The Thanksgiving Play
Play by Larissa FastHorseWikipedia
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Oct 28, 2026
Becky CostelloGUEST
Sure.
Becky CostelloGUEST
I am in the Thanksgiving play.
Becky CostelloGUEST
It's at an actor circle again.
Becky CostelloGUEST
And it's by a female Native American playwright.
Troy SchneiderHOST
This week with Troy and Sarah, a view from the seats and on the scene where we discuss the current topics and latest productions in the St. Louis theater community.
Troy SchneiderHOST
This week, we're talking with the West End Players Guild about their production of the Thanksgiving play.
Troy SchneiderHOST
Please welcome director Dani Mann, assistant director Nathan Mecey, technical director Chuck Winning, and actors Colleen Backer, Chelsea Johnson, and William Smith to the show.
Troy SchneiderHOST
Hello everybody.
Troy SchneiderHOST
Hello.
Troy SchneiderHOST
And we're all hoping this is working because there's some weirdness behind on the technical side.
Troy SchneiderHOST
So the Thanksgiving play, what an awesome choice, I think, in the world we live in.
Troy SchneiderHOST
Dani, can you just lead us out by telling us why the Thanksgiving play?
Charles KirschHOST
Backstage Babble is a podcast interviewing professionals in the theater industry about themselves, their careers, and the people they've worked with along the way.
Charles KirschHOST
And today, I am thrilled to be joined by visionary director Rachel Chavkin, who is the mastermind behind shows like Hadestown, Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Lempicka, Gatsby, The Thanksgiving Play, and My Joy is Heavy.
Charles KirschHOST
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Rachel ChavkinGUEST
now, without further ado, here's Rachel Chavkin.
Charles KirschHOST
Backstage Babble is a podcast interviewing professionals in the theater industry about themselves, their careers, and the people they've worked with along the way.
Charles KirschHOST
And today, I am thrilled to be joined by two-time Tony-winning actress Katie Finneran, who has starred in Annie, Promises Promises, My Favorite Year, Noises Off, The Thanksgiving Play, The Receptionist, Two Shakespearean Actors, It's Only a Play, Mauritius, Cabaret, The Heiress, and The Iceman Cometh.
Charles KirschHOST
And now, without further ado, here's Katie Finneran.
Charles KirschHOST
Good to meet you, and congratulations, too, on The Receptionist, which was fantastic.
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Katie FinneranGUEST
Because when actors evolve, it just means they're adding stuff.
Katie FinneranGUEST
I believe in being more clear, clearer about what you're doing.
Katie FinneranGUEST
And I noticed I lost my voice when I was doing the Thanksgiving play.
Katie FinneranGUEST
The clearer I was about what I was doing, I didn't even have to project my voice.
Keith BarkerGUEST
What that play is fighting for, visibility and all those things, is it's just a different conversation than the one we have, which you see from time to time when we see these American plays come up that are speaking about different things in a different context of the politics.
Ryan BarakovichHOST
And I think to the point those colleagues made to you about how there isn't a space in New York for indigenous playwriting, the fact that the first and, and I think to date only indigenous play to play on Broadway is Larissa FastHorse's Thanksgiving Play, which notably has zero indigenous characters in it.
Ryan BarakovichHOST
[laughs]
Keith BarkerGUEST
That's it.