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2013 Next Wave Festival Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Not What Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Happened Executive Producer

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CONCEIVED AND WRITTEN BY

DIRECTED BY Ken Rus Schmoll

WITH Birgit Huppuch Kim Martin-Cotten

DATES: Sep 25—28 at 7:30pm Sep 29 at 3pm

LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

RUN TIME: 70min no intermission

ARTIST TALK: Ain Gordon and BAM 2013 Next Wave Festival sponsor Forrest Holzapfel moderated by David Finkle Fri, Sep 27 (post-show) BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Free for same-day ticket holders

Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. #NotWhatHappened BAM Fisher 2013 Next Wave Festival

Not What Happened considers the historical re-enactment of rural, pre- Not What industrial America­—a nation of fewer artifacts—of greater distances in which those few artifacts could be lost. Can we research the absent? Can we enter a time whose greatest specific is the Happened vastness of an unyielding landscape now crowded and paved?

Not What Happened was supported, PICK UP PERFORMANCE CO(S) in part, by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the IMAGES BY PHOTOGRAPHER Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Forrest Holzapfel Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and is a SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BY National Performance Network (NPN) Arnulfo Maldonado Creation Fund co-commissioned project. The Creation Fund is supported by the SOUND DESIGN BY Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Jane Shaw Foundation, and the National Endow- ment for the Arts (a federal agency). LIGHTING DESIGN Collaborating organizations with the Nick Ryckert leadership participation of the Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) include VPL, PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Marlboro College, Flynn Center for the Ed Fitzgerald Performing Arts, and Juniata Presents, with additional production development VIDEO SUPERVISOR support from , Grant McDonald Brooklyn Academy of Music, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts/University PRODUCTION MANAGER of IL at Urbana—Champaign, MASS Nick Ryckert MoCA and the Playwrights’ Center.

PRODUCED BY Alyce Dissette Who’s Who

AIN GORDON Writer

Ain Gordon is a three-time - winning writer, director, and actor, a two-time NYFA recipient, and a Gug- genheim fellow in playwriting. Recent projects include writing and directing If She Stood at the Painted Bride Arts Center supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (PA), and where (we) live, a collaboration with S¯o Percussion at the Walker Center (MN) and BAM Next Wave Festival, and performances at River to River Festival, Fringe Festival, Sacrum Profanum Fes- tival in Poland, ICA Boston, and others. Gordon’s work has been seen at New Workshop, Soho Rep., , 651 ARTS, DTW, PS 122, BAC, HERE, Mark Taper Forum, George Street Playhouse, MASS MoCA, Krannert Center, Baltimore Museum of Art, Vermont Performance Lab, Di- verseWorks, North Fourth Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Dance Space, Silvermine Arts, and LexArts, and others. Gordon’s Art Life & Show-Biz: A Non-Fiction Play is published in Palgrave’s Dramaturgy Of The Real. Collaborations with chore- ographer Bebe Miller: Wexner Center, Bates Dance Fest, Helena Presents, and others. Collaborations with David Gordon: ART, ACT, and AMTF. Gordon 2013 Next Wave Festival

