The Hours We Had.

Off The Lane’s ColLab program is presenting a one-night only immersive, campfire ghost story experience on October 24th, 2025 at the Off The Lane performance loft in Manhattan, NYC.

The Hours We Had. is a play with music commissioned with an original script by CM Miller. It will take place in the round (in true indoor campfire fashion). Whether they be dead or alive, the company includes Kimmarie McCrann (director) & Natalie Kasper, Romanti-ezer Mata, and Jack Supan as our storytellers.

Come cozy up by the fire and enjoy a hot toddy/chocolate with friends, but always beware of ghosts all around you.

“We all love hearing about ourselves so long as the people in the stories are us, but not us, not us in the end especially”
-The Coen Brothers

MEET THE COMPANY

Natalie Kasper (Abbie) is a singer, actress, and songwriter based in New York City. She trained at the Stella Adler Musical Theater Intensive and continues her studies at The Barrow Group and HB Studio. Her recent performance credits include Bound for Broadway at The Triad Theater, Disney Channel Divas at Don’t Tell Mama, and playing Wanda in Wanda’s Visit. Her debut single, “Swimming in Blue,” is available on all music platforms. She’s excited to bring her love of storytelling and song to the stage tonight.

Romanti-ezer Mata (Sam) (he/him) is an actor and dancer from El Paso, TX. He currently works as a Dance Teaching Artist for the National Dance Institute and is an Immersioneer for the Murder Mystery Company (from American Immersion Theater). He dances with DCL Dance Company, directed by David Cartahena Lee and is an ensemble member of Rising Sun NYC. Favorite shows include Newsies, Monsters We Create, Viva! El Paso, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Prom, Hello, Dolly!, and The Laramie Project.

Jack Supan (Randall)  is thrilled to be enriching your Halloween season with uncanny stories and tales of old that will send shivers down your spine.  You might have seen him sing and play some guitar during his last Off The Lane endeavor, Hootenanny!  But is this the same man you see before you tonight? Or is what you’re hearing a figment of your imagination?  Perhaps that night was his last Hootenanny, and he’s been waiting in the shadows all this time to Haunt-enanny you. I guess you’ll find out.  www.jacksupan.com @jack_supan_

Kimmarie “Kim” McCrann (Director) (she/her) is a theatre director, dramaturg, and arts administrator. Her artistic work has taken her across the globe—from a yearlong residency at the Accademia dell’Arte in Italy to working as an Associate Producer with the Portland Theater Festival. Several of her favorite recent credits include serving as an Assistant Director on Deep Blue Sound (Portland Theater Festival), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Portland Stage), and Melancholy Play (Adelphi University). Kim is currently a 2050 Artistic Workshop Administrative Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. As a previous Off The Lane Mentee, Kim could not be more thrilled to be joining the company as a director this time around! www.kimmariemccrann.com

Ciera “CM” Miller (Playwright) is a NYC based director & co writer. She is a self described ‘stubborn hopeful ‘ – someone who fights to make the impossible probable with joy. Ciera believes theatre is a holy ground where there is room for hope, magic, and explosive creation. Naturally, she is committed to developing new works. As a mixed race artist she often feels she lives outside of definite terms and gravitates towards genre bending and convention breaking work. In that, she seeks scripts that are haunting, hopeful, a little magical, sometimes western, and tackle the human condition. She wants to tell campfire stories of all kinds and remind audiences they are alive. She is also the miller 1/2 of the theatrical duo miller & harlow. The pair are 2023 Jonathan Larson Grant Honorable Mentions, EdFringers and were co writers on The Oyster Radio Hour hosted by Susan Sarandon, with Amber Iman and Amber Gray as vocalists. Recently she worked as Assistant Director for the Hadestown 2nd National Tour, directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant. She looks forward to continuing as Associate Director this fall.

Rachel Sabo-Hedges (ColLab Artistic Director) (she/they) is a multi-hyphenate director, developer, and producer raised in Boone, North Carolina. She first connected with Off The Lane through their mentorship program during her senior year at Western Carolina University. After moving to New York, Rachel became the associate director for Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster. Since then, she has continued to associate direct while also directing and developing new work throughout NYC. Coming from a family of theatre artists and performers, Rachel was immersed in the industry from a young age as a child actor—storytelling runs in her blood. She gravitates toward work that centers hope and love, and she’s often found gathering artists to explore new scripts or uncovering the life stories of strangers. She’s drawn to theatre that is muscular, surprising, and a little bit magical.

Sophie Brubaker (Producing & Programming Director) (@sophiebrubaker) is a bubbly California-raised, NYC-based producer, performer and event host! Sophie graduated from the University of California at Davis with a BA in Theatre and Dance and a BS in Human Development, and there she also began an internship with Off the Lane. Since moving to New York City, she fell in love with creating imaginative, social spins on producing and performing in theatre. She started the ColLab program at Off the Lane in 2022, which specializes in developing interactive and interdisciplinary live performance work, and she is a co-founder of In Confidence, an organization that produces secret, interactive shows in unlikely places. Sophie is also an actor in The Murder Mystery Company, and she performs in and hosts interactive shows in NYC regularly. Sophie is ecstatic about growing Off the Lane’s reach in this city by meeting artists where they are at and continuing to develop new, communal work!! www.sophiebrubaker.com