Govt And Community Engagement Coordinator Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
VIOLET Program
GU Theater and Performance Studies and Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society
in collaboration with the Music Program present
Violet
An American Chamber Musical
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Volume & Lyrics by Brian Crawley
Based on "The Ugliest Pilgrim" past Doris Betts
A Senior Thesis Project
Directed by Margaret Gleason (C'22)
March 24-April 2, 2022
Davis Performing Arts Center, Devine Studio Theatre
Georgetown University | Washington, DC
MUSICAL Manager
Tori Pergerson, Invitee Artist
SENIOR THESIS ADVISOR
Prof. Derek Goldman
Stage MANAGER
Gabriella Turrinelli (SFS'23)
Student PRODUCER
Drew Lent (C'25)
COSTUME DESIGNER
Lily Brown (SFS'23)
Scenic DESIGNER
Han Miller (C'23)
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Kristin A. Thompson, Guest Artist
Audio DESIGNER
Xavier Sanchez
CO-PROPERTIES DESIGNERS
Amelia Shotwell (C'25)
Antoinette Kersaint (C'25)
CHOREOGRAPHER
Casey Ferrante (C'22)
Manager OF PRODUCTION
Alicia DiGiorgi
TECHNICAL Manager
Bethany Taylor
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Artistic Manager
Prof. Christine Evans
Any video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Violet is presented through special system with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized operation materials are also supplied past MTI. world wide web.mtishows.com
Georgetown University is a vaccinated campus. Based on campus COVID-19 guidelines implemented March 21, masks are optional for students, staff, faculty, and visitors. During performances, artists will be performing and vocalizing without masks. Audience members may cull to mask or non in accordance with their corresponding personal comfort levels.
Violet runs approximately 100 minutes, with no suspension.
DIRECTOR'S Annotation
I showtime heard a song from Violet when I was 15 years old. The Broadway product was nearing the end of its run and it had sparked some fizz around this little-known musical from 1997. Something nearly the music grabbed my attention. I never would have guessed that that would pb me, and you, here.
Violet is a bear witness that doesn't shy away from hard subjects and hard questions. This story is deeply, painfully about human life: What power we have over our own and how we as individuals tin can motion through a changing and, at times, scary world. I'one thousand sorry to say that nosotros won't give yous whatsoever piece of cake answers today (I hope y'all'll forgive us for that. We practise only have two hours of your time, after all.), but I hope we can remind you lot to love in spite of it all. Violet, Motion picture, Monty, and all of the people they meet are learning how to accept and requite honey in the face of immense challenges. As you sit in this theater, many of those same challenges swirl around us. Racism, ableism, war, and prejudice have not gone away between the show's 1964 setting and today, nor take questions most the role of faith and religion in American society. I hope that yous volition grapple with these questions aslope our characters, and that their journey towards cocky-credence and love will soothe your soul, at least for a moment, equally it does theirs.
Given the state of the world around u.s.a., it would exist naive to say that dearest is the healing lotion that will finish all suffering. Things are never that simple. What beloved can exercise, even so, is get usa to tomorrow with a little more than peace and hope in our hearts. To quote another musical, "Nosotros have been through a frightening time." To quote this one, "If I tell you I'm frightened…will you bring me to light?" Let united states all leave this theater today ready to hold each other through the frightening times and more forward hopefully, desperately, inevitably towards the light.
Sincerely,
Margaret Gleason (C'22)
Manager
CAST
VIOLET
Caitlin Waugh (C'24)
Flick
Caitlin Frazier (C'23)
MONTY
Sam Kehoe (C'23)
YOUNG VI
Thea Belle Flanzer (C'24)
Male parent
Nick Giotis (C'23)
OLD LADY, HOTEL LADY
Caroline Slater (C'23)
PREACHER (AND OTHERS)
Adam Garrity (C'25)
"Immature" ENSEMBLE
Kristen Hodgson (C'22)
"DIVA" ENSEMBLE
Grace Tourtelotte (C'25)
"CROONER" ENSEMBLE
Talal Kolaghassi (MSB'22)
"LADY" ENSEMBLE
Cameren Evans (C'24)
Ring
GUITAR
Dustin Garza
BASS
James Pergerson
DRUMS
Timothy Daigle
Jolie Ouyang (C'24)
PRODUCTION STAFF
CO-CURRICULAR TECHNICAL Advisor
Toby Clark
CO-CURRICULAR ARTISTIC ADVISOR
Prof. Michael T. Williams
COSTUME Shop MANAGER
Dorothy Driggers
Head ELECTRICIAN
Ben Harvey
ASSISTANT Managing director
Orly Salik (C'23)
Assistant MUSIC DIRECTORS
Owen Posnett (C'24)
Sarah Edmondson (C'23)
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
Edward Chen (MSB'25)
Erin Davies (C'25)
CO-TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Guy Adami (C'23)
DRAMATURG
Jolie Ouyang (C'24)
DIALECT COACH
Prof. Kim Schraf
INTIMACY COORDINATOR
Claudia Waters
PRODUCTION TECHNICIANS
Allison Sacamano (C'25)
Victoria Hanna (C'23)
Claire Smith (SFS'23)
Sarah Tyree (C'24)
COSTUME Shop STAFF
Suzy Mazur (SFS'22)
Avery Van Natta (C'23)
Jamia Ross (NHS'22)
Caroline Slater (C'23)
Hair & MAKEUP DESIGNER
Tianna Young (SFS'25)
ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER
Katherine Landler (C'24)
Assistant SOUND DESIGNERS
Molly Kenney (C'25)
Miriam Harris (SCS'22)
WARDROBE CREW
Suzy Mazur (C'22)
Yard&B BOARD LIAISON
Volition Hammond (SFS'23)
SPECIAL Thanks
Prof. Fred Binkholder
Prof. Benjamin Harbert
The Pittsburgh Playhouse
Imagination Stage, Bethany Regalbuto
Jason Aufdem-Brinke
GU Fleet Director, James Connor
Prof. David Schulman
Ryan Davis (C'21) and his family unit for the extraordinary donation of fabrics, notions, and patterns in retentiveness of Lorraine Waterman
BIOGRAPHIES
JEANINE TESORI (COMPOSER) won the Tony Award for Best Original Score with Lisa Kron for the musical Fun Dwelling house. She has also written Tony-nominated scores for Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center; Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan); Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner); and Shrek The Musical (lyrics, David Lindsay-Abaire). The product of Caroline, or Alter at the National Theatre in London received the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Her 1997 Off-Broadway musical Violet (lyrics, Brian Crawley) opened on Broadway in 2014 and garnered four Tony nominations, including Best Musical Revival. Opera: A Blizzard on Marblehead Cervix (libretto, Tony Kushner; Glimmerglass) and The King of beasts, The Unicorn, and Me (libretto, J. D. McClatchy, Kennedy Center). Music for plays: Mother Courage (dir. George C. Wolfe, with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline), John Guare's A Free Man of Colour (Lincoln Eye Theater, dir. George C. Wolfe), and Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte Gala). Film scores: Nights in Rodanthe, Every Day, and You lot're Non You. Ms. Tesori is a member of the Dramatists Guild and was cited by the ASCAP as the first female composer to have two new musicals running concurrently on Broadway. She was the founding artistic managing director of Encores! Off-Middle at New York City Centre, and a lecturer in music at Yale University. Most of all, she is the proud parent of Siena Rafter.
