Around the Snake Turn Creative

Playwright

Patricia Connelly

Patricia is an award-winning playwright and director. Around the Snake Turn was selected as part of the Baltimore Playwrights’ Festival in 2023 and received other recognitions and readings throughout its development. Other recent productions include Night Sky (Aldersgate Church Theater) in 2024; Heartland (Joe’s Movement Emporium) in 2022; and Princess Margaret (Women's Voices Theater Festival, Washington, DC) in 2015. Her ten-minute play, The Holiest of Sacraments, produced by PlayZoomers in 2023, by Keegan Theatre as part of Womxn on Fire in 2020, and is included in Comedies for the Virtual Stage: Short Plays Adaptable for Online Performance (2025). Patricia has a MA in theater from UNM and an MFA in Playwriting from Goddard College. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, a co-founder of Pipeline Playwrights, and a member of Honor Roll.

Director

Rikki Howie Lacewell

Rikki is a director, actor, and theatrical consultant based in the DMV area. This is her third time directing for Pipeline Playwrights, having directed "Wednesdays in Mississippi" in 2023 and "It's My Party!" in 2025. She has over 100 shows under her belt. Rikki’s recent directing credits include two productions of "Clyde’s", "Chicken & Biscuits", "for colored girls . . .", "DOT", "Dreamgirls", and "Memphis". She is known for her passion for telling authentic stories, her commitment to diversity and inclusion in theater spaces. In addition to her theater work, Rikki is a Senior Workforce Initiatives Specialist for the blind and visually impaired at NSITE. She thanks her theater family, casts, and audiences for their support and for continuing to make space for voices that need to be heard. www.confidencetheatrics.com

"Around the Snake Turn" Creative Team

Maggi Richard
Associate Producer
Maggi is thrilled to be making her professional debut as producer with Pipeline Playwrights! Recent works include assistant stage managing It's My Party! (Pipeline Playwrights), co-stage managing The Play That Goes Wrong, and Little Women (The Arlington Players), and assistant stage managing Kinky Boots (The Little Theatre of Alexandria). She also loves playing the piano and traveling as far and wide as she can. https://margaretrichard.weebly.com/

Lydia Biagioli
Associate Producer

Pamela Northrup
Stage Manager

Janice Rivera
Sound & Projections Designer

TBD
Lighting Designer

Justin Nepomuceno
Swing
Justin Nepomuceno is a Baltimore based Designer and Artisan. Previous credits include Scenic Designer for Clydes, Working for Crumbs, and Baby with the Bathwater at Spotlighters Theatre; On the Verge at Fells Point Corner Theatre. Scenic Charge for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at ArtsCentric and props artisan for Sister Act at Ford’s Theatre, Piano Lesson at 1st Stage, and Covenant at Theatre Alliance. Justin holds a BS/BFA in Design etc. from Towson University. @Nepoillustration

Shemika Renee
Costumes

TBD
Props

Olivia Hinebaugh
Fight & Intimacy Coordinator

Kayode Kendall
Videographer

Nate Jackson
Photographer

Caroline Mae Woodson
Publicity
Caroline Mae Woodson is thrilled to be working with the lovely ladies of Pipeline again, she was their Lead Producer last year. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors from VCU, getting a BFA in theatre, BS, and minor in writing. After that, she studied classical literature performance at University of Oxford and was a fellow at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She loves warm tea with honey and warm words.

Danielle Curry
Asst. Stage Manager

Gustavo Trejo
Facilities