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Wanda L. Bass School of Music Oklahoma City & Music Theater David Herendeen, Artistic Director

SPRING AWAKENING César Carreño Emmy Daniels Luke Gilmore (Melchior) (Ilse) (Ernst) Book and Lyrics by Music by Based on the play by Original Broadway Production Produced by IRA PITTLEMAN, TOM HULCE, JEFFREY RICHARDS, JERRY FRANKEL, ATLANTIC COMPANY, Jeffrey Sine, Freddy DeMann, Max Cooper, Mort Swinsky/ and Jay Gutterman/Joe McGinnis/ Simón Gómez Villegas Rebecca Hundley Austin Jones Austin Lewis Judith Ann Abrams, ZenDog Productions/CarJac Productions, Aron Bergson Productions/ (Moritz) (Adult Woman) (Ernst) (Adult Man) JenniferManocherian/Ted Snowdon, Harold Thau/Terry Schnuck/ Cold Spring Productions, Amanda Dubois/Elizabeth Eynon Wetherell, Jennifer Maloney/Tamara Tunie/Joe Cilibrasi/StyleFour Productions. Director Music Director Choreographer Karen Coe Miller Matthew Mailman Sheri Hayden Orchestrations Vocal Arrangements String Orchestrations Duncan Sheik AnnMarie Milazzo Adamaris Lopez Kaley McConnaughey Anderson McKiernan Mark Mendez Muñoz (Ilse) (Adult Woman) (Melchior) (Hänschen) Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Jason Foreman Erin Wilson Landry Strickland Jacob Henry

Technical Director Stage Manger Digital Media Design Properties Supervisor Brian Coleman Rachel Reiners Jason Foreman Carlee Robertson

Show Sponsors

Marvona Easley Tavlin & Louise Bass Dr. Richard Sias/ Nasir Panjwani Samuel Pottinger Cara Redding Brianna Reed Michael Tavlin The Ad Astra Foundation (Hänschen) (Melchior) (Wendla) (Martha)

SPRING AWAKENING Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Kirkpatrick Auditorium April 23, 24 @ 8:00pm Co-Produced with the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment Rachel Schoenecker Hunter Semrau Kate Waldron (Wendla) (Moritz) (Martha) CAST OF CHARACTERS MUSICAL NUMBERS Moritz ...... Simón Gómez Villegas ◇ Hunter Semrau † Act I Melchior ...... Cesar Carreno † Mama Who Bore Me ...... Wendla Samuel Pottinger ◇ Mama Who Bore Me () ...... Girls Wendla ...... Cara Redding † All That's Known ...... Melchior ◇ Rachel Schoenecker The Bitch of Living ...... Boys Hänschen ...... Mark Mendez Muñoz † My Junk ...... Boys and Girls ◇ Nasir Panjwani Touch Me ...... Boys and Girls Ernst ...... Luke Gilmore ◇ The Word of Your Body ...... Wendla and Melchior Austin Jones † The Dark I Know Well ...... Martha, Ilse, Boys Georg ...... Alex Armstrong † And Then There Were None ...... Moritz and Boys Wesley Hodges ◇ The Mirror-Blue Night ...... Melchior and Boys Otto ...... Adam Morrison ◇ I Believe ...... Boys and Girls Eli Nash † Adult Man ...... Austin Lewis ◇ ~There will be a brief intermission~ Anderson McKiernan † Martha ...... Brianna Reed † Act II Kate Waldron ◇ The Guilty Ones ...... Wendla, Melchior, Boys, and Girls Ilse ...... Emmy Daniels † Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind ...... Moritz and Ilse ◇ Adamaris Lopez Left Behind ...... Melchior, Boys, and Girls Anna ...... Arissa Claire Brown † Totally Fucked ...... Melchior and Company Glory Curda* ◇ The Word of Your Body (Reprise) ...... Hänschen, Ernst, Thea ...... Kyra Gomes † Boys and Girls Kassidy Weideman ◇ Whispering...... Wendla Adult Woman ...... Rebecca Hundley ◇ Those You've Known ...... Moritz, Wendla, and Melchior Kaley McConnaughey † The Song of Purple Summer ...... Ilse and Full Company

◇ Friday † Saturday * Denotes a member of Equity Association Simón Gómez Villegas (Moritz) is a (super!) senior B.M. Music Theater and Music CAST BIOS Composition double major from Bogotá, Colombia. Recent performance credits Alex Armstrong (Georg) is a freshman B.M. Music Theater major. This is his first include Lucia di Lammermoor (Arturo u/s) and Only Human (Ensemble). Other performance opportunity here at OCU. He studies voice with Dr. Autumn West and recent projects include Songs for a New World (director), Fall 2020 Stripped coaches with Prof. Eric Frei. He would like to thank them both for being the kind Performance Study (director), Significant Other (director), and Keep Me In Mind and understanding mentors that they are. He would also like to thank his family for (composer/writer/lyricist). He would like to thank his friends and family for their unwavering support, Professor Miller and Dr. Mailman for believing in him, and the immense support and love they’ve given to get him where he is right now. the entire cast for coming together to tell this story. Enjoy! Arissa Claire Brown (Anna) is a sophomore B.M. Music Theater major from Wichita, KS, who studies voice with the wonderful