DREAM AWAKE PLAYHOUSE YOUTH COMPANY FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear Playhouse Friends, ‘we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.’ • Shakespeare, The Tempest. What are the significance of dreams when you’re stuck in a room? It has been an incredibly taxing and exhausting year and a half for all, and preparing to make Dream Awake I thought a lot about the strange and unique impact on the next generation. The deferral of their lives, their growth and their dreams. When building this show, Michaela Murphy, our Director of Education, asked me to pick a theme to centre the show around. Dreams came pretty naturally and quickly. It’s a theme that works on multiple levels: the way it felt like we were sleepwalking through the last year, the mad dreams we’ve had along the way, and also dreams of the future. I was interested in not just hearing from this group, but working with them to build an entire show around what the word ‘dream’ has meant to them during the last year. And that’s exactly what we did. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with this exceptional group of young women. It is my first in-person production I’ve directed since the pandemic began, and I cannot have asked for better reintroduction into the theatrical world. They have worked so hard and grown so tremendously, while imbuing the rehearsal room with such creativity, curiosity, humour and joy, all of which has been so infectious. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for them in the future. I hope you enjoy the show as much as we enjoyed putting it together. ~ Rory McGregor BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE EDUCATION A creative space for artists and students, the education platform at Bucks County Playhouse integrates the mainstage and the classroom, demonstrating that the art is the education. From pioneering workshops that pair theater professionals and arts educators, to classes and performance opportunities for all ages, Bucks County Playhouse serves the needs of students, teachers and artists through a wide range of programs that foster community engagement, critical thinking and a passion for the arts. BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE Under the Direction of Alexander Fraser and Robyn Goodman The Playhouse Youth Company in DREAM AWAKE Scenic Supervisor Wardrobe Supervisor Lighting Supervisor Tom Watson Josh Moss & Sarah Schmoyer Christine Petty Sound Supervisor Music Director Production Stage Manager Ryan Walsh Kyle Duke Alexandra Kostis Director of Education Michaela Murphy Choreographed by Dani Tucci-Juraga Directed by Rory McGregor Director of Production General Manager Producer Matthew Given Teresa Sanpietro Josh Fielder 2021 PLAYHOUSE YOUTH COMPANY SPONSORED BY Gayle Goodman & Jim Searing • Sally & Harlan Weisman BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE IS GRATEFUL FOR SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT RECEIVED FROM THE BRIDGE STREET FOUNDATION WHO’S WHO SERENITY KAILEY HANNAH OLIVIA BOFFA BREDESON CHIEFO DAVIS-EAGAN LEXI JESSICA MAKAYLA MAYA HEALY HOLLIDAY MCCLINTIC MICSIONS ADELE MAEVE CASSIDY RICCI SHEEHAN SUMMERVILLE SERENITY BOFFA (Dance Captain) is competes in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, pointe, hip going into 9th grade and is thrilled to be hop, and salsa. Serenity would like to thank cast in her first production at Bucks County her family and friends for all of their support Playhouse. For years she has performed and the creative team at the Playhouse for with Acting Naturally which includes giving her this opportunity. performances of Once on this Island (Ti Moune), Rumpelstiltskin (Jester),Once Upon KAILEY BREDESON is thrilled to be a Mattress (Larkin), Olivia (Olivia), and more. in the cast of Dream Awake! She is a rising She also performed in school plays which Sophomore at Delaware Valley High school includes Mary Poppins Jr.(Mary Poppins), and has enjoyed performing for years. She Alice in Wonderland (Small Alice), and more. wants to thank her family for all the love She also performed in Neshaminy Summer and support they have shown her as well as Stock in Crazy For You (Follies Girl). Serenity everyone working on Dream Awake for making is currently on her thirteenth year of dance and this an amazing experience. HANNAH CHIEFFO is thrilled to be making dedicated member of the National Thespians her Bucks County Playhouse debut with the Honors Society. She has danced with multiple youth company in Dream Awake. She recently ballet companies including New Jersey School performed in Holland Middle School’s musical of Ballet and Hunterdon Hills Ballet. She of Newsies. Other credits include her role as was a semi-finalist for the Hal Leonard Vocal Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and as an orphan Competition and trains with