Up Next July 28, 29, 30 2022 by Ernie Nolan
Based on the Book by Adam Rubin Illustrations by Daniel Salmieri Published by Penguin Group
August 26-August 27
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Set Designer Samantha Mastrati‡
Costume Designer Johnna Presby‡
Lighting Designer Hannah S. Wolland‡
Production Stage Manager Casey Boriskie
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Production Manager Mackenzie Trowbridge
Directed By Emily Hartford✫
✫FutureNow Directing Fellow ‡Hangar Theater Design Fellow
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Sound Designer Abigail Coppock‡
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CAST LIST Molly Bremer WHITE ............................................................................................................................................ DRAGON ............................................................................................................................................ Alaysia Duncan BOY/MOM VOICEOVER Madelyn Macko LEROY............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ Kobe McKelvey RED DRAGON ............................................................................................................................................ Kamau Nosakhere BLUE DRAGON ............................................................................................................................................ Sarah W. Simmons YELLOW DRAGON Morgan Williams MAN IN............................................................................................................................................ SUIT/MOXY CLEAN GUY/TELENOVELA CHARACTER Cast listed in Alphabetical Order All Actors are Hangar Theatre Peformance Fellows
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ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF Katie Cherro Assistant Stage Manager ............................................................................................................................................ Mark Osgood Production Assistant ............................................................................................................................................ Savannah Technical Director ............................................................................................................................................ Relos Tony Corona Assistant Technical Director ............................................................................................................................................ Valerie Bashford Props Supervisor ............................................................................................................................................ Maggie Jackson Scenic Change Artist ............................................................................................................................................ Sarah Bechtel Costume Shop Manager ............................................................................................................................................ Josie E. Guevara-Torres Wardrobe Supervisor ............................................................................................................................................ Kennedy Wilcher Head Electrician ............................................................................................................................................ Ioannis 'Yonni' Georgoulis Light Board Operator ............................................................................................................................................ Ben Takitch Sound Engineer ............................................................................................................................................ A1/Mixer .................................................................................................................................Tom Cohen
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Cast Members:
MOLLY BREMER White Dragon
KOBE MCKELVEY Red Dragon
ALAYSIA DUNCAN Boy/Mom Voiceover
KAMAU NOSAKHERE Blue Dragon
MADELYN MACKO Leroy
SARAH W SIMMONS Yellow Dragon
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SARAH W SIMMONS~, YELLOW DRAGON AN IN SUIT/MOXY CLEAN GUY/TELENOVELLA CHARACTER, (she/her) is a New York City based actor and singer from Portsmouth, Ohio. She just graduated with a BFA Acting degree from Otterbein University. Her credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Otterbein University) and Morticia in The Addams Family (Cedar Summerstock). When not on stage Sarah can be found in a park reading a book. Sarah would like to thank her friends and family for their endless love and support.
MOLLY BREMER~, WHITE DRAGON, (she/her) is delighted to return to the Hangar this summer! Past credits include Sweeney Todd (Hangar), Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play! (Hangar), and The Police (Hangar). She has also featured in 54 Sings Broadway’s Greatest Hits! (54 Below), The Comeback Cabaret (Don’t Tell Mama’s), and as Violet/Viola in the upcoming short film, Patience on a Monument (Rebecca Shoptaw Films). She’s a recent graduate of Princeton University, where she featured as Grace Banker in The Hello Girls (Princeton), Petra in A Little Night Music (Princeton), and Cendrillón/Cinderella in Cendrillón/Cinderella (Princeton Opera Company). Also a proud graduate of The Chicago Academy for the Arts. Love and endless gratitude to Mom, Dad, Andy, and Allyson. mollybremer.com.
MORGAN WILLIAMS~, AN IN SUIT/MOXY CLEAN GUY/TELENOVELLA CHARACTER, (she/her) is a Baltimore native with performance roots in ballet and modern dance. She is a rising senior at NYU Tisch and is in pursuit of a BFA in drama. She trained with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting for the past three years, where she learned and applied the Adler technique to various Shakespeare and modern realism works. Her most recent credits include Agnes in She Kills Monsters (Stella Adler Studio of Acting) and the 3rd witch in Macbeth (Stella Adler Studio of Acting). When she’s not acting, she can be found walking through Central Park or watching This Is Us. As a first-timer to Ithaca and the Hangar Lab Theatre Company, she is excited to connect with nature and work with fellow creatives who are eager to entertain while challenging status quos.
ALAYSIA DUNCAN~, BOY/MOM VOICE, (she/her) is excited to be a Lab Company fellow at the Hangar this summer! She is originally from Saint Paul, Minnesota and is a senior Acting major at Ithaca College, where she most recently played Joanne in Rent at Ithaca College. Besides acting, Duncan enjoys writing, collaging, and overanalyzing tv shows. MADALYN MACKO~, LEROY, (she/her) is proud to be joining the company for this production. She is a rising Senior, earning a BFA in Musical Theatre, at Florida Southern College. Her previous credits include Rosalind in As You Like It, Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone, Ruth in Blithe Spirit and Woman 2 in Songs For A New World (Florida Southern College). She is also a Student Blogger for Broadway World. She is so thankful for her parents’ never-ending support and her family’s constant encouragement.
