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What’s happening with the building?

It’s the question we’re hearing most often at Curious, and we completely understand. The building is still on the market for sale, and we want to assure you that we will continue to call our beloved Acoma Street building home through our upcoming Season 28, kicking off in early September 2025. As we get closer to wrapping up this season, we’re more energized than ever, fueled by your incredible support and enthusiasm.

The truth is, we’re in a fortunate position with the building. We’re not just waiting for any offer; we’re being thoughtful about the deal we pursue. In partnership with our realtor, we're looking for the right fit—one that aligns with the future we envision for Curious and supports everything we've built together.

We’re committed to transparency about our future and are excited for what’s ahead. Season 28 marks another bold chapter in our journey, and we can't wait to keep creating, innovating, and sharing the magic of live theatre with you. Your continued support means the world to us, and we’re ready to rise even higher.

Let the ascent begin!

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At the heart of this piece is a woman standing at a crossroads. Iris—an artist, a seeker—has packed her bags, ready to go, but where? Which direction? To move forward, she must remember. She must recall.

This play lives in that space between shadow and light, between memory and motion. Like an eclipse, it holds a strange and powerful tension, where brightness is momentarily obscured, but not extinguished. In that temporary darkness, something is revealed. A clarity. A reckoning. A recalibration. A choice.

Iris’s journey is driven by an urgent need: to be seen. To be heard. Fully. Not in fragments, not distorted, not forgotten, not erased—but wholly, in all her complexity. She demands to be heard, not just in this moment, but across time.

As we dove into this new work, I kept returning to the question: What do we carry forward from those who came before us? What parts of their stories shape the way we walk through the world—even when we don’t realize it? Iris reaches back to claim her story in full color, in full force. Her mission is not only personal; it’s ancestral. It’s a calling to name what’s been fragmented, to recall what was lost, and to reimagine what’s possible.

The space around her is textured with the unseen—layers of history etched into the floor, hidden in the walls, suspended in the air. It asks us to look closely, to lean in. Within that rawness, there is beauty. There is resilience. There is an unbroken line of memory and resistance pulsing beneath every word, every gesture.

Iris is not alone in this journey. She is held—sometimes challenged, sometimes carried—by the voices of those who surround her. They are echoes. Reflections of lineage. Guardians of what was and what might still be.

Our approach was like composing a ritual. A calling forth. A way to make space for what’s been buried—to let it breathe, speak, move. To remember. To recall. To bring forward what has been obscured, to pull the past forward and through as a way to understand how it shapes the present. As the audience, you are not merely observing—you are invited to feel, to remember, and to engage. To be an active witness to Iris’ journey. The invitation: o remember.

To recall.

To listen.

To feel what lives in the silence.

To honor the act of being fully seen.

To find the light, even as the shadow moves across the sun.

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BY REGINA TAYLOR DIRECTED BY JADA SUZANNE DIXON♰ STARRING

REGINA TAYLOR IRIS

TINA ANDERSON

SCENIC CONSULTANT

WAYNE BREYER

PROJECTIONS DESIGN

JANICE BENNING LACEK**

JON OLSON

COSTUME DESIGN

KATIE HOPWOOD PROPERTIES DESIGN

SABRINA ABBOTT

ASSISTANT SOUND DESIGN

CECE SMITH

SOUND DESIGN

LIGHTING DESIGN

LARA MAERZ*

STAGE MANAGEMENT

EVETTE SROUJI

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

HEIDI SCHMIDT DRAMATURG

CADEN PAZO

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

SPECIAL THANKS

LESLIE HEROD, NICHOLLE HARRIS, JOE MAZZA, CARLOTTA WALLS LANIER, DIANNE BRISCOEMCKENZIE, TINA WALLS, GERRI GOMEZ HOWARD, LADAWN SULLIVAN, DZIRAE GOLD, VANESSA JAMISON, WILMA WEBB, CLEO PARKER ROBINSON, KENYA FASHAW

EXHIBIT WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION

BOLD = CURIOUS ARTISTIC COMPANY MEMBER * = APPEARING THROUGH AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THIS THEATRE, CURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY, AND ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, THE UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES. ** = MEMBER OF THE UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS, LOCAL USA 829 ♰ = DIRECTOR IS A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, A NATIONAL THEATRICAL LABOR UNION

EXHIBIT IS A GRANT RECIPIENT FROM THE SOLO FLIGHTS PROJECT ADVANCEMENT FUND AND WAS DEVELOPED IN PART AT THEATRE ASPEN'S 2023 SOLO FLIGHTS FESTIVAL. JED BERNSTEIN, PRODUCING DIRECTOR. EXHIBIT WAS DEVELOPED IN PART AT THE HERMITAGE ARTIST RETREAT (SARASOTA COUNTY, FL). ANDY SANDBERG, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR.

