The Red Velvet Cake War

Cast Interviews

The Red Velvet Cake War: Interviews with Cast from Todd Long on Vimeo.

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In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins—Gaynelle, Peaches, and Jimmie Wyvette—could not have picked a worse time to throw their family reunion. Their outrageous antics have delighted local gossips in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out.

Having “accidentally” crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband’s girlfriend’s doublewide, Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular meltdown. Peaches, a saucy firebrand and the number one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it’s time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead. And Jimmie Wyvette, the rough-around-the-edges store manager of Whatley’s Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum’s newest widower. But the cousins can’t back out of the reunion now.

It’s on, Gaynelle’s hosting it, and Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided that its success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle’s sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist. Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado season.

Cast List

Gaynelle Verdeen Bodeen – Leslie Franklin

Ceecee WIndham – Sally Buchanan

Jimmie Wyvette Verdeen – Maureen Staunton

Peaches Verdeen Belrose – Danya Nunley

Uncle Aubrey Verdeen – Jim Dahmen

Aunt Lamerle Verdeen – Valerie Pallai

Newt Blaylock – Todd Long

Bitsy Hargis – Lisa Jacobsen

Mama Doll Hargis – Clare Terrill

Sheriff Grover Lout – Ed Cardoza

Elsa Dowdall – Irene Dahmen

Cousin Purvis – Craig Scott

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