Alabama Monster
Cincinnati Fringe Festival / Winnipeg Fringe Festival / Saskatoon Fringe Festival, (2018-2019)
2018 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. photo by Paul Kerford Wilson
“Trey Tatum transports his audience with lyrical, visceral prose to the sick and sultry South”
“An intense and poetic storytelling piece, filled with vivid, revealing detail”
“⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
With masterful use of language, he’ll make you feel the blaze of the bonfire, see the lick of flames and flicker of shadows”
“as harrowing an evening of theater as
I can recall.”
“CRITICS PICK: Vivid imagery and tactile wordplay”
CBC News: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/2019-winnipeg-fringe-festival-horror-1.5215212#monster
Saskatoon StarPhoeniz: https://thestarphoenix.com/entertainment/local-arts/fringe-reviews-superheroes-and-monsters-and-criminals
Cincinnati Enquirer, “Top Ten Shows of 2018: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/theater/2018/12/20/best-theater-2018-david-lyman-recounts-what-he-cant-forget/2366983002/
Cincinnati CityBeat: https://www.citybeat.com/arts/critics-pick-of-monster-descent-12157587/
I’m Finally Going to Ask Elizabeth Hopkins to the Homecoming Dance and Nothing’s Going to Stop Me, Not Even the Ghost of My Dead Grandmother Who Watches Me Masturbate
Cincinnati Fringe Festival, (2024)
“will dazzle you from start to finish”
“one of the most innovative shows of the festival ... there is nothing quite like it”
“what Tatum does best is convince the audience that no matter how far-fetched a premise or how silly a scenario is, the stakes are real, and the characters are worth investing in.”
Jordan Trovillion as Elizabeth Hopkins. Photo by Paul Kerford Wilson.
Kat Reynolds, League of Cincinnati Theatres: https://www.leagueofcincytheatres.info/kats-fringe-reviews-june-4-6/
Alan Jozwiak, League of Cincinnati Theatres: https://www.leagueofcincytheatres.info/cincy-fringe-2024-alans-top-picks-and-reviews/
Kirk Sheppard, Off Book: https://offbookcincinnati.substack.com/p/interactive-fiction-on-stage
ZOiNKS!
Cincinnati Fringe Festival, (2019)
“Masters at storytelling.”
“Riotously funny.”
Ken Ham’s Journey to the Center of the Earth
Know Theatre of Cincinnati, (2016)
“ ... as with every production by Tatum and Leak, there is more than enough substance to keep our minds working well after the final scene ends.
”Clearly, this is a plot that pits good guys versus bad, nut cases versus reasonable. But it’s to Tatum’s credit that we’re rarely sure which is which.”
“There is a certain unruliness to this show.”
Biblical Scientist / Adventurer Ken Ham finds Human and Dinosaur fossils in the same stratum.
Andy’s House of [blank]
Know Theatre of Cincinnati, (2015)
Me, playing a sixteen-year-old me, working the counter at Andy’s House of [blank]. Also pictured, Erika Kate MacDonald.
“Strickland and Tatum have crafted a piece of theater that is tender and ribald, witty and touching. And it is oh-so-smart.”
” ... an eloquent and entertaining show about love and memory and the excruciating power of disappointment.”
“It’s exhausting. And exhilarating. And heartbreaking.”
“The music is great, and there are lots of laughs along the way, but the story is a serious, poignant rumination about love, longing and how to move forward by looking back.”