CSUF DEPARTMENT of THEATRE & DANCE presents
April 30 (5 pm) - May 5, 2021
California State University, Fullerton
UNIVERSITY CREDITS Framroze Virjee, President, California State University, Fullerton Carolyn Thomas Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Danny C. Kim, Vice President, Administration and Finance/CFO David Forgues, Vice President, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion Amir H. Dabirian, Vice President, Information Technology Tonantzin Oseguera, Vice President, Student Affairs Gregory J. Saks, Vice President, University Advancement
C OL L E G E O F T H E AR T S Dale A. Merrill, Dean Arnold Holland, Associate Dean Maricela Alvarado, Assistant Dean Christopher Johnson, Budget Coordinator Heather Guzman, Assistant to the Deans Jade Jewett, Chair, Department of Visual Arts Dave Mickey, Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance Katherine Powers, Director, School of Music Jennifer Frias, Director, Nicholas & Lee Begovich Gallery John Spiak, Director, Grand Central Art Center - Santa Ana Lara Farhadi, Senior Director of Development Ann Steichen, Director of Development Julie Bussell, Director, Marketing & Patron Services Stephanie Tancredi, Box Office Manager Heather Richards-Siddons Marketing & Communications Specialist; Theatre & Dance program designer Alvin Chiu, Graphic Designer Jason Pano Social Media Strategist
WELCOME Hello, and welcome to the Department of Theatre & Dance virtual presentation of Policarpa. We are so excited to share this performance with you! First, I want to thank all of the students, faculty, and staff who have worked tirelessly to make
this possible. I’ve personally witnessed our college rise to the challenges of these times to reach far above expectations. Our performing arts students continue to thrive, delivering some of the most heartfelt and thought-provoking performances I’ve seen. This semester has demonstrated one thing loud and clear: the arts are active, vibrant, and resilient here at Cal State Fullerton. Just as the arts continue to adapt and evolve, so have our students. These Titans of the Arts – unwavering in their passion and commitment to their craft – are the reason we do what we do as educators, administrators, and staff. I look forward to seeing theatre, dance, and music students rehearsing throughout the performing arts building, and visual arts students creating in the breezeways and art courtyard once again. It’s so quiet here without them! Until we see each other again face-toface, stay safe, stay strong, and keep creating. We hope you enjoy the show! Sincerely,
Dale A. Merrill Dean, College of the Arts
Dave Mickey Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance Debra Noble,* Vice Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance FULL-TIME FACULTY | Theatre
FULL-TIME STAFF Department of Theatre & Dance
Acting Maria Cominis Svetlana Efremova• Eve Himmelheber John Short Jim Taulli
Administration Hilda Aboytia Technical and Production Staff
Design and Technical Production Scott Bolman Hyun Sook Kim Fred Kinney JR Luker Bill Meyer Dave Mickey Jamie Tucker• Kathryn Wilson
Mike August, Production Manager Lois Bryan, Master Electrician Matt Connelly, Amanda Horak, and Russell Mackensen Assistant Technical Director Heidi Enzlin Cole, Charge Scenic Artist Jen Frauenzimmer Business/ Production Coordinator
Directing Mark Ramont•* Theatre Studies Heather Denyer• Jim Volz Voice and Movement Evelyn Carol Case Anne James David Nevell• FULL-TIME FACULTY | Dance Muriel Joyce Lisa D. Long Debra Noble* Alvin Rangel-Alvarado
Lori Koontz, Costume Lab Ross Jones, TV Studio Technician Jeff Lewis, Production Sound Engineer Bob West, Properties Master Brigitte Bellavoine, Jennifer Schniepp & Craig Shields, Accompanists Stephanie Tancredi Box Office Manager & Safety Coordinator
*denotes program coordinator / •denotes area head
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Dramaturg Abel Marquez Director of Photography Libby Nicolay Production Manager Mike August** Media/Effects Editor Colby Nordberg^ Scenic Designer Mio Okada Costume, Makeup/Hair Designer Carina Holley Lighting Designer & Programmer Scott Bolman*
Sound Designer & Engineer Scott Garner Abled Advocate Consultant Jose Castillo Puppetry Consultant Abel Marquez Stage Manager CJ Lazatin * Faculty
* Staff
^ Guest Artist
Special Thanks Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble; Josephine Hernandez and Jose Castillo (CSUF’s Abled Advocators, Community Outreach Coordinator) for their guidance in navigating representation for persons with disabilities and sharing their lived experiences to create this production; Marleena Barber, Director of VSA Orange County (the organization serving artists with disabilities) and Visual and Performing Arts Consultant to Orange County Department of Education; Mitch Martinez for the use of his Stock Footage; and composer Moises Vázquez for allowing us the use some of your amazing sounds.
