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THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ILLINOIS THEATRE By Laura Hackman, director Thursday-Saturday, November 1-3, 2018, at 7:30pm Tuesday-Saturday, November 6-10, 2018, at 7:30pm Sunday, November 11, 2018, at 3pm Studio Theatre three overlapping audiences, and that our departmental mission of inclusion is enacted on and behind our stages. We have to serve our own students, the people who’ve come to receive the education to make a career as professional theatre makers. We have an obligation to train them to become working designers, actors, technicians, playwrights, stage managers, directors, scholars, and teachers. We also serve the other 44,000+ students on the campus, many of whom take our classes and enjoy our productions. POWER + PLEASURE We have to serve the University of Illinois I think a lot about the enormous privilege at Urbana-Champaign. As part of a I have as Head of Illinois Theatre. I have Research I university, we are obligated the very great pleasure of working with to create new knowledge and to pass it incredibly talented and committed faculty, on. Our productions must take part in students, and staff in the Department broad conversations and reflect the goals of Theatre, the College of Fine and and strategic plan of the university as a Applied Arts, and Krannert Center for the whole. We must make connections across Performing Arts. I have the power to shape disciplines and across campus. what we show you on our stages through We have to serve the community. We collaboration with those colleagues. are a part of this vibrant, micro-urban, I’ve spent this past year meeting many Midwestern space and place. We must of you. I am very grateful to those of you return the passion, time, and money you who’ve taken the time to talk to me in the offer with a balanced season that reflects lobby, to send an email or make a phone our shared values and interests. We have call, to connect with me at other events. a responsibility to question power and We have an audience who is passionate authority as well as an equal responsibility to about our productions, our students, and entertain and please you. our role as a university theatre. Please You—our audiences from the community, continue to make those connections. Theatre 101 classes, campus partners, or Those conversations are opportunities our own classrooms and shops—are our to talk about my understanding of the privilege to serve. Thank you for being here. relationship between our production season Dr. Kirsten Pullen and the world around us. I believe we serve Professor and Head, Department of Theatre

2 3 PROGRAM THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE ILLINOIS THEATRE By Peter Weiss Laura Hackman, director

Thursday-Saturday, November 1-3, 2018, at 7:30pm Tuesday-Saturday, November 6-10, 2018, at 7:30pm Sunday, November 11, 2018, at 3pm Studio Theatre

ACT I 20-minute intermission ACT II

This production contains adult content, including mob and individual violence and a scene of sexual assault, and is intended for mature audiences only.

4 DIRECTOR’S NOTE In 1963, Peter Weiss wrote The Persecution and Surrounded by the gilded opulence of Empire Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed style, reveling in elaborate pageantry, priding by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under himself on his negotiation skills, while remaining the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. Set in 1808 nebulous on morality and religion (although eager during the reign of Bonaparte, to ingratiate himself with religious audiences the inmates of Charenton Asylum present a in order to use their faith to his advantage), production set 15 years earlier during the French Napoleon built his brand by stamping his initial Revolution. They recreate the 1793 assassination “N” and his symbol of the honeybee across his of Jean-Paul Marat, a radical journalist who empire. He even renamed the Louvre "Le Musée advocated for the poorest members of society. Napoléon.” He was a master of propaganda, Through the lens of the , Weiss’ utilizing the media of his time to exaggerate his inmates examine the historically cyclical nature of victories while suppressing reports that did not revolt and oppression, questioning the ultimate fit his narrative. He is quoted as saying, “Four effectiveness of revolution. Weiss said, “Every hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a word I write and publish is political; that is to thousand bayonets.” say it establishes contact with a large number of people with the aim of achieving a particular Well noted is his misogynistic contempt for effect. The way in which my words are received women’s abilities and achievements. He once is largely determined by the social system of the commented to an aide, “Women! They belong to society in which they appear.” the highest bidder. Power is what they like. It is the greatest of aphrodisiacs . . . as for me, I take As I revisited this play, which I first encountered them and forget them.” as a college student 30 years ago, I was beguiled again by the intensity of the political, social, As I consider the rhetoric of political personalities and philosophical dialectic Weiss creates. I in 2018 America compared with 1808 France, was also struck by the similarities between the I cannot help but draw a number of significant authoritarian reign of the combative, narcissistic, parallels. This led me to set our production not in strongman Napoleon Bonaparte and numerous the past, as Weiss wrote it, but in a potential not- current nationalist political regimes. Napoleon too-distant future. Our inmates still perform the came to power in part because he was supported play within the play, set in 1793 France, and the by French politicians who thought, mistakenly, eloquence of the timeless debate is not altered. that they could control him. Like strongmen However, our exploration is one which examines before and after him, he professed that he alone where we, as a society, are headed and perhaps could fix the problems of his country; he could allows us to reflect on the direction we really want make France great again. to go. —Laura Hackman

