12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)

12 Ophelias ª

( play wii broken songs) Caridad Svich

October 2-13, 2019 | Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

Photo: Lawrence Peart

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12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) By

Caridad Svich

Lyrics by Caridad Svich

Music by Carolina Perez

OCTOBER 2-5, 8-12 AT 7:30 P.M. OCTOBER 5-6, 12-13 AT 2:00 P.M

B. IDEN PAYNE THEATRE F. LOREN WINSHIP BUILDING

THEATREDANCE.UTEXAS.EDU Delena Bradley – Costume Designer • Chris Conard – Scenic Designer Saige Larmer – Assistant Director • Michael J. Love – Movement Director Adam Miller-Batteau – Fight Director • Carolina Perez – Sound Designer and Composer Jess Shoemaker – Director • David Tolin – Technical Director • Kendra S. Wiley – Lighting Designer Amariah K. Williams – Stage Manager

CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) Ophelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth George R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cat Palacios G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chase Parker Rude Boy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tanner Hudson Gertrude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashley Bowen H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miguel Ángel Lozano II Mina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miranda Perkins

CHORUS OF OPHELIAS Sultan Abboushi Amaya Coleman

Kathleen Guererro Madelyn Martinez

Meagan McCrary Nick Saldivar

12 Ophelias received its professional premiere with Woodshed Collective in New York City under Teddy Bergman’s direction. It was developed at Vassar College, New Georges, New Dramatists and Baruch College.

12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) is produced by special arrangement with the Playwright and Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc. 411 Lafayette Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003.

NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR I was a green girl when I fell for Shakespeare; unsifted and honey-drunk on music. Like Ophelia, my love left me feeling singular and sacred, astonished by the potent force of language.

My second love was resilient women; an ongoing affair that blossomed after watching my best friend disintegrate. Her love isolated her, restricting her space until she atrophied into something twodimensional and impossible to reach. She brought herself back from the dead—a jagged and painful path that shaped the abundantly complex, self-possessed woman I know today.

Shakespeare shaped me and our love was good; expansive and three-dimensional.

He taught me to think, feel and create. But the more I did those things, the more I associated him with my anger about how female narratives are constructed and perpetuated, with my loneliness as the only woman in rooms full of men.

12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) by Caridad Svich, tells the story of a once-wretched girl whose love for a Rude Boy destroyed her. The play is a vibrant remembrance of my own first love, crammed full of visceral language, unabashed theatricality and human beings in all their filth and glory. This time though, Svich imagines the green girl and her rude boy as deeply-riddled heroes who might just be brave enough to love themselves.

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CREATIVE Caridad Svich (Playwright/Songwriter) received 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement and the ATCA Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits, based on Isabel Allende's novel. Her play Red Bike recently sustained an NNPN rolling world premiere. She's been produced several times in Austin at Salvage Vanguard. Her first independent feature film, Fugitive Dreams, based on her play Fugitive Pieces, is directed by Austin-based filmmaker Jason Neulander.

Delena Bradley (Costume Designer) is a thirdyear M.F.A. in Design and Technology candidate with a focus in costume design. She joins The University of Texas at Austin from Chicago, Illinois where she designed costumes and scenery for theatre and film. Recent credits include; costume design for Giullio Cesare (Chicago Summer Opera), The Women of _______ (a song not song) (Texas Theatre and Dance); The Tempest (PPP Graduate Student Alliance); Black Girl Love, Heartland (Vortex Rep) and production and costume design for Addict Named Hal (short film by Lane Michael Stanley). Bradley graduated from Ball State University in 2012.

