It’s in the telling, not the tale. Come one, come all for the truest flight of fancy you’ll never forget! Hear Louis de Rougemont’s story of survival in the Coral Sea as he battles typhoons, monstrous killer octopi and fierce cannibals in this rip-roaring delight for adventurers of all ages. Stranded on an exotic island with only a loyal dog for company, his world grows more fantastic, populated by flying wombats, giant sea turtles and an aborigine princess. Upon Louis’s return to civilization thirty years later, the account of his escapades makes him an instant celebrity. But was it real or just a figment of his imagination? Will he be vindicated or will his reputation be ruined forever?

Featuring: Laura W. Esposito, Greg Jackson, AZ Kelsey

Written by Donald Margulies
Produced by Triad Stage
Set Design: Timothy R. Mackabee
Light Design: Jesse Belsky
Costume Design: Kahei Shum
Sound Design: Jeff Russell
Stage Manager: Emily J. Mails
Casting Director: Cindi Rush Casting Production

Photography by VanderVeen Photographers

The Bóogravîan Opéra Naçionale is Presenting to All Peoples Very Nice Spectacle: WAKE UP! From Ample Generosity of Glorious Leader #1, Vladimir “The Thunderer” Boograviboat

The Bóogravîan Opera Nacionale comes to Telluride to present their most famous and glorious epic, Wake Up! Unfortunately, this troupe of “actors” is sub par at best. Not only have they never performed this play before, but it’s likely they’ve never even SEEN a play before. Bóogravîa is a sad little country, wedged just between Bumblefuggria and East Jesustan. Their national sport is Donkey Ball, and their traditional delicacy is cat meat. No one’s English is very good, but that’s no surprise considering they learned it from watching a certain 90′s horror flick. This brand new clown show is full of hilariously bad acting, some atrocious singing, some very inept dancing, and definitely lots of tears.

Featuring: Sam Burgess, Rachael Leigh Cooke, Tom Shane, Luke Slattery, Colin Sullivan, Melissa Sumpter

Written by Sarah Gancher
Created in Collaboration with the Cast
Producers: Sasha Cucciniello & Colin Sullivan
Sets & Costume Designer: Melissa Trn
Light Designer: Marc Froelich
Sound Engineer/Videographer: Dean Rolley

Production Photography: Ben Knight

Presented by Telluride Theatre
At the Telluride Pavillion, Telluride, CO
August 21-24, 2012

In 1979, the film event that shook America to its core wasn’t Apocalypse Now, Kramer vs. Kramer, or even Xanadu—it was Roller Boogie, the story of star-crossed lovers, real estate fraud, and the roller boogie contest to end all roller boogie contests. And now, this cinematic epic is finally brought to the stage in the balls out musical parody Roller Disco The Musical!, featuring 14 original songs—like “Love on Wheels,” “Chase Scene!” and “Skating is Sexy.” The winning cast serves up the entire show—full of hilarious jokes, clever choreography, and a catchy score—ON ROLLER SKATES.

Featuring: Vince Cannady, Jacqui Grilli, Kenard Jackson, Mariah MacFarlane, Ahmad Maksoud, Mark Mauriello, Kevin B. McGlynn, Kenneth Miller, Meredith Myers, DJ Petrosino, Marissa Rae Roberts, Misch Whitaker, Matt Wood, Claudia Yanez

Co-Book Writer/Director/Choreographer: Jen Wineman
Co-Book Writer/Lyricist: Sam Forman
Composer: Eli Bolin
Musical Director: Jamie O’Leary
Executive Producer: Pablo Rojas
Consulting Producer: Roberta Pereira
Consulting Producer: Matthew Salloway
General Manager: Ministry of Theater
Stage Manager: Kevin Schlagle
Assistant Stage Manager: Jess Wolf
Costume Design: Melissa Trn
Props Design: Vic Yambao
Light/Video Design: Dan Jentzen
Sound Design: Aaron Mack
Marketing Assoicate: Amanda Sousa
Press Representative: Judy Jacksina
Assistant Director: Matt Bourne

Production Photography: Guardrail Photography

Presented at A.R.T.’s OBERON by Ministry of Theater
May 30- August 30, 2012

A play about a mother and daughter. Also featuring: helpful tips on what to do if you get knocked up by the lord of the underworld and it turns out he’s a little meh about the whole thing. Also about having Bette Davis as your imaginary best friend, a spunky heroine, some sex and loads of glamour.