BRIAN CRAWLEY (BOOK AND LYRICS) is a playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the book and lyrics for A Trivial PRINCESS (composer Andrew Lippa) which debuted at Theatreworks of Palo Alto in the summer of 2004. He also wrote the book and lyrics for VIOLET (composer Jeanine Tesori) which was mounted Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 1997, then remounted in a concert version in 2003 to help inaugurate their new theater. Other musicals he has written include EVANGELINE with Ted Dykstra, and DOWN THERE with composer Lewis Flinn. He appears in the documentary ONE Dark STAND, in which he writes a short musical in 24 hours with composer Gabriel Kahane. For the libretto of VIOLET, Brian won the Kleban Award. Prior to the Playwrights Horizons production, and on its behalf, VIOLET was given the Richard Rodgers Musical Production Award and an AT&T OnStage Accolade. Afterwards, besides a Lucille Lortel Accolade for Outstanding Musical, VIOLET received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical over all the year's Broadway offerings (equally did Paula Vogel'south play HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE; the commencement fourth dimension two off-Broadway pieces took these top awards in the Drama Critic Circumvolve'southward history). Brian's plays accept been developed or staged at Lincoln Center, New York Theater Workshop, the National Brotherhood of Musical Theatre, and the Eugene O'Neill summer theater conference. He majored in Theater Studies at Yale and has an MFA in Acting from the American Solarium Theater in San Francisco. Brian is a member of the Dramatists Gild.
MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI) is one of the earth's leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving forcefulness in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resource to over 70,000 professional, community and school theatres in the U.s.a. and in over lx countries worldwide.
MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre, and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI'due south Broadway JuniorTM shows are xxx- and sixty-minute musicals for performance by elementary and eye school-anile performers, while MTI'southward School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students. MTI maintains its global headquarters in New York City with boosted offices in London (MTI Europe) and Melbourne (MTI Australasia).
LILY BROWN (SFS '23, COSTUME DESIGNER) is very proud of all those who worked on the prove and hopes y'all enjoy the performance! She would also like y'all to consider donating to Ukraine with the money you would have spent to get see a operation or to buy a daily coffee (anything helps!). Visit https://usukraine.org/how-can-i-help/ for more information.
EDWARD J CHEN (MSB'25, ASM) is excited for Violet and all that'due south to come!
TOBIN D. CLARK (TECHNICAL ADVISOR) Is so excited to be back in person doing alive theater. He is in his 15th year at Georgetown where he has been an Counselor, Designer, Teacher, and Director. His blueprint work has been seen at Georgetown, The National Museum of the American Indian, Fringe Festival, Perseverance Theater, and Juneau Jazz and Classics. He thanks his wife, Anita, for supporting his long hours and hopes you lot enjoy the show.
TIMOTHY DAIGLE (DRUMS) studied studio engineering and music performance at Lamar Country Higher in Port Arthur, TX, where he specialized as a drummer in a stage ring and recorded local bands. After graduating in 2010 he performed with many local bands in the Southeast Texas area, including the Kay Miller Trio. In 2014 he moved to DC to assistance start a church, Triumph DC, where he met his married woman and continues to direct music and sound production. Feel costless to say hi and ask near him about his kittens.
ERIN DAVIES (C'25, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) is a freshman in the College from Massachusetts. Violet is Erin'southward second product at Georgetown and her first experience as an assistant stage manager! Erin worked on Paperplay (Fall 2021), her beginning product at Georgetown, as run crew, and has been involved in the technical and product side of theater since 2017. She would like to give thanks the cast and crew of Violet for making this experience so special.
ALICIA DIGIORGI (Manager OF PRODUCTION) welcomes her outset flavor with TPST and The Davis Center. Alicia most recently served as the Managing director of Production and Caput of the Stage Management program for Indicate Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse. She has served in numerous production roles for dozens of companies and has a passion for immersive theatre creation. Some favorite productions include: STRATA and OjO for Bricolage Product Company; The Lonesome West and Death of A Salesman for THE REP; The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Hedda Gabler for PICT; Talley's Folly and Proficient People for The Pittsburgh Public; Buffet Puttanesca and The Missionary Position for City Theatre; Killer Joe and The Grey Zone for barebones productions.
