FOURTEEN FUNERALS

by Eric Pfeffinger

February 6 – March 9, 2025

It’s weird when city girl Sienna gets a cryptic phone call about the untimely deaths of some distant family members in small-town Blissfield, Indiana. Weirder yet is the way they expect her to deliver eulogies for relatives she’s never met. But weirdest of all: Sienna goes there. Maybe she’s hoping for a big inheritance. Maybe she just really needs to get away from her dead-end life in Chicago. But what she never expected was the tumultuous and rewarding relationship that she develops with Millie, the peculiarly sunny employee of the Blissfield funeral home.

Contains adult language and subject matter.

DIRECTOR: Rhiannon Ragland

CAST:

Ashley Wickett*

Shonita Joshi*

UNDERSTUDIES: Wendy Dang*, Meghan VanArsdalen*

Set Designer: Sarah Pearline
Lighting Designer: Mario Raymond
Properties Designer: Danna Segrest
Costume Designer: Marley Boone
Sound Designer: Suzi Regan
Stage Manager: Mary Toth*
Assistant Stage Manager: Juliana Berry*

*On contract in agreement with Actors’ Equity Association

PRESS QUOTES

“It’s smartly written; it’s actually funny; it’s deeply emotional. Set in the small towns we drive through to get there, Fourteen Funerals is everything a contemporary play should be.

If you’re a Midwesterner, you’ll feel — forgive me for saying it — seen. Toledo should be honored to even provisionally call Pfeffinger its own.”

-Lillian King, The Toledo Blade

Production photos by Sean Carter Photography.