was in the original off-Broadway cast of : Stories Left To Tell and toured to PICA, ICA Boston (Elliot Nor- Birgit Huppuch ton Award nomination), and the Walker, Silence Who’samong others. Gordon also wrote for NBC’s Will & Grace. He is a former core Birgit Huppuch recently played Gail in writer of the Playwright’s Center, was The Debate Society’s Blood Play at the the inaugural visiting artist at the Pew Williamstown Theatre Festival. Credits Center for Arts & Heritage, and is cur- include: Blood Play (Public, Bushwick Whorently a resident artist at The Hermitage Starr, ArtsEmerson), A Map of Virtue in Florida, a member of the Center for (13P), Telephone (Foundry, 2009 OBIE Creative Research, and co-founder of for Performance), Neighbors (Public), the Urban Memory Project. Gordon has Angel Reapers (Joyce Theater, tour), been co-director of the Pick Up Perfor- Telethon and DOT (Clubbed Thumb), mance Co(s) since 1992. Miss Saint’s Hieroglyphic Suffering (Guggenheim), What the Public Wants (Mint Theater), (Drama League, Direc- torFest), Burnt Umber (Soulographie/ Ken Rus Schmoll LaMama), and Beowulf (Banana, Bag Director and Bodice, LES). Regional: In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Cleveland Ken Rus Schmoll is a two-time Obie Playhouse); Twelfth Night, Pay Up, and Award-winning director whose cred- Isabella (Pig Iron); Peer Gynt (Kansas its include Red Dog Howls ( Rep/La Jolla Playhouse); and Bog- Theater Workshop); , Telethon, wog (O’Neill). Web series: High Main- Amazons and Their Men, Demon Baby tenance. Film: The Sisterhood of Night. (Clubbed Thumb); The Peripherals (The BA, . Talking Band); Death Tax (Humana Festival); A Map of Virtue, Mark Smith, Aphrodisiac, The Internationalist (13P); Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander Kim Martin-Cotten New England (Two River Theater); Guide FUREE in Pins and Needles, Telephone (Foundry Theatre); Middletown, The Kim Martin-Cotten’s recent acting Internationalist (); What work includes, on Broadway: Portia Once We Felt (LCT3); and Aphrodi- in Merchant of Venice with siac (Long Wharf). He staged Charles (understudy & performer); August Wuorinen’s cantata It Happens Like This Osage County (national tour); Josie in (Tanglewood, Guggenheim) and Wolf- Moon for the Misbegotten (Drama Desk gang Rihm’s opera Proserpina (Spoleto nomination, Pearl Theatre:); Festival USA). Schmoll is an affiliated with Stacy Keach (Goodman Theatre), artist with Clubbed Thumb, a Sundance and the premiere of Ghostwritten by Theatre Institute alum, and co-chair of Naomi Izuka. She has done many the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. productions of Shakespeare’s plays and been involved in the development of new works. She is also a director and recently helmed productions of Death

Photo: Birgit Huppuch By Jeff Woodward of a Salesman, Cabaret, Proof, Taming Theatre), Love in the Time of Cholera of the Shrew, and The Dumb Waiter, (Repertorio Español), Electra and as well as assisting Anna Deveare Orestes (Centro Cultural Universidad Smith in her initial production of House del Pacifico, Lima, Peru),The Kitchen Arrest: First Edition at Arena Stage. Up- (Teatro Britanico, Lima, Peru), La coming projects: Antony and Cleopatra Bohème (Anchorage Opera), Jomama and Orpheus Descending. Jones: Radiate (Soho Rep), Medea (Centro Cultural PUCP, Lima, Peru), and Orpheus in the Underworld (Central City Opera). With Ken Rus Schmoll: Forrest Holzapfel sets and costumes for The Foundry Images Theatre’s Furee in Pins & Needles, the world premiere of Madeleine George’s Forrest Holzapfel is a photographer Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander and local historian who resides in and New England (Two River Theater), and makes work about his hometown of Ethan Lipton’s Luther (Clubbed Thumb). Marlboro, VT. A 1997 graduate of the Additional work: engagements with San Bard College photography program, Francisco Ballet, Opera Theatre of St Holzapfel has spent the last decade Louis, Westport Country Playhouse, photographing, collecting stories, and and Studio Arena, among others. He interviewing his fellow townspeople in has exhibited at the Prague Quadren- the tradition of small town photography nial, the international exhibition of sce- that reaches back to the early 1900s. nography and theater architecture. He A recipient of numerous grants and is a recipient of a Princess Grace The- awards from the Vermont Humanities ater Fellowship (Fabergé Theater Award) Council, Vermont Arts Council, and and a graduate of the Vermont Folklife Center, Holzapfel Tisch School of the Arts Department of created a traveling exhibition called A Design for Stage and Film. Deep Look at a Small Town: Marlboro, Vermont, which began at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury in 2010, and has since shown at three other Nick Ryckert locations around the state. The Lighting Designer/Production Manager creation of a vivid sense of place is central to his vast body of work about Nick Ryckert is a New York-based this single town. lighting designer. Pick Up Performance Co(s) credits: If She Stood, The History of Asking the Wrong Question, In This Place. Recent design credits: Odes (So-

