Boomerang’s 25 year history is the result of the hard work of so many incredible people. One of those people is leaving New York this month to return to her roots in Galveston, TX.
Cailin Heffernan has been Associate Artistic Director for over a decade, and an incredible collaborator for nearly 20 years. She has directed some of our most successful productions including the Anna Christie and Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill (a specialty of Cailin’s), Venus Observed by Christopher Fry, The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard and the musical Loveless Texas, written by Cailin and her equally talented husband Henry Aronson.
Cailin’s presence has always been both an inspiration and a comfort. She began working with us in 2003, just as the company was starting to figure out who we were and what kind of work we wanted to make. She would fearlessly take on any project…new plays, weird plays, classics, lost classics, bad plays, unfinished plays. There wasn’t anything (still isn’t) that Cailin can’t direct.
Cailin is now deeply involved in her own writing, including further development of original musicals and novels. I’m certain that her creative output will continue far into the future.
And while so much of this post is a look down memory lane at faces and projects we fondly remember, the biggest take away is that excellent artists with a dedication to craft, to people, to process and to theatricality can make really special things. Cailin has done that for Boomerang for over 20 years, and much of the success we’ve had can be directly linked to her tenure with us. That’s not a coincidence, folks.
These pictures are merely a small sampling of her work over the years, creating and nurturing countless moments of clarity, insight and joy.
Both Cailin and Henry will be missed tremendously, and wish them all the best. (Henry deserves a whole other post about his contributions over the years, which are substantial). Wish them well, if you see them, for a job extremely well done.
Our loss is Texas’s gain.
Thinking outside the Black Box 