2017 BAM Next Wave Festival #BAMNextWave

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Adam E. Max, Katy Clark, Chairman of the Board President

William I. Campbell, Joseph V. Melillo, Vice Chairman of the Board Executive Producer HOME By Geoff Sobelle

BAM Harvey Theater Dec 6—9 at 7:30pm; Dec 10 at 3pm

Running time: approx. one hour & 35 minutes, no intermission

Scenic design by Steven Dufala Directed by Lee Sunday Evans Original music by Elvis Perkins Lighting design by Christopher Kuhl Sound design by Brandon Wolcott Costume design by Karen Young Illusion design by Steve Cuiffo Props design by Victoria Ross Dramaturgy by Stefanie Sobelle Choreography by David Neumann

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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. HOME

GEOFF SOBELLE JOSH CROUCH

SOPHIE BORTOLUSSI JENNIFER KIDWELL ELVIS PERKINS

JUSTIN ROSE CHING VALDES-ARAN HOME

CREATORS/PERFORMERS Geoff Sobelle Josh Crouch Sophie Bortolussi Jennifer Kidwell Elvis Perkins Justin Rose Ching Valdes-Aran

Stage manager Lisa McGinn Assistant stage manager Christopher Armond Production manager Sean M. Daniels Technical director Chris Swetcky Creative consultant Julian Crouch Additional vocals by The Crossing Assistant scenic design You-Shin Chen Developed and produced by Jecca Barry Co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects

COMMISSIONING AND DEVELOPMENT CREDITING HOME was commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Arizona State University – Gammage, New Zealand Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival, and Beth Morrison Projects. HOME was funded, in part, by The Wyncote Foundation, Anonymous, Garth Patil, and Wendy vanden Heuvel, and received developmental support from LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly ADI). Residency support has been provided by MANA Contemporary, BRIC, Pennsylvania State University, and ArtsEmerson. HOME received support from the New York Theatre Workshop annual Usual Suspects summer residency at Dartmouth College. HOME was developed, in part, with assistance from the Orchard Project (orchardproject.com). HOME premiered at the 2017 Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts in Philadelphia, PA.

SPECIAL THANKS Adam Blumenthal, Adam & Diane Max, Andrew Simonet, Bard College, Catch Series (Jeff, Caleb, Andrew), Church of the Millennials (Abby Adler, Antonio Irizarry, Kedian Keohan, Reeves Morris-Stan, Ethan Rogers, Daisy Rosato, Dana Savage), Daisy Sanders, Danny Burnam, David Brick, Daniel Soule, Edward & Lynn Dolnick, Emma Plotkin, Gideon Lester, Jeff Larson, Jeremy Lydic, Jillian Goldstein, Jim Findlay, Jim Weiner, Joe Silovsky, John & Nancy Cassidy, Jonathan Zencheck, Josh Higgason, Justin Cox, Katerina Barry, Kele McComsky, Kevin Hanley, Linda Brumbach, Mitchell Robe, Orlando Pabatoy, Toby Leaman, Travis DeCastro, Trey Lyford, Victoria Finney, Victoria Burge, Wolfgang Hoffman, and Ysa Pinyol. HOME — ARTIST’S STATEMENT Photo: Jacques-Jean Tiziou

