March 6 – 23, 2013 at The Bushwick Starr

 March 6 – 23, 2013 at The Bushwick Starr PRODUCTION CREDITS Written and adapted by Michael Levinton and Laura von Holt Directed by Michael Levinton Sets and Costumes: Elizabeth Barrett Groth Lights: Natalie Robin Sound: Phil Carluzzo Props: Alexandra Kuechler-­‐Caffall Choreography: Randi Kleiner Stage Manager: Kaitlin Nemeth Assistant Stage Manager Richard Drake Production Manager: Jeremy Duncan Pape Associate Costumes: Mike Floyd Associate Lights: Serena Wong Producer: Jane Jung Associate Producer / Dramaturg: Sarah Bishop-­‐Stone Marketing and Outreach Associate: Aimee Davis Artistic Associate: Eileen Casterline Master Electrician: Abby Hoke-­‐Brady Wardrobe Assistant: Samantha C. Jackson Crew: Stefanie Koscher, Slate Holmgren, Daniel Meltzer, MacKenzie Knapp Best Intern Ever: Lilith Todd FEATURING Kaaron Briscoe*, Das Elkin, Joshua William Gelb, Polly Lee*, Alan Tyson, Laura von Holt, Stephanie Weeks*, and Enrico D. Wey* * Denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association ARTIST BIOS Sarah Bishop-­‐Stone (Dramaturg, Associate Producer) has been working with Little Lord since 2010, when she and Michael Levinton bonded over a shared love of early American melodrama. She also works as the Cultural Engagement Associate for Peak Performances at Montclair State University. BA, Columbia University. MFA, Yale School of Drama. Kaaron Briscoe (Ensemble) has an MFA from American Repertory Theatre/MXAT/IATT at Harvard. Favorite roles include Athena in Ajax (A.R.T.), Jon Benet Ramsey/The Girl in House of Gold (Wolly Mammoth), and Sidney 1/Visitor 1 in Largo Desolato (IATT). She originated the role of Polly X in Trojan Barbie (ART). www.kaaron.com Phil Carluzzo (Sound Designer) is a composer, sound designer, and multi-­‐instrumentalist living and working in New York City. He has written, produced, and performed music for film, theater, and television. As a core member of the DC-­‐
based Snark Ensemble, he has worked extensively scoring restored vintage silent films for both international DVD release and for a 2011 CD release on Naxos Records. Recent theater credits include HotelMotel (Amoralists), The Bad and the Better (Playwrights Horizons), Heartless (Sam Shepard World Premiere, Signature), Collision (Rattlestick). Eileen Casterline (Artistic Associate) will complete her MFA in Dramaturgy at Stony Brook University in May. Previously, she was the dramaturg for The House of Von Macrame (Bushwick Starr) and an artistic intern at the Bushwick Starr during summer 2012. BA in Theatre, Emory & Henry College. Richard Drake (Assistant Stage Manager) has assisted in a variety of capacities at Soho Rep, the Atlantic, American Dance Festival, American Shakespeare Center, and Variations Theater. Drake directs dance theater with Das Group. BA in Theater, Drew University. Das Elkin (Ensemble) is so pleased to be performing with Little Lord once again! Favorite roles include Bo Peep in Babes in Toyland (The Brick) and the Lilac Dress in JEWQUEEN (UNDER St. Marks). “Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.” – Lumbee Tribe Mike Floyd (Associate Costume Designer) is thrilled to be working with Little Lord. New York: Newsies!, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Fela!, The Public Theater, NYTW, The Acting Company, Babel Theatre Project, NYMF. Regional: Yale Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Paper Mill Playhouse, Northlight Theatre, Nashville Opera Association, Peterborough Players, Elm Shakespeare, Peninsula Players. Training: Yale School of Drama, Kenyon College, British-­‐American Drama Academy. www.MikeFloydDesign.com. Joshua William Gelb (Ensemble) is usually considered a director/librettist. As a performer, however, he has recently appeared in She is King (Dixon Place), Thanksgiving! A! Pageant! (Ars Nova) as well as his own productions of Dukus (Target Margin Lab) and Blind Alley Guy (Incubator Arts). This coming July he will be returning to the Incubator, directing Dave McGee’s financial-­‐crisis/acid-­‐trip comedy, Party in the USA! www.joshuawilliamgelb.com. Elizabeth Barrett Groth (Set and Costume Designer) designs costumes, sets and puppets all over NYC and is also an educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Current Shows: Trevor by Nick Jones at TftNC. Collaborator and Costume Designer with Mabou Mines' Glass Gugniol. Recent work includes: Mary Becoming (ArtPond), Open Up, Hadrian (Caborca Theater at Magicfuture Box), TALA (Pacific Beat Collective at HERE Arts Center), puppet design for Jabe & Adare (Dixon Place), Estrella Cruz the Junkyard Queen (ARS Nova), We in Silence