DOROTHY BARNES DRIGGERS (COSTUME SHOP MANAGER) is a costume designer and technician in Washington, DC. Currently she is the costume shop managing director at Georgetown Academy and the costume coordinator/designer for Maryland Lyric Opera. Her most contempo design credits include Snow mean solar day for Arts on the Horizon, Mary Poppins at Primal Piedmont Summer Theatre and Madeline's War at the Volks Theatre in Vienna, Austria. While designing, she has worked equally a costume technician at The Washington National Opera, Folger Theatre, The University of Maryland, and The Santa Fe Opera.
SARAH EDMONDSON (SHE/HER) (C'23, Assistant MUSIC DIRECTOR) is a junior from North Carolina. She studies history, music and disability studies. She has previously worked on music direction for Nomadic's Firebringer, Mask and Bauble's Zoom product of Human being of La Mancha, and last semester'south production of Beyond the Lights. She is grateful to and proud of anybody on Violet's team!
CHRISTINE EVANS (Artistic DIRECTOR, DAVIS Center), originally from Australia, is a Professor of Performing Arts at Georgetown. She writes plays, novels, pic scripts and opera libretti. Her plays take been produced and adult at many venues, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the American Repertory Theater (Fine art); her play Trojan Barbie is published by Samuel French (U.k. and US). Her novel-in-verse, Cloudless, was released past UWA Publishing (2015) and her novel Nadia, most a refugee from Sarajevo in 1990s London, is forthcoming from U Iowa Press in 2023. Recent honors include a 2020 Howard Foundation Award, three MacDowell Fellowships and 5 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowships. Electric current projects include a TV adaptation of Cloudless and the libretto for Three Marys, a contemporary chamber opera composed by Andrée Greenwell. Christine holds an MFA and PhD from Brown University and served as Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard from 2007-12. world wide web.christineevanswriter.com
CASEY A. FERRANTE (C'22, CHOREOGRAPHER), a lifelong dancer, is a senior studying sociology, Spanish, and journalism. She started dancing when she was two years old and became a competitive dancer at six. Upon arriving at Georgetown, Casey joined Black Movements Dance Theatre (BMDT) and is now the banana director. She recently presented her 3rd and final piece at BMDT's bound show. Last semester, Casey was the assistant choreographer for Beyond the Lights, which was a groovy introduction to Georgetown theater. She is honored to choreograph for Violet, and she is excited to make this story come to life through movement.
THEA BELLE FLANZER (C'24, YOUNG VI) is and so grateful to be working with this incredible d-staff and cast! Georgetown Interim Credits Include: Murder/Suicide (GTA); Tam Lin & Other Journeys (GTA); Christmas Ballad 2020 (GTA/Thousand&B); AudioSpice (Nomadic). Off-Broadway: If Yous Press Yer Optics Difficult Enuf (Theatre Row). Regional: Gateway's Mary Poppins; Elf the Musical; As You lot Similar It, and many more. Training: RADA Teen Summer Conservatory, Stonestreet Studios Summer Intensive, and the Gateway Schoolhouse for the Performing Arts. Director of K&B'due south 2021 Christmas Ballad production, publicity director of M&B's incoming Lath 171, and member of Arena Stage's Playwrights' Arena.
CAITLIN FRAZIER (C'23, Picture show) is playing a Black man for the second time and she is excited to get to do it for the first time on Georgetown's campus. Caitlin is happy that Violet has a girl crush 😉 Shoutout to Caitlin's real life girly, Olivia.
NICK GIOTIS (C'23, FATHER) wants to thank his mom and invites members of the audience to text him (203) 554-1099 their favorite poker paw.
MARGARET GLEASON (C'22, Director) is honored to have y'all in the theater for this performance. Originally (and proudly) from Eugene, OR, she has so enjoyed directing Violet with this wonderful, resilient team. Information technology has been a cute bookend to her college years. During her fourth dimension at Georgetown, she served as founder and Co-Chair of March For Our Lives, choreographer for Rangila, and Publicity Managing director for Mask and Bauble. Favorite campus theater memories include acting in a reading of Torgus and Snow by Christine Evans, directing Hedda Gabler, and establishing semi-permanent residence in Poulton and DPAC. She thanks her family and her friends, for everything.
DEREK GOLDMAN (SENIOR THESIS ADVISOR) is Chair of Georgetown Academy'south Department of Performing Arts and Director of the Theater & Performance Studies Programme, too as Co-Founding Director of the Laboratory for Global Operation and Politics, with the mission to humanize global politics through the power of performance. He is an accolade-winning stage managing director, playwright/adapter, scholar, producer, and programmer of new work, whose work has been seen effectually the country, off-Broadway, and internationally, at theaters such every bit Steppenwolf, Lincoln Center, Arena Stage, Baltimore Eye Stage, Folger, Circular House, Everyman, Mosaic, Theater J, Synetic, the Kennedy Center, Ford's Theater, McCarter, Segal Center (Montreal), Olney Theater, and others. He is the author of more than 30 professionally produced plays and adaptations, and he has directed more than 100 productions. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and he received the President'southward Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at Georgetown, and the Provost'due south Innovation in Teaching Award.
MIRIAM HARRIS (SCS'22, ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER) is a senior in the SCS and is a native of Washington DC. Violet is her first theater production. She would similar to thank Professor David Schulman for introducing her to the importance of sound design and Alicia DiGiorgi for providing her the opportunity to work on Violet.
