a play bycraig wright

directed byrobert

richmond

full cir cle prod u ctions p r e s e n t s

august 29-september 2, 2017

UofSC LABTHEATRE

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Narrator..........................Jennifer Moody Sanchez†

kari...................................................lindsay rae taylor*peter................................................andrew schwartz*

production designer..........................Nate Terracio

full ci r cle prod u ctions p r e s e n t s

w r i t t e n b y c rai g wrightd i r ec t e d b y robe rt ri c h mon d* *

You are allowed to laugh audibly.

You are allowed to have audible moments of reaction and response.

This can be a church for some of us, and testifying is allowed.

This is also live theatre and the actors need you to engage with them, not distract them or thwart their

performance.

Please be an audience member that joins with others and allows a bit of breathing room. Exhale together.

Laugh together. Say “amen” should you need to.

This is a community. Let’s go.

rules of engagement

thank youKelsie Hensley, Larry Hembree, Donna Moody,

Coralee Harris, Curtis Smoak, Ray Jones,andy Mills, Kevin Bush, Tony Cisek

The Pavilion is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.Originally produced by the City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh.

Partially developed at the Carnegie School of Drama.

“Down in the Ruined World” Lyrics by Craig Wright, Music by Peter Lawton and Craig Wright

† Member of SAG/AFTRA* Member of Actor’s Equity Association

**Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

Jennifer Moody Sanchez just finished touring a one woman show, Grounded, with Full Circle Productions and the University of South Carolina this year. She was recently seen in The Jasper Players’ Sharks and Other Lovers, directed by Larry Hembree, and was voted by Broadway World SC as “Theatre Artist of the Year” and “Best Actress in a Play” for her portrayal as Marie Antoinette in Trustus Theatre’s production of Marie Antoinette. Jennifer appeared in the Psittacus

Production of A Tale Told By An Idiot as Lady Macbeth at Lincoln Center, Clark Studio. Regional credits include: Standing On Ceremony, The Other Place, Venus in Fur, Pine and My First Time (Trustus Theatre). Los Angeles credits: Much Ado About Nothing, Bug and Rabbit Hole (Secret Rose Theatre); Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Oleanna (Fountain Theatre); Proof (Whitefire Theatre) and A Streetcar Named Desire (Pasadena Playhouse). Film: Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) and Serendipity (Peter Chelsom). TV: MADtv, Becker and Watching Ellie. Voice Over: Halo 3 and various commercials. Jennifer is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA and company member at Trustus Theatre. Her greatest role, by far, is being a mother.

Andrew Schwartz has worked in theaters internationally, on Broadway and Off Broadway in NYC, and regionally, including Classic Stage Company (NYC), The New Victory Theatre (NYC), Lincoln Center Institute (NYC), The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Denver Center, La Jolla Playhouse, The L.A. Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, The Globe Theater in Neuss, Germany, and the Aegean Festival in Athens, Greece. Recent directing credits include Our Town,

We are Proud to Present..., Almost, Maine, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Coker College, where he is an assistant professor of theatre and Head of Performance. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Penn State, a Diplome D’etudes Theatrales from the Ecole Florent School of Theater in Paris, and an MFA in Acting from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, CO.

Lindsay Rae Taylor is thrilled to be a part of Full Circle Productions! She earned a BFA with honors in Theatre from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. While at Tisch, she studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was an Associate Artist with the Aquila Theatre Company from 2000-2007, during which time she performed at the New Victory Theater in New York and festivals in Germany, Poland, Hungary and Greece.

Other acting credits include: Lincoln Center Institute, La Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Trustus Theatre, and the Edinburgh Fringe. Lindsay is a member of AEA and is currently pursuing an MFA in Directing at the University of South Carolina where she will be directing Top Girls and Sense and Sensibility here at USC, and Hir at Trustus Theatre.

Robert Richmond is originally from Hastings, England, and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He is currently a Professor at the University of South Carolina, Chair of the Theatre & Dance Department, and Artistic Director of Theatre South Carolina. Robert is an Associate Artist at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. He has directed Henry VIII (which was nominated for 10 Helen Hayes Awards, one of which was for Outstanding Director of

a Resident Play) Othello, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Julius Caesar, and Timon of Athens. His association with the Folger also includes a multi-year commission to direct, design and produce audio productions of the complete works of Shakespeare. These are the first unabridged recordings in American English of Shakespeare’s canon, and create a unique juncture between the scholarly world of Shakespeare’s texts and performance. The recordings are published by Simon & Schuster and accompany the Folger’s printed editions of the plays, all are available for download on iTunes and reach a global audience. Robert’s next directorial projects are Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Theatre) and the February 2018 production of The Crucible at USC’s Longstreet Theatre.

Nate Terracio is the Assistant Director of the Koger Center. Prior to Koger, Nate was a Production Manager at Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Technical Director of the Off Broadway Lynn Redgrave Theater. Other work in New York City includes positions as an Assistant Technical Director at the Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, Production Manager for Elizabeth Streb’s STREB Extreme Action Company, a Technical Director for the Technical Producing Group, Project Management

Consultant for a United Nations concert, the Assistant Production Manager for Speigelworld’s New York City production of Empire, and Lighting Designer/Technical Director for the Cuartetango String Quartet. Nate is a graduate of the University of South Carolina Honors College.

Full Circle Productions is a company of professional artists who are dedicated to stories that deal with social justice and support diversity in all its forms. Full Circle is committed to interdisciplinary collaboration and is dedicated to making live performance that is accessible to the entire community by providing multiple points of entry to the experience. The work is accessible to all ages, cultural backgrounds, and economic groups and seeks to strengthen community bonds by watching, listening, thinking, questioning, challenging, empathizing, and to provoke discourse and change. In the pursuit of professional excellence, the company aims to make art that is graphic and eloquent, visceral and articulate, provocative and celebratory.Full Circle’s members are made up of artists who each have a rich history with the city of Columbia SC, and who now unite to provide an artistic home for live performance of the highest caliber that embraces the core values of humanity.

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