Prof. Holleman! Previous credits include Wesley Hodges (Georg) is a first year M.M. Music Theater major. A native of Children of Eden (Eve), Significant Other (Vanessa), and June by the Sea (World , Hodges attended the University of Southern Mississippi where he Premiere). Arissa is so thankful for this opportunity to create amid the world’s earned a B.M. in Vocal Performance and a B.A. in Spanish. Hodges has been craziness, and she would like to extend her thanks to the creative team and crew, as involved in a wide variety of musicals and stretching from of the well as her family, friends, and teachers for all their love and support. All shall know Opera and to Turandot and The Mikado. Some of his Recent roles the wonder! include Billy Bigelow (), Curtis Jackson (), and Sam Carmichael (Mamma Mia!). He is happy to make his OCU debut with Spring Awakening, and César Carreño (Melchior) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major. He is thrilled to be it has been such a pleasure to work with such a wonderful cast, crew, and creative making his OCU MainStage debut! Previous OCU credits include Dog Sees God team! Wesley Hodges is a student of Dr. Courtney Crouse. (Matt) and Little Women (Rodrigo). Other credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph) at Theatre Tulsa and : The Musical (Chorus) at Rebecca Hundley (Adult Woman) is a junior B.M. Vocal Performance major from Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. He would like to thank his friends and family for the , Texas. Her other OCU MainStage credits include Cosí fan tutte endless support and the cast and crew of Spring Awakening for such an unforgettable (Dorabella), Lucia di Lammermoor (Alisa), and Die Fledermaus (Chorus). She experience! studies voice with Dr. Catherine McDaniel and coaches with Jan McDaniel, who she thanks whole-heartedly for their boundless, loving support. She is thrilled to Glory Curda (Anna) is a freshman B.M. Music Theater major who is thrilled to be be working on her first musical at OCU, and overwhelmingly grateful for the part of her first OCU production! Onstage experience includes: Love Actually Live opportunity to tell this story with such a talent-packed cast and creative team. She (Joanna, For the Record Live); Disney’s The Jungle Book (Village Girl, World sends her love to her family and friends. Colossians 3:23. Premiere Tour); Ella Minnow Pea/LMNOP (Eugenia, Equity Lab/Staged Reading); The Ernst Real Love (Little Lihn, Pasadena Civic). Blessed to have older siblings, Riley, Piper, Austin Jones ( ) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major from Lost City, and Major, who insured she never knew a day on this planet without singing, and Oklahoma. He is beyond ecstatic to be performing in the OCU MainStage younger sister Saylor, her duet partner for life; there is nothing more inspiring and production of Spring Awakening. Austin is currently studying voice under Prof. motivating than their never-ending craziness and unconditional love. Special thanks Brenda Holleman (Holle) and Prof. Chuck Koslowske. He would like to thank his to her voice teacher Dr. Catherine McDaniel! friends and family for their endless support. Austin dedicates all of his performances to his Granny. Emmy Daniels (Ilse) is a sophomore B.M. Music Theater major from St. Joseph, IL, and she is beyond grateful to be in her first OCU MainStage production. You may Austin Lewis (Adult Man) is second year M.M. Music Theater major. Austin's OCU credits include Frederick in and in The have recently seen her in the world premiere of Adam LaPorte’s June by the Sea as Music Man The Phantom of the Opera well as in Add Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins. Emmy is a proud member of Dr. West’s . Credits outside of OCU include (Raoul), voice studio and would like to thank both her and Professor Frei for their incredible (Jesus), (Bert), Beauty and the Beast (Gaston), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), and many more. Austin has been blessed to perform with such training and support. Ilse has truly been a dream for her to play. talented individuals in this production. Luke Gilmore (Ernst) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major from the Holleman studio. He is excited to make his OCU debut in Spring Awakening! Adamaris Lopez (Ilse) is a sophomore B.M. Music Theater major from Miami, FL, Some of his most recent credits include Lucia di Lammermoor (Ensemble), L'amico who studies voice with the wonderful Dr. Autumn West. Previous credits Fritz (Ensemble), (), and (Gabe). Luke would like to include: Little Women (Jo March), (Maureen), and Sister Act (Mother thank his family, friends, his voice teacher Prof. Holleman, and his vocal coach Prof. Superior). They are so grateful for the opportunity to perform in one of their Koslowske for their continued support. He would also like to thank Prof. Miller, Dr. dream shows with such wonderful friends and peers around them. This has been Mailman, Prof. Frei, and the cast of Spring Awakening for making this production such a special learning experience. Big thanks to her family and friends for all the love and support and to her professors and directors for their guidance and process wonderful. Enjoy the show! care! Kyra Gomes (Thea) is a freshman B.M. Music Theater and Vocal Performance double Adult Woman major from Hilo, Hawai‘i. This is Kyra’s first production at Oklahoma City Kaley McConnaughey ( ) is a senior B.M. Music Theater major from University, and she is endlessly grateful to be able to tell this story. She will be Belle Visalia, . She studies voice under professor Brenda Holleman and Beauty and the Beast coaches with professors Charles Koslowske and Eric Frei. Her most recent this summer in her community’s production of . She would like credits include 's : A Socially Distant Concert-ish Version to send extra aloha to her parents, teachers, and friends for inspiring her, always. (), June by the Sea (Sara Klepper- original cast), and Zombies of Penzance (Ensemble). Kaley would like to thank her parents for their continual support of an artist's dream. Anderson McKiernan (Adult Male) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major. He is a Cara Redding (Wendla) is a sophomore B.M. Music Theater major and is beyond proud student of Dr. Courtney Crouse and is thrilled to be part of his first excited to be making her OCU MainStage debut in Spring Awakening! Some of MainStage here. Some of his past productions at OCU have been her past credits include () and : The (Ensemble), L’amico Fritz (Chorus), and Gianni Schicchi (Marco). He would like to Musical (Elle Woods). She studies voice with Dr. Autumn West and coaches with extend his thanks to Professor Miller, Dr. Mailman, and the rest of this very Professor Eric Frei. She would like to thank her parents for their unconditional talented cast and crew. He also would like to extend his thanks to you, the love and support, her sister for being her best friend and biggest cheerleader, her audience, for showing your support. Enjoy the show! dear friends for being her family here in Oklahoma, Dr. West for teaching her not only how to be a better musician but also a better human, and, most of all, Adam Morrison (Otto) is a freshman B.M. Music Theater major. He studies voice God for His countless blessings. It is an honor for her to tell this beautiful story. with Dr. Courtney Crouse and coaches with Prof. Eric Frei. He would like to thank Treat people with kindness. his friends and family (specifically his mother and twin sister, Sophie) for their Psalm 46:5. unconditional support and love. Spring Awakening is his first show at OCU, and he is so excited to be performing again with such an amazing cast and crew! Brianna Reed (Martha) is a senior B.M. Music Theater major. She is so excited to share this story with you. She would like to thank her amazing family, friends, Mark Mendez Muñoz (Hänschen) is a senior B.M. Music Theater major from Michael and most importantly God for doing life with her and supporting her Phoenix, AZ. Previous OCU credits include: (Everett Baker), Little through this show process. Past credits include: Songs for a New World (Man 1), Women (Mr. Laurence), and The Bartered Bride (The Ring Master). Regional credits Monty Python's Spamalot: A Socially Distant Concert-ish Version (Patsy), and include: Titanic: The Musical (Chorus) at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and Sweeney Pippin (Leading Player). She hopes to continue sharing great stories through Todd (Pirelli) at Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Mark would like to thank the theater after graduation. Enjoy the show! wonderful cast and creative team for this amazing final OCU show experience. Mark would also like his fantastic teacher and coach, Dr. Autumn West and Prof. Rachel Schoenecker (Wendla)is a freshman B.M. Music Theater major from Chuck Koslowske, for a truly life changing 4 years at OCU. Mark is also a founder Onalaska, Wisconsin. She is thrilled to be making her OCU debut in Spring and co-creator of the advocacy group OCU CARE, dedicating to fighting for equity Awakening! She’d like to thank her teachers and family for their constant