KRISTEN MARIE HODGSON (C'22, VIRGIL/BILLY DEAN/"Young" ENSEMBLE) is a soon-to-be graduate studying Regime, Psychology, and Education, Inquiry, & Justice. In addition to existence the President of Children'due south Theatre, she is also a member of Mask & Bauble and Nomadic Theatre Societies. By Georgetown theatre shows take included Firebringer, The Piffling Mermaid & the Prince, Robin Hood, and yearly productions of the Christmas Carol. She is so excited to be involved in Violet as her last undergraduate theatre experience. Every bit a Southerner herself, she appreciates the opportunity to sing and dance to country-influenced music—and use a Southern accent!
SAM KEHOE (C'23, MONTY) is ecstatic to exist continuing his tertiary season with Georgetown Theater! Prior roles with 1000&B include: Jones (Machinal), Bildad (JB), and Brack (Hedda Gabler). Sam would like to give thanks the production team, cast, and coiffure for the opportunity to story-tell once once again. He would also like to extend his sincerest apologies to all his apartment tower neighbors who suffered in silence through his late-night vocal practice sessions.
MOLLY KENNEY (C'25, ASSOCIATE Audio DESIGNER AND Audio BOARD OPERATOR) is a freshman in the College studying Biology of Global Health on the Pre-Health track. This is her beginning production with Mask & Bauble and second production at Georgetown, and she can't look to be a part of more productions in the futurity. She would like to thank everyone for welcoming her to the Georgetown theater community!
ANTOINETTE KERSAINT (C'25, PROPS CO-Atomic number 82) is a little freshman doing a little-known show called Violet. If you happen to know her or the prove, you lot are automatically libation than everyone else. Neither she makes the rules nor I, the omnipresent narrator of her life story. We hope you savour, are enjoying, or did enjoy this night'due south show. If there was a prop that spoke to you, it was Antoinette and Amelia.
TALAL ALI KOLAGHASSI (C'22, CROONER) grew upwardly as a huge theater kid, and as they grew they felt their priorities shifted as the 'real' world took a price on them. This is their start play since before high schoolhouse and they are and then excited to reconnect and reignite their love for theatre. Talal is excited to render to the phase!
KATHERINE LANDLER (ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER, LIGHT Lath OPERATOR) is so excited to be working on this product. She would like to thank everyone involved in this production for making it such a rewarding and fun experience.
DREW LENT (C'25, STUDENT PRODUCER) is so excited to be a student producer for Violet this spring! He is currently a freshman in the Higher and has performed in Machinal final semester with Mask & Bauble. Previous acting credits include Jack in Into the Forest, Enjolras in Les Miserables, and Lucas in The Addams Family. This is his first role in production, and he has loved this brand new experience. He would like to thank his family and friends for all of their back up, every bit well as the cast and crew for being so amazing to work with.
ELIZABETH MCDERMOTT (SFS '22, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, M&B) is so proud of this amazing cast and crew! Break legs!
HAN MILLER (C'23, SCENIC DESIGN) says please donate to Georgetown Common Help by Venmoing @GeorgetownMutualAid 🙂
JOLIE OUYANG (C'24, DRAMATURG, SUBSTITUTE DRUMMER) is a sophomore in the College studying English language with a minor in Italian. This is her first fourth dimension working on a theater production, and she would like to thank everyone involved in Violet for their support and helpfulness, as well as her family and friends for putting up with her.
JAMES PERGERSON (BASS) loves music theater! Afterwards 20 years of playing state, classic rock, alternative, and church worship music, James jumped at this opportunity which celebrates the music of his southern roots. He is married to the Music Manager and has three musical children.
TORI PERGERSON (MUSICAL Managing director) is delighted to be making her debut with Georgetown's Theater & Performance Studies Program. As a DCPS Vocal/ Musical Theater Manager, Tori currently serves at Stuart-Hobson Middle. She has built a musical theater program producing ii productions a year that draws over 100 participants from feeder schools (Chiliad-eight) all around the Capitol Hill Community. Tori is a certified ITHEATRICS Specialist working alongside award-winning Playwright and Director, Timothy Allen McDonald (Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, etc.) Tori has directed elementary song ensembles performing at the basis-breaking expansion ceremony of the Kennedy Center Arts Wing, leading an annual Black History celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, performing for sometime Vice President Joe Biden's Military Holiday Tribute, and the Millennium Stage to proper noun a few. She is a wife to an awesome Bass Player (James) and mother to three Artists in training: Lydia, Evan, and Riley. She is honored to be a part of the Violet Team and congratulates everyone on a task "Well done!"
OWEN POSNETT (C'24, ASSISTANT MUSIC Manager) has been playing piano for twelve years and saxophone for nine. He is honored to serve as an banana music managing director and pit orchestra pianist for Violet after having done and so for Cabaret in Fall 2021. Previously, Owen has served as assistant music director and/or piano-conductor for a diverseness of theater companies. He is extremely grateful for Tori and Sarah, the pit orchestra, and the residue of the Violet team for all of their hard work in putting on a great show.
ORLY SALIK (C'23, Assistant DIRECTOR) is a inferior in the college majoring in Authorities and minoring in History and Theater & Operation Studies. Despite Margaret's refusal to cast her every bit Creepy Guy, she wants to congratulate her on a wonderful senior thesis. Cheers to the entire cast and crew on a fantastic functioning. Savour the bear witness!
XAVIER SANCHEZ (LEAD SOUND DESIGNER), accomplished producer and recent Georgetown alumni, calls San Diego domicile. His passion for music developed when he started playing pianoforte equally a child and has only grown since. He first began experimenting with music production and sound pattern at the age of xi, and has mastered a diversity of genres including rap, electronic, and alternative. He produces and performs under the stage proper name YVNG X and his music has clustered over 100,000 streams internationally. When he's not working on music, Xavier spends his time drawing, animating, writing, and DJing. As a educatee, Xavier served as the Podcast and DJ Services Chair of Georgetown'south student-run radio station WGTB and cherished spending countless hours creating in Gelardin's product studio. His virtually memorable Georgetown feel was the time he spent studying abroad in Florence, Italian republic and traveling beyond Europe.
