BAM 2017 Winter/Spring Season #RadioLoveFest Brooklyn Academy of Music New York Public Radio* Adam E. Max, Chairman of the Board Cynthia King Vance, Chair, Board of Trustees William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board John S. Rose, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Katy Clark, President Susan Rebell Solomon, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Mayo Stuntz, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Laura R. Walker, President & CEO *As of February 1, 2017 BAM and WNYC present RadioLoveFest Produced by BAM and WNYC February 7—11 LIVE PERFORMANCES Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes & Anna Bass: Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host: All the Things We Couldn’t Do on the Road Feb 7, 8pm; Feb 8, 7pm & 9:30pm, HT The Moth at BAM—Reckless: Stories of Falling Hard and Fast, Feb 9, 7:30pm, HT Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me®, National Public Radio, Feb 9, 7:30pm, OH Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, Feb 10, 7:30pm, HT Snap Judgment LIVE!, Feb 10, 7:30pm, OH Bullseye Comedy Night, Feb 11, 7:30pm, HT BAMCAFÉ LIVE Curated by Terrance McKnight Braxton Cook, Feb 10, 9:30pm, BC, free Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros, Feb 11, 9pm, BC, free Season Sponsor: Leadership support provided by The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust. Delta Air Lines is the Official Airline of RadioLoveFest. Audible is a major sponsor of RadioLoveFest. VENUE KEY BC=BAMcafé Forest City Ratner Companies is a major sponsor of RadioLoveFest. BRC=BAM Rose Cinemas Williams is a major sponsor of RadioLoveFest. HT=BAM Harvey Theater OH=BAM Howard Gilman Additional support provided by Charles and Valerie Diker. Opera House RadioLoveFest Feb 7 & 8 IRA GLASS, MONICA BILL BARNES, Episode at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera ANNA BASS: THREE ACTS, TWO DANCERS, House. Touring the world with Monica and Ira ONE RADIO HOST: ALL THE THINGS WE has been one of the greatest thrills of her life. COULDN’T DO ON THE ROAD Feb 7, 8pm; Feb 8, 7pm & 9:30pm JANE COX (lighting design) has designed with BAM Harvey Theater MBB&CO for more than a decade, and her Performed by Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, and collaboration with the company is central to her Anna Bass creative life. Recent theater includes Color Purple Directed and choreographed by Monica Bill and Jitney on Broadway, Othello at NYTW, Barnes Hamlet at the Barbican in London, the new play Lighting design by Jane Cox Roe currently playing at Arena Stage in DC, and Set and costume design by Kelly Hanson Amelie, a new musical arriving on Broadway Produced by Robert Saenz de Viteri this spring. Other designs include The Flick, 3acts2dancers1radiohost.com The Ambassador, All the Way, and Machinal (TONY and Drama Desk nominations). Cox has IRA GLASS is the host and creator of the public a long-standing relationship with the Oregon radio program This American Life. The show is Shakespeare Festival, and is the director of the heard each week by over 2.2 million listeners program in theater at the Lewis Center for the on more than 500 public radio stations in the Arts at Princeton University. US, Australia, and Canada, with another 2.6 million downloading each podcast. This is Glass’ KELLY HANSON (set/costume design) has professional dance show debut. worked with MBB&CO on every company show since she first met Barnes in 2001. She MONICA BILL BARNES founded MBB&CO in is also a production designer for The Tonight 1997. Since then her work has been performed Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she does in venues ranging from Upright Citizen’s Brigade approximately 220 live shows a year. She to Carnegie Hall, and has been presented in has been nominated for an Emmy and an Art more than 75 cities throughout the US. Barnes Department Guild award. Hanson was born in began working with Ira Glass in 2012 when she Bryan, TX and earned her MFA in set design at created a solo for David Rakoff and performed University of California, San Diego. She lives as a part of This American Life Live! Performing in Queens with her husband and two amazing Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host across kiddos, who support her more than they know. the country has been one of her most rewarding endeavors of the past 20 years, and she is honor ROBERT SAENZ DE VITERI (creative producing ed to bring it to BAM tonight. Upcoming projects director) began working in theater as an audio include the world’s only karaoke office party script assistant to Anna Deavere Smith while she turned dance show (this is not fact checked, developed Let Me Down Easy. He has created but we’re pretty sure it’s true), Happy Hour, on performances and toured productions throughout February 15 at 6:30pm. Join us for a drink and the world with the Obie Award-winning Nature totally different experience. Theater of Oklahoma. He originally joined MBB&CO to