MFA Year 3 Acting Repertory Scene Dock Theatre February 1–March 3, 2019

Children of the Sun

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Swimmers The MFA Acting Repertory Experience BY ANDY ROBINSON This rep serves two purposes in with one of a number of resident actor training: one, it brings a group of repertory companies located throughout student-actors together into a working the country. The intensity of the rep ensemble; and two, it gives them an experience (rehearsing one play during intense repertory experience that allows the day, playing another at night) them to practically apply all aspects of allowed the apprentice to put recent their training. What the actor learns from drama school training to the test of being a working member of an ensemble practical application. Unfortunately, is every bit as important as learning these resident rep companies have the nuts and bolts of the craft. To be a dwindled down to a precious few. true ensemble player, one develops a Today, the vast majority of vital connection and a responsibility to students coming out of drama the other players. Individual talents are school are immediately thrown into brought together into a coherent and a “freelance” situation where the responsive ensemble that creates the work comes sporadically with a lot potential for extraordinary theatre. of “down time” in-between. The THE MFA ACTING CLASS OF 2019 Michael Chekhov, the great Russian formative practical experience that (L to R): Natalia Leyva Lezcano | Malachy Silva | Akshaya Pattanayak actor, director and teacher, believed professional rep companies used to Briyana Guadalupe | Carlos Harrison (seated) | AJ Clark “the purpose of all training is to create provide has now, to a large extent, character.” After more than two years fallen to academy-styled university Tessa Hope Slovis | Gabriel Leyva Lezcano | Calahan Skogman of classes, workshops and performance or private actor-training programs. Zaire Martínez Roldán | Brett Wyman | Bukola Ogunmola situations, each one of these actors has And if the repertory experience is not now created three or more characters even offered in these programs, then from three very different plays. And chances are slim that the graduated actor because they are a small group taking will ever find it in the professional world. on this enormous challenge, they are Multi-play rep is not for the faint Your presence at this performance is sometimes playing roles that commercial of heart. It requires stamina, patience invaluable to us, and we trust you will enjoy theatres would be reluctant to hire them and true belief in the creative watching our graduating MFA acting students in to play. Nothing stretches an actor more imagination. Every bit of intellectual, any and all of the plays that comprise this “rep” — than to struggle with a character that’s emotional and physical resource the Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky in a new version 180 degrees removed from her or his actor possesses is put into play. It’s by Andrew Upton, Gnit by Will Eno and Swimmers “type.” It’s this kind of “miscasting” that an experience that strengthens and by Rachel Bonds. This multi-play repertory is the often allows for revelatory performance. expands presence, the actor’s most equivalent of the students’ Master’s thesis, and it Until relatively recently, actors valuable asset, and I am deeply grateful culminates the ensemble performance aspect of coming out of drama school had more to the School of Dramatic Arts for keeping the USC School of Dramatic Arts’ MFA actor training opportunity to secure an apprenticeship the experience alive here at USC. program. For more on the extraordinary challenges and rewards of the repertory experience, please read the words, penned by the MFA Acting’s REPERTORY PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Founding Director Andy Robinson, which perfectly Children of the Sun Gnit Swimmers capture the essence of this remarkable experience. Fri, Feb 1 | 7:30 p.m. Sat, Feb 2 | 8 p.m. Sat, Feb 9 | 8 p.m. Sat, Feb 2 | 2:30 p.m. Sun, Feb 3 | 2:30 p.m. Sun, Feb 10 | 2:30 p.m. DAVID WARSHOFSKY Sat, Feb 16 | 8 p.m. Wed, Feb 13 | 7:30 p.m. Fri, Feb 15 | 7:30 p.m. Director of MFA Acting Sun, Feb 17 | 2:30 p.m. Thu, Feb 14 | 7:30 p.m. Sat, Feb 16 | 2:30 p.m. Fri, Feb 22 | 7:30 p.m. Sat, Feb 23 | 8 p.m. Wed, Feb 20 | 7:30 p.m. Sat, Feb 23 | 2:30 p.m. Sun, Feb 24 | 2:30 p.m. Thu, Feb 21 | 7:30 p.m. Wed, Feb 27 | 7:30 p.m. Fri, Mar 1 | 7:30 p.m. Sat, Mar 2 | 8 p.m. Thu, Feb 28 | 7:30 p.m. Sat, Mar 2 | 2:30 p.m. Sun, Mar 3 | 2:30 p.m. Photo by anna azarov photography anna azarov by Photo presents Children of the Sun MFA Year 3 Acting Repertory CAST OF CHARACTERS Scene Dock Theatre February 1–March 3, 2019 (in order of appearance) Protasov Fyodorich Protasov Melaniya Borisovna/Avdotya (Yegor’s Wife) Malachy Silva Briyana Guadalupe The Antonovna, the Protasov’s Nanny Efimia Ivanovna (Fima)/Lukeria (Loosha) AJ Clark | Briyana Guadalupe | Carlos Harrison Natalia Leyva Lezcano Bukola Ogunmola Gabriel Leyva Lezcano | Natalia Leyva Lezcano Roman/Yakov Troshin Nazar Avdeyich Vigrusov Zaire Martínez Roldán | Bukola Ogunmola Calahan Skogman Akshaya Pattanayak Elizaveta Fyodorovna (Liza) Mikhail Nazarov Vigrusov (Misha) Akshaya Pattanayak | Malachy Silva Tessa Hope Slovis AJ Clark Calahan Skogman | Tessa Hope Slovis | Brett Wyman Yegor/Doctor Elyene Nikolaevna Protasov (Yelena) Gabriel Leyva Lezcano Zaire Martínez Roldán In Repertory Boris Borisovich Chepurnoy Dimitri Sergeyich Vaguin (Vageen) Brett Wyman Carlos Harrison Children of the Sun By Maxim Gorky In a new version by Andrew Upton Scenic Design Takeshi Kata Time/Place: A small town in Russia in the summer of 1905 Costume Design Kathryn Poppen Lighting Design Derek Christiansen ACT 1: In the house after breakfast Sound Design Dom Torquato Projection Design Abigail Light ACT 2: The same day in the garden after dinner Stage Manager Marcedes L. Clanton ACT 3: In the house the next day Directed by Kate Burton ACT 4: In the garden the next day There will be one 10-minute intermission. Gnit By Will Eno Scenic Design Takeshi Kata Costume Design Kathryn Poppen DIRECTOR’S NOTE Lighting Design Derek Christiansen Sound Design Ethan Zeitman Welcome to this stunning adaptation by Andrew Upton of Maxim Gorky’s masterful Children Projection Design Abigail Light Stage Manager Marcedes L. Clanton of the Sun. Maxim Gorky picks up where Anton Chekhov leaves us at the end of The Cherry Directed by Andrei Belgrader Orchard. Chekhov looked longingly to the past and gazed warily into the future in his final masterwork and Gorky hurtles us towards this future. Written during the 1905 revolution, Gorky gives us a snapshot of what a group of scientists, artists, merchants, workmen and By Rachel Bonds peasants were thinking about and wrestling with as they looked around them and saw the ScenicSwimmers Design Takeshi Kata Costume Design Kathryn Poppen world that they had grown up with disappearing before their eyes. Upton has updated Gorky’s work so that it tumbles out at us with much overlapping dialogue and vibrant anachronisms. Lighting Design Sound Design Derek Christiansen Alysha Bermudez Gorky’s heart beats loud and clear throughout giving us a story that is densely packed Projection Design Abigail Light Stage Manager Marcedes L. Clanton but rampages along for a surprisingly fleet experience. Welcome to Russia in 1905. Original Music composed and performed by Fay Wolf Directed by David Warshofsky PRODUCTION STAFF Vocal Coach Natsuko Ohama | Vocal Coach Lauren Murphy Yeoman | Fight Choreography Edgar Landa | 1st Asst. Stage Manager Arturo Fernandez, Jr. | 2nd Asst. Stage Manager Zoya Naqvi | Asst. Scenic Design Mimi Bower | Asst. Costume Design Gigi Shin Children of the Sun was first performed by The , London in the Lyttleton Theatre on 9th April, 2013. LX/Lighting Design Mentor Jason Thompson | Sound Design Mentor Alma Reyes-Thomas Adaptation © Andrew Upton, 2014. Children of the Sun is produced by special arrangement with Faber and Faber. Assoc. Sound Designer Jack Johnson | Crew Gena Baek, Alexis Cruz, Courtney Frank, Gnit received its World Premiere in the 2013 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Oscar Gonzalez, Aidan Gray, Michael Howard, Kumar Rohit, Sindri Sigfusson is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. SPECIAL THANKS Swimmers received its World Premiere Production at Marin Theatre Company, Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director; Michael Barker, Managing Director, Mill Valley, CA. Winner of the 2015 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize at Marin , Kevin Williams at UCLA Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA Artistic Director, Jasson Minadakis; Managing Director, Michael Barker and is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. WARNING Please be advised that this production contains mature language and themes. Gnit Swimmers

