TheGoodSwimmer Directed byKevin Newbury Lyrics byDonnaDiNovelli Music byHeidiRodewald #BAMNextWave no intermission LOCATION: RUN TIME: DATES: Approx 1hr10min BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) NOV 28—DEC1at7:30pm

the Virginia B.Toulmin Foundation provided by composers intheNextWave Festival forfemalechoreographersand Support Innovation for Artistic fromtheJosephV.support MelilloFund This productionismadepossiblewith the BaisleyPowell ElebashFund BAM providedby formusicprogramsat Leadership support Season Sponsor: Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Katy Clark, BAM BoardViceChairs Nora AnnWallace, William I.Campbell and BAM BoardChair Adam E.Max, Brooklyn AcademyofMusic BAM Fisher The Good Swimmer

With World premiere commissioned by BAM. Special thanks to Joe Melillo and the Composer Lead Vocalist: David Driver Produced by KiWi Productions. entire staff at BAM; the staff from the Heidi Rodewald Drums: Marty Beller 2016 PROTOTYPE Festival and Keyboard: Marc Doten Support for the world premiere generously the HERE Arts Center staff; Lyricist Violin, Keyboard, Glockenspiel: Dana Lyn provided by: Terry Eder & Gene Kaufman, Stew, Terry Eder & Gene Kaufman, Donna Di Novelli Bass, Vocalist: Heidi Rodewald Steve Klein/Apple Core Holdings, Steve Klein, Kristy Edmunds, Guitar, Vocalist: Christian Gibbs Linda & Dennis Myers, Christine & Vasi Laurence, Lisa Philp & Bill Bragin, Director Cello, Vocalist: Clara Kennedy W. Michael Garner, Sherwin Goldman, and Liz McCann. Kevin Newbury Trumpet: Linda Briceño Jill & William Steinberg, Woodwinds: Gabrielle Garo Ann Shilling Harrison, David Henry Donna Di Novelli dedicates Music director Jacobs, Susan Bienkowski, Jamie deRoy, The Good Swimmer to the memory of Marty Beller Choral ensemble Dan Shaheen, Oskar Eustis, and Anthony Jack Carlucci, 1949—1969. Sophia Byrd, PapaCanoochee Holt, New England Foundation for the Arts. Choreographer Kennedy Kanagawa, Joey LaPlant, Raja Feather Kelly Luke Bob Robinson, Naseer Sleets, Developed with the support of the Jeremy Weiss (Captain) National Musical Theater Conference at Set designer the O’Neill Theater Center, Davis Robinson Victoria “Vita” Tzykun Producer and the Department of Theatre & Dance KiWi Productions at Bowdoin College, Kristy Edmunds and Video designer Kim Whitener, Creative Producer the Center for the Art of Performance at Greg Emetaz UCLA, the PROTOTYPE Festival; and Executive producer generous individual donors: Terry Eder & Lighting designer New Vision for Opera Gene Kaufman, Jill & William Steinberg, Eric Southern Christine & W. Michael Garner, Production stage manager The Ted Snowdon Foundation, Costume designer Kendall Allen Chase Mishkin, The Newburgh Institute, David C. Woolard Susan Bienkowski, Jamie deRoy,

Production manager Dan Shaheen, William Kohane, Sound designer Carly Levin Justin Hamilton, Larry Horn. Brandon Wolcott

General manager The Good Swimmer received a First Look Band arrangements Amanda Cooper Presentation showing in the 2016 Heidi Rodewald and Marc Doten PROTOTYPE Festival, with choreography Assistant director by Chloe Treat, in collaboration with Choral arrangements Marcus Shields Sam Pinkleton. Casting by Stephanie Marc Doten Klapper and Stage Management by Associate sound designer and engineer Marisa Levy. Band members included: Orchestrations and Tyler Kieffer Brad Mulholland, Jeff Hermanson, and additional arrangements Dan Miller. The cast was: Chase Crandell, Dana Lyn Assistant set designer Parker Drown, Alex Gibson, Clark Parkan Damon J. Gillespie, Dante Jeanfelix, Choir director Storm Lever, Taylor Noble, Josephine Lee Assistant lighting designer Mackenzie Orr, Gil Perez-Abraham Jr., and Andrew Harrison Way. Cheyenne Sykes BAM®, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave®, and Teknopolis® are trademarks of Brooklyn Academy Assistant stage manager of Music, Inc. © Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. Jackie Rivera (2018). Photo: James Matthew Daniel was the basis of her screenplay, Stag, made the GLAAD-winning play Candy & Dorothy. of Groucho Marks (A&E), iRead (Scholastic), into an award-winning short directed by Newbury’s three short films, Monsura Is Another Gay Movie (TLA), and Romeo and Kevin Newbury. More recently, Di Novelli Waiting, Stag, and Epiphany V are all avail- Juliet (Theaterworks USA). He received