Production Stage Manager
Nicole Maldonado
Scenic Designer Liz Doubrovsky
Costume Designer Maggie Hammond
Prop Designer Phoebe Constantino
Lighting Designer Connor Huch
Hair/ Makeup Designer Jen Prichard
Sound Designer Matthew Diaz-Infante
Video Designer Omar Ramos*
Technical Director George Diaz Mejia
November 7–16, 2024 • Hallberg 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
Scene Breakdown
Memory and reality are deeply intertwined when you are living in your head. Places collide and blend in one’s recollection. Time doesn’t move in a straight line and neither does this play.
About the Director | Anjela Vega
Anjela Vega received her Master of Fine Arts in Directing at UCLA. While there, she worked as Francis Ford Coppola’s movement coordinator on an experimental piece called “Distant Vision.” She has trained with companies such as Pilobolus and Push Physical Theatre, as well as acclaimed artists such as Tina Landau and Stephen Koplowitz. She has directed, choreographed, taught, and lectured at universities and theaters all over California, and opened an original opera she directed in New York City. In 2008, she founded Post Mortem Movement Theater and has been creating new works with them ever since. She then won a grant to study in Spoleto, Italy with top directors and choreographers and won a full scholarship to the British American Drama Academy (BADA), where she studied under John Barton and Fiona Shaw. She currently directs music videos and directs productions for Netflix, Amazon, and Disney.
Assistant Stage Managers
Annamarie Davis, Kara Dietz
Student Production Staff
Assistant Technical Director Amaya Gray
Assistant Lighting Designer Anabella Piner
Assistant Costume Designer Gabby Villagomez
Assistant Hair/Makeup Designer
Jadzia Stiff
Assistant Sound Designer Maya Reed
Lighting Programmer Tyler Alaniz
Lighting Board Operator Charles Spencer
Sound Board Operator Jakob Shelley
Projections Operator Isaac Stewart
Costume Crew Ren Guerrero, Madeline Loewe-Pollock, Dubhe Motta, Kate Seales
Costume Maintenance Crew
Lily Andrada, Joseph Fausto, Augus Tu
Hair & Makeup Crew Isabella Cruz, Teah Horton, Lyra Paez, Vivian Parsons, Madelyn Stairs
Scenic Crew Kaiden Blickenstaff, Hailley Gutierrez, Brandon Kim, Lizzy Legere
Costume Lab Student Assistants
Lily Andrada, Samantha Axelson, Julianna Barlow, Winnie Felton, Makayla Finn, Greer Gardner, Alyssa Gauss, Haven Hanson, Ryn Heier, Caroline Lovett, Alicia Robles, Amaya Semrow, Marty Sequeira, Gwen Sloan, Quinn Sonis,
Prop Assistants Sophia Beeles, Sierra Campoy, Phoebe Constantino, Henry Esteva
Lighting Assistants
Miranda Carpenter, Conner Hyman,
Scenic Lab Carpenters Alexa Aure, Logan Ayala, Katherine Brauer, Anela Brown, Nat Bull, Kate Checkwood, Isabella Cruz, Kiran Desai, George Diaz Mejia, Liz Doubrovsky, Isaiah Huntsinger, Cole Johnson, JJ Lopez, Nicole Maldonado, Henry Passo, Georgia Rau, Elliot Rosenthal, Blythe Ryther, Ana Strobel, Julissa Tucker, Madison Williams,
Lead Scenic Artists Diego Banda, Alizée Carlson, Kyle Hayes, Yanira Loera, Mickey Narez,
Box Office Staff Avery Ackerman, Anais Barron, Jonathan Bass, Charlie Duval, Cole Johnson, Josiah Sanchez, Rhylee Smith, Cash Wheeler
Special thanks to Caitlyn Nguyen as fill-in ringer carpenter, stitcher, and all-around lifesaver.
Faculty Production Mentors
Costume Design Mentor Dianne Graebner
Hair/Makeup Mentor Kat Price
Props Mentor Chris Hansen
Stage Management Mentor Shay Garber
Sound Design Mentor Hunter Moody
Scenic Design Mentors Chris Hansen and Carolyn Mraz
Technical Director Mentor JR Luker
Lighting Design Mentor Scott Bolman
