Winter Shorts, Fall 2025
The UAF Student Drama Association presents:
October 9-12, 2025
Lee Salisbury Lab Theatre
The UAF Student Drama Association presents the 2025 Winter Shorts lineup:
100 Love Letters I Never Sent by Adam Szymkowicz, directed by Macy Waarvik
Late: A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Seamus Knight
Showtimes
Thursday, October 9 @ 7:30pm
Friday, October 10 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, October 11 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, October 12 @ 2:30pm
Tickets
FREE for UAF students with their Polar Express ID card
$10 general admission
Tickets are available at the door and are first come, first serve. Come early for
the best seats.
Doors open at 7:00pm Thursday, Oct. 9-Saturday, Oct. 11, and at 2:00pm on Sunday,
October 12.
Winter Shorts Production Team
Ben Hedrick, Clark Milstead
In the News
Left to right: JB Brown, Ben Hedrick, Daisy Massey, Alexanna Thomas, Bethany Cohen, Lily Larson, Jaiden Yaskulski, Clark Milstead, and Melody Helmericks
100 Love Letters I Never Sent
by Adam Szymkowicz,
directed by Macy Waarvik
100 Love Letters I Never Sent, written by Adam Szymkowicz, is a monologue format in
one act, set in modern times. The theme explores love (mostly romantic love) and how
different people experience it. We see a brief snapshot into 9 characters’ lives and
their experiences with love, whether that be unrequited love, being in a relationship,
not believing in love, just wanting love, etc. It is funny, silly, and dramatic, but
also meaningful and very human.
Cast
Production Team
Cast, left to right: Clark Milstead, Bethany Cohen, Ben Hedricks, Alexanna Thomas, Lily Larson, JB Brown, Jaiden Yaskulski.
About the Director
Macy Waarvik is a sophomore at UAF double majoring in Film & Performing Arts and Psychology.
Macy has asst. stage managed STRIKE! (2025) and done props for Tiny Beautiful Things
(2024) at UAF.
Macy has performed in a number of productions including The Fibre Arts Conspiracy
(Claire), with SDA, Marian, Or The True Tale of Robin Hood (Will Scarlet) with Treefort
Theatre, Greece is the Word: The Zeusical (Artemis), Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical
(Ensemble), and The Lion King (Ensemble) with Kenai Performers.
Macy is one of SDA’s officers this year & has been a driving force in bringing back
Winter Shorts. Come see Macy’s directorial debut, 100 Love Letters I Never Sent by
Adam Szymkowicz this October, 10/9 - 10/11 at 7:30 (doors open @ 7pm) and 10/12 at
2:30pm (doors open @ 2pm)!
Production Photos
Photo credit:
Left to right: Graham Granger, Deyanira Van Acker, and Arianna Hammond
Late: A Cowboy Song
by Sarah Ruhl,
directed by Seamus Knight
Mary and Crick are young adults from rural Pennsylvania. The couple have a baby together, and Crick gets a job at an art museum. As Crick's juvenility erodes Mary’s resolve, she embarks on a dangerous & forbidden friendship with a woman they went to high school with, a cowboy named Red. When Mary gives birth to an intersex child— who Crick names Jill and Mary names Blue— the couple must contend with their different philosophies.
"This play is for all the lady cowboys of heart and mind who ride outside the city limits of convention.” - Sarah Ruhl
Cast
Crick
Production Team
Manager
Run Crew /
Shadow Play
Left to right: Seamus Knight (Director), Graham Granger ("Crick"), Deyanira Van Acker ("Mary"), Arianna Hammond ("Red"), Fritz Lutrell (Stage Manager)
About the Director
Seamus Knight is in his fourth year as a Film & Music double major at UAF, where he
has lighting-designed three main stage productions and done audio tech around campus.
He works as an editor for FRAME productions under the Department Chair Maya Salganek.
Seamus is a performer, cellist, and sound designer. As a stage actor, his favorite
roles have included Augustus/Gus in Concord Theatre Players’ Arcadia by Tom Stoppard,
and Ralph in Fourth Wall Stage Company’s Awake and Sing. He has composed film scores
for One World is Writing (Her Republic Films, 2021), and Strange Embrace (Theatre
& Film UAF, 2024).
Seamus has been the president of SDA for three years now, and is thrilled that the
club is once again rooted enough to be able to facilitate winter shorts. Come see
Late: A Cowboy Song this October, 10/9 - 10/11 at 7:30 (doors open @ 7pm) and 10/12
at 2:30pm (doors open @ 2pm)!
Production Photos
Photo credit:
2025 Winter Shorts Cast & Crew Headshots
JB Brown
Bethany Cohen
Graham Granger
Arianna Hammond
Ben Hedrick
Melody Helmericks
Taylor Kamrath
Seamus Knight
Lily Larson
Fritz Lutrell
Daisy Massey
Clark Milstead
Moody Pierce
Alexanna Thomas
Deyanira Van Acker
Macy Waarvik
Jaiden Yaskulski