5 THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE

DIRECTOR SOUND DESIGNER Laura Hackman Hayat Dominguez

FIGHT DIRECTOR PROPERTIES MASTER Zev Steinrock Mark Kennedy

INTIMACY DIRECTOR HAIR/MAKEUP COORDINATOR Jessica Renae Steinrock Melissa Hall

SCENIC DESIGNER STAGE MANAGER Eleni Lukaszczyk Zeenah Hussein

COSTUME DESIGNER TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Will Sturman Mark Quiles

LIGHTING DESIGNER DRAMATURG Tony Rajewski Katherine Syer

6 CAST MARQUIS DE SADE ROSSIGNOL Patrick Weber Kathleen Sullivan

JEAN-PAUL MARAT COULMIER Gabriel Herzog Charlie Bauer

HERALD COULMIER’S DAUGHTER Marlene Slaughter Erin Ryan

SIMONNE EVRARD COULMIER’S WIFE Katelynn Shennett Zoe Nemetz

CHARLOTTE CORDAY INMATES Katelin Dirr Latrel Crawford Miranda Johnson DUPERRET Caitlin McDermott Nona Lee Porter Uche Nwansi Will Burke JACQUES ROUX Nico Krauss NUNS Shelby Dorsey KOKOL Julia Gold Ethan Perry Jenna Kohn Lily Newton POLPOCH Leojae Payton GUARDS CUCURUCU Phillip-Andrew Monnett Alice Cashman Bennett Smith

7 DRAMATURG’S NOTE The Marquis de Sade spent many years as an audience, the Coulmier family, and the inmates inmate at the Charenton Asylum near where know that Marat will be murdered, they know he died in 1814. Typical of asylums at the time, that the collapse of the “” will Charenton housed anyone deemed socially unfit, prepare France for a counter- leader. including political dissidents. Sade, a nobleman Coulmier is an avid supporter of Napoleon, who with a notoriously perverse understanding of in 1808 has already spent four years as the self- individual freedom as completely detached from declared Emperor of France. Though there are morality, had distanced himself from the Ancien glimpses of Napoleon’s spectacular downfall to Régime well before the French Revolution. come, at that moment he seems invincible. The He even participated in the 1792 National antithetical debate between Sade and Marat and Convention, the de facto government of the First the involvement of the other inmates, however, French Republic. Yet as a friend of the revolution, suggests unrest and instability. Sade did not easily fit in. Writing in the early 1960s, Weiss struggled At Charenton, the director Coulmier was a with the fractured political landscape of his believer in the practice of therapy and allowed native Germany. Forced into exile by the Nazis Sade to write and direct his own plays, hence the and a resident of Sweden thereafter, Weiss premise of Peter Weiss’ 1963 Marat/Sade. The remained a keen observer of post-World War II notion that Sade, in his play within the play, would developments. The wall that was built in August engage in debate with the radical revolutionist 1961 to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to the Jean-Paul Marat is fictional. Marat’s words, West would remain standing at Weiss’s death in however, are mostly drawn from his numerous 1982, but not for many years longer. writings inciting the people of France to eradicate the monarchy and all of its sympathizers. Weiss, — Katherine Syer on that front at least, limited Sade’s creative license. In real life, Sade delivered Marat’s funeral eulogy, but not because of his overwhelming admiration for Marat’s ideals. Rather, during the years of infighting amongst different revolutionary factions—the so-called “Reign of Terror” around 1793—it behooved those wanting to keep their heads to show deference to the extremists. It was a very bloody year.