By Geoff Sobelle Now, it’s your place. ALLLL yours. Can’t even remember that other person! Oh—and tomorrow. Hello and welcome back. Tomorrow it will be someone else’s. So I guess Have you been here before? in a way, you are KIND of sharing it, if we’re Does it feel familiar? speaking frankly. But don’t worry about that right now. That doesn’t concern you now—by the time I hope that you’re making yourself comfortable they’re sitting here, you won’t even WANT this and getting ready for this thing to begin. We are seat! Can you imagine? Hard to believe—but it’s all very happy that you could make it—to come true! Trust me… You’ll gladly give it away and be here, and make the time. That’s great. happy to sit somewhere else. Maybe at a desk. Or on a park bench. A train maybe. Or at home, Just sit comfortably. It’s a good seat, isn’t it? wherever that might be. But right now this Sure—there may be better ones—every seat has seat—this place—this space—it’s all its plusses and minuses—but this place—your yours. Enjoy it. place—this is a good place! At any rate—It’s all yours—so just make yourself at home. It IS funny, though, I suppose, this migration from one seat to another… Feel your feet on the floor, your back against the backrest, maybe take a few deep breaths… True story—there is a little crab, called a hermit It feels good to have YOUR seat. It’s all yours! crab, that makes use of other animals’ shells You have it all to yourself. You don’t even have when they outgrow their own. They just move to share! It’s just YOURS. There was someone from shell to shell as it suits them and their here the other night… another person that came lifestyle. Once they’ve outgrown a shell, they just here before you and sat here… but no matter. find another one. Sometimes they don’t even It’s yours now. It used to be theirs—but not now. use shells—they get super creative and use all HOME

kinds of things. Old camera lenses, bits of debris, Total strangers! But also—they’re your neighbors, whatever… Sound familiar? Just migratory and they’re having a similar experience to you. animals looking for a place to eat and sleep and Reading this. Looking around…. Thinking about poop and call their own. hermit crabs…

By the way, Octopuses… (that is correct by It will be a great feeling too when all of this is the way—octopi is just a fancy latinization, it’s done and you can just unwind and head on back not actually bona fide). Anyway, Octopuses are home again. Love that feeling. Where are you the only animal other than humans who put staying by the way? Are you living near here? decorative things in their apartment for no other Long commute? Funny isn’t it, how you can just purpose than aesthetics. Not hugely important, head on home without having to even but I thought I’d mention it since we were talking think of it… Unless of course you’re not from about interesting sea creatures. Is that what we here and you’re working hard to navigate were talking about? the area to make it back to a friend’s place or a hotel or some place that—try as it might—won’t OH! Your seat…. Yes—it’s a good one. I can’t ever really feel like home… But if you ARE remember—you’ve been here before? What were heading home after this… well you barely even you seeing? It’s a good place isn’t it? They put on need think of how you’ll get there. You can just some great shows here. Can you remember any think about all of the events that have transpired particular moments? It’s funny, isn’t it? When the in your day and before you know it, you’ll just show is really going, you kind of forget the space be floating through your doorway and hanging of the theater, don’t you… You get so drawn into your hat and haunting your haunt and flopping the action that it’s almost like the theater itself on your lily pad or whatever other adage comes just … vanishes. They call a theater a “house” to mind… Some internal compass will just by the way. Not to put too fine a point on it— unconsciously follow that trail of breadcrumbs but this is the HOUSE, and you are right now and before you know it you’ll be snug up in residing in this house for just a short while before your bed and dreaming once again… Dreaming some other body takes this same space and they of other homes you once made. Other spots, claim it as theirs for a little while and they have other places… Other seats where you once sat, their experience of pretty much the same thing, other cities you once called yours; other shells though completely different of course, and they where you once curled up, other gardens you bring all of their own stuff with them to this same once tended. Other rooms. Other dens. Other space and it informs them of what they see… nests. Remember the feel? The light. The smell. Anyway—I’m just stating the obvious since we That unnameable thing that turns a simple set have this time to kill before the show starts—but of coordinates into some psychic shelter rooted it’s great to have you here. Love talking about deep inside of you. How will you find your way this stuff. Take a look around at all these people! home? How will you know it once you’re there? Who’s Who

