CTG LA.ORG / DIG ITALSTAG E
JULY 2021
MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | MEGHAN PRESSMAN Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director
Center Theatre Group Presents
THE DUAT By
Roger Q. Mason
With
Gregg Daniel
Live Music Composed and Performed by
Lighting Design Brandon Baruch
Stage Manager
David S. Franklin
David Leach
Sound Design and Original Music Composed by
Editor
David Gonzalez
Jabari Phillips
Assistant Stage Manager
Associate Artistic Director
Maggie Swing
Tyrone Davis
Choreographed by
Michael Tomlin III Directed for the Stage by
Taibi Magar Filmed live at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, California, June 2021.
THE DUAT is part of the NOT A MOMENT, BUT A MOVEMENT series produced in collaboration with The Fire This Time Festival and Watts Village Theater Company. This performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Culver City Arts Foundation.
JULY 15 – AUGUST 12, 2021 DIGITAL STAGE
WHO’S WHO ROGER Q. MASON (Playwright, they/them) is a Black, Filipinx, plus-sized, gender non-conforming, queer artist of color born and raised in Los Angeles. As a writer, their plays have been seen on Broadway at Circle in the Square (Circle Reading Series); Off/Off-Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, The New Group, Dixon Place, The Fire This Time Festival, American Theatre of Actors, The Flea Theater, and Access Theater; and regionally at McCarter Theatre Center, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Dramatists, Steep Theatre, Serenbe Playhouse, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Open Fist Theatre Company, EST/LA, Son of Semele, and Skylight Theatre. Their work has been named finalist of the Geffen Playhouse Writers' Room, BRIClab Residency, The Lark Playwrights' Week and ScreenCraft Stage Play Award (judged by David Lindsay-Abaire); and was a semi-finalist for the Jerome Fellowship, Many Voices Fellowship, and Shonda Rhimes Unsung Voices Fellowship. Mason holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Northwestern University, M.A. in English from Middlebury College, and B.A. in English and Theatre from Princeton University. They are a member of Page 73's Interstate 73 Writers Group and an alumnus of The Fire This Time Festival. Mason received the Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award, a nod on the Kilroys List, and the Fire This Time Festival Alumni Spotlight. GREGG DANIEL (Actor, he/him) Los Angeles: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Fountain Theatre, Mark Taper Forum), Jitney, Fences, A Christmas Carol, All the Way, Death of a Salesman (South Coast Repertory), The Whipping Man (Pasadena Playhouse, South Coast Repertory). Regional: Master Harold (Cape May Stage, Portland Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, International City Theatre), Mother Courage, Julius Caesar, Cyrano de Bergerac (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Peer Gynt (Hartford Stage Company). Spell #7, Mojo and the Says (Crossroads Theatre Company). Romeo and Juliet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles) BRANDON BARUCH (Lighting Designer, he/him) specializes in experimental design for live performance. His work has been seen nationally and internationally. Design highlights include Four Larks Frankenstein (The Wallis, Ovation Award Winner); hell prepared, lost tribes (theatre dybbuk, company member); Amos (Monk Space); The Demise (NYMF); Bataré (West Coast Tour); Asterion (Grotowski Institute in Wrocław); Iceland (Ford Amphitheatre); Dana Foglia Dance's VATIC (Los Angeles, Long Beach, and NYC); Queenie Pie (Long Beach Opera and Chicago Opera Theater); and The Second City's Twist Your Dickens (Kirk Douglas Theater.) His playwriting has been produced in Los Angeles and NYC.