Creative and Production Team EMILY HARTFORD✫ (she/her) is a New York Citybased director, creator, artistic leader, performer, puppet designer; and proud Creative Partner of Flux Theatre Ensemble. Directing credits include Our Options Have Changed, Operating Systems, Rizing, #SpeakUp: The Street Harassment Plays, Breathe Free (Flux); The Battles, a New Musical (The Battles LLC/Gym at Judson); and Implied Consent (Badass Lady Productions/Access). Emily is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She is a generator of devised/collaboratively-created theatre, including Metra: A Climate Revolution Play with Songs (with Ned Hartford), and will direct Metra’s world premiere in fall 2022, with Flux. Her first short film, Type A, premiered at the Woods Hole Film Festival in 2021 and has appeared in festivals across the country. emilyhartford.com
KOBE MCKELVEY~, RED DRAGON, (they/she) is a senior at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts pursuing a BFA in Acting. They have appeared in Heathers: The Musical (University of North Carolina School of the Arts), Coriolanus (University of North Carolina School of the Arts), Dreamgirls (Springer Opera House), Mamma Mia! (Springer Opera House) and Spring Awakening (Columbus State University). They are proud to be joining the 2022 Hangar Lab Performance Fellowship Company appearing in Cabaret and Dragons Love Tacos.
SAMANTHA MASTRATI‡, is a recent graduate from Boston University's School of Theater with a BFA in Scene Design. Along with her interests in scenic design, she is also skilled in the areas of scenic painting and props artistry. Her true passion is storytelling, and as a scenic designer she finds great joy in creating the worlds where these stories unfold! Some of her recent work has been The Corruption of Morgana Pendragon at Boston University and Walking the Tightrope at Wheelock Family Theatre.
KAMAU NOSAKHERE~, BLUE DRAGON, (he/him) is a Fordham University student that is forging forward down the path to becoming a professional performing artist.
~Hangar Theater Performance Fellow ✫FutureNow Directing Fellow ‡Hangar Theater Design Fellow
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Authors, Playwrights, Composers JOHNNA PRESBY‡, Costume Designer, is thrilled to be a part of the Hangar Theatre’s 2022 Summer Season as this year’s costume design fellow. Much love to her family, friends, and this amazing cast and crew! B.F.A.: University of North Carolina School of the Arts IG: @johnna.presby.design
ADAM RUBIN, Author Adam Rubin is the author of a dozen critically acclaimed picture books, which have sold more than five million copies combined. They include Dragons Love Tacos, Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, High Five, Gladys the Magic Chicken, Secret Pizza Party, Robo-Sauce, the Those Darn Squirrels trilogy, and El Chupacabras, which won the Texas Bluebonnet Award. Publishers Weekly called his #1 New York Times bestselling story collection The Ice Cream Machine a “madcap middle grade debut.” Visit Adam online at adamrubinhasawebsite.com and follow him on Twitter @rubingo.
ABIGAIL COPPOCK‡, Sound Designer, Abigail Coppock (Sound Designer) [She/Her] MFA, Sound Design Graduate of Ohio University. Previous credits include Eurydice (Sound Designer), Men on Boats (Sound Designer), The Tragedy of Macbeth (Sound Designer/Composer), Angels in America (Sound Designer), Perfect Arrangement (Sound Designer), Effective Magic (Sound Designer), Pluto (Sound Designer).
ERNIE NOLAN, Music and Lyrics, Ernie Nolan is the executive artistic director of Nashville Children’s Theatre and an award-winning director and playwright. He has written commissions for La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla, Calif.), Adventure Theatre (Glen Echo, Md.), Circle Theatre (Omaha, Neb.) in partnership with the Institute for Holocaust Education, Nashville Children’s Theatre and The Milwaukee Zoological Society. In collaboration with Grammy-nominated recording artist Justin Roberts, he also wrote Hansel and Gretel: A Wickedly Delicious Musical Treat, which premiered at the Broadway Playhouse (Chicago). Dedicated to creating new work, Nolan has collaborated with such writers as Idris Goodwin, Marisela Treviño Orta, Marcy Heisler, Zina Goldrich, Dave Deveau and Anton Lipovetsky. Also a resident artist of The Coterie Theatre (Kansas City, Mo.), he has directed and choreographed world premieres by such Tonynominated artists as Willie and Rob Reale, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and Bill Russell and Henry Krieger. In March 2012, Nolan made his off-Broadway debut with Lucky Duck at The New Victory Theater (New York City). Nolan currently sits on the executive committee of ASSITEJ, a global theatre for young audiences service organization. In 2014, he received the Illinois Theatre Association’s Excellence in Theatre for Young Audiences award. He proudly earned his bachelor’s degree in the musical theatre program at the University of Michigan and his master’s degree in directing at The Theatre School at DePaul University.
HANNAH S. WOLLAND‡, Lighting Designer, Hannah S. Wolland is a lighting/projection designer and stage manager currently based in Dallas, TX. A New York native, she got her BFA in Theatre Design and Technology at the University at Buffalo. Hannah is now a rising third-year student at Southern Methodist University’s MFA in Stage Design program. Her recent design work includes Hurt Village, The Crucible (Opera), and The Dance Fabric of Dallas at SMU, as well as The Little Mermaid and The Wedding Singer at The Naples Players. MACKENZIE TROWBRIDGE, Production Manager, (she/her) is honored to be back in Ithaca for her 8th season at the Hangar. She serves as an assistant production manager and the stage management liaison for the full summer season. Select previous Hangar credits include Kinky Boots, Or What She Will, Chicago, Disgraced, Degage, I Loved I Lost I Made Spaghetti. Mackenzie is a freelance stage manager and props artisan based in NYC, and also serves as the Resident Production Stage Manager for Adelphi University's Dance Department. Proud member of AEA. CASEY BORISKIE (she/her), Production Stage Manager, is a theatrically trained stage manager. She attended Texas State University where she received a BFA in Performance & Production with a Concentration in Stage Management and a Minor in Honors Studies. Selected recent credits include: Senior Living (Portland Stage), A Christmas Carol (Portland Stage), Spring Awakening (Texas State University), Red Bike (Texas State University), & TEDx Texas State University. Casey is excited to join the Hangar team for the Summer 2022 season!
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