A BillionNights

In collaborationwith #BAMNextWave LOCATION: DATES: RUN TIME: onEarth Thaddeus Phillips Steven Dufala Created by NOV 15—18at7:30pm 55mins, nointermission BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Katy Clark, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard William I.Campbell, Chairman oftheBoard Adam E.Max, Brooklyn AcademyofMusic Agnes Gund. providedby Major support Season Sponsor: The Shubert Foundation,The Shubert Inc. The SHSFoundation The Francena T. Harrison The AchelisandBodmanFoundation provided by: for theateratBAM Major support Foundation Trust BAM Fisher A Billion Nights on Earth

Creation and Direction Set engineer Thaddeus Phillips Efren Delgadillio, Jr.

Design Production Stage Manager Steven Dufala Alessandra Calabi Thaddeus Phillips Technical Director Dramaturgy Aaron Amodt Tatiana Mallarino Rafael Phillips Kuroko Run Crew Gabi Pezoa Music Aaron Amodt Juan Gabriel Turbay Commissioned by BAM Lighting design David Todaro Major support for A Billion Nights on Earth provided by The Pew Costume design Center for Arts & Heritage and Jan Avramov the Wyncote Foundation.

Creative Collaboration and Performance Michael Fegley* (father) Winslow Fegley (son)

*The Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the . A Billion Nights on Earth A Billion Nights on Earth

Scenes

THE ROOF

THE TAKEOFF

BACK AT THE DESK

“THERE IS NO BEDTIME”

WHEN THE UNIVERSE CALLS (from the Fridge)

MILK

THE PENGUIN

OUT IN THE WOODS UNDER THE SHELTERING SKY

WAVES AT DAWN

THE SINKING & THE SURVIVAL

THE EVOLUTION OF ALL THINGS LIVING

THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

THE “REAL” TAKEOFF

ON THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER MOON

81st STREET SUBWAY (UNDER GROUND MUSUEM)

BREAKIN’ ON TRACK #2

BACK AT THE DESK (a corrected reprise)

