Production History

Qui Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters closed CST’s Season 41 (2024–2025). Set in 1995, the play follows Agnes Evans as she discovers a Dungeons & Dragons adventure written by her late younger sister, Tilly. Playing through the game brings Agnes into her sister’s imagined world, revealing relationships and experiences she never understood during Tilly’s life. The production featured eleven actors, with supporting performers doubling as fantasy creatures and other characters. Stage combat, fantasy costumes, and choreography helped connect the everyday and game worlds.

CST Connections

Alix Golden, credited as Alixandra Golden, played Millie Owens in Picnic (2007) and later served as a dresser and running-crew member for Reefer Madness (2010).
Jae Anifowose stage-managed Native Gardens immediately before this production in Season 41.
Ben Hall, Jamison Rhoads, Elin Bhaird, and Rhonda Clark also contributed set, lighting, costume, and properties work respectively to Native Gardens.
Ben Hall designed the set and Elin Bhaird designed costumes for Pictures from Home (2026), whose supplied production credits also identify Miranda LoPresti as production stage manager.
Rhonda Clark directed and designed costumes for Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2023), the inaugural public mainstage production at the Reno Avenue venue.
Nicole Moan exhibited paintings and ceramic wall art in the Tannenbaum Gallery during the run.

Press and Photography

“‘She Kills Monsters’ Slays at Carpenter Square Theatre!” — Oklahoma City Free Press, July 13, 2025, review by Adrienne Proctor. The article praises the ensemble and includes four production photographs credited as provided by Carpenter Square Theatre; no individual photographer is named. freepressokc.com
CST Instagram promotional post, supplied as an additional media lead; individual images and credits have not been verified.

Acknowledgments

Additional Supporters — Mel and Cindy Ables; Jacob and Jessica Jean

Supported in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Inasmuch Foundation, Kirkpatrick Family Fund, and Allied Arts.

Licensing

Current performance licensing is available through Concord Theatricals, which lists She Kills Monsters as a Samuel French, Inc. title.

THEATRE UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

Jamison Rhoads