Studio Season
Spring 2023
Is God Is
By Aleshea Harris
Directed by Jayda Jones
Featuring: Tyler Isiah Bey, Arden Carethers, Trystan Edwards, Moriah Groff, Emmanuel Okeke, Jaden Perez, Nina Polaris, & Kenyon Terrell
Aleshea Harris explores the ancient, the modern, the mythic, and the epic in her darkly comedic, tragic, and unapologetic play, Is God Is. Explored through heightened language aided by artistic typography, the play is about two abandoned twin sisters who’ve paved their way through life with visible burns and scars. Having already gone through the trauma of raising themselves and one another, they find out that their parents are not only alive, but that their father’s vengeance is what sparked the fire that displaced them. With their mother on her deathbed, will they fulfill her dying wish by killing their only other biological parent and the do-over family he has replaced them with?
Assistant Director: Mary Olivette Bookman
Associate Producers: Aurora Winger & Tzipporah Goins
Production Stage Manager: Pradanya Subramanyan
Assistant Stage Managers: Raina Williams & Lisa V. Felson
Production Manager: Saz Zwart
Dramaturg & Assistant Production Manager: Sophia Gayoso-Nordling
Production Assistant: Brian Tong
Social Media Manager: Kenyon Terrell
Fight Choreographer: Raekwon Fuller
Intimacy Choreographer: Juju Jaworski
Set Design: Raquel Sklar
Costume Design: Harry Cooper
Assistant Costume Design: Arielle Schmid
Lighting Supervisors: Saz Swart & Will Rossiter
Associate Lighting Design: Raina Williams & Kathryn Fitzpatrick
Lighting Consultant: Amara Payton McNeil
Assistant Lighting Consultant: Ara Tandon
Sound: Sabina Ali
Assistant Sound: Jaden Perez & Elian Rivera
Makeup Design: Arielle Schmid
Assistant Makeup Design: Anna Helldorfer
Makeup Assistant: Izzi Budetti
Props Design: Manon McCollum
Projection Design: Alex Alipio
Assistant Projection Design: Kamau Nosakhere
Content Advisory: This show contains descriptions and depictions of violence, suicide, domestic abuse, child abuse, childhood trauma, narcissistic parenting, internalized anti-Blackness, misogyny, murder, and explicit language.
When Birds Don’t Fly
By Vivienne Blouin
Directed by Cora Therber
Featuring: Vivi Aiello, Yasemin Cem, & Riley Halpern
When a former pageant star moves back in with her mother and sister, disputes new and old surface. They must navigate complex beauty and gendered expectations, alcoholism, financial issues, diet culture, love, loss, and family dynamics against the backdrop of southern culture. When Birds Don’t Fly is a one-act play that encompasses all of the joys, griefs, and pop culture references of years past.
Assistant Director: Kana Seiki
Producers: Cora Therber & Vivienne Blouin
Production Stage Manager: Olive Fox
Stage Manager: Laney Schwantes
Assistant Stage Manager: Lily Resnik
Production Manager: Julia Walker
Assistant Production Manager: Ian Rios
Set Design: Quinn Horner
Assistant Set Design: Christian Caro & Helen Hylton
Costume Design: Peter Chan
Assistant Costume Design: Teri Salmon
Lighting: Lee Lillis
Sound: Ryann Murphy
Assistant Sound: Kat Fosmoen & Leah Getz
Props Design: Leela Kiyawat
Assistant Props Design: Isabella Acuña
Content Advisory: Body image/dysmorphia, alcoholism, disordered eating, reference to depression and anxiety.
Blood Wedding
By Federico García Lorca
Directed by Asa Nestlehutt
Music by Nate Dallimore
Featuring: Anne Lois Bullington, Jack Clark, McKenna Dixon, Emma Durocher, Alex Shayeb, & Giordana Simurdiak.
Set in Alanducía, Spain in the tense years before the Spanish Civil War, three families vie for love and control as they navigate the confines of society. With a landscape of poetic imagery, Lorca creates a fluid blend of poetry and plot, building to the play’s tragic conclusion. Providing a lucid vision of a people gripped by passion, fighting against the constraints of a society that seems made to trap them. Lorca asks how we can rise above the limitations of the world and in the face of division and pain challenges us to live and love boldly.
Assistant Director: Milagros Luis
Producers: Asa Nestlehutt & Ash Daniels
Choreographer: Sam Bohrer
Production Stage Manager: Ash Daniels
Stage Manager: Rooke Lewis
Production Manager: Julia Walker
Assistant Production Manager: Ian Rios
Intimacy Choreographer: Abigail Lo
Assistant Intimacy Choreographer: Pradanya Subramanyan
Fight Choreographer: Raekwon Fuller
Dramaturg: Fabiola Arias
Technical Director: Isaac Davis
Set Design: Haley Crawford
Associate Set Design: Jack Kelly
Costume Design: Katie Bartlett
Assistant Costume Design: Jessica Stekloff
Lighting: Lee Lillis
Associate Lighting: Elijah Warrington
Sound & Music Director: Nate Dallimore
Assistant Sound: Maia Kraskoukas
Graphic Design: Yev Gelman
And This is Where We
Written & Co-Produced by Iz Gonzalez
Directed & Co-Produced by Yev Gelman
Featuring: Evan Cain, Marco Lizarraga, Kamau Nosakhere, & Kenyon Terrell
Inner Child Under the Sun (IS-US) is a two-week Big Brother-like, sleepaway summer camp, where young adults are paired up with children to engage in typical summer camp activities like arts and crafts, rock climbing and hiking. While the young adult or “Core” is meant to reconnect with their inner child, they also serve as a mentor for the “Child” partner. When Alex, a jobless college graduate, is chosen as one of the Cores, he doesn’t expect to lose track of time & memory with a kid that seems eerily familiar. The lovechild of Midsommar, Get Out, and The Sixth Sense, And This is Where We is a psychological dramedy that invites you to question what makes us become who we are and what we leave behind.
Assistant Director: Anna Mayo
Assistant Producer: Pradanya Subramanyan
Assistant Production: Megha Thyagarajan
Production Stage Manager: Ara Tandon
Stage Manager: Ian Rios
Assistant Stage Manager: Kei Sugae
Production Manager: Julia Walker
Assistant Production Manager: Zac Zwart
Intimacy Director: Abigail Lo
Dramaturgs: Abigail Lo & Skyler Purvis
Set Design: Sam Deetjen
Associate Set Design: Cade Parker
Costume Design: Rooke Lewis
Assistant Costume Design: Malak Elghamrawi
Lighting: Zac Zwart
Associate Lighting: Aurora Winger
Sound: Caroline Pastilha
Associate Sound: Kei Sugae
Assistant Sound: Valeria Fernandez
Props Design: Jackson Kelly