At the Bath House Cultural Center
White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas

September 8 - 24, 2011

Directed by David Meglino

Featuring
Emily Scott Banks as George Eliot

With
Jessica Cavanagh, Morgan McClure, Adrian S. Churchill,
Scott Milligan, Randy Pearlman, Russell Schultz, Jordan Willis and Brian Witkowicz

"You can never imagine what it is to have a man’s force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl"- George Eliot It is the year 1858, and the English public demands to know: Have the most popular and “Christian” novels of the century been written by a woman living in sin with a married man? Marian Evans -- better known by her pen name George Eliot -- faces a crisis: Should she expose herself and her unconventional life or continue her work in secret, denying the truest part of herself? George Eliot was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She authored seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. Their realism and psychological insight changed the way novels were written. Even Charles Dickens was a George Eliot fan!

Producer: Terry Ferguson
Production Stage Manager: Alett Gray
Set Design: Cindy Ernst
Costume Design: Caitlin Rain
Lighting Design: Jaymes Gregory
Sound Design: Pam Myers-Morgan
Prop Design: Rebekka Koepke and Lynne Mauldin
Dialect Coach: Elly Lindsay
Board Operator: Bryan Douglas
Publicity: Kateri Cale
Box Office Manager: Bo Barron
Patron Outreach Manager: Lisa Robb
Photograph: Mark Oristano

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Cathy Tempelsman's full-length play about George Eliot, A Most Dangerous Woman, has had readings at New York’s DR2 Theatre (directed by Richard Maltby, Jr.), Primary Stages (also in New York), Luna Stage (New Jersey) and England’s Nuneaton Town Hall.. Her monologue, A Blessing on Your Sole, was produced at Barrow Group Theatre and her one-act, Missing, was selected for Short Stuff VI: Awakenings. Her work has appeared in the Boston Theatre Marathon as well.

During the past few years, Cathy has been a guest artist at the Kennedy Center's Playwriting Intensive,
part of its American College Theatre Festival, and has studied at the Sewanee Writers' Conference
in Tennessee. Prior to writing plays, Cathy was a marketing consultant (The Wall Street Journal) and
wrote the book Child-Wise (William Morrow), while also working as a freelance writer. She lives
in New York City with her husband and three children.