The Heartbeat of the Sun
World premiere
A buddy comedy for the ages.
Best friends for 50 years, actors Bea and Althea navigated the ups and downs of their lives and careers arm in arm. As the spitfire pair adjusts to senior living, the women reminisce about their lives on and off the boards, and mildly hallucinate on a particularly funky kind of cheese.
Billie McBride and Anne Oberbroeckling star in the hilarious and heartfelt work by Colorado playwright Melissa Lucero McCarl, grown out of our new-play reading series.
Recommended if you liked Tuesdays with Morrie, Driving Miss Daisy, Steel Magnolias.
Melissa Lucero McCarl
Playwright (2022)
Painted Bread, Melissa’s full-length play about the life of Frida Kahlo, was voted “Best New Play” by The Denver Post. She was commissioned by the Jewish Community Center to write…
Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski
Director
Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski’s ongoing collaboration with Melissa Lucero McCarl and her works is the most current of his work within the fields of dramaturgy and direction. He is delighted (and humbled)…
Billie McBride
Althea
Billie McBride recently played Joan in The Year of Magical Thinking at the Aurora Fox Theatre, directed for The Denver Center Academy’s One-Act Play Festival, and directed the musical Memphis…
Anne Oberbroeckling
Bea
Anne Oberbroeckling grew up on a farm, somewhere in Iowa, a good number of years ago. She took creative dramatics classes (is that still a thing?) in grade school, got…
Lorraine Larocque
Young Bea
This is Lorraine’s first production with Cherry Creek Theatre. Lorraine studied theatre at North Carolina School of the Arts and has performed throughout N.C. and Colorado. Favorite roles include Sarah…
Daevon Robinson
Javier
Daevon Robinson is a local actor who is based out of Aurora. Some recent works you may have seen him in are Shakespeare In The Wilds’ production of As You…
Maggy Stacy
Young Althea
Maggy Stacy is a Henry Award-winning* actor who started onstage in a high school improvisation troupe and continued training Chicago at the Theatre Conservatory of Roosevelt University and Act One…
Tina Anderson
She/Her
Scenic Design
Nicole M. Harrison
Costume Design
