More Little Devils at The Pilgrim House Creative
Producer
Jim DalglishJIM DALGLISH 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, five 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.
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.
Read more about Jim at www.jimdalglish.com.
Playwright / Director / Actor
Bill Jacobs Bill Jacobs is a director, writer, cinematographer and producer living full-time in Wellfleet, MA. Bill worked many years at Columbia, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles before starting his media production company, Shooting Star Creativeworks. Currently, Bill is in the final stages of postproduction on the independent feature film, When the Moon Was Twice as Big, a project that he wrote and directed, and coproduced with his husband, John Killwey.
Playwright
Melinda BuckleyMelinda Buckley is a former Bway performer and author of Mother (and me), Colour my World and Off Leash. My connection to Cape Cod is my association with the Alzheimer's Family Support Center of Cape Cod. I've performed Mother (and me) as fundraisers for them all over Cape Cod from the Cape Playhouse to Cotuit to Provincetown Works and Town Hall. Also, I'm a MA girl who vacationed on the Cape every summer growing up!
Playwright
Patrick RivierePatrick Riviere is an award-winning playwright, actor, arts administrator/educator and documentary filmmaker and grateful to be involved with More Little Devils. He has written a plethora of plays, children’s stories and poems and his full-length play, The House of Nunzio, was named Festival Winner at The First Annual Playwright Festival at Barnstable Comedy Club and was named a semi-finalist for the Mill Mountain Theatre New Play Competition, the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award and the Road Theatre Summer Playwrights Festival. Remembering… celebrated its World Premiere last year as part of the inaugural Queer Voices Festival with Boston Theater Company at Boston Center for the Arts. His one-act, The Days After, was read at the WOMR Davis Room and then selected for The Dramatists Guild Footlight Series. He founded All Seasons Theatre Company, co-founded The Emerging Artists Project and founded the successful and nationally recognized arts ed program PIE (Projects In Education) Story Theatre. He has held administrative positions at NYU’s Tisch SOA, Second Stage Theater, The Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center, Arts Horizons, PTV and WHAT.
Playwright
Wendy WatsonWendy Watson is a singer, actor, and most recently, a budding playwright. Wendy has been performing on stages since the age of 5 and has worked in NY, London and Hawaii. She is also an American Sign Language Interpreter and has interpreted over 40 shows on and off-Broadway, as well as large venues in Boston. Wendy co-created the musical revue Mama and Her Boys which premiered at Cape Rep Theatre, her theatrical “home” on Cape Cod. She has also performed in Provincetown for Counter Productions, as well as Harwich Junior Theater, Bluestone Actors Project, and years of Great Music Sundays. Wendy has lived in South Dennis since 2000, where she and her wife found a lovely crack house to renovate!
Playwright
Candace PerryCandace Perry’s short and long plays have been performed in festivals and theaters in the US and Ireland. Regionally, she’s won awards, been selected as a commissioned playwright, and served as a playwright-in-residence. Though she’s written and published in other forms, she finds that the making of a play presents the greatest opportunity and challenge for creating work that might change the world, or nudge it in the right direction. Her writing life has been enriched and interrupted by relationships, activism, teaching, travel, open water swimming, and her clinical social work career. Growing up, she lived in Ohio, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Nicaragua, Florida and Louisiana, She now lives in Wellfleet, MA with her husband, Charles Thibodeau.
Director
Florence HellerDriven by a passion to make people feel less alone, Florence Heller is a director, writer, and storyteller who uses her unique ability to work with actors to ground her storytelling with the intricacies of humanity. Florence holds an MFA in Film and TV Production (with a focus in directing) from USC School of Cinematic Arts, a certificate from FAMU (NYU’s 35mm film program in Prague), and a BFA in Theater (with a focus in directing) from NYU Tisch. Florence worked many years in Los Angeles for leading productions companies such as PRETTYBIRD, Golden LA, and was Head of Creative at Ruffian. Now, Florence freelances in the commercial industry as a visualist and writer while also in the midst of writing her first feature film. Identifying as a New Yorker and a “washashore” Fleetian, Florence currently contemplates the world from the winding dunes of the Outer Cape. When Florence isn’t working on film and theater, you can find her in front of the television screaming at a NY Giants football game, uncontrollably dancing in supermarket aisles, or hiding out at the beach trying to catch some waves.
www.florenceheller.com
Director
Mary ArnaultMARY ARNAULT (Director) holds an MFA in acting from NYU and was for years Co-Artistic Director of Odyssey Theater Company in NYC. Since moving to Cape Cod she has directed productions for many Cape theatres including CCTC-HJT, CCftA, Cape Rep, Eventide and Provincetown Theater Co. Mary and her husband Andrew co-wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for HJT which received the NETC Aurand Harris Award and is published by Dramatic Publishing.
