WHO’S WHO

Zeatha Saint Fleur (Assistant Director) is a senior BA Theatre major from Orlando, FL. Directing credits include Unfortunately, We Performed and Let the World Burn. Acting credits include Dragons Love Tacos (Red Dragon). She thanks Kimberl, Alyse, and Edese!

Amoreena Tillman (Deck Stage Manager) is a junior BA Theatre major from Tallahassee, FL. Previous credits include Sweet Charity (Props Crew) and Cinderella (Props Crew). She thanks her family for their love and support.

Tatiana Vintu (Scenic Designer) Tatiana Vintu is a scenographer, creator, and experimenter who strives to capture all the diversity of not tangible environments which influence the audience. Tatiana has designed professionally for many theater and film productions in Europe, U.S., and Asia. As an Associate Professor at the University of Houston, she teaches and works in the area of Scenography and is the Head of the B.F.A. in Design and Technology. Currently, Tatiana is the Head-Curator for USITTPRAGUE QUADRENNIAL (PQ) 2023, and most recently was a curator for PQ 2019 and INNOVATIVE COSTUME OF THE 21ST CENTURY: THE NEXT GENERATION 2019.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

From Director L’Oreal Lampley

Once I read the play, was informed of the makeup of the predo minate audience, saw the bodies (the cast), visualized the space, recalled my personal experience as an adjunct professor for the university while leaving room for my current one to breathe, I saw the gift in the message behind this production; it is scriptural: “‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty’ (Haggai 2:9, New International Version).” It is possible for peace to exist in the same place where there was once pain, hurt, trauma, oppression; a way forward exists, however, the old must be destroyed, completely.

This is not a coming of age story, rather one of conception. Each character experiences their own journey of birthing something new within themselves. As a result of the characters shedding their old ways, the community of Boonville is made new; the air is no longer so thick with toxicity that they cannot breathe. Instead, with the shifting of an old mindset comes the clarity needed to live a fuller life. The change agent you ask? Love.

Love is most felt when something has been sacrificed. My prayer is that people see this show and reconsider how they can better, in their own lives, embody love. My prayer is that the old mindsets that thrive in this community, and beyond this university’s walls are intentionally, completely unashamedly, and with precision targeted and destroyed for the sake of everyone being able to experience their first breath as new, reborn beings.

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