CAST OF CHARACTERS CAST OF CHARACTERS (in order of appearance) (in order of appearance) Peter Bridesmaid/Women in Green LeAnna Priya Gabriel Leyva Lezcano Sick Woman/Anitra Zaire Martínez Roldán Briyana Guadalupe Mother/Dark Lady Natalia Leyva Lezcano Walter Farrah Bukola Ogunmola Moyniham/Middle/International Man AJ Clark Tessa Hope Slovis Stranger 1/Green Family Sphinx/Pale Man Tom Yuri International Man/Beggar/Auctioneer Malachy Silva Calahan Harrison Malachy Silva AJ Clark Uncle Joe/Green Family Charlene Bill Stranger 2/Green Family/Bartender International Man/Begriffin/Reporter Bukola Ogunmola Akshaya Pattanayak Pastor/Shackleton Brett Wyman Vivian Dennis Calahan Skogman Solvay Natalia Leyva Lezcano Gabriel Leyva Lezcano Stranger 3/Hunter/Robber Briyana Guadalupe Randy George Bremen/Grave Digger Bride/Case Worker Carlos Harrison Brett Wyman Carlos Harrison Tessa Hope Slovis Town Groupie/Helen/Anna Akshaya Pattanayak Zaire Martínez Roldán There is no intermission.

