19th Amendment Project

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A collection of short plays all written by women and/or non-binary playwrights celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment

October 24-November 1, 2020

Saturday, October 24 | 1:00 p.m.

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Voter Registration Drive by Susana Cook

Eva is helping women register to vote when she gets stuck in an elevator. To help her through this traumatic event, she recalls what the suffragettes in the 1910’s went through. Content Warning: language SUSANA COOK (Playwright) is an Argentinean-born New York-based experimental performance artist who has been writing and producing original work for over 20 years. An iconic figure of the East Village art scene from the mid 1990’s to the present, she has presented over 17 original plays at Dixon Place, P.S. 122, W.O.W Cafe Theater, Ubu Rep and The Kitchen, among others. Her ensemble plays and monologues irreverently, boldly and cleverly tackle racism, homophobia, classism, and animal rights.

Director.............................................................................. Cynthia Beckert Stage Manager......................................................................... Blue Estrella Eva...................................................................................... Laurel Hatfield

Behold: Colored and Woman Inconceivable by MJ Perrin It’s been a long-held belief that the women in Mace’s family go insane.

Mace’s mother believes that the cause is a cursed, old hand-me-down chest; she is determined to get rid of it while Mace is compelled to keep it. Regardless of one’s perspective, a treasure or a curse, Mace is certain that the women in her family are its guardians, willing to sacrifice their sanity protecting the history preserved inside. Content Warning: profanity.

MJ PERRIN (Playwright)’s plays have been produced throughout the United States. She’s a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awardee for Playwriting and a former member of the New Perspective Theatre’s Women’s Work Short Play Lab in New York City where her short play, Stepping Through Blood, was produced. Perrin received her MFA in Theatre Arts from Towson University, where she is an Adjunct Professor III. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Saturday, October 24 | 1:00 p.m.

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Behold: Colored and Woman Inconceivable (Continued) Director................................................................................ Mandi Jo John Stage Manager......................................................................... Blue Estrella Mace......................................................................................Briana Moten Mom/ African American Woman 1....................................... Zantrell Williams African American Woman 2.................................................Dutchesz Gemini Caucasian Woman................................................................Laura Mansoori Caucasian Man..................................................................... Hayden Palmer

Thunderclap by Tamara Kissane Parents Rachel and Jake are stoked that their daughter, Alice is now 18 and can vote, but she doesn’t believe that her vote will actually help.

Content warning: language and sexual violence TAMARA KISSANE (Playwright) is a Durham based playwright and podcast host of The Artists’ Soapbox. Her stage-plays have been produced by both hands theatre company, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern and Women’s Theatre Festival. Her stage-plays, The New Colossus and Master Builder were commissioned and performed by Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern in 2016 & 2018. She is the host of Artist Soapbox, a weekly podcast featuring original audio fiction and interviews with Triangle/NC artists about their creative process. She has worked with University Theatre at NC State, Manbites Dog Theater, The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, Duke Theatre Studies, Transactors Improv, Summer Sisters, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Archipelago and both hands theatre company.

She is the current Piedmont Laureate.

Director..................................................................Monica Long Tamborello Stage Manager......................................................................... Blue Estrella Dramaturg....................................................................... Meredith Bartmon Rachel Collins..........................................................................Laura Hodos * Jake Dupree............................................................................. David Lowe Alice Paul Collins-Dupree...................................................... Devan Seaman Voice.............................................................................................Jen Chia *

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Sunday, October 25 | 7:00 p.m.

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Bitter Flower by Jennifer Natalya Fink Follows the relationship of two major figures in the suffrage movement, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams, and the fault lines of black and white feminists that continue to the present day.

Content Warning: death, racism, abuse JENNIFER NATALYA FINK (Playwright) is the author of five acclaimed novels, including the Doctorow Prize-winning Bhopal Dance. She is the author/deviser of 30+ performance works. Her long-running collaboration with Julie Laffin in Toxic Tango and Underbelly has been produced internationally. Fink is a Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University, where she is Director of the Program in Disability Studies. Her disability memoir, All Our Families: Finding Our Disability Lineages, is forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2021. Fink received her PhD in Performance Studies from NYU and her MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Amanda Annis at Trident Media Group.More at jennifernatalyafink.com Director..................................................................Monica Long Tamborello Stage Manager........................................................................ Kendall Allen Jane Addams........................................................................ Courtney Bahr Ida B Wells-Barnett............................................................Virginia Roebuck Sally...............................................................................Jennafer Newberry *

Lost Music from the Heart of Everything

(a suffrage aria for Amelia Himes Walker)

by Ruth Margraff, music by Kamala Sankaram This aria describes the struggle Amelia Himes Walker faced to gain voting rights for women. It follows her arrest, her time in a labor camp, and her hunger strike.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Sunday, October 25 | 7:00 p.m.

