2 minute read
IN REHEARSAL
from DANCE NATION Program
by recroomarts
Photography by Gerardo Velasquez
The City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance
Dedicated to removing the stigma of mental illness through art, education and community engagement.
Rec Room Arts
presents Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
DANCE NATION
by CLARE BARRON directed by SOPHIA WATT†
Featuring CALLINA ANDERSON, ELIZABETH MARSHALL BLACK, GREG COTE LISA FAIRCHILD*, ELIZABETH KEEL, AVERY VONN KENYATTA, ANJANA MENON, SOPHIA MOBBS, and SHANNON UPHOLD
PRODUCTION Scenic and Lighting Design STEFAN AZIZI† Costume Design JUAN SARACAY Sound Design GAGE BAKER Choreographer and Intimacy Director SKYE BRONFENBRENNER Assistant Lighting Designer NICOLAS LAM Assistant Sound Designer BRANDON CHO Assistant Costume Designer SAMANTHA GARDECKI Photography TASHA GOREL, SAMUEL HERRERA, GERARDO VELASQUEZ Assistant Stage Manager BETH DOWD Production Stage Manager MADISON SUTTON
DANCE NATION received its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, September 2018. Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of DANCE NATION in 2018 with support from an award by the National Endowment of the Arts, and a generous gift from Scott M. Delman. Special thanks to the Herold and Mimi Steinberg Trust for supporting new plays at Playwrights Horizons, and special thanks to the Time Warner Foundation for its leadership support of New Works Lab at Playwrights Horizons. DANCE NATION was developed at the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, June 2015, with the Atlantic Theatre Company, and presented as part of the Contemporary American Voices Festival at Long Wharf Theatre, September 2016.
DANCE NATION was written, in part, in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, and received extensive workshop time and space as part of New Dramatists’ Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund. DANCE NATION is presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Company on behalf of Samuel French.
CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Zuzu CALLINA ANDERSON Dance Mom ELIZABETH MARSHALL BLACK Dance Teacher Pat GREG COTE Sofia LISA FAIRCHILD* Mave ELIZABETH KEEL Luke AVERY VONN KENYATTA Connie ANJANA MENON Amina SOPHIA MOBBS Ashlee SHANNON UPHOLD
This play will be presented without an intermission.
Entry and re-entry to the theater after the performance begins is not guaranteed.
As a courtesy to everyone in the theater, please silence all electronics.
To help mitigate the risk of COVID-19 spread, all patrons are required to wear a face mask that covers their face and mouth at all times.
Rec Room Arts and the production team of DANCE NATION would like to acknowledge and thank the School of Theatre and Dance at University of Houston.
