White Rabbit Red Rabbit Program

2021/22 SEASON

WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT NASSIM SOLEIMANPOUR / IRAN

DEC 07—12 VIRTUAL EVENT

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All that you touch you change.

All that you change changes you.

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Emerson Paramount Center

Dreaming Zenzile Somi Kakoma / USA

Based on the life of Miriam Makeba.

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The beauty and fragility of the human condition collide to tell a story of resilience, courage, and love.

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Burgerz Travis Alabanza/Hackney Showroom / UK

A trans reclamation story, served with a side of fries.

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Sea Sick Alanna Mitchell/The Theatre Centre / Canada

A journalist trades headlines for the stage

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PRESENTS

WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT BY

NASSIM SOLEIMANPOUR PRODUCED BY

AURORA NOVA IN ASSOCIATION WITH

BOAT ROCKER ENTERTAINMENT DURATION: 60-70 MINUTES. AGE SUITABILITY: 14+ PERFORMERS

EMILY DUGGAN KENNEDY ELSEY ELIZABETH LORANTH JUSTIN ROMANO MARTIN ERIC PETERSON ANDERSON STINSON

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT NASSIM SOLEIMANPOUR

like Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Martin Short,

Nassim Soleimanpour is an

Bobby Cannavale, Wayne Brady, F. Murray Abraham,

Iranian playwright, theatre

Cynthia Nixon and etc.

maker and the Artistic Director of the Berlin Based Theatre

By the time Nassim was permitted to travel for the

company Nassim Soleimanpour

first time in early 2013, his play White Rabbit Red

Productions. His plays have been

Rabbit had already been performed hundreds of

translated into more than 30 lan-

times in more than a dozen languages. Since then

guages and performed globally in over 50 countries.

Nassim has facilitated workshops and panels in

Best known for his play White Rabbit Red Rabbit,

different events including World Theatre Festival

written to travel the world when he couldn’t, his

(Brisbane), Tolhuistuin (Amsterdam), SESC Vila

work has been awarded the Dublin Fringe Festival

Mariana (Sao Paulo), Schauspielhaus (Vienna), DPAC

Best New Performance, Summerworks Outstanding

(Kuala Lampur), Theatertreffen (Berlin), Grob Theatre

New Performance Text Award and The Arches Brick

(Copenhagen), British Council London and The Bush

Award (Edinburgh Fringe) as well as picking up nomi-

Theatre (London), University of Bremen (Germany),

nations for a Total Theatre and Brighton Fringe Pick

ISPA (Edinburgh), TATA Litreture (India), FAE (Lima),

of Edinburgh Award. White Rabbit Red Rabbit had a

Borak [Oz Asia] (Adelaide) and etc.

9 month Off-Broadway run casting celebrated actors

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‘I was born on Azar 19th, 1360 in Tehran. That’s Tehran, December 10th, 1981 in Christian years ... ’ Imagine being 29 and forbidden to leave your country. Nassim Soleimanpour dissects the experience of a whole generation in a wild, utterly original play from Iran. Forbidden to travel, he turns his isolation to his own advantage with a play that requires no director, no set and a different actor for every performance.

No rehearsals.

No director.

No set.

A different actor reads the script cold for the first time at each performance.

Will you participate?

Will you be manipulated?

Will you listen?

Will you really listen?

