MAGELLANICA AUDIO DRAMA by E. M. Lewis

ART

MAGAZINE Volume 38 Issue 1

y n a p Hg m o C y r u Merc AUDIO DRAMA

by

E.M. Lewis

directed by

Dámaso Rodríguez

musical composition and sound design by

Rodolfo Ortega

FRESH EYES:

Science at the end of the world pg. 16

OUR MISSION Artist Repertory Theatre’s mission is to produce intimate, provocative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

ANTI-RACIST STATEMENT Artists Repertory Theatre recognizes that we are a predominately white organization and operate within systemic racism and oppression, and that silence and neutrality are actions of complicity. We recognize the critical role the arts play in our culture and national conversation, and accept our responsibility to make positive change through our work, our practices, and our policies. We commit ourselves to the work of becoming an anti-racism and anti-oppression organization, and will work with urgency to end racial inequities in our industry and our culture.

ARTISTS REP gratefully acknowledges our theatre rests on the traditional lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.

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MAGELLANICA AUDIO DRAMA

by E.M. LEWIS

Mercury Company

Dámaso Rodríguez, Artistic Director J.S. May, Managing Director

CAST

Capt. Adam Burrell .............................................................................. Vin Shambry^* Freddie de la Rosa ............................................................................... John San Nicolas^* Dr. Morgan Halsted .............................................................................. Sara Hennessy^* Dr. Vadik Chapayev .............................................................................. Michael Mendelson^* Dr. Todor Kozlek ................................................................................... Allen Nause^* Dr. May Zhou ....................................................................................... Barbie Wu^ Dr. Lars Brotten ................................................................................... Eric Pargac* Dr. William Huffington .......................................................................... Joshua J. Weinstein^

CREATIVE TEAM AND CREW

Director................................................................................................ Dámaso Rodríguez~Hg Playwright ............................................................................................ E.M. Lewis^ Producer/Dramaturg ........................................................................... Luan Schooler Hg Producer ............................................................................................. Kristeen Willis Hg Sound Engineer, Sound Designer, & Composer .................................... Rodolfo Ortega^# Producing Director .............................................................................. Shawn Lee Hg Assistant Production Manager/Line Producer....................................... Karen M Hill Hg Assistant Production Manager/Line Producer ...................................... Jamie Lynne Simons Hg Dialect Consultant & Voice Over Actor ................................................. Karl Hanover* Hg Russian Dialect Advisor & Voice Over Actor ......................................... Julia Zazhigina Auxiliary Magellanica Content Producer ............................................... Avital Shira Hg

TIME: 1986 RUN TIME: Part 1: 50 minutes

Part 2: 45 minutes

Part 3: 35 minutes

Part 4: 70 minutes

Part 5: 50 minutes The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. * Member of SAG/AFTRA Hg Member of ART Mercury Company + Actors’ Equity Association Candidate ~ Stage Directors & Choreographers Society ^ Artists Repertory Theatre Resident Artist # The scenic, costume, lighting, projections, and sound designers are represented by United Scenic Artists.

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. &­ Indicates Dance Captain > Indicates Portland Actors Conservatory (PAC) actors

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D IRE C T O R ’S N o t e

“We’re at the tipping point and you get to have what you’re brave enough to ask for…”Captain Adam Burrell, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, played

by Artists Rep Resident Artist, Vin Shambry, in E.M. Lewis’s Magellanica

Thank you for listening to the inaugural production of AudioART, Artists Repertory Theatre’s venture into the adaptation of stage plays for an entirely aural experience. Prompted to explore digital mediums by the shutdown of theatres across the world due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, and initially funded by the federal CARES Act Payroll Protection Plan, AudioART features the work of Artists Rep’s Portland, Oregonbased artistic company in collaboration with playwrights and actors from around the U.S. Over the course of the fall and spring of 2020/21, we will release several audio dramas featuring high quality recordings, sound effects, and original musical compositions created in the spirit of Artists Rep’s provocative, timely, and boldly theatrical live performances.

In addition to each audio drama, we’ve created bonus podcasts and materials that expand upon the themes of the script and feature members of the creative team. While nothing can duplicate the ephemeral, communal power of live theatre, we hope these audio productions keep local audiences connected to Artists Rep while we await the moment when we can once again sit shoulder to shoulder in a full theatre, safely breathing the same air.