GEOFF SOBELLE (creator/performer) is an ac- DC (Studio Theater), Minneapolis (Walker Arts tor, director, and creator of original performance Center), Columbus (Wexner Center), San Fran- works. A dedicated absurdist, he uses illusion, cisco (Curran, Theater Artaud), Berkeley (Berkeley film, and home-spun mechanics to create sur- Rep), Los Angeles (Kirk Douglas Theatre), La real, poetic pieces that look for humanity where Jolla (La Jolla Playhouse); and internationally in you least expect it and find grace where no the UK (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London Mime one is looking. His work is deeply collaborative Festival/Barbican); France (Paris Festival d’Ete); and reflects longtime partnerships with other Germany (Ruhrfestspiele); Poland (Konfrontacja independent artists. His most recent work, The Teatralne Festival); Australia (Sydney Festival, Object Lesson (2014 Next Wave, Bessie Award, Perth Festival); and South Korea (BIPAF). Sobelle Edinburgh Fringe First, Total Theater, and Best is a Pew Fellow and a Creative Capital grantee. He of Edinburgh Awards), was presented this past is a graduate of Stanford University and trained season at New York Theatre Workshop. Other in physical theater at the Lecoq school in Paris. recent work includes: Hear Their There Here geoffsobelle.com (a site-specific sound installation currently at St. Ann’s Warehouse); Holoscenes (an aquatic STEVEN DUFALA (scenic designer) is a performance/installation created with Lars Jan), multidisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. and Pandaemonium (a multimedia dance piece While he works primarily in collaboration with created with Nichole Canuso and Lars Jan). His his brother Billy as the Dufala Brothers, he also work with Trey Lyford under the name Rainpan works on as many other projects in as many 43 includes: all wear bowlers (a dreamscape other fields as possible, being drawn in particular clown vaudeville; Drama Desk Nomination), to works that explore overlapping concerns of Amnesia Curiosa (a cabinet of curiosities, spirits, various disciplines. He makes drawings, clothes, and forgotten family); machines machines ma- furniture, prints, music, sculpture, photos, chines machines machines machines (a Rube books, and thinks an awful lot about what all Goldberg-inspired junk play; Obie Award for Du- these things have in common and what on earth fala Bros.’ design); and Elephant Room (a surreal people do with them. Dufala has been work- magical spectacle created with Steve Cuiffo). In- ing intermittently with dance and theater as a dependent work includes Flesh and Blood & Fish designer for about 20 years, and over this time and Fowl (a comedy about human extinction; has worked with Pig Iron Theatre Company, Edinburgh Fringe First award). Before coming to BalletX, anonymous bodies, Geoff Sobelle, New York, Sobelle lived in Philadelphia where Thaddeus Phillips, and others. With his brother he created and performed original works with Billy, he received an Obie Award for design with Pig Iron Theater Company for 12 years. Favorite rainpan 43’s machines machines machines creations include Shut Eye (in collaboration with machines machines machines machines, and Joseph Chaikin), Hell Meets Henry Halfway, shared a Bessie Award with the entire design Welcome to Yuba City, and Chekhov Lizardbrain. team for Geoff Sobelle’s The Object Lesson in Sobelle was among the first teachers at the Pig 2015. Steven and Billy co-teach sculpture at Iron School, an accredited two-year physical the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and theater training program. Other Philadelphia are represented by the Fleisher/Ollman gallery collaborations include: Headlong Dance Theatre, in Philadelphia. Their work is in the collection of Subcircle, NCDC, and Thaddeus Phillips Inter- the Philadelphia Museum or Art, Pennsylvania continental. All of his shows have premiered at Academy of the Fine Arts, West Collection, and the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival. In New York, many private collections. his work has been seen at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York Live LEE SUNDAY EVANS (director) is an Obie Arts, HERE Arts Center, BRIC, Clubbed Thumb, Award winning director and choreographer. and Bard College; nationally in Philadelphia Her work has been seen at the Public Theater, (Fringe Arts), Boston (Arts Emerson), Washington, Lincoln Center, the Play Company, Bushwick Who’s Who