THE UNIVERSE OF THE FRIDGE

STORYTIME

THE MAJESTIC TRIO IN THE SKY featuring Le Chat Lunatique); Lost Soles (a tap dance work about Wyoming and Cuba); Henry Five Live (from Times Square) (a puppet work based on Henry V); PlanetLear (a puppet work based Who’s on King Lear); and Tempest (a puppet work based on The Tempest). Phil- lips’ original theatrical work has been presented off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop and Barrow Street Who Theatre and toured nationally to Boston (ArtsEmerson); Minneapolis (Walker THADDEUS PHILLIPS Arts Center), North Adams (MassMoca), Director, Creator, Co-designer Albuquerque (Tricklock’s Revolutions International Festival), Denver (Buntport Thaddeus Phillips is a theater director, Theater), Seattle (On the Boards), designer, and performer originally from Colorado Springs (Millibo Art Theatre), Denver, CO. Recent projects include the Philadelphia (FringeArts, The Painted development and direction of a theatri- Bride) and Sarasota (Ringling Interna- cal adaptation of Shaun Tan’s graphic tional Arts Festival). Internationally his novel The Arrival titled Ankonsten for work has been presented in Hong Kong, Teateri in Sweden which is currently China (Hong Kong International Arts touring and the global tour of 17 Festival); Bucharest, Romania (FestCo Border Crossings (2015 Next Wave), a Festival); Moss, Norway (Non-Stop solo documentary comedy drama about Festival); Madrid, (Festival de crossing the world’s borders. Other cre- Otoño),; San Miguel de Allende, México ated works are an epic two-part work (Escena de Artes); Groningen, Holland about the infamous drug smuggler Barry (Noorderzon Festival); Bogota, Colom- Seal called The Incredibly Dangerous bia (Teatro Nacional); Prague, Czech Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Republic (4 + 4 Days Festival); Jaco, Completely True Adventures of Barry (Teatro Jaco); Ljubiana, Seal (Alias Ellis Mackenzie) in collabo- Slovenia (Mladi Levi); Dublin, Ireland ration with Colombian TV actors, KCRW (International Fringe Festival); London, DJ Mario Cotto, and the innovative New England (Arcola Theatre); Scotland Orleans designer Jeff Becker. At New (Summerhall and Traverse); (Spole- York Theater Workshop he directed Red- to Open), Bytom, (Teatromania), Eye to Havre de Grace, an action-opera and Novi Sad, (Serijino Pozorje). about the last days of Edgar Allan Poe, Phillips studied at the Colorado College created in collaboration with Wilhelm and Charles University (DAMU) in Bros & Co. and the french choreogra- Prague and with Encho Avramov (Bul- pher Sophie Bortolussi. With Lucidity garia) and Patrick Kealy (UK) and was Suitcase Intercontinental he created an apprentice at Divadlo Drak with the WHaLE OPTICS (a five-hour work about Czech director Josef Krofta. He studied humpback whale songs and underwater tap with Jimmy Payne in Chicago and fiber optic cables);¡El Conquistador! worked as an actor and writer in Robert (solo about a Colombian doorman); The Lepage’s The Geometry of Miracles MeLTING BRiDgE (a duet about early (1999 Next Wave) which toured to the civilizations); Capsule 33 (an off-the- Royal National Theatre (London), Fes- grid installation about the Nagakin tival d’Automne (Paris), Singapore Arts Capsule Tower in Tokyo); Flamingo/Win- Festival, and at the Tramway (Glasgow). nebago (a theatrical road trip / concert On film he has appeared inThe Amaz- ing Spider-Man 2 (Sony) and Mi Gente Five Live (from Times Square) at the Linda, Mi Gente Bella. Television credits New York International Fringe Festival include Alias El Mexicano (MundoFox), and Bunport Theater in Denver. For El Capo 3 (MundoFox), Celia (Telemun- Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental she do), and Narcos (Netflix). Phillips is created The MeLTING BRiDgE and ¡El currently developing a new work for the Conquistador! as well as co-creating Miami Light Project and Kelly-Stayhorn The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Theater (Pittsburgh) and will be direct- Lucrative and Potential Completely True ing a new collective creation for Teatri in Adventures of Barry Seal (Alias Ellis Jonkoping, Sweden this Spring. Mackenzie), The Earth’s Sharp Edge, and Lost Soles. She was the Spanish STEVEN DUFALA language translator for the first three Designer seasons of Netflix seriesNarcos . Her Colombian credits include The Glass Steven Dufala is a multi-disciplinary Menagerie at Teatro El Chico and A artist and musician based in Phila- Midsummer Night’s Dream at Teatro La delphia. While he works primarily in Cigarra. She also served as the dialogue collaboration with his brother Billy as coach for Penelope Cruz on the film The Dufala Brothers, Dufala has worked Loving Pablo. in the theater most recently on Under- ground Railroad Game at Ars Nova and RAFAEL PHILLIPS The Object Lesson at New York Theatre Dramaturgy Workshop and BAM. With his brother Billy, he received an Obie award for Rafael Phillips (Rafa) is about to turn design with rainpan 43’s machines ma- five. He loves collecting things from chines machines machines machines nature and curates his own museum of machines machines at HERE Arts sea shells and insects. He is fasci- Center. Along with the entire creative nated by pirates and all pirate history. team, he received a Bessie Award for His high standards and insistence on design for Geoff Sobelle’s The Object certain structural elements have been Lesson (2014 Next Wave). Steven and essential to the creation of A Billion Billy Dufala co-teach sculpture at the Nights on Earth. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and are represented by the Fleisher/Oll- MICHAEL FEGLEY man gallery in Philadelphia. Their works Actor, Father are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the West Collection, as well as in Born and raised in Pennsylvania, private collections. Michael Fegley began his studies in theater under Dennis Bloh at La Salle TATIANA MALLARINO College High School in the mid-1980s, Dramaturgy and then at DeSales University as a protégé of the late William Callahan. Tatiana Mallarino is a director, writer, After completing undergraduate studies and translator from Bogotá, . in 1992, Fegley moved to Manhattan Her work includes the co-direction for the next 12 years. It was during of Capsule 33 at the Barrow Street this time that he completed work at the Theater, director of ¡El Conquista- studio of master teacher Robert Patter- dor! at New York Theatre Workshop son, and soon thereafter began working (Lucille Lortel award nominee for professionally. He is a member of AEA best solo show), The Tempest at the and SAG-AFTRA, and will be seen in Arcola Theatre in London, and Henry the web series The Great WTYT960 Billboard Sitting Contest as well