KIM SCHRAF (DIALECT Double-decker) is an adjunct instructor in the Section of Performing Arts at Georgetown and a longtime professional actor in the DC community. Her other pursuits include voice and acting coaching, audiobook narration, and corporate presentation workshops. She has enjoyed working with the wonderful Violet team on this production!
AMELIA SHOTWELL (C'25, CO-LEAD PROPS DESIGNER) is a Freshman in the Higher studying History and English. She has been involved in theater since the third class. At Georgetown, she has previously performed in Paperplay. She would like to thank Drew Lent for beingness a fantastic student producer 🙂
KRISTIN A. THOMPSON (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is happy to return to Georgetown, having previously designed lights for Amanuensis, and In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play. Some other companies Kristin has designed lights for include: 1st Stage, Adventure Theatre MTC, Carrol Community College, Contradiction Dance, Faction of Fools, Flying Five Theatre, Happenstance Theatre, Howard Community Higher, The Hub Theatre, Imagination Stage, Circular House Theatre, Stevenson University, Theatre Lab, and Venus Theatre. When not sitting in the dark shining lights on other people, she spends her fourth dimension with her two favorite people: her husband Paul, and her kid Grey.
GRACE TOURTELOTTE (C'25, MUSIC HALL Vocalist, Jitney Driver 2, BUS PASSENGER/ ENSEMBLE) has absolutely loved being in Violet, which is her start show at Georgetown. She is so thankful to everyone in the cast and crew and everyone involved for making this such an astonishing experience and to Margaret for giving her this opportunity and introducing anybody to the absolutely life changing T.Five. bear witness Boom. Enjoy the show!
GABRIELLA TURRINELLI (SFS '23, STAGE MANAGER) is a inferior in the SFS, majoring in International Political Economy and minoring in French and International Development. From Chicago, Gabriella came to Georgetown excited to work with the theater customs, and is thrilled to be stage managing for the second fourth dimension on Violet. She would similar to thank her family unit for always accepting her belatedly-dark stressed Facetime calls and Trader Joe'south for providing great post-rehearsal meals. She is too incredibly grateful to Margaret for entrusting her with this process! And with that, enjoy this poker-filled, galax-sponsored cross-country road trip with the Violet team!
CAITLIN WAUGH (C'24, VIOLET) is a sophomore in the higher majoring in Women'south and Gender Studies, and minoring in Theater & Operation Studies and Standard arabic. She is so excited to exist in her first in-person bear witness since before COVID. Special thanks to her professor's canis familiaris Jamie for helping her run lines!
MICHAEL T. WILLIAMS (Artistic ADVISOR TO CO-CURRICULAR THEATER) is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Theater & Performance Studies Plan and Artistic Advisor to Co-Curricular Theater at Georgetown. He is a devised and ensemble theater practitioner and pedagogue: function director, performer, and educator working in collectively-authored performance. Driven by visual storytelling and sonic languages, his work explores the matrimony of the divine and the profane, unreliable first-person narratives, and theatricalization of non-dramatic and autobiographical texts. With his collective Antigravity Operation Project and solo Michael has worked with: FringeArts, La MaMa ETC, Grunter Iron Theatre Company, Soho Rep, Trinity Rep, and Sleeping Weazel, and has been presented at FringeArts, Ars Nova, Ice Manufactory Festival, New Ohio Presents, and Haverford College through the Eye for Peace and Global Citizenship. K.F.A. in Devised Performance from University of the Arts/Squealer Iron Theatre, B.A. in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Pedagogy Studies from Brownish Academy.
TIANNA M YOUNG (SFS'25, HAIR/MAKEUP) is really excited to be working on their first e'er theatrical product!
DRAMATURGY
Gear up in the American Due south in September 1964, Violet is a musical that touches upon themes of religion, race, parenthood, disfigurement, and friendship in the midst of the Ceremonious Rights Era and the commencement of American military intervention in the Vietnam War. Based on Doris Betts' short story The Ugliest Pilgrim, the musical centers upon its titular character, Violet Karl, and her interactions with the diverse people she meets after leaving her small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina. While the plot is fictional, many aspects of the show can be found in the America that existed in the early 60s.
For our designers, a significant inspiration were the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains where Violet has lived her whole life. This particular photograph below inspired the costumes' natural color palette and the set'due south woodsy limerick, giving the production a rustic temper. In addition to its design, multiple characters within the play too accept roots in American history, from the soldiers contemplating potential deployment to Vietnamii to the charismatic, boisterous televangelist a la Oral Roberts3 that promises healing through faith.
For our designers, a pregnant inspiration were the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains where Violet has lived her whole life. This particular photo below inspired the costumes' natural colour palette and the set'due south woodsy composition, giving the production a rustic atmosphere. In addition to its design, multiple characters within the play also have roots in American history, from the soldiers contemplating potential deployment to Vietnam2 to the charismatic, boisterous televangelist a la Oral Robertsthree that promises healing through faith.
As our company moves beyond the stage4 reflecting Violet'south pilgrimage, we encourage you to consider the following question: "In changing times, who practice nosotros rely on and why?"
2. 1960s summer regular army uniforms (at correct) served as costume inspiration for the characters of Moving-picture show and Monty.
3. Oral Roberts (1918-2009) was a televangelist and a proponent of the prosperity gospel and seed-religion. His signature adjust and red tie was a reference point for The Preacher'due south costume.
four. Early Rendering of the Bandbox Pine fix. Though Violet begins at the mount and turf role of the ready, which symbolizes North Carolina, it moves across the stage equally the musical continues on, reaching the other end of the room when Violet finally reaches her destination.
