LUNAR RIVER IN ASSOCIATION WITH MACK SENNETT STUDIOS PRESENTS

SALOME BY

CHRISTOPHER WITH (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) ADAMS-COHEN CHRISTOPHER ADAMS-COHEN …………………..………….. SALOME DOUG SPEARMAN …………………..………..….. JOHN THE BAPTIST DIRECTED BY MATT RAICH* ………………………….….…..………..... INDIAN JOE ATRICK ENNELLY P K JACQUELINE WRIGHT* ………….……….….…..……..….. HERODIAS SOREN ROYER-MCHUGH ……………….….…..……... YOUNG MAN PRODUCED BY RACHEL RIVERA …………………..……..………….. YOUNG WOMAN LUNAR RIVER LLC, FREDERIC COHEN & ANTOINETTE ADAMS, MARY BLODGETT & DESIGN AND PRODUCTION CARLTON CALVIN, SHIRLEY COHEN, DAVID JOHN IACOVELLI ………………..……….……………... SCENIC DESIGN BIRNBAUM, AND BRIAN & DEBRA PABLO SANTIAGO ……………………………………. LIGHTING DESIGN SPAULDING LAUREN OPPELT ………..…………..…..….….….. COSTUME DESIGN JONATHAN SNIPES ………….………..…..…. MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN Note from the Playwright – My work on Salome began with an exploraon EDGAR LANDA ………..…………..………….. FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY into the transgressive subtext of KEVIN WILLIAMS ……..…...…….…………….... PROPERTY MASTER Wilde’s infamous play. I’d fall asleep ANTOINETTE ADAMS ………………………….…… ORIGINAL MURALS surrounded by research tomes JOM RIVERS, ANDREW SANTIZO, BEIDI ZHANG ….… MURAL PAINTING ASST. unearthed from the underbelly of the library – prints of Aubrey Beardsley’s MARSHALL ASTOR …………..…….. SOCIAL MEDIA & WEB DESIGN perplexing illustraons – bibles TREVOR BAKER, MARSHALL ASTOR, GAIL HOWLAND, ANTOINETTE ADAMS .. PHOTOS margined with my own hasly joed, JJ BARRERA, MARSHALL ASTOR …………..….……GRAPHIC DESIGN unintelligible notes and doodles – and KELLY EGAN …….………………….….….…………… STAGE MANAGER wake in a fevered state from DAVID MAUER …………..….….……………… TECHNICAL DIRECTION dangerous and eroc dreams. In those wet, hot hours, the play came to me, LAURA STEINROEDER …….…….…..………… ASSOCIATE PRODUCER like a series of furious visions. VANEH ASSADOURIAN ……….………………….ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LETITIA CHANG …………….………….. ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Thanks to: Paula Holt, Frederic Cohen & JOHN GAROFALO …………………… ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Antoinette Adams, Michael Shepherd, KIRSTEN CAREY ……………………….. ASSISTANT SOUND DESIGNER Jeffrey Wylie, Guy Zimmerman, Robyn & Aldo Manzini, Claire Peeps, and the RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS ……………………….…. CASTING DIRECTOR wonderful staff of Mack Sennett Studios, KEN WERTHER PUBLICITY ………………..… PRESS REPRESENTATIVE especially Michelle Kenama.