Featuring Annie Henk, Ben Horner, Irene Sofia Lucio, Brian Charles Rooney, Socorro Santiago

Producer: Whitney Estrin
Set Design: Elizabeth Groth
Light Design: Alan Edwards
Costume Design: Melissa Trn
Sound Design: Charles Coes
Video Design: Sarah Lasley
Production Stage Manager: Allison Douglass

Production Photos by Marielle Solan

Presented at Ars Nova as part of ANT Fest
October 18, 2011

José Rivera paints an aching portrait of small town life in 1953 Puerto Rico. Two women—a virgin and a witch—their belief systems clashing, are brought together by their unexpected bond.

Featuring: Shirley Rumierk and Socorro Santiago

Producer: JJ Kandel & John McCormack
Set Design: George Xenos
Light Design: Greg MacPherson
Costume Design: Michael Bevins
Production Manager: Sean Ryan
Production Stage Manager: Kelly Hess
Press Representative: David Gersten

Production Photography by Rahav Segev ©2012 Rahav/Photopass.com

Presented by ThroughLine Artists as part of Summer Shorts 5 at 59E59
August 11-September 3 2011

Con: A Play About Liars examines what it is to be a con artist, what a con is and why they are all around us. Exploring the history of the world’s most notorious con men and women, this play dwells in the world of lies, liars mischief and mayhem.

Featuring: Sasha Cucciniello, Dahlia Mertens, Thomas Shane & Colin Sullivan

Producer: Sasha Cucciniello
Producer: Colin Sullivan
Design: Melissa Trn
Stage Management: Luke Slattery

Production Photography by Jim Hurst

Presented by SquidShow Theatre at The Nugget in Telluride, CO
July 28-August 1, 2011

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace meet at a party. Hilarity, misery, and light bondage ensue; two people seduce each other with the irresistible temptation of understanding. The jokes are strange, but then again, so is everything else.

Featuring: Laura Esposito and Brian Hastert

Set and Costume Design: Melissa Trn
Light Design: Yu-Chen (Nick) Hung
Sound Design: Charles Coes
Dramaturg: Becca Poccia
Production Stage Manager: Natalie Qing Zhang

Presented by Columbia University School of the Arts at 3 Legged Dog
April 14-17, 2011

Hallie Flanagan is perhaps most famous for heading up the Federal Theater Project, which put actors back to work during the Great Depression, and for being the first person to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. In 1926, however —a decade earlier—she was in Russia, falling in love with new theater, new ideas, and a certain scientist. Playground visits Hallie at the beginning of her career, as a Vassar professor and in Russia, as she navigates life, love, and politics, discovering how the things that shape us also come back to haunt us.

Featuring: Julia Anrather, Michele O’Brien, Evan Glenn, Tyler Glover, Charlie Nicholson, Luke Slattery, Catherine Buxton, Sarah Lazarus, Violeta Picayo, Annie Creech, Danielle Lemieux, Isabella Batts, Elizabeth Scopel, Alex Sarrigeorgiou

Set Design: Rachel Hauck
Light Design: Serena Wong:
Costume Design: Kenisha Kelly
Sound Design: Andrew Rovner
Technical Direction: Paul O’Connor
Dramaturg: Molly Shoemaker
Assistant Director: Matthew Bourne
Production Stage Manager: Allison Douglass

Production Photography by Aaron Epstein

Presented in the Martel Theater by the Experimental Theater of Vassar College
March 1-3, 2011

Alabama. 1965. Charles is a black Civil Rights attorney from the North, running
from the law. Marlene is a poor white girl from the South, running from the truth. Tempers flare and the outside world closes in when these unlikely allies are
forced to band together in order to survive.