By setting his play in 1808, Weiss situates the Marquis de Sade when the outcome of years of revolutionary struggle is known. Just as the

8 PROFILES Charlie Bauer (Coulmier) is a Legacy. Other credits include She Kills Monsters sophomore pursuing his (Kaliope/Kelly), The Trojan Women (Athena), Mary Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting Poppins (Katie Nanna/Ensemble), and Get Bill at the University of Illinois. Shakespeare Off the Stage! (Mrs. Fredericks). This This is his first Krannert Center is Cashman’s debut performance at Krannert production. His other credits Center. include I’m So Proud of You (Finn), Impulse 24/7 (Hurricane Latrel Crawford (Inmate) is a Jose), and The Princess Play sophomore in the Bachelor of (Eugene Fitzherbert) at the Armory Free Theatre. Fine Arts acting program at Bauer also played Man 2 in a production of Songs the University of Illinois in his for A New World in Allen Hall. Krannert Center debut. He was most recently seen in William Burke (Inmate) is Impulse 24/7 (Armory Free making his debut at Krannert Theatre) and Director’s Center. His theatre credits Workshop (Armory Free include A Christmas Carol Theatre). Other theatre credits include truth and (Goodman Theatre); Lord of reconciliation (Sideshow Theatre Company), The the Flies (Steppenwolf Project(s), This Beautiful City, and Zora Neale Theatre); Oliver! (Drury Lane Hurston’s one-act plays (Illinois High School Theatre); The Lion, the Witch Theatre Festival). and the Wardrobe (Lookingglass Theatre Company); and Romeo and Katelin Dirr (Charlotte Juliet (Fury Theatre). Burke’s film and television Corday) from Bloomington- credits include Marshall the Miracle Dog, Play by Normal, Illinois, is a junior in Play, and Sense 8 on Netflix; Chicago Med, the Bachelor of Fine Arts Chicago Fire, and Chicago P.D. on NBC; and acting program at the Journey Man, an independent film. He is currently University of Illinois. Last fall, a Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate at the she made her Krannert Center University of Illinois. debut as Cecily in and as an Alice Cashman (Cucurucu), ensemble member of Assassins. Dirr has also from Shawnee, Kansas, is a appeared in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by sophomore pursuing her Wolves and The Captain is dEad trilogy at the Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting Armory Free Theatre. at the University of Illinois. She recently voiced as August in an upcoming indie horror game, The Horologist’s

9 Shelby Leigh Dorsey (Nun) is Miranda Johnson (Inmate) is a a sophomore in the Bachelor sophomore in the Bachelor of of Fine Arts acting program at Fine Arts acting program at the University of Illinois. She the University of Illinois. This is was most recently seen at The her first production at Armory Free Theatre in Krannert Center for the Impulse 24/7 and in The Performing Arts. She was most Princess Play as Princess Tiana. recently seen in Songs for A Dorsey has also been seen at New World (Woman 1) and She the Illinois High School Theatre Festival in Funk It Kills Monsters (Agnes). Miranda has also performed Up About Nothing (DJ Sanchez) and Homewood- in The Syringa Tree (Krannert Center Media Lab), an Flossmoor High School’s production of The excerpt from Jugger’s Rain (Director’s Workshop), Drowsy Chaperone (Trix, the Aviatrix). It’s A Wonderful Life (New Revels Players), The Captain is dEad: The Rift (Armory Free Theatre), Julia Gold (Nun) is a Bachelor Honorary Friend/Love, Sex, Death & Cake (Penny of Fine Arts junior acting Dreadful Players), and A Shit Way To End A Play/ major at the University of Boars You?! (Armory Free Theatre). Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She hails from Lindenhurst, Jenna Kohn (Nun) is a Illinois. Her recent credits sophomore in the Bachelor of include Tiny Duffy in All the Fine Arts acting program at King’s Men at Krannert Center the University of Illinois. She and The Fairy Godmother in was recently in Impulse 24/7 as The Princess Play at the Armory Free Theatre. both a writer and actor and will be performing in the Gabriel Herzog (Jean-Paul staged reading of Atlantis this Marat) is a junior in the December. Kohn has also been Bachelor of Fine Arts acting seen in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley program, a James Scholar, and (Lydia Wickham) at the Station Theatre. a dual-degree student in Spanish. He was seen last year Nico Krauss (Roux) is from in All the King’s Men with Newton, Massachusetts, a Illinois Theatre and Fun Home suburb near Boston, and is a at the Station Theatre. He is senior pursuing a Bachelor of from Indianapolis, Indiana, where he most Fine Arts in acting at the recently worked as a directing intern at University of Illinois. You may Indianapolis Shakespeare Company. In addition to have seen him as Sampson in his training at the University of Illinois, Herzog has Illinois Theatre’s production of studied at the Academy of Music and Romeo and Juliet directed by Dramatic Arts under Jenny Lipman and Indiana Robert Anderson or the Priest in Repertory Theatre under Robert Neal and directed by Matthew Arbour. Other credits with Courtney Sale.

