STUPID GHOST 

By Savannah Reich 

Directed by Jamie Rocha Allan 

The Ghost lived in the woods, Minding Her Own Business and definitely Not Haunting Anyone, until one day she saw a Pretty Girl and followed her home. It totally wasn’t even a thing. The Girl was probably not even going to notice. 

A comedy about ruining the lives of the people you love. 

Savannah Reich (Playwright) 

Savannah Reich is a playwright and screenwriter based in West Philadelphia. Her plays have been produced at theaters and universities across the country, commissioned or developed by Walking Shadow Theater Company, The Flea, the University of Minnesota, SuperGroup, the Playwrights Center, and Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and supported by residencies at Tofte Lake Art Center and MassMoCA. Her feature-length screenplay “Beebe and Barton” was the winner of the national Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize in 2015, and her short film “Men Among Men” was the winner of the Bill Murray Comedy Award at the Twin Cities Film Festival (judged by Bill Murray himself!). She was a 2020/21 McKnight Fellow at the Playwrights Center, and her play “Oedipus in Seattle” was the winner of the audience choice award at the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She currently teaches playwriting and screenwriting at the University of the Arts. She holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied with Rob Handel.  

Jamie Rocha Allan (Director) 

Jamie is a Freelance Theatre Director specialising in the Classics and New writing, he completed his MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck College London. Born and raised in London, Jamie is now based in the US. He has also served as the Literary manager of the Jermyn Street Theatre and was Co-director of Forsite/Hindsite, a writer's group based at the Royal Court Theatre. Jamie was an Associate Artist at the Bush Theatre London. 

Jamie has worked at numerous Theatres and Universities both in the UK and US including The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Globe Theatre London, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake Acting Company, Grand Theatre. 

Jamie also teaches Acting and Directing and has been a regular Director at the University of Northampton. At the University of Utah Jamie has taught Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Introduction to Playwriting, and has been a guest lecturer for Playwriting and Dramaturgy classes.

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