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By Emma Stanton - |Directed by Tea Alagic ® ® , 2003 ć NO CANDY "Bosnian Girl" by Šejla Kameri by emma stanton - |Directed by Tea Alagic world Premiere January 16 - February 10, 2019 PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS PRESENTING SEASON SPONSORS NO CANDY Ronni Lacroute Carol Streeter & By Emma Stanton Harold Goldstein Directed by Tea Alagic SHOW SPONSORS Polly Grose CAST Judy and Greg Kafoury Zlata Mia Zara The National Endowment Uma Sharonlee McLean* for the Arts Olena Nikki Weaver* The Oregon Cultural Trust Fazila Val Landrum* Asja Agatha Olson SEASON SPONSORS Maja Jessica Hillenbrand Ellyn Bye Oric Ben Newman* Joyce Hart & Ken Lewis Understudies Abigail St. John+, Paul Harestad+ Philip Terranova CREATIVE TEAM OUR WORK IS MADE Director Tea Alagic POSSIBLE BY Stage Manager David Levine* The Sheri & Les Biller Family Foundation, Mary & Don Blair, Ellyn Bye, Colas Scenic Designer Peter Ksander Construction, JW & HM Goodman Lighting Designer Miranda K. Hardy Family Foundation, Hampton Family Costume Designer Emily Horton Foundation of The Oregon Community Co-Sound Designer Casi Pacilio Foundation, Greg Hinckley & Mary Chomenko, Juan Young Trust, The Jordan Co-Sound Designer/Composer Jena Crenshaw Brand, Marge & Stephen Kafoury, Ronni Projection Designer Rory Breshears Lacroute, B.P. Lester and Regina John Properties Designer Sara Ludeman Foundation, Joyce Hart & Ken Lewis, Assistant Directors Melanie Owen, Reina Solunaya Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, ME Fitness, James F. and Marion L. Miller Assistant StageManager Rachel Lee Millena+ Foundation, M. J. Murdock Charitable Technical Director Christian Andrews Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Master Electrician Jeff Ruggiero OCF Joseph E. Weston Foundation, PGE Scenic Artist David Pritchard Foundation, Raffle Donors, Raymond Production/Design Apprentice Alex Meyer+ Family Foundation, Robert D. and Marcia H. Randall Charitable Trust, Arlene Carpenters Molly Gardner, Jacob DeKlyen, Leslie Bernhard Schnitzer, Anna & Dwight Schwabe Sr. Charitable Foundation, SERA Architects, + Portland Playhouse Apprentice Company member The Shubert Foundation, Carol Streeter *Appears Courtesy Actors’ Equity Association. Actors Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. AEA negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a & Harold Goldstein, Herbert A. Templeton wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an Foundation, Phillip Terranova, Steve & essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org Elsie Weaver, Weaver Family Foundation in honor of Phyllis L. Weaver, Willamette Week Give! Guide donors, Wrather The photographic, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is prohibited. Family Foundation. 2 PORTLANDPLAYHOUSE.ORG FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT ABOUT THE ARTIST My writing of No Candy stems from a need to respond to ŠEJLA KAMERIC what is happening—and what has always happened—to was born in women during war and ethnic conflict. I felt inadequate to Sarajevo, Bosnia form a response. But I started thinking about the Bosnian and Herzegovina. War, and what happened in Srebrenica: where 8,000 She has received Muslim men were killed and the women sexually assaulted widespread acclaim and tortured. As the play began to unfold, it became for her poignant very important not to focus on the trauma but on how a intimacy and community of women moves forward. In her conversations social commentary. with me, Bosnian artist Sejla Kameric, who was a teenager Based on her at the time of the war, insisted on the duality of lightness own experiences, living alongside atrocity and trauma. That during the war, memories and there were sunny days, babies being born, Nirvana blasting dreams, which through teenager’s headphones, and as she states in her were influenced by artwork: “we were chilling by the pool when the war started.” the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), Kameric’s work takes us to spaces of displacement and discrimination. The weight of her “we were chilling by the pool themes stands in powerful contrast to her individual aesthetics and to her choice of delicate materials. when the war started” This work, Bosnian Girl (2003) shows an image of the artist along with graffiti written by an unknown Dutch soldier on a wall of the army barracks in Potocari, Srebrenica, 1994/95. Royal Netherlands This duality of art, music, humor, and birth existing Army troops, as part of the UN Protection Force alongside war not only represented the tenacity of the (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992–95, human spirit, but it directed me to think about how they are were responsible for protecting the Srebrenica also tools with which to observe something very difficult. safe area. That