DANCE CENTER PRESENTS
J’SUN HOWARD | ERIN KILMURRAY WITH KARA BRODY | SJ SWILLEY
WEEK TWO
CHICAGO ARTIST SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL
April 26–27, 2024
dance.colum.edu
Photos by: William Frederking
THE
CREDITS
A Sonic Journey Through The Dance Center
MUSICIANS: Andrew Elbert and Joyce Lindsey
COORDINATION: Michael Caskey
take carefully (or the world shatters when you don’t find your loved ones): Anemoia
CHOREOGRAPHIC DIRECTION: J’Sun Howard
PERFORMANCE COLLABORATORS: Damon D. Green and Sungjae Lee
SOUND DESIGN: Joyce Lindsey
COSTUME DESIGN: Jeff Hancock
TECH & LIGHTING DESIGN: Jacob Snodgrass
ETHOS: Inception
FILM BY: Spence Warren and Ayako Kato
DANCER PERFORMANCE & CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLABORATION: Tuli Bera, Aaliyah
Christina, Lesley Keller, Amanda Maraist, Danielle Ross, Darling Squire, Ayako Kato
MUSIC: Mabel Kwan (piano & toy piano) and Michael Zerang (percussion)
For complete film details, please refer to the post-film credits and ayakokatodance.com
Who is SJ?
CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE: SJ Swilley
DRAMATURGY: Mawu Ama Ma’at G. Oyesii and Graciella Ye’Tsunami
LIVE COLLABORATOR & SECOND COUNCIL: Celeste Brace
MUSIC: Circle 26 by Foam and Sand & Robot Koch
COSTUME DESIGN: SJ Swilley
INTERACTIVE LIGHTING DESIGN: Kevin Rechner
I’m thankful to the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago + Chicago DanceMakers Forum for creating an intersection where my departure from Columbia overlaps with my launching as an independent artist in Chicago. Both entities have sown seeds into my artmaking that enable me to fine tune the sharing of my story.
INTERMISSION
take carefully (or the world shatters when you don’t find your loved ones): Nocturne
CHOREOGRAPHIC DIRECTION: J’Sun Howard
PERFORMANCE COLLABORATORS: Timothy ‘Solomon’ Bowser and Charles Pierson
MUSIC: Birds, Pt. I by Chassol , Where Do You Get Your Dreams From? by Sven Laux, Flower Person Theme by Thanya Iyer
SOUNDTRACK DESIGN: Sathapat Sangsuwan
COSTUME DESIGN: Jeff Hancock
TECH & LIGHTING DESIGN: Zach Dreelin
Knockout
PERFORMANCE & MOVEMENT DESIGN: Erin Kilmurray and Kara Brody
DIRECTION: Erin Kilmurray and Katrina Dixon
SOUND DESIGN WITH PERFORMANCE CAMEO: Corey Smith
PRODUCTION & STAGE MANAGEMENT: Bran Moorhead
LIGHTING DESIGN: Liz Gomez
COSTUME DESIGN: Mary Williamson
DRAMATURGY: Katrina Dion
PRODUCER & PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Erin Kilmurray with Kara Brody
Thank you to the Dance Center for giving us the space and time to explore production design as a team. Tonight, we are sharing excerpts of our duet-in-process. Special thanks to Julia Rhodes/Lucky Plush Productions, Jeff Hancock, Watershed Art + Ecology, morgan mcnaught, Ali Lorenz, Paola Borden, and Mia Vivens.
BIOS
Celeste Brace (she/they) is a movement artist, teacher, and dramaturge based in Chicago. After graduating with a BFA in Dance from Columbia College Chicago, Celeste has had the distinct pleasure of investigating movement/ dramaturgical practices that prioritize the humanity of the dancer and audience alike, something she holds paramount. As an artist-driven dramaturge, her focus is working with choreographers to ask core questions about their work as a means to clarify, offer language to, and investigate their multifaceted artistry. Celeste is currently a touring company member with Chicago’s Red Clay Dance Company and holds immense gratitude for the opportunity to collaborate with brilliant artists in Chicago and beyond.