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Lost Music from the Heart of Everything (Continued) RUTH MARGRAFF (Playwright) wrote 6 critically acclaimed martial arts operas with the late composer Fred Ho for the Apollo, Guggenheim Museum, LaMama, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her recent writing includes: Mirror Butterfly her jazz opera for climate refugees with Afro Yaqui Music Collective at New Hazlett Theater (Pittsburgh), Kennedy Center Millenium Stage (DC), National Ensemble Theater plenary (Tucson), 1st Mesopotamian Water Forum (Kurdistan, Iraq), and released on Innova Records at Red Rooster/Ginny’s and the National Jazz Museum (Harlem); Temptation of the Fresh Voluptuous for the Nisville Jazz Teatrski Festival (Serbia), Red Tape/Art Institute Ballroom (Chicago), Coe Marquis Series Sinclair Stage (Iowa); and haiku for Bella Gaia with NASA holographic imagery. With her Café Antarsia Ensemble she wrote Previously Blue, Three Graces, Wellspring, Judges 19: Black Lung Exhaling which have toured all over the US and internationally. Ruth has received awards from Rockefeller, McKnight, NEA, and Fulbright foundations, etc. She is a tenured Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. https://bakerartist.org/ node/23709 KAMALA SANKARAM (Composer) has received commissions from Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, the PROTOTYPE Festival, Opera on Tap, Opera Memphis, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, among others. She is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson Award from the American Theater Wing. She is currently working with Opera on Tap and librettist Jerre Dye on The Parksville Murders, the first opera written for virtual reality. Episode 1 is now available on SamsungVR. Her other operas include Taking up Serpents, Thumbprint, Miranda, and The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace.

Director.............................................................................. Cynthia Beckert Stage Manager........................................................................ Kendall Allen Amelia Himes Walker.................................................... Meghan Eileen Hone

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Sunday, October 25 | 7:00 p.m.

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A Sentiment by Elaine Romero Set in 1848, the night before the signing of the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls, Lucretia Mott, a social reformer, pleads with her husband of the importance for women to fight for their rights to equality.

ELAINE ROMERO (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright who has had her plays presented at the Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Kennedy Center, across the U.S. and abroad. Recent commissions: Ford’s Theatre (Modern Slave), Arizona Theatre Company (Title IX), Goodman Theatre (Playwright’s Unit, A Work of Art), NNPN/Kitchen Dog Theater (Ponzi, Edgerton New American Play Award). This past season new productions included Like Heaven (Arizona Repertory Theatre), Undocumented (Cal State Dominguez Hills), Revoluciones (Latino Theatre Company with Foro Shakespeare/Mexico), and Bloody River (Union College).Her war tetralogy includes Graveyard of Empires (Blue Ink Playwriting Award), A Work of Art, developed as part of the Goodman Theatre Playwright’s Unit, and the upcoming Rain of Ruin.

Graveyard of Empires (16th Street Theatre) and A Work of Art (Chicago Dramatists/Goodman Theatre) premiered in Chicago, and Revoluciones (LATC). At Headlands Center for the Arts, Elaine began the final play of the project, When Reason Sleeps. Modern Slave was featured at the 2017 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. It received readings at ACT (Seattle), Victory Gardens (Chicago) and the Road Theatre (LA).

Director.............................................................................. Cynthia Beckert Stage Manager........................................................................ Kendall Allen Lucretia Mott........................................................................... Karel Wright * John Mott.....................................................................................Eric Zivot *

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Sunday, November 1 | 1:00 p.m.

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Ladies Are Waiting (LAW) by Carrie Knowles King Arthur is shocked when his wife, Guinevere, is planning a council known as the L.A.W, to help create equality for all the women in the kingdom.

CARRIE KNOWLES (Playwright) In addition to Ladies Are Waiting (L.A.W.), Carrie has had another play produced, SIX, and is presently working on a monologue (working title: Mary Speaks). She has published four novels, (Lillian’s Garden, Ashoan’s Rug, A Garden Wall in Provence, and The Inevitable Past), a collection of short fiction (Black Tie Optional), a memoir (The Last Childhood), and a writing workbook (A Self-Guided Workbook and Gentle Tour on Learning How to Write). She writes a regular personal perspectives column for Psychology Today: Shifting Forward. She was the 2014 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate in Short Fiction.

