About the Artists

Paul Crewes Rachel Fine 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 , 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 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, introduced the then 17 year "Brewster's Millions and Splash," and his numerous Award, American Wing Hewes Design old de Lavallade to the filmmakers at 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 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 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 , 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 , , productions of UDU by Sekou Sundiata (651Arts/ Her mainstage show credits at the Playhouse , 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 as the Shange (Crossroads), No Black Male Show/Pagan 12 Angry Men, The Subject Was Roses, Come Back principal dancer with the . She Operetta by (Joe’s Pub/The Come Back Wherever You Are by SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER has choreographed for the Dance Theatre of , 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 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 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, , 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 (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 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 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 /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 . 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 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 ( 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 Foundation, Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts and the JTS Fund at the 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@). 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

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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 . Her music for dance credits "The Golden Hawk" (1952) (Perm Opera/Russia, Teatro Real/Madrid), all directed include performances with dancer/choreographer ASSOCIATE PRODUCER "Abbott & Costello Meet by long time collaborator Peter Sellars. Recent designs Carmen de Lavallade, the Improvisational Dance Lucy Gram Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1953) for the theatre include A Seagull (Huntington Theatre Ensemble, and scores for the Pilobolus Dance "The Egyptian" (1954) I remember Company/Boston), The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Theatre, Paradigm, and Philadanco Dance STAGE MANAGERS "Demetrius and the Gladiators" (1954) "Lydia Bailey" (1952) Window (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Bruce Norris' Companies. She premiered The 5th Wheel, a score David Lurie & Gina Odierno "Carmen Jones" (1954) Domesticated A for de Lavallade and jazz quartet, at NY City Center's the first time (Lincoln Center Theatre/NYC) and "A Drum Is a Woman" (1957) Parallelogram PRODUCTION MANAGER/ (Mark Taper Forum/LA). Mr. Ingalls Fall for Dance Festival. Winner of the Guggenheim "Porgy and Bess" (1961) continues to collaborate with Melanie Rios Glaser and Fellowship for music composition, the Mary Lou PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT Robert Henderson "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959) I laid eyes on The Wooden Floor dancers, Santa Ana, CA. Williams Award for Lifetime Achievement in jazz, the "Ed Sullivan Show," 2014 Jazz Journalists Association Award for Soprano PRODUCTION MANAGER/ Season 13, Episode 18 (1961) CHRISTOPHER J. BAILEY (Sound Designer) Saxophone, and the Fellowship for ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER Carmen de is currently the Production Manager at George Street jazz innovation, Bloom was the fi rst musician Stephen Terry SPECIAL THANKS: Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ where he also commissioned by the NASA Art Program and an Geoffrey Holder, Leo Holder, Alison Slon, designs lights and sound for many of their main asteroid was named in her honor by the International ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER Camille Cosby, Jeremy Smith, Charmaine stage season productions and designs sets for their Astronomical Union (asteroid: 6083janeirabloom). Seth Reiser Jefferson, , Sylvia Waters, Lavallade... touring companies. Mr. Bailey has also designed for Her latest CD Sixteen Sunsets on the Outline label the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Family, , Rockell Metcalf, S. such and companies as: French Institute/ was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award for Best ASSOCIATE VIDEO DESIGNER It was at the theater in New York and she was Stephen Stevo Arnoczy Epatha Merkerson, Edward and Rudene Alliance Française, The Pearl Theatre, Barrington Surround Sound Album. She is currently a professor Glass, Funmilayo and Michael Brown, Karma dancing “The Creation” in four-inch heels wearing a red Stage Company, Primary Stages, the Minetta Lane at for Jazz & Contemporary Music in SOUND CONSULTANT Cloud, Alana Glass, Eddie Glass, Ezra Ezzard, dress. Sweeping, spinning, undulating, holding as still as Georgiana Pickett, Eleanor Wallace, Pamela Theatre, Premiere Stages, Palisades Stage, The NYC. www.JaneIraBloom.com James Anderson Bickford Theatre, Abingdom Theatre, Strand Theatre, Rapp, Steven Battaglia, Katie Gorum, Patrice a beautiful doe in a forest. My mind kept echoing, “Who Berkshire Theater Festival, Two River Theatre ANNA GLASS (Producer) has been involved in Christu, the entire staff at the Baryshnikov the hell is that and where did she come from?” This MOVEMENT CONSULTANT Arts Center, , Company, Ashlawn Highland Opera Festival, LKB the performing arts as both an artist and arts Dianne McIntyre Symphony Space, Ken Fischer, Ella