Timothy ‘Solomon’ Bowser, hails from the red clay hills of Stone Mountain, GA. Bowser received his formative dance training from Zandra Taylor, Dean Williams and Pamela Jones Malave at DeKalb School of the Arts. Bowser received his BA at Columbia College Chicago in 2013. Bowser has performed with companies including Winifred Haun and Dancers, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, The Seldoms, Momenta Dance Company, Kanopy Dance Company, Motion/Pictures Dance Project and Kalapriya Center for Indian Performing Arts. Bowser has also worked with Randy Duncan, Pascal Rioux, Deborah Carr, Ded Goodman, and J’Sun Howard. Bowser performed for the release of the 2016 Coloring Book mixtape for Chicago’s very own Chance The Rapper. In 2017, Bowser received an Intensive Co-Mission Residency at the arts incubator, Links Hall. In 2018, Bowser created and premiered MATTER for Winifred Haun & Dancers and co-starred in the dance film Bleeding Backwards by Motion/Pictures Dance Project’s Talia Koylass. Currently, Bowser serves his community as the Marketing Manager at See Chicago Dance.
Kara Brody (she/her) is a performer, collaborator, educator, and arts administrator focusing her practice towards community-driven spaces. Based in Chicago, she is an ensemble member with Lucky Plush Productions and has performed with The Fly Honey Show, as well as Erin Kilmurray, Melinda Jean Myers, Helen Lee, Darling Shear, and The Cambrians. She created and
co-curated a two-week dance series for Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre that centered as a resource share for works in process, benefiting artists at different stages of their development. Kara is a Lecturer at University of Chicago and is currently performing with Faye Driscoll (NYC).
Katrina Dion (she/her) is a Chicago based director and producer, known for her radical youth work at Free Street Theater where she acts as Producing Artistic Director. In her 10 years at Free Street, Katrina has directed over 11 original plays, mentored over 200 youth, and produced over 40 shows. Most recently, Katrina directed WASTED at Free Street Theater, and The Wizards by Ricardo Gamboa, presented by Concrete Content, for which she won “Best Stage Director” in the Chicago Reader. In addition, Dion acts as an adjunct professor at The Theatre School at DePaul University, her alma mater. In 2019, Dion was listed as one of the top “50 People Performing for Chicago Theatre.” Her work has been featured in magazines such as Teen Vogue, and she has facilitated workshops across the country at places such as The National Civil Rights Museum, the Obama Foundation, ProPublic Illinois, and more.
Zach Dreelin (any pronoun) is a versatile artist known for their proficiency in lighting design and dance. Graduating with a BA in Dance from James Madison University, they have established themselves as a multi-faceted performer and creator. Dreelin’s artistic journey is marked by a deep exploration of movement and visual aesthetics. In 2022, Zach’s dedication to their craft was recognized with induction into the National Honor Society for Dance Arts, underscoring their commitment to excellence in the field. Throughout their career, they have collaborated with esteemed Chicago dance companies such as Simantikos Dance Chicago and Movementum Dance Project, contributing their unique talents and creative vision to various productions. Zach’s expertise extends beyond the stage, as they possess a keen understanding of lighting design, sewing, set design, and painting, adding depth and dimension to performances. Their work seamlessly blends technical precision with artistic expression, enhancing the storytelling and emotional resonance of each production.
Andrew Elbert is one of the leading djembe players in Chicago and can be found in many dance classes here in town. He also specializes in drum set and marching band, and performs with rock bands, percussion ensembles, and dance companies all around the Chicago area.