Director.............................................................................. Cynthia Beckert Stage Manager......................................................................... Blue Estrella Guinevere.......................................................................Jennafer Newberry * King Arthur............................................................................... David Lowe

The Tender-Hearted by Clare Bayley Ellen is leaving her rural home for the day to go into town and march at the Women’s rally, her husband, Tobias, has other plans for her.

Content Warning:gun and animal violence CLARE BAYLEY (Playwright) is a UK based writer whose plays include After The Peace (longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2019); Family Trees (Bolton Octagon and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) The Enchantment (National Theatre London), Blue Sky (Hampstead Theatre, London and Burning Coal, Raleigh NC), Pixel Dust (Assembly, Edinburgh), On The March (Oxford Playhouse) and The Container (Edinburgh, London, Toronto, Melbourne, Rome and Burning Coal).

Director..................................................................Monica Long Tamborello Stage Manager......................................................................... Blue Estrella Ellen....................................................................................Laura Mansoori Ellen’s Mother.......................................................................... Karel Wright * Tobias................................................................................. Hayden Palmer

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Sunday, November 1 | 1:00 p.m.

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Inalienable Rights by Deb Margolin A woman goes to her local precinct to vote before she has to pick up her daughter; but as soon as she gets into the voting booth, something strange happens. Content Warning: profanity, sexism.

DEB MARGOLIN (Playwright), actor, and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. She is the author of numerous plays, including Imagining Madoff, Turquoise, Critical Mass, and Bringing the Fishermen Home, as well as 11 solo performance plays which she has toured throughout the US. OBIE award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, the Kesselring Prize for Playwriting, a Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright award, and the Richard H. Broadhead Prize for teaching excellence at Yale.

Director................................................................................ Mandi Jo John Stage Manager......................................................................... Blue Estrella Woman................................................................................ Courtney Bahr Lady.................................................................................. Zantrell Williams Man.............................................................................................Eric Zivot *

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Sunday, November 1 | 7:00 p.m.

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Gerrymanderia by Ariel Zetina

or The Miss Earth Vacancy in the Miss Universe Pageant System Gerrymanderia is competing for The Miss Earth Vacancy title in the Miss Universe Pageant System and urges the viewers at home to vote for her; meanwhile two women at home are struggling to cast their votes.

ARIEL ZETINA (Playwright) is a Chicago based artist, focusing in music, deejaying, and writing. Plays include Pink Milk, Mechanisms of Fidelity, and British Honduras Fantasy [honorable mention on Kilroy List 2016 and Steppenwolf’s Mix list 2018]. She released her fourth EP “MUA’s at the End of the World” on the label Femme Culture in 2020 and is a resident DJ at the legendary Chicago club Smartbar.

Director..................................................................Monica Long Tamborello Stage Manager........................................................................ Kendall Allen Gerrymanderia................................................................. Alexander Mrazek * Television Presenter.......................................................................Jen Chia * Tiffany..............................................................................Dutchesz Gemini Chastity............................................................................... Devan Seaman

Apartment 19: An Allegorical Play by Magdalena Gomez Set in present day New York City, Magdalena Gómez writes an allegory on the erasure of Women of Color from suffrage and feminist history as told by two Afro-Latina characters.

Content warning: some profanity, mention of sexual assault MAGDALENA GÓMEZ (Playwright) is an award-winning performance poet, playwright, performer, teaching artist and highly sought after keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. Her original series, Writing from the Belly, which she facilitated for women for over a decade at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was the training ground for the now yearly performance of Body Politics at the university. She was also on the faculty of New WORLD Theater’s 2050 Project for several years, and has had her plays and performance poems produced in venues such as: INTAR; Pregones; Puerto Rican Traveling Theater; Boston Playwright’s Theater; HERE in NYC; Ko Festival; Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts; BING Arts

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Sunday, November 1 | 7:00 p.m.

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Apartment 19: An Allegorical Play (Continued) Center; Factory Theater (Boston); BAAD! among others. She has received play development awards from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; Arts International (in collaboration with the Augusta Savage Gallery) and an NEA Master Artist Award from Pregones Theater, among others. Dancing in My Cockroach Killers, a dramatization of her poems and monologues, was performed in 2013 to the critical acclaim of Off-Broadway audiences and was reprised to critical acclaim in 2014 at the Los Angeles Theater Center. The 2018 Washington D.C. Premiere at Gala Theater was brought back to PRTT off-Broadway that same year.

