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n behalf of Opening Nights, we are thrilled to share the second half of our 25th Anniversary Season with you! We’ve saved the best for last this spring with so many incredible performances coming your way. In February, we kick off the vibrant lineup with:

The Other Mozart by Sylvia Milo at Turner Auditorium on February 4. This captivating one-woman show tells the story of Mozart’s forgotten sister, Nannerl, a piano virtuoso in her own right. Television, stage and film star Katharine McPhee will perform live at the home of the FSU President on February 6.

A month-long celebration of Black History Month kicks off with Step Afrika! on February 7 and is sure to delight all ages with an exciting blend of percussive dance styles that integrate songs, storytelling and humor. Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead will speak on February 9 about his writings and engage the audience with insightful discussion.

The Queens of Soul, Morgan James and Erica Gabriel take center stage with our very own Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra on February 11 for a celebration of the music of Motown, R&B and soul; celebrate Valentine’s Day with a breathtaking performance by contemporary dance company MOMIX and their visually stunning repertoire entitled Alice, inspired by Alice in Wonderland; and Ethiopian jazz singer, Meklit, will perform on February 28.

French-based Zodiac Trio will perform Benny Rides Again, a celebration of the songs of Benny Goodman on March 3; country and folk music legend Emmylou Harris takes the Ruby Diamond stage on March 4 for an unforgettable evening of the music that has thrived for more than 50 years; theatre fans get ready for New York Gilbert & Sullivan Player’s The Mikado on March 11 for a matinee performance; and families won’t want to miss

The Jungle Book performed live by the Panto Company on March 23.

Legendary late-night comedian and television host Jay Leno will pack Ruby Diamond for a memorable evening of laughs on March 29; Opening Nights continues its collaboration with the Chain of Parks Arts Festival with digital media artist John Ensor Parker on April 13; FSU’s PRISM is back with its traditional spring performance on April 16; and the season concludes with Piano Battle, a rollicking good time, on April 25.

Sponsorships and memberships make each season possible, and we are very grateful to the many people who have generously supported us this season. As we continue to celebrate the Opening Nights 25-year legacy into the next season, we invite you to renew or become a member or a sponsor of our 2023–24 Season. From town to gown, Opening Nights is a vital university and community performing arts program with a mission worthy of supporting and celebrating! These performances create a thriving cultural life in our community and create priceless educational experiences on campus and throughout the community. Ask any Opening Nights associate about these philanthropic opportunities. We hope you join us!

Thank you again for your support of the Opening Nights 25th Anniversary Season at Florida State University. Please enjoy these outstanding performances!

Jennifer Wright Director, Opening Nights at Florida State University

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Katharine McPhee vocal, Broadway Sponsored by Capital City Bank and Chris & Beth Corum 7 Step Afrika! dance, world music Sponsored by The Jane & John Marks Foundation 9

Colson Whitehead author, speaker Sponsored by Bernadette & Roger Luca 11

Queens of Soul with Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra tribute, orchestral, r&b 14 MOMIX dance Sponsored by Taylor Blackburn Family Fund 28 Meklit jazz, world music, vocal Sponsored by FSU License Plate march 3 Zodiac Trio instrumental, jazz 4

Emmylou Harris country, Americana Sponsored by Lee Hinkle, Ken Kato & Nan Nagy 11

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the other mozart by sylvia milo

The Other Mozart is an award-winning solo play telling the forgotten story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus—a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history. Created by Sylvia Milo, the play is set in a stunning 18-foot dress (designed by Magdalena Dabrowska from the National Theater of Poland). Directed by Isaac Byrne, The Other Mozart is based on facts, stories and lines pulled directly from the Mozart family’s humorous and heartbreaking letters. Along with music composed by her famous brother and Marianna Martines (a female composer who inspired Nannerl), original music was written for the play by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen (of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the International Contemporary Ensemble and BAM) for the instruments Nannerl knew intimately, such as clavichords, music boxes, and bells, as well as teacups, fans, and other ordinary objects that might have captured her imagination. Continued on pg. 23

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CREATOR & WRITER

Sylvia Milo

PERFORMER

Sylvia Milo

DIRECTOR

Isaac Byrne

MUSIC COMPOSERS

Nathan Davis & Phyllis Chen

ADDITIONAL MUSIC

Marianna Martines, L. Mozart, & W. A. Mozart

SOUND DESIGNER

Nathan Davis

PERIOD STYLE MOVEMENT

DIRECTOR

Janice Orlandi

COSTUMES

Magdalena Dąbrowska & Miodrag Guberinic

DRESS CONCEPT & ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION

Anna Sroka

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Joshua Rose

HAIR DESIGNER

Courtney Bednarowski

The play has been presented in Austria by the Mozarteum Foundation at the Mozart Wohnhaus in Salzburg (inside the Mozarts’ apartment), in Vienna at the Mozarthaus Vienna (inside Amadeus’ Domgasse apartment); at the Pasinger Fabrik in Munich, in Estonia and Toronto and continues touring theaters and universities across the US. facebook.com/TheOtherMozart twitter.com/TheOtherMozart

