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AS I REMEMBER IT About the Artists Paul Crewes Rachel Fine CARMEN DE LAVALLADE Anarchist, The 1940's Radio Hour, Happy End, Artistic Director Managing Director Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theater, and Portland has had an unparalleled career Dinner at Eight, Golden Boy, Hughie and The Boys Center Stage, among others. Mimi’s designs for in dance, theater, film and Next Door (Drama Desk Nomination). He has been dance have been presented in Taiwan, the PRESENTS television beginning in her featured in fifty plus films including" The Deer Netherlands and Russia. Her work has been hometown of Los Angeles Hunter," "Presumed Innocent," "The Naked Gun," presented at the Prague Quadrennial, and her performing with the Lester "Natural Born Killers," "Benny & Joon," "F/X," sculpture was exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Horton Dance Theater. While in "Chances Are," "Big Business," "Batman Forever," Architecture. Lien is a recipient of a Lucille Lortel Los Angeles, Lena Horne introduced the then 17 year "Brewster's Millions and Splash," and his numerous Award, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design old de Lavallade to the filmmakers at 20th Century television appearances include "Law & Order," "The Award, Barrymore Award, Drama Desk nomination, Fox where she appeared in four movies, including Practice," "ER," "The Bronx is Burning" and "Rosanne." Bay Area Critics Circle nomination, and has been a "Carmen Jones" (1954) with Dorothy Dandridge and MacDowell Colony fellow. In 2012, she received an AS I REMEMBER IT "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959) with Harry TALVIN WILKS (Co-writer/Dramaturg) is a OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence and in 2015 Belafonte. During the filming of "Carmen Jones", playwright, director and dramaturg. His plays was named a MacArthur Fellow. she met Herbert Ross, who asked her to appear as a include Tod, The Boy, Tod, The Trial of Uncle S&M, dancer in the Broadway production of House of Bread of Heaven, and An American Triptych. ESTHER ARROYO (Costume Designer) is a Flowers. Her dance career includes having ballets Directorial projects include the world premiere resident designer at George Street Playhouse in NJ. PERFORMED BY created for her by Lester Horton, Geoffrey Holder, productions of UDU by Sekou Sundiata (651Arts/ Her mainstage show credits at the Playhouse Carmen de Lavallade Alvin Ailey, Glen Tetley, John Butler and Agnes de BAM), The Love Space Demands by Ntozake include Clever Little Lies, One of Your Biggest Fans, Mille. She succeeded her cousin Janet Collins as the Shange (Crossroads), No Black Male Show/Pagan 12 Angry Men, The Subject Was Roses, Come Back principal dancer with the Metropolitan Opera. She Operetta by Carl Hancock Rux (Joe’s Pub/The Come Back Wherever You Are by Arthur Laurents SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER has choreographed for the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Kitchen), Banana Beer Bath by Lynn Nottage, and The Sunshine Boys with Jack Klugman. Ms. Mimi Lien Esther Arroyo James F. Ingalls Philadanco, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, (Going to the River Festival), the Obie Award/ Arroyo also designs the Educational Touring and the productions of Porgy and Bess and Die AUDELCO Award winning The Shaneequa Company at George Street Playhouse, for which she SOUND DESIGNER VIDEO DESIGNER Meistersinger at the Metropolitan Opera. Ms. de Chronicles by Stephanie Berry (Ensemble Studio is also the resident Costume Manager. This is her Relativity Christopher J. Bailey Maya Ciarrocchi Lavallade also has had an extensive acting career as a Theatre), by Cassandra Medley eight season with the Playhouse and her sixth as member of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the (Ensemble Studio Theatre – AUDELCO nomination Costume Manager where she oversees wardrobe American Repertory Theatre at Harvard, performing for Best Director 2006), and The Ballad of Emmett and costume crews. At the playhouse she has ORIGINAL MUSIC BY in numerous off-Broadway productions. Her Till by Ifa Bayeza (Penumbra Theatre Company). costumed for designers Gregory Gale, William Ivey Jane Ira Bloom television and film credits include "The Cosby Show," He has served as co-writer/co-director/dramaturg Long, Theoni Adridge, Susan Hilferty, Jane "Sherri" with Sherri Shepherd, John Sayles’ "Lone for ten productions in Ping Chong’s ongoing Greenwood, and David Murin. Other works as DRAMATURGY BY Star" and "Big Daddy" with Adam Sandler. She and series of Undesirable Elements, and dramaturg for Costumer, include Broadway & Off Broadway shows, Talvin Wilks her late husband, Geoffrey Holder, were the subjects five collaborations with the Bebe Miller Company, Dance of the Vampires, by Ann Hould Ward, Boys of the film "Carmen & Geoffrey" (2005), which Going to the Wall, Verge, Landing/Place for which from Syracuse by Marty Pakladinaz, Ghosts by Kaye WRITTEN BY chronicled their sixty year partnership and artistic he received a 2006 Bessie Award, Necessary Voice, Boston Marriage by Paul Tazwell and Taming Carmen de Lavallade and Talvin Wilks legacy. Her most recent theatrical work includes Beauty and