There will be one 10-minute intermission.

PRODUCTION STAFF PRODUCTION STAFF Vocal Coach Natsuko Ohama | Vocal Coach Lauren Murphy Yeoman Vocal Coach Natsuko Ohama | Vocal Coach Lauren Murphy Yeoman Music Direction Tessa Hope Slovis | Fight Choreography Edgar Landa Choreography David Warshofsky | Fight Choreography Edgar Landa 1st Asst. Stage Manager Zoya Naqvi | 2nd Asst. Stage Manager Arturo Fernandez Jr. Dance Captain Bukola Ogunmola | Asst. Stage Manager Zoya Naqvi Asst. Scenic Design Edward Hansen | Asst. Costume Design Gigi Shin Asst. Stage Manager Arturo Fernandez | Asst. Scenic Design Milner Sommers LX/Projections Design Mentor Jason Thompson | Sound Design Mentor Alma Reyes-Thomas Asst. Costume Design Howard Peter Schmitt | LX/Projections Design Mentor Jason Thompson Assoc. Sound Designer Kiegan Lee | Crew Wesley Brown, Giovanny Camarena, Sound Design Mentor Alma Reyes-Thomas | Assoc. Sound Designer Joy Cheever Stephen Humes, Isha Kamdar, Elise Kesler, Charrell Mack, Cameron Murphy Lighting Coordinator CB Borger | Music arranged and supervised by Macgee Warshofsky Musicians Tessa Hope Slovis, Natalia Leyva Lezcano, Brett Wyman Crew Lorena Gonzalez, Rose Kimball, Jalen Stewart, Rebecca Tabor, Brandon Tam, Galen Williams