Damon D. Green is a Chicago-based dance artist and founder of TEXTUREDance Studio, an Urban Styles and Forms dance and wellness facility where he spreads his passion for movement education. Green is an avid Vogue aesthetic practitioner, exploring, performing and teaching this form in its fusion with other movement disciplines. Green has collaborated with local choreographers and companies including Red Clay Dance, Paige Cunningham-Calderella, Darrell Jones, J’Sun Howard, Philip Elson, Kristina Isabelle, Cecil Johnson Jr., Lional Freeman, Jane Beachy, Mauren Sledge (House of Avant-Garde), Bob Eisen, Molly Shanahan, as well as visual artist Faheem Majeed. Green teaches and attends workshops and master classes throughout Chicago as well as abroad. Damon joined The Seldoms in 2007, and has contributed to fourteen major projects. texturedance.com
Liz Gomez (she/her) is thrilled to be collaborating with Knockout at the Dance Center. She graduated from Columbia College in 2019, and has enjoyed the opportunity to light dance here again. Recent lighting design credits include: Love Song (Remy Bumppo) and Black Bear Island (NEIU).
Jeff Hancock is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Northwestern University’s Dance Program and a member of Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak Performance ensemble. He is currently exploring and sharing dance and movement centered in the intersection of function, expression and semiotics of movement and the things we wear through performance practices including fundamental patterning, improvisation, and somatic investigation of emergent values. He works with other humans, time, space, and materials to design and co-construct performance, education, movement, meaning, and clothing to move in. The expressive potential of the spaces between these areas fuels his movement and design practice for moving theater, and his work as a teaching artist.
J’Sun Howard is a Chicago-based dancemaker. He holds an MFA in Dance and a certificate in World Performance Studies from the University of Michigan. He is a 2020 3Arts Awardee, a recipient of their inaugural Esteemed Artist Award from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), and a 2019 Asian Cultural Council Fellow. A Links Hall Co-MISSION Fellow, a Ragdale Foundation Sybil Shearer Fellow, 2017 3Arts Make A Wave Awardee and 2014 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist. His works have been presented at Links Hall, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Defibrillator Performance Gallery, Patrick’s Cabaret (Minneapolis, MN), Danspace Project (NYC), Center for Performance Research (NYC), Detroit Dance City Festival (Detroit, MI), M1 Singapore Fringe Fesitval (Singapore), New Dance Festival (Daejeon, South Korea) where he won Best Dance Choreographer and the World Dance Alliance’s International Young Choreographers’ Project (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), among others. He has been commissioned by Common Conservatory, Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago, World Dance Alliance, and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Erin Kilmurray (she/they) is a dance artist creating genre-straddling, femme-forward performance work that demands aliveness and collectivity on stage, in studio, and with audiences. They facilitate a dance and community practice that relentlessly explores the celebrations and liberations of women, queer folks, and the underdog. Her work lives on the pop-fringe borderline; embracing mess, play, pleasure, spectacle,
and lessons in how arbitrary the line between artist and audience can be. Erin is the creator / director / choreographer of legendary queer punk dance and variety performance project The Fly Honey Show (est. 2010). She is recognized with a 2024 US Artists Fellowship Award in Dance, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Awardee (2023), a Chicago Dancemakers Lab Artist (2020), and one of 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago (2023; Newcity). Kilmurray was one of three artists commissioned for the inaugural Chicago Performs program at the Museum of Contemporary Art (2022).
Sungjae Lee (he/they) is a Seoul-born, Chicago-based artist, writer, and educator who makes performance, installation, text, video, and sound. He received his BFA in Sculpture from Seoul National University and MFA in Performance Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His multidisciplinary practice centers on the need for visibility and representation of queer Asians in a Western context. He has presented his works globally in South Korea, Sweden, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. He has had residencies at ACRE, High Concept Labs, HATCH Projects, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Arts, and Yaddo. He was selected for the 2022-2023 Kala Art Institute Fellowship, the 20212022 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, and the 2020 AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship.