Director................................................................................ Mandi Jo John Stage Manager........................................................................ Kendall Allen Custodian...............................................................................Briana Moten Tenant..............................................................................Virginia Roebuck

She drove me to town hall when I turned 18 so I could register to vote. by Kelly Doyle A ten minute speech on privilege for the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

KELLY DOYLE (Playwright) is a Raleigh based playwright. She holds an MFA in play writing from Brown University.

Director................................................................................ Mandi Jo John Stage Manager........................................................................ Kendall Allen Woman...................................................................................Laura Hodos * *Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Meet the Cast ...

KENDALL ALLEN is a Philly based Theatre Artist, Stage Manager, and Director ... but right now she’s her mother’s Ub*r Driver, a Gardener, a learner of Tik Tok Dances, and an amatuer bread baker. Very happy to participate in creating theater in any format, she’s delighted to be collaborating with Mad Cow for the first time! Select Theatrical Credits Include: Being/With: Home (Fringe Festival, 2020), Taxilandia (Baryshnikov Arts Center), CARTOGRAPHY (Natl. Touring Production), and Ghetto Hors D’oeuvres (JACK). She has created original works on projects like EXTRA, Slut!, and a Podcast called Jonah’s Arc. Kendall studied Theatre; Design and Production at Fordham University.

NATHAN AVAKIAN is a songwriter, film composer, and organist based in New York City. His music has recently been featured in web series including The Creative Quarantine Sessions (Alex Whittenberg) and Makers Who Inspire: Ronny Cheing (Henry Thong).

Nathan frequently scores historic silent films for Thanhouser Company Film Preservation and contemporary silent films by various filmmakers.

Nathan also works as a freelance theatrical lighting designer in New York City. In 2014 he received a B.F.A. degree in lighting design

from Purchase College, State University of New York.

COURTNEY BAHR returns to Mad Cow where she had the wonderful opportunity to play Birdie in The Little Foxes, Patient Griselda/Janine/Nell in Top Girls, and Hesione in Heartbreak House.

Originally from NY, Courtney has worked in NYC, Barter Theater in VA, toured Nationally with Cyrano (Roxanne), and appeared in many local productions. Prayers for this arts community and all the talented people here in CFL. MEREDITH BARTMON is a Dramaturg and Actor based in Palm Beach County. What a joyful relief it is to be in a space with all of these remarkable women continuing to celebrate storytelling with the Women’s Voices Festival and Mad Cow Theatre. Dramaturgy credits include Urbanite Theatre, FIU’s The Greenhouse, Palm Beach Dramaworks, FAU Theatre Lab and Florida Stage. Meredith is a member of Actors Equity, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, and UK Equity. She earned her MA from East 15 Acting School in London and her BFA from New World School of the Arts in Miami.

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Meet the Cast ...

CYNTHIA BECKERT has performed in four seasons’ worth of plays at Mad Cow Theatre, including Men on Boats, Top Girls, Rapture Blister Burn, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Grounded and The God Game. This season she has directed five short plays in Science PlayFest 2020, and Sapience in the recent Women’s Voices Play Festival.

Cynthia has also led workshops for Mad Cow’s She Speaks program, designed to empower young women and girls to use their voices. Cynthia teaches acting, dance and theatrical movement, and has an MA in Theatre from FSU, and an MFA in Acting from UC Irvine.

JEN CHIA is a New York based actor excited to be back at Mad Cow Theatre!

Favorite credits include: Gloria, Mad Cow Theatre (Kendra Park) National Tour: Magic School Bus:Lost in the Solar System, Theatreworks USA (Wanda) and Spring Awakening, Slowburn Theatre Co (Anna, U/S Ilse) Jen also runs her own Graphic Design Company JenChiaCreative May the Arts continue to shine bright during this dark time! Stay Strong Artists, we can do this! Proud member of Actors Equity Association. @jenchia www.jenchia.com

BLUE ESTRELLA Blue Estrella began her theatre career at SAK Comedy Lab as the FOH Operations Manager and then became a lighting/sound improviser for the live shows while obtaining her theatre degree from Stetson. Blue is currently the Resident SM for Beth Marshall Presents and Play-In-A-Day. Her BMP credits include Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Save Me Dolly Parton, and girl. Other SM credits include Gross Indecency and It All Started at the Radisson Inn (Wanzie Presents), Wild Party (Theater West End), Black Wood (Schneider) & Men on Boats (Mad Cow). Besides SM-ing, Blue has choreographed the Ocoee Knights Visual Ensemble since 2016.