Until then, these recordings can expand the reach of these extraordinary writers while introducing audiences from around the world to some of Portland’s vibrant, professional theatre makers.

with the five-part, epic Magellanica by Oregon playwright E.M. Lewis, which Artists Rep premiered in an acclaimed 2018 production (winning an Edgerton New Play Award and coverage in The New Yorker). Like a novel that draws you into its world to such a degree that you cancel plans or rush home to finish, audiences were moved and mesmerized

by Lewis’ beautifully crafted characters, urgently relevant themes, and intoxicating blend of realism, poetry, science, and theatrical magic. The play, while being a visual feast in its original form, is also filled with gorgeously crafted language, riveting dialogue, cinematic soundscape and swelling music by sound designer/ composer Rodolfo Ortega, and a structure that lends itself unusually well to the audio-only medium. I hope you’ll be moved by this 4-hour audio version of E.M. Lewis’s haunting and hopeful Magellanica, a necessary story about the ways we can join together to save a world coming apart.

We’re thrilled to launch this program

Dámaso Rodríguez

Now, I invite you to plug in your headphones or power up those speakers, turn up the volume, and ignite your imagination. Welcome to the 1986 South Pole Winter Over! Next stop, Antarctica.

Warmly,

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PLAYWRIGHT BIO E.M. Lewis

E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. Lewis received the Steinberg Award for both How the Light Gets In and Song of Extinction, and the Primus Prize for Heads from the American Theater Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for outstanding writing of a world premiere play, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a playwriting fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission, the 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama, and an Edgerton Award for her epic Antarctic play Magellanica.

Plays by Lewis include: How the Light Gets In (winner of the Steinberg Award, and a semifinalist for the O’Neill, that premiered at Boston Court Pasadena), Apple Season (which received a rolling world premiere from the National New Play Network in 2019), The Gun Show (which has had more than forty productions across the country and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland), Infinite Black Suitcase, Reading to Vegetables, True Story, Dorothy’s Dictionary, and You Can See All the Stars (a play for college students commissioned by the Kennedy Center). Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant, a new opera commissioned by American Lyric Theater that Lewis is working on with composer Evan Meier, had an orchestral workshop in New York City in February 2020. Town Hall, her opera about health care in America, created with composer Theo Popov, was produced at University of Maryland and Willamette University.

Lewis is currently working on a big, new play called The Great Divide, commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Artists Repertory Theater as part of OSF’s American Revolutions program. Lewis has received a three-year National Playwright Residency from the Mellon Foundation to support her work with them. Lewis is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild. She lives on her family’s farm in Oregon.

DIRECTOR’S BIO Dámaso Rodríguez

Dámaso (he/him/él) is in his eighth season as Artistic Director of Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland’s longest-running professional theatre company, which became a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) under his leadership. Plays developed during his tenure have been produced in New York, Chicago, London, and throughout the U.S. Acclaim for Artists Rep developed projects includes the Dramatists Guild Foundation Award, the Edgerton New Play Award, NEA Funding, American Theatre Magazine’s Most Produced Plays list, and coverage in the New Yorker and the New York Times.

He is a Co-Founder of L.A.’s Furious Theatre, where he served as Co-Artistic Director from 2001-2012. From 2007-2010 he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse, where he directed main stage productions and oversaw programming for the ARTISTSREP.ORG 6

DIRECTOR CREDITS Playhouse’s second stage, including its Hothouse New Play Development Program. He has directed a broad range of new and classic plays including over 20 Artists Rep productions, along with work at the Pasadena Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Rep, A Noise Within, The Playwrights’ Center, The Theatre@Boston Court, Odyssey Theatre, The Blank Theatre, The Road Theatre, The Zephyr Theatre and Furious Theatre.

Dámaso is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the Back Stage Garland Award, the NAACP Theatre Award, and the Pasadena Arts Council’s Gold Crown Award. He was honored as a Finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award by the Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation and was named a Knowledge Universe Rising Star by Portland Monthly. His productions have received or been nominated for dozens of awards including the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award, LA StageScene Award, and the LA Weekly Theatre Award, among others. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and serves on the faculty of the Portland Actors Conservatory.

