1 | PROJECT AMELIA Supporters Without these believers, Project Amelia would not be possible Henry John Hillman Foundation Simonds Foundation Charles C. and Anna Z. Jane M. Epstine Rita McGinley Burstein Memorial Fund of Charitable Fund of The Fund of The The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Foundation Startup Circle supporters James McCluskey and Hanni Cordes, James Kincaid and Nita Moots Kincaid, Susan and Jonathan Speicher, Roseanne Silva and Michael Tonkin, Deana Muro, Shelly Pagac, Allison Whitney and Brian Pietrandrea, Jeff and Marie Stapinski, Michael Ramsay, Lesley Carlin and Josh McElhattan, Maher S. Hoque, and Marilyn Painter. Bricolage Production Company is supported by Greater Pittsburgh Small Arts Organization Capitalization Pilot Program 2 | PROJECT AMELIA BRICOLAGE PRODUCTION COMPANY Staff Jeffrey Carpenter ..................Artistic Director & Founder Jackie Baker. Managing Director Tami Dixon .......................Principal Creative & Co-Founder Fred Frances .....................Audience & Box Office Manager Nicole Hall .......................Development Manager TJ Parker-Young ...................Facilties and Adminstrative Coordinator Emily Willson .....................Head of Marketing Michael Young ....................Production Manager Board of Directors Evie Gardner – President Ann Lapidus Allison Whitney – Vice President Shelly Pagac Charles L. Adreon – Treasurer Cori Parise Maher S. Hoque – Secretary Rod Schwartz Jen Fisher Susan Speicher Michelle Hoang Mission & Vision Bricolage envisions theater not as a passive experience, but as a vehicle for heightened involvement for artist and audience alike. Our approach encourages artists to take the creative risks necessary to create full-blooded, high-quality theatrical experiences that challenge audiences to engage in new ways, react, and express openly their opinions about our work – to have a stake in the creative discussion. The word Bricolage means “making artful use of what is at hand.” What excites us is the connection and interaction between seemingly disparate elements, and the potential for these components to resonate as one cohesive event. We use the distinctive resources of the Pittsburgh region to create theatrical experiences that stimulate a heightened sense of involvement for the audience. “What is at hand” is the city’s changing landscape, its plentiful human and material resources, and the salient political, cultural, and ethical issues we all encounter and react to each day. By combining different artistic mediums, nourishing local talent, producing provocative work, and facilitating audience engagement, Bricolage seeks to revitalize live performance for a new era. 3 | PROJECT AMELIA CAST & CREW Creative Team Jeffrey Carpenter ..................Co-Director Jorge Cousineau ..................Production Designer Tami Dixon .......................Co-Director Micha Gorelick ....................Engineering Director Olivia O’Connor ...................Dramaturg Michael Warren Skirpan ............Conceiver/Writer Design Team Hank Bullington ...................Technical Director Jorge Cousineau . Production Designer Madison Hack ....................Costume Designer Gwen Crew ........................Costume Headpiece Designer Eddy Man Kim ....................Architecture Consultant Carey Xu ..........................Architecture Assistant Rob Long ........................Lighting Consultant Matt Michalko ....................Aura Creative Director Rod Schwartz .....................Puzzle designer Jason Fisher ...............................Puzzle designer Jesse Stiles ......................Supervising Sound Designer Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh ..................Music Director Alexander Panos .....................Composer/Sound Designer Cast Mindy Cooper ....................Tonya Lindsay Goranson* ................Lily Catherine Gowl* ..................Swing Courtney C. Jenkins. .Felicia Sam Lothard .....................Michael David Malehorn ...................Check-in Agent Tim McGeever* ...................Don Joe McGranaghan* ................Evan Carrie Tongarm ...................Bo Jocelyn Wrzosek ..................Amelia *Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association 4 | PROJECT AMELIA Crew David Bangley ....................Production Assistant Amelia Benson ...................Costume Maintenance Amelia Benson ...................Wardrobe Assistant D.T. Burns .......................Production Assistant Piper Clement ....................Electrician Cory F. Goddard* ..................Stage Manager Emma Oaks ......................Production Assistant Engineering Micha Gorelick ....................Engineering Director Nathan Cochran ..................Backend Engineer Kevin DeLand .....................Frontend