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DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS Centre
Professor Christine Evans, Ph.D., Artistic Manager
Opened in Nov 2005 every bit Georgetown University's first building designed for the arts, the Davis Performing Arts Center is the research and instruction laboratory for the Theater & Performance Studies Program and houses the administrative part of the Department of Performing Arts. The Center honors Father Royden B. Davis, dear onetime Dean of the College and a patron of the arts. Nationally recognized builder Hugh Hardy transformed the sometime Ryan Assistants Edifice (expanding on the site of Georgetown's beginning gymnasium) for the Davis Centre.
Since its inaugural season, the Davis Center has hosted a thematically linked abode season for the Theater & Performance Studies Program, featuring cut-edge productions committed to diversity and creative risk-taking. We accept presented numerous new works and adaptations, DC premieres, assuming re-imaginings of classics, important gimmicky plays, and student-devised productions.
Our mainstage productions have engaged deep collaborations with nationally renowned artists (Sojourn Theatre, Heather Raffo, The Neo-Futurists), acclaimed local companies (Synetic Theater, Spooky Action Theater, a xv-year partnership with Loonshit Stage at the Mead Middle for American Theater), local universities (Gallaudet Academy, University of Maryland), and frequent co-productions with Alumni (including LubDub Theatre Co., Swedian Lie, Isaiah M. Wooden) and GU'southward student theater companies (including Black Theatre Ensemble, Mask and Bauble, and Nomadic Theatre).
The Davis Center is a hub for interdisciplinary exchange with the wider community, both locally and globally. In improver to mainstage TPST productions in the Gonda and Devine Theatres, the Davis Center hosts almanac residencies of the theater, music, and trip the light fantastic toe programs, and the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, placing students from the entire Georgetown community in regular contact with leading professionals from the US and beyond, as well as presenting work and hosting residencies with change-making artists from around the earth. Through our partnerships with local organizations, DC public schools, and numerous customs partners, we actively engage Georgetown'south social justice mission through the performing arts.
GU THEATER & PERFORMANCE STUDIES Programme
Derek Goldman, Ph.D., Managing director
Housed in the Davis Performing Arts Centre, the Theater & Performance Studies Program offers a dynamic interdisciplinary major that emphasizes the interaction of artistic and analytic inquiry. The distinctive curriculum integrates the political and international character of Georgetown, a commitment to social justice, and high-quality, cutting-edge production seasons, including world premieres. Our major prepares students for lives as professional person theater artists, scholars, activists, and entrepreneurs, as well as for careers in the wider fields of education, cultural criticism, and public service.
Led by an internationally recognized kinesthesia of leading scholar/artists and professional practitioners, the programme has been named as one of the height 5 higher theater programs exterior of New York Urban center (Backstage, 2012), and faculty and pupil collaborations have been recognized with Helen Hayes Awards and invitations to leading festivals around the earth. Our courses provide in-depth instruction in adaptation, new work development, interdisciplinary research-to-performance projects, cross-cultural functioning studies, theater for social change, and innovative approaches to design and multi-media, every bit well as playwriting, directing, dramaturgy, ensemble and solo operation.
The Program invests in a distinctive array of professional person partnerships and invitee artists who collaborate deeply with students, including our ongoing partnership with Arena Stage at the Mead Middle for American Theater. Frequent residencies with leading artists from around the world bring diverse modes of operation to campus. The establishment of the Laboratory for Global Operation and Politics, a articulation signature initiative with the School of Foreign Service, represents our growing focus on the role of theater and performance in the context of international diplomacy, engaging global challenges such as the migration and refugee crisis, climate change, conflict and polarization.
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Georgetown University Theater & Operation Studies Plan Faculty & Staff
Derek Goldman
CHAIR, DEPT. OF PERFORMING ARTS; DIRECTOR, THEATER & PERFORMANCE STUDIES PROGRAM; CO-FOUNDING Manager, LABORATORY FOR GLOBAL PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS; PROFESSOR
Christine Evans
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS Middle; PROFESSOR
Soyica Colbert
IDOL FAMILY PROFESSOR, GEORGETOWN Higher; PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND PERFORMING ARTS
Reginald Douglas (C'09)
ADJUNCT LECTURER
Dorothy Barnes Driggers
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR; DAVIS CENTER COSTUME Shop AND Backdrop MANAGER
Anita Gonzalez
FOUNDING CO-LEADER OF THE RACIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE; PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND PERFORMING ARTS
Robert Jansen
Offshoot ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Emma Crane Jaster
ADJUNCT LECTURER (TPST & DANCE); GLOBAL FELLOWS Program Director AND RESIDENT MOVEMENT ARTIST, THE LAB
Sarah Marshall
ADJUNCT Acquaintance PROFESSOR OF Do
Kate Eastwood Norris
ADJUNCT LECTURER
Natsu Onoda Power
PROFESSOR
Maya Due east. Roth
DELLA ROSA DISTINGUISHED Associate PROFESSOR OF THEATER
Kim Schraf
Adjunct LECTURER
Alexandra Templer (C'15)
ADJUNCT LECTURER
Michael T. Williams
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE; ARTISTIC ADVISER TO CO-CURRICULAR THEATER
Additional DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS AND DAVIS CENTER PERSONNEL
Tobin Clark
TECHNICAL ADVISER TO CO-CURRICULAR THEATER
Vanessa Gilbert
Customs ENGAGEMENT AND Evolution Managing director
Sarah Ginnetti
ACADEMIC AND FACULTY Affairs Manager
Ron Lignelli
ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR
Laura Mertens
PUBLIC RELATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS Managing director
Alicia DiGiorgi
Director OF PRODUCTION
Bethany Taylor
TECHNICAL Manager
Support OUR INITIATIVES
We depend on the generosity of our supporters and audience members for the majority of our product and programming funds. By supporting our dynamic range of programming, you can change students' lives and underwrite our delivery to continuing to brand Georgetown a national leader and a destination for the arts.