a co-wrote the critically acclaimed feature film, able online. kevinnewbury.com 2013 Bessie Award nomination for A Single Who’s Madeline’s Madeline with director Josephine Ride (Ephrat Asherie Dance). Decker, premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the Berlinale, BAMcinemaFest, DAVID DRIVER and now available digitally. Opera/Oratorio Lead vocalist MARC DOTEN work includes Florida, music by Randall Eng Musical arrangements/Keyboard Who (2018); Oceanic Verses, concept and music David Driver has worked with Laurie Ander- by Paola Prestini (2012); and Heart of a son, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, Born in Los Angeles, Marc Doten is a HEIDI RODEWALD Soldier, San Francisco Opera commission Richard Butler, Stew & Heidi, They Might producer, composer, and musician. He Composer with Grammy-nominated composer Christo- Be Giants, and Roy Nathanson & The Jazz recorded and toured with Stew and The pher Theofanidis (2011). Upcoming work Passengers, and was in the original Broad- Negro Problem, and played keyboard in the Heidi Rodewald is the Tony Award-nominat- includes Demeter Songs, for mezzo-soprano way cast of the musical Rent as well as the premiere of Passing Strange. As instru- ed, Obie Award-winning co-composer of the with long-time collaborator, Rachel Portman off-Broadway rock opera People Are Wrong!. mentalist and producer he has worked with musical Passing Strange, which transferred (The Little Prince). donnadinovelli.com He has been heard on The Daily Show with Van Dyke Parks, The Persuasions, Shelby from The Public Theater to Broadway in Jon Stewart, has been the voice of Dunkin’ Lynne, Taj Mahal, David Hidalgo, Poncho 2008 and then was made into a film by Donuts and Bridgestone Tires, has released Sanchez, John Doe, Dave Alvin, Nels Cline, director Spike Lee. Rodewald joined the band KEVIN NEWBURY numerous musical recordings with projects and Elvis Kuehn, among many others. Doten The Negro Problem in 1997, where she Director such as Meow, Driver Quartet, built and runs a recording studio in scenic began a longtime collaboration with singer/ Phillips & Driver, and LuxRd, and has Echo Park, CA, where he produces music. songwriter, Stew, and with him released 10 Kevin Newbury is a theater, opera, and performed at Mass MoCA, Royal Festival A longtime member of the instrumental rock critically acclaimed albums. She is co-com- film director based in New York. Newbury Hall, Lincoln Center, and countless dark and combo Double Naught Spy Car, in 1986 he poser with Stew of Brooklyn Omnibus, (BAM has directed over 60 original productions grimy rock clubs. His new solo show Mixed co-founded the ongoing sonic experiment Next Wave, 2010); Making It (St. Ann’s including engagements with Carnegie Hall, Messages | On Starsky (No Hutch) recently Enrich’d White. Warehouse, 2010); Family Album (Oregon Kennedy Center, Ravinia Festival, Park premiered at Dixon Place in NYC. Shakespeare Festival, 2014); Notes of a Avenue Armory, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Native Song (Harlem Stage, 2015); Wagner, Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, GREG EMETAZ Max! Wagner! (Kennedy Center, 2015); and Santa Fe Opera, Barcelona Liceu, Opera MARTY BELLER Video designer The Total Bent (The Public Theater, 2016). Theatre of St. Louis, Minnesota Opera, San Music director/Drums Rodewald scored two short films for director Francisco Symphony, L’Opéra de Montreal, Greg Emetaz is a filmmaker and video Leigh Silverman, Over The River & Through the PROTOTYPE Festival, Bard Summer- Marty Beller has been working with Heidi designer based in New York. His work for The Woods (2017) and Reprieve (2018). scape, Portland Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Rodewald for over 18 years. He was music the stage includes the world premieres of Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Opera, Glim- director/drummer for The Total Bent by Stew Bel Canto at Chicago Lyric Opera; Dolores merglass Opera, and the Wexford Festival in and Heidi Rodewald at The Public Theater Claiborne at San Francisco Opera; An Ameri- DONNA DI NOVELLI Ireland, among many others. Recent world and drummer for The Good Swimmer at can Soldier, Shalimar, 27, Champion, and Lyricist premiere highlights include Spears/Pierce’s PROTOTYPE/HERE. Beller has been the The Golden Ticket at Opera