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The Velveteen Rabbit Study Guide A New Family Musical Book and Lyrics by Anya Saffir & Cormac Bluestone Music by Cormac Bluestone Musical Direction by Cormac Bluestone Directed by Anya Saffir Choreographed by Alison Beatty Director of Education Heather Baird Education Associate Tyler Easter Education Coordinator Fran Tarr Section 1: The Play Characters, Setting, Themes Section 2: Cast & Creative Cast, Creative Team, and Crew Biographies Section 3: Your Students As Audience Theater Vocabulary, a Letter from the Velveteen Rabbit— Jessika Doyel, Margery Williams Bianco Section 4: Your Students As Actors Warm-up Game, Reading a Scene for Understanding, Character Analysis Section 5: Your Students As Artists Explode the Moment!, Diction and Dramatization, Postcard Activity, Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?—Student Review, Adaptation: Puppet Theater, Critical Thinking—Comparison/Contrast, Sing, Sing, Sing! Activity, Discussions and DOE Blueprint, STRAND Benchmarks Section 6: The Atlantic Legacy Atlantic Theater Company, Atlantic Acting School 2 Section 1: The Play PLAY Characters, PLAY Setting, Themes To introduce students to the characters, settings, and story The Velveteen Rabbit of The Velveteen Rabbit. The Boy Ensemble Roles Played By The Chorus: Mother Father To understand that the actors will simply and truthfully create Nana the story of the play. Tug Boat Porcelain Doll Wooden Lion SETTING Toy Soldier 1 The Boy’s Bedroom Toy Soldier 2 The Nursery Toy Soldier 3 Mechanical Toy 1 The Garden Mechanical Toy 2 The Woods Nearby The Skin Horse Wild Rabbit 1 Wild Rabbit 2 THEMES Wild Rabbit 3 Transition Wild Rabbit 4 Seasons Wild Rabbit 5 Friendship The Doctor The Fairy Of Nursery Magic Wisdom “Real” vs. “Make-believe” Growing Up The Secret Life of Toys 4 Section 2: Cast & Creative CAST Cast, Creative CAST Team, and Crew Biographies ANYA SAFFIR CORMAC BLUESTONE ALISON BEATTY (Director, Playwright) (Musical Director, (Choreographer) Directing credits include Much Ado Playwright, Composer) As a proud alumna of the Atlantic About Nothing at The American Cormac Bluestone has worked for Acting School and NYU’s Tisch Repertory Theater Institute, American eight seasons composing musical School of the Arts, Alison Beatty has numbers, lyrics and additional score Sojourns: Three Plays by Thornton for the television show “It’s Always been the ATC School Artistic Director Wilder at The Moscow Art Theater, Sunny in Philadelphia” including the for the past 6 years. She has had an all-male Romeo and Juliet at musical episodes, Nightman Cometh the pleasure of directing and/ or American Theater of Actors, Brecht’s and Franks Little Beauties. Mr. choreographing several ATC for Kids The Caucasian Chalk Circle with Bluestone most recently completed shows, including: The Velveteen Pipeline Theatre Company (ITBA the score for the upcoming feature Rabbit, Camp Kappawanna, Ivy and award for Outstanding off-Broadway film,Loserville. He has also scored Bean the Musical (ATC, First Nat’l Show), Hamlet with Orpheus Productions the feature films Tenured (Tribeca Film Tour), Tilly the Trickster, The Hundred Gutboy. (NY Innovative Theater Award Festival World Premiere) and Dresses, The True Story of the Three In 2011, Mr. Bluestone won the Inno- Little Pigs, Miss Nelson is Missing, nomination for Outstanding Direction), vative Theater Award for “Outstanding The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Original Music” (second nomination No Dogs Allowed, Really Rosie, Strega for Atlantic for Kids and Chekhov’s in the category) for the award winning Nona, The Big Stew, and You’re A Three Sisters with Muse Theater theater production of The Cauca- Good Man, Charlie Brown. Company. Anya has served as Artistic sian Chalk Circle, directed by Anya Associate at Classic Stage Company, Saffir (ITBA award for Outstanding Adjunct Professor at Tisch School off-Broadway Show). As a Sound of the Arts at NYU and is a longtime Designer, he has worked at Atlantic Good Television, faculty member at Atlantic Acting Theater Company ( dir. Bob Krakower), The American School where she teaches Chekhov Repertory Theater Institute, scene study and has directed Twelfth The Moscow Art Theater and most Night, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale and recently, his third season with The As You Like it, among others. She is Potomac Theater Project, designing a regular contributor on Shakespeare the critically acclaimed Scenes from topics for NPR’s The Takeaway with an Execution starring Jan Maxwell. John Hockenberry. The Velveteen Rabbit is her 11th collaboration with composer Cormac Bluestone. 