UT NEW THEATRE Curated by Liz Engelman and Steven Dietz
Milton, MI BY PAZ PARDO April 12-22, 2018
OSCAR G. BROCKETT THEATRE
Milton, MI BY PAZ PARDO DIRECTED BY ADAM L. SUSSMAN
APRIL 17, 20 AT 7:30 P.M. APRIL 14, 22 AT 2:00 P.M.
OSCAR G. BROCKETT THEATRE F. LOREN WINSHIP BUILDING
THEATREDANCE.UTEXAS.EDU
UTNT (UT New Theatre) is made possible through the generous support of the Michener Center for Writers and the College of Fine Arts’ Department of Theatre and Dance. THIS PRODUCTION WAS CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS: Zoe Andersen – Scenic Designer • Ben Campbell – Sound Designer Jazmyn A. Castillo – Stage Manager • Ty Clark – Composer • Aaron Curry – Associate Lighting Designer Francesca Ghizzoni – Production Manager • Mercedes Trinidad McCleary – Lighting Designer Jessi Rose– Costume Designer • Mason Rosenthal – Movement Director David Tolin – Technical Director • Hannah Wolf – Intimacy Coach
CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) *Delante Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jake Sophia Quiroga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leah Madelyn Consoldane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Roxanna Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slug Amberlynn “A.L” Balli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chantal
ENSEMBLE Emily Garcia Natalie Di Grazia
Zachary Henry Sam Kerner
There will be no intermission. Videography and photography are strictly prohibited. Post-Performance Slug Fest April 20 immediately following the 7:30 p.m. performance *The actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This production uses the Artist Engagement Services of the University Resident Theatre Association, Inc.
NOTE FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT Dear Audience: Milton, MI is a play with slugs. Some of the slugs are a metaphor. It is a play with poets, so there are more metaphors than slugs. It’s a play about people who don’t want to tell each other what they want, so they say lots of other things instead. I may have done this in real life. Maybe you know someone who has, too. It’s a play about what grows as a relationship withers. About consensual desire and sex and the ways we fail to tell each other what we need when we’re trying to be honest – But how can you be when you can’t tell someone what you want for lunch? It’s an attempt to stage the things we wish we could say when words will never be enough. Let me know whether it works. Thank you for coming. Sincerely, Paz
NOTE FROM THE CURATORS
In this, the 11th year of UTNT, we celebrate once again the zest and guile of new work and its ability to feed our theatrical art form. The theatre is not a lake, it is a spring; not a finite container, but a living form in motion, filling constantly from below. These plays, by our ascendant third-year M.F.A. playwrights, are a testament to this ongoing theatrical regeneration. Here are plays that seek to delight and disrupt you. Here are intimate stories of great reach and ambition. Here are writers daring to lay claim to wide swaths of our imagination and consciousness. What’s more, we are fiercely proud that virtually every name in this playbill is that of a student - undergraduate and graduate, from all theatrical disciplines. This diverse array of young artists and scholars are not waiting to inherit the field. Instead, they are overturning it - remaking and reshaping it on their own terms, right here, right now. And as we know, “what starts here ...” Steven Dietz Liz Engelman Curators, UTNT-18
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CREATIVE Zoe Andersen (Scenic Designer) is a M.F.A. in Design and Technology candidate with a focus in scenic design at The University of Texas at Austin. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, she designed shadow puppets for Sun and Shadows. Last year, Andersen created and performed the puppetry for Cry Wolf (the Cohen New Works Festival, 2017). She recently worked for Universal Studios, Orlando designing work for Halloween Horror Nights and served as the scenic designer for The Crucible (Texas Theatre and Dance, 2017). Ben Campbell (Sound Designer) is a third-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in sound design at The University of Texas at Austin. He has an extensive background in both live music mixing and design and recently designed work for The Crucible (Texas Theatre and Dance, 2017). Jazmyn A. Castillo (Stage Manager) is a B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in stage