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Hootenanny Insert Premier Sponsor: Community Partner: Lighting Designer Sound Engineer Video Designer/Editor STEVE TENEYCK TODD HUTCHINSON KAEDE KAI KOGO Videographer Production Coordinator/Stage Manager Production Manager RACHEL PHILIPSON KAT TAYLOR ADAM ZONDER Assistant Director/Director of "Snowflake" HOLLYANN BUCCI Director/Curator SHIRLEY SEROTSKY Musical Guests THE BURNS SISTERS Start, pause, & rewind anytime! ORDER OF APPEARANCE 1. "Songs We Love” performed by The Burns Sisters. 2. “A Christmas Story" by Carrie Jane Thomas. Performed by Adara Alston. 3. "A Letter from Santa Claus" by Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain). Performed by Craig MacDonald with Katharyn Howd Machan, Jahmar Ortiz, and Sylvie Yntema. 4. “Golden Cradle” performed by The Burns Sisters 5. “Emmanuel” performed by The Burns Sisters. 6. "The Sermon in the Cradle" by W.E.B. DuBois. Performed by Robert Denzel Edwards. 7. "How to Spell the Name of God" by Ellen Orleans. Performed by Jennifer Herzog. 8. "Black Branches, White Moon" written and performed by Katharyn Howd Machan. 9. “Surrender” performed by The Burns Sisters. 10. "What are you Waiting For?" by Rebecca Barry. Performed by Marissa Accordino, K. Foula Dimopoulos, Kayla M. Lyon, and Gregg Miller. 11. "Food Shopping in Quarantine" by Sarah Jefferis. Performed by Sylvie Yntema. 12. "El Coquí Siempre Canta" written and performed by Sally Ramírez. 13.“Verde Luz” performed by Sally Ramirez with Special Appearance by Doug Robinson. 14. “Winter Wonderland” performed by The Burns Sisters. 15. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” performed by The Burns Sisters. 16. “Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle” performed by The Burns Sisters. 17. "On Track" by Suzanne Snedeker. Performed by Susannah Berryman. 18. "Mother Made Me an Actor" by Sankofa McLaurin. Performed by Jahmar Ortiz. 19. “Snowflake" by Jamie Wolff. Performed by Nicholas Haynes (special appearance). 20. "Snow Phobia," with lyrics by Rachel Lampert, music by Vivaldi, and video by Lesley Greene. Performed by Christian Henry and Erin Lockett. Special appearances by Natasha Bratkovski, Eric Brooks, Ellen Jackson, Emily Jackson, Travis Knapp, and Benno Ressa. 21. "Christmas Eve Falls on a Friday" by Peggy Billings. Performed by Colin Smith. 22. "T'was the Fight Before Christmas" by Firoozah Dumas. Performed by Najva Akbari. 23. "Night" by Jamie Wolff performed by Adara Alston. 24. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” performed by The Burns Sisters. 25. “Comfort From the Cold” performed by The Burns Sisters Band. ENCORE “Feliz Navidad” performed by Sally Ramirez with Special Appearance by Doug Robinson. “This Christmas” performed by The Burns Sisters. MARISSA ACCORDINO is an actress, singer and NAJVA AKBARI is a PhD student in Applied Physics producer. After attending The USDAN Center as at Cornell. She is originally from Iran, where she a child, Marissa knew that she wanted to call spent over half of her life. Persian culture has the theatre her home. She is a graduate of The always been a big part of her life and a major Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca (AWI) Meisner influence in her artwork. Over the years she has Program and of Ithaca College’s Integrated shared her love for Persian culture through Marketing Communications Program. Credits organizing and acting in several Iranian culture include: Connectivity Associate/House Manager shows. She’s excited to have the opportunity to (Kitchen Theatre Company), Production Manager/Teaching share the love with the Ithaca community. Assistant (AWI), Assistant Company Manager/Marketing Director (Hope on Stage, The Hangar Theatre), Marketing Consultant (Ithaca Fringe), Producer (various freelance film projects.) Upcoming acting credits include films Stationed at Home and The End of A Thing. SUSANNAH BERRYMAN has been a part of the ADARA ALSTON is an Ithaca-based actor, who Ithaca theatre world since 1980, as a teacher, was last seen at the Hangar portraying Shirley actor, and director. She has performed in or Chisholm in a virtual presentation of The Inferior directed over sixty productions in the Finger Lakes Sex and, prior, as Joy in The Skin of Our Teeth. area, and cherishes the artistic homes provided by Recent local credits include The Fan (Cherry Arts), the Hangar Theatre, the Kitchen, and the Cherry Emmett And Ella: A Doggone Mystery (Fitz&Startz Artspace. Susannah will retire this month from a Productions), The One Minute Play Festival forty-year teaching career at Ithaca College. She (Kitchen Theatre), and Pericles: Prince Of Tyre (Ithaca takes this opportunity to salute everyone for persevering Shakespeare Company). Additional credits include Doubt: A through the challenges of Covid and finding ways to continue Parable (Franklin Stage Company) and A Midsummer Night's to tell stories that are shared communally. "One day we will get Dream (Cider Mill Playhouse). to do this in the same room!" K. FOULA DIMOPOULOS (ze/hir) arrived in Ithaca ROBERT DENZEL EDWARDS, a Syracuse native, is in 2019 and serves as an advisor primarily