WARNING Please be advised that this production contains theatrical haze, smoking of herbal cigarettes WARNING Please be advised that this production contains smoking of herbal products and mature and mature language. themes. Biographies DEAN BRAVERMAN FAMILY DEAN’S CHAIR David Bridel ASSOCIATE DEANS Kate Burton (Director, Children of the Sun) is a professor of theatre practice Professor Sharon Marie Carnicke (Director of BA Programs) Associate Professor of Theatre Practice Anita Dashiell-Sparks at USC. She has directed , and The Seagull Associate Professor Oliver Mayer for the MFA rep and Twelfth Night for the BFA. She has also directed three Associate Professor of Theatre Practice Stephanie Shroyer (Director of BFA Programs, Artistic Director) versions of Shakespeare/Tchaikovsky for Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS featuring Matthew Rhys, Anika Noni Rose, Ioan Gruffyth, Malcolm MacDowell Velina Hasu (Director of MFA Dramatic Writing, Head of Undergraduate Playwriting, Resident Playwright) and Orlando Bloom. A recipient of three Tony and Emmy nominations, she PROFESSORS has appeared in 15 Broadway shows, as well as Grey’s Anatomy and Meiling Cheng and the upcoming Where’d You Go Bernadette? starring . A ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Russian Studies graduate of and The Yale School of Drama, Luis Alfaro Takeshi Kata she serves as a Western Regional Councilor for Actor’s Equity Association. Sibyl Wickersheimer (Head of Design) ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Andrei Belgrader (Director, Gnit) is a professor of theatre practice at USC. Alexandra Billings He is a theatre and television director who has also been a master teacher Carla Della Gatta at the Yale School of Drama, a professor at UCSD and Head of the Directing Elizabeth Harper Department at Juilliard. On television, he has directed numerous episodes PROFESSORS OF THEATRE PRACTICE of Monk, as well as Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the Coach. Andrei Belgrader Kate Burton (Master Artist) He directed extensively at major regional theatres such as the American Kenneth Noel Mitchell (Head of Musical Theatre) Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory, the Goodman and Seattle Repertory, as Natsuko Ohama well as in City. Projects in New York include Beckett’s at ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS OF THEATRE PRACTICE BAM, with John Turturro and , and The Cherry Orchard at CSC, Philip G. Allen (Head of Sound Design) with , John Turturro and . Both productions were Brent Blair (Head of Theatre & Social Change) named among the 10 best productions of the year in major publications such Paula Cizmar Elsbeth M. Collins (Head of Production) as and New York magazine. The Cherry Orchard was John DeMita (Head of Visual and Performing Arts Studies) awarded the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival in 2012. Among his former Kathleen Dunn-Muzingo students are Frances McDormand, Angela Bassett, , Liev Scott Faris (Head of Stage Management, Alice M. Pollitt Professor in Stage Management) Shrieber, John Turturro, , Chris Noth, Ricardo Chavira, Melinda C. Finberg Laura Flanagan (Head of Undergraduate Voice) Michael Urie and . Christina Haatainen-Jones Joseph Hacker David Warshofsky (Director, Swimmers) is the director of the MFA in Acting Duncan Mahoney (Head of Technical Direction, Technical Director) program at USC. Film credits include Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of Mary Joan Negro (Head of Undergraduate Acting) Louise Peacock (Head of Critical Studies, Head of Comedy) July; Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood and The Master; Steven David Warshofsky (Director of MFA Acting) Spielberg’s Lincoln; Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips; and the franchise films ASSISTANT PROFESSORS OF THEATRE PRACTICE Taken (1 and 3) and Now You See Me (1 and 2). Warshofsky has appeared Lauren Murphy Yeoman in numerous indie films including six at the , most Christopher Shaw recently as Grant in Beatriz at Dinner by Mike White and directed by Miguel Zachary Steel Arteta. Television credits include many Law & Order incarnations and, ADJUNCT LECTURERS most recently, the recurring role of Theodore Peus on season 6 of ABC’s Emily Alpren, Boni Alvarez, Robert Bailey, Kay Bess, VP Boyle, Tom Buderwitz, Anne Burk, Frank Catalano, Andi Chapman, Guillermo Cienfuegos, Tiffany Cole, Caitlyn Conlin, Tim Dang, Gregg T. Daniel, Scandal. On stage, Warshofsky originated the role of Gottfried Swetts in Nancy Cheryll Davis, Debra De Liso, Gary Domasin, Kirstin Eggers, , Anna Faris, Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day. Additionally, Biloxi Blues and Dan Fishbach, Jeff Flowers, Parmer Fuller, Terry Gordon, Rena Heinrich, Murry Hepner, Paul Hungerford, Nicholas Hytner’s revival of Carousel on Broadway; Shakespeare in the Park; Lisa James, R. Steven Johnson, Michael Keenan, Edgar Landa, Michael Laskin, Jack Lovick, Babette Markus, Playwrights Horizons and Manhattan Theatre Club; as well as numerous Marya Mazor, Kevin McCorkle, Patrick Murphy, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Jeremiah O’Brian, Brett Ryback, Sim Sarna, Dan Shaner, Judith Shelton, Armin Shimerman, Nathan Singh, Ashley Steed, Rodney To, regional theatres. This production marks his directorial debut. Paul Urcioli, Julie Welch Courtesy Joint Appointments: Thomas G. Cummings, Larry E. 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MFA Acting YEAR 3 The Busybody New Works Festivals Repertory By Susanna Centlivre YEAR 1 SDT Feb 1-Mar 3, 2019 Directed by Louise Peacock New Play Readings Children of the Sun SDT Mar 28-31, 2019 Presented in association By Maxim Gorky with Playwrights’ Arena In a new version by Andrew Upton Sunday in the Park April 2019 Directed by Kate Burton with George YEAR 2 Music and Lyrics Gnit Playwrights Workshop by Presented in association By Will Eno Book by Directed by Andrei Belgrader with Latino Theatre Company Directed by Kelly Ward MASSMAN THEATRE Apr 5-14, 2019 Swimmers BT Mar 28-Apr 7, 2019 By Rachel Bonds YEAR 3 Directed by David Warshofsky Rough Magic Play Project By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Presented in association with The Two Gentlemen Directed by John DeMita The Pasadena Playhouse of Verona SDT Apr 18-21, 2019 May 17 & 18, 2019 By William Shakespeare Directed by Drew Barr Queen Margaret KEY: BT Feb 21-24, 2019 By William Shakespeare SDT = Scene Dock Theatre Edited by J. Steven White BT = Bing Theatre Holy Ghosts Directed by Kathleen Dunn-Muzingo MT = McClintock Theatre By Romulus Linney MT Apr 18-21, 2019 Directed by Jay Lee MT Feb 28–Mar 3, 2019 #USCSDA

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