The Little School by Jack Torrance

An Irons in the Fire Project

By Caroline V. McGraw
Directed by Aaron Rossini

Friday, October 30, 2026 @ 5:00pm

Attendance is free but seating is extremely limited and by reservation only.

Performed By

Ali Rose Dachis
Craig Wesley Divino
Alex Lin
Kathleen McNenny
Nate Miller

Dramaturg: Anna O'Donaghue

Synopsis

At a snowy writing residency somewhere in New England, thrown together with the other artists, Pollie, a playwright on the verge of a breakdown, throws herself into her latest project—a theatrical exploration of a minor plot point in Stephen King’s The Shining.

As she loses herself in her source material, and the snow continues to fall, she and her cohort find themselves playing out a horror story all their own.

Playwright

CAROLINE V. McGRAW’s [she/her] plays include Louder, 1983, I Get Restless, Believeland, Ultimate Beauty Bible, The Bachelors, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, The Vaults, and The King is Dead. Her work has been produced and workshopped by Page 73, Lesser America, South Coast Rep’s Pacific Playwrights Festival, New Georges, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Theater Ninjas/Maelstrom Collective Arts, Lark Playwrights’ Week, Second Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 24 Hour Plays, Fault Line, IAMA Theater Company, the Colorado New Play Festival, Theatre @ Boston Court, the Cleveland Playhouse and Ars Nova, among others. Ultimate Beauty Bible is published by Dramatists Play Service. Caroline has written new play commissions for Yale Rep and South Coast Rep, and is developing a commission from Manhattan Theatre Club/The Sloan Foundation. Caroline has received the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship and a Tow Foundation Residency. She has been in residence at Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, the William Inge Theater Center, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Caroline is the winner of Young Playwrights Inc.’s National Festival, where her first play was produced, the AracaWorks Graduate Playwriting Award, and a finalist for the 2023 Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Prize for Louder. Her audio play Split Valley is available on Broadway Podcast Network. She has written several short films, including Friendly Neighborhood Coven and Ladies Lounge (both directed by Michelle Bossy and produced by Oscar-winner Mara Kassin), which have played film festivals around the country, including HollyShorts and the St. Louis International Festival. Ladies Lounge received Best Drama at Los Angeles Cinefest 2020. She wrote for the QCode podcast The Foxes of Hydesville starring Carey Mulligan and McKenna Grace, and co-wrote the short film Life Begins for the Moonshot Initiative Film Challenge (coming in early 2026.) She is an alumna member of The Kilroys, a grassroots collective advocating for gender parity on American stages. Caroline is a graduate of the Playwriting MFA program at the Yale School of Drama, where she studied under Paula Vogel.

Director

AARON ROSSINI [he/him] is Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Fault Line Theatre. In addition to his work at Fault Line, he is the Artistic Producer at Rattlestick Theater. He has a B.F.A. from Miami University of Ohio and an M.F.A. from the Brown University/Trinity Rep Graduate Program. Aaron produces, directs, teaches, and acts.  Fault Line Theatre: the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo), Hindsight, Round Table, The Oregon Trail, The Wedge Horse, At the Table, Breathing Time, The Faire, From White Plains, From the Same Cloth, Frogs, Doctor Faustus, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “(plays) In Previews.”, and “Irons in the Fire”.

Poster Sketch by Sean Devare