management. This is her first main stage production with Texas Theatre and Dance. She has participated in several events at Hogg Auditorium and was part of the team of Bloodthirsty Fiends (The Cohen New Works Festival, 2017). Ty Clark (Composer) is a fourth-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process. He is also a senior sound designer at Davis Ellen. Aaron Curry (Associate Lighting Designer) is a second-year M.F.A. in Design and Technology candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. Recent credits include ENRON, Fall For Dance, Building the Wall (Texas Theatre and Dance) and Little Women (Butler Opera Center). Regional: The Little Prince (assistant, Seattle Children’s Theatre); South Pacific (Arizona Broadway Theatre); The Danube; The Messenger (Hangar Theatre); Das Barbecü; A Little Night Music; Urinetown, the Musical and The Drowsy Chaperone (The Barnstormers). Member, USITT. aaroncurrydesigns.com
Francesca Ghizzoni (Production Manager) is a third-year UTeach Theatre major with a minor in Administration and Arts Management. Ghizzoni has a fierce passion for management of the arts and has previously served as president of the student-produced theatre company, RoundAbout Players; stage manager of El Camino de Hierro (Cohen New Works Festival, 2017) and stage manager in the Austin community for Landscape Mechanical. Her interests include education and dramaturgy. Dramaturgical credits include the Austin productions Dust, Uncastable and The Last Ones Out. Mercedes Trinidad McCleary (Lighting Designer) is a M.F.A. in Design and Technology candidate with an focus in lighting design at The University of Texas at Austin. During her time at the university, she has designed work for The Crucible (Fall 2017), Luna (Spring 2017) and last year’s production of UTNT (UT New Theatre). She has also designed lighting for Butler Opera Center’s production of Cosi Fan Tutte. Paz Pardo (Playwright) is a M.F.A. candidate at the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin. Plays include Movimiento Perpetuo/Perpetual Motion, which she has performed in 11 cities in three countries; Duct Tape Girl and Fetish Chick Conquer the World (BootStrap Theater Foundation, New York City); Rubber Match (RED CARAVAN, NYC) and Milton, MI (Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, 2016). In April 2018, YOU/EMMA (conceived by Valerie Redd, written by Paz Pardo) will premiere at IRT in New York City. Her writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Review, Encountering Ensemble (ed. John Britton) and Howlround. B.A., Stanford. Fulbright Award, Buenos Aires, 2012. Jessi Rose (Costume Designer) is pursuing an M.F.A. in Design and Technology with a focus in costume design at The University of Texas at Austin. Rose received a B.A. in Anthropology before beginning the study of costuming. The universal human practice of dressing the body and communicating through dress fascinates
CREATIVE her and fuels her passion for design. Recent design work includes Momentum (Dance Repertory Theatre, Texas Theatre and Dance, 2017), June (film) and Seven, The Documentary (Concordia University). Mason Rosenthal (Movement Director) is an original performance-maker, director, actor and teacher from Skokie, Illinois. He co-directs Lightning Rod Special, a devised theatre company based in Philadelphia (recent productions include Unformed Consent, Sans Everything and Underground Railroad Game, winner of an Obie Award). Rosenthal holds a B.F.A. in Acting from NYU where he studied with The Atlantic Theater Company and later served on faculty until 2011. He then moved to Philadelphia to be the Headlong Performance Institute’s first teaching fellow. He is currently a M.F.A. in Performance as Public Practice candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. Adam L. Sussman (Director) is a M.F.A. in Directing candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. He has directed for companies coast-tocoast. Recent work includes Gondal (UTNT (UT New Theatre, 2017), Daniel/Rose (Cohen New Works Festival, 2017), When New Orleans Becomes a Brown Sea (Cohen New Works Festival, 2017) and, most recently, The Merchant of Venice (UT Director’s Studio Project). 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. Hannah Wolf (Intimacy Coach) is a director, dramaturg, teacher and creative producer originally from Juneau, Alaska. She makes new work for the stage and explores new ways of making work in the rehearsal room. Recent projects include ENRON (Texas Theatre and Dance, 2018), TITLE LOADING (Fusebox Festival/Cohen New Works Festival, 2017), The Bigot (UTNT (UT New Theatre), 2017), Dry Land (UT Directing Studio Project) and The Sky Garden (Peppercorn Theatre). She’s developed new plays with Perseverance Theatre, TerraNOVA Collective, Columbia University and NYU, among others. She has a bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University and trained extensively with the SITI Company. Member 2012 Lincoln Center Directors Lab; 2015/15 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Fellowships: Fulbright (Bucharest, Romania). Wolf will receive her M.F.A. in Directing from The University of Texas at Austin in 2018. hannahjwolf.com