Theatre Saint Fellow Travelers (Cincinnati Opera, PROTO- drummer for They Might Be Giants for 15 Louis; and Enemies, a Love Story at Palm Donna Di Novelli has a writing career that TYPE Festival/NYC, Lyric Opera of Chicago); years and received a Grammy Award for his Beach Opera. Work for screen includes the spans film, opera, music-theater, and Bates/Campbell’s The (R)evolution of Steve work on the album Here Come the 123s by feature film Camp Wedding; the short films stage. An affinity for “found text” to re-focus Jobs (Santa Fe Opera, Indiana University and TMBG. Additional drum credits include work Bowes Academy (NC Gay + Lesbian Film attention on the neglected and discarded upcoming at Seattle Opera and San Fran- with Stew and TNP, Steve Earle, Jonathan Fest Jury award), Spell Claire, Get the F K is an important foundation of her work. cisco Opera); Almond’s Kansas City Choir Coulton, Mike Doughty, and Ivy, among Outta Paris!, and Death by Omelette (SNCF Besides writing lyrics for The Good Swim- Boy (starring Almond and Courtney Love, others. His composing credits include Gra- Prix du Polar Finalist); and the webseries Do mer, Di Novelli has used found material PROTOTYPE/NYC, ART/Boston, CTG/LA, cepoint (Fox), In Treatment (HBO), Cradle it Yourselfie (Friar’s Club special jury award, to create musical theater narratives (No Miami); and Jimmy López and Nilo Cruz’s of Champions (Showtime), The Last Patrol iTVfest best director award), co-directed God but Yearning, Break As Many Eggs as Bel Canto (Lyric Opera of Chicago, PBS (HBO), The Cruise (Artisan), Korengal and with Amanda DeSimone. He’s also created Required) since 2000. Found film footage Great Performances). Theater work includes Emptying the Skies (Music Box), Biography behind-the-scenes documentaries for Julie Taymor’s The Tempest, Spider-Man: Turn of Horrors (Berkshire Theatre Group); The commissions from the Brooklyn Rider, the the Year. Other designs include Atlantic The- Off the Dark, and numerous productions at History Boys (Palm Beach Drama Works); National Arts Council of Ireland, and the New ater Company, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Opera Theatre of St. Louis. I Wasn’t Going to Tell Anybody and then Orchestra of Washington. Currently, her own Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, The MINORapocalypse.com I Told Everybody, Buried Child, All’s Well projects include a mixed quintet, Mother New Group, The Civilians, Primary Stages, That Ends Well (NYU: Tisch); Arcadia (Yale Octopus, a collaboration with actor Vincent Williamstown Theater Festival, The Guthrie, Repertory Theatre); and Ain’t Gonna Make It D’Onofrio called Slim Bone Head Volt, and a Kennedy Center, Baltimore Centerstage, RAJA FEATHER KELLY (Ars Nova). tylerkieffer.com duo with guitarist Kyle Sanna. Lyn is also a Long Wharf, Huntington, Westport Country Choreographer well-versed fiddle player in the Irish tradition. Playhouse, HVSF, Geffen Playhouse, Dallas Most recently, she was an artist in residence Theater Center, and Kansas City Rep. He Raja Feather Kelly, Princess Grace Award JOSEPHINE LEE at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in the Spring is an associate professor at Northwestern winner for 2017 and 2018, is a choreog- Choir director of 2017. danalynmusic.com University and received his BFA and MFA rapher for theater, dance, and performance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. works. Kelly’s theater credits include Josephine Lee, acclaimed conductor, pianist, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody (directed singer, and producer, serves as the president MARCUS SHIELDS by Lila Neugebauer, Signature Theatre); and artistic director of Chicago Children’s Assistant director CHEYENNE SYKES Jackie Sibblies-Drury’s Fairview (directed Choir, where she has revolutionized the field Assistant lighting designer by Sarah Benson, Soho Rep); Suzan-Lori of youth choral music. Through her leader- Marcus Shields is a New York City-based Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in ship, Lee has established CCC as a premier director who specializes in the presenta- Cheyenne Sykes is a multi-disciplinary the Whole Entire World (directed by Lileana cultural institution that reaches 5,000 stu- tion and performance of classical music designer originally from western Canada. Blain-Cruz, Signature Theatre, 2017 Lortel dents annually and partners with renowned and opera. He is the recipient of the 2017 Her work has been showcased at both the Award); and Lempicka (directed by Rachel arts organizations, including the Chicago Drama League Opera Directing Fellowship in Prague Quadrennial and the Great Plains Chavkin, Williamstown Theatre Festival). Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera and Theatre Conference. Select design credits Dance theater credits include Raja Feather and Ravinia Festival. Recent projects include Wolf Trap Opera. He has directing affiliation include The Slow Room (PSNY); Agnes Kelly’s Ugly (Bushwick Starr); I, I Am A her performance in the world premiere of with the Curtis Institute of Music, the Merola (59E59); Prototypes (Susan Marshall Dancer (Ars Nova); Another Fucking Warhol Place, BAM Next Wave 2018, composed by Opera Program, Lyric Opera Chicago, the At- & Company); Master’s & Faculty Dance Production (The Kitchen, American Dance Pulitzer prize finalist and CCC alumnus Ted lanta Opera, PROTOTYPE Festival, Wolf Trap Concert (NYU); The Blue Room (The Bridge Festival, nominated “Most Innovative Dance Hearne; the development and world premiere Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and the Cincinnati Production Group); The Feels (KMS, New Performance of 2017” by Dance Magazine); of Long Way Home, a theatrical work with Symphony Orchestra. He currently holds Ohio); Blue Ridge (Williamstown); and Hair Andy Warhol’s Bleu Movie (10 Hairy Legs, the Q Brothers Collective; and the co-creation the position of visiting assistant professor of (Connelly Theater). Selected assistant design BAM Fisher 2017, Baryshnikov Arts Center); of the world musical Sita Ram with David opera direction at University of Cincinnati credits include Bonnaroo 2018 Music & Andy Warhol’s Tropico (Danspace); Andy Kersnar of Lookingglass Theatre (2003, College-Conservatory of Music. Arts Festival (site lighting, with LD, David Warhol’s DRELLA (I Love You Faye Driscoll) 2006, 2012). Lee was also a collaborator Weiner); Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Invisible Dog); and Andy Warhol’s 15: Color on Chance the Rapper’s Grammy-winning (NYTW); Counting Sheep (3LD); Strange Me, Warhol (Dixon Place). Coloring Book and led the choruses in studio ERIC SOUTHERN Interlude (Transport Group); and Drake Boy thefeath3rtheory.com recordings for the album. Lighting designer Meets World (European tour). cheyennesykes.com Eric Southern is an Obie award-winning TYLER KIEFFER DANA LYN designer for theater, opera, and dance. Associate sound designer/Engineer Orchestration/Violin/Keyboard Previous work presented at BAM includes: VICTORIA (VITA) TZYKUN Farmhouse/Whorehouse (Next Wave 2017), Set designer Tyler Kieffer is a Brooklyn-based sound de- Dana Lyn is at home in a wide range of Rimbaud in NY (with The Civilians, Winter/ signer whose recent works include Evanston musical genres, from classical to folk, con- Spring 2016), and Play/Pause (with Susan Victoria (Vita) Tzykun [tsee-‘koon], is a native Salt Costs Climbing (White Heron Theatre temporary, and improvisatory music. She has Marshall, Next Wave 2013). Also with of Odessa (Ukraine) and Tel Aviv (Israel). Company); Sound House (The Flea); Count- worked with a wide variety of artists, among Susan Marshall he developed Chromatic, Tzykun has designed productions for the Nor- ing Sheep (Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland); them, Tony Award-winning musicians Stew which was presented at The Kitchen and wegian Opera, Seattle Opera, and LA Opera, The Reception (HERE Arts Center); Made and Heidi Rodewald, Irish poet Louis de developed with ADI. His work with 600 among others. Her numerous film and tv In China (Wakka Wakka); Every Morning Paor, Ethan Hawke, D’Angelo, avant cellist Highwaymen has been seen throughout the credits include art direction for Lady Gaga’s A I Wake Up and Seem to Forget (Body & Hank Roberts, the Elysian Fields, and the US and Europe including The Fever, This Very Gaga Thanksgiving (ABC) and produc- Soul Music Festival, Ireland); Little Shop Walkmen. As a composer, she has received Great Country, The Record, and Employee of tion design for several award-winning films. Her recent projects include the set design the 2015 International Women in Jazz Youth to perform with Chance the Rapper, Bobby