Director Tyler Garcia
Music Director Sarah Grandpre*
Choreographer Emilio Castellón
Production Stage Manager Mayra Borrayo Fausto
Scenic Designer Mio Okada (guest)
Costume Designer Gwen Sloan
Prop Master Sierra Campoy
Lighting Designer Miranda Carpenter
Hair & Makeup Designer Lauren Wiedman
Sound Designer Amaya Gray
Technical Director JR Luker*
*Faculty
Oct. 24–Nov. 2, 2024 • Young Theatre
RONALD S. ROCHON
President, California State University, Fullerton
AMIR H. DABIRIAN
Provost and VP for Academic Affairs
ARNOLD HOLLAND, EDD
Dean, College of the Arts
FULL-TIME FACULTY | Theatre
Acting
Maria Cominis
Svetlana Efremova*
Eve Himmelheber
John Short
Design and Technical Production
Scott Bolman^
Hyun Sook Kim
Fred Kinney
JR Luker
Omar Ramos
Jamie Tucker
Kathryn Wilson
Directing
Mark Ramont*
Musical Theatre
Josh Grisetti
Marty Austin Lamar*
Theatre Studies
Dr. Heather Denyer*
Amanda Rose Villarreal, PhD
Voice and Movement
Anne James
David Nevell*
FULL-TIME FACULTY | Dance
Muriel Joyce
Lisa D. Long
Debra Noble
Alvin Rangel-Alvarado*
KATHRYN WILSON
Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance
ALVIN RANGEL-ALVARADO*
Vice Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance
FULL-TIME STAFF
Department of Theatre & Dance
Administration
Denean Dyson
Technical and Production Staff
Michael August, Production Manager
Lois Bryan, Master Electrician
Matt Connelly, Amanda Horak
Staff Scenic Lab Forepersons
Heidi Enzlin Cole, Charge Scenic Artist
Jen Frauenzimmer
Business/ Production Coordinator
Terri Nista, Costume Lab Manager
Lori Koontz, Costume Lab Techncian
Carson Julian, Costume Coordinator
Eric Sheehan, Video & Projections Technician
Jeff Lewis, Production Sound Engineer
William Lemley, Audio/Lighting Technician
Bob West, Properties Master
Brigitte Bellavoine, Jennifer Schniepp & Ben Rempel, Accompanists
Stephanie Tancredi
Box Office Manager & Safety Coordinator
Josiah Sanchez, Night Mgr./Lead House Mgr.
Charlotte Bouck
Audition Coordinator and Production Assistant
* denotes area coordinator | ^denotes graduate coordinator
Land Acknowledgement: The Department of Theatre and Dance acknowledges our presence on the traditional, ancestral and unceeded territory of the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation. We pay our respects to the Indigenous land caretakers past, present, and emerging. For more information please visit the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe website.
Resources: https://native-land.ca/ • https://gabrielinotribe.org/ http://nahc.ca.gov/cp/tribal-atlas-pages/gabrielino-tongva-nation/
Welcome to the College of the Arts 2024–2025 season – our first in three years where performing and visual arts programming will take place on one cohesive arts campus following the completion of the Visual Arts Modernization Project. We are thrilled you have joined us! As our visitors, you are part of our extended family of patrons, parents, friends, and fellow Titans, and we strive to reflect your stories and experiences in the programming we present.
To us, community engagement is more than just opening the doors of our performance and exhibition spaces and inviting you in; it’s about creating a space for dialogue through the work we share. This season, we are proud to bring you a slate of exhibitions, concerts, and performances that not only reflect our humanity but also have the power to transform how we see ourselves and others. In Theatre, “The Prom” opens the season with a joyful celebration of love and acceptance that follows teen Emma Nolan and her quest to attend the prom after she is disinvited for being gay. Will Emma get the prom she deserves? Next, Begovich Gallery presents four exhibitions to celebrate the public opening of Building G on November 2, including “Vitae: A New Generation” featuring CSUF visual arts alumni whose work explores self-discovery and issues of social justice. The following week, the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra and University Symphony Orchestra, along with guest artists Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea, perform in “Fullerton Pops!” Our award-winning choreographers and dancers take the stage in December for “Fall Dance Theatre,” a powerfully moving collection of performances in a variety of dance styles. And don’t forget everyone’s holiday concert favorite, “Deck the Hall at Cal State Fullerton!” on December 14 and 15.
With the completion of the Visual Arts complex this past summer, we are one of the largest comprehensive colleges of the arts in the CSU system. The complex boasts digitally enhanced classrooms, a green screen lab for film and animation, an expanded photography studio, four art galleries, and several indoor and outdoor spaces to encourage cross-disciplinary exploration. But with the distinction of being a large college of the arts comes great need, and many of our students face personal and financial challenges that prevent them continuing their education. The Dean’s Fund for Excellence provides our students with funding for immersive, off- and on-campus experiences that contribute to their academic success, including CSU Summer Arts, conferences, and study abroad programs. Your support is not just appreciated; it is vital. If the arts and their continued importance in higher education are essential to you, please consider a gift of any amount to the Dean’s Fund today.