Current directing projects: – Magellanica (Audio Drama) by E.M. Lewis, The Berlin Diaries (Audio Drama) by Andrea Stolowitz, The Great Divide by E.M. Lewis in development at Artists Rep/Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Eight seasons as Artistic Director of Artists Repertory Theatre (ART) Directing credits: Romeo and Juliet at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the World Premiere of We, the Invisibles by Susan Soon He Stanton for the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Kings by Sarah Burgess at South Coast Repertory, the World Premiere of Wolf Play by Hansol Jung, the World Premiere of Magellanica by E.M. Lewis, the World Premiere musical Cuba Libre by Carlos Lacámara featuring the 3-time Grammy nominated band Tiempo Libre, Portland premieres of La Ruta by Isaac Gomez, The Humans by Stephen Karam, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon and Everybody, Nina Raine’s Tribes and David Ives’ The Liar, the Northwest premieres of Carlos Lacámara’s Exiles and Nick Jones’ Trevor, the west coast premieres of Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal, Charise Castro Smith’s Feathers & Teeth, 1984 by George Orwell adapted by Duncan Macmillan & Robert Icke, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig; the U.S. premiere of Dawn King’s Foxfinder, The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, at Artists Rep; Ruth & Augustus Goetz’ The Heiress (starring Richard Chamberlain), Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (starring Kelly McGillis), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow (starring Sharon Lawrence) and the reading of Ellen Simon’s Aunt Stossie’s Coming for Five Days (starring Marsha Mason & Mary Steenburgen) at the Pasadena Playhouse; the reading of Steven Drukman’s The Prince of Atlantis for the Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory, Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost at Intiman Theatre; Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, Tennessee Williams’ The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms, Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within. Furious Theatre credits include the Los Angeles premieres of Craig Wright’s Grace, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Boom and Hunter Gatherers, Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch, Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat, Richard Bean’s The God Botherers, Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, and the world premieres of Alex Jones’ Canned Peaches in Syrup and Matt Pelfrey’s An Impending Rupture of the Belly and No Good Deed, among others.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR’S BIO Two seasons as the Managing Director of Artists Repertory Theatre J.S. May

J.S. (he/his) is a seasoned fundraising and communications professional and has worked with a wide range of local, regional, national, and international nonprofit organizations. He and his teams have raised more than $500 million. For eleven years prior to ART, he was the chief Fundraising, Marketing & Communications Officer, and strategist for the Portland Art Museum — Oregon’s premier visual arts institution.

Before the Art Museum, for seven years, J.S. led the fundraising practice for Metropolitan Group, a Portland-based social marketing firm that works to create a more just and sustainable world. For the six years prior to MG, he supported the growth of the region’s leading pediatric teaching and research hospital as Executive Director for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation at OHSU. Before Doernbecher, J.S. spent six years supporting the expansion and growth of the region’s most trusted media source as the Director of Corporate Support for Oregon Public Broadcasting. J.S. currently serves as President of Cycle Oregon board and is a board member for the Cultural Advocacy Coalition.

J.S. is an avid yogi, cyclist, and reader.

SHOW SPONSORS Karl & Linda Boekelheide

Tom Gifford & Patti Fisher

SEASON SPONSORS Ronni Lacroute David and Christine Vernier The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation

The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation Oregon Cultural Trust Oregon Arts Commission

Regional Arts and Culture Council

The mission of the ArtsHub is to create a cultural center by supporting Portland’s rich artistic ecosystem.

Programs and services include: below market rates for rehearsal, performance, and meeting space; shared administrative work space for individuals and organizations; and production services such as set construction, scenic painting, and professional technical support from design through performance. Our goal is to help a diverse range of arts and community organizations thrive. We prioritize artists and organizations that support ART’s values of equity, diversity and inclusion, and seek to provide a home for artists and audiences to take creative risks. While the program’s origin six years ago was in response to an opportunity to share underutilized performance space, we have found that the most vital and lasting impact of the ArtsHub is the bustling community that has been formed, and the myriad ways it has led to the empowerment of local artists and the accelerated growth of participating organizations. On any given day, staff members and dozens of artists from multiple arts and community organizations are rehearsing, utilizing administrative support and meeting spaces, with chance encounters in shared spaces leading to increased communication and unanticipated future collaborations between organizations. In the 2018/19 season alone, over 1,500 events were held in our building by 42 local nonprofits, including 11 resident companies — 380 ArtsHub public events, 462 rehearsals, 422 classes, and 306 ART events. Our new facility is being designed so that the ArtsHub can include even more organizations than it currently serves.