Baff, was a moment of a young aspiring dancer meeting a Dance, Randy James Dance Works, Living Parables, administrator for 20 years. In May 2013, she Mary Lou Aleskie, Dana Whitco, Sean Curran The Gloria Maddox Theatre, The Rand Theater, The launched her own production company dedicated to PERSONAL WELLNESS CONSULTANT and the Tisch School of the Arts, Jean-Louis true master. I had met Fonteyn, I had met Nureyev, but Irish Repertory Theater, West Port Country Playhouse, preserving and documenting the legacies of Courtney M. Franklin and Mina Coquillot, Cheri Opperman, Rha to meet this glorious dancing Aphrodite, who emulated Longworth Theatre Company, and many more. prominent Black artists and cultural institutions, and Goddess, Amanda Spooner, Lana Turner, ASSISTANT TO CARMEN DE LAVALLADE/ Randal Jacobs, Nel Shelby, Christopher and reflected my own cultural identity, made me know reinterpreting those legacies onto multiple MASTER MAYA CIARROCCHI’S Duggan, Sound Associates, Tom Carroll that I could and had to go further. Carmen de Lavallade (Video Designer) work in platforms, including live performance. Anna INSTRUCTOR Scenery, Stephen Viksjo/Vixjo Design, James video, photography, installation and performance currently serves as Executive Director of the world- Regina Larkin Anderson Audio, One Dream Sound and David was the muse for Lester Horton, Alvin Ailey and her focuses on the impact of environment on identity. renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem. She previously Ferdinand, and Michael Griffo. And a very husband, Geoffrey Holder, a prima ballerina for the Recent projects include a meditative view of served as the Managing Director of 651 ARTS. While ASSISTANT TO CARMEN DE LAVALLADE special thank you to Talvin Wilks, Joe Grifasi, communities living in the coalfi elds of West Virginia at 651 ARTS, she co-produced numerous projects, Paul Pryce Robert Henderson and Charmaine Jefferson. Metropolitan Opera and featured in iconic movies and time-based portraits of formerly ultra-Orthodox including the highly regarded national tour of FLY: like Carmen Jones and Odds Against Tomorrow. Carmen PUBLICIST Jewish individuals who transitioned to secular life. Five First Ladies of Dance. Anna also has served as a Glenn Schwartz Contributors: de Lavallade exudes poetry, power and grace like no Her work has been exhibited in New York at: consultant providing strategic planning and Anthology Film Archives, Chashama, the Chocolate fundraising guidance to various non-profi t arts MANY THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS other. I had the privilege of choreographing her in a MUSIC CREDITS SUPPORTERS! Factory, Microscope Gallery, New York Live Arts, organizations. Recent clients include the Ford Mind Gray River, Unexpected Light, ballet called "Soul Possessed" and her dramatic skills Sasha Wolf Gallery, among other institutions and at Foundation, Urban Bush Women and the Weeksville Always Hope and Overstars Kyle Abraham, Germaine Acogny and proved as dynamic as her dance. I watched her, and like Artisphere, (VA) Hammer Museum (CA); Borderlines Heritage Center. She currently serves on the boards composed by Jane Ira Bloom & Helmut Vogt, Nicola and Denis Brathwaite, a mystical being, she made inanimate objects come to Film Festival (UK); Moving Pictures Festival (CAN). of Urban Bush Women, Movement Research and the published by Outline Music/ BMI Catherine Brennan, Camille A. Brown, Residencies include the Kala Art Institute (CA), Lower Association of Performing Arts Presenters. After Funmilayo and Michael Brown, Karma Cloud, life. Very few are born with the gift, as is she. The gift Cultural Council (NY), and the Ucross receiving her Juris Doctor from the University of The Creation composed by Geoffrey Holder Meg Coward, Indira Goodwine, Rudene and that she has continued to give the whole world for so Foundation (WY). She is the recipient of grants from Dayton School of Law, Anna became the Artist with vocals by Sam Harkness Ken Glass, Louise Harrison, Robert Henderson, the Jerome and Puffi n Foundations. She has Representative for the Dayton Contemporary Dance and Laurence Linda Ivarie, Alla Kovgan, Monique Martin, long. It is a blessing and a privilege for all of us to be received Jeff and Bessie awards for her work as a Company (DCDC) - a company she performed with Terrance McKnight, S. Epatha Merkerson, here at The Wallis celebrating her 85th year as she does ORIGINAL TEXT SOURCES projections designer and has collaborated with for three years (DCDC2). In 2003, Anna was named a Rockell Metcalf, Bebe Miller, Abbie Phillips, Francois Villon, The Old Lady's Lament for what she was born to do - touch people, inspire people, DeVos Institute Fellow participating in the John F. Georgiana Pickett, Sonya Pryce, Andrea Risoli choreographers and directors such as Wally Cardona, Her Youth, Translated from the French Ping Chong, , Merce Cunningham, Kennedy Center's Fellowship for Arts Management. and Jeremy Smith, Donald Rose, paint beautiful landscapes with her gift of the dance. by Robert Lowell Linda Ruocco, Shay Wafer Kristin Marting, Bebe Miller and Donna Uchizono She is also a licensed attorney in the State of New among many others. Ciarrocchi received her M.F.A. York. Anna lives in (Harlem) with her , Midsummer Night's Much Love and Respect, from the School of Visual Arts and her B.F.A. from husband and their daughter. Dream, (Titania - Act 2, Scene 1, 450-; Act 3, KEEP IN TOUCH & FOLLOW CARMEN! SUNY Purchase. Scene 1, 988-) Carmen de Lavallade Debbie Allen WALLIS BOARD MEMBER & ARTIST @CarmenDances , The Creation CarmendeLavallade Terrence McNally, The Ritz (aka The Tubs) www.CarmendeLavallade.com (Googie Gomez)

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