A History. Recent dramaturgical of the Shrew Extreme and The Master Builder by Step-Mother by Ruby Dee (2009), Post Black by collaborations also include work with Camille Amy Ritchings. Esther is also a graduate of Rutgers CONCEIVED BY Regina Taylor (2011), and the Broadway revival of A Brown and Dancers (Mr. TOL E. RaNcE), Darrell University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Streetcar Named Desire Hoo-Ha Hep Carmen de Lavallade with Joe Grifasi and Talvin Wilks (2012). She is also a Jones ( ), and Urban Bush Women ( founding member of the dance company Paradigm. Hep Sweet Sweet). He was a researcher/co-curator/ JAMES F. INGALLS’ (Lighting Designer) recent Lauded by numerous institutions, Ms. de Lavallade dramaturg for the 2013 Sekou Sundiata work in dance includes Front Door, Blue Sky [The EXECUTIVE PRODUCER received the Dance Magazine Award, an honorary Retrospective, Blink Your Eyes, and the Aunt Ester Wooden Floor]; Marathon Cadenzas, Perpetual Dawn, Anna Glass doctorate of Fine Arts from the Juilliard School and Cycle at the August Wilson Center in 2009. He is To Make Crops Grow (Paul Taylor Dance Company); was named by the Dance Heritage Coalition as one currently writing a book on black theatre, Waiting at the Station choreographed by Twyla Tharp DIRECTED BY of America’s 100 Irreplaceable Dance Treasures. Testament: 40 Years of Black Theatre History in the (Pacific Northwest Ballet) and Mark Morris' 25th Joe Grifasi Making, 1964-2004. anniversary revival of L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il JOE GRIFASI (Director) has worked with Carmen Moderato (White Lights Festival/NYC). Other lighting de Lavallade as a student, performer and director for MIMI LIEN (Set Designer) is a designer of sets design for dance includes John Cranko's Onegin FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2016 AT 8PM more than 40 years. Their numerous collaborations and environments for theater, dance, and opera. (National Ballet of Canada, San Francisco Ballet, Bram Goldsmith Theater include The Fifth Wheel at Fall for Dance, The Having arrived at set design from a background in American Ballet Theatre/NYC); Alexi Ratmanski's Don Banquet Years and A Midsummer Night's Dream at architecture, her work often focuses on the Quixote, Giselle and Ted Brandsen's Coppelia (Het Running Time: 65 minutes with no intermission Yale Rep and The Prince and the Butterfly for The interaction between audience/environment and Nationale Ballet/Amsterdam); Jorma Elo’s Bitter Suite American Dance Festival. His directing credits object/performer. She is an artistic associate with (Hubbard Street/Chicago, Finnish National Ballet); include One Slight Hitch by Lewis Black Pig Iron Theatre Company and the Civilians, and Fluid Canvas and Split Sides, with music by Radiohead As I Remember It World Premiere: June 20, 2014, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Williamstown), The Endgame Project (CSC), Max co-founder of JACK, a new art/performance space in and Sigur Rós (Merce Cunningham Dance Company); As I Remember It was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew Frisch's Firebugs (Colleagues Company), A Cup of Brooklyn. Recent work includes An Octoroon and A San Francisco Ballet (10 world premieres for the 75th W. Mellon Foundation. General operating support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional support provided by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts and the JTS Fund at the New York Community Trust. Coffee (Yale Rep), Heaven Can Wait and Triangles for Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About Anniversary Season) and several pieces for the Mark Two (Westport Playhouse), The Frugal Repast the Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep), 1812; Stop Morris Dance Group. Recent opera includes the world As I Remember It was co-commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2014 and originally conceived with support from 651 ARTS. The development of As I Remember It took place at the Baryshnikov Arts Center through BAC’s Artist Residency Program. Production residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center was (Abingdon Theater) and Nocturnal Admissions Hitting Yourself (Rude Mechs@Lincoln Center). Her premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's 27 and Dialogues of funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. (Stratford Festival). Joe's acting experience includes work has been seen around the country at Berkeley the Carmelites (Opera Theatre of St. Louis); Kat'a The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Accidental Death of an Rep, A.R.T., Wilma Theater, Longwharf Theatre, La Kabanova (Spoleto Festival/USA); Cendrillon (The PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 17 About the Artists About the Program ORIGINAL FILM/TELEVISION SOURCES Juilliard School); Tristan et Isolde (Paris Opera/Bastille, JANE IRA BLOOM (Soprano saxophonist/ As I Remember It "Stormy Weather" (1943) Teatro Real/Madrid), Hercules (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Composer) is a pioneer in the use of live electronics Creative Team "South Sea Woman" (1953) Canadian Opera Company) and The Indian Queen and movement in jazz.
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