for all marginalized performers. support, and the incredible cast and crew of Spring Awakening for putting together such a beautiful show during this pandemic. Eli Nash (Otto) is a sophomore B.M. Music Theater major at Oklahoma City University. He is currently studying voice with Dr. Autumn West. His most recent Hunter Semrau (Moritz) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major studying with Dr. credits include in Pippin (Ensemble), Lend Me a Tenor (Max), and The 25th Annual Autumn West and Prof. Eric Frei. He is the 2018 National Silver Medalist in Putnam County Spelling Bee (Chip Tolentino). He is so honored to be able to work Canada’s annual nation-wide Musical Theatre competition. He has recently with this awesome team and would like to thank Professor Miller for this performed in OCU’s production of Music Man (Jacey Squires - Quartet Tenor), A experience and opportunity to grow through the process of this show. He will Little Night Music (Henrik Egerman), OCU STRIPPED’s first Virtual Performance, forever cherish the memories made with this extraordinary cast and crew. and played the title role in his former university’s production of . Hunter was recently in his first professional role in Million Dollar Quartet (Jerry Lee Nasir Panjwani (Hänschen) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major from Grapevine, Lewis) at New West Theatre. Hunter is so excited to be living out his angsty teen TX. He studies voice under Dr. Autumn West and coaches with Professor Chuck rock fantasies with the amazing cast of Spring Awakening! Koslowske and Professor Eric Frei. Nasir’s most recent theater credits include Billy Nolan in Carrie the Musical (Casa Mañana Theatre), (OCU), and Kate Waldron (Martha) is a sophomore B.M. Music Theater major studying voice Susannah (OCU). Nasir is also the president of OCU CARE, and he plans to spend under Dr. Kelly Holst. She would like to thank her wonderful friends and family his summer interning and performing at the Weathervane Theater in New for their continued love and support, both near and far. Her other OCU credits Hampshire. include, John Proctor Is The Villain (Out Of The Box), and OCU Stripped’s Reclaiming and Reinventing. Spring Awakening is her first MainStage production Sam Pottinger (Melchior) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major, and he is thrilled and she is THRILLED to be a part of such a beautiful, transformative show. All to be joining the cast of Spring Awakening this spring! Previous credits include glory be to Him. Much love! Little Women (John Brooke), Crazy For You (Junior), June by the Sea (Dr. Allen Pink), Monty Python’s Spamalot: A Socially Distant Concert-ish Version (Historian Kassidy Weideman (Thea) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major and she is very u/s/ Ensemble), (Ensemble), John Proctor is the Villain (Mr. Carter excited to make her OCU MainStage debut in Spring Awakening. Kassidy would Smith), and Next Fall (Male Swing). Sam would like to thank Professor Miller, Dr. like to thank Brenda Holleman and Rachel Barnard for helping to grow her Mailman, Professor Frei, and Sheri Hayden for their incredible direction and voice. She'd also like to thank her beautiful family for always supporting her. support throughout this process. He would also like to thank Dr. Crouse and Chuck Koslowske for their constant patience and guidance, and his family and friends for their unending support. Also, a huge shoutout to the beautiful cast! You all are truly a light in this time of uncertainty, and for that, know you all hold a special place in his heart! Much love and thanks to all of you! DESIGN & PRODUCTION TEAM DESIGN & PRODUCTION STAFF Director ...... Karen Coe Miller Head of Design and Production ...... Jason Foreman ◇ Music Director ...... Matthew Mailman Production Manager ...... Jeffery Scott Cochran* Choreographer ...... Sheri Hayden Technical Operations Manager ...... James A. Stuhlmiller Scenic/Digital Media Designer ...... Jason Foreman Technical Director ...... Brian Coleman Costume Designer ...... Erin Wilson Interim Master Electrician...... Jenny Barrett Lighting Designer ...... Landry Strickland Scenic Charge Artist ...... Kalani Lewis Staff Carpenters ...... Matthew Dorman, Larry Huffman Sound Designer ...... Jacob Henry Associate Professor of Costume Design and Technology ...... Rachel Barnett Stage Manager ...... Rachel Reiners Costume Shop Supervisor ...... LeeAnne Metzger Technical Director ...... Brian Coleman Cutter/Draper ...... Christi Coufal Properties Supervisor ...... Carlee Robertson Stitcher ...... Natalie