Jim Dalglish — Playwright / Co-director / Founder Helltown Players

Jim is a playwright, director, filmmaker, and producer with more than 30 plays and films to his credit. These works have been produced and screened around the world and have won awards in New York, Boston, London, and Dublin. A few of his plays have been anthologized in best play collections. Jim has directed more than two dozen theatrical productions, six of which he also independently produced. He has been employed by a variety of theaters in New England as a managing director, marketing director, and box office manager. Jim has a master’s degree in creative writing/ playwriting from Brown University. His thesis advisor was Paula Vogel. He works as the Director of User Experience Research & Strategy at OHO Interactive, where his clients include Harvard University, Yale University, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, CIEE, and others. Jim is also the Founder/President of Helltown Players, the Cape’s newest theatre collaborative. When he isn’t busy writing, directing, or producing plays and films, he and his husband Rob Phelps enjoy sailing Delphina – their 17-foot O’Day Daysailer – along the sheltered harbors of New England.

For more about Jim and to read and download his plays: www.jimdalglish.com

Jennifer Kangas - Co-Director / Lighting Designer

Jennifer has a B.A. in Education and 20+ years of teaching music and coaching.  Along with teaching music K-6, she directed several musicals.  Most recently she directed Oliver! at the Academy Playhouse (APA) and was musical director for Nauset Regional High School’s performance of Drowsy Chaperone and the APA’s Winnie the Pooh, Red Riding Hood, Lion King, Kids, Into the Woods, Jr. and Little Mermaid, Jr.  She performed with the Champlain Valley Oratorio Society, the Octavio Singers, Cape Cod Opera Company, and in many productions at The Academy Playhouse, Chatham Drama Guild, Harwich Junior Theater/Cape Cod Theater Company, Eventide Theater and Cotuit Center for the Arts.  She is currently the resident light and sound designer at APA. When not involved in the theater arts or spending time with family, Jennifer enjoys travelling around the world (from the Arctic to Antarctica, Australia to Africa and everywhere in between).  She is a licensed massage therapist, using gentle touch to help ease chronic and acute pain at Kangas Myofascial Massage in Chatham.

Geof Newton — The Fisherman / Sound Design

Regularly appearing both on and behind stages across Cape Cod, Geof is thrilled to be revisiting Jim’s Dark Tales, this time as a member of the cast! Stage and screen credits: Noah - The Rainmaker (Sandwich Arts Alliance), Perun - Skazki: A Spell of Ice and Snow (Boston Center for the Arts), Leonato - Much Ado About Nothing (The Little Shakespeare Festival - NYC), Montague D’Ysquith Navarro - A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Academy of Performing Arts, Orleans), Leo Clark - Leading Ladies (Chatham Drama Guild), Lloyd the Bartender - N0S4A2 (AMC), sound/music for Jim Dalglish’s Dark Tales Told On A Cold Autumn Eve (Cotuit Center for the Arts/wherever you’re currently sitting), lighting design - Rock of Ages (Barnstable Comedy Club), and sound/music for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Tilden Arts Center). Thanks to Bean and Ellen for all your love and support and to this wonderful cast and production crew and to Jim and Jen for dragging Dark Tales back into the light!

Jackie Reeves - Poster Art

Jackie Reeves is a Cape Cod based artist best known for her multidisciplinary artwork that blends figurative and abstract elements through mixed media paintings, animation and large-scale installations.

Bonnie Fairbanks – Maria

Bonnie is thrilled to reprise the role of Maria Hallett in “Dark Tales” for the Helltown Players; she originally appeared in the role in the 2018 world premiere at Cotuit Center for the Arts. This marks Bonnie’s fifth time partnering with founder/director/playwright Jim Dalglish and third performance with Helltown, having appeared as Alice B. Toklas in “Portraiture” (May 2025), as well as in “Little Devils I” as Mary in “Double D”. She also performed the role of Principal Edwards in the video-drama “Teacher of the Year” (2021) – another world premiere, and both written by Jim.

Bonnie has also regularly appeared in productions at the Falmouth Theatre Guild, Eventide Theater Co., the Woods Hole Theater Company, and Cape Rep. Recent performances include Emma Arkadina in “Stupid Fucking Bird” (Cotuit, 2024), Marty in “Grease” (Cotuit, 2023), Mrs Martini in “It’s a Wonderful Life, the Musical” (FTG, 2023), and Theresa in “Circle Mirror Transformation” (Cotuit, 2022), among others. 

 Bonnie’s performance is dedicated, as always, to The Parentals.

Samantha McMahon – May

Samantha is delighted to be returning for this production of Dark Tales! She previously portrayed “Madame X” in the debut of the show in 2018, and is thrilled to be taking on a new role. She has been performing for 20 years, with favorite roles including The Emcee in Cabaret, Go to Hell Kitty in Chicago, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Pamela/Margaret/Annabella in The 39 Steps. Samantha resides on the Cape, where she is a high school Theater and English teacher. 

