Katie Bender: Instructions for a Séance
Apr 16–19
TPA Rehearsal Room
Rude Mechs: Not Every Mountain
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B. Iden Payne Theatre
Vanessa Anspaugh mourning after mornings
Apr 17–19
East Side Performing Arts
Katie Bender: Instructions for a Séance
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Director: Lily Wolff
Set Design: Leilah Stewart
Sound Design: Bryce Riggle
Light Design: Rachel Atkinson
Production Assistants: Ivan Masterson and Madeline Ramsey
Stage Manager: Kay Newkirk
Consultants: CB Goodman and Jared Kopf
Production Supervisor: Mika O’Dwyer
Developed with support from ScriptWorks Revision Resource funding. Find more information about ScriptWorks at scriptworks.org
This play was developed with the support of Playwrights’ Center.
Instructions for a Séance received a workshop in the Alley Theatre’s 2023 Alley All New Festival Rob Melrose, Artistic Director Dean R. Gladden, Managing Director
Originally produced by Amphibian Stage Productions in Fort Worth, Texas; Kathleen Culebro, Artistic Director; Jay Duffer Co-Artistic Director.
Fiore, Luci & Frances, Sean and Leilah, Jesse and Diana. Zack Fine, Liz Frankel, OKC Rep Theater. Eric Colleary*. The Harry Ransom Center. Kirk Lynn. The Stotzer Family. Bianca A. Hooi. Mika O’Dwyer. Ashton Bennett Murphy. Karen L. Maness.
*No artifacts were harmed in the making of this séance.
Katie Bender (she/her/hers) is a playwright, performer, and theater maker. Her plays include Judith, SHE WOLF, The Survivors/Los Sobrevivientes, Howling, Texas, and The Optimizers. Katie’s work has been developed and produced all over the country, including Hyde Park Theater, ZACH, The Alley, Shrewds, EST, Kitchen Dog, The Playwrights’ Center, LAUNCH PAD, Fusebox Festival, THT Rep, New Harmony Project, ACT Theatre, All For One Theater, Urbanite, OKC Rep, and Amphibian Stage. She is the co-creator of Underbelly, with whom she created ecstatic site-specific performances such
as Slip River which received the Critics’ Table Award for Best New Comedy. Her play Judith received the B. Iden Payne Award for Best New Script. Katie was a Jerome Fellow and a Core Writer at The Playwrights Center. She received her M.F.A from The University of Texas. She’s thrilled to be working with director Lily Woff and the incredible team of Austin-based artists on Instructions for a Séance.
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Central Texas’s Tony Awards® for High School Musical Theatre
May 6, 2026 7 pm | Bass Concert Hall
Tickets On Sale Apr 15
Participating Schools Akins
The College of Fine Arts O’Donnell Visiting Artist Endowment, Texas Performing Arts, and Fusebox present:
Support for this presentation of Not Every Mountain is provided by the College of Fine Arts O’Donnell Visiting Artist Endowment. Rude Mechs is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
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Created by Rude Mechs
Writing: Kirk Lynn
Scenic Concept/Design: Thomas Graves
Original Music and Sound Design: Peter Stopschinski
Direction: Thomas Graves & Shawn Sides
Lighting Design: Brian H Scott
Costume Design: Aaron Flynn
Stage Management & Asst Direction: Madge Darlington and Tina Van Winkle
Performers:
Crystal Bird Caviel (Reader)
Mari Akita • Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw • Thomas Graves
Kevin Jacaman • Kelsey Oliver • Chester Tsai (Builders)
Music played live by Peter Stopschinski
THE ORIGINAL TEAM(S) WHO HELPED CREATE THIS SHOW:
Mari Akita • Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw • Crystal Bird Caviel
Eva Claycomb • Pete Dahlberg • Thomas Graves
Kevin Jacaman • Sheena Jason • Jennifer Kidwell
Derek Kolluri • Tyler Kosmak • Josef Kristofoletti
Jasmine Kurys • Panda Landa • Kelsey Oliver • Kari Olmon
Olivia Plath • Peter Stopschinski • Vincent Tomasino • Kelsey Vidic
Special thanks to Carra Martinez, Ron Berry, Tina Van Winkle, Austin School of Film / Motion Media Arts Center, The Guthrie Theater, and The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance
Rude Mechs is an Austin-based theater collective that creates genre-averse original theatrical productions peppered with big ideas, cheap laughs, and dizzying spectacle. What these works hold in common are the use of play to make performance, the use of theaters as meeting places for audiences and artists, and the use of humor as a tool for intellectual investigation. The Rudes tour these performances nationally and abroad; and run Crashbox, a rehearsal / performance / workshop
warehouse. Be on the lookout for new Rude original workshops and premieres in the coming months: Drill in June, the Our Town project (title TBD) in November, and solo works I Am Brothers and Farewell in December.