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SYLVIA MILO (Project’s Creator, Writer, Actress)

As an actress, playwright and producer, her play, The Other Mozart had a criticallyacclaimed Off-Broadway run at HERE Arts Center and in London at St. James Theatre, and has been touring in the US and in Europe. She received the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding

Solo Performance in The Other Mozart. She played Bob Dylan in the OBIE Award-winning The West Village Fragments—by Peculiar Works; Ophelia in The Ophelia Landscape with Mira Furlan at the Mark Morris Center; Hamlet in Hamlet—an all-female version of the play, which she adapted and directed herself; she has performed at La Mama, Cherry Lane, Ontological-Hysteric, Dixon Place and The Ohio Theatre. As a member of the Bats at the Flea Theater she starred in Seating Arrangements—co-written by Sylvia, directed by Eric Pold of Gob Squad. Sylvia is also a violinist (acoustic and electric violins—Irving Plaza, The Knitting Factory, CBGB's, Joe's Pub) and has composed scores for dance and theater (Merce Cunningham Studio, La Mama). She is a graduate of New York University, with extensive training at the Lee Strasberg Institute, Michael Chekhov, Stella Adler and The Grotowski Institute in Poland. 2018 Baryshnikov Arts Center Bogliasco Foundation joint Fellow. sylviamilo.com

ISAAC BYRNE (Director)

Originally from Texas, based in NYC, Isaac has been awarded the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Direction twice and productions he has directed have

been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, an Off-Broadway Alliance award, 24 NYIT awards, and 6 Planet Connection Awards. Credits include: The Other Mozart (NYIT Outstanding Solo Performance, Nominated for Director), In Vestments (NYIT Outstanding Premier of a New Play), To Nineveh (NYIT Outstanding Production), Tar Baby (DR2, PS122), 52 Man Pick Up (Ars Nova, Edinburgh Fringe), The New Normal, I Used to Write on Walls, Grimm Reality (Co-Production with Bryant Park), and Hazard a Little Death (Planet Connection Best Original Script). He also performs regularly with the Aztec Economy theatre company in the touring show, Butcher Holler Here We Come. He teaches acting at the University of the Arts, New York Film Academy, and the Matthew Corozine Studio. isaacbyrne.com

NATHAN DAVIS (Composer, Sound Designer)

Nathan Davis “writes music that deals deftly and poetically with timbre and sonority” ( NYTimes ). His ballet/opera Hagoromo premiered at BAM Next Wave Festival, produced by American Opera Projects, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) with dancers Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto. His works

have received premieres at Lincoln Center, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, the Park Avenue Armory, The Kitchen, and Roulette; as well as at festivals worldwide; and Portrait concerts at Mostly Mozart Festival and Spoleto Festival USA. Nathan has received commissions from Calder Quartet, Yarn/Wire, La Jolla Symphony Chorus, Steven Schick, Claire Chase, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Miller Theatre, and the Ojai Festival. The 2018 joint Baryshnikov Arts Center and Bogliasco Foundation Aaron Copland Fellow, he has also received awards from Meet the Composer, Fromm Foundation at Harvard, Pew Center for Arts and Culture, American Music Center, MATA, ASCAP, and a residency fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis (France). He and Phyllis Chen won an NY Innovative Theater Award for their score for The Other Mozart, for which Davis also received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Sound Design. CDs include On the Nature of Thingness (winner of Independent Music Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Album) and The Other Mozart. He holds degrees from Yale and Rice. nathandavis.com

PHYLLIS CHEN (Composer)

Phyllis Chen has been praised by the NYTimes for her “delightful quirkiness matched with interpretive sensitivity,” Phyllis is a pianist, toy pianist and a composer. The featured solo musician in Stephin Merritt’s Off-Broadway musical Coraline, Phyllis is one of the founding members of the International Contemporary Ensemble and the founder of the UnCaged Toy Piano, a composition competition to further expand the repertoire for toy piano. A strong interest in interdisciplinary work led her to collaborations with video artist and electronic musician Rob Dietz with whom she created multimedia works such as The Memoirist , Pearlessence , Chroma, and Carousel. Attended Oberlin Conservatory as a recipient of the Dean’s Talent Award Scholarship, Masters Degree from Northwestern University and DMA from Indiana University. Her piece Chimers, based on Papageno’s magic bells from Mozart’s Magic Flute, was premiered at the Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival in 2011, and a program of her music was featured at the festival in 2013. phyllischen.net

