A Billion Nights on Earth
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Brooklyn Academy of Music Adam E. Max, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, A Billion Nights Vice Chairman of the Board Katy Clark, on Earth President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Created by Thaddeus Phillips In collaboration with Steven Dufala DATES: NOV 15—18 at 7:30pm Season Sponsor: LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) RUN TIME: 55mins, no intermission Major support provided by Agnes Gund. Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Achelis and Bodman Foundation The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. #BAMNextWave 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 United States. 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 Europe 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, Spain (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 Costa Rica (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); Italy (Spole- York Theater Workshop he directed Red- to Open), Bytom, Poland (Teatromania), Eye to Havre de Grace, an action-opera and Novi Sad, Serbia (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 in The 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 series Narcos. 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, Colombia. 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 film Billboard 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 feature Future 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 as Children of the