for the world premiere of The (R)Evolution LINDA BRICEÑO in Action Winner and a scholarship recipient McFerrin, and Yo-Yo Ma. This is not only his of Steve Jobs at Santa Fe Opera, set and Trumpet of the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation. BAM debut, it is also his theater debut. His costume designs for Faust at Lyric Opera She has performed with Eddie Palmieri, school provided drama classes but not the of Chicago, and costume design for The Linda Briceño is a Venezuelan performer and Larry Harlow, Esperanza Spalding, Christian funding for shows. Now, he’s ready to finally Passenger at the Bolshoi Theater (Moscow). activist with an impressive list of achieve- McBride & his Big Band, Arturo Sandoval, show his talents off to the world. Tzykun is a founding member of GLMMR— ments as songwriter, trumpeter, and pro- Arturo O’Farrill, Candido Camero, Phoenix a NYC-based interdisciplinary art collective ducer. In 2012 the World Economic Forum Rivera, and Bobby Sanabria & his Multi- that fuses the worlds of fine art, audiovisual recognized Briceño as a young global shaper verse Big Band. A part of the newly released KENNEDY KANAGAWA technology, and live performance. In 2016, and a future leader in her field. In 2018, album, West Side Story Reimagined, Garo Choral ensemble the International Opera Awards nominated she performed as the opening act at the has also performed for American rapper and her for best design. vitavision.net ASCAP Latin Awards. She was awarded the actor, T.I. as a requested backdrop in promo- Kennedy Kanagawa is thrilled to be joining prestigious Latin Grammy Cultural Founda- tion for his album and movie release, and this fantastic production! His select credits tion Scholarship in 2016 and is currently will be featured in season two of Spike Lee’s include Jack in Into the Woods in Concert BRANDON WOLCOTT enrolled in the master’s program at The New Netflix series, She’s Gotta Have It. (Prospect Theater/National Asian Artists’ Sound designer School in New York City. Drawing inspira- Project); Jaker in Dinner with Georgette tion from her vibrant surroundings and her (NYTW); Timon in Helen (Dixon Place); Alex Brandon Wolcott’s design credits include rich musical heritage, Briceño continues to CHRISTIAN GIBBS in We Have Apples (West End Theater); Dance Nation (Playwrights); HOME (BAM explore the development of Ella Bric, her alter Guitar Oeddy in Oedipus for Kids! (54 Below), Next Wave 2017); The Fever, The Record ego through a conceptual video album to be Yelena in Minor Character: 6 Translations of (600 Highwaymen); Counting Sheep (3LD); released in late 2019. Christian Gibbs has released over 12 Uncle Vanya (Sharon Playhouse), LaMont Everybody, Venus (Signature); The Nether albums. His latest project He Arrived By in Ogunquit Playhouse’s reading of Mr. Hol- (MCC); The Good Person of Szechwan, Titus Helicopter finds Gibbs foraying into mostly land’s Opus, and four seasons with NAAP’s Andronicus (The Public); After the Blast, Kill SOPHIA BYRD instrumental compositions with a European Discover: New Musicals series. Love to Ryan. Floor (LCT); Kansas City Choir Boy (Proto- Choral ensemble tour in Nov 2018. Gibbs’ past musical cred- kennedykanagawa.com type Festival, HERE Arts Center); Kiss the its have seen him fronting the band Lucinda Air, Habeas Corpus (Park Avenue Armory); Sophia Byrd, 19, is a lyric theater major at Black Bear, garnering praise on NPR, Paste The Tenant, Confidence Man (Woodshed the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- Music, and WFUV. He played guitar for CLARA KENNEDY Collective); A Great Wilderness (William- paign. She began singing in her church on Modern English, J.G. Thirlwell, and Dave Cello stown); and The Seagull (Lake Lucille). the south side of Chicago at age seven, and Vanian (The Damned). He also performed in before long became a member of the Chicago the Broadway rock musical Passing Strange. Clara Kennedy graduated from The Juilliard Children’s Choir. During her 10-year tenure Gibbs was signed to Atlantic Records as a School in 2005. She has performed with DAVID C. WOOLARD in this ensemble, she realized how important solo artist and has been releasing records Jonny Greenwood at the Big Ears Festival, Costume designer music is in her life. Since this time, Byrd has ever since. His acting credits include The Wordless