April 4-21, 2018 ALOHA, ALOHA, OR WHEN I WAS QUEEN ALOHA, ALOHA, ABOUT OR WHEN I WAS QUEEN THE SHOW Runtime: 75 minutes Writer and performer Eliza Bent uses Written and Performed by a home movie as a jumping off point Eliza Bent to lead audiences on a journey that grapples with personal history, legacy, Director and Production Designer and cultural appropriation. Knud Adams Textile Panel Artist Elizabeth Chabot Sound Design and Original Music by Jerome Ellis Lighting by Kate McGee Makeup and Styling by Naomi Miyoko Raddatz WHO’S WHO KNUD ADAMS (director & production ELIZA BENT * is a writer and performer. JEROME ELLIS (sound design and designer) is a director of new and Bent’s plays have been developed, original music) is an Afro-Caribbean experimental plays. Previously with workshopped, and produced at Abrons composer, improviser, and theater Eliza Bent, he directed On a Clear Day Arts Center, JACK, the Bushwick Starr, artist. He creates and performs concert, I Can See to Elba (The New Ohio) and the Atlantic, and the New Ohio. Awards: ambient, and electronic music, and is Asleep at the Wheel (Brooklyn College). 2014 Payne Award for Outstanding one half of the live music and storytelling Other recent productions: Asshole by Theatrical Event (The Beyonce), Time duo James and Jerome. As a composer Justin Kuritzkes (JACK), The Workshop Out Critic’s Pick for Toilet Fire, he was awarded a 2015 Fulbright by Torrey Townsend (Soft Focus, New LMCC Process grant for Bonnie’s Last Fellowship to research traditional samba York Times Critics’ Pick), Every Angel is Flight. Residencies: MacDowell Colony, performance and write new music in Brutal by Julia Jarcho (Clubbed Thumb), SPACE on Ryder Farm “Working Farm,” Salvador, Brazil. Recent projects include Tom & Eliza by Celine Song (JACK), Snore Target Margin Institute, New Georges MUSEUM: Lecture at The Brick in NYC by Max Posner (Juilliard), An Intimate Audrey residency, artist-in- residence with James Harrison Monaco (directed Evening with Typhoid Mary by Carl at Abingdon Theatre, Casa Zia Lina. TV: by Tony-nominee Rachel Chavkin and Holder (The New Ohio), That Poor Girl “Arthur.” Bent is a former senior editor at Annie Tippe) and High Winds with Sylvan and How He Killed Her by Jen Silverman American Theatre magazine, a performer Oswald in NYC and LA (directed by Ellie (U. of Rochester), Krazytown by Jenny with the Obie-award winning group Heyman). He is also an apprentice piano Schwartz (NYU), and Salome of the Half Straddle, a frequent collaborator technician with Floating Piano Factory, Moon by Nick Jones (Waterwell). Adams with Knud Adams, and is an adjunct as well as a translator from Portuguese. trained by assisting some of the nation’s lecturer in creative writing at Brooklyn jeromeellis.com foremost theater artists: André Gregory, College where she received her MFA in Elizabeth LeCompte, Richard Foreman, playwriting. Next up she will perform in Sam Gold, Sarah Benson, and Rachel Ding Dong It’s the Ocean at JACK in May. KATE MCGEE (lighting) is a trans*everything lighting designer. Chavkin. He has developed new work elizabent.wordpress.com with dozens of theaters throughout NYC Recent work includes: Emily’s D+ and regionally, including Ars Nova, The Evolution World Tour Esperanza Atlantic, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed ELIZABETH CHABOT (textile panel artist) Spalding, A Hunger Artist (Sinking Ship Thumb, The New Group, NYTW, P73, is a self-taught weaver and fiber artist. Productions), ‘Aint No’ Mo’, Masculinity Playwrights Horizons, Playwrights She makes hand-woven textiles, wall Max (The Public Theater), 50/50 old Realm, and The Public. Affiliations: hangings, and large-scale art pieces school animation (Under the Radar, Drama League Resident Director, Soho focusing on an intermixture of textures The Public Theater), Sound House (New Rep Writer/Director Lab, Playwrights and the incorporation of found and Georges), My Lingerie Play (Rattlestick Horizons Directing Resident. Next up: Tin repurposed materials. Her work has Playwright’s Theater),The Mechanics Cat Shoes (Clubbed Thumb) and Marie been exhibited nationally in Ohio, North of Love (To By For productions), Kidnap and Bruce (JACK). Carolina, New York, and elsewhere. Her Road (La MaMa), Carnival of the Animals most recent project was Penelope’s and The Bremen Town Band (The Miller knudadams.com Room, a woven installation built inside Theater), The Hour of the Star adapted the historic bank vault at 21c Museum and directed by Dara Malina (Columbia Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. Stages), and Early Plays ( elizabeth-chabot.com Players/Wooster Group, Henry Hewes Award Nomination, with Aaron Deyo). WHO’S ALOHA, ALOHA SPECIAL WHO continued FUNDING THANKS NAOMI MIYOKO RADDATZ (makeup Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen was Abrons staff, Alaina Ferris, Aleksei and styling) is a makeup artist for developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm and Wagner, Aliyah Blackmore, Christopher film, television, theater, print, and had a workshop showing as part of the Bowser, Clubbed Thumb, Claire private clients. She began her career New Ohio’s Producer’s Club. Mazur, Dave Malloy, Eboni Booth, as a costume designer and became Emily Simoness, Freeman’s Creative, interested in makeup as a way to bring Jess Barbagallo, Linnea Hussein, Liz an entire character to life. She has Stevenson, Matthew Capodicasa, toured throughout the and Modesto Flako Jimenez, New Ohio, Nick internationally to Singapore, Belgium, Zeig Owens, Nikki Easley, Quinn Metal and Canada, as lead makeup artist, wig Corbin, Please & Thank You, Sam Breslin and hair stylist, and wardrobe supervisor. Wright, Space on Ryder Farm and Sasha. She was born and raised in Hollywood, California, and is currently based in New York City. naominaominaomi.com

* Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity

Actors’ Equity Association (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 actors and stage managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. www.actorsequity.org #EquityWorks ABOUT ABRONS ABRONS FUNDING Abrons Arts Center is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. arts in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. A core The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program of the , Abrons believes that The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts access to the arts is essential to a free and healthy society. The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education The Barker Welfare Foundation programs and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the British Council transformative power of art. The Bulova Stetson Fund Abrons values freedom of expression and creativity, ever striving Daniel J. and Edith A. Ehrlich Family Foundation to provide creative communities with a space that celebrates The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation diversity of thought and experience. Abrons aims to be an anti- Emily Davie & Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation oppressive home to people from all backgrounds and does not Exploring the Arts discriminate on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, citizen The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Inc. status, ancestry, age, religion, disability, sex or gender, gender The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust identity and/or expression (including a transgender identity), Howard Gilman Foundation, Inc. sexual orientation or any other characteristic. Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation You are welcome here. Jerome Foundation Jerome Robbins Foundation Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc. Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Mertz Gilmore Foundation Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Nulelìntàmuhëna gli paèkw Lenapehoking. Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Kulawsihëmo ènta ahpièkw. Stavros Niarchos Foundation We are glad because you people came to Lenapehoking. Tita Cahn Trust Live well when you are here. Trust for Mutual Understanding Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer Abrons Arts Center is situated on the Lenape island of National Endowment for the Arts Manhahtaan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape New York City Councilmember Margaret Chin homeland. New York City Councilmember Rosie Mendez We pay respect to Lenape peoples, past, present, and future and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the New York City Department of Education Lenape diaspora. We offer our care and gratitude to the land, New York State Council on the Arts water and air of Lenapehoking, and are committed to resisting As well as our numerous individual supporters colonialism and imbalance with Mother Earth through the support of Indigenous-led programming and Indigenous artistic practices.

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