Based on a New Adaptation by CHAY YEW Written by FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Directed by Granada Artist-In-Residence JULIETTE CARRILL

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Based on a new adaptation by CHAY YEW Written by FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence JULIETTE CARRILL|O 2011 THU-SAT MARCH 8-10 8PM | SUN MARCH 11 & 18 2PM THU-SAT MARCH 15-17 8PM MAIN THEATRE

The length of this production is 2 hours including one 15-minute intermission. This production is rated PG-13 for sexuality, adult language and violence. Please be advised that it contains loud noises. Before the performance begins, please note the exit closest to your seat. Kindly silence your cell phone, pager and other electronic devices. Video, photographic or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited by law. Food and drink are not permitted in the theatre. Thank you for your cooperation. The House of Bernarda Alba UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance About the Director UC Davis Granada Artist-in-Residence Juliette Carrillo is a graduate of the Yale presents School of Drama. She is most known for her world premiere of Lydia by Octavio Solis, produced at Denver Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Juliette has directed critically acclaimed West The House of Bernarda Alba Coast and world premieres across the country, including Eduardo Machado’s The Cook at Seattle Repertory Theater, Sam Shepard’s Eyes for Consuela at the Magic Theatre, Nilo Cruz’ Anna in The Tropics and José Rivera’s References Based on a new adaptation by Chay Yew to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at South Coast Repertory. Currently a member Written by Federico García Lorca of Cornerstone Theatre, Juliette has collaborated with numerous communities in creating work. Her most recent piece, It’s All Bueno, was an adaptation of with Candide with 54 members of the underserved community of Pacoima. Juliette was also an artistic associate at South Coast Repertory Theatre for seven years, where she directed regularly in their season and ran the Hispanic Playwright’s Malia Abayon, Maria Candelaria, Linda Chee, Project, collaborating with successful Latino writers across the country. She is Annie Dick, Alexx Folsom, Bijan Ghiasi, a recipient of several awards, including the prestigious National Endowment of Susan-Jane Harrison,* Jaki Joanino, Anna Kritikos, the Arts/Theatre Communications Group directing fellowship and the Princess Grace Award. Gordon Meacham, Bella Merlin, Hannah Sharafian, John Unrath, Hannah Victory, Anna Warnken-Brill, Marit Wilkerson, About the Play Dan Cato Wilson, Wendy Wyatt-Mair The House of Bernarda Alba illustrates the lives of a household of women ranging in age from 20 to 80 in the context of a rural Andalusian village at the Scenic Designer Costume D esigner LIGHTING DESIGNER turn of the 20th century. The characters must deal with the death of the father Rose-Anne Raphael Maggie Chan Kourtney Lampedecchio of the household, a marriage proposal, and the reality of what marriage meant in this traditional village, and they are all forever changed by what takes place. STAGE MANAGER COMPOSER/ FIGHT The House of Bernarda Alba, written in 1936, is part of Lorca’s well-regarded Skylar Collins MUSICAL DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER Rural Trilogy, which describe life in early 20th century Andalusia. Bernarda Dan Cato Wilson Durand Garcia Alba is loaded with discourse on oppression, sexuality and morality, which are illuminated through the struggle of a house of women. Written just before the DRAMATURG start of the Spanish Civil War, Bernarda Alba was finished just two months prior Christina Novakov-Ritchey to Lorca’s murder by the Spanish Nationalists. About the Playwright DIRECTED BY Federico García Lorca, born in Granada, Spain, in 1898, was a poet and playwright part of the Generation of 1927 along with artists such as Salvador Juliette Carrillo Dali and Luis Buñuel. Well known for his struggle with his own homosexuality, Lorca’s literature is rich with symbolism and beautifully constructed language. Granada Artist-in-Residence Prior to his murder by Spanish Nationalists in 1936 at age 38, he had written over fifteen plays, and published over fifteen collections of poetry. Produced by special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials supplied by WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. CAST (in order of appearance) PERFORMER BIOS is his first production in the UC Davis Main Theatre. In his free time he MALIA ABAYON (Adela) is Blanca...... HANNAH VICTORY enjoys snowboarding, rock climbing, excited to be in her last show as an swimming, and writing and directing Poncia...... MARIA CANDELARIA undergraduate at UC Davis! As a short films. Bernarda...... SUSAN-JANE HARRISON* dramatic art major minoring in human Adela...... MALIA ABAYON development, her previous UCD roles BIJAN GHIASI (Chorus) Bijan Martirio...... MARIT WILKERSON have included Ophelia in Rosencrantz Ghiasi is a third year dramatic art Amelia...... JAKI JOANINO and Guildenstern Are Dead and The and English major. He is interested in Magdalena...... WENDY WYATT-MAIR Acid Queen in The Who’sTommy. acting, creative writing, music, semi- Angustias...... ANNA KRITIKOS spicy foods, and the occasional mental Maria Josefa...... BELLA MERLIN MARIA CANDELARIA (Poncia) math problem. His