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Observations: DODO the time has come. created by with Jeffrey Carpenter (Director/Co-Creator), Gab Cody (Lead Writer/Co-Creator), Tami Dixon (Director/Co-Creator), & Sam Turich (Director/Co-Creator) in collaboration with DODO is sponsored by Bricolage is sponsored by Allegheny Regional Asset District Bellwetherbookstore.com The Greater Pittsburgh Small Arts The Betsy Capitalization Pilot Program McCormack Fund CAST & CREW carnegie museums collections team creative team birds collection mollusks collection Jeffrey Carpenter Steve Rogers Timothy A. Pearce Director / Co-Creator Collection Manager Assistant Curator & Head of Section Gab Cody Hannah Mellor Tim Dolan Lead Writer / Co-Creator Collection Assistant Collection Assistant Tami Dixon Paul Robb Director / Co-Creator Collection Assistant Sam Turich Director / Co-Creator crew Amy Ehrenberg Cory Goddard sound design Production Manager Project Coordinator District 5 Sound Hank Bullington Anton Miriello Sarah Pickett, David Gotwald, Chris Evans Scenic Designer/Technical Director Props Designer/Engineer Madison Hack Angela Baughman Costume Designer Sound Engineer lighting design Katelyn Colwell Katy Click Clear Story Production Assistant Production Assistant cast Fred Frances (Fred) David E. Malehorn (Check-in Agent) Zanna Fredland (Check-in Agent) Michael McBurney (Explorer) Sarah Friedlander (Dream Host) José Pérez IV (Mancio) Sonja Gable (Dream Host) Simon Phillips (Dream Host) Parag S. Gohel (Gems Attendant) jomo ray (Custodian) Tyler Ray Kendrick (Marvin) Kelsey Robinson (Maeve) Andrea Kozai (Gems Attendant) Emilie Sullivan (Docent) Figure A. Didus ineptus Tal Kroser (Angus) Johnny Terreri (Check-in Agent) Linnaeus, 1766 Watipaso Kumwenda (Yasmine) Carrie Tongarm (Carrie) Hazel Carr Leroy (Alaina) BRICOLAGE PRODUCTION COMPANY CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH Two of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the museums now staff known as Carnegie Museum of Art and Carnegie Museum of Natural History were founded in 1895 by the industrialist and philanthropist Jeffrey Carpenter Tami Dixon Andrew Carnegie to benefit the people of Pittsburgh by providing access Artistic Director Producing Artistic Director to the best in the arts and the natural sciences. CMOA champions Jackie Baker Emily Willson creativity through experiences that welcome, inspire, challenge, Managing Director Marketing & PR Manager and inform. Its world class collection of more than 30,000 works focuses on art, architecture, photography, and design from the 19th George Moura Amy Ehrenberg century to the present. Known widely for the Carnegie International, Development Manager Production Manager its signature survey of the best in contemporary art, CMOA has a Fred Frances Michael Young long history of presenting new works that expand and transform Audience and Box Office Manager Facilities & Production Coordinator audiences’ relationships with art. As one of the nation’s largest natural history museums, CMNH increases understanding of the board of directors natural world and human cultures through research; disseminating knowledge about crucial issues such as climate change, evolution, Abby Goldstein, President Michelle Hoang extinction, and habitat loss; field studies; and presenting exhibits Bryan DeCecco, Vice-President Ann Lapidus and programs that inform and engage. Its extraordinary collection Charles L. Adreon, Treasurer Dotun Obadina numbers more than 22 million objects and specimens and spans a Maher S. Hoque, Secretary Cori Parise wide range of disciplines. Dina Clark Rod Schwartz Recognizing—as Andrew Carnegie did—that art and science are Jen Fisher Allison Whitney powerful tools for examining the universe around us, Carnegie Evelyn Gardner Nexus leverages the collective material and intellectual assets of the four Carnegie Museums through live performances, the visual and mission & vision literary arts, and thoughtful conversations that animate the pressing issues of our time. We envision theater not as a passive experience, but as a vehicle for heightened involvement for artist and audience alike. By combining different artistic mediums, nourishing local talent, producing provocative work, and facilitating audience engagement, we seek to revitalize live performance for a new era. The word Bricolage means “making artful use of what is at hand.” What excites Jo Ellen Parker, President and CEO us is the connection and interaction between seemingly disparate elements, and the potential for these components to resonate as one cohesive event. “What’s The DODO Advisory Team at hand” is Pittsburgh’s changing landscape, its plentiful human and material resources, and the salient political, cultural, and ethical issues we encounter and Maureen Rolla, Director of Strategic Initiatives react to each day. Our approach encourages artists to take the