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Join us after the performance for a Post-Performance Coffee and Conversation with the performers in the Lied Center Pavilion.

The Lied Center Student Association held a costume contest prior to the performance and the performers discussed the art of graphic novel illustration in a free event open to the public.

Black Hills Energy is pleased to be the Lied Center’s VIP Sponsor for tonight’s performance of The Intergalactic Nemesis Live-Action Graphic Novel, Book One: Target Earth This event is sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

Audio description services and recorded program notes are provided through a partnership between the Lied Center and Audio-Reader Network.

Please turn off or silence cellular phones and other electronic devices during performances. Food and drink are not allowed inside the hall.

Cameras and recording devices are strictly prohibited in the auditorium.

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T H E I n t e r ga l ac ti c N e m es i s Live-Ac tion G r aph ic Nove l , Book On e : Targ et Ear th

Written and directed by Jason Neulander Adapted from the stage play by Jason Neulander and Chad Nichols Adapted from the radio drama by Ray Patrick Colgan, Jessica Reisman, Julia Edwards and Lisa D’Amour Based on an original idea by Ray Patrick Colgan Comic book artwork by Tim Doyle Color art by Paul Hanley and Lee Duhig Production designed by Jason Neulander Sound effects created by Buzz Moran Original music composed by Graham Reynolds Sound engineering by Agustin Frederic Jessie Douglas, Company Manager

CAST

(In order of appearance) Danu Uribe........................... Molly Sloan, Bird, Lead Hive Voice, Aughy, Claire, Queen of Zygon David Higgins................................................................ Timmy Mendez, Assassin, Jeeves, Shopkeeper, Clint, X-7, Silcron, Zygonian Guard and Little Girl Christopher Lee Gibson.............................. Vlad, Ben Wilcott, Driver, Mysterion the Magnificent, Lord Crawford, Thug, Omar, Jean-Pierre Desperois and Elbee-Dee-Oh Keyboardist.................................................................................................................Kenneth Redding, Jr. Foley Artist Understudy............................................................................................................. Cami Alys

Intermission

Comic books, sound-effects gadgets, posters, shirts and Zygonian Slime are available in the lobby at intermission and after the performance.

The cast will be signing books after the show.

The world premiere of this production was at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST AND CREW JESSIE DOUGLAS (Company Manager) is thrilled to make her touring debut. Prior to joining the tour, Douglas served in many capacities at the ZACH Theater in Austin, Texas. At the theater, she was the stage manager for the Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins and the assistant stage manager for August Osage County, Our Town and Hairspray. She was also the assistant stage manager and ensemble cast member for Rent. Jessie spent a year in Juneau, Alaska, working for Perseverance Theatre as the company/stage management fellow. Other credits include stage manager for Barefoot in the Park at Unity Theater, Brenham, Texas; and stage manager for Proof, produced by Thunder Mountain Theater Project in Juneau. Douglas graduated from Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, where she earned a bachelor’s of arts in theater with a business minor.

TIM DOYLE (Artwork) is an illustrator and print-maker who works out of Austin. Growing up in the suburban sprawl of the Dallas area, he turned inward and sullen, only finding joy in comic books, television and video games. Moving to Austin in 1999 to fulfill a life-long dream of not living in Dallas, Doyle began painting and showing in galleries in 2001. He self-published a diary zine, Amazing Adult Fantasy, from 2001 to 2003. Doyle has held many nerd-friendly jobs, including running a small chain of comic book stores and designing t-shirts and art directing the poster series for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Doyle left his jobs behind and launched his company, Nakatomi Inc., in January of 2009. In the summer of 2009, Doyle and artist Clint Wilson built their own screen-printing studio, Nakatomi Print Labs, where they and other artists work. Since then, he has produced art for ABC/Disney’s Lost poster project and Mattel’s He-Man art show in Los Angeles, California, and his artwork has been used by Lucasfilm/ILM, Hasbro, IDW and others.

AGUSTIN FREDERIC (Technical Director and Front of House Engineer) is an artist and musician born in San Jose, Costa Rica, whose craft also includes composing and arranging theatre, recording, live sound, music pedagogy and working as an instrument technician.

As a live sound engineer in New York City, Frederic has worked with artists including Trey Anastasio, My Chemical Romance, Fionna Apple and LL Cool J. In Austin, he worked with George Clinton & the Parliament Funkadelic, Neil Young, Santana and Broadway Across America. Frederic has also had the pleasure of working with the Old Settler’s Music Fest, South by Southwest, The Paramount, The Bass Concert Hall, The Long Center for the Performing Arts and The Erwin Center. His affiliation with production companies, studios, theaters and clubs include: Sounds of Brazil, Rocket Studios, the French Institute: Alliance Francaise, Tribeca PAC, Nomad Sound and ACL Live Studios. Frederic’s teaching and composing experience includes: Arizona State University, Wake Forest, University of Central Florida Winter Park High School, Trinity High School and Thoroughbred/Sam Ash. In addition, he is the percussion instructor at the Austin Waldorf School. Performance credits include: youth orchestra in New Orleans, Hendersonville Orchestra and North Carolina Symphony, Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps, Walt Disney World, Heronymus, John Neilson, La Putain Avec Les Fleurs and several bands in New York City and Austin. Frederic is performing and touring nationally on drums and percussion with Jessie Torrisi & the Please, Please Me. Frederic holds a bachelor’s of education and social behavioral sciences from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.

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OLIVER FREEMAN (Assistant Company Manager) was born and raised in Northern Virginia.

