2019-20 SEASON

AN

D

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-FLINT

PETER AND THESTARCATCHER

2018

Scholarships are based on application, audition, and interview. If you are interested in donating to one of our scholarship funds please contact Darlene Chivinsky, University Advancement, at (810) 424-5460 or give directly at: go.umflint.edu/theatregive.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE INCLUDE: • Stephen Landon Memorial

Endowed Scholarship• Ralph M. and Emmalyn E. Freeman

Theatre Scholarship• Jeffrey F. Garfield Scholarship Fund• Brian McDonald Scholarship Fund• Carl and Sarah Morgan

Scholarship Fund• Kay Samson Kelly

Merit Scholarship• Friends of Theatre

Scholarship

INVESTIN THEARTS

To attract and retain students of exceptional talent and promise, the Department of Theatre & Dance awards over $30,000 inscholarship assistance annually.

MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!2019

Our program balances the theoretical with the practical, and our students confront the realities of performance while in production. They learn the fundamentals of acting, build a foundation of directing principles, develop their own creative design lens, study effective management and communication, and they master grace and motion. Our students build the foundation of theatre and dance and then put their education to work on our mainstage.

WITHIN THE LIBERAL ARTS CONTEXT,WE OFFER TRAINING IN THE AREAS OF:

• Acting• Dance• Directing• Dramatic Literature• Musical Theatre• Stage Management• Theatre Design and Technology• Theatre History

AN

D

OUR PROGRAM

Having staff, peers, andprofessors believe in youis one of the most amazingfeelings. That is one of myfavorite parts about our

classes in our program; allof your peers and professors

are there to help you andto cheer you on.

CHELSEY ZAPPELLA Dance

Being enrolled in thisprogram allows hands-on learning that can beused in the professional

world of theatre.

MYA FRAPPIERTheatre Design & Technology

WHERE CANYOU GO?Our alumni are professors, playwrights, actors, dancers, choreographers, directors, and designers. They have applied their skills to diverse careers, including law, advertising, television, film, government, and education. The training they received in our program prepared them for successful careers throughout the country, and the world! Where can you go after graduation with a degree from UM-Flint? Anywhere you want to!

EMMA DAVIS, BA ‘11 & MA ‘15Lecturer II, Department of Theatre and Dance, UM-Flint

“At UM-Flint I found countless opportunities to sculpt the path that worked best for me. Now as a faculty member, I pass down the same support that I received to the next generation of students.”

VAUGHN KELSEY DAVIS, BFA ‘13Professional Actor & Spoken Word Artist

“My artistic development at UM-Flint was a great experience. I was introduced to the importance of character study as well as the physical demand that the performance work required.”

RAGHEDA “ROCKY” JAWHARI, BS ‘16Disney Operations & Entertainment Costume Coordinator

“UM-Flint not only gave me the skills to succeed, they gave me confidence, courage, and lasting friendship. I am soaring, equipped with wings and some pixie dust; the sky is the limit. I have love and gratitude to the faculty of UM-Flint because they believed in me and gave me power to do the same.”

JIM SHURTER, BFA ‘99Associate Professor, Art and Design Program Coordinator Mott Community College

“Even though my path has led me to a career as a graphic designer and an educator, my theatre degree from UM-Flint has been invaluable to me. It helped to foster my passion and curiosity. It also taught me to look at the world from many perspectives, which is something I try to instill in my students every day.”

THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYSON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS By Paul ZindelDirected by Kathryn WalshFeaturing Janet Haley ‘91SEPTEMBER 13-22

THE CHAIRSBy Ionesco Translated by Donald M. AllenDirected by Alex BodineFeaturing Kay Kelly ‘81 & Michael KellyNOVEMBER 6-15

ALLIANCE:The Flint Repertory Theatre/UM-Flint Alliance creates a meeting ground where professional artists, master teachers, and students collaborate together in new and exciting ways. Both organizations recognize how classroom study and practical experiences are of equal and complementary value for individuals pursuing careers in theatre and building professional theatre résumés. This unique alliance relationship enables UM-Flint students to reap the benefits of gaining real-world experience, employable skills, and regional/national networking connections for their future by working with The Flint Rep, which is a union professional theatre company with Actors’ Equity Association.

ABOUT FLINT REPERTORY THEATRE:Flint Repertory Theatre is committed to providing the city of Flint and surrounding communities with highly imaginative, thought-provoking theatre that entertains, challenges, and inspires audiences of all ages. Flint Rep’s Signature Series consists of an eclectic mix of world premiere plays and musicals and bold new interpretations of theatrical classics. Their annual New Works Festival is a week-long showcase of new plays written by playwrights from around the country in a staged reading format followed by feedback sessions with the audience. Flint Rep’s Theatre for Young Audiences Series (TYA) presents enchanting and imaginative shows - often with puppetry, live music, and song - which ignite the minds and inspire the hearts of their young & family audiences. The Learning Through Theatre school matinee program provides thousands of students from Genesee and surrounding counties free or highly discounted tickets to productions in the TYA series. Flint Rep’s Education Department, home to Flint Youth Theatre, provides youth-centered summer productions, year-round drama school classes, camps, and workshops for students aged two to grade 12.

FLINTREPERTORYTHEATREALLIANCE2019 - 20 SEASON

INTO THE WOODSMusic & Lyrics by Stephen SondheimBook by James LapineDirected by Michael LluberesFeaturing Jason Briggs ’19DECEMBER 6-15

NEW WORKS FESTIVALJANUARY 17-19

PACKRATBy Concrete Theatre TempleDirected by Renee Philippi ‘87FEBRUARY 19-23

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NESTBy Dale WassermanBased on the book by Ken KeseyDirected by Michael LluberesFeaturing Bret Beaudry ‘07MARCH 13-22

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Book and Lyrics by Gordon LearyMusic by Julia MeinwaldDirected by Michael LluberesMAY 1-10

flintrep.org

Flint Repertory is a recipient of the 2018 National Theatre Grant awarded by The American Theatre Wing.

