October 2006 2006 Next Wave Festival

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer presents Mycenaean Written and directed by Carl Hancock Rux

Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: Oct 10, 12-14, 2006 at 7:30pm one hour and 30 minutes, Writer/director/music Carl Hancock Rux no intermission Lighting/sound design, co-video design Pablo N. Molina Co-video design, music, programming Jaco van Schalkwyk Mask design, co-scenic design Alison Heimstead Co-scenic design Efren Delgadillo Jr. Costume coordination Toni-Leslie James Dramaturgy Morgan Jeness

BAM 2006 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc.

Music programming at BAM is made possible by a generous grant from The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Leadership support for BAM Theater is provided by The Shubert Foundation, Inc., with major support from SHS Foundation, Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; and additional support from Billy Rose Foundation, Inc. Mycenaeaol..--- _

Cast Carl Hancock Rux Racine/Hippolytus Helga Davis Arachne Patrice Johnson Aricia Tony Torn Daedalus David Barlow Video Documentarian Ana Perea Dream Theorist Darius Mannino Dreamer/Soldier/Phillippe Celia Gorman Dreamer/Naiad/Nathalie Christalyn Wright Dreamer/Naiad Marcelle Lashley Dreamer/NaiadlWoman Niles Ford Dreamer/Soldier/ Minotaur Paz Tanjuaquio Dreamer/Naiad Kelly Bartnik Dreamer/Naiad

Production Producer Carl Hancock Rux Executive Producers Stephen M. Cohen, Patrick Synmoie Associate Producer/Company Manager Greg Lucas Production Manager Pablo N. Molina Stage Manager Ginger Castleberry

Additional production credits Associate Sound Design Jeffrey Teeter Associate Lighting Design Christopher Kuhl Technical Coordinator Alain Jourdenais Mask Fabrication Brenda Gausch Movement Coach Christalyn Wright Vocal Coach/Arranger Helga Davis

The cast and production team of Mycenaean gratefully acknowledges the generous production support of the faculty and staff of the California Institute of the Arts ("CaIArts"): Steven D. Lavine, President; Travis Preston, Artistic Director, Center for New Performance; Erik Ehn, Dean, School of Theater; Marissa Chibas, Head of Acting; and Christopher Barreca, Head of Design. We greatly appreciate the additional production support of The South Orange Performing Arts Center (South Orange, New Jersey), Karin Coonrod, Joy Tomasko, Jeanette Yew, Kevin Goold, Joshua Fleitel, Cosmo's Modern Vintage Furniture, and Moon River Chattel Architectural Salvage.

Mycenaean was commissioned by the Washington Performing Arts Society and presented at the National Geographic's Grovesnor Auditorium in the fall of 2004. It was presented in various stages of its development under the direction of Rux at: The Bowery Poetry Club, HERE Arts Center, BRIC Studios/651 Arts (NYC), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA), and Pillsbury Playhouse (Minneapolis, MN). It was subsequently presented as a work-in-progress at the TBA Festival of the Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts, and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as directed by Karin Coonrod. Two workshops were conducted under the direction of Rux at the Center for New Performance at CalArts. Wbo's Wboc...>oooL- _ Carl Hancock Rux is a multi-disciplinary writer and performing artist working in the fields of theater, fiction, poetry, and music. Rux is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary prize-winning poetry collection, Pagan Operetta (Fly By NighVAutonomedia Press); the OBIE award-winning play Talk (TCG Press); and the novel Asphalt (Atria/Simon &SchusterlWash­ ington Sq. Press paperback). Rux is the Afro­ Diasporic resident artist at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts (Miami) where he is writing and developing Makandal, with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain and visual artist Edouard Duval Carrie. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (Annandale­ on-Hudson) received a 2006 Rockefeller grant to commission Rux's The Blackamoor Angel, a new opera in three acts based on the life and macabre death of ex-slave Angelo Soliman-royal tutor, member of the elite in 18th century Vienna, companion of Mozart and Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, and Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge. As a recording artist, Rux's critically ac­ claimed debut CD, Rux Revue (Sony Music), was voted one of the top ten alternative music CDs Residence fellowship, NEA Leadership Initiatives of 1998 (The New York Times). His sophomore Meet the Composer Grant, the Kitchen Theater CD release, Apothecary Rx, is available on Giant Artist Award, Rockefeller MAP grant, Creative Step Records, and his 2006 release, Good Bread Capital Artist grant (Artist Initiative/Artist SupporV Alley, is now available on Thirsty Ear Records. Addt'l support), the Bessie Schomburg Award, He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard and abroad in his own performance works and as fellowship, NYFA Prize, Herb Alpert Award in the principal performer in the Robert Wilson/Bernice Arts (CaIArts), and Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Johnson Reagon opera, The Temptation of St. 10 Arts & Artists in Progress Award. Rux is Head Anthony. He has been commissioned to write of the Writing for Performance MFA program at and perform his text in collaboration with several CalArts. dance companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Urban Bush Women, Jaco van Schalkwyk received his BFA in drawing Jane Comfort &Co., Bill 1. Jones/Arnie Zane from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He has collaborated Dance Co., and Marlies Yearby's Movin' Spirits, with Rux in creating the video component for among others. A frequent radio essayist and guest Mycenaean since its inception, and has been host (xm radio's The Bob Edwards Show; WNYC involved with the development of Mycenaean Soundcheck) Rux co-wrote and narrated the NPR at CalArts over the past two years. In addition, radio documentary, "Walt Whitman: Songs of My­ he has created video and music for multi-media self," recipient of the 2006 New York Press Club readings of Rux's novel, Asphalt, at such venues Journalism Award for Entertainment News. Rux as Mass MoCA, the Detroit Institute for the Arts is a recipient of the Village Voice Literary Prize, REDCAT, and its South Africa tour (Durban, Ca~e­ Fresh Poet Award, National Endowment for the town, Johannesburg). Van Schalkwyk served as ArtslTheater Communication Group Playwright in laptop musician for performances of Rux's sopho- Who's Wbl...... 3llollE-o _