Featuring: Derege Harding, Carrie Heitman, Slate Holmgren Lauren Orkus,
Richard Pait

Producer: David Roberts
Scenic Design: Tim Brown & Yoon Young Choi
Lighting Design: Jesse Belsky
Costume Design: Melissa Trn
Sound Design and Original Music: Chad Raines
Production Dramaturg: Rebecca Phillips
Technical Director: Dan Volpe
Associate Producer: John Rocco
Production Stage Manager: Bree Sherry
Press Representative: Penny Landau

Production Photography by Aaron Epstein

Presented by LXP Productions at the Abingdon Theater
October 7-24, 2010

Cataclysm! tells the story of survivors who find each other after our nation suffers a complete environmental, governmental, and financial collapse. This unlikely group of pioneers must create a new society and decide what they want to bring with them from the past—and what should be left behind. Their tenuous first days, relationships, stories, memories, and selves then become the subject of future generations mythology.

Featuring: Sam Burgess, Sasha Cucciniello, Dahlia Mertens, Tom Shane, Colin Sullivan, Shaun Greagor

Producers: Sasha Cucciniello & Colin Sullivan
Designer: Melissa Trn
Original Music & Live Performance: Ethan Hale

Production Photography by Gus Gusciora

Presented by SquidShow Theatre at The Deep Creek Mine, 7 miles from Telluride, CO…on the side of a mountain.
July 31-August 3, 2010

After living 200 years as a handsome English nobleman, Orlando falls asleep and awakens—as a woman. In a dream or in reality, Orlando must now continue on in a body she does not recognize, but perhaps always sensed was her own. Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s seminal novel examines time’s relentless drive forward and our instinct to fill each moment of life with poetry, imagination, passion, and eroticism.

Featuring: Tomas Andren, Zach Appelman, Trai Byers, Alexandra Henrickson, AZ Kelsey, Aja Naomi King, Irene Sofia Lucio, Brenna Palughi, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Rachel Spencer, Babak Gharaei-Tafti

Set Design: Po-Lin Li
Costume Design: Aaron Mastin
Light Design: Laura Eckelman
Original Composition: Matthew Suttor
Original Composition/Sound Design: Chad Raines
Wig Design: Erin Kennedy Lunsford
Additional Choreography: Christy Lee & Bronwyn Sims
Dramaturg: Jorge Rodriguez
Production Stage Manager: Allison Johnson

Production Photography by T. Charles Erickson

Presented by Yale School of Drama as a Directing M.F.A. Thesis Production in the Iseman Theater
January 26-30, 2010

Marcel Sr.’s Hamlet would have been the greatest Hamlet of all time—if he’d ever performed it. Instead, ten years after his death, it’s his computer programmer son who finds himself inadvertently playing the Melancholy Prince: in the basement of the family home for an audience of just his mom. Every Other Hamlet In The Universe is a play about the mantles we carry for our flesh and blood, and the roles we throw ourselves into when life becomes a kind of calamity.

Featuring: Tomas Andren, Trai Byers, Will Cobbs, Laura Gragtmans, Fisher Neal, Sarah Sokolovic, Shannon Sullivan

Set Design: Dede Ayite
Costume Design: Ana Milosevic
Light Design: Alan Edwards
Sound Design: Junghoon Pi
Video Design: Sarah Lasley
Dramaturg: Elliot Quick
Production Stage Manager: Lee Micklin

Production Photography by Carol Rosegg

Presented by Yale School of Drama in the Carlotta Festival of New Plays in the Iseman Theater
May 9-15, 2010

Strap yourself in for the Eroto-Horro-Camp-Grindcore-Nazi-Sploitation-Action-Comedy event of the decade! Side Splitting Acts of Violence! Blood-Curdling Romance! Shockingly Insipid History Lessons! Studio 42 proudly presents the Ansonia, Connecticut Performing Arts Center, which, in turn, proudly presents Barry Murray, President of the Prescott Technical College Film Club, who VERY proudly presents legendary Italian film director Pinto Degas and the revival of his notoriously offensive (and possibly cursed) exploitation piece: “The Erotic Diary of Anne Frank” (“Il Diario Erotico di Anne Frank,” 1971, Italy).