JANET E. HALEY ‘91Associate Professorof Theatre

“The Glass Menagerie”

PHOTOS BY MARK BAKER, MIKE NADDO, & DAN THOMPSON

It is an inspiration to see the growth in students as artistsand citizens because of the Alliance. The journey of theirgrowth feels like a circle of engaged learning - students

move from classroom, to the university’s stage and shops, to the Rep’s professional stages/shops - in a semester, a year,

or sometimes even in a single day! It feels electric,immediate, powerful; it feels like the future.

AND

UN

IVER

SITY

OF

MIC

HIG

AN

-FLI

NT

20

19

-20

SEA

SON

Uni

vers

ity o

f M

ichi

gan-

Flin

tTh

eatr

e &

Da

nce

23

8 U

nive

rsity

The

atre

30

3 E

. Kea

rsle

y St

.Fl

int,

MI 4

85

02

-19

50

(81

0)2

37

-65

22

#um

flin

t

NO

N-P

ROFI

TO

RGAN

IZAT

ION

U.S

. PO

STAG

E

PAID

FLIN

T, M

IPE

RMIT

NO

. 89

AN

D

SPRING DANCE CONCERT2019

We are excited to offer you another season of entertaining and challenging theatre and dance at UM-Flint - live performances that will ignite laugher, contemplation, emotions, memories, and maybe even rich conversation with friends in the car on the way home or with your family at breakfast the next morning.

Each year we craft a season of live performance to provide students - on stage, off stage, and in the audience - a rich educational environment to develop as artists, makers, thinkers, and citizens. Join us as we question what is true with a hilarious classic comedy of manners, The Liar. Lift up your spirits with the poetry of motion in our new Fall Dance Concert. Feel the passion for justice and love with our electric take on Sophocles’ classic Antigone. Remember and embrace the beauty of ordinary life moments with the musical Ordinary Days. Welcome spring and ignite hope in your heart as you experience our Spring Dance Concert.

Thank you for your ongoing support of our department, campus, and Flint. Without you, our audience, a theatre or dance performance is just ...rehearsal.

We can’t wait to see you at the show!

Janet Haley, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Theatre & DanceLisa Borton, Managing Producer, Department of Theatre & Dance

Paris, 1643. Dorante is a charming young man in search of romance who has one major flaw… he cannot tell the truth. In quick succession, he meets Cliton, a manservant who cannot tell a lie, and falls in love with Clarice. In his efforts to woo her, he invents a tale of his amazing military feats, unleashing a web of falsehood that ensnares everyone, sparking mishaps, mistaken identities and lie upon lie. In an age when our leaders play fast and loose with the facts, David Ives’ adaptation takes one of the world’s greatest comedies by the classic French playwright Pierre Corneille and brings it forward with sidesplitting modern sensibilities.

DIRECTED BY WILLIAM IRWINDIRECTED BY BETH FREIMAN

CHOREOGRAPHED BY FACULTY & STUDENTS

A young woman named Antigone risks her life as she defies King Creon, and his government’s laws. In the aftermath of her brothers’ bloody war, her brother Eteocles will be honored, but her brother Polyneices will be shamed and denied funeral rites. Sophocles’s drama from 441 BC pulses with resonance today, unfolding through a contemporary lens, as we witness a passionate individual’s actions protest and defy obedience to government laws in the name of dignity, decency, and the human heart.

DIRECTED BY JANET HALEY

Set on the bustling streets of New York City, Ordinary Days tells the story of four average New Yorkers whose lives end up unexpectedly intertwined: Warren, an ever-optimistic, struggling artist who balances his own creative ambitions with cat-sitting for his jailed mentor; Deb, a frazzled and cynical grad student whose life is quickly becoming a thesis study in uncertainty; Jason, a romantic at heart, who cannot understand why his relationship with the woman he loves has stalled; and Claire, Jason’s reluctant lover, held captive by an emotional wound from her past that she shares with no one. When Deb loses the notes to her graduate thesis, which is her most precious possession, she unknowingly starts a chain of events that turns the ordinary days of these four New Yorkers into something extraordinary. As these four characters flounder through all-too-familiar everyday obstacles, they slowly edge closer to connecting with each other—and to understanding that an ordinary event can have extraordinary effects.

DIRECTED BY STEPHANIE DEANDIRECTED BY BETH FREIMAN

CHOREOGRAPHED BY FACULTY

SEASON PASSESSeason Pass allows the owner to attend AS OFTEN AS HE/SHE LIKES, pending seat availability, tickets must be requested in advance.

• $50 (includes all shows except Black Box productions) • $30 (students/seniors/alumni/UM-Flint faculty/staff with id/Veterans)

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS • $15 (general admission for single ticket)

• $10 (seniors/alumni/faculty/staff with id/Veterans)

• $8 (students from all area colleges & universities)

PURCHASING TICKETS theWhiting.com (810) 237-7333

Box office locations are available at The Whiting and the Flint Farmers’ Market and one hour prior to the production at UM-Flint Theatre.

PARKING/DIRECTIONS UM-Flint Theatre: 327 E. Kearsley Street, Flint, MI 48502

Free parking is available in the Harrison Street Parking Ramp. The entrance is on Harrison Street, before the Kearsley Street intersection. No sticker, stamp, or parking validation is required. For more detailed driving directions, visit maps.umflint.edu.

2019-20 SEASON

AN

D

SIGNIFICANT OTHER2019