Starr, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Hudson Valley a Mil Chile, and the Holland Festival. He has Shakespeare Company, Humana Festival at Ac- received two Ovation awards and Sherwood, tors Theater of Louisville, Dallas Theater Center, Drammy, and Horton Awards. He also received Clubbed Thumb, Women’s Project, Sundance a 2014 and 2015 Bessie Award for Outstanding Theater Lab, BAX, CATCH, LMCC, Robert Wil- Visual Design. He is originally from New Mexico, son’s Watermill Center, and Juilliard. She recently a graduate of CalArts, and an associate artist of received the Susan Stroman Directing Award Hand2Mouth Theatre. from Vineyard Theater. Upcoming: Dance Nation by Clare Barron at Playwrights Horizons. BRANDON WOLCOTT (sound designer) is an NYC-based sound designer and composer. Off- ELVIS PERKINS (composer/performer) has re- Broadway: The Profane (Playwrights Horizons); leased three full-length collections of songs, two Venus, Everybody, Signature Plays (Signature); under his own name (Ash Wednesday, 2007, XL The Record, The Fever (600 Highwaymen/ Recordings; and I Aubade, 2015, MIR) and one Public Theater); Coriolanus, Hit the Wall (Barrow under the band name Elvis Perkins in Dearland Street); Kill Floor (LCT3); The Nether (Lortel (2009, XL Recordings). The band with which he nomination, MCC); Good Person of Szechwan, has toured extensively also released the six-track Titus Andronicus (Public); Habeas Corpus, Kiss Doomsday EP in 2009 (XL). In the past two the Air (Park Avenue Armory), and Equivoca- years Perkins has written two film scores: I Am tion (MTC). He has collaborated with Marina the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (Netflix, Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Faye Driscoll, October 2016) and The Blackcoat’s Daughter Nicolas Jaar, Elizabeth Streb, Woodshed Collec- (A24, 2017). A soundtrack album for the latter tive, Red Bull, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, was released via Death Waltz Recording Co. in and many more. March 2017. He currently calls Hudson, NY and Cape Cod, MA home. KAREN YOUNG (costume designer) is a New York-based costume designer who has designed CHRISTOPHER KUHL (lighting designer) is clothes for numerous dance, theater, and video a lighting, scenic, and installation designer for art projects. Her design work for performance new performance, theater, dance, and opera. has been seen on many international stages Recent work includes: The Elephant Room (St. including Lincoln Center in New York, Royal Ann’s Warehouse); Straight White Men (Young Opera House in London, the Herodeon, Athens Jean Lee’s Theatre Company, the Public Theater, and is included in the repertoires of the Martha Kaai Theater, Centre Pompidou); The Institute Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American of Memory (the Public, T:BA Festival); Citizen Dance Theater, Kyle Abraham, Brian Brooks, (Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Ballet Basel, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Paul Taylor Group, 2016 Next Wave); The Source (2014 Dance Company, American Ballet Theater, Ben- Next Wave); Dog Days (Prototype Festival, jamin Millepied, Pam Tanowitz, Vanessa Walters, REDCAT, LA Opera); ABACUS (Early Morning Elisa Monte, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Opera, BAM, Sundance Film Festival, EMPAC); among many others. She designed the costumes Quartier Libres with Nadia Beugré (New York for Third Rail Project’s highly acclaimed immersive Live Arts, Walker Art Center); and Cipher (Samita shows Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise Sinha, The Kitchen). He was also the produc- and Wendy Whelan’s shows Restless Creature tion manager and lighting director for Ralph and Some of a Thousand Words. Collaborations Lemon’s How Can You Stay In The House All with contemporary visual artists include costume Day And Not Go Anywhere? He has also had design for the video works of Eve Sussman, the pleasure of working and making art at the Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 5 and Cremaster the Chocolate Factory, Fusebox Festival, On the 1, and David Michalek’s large-scale outdoor Boards, San Fransisco Symphony, Jacob’s Pillow, video installations Slow Dancing and Portraits in Carnegie Hall, Santa Fe Opera, Beijing Music Dramatic Time (Lincoln Center Festival, the Venice Festival, Queer Zagreb, MAC France, Santiago Biennale). karenyoungcostume.com Photo: Hillarie Jason