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CAST & CREW VIN SHAMBRY Capt. Adam Burrell

Vin Shambry (he/him/his) is a published writer, acclaimed storyteller, international actor, and Director. Before returning home to Portland, Vin performed on Broadway as Tom Collins in Rent and John in Miss Saigon, and toured nationally with Rent, Miss Saigon.

His writing is in the new book Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible, which he also performed at the Portland’s historic Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Additionally, his performative, original writing was featured in April Baer’s State of Wonder on Oregon Public Broadcasting radio. Vin toured and performed with the US State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Arts Envoy trip to Egypt (2019) and will be returning in 2020 to develop a new bi-lingual cross cultural music and theatre performance with the support of the US Embassy Cairo.

JOHN SAN NICOLAS Freddie de la Rosa

John (he/him/his) is a native of San Diego, CA, John first worked at Artists Rep. on Jack Goes Boating in 2011. He has since appeared in The Motherfucker with the Hat, Exiles, The Invisible Hand, The Liar, Grand Concourse, A Civil War Christmas, Trevor, The Talented Ones, An Octoroon, The Humans, Magellanica, Small Mouth Sounds, Everybody, and 1984 and is proud to be a Resident Artist. He has also performed at Portland Center Stage, Portland Playhouse, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Badass Theatre Company, Miracle Theatre, The Anonymous Theatre Company, Clackamas Repertory Theatre, Shaking the Tree Theatre, CoHo Productions, ARTISTSREP.ORG 10

Fusion Theatre Co. and several others. He has appeared on the television show Leverage and has made several appearances on IFC’s Portlandia. Also an acting teacher, writer and director, John is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.

SARA HENNESSY Dr. Morgan Halsted

Sara (she/hers) is a two-time Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award winner and an L.A. Weekly Theatre Award nominee. She’s been in several shows at Artists Rep including 1984, Everybody, Magellanica, Caught, Feathers and Teeth, The Skin of Our Teeth, Cuba Libre, Blithe Spirit, Intimate Apparel and Foxfinder. She recently appeared in How to Keep an Alien at Corrib Theatre, where she also did Little Gem. Before moving to Portland, she lived in Los Angeles, where she was a co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed Furious Theatre Company.

In addition to doing many shows at Furious Theatre, Sara worked at the Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within, and Theatre@ Boston Court. In Chicago, she performed improv at the iO Theatre. She also made appearances on NBC’s Grimm and the Netflix series Trinkets. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. www.sarahennessy.com.

MICHAEL MENDELSON Dr. Vadik Chapayev Michael (he/his/him) is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep since 2008 and has been a part of well over 40 productions with this outstanding company. His acting credits include Indecent, 1984, Doll’s House, Part 2, Everybody, Small MouthSounds, Magellanica, An Octoroon, Marjorie Prime, Trevor, Mothers and Sons, The Skin of Our

CAST & CREW Teeth, The Price, The Playboy of the Western World, Tribes, Blithe Spirit, The Quality of Life, Mistakes Were Made, Ten Chimneys, Red Herring, Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Christmas Carol, God Of Carnage, Superior Donuts, Design For Living, Holidazed, Becky’s New Car, Three Sisters, Eurydice, Orson’s Shadow, Mr. Marmalade, Theater District, Present Laughter, and Love! Valour! Compassion!. With Artists Rep, Michael has directed The Importance of Being Earnest, The Understudy, Intimate Apparel, and Mistakes Were Made.