Land Acknowledgement The Department of Theatre and Dance acknowledges our presence on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation. We want to acknowledge that this space we are occupying today is not an invisible space, or an imaginary space-- it is a lived space, a physical space, a stolen space. We pay our respects to the Indigenous land caretakers past, present, and emerging. We invite you to acknowledge the land in which you occupy and their respective Indigenous stewards in the comments/chat before the performance. If you’d like to know more information on Indigenous communities in our area or your own, please utilize the resource below and consider giving back to Indigenous Communities during these difficult times. Resources https://native-land.ca/ https://gabrielinotribe.org/ http://nahc.ca.gov/cp/tribal-atlas-pages/gabrielino-tongva-nation/
Policarpa Cast POLICARPA.............................................................................................Sabrina Lopez BIBIANO/VOICE............................................................................Noe Venegas-Lamas INGRID...........................................................................................Audrey Lyn Crabano PAZ..............................................................................................................Maya Garza REALIDAD.................................................................................................Delilah Lopez VALENTIA...............................................................................................Keza Kananura LAURELIA/ENSEMBLE/BUTTERFLY....................................................Leyna Camacho SOLDADO/VOICE........................................................................................Jacobii Leal VIEJO/VOICE........................................................................................Alejandro Castro ENSEMBLE/BUTTERFLY......................................................................Tatiana Martinez PUPPETRY ARTISTS..............................Alex Corey, Aurora Donaldson, Abel Marquez
Setting
La Gran Colombia Nueva The piece exists in memory and in mists. Act/Scene Act 1 SCENE 01 Fireworks........................................................................................Policarpa SCENE 02 The Breezes of Barranquilla/A Year Earlier..........Ingrid, Paciencia, Realidad SCENE 03 Arepas/Now....................................................................Policarpa, Soldado SCENE 04 A Religious House/A Year Earlier............Policarpa, Bibiano, Ingrid, Laurelia SCENE 05 The Beauty Queen/Memory.................................Policarpa, Bibiano, Ingrid, Paciencia, Soldado SCENE 06 Butterflies Dance/The Present in the Jail Cell............Policarpa, (Butterflies) SCENE 07 Sweets and Seizures/A Year Ago................Bibiano, Paciencia, (Butterflies) SCENE 08 Interrogation/Jail Cell/The Present.................................Policarpa, Soldado SCENE 09 Sewing the Fabric/A Year Earlier.........................Policarpa, Bibiano, Ingrid,
Paciencia, (Butterflies)
SCENE 10 Interrogation 2............................................Policarpa, (Bibiano), (Butterflies) SCENE 11 Mi General.......................................................Policarpa, Realidad, Valentia SCENE 12 Holy Orders/Memory.............................Policarpa, Bibiano, Ingrid, Laurelia SCENE 13 Comida...........................................................................Policarpa, Soldado SCENE 14 El Viejo y Su Burro/Memory...................Policarpa, Laurelia, Realidad, Viejo SCENE 15 Saint Laurelia/The Cell.................................Policarpa, Laurelia, (Butterflies)
Act 2 SCENE 16 Dress/A Memory..............................................................Policarpa, Valentia SCENE 17 Guerrillas.............................................................................Policarpa, Ingrid SCENE 18 Pola’s Suicide/Now.........................................................Policarpa, Soldado SCENE 19 A Video Game..................................................................Bibiano, Paciencia SCENE 20 Pola’s Escape/Now.....................Policarpa, Realidad, Soldado, (Butterflies) SCENE 21 Ingrid’s Reasons/Memory....Policarpa, Bibiano, Ingrid, Paciencia, Realidad SCENE 22 Arequipe Y Baile............Policarpa, Ingrid, Paciencia, Realidad, (Butterflies) SCENE 23 The Fairy Tale Ball/Memory..........Policarpa, Soldado, Valentia, (Butterflies) SCENE 24 Escape.....................................Bibiano, Ingrid, Paciencia, Viejo, (Butterflies) SCENE 25 DNA...............................Policarpa, Realidad, Soldado, Valentia, (Butterflies) SCENE 26 Sacrifices...........................................Policarpa, Ingrid, Valentia, (Butterflies)
