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Michael J. Bobbitt MOSESIAN CENTER FOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE THE ARTS 80 Elm Street Artistic Director 321 Arsenal Street Watertown, MA 02472 Watertown, MA 02472 617-923-7060 BUSINESS 617-923-8487 BOX OFFICE 617-923-7625 FACSIMILE newrep.org A VERY HERRERA HOLIDAY By Alexis Scheer Directed by Sarah Shin [keyp-ing] By Miranda Austen ADEkoje Directed by Dawn M. Simmons 2020-2021 season 1 Michael J. Bobbitt MOSESIAN CENTER FOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE THE ARTS 80 Elm Street Artistic Director 321 Arsenal Street Watertown, MA 02472 Watertown, MA 02472 617-923-7060 BUSINESS 617-923-8487 BOX OFFICE 617-923-7625 FACSIMILE newrep.org PRESENTS SHOWSTOPPER VIRTUAL PLAY SERIES: A VERY HERRERA HOLIDAY WRITTEN BY DIRECTOR ALEXIS SCHEER SARAH SHIN EMMA HERRERA STAGE MANAGER AMANDA FIGUEROA* GEENA M. FORRISTALL* PROPS MASTER COSTUME DESIGNER STEVEN DOUCETTE ZOË SUNDRA LIVESTREAM DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER VIJAY MATHEW ERICA HUANG AUDIO DESCRIBER AUDIO DESCRIBER ASSISTANT CORI COUTURE TANJA MILOJEVIC DIALECT COACH CAPTION CONSULTANT ADRIANO CABRAL RUTH CELIA KAHN LIVE CAPTIONS LIVE CAPTIONS ABBY LASS DEVYN ITULA SHOWSTOPPER VIRTUAL PLAY SERIES: [KEYP-ING] WRITTEN BY DIRECTOR MIRANDA AUSTEN ADEKOJE DAWN M. SIMMONS MONICA JENAE STAGE MANAGER JASMINE M. RUSH* ELIZABETH RAMIREZ* PROPS MASTER COSTUME DESIGNER LAUREN CORCUERA ZOË SUNDRA LIVESTREAM DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER VIJAY MATHEW BRENDAN F DOYLE° AUDIO DESCRIBER AUDIO DESCRIBER ASSISTANT CORI COUTURE TANJA MILOJEVIC DIALECT COACH CAPTION CONSULTANT ADRIANO CABRAL RUTH CELIA KAHN LIVE CAPTIONS LIVE CAPTIONS ABBY LASS DEVYN ITULA ◊ Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society °Member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States 2 new repertory theatre SPECIAL THANKS John ADEkoje Diana Bradshaw Lauren Collins Miles Craigwell Noah Craigwell Alesha Gunn Courtney Leonard The Pickle Council Ramona Rose King Sloth Levine Ian Sullivan Dan Ryan Thank you for joining us for New Rep’s Showstopper Virtual Plays Series. This page provides dramaturgical information to supplement the shows. ◊ Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society https://www.newrep.org/productions/showstopper-virtual-plays/ °Member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States 2020-2021 season 3 meet the artists - A Very Herrera Holiday ALEXIS SCHEER (She/ AMANDA FIGUEROA* (She/Her/ Her/Hers, Playwright) Hers, Emma Herrera) makes her Alexis’s plays include Our New Repertory Theatre debut with Dear Dead Drug Lord this production of A Very Herrera (WP Theater/Second Holiday. Recent credits include The Stage, NYT Critic’s Pick, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Prime Video), Dead House (Boston Kilroy’s List, LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Playwrights’ Theatre), The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood Work, Relentless Award semifinalist); Laughs (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre). Figueroa earned a in Spanish (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, BFA in Acting (full tuition talent-based scholarship) Kennedy Center’s Harold & Mimi Steinberg from Boston University. She is from New York and National Student Playwriting Award, NNPN is a first-generation actor whose mother was born Showcase), Christina (Roe Green Award), and in Dominican Republic and whose father was born The Sensational (Actors’ Theatre of Louisville). in Puerto Rico. She is grateful to be working with Her work has been developed at Oregon friendly familiar faces and doing so with her first one Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre woman play! Center, Cleveland Playhouse, San Diego GEENA M. FORRISTALL* REP, and others. Currently commissioned (They/Them/Theirs, Production by Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, Stage Manager) makes their and Northern Stage. BFA: The Boston New Repertory Theatre Conservatory. MFA: Boston University. www. debut with this production alexisscheer.com of A Very Herrera Holiday. Geena is a producer, stage SARAH SHIN (She/Her/Hers, manager, and artist whose Director) Sarah is a Korean work centers on queerness, inclusive storytelling, American theatre artist and community building. They have stage managed making her New Reperto- with Central Square Theater, Lyric Stage Company, ry Theatre debut. Recent Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Off The directing credits include The Grid Theatre Company, Company One Theatre, First Pineapple and Other Folktales, (Cen- and the international tour of Kultar’s Mime, among tral Square Theater), Nothing Rhymes with others. In addition to stage management, they Juneteenth (Free Soil Arts Collective), and are the Membership Manager at StageSource Amputees (Boston