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STEVE CUIFFO (illusion designer) creates as assistant technical director at St. Ann’s unique performance, art, theater, and magic. He Warehouse and was on staff at Lincoln Center is an actor and magician who makes solo and and Asia Society. He recently worked on Yellow collaborative works with other artists and theater Brick Road (NYU Abu Dhabi) and At the companies. His work incorporates aspects of Table (HERE). sleight of hand, misdirection, imitation, and re-enactment. Theater credits include: Queen of CHRIS SWETCKY (technical director) is the the Night (as Sarastro); Elephant Room (with head of the technical direction program and tech- Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford); Spirit Wife (with nical director for the School of Theatre at Penn Eleanor Hutchins); Steve Cuiffo IS Lenny Bruce State University. In addition to his work at Penn AT “Carnegie Hall” (St. Ann’s Warehouse); North State, Swetcky has worked at numerous venues Atlantic (Wooster Group); Next Stop: Amazing- across the country including most recently as land (Center Theatre Group); Digital Effects (Off production manager for Classical Theatre of Har- the Grid); Hell Meets Henry Halfway (Pig Iron lem’s First Noel at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Theatre); Fluke (Radiohole); The Passion of the He was also technical director for the Ouroboro’s Crawford (with Lypsinka); Major Bang (Foundry Trilogy, a compilation of three operas—Naga, Gil- Theater); and Patriot Act—A Public Medita- gamesh, and Madame White Snake—performed tion (New York Theatre Workshop). Cuiffo is a at the Majestic Theatre in Boston. Before Penn two-time Princeton University Atelier recipient State, he worked for American Repertory Theater artist. He is also on the board of directors for the in Cambridge, MA as associate technical director. Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York. While at A.R.T. Swetcky worked on numerous productions including Broadway hits such as LISA McGINN (production stage manager) has Porgy and Bess, Pippin, All the Way, and most recently worked on: Geoff Sobelle’s Home and recently, Finding Neverland. The Object Lesson; Underground Railroad Game (Jennifer Kidwell, Scott Sheppard, Ars Nova); VICTORIA ROSS (props designer) is delighted to Chimera and The Wholehearted (Stein | Holum collaborate with this renowned team on HOME Projects); This Is Reading (Lynn Nottage, lead in its later development. Bard SummerScape: artist, Kate Whoriskey, director); Jacuzzi and Dimitrij, Halka. Ash Lawn Opera: South Pacific, The Light Years (The Debate Society); Eager Così tan tutti. Williams Street Repertory: First to Lose (Ars Nova); How to Build a Forest Date, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Death of a (PearlDamour + Shawn Hall); Revolt. She said. Salesman, Tenderly, Plaid Tidings, and Gypsy. Revolt Again. and Winners and Losers (Soho Her background includes work as an artist and Rep); Rememberer and Open House (Steven audience liaison for Sounds of Summer, Palatine Reker); Forbidden Creature Virgin Whore; From Park District. She holds a BA in performing arts the Spot Where We/You/I Stand (Stood) (Miller management from Columbia College, Chicago Rothlein Dance); You, My Mother (Theatre of (2013). She would like to thank her family and a Two-Headed Calf); Card and Gift and Baby all patrons for continuously supporting the arts. Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb); The Seagull and Ivanov (Chekhov at Lake Lucille); Temporal DAVID NEUMANN’s (choreographer) Advanced Powers and Donogoo (Mint Theater Company); Beginner Group’s (ABG) original work has been and The Room Sings, The Peripherals, Hot presented in New York at PS 122, New York Lunch Apostles (Talking Band). Regional credits Live Arts, The Kitchen, Abrons Arts Center, include Trinity Repertory Company, Two River Central Park Summerstage, Celebrate Brooklyn, Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Symphony Space, the Chocolate Factory, and Passage Theatre. the Whitney Museum. ABG has also performed at the Walker Art Center, Alverno College, MASS SEAN M. DANIELS (production manager) is MoCA, the Ringling Festival, and American an New York-based production manager and Dance Institute, among others. Neumann was a theater artist hailing from Virginia. He worked performer for many years working with, among Photo: Peggy Baud-Woolsey Who’s Who

others, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Big Dance Theater, Mines, NAATCO, Pan Asian Rep., Foundry, Doug Elkins, Doug Varone, and Sally Silvers. HERE Arts Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center, EST, Other projects include: choreographer on Futurity ArsNova. Regional theaters: Actors Theater of (Ars Nova and Soho Rep), An Octoroon (Soho Louisville, Arena Stage, American Conservatory Rep), Hagoromo (with Wendy Whelan and Jock Theater, Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, La Soto, 2015 Next Wave), and directing Geoff Jolla Playhouse, Wilma Theater, Yale Rep., and Sobelle in The Object Lesson at Philly Fringe, others. Film and tv credits include What It Is 2014 Next Wave, and NYTW. More recent Before, written/directed by Lav Diaz (Pardo D’Oro projects include: Hadestown at NYTW, The Total Award); Across the Universe; Sex and the City Bent (Public Theater), War (LCT III), and Annie 1; Kiss of the Damned; Nurse Jackie; Flesh and Baker’s The Antipodes (Signature Theater). Bone; Blacklist; Blindspot; Feed the Beast; and He is currently professor of theater at Sarah others. International venues: Berliner Festspiele, Lawrence College. Most recently, Neumann’s London Intl. Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, La work, I Understand Everything Better, received MaMa Umbria, Greece, France, Romania, Israel, two Bessie Awards (Outstanding Production and Vienna, Southeast Asia, and the Carribean. Outstanding Sound Design/Music). He was a Awards: Obie (Flipzoids, Ma-Yi Theater), Fox 2016 artist in residence at the SETI Institute and Foundation Fellow, Spencer Cherashore Award, was awarded a Robert Rauschenberg Residency. New Dramatist’s Charles Bowden Award, Rock- Over the years Neumann has received three efeller MAP Fund grant, Ma-Yi Award for Artistic Bessie Awards, a Foundation for Contemporary Excellence, ACC Fellow, PACCAL and US Con- Arts Award, an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship gressional Award of Arts & Culture, and a Lucille (Noh immersive), and support from the Rock- Lortel nomination (Dogeaters, Public Theater). efeller Foundation, Creative Capital, NYFA, and Ching is also a director and visual artist. National Dance Project, among others. SOPHIE BORTOLUSSI (performer) has recently STEFANIE SOBELLE (dramaturg) writes about performed in Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man: 20th- and 21st-century literature, art, and A Hollywood Fable (National Theatre, London), architecture and is the author of The Architec- Sleep No More (McKittrick Hotel, NYC), Martha tural Novel, a book about the role of the house Clarke’s Angel Reapers (Signature Theatre, in American fiction, forthcoming from Oxford Joyce Theatre, Arts Emerson, national tour), The University Press. Her work has been supported Threepenny Opera (Atlantic Theatre), Garden of by the Huntington Library, California Institute of Earthly Delights (Minetta Lane Theatre), Kaos Technology, Society for the Preservation of Ameri- (NYTW), Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental’s can Modernism, and the DeYoung Museum, Red-Eye to Havre de Grace (Walker, NYTW, Live among other institutions. She is an associate Arts Festival, Arts Emerson), and with Mar- professor of English at Gettysburg College and an tha Graham Dance Company. Choreographer/ editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. She director credits include One-In-Themselves (La shared a childhood home with Geoff. MaMa, NYC), The Day Shall Declare It (Imperial Arts Studio, L.A./ Marylebone Gardens, Bush CHING VALDES-ARAN (performer) is thrilled to Theatre, London), and Nu Dance Theater. She be joining Geoff Sobelle and the HOME family! has served as artistic director for McKittrick Hotel Broadway credits include The Wild Party by Special Events (McKittrick Masquerades & Super Michael John LaChiusa, dir. by George C. Wolfe Cinemas parties), and as movement director for (Virginia Theater); Macbeth (Lady M), Romeo & Zara Gymwear Fall 2016, and 2016 American Juliet (Lady Capulet), As You Like It (Duke Se- Airlines Inflight Safety Video. TV guest appear- nior) dir. by Estelle Parsons (NYSF’s Shakespeare ances include Gossip Girl. Awards: 2017 Stage on Broadway, Belasco Theater). Off-Broadway Raw Theatre Award for Best Choreography, 2015 venues include Public Theater, Classic Stage Ovation Award nomination for Best Choreogra- Co., La MaMa E.T.C., Ma-Yi Theater, NYTW, phy, 2013 UK Broadway World Award nomina- Shakespeare in the Park (Delacorte), Mabou tion for best leading actress in a new production Who’s Who