Featuring Brian Burns, Caitlin Clouthier, Joe Gallagher, Jesse Jou, Bradford Louryk, Alex Major, David Mitsch, Nicole Niefeld, Brooke Parks, Natalie Saibel and Sandra Struthers-Clerc

Producers: Roberta Pereira & Devon Berkshire
Scenic Design: Martin Andrew
Costume Design: Melissa Trn
Lighting Design: Peter Hoerburger & Jason Lyons
Sound Design: Sharath Patel
Properties Design: Layna Fisher
Dramaturg: Rebecca Phillips
Graphic Design: Bradford Louryk
Production Stage Manager: Casey Schmal

Production Photography by Aaron Epstein

Presented by Studio 42 at Classic Stage Company
August 29, 2009

Late: a cowboy song is the story of Mary, a woman caught between the two worlds: that of her loving, broke husband, Crick, and Red, her high school girlfriend who also happens to be a cowboy.

Featuring: Alexandra Henrikson, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ben Horner

Producer: Kimberly Rosenstock
Producer: Whitney Estrin
Set/Costume Design: Elizabeth Barret Groth
Light Design: Laura Eckelman
Original Music/Sound Design: Nathan Roberts
Production Stage Manager: Catherine Costanzo

Production photography by Aaron Epstein

Presented at the Yale Summer Cabaret
June 9-20, 2009

Featuring: Zach Appelman, Joby Earle, Laura Esposito, Marcus Henderson, Slate Holmgren, Aja Naomi King, Barret O’Brien, Ken Robinson, Charise Castro Smith, Alexander Manuel Teicheira, Nondumiso Tembe

Set Design: Valérie Thérèse Bart
Light Design: Tom Delgado
Costume Design: Katherine Akiko Day
Sound Design: Charles Coes
Dramaturg: Jorge Rodriguez
Production Stage Management: Lindsey Turteltaub

Production photography by Erik Pearson

Presented by Yale School of Drama in the Iseman Theater
April 16-18, 2009

The electric chair is one of the most controversial inventions in history. Behind it lies a true American story of electrocuted animals, mass public deception, and the broken egos of two of the greatest inventors of all time. The Current War explores the fierce battle for domination of the electricity market between two very different yet equally fierce titans of industry: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.

Featuring: Eric Bryant, Will Connolly, Slate Holmgren, Alex Knox, Christopher McFarland, Aaron Moss, Alexander Manuel Teicheira, Liz Wisan

Book, Music, Lyrics: Michael Mitnick
Video Design: Sarah Lasley
Costumes: Summer Jack
Sound Design: Michael Mitnick
Dramaturg: Brian Valencia
Production Stage Manager: Allison Johnson

Production Photography by Maggie Elliott

Presented in the Langston Hughes Festival of New Plays at Yale School of Drama
Dec 4-6, 2008

A play about cheerleading and death.

Featuring: Christina Acosta, Mattie Brickman, Laura Esposito, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Philip Owen, Jennifer Newman, Charise Castro Smith, Nondumiso Tembe,

Producer: Shin Hyoung Shon
Set Design: Scott Dougan
Light Design: Jason Wells
Costume Design: Katie O’Neill
Sound Design: Scott Nielson
Dramaturg: Walter Byongsok Chon
Production Stage Manager: Kirsten Parker

Production Photography by Scott Dougan

Presented at the Yale Cabaret
October 23-25, 2008

On a fantastical island ravaged by war, two siblings—the diminutive yet fiery Button and the oversized, militaristic Giant—wage their own private battle. Reveling in dark whimsy, Laura von Holt’s New York debut follows the two extraordinarily mismatched characters as they search for love and struggle to survive in a magical but broken land. A fairytale for the 21st century.

