THE SHARK IS BROKEN

Performed May 15-24, 2026

by Ian Shaw & Joseph Nixon. Directed by Jay Briggs.

featuring Matt Mundy, J. Richey Nash and Blake White

with scenic design by Montana Kern, lighting design by Haley Brown, sound design by Marlo Griffith, property design by Anna Hughes and stage management by Megan Pellaccio.

Sponsored by Boys Arnold Wealth Management

TALK OF THE TOWN

CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF  

By: Viola Bennett • Bluffton-based Playwright 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20  •  7:30PM  

HHPS MAIN STREET THEATER  

FREE ADMISSION

Leilah is trying to live a normal life, but when she is visited by her 14 year-old self and the woman she is becoming, the past she’s tried to outrun comes rushing into the present. As memory and reality blur, she must face a long-silenced violation that still echoes in her life, and the future she risks if she doesn’t make a change. Through this intimate and imaginative story, Conversations With Myself is a moving journey through the realities of trauma, denial, and self-reclamation.

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About The Playwright: 

Viola Bennett has been a member of the Black Playwright’s Initiative at Chicago’s Black Ensemble Theater since 2015. Her short plays Stealing Home,

The Laundromat, and Par for the Course have been featured in the theater’s festival, along with my biopic musicals More Than a Maid: Hattie McDaniel Past to Present and Dreams and Fantasies: A Dorothy Dandridge Story. She’s thrilled to become involved with Lean Ensemble Theater and share her works with this local community.