Women's Voices October Mini-Festival

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Mad Cow Theatre presents

October 22-25, 2020

Mad Cow Theatre ONLINE


Dear Anita Bryant by Ronni Sanlo Dear Anita Bryant by Ronni Sanlo Thursday, October 22 | 7:00 p.m.

(EST)

In 1977 singer Anita Bryant began her anti-gay work in an effort to repeal Miami’s new non-discrimination ordinance. Successful, Bryant took that campaign across the country. The next year, the Florida legislature ruled that lesbians and gay men were not fit parents. In 1979, Frannie Sanders (pseudonym) came out as a lesbian and lost custody of her two young children. Years later, she wrote a letter to Anita Bryant. Dear Anita Bryant is a memoir, a true story with a wide arc and an extremely relevant anchor. It makes the viewer ache, despair and rejoice and ache again, in waves and moments very familiar to each person who grew up during those years. And in the most unique moment at the end, the audience is brought to a place of forgiveness ... the ending everyone needs. RONNI SANLO (Playwright) is an author, LGBT historian, and playwright who began writing Readers’ Theater plays in just the past few years since retirement. Her first, Sing Meadowlark, has been performed around the country. Dear Anita Bryant is her second. Her third play, The Soldier and the Time Traveler, is currently being readied for table reads. Now retired, Dr. Sanlo directed the UCLA LGBT Center and was a professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education. Prior to her work in higher education, Ronni was an HIV epidemiologist in Florida. She earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Florida, and a masters and doctorate in education from the University of North Florida. Ronni and her wife Kelly Watson live in Palm Springs, CA and Sequim, WA.

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Dear Anita Bryant by Ronni Sanlo Director...................................................................................Tara Kromer * Dramaturg..................................................................... Dominique Nadeau Stage Manager................................................................... Imani Champion * Frannie Sanders...................................................................... Karla Hartley Reader..................................................................................... Kate Young * Woman 2...............................................................................Veronica Kelly * Woman 3............................................................................ Anneliese Moon Man 1........................................................................................Tom Zhang Man 2................................................................................ Max Hershkovitz IMANI CHAMPION (Stage Manager) is an AEA stage manager and freelance production manager based in NYC. Credits include, Broadway: Grand Horizons, My Fair Lady. Selected Off-Broadway: Nollywood Dreams, The Wrong Man (MCC); Coriolanus, Mobile Unit: The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Public Works: Twelfth Night and As You Like It (The Public Theater); Derren Brown: Secret, Marie & Rosetta (Atlantic Theater Company); Morocco & MASS MoCA theatre labs with the Sundance Institute. B.A. Theatre Studies, Montclair State University. KARLA HARTLEY (Frannie Sanders) is currently the Producing Artistic Director of Stageworks Theatre in Tampa, Florida. Acting credits include Drew in Girl Bar, Gertrude Stein in Gertrude

and Alice, the Stage Manager in Our Town and Aunt Dan in Aunt Dan and Lemon, Eddie and Doctor Scott in The Rocky Horror Show, Jessie in ‘Night Mother, Vern in Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche and Roxanne in Morningside, for which she won the 2020 Theatre Tampa Bay Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. MAX HERSKOVITZ (Man 2) is literally begging you to vote! Early voting is available in Florida from Oct.19th through Nov.1st in most Florida counties, but for more information, visit https://tinyurl.com/beggingyoutovote VERONICA KELLY (Woman 2) is an actor, comedian, host, writer and director living in Orlando, Florida. She has studied acting, stage combat and film at Florida State