Engineer Christopher George ................Frontend Engineer Yaxin Hu ........................Hardware Engineer Peyman Mortazavi .................Engineer Luke Underwood ..................Senior Engineer Research/Technology Maggie Oates ....................Lead Researcher Aurelia Augusta ...................Researcher Daragh Byrne.....................Researcher Lorrie Cranor .....................Researcher Rob Cunningham ..................Researcher 5 | PROJECT AMELIA Interactive Media Eunsu Kang ......................Interactive Media Curator Own Up Auriela Augusta Interrogation Machine Robert Zacharias Entropic Elixirs Creator and experience designer: Rachel Eve Ginsberg, Full stack engineer: shirin anlen, Voltmonkey: Ryan Micallef, Design engineering: Minimal.ltd, Additional development support: Nolan Hil uBlob Char Stiles Better Friend Christopher George CONFi Emily deGranpre & Graciela Garcia Aura Protable Project Shailaja Patel, Allana Wooley & Victoria Yong formally Chappie and PlushiePal Aura Carbon Laura Rodrigueze Fido Kevin Thies & Chileshe Otieno Scenic Crew David Bangley ....................Lead Carpenter David JM Bielewicz ................Lead Carpenter Alexx Jacobs .....................Scenic Charge Piper Clement ....................master electrician Nicole White. master electrician SCENIC OVERHIRE Haydon Alexander Piper Clement Carly Long Max Pavel Randy Baker Katy Click Mitchell McDermitt Sadie Powers Amelia Benson Gaby Colwell John Michnya AJ Robbins Peter Brucker Thomas Feather Anton Miriello Deb Thomas Daniel Burns Max Lanksy Jessie Notarius Nicole White 6 | PROJECT AMELIA CMU Student Assistants Yixiao Fu Carey Xu Lukas German Ellen Zhu Yaxin Hu Marantha Dawkins Ryu Kondrup Immersive Companions MaryAnn Graziano Evie Gardner Elise Brown Heather Gray Alicia DiGiorgi Drew Sieber Jen Flaggs Bob McGrogan Mary Beth Levrio Marina Wright Ashley Rieser Karen Hannon Rianne Lindsey THANK YOU Bricolage would like to thank the following people and organizations CMU-affiliated Supporters Cylab Security and Privacy Institute Digital Fabrication Lab (dFAB) Dietrich College of Humanities School of Architecture (SoA) & Social Sciences Department of Philosophy College of Fine Arts Computational and Tangible Interaction Design Lab (Code Lab) Volunteers Randy Baker Alex Knapp Leo Basinger Rachel Pfennigwerth Sophia Batchlor Paul Price Karen Hannon Devon Ragsdale Bonny Kwolek 7 | PROJECT AMELIA Libations provided by Other Thanks Fernando Alquean Heather Ankley Alex Knapp BFD Dan Law Mike Baker Betsy Leibfried Tammy Baker Surya Mattu Storm Budwig MIT Media Lab/Center for Jacqueline Cameron Future Civic Media Stuart Candy Anton Miriello Carnegie Science Center Illah Nourbakhsh Kenny Chen Kentrell Owens Construction Junction Peter J. Renslow Patrick Cooper Maureen Rolla Lorrie Cranor Jen Saffron David Danks Pittsburgh Learning Commons Jason Fisher Quantum Theatre Yixiao Fu Izzy Rudolph Mike Gable Audrey Russo Karen Hannon Rod Schwartz Kira Harbourne Fitzhugh Shaw Natalie Hatcher/City Theatre Jeff Swensen Rebecca Himberger /Attack Theatre Kim Wenzel Billy Jenkins Jeff Yates 8 | PROJECT AMELIA BIOS Creative Jeffrey Carpenter, Co-Director Jeffrey Carpenter founded Bricolage Production Company in 2001. As the company’s Artistic Director, he produced and co-created the immersive experience DODO. In 2015, he spearheaded the immersive project SAINTS TOUR, a bus tour in the town of Braddock, PA. In 2014, he received a Visionary Artist award from The Pittsburgh Foundation to create OjO: The Next Generation in Travel, featured in La Jolla Playhouse’s 2015 Without Walls Festival. In 2012, he led the creation of the immersive work STRATA, named Top Production of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and featured on the cover of American Theatre. He conceived, produced and directed the Bricolage/Pittsburgh Filmmakers multi-media project In Service: Pittsburgh to Iraq, about the lives of local veterans returning from war, which was nominated for a Mid-Atlantic Emmy. He co- conceived the Midnight Radio series (now entering its 11th season) and the In The Raw: (R)evolution devised play festival. Other directing credits for Bricolage include Hunter Gatherers, Speech & Debate, Biedermann and the Firebugs, Troilus and Cressida, Peace, and Wild Signs Jorge Cousineau, Production Designer Jorge Cousineau was born in Dresden, Germany, where he attained his diploma in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1997 he moved to Philadelphia to work as a theater designer and has since designed sets, lights, sound and projections for numerous dance and theater productions. Over the last twenty years his designs have been seen and heard internationally in Germany, 9 | PROJECT AMELIA France, and Poland, regionally in New York City, Denver, Louisville, Minneapolis,