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Coal Country Cast & Creative

A riveting and haunting new musical, featuring a score by Steve Earle. 

This show is closed.

Performances ended on Apr. 5, 2020.

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About Coal Country

In 2010, the Upper Big Branch mine explosion killed 29 men, and tore a hole in the lives of countless others. In this riveting, emotionally stunning new work based on first-person accounts by survivors and family members, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, award-winning writers of The Exonerated, and three-time Grammy Award-winning country/folk legend Steve Earle, dig deep into the lives and loss of the most deadly mining disaster in recent U.S. history. Jessica Blank directs this haunting world premiere that gives voice to those yet unheard, and shines a piercing light on the deadly forces of greed and the enduring power of love.

Cast

Mary Bacon
Patti
Amelia Campbell
Mindy
Michael Gaston
Goose
Thomas Kopache
Gary
Michael Laurence
Tommy
Deirdre Madigan
Judy
Melinda Tanner
Judge

Creative

Written by
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Original Music
Steve Earle
Director
Jessica Blank
Set Designer
Richard Hoover
Costume Designer
Jessica Jahn
Lighting Designer
David Lander
Sound Designer
Darron L West
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