DUTCHESZ GEMINI is a 28 year old trans activist, host, curator, and drag entertainer raised in New York who now splits her time between Chicago and Minneapolis. Her recent credits include producing Redbull’s digital festival, Diamond Formation, and starring in Burning Coal Theatre’s production of Gerrymanderia.

As a member of the Chicago Black Drag Council, Dutchesz is helping to transform the city’s nightlife into a more accountable and equitable scene. She loves spending time with chosen family, hosting dinner

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Meet the Cast ... parties, and being the ki of every function.

LAUREL HATFIELD is happy to be back at Mad Cow after playing Hall in Men on Boats! Orlando credits include Shelby in Steel Magnolias (Theatre at St. Luke’s), Jovie in Elf (Orlando REP), Mayzie in Seussical (Orlando REP), and Sheep in O Wondrous Night (Sea World). Los Angeles theatre includes Gulls (Theatre at Boston Court), My Fair Lady (La Mirada), Me & My Girl (Musical Theatre West), and Quilters (Performance Riverside). Recent commercials: Credit Sesame, Addition Financial, Scott’s Lawn Service, TheZebra.com, Auto-Owners Insurance. Other: Gilmore Girls, Passions, Disney Cruise Line. Training: UC Irvine.

Love to Brandon and the kids!

LAURA HODOS is an actor, singer, improviser, and cabarista. She’s been honored with the Suzi Bass, New Times, BroadwayWorld, and Silver Palm awards, as well as being a seventime Carbonell nominee. She’s been a soloist with the Orlando Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, and Sarasota Orchestra, as well as performing with Orlando Shakes, Mad Cow, Winter Park Playhouse, and Orlando Rep. She’s performed at The Duplex and Don’t Tell Mama in NYC, along with Radio City and

Lincoln Center. Cabaret Fellow at the O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, CT, and voiceover artist for WDW; Dickinson College/AMDA grad; proud member of Actors’ Equity. www.LauraHodos.com MEGHAN EILEEN HONE MezzoSoprano has been praised for the depth, warmth, and richness of her voice, as well as her ability to engage an audience.

She has performed in numerous productions across Central Florida with Opera Orlando, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Central Florida Vocal Arts, Opera Tampa, and the Opera Tampa Singers.

Her favorite performances are community outreach events, such as Creative City’s Immerse Project and the Maker Effect Foundation’s Maker Faire Orlando. An avid Harry Potter and Star Trek fan and a life-long learner, Meghan is a graduate of Florida State University, and homeschools her three children, ages 13, 10, and 6.

MANDI JO JOHN is a Florida native and graduate of the University of Central Florida Conservatory of Theatre. Mandi Jo has traveled the world performing theatre and opera. Now a new mom and an artist advocate, she is now focused on amplifying the voices of black women in entertainment through

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Meet the Cast ... her organization Black Girl Theatre Magic. Past credits include Urinetown, Guys and Dolls, and Doubt.

DAVID LOWE last appeared on the Mad Cow stage in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He also was part of The Herd in Fun Home and 2014’s Tommy.

Other area theatre credits include Company, A Few Good Men,The Crucible, South Pacific, My Fair Lady,Man of La Mancha and many others at theatre all over Central Florida.

LAURA MANSOORI is happy to be virtually back in the pasture at Mad Cow! She is a freelance choreographer and yoga instructor, as well as a teaching artist for Theatre South Playhouse. Laura is mom to three rescue pups and wife to one bald opera singer.

Favorite Credits: West Side Story (Orlando Shakes), The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Orlando REP), Royal Family (Mad Cow), Grinchmas (Universal Orlando), Hello Dolly (Garden Theatre) www.lauramansoori.com BRIANA MOTEN a graduate of the University of South Florida with a Masters in voice performance, has shared the stage

with artists such as Kristen Chenoweth, Ben Folds, and Susan Egan. Performing both locally and internationally for nearly a decade, her credits include Rock of Ages, Burn the Floor, the off broadway production of Flying Lessons, and the Asia premier of The Secret Silk under the direction of John Tartaglia and Stephen Schwartz. Briana performed most recently in the web series Call Center, filmed in New York City. An Orlando native, Briana is thrilled for her first performance with Mad Cow Theater.

