Shrewd Productions presents
FEAST.
by Megan Gogerty
Photo by Melissa McKnight, featuring Kathy Catmull
Shrewd Productions is excited to announce a limited, 2-week engagement of the award-winning FEAST., running from July 16th-25th at Hyde Park Theatre.
An ancient magical creature disguised as a middle-aged lady has invited you to her dinner party in order to right a few wrongs. An immersive, visceral theatre experience where mythology crashes into pop culture, FEAST. reimagines the Beowulf story as a warning against the rising forces of authoritarianism. It's a dinner party that's also a one-woman show. It's a cry of resistance against tyranny. It's a revenge tale that ends in reconciliation. It's a FEAST.
Written by Megan Gogerty, directed by Melissa McKnight, and starring 8-time B. Iden Payne Best Actress winner Katherine Catmull, FEAST. asks - When will Justice be served?
When:
July 16 - 25
Thursdays - Saturdays
Dinner at 7, Show at 8pm
Sunday - Dinner at 6, Show at 7pm
For those with Dinner Guest Tickets, please arrive 15 minutes early.
Where:
The production team includes Amy Lewis (Lighting Design), Johann Solo (Sound Design), Melissa McKnight (Set and Properties Design), with Production Management by Shannon Grounds, Stage Management by Valerie Johnson and House Management by Trey Deason. The original run in 2025 garnered Austin Critic's Table nominations for Best Production, Best Direction, and Best Lighting Design, taking home the award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy for Kathy Catmull, as well as B. Iden Payne nominations for Best Direction, Best Lighting Design, and Best Properties Design, with Kathy Catmull winning the award for Best Solo Performance.
“At the heart of FEAST is Austin’s own theatrical icon, Katherine Catmull...from her very first entrance, she commands the room with mesmerizing precision. Director Melissa McKnight has crafted a space that allows this magic to unfold with breathtaking clarity. This production is a triumph for Shrewd Productions and a landmark moment for Austin theatre.”
- Lynn Schaffer Beaver for BroadwayWorld.com
“Katherine Catmull doesn’t just perform. She inhabits. She is wild, wounded, and funny—and when she locks eyes with you, it scorches. She breaks the fourth wall with a tenderness so sharp it cuts. You don’t watch her. You witness her.”
- Sabrina Wallace for Broadway World.com
Feast as produced by Shrewd Productions is theatre art of the highest quality. Deeply rooted in epic sagas, it engages human frailty and the dark of existence.
About the Playwright:
Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. Her solo show Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the Audience Pick of the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Her play Bad Panda (Theatre Without Borders, Beijing; Iron Crow Theatre Co.; WordBRIDGE Boomerang Playwright honoree) is published by Original Works Publishing and was translated into Spanish for a five-month run at Del Teatro Milan in Mexico City. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed her solo show Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant in their yearly Top Ten Best Plays. Megan’s musical drama Love Jerry was produced in the New York Musical Theatre Festival where it won three Talkin’ Broadway Citations and four NYMF Excellence Awards including Excellence in Writing (Book). Her ten-minute play Rumple Schmumple (Dramatic Pub.) was a Kennedy Center/National ACTF honoree. Megan was a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, a WordBRIDGE alum, and she earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently teaches playwriting at the University of Iowa and is a regularly returning visiting faculty for the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University.