About the Playwright Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is a playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Diana’s play Ghosts of Bogota, won the Nu Voices festival at Actors Theatre of Charlotte in 2019. Ghosts was commissioned and debuted at Alter Theater in the Bay Area in Feb 2020. Sapience - SF 2020 Winner and was featured at Latinx Theatre Festival, San Diego Rep 2020. Fabulous Monsters, a Kilroys selection was to premiere at Playwrights Arena in 2020 (postponed). She was in Center Theatre Group’s 2018-19 Writers Workshop cohort and is in the Geffen’s Writers Lab in ‘20-’21. She has worked on projects with South Coast Repertory, Artists Repertory Theatre, Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble and Center Theatre Group and Livermore Shakespeare Festival. Diana recently played Amalia in Jose Cruz Gonzales’ American Mariachi at South Coast Repertory and Arizona Theatre Company, and Marisela in La Ruta at Artists Repertory. You can also see her as Viv the Punk in the cult musical Isle of Lesbos. She is the current Dramatists Guild Rep for Southern California. www.dianaburbano.com
Playwright’s Note Policarpa, while ostensibly about a Colombian icon, was written in response to violence, trauma and the mistreatment of the female body right here in the United States. I have never lived in my birth country. I embellished the memories and impressions I have with exploration about life for Latinx women here in the antiimmigrant U.S. and used a framework of mythologies and stories from Colombia to examine the day to day trauma of living while female. Policarpa was to have been performed last April but was cancelled at the start of the pandemic. The irony that this play, written before our current crisis, features a world grappling with an unstoppable virus. (We knew.) I’m very grateful to CSUF’s Theatre department for choosing this play and for Sara Guerrero, mi comadre, la mera mera Xingona, for helming it with such imagination and fierceness. To the cast and crew, thank you for giving of yourselves, locked in your little boxes but exploding through them to present this violent, vivid world with such heart and grace. Estoy llena de amor y gratitud.
About the Director Sara Guerrero (she/hers) a Southern California Chicana native of Mexican, Mestizo ancestry, is a professional versatile theatre artist whose mission is to model, share, and create theatre-making opportunities for and with her community. A CalArts alum, she has been recognized as a 2020 Hispanic Lifestyle Latina of Influence Honoree, a 2020 Woman of Distinction by Senator Umberg and California Senate District 34, one of the People to Watch by American Theatre Magazine, and “Best [Artistic] Director” and Person of Interest by OC WEEKLY. As the founding artistic director of Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble, an award-winning, Santa Ana-based group, she and the ensemble are Artists-in-Residence at Grand Central Arts Center of the California State University, Fullerton. Under Guerrero’s leadership, the organization serves as an incubator for underrepresented voices in theater by providing programming and guidance in the art of storytelling. During the pandemic, Guerrero directed Essentials by Diana Burbano for Center Theatre Group and Augusto Federico Amador’s Atacama for Queens Theater and
Abingdon Theater, both based in New York. And, Amador’s Fresno at The Road Theater Company of Los Angeles where she also directed Jennifer Maisel’s Bubble for their Under Construction Series. All streamed online. Later this spring, Guerrero is excited to be returning to her writing with her new play Have to Believe We Are Magic, a Latinx coming of age play, based in Orange County, that will be presented at Teatro Vivo’s Austin Latinx New Play Festival May 13 through 15, 2021. Guerrero is the writer and director of Festival of the Dead, which celebrates the traditional Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Commissioned and produced by Pacific Symphony, the play is presented with a 120+ piece symphony and has been presented at Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall (Costa Mesa) and Meng Concert Hall at California State University, Fullerton. Guerrero has also collaborated with writer Gustavo Arellano and conductor Greg Flores for the play Canto De Anaheim, commissioned by Pacific Symphony. The project combines story, symphony, and new and traditional music to highlight the Latinx histories and experiences of Anaheim, CA. Additionally, Guerrero is a longtime teaching artist for South Coast Repertory, and has worked, directed, taught, lectured, and or collaborated with Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Center