ALEXANDER MRAZEK has worked in professional theatre and the corporate entertainment world for over fifteen years and is excited to have the chance to be a part of such a special project.

He was last seen at Mad Cow in last year’s It Was a Very Good Year cabaret. Alex has performed at Universal, Disney, and SeaWorld, and has been seen on stage at Orlando Shakes, Hippodrome Theatre, and with Generation Productions. He has traveled to perform in the Melbourne Fringe Festival in Australia, and has worked with Norwegian Cruise Lines in Hawaii. To his family and friends, thank you as always for dealing with the crazy and Myliu.

For more information, please check out: alexandermrazek.com.

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Meet the Cast ...

JENNAFER NEWBERRY is honored to return to the pasture! Credits include: National Tour: Wicked (Glinda u/s) Off-Broadway: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Regional: Gretchen in Disney’s Freaky Friday (La Jolla Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, The Alley Theatre); Mad Cow: Clara in The Light in the Piazza; Martha Jefferson in 1776. Other favorites include Nemo in Finding Nemo: The Musical. B.F.A. NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Proud Actors’ Equity member. Love to Zach, Mom & Dad. HAYDEN PALMER is an actor and artist currently residing in Tallahassee, Florida.

His most recent credits include The Three Musketeers and Henry IV Part 1 (Orlando Shakes). Over the summer he has been involved in audio-based story podcasts including School’s Out Storytime and Murder In Your Ear, as well as starting his own educational comedy podcast Baffled by the Bard. This will be his first online production since the beginning of summer and he is excited to be a part of sharing these stories for the 19th amendment Project. Check out his website at: www.hayden-palmer.com

VIRGINIA ROEBUCK was born in Rio Piedras , Puerto Rico and moved to the Central Florida area with her family when she was only 7 years old . She has had the opportunity to play many roles in several shows with the company, Moore Performing Arts and has also starred in the title role of Aida at Highlands Lakeside Theatre. Virginia can now be seen performing as one of the lead vocalists and actresses for many shows in the Central Florida area including the highly acclaimed Festival of The Lion King. She continues to pursue roles in vocal performance and acting as she raises her three beautiful children here in Central Florida.

DEVAN SEAMAN is a local Orlando actor who is psyched to be working with Mad Cow again! She can be found around town performing at Universal Studios, and most recently she got to be a part of MCT’s Women’s Voices Festival. She has previously performed at Mad Cow in Rapture, Blister, Burn, and looks forward to future projects with them as well!

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Meet the Cast ...

MONICA LONG TAMBORELLO is a director, actor, and teaching artist who has worked in the Orlando theatre community for over twenty years.

Directing credits include My Life As You and Eggs on Ice with the Women’s Voices Play Festival, Rapture Blister Burn, Grounded, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (Mad Cow Theatre); After Orlando (ATHE Conference 2019); Othello, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter’s Tale, As you Like It, Macbeth, and Hamlet (TYC/Orlando Shakes); and Number the Stars, A Little Princess (Young Actors Theatre, Tallahassee). Acting credits include Lena/Leviticus (Orlando Fringe); Olga/You Can’t Take It With You (Mad Cow Theatre); M’Lynn/Steel Magnolias (CFCA); and Dickens by Candlelight (RSC Productions).

ALEXANDER WHITTENBERG is a designer for theatre, film/television, dance and environments.

He is based in Orlando where he currently works for Disney Parks Live Entertainment. His designs can frequently be seen on a number of central Florida stages including Mad Cow Theatre and the Garden Theatre. Recent theatrical design credits include All My Sons, The Spitfire Grill, Constellations, Skylight, Destiny of Desire and Jesus

Christ Superstar. Alexander has served as production designer on a series of recent films including The Speed of Time (post-production), Bear With Us and The Archetypes, in partnership with Orange Grove Dance. In the world of television, Alexander works in the art department of Home Shopping Network. He is a proud graduate of The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Purchase College.

ZANTRELL WILLIAMS Born and raised in Jacksonville,FL, she took an interest in performing arts at an early age, performing at the city’s Ritz Theatre. She later obtained a degree in Theatre at Stetson University. While she enjoys acting, her real passions are singing and costume design.

KAREL K. WRIGHT is happy to be back in the pasture!

Previous roles at Mad Cow include Aoife in Outside Mullingar, Ben Franklin in 1776, Aunt Kate in The Dead, Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories, and many others.

