A NOTE TO CAREGIVERS
’Dot and Ziggy’ is designed specifically for tiny bodies that need to get the wiggles out.
It might not feel “theatre-y,” but we want kids to move, dance, sing, explore, create, and play along with the show. We encourage you to let them explore this space and this story in whatever way they want — we aren’t afraid of extra noise or interruptions.

If you or your child needs a break, please check out our new Quiet Room. Just head out the theatre and it’s immediately to the right.

Dot and Ziggy runs approximately 45 minutes with no intermission.
You are invited to stay after the show and continue to play and explore.

Produced by special arrangement with Plays for New Audiences

It’s the Day of the Show, Y’all!

When we opened this show on August 26th, I just felt overwhelmed with emotion. After 18 months of not having audiences in our spaces, to welcome those first children back into our theatre felt simply AMAZING! We are so, so, SO glad to have you back at BCT.

We’ve stretched our creative muscles a lot of ways over the past year and Dot and Ziggy is the beautiful result of some reimagining of how we reach the children of our community. While BCT has always offered shows that toddlers will enjoy, we haven’t before offered a show made especially FOR them. Nationally, we’ve seen an increase in theatre for the very young shows over the past few years and I am delighted to bring these offerings to our theatre.

We’re entering a new era at BCT and it seems to fitting to start this season with a show that celebrates creative imagining and reminds each of us to look at the world through the eyes of a child with wonder, enthusiasm, and a playful spirit.

~Ashley
BCT’s Executive Artistic Director

Rebecca Yeager (Director) is thrilled to bring Dot and Ziggy to Birmingham families. While she performs for many companies in Birmingham, BCT audiences are her favorite! She is an actor and teacher who specializes in integrated movement and vocal technique for the actor, including yoga, stage combat, Lugering technique, and classical theatre including Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, and Commedia dell’Arte. Rebecca received her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi and graduated Cum Laude from Birmingham-Southern College with a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre. Thank you to BCT’s amazing staff of artists and administrators for their tireless work keeping theatre alive in the past year; to Kim, Ruby, Theo, and Zoe for their willingness to play and explore through a child’s eye; and most of all, Charles and the Yeagerlings for their love, encouragement, and creative spirits.

Theo Edwards-Butler (Ziggy), originally from Louisville, Ky is a Samford University Graduate with a BFA in Musical Theatre (2020). During COVID, she founded The Modern Green Book a global Black Business Database dedicated to connecting consumers with Black Brands. She is very excited about theatre returning and couldn’t be more thrilled to be making her debut on the Birmingham Children’s Theatre Stage. Her other Credits include: The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Alabama Story: One Woman Show, Tour Actor Director with Missoula Children’s Theatre, and will be leaving at the end of this show to begin Paw Patrol Live! 

Ruby Maghoney (Dot) is a Biology and Environmental Science Major at UAB and has been in Oklahoma City University’s You on the Moors, UAB’s Tell Me Something Good, Enterprise’s Theatre Department Phantom of the Opera, Addams Family, Beauty and the Beast, and won first in Alabama State Trumbauer in Dramatic Musical Duet. She sings for Black Ribbon Records based in Nashville.

Zoe Wirt (Spider, Music Director) is overjoyed to be back at Birmingham Children’s Theatre this fall. She has previously appeared on BCT's stages in Bunnicula, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, The Hundred Dresses, and Rumpelstiltskin, as well as online in the cardboard puppet theatre production of Evy and the Pirates. She has served as music director for a number of Wee Folks productions, including Rapunzel and the Rabbit, The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, Three Little Kittens, and others. Zoe is grateful to be part of making some magic for BCT’s audiences.

A “tail” of two shelter dogs: Axel is rough and tumble, Buddy is friendly and eager. Axel knows his way around the kennel, while Buddy is unsure in this new environment. Seemingly two dogs from two different worlds, can they find a way to work together to find a new home? Ruff! loveably tackles themes of identity, self-esteem and confidence, friendship, and the challenge of stepping forward without fear.

Ruff! is great for ages 5 - 10, and plays in our Wee Folks Theatre.

Directed by Najah Ali.
Featuring Nate Blakley and Rebecca Yeager

Saturday Public Performances at 10:00am:
September 25th, October 16th, & October 30th

BCT is partnering with Bundles of Hope Diaper Bank to collect donations for their 7th Annual Stuff the Bus Diaper Drive (September 24th - October 3rd). Bring new or outgrown disposable diapers size newborn-6, pull-ups, wipes, & period products to 'Dot & Ziggy' and your donation will help families experiencing financial hardship in our community.

Bundles of Hope Diaper Bank offers hope to families during times of financial hardship by providing their infants and toddlers with diapers. Over the last 6 years they’ve worked to change the way women and children are cared for in the community, and have distributed over 3 million diapers as well as other basic essentials like wipes, wash, and period products.

You can find more information on their work and how to contribute to the mission at https://www.bundlesdiaperbank.org/ or follow them on social at @bundlesdiapers