Longtime Dallas actor Sally Vahle makes her Dallas Theater Center directorial debut with British playwright Duncan Macmillan's 'Every Brilliant Thing,'...
Co-founder of Kitchen Dog Theater and member of the DTC troupe, Sally Vahle takes the helm of ‘Every Brilliant Thing.’
Some of the humor emerges from audience participation. Besides reading from the list, a few audience members are tapped at each performance to portray secondary characters like the child’s father, their dialogue often improvised. The unnamed main character directly addresses the audience.program at Southern Methodist University. “It becomes a shared experience right out of the gate in a way that theater isn’t always.
An outgoing child eager for new experiences, she auditioned and was cast as Emile’s daughter Ngana in a production ofwhen she was 8 or 9. Later, in college, she planned to study broadcast journalism, Vahle says, when fate and her enthusiasm for the outdoors intervened.Her parents attended her orientation at the University of Minnesota Duluth in her stead because she was spending two months on a canoe trip in the Arctic. Along with required classes, they signed her up for a theater elective.
Because of its limited budget — “We weren’t paying ourselves and we didn’t feel right about not being able to pay other people,” Vahle says — Kitchen Dog focused on plays with small casts. She was often the only woman in a show.
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