Local credits include work with Portland Shakespeare Project, Portland Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Portland, Profile Theatre, Northwest Classical, Miracle Theatre, triangle productions!, TygresHeart Shakespeare, Portland Center Stage, A Contemporary Theatre, New Rose, Portland Rep NYC: Revolving Shakespeare Co., Theatre 1010, Lincoln Center/Clark StudioTheatre, Genesius Guild, The Barrow Group. Regional work includes: PlayOn Shakespeare Company, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, PCPA Theatrefest, Paper Mill Playhouse, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, Penobscot Theatre, Arkansas Rep, First Stage Milwaukee, Idaho Rep, Attic Theater, and Wisconsin, Utah, and Berkeley Shakespeare Festivals. Michael received a BFA from Wayne State University and an MFA from the University of Washington’s PATP. He is the Artistic Director of Portland Shakespeare Project, and a member of Actors’ Equity Association and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Michael teaches acting privately and is an instructor on staff with Portland Actors Conservatory

ALLEN NAUSE Dr. Todor Kozlek Allen (he/his/him) is currently a Resident Artist at Artists Rep where he previously served as Artistic Director for 25 years.

Besides directing many productions at Artists Rep, Allen directed at many professional theaters throughout the Northwest. As an actor Allen appeared at Portland Opera, Corrib Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Imago Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Intiman Theatre and many others. Allen has toured Artists Rep productions throughout the U.S. as well as Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In 2000, Allen traveled to Vietnam and co-directed a bilingual, bicultural production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as a production of The Glass Menagerie as part of the Vietnam/America Theater Exchange.

In May 2007 Allen directed All My Sons with the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem as a Cultural Envoy with the U.S. Department of State. In 2010 Allen directed The Odd Couple in Islamabad, Pakistan also as a Cultural Envoy. In 2015 Allen directed for the Dramatic Theatre of Tobolsk in Siberia, Russia. Allen has also appeared in feature films and on national television. In 2003 Allen was the recipient of the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award.

BARBIE WU

Dr. May Zhou (She/her/hers) Born and raised in Taiwan, Barbie discovered her passion for acting in 2003 as an exchange student in Eugene.

After earning her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from Southern Methodist University in 2014. She is a Resident Artist and educator at Artists Repertory Theatre and was featured in Better Maybe, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Everybody, and Magellanica. Her other credits include Renaissance: Technically! (Portland Center Stage), #25 in The Wolves (Portland Playhouse), Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s ARTISTSREP.ORG 11

CAST & CREW Dream (Anonymous Theatre Company), Mika Endo in The Mermaid Hour (Theatro Milagro), Katherina Serafima Gleb in Slavs!

(Southern Methodist University), Kattrin in Mother Courage (Oregon Contemporary Theatre), Puck in Shakespeare in Hollywood (Very Little Theatre), Cordelia in King Lear (Lane Community College) and was a founding ensemble member of Bootstrap Theater Company in Truckee, California.

Barbie is a teaching artist with Hand2Mouth, Portland’s longest running theatre ensemble, and a barista at Tōv, Portland’s only doubledecker coffee bus.

ERIC PARGAC

Dr. Lars Brotten (He/him/his) At Artist Repertory: Magellancia. New York theatre: Dido and Aneas (Dixon Place) and The Koan of Seymour (IRT Theater). Eric was co-founder and co-artistic director of Furious Theatre Company in Los Angeles.

Furious credits: Craig Wright’s Grace (Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Award, Best Production & 2006 Actor of the Year Runner-Up, Entertainment Today), US Drag (LA Weekly Award nominee, Best Ensemble Performance), Saturday Night at the Palace, The Fair Maid of the West Parts I & II, Scenes from the Big Picture, Tearing the Loom, Mojo, and The Playboy of the Western World. Regional credits: Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost at Intiman Theatre and Shhh! Art!! and Festen with Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Reading Series. Eric has performed as an improviser at iO West in Los Angeles on the house team Glass Onion, in Furious Late Night’s improvised news comedy show imMEDIAte Theatre, in the Improv Stunt Show Spectacular, with the improv troupe Freudian Slip, and in New York at Upright Citizens Brigade.