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Rhiannon Giddens
May 2, 2026 | Bass Concert Hall
Rhiannon Giddens is a Pulitzer Prize–winning, two‑time GRAMMY Award–winning artist whose work continues to redefine American folk music.
APR 17–19, 2026
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Support for this presentation of mourning after mornings is provided by the College of Fine Arts O’Donnell Visiting Artist Endowment.
CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLABORATORS:
1st iteration of the piece premiering at New York Live Arts
2023: Anna Azrieli, Rebecca Serrell, maura nguyen donohue, Laura Osterhaus, Jo Warren, C
Anthony-Green, Umechi Born & Pia. Scenographer Kathy Couch.
Sound Design Collaboration: Soraya Odishoo and Leslie Allison. Early inspiration with collaborative project Funerals for the Ocean with Asher Woodworth.
Soraya Arjan Odishoo (she/they)
COSTUME DESIGN:
Rebecca Serrell with additional work by Ani Lee and the Yellow Fringe piece by designer Jess Feury
MUSICIANS:
William Paladino
Matthew Garcia
Jace Byrd
Troy Mackabee
Andrew Stine
Owen Clark
COLLABORATING PERFORMERS:
Aslı Bülbül is a NYC based dancer, actor, choreographer originally from Istanbul.
She performed with Bill T. Jones/
Arnie Zane Dance Co. for a decade after which she joined Nature Theater of Oklahoma for their epic work; Life and Times. Currently a freelance performer, she has been lucky enough to work with some of her favorite directors including Martha Clarke and RoseAnne Spradlin and Annie B. Parson.
She is very exited to be part of this beautiful work by Vanessa Anspaugh and get to sweat with her one and only Leah Cox.
C Green (they/them) is a Vermont/NYC based farmer, choreographer and poet. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, they received a BA from Middlebury College as a joint Dance and Theater major. Their work is empty and spacious—but grounded in a strong, flowing and gestural performance of embodiment that reflects the fear, vigor and intensity of the world today back out as order and clarity. They established a performance series in their town titled CRIT, collaborated with design artists on a performance for a gallery opening for Playing House in New York City and worked with the Concentric Circles cohort in Burlington to produce new work. They feel so grateful to have gotten to work with Vanessa Anspaugh and this team to create mourning after
mornings and look forward to bringing this work to new audiences.
Leah Cox (she/her/hers) is a dancer, maker, and educator. She is Group Therapy’s lead creator and solo performer, and the co-founder of makegroup. Leah is also Associate Professor of Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the originator of experimental workshops that gather people together to discover new possibilities for themselves and their professional pursuits. Her most recent workshop, Failure Collective, cultivates presence, collaborative agility, and analytical savvy to advance innovation for participants in any field or life endeavor.
Cox’s previous projects and positions include: dancer/ collaborator in Liz Lerman’s Wicked Bodies; dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Dean of the American Dance Festival; Education Director for New York Live Arts; and member of the New York Dance and Performance Awards (The “Bessies”). Her choreographic work has been presented at CRASHBOX, Bard College, the Cool NY Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival (Brooklyn), the Museum of Art and Design (NYC), and the 92nd Street Y (NYC).
Love Muwwakkil is a freelance performer, teacher and choreographer based in Austin, Texas, receiving her BFA from UNC Greensboro and MFA in Dance and Social Justice from UT Austin. With an extensive background in performing and teaching, some highlights of her career include serving as rehearsal Director and company member for Urban Bush Women, Houston Grand Opera world premiere opera Intelligence, HAIRSPRAY with Royal Caribbean, contemporary pole dance company The Pulse project, rehearsal director with Gesel Mason Performance Projects and Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History of Popular Music. Currently she is a member of KDH Dance based in Austin, TX and an Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitator. Recently selected as a resident artist for The Big Medium + The Line residency, Love is excited to continue imaging new worlds through the moving body.
Laura Osterhaus is a movement artist and educator, born and raised in the Midwest. Across all modes of creating, she strives to connect with and listen to people. Laura received her M.F.A. in Choreography & Performance from Smith College and her B.A. in Dance from the University of Minnesota.
Throughout her years of dance education, Laura had the opportunity to work with choreographers Nora Chipaumire, Gregory Dolbashian, Maurya Kerr, Garth Fagan, and Chris Aiken among others. As a member of Zenon Dance Company in Minneapolis 2016–2019, Laura performed the work of Kyle Abraham, Stephanie Batten-Bland, Michelle Boulé, Danny Buraczeski, and Sam Kim, to name a few. Laura is a member of creative trio, Kelvin Wailey, in addition to her on-screen and live performance roles alongside musical artists for John Mark Creative. She is the artistic director of Slo Dance Company. Her most recent performances include Vanessa Anspaugh’s mourning after mornings, Contempo Physical Dance and the Volksoper Opera in Vienna, Austria. Laura is a member of Kia the Key & Company and assistant to the artistic director Shakia “The Key” Barron. Laura is an educator at Bates Dance Festival (YDI).
Jo Warren is a New York based artist whose work intersects at the body as a site of potential and as a tool of resistance. In their time in New York, Jo has shared original work at AUNTS, The Performance Mix Festival, Judson Memorial Church, the Exponential Festival, The Brick
Theater and at Socrates Sculpture Park through Pioneers Go East Collective. Their work has been described by Culturebot as “operatic” and as “subtly campy and hilariously queer” by the Brooklyn Rail. Jo has had the pleasure of performing with artists such as Lisa Fagan, Sarah Michelson, Beth Gill, Anna Sperber, the LAVA acrobatic dance company and Vanessa Anspaugh. They are part of the original and touring cast of Faye Driscoll’s Weathering.
Soraya Arjan Odishoo (she/ they) is from New York City. They have been a composer for work at Jacob’s Pillow, the Brooklyn Museum, and Dixon Place, among others. They were sound designer and composer on Company SoGoNo’s bird suite and Polybe + Seats’ Anna Asli Suriyah. A certified Recovery Coach they practice @ A Little Thunder Coaching. Arjan Odishoo released their first podcast, Where is Everybody, about re-imagining connections in uncharted territories.
Vanessa Anspaugh (she/her) was born in Los Angeles CA in ’79 where she was raised amidst landscapes of great paradox, both wild and human made. She
has since spent the better part of the last almost three decades as a dance artist rooted in New York City (and now the greater east coast) where most of her opportunities have taken place. As a performer, Anspaugh has been influenced by her early work as a performer with Taylor Mac, Faye Driscoll, Juliette Mapp, Aretha Aoki, MGM (Biba Bell and Jmy Leary) and collaborations with visual artists such as, SWOON, Every Ocean Hughes, & filmmaker, Amber Bemak. She is a two-time Bessie Award Nominee for both Most Outstanding Choreographer (mourning after mornings) and Most Outstanding Production (The End of Men). Her work has been commissioned and presented by The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, DTW, The Kitchen, The Rubin Museum, The Bates Dance Festival, The River to River Festival, The NY Sculpture Center, among others. Her work has been written about in multiple periodicals such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post, The Movement Research Journal, and academic journals, such as Theatre Survey. Anspaugh has moved about as a visiting teaching artist at a number of
colleges, most recently creating a piece with some amazing students from UT Austin this last fall. Anspaugh is thrilled to share her work in the Fusebox Festival and to be getting to work with such incredible artists: both former, new and many incredible local collaborators. Thank You Austin. vanessaanspaugh.com
KIDS:
Brantley Cleven is no stranger to the big stage. He made his Theatrical debut in Lin Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights.” He performed as part of the Munchkin cast in the “Wizard of Oz” with Summer Stock Austin. Brantley’s film debut was in “Dance Dad’s” with Charlie Barnett. He studies dance at Balance Dance Studios and attends Sycamore Springs Elementary.
Juniper Norman-Wolfe is a passionate 12-year-old dancer who loves storytelling through performance. She started dancing at age two, competing by age five, and is currently a member of Verge Dance Collective and UGK hip hop crew. Juniper trains extensively in ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip hop, and tap. Known for her quirky artistry and risk-taking style, she has earned numerous dance awards.
Performing since age two, Paloma O’Dwyer is a versatile artist with a foundation in competitive dance and musical theater. Known for blending technical precision with emotional intentionality, she is currently a member of Verge Dance Collective. Beyond the stage, Paloma is a dedicated vocalist and creative collaborator who brings a refined technique and passion for collective projects to every performance.
