Meet The All-Star Cast Of Thrown Stone Theatre's ‘Seven Cousins’

ANNOUNCING THE CAST OF ‘SEVEN COUSINS FOR A HORSE’
APRIL 24, 2023

Thrown Stone is delighted to announce the cast of the world premiere of Seven Cousins for a Horse by Tammy Ryan. We are particularly excited that this will be a homecoming for six, and a Thrown Stone début for one. Please join us in welcoming back Shannon Helene Barnes (Athena, Hysterical!), Emma Factor (The Arsonists), Will Jeffries (The Suburbs), Aidan Meachem (Milk), Jason Peck (Where All Good Rabbits Go), and Bridget Ann White (The Suburbs). We are also pleased to introduce you to Emmanuelle Nadeau, who will play Sarah Kinney.

In Seven Cousins, playwright Tammy Ryan explores love, loss, and redemption against the backdrop of a changing America in 1848. As the traveling portrait artist, Ammi Phillips captures the likenesses of his seven cousins, he grapples with personal tragedy, his fading career, and the uncertainty of the future. But, just like America, his relatives’ unruly household is a hotbed of debate on abolition, universal suffrage, and a mysterious illness that stalks the countryside. As Ammi captures their likenesses, can he offer them a moment of immortality? Can he paint a new path for himself?

We look forward to sharing this new theatrical experience with you in Ridgefield. Watch this space for more creative team announcements in the next couple of weeks. Tickets go on sale May 8th.

Shannon Helene Barnes
HATTIE KINNEY
Shannon (she/her) is an NYC-based maker, performer, and teaching artist. She’s thrilled to return to Thrown Stone after appearing as Athena in Athena and Maddie in Hysterical! last summer for the #GirlPower season. NYC credits include Where Are You? (Mabou Mines), Somewhere I Can Scream (Players Theater), UPDATE (NYC Fringe), The Wild Party (NYU). She has also appeared in cabarets at NYC venues such as The Green Room 42, and her choreography is featured in music videos and ongoing performances for recording artist Tetza. shannonhelenebarnes.com

Emma Factor
JANE KINNEY
Emma Factor is a Los Angeles-based actor, and is thrilled to be returning to Thrown Stone after appearing as M in Jaqueline Goldfinger’s The Arsonists. Her television credits include CBS’ Madam Secretary, Syfy’s Happy!, and CBS pilot Main Justice. BFA: University North Carolina School of the Arts. emmafactor.com

Will Jeffries
AMMI PHILLIPS
Will is pleased to return to Thrown Stone, having appeared in The Suburbs. On stage, TV, and film, career highlights include appearing on NYC stages in two segments of Torch Song Trilogy, by and with Harvey Fierstein; Brian Friel’s Volunteers, with John Goodman. In Los Angeles, starring with Ricardo Montalban, Stewart Granger, and Lynn Redgrave in Don Juan in Hell. Recurring roles on the series Valerie/The Hogan Family with Valerie Harper, Sandy Duncan and Jason

Aidan Meachem
LUCIUS CULVER
Aidan Meachem is thrilled to be back with Thrown Stone for his fourth year! Previously, Aidan appeared as Ash in Thrown Stone’s production of Milk in 2017, as the composer for the score of Where All Good Rabbits Go in 2018, and as the composer of the score for Birds of North America in 2019. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in December 2022 with a Master’s in Music Production.

Emmanuelle Nadeau
SARAH KINNEY
Emmanuelle is excited to be working with Thrown Stone for the first time! Some past stage highlights are The Diary of Anne Frank (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Tar Beach (Luna Stage), More Than One Good Way To Drown (Columbia Stages), The Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans (NJPAC), and To Kill a Mockingbird (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). Her TV credits include The Comey Rule (CBS), The Purge (USA), and The Night Of (HBO)

Jason Peck
NISUS KINNEY
Jason Peck is a founder and Co-Artistic Director of Thrown Stone. Thrown Stone directing credits include: Blink by Kate Moira Ryan (Summer Reading Series); Gwydion Suilebhan’s The Butcher, (Michael Chekhov Theatre Festival); Milk by Ross Dunsmore (US Premiere); and Birds of North America by Anna Moench (East Coast Premiere). Thrown Stone acting credit: Karina Cochran’s Where All Good Rabbits Go (East Coast Premiere).

Bridget Ann White
SALLY KINNEY
Bridget is happy to return to Thrown Stone after performing in The Suburbs in 2021. Most recently she played Esme in Bringer of Doom in NYC at The Players Theatre. She is humbled to work with such gifted playwrights, actors, designers and directors. She is currently a local after having spent most of her life adult life between NYC and LA.