more album Apothecary Rx at various venues her last year of studies at CalArts, where she is including Central Park SummerStage; Der Singel pursuing an MFA in Stage Management. music festival in Antwerp, Belgium; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and the Sons d'Hiver music Toni-Leslie James' costume design includes festival in Paris. Van Schalkwyk contributed pro­ Lincoln Center: House of Bernarda Alba, Elegies, gramming and co-composition for several songs Marie Christine, A New Brain, God's Heart, on Good Bread Alley, Rux's latest album released Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Hello Again. on Thirsty Ear Records. In addition to his work Broadway: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, One Mo' for the stage, van Schalkwyk has art-directed Time, King Hedley II, Footloose, The Tempest and video-edited various projects with NY-based (Drama Desk nomination), Twilight: Los Angeles advertising agency, Idealogue, for clients such 1992, Angels in America, and Jelly's Last Jam as Adidas and Miss Sixty, most notably the (American Theatre Wing Award, Tony and Drama Adidas Fanatic series, and the recently acclaimed Desk nominations). Other venues include The adicolor podcast film series. In the past, he has Public Theater, Second Stage, City Center En­ art-directed for Oscar Blandi, Vincent Longo, and cores!, Circle Rep., Hartford Stage, The Goodman Anand Jon. Van Schalkwyk is currently building Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep., Ceramic Studio, an audiovisual production studio Berkley Rep., The Long Wharf Theatre, Center in Gauteng, South Africa. Stage, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, and the Huntington Theatre. Television Pablo N. Molina is a Los Angeles-based instal­ and film: Whoopi, As the World Turns, A Huey P lation and stage design artist. He has worked as Newton Story, and A Tale of Two Pizzas. a sound, lighting, video, exhibit, and multimedia design professional for the past eleven years, col­ Alison Heimstead has collaborated with Rux as laborating with Benny Sato Ambush, The Hangar a designer on the development of Mycenaean in Theater, Aimee Michele, Sam Gold, Miziker two earlier workshop performances at CalArts. Entertainment, Noah Haidle, Stephan Knuesel, Her masks have traveled with the production Rachel Boggia, COSI, The Bebe Miller Company, , to the TBA Festival/PICA, and the University of High Jinks Dance, and Marie Sester. He is cur­ North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her recent collabo­ rently in his last year of studies at CalArts, where rations include: scenic design and large kinetic he is pursuing an MFA in Design and Production lantern design for outdoor spectacles with Nana with an emphasis on Integrated Media. Molina Projects (Baltimore), and design and direction for participated in the development of Mycenaean Sunset Chronicles Episode Four-a marionette during its workshop at CalArts, and has been a serial of east Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles). part of the piece for the last two years. Past design collaborations include Department of Space and Land Reclamation, Ghost Road Ginger Castleberry is a stage manager special­ Theater, Bedlam Theater, Skewed Visions, Music izing in opera and experimental music-based Center!Walt Disney Concert Hall, Columbia Arts performance. Selected credits include Stravin­ Festival, Ko Festival of Performance, Bread and sky's Rite of Spring (dir. Ken Nintzel), All's Well Puppet Theater, and In The Heart of the Beast That Ends Well (dir. Karin Coonrod), and Grande Puppet and Mask Theatre. Heimstead earned an Mothers Re:lnvented: Stravinsky meets Zappa MFA from CalArts in theater design. (dir. Don Preston). Castleberry has worked with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Seattle Fringe Efren Delgadillo Jr. most recently designed Festival, LadyFest Seattle, and the Bread and Laude in Urbis in Orvieto, Italy and was the sce­ Puppet Theater. She also participated in the de­ nic/lighting designer for Moonshine at the Edin­ velopmental production of Mycenaean at CalArts. burgh Festival in Scotland. Selected design work Castleberry is a grad uate of the University of includes The Three Musketeers for the Acting Washington School of Drama and is currently in Company, directed by Casey Biggs and Othello Who's Wb~o _

