incubatorarts.org Black Wizard / Blue Wizard December 5 - 22 Set Design by Mimi Lien Lighting Design by Yi Zhao Text & Music by Eliza Bent (and Dave Malloy) Video Design by Michael De Angelis Music & Text by Dave Malloy (and Eliza Bent) Costume Design by Oana Botez Directed & Choreographed by Dan Safer Sound Design by Dave Malloy with Stage Management by Maurina Lioce Eliza Bent, Nikki Calonge, Mikeah Ernest Jennings, Dave Malloy Assistant Stage Management by Eh-den Dinah Perlove & Andy Strain on trombone Live Sound by Joshua Chang Technical Directing by Derek Dickinson CORE: Hollis Beck, Siena D'Addario, Diana Egizi, Philip Gates, Victoria Press by Kippy Winston Giler, Tori Khalil, Amy King, Vanessa Koppel, Teri Madonna, Kris Opperman, Mark Taylor, Eleanor Hall Watson Executive Producer – John Logan Producers – Samara Naeymi; Markus Potter/NewYorkRep; Polly, David and Olivia D’Addario; Randy & Indra. The Wizards would like to extend very special thanks to everyone who bought their tickets in advance through Indiegogo, and the following additional wizards: Tamara White, Antje Oegel, Marit Sirgmets, Sam Pinkleton, Saori Tsukada, Paul Ketchum, Alaina Ferris, Oliver Butler, Chip Rodgers, Jason Craig and Natalie Kuhn, Kristina Satter, Jake Heinrichs, Gelsey Bell, Kevin Liabson, Nicholas Hemerling, Ari and everyone at Orchard Project, Brad, Tannis, Brett and everyone at NACL, Cass Collins and Jim Stratton, Samara, Brandon, Daniel, Shannon and everyone at the Incubator, Søren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Wittgenstien, Ray Monk, Gaston Bachelard and the Witts of Mac's class (u no hoo u r). Drinks by the Cocktail Weenies, Wil Petre & Mike Mikos Black Wizard / Blue Wizard was developed in part at the MacDowell Colony, the Orchard Project and at NACL's Deep Space. Preliminary video was shot at the Nehpawa Inn, Tannersville NY. www.nehapwa.com Eliza Bent (Writer/Performer) is a performer, playwright, and journalist. Recent plays include The Hotel Colors (Bushwick Starr), Karma Kharms (or yarns by Kharms) (Target Margin Lab series at the Bushwick Starr), Toilet Time with Eliza Bent (various) and Pen Pals Meet (Iranian Theatre Festival at the Brick). Bent is a MacDowell Colony fellow, a Bay Area Playwrights Finalist and a New Georges affiliated artist. She is a company member of the Obie-award winning theatre ensemble Half Straddle and a senior editor at American Theatre magazine. MFA in playwriting: Brooklyn College, BA in philosophy: Boston College. Dave Malloy (Composer/Performer/Sound Designer) is a 2-time Obie Award winning composer/performer/sound designer. His shows include Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet oF 1812; All Hands; Three Pianos; Beardo; BeowulF - A Thousand Years oF Baggage; The Sewers; Sandwich; Clown Bible; and (The 99-cent) Miss Saigon. He lives in Brooklyn. davemalloy.com Dan Safer (Director/Choreographer) directs and choreographs plays and other things and is the Artistic Director of the dance/theater company Witness Relocation, with whom his work has been performed in NY, across the US, in Europe, and Southeast Asia. His choreography has been seen in venues like BAM and in The Rite oF Spring with The Philadelphia Orchestra. He is the Head of Movement Training at NYU/ Playwrights Horizons Theater School and has recently taught at Princeton University and The Norwegian Theatre Academy. He used to be a go-go dancer and once choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Party. witnessrelocation.org Nikki Calonge (Performer) is the Co-Artistic Director of ANIMALS performance group, a member of Witness Relocation, and has had the pleasure of acting with theater companies such as Nellie Tinder, Hoi Polloi, Half Straddle and the National Asian American Theater Company. Training: People's Improv Theater; Patravadi Theatre - Theater Mitu, Thailand; Traditional Dance and Wayang Kulit, Bali; BFA NYU-Tisch. Upcoming: The Baroness Is The Future at Dixon Place January 23-25. bearelephantibex.com and nikkicalonge.com Mikéah Ernest Jennings (Performer) has appeared with Jay Scheib: Platonov (La Jolla Playhouse), World oF Wires (The Kitchen), Bellona, Destroyer of Cities (EXIT Festival Paris); Young Jean Lee: PULLMAN, WA (Chelsea Ttre, London); The Shipment (Sydney Opera House, The Kitchen, Int’l Tour); Caden Manson/Big Art Group: S.O.S. (REDCAT), The House oF No More (DTW). Film credits include: Sung's Pilgrims, Failing Better Now, Things That Go Bump In The Night. Nehaps! Andy Strain (Trombone): Born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, I reside in Oakland, California. I’ve tromboned for 25 years, in bands, orchestras, and bars; toured with Joanna Newsom, Banana Bag & Bodice, and tell stories to young audiences. I cannot do the splits, but can launch spit bubbles. I eat a soft-boiled egg and bacon every morning before practice in the park. My twin sister can do the splits and my older brother dangled loogies over our childhood. My trombone hero is Eddie Babb. I listen to the same album every day until it gets old. I love to play ping-pong and improvised music. Virgo, Autumn/Summer. Mark