Jacobson Intimacy Directors ...... Kristopher Kuss, Olivia Laskin Rental Coordinator ...... Mariah Bowen Associate Costume Designer ...... Natalie Jacobson Properties Design Supervisor...... Larry Heyman Assistant Director ...... Laura Susana Tapia, Vangeli Tsompanidis * Denotes a member of Actors Equity Association Assistant Music Director ...... Eric Frei ◇ Denotes a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 Assistant Costume Designers ...... Maya Ferrer-Toolsie, Kate Hartigan Assistant Lighting Designers ...... Preston Hunt DESIGN & PRODUCTION BIOS Assistant Stage Managers ...... Claudia Campbell, Lauren McPherson Assistant Properties Supervisor ...... Katelyn Waldron Karen Coe Miller (Director) is the Assistant Director of the Opera and Musical Assistant to the Music Director ...... Jacob Waymon Theater program at OCU. She has directed twenty-four productions since joining Assistant to the Assistant Music Director ...... Reagan Casteel the faculty in 2009 including Le nozze di Figaro, , and Raskol, a new Camera Operator ...... Keith Hendricks play inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Ms. Miller began her career Wardrobe Supervisor ...... Emma Hendren at The Minnesota Opera, over the years serving as a stage director for the touring Wardrobe Crew ...... Holly Parker, Hazel Brady, and education department and artistic associate for a department created to Emma Krajicek, Sean Ghedi, develop new work. She is a co-founder of Nautilus Music-Theater, a professional Hunter Douglas, Ethan Drezner company in St. Paul, Minnesota, that creates and produces new work. Recent Production Electrician ...... Beckey professional engagements include the Dove adaptation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle Light Board Operator...... Grace Neal and a production of Hänsel und Gretel for Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis. Ms. Followspot Operators ...... Brandon Barksdale, Ore Oseni Miller received an M.F.A. degree in directing from the University of Cincinnati, Projections Operator ...... Alene Lautenschlager College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Electrics Crew ...... Megan Fouts, Jack Beckey, Andy Wilding, Clara Wiebe, Graham Darnell, Dr. Matthew Mailman (Music Director) is Professor of Conducting in the Wanda Preston Hunt, Kennedy Nichols L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University, a position he has held since Audio Crew Chief ...... Dilynn Stovall 1995. Dr. Mailman has had extensive and diverse experience conducting operas, Assistant Audio Crew ...... Harley Harris musicals, bands, , choirs, and chamber music. He serves as a Music Sound Crew ...... Lili Forest, Madeleine Pugh Director for the Oklahoma Opera and Music Theater Company and Music Run Crew ...... Peter Quinn, Alexa Cortez Director of OCU's Wind Philharmonic. Properties Crew ...... Catherine Garcia At OCU, Dr. Mailman has conducted forty- operas and musicals and Performance Manager ...... Richard Beam has led the Wind Philharmonic in fourteen world premieres, on five tours, at two Program Manager ...... Jeffery DuBey OK Mozart Festivals, and at nine convention performances. He teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and coordinates OCU's Masters in Conducting program. Recent opera performances include Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters, Die Zauberflöte, and Cendrilllon. Recent musical performances include , Rent, On The Town, and The Music Man. As Conductor/Artist in Residence at Opera in the Ozarks, he conducted Carlisle Floyd's opera Susannah in the summer of 2007 and Mozart's Cosí fan Tutte in 2008. DESIGN AND PRODUCTION BIOS DESIGN AND PRODUCTION BIOS Sheri Hayden (Choreographer) is a two-time graduate of Oklahoma City University Rachel Reiners (Stage Manager) is a Junior BFA Design and Production major with with a Masters in Nonprofit Leadership in Arts Administration and a Bachelor of an emphasis in Stage Management. This is her first ever OMT show with OCU and is Performing Arts in Dance Performance. She is a faculty member of OCU’s extremely excited to have been a part of it. Most recently she was the SM for Love renowned Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment where she and Information, Clowns, Lovers and Women in Pants, and Cymbeline, and ASM on teaches multiple dance styles and choreographs main stage productions. In 2018, and LYRIC’s Having Our Say (which she got the chance to call for a week), she was nominated for Adjunct Faculty of the Year. Choreography Credits: When We’re Gone. She would like to thank her mentors Jeffrey Scott