OCTOBER 29 AT 7:30 P.M. (PREVIEW) OCTOBER 30 AT 7:30 P.M. NOVEMBER 1, 8 AT 2:00 P.M. NOVEMBER 4, 6-7 AT 7:30 P.M.
B. IDEN PAYNE THEATRE F. LOREN WINSHIP DRAMA BUILDING
Theatredance.utexas.edu Grace Carney – Assistant Costume Designer • Alik B Clay – Scenic Designer Joseph Crawford – Assistant Lighting Designer Kay Currier-Graves - Lighting Designer Liberty-Belle Garza-Omae - Assistant Costume Designer Steve Gilliland - Sound Designer/Composer • Rob Hahn – Voice Coach Jason Lee Huerta – Technical Director • Alisa Irvin - Assistant Stage Manager Luna J – Projection Designer • Bennett Kirschner - Assistant Director Sunghyun Lim - Director • Chris McGarry - Assistant Dramaturg Madeline Parker - Assistant Stage Manager Polina Pinchevsky – Assistant Projection Designer Sandi Rodriguez-Gonzales - Assistant Lighting Designer Zoe Saldaña - Assistant Scenic Designer • Ava Settoon - Costume Designer Judith Soto – Assistant Stage Manager • Megan Thornton – Dramaturg Kyle Trehern - Stage Manager
There will be one 15-minute intermission.
“The Visit” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Durrell Anderson Jr. Kylie Aquino Danielle Berman Keiny Cantu Frida Castro Giulianna Coco Chandler Collins Na’Imah Cutts Connor Davis Zoë Hampton Minsoo Han Emerson Hartman Ellie Herr Jordan Hill Chiamaka Igwegbu George Johannson Isaiah Jones Preston Powe Sadie Ritchey Jason Robalino AnaLee Tinajero Sophia Carter Abigail Williams
Man 2/Athlete Kobby Painter/Radio Reporter Man 4/Second Reporter Lobby Burgomaster Pedro Man 3/First Reporter Anton Schill Man 1 Max/Second Woman Claire Zachanassian Bobby/Cameraman Pastor Teacher Doctor Mike/First Woman Policeman Daughter/Conductor Son/Stationmaster Frau Schill Understudy Understudy
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NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR A wealthy figure offers an enormous amount of money to a community on one condition: they must kill one of their neighbors. The people immediately reject the offer. They insist that, for the sake of humanity and justice, they could never accept it. And yet, they begin buying things on credit, as if they have already won the lottery. How will they pay for it? People are keeping economies running on credit. People are buying stocks on credit. People are building data centers on credit. People are sending troops to war on credit. People are destroying nature on credit. People are killing other people on credit. People are sacrificing our children’s future on credit. People are partying in the middle of catastrophe on credit. People are dancing through extinction on credit. People are celebrating other people’s pain on credit. Everything can be bought, and everything is on credit. When tragedy goes too far, it can become grotesque. And once it becomes grotesque, it can also become funny. Much of comedy, after all, comes from watching someone suffer, fail or struggle with a situation that has become impossible to manage. But what if that comedy is our own story, or the story of someone right next to us? I hope you have a lot of fun at the theatre. - Sunghyun Lim, Director NOTE FROM THE DRAMATURG Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote The Visit in 1956, during a period of rapid economic growth in Western Europe, only a decade after the devastation of World War II. His native Switzerland had remained neutral during the war—neutral, but not divested. Swiss banks were a haven for wealth during the conflict: wealth smuggled out of Germany and occupied countries for safekeeping, as well as plundered wealth, stolen from victims to enrich the Nazi regime. At the same time, the Swiss government closed its borders to tens of thousands of Jewish refugees, despite knowing the horrors and almost certain death they faced. Switzerland’s policies of harboring wealth while refusing to harbor people presented a contradiction. Most Swiss opposed fascism as it took hold in neighboring Italy, Germany and Austria; the country has strong democratic traditions that date back to the thirteenth century. After the allied victory in World War II, the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured mass destruction maintained an unstable peace on the European continent. These contradictions resonated with Dürrenmatt, who later observed, “the world is a paradox.” Dürrenmatt exclusively wrote comedies. He saw theatre as a playscape and comedy as a tool for interrogating society’s contradictions. Critical reflection is not necessarily a comfortable process and Dürrenmatt believed comedy was uniquely capable of enticing audiences to entertain questions they would otherwise avoid. And with that invitation, let’s play. Theatre is not so serious, as Dürrenmatt also said. Let’s depart Austin, Texas and travel to Güllen, a small, impoverished village in central Europe with one very, very rich former resident. Let’s visit. - Megan Thornton, Dramaturg
Meet the cast and creative team behind The Visit.