For information on supporting TPST programs and other initiatives in the Department of Performing Arts, contact Department Chair Derek Goldman at dag45@georgetown.edu. For data about becoming a production sponsor, please contact Davis Performing Arts Centre Artistic Director Christine Evans at cme40@georgetown.edu.
"Georgetown…in recent years has established itself as the region'southward almost imaginative academic outpost for drama….The programming…beard with professional-grade ambition."
—THE WASHINGTON POST
Ranked one of the "5 Height College Theater Programs Outside of New York"
—BACKSTAGE
FRIENDS OF TPST AND THE DAVIS CENTER 2021-22
Andrew R. Ammerman (F'72)
Joyce J. Gorman and Joseph A. Fanone
(C' 71, Fifty' 74)
Alumni Leadership Circle
Dean Rosario Ceballo
Provost Robert Groves
The Kelley Family unit
Marker Kenyon
Stephen J. & Mary Ann Seleman
Violet is role of the GU Theater & Performance Studies Program'southward 2021-22 Makers in the Space: Making Infinite 16th Ceremony season, which also included productions of Paperplay! Adventures in Kamishibai (Oct. 21-30, 2021), created by the student ensemble with Prof. Natsu Onoda Power; Cabaret, directed by Matt Phillips (C'22), advised by Profs. Maya E. Roth & Michael T. Williams (Nov. 10-14, 2021) and presented with Nomadic Theatre in collaboration with the GU Music Program; and the Davis Performing Arts Center Sweet 16 Anniversary Commemoration (Apr eight-ix, 2022).
GU Theater & Performance Studies Plan and Davis Performing Arts Eye
Fri, April viii–Sabbatum, April ix
Davis Performing Arts Center Sweet 16 Anniversary Celebration
Gloat the Sweet 16th anniversary of Georgetown's arts hub in an exciting assortment of events with alumni, faculty, and current students!
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Beyond THE Edifice
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MAKING NEW WORLDS FUND
The Georgetown University Theater & Operation Studies Program would like to thank our friends and alumni who have contributed to the Making New Worlds Fund, especially the post-obit for their generosity:
James and Susannah Prout, Rita Ciocca, Art Murphy, Thomas Scanlan, the Leen Foundation, The Children's Trust, Sharmila Achari (C'04), Adam (C'16) and Elly (C'16) Bacigalupo, Henri and Jaye (Due north'67) Barre, Matt Beshke (SFS'18), Brian Bies (B'eighteen), Kevyn Bowles (C'09), Nancy Brensson (C'96), Jack Buckley (B'22), Meg Cairns (C'xc), Anna Calogero (SFS'eighteen), Tim O. Casey (C'07), Dave Childs (SFS'04), Christina M. Ciocca (C'05), Gabriel Cohn (N'19), Kate Creevy (C'94), Fred Dews (SFS'91, MPP'96), Catherine Dolan (C'12), Michael Donnay (C'16), Beak Doyle (C'91), Olivia Duff (C'16), Blythe DuJardin (SFS'22), Jem Dyson (C'22), Thomas B. Evans (C'08), Patrick Flynn (C'09), Danny Frumento (C'eighteen), Greta Gaines (C'89) and Mike Haje, Ray Gao (C'nineteen), Diane Giangreco (C'13), Jess Gitner (C'09), Matthew Green (SFS'78), Jeremy Guyton (C'12), David Hanna (C'14), Samuel Hartmann (C'19), Jordanna Hernandez (C'15), Anne Marie Huntington (C'19), Mary Ann (C'86, L'90, P'19/23) and Kent Huntington (50'91, P'19/23), Analise Irigoyen (B'22), Jeffrey (SFS'88) and Shannon Jamison, Josh Karch (C'91), Kathy Kelly (SFS'99), Wieslaw and Mariola Klis (P'10), Sarah Kelly Konig (C'16), Alex Kostura (SFS'09), Rachel League (B'xviii), Elise Lemle (C'10), Ann Ludtke (MSB'18), Dustin Maghamfar (C'06), Alexandra McCourt (B'15), Hunt Meacham (C'fourteen), Catherine Meyendorff (SFS'xi), Beth A. Mirzai (C'03), Michael Mitchell (C'10), Thomas Moakley (SFS'17), Christian Navarro (C'01), Joseph (B'94) and Nancy Nowalk, Caitlin Ouano (C'17), Cynthia E. Pekron (SFS'07), Matt Phillips (C'22), Kate Porterfield (C'86), Colin Pritchard (SFS'99), Brendan Quinn (C'14, L'18), Jennifer Rogers (C'06), Alexandra Rose (50'xix), Erika (SFS'92) and Jeff (C'87) Schoppert, Caroline (C'00) and Brent Rock, William (C'05) and Eleanor (C'06) Strumolo, Shawn Summers (C'12), Susan Swope (SFS'65), The Burke Family Charitable Fund, Joelle Thomas (SFS'10), Bridget (SFS'79) and Russell (D'79) Tibbetts (P'06/18/23), David Turer (B'16), Obehi Utubor (SFS'09), Annie Valik (B'06), Amelia Walsh (SFS'20), Jasmine Wee (SFS'13), Cornell Womack (C'93), Isaiah Wooden (C'04), Allison Zatta (C'07)
The Making New Worlds Fund supports the bookish, artistic, and professional development of our students. To make a donation to the Fund, delight visit performingarts.georgetown.edu/participate/give.
