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theatre.indiana.edu STICK FLY BY LYDIA R. DIAMOND DIRECTED BY LERALDO ANZALDUA A DIGITAL EVENT IU Theatre & Dance wishes to acknowledge and honor the Miami, Delaware, Potawatomi, and Shawnee people, on whose ancestral homelands and resources PRESENTS Indiana University was built. LIVE STICK FLY PERFORMANCE by Lydia R. Diamond The mission of the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance is to advance the art, scholarship, and appreciation of theatre and dance and its DIRECTOR Leraldo Anzaldua place in society. We pursue this mission collectively STAGE MANAGER Jorie Miller and as individuals through theatrical productions, scholarship and publication, presentation of our work in national and international venues, formal instruction, and individual mentoring. The Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and is a member of the University/ Stick Fly is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Resident Theatre Association Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com and United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Stick Fly was developed in part at Chicago Dramatists, originally produced by Congo Square Theatre and subsequently produced by McCarter Theatre Center. A further developmental production directed by Kenny Leon, was LIVING produced jointly by Arena Stage and the Huntington Theatre Company. IMPACT The video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. A DIGITAL EVENT | FEBRUARY 12–13, 2021 3 Cast Production staff KENT Richkard Saint-Victor* Production Manager Costume Studio Supervisor Trish Hausmann Robbie Stanton Department Voice, Speech, and Dialogue Department Cutter/Draper TAYLOR Eboni Edwards Coach Anne Sorenson Nancy Lipschultz Costume Studio Assistants Digital Operations Manager Erin Barnett CHERYL Tiana Williams Reuben Lucas Madi Bell Dawnette Dryer Digital Operations Team Rachel Saylor Chris Centinaro FLIP Shaq Hester* Brittany Lee Staudacher Madison Colquette Eileen Thoma Bobby Coyne Gavin Wendell Holman Douglas Lighting Supervisor DR. JOSEPH LEVAY Ansley Valentine^ Trish Hausmann Betsy Smith Laura Judson Macy Kloville Electrics Studio Employees Corey Goulden-Naitove KIMBER Leah Mueller Marie Pipinich Lily Howder Jordan Flores Schwartz Jeremiah Kearns STAGE DIRECTIONS Leraldo Anzaldua Production Technical Director Russell Long I. Christopher Berg Lee Anne Meeks Department Props and Scenic Artist Department Sound Designer/Engineer Supervisor Andrew Hopson *Alumni Guest Artist Dan Tracy Audience Development Team Scenic Studio Employees Brynn Jones ^This performer appears by permission of Actors' Equity Association, Rachel Burke Carolynn Stouder the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Spencer Gjerde Chris Centinaro Valeriya Nedviga Marie Pipinich Closed Captions Brynn Jones Ben Ramos SETTING: 2005. Martha's Vineyard, Edgartown. This production will include one ten-minute intermission. The Production Manager is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Please be advised: this production contains the use of strong language and racial slurs, mention of sexual assault, the depiction of drug use, and a moment of violence. The Department Production Technical Director and Costume Shop Supervisor are members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, 618 or 893. 4 5 Message from the chair Director's note Welcome! us on our Amplified: A Series of Plays Welcome to the LeVay family summer gathering. Every year, by Black Authors, Sounding Bodies, and the family comes and spends some “quality family time” in the What a year! This is Twelfth Night. Because we are online mansion that has been in their family for generations and with a brave new world and to ensure the safety of everyone it, it’s history and ghosts. for everyone, and during the pandemic, we are utilizing the performing more simplified design elements. Yet, This is a play about Legacy. The idea of legacy in the name arts is truly feeling it is important that all of our students that the family members have associated themselves by, the the impact. It experience a robust process and traditions, the acclaim, the pride, and the family. As you will is requiring our therefore you will see pre-show and come to learn, the LeVay family name comes with a certain resilience, innovation, and patience to post-show interviews, discussions, standing in society and in intellectual pursuits. It gives the family pride and station, be sure. video features, and resources of the theoretical design processes including entrée and luxury. The family lives to a certain standard of which they have grown With Broadway dark until the end of the realized projects created by our accustomed. But also with it, is a different legacy . the values and acts, treatment May 2021 and many theatre and dance student technologists and makers. of others, and judgements that manifest from all the intangible pressures that have companies closed, communities are been lurking underneath their family. You may witness the darker legacies