Joyce Lindsey is a Chicago native. She received her BA from Denison University in 2014 and her MM in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation at Berklee Valencia in 2019. She has dedicated twelve years of her life studying and practicing live performance, music production, sound design, and multiple world percussion instruments such as djembe, dunduns, congas, and doumbek. Joyce started her training as a dance accompanist as a student musician at the Doane Dance Department at Denison University. She also attended the American Dance Festival as a music intern for four consecutive summers between 2011 - 2014. Since 2015, Joyce has simultaneously built her career as an educator, dance accompanist, live performer, and music producer/sound designer. She has been a resident teaching artist at Discover Music Discover Life for seven years. Joyce has worked as a professional dance accompanist providing live percussion for multiple dance studios, dance companies, universities, and art schools in Chicago such as the Lou Conte Dance Studio, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Columbia College, Northwestern University, ChiArts, Chicago Academy for the Art, DanceWorks and Chicago Movement Collective. Joyce continues to provide live percussion for modern and ballet dance classes at Columbia College,
and Hyde Park School of Dance. Finally, Joyce is also an active member of Ayodele Drum and Dance, a Chicago-based, all-female dance and drum company that studies and performs dances and music from the African diaspora. This summer, Joyce will be attending the Bates Dance Festival to accompany dance classes for Bates’ Youth Dance Program.
Bran Moorhead (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist in Chicago and a longtime collaborator and friend of Erin Kilmurray. Other collaborations include: the function (Museum of Contemporary Art, Philly Fringe), Search Party (Links Hall, Pivot Arts Fest), and The Fly Honeys. Elsewhere, they have designed productions with John Cicora, Jackalope, El Bear, the Grant Park Music Festival, and more. More recently, they served as Sound Designer for the award-winning new play The Wizards. They have served as Technical Director / Production Manager for The Physical Festival, Chicago Internation Puppet Theater Festival, Destinos Fest, Davenport’s Piano Bar & Cabaret, Jackalope Theatre, and First Floor Theatre, to name a few. As a vocalist and performer, they have appeared in hundreds of productions in Chicagoland over the past decade, including shows with The Fly Honeys, The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, The Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Drury Lane Oakbrook, The Chopin Theatre, The Hideout, The Den, and The Inconvenience. They currently work as the Production Manager for Thalia Hall in Pilsen.
Mawu Ama Ma’at G. Oyesii (they/them) is a Brooklyn native currently residing in Philadelphia. As a Black, queer, Caribbean, and multi hyphenate artist their movement practice and creation space is about food–sustenance, ceremony and storytelling. They are a graduate of Georgian Court University (BA) and Temple University (MFA). They have had opportunities to work and learn from Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Dr. Kariamu Welsh and Lela Aisha Jones. They were mentored by Silvana Cardell as a student and company member touring nationally and internationally with Cardell Dance Theater. They are founder and director of Ma’at Works Dance Collective (2017), a project based dance collective interested in “finding ceremony” - the punctuation that queers, ciphers and colors the worlds they innovate. Their work is sensory and human and colloquial. Currently, they are finishing the Spring semester as an adjunct professor at Bryn Mawr College, apprenticing for Urban Bush Women and working on the cast of Priestess of Twerk. Deeply empowered by their roles as educator and storyteller they have found grounding in their artistic multiplicity. Learn more about Mawu here, mawuniverse.com.
Charles Pierson is a Chicago based dance artist and performer, born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. As a graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Musical Theater and minor in Dance Performance, Charles has training in a wide range of dance styles such as Musical Theatre, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Improvisational Performance, and Vogue aesthetics. Since moving to Chicago in 2019, Charles has danced with a variety of companies including Common Conservatory, DanceWorks Chicago and Thodos Dance Chicago. He has also worked with several freelance artists, participated in URBANITE’s dance showcase, and collaborated with choreographers Noelle Kayser, Ibrahim Sabbi, Eduardo Zambrana, Imani English, and Malcolm Maurice.
Sathapat ‘Pat’ Sangsuwan grew up with music since he could remember and studied music production after high school. He is fascinated by the diversity of contemporary music whether music composition, arrangement, sound recording, musical performances, and experimental music. Pat has been at the forefront of the music and production industry with experience of more than ten years in Thailand. Pat was co-founder and directed the contemporary music production of 28Production in Thailand and worked as a session producer for film scoring orchestra with Studio28, a recording studio in Bangkok. Pat was a member of the Thai Rock band Chanudom as a guitarist, composer, and arranger. The band produced the album Third World in 2018 under the label What The Duck.
