Crossings 17 Border ThaddeusPhillips #BAMNextWave #17BORDERCROSSINGS

ARTIST TALK: BAMGathering: LOCATION: DATES: RUN TIME: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) SEP 30—OCT3at7:30pm Free forsame-dayticketholders BAM Fishman Space Thu, Oct1,post-show Doerries Led byBryan With ThaddeusPhillips 1hr 30mins(nointermission) 17 BorderCrossings

Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Katy Clark, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard Adam E.Max, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard William I.Campbell, Chairman oftheBoard Alan H. Fishman, Brooklyn AcademyofMusic The Shubert Foundation,The Shubert Inc. The SHSFoundation The Morris andAlma SchapiroFund Donald R. MullenJr. Foundation Trust The Francena T. Harrison provided by: fortheateratBAM Major support The TinMan Fund. providedby Additional support Season Sponsor: BAM Fisher 17 Border Crossings New York Premiere

CREATOR/DESIGNER/PERFORMER FUNDING CREDITS: Thaddeus Phillips 17 Border Crossings is a National DIRECTOR Performance Network (NPN) Creation Tatiana Mallarino Fund Project co-commissioned by The Painted Bride Arts Center in DRAMATURG partnership with the Manitou Art Patrick Kealey Theater (npnweb.org) and was developed with support from LIGHTING ENGINEER The Map Fund, supported by David Todaro the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, SOUND DESIGN and the Wyncote Foundation. Robert Kaplowitz

PRODUCTION MANAGER Spencer Sheridan

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Alessandra Calabi

DEVELOPMENTAL COLLABORATORS Jim Jackson, Encho Avramov, Murray Ross, Maria Shaplin, Rebecca Wright ABOUT 17 Border Crossings ANYWHERE // of 17 BORDER CROSSINGS AMERICA a VISUAL & AURAL Travelogue in Fragments (“the Secretary of State requests all to whom that Reveals & Considers it may concern to permit the citizen of the the TRUE USA to pass without delay or hinderance”* ADVENTURES —> *does not apply when entering the & USA) CONFUSIONS in International Passages between: SINGAPORE // BALI, INDONESIA (at the Airport in Denpasar, Bali, a HUNGARY // SERBIA handwritten sign from 1983 lists the Visa (during the international sanctions against free nations) Yugoslavia) COLOMBIA // // PERU ANGOLA // UNITED KINGDOM (here there are no borders, or a least no one (250 Kwanza in a tight yellow rubber band) recognizes them; here people and goods pass undetected and the shamans serve ITALY // YAJE) (during wartime) UNITED STATES of AMERICA // CROATIA // ITALY (during Ace of Bass time) (en route to many Chili Rellenos)