passed feeling the impact of the loss of live We are also delighted to feature our from father to son, or brother to brother, and to the partners and relationships that performance and the gathering of season with no charge. However, have surrounded such a prominent family. audience communities to share in a producing any work and having guest performative event. But we are excited artists on our season still requires Stick Fly is a play of family, love, identity, and connection. It explores themes of for the new world of theatre and dance financial and human resources. We are class and status, race and privilege, experience, and challenges of change. It holds a emerging post pandemic. A world indebted to our dedicated Associate mirror up to the things we see but don’t speak of. We get to examine and explore the where theatre and dance work towards Producers this year and the continued idea of value and what is truly valuable and meaningful. dismantling systemic racism and support of our Theatre Circle members. actively and continually acknowledges We are also grateful for our digital Welcome to the family. Thanks for joining us. trauma and creates space for healing. operations team this year which is led A world with equitable and plentiful by Assistant Professor Reuben Lucas. Leraldo Anzaldua access to humane and sustainable They’ve been an invaluable resource. resources and space for artists, makers, and audiences. A world that We thank you for your commitment to values integrity, empathy, and dignity our theatre, your continued support of unconditionally. our students, faculty, and our mission. Furthermore, we are grateful for a year This year we bring you work via online of hard work, not only in our continued streaming. Although it is not ideal, it production endeavors, but also our non- does serve several critical parts of our negotiable actions to address issues academic mission. It provides time around diversity, equity, and inclusion. for engagement between students and faculty in discussing, rehearsing, We miss our live audiences. We miss and exploring our work. This provides YOU! We look forward to coming opportunity for critical and creative together again in our magnificent thinking and problem solving. Our theatres to experience live theatre and online season is also providing a dance together again. platform to introduce our students, faculty, and our steadfast audience With Gratitude, members a place to experience Professor Linda Pisano, Chair readings of new work or lesser known work. We are particularly grateful to have several guest artists working with 6 7 Cast EBONI EDWARDS RICHKARD SAINT- (Taylor) VICTOR is a first year M.F.A. (Kent) candidate in Acting. is a Chicago- based actor GoodmanTheatre: The Homeless Monologues (Richard). American Immersion Theatre. Buskirk-Chumley SHAQ HESTER Theater: Frankenstein (Felix) . For IU (Flip) Theatre: Duchess of Malfi (Malatetse), The is an IU alumnus with Exonerated (Robert Hayes), Occupants ( a Master’s Degree in Doctor), Antigone (Guard 3), Good Kids Vocal Performance. (Tanner). Monroe County Theatre: As You THIS PRODUCTION IS SPONSORED IN PART BY: Off-Broadway: Antigone Like It (Duke Signor) FWSMT: Hairspray in Ferguson (Swing (Duane). Blue Ace Media (IU Credit Union). Soloist). Other NY Credits: For Trilogy ANSLEY VALENTINE Partner Associate Producers Opera, Treemonisha (Foreman). For Bronx (Dr. Joseph LeVay) Opera, The Mikado (Ensemble). IU Theatre: Ansley's performance Measure for Measure (Duke Vincentio) for credits include You Ruth Albright Devin May’s Thesis Project; Welcome to Can't Take It With You College (Andre) for IU First Year Experience (Mr. De Pinna) at the Anne and Jim Bright Programs. IU Opera: Peter Grimes (Second Indiana Repertory Burgess), Dead Man Walking (Third Inmate). Theatre, as well as the Opera at USC: Cosi Fan Tutte (Don Alfonso), several seasons with Phil Evans and Herbert O. Kuebler Candide (Captain). Regional Theatre: Five the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s A Guys Named Moe (Little Moe) for Workshop Yuletide Celebration as puppet master and Jo Ellen and Steve Ham Theatre. Education: University of South "Scrooge" (a 9-foot tall puppet). He also Carolina School of Music, Indiana University performed his character mask work with the Susan and David Jones - Jacobs School of Music. Shaq is from Alabama and Detroit Symphonies. He has Paterson, New Jersey and currently resides shared the stage with legendary performers Harlan Lewis and Doris Wittenburg in New York, New York. Kaye Ballard and Judy Kaye. Other credits include performances with the Indianapolis LEAH MUELLER Shakespeare Festival. (Kimber) (she/her) is in her TIANA WILLIAMS first year of the M.F.A. (Cheryl) Acting Program at IU. is an ambitious artist She holds an M.A. in from Indianapolis, Theatre Studies from Indiana, and is in the Royal Central the B.F.A. Musical School of Speech and Drama in London Theatre Program and a Bachelor of Music Education from going into her third Penn State University. Favorite roles include year as a junior.