UTNT (UT New Theatre): "Loverboy"

UT NEW THEATRE Curated by Liz Engelman and Steven Dietz

Loverboy

BY DREW PARYZER April 12-22, 2018

OSCAR G. BROCKETT THEATRE

Loverboy

BY DREW PARYZER DIRECTED BY JESS SHOEMAKER

APRIL 12, 14 AND 18 AT 7:30 P.M. APRIL 21 AT 2:00 P.M.

OSCAR G. BROCKETT THEATRE F. LOREN WINSHIP BUILDING

THEATREDANCE.UTEXAS.EDU

UTNT (UT New Theatre) is made possible through the generous support of the Michener Center for Writers and the College of Fine Arts’ Department of Theatre and Dance.

THIS PRODUCTION WAS CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS: Zoe Andersen – Scenic Designer • Ty Clark – Sound Designer Aaron Curry – Associate Lighting Designer • Francesca Ghizzoni – Production Manager Michael J. Love – Movement Director • Mercedes Trinidad McCleary – Lighting Designer Adam Miller-Batteau – Fight Choreographer • Jessi Rose – Costume Designer Skyler Taten – Stage Manager • David Tolin – Technical Director

CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) Martinique Duchene-Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mom Daniel Nkoola. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loverboy

There will be no intermission.

Videography and photography are strictly prohibited.

A heartfelt thanks to The Untangle Yarners for their generous donation of hand-knitted items. As a continuation of their generosity, and in keeping with the spirit of our performance, these items will be donated to the homeless and needy in Austin following the close of this production.

NOTE FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT I would like to dedicate this play to my Aunt Dorothy; a woman of endless passion and charisma; an irreplaceable fountain of naches. She held me the day I was born, and as a young man she would stay up through all hours of the night with me, talking, helping me sew the dreams of who I might become.

Dorothy was an energy healer and Reiki master who made me feel I could alter reality with the energy from my hands – which, I now realize as is also the premise of playwriting. She made me promise, over and over, that I’d save her a front-row seat next to me at my first full production. Back when I was subsisting on leftover sandwiches from my day job, the idea of getting that production seemed farfetched. It’s happening, my dearest Aunt, and I miss you so much. For the rest of my life, I want to write plays that honor your loving spirit, that sit in a front row seat next to it. I hope this play is one of them.

NOTE FROM THE CURATORS In this, the 11th year of UTNT, we celebrate once again the zest and guile of new work and its ability to feed our theatrical art form. The theatre is not a lake, it is a spring; not a finite container, but a living form in motion, filling constantly from below. These plays, by our ascendant third-year M.F.A. playwrights, are a testament to this ongoing theatrical regeneration. Here are plays that seek to delight and disrupt you. Here are intimate stories of great reach and ambition. Here are writers daring to lay claim to wide swaths of our imagination and consciousness.

What’s more, we are fiercely proud that virtually every name in this playbill is that of a student - undergraduate and graduate, from all theatrical disciplines. This diverse array of young artists and scholars are not waiting to inherit the field. Instead, they are overturning it - remaking and reshaping it on their own terms, right here, right now. And as we know, “what starts here ...”

Steven Dietz Liz Engelman Curators, UTNT-18

The Department of Theatre and Dance is a world-class educational environment that serves as the ultimate creative incubator for the next generation of artists, thinkers and leaders in theatre and performance.

CREATIVE Zoe Andersen (Scenic Designer) is a M.F.A. in Design and Technology candidate with a focus in scenic design at The University of Texas at Austin. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, she designed shadow puppets for Sun and Shadows. Last year, Andersen created and performed the puppetry for Cry Wolf (the Cohen New Works Festival, 2017). She recently worked for Universal Studios, Orlando designing work for Halloween Horror Nights and served as the scenic designer for The Crucible (Texas Theatre and Dance, 2017).

Ty Clark (Sound Designer) is a fourth-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in performer’s process. He is also a senior sound designer at Davis Ellen.

Aaron Curry (Associate Lighting Designer) is a second-year M.F.A. in Design and Technology candidate at The University of Texas at Austin.

Recent credits include ENRON, Fall For Dance, Building the Wall (Texas Theatre and Dance) and Little Women (Butler Opera Center). Regional: The Little Prince (assistant, Seattle Children’s Theatre); South Pacific (Arizona Broadway Theatre); The Danube; The Messenger (Hangar Theatre); Das Barbueü; A Little Night Music; Urinetown, the Musical and The Drowsy Chaperone (The Barnstormers). Member, USITT. aaroncurrydesigns.com Francesca Ghizzoni (Production Manager) is a third-year UTeach Theatre major with a minor in Administration and Arts Management. Ghizzoni has a fierce passion for management of the arts and has previously served as president of the student-produced theatre company, RoundAbout Players; stage manager of El Camino de Hierro (Cohen New Works Festival, 2017) and stage manager in the Austin community for Landscape Mechanical. Her interests include education and dramaturgy. Dramaturgical credits include the Austin productions Dust, Uncastable and The Last Ones Out.