Theatre Group, Creede Repertory of Colorado, Pacific Symphony, University of Oklahoma, California State University of Los Angeles, La Habra’s Children’s Museum, Arts OC, California State University of Long Beach, Musco Center, Brown Bag Theatre of UC Irvine, Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD), Orange County School of the Arts, Upward Bound, Educational Outreach Program of Los Angeles, Fringe Benefits, and many more. Previously, she served as the director for SCR’s Dialogue/Diálogos Project (a two-year bilingual, community theatre-making project) and was producing artistic associate to the project’s production, El Largo Camino de Hoy/The Long Road Today by José Cruz González. Additional directing credits: Blood Wedding, A. Max Weitzenhoffer Theatre; Atacama, Breath of Fire Live Stream Reading; Fresno, Latino Theater Company Summer on the Spring Reading Festival; Festival of the Dead, Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall; Canto de Anaheim, Pearson Amphitheatre; Policarpa, TalkBack Theatre; She Kills Monsters, The Playhouse of Cal State University of Los Angeles; Guadalupe in the Guest Room, Creede Repertory Theatre, Co.; The Madres, (A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere), Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles; Rosado, John Lion New Plays Festival, Cal State University Los Angeles; Fabulous Monsters, Latinx New Plays Festival of San Diego Repertory; Real Women Have Curves, Costa Mesa Playhouse; Angel of the Desert, South Coast Repertory; and holds an extensive list of additional credits and works with other major institutes, organizations, universities, schools, and communities. During the pandemic Guerrero continues to direct, create and produce through her ensemble and other theaters online, while practicing safe distancing. Wear your mask! Guerrero supports herself as a teaching & theatre artist: www.teatroguerrero.com
Policarpa Student Production Staff Assistant Director Casey Collaso
Assistant Stage Manager Miranda Vazquez Assistant Lighting Designer A.J. Díaz Audio Setup Scott Garner
Assistant Costume Designer Dressel Daisy
Assistant Makeup Designer Rebecca Greico Camera Operators Libby Nicolay
Zoom Operator Miranda Vazquez
Production Office Assistant Carol Smith Sparkman Faculty Mentors Dramaturg Mentor Heather J. Denyer, PhD Scenic Mentor Fred Kinney Costume & Make-Up Design Mentor Katie Wilson Lighting Design Mentor Scott Bolman Sound Design Mentor Rebecca Kessin Technical Direction Mentor JR Luker Production Manager & Stage Management Mentor Jamie Tucker Production Staff Assistant Staff Technical Directors Matt Connelly, Amanda Horak, and Russell Mackensen Production/Business Coordinator & Supervisor Jen Frauenzimmer Master Electrician & Supervisor Lois Bryan Properties Master & Supervisor Bob West Box Office Manager Stephanie Tancredi Lead House Manager Cathi Craig Scenic Artist Heidi Enzlin Cole Safety Liaison Stephanie Tancredi
Photo credits Stephen Radford / @steve228uk 1. Burning house - Quorn, United Kingdom Amber Kipp / @sadmax 2. People walking on the street during night time - 5.30.20 #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd protest in Grand Rapids, MI 3. Black framed glass window with white snow - 5.30.20 #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd protest in Grand Rapids, MI 4. People standing on the street during the night time - 5.30.20 #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd protest in Grand Rapids, MI Patrick Perkins @patrickperkins 5. aerial view of San Francisco - San Francisco 2020, after the labor day fires Flavio Gasperini @flaviewxvx 6. Broken car covered with flame Florian Olivo @florianolv 7. People standing on the snow covered ground during night time 8. Burning vehicle at night time 9. People standing on the street with red smoke Alex McCarthy @4lexmccarthy 10. Silhouette of people standing on field with fireworks - Tegucigalpa, Honduras Hasan Almasi @hasanalmasi 11. People gathering on the street during the nighttime- Sunny Night Austrian National Library @austriannationallibrary 12. World War One Destruction, Altar in the church of Segusino Warren Wong @wflwong 13. Person holding black and red hoodie holding smoke bomb Cottonbro omycotton.com 14.https://www.pexels.com/photo/personwith-a-hammer-standing-on-the-roof-of-acar-5427745/ Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images (The Guardian) 15. Protesters and riot police clash in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday, a day after more than 250,000 people marched to express growing upset with president Iván Duque’s government. Ivan Valencia/AP (Washington Post) 16. A demonstrator kicks a police officer during protests in Bogota on Sept. 9.
Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters (Aljazeera) 17. A rubbish container on fire during protests after a man, who was arrested for violating social distancing rules, died from being repeatedly shocked with a stun gun by officers, according to authorities, in Bogota, Colombia AP Photo/Ivan Valencia (MSN.com / Newsweek) 18. 3/17 SLIDES © ASSOCIATED PRESS Demonstrators clash with police during protests sparked by the death of a man after he was detained by police in Bogota, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Javier Humberto Ordonez, 46, died in hospital after receiving repeated electric shocks with a stun gun from officers who detained him for violating social distancing rules to curb the spread of the coronavirus. 19. 4/17 SLIDES © ASSOCIATED PRESS A man uses a slingshot to throw stones at police during protests sparked by the death of a man after he was detained by police in Bogota, Wednesday, September 9, 2020. Javier Humberto Ordonez, 46, died in hospital after receiving repeated electric shocks with a stun gun from officers who detained him for violating social distancing rules to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Photo © Diego Grandi/iStock. 20. The Catedral de Sal lies underground in an old salt mine. Photo by Luis Andújar M. on behance 21. Catedral de Sal. Zipaquirá. Colombia. Tunel de acceso en Azul Photo: Léo Tisseau 22. No solamente existe una catedral a 180 metros de profundidad, sino que además está construida completamente con sal.
Director’s Note “Do not forget my example,” believed to be the last words of our historical figure, Policarpa, as she turned directly to meet the firing squad. This is an example that is frightening, powerful, and hero-inspired. It feels almost unattainable, unmatchable. But women everywhere, here and all over the world, at the expense of themselves, continue to make examples: fighting for justice, equity, human rights, the very act to exist, and sometimes tell their story. Burbano harnesses the power of this example in her writing, her characters, and this play. And to stage it, requires attention to match that very fierceness. And, I am forever grateful to our playwright and the department, to have the opportunity to helm it. Stories and plays like Policarpa, of strong women, of color, and of outside ethnicities, aren’t often staged nor are many actors who get to play them. So, again, to have this opportunity is incredible. And, let it be our example to not forget but to celebrate, support, and repeat more theatre like this. I dedicate this production to the fierceness that is my cast, team, and designers who, together in the face of a pandemic, social inequity, and Zoom, present to you, the world, and the people of Policarpa. Thank you.