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Dear Anita Bryant by Ronni Sanlo University and in London where she cultivated a love for film/ television, stunt work and theatre for the oppressed. VK has created magic at Walt Disney World as an improviser, host and actor. She was last seen on the SAK Comedy Lab stage, on their livestream show schedule and in PlayFest 2020 with the Orlando Shakes. @VKayok TARA KROMER (Director) Recent Directing credits include: Violet (Garden Theatre), It Shoulda Been You (Studio Theatre Tierra Del Sol), The Super Variety Match Bonus Round, My Pal Bette (Orlando Fringe), Miracle in Bedford Falls, The Giver, A Year with Frog and Toad, Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical (Orlando Rep), Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Greater Tuna, Wait Until Dark (Athens Theatre). Tara is also the Props and Puppetry Designer for Orlando Rep and freelances in Directing and Sound Design. She is a member of AEA and an Associate Member of SDC. For more information about Tara’s work, visit www. tarakromer.com. ANNELIESE MOON (Woman 3) is happy to return to Mad Cow, where she was previously seen in The Little

Foxes, Hand to God, and Pride and Prejudice. Other credits include The Glass Menagerie (Beth Marshall Presents), Into the Woods (Central Florida Community Arts), Sweet Charity (Annie Russell Theatre), and Next to Normal (Greater Orlando Actor’s Theatre). Anneliese is a graduate of Rollins College where she earned a BA in Theatre and Psychology. She can also be found performing at Universal Orlando and the Gaylord Palms. Love and thanks to her family, especially Elina for being a superior being. DOMINIQUE NADEAU (Dramaturg) earned her BA in Theater Studies and Dramaturgy from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri and is currently working towards her M.Ed. in Drama in Education from Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. She is the creator of the Lisle Park District’s Theatre Program, located in the Chicagoland area, and has been the Artistic Director there for seven years. During the week, Dominique spends her time teaching K-8 Fine and Performing Arts at Chicago Public Schools. Her most recent dramaturgy credits include Mary Poppins (Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL), Stick Fly (Writers Theater, Glencoe, IL), and Women in Assembly (Thinking Cap Theatre, Fort Lauderdale, FL).

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Dear Anita Bryant by Ronni Sanlo KATE YOUNG (Reader) is glad to return to Mad Cow (virtually) for the Mini-Fest. She last appeared as Fanny Cavendish in The Royal Family, and before that as Fanny Church in Painting Churches. Other engagements in the state in recent seasons include Urbanite Nicetes Florida Repertory - The Mousetrap, Unexpected Guest, and Lend Me a Tenor,Miami Theatre Center Hedda Gabler, Gulfshore Playhouse The Importance of Being Earnest, Best Comedy, 2013), American Stage, and freeFall Theatre, Brenda Alba, Theatre Tampa Bay Awards nominations, 2013). Recent ZOOM theatre credits include Sean Grennan’s new play Couples Regionally Kate has been featured with ShawChicago, Chicago Shakespeare, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Human Race Theatre, Royal George, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Northlight, Light Opera Works, City Theatre, and Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre. A native San Franciscan now living in Chicago, Kate trained in London at LAMDA, Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, and New England Conservatory. (www.kateyoung.biz)

TOM ZHANG (Man 1) is an LAbased actor and theater-maker dedicated to creating performances that use humor to explore race relations and American identity. As an actor, singer, and writer, his works focus on telling stories typically left out of mainstream entertainment, which currently means cracking jokes about his parents and growing up in Florida. Tom has great comedic timing, which you can tell because he graduated from CalArts with his Master of Fine Arts in Acting in the middle of a pandemic.Since then he’s had the chance to expand his ideas of theater via the magic of the internet.

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Last Will by Kimberly Dixon-Mays Last Will by Kimberly Dixon-Mays Friday,October 23 | 7:00 p.m.

