Rapture, Blister, Burn by Mad Cow Theatre

Mad Cow Theatre Presents

OCT 26-NOV 18, 2018 A contemporary comedy with a bite. By Gina Gionfriddo Directed by Monica Long Tamborello

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Mad Cow Theatre Mad Cow Theatre 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 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; promoting, enhancing, and celebrating the human condition through art. Mad Cow Theatre is supported in part with public funds from the State

of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; the Florida Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts, the Downtown Development Board; and Orange County through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program. A great nation deserves great art! Mad Cow is a 501(c)(3) organization and welcomes all donations including funds, materials, time, and goodwill. We are especially delighted when audience members bring others to share the theatrical experience.

Mad Cow Theatre Staff Executive Director Mitzi Maxwell

Technical Director Waylon Lemasters

Manager of Operations & Community Engagement Audrey McGowen

Administrator Coordinator Morgan Moots

Company Manager Jessica Kaschube Manager of Art & Design Lisa Buck

Patron Experience Manager Erica Bush House Manager Ryan Rosa

Patron Services Assistants Alletta Gentry Max Pinsky Sales & Services Specialist Jennifer Thomas Photographer Tom Hurst

Founding Members Rus Blackwell Trudy Bruner Alan Bruun Dennis Neal

Board Members William Boles Mitzi Maxwell Brian McDowell Jane Oatway Kerby Pickens Susi Rivera Mike Schneider Jean Siegfried Tony Simotes Wendy Zehngebot

Out of respect for the audience and the artists, patrons who leave the theatre during the performance and patrons who arrive late will be re-admitted at the house managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discretion. Video and photography are strictly prohibited.

Rapture, Blister, Burn By Gina Gionfriddo

October 26-November 18, 2018 THE ZEHNGEBOT-STONEROCK THEATRE - FEATURING Cynthia Beckert* Patrick Brezyan*

Sarah French

Shami McCormick* Devan Seaman

Scenic Designer Kyle Ransbottom

Stage Manager Kaitlyn Harrington

Costume Design Janine Papin

Properties Master Lisa Buck

Sound Designer Gabriella “Ellie” Petro

Lighting Design Casey Marshall Price

Director Monica Long Tramborello RAPTURE, BLISTER,BURN is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, commissioned and produced the world premiere of RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Off-Broadway in 2012. RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons with funds provided by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Commissioning Program.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the U.S.

Rapture, Blister, Burn CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARENCE Gwen........................................................................................ Sarah French Catherine...............................................................................Cynthia Beckert Don........................................................................................ Patrick Brezyan Avery..................................................................................... Devan Seaman Alice..................................................................................Shami McCormick

Rapture, Blister, Burn is performed with one 15-minute intermission.

PLACE AND TIME In a New England college town. Present day.

PRODUCTION TEAM Production Manager..............................................................Jessica Kaschube Technical Director................................................................ Waylon Lemasters Scenic Charge ................................................................................ Lisa Buck

ACTORSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 *actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster

the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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GINA GIONFRIDDO (Playwright) is an American playwright and accomplished television writer). Her play Becky Shaw was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Rapture, Blister, Burn was a 2013 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2002), the 2002 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her other plays include After Ashley (Vineyard Theatre, Obie Award); U.S. Drag (Clubbed Thumb and the stageFARM); Squalor and America’s Got Tragedy (one-acts at the stageFARM) and Guinevere (O’Neill Playwrights Conference). Gionfriddo has worked as a writer and producer for Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and as a writer for Cold Case. Her other TV work includes Borgia and House of Cards. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Brown University’s MFA playwriting program where she studied with playwright Paula Vogel and has taught at Brown University and Providence College

Gina Gionfriddo

Rapture, Blister, Burn premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in June 2012. The original Off-Broadway cast, which featured Amy Brenneman and Lee Tergesen, performed the play at the Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, California in August 2013.

Rapture, Blister, Burn LISA BUCK (Properties Master) Set designs include The Road to Mecca, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Painting Churches (Mad Cow Theatre), Don Pasquale, Abduction from the Seraglio, and Carmina Burana (Orlando Opera), Madama Butterfly, II Barbiere di Siviglia, Tosca, and The Magic Flute (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra). Lisa studied painting at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Cobalt Studios. She has won numerous awards for her painting and has written howto-paint articles for North Light Publications.