Broadway veteran in Annie. Hannah has trained in the areas of Cristin Mortenson- Tillinghast. She looks ballet, tap, jazz and contemporary since age 3. forward to this production and hopes you enjoy! When she isn’t on stage she enjoys horseback riding, rock climbing, Girl Scouts and traveling MAKAYLA MCCLINTIC is going into her cross country with her family. sophmore year at CB South! She recently played Anna in Frozen at Tanamend Middle School! In OLIVIA DAVIS-EAGAN is a high school the past she has performed at Music Mountain senior at Central Bucks West in Doylestown. Theatre, Kelsey Theatre, and Town & County Olivia is thrilled to be in her first production Theatre. She would like to thank her teachers at the Bucks County Playhouse, and would Anne Odland, Rob Rosiello, the amazing cast like to thank the amazing cast and production and crew, and her family and friends for their team who made it possible. Some of Olivia’s love and support! An extra thank you to Mom for previous roles include: Mary Poppins in Mary all you do! Poppins, The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, and Sharpay Evans in High MAYA MICSION is so excited to perform with School Musical. When she’s not rehearsing for the Bucks County Playhouse Youth Company. She a musical, Olivia also performs with the Central has been waiting for this moment since she was Bucks West Women’s and Chamber choirs. She eight years old. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, is also a Senior 4H member and Girl Scout, and she lives at home with her mom and her two is currently working to receive her Gold Award. siblings. She will attend Council Rock North High After high school, she plans to peruse musical School in the Fall, and is eager to participate in her theater in college. Olivia would like to thank school’s theater club. When Maya is not making her parents for their continued support, and music she is training to be a catcher for softball, hopes you enjoy Dream Awake. in preparation for the next season. Many thanks to her friends, family, coaches, and teachers who LEXI HEALY is ecstatic to be part of the 2021 have helped and supported her throughout this Bucks County Playhouse Youth Company! She journey! is 13 years old and is a rising 8th grader at New Hope Solebury Middle School who dreams ADELE RICCI is 13 years old, very excited of being on Broadway someday. Lexi began to be making her Bucks County Playhouse her training at a young age with Rising Stars debut and is LOVING the Youth Company. Voice Studio and Central NJ Ballet Theatre. She has performed professionally for Mount More recently she has performed in local Gretna Playhouse in PA and Gallery Players in theater productions with Music Mountain Brooklyn and has been singing, dancing, and Theatre, Newtown Arts, and Town & Country acting for as long as she can remember. Some Players. Some of her favorite productions of her dream roles include Lydia in BeetleJuice, include: A Christmas Story the Musical (kids Wednesday in The Addams Family and Grace ensemble), Seussical (Jojo), and Brothers Foster in the up and coming movie version of Grimm Cinderella (stepsister). Lexi is also “Crave.” She also dreams of traveling the world a student at Mill Ballet and has performed one day. with Roxey Ballet. She would like to thank her family for their love and support, as well MAEVE SHEEHAN is fourteen and going as, everyone involved with the youth company into her freshman year of high school in New for this absolutely unforgettable and amazing Hope. Her previous shows include Singin’ in the experience! Don’t forget to “Get in my bag”!!! Rain Jr. and too many productions of Aladdin JESSICA HOLLIDAY is thrilled to be a to count. When she’s not singing, she loves part of the BCP Youth Company this year! to watch old movies, write stories, play cello This upcoming fall she is going to be a junior and piano, and beat her sister at Just Dance. at North Hunterdon High School. She was in Maeve has made so many wonderful friends this their most recent productions of Cabaret and summer and being part of the Youth Company You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, and is a was really a dream come true! CASSIDY SUMMERVILLE is very excited Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big Playhouse Christmas to be a part of her first production with the Bucks Show-Scene Stealers & Youth Company; County Playhouse. She has been in a few other (YouTube series) “My Sister’s Workout’”and shows but this is her first show outside of her real life choreographer to Director, Lou Volpe highschool. She developed a love for the stage (NBC’s “RISE”).Dani is the author of the award at a fairly young age by starting dance when winning published children’s book “Belinda she was just four years old and singing in choir and the ‘Boring’ Ballet Class”, written for in fourth grade.