I thank you for joining us and for championing the arts in our community. Your support means the world to me and to our students. When you return, I invite you to visit the Visual Arts complex to see what’s new and to check out the galleries in Building G, across from Clayes Performing Arts Center and open late on select performance nights beginning in November. I hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Arnold Holland, EdD Dean, College of the Arts
Haislip
DEATH..............................................……………………………….................…..Jack Cooper
ENSEMBLE....................................................Ariana Dolan,* Celeste Pacheco, Gian Noble, Parker Claudio, Jose Hernandez
Guitar recorded by Jacob Frost and Antonio Torres
Scenes
Act One, Scene One – The Groom’s House Act One, Scene Two – Leonardo’s House Act One, Scene Three – The Bride’s House Act Two, Scene One – The Courtyard of the Bride’s House Act Two, Scene Two – The Same Act Three, Scene One – The Forest Act Three, Scene Two – The Outskirts of Town
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1963) is a poet who I truly stumbled upon, and felt a deep sense of love at first sight. One of the first full length plays I directed had him as a character, and the more research I did on him, the more I fell in love. Federico Lorca was a prominent member of the heralded Generation of ‘27, alongside other notable figures such as Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, and Jorge Guillén. From “Gypsy Ballads” to “Poeta en Nueva York,” Lorca seemed to permeate every free synapse I had. As one of incredibly few openly queer people in his era, I was enamored with the idea of having a real, historical figure who shared so much of my identity.
Though his life was cut tragically short by an unjust system who sought to silence him, his art is inescapable at times—persisting despite it all. The stories told by Lorca, through his poetry, and through works like Blood Wedding, are timeless and have such an innate sense of magic to them.
By revisiting and reimagining this tragic tale from his heralded “Rural Trilogy,” originally set in his home of Andalusia, Spain, into a civil war era México, I aim to highlight and honor Lorca’s epic through a distinctly Latino lens. The struggles of passion, identity, and social expectation transcend borders, and in this reimagining, I hope to continue Lorca’s tradition of blending the deeply personal with the universal.
– Tyler Garcia
Student Production Staff
Assistant Stage Managers
Justin Silva, Emily Rose Herron
Assistant Director Will Collins
Assistant Music Director
Jacob Frost (guest)
Assistant Lighting Designer Katie Critoria
Assistant Scenic Designer Alizee Carlson
Assistant Technical Director Isaiah Huntsinger
Assistant Costume Designer River Hall, Patrick Mclver
Assistant Hair/Makeup Designer
Madison Handley, Dulcinea Olmos-Osorio
Assistant Sound Designer Jordan Benitez
Lighting Programmer Francisco Amezcua
Lighting Board Operator Heather Hawkins
Sound Board Operator Calon Bailey
Costume Crew Dulce Tovar, Kassie Howard, Lorenzo Isacs, Felix Fry, Kyle Rogers, Yenifer Mateo, Jada Roberts
Costume Maintenance Crew Devlyn Novelli, Joseph George, Alyssa Keyworth
Hair & Makeup Crew Jules Claes, Fiona Formaran, Mia Gibson, Miles Guditta, Jennifer Maldonado
Scenic Crew Ashleigh Perales, Leonardo Barradas, Adriana Perez, Joshua Chapman, Audrey Omidi
Costume Lab Student Assistants
Greer Gardner, Gwen Sloan, Ryn Heier, Makayla Finn,Haven Hanson, Quinn Sonis, Julianna Barlow, Alyssa Gauss, Caroline Lovett, Alicia Robles, Amaya Semrow, Lilian Andrada, Katie Leahy, Jessica Sequeira, Samantha Axelson, Winnie Felton
Prop Assistants Avis Constantino, Sierra Campoy, Sophia Beeles, Henry Esteva
Lighting Assistants
Conner Hyman, Miranda Carpenter
Scenic Lab Carpenters Alexa Aure, Katherine Brauer, Anela Brown, Nat Bull, Kate Checkwood, Isabella Cruz, George Diaz Mejia, Elizabeth Doubrovski, Isaiah Huntsinger, Nicole Maldonado, Henry Passo, Blythe Ryther, Mak Stewart, Madison Williams, Logan Ayala, Kiran Desai, Cole Johnson, JJ Lopez, Georgia Rau, Elliot Rosenthal, Ana Strobel, Julissa Tucker
Lead Scenic Artists Diego Banda, Mickey Narez, Alizeé Carlson, Yanira Loera, Kyle Hayes
Box Office Staff
Avery Ackerman, Anaïs Barron, Jonathan Bass, Charlie Duval, Cole Johnson, Josiah Sanchez, Rhylee Smith, Cash Wheeler
Special thanks to Caitlynn Nguyen as fill-in ringer carpenter, stitcher, and all-around lifesaver.
Faculty Production Mentors
Directing Mentor Mark Ramont
Costume Design & Hair/Makeup Mentor Diane Graebner
Props Mentor Mio Okada
Lighting Design Mentor Omar Ramos
Audio Mentor Aerik Harbert
Stage Management Mentor Jamie Tucker