Music Orchestra, and Björk’s Vul- had the opportunity to perform with artists Family Album (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) nicura tour with Alarm Will Sound. She also David C. Woolard received Tony Award Yo-Yo Ma, Jennifer Hudson, Baby Face, and Love and Happiness (Gessnerrallee often plays cello with ACME and Dana Lyn’s nominations for The Rocky Horror Show and and Chance the Rapper. Her song “I See the Theater, Zurich; Kaserne Theater, Basel; and band, Mother Octopus. She has performed The Who’s Tommy. He has designed over Light” was featured in the Spike Lee motion Arsenic Theater, Lausanne). cgibbsreview. in such venues as The Bowery Ballroom, 20 shows on Broadway and over 200 shows picture Chiraq. She recently appeared at com Jazz at Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, around the world. Highlights include West BAM in the premiere of Ted Hearne’s Place Sydney Opera House, and Carnegie Hall. As Side Story, Damn Yankees, and the operas (NWF 2018). a singer and guitar player she has performed Cold Mountain and Everest. In addition to PAPACANOOCHEE HOLT extensively throughout the city—from regular his Tony nominations, Woolard has won a Choral ensemble Saturday nights at Mexican restaurants to Drama Desk Award and the Henry Hewes GABRIELLE GARO opening for Goldfrapp at the Beacon Theater. Design Award, and was nominated for an Woodwinds PapaCanoochee Holt, 18, may be a first- Olivier Award. davidcwoolard.com. timer at BAM, but he is no rookie. His six- Gabrielle Garo has appeared on the public year run with the Chicago Children’s Choir affairs cable television program Brooklyn45 sparked his unending passion for music. and CBS’ The Couch Morning Show, and is With the choir, he has had the opportunity his life as he grew up being a member of (Abrons Arts Center); Animal Wisdom (The tional collaborations, project management, JOEY LAPLANT nationally-ranked show choir Sound Check Bushwick Starr); and Go Forth (LMCC, and fundraising support. KiWi’s past work in- Choral ensemble as well as the Chicago Children’s Choir. His Governor’s Island). She has directed and cre- cludes projects with The Builders Association commitment to music has given him many ated original works primarily for film on such (Alladeen, 2003 NWF; Super Vision, 2005 Joey LaPlant is ecstatic to be making his amazing opportunities including perform- projects as Extra (premiering Spring 2019); NWF; and Continuous City, 2008 NWF), Big New York debut at BAM. Recent productions ing for President Obama’s farewell address, JuJu: the Web Series; and Same Old Gays. Dance Theater, Martha Clarke, and Suzzy include The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (fea- Chance the Rapper, and travel internationally Allen studied theater, design, and production and Maggie Roche, among others. tured chorus), West Side Story (Riff), Jesus to Cuba and Italy. Aside from performing, at Fordham University. She gives endless Christ Superstar (Ciaphas), Don Giovanni Sleets is interested in the legal and business thanks to the entire TGS Team, Apt. 3, (Masetto), Amazing Grace (Briggs/Mon- aspects of the music industry. He is currently and her mother. Find her next with Kaneza CARLY LEVIN sieur Clow), and The Secret Garden (Major a member of Music Industry Networking Schaal’s (Jack&, Go Forth) CARTOGRAPHY Production manager Holmes). He is currently pursuing a vocal Club and Black Law Students Association at Kennedy Center for the holidays. performance and musical theater degree from and hopes to attend law school to eventually Carly Levin’s management credits include Indiana University. When he isn’t studying or practice entertainment law. Fellow Travelers (PROTOTYPE Festival); performing, he can be found rowing a Vene- AMANDA COOPER Anatomy Theater (Beth Morrison Projects/ tian gondola and singing classic Italian songs General manager Prototype); Tap and Tom (Jacob’s Pillow/ with Old World Gondoliers. joeylaplant.com. JEREMY WEISS Felipe Galganni); Ouroboros Trilogy (BMP/ Choral ensemble/Choral captain Amanda Cooper is a freelance arts manager MWS); Standard Time (Mark Stuart Dance and consultant, working with a wide variety Theatre); Private Peaceful (US tour); Spill LUKE BOB ROBINSON Jeremy Weiss recently performed as Steve of music and theater companies. Recent (Ensemble Studio Theater); Please Continue Choral