Eric was a series regular on the web series ARTISTSREP.ORG 12

The Digressions (www.thedigressions.com) and the pilot Monogamish (IFP Film Week Official Selection). His television credits include The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Succession. www.ericpargac.com

JOSHUA J. WEINSTEIN

Dr. William Huffington (He/him/his) Born and raised in Tallahassee, FL, Josh moved to Portland in summer 2011 for the Portland Playhouse Acting Apprenticeship. Josh (Resident Artist) is grateful to return to this role and to Artists Rep in a new format after being last seen in Indecent as Avram. Portland credits: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and Major Barbara (Portland Center Stage); The Baltimore Waltz (Profile Theatre), Beirut (Shoebox Theatre), Tender Napalm (Shoebox Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Portland Playhouse); We Are Proud to Present..., The Miracle Worker, 4000 Miles, TRIBES, Foxfinder, and Red Herring (Artists Repertory Theatre). Deepest gratitude to the creative and production teams for their innovation and teamwork. And to Brandy.

Always.

RODOLFO ORTEGA Sound Engineer, Composer, & Sound Designer Rodolfo (he/him/his) is an award-winning composer for film, television, and theatre. Rodolfo received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Arizona and his Master’s of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied piano and composition. He has sound designed and composed for some of the most prestigious theatre companies in the United States including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Romeo & Juliet, The Tenth Muse)

CAST & CREW and Denver Center Theatre Company (The Three Musketeers and Romeo & Juliet).

Rodolfo is an Associate Artist with Santa Cruz Shakespeare (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Man in the Iron Mask, and Winter’s Tale). For Artists Rep, he has designed and composed music for La Ruta, 1984, Small Mouth Sounds, Caught, Trevor, Feathers and Teeth, The Talented Ones, and The Liar. Rodolfo recently won the Prague Quadrennial Competition in Music for his composition for ART’s Magellanica. www.rodyortega.com KRISTEEN WILLIS Associate Producer/ Production Manager Kristeen (she/her/hers) received her BA from Centre College in Danville, KY and received her MFA in Lighting Design from Wayne State University, Hilberry Company in Detroit, MI. Previously, she designed lights for several Artists Rep productions, including 1984, Wolf Play, Everybody, I and You, Feathers and Teeth, American Hero, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, Foxfinder, The Cherry Orchard and Eurydice. She designed the set for Between Riverside and Crazy, Marjorie Prime, We Are Proud To Present…, Broomstick, 4000 Miles and Foxfinder. She has designed scenery and/or lighting for several area theatres including Northwest Children Theatre’s Shrek, The Musical; Profile Theatre’s True West and Master Harold And The Boys (2013 Drammy) and Thief River; Coho Productions’ Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune and The Outgoing Tide; Miracle Theatre’s Oedipus El Rey (2012 Drammy).

LUAN SCHOOLER Producer/Dramaturg ART Mercury Company Luan (she/hers) was born in West Texas, where she trailed her big sister into dance classes and community theatre.

When she was twelve, the family moved to Anchorage, Alaska. After being kicked out of high school, she studied theatre at CalArts.

She has worked with many theaters including Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska (where she met and married the marvelous Tim), Denver Center Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Berkeley Rep. She once detoured from theatre to open a cheese shop, but then did a U-turn, and joined Artists Rep as the Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy in 2015. In addition to overseeing the commissioning and development work, she also directed Artists Rep’s World Premiere of The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse, A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig.

SHAWN LEE Producing Director ART Mercury Company Shawn Lee recently codirected the short film Better Maybe in Mercury Company I. Additional directing credits include Small Mouth Sounds and American Hero by Bess Wohl. In 2017, he directed Christopher Chen’s Caught, which was a multi-media theatre/art installation and collaboration with Portland visual artist, Horatio Law. He directed and co-produced the international tour of E. M. Lewis’ The Gun Show, starring Artists Rep Resident Artist, Vin Shambry, which premiered in CoHo Productions’ 21st season. After a sold out run, The Gun Show was remounted at Artists Rep before touring to the Logan Festival of Solo Performance at 1st Stage in ARTISTSREP.ORG 13

CAST & CREW Virginia, the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, Portland Public Schools, and Willamette University. Shawn is the Producing Director at Artists Rep and is now in his sixth season. In 2001, he co-founded the Furious Theatre Company in Los Angeles where he served as co-Artistic Director before moving to Portland in 2014.