Due to his father’s opera career, he started working in theatre at the age of 15. Oliver attended The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, where he received a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts with an emphasis in film, theatre and humanities. Graduating in 2006, he began working as a stagehand in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on operas, plays, rock concerts and corporate events. Along with working as a stagehand, Oliver started a small music production company called RauchenWolf Productions, where he produces, records and promotes artists. Hoping to find more opportunities in the entertainment world, Oliver moved to Austin, Texas, in the spring of 2011.

CHRISTOPHER LEE GIBSON (Ben Willcot, Mysterion, Jean-Pierre and et.al) graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City, in 1990. He has been an actor for several producing companies in Tampa, Florida, including The Loft Theatre, The Tampa Players, American Stage Theatre, The Off-Center Theatre, B.O.B. (theatrical palindrome) and The Hillsborough Moving Company. He was also the producer of the Orlando International Fringe Festival from 2001 to 2004 and the production manager at Orlando’s Mad Cow Theatre in 2005. He was an actor for the Mad Cow Theatre and The Orlando Shakespeare Theatre in Orlando. In Austin, he was an actor for The Austin Playhouse, Zach Scott Theatre, Salvage Vanguard Theatre and The Da! Theatre Collective.

DAVID HIGGINS (Timmy Mendez and et al.) is proud to be returning to Nemesis after he took a three-year hiatus to work in New York as a theatrical lighting technician and master electrician for GATZ, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Road Show and the Under the Radar Festival at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. During his career he has worked with Vaudeville Vanya, Spurt and Rainbow Family of the Serendipitous Now at the St. Idiot Collective in Austin. Also in his repertoire are the Man For All Seasons at the Austin Playhouse and Lemonade Tous Les Jour at Zachary Scott Theater, Austin. Higgins received a bachelor’s of arts degree from St. Edwards University, Austin.

BUZZ MORAN (Sound Effects Designer) has been performing live sound effects for Nemesis since the first production in 1996. Since then he has worked steadily as a sound designer and recording engineer for theater productions. Moran is responsible for Foleyvision, a company in Austin, wherein odd foreign films receive new music, voices and sound effects as they are performed live in the theater. Also in Austin, Moran helps run The Dionysium, a monthly show featuring lectures, drinking and debates. He has recorded, mixed and produced several CDs and various soundtracks with Graham Reynolds. Moran recently worked as the music editor for the upcoming film Bernie, starring Jack Black.

JASON NEULANDER (Writer, Director and Producer) was the founder and artistic director of the Salvage Vanguard Theater from 1994 to 2008. During his tenure, he directed and produced more than 50 world premiere plays, musicals and operas.

The Austin American-Statesman said, “Neulander aims to change the world. ... Unlike most of his artistic compatriots, he is winning.”

In 2004, 2005 and 2007, he was voted “Best Theatre Director” in the Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin readers’ polls. His directing work has been staged at Salvage Vanguard Theater, The Playwrights’ Center, Portland Center Stage, Guthrie, The Public Theater and others. His current project, The Intergalactic Nemesis Live-Action Graphic Novel, Book One: Target Earth, received its world premiere at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, in 2010 to rave reviews and is touring to 31 venues around the world during the 2011-12 season.

The comic book version of Nemesis is available for sale in the lobby after this performance.

The Intergalactic Nemesis Live-Action Graphic Novel, Book Two: Robot Planet Rising will premiere in Austin in 2012.

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KENNETH REDDING, JR. (Keyboarist) resides in San Antonio, Texas, where he regularly performs as a pianist, vocalist and bassist. He studied contemporary writing and production at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts. Redding composes music for television, film, jazz ensembles and orchestra. This is his first tour with Nemesis.

GRAHAM REYNOLDS (Composer) creates, performs and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs and concert halls. He has collaborated with artists ranging from Richard Linklater to DJ Spooky to the Austin Symphony Orchestra. With the Golden Arm Trio, he released four critically-acclaimed CDs and performed throughout the United States and Europe. As co-artistic director of Golden Hornet Project with Peter Stopschinski, he has produced more than 50 concerts of world-premiere alt-classical music. From HBO to the Cannes Film Festival to the BBC and NPR, his music has been heard throughout the world on TV, in films and on radio. His score for A Scanner Darkly, featuring Robert Downey Jr., was named the #1 Best Soundtrack of the Decade by Cinema Retro magazine and he recently finished scoring the Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine feature Bernie. In January, Reynolds released The Difference Engine: A Triple Concerto and DUKE! Three Portraits of Ellington on Innova Records with distribution by Naxos, the world’s biggest classical label.

More at grahamreynolds.com.

DANU URIBE (Molly Sloan, Aughy and Queen of Zygon) performs with the multimedia sketch comedy troupe, The Latino Comedy Project. With the group, she was nominated for a daytime Emmy award for her acting and writing contributions to a promotional campaign for MTV Tr3s.

Uribe played opposite Martin Sheen, along with Michael York and Kristen Bell, in the awardwinning animated film Flatland: The Movie, based on the 1884 science fiction novella. She earned a bachelor’s of arts degree in drama from Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas.

While there, she starred in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Spanish dramatist Frederico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding (as the bride) and Maria in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Uribe’s musical theatre credits also include Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Dorothy Parker in Red, Hot & Cole. Offstage Uribe regularly appears on-camera and provides voice-overs for numerous commercial, industrial and educational projects. She takes pride in having created over 100 unique characters for educational software curriculums used by students all over the United States. In her spare time, she performs improvisational comedy at The New Movement Theater. She thanks her family and her extended families at the Paramount Theatre and The New Movement Theaters in Austin, for their unending love and support.

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