JANICE ORLANDI (Period Style Movement Director)

A movement specialist in period styles, historic dance, psychophysical techniques, character transformation and physical dramaturgy. Trained and co-taught with Loyd Williamson and Richard Schechner. Recent directing credits include: Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies (Five Stars at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, St. James Studio London; Theater Row, Laurie Beechman, 59E59), Garbo Dreams (Red Room NYC). Movement Director: The Contrast (Mirror Repertory Company St Clements), An Ideal Husband and Tartuffe (Sonnet Repertory NYC). A certified teacher of Michael Chekhov and Williamson Technique. Period style specialist of Elizabethan and Restoration, Baroque, Regency, Victorian, Edwardian, 1920's–1970's. Artistic director at Actors Movement Studio NYC, faculty at TISCH School of the Arts, Atlantic Theater Company, University of the Arts Philadelphia, Rutgers University, New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. Her work as an educator, director, actress and movement coach has been seen at Williamstown Theater Festival, State Theater School Denmark, Lindenberg Center for Culture Netherlands, Princeton

Repertory Shakespeare Festival, Classic Stage Company, Circle Rep Lab. Founding Member of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. Featured in BACKSTAGE and the AMERICAN THEATER MAGAZINE on current “Trends in Movement Training” in theater. Member of SAG/AFTRA, AEA, SSDC. actorsmovementstudio.com

MAGDALENA DĄBROWSKA (Costume Designer - Dress)

A versatile Polish designer whose projects include fashion, theatrical costumes and set designs, Magdalena is a graduate of Łazarski University in Warsaw and of the Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design. Her designs have been finalists at such prestigious competitions as Oskary Mody, OFF Fashion, and Złota Nitka. She participated in joint shows organized during the International Millinery Competition in France. She designed costumes for the plays, Taksówka, Spacerowicz and Ukryj Mnie w Gałęziach Drzew directed by Igor Gorzkowski for Studio Teatralne KOŁO. She also designed sets and costumes for Obchód Teatru, Czyli Kim Jest Wojciech B.? at the National Theatre of Poland and for the opera, Hamlet, at the Teatr Wielki in Poznan, Poland. She also runs INNI—a fashion and costume design studio. innimoda.pl

MIODRAG GUBERINIC (Costume Designer - Pannier Sculpture)

Miodrag graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago with an MFA in costume design. Recent design work includes: The Maiden (La Mama Theater); Eurydice (LIU); Good Breeding (NYU); The Memory Tax (Chernuchin Theatre); Indigo Dai (Incubator Arts Project); Touch (The Hudson Guild Theater); King and I, Amhal and the Night Visitors, Lombardi, Steel Magnolias (Harbor Lights Theater); How Deep is the Ocean (NYMF); Ghost Girl (The Workshop Theatre); Special (Theatre Row Studios); Where We Were Born and Animals Out of Paper (Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago). He received the Norrenbroock Design Award from Northwestern University (2011) and The Merritt award for the best Graduating exhibition from The Goodman theater in Chicago (2011). miodragguberinic.com

JOSHUA ROSE (Lighting Designer)

A graduate of the stage design program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Joshua resides in New York City and designs lighting for a variety of projects all

over the world; from intimate solo shows to full operas, from architectural installations to modern dance. Some designs of note include The Edge of Some World, choreographed by Jonathan Fredrickson and premiered in Beijing; The Blue Frog jazz club in Mumbai; A Celebration of Music and Dance with The Limon Dance Company and Simon Bolivar National Youth Choir of Venezuala at Lincoln Center. Recent Designs include Tar Baby by Desiree Burch, La Boheme for The Bronx Opera and Madame Butterfly for the Martina Arroyo Foundation. joshuarosedesigns.com

COURTNEY BEDNAROWSKI (Hairstylist)

An emerging hairstylist residing in Brooklyn. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she graduated from the Aveda Institute, completed an assistant program at Mizu Salon in NYC, and decided to expand her skill set into barbering at Freeman's Barbershop. Courtney has styled for countless fashion events, film and theater, print and online publications (including VOGUE), and is now working for DIOR as the lead wig stylist. (In The Other Mozart Courtney sculpts Sylvia’s hair—it is all her real hair!) courtneybednarowski.com

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