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APR 2–17, 2022 BLUE GENIE ART BAZAAR
Created, written, designed and directed by
Robin Frohardt* In collaboration with the Company:
Nick Lehane, Admiral Grey*, Tyler Gunther*, Rowan Magee, Andy Manjuck, Emma Wiseman
The Plastic Bag Store residency at UT Austin is supported by funds from the O’Donnell Visiting Artist Endowment, generously provided by the College of Fine Arts. Presented in partnership with KUT-FM.
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Original music by
Production Management
Sound Designer
Technical Director
Freddi Price
Pomegranate Arts
Chad Raines
Jeremy Lydic
Co-Produced by
General Manager
Linda Brumbach, Robin Frohardt and Alisa E. Regas
Rachel Katwan
FILMED ELEMENTS Director of Photography
Producer
Rob Kolodny
Caitlin Mae Burke
PRODUCTION STAFF Production Manager Nathan Lemoine
Sound Engineer Chad Raines
Originating Puppetry Lighting Designer Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Company Manager Michelle Yard
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Production Assistant
Tyler Gunther*
Scenic Construction
Silovsky Studios, Lydic! Design and Production
Props Construction Support Admiral Grey* Tyler Gunther*
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Illustrations, Graphics and Costume Design Support
Tyler Gunther*
Logo and Additional Graphics Panny Chayapumh and Mars Rojas, PMS Studios
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The Plastic Bag Store was
commissioned by Times Square Arts with generous support provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional commissioning support has been provided by Carolina Performing Arts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was developed with support from: MANA Contemporary, The Made in NY Women’s Film, TV & Theatre Fund by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts; Olson Kundig; The Jim Henson Foundation; and is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). The Plastic Bag Store film segments were commissioned by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA with additional support by the Adelaide Festival. The Plastic Bag Store is a project of Creative Capital. The Plastic Bag Store gives special thanks to Paul Lazar and Morgan Jenness for dramaturgical and directorial consultation. The Plastic Bag Store’s Austin residency is supported by funds from the O’Donnell Visiting Artist Endowment, generously provided by the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.
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ROBIN FROHARDT (Creator/Director) Known for her rich aesthetic and highly detailed constructions, Robin Frohardt is an award-winning theater and film director. Her narrative based film, puppetry, and sculpture, use recognizable materials, often trash, to create richly detailed worlds that make magic of the mundane and highlight the trivialities of daily life. Her theatrical work has earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award and multiple Jim Henson Foundation Grants. Her play THE PIGEONING hailed by the New York Times as “a tender, fantastical symphony of the imagination,” debuted in 2013 and continues to tour at home and abroad. Her follow-up project THE PLASTIC 6
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have been the official selections at The Telluride Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, The One Earth Film Festival, and BAM.
Photo by Josué Azor
BAG STORE premiered in Times Square in 2020 and has since toured to Los Angeles, Chicago, Adelaide, and Austin. Her films
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS AT
THEPLASTICBAGSTORE.COM/ARTISTS
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Texas Performing Arts would like to acknowledge the generous support of our organizational partners.
2021–22 SEASON SPONSORS
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COMMUNITY PARTNERS
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