A few of her favorite regional credits: It Shoulda Been You, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, August: Osage County, Kiss the Moon Kiss the Sun, and Blithe Spirit. To learn more about Karel, please visit her website at www.karelkwright.com.

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ALYSSA WILL ZEGERS is excited to be working at Mad Cow full time after stage-managing Men on Boats earlier this year. Her recent credits include stage-managing Orlando Shakes’ productions of Snow White, Miss Nelson is Missing, and the world premiere of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Special thanks to her husband and family for putting up with her schedule.

ERIC ZIVOT Mad Cow audiences may remember Eric as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman or have seen the shows he has directed for the Herd: Next Fall, Hedda Gabler,Billy Bishop Gores to War, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.

Eric joined the department of Theater and Dance at Rollins College in 2004 and has been an Associate Artist with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater since 2005.

At OST he has appeared as Ralph Waldo Emerson; Charm, Claudius; Hamlet Parolles; Alls Well that Ends Well, Malvolio; Twelth Night, Gloucester; King Lear, Jaques; As You Like It, and Macduff; Macbeth.

MAD COW THEATRE now in our 23rd season, is downtown Orlando’s destination for professional theatre. MCT was founded on the belief that the theatre is a dynamic and powerful means of social understanding, as well as a hugely entertaining art form.Through the combination of passionate, skillful acting and compelling, insightful writing, nurtured by an attentive and ever-changing process, Mad Cow presents entertaining works of theatre to an ever-widening audience — promoting, enhancing, and celebrating the human condition through art. With a passion for both classic and contemporary plays representing the best of American and world literature, MCT is committed to story-telling with no boundaries, to a wide range of audiences.

MCT attracts the area’s most talented performers, designers, and directors. A mainstay of the company is its dedication to the process of creating theatre, incorporating in-depth rehearsaland research periods along with a nurturing collaborative process. Awards include Arts Innovator of the Year (United Arts of Central Florida), Best Place to See a Play (Orlando Sentinel) Best Live Theatre (Orlando Weekly), Best Local Theatre Company (Orlando Magazine), and Best Performance Theatre (Orlando Business Journal).

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Meet the Crew and Staff ...

Propduction Team Art Director....................................................................... Alex Whittenberg Composer........................................................................... Nathan Avakian Producer................................................................................ Alyssa Zegers Scenic Charge, Props Master..........................................................Lisa Buck

Mad Cow Theatre Staff Executive Director Mitzi Maxwell Director of Operations Audrey McGowen Producer Alyssa Zegers Manager of Art and Design Lisa Buck

Development and Marketing Coordinator Alletta Gentry Director of Special Projects Jessica Kaschube Production Coordinator Kat Henwood

Patron Experience Manager Maddie Stroud Patron Services Assistant Brent Lane Max Pinsky Charis Walter

Photographer Tom Hurst

Board Members Bill Boles Meredith Egan Kathy Godfrey Mitzi Maxwell Susi Rivera Karenna Senors

Founding Members Rus Blackwell Trudy Bruner Alan Bruun Dennis Neal

Special Thanks to Burning Coal Theatre who debuted these plays in August 2020.

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Donors List

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Business Circle

CORPORATE ANGEL Adirondack Scenery Alternative Dispute Resolution Center of Central Florida Amazon Hose & Rubber Company ArtReach Orlando Baker, Hyatt, Homrich & Lokvic, P.A. in memory of Bob Stonerock Bywater Management Co. Carousel Workshop ClassAct Studios Clear Channel CNL Financial Group Creative Zing Promotion Group Direct One Effective Financial Services Inc.

Florida Theatrical Association Holland & Knight LLP Joanne King Design Kres Chophouse Majors Motors/M Bar MBI Direct Mail Miller’s Hardware Network For Good Odd-o-Ts’ Entertainment in honor of all those who keep us performing!

Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs Remixed Sleuths Mystery Dinner Theatre, Inc.