MASK & BAUBLE
The Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society prides itself on being the oldest, continuously running, collegiate, student theatrical society in the United States. In its current home, Poulton Hall Phase III, the gild succeeds at producing professional theatre at the college level. Mask and Bauble is defended to creating quality theatre through a tradition of student-to-student mentorship. With an aim to produce a wide diverseness of works each flavor, our show selections too draw from our four pillars of classics, contemporaries, musicals, and pupil written works.
Mask and Bauble was founded in 1852 equally The Dramatic Association of Georgetown College. Then headed by the College'south Jesuit president, the group kickoff performed on February 27, 1853, and has since had an exciting and prestigious history. In 1884, the Association's production of Richard II was the American debut. During the Roosevelt Administration, the guild ofttimes performed at the White House and provided much of the technical staff for printing conferences. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was a swell patron and supporter of the group during that time.
During World War I, the lodge savage into a period of dormancy, but afterwards reorganized under the proper name of Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society, reflecting its new emphasis on comedies and dramas. Soon after, in 1934, the society bandage women for the kickoff time. During the period from 1955 to 1976, former Georgetown professor Donn B. White potato headed the club and carried it to its current stature. Using educatee-written musicals called Calliopes, Dr. Spud shifted the emphasis of the Social club to educatee involvement and creativity. Presently after, Louis Schetter, a erstwhile student and Broadway producer, followed accommodate by founding Midnight Theatre, a forum for experimental theatrical operation. The Society recently revived this tradition in the spring of 1996.
Unsatisfied with the lack of theatre infinite on campus, in 1975 Mask and Bauble members stayed during leap break and secretly built a black box theatre in a Poulton Hall classroom without Academy permission, naming it Stage 2. The University immediately forced the students to take information technology autonomously, but, in 1976, the Administration congenital the group Stage III, some other small, 100-seat black box theatre in Poulton Hall, but in exchange for the club'due south costume, makeup, and rehearsal spaces. The original operation space, Phase I, has since been converted into a scene shop, costume shop, and dressing room in an attempt to supplant some of those lost spaces. To this day, Phase III remains Mask and Bauble'south primary operation space on the Georgetown campus.
Today, Mask and Bauble continues to present quality college theatre while providing an outlet through which students can learn about and participate in the performing arts. It claims equally alumni actors such as John Guare, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, William Peter Blatty, and Eileen Brennan. To this solar day, students are responsible for all facets of theatrical production.
www.maskandbauble.org
M&B Board MEMBERS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Elizabeth McDermott
Associate PRODUCER
Will Hammond
Business concern Managing director
Orly Salik
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Han Miller
PUBLICITY DIRECTOR
Margaret Gleason
Community Engagement Manager
Karen Samy
SALES DIRECTOR
Sabrina Perez
Coming upwardly…
April vii – April 23, 2022
36th Annual Donn B. White potato One-Acts Festival
Featuring the winners of Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society's annual student playwriting competition
Duty Free as a Way of Coping by Anjali Britto
Directed by Hiruni Herat (C'23)
A female international student gets a job every bit a duty free store employee when her college closes and she cannot go dwelling house since the borders are closed. She takes the audience through her lonely corner of the shop and describes her daily tasks as an employee as well every bit her alien feelings about her position as an employee, and her place within the e'er moving organization of an airport. What does it mean to exist static when the rest of the world seems to be in motion?
K Courses by Nick Giotis
Directed by Charlie Smith (C'24)
Welcome to the Dead Human being's Cove, the spookiest mini golf game experience in Chippewa County, Minnesota. In your time at the Expressionless Man'southward Cove you may encounter a buoyant store managing director, two elderly owners, an aspiring journalist, a quirky, perennial customer, and Cal Vandegraff — a college anile kid just trying to keep his caput above h2o. 1000 Courses is a play about lofty ambitions, the bloodshot hunt of fulfillment, the sublimity of homo life, and of course, mini-golf game.
Huelga! by Catherine Shonack
Directed past Maggie Cammaroto (C'22)
Produced by Abby Hames (C'24)
Stage Managed by Kat Bouker (C'24)
Technical Management past Owen Wiley (C'25)
This grouping of Latinx advocates will stop at nada to get their customs recognized equally a minority in the eyes of the Houston schoolhouse board. Window in the mode? Just intermission it. Public schoolhouse systems falling short? How about new schools? Songs that have never been sung or danced to earlier? That's no problem for this movin' and groovin' gang of passionate leaders! This historically-based, student-written musical is one-of-kind – don't miss it!
Poulton Hall, Stage 3
FREE, Annals at performingarts.georgetown.edu
Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University
Call up This: The Lesson of Jan Karski
By Prof. Derek Goldman and GU alumnus Clark Immature (C'09)
Directed by Prof. Derek Goldman
Featuring David Strathairn as Jan Karski
"Masterful…this story is more than timely than ever." –Chicago Sun Times
"GRIPPING…Starring a virtuosic David Strathairn…under [Derek] Goldman's inspired direction."
–The Washington Mail service
May 12-22 2022
Davis Performing Arts Middle, Gonda Theatre
Express run in advance of international tour and off-Broadway run in the fall
Marker its return to GU, where this work was originally created and performed equally an ensemble staged reading in 2014, this tour-de-force, solo performance featuring Academy Honor nominee David Strathairn (Good Nighttime and Good Luck, Lincoln, Nomadland), portrays World War Two hero and Holocaust witness January Karski, a messenger of truth who risked his life to carry his harrowing report from war-torn Poland to the Allied Nations and, ultimately, the Oval Role only to be ignored and disbelieved. Escaping the clutches of the Nazis, bearing witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto, and continuing alpine in the halls of ability, Strathairn captures the remarkable life of this self-described "insignificant, piffling man" whose forgotten story of moral courage and individual responsibility can yet shake the censor of the earth.
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