as its of A Christmas Carol. He has worked in sister feature filmBillboard Movie in commercials, student films, and several 2018. Fegley has performed extensively features. This fall, he is scheduled to in New York and Philadelphia, appear- begin shooting a supporting role in the ing as Schultz in Circle Mirror Transfor- sci-fi featureFuture Lies. He is delighted mation, Al in Everybody Does, Silva in to be performing in this stage production Tennessee Williams’s 27 Wagons Full of of A Billion Nights on Earth, on which Cotton, Customs Official in the pre- he collaborated creatively, working with miere of Thaddeus Phillips’ The Earth’s theater artists Thaddeus Phillips and Sharp Edge (2003), Freddy Ozone in Steven Dufala. the off-Broadway production of Small Potatoes (2000), and starring in the DAVID TODARO world premiere of The Ballad of Trayvon Lighting Designer Martin (2016) at New Freedom Theater in Philadelphia. He has been on screen David Todaro is a Philadelphia-based in such films asChildren of the Moon designer who works as a lighting (with his son, Oakes Fegley), Escape to designer, production manager, and Life (with Vanessa Redgrave), and Tracks artistic collaborator/consultant. He has (with John Heard and Ice T). He is also been interested in creating experiences the co-author and co-creator of Whitman through light since a young age. Todaro by Fire, a play in which the soaring, enig- has design and management experi- matic work of America’s greatest poet is ence in theater, dance, music, events, staged in the most primitive way possible and visual arts, and his work has taken to reveal the author’s “password prime- him all over as well as val.” Fegley currently resides, works, and to Europe, Australia, and Asia. He has teaches acting in Allentown, PA. He is worked with FringeArts in Philadelphia fo the proud father of a performing arts fam- the past 10 years to bring performances ily—his wife Mercedes Tonne, and their from all over the world to Philly. He also children August, Oakes, and Winslow enjoys blending time-honored techniques are all seen acting on many stages and with new technologies and has recently screens as well. created lighting installations at Longwood Gardens, The College of New Jersey, and WINSLOW FEGLEY FringeArts. Actor, Son JAN AVRAMOV Winslow Fegley hails from Allentown, Costume Designer PA, where he was born into a perform- ing arts family—son of actors Michael Jan Avramov’s fascination with the Fegley and Merce Tonne, and brother to historical and cultural evolution of actors August Fegley and Oakes Fegley. clothing and fit informs her work as a He attends a Waldorf school and his costume and clothing designer. She outside studies include piano, tap dance, began designing at the age of seven and and break dance. He enjoys going to the credits her Barbie doll with giving her an theater and to museums, and is also an early understanding of the concept of dart avid “Minecrafter.” He began his acting control. Among her numerous past pro- journey at age five voicing a local radio duction designs for opera and theater, her commercial and soon landed on stage favorites include The Turn of the Screw, at the Civic Theatre of Allentown as the The Kitchen, The 39 Steps, A Comedy of young Ebenezer at six in a production Errors, and Glavanatsi. She has designed for Theaterworks at UCCS, Colorado residence at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Opera Festival, Opera Theater of the 2014 and creators of Private(i), an Rockies, Colorado College, Yambol State immersive mixed-reality adventure Puppet Theater, and Plovdiv State Pup- about state surveillance. pet Theater, Bulgaria. She designed and developed the initial line of clothing for JUAN GABRIEL TURBAY Janska, a contemporary clothing com- Music pany that is founded on the principle of wellness wear. Avramov lives and works Juan Gabriel Turbay is a Colombian/ in Colorado Springs where she super- American musical artist. He studied vises the Colorado College shop. music at the Universidad Javeriana of Bogotá, Colombia and has been ALESSANDRA CALABI involved in various musical projects Production Stage Manager as a composer, producer, and singer from a very early age. As a teenager he Alessandra Calabi is a New York-based belonged to one of the most renowned interdisciplinary artist hailing from rock groups in Colombia, Poligamia, Milan, Italy, who works at the intersec- who are currently mounting a revival tion of performance, politics, and critical tour across Latin America. Turbay has theory. A graduate of the New School written musical scores for many theater for Social Research, she completed her performances that toured throughout Master’s degree in philosophy in 2015. and the US including Calabi is the stage manager and co-cre- Déjà Vu, ¿De dónde vino este animal?, ator of Andrew Schneider’s Obie-award Simpronía, El Patito Feo, The Melting winning YOUARENOWHERE, and is a Bridge (created by Thaddeus Phillips), main collaborator on AFTER, which had Zoom, Familia, and Whale Optics (cre- its world premiere at the Experimen- ated by Thaddeus Phillips). He has also tal Media and Performing Arts Center worked as a composer, producer, and (Troy, NY) in August 2017 and will singer in recording projects with vari- be presented at The Public Theater’s ous artists including Poligamia, Luna Under the Radar Festival in January Verde, Andrés Cepeda, Jorge Cárdenas, 2018. She is the stage manager for the Carolina Sabino, Shayla Durcal, Gis- upcoming Actrice by Pascal Rambert selle, Amparo Sandino, Héctor Tobo, at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Escarcha, 4am, and Sandra Serrato. He Paris. She has worked and toured in the has composed the soundtrack for more US and around the world with Andrew than 40 TV series in Latin America, Schneider (FIELD, YOUARENOWHERE, including a show that marked a whole AFTER); Faye Driscoll (Thank You For era for Colombian youth, Francisco el Coming: Attendance; Thank You For Matemático. He also composed the Coming: Play, 2016 Next Wave); Pas- score for the reality show Desafío 2014 cal Rambert (A (micro) history of world seen all over Latin America and for economics, danced); Thaddeus Phillips Noticias RCN, the main news network (17 Border Crossings, A Billion Nights); in Colombia. Among the other shows he R.B. Schlather (Madrigal Opera); Adam has composed music for are Tan Cerca Weinert (Dance of the Ages, Monu- y Tan Lejos, Pobre Pablo, Brujeres, ment), Banana Bag and Bodice (Long- Nuestra Rumba, A Corazón Abierto, Yarn), and James Sprang/GAZR (Life Bichos, Amo De Casa, Aquiles en Does Not Live), among others. Houston, Día a Día, Fuera de Chiste, She is a member of the collaborative and Futbolmanía. arts group Fixed Agency, artists-in-