Thank You Erin Gentry & Lynn Metcalf for showing me what true Texas (+Queer) hospitality feels like. BTW Lynny’s 12th Street is the best breakfast EVER. lynnysatx.com/12th. Thank You
Laura Gutierrez, Bob, Bobby & Ron for the opportunity to share this work. Thank You Leah Cox for continuing to support me and my work in so so many ways. Thank You Janet Wong & Bill T.Jones for the initial commission of this work along with the support from Shoni Currier & The Bates Dance Festival. Thank You to the initial collaborators (listed above) who were with me at the very beginning of this project. It wouldn’t be what it is without you guys.
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LEADERSHIP
Bob Bursey, Executive & Artistic Director
Bianca Hooi, Executive & Artistic Project Manager
Priscilla Perales, Assistant to the Executive & Artistic Director
PROGRAMMING
Bobby Asher, Director of Programming
Brendan Burke, Programming Manager
OPERATIONS
Sean Thorne, Managing Director
Cameron Weed, Human Resources Manager
Nathan Harper, Facilities Manager
Tara Vela, Project Manager
Kristi Lampi, Director of Business Operations
Leigh Remeny, Business Operations Manager
Basil Montemayor, Business Operations Associate
Kat Carson, Senior Event Manager
Talia Graves, Event Manager
Alexander Reindl, Event Manager
Mia Spidel, Emerging Arts Professional, Programming & Events
MARKETING & SALES
Dane Munson, Director of Marketing & Sales
Romina Jara, Associate Director, Marketing
Brady Dyer, Associate Director, Communications
Lizzie Choffel Cantu, Design Manager
Erica De Leon, Digital Marketing Manager
Lindsey Sageser, Marketing Associate
Madison Tran, Design & Media Associate
Josh Klotzbach, Group & Student Sales Manager
Twyla Mitchell, Director of Ticketing
Dianne Whitehair, Ticketing Systems Manager
Elizabeth Requenez, Ticketing Services Manager
Alex Baylor, Ticketing Manager
Meredith Delay, Texas Inner Circle Ticket Concierge
Sereniti Patterson, Emerging Arts Professional, Ticketing
Anna Langdell, Director of Development
Jeannette Thomas, Director of Major Gifts
Amy Burgar, Associate Director, Development
Chelsea Casner, Development Specialist, Major Gifts
Miguel Robles, Development Specialist, Operations
Sara Morales, Development Specialist, Membership and Sponsorship
EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT
Tim Rogers, Director of Education & Engagement
Eric Vera, Education Program Manager
Aubrey Felty, Education & Engagement Program Coordinator
Insha Iqbal, Emerging Arts Professional, Education & Engagement
Blake Addyson, Director of Production
John Lewis, Production Supervisor
Mika O’Dwyer, Production Supervisor
Gianna Woods, Assistant Production Supervisor
Drew Millay, Audio/Video Supervisor
Bryce Riggle, Assistant Audio/ Video Supervisor
John “Hutch” Hutchinson, Assistant Audio/Video Supervisor
Camryn Senioris, Lighting Supervisor
Tracy Abercrombie, Assistant
Lighting Supervisor
Brooke Dickerson, Assistant
Lighting Supervisor
Travis Perrin, Staging & Rigging Supervisor
Audrey McGovern, Assistant Staging & Rigging Supervisor
Jessie Mikolaichik, Assistant Staging & Rigging Supervisor
GUEST EXPERIENCE
Blake McDonald, Director of Guest Experience
Amanda Adams, Associate Director, Guest Experience
Kourtney Johnson, Guest Experience Manager
FABRICATION & ACADEMIC PRODUCTION
Jeff Grapko, Director of Fabrication & Academic Production
Karen Maness, Associate Director, Fabrication
David Tolin, Project Manager, Fabrication
Jason Huerta, Fabrication Technical Manager
Scott Bussey, Senior Technical Director
Earnest Mazique, Academic Production Technology Manager
Ashton Bennett Murphy, Properties Manager
Hank Schwemmer, Lead Fabricator
Bridgette Clifford, Scenic Charge Artist
Eliot Haynes, Assistant Audio/ Video Supervisor, Academic Production
Michael Shanks, Assistant Lighting Supervisor, Academic Production
Leah Austin, Emerging Arts Professional, Stage Properties
Julia Yelvington, Emerging Arts Professional, Scenic Art
Texas Performing Arts is also proud to acknowledge the hundreds of part-time and volunteer staff who play a critical role in presenting our annual season of world-class performing arts events to the Austin community.
Dina Black
Megan Born
Virginia Bosman
Margaret Byron
Nancy Carrales
Sally Deweber
Sheri Dildy
Janine Dos Remedios
Amy Fuchs
Tony C Garcia
Joshua Hale
Leslie Hawkins
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