JASON CHARME PHOTOGRAPHY JASON VERSWEYVELD JAN BY PHOTO 14 ticket services 919.843.3333 Thursday & Friday February 18/ Throw Me on the 19 Burnpile and Light Me Up Lucy Alibar CONNECTIONS About the PROGRAM This performance is part of Academy Award-nominated storyteller Lucy Alibar reads from her latest work in Carolina Performing Arts’ progress—a tale of a man, his family and his burnpile. A lecherous goat, Pentecostal Arts@TheCore Curatorial Southern Baptists on the radio, a house full of dogs, cats and Febreze and Daddy’s . Fellowship program. 38 special are just some of the elements in this magical brew of stories about a See page 36 to learn more. singular childhood in Grady County. Embracing the compelling and often confusing connections between people, animals, the weather and everything in between, Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up is a landscape you won’t soon forget. lucy alibar Growing up in a rural environment on the Florida panhandle near Georgia, Lucy Alibar won a playwriting competition at the age of 14 and attended Young Playwrights Inc. in Manhattan, becoming instant friends with Benh Zeitlin. Following playwriting studies at New York University, she wrote Juicy and Delicious, a one-act play influenced by her father’s illness. At Zeitlin’s prompting, they adapted it to film with support from Sundance, resulting in the remarkable Beasts of the Southern Wild. Along with ecstatic reviews and recommendations by none other than President Obama and Oprah Winfrey, the movie received the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Film Festival Caméra d’Or, with Alibar nominated for the Scripter, BAFTA and Academy Award. Lucy Alibar adapted her play Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower into a movie for Escape Artists and wrote The Secret Garden for Guillermo del Toro/Universal. Her writing has been published in Zoetrope, Oxford American and The Wall Street Journal. The recipient of numerous awards, she has been a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow, a two-time finalist for the Heideman Award at ATL and a finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She is a member of the Obie Award-winning Youngblood (Ensemble Studio Theatre), co-founder of the New Georges Writer/Director Lab and an associate editor at Oxford American. Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up will be published by Scribner Books. carolinaperformingarts.org 15.