tour with Three Acts, Two Dancers, ANNA BASS has worked with MBB&CO for One Radio Host in 2013. Since then he has 14 years. She has performed Barnes’ work all gone on to create and produce Happy Hour and over the country, on stages ranging from public The Museum Workout with the company. Happy fountains and city parks to New York City Center Hour returns to NYC on February 15, and will and Carnegie Hall. Bass performed in two of run once a month, every month, hopefully for the Glass’ This American Life Live! events—catching next four years. boxes while dancing as a part of TAL’s cinema event, and appearing as a roller-skating mouse TESS JAMES (lighting director/stage manager) alongside Mike Birbiglia in The Radio Drama is a freelance lighting director, designer, and RadioLoveFest Feb 9 associate designer. Throughout her career LET IT BE ME (Gilbert Becaud, Manny Kurtz, Pierre Leroyer) performed by Nina Simone courtesy of RCA Records/Sony label she has had the privilege of working with a group. Rights courtesy of Universal Music. wide range of amazing artists and companies DRINK TO ME (Ben Jonson) performed by Dean Martin. Courtesy including New York City Opera, BAM, New York of Capitol Records/Universal Music. City Center, Glimmerglass Opera, American MAIS OUI MAMBO (Billy May, Conrad Gozzo) performed by Repertory Theatre, Dallas Opera, Center Stage Billy May. Appears courtesy of Universal Songs of Polygram in Baltimore, The Public Theater, SummerScape International Inc. at Bard College, and Den Nye Opera in the FALLOUT 2A (Anthony Barilla) Rights courtesy of Anthony Netherlands. Her Broadway associate credits Barilla. include The Color Purple, Noises Off, Violet, FILAMENTS (Podington Bear) Rights courtesy of Podington Bear. and The Real Thing. She currently resides in Brooklyn. DEEP BLUE DAY (Brian Peter George Eno, Roger Paul Eugene Eno, Daniel Roland Lanois) Rights courtesy of Opal Music PRS. MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY is a ART OF THE CANON (Thomas Louis Hardin) performed by contemporary American dance company that Moondog. Courtesy of Roof Records. brings dance where it does not belong. We GET UP (I FEEL LIKE BEING A SEX MACHINE) (James Brown, create and produce each work entirely from Bobby Byrd, Ronald R. Lenhoff) performed by James Brown. 100% interest. (C) 1970 (Renewed) Dynatone Publishing its own rulebook—dancing to radio interviews Company (BMI) All rights administered by Unichappell Music on the biggest stages in the world, hosting Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. a weekly show in a crowded office party, or WHAT’LL I DO (Irving Berlin) performed by Nat King Cole. leading a choreographed exercise routine in an Published by Irvin Berlin Music. Rights courtesy of Virgin art museum. The company consists of a team Records. of collaborators—Monica Bill Barnes (artistic ONE (Marvin Hamlisch, Lawrence Kleban) Rights courtesy of director/choreographer); Anna Bass (associate Sony/ATV Music Publishing. artistic director/performer); designers Kelly Several stories in Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host were Hanson (sets/costumes) and Jane Cox (lighting); adapted from radio stories first heard on This American Life. and Robbie Saenz de Viteri (creative producing director). Together, this team creates the most The poem Last Days, from Donald Hall’s collection Without, is used with permission. unlikely experiences for every kind of audience. monicabillbarnes.com The national tour of Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host is exclusively co-represented by Steven Barclay Agency and Pomegranate Arts. The original production, One Radio Host, Two Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host is Dancers, presented at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia in made possible with support from The Dianne April 2013, was produced by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Chad Herzog, and Dance Affiliates. and Daniel Vapnek Family Fund. It is also made possible with support from the Rockefeller THE MOTH AT BAM—RECKLESS: STORIES OF Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for FALLING HARD AND FAST the Arts, and Jody and John Arnhold. This Feb 9, 7:30pm work was developed during a Choreographic BAM Harvey Theater Fellowship at the Maggie Allesee National Center Directed by Meg Bowles and Maggie Cino for Choreography at Florida State University, Produced by Anna Martin and was also supported through the Media Director of production Jennifer Birmingham Fellowship Initiative at MANCC. Executive directors Catherine Burns, MUSIC CREDITS Sarah Haberman, and Sarah Austin Jenness CC RIDER (Ma Rainey) performed by Elvis Presley. Courtesy of Musician Rachel Gawell RCA/Sony Music. Audio engineer Noriko Okabe I’LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) Photographer Jason Falchook performed by Dionne Warwick. (C) 1968 (Renewed) New Videographer Joe Del Senno Hidden Valley Music Company (ASCAP) and Casa David Music (ASCAP).