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at Hartford Stage, directed by Karin Coonrod. Christopher Kuhl's recent work as a lighting His work in Los Angeles includes Moonshine at designer includes NOW Festival, The Mother of REDCAT Theater; Always Running with Corner­ All Enemies, Rebirth of a Nation (REDCAT); Ter­ stone Theater; Machinal with Blank the Dog, men Vox Machina, Farewell Juliet (Filament); The directed by Nataki Garrett; Bazaar at the Electric Cherry Orchard (evidEnce Room); and Because Lodge; Pharmacopiea at the Evidence Room; They Have No Words (Lounge Theatre). His work Destroy She Said at Theater Theatre; Sandman at as an assistant lighting designer includes In the the Russell Street Performance Space; and Pup­ Continuum, Nighthawks, Solomania, The Stones, pies with a Dark Haze at Bitter Truth Playhouse. Very Old Man, Apollo (Kirk Douglas); Othello As a member of TENT, he has collaborated on (Hartford Stage); On the Mountain (SCR); Mac­ JP Morgan Skips the Light Fantastic, Oh Sweet beth: A Modern Ecstasy (REDCAT); She Stoops Captain, and KG: Life in a Tin Can. Delgadillo to Comedy (evidEnce Room); and Medea (Boston is a graduate from the University of California, Court). Currently working as the Resident light­ Irvine and holds an MFA from the CalArts. ing Designer at the REDCAT, Kuhl also assists at the Kirk Douglas, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Jeff Teeter's projects include at the Center Center, Portland Center Stage, and is collaborat­ for New Performance: 11, September 2001; ing with Collage Dance on a new work. Kuhl REDCAT, France Tour (co-designer, video); holds a BFA from CalArts. Mycenaean, CalArts Workshop (co-designer, sound); California Institute of the Arts: As You Alain Jourdenais is a Los Angeles-based designer Like It (video designer); The Ball Game (assistant currently working with Diavolo Dance Theater sound designer); COrteo (video designer); The as touring lighting director/designer. Los Angeles Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Edinburgh credits include designs for Diavolo, The Evidence Fringe Festival (video designer); The Will Geer Room Theater, Helios Dance, and Redcat. He Theatricum Botanicum, 2004 and 2005 season is a graduate of CalArts program in Design and (lighting designer). Production, where he designed numerous dance theater pieces. Who's Wb~o _