ARTIST Biographies Regina Taylor, she/her (Iris, Playwright) TV credits include : Taylor in her TV role as Lily Harper in I’LL FLY AWAY received a Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actress, 3 NAACP Image Awards (THE UNIT) and 2 Emmy Award nominations. the first African American lead in Masterpiece Theatre’s CORA UNASHAMED, starred as Anita Hill in HBO’’s STRANGE JUSTICE (Gracie Award), A GOOD DAY TO DIE (Sidney Poitier) THE UNIT, CSIVEGAS (Hollywood Critics Award), JUSTIFIED, FIRST LADY, LOVECRAFT COUNTRY and THE WONDER YEARS. Film credits include: THE NEGOTIATOR (Samuel Jackson), COURAGE UNDER FIRE (Denzel Washington), CLOCKERS (Spike Lee), LOSING ISAIAH (Halle Berry) LEAN ON ME, (Morgan Freeman). Taylor was the first Black woman to play Juliet in ROMEO & JULIET on Broadway. Playwright credits include: CROWNS (Helen Hayes award Best Director), OO-BLA-DEE (Jeff Award, Steinberg-ATCA award) and DROWNING CROW (Broadway, MTC), THE TRINITY RIVER PLAYS (Edgerton Award) and STOP.RESET. (Signature Theater Residency Five) and BREAD (Edgerton Award).

Jada Suzanne Dixon, she/her (Director) is an actress, director, and playwright, a member of the Curious Artistic company, and serves as Curious’s Producing Artistic Director. She began her directing career with the development of new plays with Athena Arts Project’s Plays in Progress (PIP) series. She served as assistant/associate director for APPROPRIATE, SKELETON CREW, and GLORIA at Curious Theatre Company.

Directing credits include POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE, cullud wattah, AMERICAN SON and AMERIKIN, Curious Theatre Company; FAIRFIELD, Miners Alley Playhouse; BLOOMSDAY and THE ROYALE, BETC; STICKFLY, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities; THE REVOLUTIONISTS, Little Theatre of the Rockies. Jada is a four-time recipient of the True West Award (including 2022 Colorado Theatre Person of the Year), a 2022/23 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry award winner (ROYALE; Outstanding Play, Ensemble, and Best Director). Jada is a member of AEA, an SDC associate member, and is an Associate Artist with Local Lab Theater, and was a 2021 commissioned playwright for StageOne Family Theatre’s program, Theatre for Everywhere.

Tina Anderson, she/her (Scenic Consultant) is a scenic designer. Her most recent designs for Curious are POTUS and cullud wattah. Other designs include for BETC, THE