Featuring Lisa Barnes, Autumn Hurlburt, Evan Lubeck, and Michael Markham

Producers: Demos Tsilikoudis & Yasmine Falk
Scenic Design: Ryan Elliot Kravetz
Costume Design: Christy Rilling
Lighting Design: Shaun Fillion
Original Music & Sound Design: Jane Shaw
Properties Design: Jesse Hathaway
Dramaturg: Michael Melamedoff
Production Stage Manager: Molly Minor Eustis
Casting: Cindi Rush
Press Representative: Judy Jacksina

Production Photography by Aaron Epstein

Presented by Studio 42 at HERE Arts Center Mainstage
April 6–28, 2007

The plays:
The Jealous Husband
The Flying Doctor
Two Precious Maidens, Ridiculed

Featuring: Craig Bater, Ileana Chan, Adalgiza Chemountd, Jared David, Brandi-Lea Harris, Caroline Hurley, Leon Klein, Kirsten Kuppenbender, Shelly Leibembuk, Devin Luke, Robert Matye, Julie Jones Ivey, Vera Miao, Rachel Hutchison, Konstantine Malakos, Erica Rhodes, Alex Sell, Miriam Tobin, Kyle Tregurtha, Simon Trevorrow, Soseh Yekanians

Producer: Geoff Berman
Design: Eric Southern
Technical Direction: Ben Weaver

Presented at Atlantic Stage 2
November 9-12, 2006

A smoldering and sensuous comedy that comes with the warning:
Blinding love is deafening.

Featuring Kelly McAndrew, Erika Rolfsrud, Warren Sulatycky
Producers: Sarah Steele & Sasah Cucciniello
Set Design: Tim Mackabee
Light Design: Tse Wei Lim
Costume Design: Caitlin O’Connor
Sound Design: Elizabeth Coleman
Original Music: Andrew Shapiro
Dramaturgy: Laura Roemer
Production Stage Manager: Molly Minor Eustis
Casting: Cindi Rush
Press Representative: Judy Jacksina
Marketing: Brian Michael Thomas

Production Photography by Aaron Epstein

Presented by Renaissant Arts at the Culture Project
May 19-June 11, 2006

Based on the paintings of Belgian-born and Paris-based abstract expressionist painter Pierre Alechinsky, Atelier is experimental fusion of text and movement, created through an intensive eight-week collaborative process the company. Alechinsky’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Pompidou in Paris, and has been given retrospectives at the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Guggenheim in New York, yet somehow it eludes even the keenest American scholars. Atelier sets about to examine the translation and interpretation of Alechinsky’s static images to the stage, and to explore the collision of the creator and his creation.

Featuring Bryan Brown, Bajir Cannon, Lamar Davenport, Layna Fisher, Sue Hyon and Victoria Libertore

Producer: Alison Albeck
Producer: Devon Berkshire
Scenic & Light Design: Oliver Butler
Costume Design: Sydney Maresca
Sound Design: Kabir Green
Production Stage Manager: Charlotte Winters
Dramaturgy: Laura Roemer

Production Photography by Emilie Baltz

Presented by Studio 42 at the University Settlement
October 17-19 2002

Five tragic femme fatales of Ancient Greece come to life as Bradford Louryk interprets and performs their stories in this lip-synched multimedia performance piece. The innocence of Electra, the animalism of a Fury, Medea’s insane jealousy, Phèdre’s incestuous lust and Klytaemnestra’s wrath each find expression in this dazzling exploration of gender and myth.

Producer: Alison Albeck
Set Design: Oliver Butler
Lighting Design: Mike Riggs
Costume Design: Sydney Maresca
Sound Design: Benjamin Brake & Noah Wadden with Abby Hannan
Dramaturgy: Jess Applebaum

Production Photography by Mike Riggs

Presented by Studio 42 at HERE Arts Center
December 1–17, 2001