The Kafka Project
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theatre: live and wriggling chrysalis: the kafka project CSU Theatre presents chrysalis: the kafka project World Premiere Created by Walt Jones and the Company Original Music by Peter Sommer and James David Directed by Walt Jones Scenic Design by Maggie Seymour The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival™ 44, part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, Lighting Design by Alex Ostwald is generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein. Costume Design by Janelle Sutton Sound Design by Parker Stegmaier Additional support is provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Projections Design by Nicole Newcomb the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation, Properties Design by Brittany Lealman The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein, and Production Stage Manager, Amy Mills the National Committee for the Performing Arts. Assistant Stage Manager, Tory Sheppard This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater THE PROGRAMME Festival (KCACTF). The aims of this national theater education program are to identify and promote quality in college-level theater production. To From Amerika . Michael Toland this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional “Report to An Academy” . Tim Werth KCACTF representative, and selected students and faculty are invited to Metamorphosis . Michael Toland, Kat Springer, Michelle Jones, participate in KCACTF programs involving scholarships, internships, grants Nick Holland, Willa Bograd, Sean Cummings and awards for actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage “The Country Doctor” . Sean. Cummings, Emma Schenkenberger, managers and critics at both the regional and national levels. Jeff Garland, Willa Bograd, Kat Springer, Kaitlin Jaffke, Tim Werth, Michelle Jones, Nick Holland, Trevor Grattan Productions entered on the Participating level are eligible for inclusion at the Metamorphosis . Michael Toland, Kat Springer, Michelle Jones, KCACTF regional festival and can also be considered for invitation to the Nick Holland, Willa Bograd, Sean Cummings KCACTF national festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing “The Bucket Rider” . .Kaitlin . Jaffke, Michelle Jones, Tim Werth Arts in Washington, DC in the spring of 2012. Metamorphosis . Michael Toland, Kat Springer, Willa Bograd Last year more than 1,300 productions were entered in the KCACTF involv- “A Hunger Artist” . Nick . Holland, Sean Cummings ing more than 200,000 students nationwide. By entering this production, our Metamorphosis . Michael Toland, Kat Springer, Michelle Jones, theater department is sharing in the KCACTF goals to recognize, reward, Nick Holland, Willa Bograd and celebrate the exemplary work produced in college and university the- “Josephine the Singer, or, the Mouse Folk” . Michelle Jones, Willa Bograd, aters across the nation. Kat Springer, Emma Schenkenberger, and company “In the Penal Colony” . Jeff Garland, Mason Leming, Kaitlin Jaffke, Nick Holland, Michael Toland Metamorphosis . Michael Toland, Kat Springer, Michelle Jones, Nick Holland, Willa Bograd Kafka’s Diaries, Letters, Aphorisms . Michael. Toland CSU Theatre is proud to be hosting the Region VII festival This production runs without intermission . Running time 1:24 . in February 2012. “The Bucket Rider” is the story of someone who, delusional while freezing PRODUCTION TEAM to death, imagines himself riding his empty coal bucket to the coal dealer’s Producing Technical Director . Nathan . Cory Seymour house to beg for some coal . “In the Penal Colony” showcases a curious tor- Assistant Technical Director/Shop Foreman . Brandon. Ingold turing device that is used on an island somewhere in the tropics, like Devil’s Faculty Design Mentor . Price . Johnston Island . In “A Report to an Academy,” an ape addresses a group of scientists Paint Shop Supervisor/Production Administrator . Maggie Seymour Costume Shop Supervisor . Sandra . Frye describing his self-mandated evolution to humanity . “A Hunger Artist” is Master Electrician . Deidre Raph told by a man who practices professional fasting as a sideshow act . Scene Shop Technician – Props and Scenic Painting . Annaleigh Timmerman Scene Shop Technician - Scenery . .Seth . Walter All, to be sure, challenges, but fascinating to work on for this six weeks . Costume Shop Technician . Janelle. Sutton Fasten your seatbelts . Assistant to the Scenic Designer . Tamac. McMillan Assistant Lighting Designer . Tim. Garrity Assistant Costume Designer . Kaylen . Higgins Assistant Projections Designer . John Erickson Assistant Sound Designer . Clyde Albanese Director of Marketing & Publicity . Jennifer Clary Events Manager . Eileen. May Krebs Walt Jones (Director) Walt who joined the CSU Theatre program in Poster Design . Nathan. Young 2006, is a 1975 graduate of the Yale School of Drama . As a teacher of acting and directing, he has served on the faculty at Yale School of Drama, and TECHNICAL CREWS University of California, San Diego . He has directed twice on Broadway, six Properties Manager . Tory. Sheppard plays off-Broadway, including the American premiere of Howard Barker’s Light Board Operator . Andrew. Killion No End of Blame at Manhattan Theatre Club, and over sixty plays in more Sound Board Operator . Clyde . Albanese Projections Board Operator . Jessica . Whitehead than twenty regional theatres from Cambridge to Fairbanks and produc- Stage Crew . Aubrey . Beck, John Erickson, Analie Foland, tions in Soviet Russia and in Tokyo . He directed world premiere produc- Alex Pierce, Aaron Villanyi tions of plays by Thomas Babe, Lanford Wilson, Naomi Iizuka, José Rivera, Wardrobe Crew . Noelle . Dingman, Kaylen Higgins, Brenna Otts Arthur Kopit, Jim Yoshimura, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Sam Hair and Make-up Crew . Noelle . Dingman Shepard and David Mamet, John Pielmeier, Derek Walcott and Christopher Charge Artist . Annaleigh . Timmerman Durang . Among the many actors Walt has directed are Meryl Streep, Roc Carpenters . Hannah. Baldus, Aubrey Beck, Chelsea Case, Kortney Hanson, Dutton, John Turturro, Tony Shaloub, Nathan Lane, Liev Schreiber, An- Kaylen Higgins, Tucker Lehman, Melissa Michelson, Karl Perry, Colton Pratt, Aron Villanyi, Paul Vargo, Tim Werth gie Bassett, Christopher Walken, Jason Alexander, Michael Gross, Lindsey Electricians . Clyde Albanese, Melanie Augenstein, David Culp, Crouse, Linda Hunt, Sigourney Weaver, Peter MacNicol, Frances Conroy, Katelynn Drury, Jessie Howard, Bryan Hudson, Andrew Killion, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Lewis Black, Mariel Hemingway, John Goodman, Andrew McIntyre, MacKenzi Mulligan, Bonnie Prewitt, Christopher Lloyd, Kevin Kline, Paul Guilfoyle, Bill Sadler, Athol Fugard, Machelle Selken, Jessica Whitehead Scenic Artists . Jessica Alvis, Annie Booth, Megan Derrington, Max Wright, William H . Macy, Ed O’Neill, and Tony Award-winning stage Noelle Dingman, Rebecca Doyle, Analie Foland, Ashley Longhill, actor, Jefferson Mays . Mr . Jones was a staff director at the O’Neill National Bekah Mustain, Alex Pierce, Elizabeth Stewart, Sarah Taylor Playwrights Conference from 1980 until 1990 and directed regularly for the Costume Construction . Bailee. Baxter, Willa Bograd, Yale Rep, Arena Stage, and the American Repertory Theatre . At CSU: 33 Noelle Dingman, Robin Dulye, Ally Flecther, Chantel Flooden, Siobhan Gleason, Katie Kramer, Belle Kruse, Meg Loughman, Brenna Otts Swoons, Scapin, The Marriage of Bette & Boo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Distance from Here, The Alchemist, Polaroid Stories, bash, Some Girl(s), THANK YOU and Twelfth Night . ReSource, Reclaimed Building Materials for the windows . CAST BIOS The Kafka myth is as ironic as anything he wrote, perpetuated by Kafka himself . He, and many writers all through history, would have it believed Willa Bograd (Grete Samsa, Josephine, the Mouse Singer) is a junior theatre that they come from lower middle class families who did not support their major . Her favorite roles in CSU productions include Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night and Tyler in Some Girl(s). She hopes to pursue a lifelong career in theatre and to “art ”. Writers, Franz among them, played up their “suffering ”. Although it is some day work in New York City . clear from all accounts, Kafka did suffer plenty, physically and psychologi- Sean Cummings (Grete Samsa, Josephine, the Mouse Singer) is a soon-to-be cally, he made the equivalent of $90,000 annually for four six-hour days in alumnus of CSU theatre . He has appeared in such shows as The Pillowman, Quake, True an insurance company for whom he did technical writing and justifications West, Dog Sees God, and The Alchemist. He enjoys writing as well: his play “Snipes” was of actuary tables . His father was a multi-millionaire who paid for Kafka’s a winner of the KCACTF regional ten-minute-play festival and his play doghead was a college in any area he chose—Franz went to law school . semifinalist in the Bay Area Playwrighting Festival . He also attended the 2009 Orchard Project where he developed, among other works, Annie Baker’s OBIE-award winning play The Aliensand the Rude Mechanicals’ Western Operetta I’ve Never Been So Happy. His central and most famous piece, the novella Metamorphosis, which we He recently won the title of Fort Collins’s Ultimate F***ing Komedian . present in five installments through this piece, is about a travelling sales- Jeff Garland (Officer, Stable Boy) is a senior theater major and lit minor at man (Franz sold insurance) who hated his job, but never shirked the re- CSU . His focus is acting/directing . Past plays