A Note From Dramaturg Abel Marquez “Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.” – Policarpa Salavarrieta
As one of the first dramaturgs at CSUF this semester – alongside my colleagues Jennifer Burch and Carol Smith Sparkman – it is my pleasure to say this show was a tremendous gift. The depth of Diana Burbano’s play has no limits. Immersed in the rich history of Colombia, the world of Policarpa blends reality, magical realism, and myth into a vibrant tale. The play takes inspiration from the renowned figure of Policarpa Salavarrieta as well as two notable figures in the deep lore of Indigenous Colombia: Bachué and Chía. Policarpa Salavarrieta was a woman born in New Granada on January 26, 1795. Often referred to as “La Pola,” Policarpa is a Colombian heroine and a symbol
of resistance and liberation. She was a spy for la revolución against the Spanish Empire, infiltrating the homes of the Spanish Royalists to gather intel to use to fight for Colombian independence. Posing as seamstress by day, La Pola would meet with other patriots and revolutionaries by night in the city of Bogotá. While she spied for the Revolutionary forces during the Spanish Reconquista of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, she recruited young men for the cause. In 1967, the Republic of Colombia declared November 14 to be celebrated as the Day of the Colombian Woman in honor of her fight for independence. This play takes the history of La Pola and recontextualizes it in a post-apocalyptic world reflecting the harsh realities of ongoing war, conquest, and discrimination against the indigenous peoples of Colombia. The indigenous peoples of Colombia use language to represent their ancestry, their customs and their connection to the land of Colombia. The beliefs of the Muiscas in particular influence the world Diana Burbano has created in Policarpa. Bachué, the mother goddess of the Muisca religion, emerged from the deep river of Lake Iguaque to give life to the Muisca and populate the earth. She taught her children how to connect with the land to survive. Her name simultaneously means a way of living to the Muisca and a connection to nature and the universe. Conversely, Chía (literally translated as “the one who is like the moon”), is the goddess of beauty, femininity, witchcraft, and sexual liberation. Like other dual figures in mythology, (Artemis to the Greeks, or Isis to the Egyptians), Chía embodies the realities women faced against patriarchal ideals in Muisca’s history. She is worshipped among the Muisca peoples, encouraging women to celebrate and dance, to enjoy pleasure, and to fight to have the same rights as men. There are now 115 different indigenous peoples living in the country today, for a combine total of roughly two-million or 4.4% of the country’s total population. All these female figures are fused to create a protagonist figure who explores the journey for liberation. The post-apocalyptic setting emphasizes the realities of the historic La Pola and the indigenous people of Colombia. Policarpa Salavarrieta was sentenced to death for her “treacherous” crimes against the Spanish on November 14, 1817, and executed by firing squad at Bolívar Square in Bogotá. Since 2019, there have been a growing number of murders of indigenous persons and increased hate crimes against them throughout Colombia. As you watch this play, know that these figures are not simply characters on a stage; they represent lived beliefs and customs of Colombia, a love which beats like a living pulse within the veins of this play.
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DONOR APPLAUSE
The College of the Arts extends its heartfelt gratitude to the following patrons who have supported our students and programs this past year through a generous gift of $1,000 or more to the College, the School of Music, Department of Theatre & Dance, and/or the Department of Visual Arts.** $50,000+ Anonymous Lori & John Loftus MAMM Alliance Music Associates Dwight Richard Odle Estate Orange County Community Foundation $25,000+ Art Alliance Lee C. Begovich Johnny Carson Foundation Leo Freedman Foundation Mary A. Lyons Alan A. Mannason Estate Terri & Bob Niccum Frank J. & Jean Raymond Andrea J. & Jeffrey E. Sward $10,000+ Affordable Housing Access Inc. Anonymous Brite Ideas, Inc. California Bank & Trust Marilyn Carlson Darryl Curran Friends of Jazz, Inc Michael Horn Isabel G. James Robin & Steve Kalota Morningside of Fullerton Eleanore & James L. Monroe Ann & Douglas Myles Dr. Katherine S. Powers & Håkan O. Rosengren Christine A. Rhoades Mary & William Sampson Ann & Thad Sandford Donna L. & Ernest W. Schroeder Sue & Dr. Edward A. Sullivan Dr. Marc R. Dickey $5,000+ Daniel Barsky Terry D. Ching Jones Edward
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Very special care has been given to the preparation of this donor listing. Please contact Ann Steichen at (657) 278-7124 with questions or concerns. **Gifts received from July 1, 2019 through October 2020
