Spring Drama Festival 2020 Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts presents This year is a year of change and moving forward for us. Spring Drama Festival 2020 The theater department has continued to strive for excellence and push the envelope. This year’s SDF season proves that - new works, controversial works and classics all in one season. We are so appreciative of our new principal’s LET THE RIGHT ONE IN support and leadership and we hope that this season’s SDFs will continue the By Jack Thorne tradition of excellence that has been established over the years by LaGuardia’s drama and technical theater departments. We are rebuilding, restoring and Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist reaching for new heights. All of the directors and the whole department thank Directed by Lee Lobenhofer you for your support and hope that you have a wonderful experience seeing this Movement Director - Ben Hartley year’s seniors continue the legacy of LaGuardia’s theater department. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN was commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland & Marla Rubin Productions Ltd and first produced by the National Theatre of Scotland by arrangement Lee Lobenhofer with Marla Rubin Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright, in association with Dundee Rep Theatre, Drama Coordinator at Dundee Rep Theatre on 5th June 2013. LaGuardia Theater Department LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company. Principal’s Note _______________________ Dear Drama and Technical Theatre Class of 2020, EMILIA In the theater of life, we sometimes find ourselves cast in unexpected roles, By Morgan Lloyd Malcolm or in the audience of an unknown play. This spring, the curtains fell and the set was pulled from beneath our feet. The stage went dark. Directed by Naima Warden How appropriate that through this time of intensified pain and suffering, our EMILIA was first produced and performed at equity lights kept shining center stage. How fitting it is that you will forever have Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on August 10, 2018. a chronicle of the real life yet virtual, hideous yet beautiful, devised theater that Produced by special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials is currently our world. supplied by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC. _______________________ I will forever remember the Spring of 2020 as the season where we are reminded of the timelessness and infinite space of love and wit. THE SEAGULL Now, lights up for . Let the Right One In, Emilia, The Seagull By Anton Chekhov Best, Yeou-Jey Vasconcelos Translation by Tom Stoppard Principal Directed by Mala M. Tsantilas The use of any audio or video recording device or screen recording software is strictly prohibited. -2- -3- CAST LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (in order of appearance) By Jack Thorne Tuesday/Sunday Monday/Sunday Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist Torkel .............................. Sadie Norr ......................................... Sadie Norr Directed by Lee Lobenhofer Hakan .............................. MacKay Mumford .................... MacKay Mumford Movement Director Ben Hartley Oska ............................... Ryan Failla ........................... Thomas Bellavigna Jonny ............................... Michael Barbieri ........................ Michael Barbieri Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Micke .............................. Alex Astort-Fabra ........................ Jared Dougall James J. Fenton Natasha Lustig Elijah J. Schreiner Jamie Amadruto Ella Pearcy Bully ............................... Leo Kearns-Stanley ............. Leo Kearns-Stanley Kurt ................................ Keryn Math ......................................... Jay Zahn Production Stage Manager Assistant Director Dance Captain Film Editor Halmberg ........................ Benji Timoner ............................ Benji Timoner Abigail Bernardeau Ren Liberta Emma Gonzalez MacKay Mumford Mum .............................. Mirei Dominguez ............... Annalisa D’Aguilar Eli ................................... Nikki Mokyeyev .............. Gertie Zwick-Schachter Director’s Note Jocke .............................. Leo Kearns-Stanley ............ Leo Kearns-Stanley When Ben Hartley and I saw the National Theater of Scotland’s “Let The Right One In” Avila ............................... Sokhna Lam ............................ Emma Gonzalez at St. Ann’s Warehouse years ago, we both were determined to put it on at LaGuardia because we were so moved by it. We tried a year later, only to find the rights to it were Nils ................................. Sadie Norr ....................................... Sadie Norr unavailable due to it being explored as a TV series. We now finally have had the chance Dad ................................ Leo Kearns-Stanley ............ Leo Kearns-Stanley to recreate it in our own way and it has turned out to be so much more than we expected. On the surface, it is a vampire story with violence and blood but we have discovered that Janne ............................... Jared Dougall ........................ Alex Astort-Fabra it is also an anti-bullying story, a love story and a coming of age story which happens to Jimmy ............................. Roan Cassidy .............................. Roan Cassidy have a vampire in it. Complexity and intensity make for great storytelling and this has both but also a surprising amount of heart. Yes, there is blood and violence but that is Stefan .............................. Sadie Norr ....................................... Sadie Norr only the surface of this story, love is the other half. Understudies Lee Lobenhofer Eli: Sadie Norr; Oska: Jay Zahn; Jonny: Jared Dougall Ensemble Cast members act as members of the ensemble when they are not performing in their roles Time 1980s LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is presented by special arrangement Place with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company. Minnesota LET THE RIGHT ONE IN was commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland & Marla Rubin Productions Ltd and first produced by the National Theatre of Scotland by arrangement with Marla Rubin Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright, in association with Dundee Rep Theatre, at Dundee Rep Theatre on 5th June 2013. There will be a brief intermission -4- -5- EMILIA CAST (in order of appearance) By Morgan Lloyd Malcolm Thursday/Sunday Wednesday/Sunday Directed by Naima Warden Emilia 1 ........................... Serena Phillip .................................... Lola Tung Emilia 2 .......................... Zaria Felix ............................... Karina Ordenez Choreographer Sara Buffamanti Emilia 3 .......................... Mikayla McClain ....................... Juana Almanzar Musical Director Larry Pressgrove Emilia Prologue ................ Nia Curd ..................................... Jadyn Francois Margaret Johnson ............ Gemma Marx .......................... Mikayla McClain Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Susan Bertie .................... Margot Krauss .............................. Gemma Marx James J. Fenton Julia Elcik Lilly Goldstein Tom Efinger Lady Katherine ................. Charlie Cole ............................... Alexis Taliento Zö Nichols Elijah J. Schreiner Lady Cordelia ...................Olivia Benoit ................................ Olivia Benoit Production Stage Manager Assistant Director Film Editor Animator Lady Helena .................... Alexis Taliento ............................... Kate Ivanov Natalie Nieuwenhuizen David Iacono Zaria Felix Leilani Bhullar Lady Margaret ................ Kate Ivanov ................................. Izzy Lapidus Lady Anne ....................... Olivia Benoit ....................... Olivia Wohlgemuth Director’s Note Eve .................................. Izzy Lapidus ........................................ Nia Curd Mary ................................ Lucy Machlan ............................... Lucy Machlan The graduating class of 2019 matriculated, exercising their voices and initiating significant change within our community. At the helm of the move were young, innovative, brave women. Judith .............................. Olivia Wohlgemuth .............. Annalisa D’Aguilar I was inspired by their efforts and compelled to listen to their ideas. As they stood together and Hester ............................. Margot Krauss ............................ Margot Krauss described what they needed from their education, their ask was for more meaningful Arts Flora ............................... Sophia Powers ............................ Sophia Powers experiences. They wanted the freedom to speak through their art form. Midwife ............................ Juana Almanzar ........................ Mikayla McClain Reading over 20 plays and 15 musicals, I hit a wall. No game or work would do; I would not Emilia (in Othello) ........... Karina Ordenez ........................... Serena Phillip settle for any show. These seniors are bright, and they have messages to convey and passions that Desdemona (in Othello)..... Lola Tung ...................................... Charlie Cole go beyond the theater. I began asking my theater network, “Where are all the good plays for an Priest 1 and 2 .................. Jadyn Francois ................................. Zaria Felix all-female or majority female cast?” Once Imogen Brodie, with The Young Vic, offered the idea for “Emilia,” I knew I would do anything to hear