6 BROOKS CLINE PAUL EDDY MICKELE HOGAN MCLEAN PETERSON (Chorus/Father/Toy (Chorus/Mechanical (Chorus/Mother/Toy (Chorus/Nana) McLean Peterson is thrilled to be back Soldier) Toy/Wild Rabbit) Soldier/The Fairy of Paul Eddy is an actor/musician from Nursery Magic) at the Linda Gross for her second Brooks is beyond excited to be a part Georgetown, KY who is so excited Atlantic for Kids production. Past New of the wonderful team behind The Mickele Hogan is blessed to be a part York credits include: The Parlour (Soho to be back at Atlantic for Kids. Other The Velveteen Rabbit– and can’t wait to of bringing the beloved story of Rep-Walkerspace), Bible Stories (Bailout shows with Atlantic include Camp Velveteen Rabbit bring this remarkable story to life for to the stage with Theater), BOATS AND (ANT Fest), and Kappawanna by Lisa Loeb, Jackie and this incredible cast and crew. She is a you today. He’s a 2015 graduate of Me, and The True Story of the Three Ivy & Bean the Musical (ATC, First the Atlantic Acting School/NYU Tisch, founding member of the Joust Theatre Nat’l Tour). Film: The First Of Our Little Pigs. He’s also recently been in Company where she recently played where he had a great time playing Day 392 by Amy E. Witting (Kennedy Friends to Get Married. She is a characters like Lopakin in The the role of Julia in the debut of Dipika founding member of the Joust Theatre Center), Jeff Nichols’ movie In the The Rules. Cherry Orchard and Joe Cardin in Guha’s She continually Company and a breakfast enthusiast. Radiant Sun by Rachael Lambert and performs in the city and around the US The Children’s Hour. He’s also had Artaud Artaud (Signature Theater). Much love to Mom, Dad, her three a blast with more playful parts like the with the Broadway Dreams Foundation M’s, and her super star cast mates. You can also catch him being fooled Rockers on Munchkin Mayor in The Wizard of where her credits include: www.mcleanpeterson.com on Colby Day’s Michelob Ultra failed Broadway Xanadu. Oz and Charlie Brown in You’re A and Other credits Super Bowl commercial or playing and The Love of the Good Man, Charlie Brown. Getting include: Procne in singing songs around the city. He is a Nightingale HUGH C. SMITH the chance to join an Atlantic company and the starring role in proud graduate of the Atlantic Sum- the feature film Message of Hope. (Chorus/The Skin Horse) production for the first time and mer Intensive Training Program and share this rousing classic seemed She is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch holds a BA from Georgetown College. School of the Arts where she trained Hugh C. Smith is a recent graduate of like the perfect balance. A million The Theater School at DePaul thanks to Mom, Dad, and big bros with the Atlantic Acting School. Her Metamorphoses, University in Chicago class of 2015. Matt & Jesse – for everything – he’s credits include ANYA GIBIAN Spring Awakening, As You Like It and Since graduating, he has performed in got nothing but love. Hope you all Clarence, The Cannibal Chamber Music. She would like to at The Bowery enjoy the show very much, and (Chorus/Mechanical Toy/ Bible Stories thank God, her family, and friends for Poetry Club and at Judson have fun! Wild Rabbit) all their love and support. Memorial Church. Some of his Anya Gibian is an actor, singer, and favorite credits at DePaul are The circus artist living in Brooklyn. She Duchess of Malfi and The Last JESSIKA DOYEL loves working on new and developing DANIEL BRIAN JONES Days of Judas Iscariot. work, most recently originating the (Chorus/Tug Boat/ (The Velveteen Rabbit) title role in Little Did Productions’ GREG SULLIVAN Jessika Doyel is a theater artist and world-premiere puppet opera Solina The Doctor) educator from Nashville, Tennessee. (FringeNYC). Previous New York Daniel Brian Jones co-operated Farm (Chorus/Toy Soldier/ Proud alumna of the Atlantic Acting credits include #serials@theflea,and Theater Projects, which produced Wild Rabbit) School. Performing credits include The Mysteries (The Flea Theater). nine original works spanning dance, Greg Sullivan is thrilled to be a part of Reckless (Atlantic Acting School), Anya is co-founder of ParaCosm music, and theater. His writing has The Velveteen Rabbit and honored to The Visit and The Children’s Hour Theatrics with Juliana Kleist-Mendez. appeared in Chronogram and be welcomed into the Atlantic Theater (Belmont University) among others. www.anyagibian.com Whirlwind magazines. Music: family. He is a New York based actor, Producing credits include Abby Harmonium Songs (a cycle of settings voiceover artist, singer, and dancer. Rosebrock’s Singles in Agriculture of poems from Wallace Stevens’s He received his B.A. in Drama from (The Brick/Dixon Place), developmental Harmonium), Little Room. Upcoming: Vassar College and trained at the workshops of Nate Weida’s folk opera, the theatrical world premiere of John Moscow Art TheaterSchool through I’s Twinkle at Judson Church as well as Ashbery’s Litany with new group Small the National Theater Institute. He was numerous second stage events with Theaters Around the Country. He edits last seen performing the roles of An- Pipeline Theatre Company. Directing FOLDER Magazine. NYU, Atlantic derson Cooper/Hillary Clinton in the and assisting credits include: TEN www.danielbrianjones.com.
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