KAREN M HILL Assistant Production Manager/ Line Producer ART Mercury Company Karen (she/her/hers) is happy to be at Artists Rep for her sixth season. She has worked on Wolf Play, Teenage Dick, Skeleton Crew, Magellanica, The Humans, An Octoroon, The Importance of Being Earnest, Marjorie Prime, A Civil War Christmas, American Hero, Grand Concourse, Miracle Worker, Cuba Libre, and Exiles. She also works at Portland Shakespeare Project, Profile Theatre, and the Portland Opera as a Stage Manager and Production Manager. She is grateful every day that she gets to create beautiful art, and would like to thank her husband, Mike, for his continued support of this crazy lifestyle.

JAMIE LYNNE SIMONS Assistant Production Manager/ Line Producer ART Mercury Company Jamie is delighted to rejoin this troupe of vamps, vices, scarred, and schemers at Artists Rep after previously stage managing White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, Magellanica, A Civil War Christmas, The Miracle Worker, and assisting on Everybody. Most recently, Jamie stage managed Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Nutcracker and Portland Center Stage at the Armory’s Redwood. Tour credit: Production Stage Manager for Hundred Days. Other ARTISTSREP.ORG 14

local credits: Portland Opera, Third Rail Repertory, Portland Playhouse, Profile Theatre, Chamber Music Northwest - and aiding in medical education at Oregon Health & Sciences University as a practice patient.

Jamie tramped around for a handful of years on cruise ships with Carnival Cruise Lines.

They have a BFA from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia and are the Chair of Portland’s Liaison Committee for Actors Equity Association.

KARL HANOVER Dialect Consultant & Voice Over Actor ART Mercury Company JULIA ZAZHIGINA Russian Dialect Advisor & Voice Over Actor AVITAL SHIRA Auxillary Magellanica Content Producer

CAST & CREW

THIS PRODUCTION OF MAGELLANICA AUDIO DRAMA IS DEDICATED TO AND IN MEMORY OF DAVE PETERSEN It is with joy and sadness that we dedicate this piece to David Petersen. Dave was a member of the ART staff as the Sound Technician since 2016, and consistently worked on countless ART productions and events over the course of 14 years.

Dave’s first job for the theatre was installing the sound system for the then newly acquired Morrison Stage. Dave had a relentless passion for his work. He seemed to love the biggest technical challenges most of all and Magellanica fit that bill for him. Dave was the original sound engineer/board op for the stage production of Magellanica and was instrumental in making it sound great as well as assisting in shifting all that scenery on the act breaks. He would have loved this audio version and we would have loved to have him work on it. He is missed.

Dave moved to Portland mid-summer of 2005 after receiving an Associates of Applied Science Degree in Audio and Recording Technologies. Dave was a Board Op for over 30 ART productions beginning with BUG. A few of his favorite (and most challenging) shows were Cuba Libre and Tribes.

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FRESH E YES Artists Rep’s Fresh Eyes program brings ‘civilians’ into the rehearsal process. On selected productions each season, we invite writers from diverse backgrounds to join us for a few rehearsals, and then share their observations of the process and the play on the website.

We hope the distinctive perspectives of our guests will illuminate the inner workings of a production, and enrich the experience for our audiences and community at large.

To start the 2020/21 season, our first Fresh Eyes for MAGELLANICA AUDIO DRAMA is Andrew Dawes, Ph.D. Professor of Physics at Pacific University. Andrew teaches in both the physics and optometry programs. Although his research focus is photonics and quantum optics, he is much happier to talk about his wide-ranging hobbies which include robotics, electronics, music, and theatre. His previous Fresh Eyes work appeared in La Ruta.

Science at the end of the world

by A. M. C. Dawes, Ph.D.

“The problem with being part of a story is that it is harder to know how to tell it.

Being inside it makes it difficult to see it” - Lars How do you tell a story if you are part of it? Indeed this is a central dilemma in all of science. As a physicist myself, I recognize that scientists are so directly connected to the work, that discussing our results in any real way means diving into our own world while somehow asking ourselves to be completely objective about the entire project. Is that even fair to ask of anyone? The process of disseminating scientific results is often one of building a compelling narrative around convincing data. How well that story is told can determine the interpretation of the results. In the worst cases, a bad story leads to complete dismissal of the data.

Science communication is facing a catastrophe with competing narratives on every topic from childhood vaccines, global pandemic response, and, yes, climate change (still!). What went wrong in wrapping a story around the data and telling it to the world?