10 the Armory Free Theatre include The Princess Play Center’s Assassins, #8 in a staged reading of The directed by Kara Hynes, A Presentation About the Wolves, William Larsen in All the King’s Herero of Namibia directed by Kevin Woodrow, and Men, Daphna in Bad Jews (Unit 14 Theatre Mr. Marmalade directed by Kate Fenton. Company), and Min in the Armory Free Theatre’s The Cage. Caitlin McDermott (Inmate) is a sophomore in the Bachelor Lily Newton (Nun) is a junior of Fine Arts acting program at acting major at the University the University of Illinois. She of Illinois. She has previously was most recently seen as been seen as Jane in The Woman 2 in Songs for A New Yellow Wallpaper and Trifles at World. Other credits include the Armory Free Theatre, She Kills Monsters (Tilly), Phoebe in Party at the Station Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitel), Theatre, and Dr. Adam Once Upon a Mattress (Winnifred), and A Few Stanton in All the King’s Men Good Men (Joanne). at Krannert Center. Newton spent the summer studying comedy at The Second City Training Phillip-Andrew Monnett Center and can be found on campus doing (Guard) is a junior at the stand-up as well as sketch comedy with the University of Illinois pursuing Potted Meat Sketch Comedy team. his Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. Hailing from Houston, Uche Nwansi (Inmate) is a Texas, he was previously seen sophomore in the Bachelor of as William Barfee in the 25th Fine Arts acting program at Annual Putnam County the University of Illinois. She Spelling Bee with Lyric Theatre was most recently seen at the and as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night Station Theatre as Jane with Illinois Theatre as well as various shows on Bingley in Miss Bennet: campus, such as Midsummer Nightmare, The Christmas at Pemberley. Flick, and . Nwansi also performed in Impulse at the Armory Free Theatre. Other Zoe Nemetz (Coulmier’s credits include The Producers (Niles North Wife) is a junior pursuing a Theatre); Our Town, Deathtrap, The Grass Harp, Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting Hairspray, The Luck of the at the University of Illinois. Irish, and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom Prior to acting, Zoe was a (Illinois High School Theatre Festival). competitive dancer. She recently appeared as an ensemble member in Krannert

