VIRGINIA and Joanna Castle Miller’s Bad Faith Trilogy

VIRGINIA and Joanna Castle Miller’s Bad Faith Trilogy

Written and performed by Joanna Castle Miller

Directed by Matt Stabile

Raised within fundamentalist Christian nationalism, Joanna was given a clear script for identity and acceptance. Joanna Castle Miller’s Bad Faith Trilogy traces the process of questioning, dismantling, and ultimately rewriting that script, culminating in a life that stands in stark contrast to where it began. Performed by the playwright in rep, this trilogy explores the lure of Christian Nationalism, the punishment of women and girls, and the playwright’s discovery of Judaism as a new way to understand the world. At a time of deepening divisions, how can we challenge the cultural and ideological forces that shape our lives and attempt to contain us? And how can we help others find their own path to a freer, more openhearted life?

THE PLAYS

VIRGINIA

Young Joanna knows America is a white Christian nation, and she plays her part in keeping it that way by staying pure (if you don’t count her thoughts about Thomas Jefferson). When her father becomes the 2016 nominee for president for a far-right third party, she decides to make a comedy show about it… and, in the process, realizes things might never have been exactly as they seemed.

Performances:

*Saturday, December 5, 2026 Opening Night Celebration

12/6, 3pm; 12/11, 7:30pm; 12/13, 3pm; 12/20, 12pm

INFERNA

Young Joanna desperately wants to be a perfect evangelical and great theatre artist – and fortunately for her, both seem to work perfectly together. But the mentors she adores aren’t who they appear to be, and neither are the scripts they’ve passed down to her. When it all collapses around her, she will have to untangle how religion and theatre actually set her up for disaster, and what it may cost to write herself a new script.

Performances:

12/12, 3pm; 12/18, 7:30pm; 12/20, 3:00pm

CONVERSA

Young Joanna knows all the Jewish prayers – and how they’re really about Jesus. That’s because, many years ago, her mother, who wanted to be a rabbi, converted to evangelicalism through Jews for Jesus. As a result, young Joanna learns all the tricks of Christian missions, eventually becoming a missionary herself. But when something ancient draws her away, to the traditions she never learned and histories she never studied, she finds herself in a tiny village where, centuries ago, her father’s father’s father faced a similar crossroads and made a very different choice.

Performances:

12/12 & 12/19, 7:30pm; 12/20, 7:00pm