Cochran AEA Spamalot, Music Man, Side Show, Sister Act, , Brigadoon, Broadway Bound and Courtney DiBello and her family and friends for all their support. (OCU), Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (CityRep/OCU), Meet Me in St. Louis (UCO), The Oklahoma Senior (OCCC), The Seven Last Words of Christ (Church of Laura S. Tapia (she/her) (Assistant Director) is a sophomore B.A. Theatre major with a the Servant), Trace, Hip Hop Nutcracker, Grace Trumps (RACE) and minor in Directing. She is beyond excited to make her Wanda Bass debut as (McAlester HS). Performance Credits: Internationally on cruise ships, with The Assistant Director! She recently directed The Dorm Room Plays, What Is God To Pollard Theatre Company in , with Tulsa Ballet in its North American You?, and in the Fall will be directing The House of Bernarda Alba. She would like to premier of Strictly Gershwin, +3 Quartets with Adam Parsons Company in Los thank Professor Miller for the wonderful opportunity, the entire company of Spring Angeles, Jazz Dance World Congress in , Trace, He Said She Said, Home, Awakening, and all her friends, family, and teachers who have supported her efforts. Energy, Seven Last Words of Christ, The Variety Care Benefit Show, Grace Trumps, Vamp’d, The Racey Show, Hip Hop Nutcracker, The Girlie Show, and Raceless. Film Vangeli Tsompanidis (Assistant Director) is a sophomore B.M. Music Theater major and television credits include Ne Me Quitte Pas, Cube of Light (Vancouver and is so excited to be assistant directing Spring Awakening! He would like to thank Independent Film Festival Finalist), Affliction, Love Exists, [dis]Ability, Osage 9th Professor Miller for giving him this opportunity, his co-assistant director Laura Tapia Anniversary (Commercial), and I Got a Job (Commercial) for being such a great partner, and the cast and crew for making this such a wonderful process. He is so proud of the hard work everyone has put in to bring Jason Foreman (Scenic/Digital Media Designer) is the Professor of Scenic Design magic to the stage. and Head of Design and Production at Oklahoma City University. Recent design credits include TheatreOCU: The Laramie Project, To Kill a Mockingbird, & Noises Eric David Frei (Assistant Music Director) is a pianist, music director, and vocal Off; OCU Opera & Music Theatre Company: Spamalot, coach from Oklahoma City. For the past ten years, Eric has delighted audiences in a Cendrillon & Side Show; City Rep: Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play, and Texas Tech dynamic range of styles from musical theater and opera to pop and rock. Eric joined University: Our Country’s Good. He’s an active member with the the faculty at Oklahoma City University as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach in Institute for Theatre Technology. He has worked as a designer and scenic artist for 2016. Prior to his work with the university, Eric served as the répétiteur and assistant Creede Repertory Theatre, Oklahoma City Rep, Oklahoma Children’s Theatre, West conductor for Tri-Cities Opera in New York. His past work as a music director and Virginia Public Theatre, Houston Shakespeare Festival, and Southern Repertory vocal coach include Songs for a New World, The Music Man, Spamalot, Evita, Sister Theatre. He holds his MFA in Scenic Design from California State University, Long Act, Sweeney Todd, Trouble in Tahiti, Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, Don Beach and he is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. Giovanni, and many more. Eric remains an active performer and teacher at summer music festivals including The Seagle Music Colony in upstate New York, the Taos Landry Strickland (Lighting Designer) is a Senior Design and Production major with Opera Institute, and The Oklahoma City University Performing Arts Academy. an emphasis in Lighting Design and a minor in Computer Science from Wylie, Texas. His past credits include Lighting Designer for Oklahoma Opera & Music Theatre Company’s production of Così fan tutte, OCU Theatre’s production of The Laramie Project and To Kill a Mockingbird, OCU’s Stage II production of and Silent Sky, Oklahoma Children’s Theatre’s productions of Night of the Living Dead and Dorothy and the Wizard. His past credit as Assistant Lighting Designer includes the Oklahoma City Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker, and Oklahoma Opera & Music Theatre Company’s productions of Susannah and Sister Act. Steven Sater (Book and Lyrics) was awarded the 2007 for Best Book of a AnnMarie Milazzo (Vocal Arrangements) Composer/lyricist: Pretty Dead