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https://theatredance.utexas.edu/visit-cast-and-creative-team CREW TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS FABRICATION STUDIO ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR KAREN MANESS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR JASON LEE HUERTA LEAD FABRICATOR HANK SCHWEMMER PROPERTIES MANAGER ASHTON MURPHY ASSISTANT PROPERTIES MANAGER LEAH AUSTIN CHARGE SCENIC ARTIST BRIDGETTE CLIFFORD EMERGING ARTS PROFESSIONAL – TECHNICAL DIRECTION GRACE MONDY SENIOR TECHNICAL DIRECTOR W. SCOTT BUSSEY GRADUATE PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS ALIK CLAY ALLISON JOHNSON GUSTAVO HERNANDEZ PINZON AVA SETTOON PATRICK SCHOEN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS GABI HERNANDEZ MADISON JACKSON PRODUCTION LEADS JUNO ADAIR VALERIA NUNEZ ESTRADA ZOE SALDAÑA FABRICATION STUDENT ASSISTANTS TEX CANTU BENWARE SARAH EWING
ERIN GLASSCOCK ALISA IRVIN CARLY KLEIN MASON OUSLEY ABIGALE REYNA HENGYU ZHOU 314Q/324P FABRICATION PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS LILIAN BATEY JALYSSE LEE MAUDEJANEI OMAGBEMI PROP STOCK MANAGERS JACKI MAI LAURA SOARES PRODUCTION PROPERTIES MANAGER LEAH AUSTIN PUPPET FABRICATOR ASHTON MURPHY PRODUCTION SCENIC ARTIST BRIDGETTE CLIFFORD COSTUME PRODUCTION AND FABRICATION STUDIO COSTUME PRODUCTION DIRECTOR NANETTE ACOSTA PRODUCTION ASSOCIATES DESIREÉ HUMPHRIES JONATHAN WATERS COSTUME PROJECT MANAGER JONATHAN WATERS DRAPERS SARAH BARBOUR POUA YANG FIRST HANDS JENNIFER BALL REGAN SHAW
STUDENT DRAPERS CALLIE MCDONOUGH RILEY O’SULLIVAN OLGA SHEVELKINA STUDENT STITCHERS AMANDA ROSE GEYER STELLA GILL ENRIQUE LANDA KENNEDY MARTIN MAGGIE TAYLOR ANALEE TINAJERO COSTUME CRAFTS ARTISAN TANYA OLALDE COSTUME CRAFTS ASSISTANT OLGA SHEVELKINA STUDIO ASSISTANTS MORGAN GARSAUD BELLE GARZA-OMAE KITTY YUHENG JIANG COSTUME PRODUCTION CREW SUPERVISORS CALLIE MCDONOUGH CALIFORNIA THORSON
324P THEATRE AND DANCE ELECTRICS CREW AMANI EDMOND ELLIE HERR SETH HOLTON BRIAN KIM ARIEL LAGUNAS JADE LANG PRESTON MARK TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS LIGHTING CREW ABEL AGUILAR DOMENICA CALLARO MIYA CHAVIS EDGARDO CRUZ PJ JETTON ERIC RAMIREZ RYLIE WILSON ASSISTANT AUDIO VIDEO SUPERVISOR K. ELIOT HAYNES TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS AUDIO CREW EVER AGUILERA KALEB AZIZ NATALIE WATKINS RUN CREW
COSTUME PRODUCTION CREW TEX CANTU BENWARE BEVERLY FRANKENFELD AUDREY HOCH MEERA LASKAR MICAH MCDONOUGH KEREN ORTEGA
314P RUN CREW FACULTY SUPERVISOR AUSTIN SHIRLEY
MAKEUP, HAIR AND WIG DESIGNER STEPHANIE WILLIAMS
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR TANIA HERNANDEZ
MAKEUP, HAIR AND WIG ASSISTANT ANGEL MACIAS BELLA MIRANDA
WARDROBE RUNNING CREW CHIEF TEX CANTU
COSTUME STOCK SUPERVISOR DESIREÉ HUMPHRIES COSTUME STOCK ASSISTANTS DEE FITZGERALD MICAH MEDELLIN LIGHTING/SOUND/MEDIA ACADEMIC PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER EARNEST MAZIQUE ASSISTANT LIGHTING SUPERVISOR MICHAEL SHANKS SENIOR ELECTRICS TECHNICIANS NAIT BIGLER CINTHIA CHEN JOSEPH CRAWFORD KAY CURRIER-GRAVES LUNA JONES POLINA PINCHEVSKY 324P LIGHTING FACULTY SUPERVISOR SEB BOONE
314P RUN CREW GRADUATE ASSISTANTS ALLISON JOHNSON JOE MORALES AVA SETTOON
WARDROBE CREW ABIGAIL GANGOSO AIDEN JETT GROSS MADISON HOWARD ALICE JEFFERIES CHLOE SNEED HANNAH THOMAS SCENERY/PROPS CREW ANELENA LEMMERMANN JESUS SERRANO MEDIA OPERATOR AVA FRASIER LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR JACE TAYLOR FOLLOW SPOT OPERATORS MALOREE DONICA ELIJAH MAPP SOUND MIX ENGINEER MALANA JENNINGS AUDIO BOARD OPERATOR JACOB WATSON
WIRELESS MIC TECHNICIANS AVA FRASIER SELENA MUNGUIA
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION RUSTY CLOYES TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS DIRECTOR OF FABRICATION AND ACADEMIC PRODUCTION JEFF GRAPKO
PRODUCTION ADVISORS STAGE MANAGEMENT RUSTY CLOYES
FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGEMENT AND TICKETING DANA MCLAUGHLIN
DIRECTING ZACK FINE KJ SANCHEZ
PR/MARKETING PEARL BHATNAGAR SYDNEY PATTILLO
COSTUME DESIGN RAQUEL BARRETO
PHOTOGRAPHERS SARAH ANNIE NAVARRETE ESSENTIALS CREATIVE
UNDERGRADUATE COSTUME DESIGN NANETTE ACOSTA COSTUME TECHNOLOGY DAVID AREVALO
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS MONICA GRIFFIN MARZENA KRUPA
LIGHTING DESIGN MICHELLE HABECK INTEGRATED MEDIA FOR LIVE PERFORMANCE KATE FREER SCENIC DESIGN JOSAFATH REYNOSO SOUND DESIGN PHILLIP OWEN DRAMATURGY RACHEL MERRILL MOSS ACTING ZACK FINE RESIDENT INTIMACY DIRECTOR ANDY GRAPKO
SPECIAL THANKS KJ Sanchez, Zack Fine, Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw, Andy Grapko, Danbi Cho, Department of Theatre and Dance staff, and those who feel terrified as community crumbles and justice is at stake, yet still choose to resist, speak up, and stand against it.
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