ONTIVEROS SOCIETY The Ontiveros Society includes individuals who have provided a gift for Cal State Fullerton through their estate plan. Our deep appreciation is extended to the following Ontiveros Society members, whose gifts will benefit the students and mission of the College of the Arts: Anonymous Lee & Dr. Nicholas A. Begovich* Gail & Michael Cochran Marc R. Dickey Betty Everett Carol J. Geisbauer & John Geisbauer* Sophia & Charles Gray MaryLouise & Ed Hlavac Gretchen Kanne
Dr. Burton L. Karson Anne L. Kruzic* Loreen & John Loftus Alan A. Mannason* William J. McGarvey* Dr. Sallie Mitchell Eleanore P. & James L. Monroe Lynn & Robert Myers Dwight Richard Odle*
Sherry & Dr. Gordon Paine Dr. June Pollak & Mr. George Pollak* Mary K. & William Sampson Douglas G. Stewart Andrea J. & Jeffrey E. Sward Richard J. Taylor Verne Wagner Richard Wulff Dr. James D. & Dottie Young*
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ART ALLIANCE: Art Alliance promotes excellence and enjoyment in the visual arts, and their fundraising efforts contribute to student scholarship, gallery exhibitions, opening receptions and sculpture acquisition on campus. Special support and event underwriting Fay Colmar & Vincent Preece* John DeLoof
Joann Driggers & Steve Collier Loraine Walkington
MAMM ALLIANCE: The MAMM Alliance for the Performing Arts unites like-minded members who enjoy fun and fellowship, while benefiting the students through underwriting visiting artists, special theatre, dance and music performances, and other unique experiences. Special support and event underwriting Judy Atwell Drs. Voiza & Joe Arnold Ebell Club of Fullerton
Dr. Margaret Faulwell Gordon Norma Morris Richard Odle Estate
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MUSIC ASSOCIATES: Music Associates maintains a tradition of active involvement and community support, and raises scholarship funds for School of Music students through annual fundraising events and membership dues. Special support and event underwriting Marilyn & Jack Carlson* Evelyn K. Francuz Sandy & Norm Johnson Marti & Bill Kurschat Karen & George Mast
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Department Notes & Policies Covid-19 Safety Protocols • • •
Venue capacity is 50 students, seated singly and socially distanced. Masks must be worn at all times. The entire presentation must be attended from start to finish due to safety protocols.
Commitment to Diversity The Department of Theatre & Dance affirms its commitment to inclusiveness in student learning and success in all areas of theatre based on merit and achievement, and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical appearance, mental or physical disability, marital status or age. Cell Phones & Electronic Devices Cellphones and other electronic devices must be turned off prior to the start of the performance and at the beginning of the second half to minimize disruptions in the theater and ensure the enjoyment of all patrons in attendance. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited, and any recordings will be asked to be deleted. Food & Drink Policy Food and drink is not allowed in the venue, with the exception of bottled water. If you do not follow these guidelines, you may be asked to leave. *** Faculty, Staff and Guest Artists of the Department of Theatre & Dance are specialists in their respective disciplines. Within these groups, the following professional artist unions are represented: • • • • • •
SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Radio and Television Artists) SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society) USA (United Scenic Artists) AEA (Actors’ Equity Association) AGMA (American Guild of Musical Artists) AGVA - American Guild of Variety Artists
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival™ 53, part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein. Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein; the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation; the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Hilton Worldwide; and Beatrice and Anthony Welters and the AnBryce Foundation. Education and related artistic programs are made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The aims of this national theater education program are to identify and promote quality in college level theater production. To this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional KCACTF representative, and selected students and faculty are invited to participate in KCACTF programs involving scholarships, internships, grants and awards for actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage managers and critics at both the regional and national levels. Productions entered on the Participating level are eligible for invitation to the KCACTF regional festival and may also be considered for national awards recognizing outstanding achievement in production, design, direction and performance. Last year more than 1,300 productions were entered in the KCACTF involving more than 200,000 students nationwide. By entering this production, our theater department is sharing in the KCACTF goals to recognize, reward, and celebrate the exemplary work produced in college and university theaters across the nation.
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