Corey Smith (they/them) is a composer, sound designer, and performer based in Chicago, Illinois. Corey has been an artist in residence at High Concept Labs, the Vashon Artist Residency the University of Illinois Springfield’s Center for Lincoln Studies, Light Box Detroit, the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, and Grin City. Their work has been seen domestically at the Steppenwolf Theater, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Mattress Factory, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Emil Bach House, and numerous venues around the Midwest. Internationally, their work has been shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, and the Bath Fringe Festival. Their work has been featured by Hyperallergic, Architectural
Digest, and the Chicago Reader. Corey is an avid collaborator and has worked with artists such as Théâtre de l’Entrouvert, Lia Kohl & Jasmine Mendoza, Every House Has a Door, Doreen Chan, Rough House Puppet Theater Company, the Suburban Piano Quartet, and Lindsey Barlag-Thornton. Corey holds an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are a collaborator, a friend, a proud midwesterner. More information at coreyds.com
Jacob Snodgrass is a Chicago based dance production artist and gardener. He has been working locally and beyond for over 20 years. His work has been seen with Red Clay Dance Company, Hiplet Ballerinas, Aerial Dance Chicago, BONEdanse, The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project, The Dance COLEctive, J’Sun Howard, Khecari Dance Theater, Nejla Yatkin, Breakbone Dance Company, Peter Carpenter Performance Project, Same Planet Performance Project, instruments of movement, Chamber Opera Chicago, Cuba’s Escuela Nacional de Ballet, REIDance, Havana Cuba’s DanzAbierta, Soham Dance, Concert Dance Inc, Joel Hall Dancers, Hedwig Dances, the Other Dance Festival, the Ruth Page Foundation, the Space Movement Project, Canada’s lbs/sq”, Giordano Dance Chicago, and Thodos Dance Chicago’s New Dances. He has also enjoyed working with a wide degree of individual artists in a variety of environments. Jacob has been Technical Director with Giordano Dance Chicago, the Ruth Page Theater, Links Hall and Hamlin Park Dance Theater, as well as and the Lighting Director at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.
Charlotte-bred and Chicago-based, SJ Swilley is a Black Trans Non-Binary movement and text artist, storyteller, & educator. Centering their notions of liberation and self-empowerment, Swilley invites audiences to bear witness to their active reckonings with mental health and navigations via social stratospheres. Attentive and attuned to their elements, SJ is both an earth and water spirit, processing the feisty truths of wet soil. Swilley is a Summa Cum Laude graduate from Johnson C. Smith University and holds an MFA from Temple University. Swilley is deeply grateful for the opportunity to present work at the Dance Center of Columbia, as it creates a springboard in their departure from the college into their artistic channeling as an independent artist.
Mary Williamson (she/they) is a multidisciplinary performer, writer, host, designer, director, rodeo clown and disco ball repairman. She has been on stage, on camera, and behind the scenes at Lookingglass Theatre, Writer’s Theatre, Sleeping Village, Thalia Hall, The Goodman Theater, Empty Bottle, as well as The Fly Honey Show, The Cosmic Country Showcase, and The Grelley Duvall Show. Recently, Mary’s costume and make-up design have been featured in music videos by Chicago bands Finom and The Grelley Duvall Show. You can follow all the chaos on Instagram @artisdeadgobears!
Graciella Ye’Tsunami (they/Tsunami/we/Ocean) is a queer, Black, fat, trans non-binary artist based in Brooklyn. Tsunami is a movement maker, poet/writer, director, dramaturge, community builder, living altar, and death doula in training. Their creative process is an intersection of trans Afro-diasporic movement investigations, echo-locations, ancestral rememberings, and Black quantum love letters as practices of freedom.