Girl, Musical and Best Original Score for Spring Awakening along with the Drama Desk Sundance Film Festival. Vocal arranger: Broadway productions of Spring Awakening and Outer Critic Circle Cards for Best Lyrics. With alt-rocker Duncan Sheik, he and Next to Normal. Bright Lights, Big City at the New York Theater Workshop, and received the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show for Spring the Paramount feature film, The Marc Pease Experience. AnnMarie is a Grammy Awakening. In addition, the two received the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, nominated singer from The East Village Opera Company on Universal/Decca. the Outer Critics Circle, the Drama Desk, the Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, and Drama League Awards for Best Musical. Steven is the author of numerous Simon Hale (String Orchestrations) After graduating from the University of plays including the long-running Carbondale Dreams, Perfect for You, Doll (the with an honors degree in composition, Simon Hale’s acclaimed solo album, East Rosenthal Prize, Cincinnati Playhouse); Umbrage (Steppenwolf New Play Prize); A Fifteen, led to recordings with many artists, including , Simply Red, Footnote to the Iliad (New York Stage and Film, The Miniature Theatre if Chester); and Björk. In 1996 he orchestrated Duncan Sheik’s first album, and their Asylum (Naked Angels); Murder at the Gates (commissioned by the Eye of the musical collaboration has continued ever since. Simon’s involvement with Spring Storm); In Search of Lost Wings (Sanford Meisner Theater) and a preconceived Awakening marked his Broadway debut and the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations version of Shakespeare’s Tempest, with music by Laurie Anderson, which played in 2007. He continues to work with Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik on their other London’s Lyrics Hammersmith and toured throughout Great Britain. In addition to projects. For more information please visit www.simonhale.co.uk. Spring Awakening, Sater has collaborated with Sheik on the NY premiere of Umbrage (HERE), Nero (The Magic Theatre. Workshopped at the New York Theatre Workshop), and The Nightingale (workshopped at the O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference, , A.C.T., and New York Theater Workshop). He is also hard at work with System of a Down’s on a musical version of Prometheus Bound, to be directed by at the American Repertory Theatre. Sater is the lyricist for Sheik’s critically acclaimed album (Nonesuch), and together the two wrote the songs for Michael Mayer’s feature film A Home at The End of the World (Warner Classics) as well as features Brother’s Shadow and ’s The Cake Eaters. Sater is also a co- creator and executive producer, with Paul Reiser, of recent pilots for both NBC and Sony/FX, and has developed two projects for HBO, and another for Showtime (with Reiser). He is also at work, with Jessie Nelson, on a feature film and is creating an original movie musical for producer Larry Mark. In addition, Steven works as a Oklahoma City University is an All Steinway School lyricist with various composers in the pop/rock world— recently writing songs with Made possible by Wanda L. Bass of McAlester, Oklahoma , , Andreas Carlsson, and William Joseph. The Steinway grand in the Petree Recital Hall are a gift from Clark and Wanda Bass in honor of their daughter, Louise (BA ‘79) Duncan Sheik (Music) in addition to writing the music for Spring Awakening (2007 ______Tony Awards for “Best Orchestrations” and “Best Original Score”, 2008 Grammy For more information about any of the programs at Oklahoma City University Award for “Best Musical Show Album”), Sheik’s other theater credits include: Nero Please write Oklahoma City University, Office of Admissions, (Another Golden Rome) (currently in development), The Nightingale (currently in 2501 N Blackwelder, Oklahoma City, OK 73106 development), and (currently in development). Recorded works http://www.okcu.edu/music include: Whisper House (Sony/Victor 2009), (Rounder 2006), 1-800-633-7242 Daylight ( 2002), Phantom Moon (Nonesuch 2001), Humming (Atlantic records 1998), Duncan Sheik (Grammy Nomination “Best Make Vocal”) The video taping or other video or audio recording of this (Atlantic Records 1996). Film scores include: DARE (2009), Little Spirit: Christmas in production is strictly prohibited New York (2008), Capers (2007) and The Cake Eaters (2007). Producer credits include: Holly Brook (forthcoming CD 2009), Micah Green (2008), Spring Awakening Original Cast Album (Universal 2007) and Chris Garneau (2006)