The Valkyries at Dixon Place

The tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are willing to go to, what traumas they’re willing to inflict on others, and what portion of their own autonomy they are willing to give up, to feel they’ve regained some semblance of power.

Jessica Owens (Playwright) Is a Brooklyn based Playwright, Dramaturg, Producer and Theatre Administrator. Writing/Dramaturgy: I LOVE NEW YORK (Dixon Place, The Tank) Dramaturgy: I Once Found Myself in an Isolation Chamber (The Tank), Pitchforks (Drama League), Macbeth (Columbia Stages), Northern Lights (ATHE Development Workshop), Ascent, and MAY: A New Musical Fable. Employment: The Broadway League, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public, CAA. Script Reading: Roundabout, The Public, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Jewish Plays Project. Co-Founder: The Varsity Theatre Company, Initiative for Millennial Theatre Artists BA- Vanderbilt, MA – Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Rory McGregor is a British theatre director currently based in New York City. Recent credits include New Here (Dixon Place), Building Pain (Origin Theatre) –nominated for three awards at the First Irish Festival, Richard III and Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Macbeth (Connelly Theatre) and the world premiere of Alix Sobler’s The Great Divide (Finborough Theatre). He was Assistant Director to Julie Taymor on the Broadway revival of M. Butterfly starring Clive Owen, Associate Director on Underground by Isla Van Tricht at 59E59 and Assistant Director to Kareem Fahmy on The Triumphant at Target Margin Theatre. He has developed work at Rising Sun Theatre Company, La MaMa E.T.C, The Tank and Origin Theatre.

Rory mentors undergraduate directing students at NYU/Playwright’s Horizons Theatre School, and is a script reader at Roundabout Theatre Company. He was previously the Artistic Associate of Classic Stage Company and Artistic Apprentice at Roundabout. Rory is an Associate Member of SDC and holds an undergraduate degree in History from the University of York. He graduated from the MFA Directing Program at Columbia University in 2017, under the tutelage of Anne Bogart and Brian Kulick.

Aidan Carr ( Original Music) is a composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, and sound designer. He has worked at ART-NY, Long Wharf Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Dixon Place, The Tank, Summer Theatre of New Canaan, and Woodbridge Performing Arts Academy. He is a co-founder of the Initiative for Millennial Theatre Artists in New York. BA English & Spanish (Vanderbilt University).