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Lawrence John Elston, a white male author in his 60s famous for writing children’s books celebrating black children, is now dying and looking to appoint a head of his library and foundation.Libby is a Black female doctoral student desperate to convince Elston to give her that job. They jockey for power over not only Elston’s literary legacy, but also his life story. One of them wins, but everyone winds up wounded by a battle that started long before they met. KIMBERLY DIXON-MAYS (Playwright) has received readings and staged productions at Crossroads Theatre Company, Plowshares Theatre Company, Emotive Fruition, Windy City Playhouse, and Rivendell Theatre. In addition, from 2005-2013 she was a recurring member of the Guild Literary Complex’s devised theater project the Poetry Performance Incubator (Artistic Director Coya Paz), co-creating and performing in its original works Tour Guides and Like Bread. Among other theater honors, Kimberly’s play The Gizzard of Brownsville was a 2002 finalist for the Theodore Ward Prize for African-American Playwrights; and (Nine) was a featured reading for Congo Square Theatre Company’s 2019 August Wilson New Play Initiative, and a semi-finalist for the 2019 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. She was also a semi-finalist for 2020 National Black Theatre I Am Soul Playwright Residency and recipient of NBT’s Soul Series Lab Playwriting Micro-Development Session. Kimberly is currently a 2018-20 Russ Tutterow Fellow with Chicago Dramatists, and a Fall 2020 Artist in Residency with Chicago State University. She holds a B.A. in Psychology/Theater Studies from Yale, an M.A. in Afro-American Studies (playwriting concentration) from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Theatre/Drama from Northwestern.

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Last Will by Kimberly Dixon-Mays Director................................................................ Marsha Howell Robbins Dramaturg.................................................................. Dominique Nadeau Stage Manager (Voice)...................................................... Emily Denardo * Elizabeth Huff (Libby)............................................................Caila Carter Mr. James...........................................................................Clinton Harris * Lawrence John Elston..................................................... Bob Brandenburg Brooke.........................................................................Melissa Whitworth Daddy............................................................................Michael Morman BOB BRANDENBURG (Lawrence John Elston) is happy to be performing again even if it’s virtually! Favorite roles include: Ben in The Little Foxes at Mad Cow Theatre, Matthew Cuthbert in Anne Of Green Gables at the Orlando Rep. Other credits Porter in Deathtrap, George in Billy Elliot The Musical, Tierney/The Birds, Murray/It Should Have Been You, FDR/Annie, Teddy Roosevelt/ Disney’s Newsies, Sleuths Mystery Theatre, Scrooge/A Christmas Carol, Mushnik/Little Shop, Frank Hamer/Bonnie and Clyde, Matron/ Women Behind Bars Orlando Fringe. Phil/ The Fabulous Lipitones. Bob has also written and directed for Nickelodeon Live Shows around the globe and lives with his three dogs; Wills, Jasper and Bobby.

CAILA CARTER (Elizabeth Huff/ Libby) is a gifted and sought after performing and teaching artist. She has graced several regional and international theater stages, finding her initial home as an actress/ambassador for Cultural Fusion Theater Company; an organization committed to producing works by and for African American and Latinx playwrights, actors, and actresses, under the direction of Kenneth Brown. Caila has a heart and a passion for making the arts accessible and equitable. EMILY DENARDO (Stage Manager) Her credits include Island Song, Knights of the Sales Office (Adirondack Theater Festival) Elevada, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Repertory Theater); Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project) American Buffalo, Macbeth, Julius Caesar,

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Last Will by Kimberly Dixon-Mays Pericles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Elm Shakespeare Company); The Oath, The Marvelous Wonderettes, The Other Place (Weston Playhouse); I Am My Own Wife (Two Turns Theater); Bird Fire Fly, The Visit, Blueberry Toast, Cloud Nine, King Richard 2 (YSD); In the Heights, Hamlet, Gertrude & Claudius (Orlando Shakes) Emily holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. CLINTON HARRIS (Mr. James) is overjoyed to return to Mad Cow Theatre and tell stories with this dynamic cast. Clinton is a native of Atlanta and an alumnus of the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, and he majored in theatre at Albany State University.He has toured internationally as a background vocalist for several recording artists and performs in Finding Nemo the Musical, Festival of the Lion King, and Club Villain at Disney World. Other regional credits: Peter and the Starcatcher; Ain’t Misbehavin’; Bright Lights Big City; Hair;Dreamgirls; The Mountaintop; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Rent; and Driving Miss Daisy. Clinton is a proud member of Actors Equity. This show is for his brother ancestor angelsm Uncle Stee, Troy, and Terrell.