DAVID GONZALEZ (Sound Designer and Original Music, he/him) has been a passionate musician since childhood and is now an accomplished composer based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in film, television, stage, and video games. From feature films like Working Man, starring Academy Award-nominee Talia Shire, Peter Gerety, and Billy Brown, to short films like Birdwatching, starring Amanda Seyfried, and the Emmy-winning web series Break A Hip, David's music enriches and enlivens the pictures on the screen. His work can also be heard on Switched at Birth and How I Met Your Mother, helping to bring these popular small screen stories to life. DAVID LEACH (Live Music Composer and Performer, he/him). His father bought him his first set of timbales when he was 15—little did he and his mother know that they would point him in a direction that allows him to see the world and perform with some of the world’s greatest musicians! This list includes: Al McKay, Brenda Russell, Snoop Dogg and Tha Eastsidaz, David Benoit, Jack Johnson, Larry Carlton, Ben Harper, Dave Matthews Band, Rickie Lee Jones, Earth Wind & Fire, Sir Gant & the InVisible Force, Scott Mayo, Barbara Weathers, Kara Grainger, Donavon Frankenreiter, Vesta, Paul Jackson Jr., Michael Franti & Spearhead, BeBe Winans, and Stevie Wonder. JABARI PHILLIPS (Editor, he/him) is a local director and editor. He discovered a passion for film at an early age and moved from Houston to Los Angeles to pursue an education and career in filmmaking. After graduating from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, he worked at 20th Century Fox Studios and eventually moved into the story and editorial departments at Dreamworks Animation. At Dreamworks, he worked on several shorts, DVD specials, and three Oscar®-nominated feature animated films: How to Train Your Dragon 1 and 2 and The Croods. He currently spends his time directing, editing, and consulting on local projects around Los Angeles, primarily for independent and emerging artists who need a professional to help take their work to the next level. He continues to be passionate about helping underserved and underrepresented communities bring their stories into the mainstream. DAVID S. FRANKLIN (Production Stage Manager, he/ him). Center Theatre Group highlights: An Enemy of the People, Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Art, Romance, The Cherry Orchard, Curtains, Nightingale, The History Boys, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Parade, The Subject Was Roses, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels, God of Carnage, Vigil, Waiting for Godot, Los Otros, Red, Seminar,
Tribes, Humor Abuse, The Steward of Christendom, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bent, The Christians, Disgraced, A View From The Bridge, Zoot Suit, Archduke, King of the Yees, Head of Passes, Water by the Spoonful, Sweat, Valley of the Heart, Linda Vista, Lackawanna Blues, A Play Is a Poem, and had the pleasure of assisting on Soft Power. Other Los Angeles: Los Angeles Theatre Center in its heyday from 1985–1990, Pasadena Playhouse, and the Geffen Playhouse. Regional: Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre. New York: The Public Theater. Tours: Europe—Quotations from a Ruined City, Law of Remains (with Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz company). MAGGIE SWING (Asst. Stage Manager, she/her). Center Theatre Group: The Last Ship, Dana H., For The Love Of, Native Son, Linda Vista, Quack, Bloodletting, Ameryka, Die, Mommie, Die!, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, Spamilton, Big Night, King of the Yees, Failure: A Love Story, Dry Land, Vicuña, Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up. Geffen Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, American Buffalo. Boston Court: Collective Rage. European tour: The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company). MICHAEL TOMLIN III (Choreographer, he/him) is a contemporary and commercial artist from California who trained at Debbie Allen Dance Academy as a scholarship student. In 2012, he graduated with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Math from CalArts. Michael moved to Japan to dance for Tokyo Disney and choreographed his first international work, Ibuki. He returned to the States rejoining Lula Washington Dance Theatre as a company member and Lula’s assistant. Michael choreographed Blood, Love Changes Everything, Take This Man to Christmas, and The Audition for CSULA. Pursuing his choreographic journey, in 2018 he started ReVrbT3, his contemporary based dance company. TAIBI MAGAR (Director, she/her) is an Egyptian-American director based in New York and a graduate of Brown University’s MFA program. Most recently, she directed Capsule by Whitney White and Peter Mark Kendall (Under the Radar Festival/The Public Theater, co-directed with Tyler Dobrowsky) and Help by Claudia Rankine (The Shed). Other NY credits: Blue Ridge starring Marin Ireland and The Great Leap starring BD Wong (Atlantic Theater Company); Is God Is (Soho Rep., 2018 Obie Award;) Master (The Foundry, NYT Critics Pick); and Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova, NYT Critics Pick). She also premiered the new musical We Live in Cairo at A.R.T. Boston. Regional: Woolly Mammoth
Theatre, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theater, and Seattle Rep, among others. International: Hamburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne), and Soho Theatre (London). Other: She is the recipient of a Stephen Sondheim Fellowship, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Fellowship, The Public Theater Shakespeare Fellowship, and TFANA Actors and Director Project Fellowship. Taibi is an alumni of Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab, and a NYTW Usual Suspect. Upcoming: A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (BCS, streaming mid-July), and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Signature Theatre). CENTER THEATRE GROUP (Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director; Meghan Pressman, Managing Director/CEO; Douglas C. Baker, Producing Director), one of the nation’s pre-eminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’s leading nonprofit theatre company, programming seasons at the Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum in Downtown Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. In addition to presenting and producing the broadest range of theatrical entertainment in the country, Center Theatre Group is one of the nation’s leading producers of ambitious new works through commissions and World premiere productions and a leader in community engagement and education programs that reach across generations, demographics, and circumstance to serve Los Angeles. Find a complete staff list at CTGLA.org/Staff. ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR THE DUAT KDT Staff Crew for film day: Audio Engineer..................................................................... Corey Charness Light Board Programmer.............................................................. R. S. Buck Additional Production Support....................................Whitney Oppenheimer Video Producer.............................................................................. Cinevative Director of Photography................................................................Victor Avila Camera Operators....................................................Matt Fore, Brad Haskell Camera Assistant.......................................................................... Dale Pilus Lead Compliance Officer............................................................ Niki Armato Covid Compliance Officer...................Ben Shipley, Dean Grosbard, Liv Scott
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union. Center Theatre Group is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).