Chris Conard (Scenic Designer) is an Austinbased freelance live entertainment designer. He graduated from Santa Fe University of Art and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a B.F.A. in Technical Theatre Design in 2014. Conard continues to create original, devised work with Frank Wo/Men Collective, a company he co-founded in Austin in 2016. He was the recipient of the 2017 and 2018 Austin Critics Table Award for Best Set Design and the 2017 B. Iden Payne Award-winner for Outstanding Set Design. He was nominated for Best Lighting Design by Austin Critics Table Awards in 2017. Jchrisconard.com Saige Larmer (Assistant Director) is a thirdyear B.F.A. in Acting major at The University of Texas at Austin. Recent credits projects include Unboxed: Life in Verse (The Cohen New Works Festival, 2019), Flora Circular (UTNT (UT New Theatre), 2019) and Othello (UT Shakespeare Company, 2019)

Michael J. Love (Movement Director) is an M.F.A. in Performance as Public Practice candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. His work has been presented by Fusebox Festival, ARCOS Dance and The Cohen New Works Festival. He has also worked with the Generic Ensemble Company as the movement director for Black Girl Love: An Adaptation Project (Vortex Rep, 2019). Recent Texas Theatre and Dance credits include movement direction for Loverboy (UTNT (UT New Theatre), 2018).

Adam Miller-Batteau (Fight Director) is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and has choreographed fights for over a decade, staging violence in over 100 productions. Recently, Miller-Batteau has begun expanding his fight direction to intimacy direction and choreography. Recent fight and intimacy credits with Texas Theatre and Dance include ENRON, The Crucible, Anon(ymous) Matawan, The Merchant of Venice and Little Women the Broadway Musical; Trio and A Delicate Ship (Filagree Theater Company); Starmites, Animal Farm and Cyrano (McCallum Theater); and Richard III (Mosaic Youth Theater). Selected directing credits: Greater Tuna, Peter and the Starcatcher and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Georgetown Palace Theater); Twelfth Night, Macbeth, She Kills Monsters and Tartuffe (Stagedoor Manor).

Carolina Perez (Sound Designer and Composer) is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Theatre and Dance and Arts and Entertainment Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin. She is thankful for the opportunity to immerse herself in the 12 Ophelias world, while embarking on her own journey of recovery. Carolina would like to dedicate the sounds and music of this play to Matilda, her “ghost child.”

Jess Shoemaker (Director) is a director/ playwright currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Directing at The University of Texas at Austin. Her recent directing credits include Flora

CREATIVE Kendra S. Wiley (Lighting Designer) is a M.F.A. in Design and Technology candidate with a focus in lighting design. Wiley’s educational lighting design credits include Fall For Dance (Dance Repertory Theatre, 2018), Flora Circular (UTNT (UT New Theatre), 2019) and Good Country (The Cohen New Works Festival, 2019). Professional credits include Elements: A Dance Concert (Samford University, 2017) and The Little Prince (Springer Opera House, 2015).

Circular and Loverboy as part of UTNT (UT New Theatre), as well as Venus is Fur (Great River Shakespeare Festival) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Grandstreet Theatre). Before coming to graduate school and falling madly in love with new work, Shoemaker spent 10 years acting, coaching and teaching classical text. Her own plays have enjoyed extended runs in Chicago and Los Angeles.

David Tolin (Technical Director) was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming. He attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he received his B.A. in Theatre with a concentration in design/technology. In 2006, he interned with Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère (Treasure Island) and served as a stagehand for Desert Entertainment for several concerts, productions and events across Las Vegas. He received his M.F.A. in Scenic Technology from The University of Texas at Austin before teaching at Westlake High School for seven years. Tolin joined the staff of the Department of Theatre and Dance in 2017.

Amariah K. Williams (Stage Manager) is a fourth-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in stage management at The University of Texas at Austin. She was recently selected to participate in the 59th annual USITT Expo Conference as a stage management mentee. Recent credits include serving as the production stage manager for DOPE FIT! (Cohen New Works Festival, 2019), production manager for UTNT (UT New Theatre) (2019) and production stage manager for Freedman’s Town to Botham Jean; Stories for Racial Healing.

CAST Elizabeth George (Ophelia) is a third-year B.F.A. in Acting major at The University of Texas at Austin. Recent credits with Texas Theatre and Dance include being a member of the ensemble in Loverboy (UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2018) and “Cassandra 4” in The Women of _______ (a song not song) (2019). Additionally, she appeared as “Sam” in Land of Opportunity (The Cohen New Works Festival (2019)). Upon graduation, she plans to move to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Cat Palacios (R) is a third-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process and a dual major in RadioTelevision-Film. Recent credits include: “Abby Greene” in Chickens in the Yard (Vortex Rep),

“Cassandra 3” in The Women of _______ (a song not song) (Texas Theatre and Dance, 2019); “Lester Stilwell” in Matawan (Texas Theatre and Dance) and as a member of the ensemble for Loverboy (UTNT (UT New Theatre), 2018).