SARAH FRENCH (Gwen) Previous Mad Cow credits: Clybourne Park, The Big Meal, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, You Can’t Take It With You, Kid Simple, Everyman, Our Town and Urinetown. She has been featured in national and regional campaigns for Credit Karma, Home Depot, Spectrum, Universal Studios Florida, Hertz, HSN and Publix Supermarkets. Sarah played Young Sally Rayburn on the Emmy-winning Netflix series Bloodline for three seasons. She is represented by Lock Talent. KAITLYN HARRINGTON (Stage Manager) received a B.A. in theatre arts, with an emphasis in stage management and directing, from Rollins College. In the last eight years, she has participated in 95+ productions at various theatres in Central Florida. She is grateful to be stage-managing her first show at Mad Cow and thanks the entire Rapture, Blister, Burn team for a wonderful experience. kaitlyn-harrington.com

CYNTHIA BECKERT (Catherine) is delighted to return to Mad Cow for her third season. Previous appearances include The God Game, Grounded, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. She is grateful to Mad Cow for its dedication to representing half the human population by consistently presenting plays with multiple strong female roles in a wide variety of ages. Cynthia dedicates this performance to her mother, Corrin, who taught her self-respect and gave her the power to stand up for herself.

SHAMI MCCORMICK (Alice), a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, is happy to be back on Mad Cow’s stage after directing Bad Jews here earlier this year. Mad Cow acting credits include Anfisa in Three Sisters, Mrs. Higgins in Pygmalion, and Woman #1 in The Big Meal. Shami is grateful for Mad Cow Theatre’s bold artistic vision and its place in the cultural landscape of Central Florida.

PATRICK BREZYAN (Don) is excited to make his Mad Cow debut; he thanks Monica, his awesome cast mates, stellar crew and the entire production team for the journey. Other favorite roles include George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Macbeth; Mercutio; Ben in Blissfield by Douglas Post (Victory Gardens, Chicago); and Jerry in The Zoo Story (Theatre Downtown; Best Actor, Florida Theatre Conference.) Patrick thanks his family and all his teachers. Peace.

JANINE PAPIN (Costume Designer) is the fine arts department chair, auditorium manager, theater teacher, director, and sponsor of Thespian Troupe

Rapture, Blister, Burn 1780 at Trinity Prep School. Janine was one of two teachers nationwide named 2018 Inspiring Teacher by the Broadway League Foundation Jimmy Awards. In 2006 she won Trinity Prep’s H. Benton Ellis Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is working towards an MA in theater at UCF and is the recipient of the 2018/2019 SETC William Wilson Scholarship.

In college, Ellie designed more than 20 productions, one of which received a Merit Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She has worked on a show at the Edinburgh Fringe and with Pittsburgh community theaters. CASEY PRICE (Lighting Designer) is a lighting and scenic designer from Salt Lake City and a graduate of Utah Valley University. He has designed many shows in the Salt Lake area, including I Love You Because, Martyrs’ Crossing, Carmina Burana, Eurydice, Thé à La Menthe Ou T’es Citron, Wiley and the Hairy Man and The Imaginary Invalid. He designed the set for Mad Cow

GABRIELLA “ELLIE” PETRO (Sound Designer) is a recent graduate of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, where she studied technical theatre and design. Sound designs at Mad Cow Theatre include Buyer & Cellar and The Royal Family.

Rapture, Blister, Burn Theatre’s production of Silent Sky. He thanks his family and friends for their never-ending support.

Company/Orlando Shakespeare Theater); Number the Stars, A Little Princess (Young Actors Theatre); and A Short History of Nearly Everything for Mad Cow Theatre’s Science Play Festival. She last performed with the Cows as the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina in You Can’t Take It With You.

KYLE RANSBOTTOM (Scenic Designer) is a scenery/properties designer and fabricator who also works for Universal Creative’s prop and model shop. Most recently, he designed the scenery and props for the Garden Theatre’s production of Xanadu. He received his MFA in scenic design from Purdue University. www.ransbottomdesign.com

MAD COW THEATRE is celebrating its 22nd season as one of Orlando’s most respected professional theatre companies, committed to presenting compelling works of theatre for a wide range of audiences, with a passion for both classic and contemporary plays representing the best of American and world literature. Mad Cow Theatre attracts the area’s most talented actors, designers, and directors. A mainstay of the company is its dedication to the process of creating theatre, incorporating in-depth rehearsal and research periods along with a nurturing collaborative process. The company’s 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).

DEVAN SEAMAN (Avery) is making her Mad Cow debut. She performed in Lil Women at the Edmonton Fringe. Locally she has appeared in Meet the Replacements at the 2018 Orlando Fringe; in Hand To God at the Dr. Phillips Center; and in various roles at Universal. She also improvises with the Lab Rats at SAK; with Mama’s Comedy Show at Sleuths; and with Lowrider in Hotsauce at Coal Space. MONICA LONG TAMBORELLO (Director) studied theatre at Nicholls State University and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Directing credits include Grounded (Mad Cow Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night (The Young

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Meet the Cast

Cynthia Beckert

Patrick Brezyan

Shami McCormick

Sarah French

Devan Seaman

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