11 Leojaé Payton-Steward Nona Lee Porter (Duperret) is (Polpoch) is making his debut a sophomore in the Bachelor performance on the Krannert of Fine Arts acting program at Center stage. He has the University of Illinois. They performed at the Armory Free have most recently been seen Theatre in Metamorphoses by performing with Debono Mary Zimmerman under the Musical Improv and The direction of Luke Worland and Phoenix Improv Company on The Princess Play by Ellen campus. As a writer, Porter is Magee under the direction of Kara Hynes. best known for their play I’m so Proud of You at Payton-Steward participated in the Armory Free the Armory Free Theatre, their 10-minute plays Theatre’s Impulse 24/7 and has also been working produced with Penny Dreadful Players, and the off-stage on his debut poetry album I Do Not Illinois High School 10-Minute Play Festival at Exist, coming this December. Eureka College. This is their first production at Krannert Center. Ethan Miles Perry (Kokol) is a senior actor from Detroit, Erin Ryan (Coulmier’s Michigan. Previously, he has Daughter) is a junior in the performed in Illinois Theatre’s Bachelor of Fine Arts acting productions of Mr. Burns (Lisa program at the University of Gaye Dixon, director), Romeo Illinois. This is her first and Juliet (Robert G. production at Krannert Center Anderson, director), and for Performing Arts. When she Assassins (J.W. Morrissette, is not doing theatre, she is director). Outside of Illinois Theatre, he’s been doing improv, sketch, and seen in She Smashes Screens (Athanasia stand-up comedy. Ryan is a part of a sketch Giannetos, director), We Are Proud to Present . . . comedy duo called Girl on Girl, and has (Kevin Woodrow, director), and Kindred (Alexandra performed at The Second City in Chicago and Smith, director) in the Armory Free Theatre. He People’s Improv Theatre in Manhattan. was recently in Lyric Theatre’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sarah Marlene Slaughter (Herald) is Wigley Johnson, director). Perry is also one of the a senior acting major originally core members of Protagonist Pizza Productions, an from Houston, Texas. She Urbana-Champaign-based film production moved to the Chicagoland company that focuses on spreading the love and area in 2013 and decided to passion of filmmaking. pursue her education at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. In 2015, she competed in the 2015 National NAACP ACT-SO competition in Philadelphia and became the gold medalist and national title holder. This will be Marlene’s fifth mainstage performance here. 12 Katelynn Shennett (Simonne) is an alum of Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High is from Normal, Illinois, and is School where she was seen as Juror #8 in Twelve a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Angry Women. Other favorite credits include Arts acting program at the Eileen in Nice Work if You Can Get It at the Oak University of Illinois. She most Lawn Park District and The Second City’s Teen recently appeared as Barbara Ensemble. in Barbecue at Krannert Patrick Weber (Marquis de Center for the Performing Sade) is a senior in the Arts. Other Illinois Theatre University of Illinois’ Bachelor credits include Sadie Burke in All the King’s Men, of Fine Arts acting program. Nelly Fail in Failure: A Love Story, and Faye in the This is his fifth production at formal reading of Wig Out! Shennett has also Krannert Center for the appeared in Call Me Woman in the Armory Free Performing Arts. Theatre and After Juliet (Rosaline) and Buried Child (Shelly), both with the Penny Dreadful Players. Laura Hackman (Director) is pleased to return as Bennett Smith (Guard) is a a guest director for the University of Illinois where sophomore in the Bachelor of she last directed ’s Travesties. She Fine Arts acting program at is a director and teaching artist currently living the University of Illinois. He is in Atlanta, where she is a professor at Georgia making his Krannert Center Gwinnett College and will be a guest director at debut and was most recently Oglethorpe University next semester. Hackman seen in North Central is a recipient of the Drama League’s New College’s summer production Directors/New Works Project grant, an alum of of Shrek The Musical as Mad the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a former Hatter. Other performance credits include member of the Directing Company for the Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), Once Upon a Department of Dramatic Writing at New York Mattress (Prince Dauntless), and The University. A resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Importance of Being Earnest (Merriman). Smith prior to relocating to Atlanta, she was the has also been seen in The Princess Play (Armory resident director at the Baltimore Shakespeare Free Theatre) as Prince Florian. Festival, adjunct theatre faculty at Towson University, director of Upper School Theatre, and Kathleen Sullivan (Rossignol) chairperson of the Performing Arts Department at is currently a junior pursuing a Roland Park Country School. Hackman has directed Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. more than 60 productions including numerous Illinois Theatre credits include premiere productions of new plays in New York Barbecue, guest-directed by City; Washington, DC; Baltimore; Atlanta; and Chuck Smith, (Adlean) and All Phoenix, Arizona. Laura received her undergraduate the King’s Men (Frey) as well degree in theatre from Towson University and her as Metamorphoses at the Master of Fine Arts in directing from The Catholic Armory Free Theatre. Sullivan University of America.