E. MOSTAR // W. MOSTAR MEXICO // UNITED STATES of (during audio war) AMERICA (“sí, todos somos extraterrestres”) // JORDAN (during peacetime) by ROAD, PLANE, TRAIN, GREECE // SYRIA COCO-MOTO, PLASTIC RAFT (yesterday, today & tomorrow) (from K-Mart), CHAIRLIFT & HOLLAND // FORD EXPLORER (when had borders) plus MOROCCO // COLOMBIA a ridiculous & harrowing (7 months after 9/11) account of crossing the internal borders within the island nation of AUSTRIA // GERMANY ¡CUBA! (yes, the Hills are Alive) as told by one THADDEUS PHILLIPS // PALESTINE (with “Mr. Kentucky”) 17borders.com Capsule Tower in ); Flamingo/ Winnebago (a road trip concert featur- ing Le Chat Lunatique); Lost Soles (a tap dance work about Wyoming and Who’s Cuba), Henry Five Live (from Times Square) (a puppet work based on Henry V), PlanetLear (a puppet work based on King Lear), and Tempest (a Who puppet work based on The Tempest). Phillips’ original theatrical work has been presented Off-Broadway (Barrow THADDEUS PHILLIPS Street Theater and New York Theatre Creator/Designer/Performer Workshop) and at festivals and theaters in New York (Under the Radar, La Thaddeus Phillips is a theater art- MaMa, Here, PS#122), On the Boards ist originally from Denver, CO. He (Seattle), Tricklock’s Revolutions recently completed an epic two-part International Festival (Albuquerque), work about the infamous drug smug- and New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, gler Barry Seal called The Incredibly Philadelphia, , Boston, Colorado Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Springs, and Tampa. Internationally Potentially Completely True Adventures his work has been presented in Spain of Barry Seal and Alias Ellis Macken- (Festival de Otoño), México (Escena de zie, in collaboration, respectively, with Artes), Holland (Noorderzon Festival), Colombian TV actors KCRW DJ Mario Colombia (Teatro Nacional), Czech Cotto and the innovative New Orleans Republic (4 + 4 Days Festival), Costa designer Jeff Becker. The Barry Seal Rica (Teatro Jaco), Slovenia (Mladi projects opened at FringeArts 2015 in Levi), Ireland (International Fringe Fes- Philadelphia and are heading to the tival), England (Arcola Theatre), Scot- Teatro Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia, land (Summerhall and Traverse), and this summer. Additional work includes Serbia (Serijino Pozorje). Phillips stud- RED-EYE to HAVRE de GRACE, an ied at the Colorado College and Charles action- about the last days of E.A. University (DAMU) in Prague and with Poe, that played at New York Theatre Encho Avramov and the Czech director Workshop and toured to Walker Arts Josef Krofta, and has worked as an Center in Minneapolis and ArtsEmer- actor and writer in Robert Lepage’s son in Boston following its premiere The Geometry of Mircales in which he at FringeArts in Philadelphia. Other performed at BAM, The Royal National original theater works include: WHaLE Theatre (London), Festival d’Automne OPTICS (a five-hour work about hump- (), Singapore Arts Festival, and back whale songs and underwater fiber at the Tramway (Glasgow). On film he optic cables); ¡EL CONQUISTADOR! appeared in the documentary Digging (a solo about the Colombian doorman, for Miracles by In Extremis Images Polonio), The MeLTING BRiDgE (a duet (Montreal), The Amazing Spider-Man about early civilizations); Capsule 33 2, the Colombian filmMi Gente Linda, (an installation work about the Nagakin Mi Gente Bella and TV in Alias El Mexicano (FoxTelecolombia), El Capo 3 touring theater, London’s West End, (MundoFox), Narcos (Netflix), and the and appeared at the Edinburgh and upcoming Celia (Univision). Dublin Theatre Festivals as well as at international festivals in Paris, Prague, and Helsinki. He has directed many TATIANA MALLARINO productions including several original Director works for Group K Theater (co-founded with designer Bruno Santini). While Tatiana Mallarino is a director, visiting drama professor at the Colo- writer, and translator from Bogotá, rado College, he first met Thaddeus Colombia. Her work includes the Phillips, whom he directed as Puck co-direction of Capsule 33 at the in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He Barrow Street Theater, director of subsequently worked with Phillips in ¡EL CONQUISTADOR! at New York Kafka’s Amerika in London, Elizabeth Theatre Workshop (Lucille Lortel Swados’ musical Runaways at Smoke- award nominee for best solo show), brush Theater Colorado Springs, and The Tempest at the Arcola Theatre Phillips’ solo version of The Tempest at in London, and Henry Five Live La MaMa Theater, New York. Recent (from Times Square) at the New productions include Bluebeard and York International