8180 FILMS
presents
McADOO GREER & REBECCA REYNOLDS
A New Comedy by
KAREN CARPENTER
Directed by
All hell breaks loose when the flat-broke brother invokes the Law of Partition — legally requiring his three sisters to buy him out or the family cottage will be sold out from under them.
Can the cottage be saved? Can the family survive?
And who the hell pawned Grandfather's gun?
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A toast to the Ayers Family...
Barking mad, but never a dull moment!
Our jumping-off point for Uncle Vodka was what happens when a family's "old money" starts to run out. Having the self-absorbed brother put his three sisters in the position of losing their family cottage or coming up with a boatload of cash reminded us of the crumbling aristocracy of Chekhov's world...only funnier. And to quote Kacey Musgraves' hit song, "Family is Family":
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A Note from the Playwrights
“They own too much wicker and drink too much liquor.
You’d wash your hands of them, but blood's always thicker.”​
— McAdoo Greer & Rebecca Reynolds
2025 INDUSTRY READING
June 2025, RIPLEY GRIER STUDIOS, NYC
READING CAST
Vaughn | CRAIG BIERKO*
Gabby Ayers | HANNAH CRUZ*
Berg Hansen | CARSON ELROD*
AC Ayers | RICHARD HOLLIS*
Agatha Ayers | KATE MacCLUGGAGE*
Fig Ayers | MADELEINE MARTIN*
Willa Ayers | KELLIE OVERBEY*
CREATIVE TEAM
Director | KAREN CARPENTER
Stage Manager | DEANNA KAHN*
Producer | JIM CARPENTER
General Manager | VISCERAL ENTERTAINMENT
Press | KEITH SHERMAN & ASSOCIATES
Production Photographer | BRIAN E. LONG
PHOTO GALLERY
Photos by Brian E. Long
CREATIVE TEAM
McADOO GREER
Alumna of The Groundlings, the improv troupe. Plays include The First Human Impalement Act in These Here Parts (Dramatic Publishing Company), Titty Bars (Ingram New Works Festival, Nashville Repertory Theatre), and How Come That Blood (National Playwright’s Retreat in Creede, Colorado). Featured performer at the Southern Literary Festival and The Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. The musical version of her play Titty Bars written with composer Ned Ginsburg and lyricist Sherry Landrum, received a staged reading at the Barking Legs Theatre in Chattanooga at the 2023 Brave New Works Festival. Her recent
collaboration with Rebecca Reynolds, Breathing Space, was commissioned by Leland’s Old Art Building to celebrate their 100th birthday.
REBECCA REYNOLDS
Co-creator/Writer for the hit true crime podcast Hollywood and Crime. 8180 Films’ Co-founder/Producer for 8180’s four award-winning indie films. Writer/Producer for the hit HBO comedy series Arli$$. Co-writer of HBO comedy specials Assume the Position (nom: Writers Guild Award) and Assume the Position 201. Assume the Position stage version was developed at the La Jolla Playhouse and played across the country (Ars Nova; El Portal Theatre). Producer for the comedy Hit-Lit (Queens Theatre). Screenwriting: Backfire; Overexposed. Plays: Graveyard Cleaning-Off Day (Dramatic Publishing Co.), Die Like a Dog in the Middle of the Road (Gathering at Big Fork, MT), and Breathing Space (2023 Commission, Premiere Old Art Building, MI). Other theatre credits: Oregon Shakespeare Festival and The Acting Company, NYC.
KAREN CARPENTER
Director
Best known for the premiere of Delia and Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which won the Drama Desk Award for Best Unique Theatrical Production) which has since played worldwide. Her work with writers is at the fore of everything she makes. As Artistic Director of the William Inge Festival, Karen founded an annual New Play Lab – her legacy there, now in its 10th year, and has presented new works by over 100 playwrights to date. She is keenly invested in works with societal impact and has collaborated on many: for World Refugee Day, she directed Joanna Pickering’s Lara’s Journey, which now travels to the Avignon Festival; her premiere of Valerie David’s Baggage from BaghDAD, will be seen later this summer at Unadilla Theatre, VT; and streaming sensation Period Piece, monologues on menstruation by a diverse array of 36 commissioned writers, is soon to be live onstage. She's also a highly regarded dramaturg and co-creator, with several new works in the pipeline, among them: Lioness in Winter, Writing an Old Woman’s Life, which workshops this fall; and a musical of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, very timely and ripe for a pre-Broadway staged reading. www.kcdirector.com
JIM CARPENTER
Producer
Founding principal member of 8180 Films (2008), serving as executive producer for the company’s four award-winning indie films (Christina, Coexist Comedy Tour, Girl on the Train, and Beyond Glory). He also co-produced the hit true crime podcast series Hollywood and Crime on Wondery. Carpenter is the author of a short story collection, Surviving My Happy Childhood.
8180 FILMS
Production Company
8180 Flms is a Michigan-based film production company formed in 2008 by Rebecca Reynolds, Jim Carpenter, Larry Brand and, most recently, Ross Satterwhite, to make high quality, cost-effective independent films. They have released four, award-winning feature films: Christina (Nicki Aycox, Jordan Belfi and Stephen Lang), The Coexist Comedy Tour, The Girl on the Train (Nicki Aycox and Henry Ian Cusick), and the performance documentary, Beyond Glory, starring Stephen Lang.
SPECIAL THANKS
Our incredible NYC Uncle Vodka team, Visceral Entertainment, and to Ben, Roy, Ned and the twenty-one actors from around the country who participated in three table reads during the play's development.
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