13 Hayat Dominguez (Sound Designer) is a second- Eleni Lukaszczyk (Scenic Designer) is a second- year Master of Fine Arts sound design student, year Master of Fine Arts candidate in scenic and this is her third design while studying at design at the University of Illinois, originally the University of Illinois. She worked with Lyric from Ellicott City, Maryland. Previous credits Theatre for their production of [title of show] as a scenic designer include Talley’s Folly and last fall and designed for the February Dance at Salisbury University. showcase last spring. Dominguez was also a part of the Jessica Lang Dance Residency in early Mark Quiles (Technical Director) is a second- August this year. Previous to her time here, she year Master of Fine Arts candidate in scenic obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre technology. He was the assistant technical technology from the University of South Dakota director for the Summerscape Festival’s 2017 and has worked for companies such as the season at Bard College in Hook, New Santa Fe Opera and the Denver Center for the York, where he worked on Pam Tanowitz’s Performing Arts. Four Quartets and Anton Rubinstein’s Demon. Additional technical direction credits include Zeenah Hussein (Stage Manager) is a senior The Shadow of a Gunman, Unmasked, and The pursuing a degree in stage management. During Normal Heart at the State University of New her time in the program, she has served as an York (SUNY) at New Paltz. Quiles came to the assistant stage manager for The Minotaur, Romeo University of Illinois after working as a carpenter and Juliet, All the King’s Men, and Assassins. at the Utah Shakespeare Festival for their 2017 Hussein also participated in a workshop of season and receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree Master Wilder and the Cabala as the assistant in theatre design and technology at SUNY New stage manager. This past summer, she had the Paltz. opportunity to work as a production management intern at Lookingglass Theatre Company. Christina Rainwater (Scenic Charge Artist) is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and Mark Kennedy (Props Master) is a first-year has been a professional scenic artist for 16 years. Master of Fine Arts student in props design and She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre management. Before coming to the University from Missouri State University and a Master of of Illinois, he was the assistant technical director Fine Arts in scenic art from the University of for First Act Children’s Theatre in Madison, North Carolina School of the Arts. There, she Wisconsin, for five years. He was the recipient of developed the workshop A Distressing Subject the Society of Properties Artisan Managers Prop on distressing techniques for scenery, properties, Award and the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas and costumes. She was the scenic charge artist Award at the 2016 Kennedy Center American at the Flat Rock Playhouse in Flat Rock, North College Theater Festival Region III. Kennedy’s Carolina, for two years. Rainwater has an ongoing previous props design credits include The working relationship at Goodspeed Musicals Wedding Singer, Woods of Weaver (Midwest where she worked on the musicals Camelot, premiere), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 5 Lesbians Carnival, Carousel, Hello Dolly! and La Cage aux Eating a Quiche, Anything Goes, and The Legend Folles. She also worked for Feld Entertainment in of the Lion King. Palmetto, Florida, including Disney’s Princesses on Ice and Disney’s Playhouse Tour II. This summer she worked for six weeks at The Muny, St. Louis, Missouri, as a journeyman scenic artist Will Sturman (Costume Designer) is a second- on the productions Jerome Robbins, The Wiz, year Master of Fine Arts candidate in costume Singing in the Rain, Jersey Boys, and Annie. design. This is his first, full-fledged design position after a handful of productions as an Tony Rajewski (Lighting Designer) is a third-year assistant designer and many more as a costume Master of Fine Arts student in lighting design. He technician. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in music has designed primarily in the Buffalo, New York, from Carleton College and hopes to live in the area including a season-long residency at the woods one day. American Repertory Theatre of Western New York. While there, Rajewski was nominated for a local Katherine Syer (Dramaturg) is associate award for best lighting design in the production professor of theatre and director of graduate of Shine and was part of the production team studies for the department. Main areas of for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which research include the works of Richard Wagner won best production of a musical. Other and opera production history spanning more than works include The Giver at Lexington Children's four centuries. She is currently working on a book Theatre and February Dance at Krannert Center. on opera stage direction and scenography in the 21st century. An active theatre critic, Syer has Jessica Renae Steinrock (Intimacy Director) recently been engaged as dramaturg for a new is a Certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy production at the Canadian Opera Company in Directors International and also serves as the Toronto. company’s managing director. Additionally, she is a PhD student at the University of Illinois researching consent and intimacy on stage with a specialty in consent practices for improvised theatre. Recent Chicago credits include Firefly Love with Something Marvelous and Endeavor Mind with The Plagiarists.

Zev Steinrock (Fight Director) is an assistant teaching professor of stage combat, movement, and acting at the University of Illinois. He has acted and choreographed violence in theatres all over the country and has been recognized 11 times for his artistic achievements. Steinrock is a Certified Teacher and recipient of the Paddy Crean Award with the Society of American Fight Directors. He is also a certified yoga teacher and an apprentice with Intimacy Directors International. Steinrock holds his Master of Fine Arts in acting from Michigan State University after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois.

15 PRODUCTION STAFF ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS MASTER ELECTRICIAN Kaetlyn Allen Adam Major Jenna Keefer AUDIO ENGINEER ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR Matt Powell Jordan Ratliff PRODUCTION RUNNING CREW PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Chloe Cosgrove Matthew Rohan COSTUME RUNNING CREW WARDROBE HEAD Blaine Fuson Samantha Abbie Padillo Ethan Solomon

COSTUME TECHNICIANS MAKEUP RUNNING CREW Michelle Pettit Greer Durham Nicole Peckens Owen Reid

HAIR AND MAKEUP STYLIST LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR Paige Stewart Gryffon Cloud

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND BOARD OPERATOR Cameron Koniarski Jodie Werner

SCENIC ARTIST FOLLOW SPOT OPERATORS Christina Rainwater Regina Magio Samantha Shaw

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