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live-streamed from the State Theatre, Ithaca NY February 12-20, 2021

by Alejandro Ricaño | translated by Jacqueline Bixler | original music by Desmond Bratton

CAST Artists’ Collective Member, whose previous Cherry credits include A Cherry BOBBY Seth Soulstein Timedive, The Fan, and A Day. He spent numerous years performing at hundreds of colleges, festivals, clubs and theatres with his sketch comedy LARRY Desmond Bratton troupe, the Late Night Players. His site-specific short play,Monsters in the Closet, won the “Cultchivating the Fringe” award at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival, where his longer work that he wrote and starred in, Lost in PRODUCTION Place, had a sold out run the following year. director Samuel Buggeln Desmond Bratton (Larry) is a freelance bassist, composer and DOP/camera operator Jules Holynski pedagogue, guest lecturing at , on faculty at Opus Ithaca. When he is not teaching Desmond works to break down the barriers created by lighting designer Christopher Brusberg arbitrary distinctions of musical genres by performing and recording in many sound designer Don Tindall different styles of music including Classical Chamber Music, Jazz and Folk. costume designer Sasha Oliveau Following a third album release in 2018 with singer songwriter Travis Knapp, Desmond toured the UK and Europe with a folk group including Double Bass, prerecorded video designer/editor Darcy Rose Banjo, and Percussion. live video designer Noah Elman Alejandro Ricaño (Playwright) is one of Mexico’s most successful environment/properties team Deletris Bryant and well-known playwrights. He began writing plays at an early age and Anna Cunningham by the time he was thirty had won several of Mexico’s most prestigious Anna Fredrick awards for dramatic writing: Premio Emilio Carballido for Más pequeños que el Guggenheim/Smaller Than the Guggenheim (2008); Premio Víctor Hugo Thomas Jenkeleit Rascón Banda for Fractales/Fractals (2011); Premio INBA for El amor de las stage manager Jen Schilansky luciérnagas/Love of Fireflies(2011). Ricaño has also been the recipient of assistant stage manager/deck crew Chris Griswold several grants, among them FONCA’s Young Creators program, the Antonio assistant director Paul Andrews Gala Foundation in Spain, the Lark Play Development Center in New York, and CONACYT (Mexico’s National Council on Science and Technology). assistant sound designer Jacob Sanner His plays have been staged in many parts of Mexico as well as in Spain, sound mixer Rob Natoli Hungary, Belgium, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Peru, and Buenos Aires. light board operator Ri Bornstein alejandroricano.com press representative Emily Owens Jacqueline Bixler (Translator) is a Distinguished Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses on Latin American literature, culture and translation. Bixler has published books on Emilio Carballido, CHERRY ARTS STAFF Sabina Berman, Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, Mexico’s women playwrights, and trans-acting, as well as over sixty articles on Mexican, Argentine, Peruvian, and artistic director Samuel Buggeln Chilean theatre. operations manager Noah Elman Samuel Buggeln (Director) is a Canadian director, translator, and marketing manager Sarah Chaneles designer and the founding Artistic Director of the Cherry Artists’ Collective outreach manager Emily Long in Ithaca, NY. With the Cherry he has shepherded over 20 international and work-study associates Julia Machlin experimental theater works to US audiences. In NYC he is an Artistic Associate at the New Ohio Theatre where he has numerous directing credits including Jahmar Ortiz works adapted from French and Bulgarian texts. He is an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, a member of the international theatermakers’ network SPECIAL THANKS The Fence, co-chair of the English-language committee of Eurodram, and has Acting Out New York been a faculty guest artist at NYU/Tisch, Hunter College, SUNY Albany, , and Cornell University. www.buggeln.net Calf Audio Jules Holynski (Director of Photography/Camera Operator) is a filmmaker and theatre artist originally from Marcellus, New York who specializes in Ithaca College Department of Theater Arts cinematography and screenwriting. This has been her introduction into the Jeff Hodges Ithaca theatre community, and she is very grateful to be involved on such an Kitchen Theatre Company innovative piece with such a dedicated group of people. Recent film credits include: Not So Sinister (DP), Summer Work (Camera Operator), Saturday Night Mimi’s Attic Special (Casting Director, Asst. Gaffer). BS Video Production, BA Theatre Arts, Norm Johnson SUNY Fredonia. Rob Natoli Christopher Brusberg (Lighting Designer) is a lighting designer for State Theatre theater, opera, dance, live events and is excited to join The Cherry Art for his third show. Christopher has designed with the following companies: BandPortier (NYC), Opera Omaha One Festival, Annapolis