AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

James Still’s plays have been widely produced throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, South Africa, China and Japan. He is an elected member of both the National Theatre Conference in New York and College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center, is a four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, as well as a five- time Emmy nominee for his work in television. Recognitions include the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award from the William Inge Festival, the Todd McNerney New Play Prize from Piccolo Spoleto, the Indiana Authors Award for Drama, and the American Alliance for Theatre & Education Distinguished Play Award. His new plays include EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE MOTHERS which will have an NNPN Rolling World Premiere at multiple theaters in 2026; HAUNT ME commissioned by American Blues in Chicago; and THE PAUL TSONGAS PROJECT commissioned by Merrimack Rep in Lowell, MA. He proudly calls Los Angeles home.

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The And Then They Came For Me by James Still is near and dear to Abigail’s heart. Her father was a holocaust survivor; her grandparents’ families were murdered en masse by the Nazis in the Ukraine. The Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Production in a Large Venue, which the production was awarded in 2020 (2021?), was a testament to Murry Hepner’s vision for Mainstreet Theater Company, for which Abigail has directed productions. There Murry created a mecca for the finest LA theater practitioners to come and do their creative best– no matter if the audience was young or old, Jewish or Christian, Chinese, French or Mexican. She understands that theater brings us together, evoking our curiosity and empathy for other people’s stories– an essential ingredient for peaceful coexistence.

Abigail is an award-winning, freelance theater and film director, writer, dramaturg and teacher. Her background in architectural studies and the visual arts informs her directing work both in the three-dimensional space of theater and in the cinematic frame, where she is committed to affective storytelling not only through dialogue, story and performance but also in her collaborative work with designers, cinematographers, writers and artists. 

Abigail has just been honored with the 2024 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Director for her production of Dido Of Idaho at the Echo Theater Company. She will soon have a website of her very own!

Catherine Black (Mutti, Anne Frank) is a Canadian-American actor-director-artist-educator,

best known for American Psycho, The Donner Party,

Odyssey 5 and Strange New Worlds.

Catherine is a certified acting teacher with Stuart Rogers

Studios, teaching a fast, innovative and comprehensive acting

method. Having directed their first narrative film in 2012,

Catherine has since directed multiple films that have won

awards and acquired worldwide SVOD/VOD distribution.

“It is meaningful for me to be performing And Then They Came

For Me again with the same beautiful people, at a time when

antisemitism is at the highest levels since 1938 - as the last

remaining survivors are watching. It feels like a significant time

to tell stories of real people who went through something so

unfathomable. Thank you Murry, Abigail and the whole team at

In Other People’s Shoes for bringing us together again to tell

these stories and for producing important theatre for young

people.”

Doug Harvey (Heinz, Ed's Father, Hitler Youth)  is honored to be back with Murry, Abigail, and this great team, sharing this important story. Most recently, he toured the U.S. with the Reduced Shakespeare Company in All the Great Books (Abridged) and The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel). Los Angeles theater credits include: South Coast Rep, Mainstreet Theater, IAMA, A Noise Within, and the LA Philharmonic. You can also catch him live-narrating the planetarium shows at Griffith Observatory. BFA NYU Tisch and RADA. #StayOnTheSignal @doug-harvey.com

Heather Taylor (Young Eva, Ed's Mother) 

Selected Theater: And Then They Came For Me.(Ovation Nomination -Featured Actress, Ovation Award- Best Production) Mark Twain & Friends, Our American Cousin, Servant Of Two Masters, Merchant Of Venice, and The Little Foxes. Film Credits include: When Negatives Collide (Selection Cannes Film Festival - Short Film Corner, Indi Fest- Award of Merit, LA Shorts Fest among others) Murder In The Cat House (Official Selection- Hollywood Comedy Short and London Comedy Shorts Fest.)  

Connor Sullivan (Young Ed, Pappy) 

Art is important and this piece will be with me forever. I am so grateful to be revisiting it. Most recently: Clyde's (Center Theatre Group), And Then They Came For Me (MainStreet Theater), How High The Moon (La Jolla Playhouse - WOW Festival), Angels in America (Cygnet Theatre), The Three Musketeers (PVPA), Othello, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Kingsmen Shakespeare). A huge thank you to Abigail and Murry for making this happen! All my love to Chels, Lu and LB! 

John Zalewski is a performance and theatrical sound designer and composer active in the Los Angeles theater community and nationally since the late 1990s. He has collaborated with such local stalwarts as Latino Theater Company, Evidence Room, Actors’ Gang, Boston Court, Playwrights Arena, Padua Playwrights, East West Players, MainStreet Theatre Company, to state a few. 

   Off-Broadway:Everything You Touch and Mayakovsky and Stalin at Cherry Lane, AZAK at Rattlestick Playwrights at Gym at Judson. He developed the immersive performance The Day Shall Declare It, with Wilderness  in London and Los Angeles  

Regional work includes Humana Festival (At the Vanishing Point), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Destiny of Desire; Macbeth) , Goodman Theatre (Destiny of Desire), Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theater, Portland Center Stage. Arts venues include Redcat, PS122, Walker Arts, Venice Biennale.

  Awards include nine Ovation Awards, seven L.A. Weekly Awards; five L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards; Theater Bites; Stage Raw Award 2024 for A Body’s Midnight, Boston Court, and a special Technical Design Award from LADCC, 2025. He recently received 2024 Career Achievement Award from Los Angeles Theater Critics Circle.

Currently: The Last Play by Rickerby Hinds at LATC and The (Un)Double with Anthony Nikolchev to premiere at Venice Theater Biennale in June 2025.

 Yaesol Jeong (She/Her)

 is an LA-based Stage Manager who recently worked at the Ojai Music Festival as the Greenberg stage manager. Her deeply rooted background in music and fine arts education has rounded her to be a competent Stage Manager. Select stage management credits include Henry IV Part 1 & Part 2 with the Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company, Ghost Waltz with the Latino Theatre Company, I’ll Get You, My Pretty with the USC School of Dramatic Arts, This is Not a True Story with Artists at Play, and The Conduct of Life with USC School of Dramatic Arts. Dedicated to creating personal interactions, she is passionate about creating dramatic, sensational, and engaging live productions.