University). Assistant cred- (stagesource.org), and recently produced the virtual its include My H8 Letter 2 the Gr8 American productions of Nosferatu, the Vampyr and Tales Theatre (Assistant Director, Public Theater, From Camp Strangewood with Sparkhaven Theatre Ma-Yi Theatre/AYE DEFY), Endlings (Assistant (sparkhaventheatre.com). BFA: Hofstra University. Director, NYTW), Moby Dick (Choreography Assistant, American Repertory Theater). She STEVEN DOUCETTE (He/Him/ is the Co-Founding Artistic Producer of Asian His, Props Master) makes his American Theatre Artists of Boston New Repertory Theatre debut @aataboston). Sarah is also a proud Board with this production of A Very Member of StageSource, and a Steering Herrera Holiday. Recent credits Committee Member of API Arts Network. BFA include Props Apprentice, Theatre Arts, Boston University (@sarsi_bu). Huntington Theatre Company sarah-shin.com @shinnysarah 2020 Season Co-Props Master, Little Women 4 new repertory theatre meet the artists - A Very Herrera Holiday meet the artists - AVHH con’t ADRIANO CABRAL (They/ (Wheelock Family Theatre 2020) Props Master, Burst AMANDA FIGUEROA* (She/Her/ Them/Theirs, Dialect Coach (Longwood Payers 2019) Props Intern, Des Moines Hers, Emma Herrera) makes her for both shows) is a voice Metro Opera 2018 Season Props Intern, Central New Repertory Theatre debut with and dialect coach, actor, City Opera 2017 Season. Doucette earned a BFA in this production of A Very Herrera director, and intimacy Scenic Design from Boston University, and is from Holiday. Recent credits include The choreographer. Cabral has Melrose, MA. Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon coached professionally at the Arvada Center Prime Video), Dead House (Boston ZOE SUNDRA (She/Her/Hers, for the Arts and Humanities (CO), the Repertory Playwrights’ Theatre), The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood Costume Designer) returns to Theatre of St. Louis (MO), and the Stella Adler (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre). Figueroa earned a New Repertory Theatre after Studio of Acting (NY). Adriano is a certified BFA in Acting (full tuition talent-based scholarship) working on Nixon’s Nixon, Oliver!, teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork and from Boston University. She is from New York and and Hair. Other recent credits Fitzmaurice Voicework and is a certified Master is a first-generation actor whose mother was born include Costume Designer, Bright Reiki Healer and Teacher. They currently serve as in Dominican Republic and whose father was born Half Life at Actor’s Shakespeare Assistant Professor of Voice and Movement at the in Puerto Rico. She is grateful to be working with Project; and Costume Designer, Ragtime at Wheelock University of Nevada, Reno where their research friendly familiar faces and doing so with her first one Family Theatre at Boston University. Sundra has focuses on training methods for the LGBTQ+ woman play! a degree from the Massachusetts College of Art Identified actor. Cabral is the coauthor of the text and Design, and teaches Costumes at Boston Arts Here’s How to Teach Voice and Communication Academy. Originally from Farmington, CT, she Skills to Transgender Women and is serving this currently resides in Cambridge, MA. season as the Voice Coach for TEDxCambridge. For more information, please visit www.adriano- VIJAY MATHEW (He/Him/His, cabral.com. Livestream Designer) makes his New Repertory Theatre debut CORI COUTURE (She/Her/ with productions of A Very Herrera Hers, Audio Describer) Holiday & [keyp-ing]. He is the Co- returns to New Repertory founder and Cultural Strategist of Theatre after describing HowlRound Theatre Commons at Emerson College. 1776 and The Charles W. He lives in Cambridge, MA, and is a member of Lenox Experience, as well Crux: a visionary studio at the intersection of Black as many productions for New Rep’s touring storytelling and immersive technology. Instagram @ company, Classic Rep. Recent description credits cruxxr include Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s ERICA HUANG (She/Her/Hers or online reading of The Tempest, Sweat for The They/Them, Sound Designer) makes a Huntington, and Little Women: The Musical for New Repertory Theatre debut with this Wheelock Family Theatre @ BU. At WGBH’s production of A Very Herrera Holiday. Descriptive Video Service (DVS), Cori wrote Recent credits include My H8 Letter description for many PBS programs and for to the Gr8 American Theatre (Ma-Yi movies on home video. She has also narrated Theatre Company), The First Pineapple description for a slate of Paramount films, some STEVEN DOUCETTE (He/Him/ and Other Folktales (Central Square Theatre), Songs of these are available on Netflix. These include His, Props Master) makes his About Trains (New Ohio Theatre). Podcasts: “And Rugrats in Paris, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and New