This is a play about country girls, country cops, country people, country music. 

Country music, for me, is this: music of the country. But my view of “country” includes cities. In fact, it includes every nook and cranny of America. Country music is, ultimately, inclusive. It includes everything and everybody. If your “country” is the streets of Chicago, so be it. If it is the red dirt of Alabama or the dust of western desert, so be it. The “Country Girls” that you will meet today, happen to be in a fictitious town in East Texas but they can be found anywhere in the USA. 

What does it mean? “Country”? There is no all-encompassing definition of “country”. I steal my definition from Ken Burns’ documentary film, “Country Music”. Someone, somewhere in that wonderful documentary described country music as this: “Three chords and the truth.” Someone else defined it this way: “It’s not pretty..., but it’s honest.”

And that is what we have here with this play, Stephen Brown’s Country Girls. It is not pretty, but it is honest. In its honesty it is also very much these things: funny, tragic, surprising, painful, concerning these subjects: broken guitars, broken hearts, a road trip to a new life, fatherhood, motherhood, daughterhood, small towns, big ambition, and a whole lot more. “Three chords and the Truth!”

- John Hardy, Director of Country Girls

Megan
Sarah Van Deusen

Kimmy
Sabina Demidovich*

Chet
Zacchaeus Kimbrell*

Larry
Sam McCalla

Rick
Nicolas Piper*

Patty
Ashley Campos*

*Denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors, and Stage Managers in the United States.

Director
John Hardy

Scenic Designer
Derek Smith

Lighting Designer
Camille Davis

Costume Designer
Alice Sullivan

Sound Designer
Miles Polaski

Dialect Coach
Zacchaeus Kimbrell

Fight Consultant
Sean Campos

Production Stage Manager
Cindi A. Raebel*

*Denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors, and Stage Managers in the United States.

Wardrobe Supervisor, Smith Theatre
Chelsea Bannan

Production Assistant
Dylan Cote

Production Assistant
Alaina "Ace" Evans

Light and Sound Board Operator
Shawn Martin

Production Assistant
Holly O'Brien

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Original Music and Lyrics by Eliza Simpson, Vocals by Eliza Simpson, Guitar by Lorenzo Wolff

Country Girls was first produced by Bristol Valley Theater, Naples, NY