creative risks necessary to create full-blooded, high-quality theatrical experiences that challenge audiences to engage in new ways, react, and express openly their opinions about Kathleen Bodenlos Suzanne McLaren Brad Stephenson our work – to have a stake in the creative discussion. Director of Marketing, Collection Manager, Director of Marketing, CMNH CMNH CMOA call us visit us check us out 412.471.0999 937 Liberty Ave BricolagePGH.org Pittsburgh PA, 15222 thank you creative team Jeffrey Carpenter (Director / Co-Creator) founded Bricolage Production Com- This production of DODO has been made possible thanks to many pany in 2001. As the company’s Artistic Director, he produced and co-created staff members of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, who offered the immersive experience DODO. In 2015, he spearheaded the immersive project access to their collections, contributed their knowledge and SAINTS TOUR, a bus tour in the town of Braddock, PA. In 2014, he received a expertise, and provided enthusiastic support for this project. Visionary Artist award from The Pittsburgh Foundation to create OjO: The Next Generation in Travel, featured in La Jolla Playhouse’s 2015 Without Walls Festi- val. In 2012, he led the creation of the immersive work STRATA, named Top Pro- Gretchen Anderson Deborah Harding Steve Rogers duction of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and featured on the cover of Ellen Baxter Divya Heffley John Rawlins American Theatre. He conceived, produced and directed the Bricolage/Pittsburgh Michael Belman Tim Holewinski Shawn Rolly Filmmakers multi-media project In Service: Pittsburgh to Iraq, about the lives of local Figure B. Strigops habroptilus Mark Blatnik Michelle Horton Steve Russ veterans returning from war, which was Gray, 1845 Russell Brown Jeffrey Inscho Ingrid Schaffner nominated for a Mid-Atlantic Emmy. Mark Buford Louise Lippincott Becca Shreckengast He co-conceived the Midnight Radio series (now entering its 9th season) and Eric Crosby Cari Maslow Cecile Shellman the In The Raw: (R)evolution devised play festival. Bill Taylor Bill May John Surloff Other directing credits for Bricolage include Hunter Mark Pace Sloan MacRea Alan Tabrum Gatherers, Speech & Debate, Biedermann and the Fire- Rachel Delphia Jamie McMahon Kate Thompson bugs, Troilus and Cressida, Peace, and Wild Signs. Eric Dorfman Sarah Minnaert Eileen Twigger Gab Cody (Lead Writer / Co-Creator) creates immer- sive, devised, and site-specific work as well as theater Edith Doron Betsy Momich Steve Tonsor meant-to-be-performed in a theater. She serves as lead Catherine Evans Leah Morelli John VanDeGrift writer and co-creator on the immersive urban John Feightner Ed Motznik Debra Wilson adventures STRATA and OjO (Bricolage Pro- Jonathan Gaugler Orian Neumann Marc Wilson duction Company) produced in Pittsburgh and at La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls Natalia Gomez Bill Nichols Tony Young & the entire Festival. Ms. Cody is also an award-winning Alison Hale Timothy Pearce security team filmmaker and Pittsburgh regional rep for the Julie Hannon Erin Peters Dramatists Guild. She has been a guest lec- turer at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford Ben Harrison Dan Pickering University and the College of William and Mary. Her plays have been staged at the La Jolla Playhouse, Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Playhouse, August Wilson Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York City’s New Dramatists and Urban Stag- es, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and at theaters in Seattle, We would also like to thank the follow people & organizations: Chicago, Pittsburgh and Sydney, Australia. Over the past three years she has served as a panelist and moderator at the TCG national conference and the Dra- Christian, Kate & Handerson Gomes Delilah Pickart matists Guild national conference, leading conversations on immersive and site- informed theater. Next up her non-traditional documentary theater work, Inside Bea Bagin Heather Gray Donna Powali Passage premieres at Quantum Theatre. Randy S. Baker Mary Ann Graziano The Staresinics of David JM Bielewicz Lawrenceville Tami Dixon (Director / Co-Creator) joined Bricolage Production Company in Karen Hannon 2005 and has created dozens of programs, written countless episodes of Mid- big Burrito Marilyn Holt Tom Turich night Radio, and spearheaded initiatives of inclusion and accessibility like 5th Ben Boggio Alan Jaskiewicz Courtney Turich Wall and Between the Lines: Community Conversations around Racism in Pitts- Meg Burrows Ann Lapidus Ange Vesco burgh. Ms. Dixon is a recipient of the TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fel- lowship, the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Emerging Artist Award from Alicia DiGiorgi Chris Martin The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation,