Performance Program • Yellow Bird Chase by Wortham Center for the Performing Arts

WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Liars & Believers presents

YELLOW BIRD CHASE

Wed, Apr 22, 2026 • 6 pm

CAST

Capitano Marco Cantolop Del Portrudo - Jesse Garlick (Blue Clown)

Poodge - Glen Moore (Green Clown)

Floofle - Charlie Sullivan (Red Clown)

ARTISTIC TEAM

Director - Jason Slavick

Costume Designer - Kendra Bell

Puppetry Direction & Design - Penny Benson

Scenic Design & Props - Rebecca Lehrhoff

Lighting Designer - PJ Strachman

Stage Manager - Kenzie Wright

Jesse Garlick (Blue Clown) is a Boston based actor and theatre educator. Selected regional credits: Prayer for the French Republic (Huntington Theatre), A Christmas Carol, Journey to the West, Arcadia (Central Square Theatre). Good, Assassins (New Repertory Theatre) The End is Nigh, Don’t Open This, A Story Beyond, Yellow Bird Chase, Who Would be King (Liars and Believers) Hamlet, As You Like It (Brown Box Theatre Project). New York credits: Good (PTP/NYC), Who Would Be King (Ars Nova/Liars and Believers). International credits: Yellow Bird Chase (Assembly/Liars and Believers). Jesse is also the Education Director of Liars and Believers in addition to being a faculty member at Boston Ballet’s Education and Community Initiative Department. MFA: Actors Studio Drama School. BFA: Boston University.

Glen Moore (Green Clown) is an Artistic Associate with LaB, and has devised and performed in: The End is Nigh, Don’t Open This, A Story Beyond – A Musical Fable, Yellow Bird Chase, MacBeth (Pandemic Play), Irresistible, Who Would Be King? Regional Theatre credits: We Are The Land (Arts Emerson), Bare stage (BCA), The Last Schwartz (Gloucester Stage Company), The Importance of Being Earnest, Of Mice and Men (Moonbox Productions), Speech And Debate (Curious Theatre Company of Denver), New York Credits: Who Would Be King? (Ars Nova/Liars and Believers), The Tempest (Seven Day Shakespeare Central Park). Glen has also worked as a theater educator, acting coach, fight captain, set builder, sound and light designer in both New England and Colorado. BFA in Acting from The University of Northern Colorado. Studied at The National Theatre Conservatory.

Charlie Sullivan (Red Clown) is a 2024 graduate of Salem State University with a BFA in theatre performance. They are so excited to be a part of their first touring show. Some of their favorite roles have been Peter Pan (Peter Pan), Detective Tupolski (The Pillowman), Dubois and Basque (The School for Lies), Beleagard Geek (Heathers the Musical), and Apostle John (Jesus Christ Superstar).

Jason Slavick is a theatre director, writer, teacher, and the Artistic Director of Liars and Believers, a theatre ensemble based in Cambridge, MA. He has created over 20 original shows with music, puppets, masks, and more, adapting stories from the bible, folklore, myths, and poems. He has directed over 40 plays ranging from Shakespeare to new works, and all kinds of immersive experiences. His work has toured across the U.S. and to Europe, he directed theatre in Israel, and has won multiple awards and commissions. Jason earned his MFA in directing from The Trinity Repertory Conservatory and a BA in Philosophy from Trinity College in Hartford, where he won the Means Prize in Philosophy. He also studied at the Dell’ Arte International School of Physical Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institute, and the Warsaw Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Poland.

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The Wortham Center acknowledges that we are on the ancestral land of the Anigiduwagi, more commonly known as the Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩᎠᏰᎵ).

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