WHITE CHIP, HOPE AND GRAVITY, LITTLE WOMEN, WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME, COAL COUNTRY (True West Award), EDEN PRAIRIE,1971, (nominated for a Henry Award) & THE ROYALE. Off Square Theatre, SWEENEY TODD. Arvada Center, DRACULAR A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY & THE LARAMIE PROJECT. Cherry Creek Theatre HEARTBEAT OF THE SUN, HEADLINDERS, MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN. Thunder River Theatre Company POTUS & HURRICANE DIANE. Janice Benning Lacek, she/her (Costume Designer) EXHIBIT marks Janice’s 23nd Curious production as costume designer since 1999 – most recently last year’s TRUTH BE TOLD, and THE LIFE SPAN OF A FACT and THE SOUNDS INSIDE in 2021. National credits: the west coast premiere of MARISOL, THE SWAN, WHAT THE BUTLER SAW (La Jolla Playhouse); SCAPIN (ACT); Goodnight, Desdemona… (San Diego Rep); Revenger’s Tragedy (Sledgehammer Theatre); Pair of Threes (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Cymbeline (Utah Shakespearean Festival); All’s WELL (Great River Shakespeare Festival); TWELFTH NIGHT, TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, HENRY V, TEMPEST, MIDSUMMER, (Tennessee Shakespeare Company) among others. Colorado audiences have seen her work in BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL, PLAZA SUITE (Arvada Center), CORIOLANUS, RICHARD II, 12th NIGHT, AS YOU LIKE IT (CSF); FENCES (Lone Tree Arts Ctr). Janice has taught costume and theatre design at the University of Memphis (TN), University of Colorado at Boulder, and Kenyon College, and joined the DU faculty in 2016 where she is professor of costume design and technology. She holds an MFA from UC-San Diego and is a proud member of USITT and United Scenic Artists Jon Olson, he/him (Lighting Designer) Exhibit marks Jon’s first collaboration with The Curious Theatre Company as lighting designer. Jon has been working with the Arvada Center since 2003, and has been serving as the Lighting Director since 2012. His most recent lighting design credits are HOPE AND GRAVITY (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company), DRACULA A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY (Arvada Center). Jon has received Henry Award Nominations for THE DROWNING GIRLS and EDUCATING RITA (Arvada Center). Other Arvada Center design credits include THE LARAMIE PROJECT, ANIMAL FARM, SYLVIA, PLAZA SUITE, BLITHE SPIRIT, THE MOUSETRAP, THE ARCHBISHOP’S CEILING, ALL MY SONS, THE MOORS, the world premiere of I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, and the regional premiere of TRAV’LIN THE 1930’S HARLEM MUSICAL.

ARTIST Biographies CeCe Smith, she/her (Sound Designer) is a sound designer based in Denver. Recent sound design credits include HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Give5), TAMING OF THE SHREW (Theatreworks), BI-PASSING (Insight Theatre Collab), COMPANY (CU Boulder), and THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Phamaly Theatre Company). Smith received her first Henry Award for THE ROYALE (BETC) in 2023 and has worked across the nation.

Wayne Breyer, he/him (Projections Designer) is the production manager and resident stage manager for Curious. With Curious, he stage managed DOWNSTATE, A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, CULLUD WATTAH, LETTERS OF SURESH, THE MINUTES, ON THE EXHALE, AMERIKIN, FRANKLINLAND, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, and the world premiere of REFUGE. Other stage management credits: ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN A PLAY”; GHOST VARIATIONS at the Colorado New Play Summit (Denver Center Theatre Company), Public Domain Theatre Festival, EDDIE AND DAVE, LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, THE WHISKEY TASTING, THE ROUGH, SHOCKHEADED PETER And EVERYBODY (The Catamounts); QUEENS GIRL IN THE WORLD and THE MUSIC OF BLACK NATIVITY (Aurora Fox Arts Center); RECIPE (Theater Artibus); the 2024 Henry Awards (Colorado Theatre Guild); and the 2019 Colorado New Play Festival. He is also a properties designer and has designed for Curious, The Catamounts, Phamaly Theatre Company, Thunder River Theatre Company, and Vintage Theatre. Wayne trained as an apprentice stage manager with the Denver Center Theatre Company and is an associate company member of The Catamounts.

Katie Hopwood, she/her (Properties Designer) Katie is thrilled to return to Curious, where her recent prop work was showcased in DOWNSTATE Her prop work has also been featured in BETC performances WHITE CHIP, HOPE & GRAVITY, ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, and HOLLY, ALASKA!. She graduated from Salisbury University with a degree in Theatre Production and loves showing her creative side through prop design. She looks forward to working on more productions in the community.

Heidi Schmidt, she/her (Dramaturg) Heidi Schmidt is the resident dramaturg at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, where she has dramaturged more than a dozen productions, including KING LEAR, THE BOOK OF WILL, PERICLES, CORIOLANUS, AS YOU LIKE IT, KING CHARLES III, KING JOHN, JULIUS CAESAR, EQUIVOCATION, MACBETH, and RICHARD III. At Curious, Heidi previously

dramaturged Tony Kushner’s THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUALS GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALIST WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES and has directed readings for Curious New Voices. Other dramaturgy includes the Denver Center Theatre Company (RATTLESNAKE KATE, OKLAHOMA, DISGRACED, and THE CHRISTIANS) and Local Theater Company (FAITH), where she is an Associate Artist. Heidi holds a PhD in Theatre History, Criticism, and Dramatic Literature from CU Boulder.