Anthony Taylor (Core) was last seen in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at New York University. Recent credits include Eterniday at La Mama and Backstage at Horror Drag here at The Incubator. Big thanks to the entire creative team, cast and my family. Kris Opperman (Core) is very excited to be working on her second show with Dan. A sophomore at NYU, Kris is grateful for all the opportunities she has been given. She wants to thank Dan for bringing her higher than she ever expected to go, the cast, and her family and friends for their love and support. Amy Rebecca King (Core) Amy likes poems / Her bio is a haiku / This show is for mom Eleanor Hall Watson (Core) is a sophomore at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (Playwrights Horizons). This is her second show with Dan, so you may have spotted her last year as a bikini-clad dancer in Eterniday. Hailing originally from the great state of Washington, she would like to thank her family for attending. Diana Egizi (Core) is an NYC-based artist. Favorite projects include Mothership Landing and Irina's Name Day Party with Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant, Built For Collapse's Nuclear Love AFFair (Ars Nova, Prague Fringe), and the 2012 Greeceworks Artist Residency in Athens. Upcoming: the goddess Hera in KingFishers, a dance-theatre project by VKL Dancetime. Vanessa Koppel (Core) is psyched to be a part of this production! BFA from NYU Tisch. Recent credits include NYTW: No Matter How Hard We Tried. La Mama: Eterniday. NYU: Let Love In, La Ronde. Producer's Club: Something Outrageous. Joe's Pub: Associate Producer for Never Sleep Alone. She has also recently recorded a Lurlene McDaniel book for audible.com. vanessakoppel.com Hollis Beck (Core) works as an actor and playwright in Brooklyn. Recent credits of hers include Peter Quince (Phoenix Players), and Kathleen Kennedy (Dixon Place). She also creates drinking games and writes movie reviews on her blog, For Your Inebriation. Much love to the cast, crew and creative team! www.hollisbeck.com Philip Gates (Core) is a director and performer living in Brooklyn. Upcoming projects include Oh, James, a solo performance exploring James Bond and gender/sexuality (Dixon Place), and directing a new play about the Donner Party (AntiMatter Collective). Assistant to David Adjmi. Graduate of Bowdoin College. Victoria Giler (Core) currently attends New York University studying theatre. Her most recent appearance has been in Eterniday at La Mama theatre. Teri Madonna (Core) is a performer, sound designer, and creator of original work. Teri is also a core collaborator for Serata, a bimonthly immersive performance that examines American response to authority. During the day, she sells crystals and teaches theatre to students in the Bronx. Siena D'Addario (Core) is so pumped to be in Blue Wizard/Black Wizard! She has been a mover and a shaker all her life, and she is so excited to be a part of this especially fabulous show. Siena is a sophomore at NYU and studies acting at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. Tori Khalil (Core) is a sophomore at NYU Tisch, in Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. She has recently appeared in Enterniday at La Mama Theatre, Instructions at PHTS, and The Secret Garden (Martha). She would like to thank Dan Safer for being an amazing teacher and giving her this spectacular opportunity. Mimi Lien (Set Designer) is a designer of sets and environments for theater, dance, and opera. She is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company and the Civilians, and co-founder of JACK, an art/performance space in Brooklyn. Recent work includes Beckett Solos (Hoi Polloi), Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet oF 1812, A Public Reading…About the Death oF Walt Disney (Soho Rep), Zero Cost House (Pig Iron). Lien is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award, Barrymore Award, four Barrymore nominations, and Bay Area Critics Circle nomination. In 2012, she received an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence. Yi Zhao (Lighting Designer). Past projects: Incubator: The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen (2009); New York: Beckett Solos (JACK), The Hotel Colors (Bushwick Starr); Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Princeton/McCarter), The Garden (Philladelphia FringeArts), La Prose du Transsibérien (Yale/Beinecke Library), In A Year With 13 Moons (Yale Rep), The Bakkhai (Bard), The Glass Menagerie (Theatreworks, Colorado), A Doctor in Spite oF HimselF (Yale Rep). Upcoming projects: She Talks to Beethoven (JACK), Labyrinth (Beth Morrison Projects), Republic (Hoi Polloi), Blown Youth (Barnard), L’Histoire du Soldat (Carnegie Hall), La Cenerentola (Curtis Institute, Philadelphia). MFA: Yale School of Drama. www.yi-zhao.com Michael De Angelis (Video Designer) is a visual artist who has created video, sound, costume, prop and set pieces for theater companies Half Straddle, Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf and is a co-founder and co-artistic director of ANIMALS performance group.