The Western Stage has opened up again!
“Native Gardens” was originally slated to be performed Fall 2020 at The Western Stage in Salinas. COVID delayed it until this Fall. Jeffrey plays Frank in Native Gardens . Performances were at Hartnell College’s STUDIO THEATER
Oct 22, Oct 23, Oct 24, Oct 28, Oct 29, Oct 30, Oct 31, Nov 5, Nov 6, Nov 7 of 2021.
Frank Butley (Jeffrey T. Heyer), Online Stage Manager Amy Cruz Ortiz, Director Nina Capriola, Virginia Butley (Mindy Pedlar) Tania Del Valle (Emily Morales-Ortiz) and Pablo Del Valle (Andres Ortiz) in online staged reading of Native Gardens, TWS Spring 2021.
A better screenshot of Tania Del Valle (Emily Morales-Ortiz) and Pablo Del Valle (Andres Ortiz) in online staged reading of Native Gardens, TWS Spring 2021.
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Frank (JTHeyer) commits herbicide on audience members. Native Garden, TWS 2021
(L-R) Virginia (Mindy Pedlar), Frank (JTHeyer), Pablo (Andres Ortiz) and Tania (Emily Morales-Ortiz) react to Pablo’s pun on the Butley porch. Native Garden, TWS 2021
The happy surveyor (ASM Lupita Marisol Rodriguez) Native Garden, TWS 2021
The two yards with Frank (JTHeyer) and Tania (Emily Morales-Ortiz). Note Frank’s styling wardrobe and the grass growing in the birdseed from Virginia dumping her coffee in the birdbath every show. Native Garden, TWS 2021
Another example of Frank-wear (costumes by Rebecca Gessert). Virginia (Mindy Pedlar) and Frank (JTHeyer), Native Garden, TWS 2021
Virginia (Mindy Pedlar) and Frank (JTHeyer) experience a difference of opinion as to how to deal with Phillip Saxon. Native Garden, TWS 2021
Frank (JTHeyer) and Pablo (Andres Ortiz) try to settle their differences like men. Native Garden, TWS 2021
Frank (JTHeyer) and Pablo (Andres Ortiz) try to settle their differences with an acorn fight; Virginia(Mindy Pedlar) ends her chained to a lawn chair sit-in and Tania (Emily Morales-Ortiz) digs post-holes in the Butley flowers. Native Garden, TWS 2021
Love: Frank (JTHeyer), Virginia (Mindy Pedlar), Pablo (Andres Ortiz) and Tania (Emily Morales-Ortiz) Native Garden, TWS 2021
(L-R) Virginia (Mindy Pedlar), Frank (JTHeyer), Pablo (Andres Ortiz) and Tania (Emily Morales-Ortiz) share wine and iced tea on the Butley porch. Native Garden PR shot, TWS 2021