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Written by TINA HOWE

Directed by TAYLOR STARK

APRIL 27-28, 2024

CFA 106

855 COMMONWEALTH AVE

BOSTON, MA

BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Runtime: 1 hour and 20 minutes

ENSEMBLE

Cameron Carcasson

Claire Mitchell

Dylan Mejil

Emery Genga

Eva Sheehy-Moss

Hampton Richards

Jack Dillon

Jacob Schmitt

Janie Mcrae

Jordan Berke

Lucy Leahy

Natalia Martinez

Rowan Benz

PRODUCTION TEAM

DIRECTOR

Taylor Stark

GRAD COLLAB TEAM

Jessie Chen

Rachael Harned

Si Shen

Joice Caldeira Simao

Xinyu Ye

Hope Brown

Hope Debelius

Sara Mathew

Grant Sorenson

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

Julien Mondjii Adlerberg

Ella Blumenthal

Special thanks to Cameron Carcasson for additional work on this production

DIRECTOR

Taylor Stark (Director)

Taylor Stark is a graduate of Northwestern University and a first year student in the MFA Directing program at BU. In addition to her MFA, she is pursuing a certificate in Arts Management through the MET College. She has a particular interest in boundary-pushing theatre, especially site-specific and immersive work. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of Witch Hunt Theatre, which specializes in sitespecific, immersive, horror theatre. After operating out of Portland, Oregon for the last few years, Taylor plans to bring WHT to the New England area post-graduation. She has also worked on or directed projects at Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago Children's Theatre, Portland Playhouse, Emursive Productions, the Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, Monster Box Theatre, and others. If you are reading this - go to a Museum! Go see a play! Support the arts!

PLAYWRIGHT

Tina Howe (Playwright)

Tina Howe (1937-2023) was a prolific and influential American playwright. Her most produced plays include Birth and After Birth, Museum, The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, Approaching Zanzibar and Pride’s Crossing. These and other works premiered at the Public Theater, the Kennedy Center, Second Stage, The Old Globe Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Atlantic Theater Company and Primary Stages, as well as being translated and produced abroad. Her works can be read in numerous anthologies as well as in Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays by Tina Howe and Birth and After Birth and Other Plays: A Marriage Cycle, published by Theatre Communications Group. Her other publications include her translations of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and The Lesson (Grove Press) and Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lilies: Seven Brief Plays about Women in Distress (Samuel French). She is also the subject of Howe in an Hour, edited by Judith Barlow, published by Smith and Kraus. Ms. Howe was proud to have served on the council of the Dramatists Guild from 1990 to 2023.

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