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CAST
Delante Keys
Sophia Quiroga
Madelyn Consoldane
Roxanna Taylor
Amberlynn “A.L” Balli
Emily Garcia
Natalie Di Grazia
Zachary Henry
Sam Kerner
CAST Delante Keys (Jake) holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Arcadia University. He spent his formative artistic years working as an actor and teaching artist in Philadelphia where he appeared in The Nutcracker, What the Butler Saw, Road (Curio Theatre), One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (People’s Light and Theatre Company) and The Borrowers (Arden Theatre Company), among others. Since moving to Austin, Keys has performed in Lyla School (UTNT (UT New Theatre), 2014); All the Way (ZACH Theatre); Salvador Dali’s Naked Feast, Privacy Settings: A Promethean Tale (The Vortex Repertory Company); The Flick (Hyde Park Theatre); TWENTYEIGHT (Gale Theater Company); Marie Antoinette, The Effect, Brothers Size (Capital T Theatre) and Catalina de Erauso (Paper Chairs). Keys is a company member at the Vortex Rep and Hyde Park Theatre.
Amberlynn “A.L” Balli (Chantal) is a fourth-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis on performer’s process and design and technology at The University of Texas at Austin. Balli has acted professionally with Spanish directors Emilio Aragón and Eva Vives. Upon graduation, Balli plans to pursue acting and SFX work in Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California.
Sophia Quiroga (Leah) is a B.A. in Theatre and Dance major at The University of Texas at Austin. She has training in acting, singing and dance. Recently, Quiroga was seen in Uncastable (The Cohen New Works Festival, 2017) and as “Wendla” in Spring Awakening.
Natalie Di Grazia (Ensemble) is a second-year B.F.A. in Acting major at The University of Texas at Austin. She was recently seen in several productions as part of the Cohen New Works Festival (2017). This is her first main stage production with Texas Theatre and Dance. Upon graduation, Di Grazia plans to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and music.
Madelyn Consoldane (Amber) is a first-year UTeach Theatre major at The University of Texas at Austin. Previous credits include the role of “Mrs. Savage” in The Curious Savage, “Lillian” in I Hate Hamlet and “Nurse Finn” in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Roxanna Taylor (Slug) is a UTeach Theatre major at The University of Texas at Austin. She became involved in theatre in 2003 at the Texas Renaissance Festival. She was recently seen in Much Ado About Nothing (Something For Nothing) and as part of the Cohen New Works Festival (2017). She has directed several projects during her time at UT, including the 36th Annual Madrigal Dinner.
Emily Garcia (Ensemble) is a first-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major at The University of Texas at Austin. This is her first main stage production with Texas Theatre and Dance. Garcia has a background in acting and dance and previous credits include “Stella” in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WIlliams and “Mary Anne” in The Kentucky Cycle: Fire in the Hole by Robert Schenkkan.
Zachary Henry (Ensemble) is a first-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis on performer’s process at The University of Texas at Austin. He has recently been seen in The Last Ones Out, En Memoire and other studio projects at the Department of Theatre and Dance. Sam Kerner (Ensemble) is a B.F.A. in Acting major at The University of Texas at Austin. He has been seen as “Thomas Putnam” in The Crucible, “Victor” in Dry Land and “Fabian” in Twelfth Night, as well as in A Nervous Breakdown and Zoom & Focus The Musical as part of The Cohen New Works Festival (2017).
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HAILEY ROBERTS KINSEY SHACKELFORD
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