ensemble Jobs in the premiere of Mason Bates’ The work includes The PROTOTYPE Festival, (EST); Powerhouse (Sinking Ship); The Tu- (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at Indiana Uni- Stein | Holum Projects, DNAWORKS, tors (Second Stage); Landscape of the Body Luke Bob Robinson, a native of Bellingham, versity Opera. Recent credits at IU include Concrete Temple Theatre, Sinking Ship, En (NYU Grad); Rhythm in Motion and Tap City WA, is attending his fourth year of under- West Side Story (Action), L’étoile (Tapioca), Garde Arts, and Music Before 1800. Prior to (American Tap Dance Foundation); and Tap graduate studies at Indiana University under Rodelinda (Garibaldo), Romeo and Juliet starting ALC Management, she held positions Ellington (ATDF/Lincoln Center). Thanks to the tutelage of Heidi Grant-Murphy. Previous (Romeo) with the IU New Music Ensemble, at HERE Arts Center, The House Founda- Seth and the Osnow-Levin clan. credits include Harold Hill in a new produc- and Fanfare (Majordomo) at IU Ballet. His tion, Symphony Space, Theatre Development tion of The Music Man and Siroco in L’étoile, past credits include Di Goldene Kale (Berke, Fund, Voice & Vision Theater, and the Look both with IU Opera. He has participated as NYTF off-Broadway); Fortuna Fantasia + Listen Festival, where she has been serv- JACKIE RIVERA a featured chorus member in the IU opera (Ringmaster, NY Fringe); Belli’s Orfeo ing as the president since 2014. A graduate Assistant stage manager theater productions of The (R)evolution of Dolente (Orfeo); Cavalli’s Xerxes (Elviro) and of NYU’s Gallatin program, Cooper came to Steve Jobs, West Side Story, Florencia en Erismena (Erimante); Oklahoma! (Curly); The NYC for school before the turn of the millen- Jackie Rivera is a multi-hyphenate, nomadic, el Amazonas, Oklahoma!, and Dead Man Music Man (Oliver); My Fair Lady (Freddy); nium and has stuck around ever since. theater maker freelancing in performance, di- Walking. Robinson is also a member of IU’s Into the Woods (Wolf/Prince); and A Little recting, stage management, and design. She own Another Round (formerly Straight No Night Music (Frederick). He has a BA from is a member of both the queer and feminist Chaser). Other past credits include Sprecher Yale and is currently an MM in voice candi- KIWI PRODUCTIONS NY-based theater company, The Syndicate, in Die Zauberflöte with the Israeli Vocal Arts date at Indiana University. Thank you Weiss Kim Whitener, Creative Producer and Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre, Institute in Tel Aviv, and Olin Britt in Seattle’s Fam and Brian. Jeremyweissperformer.com which tours environmentally-themed plays 5th Avenue Theater’s Rising Star production KiWi Productions, established in 2001 by sustainably on bikes throughout the country. of The Music Man. creative producer Kim Whitener, is dedicated Her stage management and design work KENDALL ALLEN to new artistic visions in the contemporary has been seen at NY Fringe, Ice Fest, The Production stage manager opera-theater, music-theater, and other Gallery Players, The Flea, Sinking Ship, New NASEER SLEETS multi-genre landscapes, furthering work that Georges SpaceJam, and Little Lord. She has Choral ensemble Kendall Allen is a Brooklyn-based theater grapples with the issues of our time through studied with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company as artist, stage manager, director, and intimacy compelling visual, aural, and emotional lan- part of their Conservatory program, holds a Naseer Sleets is a sophomore at Indiana choreographer. Select New York theater cred- guage. KiWi provides producing services to BFA in acting from University of Florida, and University-Bloomington studying arts its include They Told Us Not to Pray (Play- both individual artists and artistic companies, is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. management with a concentration in music wrights Horizons Downtown); Ghetto Hors ranging from development and production jackie-rivera.com and a minor in law and public policy. Music D’oeuvres (JACK); Assembled Identity (HERE of new work, touring representation and has always played an important role in Arts Center); Oyé! For My Dear Brooklyn production, creation of national and interna- Photo: James Matthew Daniel BAM

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