past credits include is in her first year of the MFA acting Rumors, All’s Well that Ends Well, program. This is her first production (Un)Civil (Dis)Obedience, and The Chorus (in alphabetical order) at UC Davis. She comes with years Moby Dick Variations. If he stole your of acting experience, primarily in purse in Moby Dick... apologies. Enjoy Linda Chee the San Francisco Bay Area, and yet the show! Annie Dick appreciates immensely the training and Alexx Folsom learning opportunities afforded to her SUSAN-JANE HARRISON Bijan Ghiasi here in the Department of Theatre and (Bernarda) is a first year MFA Gordon Meacham Dance. dramatic art candidate. She trained Hannah Sharafian as an actress at The Royal Academy Anna Warnken-Brill LINDA CHEE (Chorus) is thrilled of Dramatic Art in London. She has to be in her first show ever at UC John Unrath worked professionally as an actor and Davis. A freshman double-majoring Dan Cato Wilson playwright in the UK and the Bay in dramatic art and managerial Area, including The Royal National economics, she is looking forward to Theatre, The Aurora Theater Company, many more shows over the next three Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California years. *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Shakespeare Theater, ACT, Center Rep, and A Travelling Jewish Theater Managers in the United States. Actors ’Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, ANNIE DICK (Chorus) is a among others. Her writing has been represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity sophomore dramatic art major here produced by the BBC. She is co- seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential compo- at UC Davis and this is her first play founder of Chaotic Cabal, and has nent of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a through the university department. been artistic director and dancer with wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the She is very excited to be a part of this Bollywood Groove. AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts production. Some of her past favorite unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org. roles include Portia from Julius JAKI JOANINO (Amelia) is a third Caesar, Elizabeth Bennet from Pride year dramatic art and political science and Prejudice, and Florence Unger in double major. She was last seen in the Special Thanks The Odd Couple: Female Version. Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of The Zona Rosa Project Frances McCormack for lending us her painting “Casa Milagro” ALEXX FOLSOM (Chorus) is a and (UN)Civil (DIS)Obedience. She junior at UC Davis. He is majoring loves theatre and its ability to touch Sacramento Theatre Company for lending us the star drop. in dramatic art and minoring in people’s lives, grow empathy, and history. He has previous theatrical influence social change. One day we experience from high school, but this can all be free! ANNA KRITKOS (Angustias) is a Music’s Bluebeard’s Castle. She is from the Bridge, a Tragedian in UC WENDY WYATT-MAIR (Magdalena) second year undergraduate pursuing a also involved in Studio 301, a student Davis’ production of Stoppard’s is a sophomore dramatic art major. This double major in managerial economics production company here at UC Davis. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is her first role on the UCD Main Stage. and theatre. She performed in Studio are Dead last quarter and various Previous stage appearances include 301’s production of Rumors last year, JOHN UNRATH (Chorus) is very devised projects including work at Demetrius in A Midsummer’s Night in a few Dead Arts Society showcases, happy to have the opportunity to be the Bloomsbury Theatre, Croydon Dream, Miranda in the Tempest, Van as well as in the Edge Performance a member of this cast of The House Worskshop, Fairfield Halls and Oval Helsing in Dracula, and Estelle in No Festival in Karen Baldoremo’s The of Bernarda Alba! His recent stage Theatre in London. Exit. Ballad of a Tangerine. She appeared in credits include Pagliacci and Rigoletto ANNA WARNKEN-BRILL (Chorus) (UN)civil (DIS)obedience in the fall, (Chorus) with the Sacramento Opera, is so excited to be in her first CONCEPT ARTIST BIOS The Who’s Tommy (Minister) and and will be in the Edge Performance department production here at UC MAGGIE CHAN (Costume Designer) Oklahoma! (Chalmers) at UC Davis, Festival again next quarter. She Davis. As a sophomore communication is a second-year MFA design candidate and Hair (Tribe) with Studio 301. is honored to be involved in this and design double major, she has in Dramatic Art. Her undergraduate Previous productions also include production. performed in the Dead Arts Society’s emphasis was in visual arts-media Godspell, Into the Woods, The Most Fall Showcase and can’t wait to be at UC San Diego. She has designed GORDON MEACHAM (Chorus) is Happy Fella, and 12 Angry Jurors. A involved in more productions here at Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are an actor studying political science at life-long musician, John has performed Davis. Dead, The Moby Dick Variations, Body UC Davis. Do not think too hard about with the Kantorei of the Chapel of the of Knowledge, and Hinterland at UC that. This is Gordon’s fourth show with Resurrection at Valparaiso University, MARIT WILKERSON (Martirio) is Davis. She also designed The Laramie the UC Davis Department of Theatre the Queens’ College Chapel Choir making her UCD stage debut with Project and The Asian American and Dance and you may have seen of the University of Cambridge, and this production and can’t stop doing Theater Festival at UC San Diego. She him previously as Thierry in Sideshow the Cambridge University Musical a happy dance to celebrate. She last is very blessed to have such an amazing Theatre’s production of The Zona Society. At UC Davis, he is a 5th- trod the boards in the Sacramento design faculty that has really made her Rosa Project. He hopes you enjoy The year PhD candidate in social and Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer the designer she is today. House of Bernarda Alba and its social personality psychology studying Night’s Dream as the fiery, magical commentary. religious fundamentalism and creature Peaseblossom. When not SKYLAR COLLINS (Stage Manager) violence. onstage, she is wrapping up her PhD has learned a lot from his first stage BELLA MERLIN (Maria Josefa) career with the Graduate Group in managing experience with The is professor of acting here at UC HANNAH VICTORY (Blanca) is Ecology. House of Bernarda Alba, and looks Davis and the author of several books currently on an exchange year from forward to continuing to expand his on acting. Maria Josefa marks the the University of Kent in England DAN CATO WILSON (Chorus, theatrical repertoire. He has worked beginning of a season of mad ‘older’ majoring in dramatic art. She Composer/Musical Director), a junior on UC Davis’s The Who’s Tommy women, as Bella will be playing graduated from The BRIT School transfer from Santa Cruz County (Ensemble), The Zona Rosa Project Mad Margaret in Richard III at the with a Triple Distinction in Theatre. College, joins the Department of (Writer/Ensemble), and Rosencrantz Colorado Shakespeare Festival this Previous acting credits include: Garcin Theatre and Dance for his second and Guildenstern Are Dead (Sound). summer, directed by Shakespeare and then Inez in two productions quarter as both a performer and the He is currently treasurer of Studio 301 veteran Tina Packer. of Sartre’s No Exit, Yvan in Reza’s composer/musical director of this Productions and could be seen last Art, Elizabeth Malet in Jeffreys’ The production. It is literally a dream come winter quarter in their production of HANNAH SHARAFIAN (Chorus) Libertine, Mariana in Measure for true to combine his love of theatre Spring Awakening as Herr Gabor. is a sophomore dramatic art and Measure and Helena in A Midsummer with his passion for creating new English double major. Previous roles Night’s Dream, Anna in Marber’s music in the studio and live onstage, DURAND GARCIA (Fight at UC Davis include a Tragedian Closer, C in Kane’s Crave, Nina in all the while building a portfolio of Choreographer) is a teaching artist, in last quarter’s Rosencrantz and Chekhov’s The Seagull in two separate fresh tunes, fun friendships and good actor, and director who co-founded Guildenstern are Dead as well as parts productions, Hedda in Ibsen’s Hedda times. Luminarias Theatre Company (which in Gallathea and the Department of Gabler, Beatrice in Miller’s A View was twice invited to Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens). He has ROSE ANNE RAPHAEL (Scenic Production Staff choreographed about one hundred Designer) is a student of scenic and fifty acts of violence or comedic design in the UC Davis Department Production Manager ERIC STEGGALL mayhem for both stage and film. He is of Theatre and Dance MFA program. Technical Director DANIEL NEELAND a member of SAG and holds a Master Actively designing for the Bay Area Facilities Manager/Audio Supervisor NED JACOBSON of Arts degree. theatre community for over 10 years, Publicity Director JANICE BISGAARD she has degrees in English literature Costume Shop Director ROXANNE FEMLING KOURTNEY LAMPEDECCHIO and painting and drawing. Master Electrician MICHAEL HILL (Lighting Designer) is in her second Cutter/Draper/Tailor ABEL MERCADO year of the MFA dramatic art program Scene Technician/Properties BYRON RUDROW in design here at UC Davis. She feels Scene Technician/Charge Artist JOHN MURPHY extremely privileged to be studying Company Managers Avery Lincoln with the renowned faculty here and Jennifer Varat sharing her passion for the art of Head House Manager Erica Kalingking theatre with the other MFA candidates, House Managers Malia Abayon the artists-in-residence, and the rest OLUFUNMILAYO Alabi of the drama department that have Jaki Joanino become her second family here at Avery Lincoln UC Davis. Previous design works include last season’s Hinterland and Jennifer Varat The Who’s Tommy, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead earlier this Costume Shop Teaching Assistant MAGGIE CHAN season. Kourtney received her BA in theatre from UCLA, after transferring Stitchers Nicole DeVera from Santa Rosa Junior College where Lisa Gong she was a fine art major. She took a Yuko Kanai theatre class as a general elective and Kim Nguyen never looked back. She has designed for SRJC, Summer Repertory Theatre, Stock Assistant Anna Chalmers Modern Muse Theatre, and worked as a scenic artist for Capital Stage in Webmaster JASON PANG Sacramento, Folsom Lake College, Graphic Designers RUDY GARIBAY and The Denver Center for the KASSIE HOELPER Performing Arts. Publicity Assistant ROBIN MIGDOL Photographers Timmy Huynh Brian Nguyen

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