Playwright
R. D. MurphyR. D. Murphy is a member of Actors’ Equity Association; the Screen Actors Guild; and the Dramatists Guild. An actor, playwright, and painter, he has performed on New England stages for over 25 years. R.D. was named a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Dramatic Writing in 2015. In August 2022, his play "Pros and Cons of Implosion" was included in the 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in NYC. In 2023, R.D. produced THE FIRE ESCAPE PLAYS, a program of four of his short plays, which was funded by the Mass Cultural Council. Three of his scripts: "Pros and Cons of Implosion"; "Glenda Jackson in a Bodega (I Am Not)"; and "Scrapgoat" have been produced in the annual Boston Theatre Marathon and "Glenda Jackson..." was published in the BTM XXII Anthology. "That Thing You Do With Your Tongue"; "Bollywood Ending"; and, in 2025, "Pros and Cons..." are published in Smith & Kraus Best 10-Minute Plays anthologies.
In 2019, under the auspices YASPLZ LLC, R.D. co-produced and performed in a festival version of "Noir Hamlet" by John Minigan at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has served on the executive boards of Boston’s Theatre Community Benevolent Fund and STAGESOURCE; for over a decade, he has adjudicated for the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild (METG). .
Director
Scott CunninghamScott Cunningham is a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory and spent many years working in theater, soaps, commercials, print, industrials, and voice-overs in NYC. He came to Provincetown in 2008 to appear in David Drake's production of Two Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter's Night for a six-week run. He's still here, is the owner of ScottCakes on Commercial Street and has been involved in many readings, festivals, and productions in and around Provincetown.
Director
Judith PartelowProfessional Actress: Member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA; Theatre, Film, TV and Voiceover actress. Playwright: A Woman’s Heart; Neighbors (collaboration). Published Poet: Chapbooks: A Woman’s Heart, and Carry Me Back, A Woman’s Life in Poetry. Latest 2024 collection: Passion & Provocation, Selected Poems by Judith Partelow (Amazon, B&N, Atmosphere Press). Director: Colour My World (More Little Devils 2025); Neighbors: Staged Readings, on Cape Cod (2022-2025); A Woman’s Heart: Written, directed, acted in productions from Provincetown to Cotuit (2017-2019); One World, Three Voices: Cultural Center of Cape Cod (2019); First Dance, PTC (2010); A Child’s Christmas in Wales & The Gift of the Magi, PTC (2009); Sleeping Indoors, PTC (Fundraiser for the Homeless 2008); Not to Be, PTC (2007); Reflections for a Warm Day, Yarmouth Cultural Center (2007); West Kerry: PTC (2007); Wrinkles, by Jacqueline Loring, Yarmouth Sr. Center (2007); The Last Thing, Tennessee Williams Festival, PTC (2007); Robert Mapplethorpe’s Flowers, Provincetown Fringe Festival and Off-Broadway, by Gregory Fletcher (2004); Snow Queen, HJT (1993); The Lantern (1991); Working: Provincetown Theatreworks (1991); and in the 1980’s: The Telephone Play, APA; The Fisherman and His Wife, APA; Home for Christmas, APA; Evening in Spoon River, Cape Cod Tour; Seascape, PTC; Yearbook, Riverview School; Beauty and the Beast, APA.
Dramaturge
Robin Joyce MillerRobin Joyce Miller is a retired educator, artist, author, poet, and public speaker, who taught for 30+ years in the NYC school system. She spent the first half of her career teaching learning disabled students and the next half as an art teacher. Miller was also a NYC Blueprint for the Arts Facilitator, leading workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum.
After retirement she and her husband have maintained two residences in NYC and Cape Cod. After George Floyd’s murder, Robin and her husband, James, began presenting a BLM Series with the Cotuit Center for the Arts. These programs focus on African/African American history and are available to the public on Cotuit on Demand - YouTube. She is on the Bd of Directors at the Cotuit Center. Miller is also a Peace and Racial Harmony advocate. She speaks at churches, schools, universities, and libraries on the subject of race. You can view more of Robin’s work on www.robinjoycemillerart.com.