Denise Page — May
Denise is thrilled to be making her debut with The Helltown Players for this production of Dark Tales!  Recent and favorite stage credits include: Lindsay in Godspell (APA);  Rose in Gypsy (APA for which she was also Assistant Director); Nancy in Oliver! (APA); Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town (Cape Rep Theater); Miss Hannigan in Annie (APA), Ado Annie in Oklahoma! (APA). Denise is an acting teacher at the Academy of Performing Arts and performs at various concerts on the lower and outer cape, including the ‘Great Music on Sundays at Five’ series in Provincetown.  A native of Provincetown, she currently resides in Wellfleet with her amazing family of the human and pet variety and fun fact - has ancestry dating back to the Mayflower!  

Shepard Potash – Mattie (Voice)
Shepard Potash is a 6yo from West Barnstable and loves performing, playing war with his brothers and doing arts and crafts. This is his second production with Jim Dalglish, who he loves working with. His credits include: Annie (APA), The Playground (CCFTA), Lion King, Jr. (APA), and he just got cast in The Wizard of Oz coming to the APA stage in February 2026. He wants to thank his family and everyone here at APA for making him feel so welcome & have so much fun!

Jacob Rabold — Tony

Jacob is incredibly excited to be involved with his first Helltown Players production with such an amazing group of fellow actors and an outstanding crew. His previous credits include Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) at Acting Out Theatre, the Velveteen Rabbit (The Velveteen Rabbit) at Boston Children’s Theatre, Fyedka (Fiddler on the Roof) at Cotuit Center for the Arts, and most recently Sebastian (Twelfth Night) at the Academy of Performing Arts. He wants to give a big thank you to his family for always supporting his acting endeavors and to Jim and Jen for inviting him to be a part of this fantastic project. You can see him perform later this fall as Race in Newsies at Cotuit Center for the Arts.

Ian Ryan — Elliot

Ian Ryan is a Cape Cod–based actor, playwright, director, and producer whose work spans more than two decades of regional and community theatre. As a performer, he has appeared in over twenty-five productions, including roles such as Babette in La Cage aux Folles, Schultz in Circle Mirror Transformation, and Ralph in Our Country’s Good (CapeRep). His play 19DEF, first developed in Cape Rep’s Playwriting Lab, was later produced by Helltown Players and invited to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Ian also co-directed the award-winning Lines in the Sand with Jim Dalglish, which has been staged in Massachusetts, Dublin, and New York. As Secretary/Treasurer and Trustee of Helltown Players, he champions new works by writers with ties to Cape Cod, fostering collaborative and inclusive storytelling while continuing to develop his own practice across acting, writing, and directing.

Tate Seidewant — Samual Smith

Tate is a Cape Cod native who received a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Theatre from the University of Tampa. He is excited to make his debut in community theatre with the help from Jim and Jennifer on this wonderful yet dark production. Tate developed a love for acting after being a background character for a feature film that was shot on Cape Cod during his early years of high school. His first role in theatre was Pepper in Mamma Mia! during his senior year at Nauset Regional High. He is excited to further his acting career in the future!

Sara Shatzel Fitzpatrick — Madame X

Sara is thrilled to be a part of this production!  She is a Buffalo, NY, native, but Provincetown is her true home.  Sara studied at HB Studio in NYC and played the lead in the Off Broadway production of Girl Gone at the Actors Temple.  She played the lead role in Stella in The Jazz Funeral of Stella Brooks at The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, Sugar in Tiny Beautiful Things at the Ptown Theatre and Mildred in The Fantasticks at Ptown Theatre.  She traveled to the Dublin Gay Festival to perform in Lynda Sturner's Just Say Yes.  Other credits include:  Kimberly Akimbo, Working!, Wonder of the World, Bingo!, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and many of Meryl Cohn's productions.  Thank you, Jim, for this incredible role.  Love to Kevin, Jack, Kaya and our pups: Captain and Tennille.  Go Bills!

Dahlia Viprino — Lorelie
Dahlia is a performing arts student at Cape Cod Community College. They are excited to work with so many new theaters throughout the run of Dark Tales. Recent credits include Cha-Cha (Grease), Kaylee/ Alyssa U.S (The Prom), Mrs. Johnson (The Minutes), Silly Girl (Beauty and the Beast), and Kristin Holub (Night Chills). She would like to thank her boyfriend for introducing her to this show and being so patient driving her to rehearsals, and Jim for writing and directing such a wonderful show. You can look forward to seeing Dahlia perform again this winter in Newsies at CCFTA.

Matt Whelan — Dale

Matt Whelan is a performing arts major at Cape Cod Community College. He's been doing theatre for a little over a year now, credits include Kenickie in Grease, Mr. Breeding in The Minutes, Nick/Ensemble in The Prom, and Roger in Grease. You can see him next as Bunsen/Newsie in Newsies at Cotuit Center for the Arts, opening November 25th. He would like to thank his family and friends for their continued support, as well as Jim Dalglish and Jen Kangas for the incredible opportunity to work on Dark Tales!