FEAST

For her role in FEAST, Katherine Catmull won Outstanding Actress in a Play at the 2025 Austin Theatre Critics Awards and Outstanding Solo Performer at the 2024-25 B. Iden Payne Awards.

Reviews are already in for FEAST, and y’all they are stunners. Get your tickets soon — only nine shows left:

This is why we go to the theater: To be mystified. To be enthralled. To be galvanized. We want to be in the same space as other people. Taking the same breaths and cackling the same laughs. Feeling the same terrors and finding ways to endure them together. That's what it's like to see Katherine Catmull in Megan Gogerty's "Feast." - Austin American Statesman, Michael Barnes

A “ferociously intelligent one-woman storm . . . a final, furious dinner party at the end of the world.  . . . Megan Gogerty’s script is a symphony of wreckage: myth colliding with razor-edged political rage and bitter shards of pop culture.  . . .[Catmull] doesn’t just perform. She inhabits. She is wild, wounded, and funny—and when she locks eyes with you, it scorches.” (Broadway World Austin, Sabrina Wallace)

“A triumph for Shrewd Productions and a landmark moment for Austin theatre. . . . [Megan Gogerty’s script] is a stunningly clever, topical, and heartbreaking modern take on Beowulf, blending the ancient world of monsters and heroes with the very real monsters we still face today. [Katherine Catmull] commands the room with mesmerizing precision. Her portrayal is nothing short of extraordinary: she inhabits Agathae not just through words, but through every breath, gesture, and glance. More than acting; it feels like an invocation. Director Melissa McKnight has crafted a space that allows this magic to unfold with breathtaking clarity. Every element — from the formal dining but evocative set to the immersive arrangement of audience seating — serves to draw us deeper into the mythic atmosphere.”  - Lynn Beaver, Broadway World Austin

“Theatre art of the highest quality . . . vivid and uncomplicated, and yet poetic . . .  gripping, articulate, rapid, yet nuanced.” Michael Meigs, Central Texas Live Theater

An ancient magical creature disguised as a middle-aged lady has invited you to her dinner party in order to right a few wrongs. An immersive, visceral theatre experience where mythology crashes into pop culture, FEAST. reimagines the Beowulf story as a warning against the rising forces of authoritarianism. It's a dinner party that's also a one-woman show. It's a cry of resistance against tyranny. It's a revenge tale that ends in reconciliation. It's a FEAST.

Shrewd Productions is proud to present the regional premiere of FEAST, written by Megan Gogerty, directed by Melissa McKnight, and starring 7-time B. Iden Payne Best Actress Award winner Katherine Catmull, FEAST asks - When will Justice be served?

The production team includes Amy Lewis (Lighting Design), Johann Solo (Sound Design), Shannon Grounds and Melissa McKnight (Set. Costume, and Properties Design), with Stage Management by Fernando Lara and House Management by Trey Deason.

MORE INFORMATION ANDTICKETS:www.shrewdproductions.org