Arnulfo Maldonado kolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, NY); Set & Costume Design American Tall Tales (Compass Players, NY); Tosca e le Altre Due (Kairos Italy Arnulfo Maldonado is a New York City- Theater, NY); , A Body of Water, based set and costume designer. Select Crimes of the Heart (Firebelly Produc- design credits: Il Barbiere di Siviglia tions, VA). Associate/assistant design: (Central City Opera), Tosca (Anchor- Inflatable Frankenstein, Sontag: Reborn age Opera), Betrayal (Perseverance (New York Theatre Workshop), The 2013 Next Wave Festival

Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Spy Garbo (with Laura Mroczkowski); Collapse, Alyce Dissette The Jammer (with Paul Whitaker) Pi- Producer casso’s Closet (with Martha Mountain); Open the Door, Virginia! (with Allen Who’s Alyce Dissette is the producing direc- Lee Hughes). Ryckert is the resident tor of the Pick Up Performance Co(s), lighting designer for the Kirov Acad- producing the work of writer-director emy of Ballet and the Annual National Ain Gordon and choreographer- Capital Area Cappies Awards Gala at Whothe Kennedy Center Concert Hall. director-writer David Gordon. A live performance/television/digital media producer based in New York City, she has worked on more than 50 produc- Jane Shaw tions with internationally known Sound Designer artists, venues, and arts organizations ranging from and including the Metro- Jane Shaw makes her Pick Up Per- politan Opera presentations depart- formance Co(s) debut with Not What ment, as former executive producer of Happened. Other credits: with Ken Rus the PBS national series Alive From Off Schmoll: Red Dog Howls (New York Center/Alive TV, and James Turrell’s Theater Workshop). With Birgit Hup- Roden Crater. She was the director of puch: In the Next Room… (Cleveland one of the first international digital art Playhouse). Dance designs: Susan works competitions New Voices, New Marshall (Sleeping Beauty and Other Visions sponsored by Paul Allen, the Stories at BAM Next Wave), Big Dance Voyager Co., and WIRED Magazine. Theater (Bessie Award for Comme Tou- She serves on the board of directors of jours Here I stand, Supernatural Wife ODC/Dance Company in San Fran- at BAM Next Wave), Terry Creach, Da- cisco and until recently for nearly 10 vid Dorfman, Tami Stronach. Theater years on Alliance of Resident Theaters designs include A Picture of Autumn New York (A.R.T./NY) Board, the (Mint), Basilica (Rattlestick), The service organization serving nonprofit Catch (Denver Center, Henry Award), theaters in New York City. Jackie (Women’s Project, Lortel nomi- nation), En el tiempo de los Mariposas (Repetorio Español, Premios ACE

Award), Wind Up Bird Chronicles (Ed- Ed Fitzgerald inburgh International Festival), Breath Production Stage Manager and Imagination (Hartford Stage, City Theater). This fall: and Ed Fitzgerald has been a profes- La Dispute (Hartford Stage), Trading sional stage manager for 40 years, Practices (HERE Arts Center). Recipi- working on Broadway (Da, A Little ent: NEA-TCG Career Development Family Business, The Tap Dance Kid, Grant, Eliot Norton nomination, Meet Carrie: The Musical, The Violet Hour), the Composer. Graduate of Harvard off-Broadway ( Theatre and Yale School of Drama. Club: The Best of Friends; Tick, Tick... Boom), off-off-Broadway,­ and in major regional theaters throughout the

