Silent Sky program

Mad Cow Theatre presents

Three brilliant women explore the cosmos in a magical piece based on the life and discoveries of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

By Lauren Gunderson

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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 — promoting, enhancing, and celebrating the human condition through art.

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Mad Cow Theatre Staff Executive Director Mitzi Maxwell

Technical Director Waylon Lemasters

Manager of Operations & Community Engagement Audrey McGowen

Casting Coordinator Stephen Gibson

Company Manager Jessica Kaschube Manager of Art & Design Lisa Buck

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Patron Experience Assistant Manager Erica Bush Patron Experience Coordinator Hayley Owen Patron Experience Associate Jennifer K. Burns Jennifer Thomas

Patron Experience Assistants Danny Loecken Andres Ugarte Photographer Tom Hurst Founding Members Rus Blackwell Trudy Bruner Alan Bruun Dennis Neal

Board Members Aurelie Grand Mitzi Maxwell Brian McDowell Mendel Melzer Jane Oatway Susi Rivera Mike Schneider Jean Siegfried Bickley Wilson Wendy Zehngebot

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Silent Sky

By Lauren Gunderson February 16-March 18, 2018 THE ZEHNGEBOT-STONEROCK THEATRE - FEATURING Ginger McDermott*

Bethany Sparacio Adam Reilly

Mellisa Whitworth Karel wright*

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

Scenic Design Casey Price

Stage Manager Lauren Barton

Lighting Design Amy hadley

Properties Master Lisa Buck

Costume Design Janine Papin

Sound Design Alex Mason

Director Mark Edward Smith

Silent Sky

Commissioned and first produced by South Coast Repertory with support from the Elizabeth George Foundation.

Original Music by Jenny Giering

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Silent Sky Cast Henrietta Leavitt ................................................................ Melissa Whitworth Margaret Leavitt ..................................................................Bethany Sparacio Peter Shaw..................................................................................Adam Reilly Annie Cannon................................................................... Ginger McDermott Williamina.................................................................................Karel Wright PLACE AND TIME Star Field The Harvard Observatory 2nd floor offices, around 1900-1920 Leavitt Home, Wisconson Ocean Liner on the Atlantic Henrietta’s Home, Cambridge, Mass.

PRODUCTION TEAM Technical Director................................................................ Waylon Lemasters Scenic Charge ................................................................................ Lisa Buck

Silent Sky is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes with one 15 minute intermission

Actors’ 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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Tonight, about the real-life 18th-century physicist Émilie du Châtelet was commissioned and developed at South Coast Repertory (2010).Émilie received its European and British premiere in Oxford, UK during February 2014.

Fire Work was developed at The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference at Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theatre Center in 2009.

Gunderson’s play Leap, about a young Isaac Newton, was produced by Theatre Emory in 2004, directed by Megan Monaghan.

Her play Parts They Call Deep won the 2002 Young Playwrights National Playwriting Competition and was produced Off-Broadway by Young Playwrights Inc. “Parts They Call Deep” and Background won her the Essential Theatre Prize in 2000 and 2004.

Background, about physicist Ralph Alpher, was published by Isotope: A Literary Journal of Nature and Science Writing (2009, issue 7.2).

The San Francisco Playhouse commissioned Gunderson’s 2014 play Bauer about the artists Rudolf Bauer and Hilla von Rebay.

Gunderson’s play Ada and the Memory Engine, about the relationship between Lady Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, inventor of the analytical engine, a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, was produced by the Central Works Theater of Berkeley, California, in 2015. In 2015 she wrote Silent Sky The true story of 19th century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt plays out against a landscape of fierce sisterly love, early feminism, universe-revealing science, and a time when humans were called “computers.”

Lauren Gunderson

LAUREN GUNDERSON (playwright) earned her Bachelor of Arts in creative writing from Emory University in 2004, and her Master of Fine Arts in dramatic writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.

She writes about women in science and history, and comedies based on Shakespeare. She is married to virologist Nathan Wolfe.

Gunderson is one of the top 20 most-produced playwrights in the country,and in 2016 was America’s most produced living playwright.

Gunderson was awarded the Lanford Wilson award in 2016.

Her play “I and You” was the winner of the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, Artists Repertory Theatre, located in Portland, Oregon, will stage I and You from May 20 to June 17, 2018.

Gunderson’s play Exit, Pursued

By A Bear has been performed around the country, winning Best Comedy in Austin, Texas. Her play Émilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life

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Silent Sky LAUREN BARTON (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be returning to the herd for her third production at Mad Cow, where she worked on the stage management teams for The Brothers Size and Art. Lauren graduated with highest honors from the University of New Hampshire with emphases in acting and secondary education in theatre. She works as a performer, teaching artist, director, stage manager, substitute teacher, community outreach teacher, and more all around her city beautiful, Orlando.