EFREN DELGADILLO, JR. AARON AMODT Set Engineer Technical Director, Kuroko Run Crew

Efren Delgadillio, Jr. studied studio arts Aaron Amodt (sounds like “dammit”) and theater and developed a passion was born at Disney World, learned the- for architecture, materials, and shapes. ater at Sea World, and then ran away His work as a scenic designer has been and joined Ringling Brothers Circus. Af- recognized across the US and Europe. ter criss-crossing the US for a few years, On the east coast, he has designed for he’s in New York making theater in such notable companies and venues as much more intimate venues. Free time the New School for Drama, the Foundry is split between his photo darkroom and Theatre, the Ohio Theatre, the Acting his best friend’s doggie. Company, BAM, and Hartford Stage. He also collaborated with many direc- GABI PEZOA tors including Karin Coonrod, Melanie Kuroko Run Crew Joseph, Casey Biggs, and Carl Hancock Rux. On the west coast, Delgadillo has Gabi Pezoa is 21, from Denver, CO, and designed for the Roy and Edna Disney/ is currently studying at Miami University CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Hand- in Oxford, OH. She is a senior majoring 2Mouth Theatre, Cornerstone Theater in film production with double minors in Company, The Getty Villa, and CalArts’ theater and visual art. She has studied Center for New Performance (CNP), theater, photography, and art her whole which allowed him to work with direc- life but she began her career in 2013 tors Mark Valdez, Nataki Garrett, Larry when she ran the lightboard for 17 Biederman, Jonathan Walters, Jesse Border Crossings by Thaddeus Phillips Bonnell, and Travis Preston. His inter- with Lucidity Suitcase International. national work includes Laude in Urbis She has designed the sets for two plays, in Italy, Moonshine and Peepshow at Bliss in 2016 and Gathering Blue in the the Edinburgh Festival, and set engineer fall of 2017. This summer she helped for Flamingo/Winnebago in Novi Sad, workshop A Billion Nights on Earth as Serbia. Delgadillo is a graduate of the a production assistant and was excited University of California/Irvine and holds to continue with the recent run at the an MFA from California Institute of the Philly Fringe Festival and at BAM. Arts. In June 2010, he joined Poor Dog Pezoa is an independent filmmaker, and Group as the resident designer. His she has made the shorts Despairia and designs with Poor Dog Group include Spooned most recently with Nick Ander- Brewsie and Willie, Satyr Atlas, Diony- son. Painting since the age of 17 and sia, The Internationalist, Murder Ballad, doing photography since she was 12, and Five Small Fires. He received she also helps keep bees on campus at an LA Weekly Award for best lighting her university. design with co-designer Adam Haas Hunter for CNP’s Brewsie and Willie and best production design for Poor Dog Group’s Brewsie and Willie.

Thanks!

Special thanks to Marisa Blankier, Jim Weiner at Boat Rocker Entertainment, Leonard Haas, Clara and Hector at Creamos Inflabiles, Murph Henderson, Bill Bissel, LeeAnn Lisella, Buntport Theatre, Erin Rollman, Michael Gadlin, Mercedes Tonne, Nick Stuccio, Pam and Gresham Riley, Billy Dufala, Steve and Mary Phillips, Laura Williams, Joe Melillo and the entire staff at BAM. Photo:Johanna Austin MEMBER

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