Photo: Forrest Holzapfel country (ART, ACT, Mark Taper Forum, DTW plus performances at Movement Geffen Playhouse, BAM, Spoleto USA) Research, the Poetry Project and PS and overseas (London, Berlin, Singa- 122. By 1988 he was recognized in pore, Seoul, Avignon, Strasbourg). He the inaugural round of the NEA’s New has been associated with Ain Gor- Forms initiative which offered funding don, David Gordon, and the Pick Up for artists who defied single-discipline Performance Co(s) for 23 years and classification. In 1990, Gordon began numerous productions. touring his work with performances at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Dance Place in DC and entered a multi-year relationship with Soho Rep, Pick Up Performance which resulted in five workshops and productions. In 1993, Ain and David Co(s) Gordon collaborated on The Family Producers Business (as writers, directors, and performers) and received an Obie for Pick Up Performance Co(s), a non- their efforts. The particular duality profit producing organization, was of both artists’ creative instincts was founded in 1971 and incorporated in celebrated when the Village Voice re- 1978 to facilitate projects created by viewed The Family Business in both its David Gordon. The company expanded theater and dance columns simultane- in 1992 to include projects by Ain ously. Further illustrating these artists’ Gordon, initiating a plural artistic hybrid appeal, it is worth noting the leadership with projects created inde- journey of this work from the Poetry pendently by each artist. Since David Project at St. Mark’s Church to Seri- Gordon’s beginning as a founding ous Fun! at to Dance artist of the seminal Judson Church Theater Workshop to New York Theater performances and the improvisation Workshop to Mark Taper Forum in Los group Grand Union, he examined, Angeles. Ain and David Gordon went expanded, and torpedoed conventional on to collaborate on Punch And Judy lines between theater and dance and Get Divorced for American Repertory pioneered the use of text and textual Theater and American Music Theater narrative in movement work. His dual Festival and The First Picture Show for status as movement artist and theater The Mark Taper Forum and American artist was acknowledged when he Conservatory Theater. David Gordon was awarded a Pew Charitable Trust continues to fuse text and movement National Dance Residency grant and for both dance and theater venues; a National Theater Residency grant in among his many awards and fellow- successive years. He recently received ships are two Drama-Logue awards, NEA Masterpiece grants for his works two Obie Awards, three Bessie Trying Times, Shlemiel the First, and Awards, two Guggenheim Fellow- Dancing Henry Five. ships, and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. Ain Gordon continues to Ain Gordon began writing and direct- straddle the traditions of playwriting ing his own work in 1985, emerging and performance forms blending fact in the downtown dance/performance and fiction in theatrical ruminations on scene with four consecutive seasons at history and memory. He is the recipi- (MAP) Grants, and the Arts Presenters(MAP) Grants,andtheArts Productionships, fourMulti-Arts Fund heim inplaywriting,twoNYFA Fellow ent ofthreeObieAwards, aGuggen 2013 Next Wave Festival Liles Henry FINANCE MANAGER Rhoda Cerritelli DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Patsy Gay ARCHIVIST &ADMINASST. Alyce Dissette PRODUCING DIRECTOR Ain GordonandDavid CO-DIRECTORS For thePick UpPerformance Co(s) & Heritage2011—13. atthePew Visiting Artist CenterforArts Charitable trust.Hewastheinaugural gram grantfundedbytheDorisDuke Ensemble TheatreCollaborationsPro - - - Thank you On theweb:pickupperformance.org Endowment fortheArts. andNational State CouncilontheArts, lie R. SamuelsFoundation, NewYork Mellon Foundation, TheFan Fox &Les Weil, CatherineWyler, TheAndrewW. Tipton, LaurieUprichard,Suzanne Rosenbaum, BillSchaffner, Jennifer Patricia Remer, JeanRigg,Joan Samuel A.Miller, JonNakagawa, Mayeda, MarieChristopheDeMenil, Donna Lieberman, CynthiaJ.Y.K. Wax,Albert Susana&Pierre Leval, William Kux, MargaretJenkins& Howard, Fran Kumin, NancyKux, Duffy, KarenGraham,Michael&Betty Davies, JacquelineZ.Davis,JamesH. Linda Chapman, SageCowles,Molly Thank youtothefollowingforsupport:

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