Weather Girl
Smile while it burns.
Stacey is a California weather girl. An oversexed and underpaid harbinger of our dying planet. But today, her regular routine of wildfires, prosecco and teeth whitening descends into a scorched earth catastrophe, before she discovers something that will save us all. A dizzying rampage into the soul of American strangeness.
A blistering dark comedy about wrecking the places we love. From Lucille Lortel Award-nominated Brian Watkins, creator of the hit Amazon series Outer Range, and Drama Desk-nominated director Tyne Rafaeli.
Cast
Stacey
Julia McDermott
Julia is a native Californian, and is thrilled to be making her Edinburgh debut.
New York Off-Broadway: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, by Will Arbery, directed by Danya Taymor (Playwrights Horizons, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, OBIE and Lucille Lortel Winner for Best Ensemble and Outstanding Play). Carol Cutrere in Tennessee Williams’ ORPHEUS DESCENDING, opposite Maggie Siff, directed by Erica Schmidt (Theater For A New Audience, 2023).
International Theater: EPIPHANY, by Brian Watkins, directed by Garry Hynes (Druid Theater, Galway International Arts Festival, Nominated for Best Production Irish Theater Awards).
Recent TV/Film: Diviners, opposite Lewis Pullman; Women of the Movement, with Adriane Warren (ABC/Hulu); Up Here (Hulu); Elsbeth (CBS).
Graduate of The Juilliard School of Drama.
Creative Team
Brian Watkins’ most recent play Epiphany premiered at Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Tyne Rafaeli where it received five Lucille Lortel Nominations and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best New Play. His series Outer Range can be seen on Amazon Prime Video, for which he served as creator, showrunner, and executive producer.
Other plays include Wyoming, Evergreens, Into The Earth With You (upcoming: Buffalo Theatre Ensemble), My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer (upcoming: Trieste, Rome, Genoa, Naples), and High Plains among others.
His plays have been produced by Druid Theatre at the Galway International Arts Festival under the direction of Garry Hynes, at The Flea Theatre, Lesser America, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Juilliard School, Campania Teatro Festival in Italy, Edinburgh Fringe, Creede Repertory, and more.
He is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and the Denver Center Theatre Company. He is a former Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow and a current New Dramatists resident playwright. Currently, Watkins is penning two feature films for Warner Bros and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin.
Tyne Rafaeli directs for stage, screen and audio.
Recent stage productions include Keith Bunin’s The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center Theatre, NY Times Critics’ Pick), Brian Watkins’ Epiphany (Lincoln Center Theatre, NY Times Critics’ Pick), Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul (Playwright’s Horizons, NY Times Critics’ Pick, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Drama League nomination for best director), Ming Peiffer’s Usual Girls (Roundabout, NY Times Critics’ Pick and Drama Desk nomination for best director), Craig Lucas’ I Was Most Alive With You (Playwright’s Horizons, NY Times Critics’ Pick) and Lauren Yee’s In a Word (Cherry Lane, NY Times Critics’ Pick). Tyne’s work has also been seen at The Public Theatre, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic, MCC, La Jolla Playhouse and Classic Stage Company amongst others. She is currently in development for two new Broadway plays.
Recent TV directing includes Tell Me Lies (Hulu) , Elsbeth (Paramount+), The Good Fight (Paramount+), Single Drunk Female (Hulu) and Evil (Paramount+).
Tyne has directed multiple audio series for Audible including most recently The Miranda Obsession written by Jen Silverman and starring Rachel Brosnahan.
Isabella Byrd is a New York-based designer working in live performance.
Broadway: Cabaret and An Enemy of the People (both 2024 Tony nominated).
Off-Broadway: Infinite Life (Annie Baker), Primary Trust (Eboni Booth), Epiphany (Brian Watkins), Sanctuary City (Martyna Majok), The Good John Proctor (Talene Monahon), and many by Will Arbery: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Corsicana, and Plano. Many productions with: Clubbed Thumb, Caitlin Sullivan, and dots.
Awards: Drama Desk Special Award, three Lucille Lortels, two Obies, Henry Hewes, and featured in The New Yorker.
Proud USA829 member and pay equity and sustainability advocate.
Kieran is an award-nominated sound designer, composer and theatremaker.