MICHAEL MORMAN (Daddy) has been an active part of the theatre community for over thirty years. With proven talents on and off stage, as a performer, director and producer. Recent stage performances Include roles in A Christmas Story:The Musical, Little Women, The Color Purple, Big River and five productions of Driving Miss Daisy. DOMINIQUE NADEAU (Dramaturg) earned her BA in Theater Studies and Dramaturgy from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri and is currently working towards her M.Ed. in Drama in Education from Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. She is the creator of the Lisle Park District’s Theatre Program, located in the Chicagoland area, and has been the Artistic Director there for seven years. During the week, Dominique spends her time teaching K-8 Fine and Performing Arts at Chicago Public Schools. Her most recent dramaturgy credits include Mary Poppins (Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL), Stick Fly (Writers Theater, Glencoe, IL), and Women in Assembly (Thinking Cap Theatre, Fort Lauderdale, FL).

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Last Will by Kimberly Dixon-Mays MARSHA HOWELL ROBBINS (Director) is excited to direct her first play with Mad Cow Theatre. Mrs. Robbins holds a Masters degree in elementary education. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Management and has worked in all facets of the theater arena: teacher, director, stage and company manager, guest talent coordinator and lighting and sound designer. She has worked for Walt Disney Entertainment, Universal Orlando, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Chautauqua Conservatory Theatre in New York, just to name a few. Marsha Robbins is also the Founder and Executive Director for Dramatic Education, Inc. Dramatic Education is an educational arts company that specializes in-school, after-school

and summer drama programs. You can find her programs in over 60 public, charter, and private Schools serving over 6,000 students. MELISSA WHITWORTH (Brooke) is excited to be back in this new venture! Mad Cow audiences may remember her from Silent Sky (Henrietta Leavitt), Three Sisters (Olga), 1776 (Thomas Jefferson), or previous Science Play and Cabaret Festivals. Other favorites include How I Learned to Dive (Lil Bit), Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), and making magic at the parks here in town. melissalouisewhitworth.com

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

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Photographer Tom Hurst Founding Members Rus Blackwell Trudy Bruner Alan Bruun Dennis Neal

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


Ghost Story by Lia Romeo Ghost Story by Lia Romeo

Saturday, October 24 | 7:00 p.m.

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Lydia’s just looking for a one-night stand, and so she’s brought a cute guy home from the company holiday party. But now things keep getting in the way. Like the fact that they could hardly be more different (she’s forty, he’s twenty-eight; she’s black, he’s white; she’s a New Yorker and he’s from the Midwest). And the fact that he’s still not over his ex. And the fact that her apartment might very well be haunted. A play about ghosts – both literal and otherwise – and the ways we try to move forward. LIA ROMEO (Playwright) has written plays including The Forest (O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Kilroys’ List), Connected (59E59, NYIT Award nominee), Green Whales (Unicorn Theatre, Weissberger Award nominee), Reality (HotCity Theatre, Steinberg Award nominee), Right Place, RightTime (O’Neill finalist, Renegade Theatre Experiment), The Lucky Ones (O’Neill finalist, Dreamcatcher Rep), Lovesick (59E59), Hungry (Unicorn Theatre), Babies (Lark Playwrights Workshop), and others. She was the 2019 winner of City Theatre’s National Short Playwriting Award. She received a 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship in playwriting from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, and was the National New Play Network Emerging Playwright-in-Residence at Writers Theatre of New Jersey. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, and Smith & Kraus. She earned her B.A. from Princeton University and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Rutgers/MGSA, and she teaches in the MA program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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Ghost Story by Lia Romeo Director..........................................................................Natalyn McCants Dramaturg.......................................................................... Cecilia Padilla Stage Manager..................................................................Emily Denardo * Lydia................................................................................Trenell Mooring * Davis..................................................................................Anthony Pyatt EMILY DENARDO (Stage Manager) Her credits include Island Song, Knights of the Sales Office (Adirondack Theater Festival) Elevada, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Repertory Theater); Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project) American Buffalo, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Pericles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Elm Shakespeare Company); The Oath, The Marvelous Wonderettes, The Other Place (Weston Playhouse); I Am My Own Wife (Two Turns Theater); Bird Fire Fly, The Visit, Blueberry Toast, Cloud Nine, King Richard 2 (YSD); In the Heights, Hamlet, Gertrude & Claudius (Orlando Shakes) Emily holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. NATALYN MCCANTS (Director) has performed from Pensacola to Nashville from local productions and performing on the Royal Caribbean. Since the