Fringe Festival British Arts Council-funded projects and Bunport Theater in Denver. For The Life and Death of Dr. Jonathan Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental she Swift, We Are For Sale, and Band of created The Melting Bridge and ¡EL Gold, a large-scale community event in CONQUISTADOR! as well as co- a traveling wedding limousine with the creating The Incredibly Dangerous audience following a bride and groom Astonishing Lucrative and Potential through the streets of Bexhill, a small Completely True Adventures of Barry English seaside town. Seal and Alias Ellis Mackenzie, The Earth’s Sharp Edge, and Lost Soles. She is currently the SPENCER SHERIDAN translator for the Netflix seriesNarcos . Production Manager Colombian credits include: The Glass Menagerie at Teatro El Chico and A Spencer Sheridan has lived or worked Midsummer Nights Dream at Teatro La in California, Connecticut, Arizona, Cigarra. Idaho, Pennsylvania, New York, Spain, Costa Rica, Colombia, Korea, Japan, and Scotland, in chronological order. PATRICK KEALEY He drove across the US twice, and in Dramaturg July of this year he did a 4,000 km road trip through northern Japan on Patrick Kealey studied English literature a 50cc motor scooter. He managed at St. Catherine’s College Cambridge NOSPACE in Philadelphia for two years and toured America twice with the and co-founded Channel 9, a nonprofit Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare TV studio, in the same city. Sheridan Company. He acted for more than has worked with Thaddeus Phillips for 20 years in English repertory and five years on five different productions the collaborative arts group Fixed Agen- including ¡EL CONQUISTADOR! at the cy, artists-in-residence at the Brooklyn Teatro National in Bogotá, Colombia. Navy Yard for 2014 and creators of Private(i), an immersive mixed-reality adventure about state surveillance. ROBERT KAPLOWITZ As a performer she has worked with Sound Design Pascal Rambert (A (micro) history of world economics, danced, Robert Kaplowitz has spent the last 23 and NYC), Palissimo (Painted Bird: years designing sound and compos- Bastard), Andrew Schneider (FIELD), ing and has been honored with an and Zishan Ugurlu (La MaMa ETC). OBIE for sustained excellence in sound design and a Tony award for Fela! A Philadelphian since 2010, his designs DAVID TODARO have been heard there at PlayPenn, Lighting Engineer The Wilma, Interact, The Arden, Lucid- ity Suitcase, Pig Iron, The Lantern, David Todaro, based in Philadelphia, PLTC, Elastic, PTC, Flashpoint, and works as a lighting designer, produc- Azuka. Other regional credits include tion manager, and artistic collaborator- the Guthrie, Dallas Theater Center, the consultant. He has designed for several Alley, Baltimore Center Stage, Sun- companies including Theatre Horizon, dance, the O’Neill, and the National Rennie Harris PureMovement, the Theatre of England. A NYC expat, his Prince Music Theatre, and Headlong music and/or designs have been heard Dance Theater. Todaro serves as a on Broadway as well as at Lincoln production coordinator for the Philadel- Center, The Public, NYTW, MCC, Sec- phia FringeArts Festival and has toured ond Stage, the Vineyard, MTC, and just both nationally and internationally with about every 99-seat and smaller venue companies including Jo Strømgren in any of the five boroughs. Kompani, Johannes Wieland Dance, and Rennie Harris PureMovement. Todaro has also worked recently as ALESSANDRA CALABI a lighting designer for Klip Collec- Production Stage Manager tive’s Nightscapes: A Light and Sound Experience at Longwood Gardens. In Alessandra Calabi is an interdisciplin- addition, he is a technical director for ary artist from Milan, Italy, who works corporate events and meetings across at the intersection of performance, the country and beyond. politics, and critical theory. She is a recent graduate of the New School for Social Research, where she completed a master’s degree in philosophy. Calabi was a central collaborator and stage manager for Andrew Schneider’s Obie award-winning YOUARENOWHERE, which premiered at PS#122’s COIL 2015 Festival. She is also a member of SPECIAL THANKS

Special thanks to Encho Avramov, Joe Melillo, Wolfgang Hoffman, Jim Weiner, Pamela & Gresham Riley, Steve & Mary Phillips, Lisa Nelson Haynes, Laurel Raczka, Jim Jackson, Murray Ross, Jan Avramov, Beth Boone at Miami Light Project, Buntport Theater, Nikola Zavasic, Sodja Zupanc-Lotker, Teresa Eyring, Pilar Yzaguirre, Robert Lepage, and Agent McNally who worked at Newark Airport in July of 2002 and “wrote” one of the key lines in this play, “just don’t travel.”

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