Selected sound and composition credits include: Winter’s Tale (Dailes Teātris, Latvia), The Legend of Ned Ludd, A Billion Times I Love You (Liverpool Everyman), Showdown (Chamalëon, Berlin), Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre), Sea Words (Summerhall), Chester Mystery Plays (Chester Cathedral), The Marvelous Myth Hunter Ceilidh (Southbank Centre), Hungry (Soho Theatre/Paines Plough Roundabout), May Queen (Belgrade Theatre), First Touch (Nottingham Playhouse), SHTF (Schauspielhaus, Vienna), Black Love, May Queen, Really Big & Really Loud (Paines Plough Roundabout), Deciphering, Antigone, A Girl in School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) (New Diorama), The Future Project (Streatham Space Project), Me For The World, My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Young Vic), GASTRONOMIC (Shoreditch Town Hall/ Norwich Theatre Royal), Found Sound (Coventry Cathedral), Companion: Moon, How We Save The World (Natural History Museum), TBCTV (Somerset House), Square Go (Paines Plough Roundabout/ 59E59), The Drill (Battersea Arts Centre), Hear Me Raw (Soho Theatre/Arcola Theatre), Under The Skin (St. Paul’s Cathedral).
Rachel Dainer-Best is a costume designer based in New York City. She works in various media including live performance, video and film.
She has designed costumes for movies including Pieces of a Woman (dir. Kornel Mundruczo, Bron, 2020), The Assistant (dir. Kitty Green, Bleecker Street, 2019), Waves (dir. Trey Edward Shults, A24, 2019), which screened at Toronto International Film Festival and I Saw The TV Glow (dir. Jane Schoenbrun, A24, 2024), Assassination Nation (dir. Sam Levinson, Bron, 2018) and White Girl (dir. Elizabeth Wood, Killer Films, 2016) which premiered at Sundance. Additionally, she worked on the Amazon television series Outer Range (2022).
She has designed costumes for theater productions such as Adoration (dir. Laine Rettmer, Beth Morrison Projects, NY, 2024) and Carmen (dir. Jay Scheib, Young Arts, Miami, 2016).
Pete is Director of Production with production management company eStage. His career has seen him undertake numerous production management roles as well as technical and design roles across multiple disciplines. He has managed productions and touring artists worldwide at venues and festivals such as The Barbican, The Roundhouse, Hackney Empire, Busan International Performing Arts Festival, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Schaubühne Berlin, Soho Theatre, Liverpool Everyman, Battersea Arts Centre, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham NEC, Nottingham Playhouse and multiple UK/EU/Asian tours.
Pete is a musician, a pragmatist, an animal lover and a keen home cook.
Catherine has worked with a variety of companies over the last few years on a diverse range of projects, from working with bouncing peas and epic monsters in Princess and the Pea & The Odyssey (Unicorn Theatre / Upswing), dazzling divas in Dreamgirls (UK Tour / SFP), and magical moments in Derren Brown’s Unbelievable (Criterion Theatre / Kenny Wax).
Previous Productions also include The Time Machine: A Comedy and A Splinter of Ice (Original Theatre), Smile, Gagarin Way and Wings around Dundee (Dundee Rep) and Sheila’s Island (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Ltd.).
Production
Francesca Moody Productions is an Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated production company.
Current productions include: Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (The Ambassadors Theatre); I’m Almost There and Weather Girl (Summerhall); V.L. (Roundabout).
Recent productions include Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen (Bush Theatre); Nutcracker (Southbank Centre); Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (Underbelly Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic, HOME Manchester, Roundabout); An Oak Tree (Bergen International Festival, Festival d’Avignon, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre, New York); A Streetcar Named Desire (Phoenix Theatre); Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Harold Pinter Theatre); Berlusconi: A New Musical (Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen (Roundabout); Mum (Soho Theatre); Leopards (Rose Theatre); Baby Reindeer (Bush Theatre, Roundabout).
FMP is led by Francesca Moody MBE, who is best known as the original producer of the multi-award-winning Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which she has produced globally on behalf of DryWrite, most recently at the Wyndhams Theatre, when it was also recorded and broadcast by NT Live, playing in cinemas throughout the world.
www.francescamoody.com
Dianne is delighted to be co-producing three exciting new Edinburgh Fringe shows with Francesca Moody Productions. She has already supported Francesca’s hugely successful musical Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! and Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible is going to Happen – both of which have had acclaimed transfers to the West End.
Dianne has been a producer and investor in many exciting productions including Olivier and Tony award winning Girl from the North Country. Her support for new productions include several Edinburgh Fringe Shows such as Unfortunate, the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch and Lady Dealer. She is also working with a new musical development company creating original work with young writers. Her philanthropic work includes supporting productions at the Almeida and the Royal Academy of Music where she supports the Musical Theatre and Jazz programmes.