Chase Parker (G) is a B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process at The University of Texas at Austin. Recent credits include Sister Act (Summer Stock Austin, the Long Center). This is his first mainstage performance at Texas Theatre and Dance.

Tanner Hudson (Rude Boy) is a B.F.A. in Acting major at The University of Texas at Austin. He’s appeared in numerous productions and directed

CAST

Elizabeth George

Ashley Bowen

Cat Palacios

Miguel Ă ngel Lozano II

Kathleen Guererro

Chase Parker

Miranda Perkins

Madelyn Martinez

Tanner Hudson

Sultan Abboushi

Meagan McCrary

Amaya Coleman

Nick Saldivar

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CAST extensively. Recent credits include serving as the project lead, playwright and director for A Snake in the Grass (The Cohen New Works Festival, 2019), the roles of “Gibson” and “Homer” in Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play (Performance as Public Practice Graduate Student Alliance (PPPGSA), 2018) and as “Ferdinand” in The Tempest: A Gentrification Story (PPPGSA, 2018).

Ashley Bowen (Gertrude) is a third-year dual B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process and government major at The University of Texas at Austin. She was recently seen on stage with Texas Theatre and Dance as “The Town” in 30 Floods (UTNT (UT New Theatre) 2019). Upon graduation, she plans to pursue a career in acting, singing and dance.

Miguel Ángel Lozano II (H) is a fourth-year B.F.A. in Acting major at The University of Texas at Austin. He was recently seen as “Angel” in the short film Angelito and on stage in Wellesley Girl.

Miranda Perkins (Mina) is a fourth-year UTeach Theatre major at The University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on dramabased pedagogy and devising theatre with young people. She plans to pursue a career as a teaching artist upon graduating. Recently, Perkins served as the assistant director for Flora Circular (UTNT (UT New Theatre), 2019).

Sultan Abboushi (Chorus) is a fourth-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process. On campus, he has been seen as “Deputy” in The Crucible, “Banquo” in Macbeth, “Chorus” in Eurydice and “Lorenzo” in The Merchant of Venice. Last summer, he participated in the Shakespeare at Winedale program (College of Liberal Arts), performing as “Longueville” in Love’s Labour’s Lost, “Bertram” in All’s Well That Ends Well, “Marullus/Trebonius/Messala” in Julius Caesar and “Michael” in Arden of Faversham.

Abboushi has also worked on short films Art Trap, Liminal, The Last Stop and Ooga Booga.

Amaya Coleman (Chorus) is a second-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process at The University of Texas at Austin. She has an extensive background in performing and was recently seen as a member of the ensemble of DOPE FIT! (Cohen New Works Festival, 2019).

Kathleen Guererro (Chorus) is a B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in theatre for young audiences also pursuing a minor in arts management and administration at The University of Texas at Austin. She has an extensive background in acting, dance and musical theatre. Recent credits include Matawan (Texas Theatre and Dance), A Snake in the Grass and 39 Inside (The Cohen New Works Festival, 2019), in addition to several other projects.

Madelyn Martinez (Chorus) is a secondyear B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process. She is also pursuing a minor in media and entertainment studies. This is her first mainstage performance with Texas Theatre and Dance.

Meagan McCrary (Chorus) is a B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process at The University of Texas at Austin. Previous credits include oUr rooTs, Unboxed, & Medea and Loverboy (UTNT (UT New Theatre), 2019).

Nick Saldivar (Chorus) is a second-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process at The University of Texas at Austin. He has a background in musical theatre, acting and movement. Recent credits include “St. Aphrodisius” in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Round About Players), as a member of the movement ensemble in Matawan (Texas Theatre and Dance, 2018) and numerous projects as part of the Cohen New Works Festival (2019).

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