Topics that are scientifically settled remain “up for debate” in the public eye anywhere science communication fails to close the gap. Trust in science suffers with any case of misconduct, making every scientist an essential piece of the puzzle. As in many ARTISTSREP.ORG 16

professions, the vast majority of researchers are doing great work, and following ethical guidelines. All it takes to undermine the entire scientific endeavor is a few corporate shills who publish research that is paid for by a single special interest. The tobacco industry pulled it off for years, and the oil industry is still using their playbook. With billions of dollars to throw into marketing and research, it isn’t hard to see why the dwindling public investment in science struggles to keep up.

When will it change? It changes when the public recognizes that pooling our own resources and investing them in search of the truth is better than leaving it up to the deep pockets of the special interests. Many (including maybe Dr. Vadik Chapayev in Magellanica) argue that the government can’t be trusted either. In some countries, that is certainly true. But for now, while we still have elected representation, our system of federal funding is our best chance at generating results that align with the truth. If the results of a scientific study have substantial financial impact for a specific industry, it is impossible for that industry to produce legitimate research on its own.

Climate science is now several generations into this problem, with no political consensus in sight. Even in the midst of extreme wildfires and hurricanes, convincing the

world this is a global problem seems so far out of reach these days. Yet the vast majority of scientists know and understand the data and how it connects to human impact on global climate. Our challenge is getting the message across and restoring trust in the scientific process.

So we start back at the story, we ask where the data come from, we ask who collected it and we ask where. And then we wonder “why were they in Antarctica?”

picking a research area she has not narrowed her scope at all. Dr. Morgan Halstead, fighting for what she “knows” is true and trying to justify a conclusion she knows is best for the world, battles with Vadik who faces much higher stakes for getting the science right. Is it worth his career, livelihood, life? If he brings results back that implicate Russia in climate change, he could end up in Siberia. The irony builds when Adam Burrell, the Captain, is catapulted into a leadership role at the last minute and trying to live up to it. The obsessive cartographer is at least half-dead for most of the play and the formal British Dr. William Huffington battles ridicule for watching glaciers move then finds himself puzzled as to why they moved more than he expected them to.

These twists and turns in the play keep things light in the face of deep battles, but more important is the way they bring humanity back to what is too often seen as a sterile process of doing science.

There is a lot in this play that resonates with me. My own optics lab is dark and cold, but hardly Antarctic. Still, it takes a special person with the right mix of curiosity and fortitude to venture into that room on purpose; the mad-science vibe imbues the space and gadgets fill most surfaces and corners. As I followed the characters of Magellanica into their new scientific home, I could instantly imagine an Antarctic base full of decades of science equipment left by generations The Antarctic ozone hole data collected by satellite on June 19th, 1986, the day Magellanica crew of prior researchers, ventured outside their base. tireless adventurers, and optimistic cartographers.

The isolated setting represents many frontiers. It is the dangerous edge of knowledge, a scientific frontier, but also a political frontier between Russia and America, and a personal frontier for characters pushing against the edge of their own careers. Death is literally at the door in Antarctica, but to scientists it feels like the death of knowledge is just as tragic. Frontier yes. Or is it literally the end of the world?

In this isolated setting, each scientist (and every person in general) is struggling to understand their place in the world, and how their view influences the scientific endeavor.

Dr. May Zhou, always good in classes, is now stuck in a remote lab having to finally pick what she wants to research. And what does she pick? “Everything”. Literally, she wants to study the theory of everything. In

Science is a human endeavor, and should be treated as such, with all the messy flexibility and grace we give artists as they too search for the truth. Ultimately, the sterility of scientific results may be what makes them so hard to love and believe. Adding humanity to the process is the way we demonstrate the value in scientific knowledge. Scientific truth doesn’t have to be a cold, hard truth, it can be a soft, warm truth, one that we should all value.

Ultimately, we see Morgan and Vadik working together at the end, forming consensus through their shared human experience -- and vodka. As an American scientist who has also spent some time in a “small metal can” (a boat on the Volga river in my case) drinking vodka with Russian scientists, I agree that this is absolutely the right way to approach international peace.

The critical step is making sure that the peace (and the data) don’t disappear in the morning.

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People who use telescopes get to be the heroes of the story.

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