State of Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs Ten Thousand Villages of Winter Park Terracon The Burnett Honors College at UCF The Hinsdale Group The Walt Disney Company Foundation The Walt Disney Foundation Walt Disney World Resort Watermark Publishing Group White Wolf Cafe Wow! Works International

Black & White Bash BLACK & WHITE BASH 2020 CORPORATE SPONSORS Godfrey Legal J. Meyers Insurance Agency Mid-Florida Credit Union

ODEIA Theatre Management System The Walt Disney Company WUCF

BLACK & WHITE BASH 2020 DONORS Anonymous Maria Elena Augustin Lara Baker Wendy Blair Christine Bowen Annalise Carty Laurie Clark Aurora DeMarco Mary Dunleavy Eileen Dworkin Meredith Egan Anna Eskamani Gloria Gladieux

Biff Godfrey Kathy Godfrey Tom Hurst Arlene Hutton Florian Jentsch Kathy Koons Leland Krause Susan Ledlow David W Lowe Alison Lunsford James Lussier Barbara Maxwell Mitzi Maxwell

Charlotte McCormick Audrey McGowen Denise Meneghelli Whitney Morse James Mullen Donna Mylrea Lauren Nelson Linnea Nelson Jennafer Newberry Terry Olson Lenore Roland Catherine Roth Nicole Sargent

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Mike Schneider Alan Sheppard Judith Stern Ronald T Hirsch Michael Tedesco Alan Wilson Angela Withers Karel Wright Ariel Zambrano

Family and Individual THE HOLSTEIN HERITAGE SOCIETY

Sandy Neubarth PLATINUM $25,000 AND UP

Anonymous

Holland & Knight

GOLD CIRCLE $10,000 – $24,999

Anonymous Frank Doherty Godfrey Legal

Shelby Norwich Michael Schneider Dr. Joseph & Susan Warren

SILVER CIRCLE $9,999 – $5,999

Pamela Aniello Margaret Jane Brownlee Michael & Jennifer Coleman

Mary Kelsh Judith Thompson Lee & Wendy Zehngebot

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE $2,500 – $4,999 Anonymous Bill & Leslie Boles Universal Orlando

Kerby Pickens John Rigsby

Steve Rivers Rafael Torres

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $1,000 – $2,499 Anonymous Sheryl Batchelder Minter Byrd Steven Clawson Jeffrey Cohen Austin Commercial Ann H. Cook Addition Financial Thomas & Kathleen Gillman

Kathy & Biff Godfrey Jim & Freddi Goodrich Michael Haddad Dan Hitt Dean Johnson Charline Kennedy Susan McKenna Janet Mechlin William Newkirk

Jane Oatway John O’Brien Deede Sharpe & John Parker Deborah Randall Kimberly Sterling Joan & Joel Strickland L. Karenna Senors Nancy Hutson & Pat Williams

ARTIST’S CIRCLE $500 – $999 Norman & Donna Abramson Kay Allen Sheila Arnold Maria-Elena Augustin Marc & Jill Craddock Brenda Dalman & Rudi Moerck

The Walt Disney Company Foundation James Lussier Benevity Community Impact Fund Deena Breed Jan Bowman Jerry Burnley

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Karen Castelloes Brian Chambers Robert Dipboye Rosemary DuRocher Rosemary Gates The Hance Family David & Nancy Harvey

ARTIST’S CIRCLE $500 – $999 (continued) Georgiana Havill John Horn Libby Jackson Bette Jore Robert & Judith Kemp Susan Ledlow David Lowe Joann Marks Barbara Maxwell Thomas Ouellette

George Poelker & Judy Black David Piatt Lenore Roland Alison Royle Maria Rubin Kristina Kise Rygwalski Melanie Sylvan Sachs Lindsay Siebert Kathleen & John Simpson Barbara J. Smith

Dennis Sobeck Kimberly Sutton Sigrid Tiedtke Trudy Wild Daniel Wise Leighton Yates Edward Zissman

HOLY COW $250 – $499 Robin Baab Hohman Dr. Cori Baill Barbara Blake Louise Cook Earl Crittenden Judy Doyle & Bob Shaw in Memory of Katie Doyle Robert Galano Edward Gilbert

Patrick Hanna Stephen & Ruth Ann Heller Margaret Hickson Ron Hirsch & Betty Reid Erica Johnson Jeffrey & Rebecca Junod Penilope Krain Gordon Lange K.H. Loo

James Lussier Ken & Trisha Margeson James Mullen Christy Mullins & Polly Purgason Robert & Marianne Murphy Jimmie Leonard Raughton Russ Reader

Nancy Sabetini John Simpson Annemmarie Smith Cynthia Schleier Stacia Wake Robert Zollinger

Listing in the program for $250+ donations Listing reflects donations through July 25, 2020 We apologize for any errors or omissions.

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS SAG-AFTRA Special thanks to AEA Theatre Authority, for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.

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