Lara Maerz, she/her (Stage Management) is thrilled to return to Curious as Stage Manager! Previous Curious shows include DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE and COLLAPSE. Lara works all around the country as a freelance production and stage manager. Recent credits include stage managing for the Denver Center’s New Play Summit and WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at OKC Rep in Oklahoma City and production managing GHOST QUARTET with The Catamounts.

Sabrina Abbott, she/her (Assistant Sound Designer) is a sound and theatrical technician in Denver, CO. Sabrina has been in the community enjoying and working on theatrical productions for four years now. Sabrina is excited to make her Curious debut with Exhibit! Sabrina just graduated in Fall of ‘24 with a BFA in Applied Theatre Technology and Design from the Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Evette Srouji, she/her (Assistant Director) Evette is a first generation Arab American theatre artist, who was born and raised in Broomfield, Colorado. She has a passion for doing new works that showcase diversity and amplify voices that are not often heard in theatre. She is so excited to work on this project and work with Jada again for the third time!

Caden Pazo, he/him (Assistant Stage Manager) Caden Pazo earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre from MSU Denver. Caden is a theatrical every-man with interests in acting, stage management, and devised theatre. Recent stage management credits include SHE KILLS MONSTERS, and THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE at Vintage Theatre, and LIVE, INTERZONE, and TEACUPS & TINY DICTATORS at 3rd Law Dance/Theater. Recent acting credits include GIN & GOTHIC: A BRONTE ROCKTALE at Band of Toughs, STONEWALL at Benchmark Theatre, and CYRANO DE BERGERAC at Wheat Ridge Theatre Company. He has served as Secretary and Board Member of the Colorado Theatre Guild since June 2021.

COMMUNITY VOICES:

Local Stories Inspired by Exhibit

As part of Exhibit, Regina Taylor in collaboration with Curious Theatre invited members of the Denver community to share personal reflections on memory, race, resistance, and survival.

These short video interviews feature educators, artists, activists, and elders responding to the themes of the play: integration, erasure, generational wisdom, and the objects that hold our stories.

We invite you to witness these testimonies—and consider your own.

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Leslie Herod, Nicholle Harris, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Dianne Briscoe-McKenzie, Dzirae Gold, Wilma J. Webb, Cleo Parker Robinson, and Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison

REGINA TAYLOR:

Artist, Playwright, Performer Explore the life, artistry, and vision of the creator and performer behind Exhibit.

Regina Taylor’s Official Website Discover her body of work, including plays, performances, and multimedia projects.

Not a Time to Stay Silent – South Side Drive Magazine An in-depth conversation with Taylor about Exhibit, resistance, and reclaiming history through art.

WVON Interview: Regina Taylor Talks Exhibit (Audio) A radio interview about the personal inspirations behind the piece and Taylor’s creative process.

The Black Album. Mixtape – Project Overview (SMU Meadows School of the Arts) A collaborative multimedia project led by Taylor exploring Black identity and social justice.

BWW Interview: Regina Taylor on Inspiring Conversation Through The Black Album – BroadwayWorld Taylor shares the inspiration and community engagement behind The Black Album.

Empowering Voices Through The Black Album – amNewYork A look at how Taylor’s work uplifted artists during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Exploring Identity and Theater-Making – Harlem World Magazine A feature on how The Black Album connects Black identity, performance, and social change.

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1. What “exhibit” would you include in a museum of your own life or your family’s history?

2. How do painful memories—and the objects we keep—shape the people we become?

3. Iris calls herself a “soldier” for racial justice.

What do you think it means to be a soldier today?

4. How did your education—or lack of it—prepare you to understand America’s racial history? What myths were you taught, and what truths were left out?

5. Linda and Iris clash over what it means to honor the past and move forward. Whose perspective felt more familiar to you—and why?

6. Linda calls Iris’s art “safe” Do you believe art must be “unsafe” or disruptive to be truthful?

7. What do we lose when history and trauma are sanitized for comfort? Who benefits from that silence—and who is erased?

8. The play presents the body itself as an archive —wounded, resilient, remembered. How do you see survival embodied in your own family’s history?

9. Iris reflects on whether freedom is still possible today. Do you feel we are moving forward, backward, or standing still? Why? 10. Vickie says, “Now we are the ancestors.” What responsibility comes with being the storytellers and protectors of future memory?

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