

Cat is very proud of the cast, only 5 of whom had ever been on stage before. A round of Catnip for everyone!

Esmerelda Quipp – Rebecca Mamaeff

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Cat is excited to be winging her way to Austria in June for the Salzburg and Vienna productions of Welfarewell. Being produced in cooperation with the University of Salzburg, the play will have a seven-night run under the direction of Michael Darmanin. Cat will be delivering a lecture at the University of Salzburg and is [...]

Because sales for the published version (Samuel French, Inc., 2010) of Cat’s award-winning stage play, Welfarewell, are going so well, there will certainly be live productions in the next few months and years. Cat is looking forward to attending premieres galore! The play is a two-act social satire, featuring an 80-year-old retired stage actor, Esmerelda [...]