Special Thanks to our business partners: AKBAR, Launch Productions, Exceptional thanks to Jesse Rogg, without Three Phase Productions, and Ariel Construction, Inc. whom the new theatre space would not exist. *Member of Actors’ Equity Associaon The Union of Professional Actors & Stage Managers in the United States CHRISTOPHER ADAMS-COHEN (PLAYWRIGHT & SALOME) played roles as soon you’ll be able to see her in the film Excursions, which just a child vocalist at L.A. Opera, Walt Disney Concert Hall and premiered to rave reviews at the Slamdance Film Fesval. Hollywood Bowl. He apprenced at New York Stage & Film’s Powerhouse Theatre, and returned this past summer to act in JOHN IACOVELLI (SCENIC DESIGN) designed over 300 producons at their workshop series. Christopher is currently producing new work theatres across the US, and in most of LA’s smaller theatres, since at Montserrat, a performance space in the DTLA Industrial District 1986. Film: Ruby in Paradise, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! TV: Becke (www.montserratdtla.com), and is a frequent writer and performer Directs Becke: Endgame, The San Quenn Drama Workshop, with Play Collaborave Arts (www.playcollaboravearts.com). UCLA The Old Seler starring Phylicia Rashad & Debbie Allen, The Gin Game staring & , Ed, Babylon School of Theater. www.cadamscohen.com 5, Resurrecon Blvd., Lincoln Heights. Member United Scenic Patrick Kennelly (Director) writes, produces, directs, designs and Arsts, local 829. Website: www.iacovelli.com curates for film & video, theater, and the performance and visual arts. In his highly stylized and darkly surreal genre-infused works, LAUREN OPPELT (COSTUME DESIGN) Upcoming projects Kennelly explores issues of social, cultural and personal identy. include Galamsey, a film about African miners, and RealityCheck, a Kennelly’s most recent project is the feature film Excess Flesh, new television series. Other credits include costumes for LACMA, which he co-wrote, produced and directed. It world premiered at staff costumes for TomorrowWorld; as well as feature films Ana SXSW in 2015 and will be released via Midnight Releasing in March Maria In Novelaland, Theresa is a Mother, 1915, and Eat Me with 2016. www.patrickkennellyunmarked.com Jacqueline Wright. Addionally, Lauren designed OMG EMT!, We Should Have Eloped!, and Santa Sent Me To The ER for TLC. In her MATT RAICH (INDIAN JOE) is enchanted to be working on Salome. His spare me, Lauren enjoys working. recent/favorite credits include Clybourne Park (Yale School of Drama), Dead Ends (YSD), The Master and Margarita (YSD), and PABLO SANTIAGO (Lighng Design) Pablo is the Winner of the Middletown (Yale Summer Cab). A Memphian, Ma received his Stage Raw Award 2015. He has been nominated for the Ovaon MFA in Acng from the Yale School of Drama this past May. While Award and for LA Weekly Award. Pablo's designs have been seen at enrolled there, he worked with the Yale Summer Cabaret, Disney Hall, in DC, Soundbox in SF, The New Vic in SB, Chautauqua Theater Fesval, and the Yale Rep. AEA; Visit his LATC, MOCA-Geffen, Broad Museum, REDCAT, ODC in SF, Broad website at www.ma-raich.com. Theater, Gey Villa, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Su Teatro in Denver, The Fountain Theater among others. Instagram: RACHEL RIVERA (YOUNG WOMAN) is nave to Los Angeles. She @pablosdesign graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and completed the UCLA theatre program in 2014. Recently, she has JONATHAN SNIPES (MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN) is a composer and sound been devising work with the Play Collaborave Arts Venue in designer for Film and Theater living in Los Angeles. He teaches downtown LA and signed on as music coordinator for Montserrat sound design in the theater department at UCLA, and is a member DTLA, a new collaborave space for all local arsts. She looks of the rap group clipping. forward to the year ahead. RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (CASTING DIRECTOR) is a freelance casng SOREN ROYER-MCHUGH (YOUNG MAN) is a member of Play director who has helped cast projects for The Theatre @ Boston Collaborave Arts in DTLA. He was last seen in the UCLA TFT Court, Playwrights’ Arena, Lano Theatre Company/LATC, The Gey Graduate pilot doubleblind, execuve produced by Rod Holcomb Villa, LA Philharmonic, The Fountain Theatre, Circle X Theatre, and Beau Marks. He starred in UCLA's producon of Angels in Bootleg Theatre, Theatre Movement Bazaar, The Gay & Lesbian America, directed by Mel Shapiro, in 2012. Soren is from San Center, Theatre Planners, and many others. Francisco, and he enjoyed performing at the ACT Young KELLY EGAN (STAGE MANAGER) has been SM-ing for awhile now. She Conservatory under Craig Slaight, where he received the has been a member of Theatre of NOTE since 2008 and is currently Disnguished Young Arst Award in 2010. serving on its Arsc Management Commiee. She has worked on SorenRoyerMcHugh.Strikingly.com a whole lot of producons in LA, which recently include Rio Hondo, DOUG SPEARMAN (JOHN THE BAPTIST) On television - StarTrek Orphans, and Niagara Falls. This summer will be her 7th year Voyager, The Drew Carey Show, The Hughleys, Charmed, Gideon's working the Hollywood Fringe Fesval. Thank you to the Crossing, MAD TV, Girlfriends, and most notably as Chance in the enre Salome team! LOGO television series Noah's Arc. On stage - the American premiere of The Ice Pick at the Celebraon Theater, A Few Good KEN WERTHER (PRESS REPRESENTATIVE) has been a staple in the Los Men, and the Tony Award winning South Coast Repertory's Angeles performing arts community since 1982, in public relaons, producon of The Hollow Lands and as Dionysus in The Bacchae at producing, and direcng. As producer: All Your Hard Work, The the Edinburgh Fringe. Good Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Taming of the Shrew (Queer Classics). Assistant director: Stop the World, I Want To JACQUELINE WRIGHT (HERODIAS) is a graduate of Cal Arts. Favorite Get Off (Musical Theatre Guild), The Women of Brewster Place roles: Jon Benet in House of Gold, Tommy in Eat Me (LA Weekly (Celebraon Theatre), The Woodsman (Courage). For a lisng of PR nominaon), Richard in Richard III, Clytemnestra in Clyt at Home (LA acvies, visit www.kenwerther.com. Weekly Award) and Emilia in And Sll The Dogs (LA Weekly nominaon). Her film Eat Me is currently in postproducon, and