Boesman and Lena

MAD COW THEATRE Presents

Oct. 23-Nov. 17, 2019

By Athol Fugard Directed by Patrick Brezyan 1

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Boesman and Lena

By Athol Fugard October 23-November 17, 2019 ZEHNGEBOT-STONEROCK THEATRE - FEATURING Rachel Finley

Leroy Flemming

Jovon Jacobs*

Scenic Designer Lisa Buck

Stage Manager Noah Kelso

Sound Design Sean Powell

Properties Master Lisa Buck

Costume Design Trenell Mooring

Lighting Design Sean Powell

Director Patrick Brezyan

* * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the U.S.

BOESMAN AND LENA is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. a Concord Theatricals Company.

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Boesman and Lena CAST Boesman....................................................................................Jovon Jacobs Lena........................................................................................... Rachel Finley Wabatutu (Old African)........................................................... Leroy Flemming PLACE & TIME The entire action takes place in the mud flats of the river Swartkops, South Africa, 1969 PRODUCTION TEAM Technical Director......................................................................... Sean Powell Scenic Charge ................................................................................ Lisa Buck Dramaturg ......................................................................... Shami McCormick Dialect Coach.............................................................................Belinda Boyd There will be one 15-Minute Intermission.

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Boesman and Lena PATRICK BREZYAN (Director) Patrick Brezyan (Director) is thrilled to make his directing debut at Mad Cow with Boesman and Lena. Rapture, Blister, Burn (Don) and Outside Mullingar (Anthony). Directing: The Diary of Anne Frank (Shawnee Playhouse Northeastern PA Theatrical Alliance, Best Director); The Glass Menagerie (Milford Theatre, PA). Patrick has directed and produced his own works, Bombers and Getting to Know. He’s also directed environmental improvisation at Renaissance and Wild West Festivals.

Patrick thanks his incredibly talented and insightful cast; his artistic collaborators; his family; and all his teachers. Peace

Philharmonic Orchestra) and The Tender Land (UCF). Lisa studied painting at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Cobalt Studios. She has won numerous awards for her painting. and has written how-to-paint articles for North Light Publications.

RACHEL FINLEY (Lena) Earned her BFA at Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA at Florida Atlantic University.

Apperiances: The First Witch/Lady Macduff; The Old Settler (New City Player) and set design for The African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s production of The Colored Museum.

Directing: For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough; Pompano Beach Cultural Center and developing a new work; All That Remains for The Human Stage. Ms. Finley joined the faculty at University of Miami’s Theatre Department. IG: Rachel_Finley_Arts FB: Rachel Finley

LISA BUCK (Set Designer, Properties Master) Set design: The Road to Mecca, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Painting Churches (Mad Cow Theatre), Don Pasquale, Abduction from the Seraglio, and Carmina Burana (Orlando Opera), Madama Butterfly, II Barbiere di Siviglia, Tosca, and The Magic Flute (Orlando

LEROY FLEMMING (Wabatutu, Old African) grew up in Phenix City, Ala.,

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Boesman and Lena TRENELL MOORING (Costumes) is agraduate of the University of Florida and Stella Adler’s conservatory program in New York. Performance credits include The Amish Project, Clybourne Park, and Shipwrecked (Mad Cow); Crumbs from the Table of Joy, The Little Prince, and Our Town (freeFall Theatre); and Ruined (GableStage).

Trenell is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Much love to her family and friends.

graduated from Central High School, and received a B.S. in business management from Alabama State University in Montgomery. Leroy is happy to return to Mad Cow after his most recent appearence as Cal in Little Foxes. He lives by a quote his mother gave him: “I may give out, but I will never give up.” He believes that acting explores all human emotions and gives clarity to our world.

JOVON JACOBS (Boesman) has his BFA in acting. Silver Palm Awards: A Raisin In The Sun (New City Players), Fences (Palm Beach Dramaworks), and Skeleton Crew (Gablestage). Other recent credits include Summer Shorts 2019 and Winter Shorts 2017 & 2018 (Adrienne Arsht Center), One Night In Miami (Miami New Drama), The Good Girl (Primal Forces), All The Way (Actors’ Playhouse), Motherland (Theatre Lab), The Mystery of Love & Sex (Arts Garage). Five Guys Named Moe (M Ensemble Theatre), The Violet Hour (Broward Center), and Map of Virtue (Thinking Cap Theater) {Broadwayworld.com Award}.

SEAN POWELL (Lighting and Sound Designer)) is thankful to be back at Mad Cow to bring light and sound to this beautiful story. He has designed over 30 productions across the country. Most recently he designed Boeing, Boeing at Maples Repertory Theatre, The Whipping Man at Shadowland Stages, I Love You Because at the Gene Frankel Theatre in NYC and Murder Ballad at Two Way Street theatre in NC. Sean holds a BFA in musical theatre, from Missouri State University. www.seanpowell.net

MEET THE CAST

Rachel Finley

Leroy Flemming

Jovon Jacobs

* ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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Boesman and Lena PLAYWRIGHT

ATHOL FUGARD is an internationally acclaimed South African playwright whose best-known work deals with the political and social upheaval of the apartheid system in South Africa.

He was educated at the University of Cape Town. His plays include The Captain’s Tiger; Valley Song; My Children! My Africa!; A Lesson From Aloes, The Island; and the award-winning Sizwe Banzi is Dead. Mr. Fugard has received six honorary degrees from esteemed colleges and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Athol Fugard

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