Michael J. Love (Movement Director) is a M.F.A. in Performance as Public Practice candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an Austin Critics’ Table Award winner and an ARCOS Dance Artist Development Award grantee. Most recently, Love performed with Capezio ACE Award recipients, The JaM Project, in DancerPalooza’s 25 LIVE and was a laboratory cast member of the Savion Glover and George C. Wolfe Broadway musical, Shuffle Along. In Austin, he has been on faculty at a number of dance schools and worked as a teaching artist with Creative Action.

Love premiered his full-length work GON’ HEAD AND PUT YOUR RECORDS ON! at the Dougherty Arts Center last spring. dancermlove.com Mercedes Trinidad McCleary (Lighting Designer) is a M.F.A. in Design and Technology candidate with a focus in lighting design at The University of Texas at Austin. During her time at the university, she has designed work for The Crucible (Fall 2017), Luna (Spring 2017) and last year’s production of UTNT (UT New Theatre).

She has also designed lighting for Butler Opera Center’s production of Cosi Fan Tutte.

Adam Miller-Beatteau (Fight Choreographer) is a director, fight choreographer and theatre educator new to the Austin area. Miller-Batteau has choreographed fights for over a decade, staging violence in over 100 productions. Previous credits at The University of Texas at Austin include ENRON, Anon(ymous) and Little Women the Broadway Musical. Other Austin fight choreography credits include Animal Farm (McCallum Theatre); directing credits include Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in Detroit), Macbeth (Stagedoor Manor), Henry V (Brass Tacks Ensemble) and A Few Good Men (Malicious Wicket Productions), among others. Training/Education: University of Michigan (B.F.A. in Acting), Exeter University (M.F.A. in Shakespeare Performance), Society of American Fight Directors (Certified Teacher).

Miller-Batteau currently teaches stage combat at Texas Theatre and Dance.

CREATIVE Drew Paryzer’s (Playwright) plays have been seen or developed at the Roundabout Theatre, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Fusebox Festival. Plays include Al-Halqa (is that how it’s pronounced) (New Harmony Project finalist), Swallow the Reader and Alter (Kennedy Center/National New Play Network M.F.A. Playwrights’ Conference). Devised work includes FinalCon (Austin Critics’ Table Award nomination) and Intro to Being Here (Cohen New Works Festival, 2017), for which he cocreated the companion video game. B.A.: Sarah Lawrence College, where he was a recipient of the Lipkin Prize. drewparyzer.com Jessi Rose (Costume Designer) is pursuing an M.F.A. in Design and Technology with a focus in costume design at The University of Texas at Austin. Rose received a B.A. in Anthropology before beginning the study of costuming. The universal human practice of dressing the body and communicating through dress fascinates her and fuels her passion for design. Recent design work includes Momentum (Dance Repertory Theatre, Texas Theatre and Dance, 2017), June (film) and Seven, The Documentary (Concordia University).

Jess Shoemaker (Director) is pursuing an M.F.A. in Directing at The University of Texas at Austin and is the co-program director for the Appren-

tice Actor Program at the Great River Shakespeare Festival. She is a fan of strong female protagonists, humor, poetry and storytelling that fosters empathy and connection.

Skyler Taten (Stage Manager) is a first-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major with an emphasis in stage management at The University of Texas at Austin. Past productions include serving as the assistant stage manager for The Crucible (Texas Theatre and Dance, 2017) and several productions at Episcopal High School including Lucky Stiff, Godspell and South Pacific. She also served as the production assistant on The Toothbrush, a graduate thesis project by Mercedes McCleary, and the stage manager for The Mountain by Jon Haas.

David Tolin (Technical Director) was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming. He attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he received his B.A. in Theatre with a concentration in design/technology. In 2006, he interned with Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère (Treasure Island) and served as a stagehand for Desert Entertainment for several concerts, productions and events across Las Vegas. He received his M.F.A. in Scenic Technology from The University of Texas at Austin before teaching at Westlake High School for seven years. Tolin joined the staff of the Department of Theatre and Dance in 2017.

CAST

Martinique Duchene-Phillips

Daniel Nkoola

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CAST Martinique Duchene-Phillips (Mom) graduated with a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. She has been part of the Austin theatre community since the late 1990’s and has played with many different theatre companies in town. Much of her work has been as a bilingual actor working with Teatro Vivo. She was recently seen in The Smartest Girl in the World (Austin Playhouse), Bear Eats Bear (groundswell), JJ’s Arcade (ZACH Theatre/ Teatro Vivo), Tomás and the Library Lady (ZACH Theatre/Texas Theatre and Dance) and Whether

the Weather (Pollyanna Theatre Company), for which she earned a B. Iden Payne Award nomination for Best Actress in a Youth Production.

She serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Salvage Vanguard Theatre.

Daniel Nkoola (Loverboy) is pursuing a degree with Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. He has recently been seen in multiple projects as part of the Cohen New Works Festival (2017). This is his first main stage performance with Texas Theatre and Dance.

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