pandemic, Natalyn has focused on directing and stage managing for livestreams and she is excited to combine her knowledge with her love for theatre. This is Natalyn’s first show with Mad Cow Theatre. TRENELL MOORING (Lydia) is pleased to be involved in the Women’s Voices Mini Fest . A graduate of UF and The Stella Adler’s 2-year conservatory program in NYC, Trenell has been a professional actor for almost 20 years, working in various theatres across the state, theme parks and film. She was last seen on the Mad Cow stage as Lizzy Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Other credits include The Amish Project, Clybourne Park (Mad Cow) , Our Town, The Little Prince (freeFall) and Ruined (GableStage). In her spare time, she enjoys sewing and cosplay. Trenell is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Much love to her family and friends. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Ghost Story by Lia Romeo CECILIA PADILLA (Dramaturg) is a freelance dramaturg and is thrilled to have the opportunity to work on the Women’s Voices Mini-Fest with Mad Cow Theatre. Most recently, she partnered with the Delray Beach Playhouse in its inaugural new works workshop. Previously, she worked at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre where she was the lead copywriter and editor for Marquee Magazine. She also assisted with audience outreach programs by leading talkbacks and creating dramaturgical lobby displays. Cecilia completed a theater publications fellowship at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. While there, she wrote for the nationally recognized theater magazine Words On Plays and assisted with A.C.T.’s New Strands Festival. Cecilia is also the Florida regional vice president for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She is a graduate of the University of Florida, where she received a B.A. in Theater and English Literature.

ANTHONY PYATT (Davis) is humbled and overjoyed by the opportunity to take part in lifting up women’s voices. The poignant relevancy of Lia Romeo’s Ghost Story struck him as one of many uncomfortable conversations that need to be had, and feels Romeo has expertly crafted several of them into a single evening of dialogue between two haggard souls. He hopes this story might be (more than spooky, fun escapism for an evening at your zoom theater) a catalyst for conversation regarding ignorance, compassion, and mental health. The best we may do is explore what connects us between these divides, and the truth beneath our actions. Anthony is managed by Josh Brown Group and resides in Queens, NY.

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Dark Skies by Katie Di Bari Dark Skies byKatie Di Bari

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

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Using the myth of Cassiopeia and her daughter Andromeda, remixed and retold in the context of climate change and changing concepts of co-existence, this piece is a work-in-progress developed with the talented cast. KATIE DI BARI (Playwright) is a performer, writer, director, and Orlando native. She is so lucky to have this ragtag group of creatives and collaborators in her corner. We all met during Mad Cow’s Men On Boats, and we’ve had countless inspiring Covid Zoom sessions ever since. Orlando needs environmental action in all areas, including in the arts. Thank you Mad Cow for this opportunity to develop culture-changing theatre! @katiedebari

