(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- Cape May Stage presents the World Premiere of The Shuck by Shawn Fisher from September 19 through November 19.  The play provides a gritty look inside the life of Constance, an oyster boat captain who is forced to face the truth about her family and the secrets that broke them apart so many years ago. 

New Jersey Stage spoke with Shawn Fisher about the play and his career in Issue 50 of our monthly magazine. Click here for the interview.

Making her debut at Cape May Stage is Kim Zimmer playing Constance, a rugged unkempt oyster boat captain with plenty of brashness and tenacity. Kim is best known for her portrayal of Reva Shayne on Guiding Light, where she received four Lead Actress Emmys. When the show ended its run in 2009, Kim returned to her first love, live theater! After appearing on Off Broadway stages in Four Dogs And a Bone, and Love Letters with Alec Baldwin, Kim then toured with Broadway’s Wicked in the 1^st National Tour for 22 months. Regional credits include Blood Brothers, Gypsy, and Sunset Boulevard. Television credits include Seinfeld, Designing Women, MacGyver, One Life to Live, and Santa Barbara.  Her film credits include 23 Blast, Body Heat, Freshmen Father, Keeping Secrets and Trench Coat in Paradise. 

Playing Anthony, a tough old fisherman with a youthful attitude, is Bill Tatum. He has been a New York actor and proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for 45 years. He previously has appeared at Cape May Stage in Moon Over Buffalo and Mary, Mary. This past winter he appeared in In White America, which was a top ten in Deadline. Bill has worked 18 seasons at the Oldcastle Theatre in Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, The Odd Couple, Night And Her Stars, and Sherlock Holmes. His TV appearances include As The World Turns, Law and Order, The Office Party and On the Water.

Playing Constance’s long lost daughter Gail is Kyra Adams. Kyra is thrilled to be making her Cape May Stage debut! A recent graduate from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a Cape May local, Kyra is honored to be working on this wonderful play in the town where she was raised in. Some favorite past credits include: Merrily We Roll Along (Gussie), Hades & Gahenna (Yael), Assassins (Squeaky), and Bare: A Pop Opera (Claire). Kyra has also appeared on HBO’s The Deuce. 

Shawn Fisher a Cape May native is also the playwright of Do Not Hit Golf Balls into Mexico, How To Make A Rope Swing, and Scope. He won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award and was a two-time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award and the Stavis Playwriting Award. He was a national finalist for the Osborn New Play Award, the Nuestras Voces Award, and the David M. Cohen Playwriting Awards. He is the Director of the National Playwrights Symposium at Cape May Stage, which he co-founded with Producing Artistic Director Roy Steinberg. Shawn has also designed, directed, or produced over 125 productions throughout the country. He holds an MFA from Brandeis University and serves as a Professor and Head of Graduate Studies in Theatre at Utah State University.

The World Premiere of The Shuck, sponsored by The Harrison, is September 19. The show runs Wednesday-Saturday at 7:30pm and Saturday & Sunday at 3:00pm and closes November 9th.

Join the theatre on September 20 for the official opening night of The Shuck at 6:00pm with a special Pre-Celebration featuring oysters from Cape May Oyster Salts and a cash wine bar. Then join them after the performance at Harry’s Bar & Grille for a Post-Celebration with cast and crew, cash bar, and light fare provided by Harry’s Bar & Grille. 

For more information on any performance or to purchase tickets, please call the box office at 609-770-8311 or visit the website at www.capemaystage.org.