Opera, Imagination Stage (DC), BIOS Wolftrap Opera/NOI, New Rep Theater (Boston), Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Seth Soulstein (Bobby) is an actor, playwright, and PhD Candidate in Actor Shakespeare Project (Boston), Company One (Boston), Caborca w/A.R.T, Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts, and Lecturer in Theatre Boston Opera Collaborative, Guerilla Opera (Boston), Gotham Early Music Studies in the Department of Theatre Arts at Ithaca College. Seth is a Cherry Scene (NYC). Christopher received his BFA from Boston University and MFA in Lighting Design from The University of Maryland. Please visit ctblighting.com for Manager of The Regulars (Jade Anthony Company 2021) and The Magic Flute upcoming design work. (Ithaca College 2021), Assistant Stage Manager of A Day (Cherry Artists’ Collective 2020), Production Assistant of p r i s m (PROTOTYPE Festival 2019) and Blue Don Tindall (Sound Designer) is a free-lance sound designer and composer, and a professor of sound design at Ithaca College. He is excited to (Glimmerglass Festival 2019), and Executive Director of RockHard Dance Company be designing his first show for the Cherry Arts. He has also designed for the in Ithaca, New York (2018-). www.cgriswold.net | [email protected] Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alabama Paul Andrews (Assistant Director) is a 2020 graduate of Ithaca College with Shakespeare Festival, Hangar Theatre, Signature Theatre Company, Illusion a BA in theatre and a BS in film. Previous Cherry credits include assistant director Theatre, Bridge Repertory Theatre, Working Theater, and others. Don is also an for On the Other Side of the Sea. Ithaca College credits include male understudy active member of the OISTAT Sound Design Group, USITT Sound Commission, for She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms, and assistant stage manager for Shifting and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association. Spaces Dance Concert and Antigone Project. He is thrilled to be a part of this wonderful team making theatre in a brand-new way! Sasha Oliveau (Costume Designer) Previous Cherry: costume design,The Shoe and On the Other Side of the Sea; assistant costume design, Testosterone and The Snow Queen (2018). Sasha is a fibers artist and designer from rural Northern Virginia. She learned to sew from her grandmother at 6 years old, and CHERRY ARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS began teaching others as a young adult. Having graduated from the Savannah Liz Carney Gordon Barger College of Art and Design in 2018 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Fibers, she President plans to continue her education in expressive art therapy. She works with slow, Jim Bouderau meditative processes to make one of a kind, abstract expressionistic objects Megan Omohundro and textiles that create therapeutic environments. Vice President Penelope Chick Darcy Rose (Video Designer/Editor) Collective member. Previous Cherry: Greg Carlson Kelsey Gardner The Snow Queen, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, Rule of Thumb. Darcy graduated Treasurer from UCLA’s department of Theater, Film and Television with a B.A. in acting Erica Steinhagen and lived in Los Angeles for many years working in commercials, television and Laura Miller theater. Her television credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Dinotopia and Without Secretary a Trace, as well as several national commercials, independent films and stage productions across Los Angeles theaters. She owns an on-camera acting studio in downtown Ithaca called Acting Out New York, (www.ActingOutNewYork.com). Cherry Arts Members enjoy an array of exclusive benefits, along with the Proud member of AFTRA/SAG. satisfaction of knowing that their support helps the Cherry continue doing our work! Learn more and join their ranks at www.thecherry.org/support Deletris Bryant (Environment/Properties Team) is a stage manager, director, and theatre artist originally from the Greater Washington, D.C., Cherry Blossom Members ($75+) Dane Cruz Metropolitan Area. They are, currently, a Theatre Studies Major at Ithaca College. Samuel Black Bruce Fearon A few of their recent credits include: Production Stage Manager for the English Kate Blackwood Martha Frommelt & David Feldshuh Premiere of “The Shoe” (The Cherry Artspace), Assistant Stage Manager for the Sara Buggeln Kitty Gifford & Mark Sarvary World Premiere of “Gather Ye Children” (Ithaca College), and Assistant Director Austin Bunn Kent Goetz Margaret Carney Joan Johnston for “Moments: An Evening of the Work of Douglas Lyons” (Ithaca College). Sara & Simon Catterall Andrea Kabcenell They are also the Resident Stage Manager / Associate Director for “Bangou Deane and Susan Cook Noemi Kraut Productions” - a San Francisco Bay Area / Zoom-based Comedy Club with a Jerry Cornwell Aimee & Johannes Lehmann focus on diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Jonathan Culler Laura Lewis Hugh Egan Kathleen & Douglas Long Anna Cunningham (Environment/Properties Team) is a multi-faceted Zillah Eisenstein James Wheeless theatre artist from Pittsburgh, PA. Select credits include How I Learned to Nancy Emerson & Roy Luft Lesley Williamson & David Coester Drive, Macbeth, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Duquesne University Red Christine Eng Masquers), The Heiress (PICT Classic Theatre), American Idiot, Heathers: The Kelsey Gardner Cherry Pie Members ($300+) Musical (The Summer Company), The Two Kids That Blow Sh*t Up, Proof, and Bruce Grieshaber Stewart Auyash & Patty Zimmerman Frédéric Bouché Cry It Out (Kitchen Theatre Company). Anna received her BA in Theater Arts and Susan Hatch Tracy Herrick Isaac Bowers, Emma Bowers, and Serena Communications from Duquesne University. R.J. Lavine & Daniel Graham Orloff Joe Lombardi Janice and Richard Geddes Anna Fredrick (Environment/Properties Team) is a junior B.F.A. theatre Lindsay Mercer Ann & Daniel Gold production and design major at Ithaca College. She’s from Evanston, IL, and this Lauren O’Connell David Kramer is her first production with the Cherry! Her other credits include assistant scenic Megan Omohundro Dave Kraskow & Liz Hess charge for Sister Act, scenic artist for Dido and Aeneas, props crew for Marisol, Jim and Dianne Orcutt Judith Pratt and electrician for Ragtime, all at Ithaca College. Amy Reading Jens Wennberg David Ritchie Thomas Jenkeleit (Environment/Properties Team) is a third year Mihal Ronen Cherry Tree Members ($500+) theatrical production and design student at Ithaca College from New York City. Karen Rodriguez Greg Carlson This is their first production with the Cherry Arts and could not be more excited AJ Sage Rachel Lampert & David Squires Gale Steinhart Sally McConnell-Ginet to be back in a theater! Previous Ithaca College Theater Arts credits include: Anonymous Moments: An Evening of Work by Douglas Lyons (Media Design), Gather Ye’ Jennifer Tennant David Winitsky Chrissie Schelhas-Miller & Jim Miller Children (Scenic Design), Marie Antonette (Asst. Scenic Design), Hedda Gabler Joel & Kathy Zumoff (Prop Master), Everybody (Asst. Prop Master), Sender (Asst. Prop Master). Whitham Planning & Design, PLLC Cherry Royale Members ($1000+) Gordon Barger Noah Elman (Live Video Designer) recently graduated from SUNY Elissa Cogan & Barry Chester Fredonia and has come back to his hometown of Ithaca to pursue stage Cherry Tart Members ($150+) Linda & Lincoln Adams Shelley & Ron Cooper and film directing. He is thrilled to be working with The Cherry and with this Leslie Adelson Diana Riesman amazing group of creators. Stage directing credits: Two Gentlemen of Verona Susannah Berryman Stacia Zabusky & Donald Spector (Shakespeare on the Lake), The Pillowman (SUNY Fredonia’s PAC); Assistant Shelley Blackler directing credits: A Christmas Carol (Hangar Theatre), The Skriker (House Jim Bouderau Cherry Orchard Members of Ithaqua), Hamlet (Shakespeare on the Lake), Legally Blonde Jr., Alice in Eric Brooks ($5000+) Liz Carney Carlynn Houghton Wonderland Jr., and Seussical Kids (all with Playground Drama Camp). Film Nick Salvato & Samuel Buggeln directing credits include: re/act, White River; BFA Acting, SUNY Fredonia. Debbie Castillo Penelope A. Chick Jen Schilansky (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with The Cherry in this wild new format. Previous work for the Cherry Artspace includes The is an ensemble of Ithaca- Fan, and Felt Sad, Posted a Frog. Jen has been the resident stage manager for the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca since 2012. KTC production favorites include: The area professional theatre Royale, Ironbound, Brawler, Birds of East Africa, Hand to God, Peter and the artists, creating work that Starcatcher, The Mountaintop, Paloma, The Whipping Man, and Brian Dykstra is radically local, radically global, and formally innovative. We benefit from Selling Out. She has also served as the the Production Stage Manager for the generous support of the Cherry Arts, Inc, a non-profit arts facilitating the Hangar Theatre’s Pride and Prejudice, Dégagé, and A Doll’s House Part 2. Prior to moving to Ithaca, she spent five years as the resident stage manager organization who programs the flexible, multidisciplinary Cherry Artspace, at for Stageworks Theater in Hudson, as well as Stage Managing for Half Moon 102 Cherry St in Ithaca’s West End. Follow us on social Theater in Poughkeepsie and Bard College. media or visit www.thecherry.org to learn more. Chris Griswold (Assistant Stage Manager/Deck Crew) is a multi-genre Stage Manager and community organizer in his final year at Ithaca College, The Cherry Arts, Inc. is generously supported by where he is studying Stage Management and Social Movement Theory. Over the years Chris has worked in theatre, opera, dance, new music, and mixed media projects, and has found his passion in contemporary opera and new music-theatre development. His selected credits include Production Stage The Cherry Arts thanks our generous co-producers

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