of a play, 2011 World Falstaff Award for Best part of the drama department at school he most Principal Performance, Lady Macbeth, Sleep No recently played Bert in Mary Poppins. Crouch is More. sophie-bortolussi.com very excited to be part of the HOME company after being part of the workshops at BRIC and JENNIFER KIDWELL (performer) is a perform- ArtsEmerson. ing artist whose recent projects include Under- ground Railroad Game, Demolishing Everything CHRISTOPHER ARMOND (assistant stage man- with Amazing Speed, I Understand Everything ager) has worked in New York in stage manage- Better, Antigone, Fire Burns Hot: Little Reno!, ment on Everybody (Signature Theatre), The War I Promised Myself to Live Faster, 99 Breakups, Boys (Access Theatre), and Life and Other Disas- Not Every Mountain, Dick’s Last Stand (2014 ters (Dramatists Guild), among others. Armond Whitney Biennial, as Donelle Woolford), and Zin- is thrilled to be working with the BMP family and nias: the Life of Clementine Hunter. She’s a Pig this cast and production crew, and gives thanks Iron Theatre Company & Lightning Rod Special for trusting him with HOME. As an actor in NYC company member, Wilma Theater Associated in off-Broadway and regional theater, credits Artist, and JACK co-founder. She has been include: My Other Job (Hudson Theatre), The published in Movement Research’s Performance Lady (Gallery Players), Sin (Bohemian Archeol- Journal #45 and hyperallergic.com. Kidwell is a ogy), and As You Like It (NJST). Voiceover work 2013 TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship (with includes for Ralph Lauren, Netflix, Outback, and PITC), a 2015 Leeway Foundation Art & Change Geico. He is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. Grant, and a 2016 Pew Fellow. Love to Heather for always believing.