for extremely excited to be back performing at the first-generation students and students of color. Hangar after what feels like a decade! Recent Foula is excited to make hir debut with the credits include The Fan (Evaristo), the world Hangar for this year’s Seasonal Story Jam & premiere of Still Waiting (Vincent), and CNY Pride Hootenanny. This performance marks hir first time where he was the featured vocalist. You can on the stage. Ze has previously consulted for catch more of Robert in the upcoming Redhouse Looking for Normal and operated sound and production of It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio light boards for Almost, Maine at Bas Bleu Theatre in Fort Play this December. Robert would like to thank God and Collins, Colorado. Ze is deeply grateful for those who have everyone else who has supported him to this point in his encouraged hir, especially hir partner, chosen family, and career. @RobertDenzelEdwards; www.robertdenzel.com the many folks at Bas Bleu, particularly Deb and Jonathan. JENNIFER HERZOG Credits Include The Skin of CHRISTIAN HENRY is a senior B.F.A. Musical Our Teeth, August: Osage County (Hangar Theatre major from Ithaca, NY. Ithaca College Theatre); The Saint, What Happens Next (Cherry credits include: Everybody (Somebody Artspace); Circle Mirror Transformation, First Day #3/Senses/Stuff), Songs for a New World (Man (Kitchen Theatre); Indecent (Cornell). NYC: The 1), Experiential Atonement: The Quiet We Keep Merchant of Venice (Jessica), The Cradle Will (Dancer 1), and In The Red and Brown Water Rock, The Misanthrope (all at Jean Cocteau (Ensemble/ Elegba (u/s)). Regional credits Repertory w/ Taylor Mac); Yentl (National Yiddish include: Mamma Mia (Eddie), Saturday Night Theatre Folksbiene), dir. Bob Kalfin; La MaMa, Theatre For The Fever (Bobby), and Newsies (Romeo/ Davey(u/s) New City, Jewish Rep, Prospect Theatre Co., Expanded Arts. at Cortland Repertory Theatre. "Happy Jennifer served as founding Associate Artistic Director for Civic Holidays!" @christianhenry100. Ensemble and The Cherry Arts. She has taught acting at Ithaca College since 2010. "As always, for Renee & Ci." ERIN LOCKETT is from Oakland, CA and is KAYLA M. LYON is a resident of Tompkins County currently living in New Jersey. Some of her with a theatre degree from Nazareth College, favorite roles have been A Midsummer but life took a different direction and landed her Night’s Dream (Puck) at Ithaca Shakespeare as a Financial Advisor with Tompkins Trust Company and Bee Trapped Inside The Company. She volunteers and works with Groton Window (Mia) at Civic Ensemble. She loved Jr.-Sr. High School as a director and assistant playing Margaret in Sense & Sensibility at the Hangar Theatre and is happy to join the Hangar clan director for their theatre productions, volunteers for the again in “Snow Phobia”! Cancer Resource Center, and serves on the board for Running to Places Theatre Company. She is excited to be a part of this event and is grateful for the opportunity to be creative in a world that so desperately needs artistic release right now. CRAIG MACDONALD is delighted to return to the KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN writes poetry on her Hangar stage. Recent regional roles: Untitled dragon patio when weather allows and elsewhere (Todd-Michael Smyth) and Once (Da) at when it doesn’t. As a full professor in the Pittsburgh CLO; All the Way (Senator Richard Department of Writing at Ithaca College she Russel) at Theatre Squared; Peter and the mentors students in fairy-tale-based creative Starcatcher (Lord Aster) at The Kitchen Theater; writing courses. Her most recent publications are The Game’s Afoot (William Gillette) Ivoryton What the Piper Promised (AQP, 2018) and A Slow Playhouse; The Crucible (Giles Corey) Olney Bottle of Wine (The Comstock Writers, Inc., 2020), Theatre Center; Dracula (Van Helsing) at Syracuse Stage. A both winners in national competitions. lifelong musician, he has created and recorded over 50 original songs with his band, Old Scots. His thanks to Lisa, who makes this all possible. www.craigmacdonaldactor.com; www.oldscots.com. JAHMAR ORTIZ (they/them/he/him) is a senior at Ithaca College originally from Willingboro, NJ. His GREGG MILLER is grateful to be previous Ithaca College credits include Shifting joining in this production, his theatrical Spaces: the Fall 2020 Dance Concert (Assistant debut. He lives in Ithaca, NY with his Choreographer), Hedda Gabler (Tesman), and wife, where he enjoys leaning into the Angels in America: Millennium Approaches unending adventures of life. (Belize). His other credits include A Day (Alfonso) at The Cherry Artspace, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon) at Ithaca Shakespeare Company, as well as Saturday Night Fever (Double J) and Newsies (Bunsen) at Cortland Repertory Theatre in Cortland, NY. SALLY G. RAMÍREZ is proud to be a Hangar Theatre company member. She has performed in COLIN SMITH is a recent Ithaca transplant. He is a three Hangar productions of Charles Dickens’ A company member at The Keegan Theatre in Christmas Carol as Mrs.
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