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Dark Skies by Katie Di Bari Director............................................................................Cynthia Beckert Dramaturg................................................................... Samantha Carbery Stage Manager........................................................... Alyssa Will Zegers Cassiopeia.................................................................. Iris Lynne Sherman * Andromeda...............................................................................Ema Pava Perseus....................................................................... John Henry Aquino Amalthea...............................................................................Hilary Kelly JOHN HENRY AQUINO (Perseus) a New Jersey Native, is excited to be a part of this new project! Best known in the role of John Cleary (Loving Lives). His latest credits include Gerald in A foot on the gas, a foot in the grave and as Donnie in Slammed!. In addition to acting, John also loves to write for film and the stage; he very much enjoys singing (even if it’s just to himself in the shower) and is excited for his directorial debut of Jesus Christ Frat Star in Fringe of 2021. CYNTHIA BECKERT (Director) has performed in four seasons’ worth of plays at Mad Cow Theatre, including The God Game, Grounded, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Rapture Blister Burn, Top Girls,and Men on Boats. In addition to acting, Cynthia directed five short plays in the recent Science PlayFest. She also

led workshops for Mad Cow’s She Speaks program, designed to empower girls and young women to use their voices. Cynthia has taught acting, theatrical movement, and gender swapping, and was the period dance and movement instructor for A Noise Within Theatre Company’s Camp Shakespeare in Los Angeles. She earned an MA in Theatre from FSU, and an MFA in Acting from UC Irvine. SAM CARBERY (Dramaturg) (she/ they) is a writer, actor, and director currently based in New York City. Inspired by nature, history, and backyard plays, her work fuses together stories old and new to dream up mythological worlds where cliff and castle are made out of cardboard, and wisdom comes at odd hours of the day. They forged a friendship and creative partnership with Katie De Bari, director of Dark Skies, while studying Drama at New York

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Dark Skies by Katie Di Bari University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Since then, their theatrical escapades have fun the gamut, from quip slinging seagulls to Heelys choreography to Dark Skies. Recent credits include Giving Up the Ghost (2019), The Tank NYC’s 7x7 Festival (2019), You’re Invited to the Saddest Birthday Ever (2019), and Berlindia! (2020). Sam is thrilled to be working with such a delightful crew of performers and theater makers and is eager to continue exploring the role of performance in environmentalism. A huge thank you to Mad Cow Theatre for putting on a wonderful festival! HILARY KELLY (Amalthea) is pleased to be joining Mad Cow again after appearing in last season’s Men on Boats. She recently returned to Orlando after nine years in Washington, D.C.; D.C.­– area credits include Antony and Cleopatra, Doctor Faustus, Exit Carolyn, Blight, Macbeth, Good Kids, and several readings and new play workshops. www.hilary-kelly.com

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

EMA PAVA (Andromeda) is thrilled to return to Mad Cow with the cast of Dark Skies! You can catch Ema next at her UCF senior voice recital and at events yearround with Phantasmagoria Orlando. Favorite roles include a Bachant in the Bacchae and Albany in King Lear. Ema is currently pursuing her BM in voice performance at UCF in Orlando, FL. You can find her online as EmaPavaDiaz on FB and IG. IRIS LYNNE SHERMAN (Cassiopeia) originally from Pittsburgh, PA, is a graduate of Point Park University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance. Before COVID-19 , Iris was a Teaching Artist for the Disney Performing Arts Program and the Orlando Ballet Community Enrichment Program. Some of her credits include God Bless America and It’s Always Raining at the Best Buy in the Be Original Theater Festival held at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Recently, Iris was also seen in Men On Boats at the Mad Cow Theatre. As a proud member of Actors Equity Association (AEA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA),

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Dark Skies by Katie Di Bari Iris looks forward to returning to the stage in this new medium of Zoom. ALYSSA WILL ZEGERS (Stage Manager) 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. 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).

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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1st Annual Women’s Voices Mini-Festival DONORS LIST

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

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Pamela Aniello Margaret Jane Brownlee Michael & Jennifer Coleman

Mary Kelsh Judith Thompson Lee & Wendy Zehngebot

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE $2,500 – $4,999 Anonymous 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

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

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