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SPECIAL THANKS Leadership Circle ($50,000+) Anonymous Pamela and Bob Adams Asian Healthcare Foundation of Massachusetts Barr Foundation The Charlotte Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Fresh Sound Foundation Fred Lowery Massachusetts Cultural Council The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts Valentine Talland and Nagesh Mahanthappa TJX Ted and Mary Wendell Legacy Circle ($25,000$49,999) Boston Arts Summer Institute Marian A. Godfrey and Thomas J. Gardner Lars Charitable Fund Liberty Mutual Foundation Mabel Louise Riley Foundation New England Foundation for the Arts Janet and David Offensend The Shubert Foundation Majestic Society ($10,000$24,999) Stewart Barns Boston Medical Center HealthNet Ruth Davidson and Emily Sherwood Alyce and Patrick Lee David and Christine Letts Peter Loge David and Kathy Maister David and Joan Maxwell Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture Drs. Robert and Shari Thurer Marillyn Zacharis Paramount Society ($5,000$9,999) Anonymous Burt Family In honor of Michal and Moshe Safdie Coraline and Stephen Schwartz Jane and Michael Wojcik Marquee Society ($1,000$4,999) Akamai Technologies Anonymous Association of Performing Arts Presenters Art House Convergence Edward Boesel Kevin Bright Carone Family Foundation Denise Casper Donna Cowan and Barry Nelson Mary E. Darmstaetter Richard Ferrante David Genser Teri Groome and Paul Belanger Terence Janericco Ken and Traci Johnson In Honor of Christine Letts Barbara Lemperly Grant and Frederic D. Grant, Jr. Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky Jacqui Lindsay Christopher and Nancy Oddleifson Rob and Pam Orchard

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LEADERSHIP DAVID C. HOWSE Executive Director David C. Howse joined ArtsEmerson as executive director in 2015 and is fiscally and administratively responsible for multiple cultural venues in Downtown Boston. Prior, he served as executive director of Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC), where he was instrumental in helping grow BCC from a pilot project serving 20 kids in 2003 to a vibrant organization educating more than 500 singers in 12 choirs in 5 locations. David was named as one of the GK100: Boston’s Most Influential People of Color, earned the Social Innovation Forum Achievement Award (Root Cause) and was included in the “40 Under 40” (Boston Business Journal). He serves in many capacities in the community, including service on the boards of Exponential Creativity Ventures, Social Innovation Forum, Philanthropy Massachusetts, and as a Trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts. He also serves on the Board of Corporators for Eastern Bank and the Advisory Council of the New England Foundation for the Arts. David earned degrees from Bradley University (Peoria, IL) and New England Conservatory of Music (Boston, MA) and is a graduate of The Partnership’s Next Generation Executive Leadership Program at Harvard University. He teaches at the Institute for Nonprofit Practice. Originally from Murfreesboro, TN, he resides in Milton, MA. Twitter: @dchowse RONEE PENOI Director of Artistic Programming Ronee Penoi (Laguna Pueblo/Cherokee) was most recently a Producer with Octopus Theatricals, where she advanced the work of Cherokee artist DeLanna Studi (And So We Walked), Phantom Limb Company (Falling Out), Ripe Time (Sleep), Homer’s Coat (An Iliad by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson), Theatre for One, and more. She is a two-time ISPA (International Society of Performing Arts) Global Fellow, and has been an APAP (Association of Performing Arts Professionals) Leadership Fellow and TCG (Theatre Communications Group) Rising Leader of Color. Ronee is a Founding Member of The Industry Standard Group (TISG), a commercial investment and producing organization with an intentional focus on increasing the presence of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) investors and producers in the commercial producing field. She is also part of the consortium leadership of First Nations Performing Arts, a proud NEFA (New England Foundation for the Arts) National Theater Project Advisor, serves on Western Arts Alliance Committees, and leads the Creative and Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA) Programs Committee. Ronee is a two-time recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship as well as additional awards for her musical composing work with collaborator Annalisa Dias on #Resist and The Carlisle Project. She is also CoFounder and collaborator with Groundwater Arts Collective dedicated to climate justice in the arts. Previously, Ronee was NNPN Producer-in-Residence at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Senior Producing Fellow and Directing Fellow at Arena Stage, and toured nationally with Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy. She spent three years with the Consensus Building Institute, a non-profit specializing in facilitation and mediation services. Her current anti-racism practice builds upon a decolonization framework and embraces systems change as a key component of that work. She graduated with honors from Princeton University with a degree in Music with certificates in Vocal Performance and Theatre & Dance.

She has been invited to guest lecture on producing at Princeton University, CalArts, Howard University, and for American University’s graduate Arts Administration program.

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