Christalyn E. Wright is the Founder and Artistic Heiner Muller. Davis wishes to acknowledge with Director of the Wright Now! PerformanceXperi­ love and gratitude Ann Bradney, Alessandro ence. A 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Cassin, and her voice teacher and mentor, Maria Fellow in Choreography, she has also received Zhorella Fedorova. the Puffin Foundation grant, the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts, Patrice Johnson is happy to be working with as well as several residencies. Her choreogra­ Carl Hancock Rux again and making her BAM phy has been presented throughout the U.S., debut. Her theatrical credits include the Broad­ Sweden, South Africa, and in Orvieto, Italy. She way revival of The Crucible with Liam Neeson, is cu rrently teach ing at Sa ra h Lawrence College directed by Sir Richard Eyre; and Othello with and is a teaching artist for the Joyce Education Patrick Stewart at the Shakespeare Theater in program. Wright appears in Carrie Mae Weems' Washington, DC. TV/film credits include Without video project, Coming Up for Air, and Liza a Trace, The Guardian, NYPD Blue, and Under­ Johnson's If then Maybe video installation. Her tow. As a film director, Johnson is proud to have work has also been performed on ABC's Good completed her second feature, a unique film Morning America, Bertha Pan's feature-length based on 9/11 called NY's Dirty Laundry, which film FACE, and Men's Fashion Week at Bryant will be premiering soon in NYC. Park, NY for Pelle Pelle. More recently, Wright co-choreographed a music video for Universal Tony Torn is an actor and director who has recording artist Tami Chynn, Tell Mi Seh, and toured extensively for directors Richard Foreman choreographed an episode for the 38th season and the late Reza Abdoh. He recently appeared of Sesame Street. She has toured internation­ in Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper's Fragment at ally and nationally as a company member with Classic Stage Company, and in Kate Whorisky's Urban Bush Women, Mark Dendy Dance and production of Camille for the Summerscape Fes­ Theater, Jane Comfort & Company, Pepatian, and tival at Bard College. On stage, he has directed Movin' Spirits Dance Theater. She also toured projects ranging from Shakespeare's history plays with the Robert Wilson/Bernice Johnson Reagon to Reverend Billy's Church of Stop Shopping, opera, The Temptation of St. Anthony. and recently founded Plays On Words: A Poets Theater festival with his wife, the poet, Lee Ann Helga Davis first appeared in the Next Wave Brown. Torn is also a filmmaker, and recently Festival in 2004 in the role of Hilarion (with Carl completed a satirical update of Dostoevsky's The Hancock Rux originating the title role) in The Grand Inquisitor, written by Ruth Margraff and Temptation of St. Anthony directed by Robert featuring Carl Hancock Rux as The Messiah, and Wilson, with music and libretto by Bernice a feature film, Lucky Days, in collaboration with Johnson Reagon. Her work includes collabo­ his sister, Angelica Torn. rations with composers and choreographers alike including: Lawrence Butch Morris, Rinde David Barlow has performed in a series of Eckert, Craig Harris, Daniel Alexander Jones, new premieres including Carl Hancock Rux's and Cynthia Oliver. When not performing live Mycenaean, Rinde Eckert's Horizon (Dir. David with her own band, Burn, Davis can be heard Schweizer), and Chuck Mee's A Perfect Wed­ on the recordings of Toshi Reagon, dj duo, Slam ding (Dir. Davis McCallum). Most recently, Mode, and most recently on Carl Hancock Rux's he appeared in the original comedy Perfect new release Good Bread Alley, as well as on his Harmony at the NY Fringe Festival, and Caryl previous works, Apothecary Rx and Rux Revue. Churchill's A Number at the Adirondack Theater She is currently working on a one-woman show, Festival (Dir. Sturgis Warner). New York credits Cassandra, and, with scenic designer and archi­ include Saved (Dir. Robert Woodruff), Andorra tect, Peter Bottazzi, on a visual poem: Explosions (Dir. Liviu Ciulei), Smashing (Dir. Trip Cullman), of Memory, based on the text of writer/d irector and Romola And Nijinski (Dir. David Levine). Who's WbL....3looL...o _

