Each year, our department offers a variety of production projects, covering a wide spectrum of genres and styles. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our production program in Fall 2020 will also stretch the limits of what we understand as performance. We invite the Northeastern community to experience our outstanding students, faculty and professional guest artists.
SHE KILLS MONSTERS
by Qui Nguyen
Streaming October 27 – November 1
A digital completion of our anticipated Spring 2020 production.
Join the world of fantasy role-playing with Agnes, who is on a quest to understand her younger sister Tilly after her tragic death. When she finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, Agnes enters a weird and wondrous world that was a refuge from Tilly’s “normal” life. In this high-octane, battle-filled comedy laden with demons, dragons, homicidal cheerleaders, and 90s pop culture, Nguyen creates a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
“Deceptively breezy and rather ingenious… It will slash and shapeshift its way into your heart.” – The New York Times
Directed by Darren Evans
Scenic Designer: JiYoung Han (Guest Artist)
Costume Designer: Marissa Wolf ’20
Lighting Designer: Connor O’Brien ’17
Sound Designer: Dewey Dellay (Guest Artist)
Monster Designer: Eric Propp (Guest Artist)
Animation Designers: Caroline Burzynski, Wendy Jia, & Emily Huang
Production Stage Manager: Emily Cornicello
Assistant Stage Managers: Julia Lee & Tim Scalzo
Props Director: Ivy Caithlin Kee
Assistant Props Director: Mollie Parkinson
Monster Artisans: Isabelle Bushkov, Fabienne Dessalines, Alexis Hill, Carla McDonough, Jason Rosenthal, & Beth Whitlow
Head Electrician: Elise Cooke
Electricians: Meredith Brown & Lara Graber-Mitchell
CAST LIST
Agnes………………………………………………………Ashley Lyon
Tilly………………………………………….………………Bea Tolan
Chuck……………………………………….……………..Dan Lutz
Miles……………………………………….………………Jupiter Le
Kaliope/Kelly…………………………………………..Marisa Lijoi
Lilith/Lilly………………………………………………..Julia Barksdale
Orcus/Ronnie……………………………….………….Donovan Holt
Vera/The Beholder……………….………………….Pavithra Rajesh
Narrator/Farrah the Faerie……….…………….Isabelle Bushkov
Steve………………………………………………………..Ben Simon
Evil Tina/Tina…………………………………………..Arielle Greenspan
Evil Gabbi/Gabbi…………………….………………..Amanda Brea
UNTITLED
Streaming: TBD
An auditory theatrical experience.
Inspired by Langston Hughes poem Harlem and Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” “Untitled” is a podcast narrative that explores what it means to live in a community that is going through exponential change and how people are living through it. What happens when you are living your dreams in your dream city and the world explodes? What do you do? What comes next?
Directed by Pascale Florestal (Guest Artist)
Production Stage Manager: Hannah Marks
CAST LIST:
Grace Campbell
Riley Cohen
Allegra D’Virgilio
Kate Kelly
Ames Noble
Rayan Perera
Adam Regenstreif
Liddy Wade
METAMORPHOSES
by Mary Zimmerman
Streaming November 9 – 22
An episodic digital imagining.
Love, identity, and divine intervention: Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation explores Ovid’s myths through a contemporary, feminist lens. This production will highlight the unique creative problem solving of digital performance, and aims to celebrate the identities of LGBTQIA+ artists.
Directed by Desiré Bennett (’20)
Lighting & Scenic Designer: Oliver Wason (Faculty)
Costume Designer: Frances McSherry (Faculty)
Sound Designer: Jesse Timm (Guest Artist)
Digital Experience Design: Matthew Hosking
Production Stage Manager: Erin Solomon
Props Director: Miranda Acosta
Production Assistant: Josephine Ojakli
Video Editing: Julia Chase & Riley Cohen
Costume Assistant: Rachel Erwin
CAST LIST:
1st Laundress, Narrator 1, Sailor, Lucina……………………………………………………………………….Alyse Clinton
Midas, Sailor, Erysichthon, Cinyras, Eros………………………………………………….. Christian “Mish” Culbert
Alcyone, Eurydice, Erysichthon’s Mother, Nursemaid…………………………………………………..Maddie Elsea
3rd Laundress, Narrator 3, Scientist, Hunger…………………………………………………………………Kaitlyn Fiery
Therapist, Poseidon, Oread, Sleep, Fate, Woman at the Door, Narrator 4………………..Ella Garfunkel
Midas’ Daughter, Sailor, Spirit of the Tree, Phaeton………………………….Catherine “KitCat” Giorgetti
2nd Laundress, Narrator 2, Narcissus……………………………………………………………………………Peri Griffiths
Woman at the Water, Ceres, Myrrha, A, Hermes……………………………………………………Sydney Maloney
Aphrodite, Fate, Baucis, Buyer………………………………………………………………………………Carla McDonough
Iris, Persephone, Q, Pomona, Narrator 5…………………………………………………………………………Rory O’Neill
Servant, Ceyx/Morpheus, Orpheus, Apollo………………………………………………………………………..Evan Penn
Bacchus, Hades, Sailor, Psyche, Philemon…………………………………………………………….Somaiya Rowland
Silenus, Sisyphean, Vertumnus, Zeus……………………………………………………………….Madi Vespa Williams