DIRECTED BY CARSON McCAIN
previews: April 23rd and 24th
opening: April 25th, 2025
run: April 25th, 2025 - May 10th, 2025
PWYC Mondays: April 28th & May 5th
Gail has been sick for 25 years.
Every doctor, every test, every treatment—none of it has worked. Now, with nothing left to lose, she sells everything and heads to a radical health center in the Texas Hill Country, run by the enigmatic and controversial Dr.T. Will this be her cure, her salvation—or something else entirely.
A surreal journey into the costs of chronic illness, Healed dares to ask: How far would you go to reclaim your health? And what might it cost you?
playwright
BLAKE HACKLER
Blake Hackler is an actor, writer and director originally from Texas.
His adaptation of The Seagull premiered at Theatre Three in 2024 to universal critical acclaim. In 2021, his adaptation of Hedda Gabler was hailed by Terry Teachout writing for the Wall Street Journal as “deft …one of the best productions of this play I’ve ever seen.” Other: What We Were - finalist for the O’Neill, the Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, winner of the 2017 Ashland New Play; The Necessities Nominee, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award Enemies/People, Best Play of 2018, Dallas Observer; This Sweet Affliction – Yale Cabaret, Primary Stages workshop, The Boss in the Satin Kimono - New York International Fringe Festival, 10 Reasons I Won’t Go Home With You (lyrics) – Midtown Theatre Festival, Winner Best of Fest, The Lady in Red – Gene Frankel Theatre, Mother Courage of Westchester – NYTE, Barry Horowitz: A Jewish Fantasia on Catholic Themes – Prospect Theatre and The Wasp Woman – a musical written with Phillip Chernyak.
He is a member of the esteemed BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Program and is the recipient of the Harrington Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing. He holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama, a two-time Fulbright Senior Scholar, and a 2018 MacDowell Fellow.
director
CARSON McCAIN
CARSON is a born-and-bred Texas director and producer, with a heart for new and local work that serves to connect humans and foster empathy.
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She is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, where she studied acting, and directing. There, she received a Meadows Exploration Grant to develop and produce the world premiere of Michelle with Wet Eyeballs by Claire Carson.
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Second Thought Theatre audiences will recognize her work as the director of Empathitrax by Ana Nogueira and The Great God Pan by Amy Herzog. She has also directed at Undermain Theatre (Really by Jackie Sibblies Drury,) and Stage West (Lungs by Duncan McMillan). She served as associate director on Dallas Theater Center’s 2016 production of A Christmas Carol, on Second Thought Theatre‘s production of BOOTH by Steven Michael Walters, and as assistant director on Belleville by Amy Herzog, Kitchen Dog’s Production of I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard.
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Other directing credits include Middletown by Will Eno, Delirium by Enda Walsh and Theatre O, and the world premiere of Ophelia Underwater by Janielle Kastner. To experience more of Carson’s work, check out her most recent podcast, Untitled Dad Project with Janielle Kastner on whatever podcast app you use.