He is a member of the Mad Dog Company, with Celia Gorman appeared in Mira Kingsley's Tanya whom he co-created To Who It May Concern, Tanya and Josh Chambers' Toy in Blood. This is Lemnation, and Strange Attractors with direc­ her New York debut. She received a BFA from tor Phil Soltanoff. He has performed in various CalArts, where she participated in the Center regional theaters across the country and at the for New Performance sponsored workshop of Belgrade International Theater Festival and the Mycenaean. Avignon International Theater Festival. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and earned his Marcelle Lashley recording credits include BeBe MFA from NYU. and CeCe Winans' Greatest Hits, Carl Hancock Rux's Rux Revue, Apothecary Rx and Good Ana Perea was named Best Actress of 2004 Bread Alley, and The Temptation of St. Anthony by John Heilpern of The New York Observer for soundtrack. She has performed in the musical her lead performance in Federico Garcia Lorca's ensemble of the documentary Beah, A Woman House of Bernarda Alba, directed by Karin Coon­ Speaks, and toured nationally in the production rod. A 2005 graduate of Columbia University's of Vinette Carroll's Your Arm's Too Short to Box Master's Program in Acting, Perea performed the With God. She played the Queen of Sheba in the role of Feste in Twelfth Night (Nikolaus Wolcz dir.) international tour of Gustave Flaubert's The Temp­ in New York City; The International Shakespeare tation of St. Anthony, directed by Robert Wilson Project in Recklinghausen, Germany; and the with libretto by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. As 12th Annual Young Theater Festival in Seoul, a vocalist, she has toured with Carl Hancock Rux Korea. She originated the role of Ann in Love in Portugal, the U.K., and South Africa, and with and Literature by Bixby Elliot; Mother in Sharon Craig Harris in Turkey and France. Lashley thanks Bridgforth's can flama at Penumbra Theater in her husband Steven and her sons Etienne and St. Paul; and Erena in Erik Ehn's Anarchy in Stephon and daughter Jhetti for their love and the Oklahoma Kingdom at the Planet Theater patience. in Austin, Texas. Perea was twice recognized by the Austin Circle of Theater's Critics Awards Niles Ford is a dancer/performer/choreographer, as Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding and the founder of Urban Dance Collective. He Supporting Actress. Perea's upcoming projects received his MFA from New York University's include Woyzeck directed by Javier Gutierrez. She Tisch Dance program and his BFA in dance from was a part of Carl Hancock Rux's Mycenaean the University of the Arts. His most recent show, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's A Dream Deferred, premiered at Performance Performing Arts Series. Space 122. He is the recipient of several grants including The Jerome Foundation for Dance Darius Mannino's recent work includes Circle Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural award, Puffin Course, an original dance/theater piece co-au­ Foundation grant, a residency at Djerassi, and thored with Mira Kingsley, performed at this a Bessie award for his performance in Merian summer's NOW Festival at REDCAT in downtown Soto's Historias. Niles Ford has performed with Los Angeles and at the Two River Theater Compa­ Boston Ballet, Bill 1 Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., ny in Red Bank, New Jersey; and Invisible Glass Ron Brown, Danny Sloane &Co., the Rod Rogers written by Erik Ehn and directed by Janie Geiser, Dance Co., Dance Theater of Harlem, Philadanco, a world premiere produced by the Center for New and most recently in Marlies Yearby's Brown Theater and presented at REDCAl Other world Butterfly. premiere productions include Up (The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair), Weinsburg, Moby Dick, and Paz Tanjuaquio has been creating dances in Short Stories (co-production, SITI Company) at New York City since 1990. She is co-director of Perseverance Theatre in Douglas, Alaska. Man­ TOPAZ ARTS, Inc., a nonprofit arts organization nino received his MFA from CalArts. founded with Todd Richmond in 2000 to foster Wbo's Wbc...>o.o<...o _

collaborations and support the creative process and Dancers. She received her MFA in Dance (www.topazarts.org). Her choreography has been from New York University Tisch School of the commissioned and presented in New York by Arts, and her BA in Visual Arts from University of the Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, California, San Diego. Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Aaron Davis Hall, Symphony Space, Joyce SoHo Kelly Bartnik is a graduate of James Madison Presents, Thelma Hill Performing Arts; and University where she earned her BA in Dance nationally at Godt-Cleary Projects in Las Vegas, and BBA in Computer Information Systems. Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Ohio University, and Since moving to New York, she has performed The Yard at Martha's Vineyard. She has created with the Wright Nowl PerformanceXperience, three evening-length works in collaboration Melissa Briggs Dance, and Shannon Hummel with composer Todd Richmond. Awards for her Dance/CORA. Her own choreography has been choreography include: Meet the Composer Com­ presented at Dixon Place, Williamsburg Arts missioning/USA, New York Foundation for the Nexus, James Madison University, Brooklyn Arts BUILD/Homer Avila Memorial Award, two Arts Exchange, Joyce Soho, BRIC Studio, Dance Individual Artist Awards from Queens Council on Theater Workshop, and Arena Stage in Washing­ the Arts, and Dance Theater Workshop's Suitcase ton, DC. Bartnik is a founding member of Forum, Fund where she participated in the Mekong Inc., a multidisciplinary art organization based in Project's Cambodia Creative Residency and artis­ Washington, DC, and recently co-founded a video tic research travel in Vietnam. As a dancer, she is production company, GK1 Productions. currently a company member of Molissa Fenley