GINGER LEE MCDERMOTT (Annie Cannon) is happy to be back in the pasture. She was last seen at Mad Cow as Woman 2 in The Big Meal. Other roles include Brooke in Other Desert Cities and Elsa in The Road to Mecca (Mad Cow Theatre), Margaret in Relativity (Florida Studio Theatre), Molly in Bad Dog and Senga in Dancing Lessons (Orlando Shakespeare Theater), Bianca in Othello (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), and Ann Putnam, Sarah Good, and Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (Steppenwolf Theatre). She is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association.

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 Barbieredi 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 how-to-paint articles for North Light Publications.

ALEX MASON (Sound Designer) is excited to sound-design his second show at Mad Cow Theatre. He recently graduated from Furman University with a vocal performance degree, where he was a stagehand for five years. He has designed for community theater productions such as Shenandoah at Easley Foothills Playhouse and Into the Woods at Furman. When not backstage, he loves to perform onstage.

JANINE PAPIN (Costume Designer) was last seen on the Mad Cow stage in Big River and the all-woman production of 1776. She works for Trinity Preparatory School, where she is the fine arts chair, auditorium manager, theater teacher, director, and sponsor of Thespian Troupe 1780. Janine loves performing and considers her time on the stage an integral part of her continued growth as an artist and a teacher. She takes great satisfaction in sharing her passion for the stage with her students and seeing them succeed.

AMY HADLEY (Lighting Designer) works as an independent lighting designer with many theatres across Central Florida and serves as staff lighting designer for Beth Marshall Presents. She is excited to be returning for her fifth production with Mad Cow Theatre, where she was part of the creative team for The Big Meal, 1776, Pygmalion and Fences. She also works as technical director for the Orlando Fringe Festival.

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Silent Sky CASEY PRICE (Scenic 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 City 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. Casey is new resident of the Orlando area, and this is his first design for Mad Cow Theatre.

He thanks his family and friends for their never-ending support.

Wizardry. He sends his loving thanks to his family and to Mad Cow Theatre.

MARK EDWARD SMITH (Director) For Mad Cow Theatre: Big River, The Amish Project, Three Sisters, 1776, The Big Meal, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Art, My Name Is Asher Lev, James Joyce’s The Dead, and The History Boys. Favorite directing projects elsewhere: Pulse, The Tricky Part, Boy Gets Girl, A Doll’s House, and The Triumph of Love. As an actor for Mad Cow: Tribes, The Light in The Piazza, Death of a Salesman, The Pitmen Painters, Rashomon, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Heiress, An Inspector Calls, Assassins, The Rainmaker, Pericles, The Seagull, The Constant Wife, Our Town, The Four Quartets, and Blithe Spirit.

ADAM REILLY (Peter Shaw) is feeling truly lucky to be returning to Mad Cow for the seventh time. His past performances have been in Animal Crackers, Three Sisters, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Clybourne Park, Photograph 51, and The History Boys.

He attended Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Phillips High School, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and

BETHANY SCARLET SPARACIO makes her Mad Cow Theatre debut. Recent credits: Miss Lucy

(Margaret Leavitt)

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Silent Sky in Sweet Bird of Youth (Irish Classical Theatre); Buffalo Quickies (Artie Award, Outstanding Ensemble).

Favorite roles: Annie/Belle/Libby/ Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Twist (Artie Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress); Isabelle/Sabine in The Liar (Artie nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actress); Woman in Death of a Salesman (Artie Award, Outstanding Production of a Play). She sends birthday wishes to Mom and love to her dearest Leon.

pasture, where she played Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and Olga in Three Sisters and appeared in two seasons of the Orlando Cabaret Festival. Melissa performs as an actor for Universal Studios and in December made her directorial debut at Theatre Winter Haven. Recent credits include the title role in Mary Poppins, L’il Bit in How I Learned to Drive, Vera in the female version of The Odd Couple, and performances of Yesterday Once More, a Carpenters tribute created with Philip King and Ron Schneider.

MELISSA WHITWORTH (Henrietta is thrilled to be bringing this history-making woman to life in the

KAREL WRIGHT (Williamina Fleming) is happy to be back in the pasture.

Previous roles at Mad Cow include Ben

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Silent Sky Franklin in 1776, Aunt Kate in The Dead, Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Ruth Steiner In Collected Stories, Mrs. Graves in Enchanted April, Mrs. Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer, and Lavinia in The Heiress. Some of Karel’s favorite regional credits include Mattie Fae in August: Osage County, Claire Castle in Kiss the Moon Kiss the Sun, and Madam Arcati in Blithe Spirit.

Karel is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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 and 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).

Mad Cow Theatre is celebrating its 21st 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

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Upcoming Productions

For tickets visit madcowtheatre.com or call the box office at 407-297-8788 Science Play Festival Feb. 24 - 26, 2018

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It Was A Very Good Year Apr. 27 - May 13, 2018

Fun Home Jun. 1 - Jul. 1, 2018

Bad Jews Jun. 15 - Jul. 8, 2018

Little Foxes Aug. 3 - 26, 2018

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