Caryl Churchill
PLAYWRIGHT
Caryl Churchill was born on September 3, 1938, in London, and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival. Caryl Churchill’s plays include Owners, Traps, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud 9, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Skriker, Blue Heart, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, Seven Jewish Children, Love & Information, Here We Go, and Escaped Alone. Musical theater includes Lives of the Great Poisoners and Hotel, both with Orlando Gough. Caryl Churchill has also written for radio and television.
Ariel Craft
DIRECTOR
Ariel Craft is a director, generative theatre-maker, and incoming artistic director of San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theater. Recent directing credits include Paula Vogel's The Mineola Twins, the collectively-created MacBitch, Jean Racine’s Phèdre, a world premiere adaptation of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, Bekah Brunstetter's The Oregon Trail, Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding, and a world premiere adaptation of John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. Ariel has served as associate artistic director at the Cutting Ball Theater for the past three seasons, founded and led The Breadbox for five seasons, and previously served as assistant artistic director at The Custom Made Theatre Co. and artistic fellow at the American Conservatory Theater. She holds a BFA with honors from New York University, where she studied multidisciplinary theatre-making at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Ariel received a Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding Direction for Cutting Ball Theater’s Phèdre as well as Theatre Bay Area’s TITAN Award.
Daniel Alley
MUSIC DIRECTOR, PIANO/CONDUCTOR
Daniel is a music director, pianist, and vocal coach specializing in opera and musical theater and is thrilled to work another Shotgun production after assistant music directing The Events in 2017. Bay Area credits are music director for The Fantasticks at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, Chicago; Pippin and Freaky Friday for the Berkeley Playhouse Conservatory; Threepenny Opera and the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Oakland School for the Arts. He was also rehearsal pianist and choir master for La Bohème, Aroldo, and The Magic Flute at West Edge Opera. He is the choir director and organist at Christ Lutheran Church in El Cerrito.
The Cast
Lyndsee Bell, Ensemble, Doctor
Melanie DuPuy, Goody
Amanda Farbstein, Susan
Perry Fenton, Ensemble, Bellringer
Dov Hassan, Jack
Sam Jackson, Ellen, Kramer
Celia Maurice, Joan, Sprenger
Jennifer McGeorge, Margery
Sarah Mitchell, Packer
Sharon Shao, Betty
Megan Trout, Alice
The Band
Daniel Alley, Music Director, Piano/Conductor
Dup Crosson, Drums
Jorge Hernandez-Lopez, Alto Sax/Flute
Amar Khalsa, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
The Crew
Daniel Alley, Music Director
Nina Ball, Set Design*
Dani Chapparro, M.A.D. Sound Fellow/Sound Sound Board Op
Ashley Corso, Wardrobe Supervisor
Ariel Craft, Director
Evan Favela, M.A.D. Props Fellow
Natalie Greene, Choreographer
Taylor Gonzalez, Sound Engineer
Brooke Jennings, Costume Designer
Liz Johnson, Production Assistant
Heather Kelly-Laws, Stage Manager
Devon LaBelle, Props Designer
Dave Maier, Fight Director
Caitlin McFann, Sound Sound Board Op
Ray Oppenheimer, Lighting Designer
Leigh Rondon-Davis, Assistant Director
Caitlin Steinmann, Master Electrician
Matt Stines, Sound Designer
Derek Sup, Piano/Associate Conductor
*Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829
The Sponsors
Production Sponsors
The Grubb Company
Carolyn Jones
Susan Taylor & Bob Fabry
2019 Season Sponsors
Kitty Bosher
DeYoe Wealth Management
Craig & Kathy Moody
Carol Amyx & Donald Kaufman
Ragesh Tangri & Daralyn Durie
BiBi Tiphane
Peet’s Coffee & Tea
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