Tsunami has their MFA in Dance from Temple University. In addition to Temple, Tsunami has presented choreographic works through Red Clay Dance Company’s La Femme Dance Festival, Leah Stein’s Studio Works, and Philadelphia Fringe’s Scratch Night. They currently work as a digital content writer for PushBlack, the nation’s largest nonprofit media organization for Black Americans. They’ve lovingly worked with: Maria Bauman, Jumatatu “Makini” Poe, Lela Aisha Jones, Leah Stein, Awilda Sterling Dupree, Kariamu Welsh, Merian Soto, Baba Stafford C. Berry Jr., SJ Swilley, MajestyRoyale-Jackson, Mawu Ama Ma’at Gora, Angel Edwards, and Niyonu: Niyonu Productions.
THE DANCE CENTER PRODUCTION CREW AND BIOS
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Kevin Rechner
MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR: Jane Jerardi
SOUND ENGINEER: Dante Giramma
STAGEHAND: Paris Anderson
Paris Anderson is a dance major and enjoys being backstage as well as being on stage. Paris studied technical theatre and arts management at Arizona School for the Arts, graduated from Chicago High School for the Arts and is currently an undergraduate at Columbia College Chicago. She has experience in costume making, set design, prop design, stage management and arts management.
Michael Caskey (Sonic Journey Coordination) is a drummer, composer, dance-musicmaker, cartoon-drawer, treeplanter, and amateur juggler. He performs and tours nationally and internationally with The Claudettes (theclaudettes.com) and has created original music for Lucky Plush Productions, The Neo-Futurists, and countless Chicago dance companies and artists. He has been a dance accompanist at Columbia College for nearly two decades and records original music under the name Bunny Patootie.
Dante Giramma is a composer, multimedia artist, and sound engineer from Western Massachusetts. His work spans many mediums including fixed media, generative composition, composition for dance and film, CGI & interactive media, sound sculpture, and multimedia installation. He is incredibly invested in creating artistic experiences that are both playful and impactful, using installation work and collaboration with dancers as a catalyst to explore interactivity and physicality in art and sound.
Jane Jerardi serves as the Media/Technology Coordinator for the Dance Center, providing video documentation for both the Presenting Series and its academic programs. As a part of its faculty, she teaches video for dance and choreography courses. In her role, she has documented and edited over 250 performances, workshops, and events, providing essential documentation to artists and adding to the Dance Center’s leading, regional archive of materials dating from 1980 to the present. An artist working in the media of performance, choreography, and video installation, her work has been presented at galleries and theaters in Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC.
Kevin Rechner has been Production Manager and Technical Director for the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago since 1996. He has a bachelor’s degree in Theatre from Illinois State University and spent 3 years in Paris, France studying Movement Theatre with Jacques Lecoq and Daniel Stein. He has created four solo performance works including I AM HUGO and performed in Emily Johnson’s Thank You Bar at the Dance Center. Technically, he has worn many hats for The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Daniel Stein, Akira Kasai, Kota Yamazaki, Momenta!, Hedwig Dances, Urban Bush Women, HT Chen and Dancers, Natya Dance Theatre, Mordine and Company Dance Theatre, The Seldoms and many more. Kevin’s work with Lucky Plush Productions includes Cinderbox 18, The Sky Hangs Down Too Close, Punk Yankees, The Better Half, Cinderbox 2.0, Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of Superstrip, and Rink Life. Recent lighting designs include Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, and Junie B. Jones, The Musical for The Young People’s Theatre of Chicago.
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Home to the academic Dance Department and the Dance Presenting Series, the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago values embodied human expression and nurtures an expansive understanding of dance from the established to the experimental.
Centering pluralism, the Dance Center aims to be a nucleus for innovation and creativity—on stage, in the classroom, and beyond.
By partnering with local, national, and international dance artists dedicated to transforming the field, the Dance Presenting Series offers live performances and other shared opportunities for students, faculty, artists, and audiences to connect, witness, research, experiment, practice, imagine, and grow.
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Lisa Gonzales
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Lisa Gonzales
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Jessica Young
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Jimmy Payne
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Michael Caskey
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Mia Nelson
Box Office/Reception
Disha Patel
Box Office/Reception
Kevin Rechner
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