JUSTIN ROSE (performer) is a Philadelphia- JULIAN CROUCH (creative consultant) is a based performer and director. Recent acting Brooklyn-based theater practitioner, artist, and credits include: Let the Dog See the Rabbit musician originally from the UK, known for his (Lightning Rod Special), Always Coming Soon: groundbreaking production of Shockheaded The Future (Brat Productions), 99 Breakups (Pig Peter, Satyagraha at the Met Opera, and the Iron Theatre Company), The Douglas/Poins in Tony-nominated Broadway set of Hedwig and Henry IV (Shakespeare in Clark Park and Team the Angry Inch. A co-founder and former artistic Sunshine), and The Balladeer in The West (Alex director of Improbable, a UK-based theater Bechtel Producer/Director). He directed Cirque company, his shows have been seen through- du Soleil juggler Greg Kennedy’s Theorem (Philly out the world. He is particularly known for his Fringe), and was assistant director for Geoff incorporation of large-scale live animation within Sobelle’s Object Lesson. He was a co-founder his productions. He has worked extensively at and co-artistic director of The Candidatos, a the Met Opera and on Broadway in addition to two-man theater company that performed its myriad more unusual locations. He is currently most popular show, I’m Sorry & I’m Sorry, at the designing Barber of Seville for Netherlands New York Clown Theater Festival, Dublin Fringe, Opera, Ernani and The Egyptian Helena for La and in St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. Scala, and Marnie for the ENO and The Met. He is a graduate of Pig Iron Theatre Company’s Crouch is a Libretto Writing Fellow in residence Advanced Performance Training Program and the at the American Lyric Theater. University of Iowa. He is a certified yoga teacher, and teaches at studios around Philadelphia. BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (producer) was founded in 2006 to support the work of living JOSH CROUCH (performer) is a Brooklyn middle composers, artists, and their multi-media col- school student originally from London. He spent laborators. Beth Morrison Projects encourages several summers as part of the Lake Lucille risk-taking, creating a structure for new work Chekhov project with Brian Mertes, including that is unique to the artist and allows them to the film version, and also played the lead role of feel safe to experiment and push boundaries. Kosmo in Lily & Kosmo for Blue Spill Films. As Noted as “the edge of innovation” (Opera News), Photo: Yannick Grandmont Who’s Who Solomon Foundation, MAPFund/Creative Capital Dreyfus Foundation, TheHowardandSarahD. Lead Trusts, TheJanaFoundation, Jean&Louis els Foundation, TheFrancis GoeletCharitable Foundation, TheFan Fox andLeslie R. Samu- Charitable Foundation, TheEmmaA.Sheafer The CheswatyrFoundation, TheDorisDuke tion, TheBarbaraBellCummingFoundation, Foundation, TheAnnandGordonGettyFounda- Ditson Fund forNewMusic,TheAmphion Aaron CoplandFund forMusic,TheAliceM. Foundation, HowardGilmanFoundation, The Mellon Foundation, TheVirginiaB.Toulmin BMP isgenerouslyfundedbyTheAndrewW. Scheib, andAshleyTata. Fish, Patricia McGregor, Kevin Newbury, Jay rah, Rachel Dickstein, Lee SundayEvans,Daniel Catlett,JamesDar more, withdirectorsMallory Sarah KirklandSnider, JeremySchonfeld,and Muhly, ElvisPerkins, Paola Prestini, EllenReid, T. Little,Keeril Makan, MissyMazzoli,Nico Ted Hearne,MikaelKarlsson, DavidLang, composers MohammedFairouz, MichaelGordon, Current andupcomingprojectsincludeworksby Music Festival, HollandFestival, andmore. Lincoln Center, theWalker Center, Art Beijing world includingBAM,DisneyHall,TheBarbican, formed innumerouspremiervenuesaroundthe genre” (OperaNews).Projects havebeenper mastermind” (LosAngelesTimes) and“itsown Beth MorrisonProjects opera isa“contemporary - - Raymond Steckel Mike Siegal Nancy Sanders Lynn Loacker Jane Gullong David Gindler Nicholas Firth Pamela Drexel Ralph Dandrea Connie Chen Judy BrickFreedman, Secretary Sue Bienkowski,Treasurer Frederick Peters, BoardChair BOARD OFDIRECTORS David McCullouch,Bookkeeper Julie Hurley, CompanyManager Mariel O’Connell, AssociateProducer Melanie Milton, AssociateProducer James Fry, Production Manager Noah SternWeber, DirectorofDevelopment Jecca Barry, ExecutiveDirector Beth Morrison, President &CreativeProducer BMP STAFF bethmorrisonprojects.org America, andTheSenielOstrowFoundation. fairs, NewYork Opera StateCouncilontheArts, USA, NewYork ofCulturalAf- CityDepartment NewMusic England Foundation fortheArts, TheNew The NationalEndowmentfortheArts, Foundation, Foundation, TheMid-AtlanticArts