through humor and art, a community can hold her trauma in her hands, observe it, speak to it, and transform it into something else. Thank you so much for sharing your evening with us! At times, this play is a comedy. Photo by: Tarik Samarah Learn more about Šejla Kameric Emma Stanton and her work at sejlakameric.com ARTSLANDIA.COM SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to Missionary Chocolates, Petite Provence, ME Fitness, PUBLISHER + SALES DIRECTOR PUBLISHING Lagunitas Brewing Company, Peter Ksander, Miranda K. Hardy FOUNDER Lindsey Ferguson COORDINATOR and Reed College Misty Tompoles Sara Chavis DESIGNERS ASSOCIATE Lisa Johnston-Smith, NEW BUSINESS PUBLISHER + Dan Le, Jackie Tran ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP Ashley Coates ARTSLANDIA BOX Our work is supported by Oregon Cultural Trust MANAGER MANAGER PHOTOGRAPHER Katrina Ketchum Bella Showerman Max McDermott Thanks to the Regional Arts & Culture Council, including MANAGING EDITOR PUBLISHER’S PODCAST HOST Kristen Seidman support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County and REPRESENTATIVE Susannah Mars the Arts Education & Access Fund. MEDIA DIRECTOR Nicole Lane Chris Porras Portland Playhouse receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon Published by Rampant Creative, Inc. ©2019 Rampant Creative, Inc. All rights reserved. and the National Endowment for the Arts. This magazine or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher. Rampant Creative, Inc. Artslandia Magazine, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. #207 | Portland, OR 97202 ARTSLANDIA.COM 3 NO CANDY | CAST & CREATIVE TEAM JESSICA HILLENBRAND (MAJA) Project (Pericles Wet), Shaking the Tree (A Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory Jessica is so happy to be returning to No Doll’s House), Third Rail Repertory Theatre was her biggest career success. Upon her Candy after taking part in Portland Play- (Middletown), Profile Theatre (True West, return to Croatia, she finds home in The Na- house’s 2017 Fall Reading Series presenta- Orlando, Blood Knot). TV: Grimm (Recur- tional Theatre in Zadar, starring in season tion. Born and raised in Portland, her most ring, Guest Star), The Librarians (Guest shows. Mia is a founder of Backstage Drama recent credits include Anatomy of a Hug Star). Film: Pretty Little Liars: The Per- Studio where she is an acting mentor to (Chapel Theatre Collective), Men On Boats fectionists. Ben has devised and directed aspiring actors. No Candy is Mia’s first U.S. (Third Rail Repertory Theatre), and That new and classical ensemble based stories production. Pretty Pretty (Defunkt Theatre). She holds in Portland, Idaho, Israel, the University a BA from the University of Portland, was of Northern Colorado, and New York City. EMMA STANTON (PLAYWRIGHT) a member of the Third Rail Mentorship BA University of Northern Colorado. MFA Emma’s plays have been developed and Program 2013–14, and is a current Associ- University of Missouri - Kansas City. AEA/ produced across the country, including ate Artist with Theatre Vertigo. SAG-AFTRA. mbennewman.com with Roundabout Theatre Company, the Goodman Theatre, American Theater VAL LANDRUM (FAZILA) AGATHA OLSON (ASJA) Company, Chicago Dramatists, New Dra- Previous Portland Playhouse credits include Agatha Day Olson is very excited to be matists, Luna Stage, Jackalope Theatre, The Missing Pieces and Twelfth Night. Orig- portraying Asja in her first show with the 2016 ATHE Conference, and the 2017 inally from Chicago, Val is a Resident Artist Portland Playhouse. Her favorite theatre and 2018 Great Plains Theater Confer- Company Member at Artists Rep where experiences have been playing Chris in ence. Honors: 2018 Premiere Stages Fes- her most recent credits include Between Feathers and Teeth and Helen Keller in tival (Finalist), 2017 National Playwrights Riverside and Crazy and The Humans. The Miracle Worker (Artists Rep). She has Conference (Finalist), 2016 Susan Glaspell Some other Portland credits include shows also appeared as Iris in The Nether (Third Award (Finalist), 2016 Jane Chambers at Third Rail Repertory, Profile, CoHo and Rail Repertory Theatre) and Halley in the Feminist Playwriting Award (Recipient), Portland Center Stage, to name a few. She Playwrights West premier of Dear Galileo 2016 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellow- is an educator and has taught theatre for (CoHo Productions). She was thrilled to ship (Recipient), 2016–2017 Goodman NWCT, OCT, PCS, The Portland Actors join the cast of second-year conservatory Playwrights Unit (Recipient). Emma is a Conservatory and the apprentice program students in Six Characters in Search of an Resident playwright at Chicago Drama- here at Portland Playhouse. Huge thanks to Author (Portland Actors Conservatory).
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