Hear a Whisper (2012 NYIT Award nominee for Innovative Design). MFA in Design, Yale School of Drama. www.elizabethbarrettgroth.com Jane Jung (Producer) is Producer for Little Lord, General Manager of Ping Chong + Company (www.pingchong.org) and Producer for Christina Anderson’s Hollow Roots (Under the Radar Festival). She is a Time Warner Foundation Fellow of the Women’s Project Producers’ Lab. Randi Kleiner (Choreographer) is proud to work on her first Little Lord production! New York City directing and choreography credits include Zombie Prom, Children of Eden, Created Equal (Red Fern Theater Company), God Loves My People Best, Giants (written by Laura von Holt), and Assistant Director of the Off-­‐Broadway production of A Play on War (Drama Desk Nomination). Regional credits include A Funny Thing Happened… Forum (starring Avi Hoffman) and Closer than Ever (Hollywood Playhouse). Film: Stagedoor (actor). Currently is producing a brand new film festival in Las Vegas this December! Much love and gratitude to Laura, Michael, Xtreme Team, Haley, and Lindsay. Polly Lee (Ensemble) performed with Little Lord in Oh My God I Am So) THIRST(y) (Incubator Arts Project). Other New York Theatre: The Empty Ocean (Stella Adler Lab), Nightlands (New Georges), How I Fell In Love (Abingdon Theatre), Roadkill Confidential, (Clubbed Thumb), Lenin’s Embalmers, Close Ties (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Graceland (LCT3), and more. Recent Regional: ART, Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse and Humana Festival, among others. Miss Lee is a proud member of EST, Rising Phoenix Rep., AEA and an affiliated artist of Clubbed Thumb. She is a recipient of New Dramatists’ Charles Bowden Award. Michael Levinton (Writer, Director) was trained as a ham on the dinner theater circuit in Baltimore, Maryland, where kneehigh socks and elastic-­‐waisted knickers were de rigueur. The nickname Little Lord Fauntleroy grew from that unfortunate costume combination. As Artistic Director of Little Lord he has created eight pieces for the theater, struggled through many sleepless nights, and scoured all the thrift stores of lower Delaware. Kaitlin Nemeth (Stage Manager) has worked on The Momentum (CollaborationTown at the Kraine Theater), Bones at the Gate: An Antigone (Gallatin School at NYU at the Labowitz Theater), The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos (CollaborationTown at the New Ohio Theater), Bubby's Shadow (White Rabbit Theater at 45 Bleecker St Theater, part of the Planet Connections Theater Festivity), Prison Light (HERE Arts Center), Thieves (Amerinda at The Public Theater), The Play About My Dad (ASM, CollaborationTown at 59E59). BA in Theatre, Muhlenberg College. Jeremy Duncan Pape (Production Manager) is the Production Manager for the Amoralists and from 2006-­‐2010 he was the Associate Artistic Director and Technical Director of EndTimes Productions. Recent directing credits include his own adaptation of Georg Buchner's classic Woyzeck and William Whitehurst's Knuckleball, which won best drama and best overall production at the San Francisco Fringe in 2008. BFA in Acting, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, MFA in Directing, New School for Drama. Natalie Robin (Lighting Designer) is a NYC-­‐based lighting designer and the associate producer/production manager of American Realness; a founding company member of Polybe + Seats; an Associate Artist of Target Margin Theater; and an adjunct faculty member at both NYU and Brooklyn College. She is the winner of the Apollo Lighting 2011 Standing O Award, a 2008 Live Design Young Designer to Watch and a guest artist at Williams, Bard and Muhlenberg Colleges. Natalie is a contributing writer to Live Design Magazine and Stage Directions. Natalie also tours as production manager for Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. BA, Columbia. MFA, NYU/Tisch www.natalierobinlighting.com Alan Tyson (Ensemble) is proud to be making his Little Lord debut. After being in Spunk (Penobscot Theatre), On the Home Front (League of Professional Women), and Look Away (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), it's good to be home in NYC. He thanks his family, friends, agents, and manager. Om Namah Shivaya. BFA, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. www.alan-­‐tyson.com Laura von Holt (Writer, Ensemble) is a marginally famous writer and performer from Hawaii and serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Little Lord. With Little Lord: JEWQUEEN (UNDER St. Marks), THIRST(y) (Incubator Arts Project-­‐ NYITA Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress), Babes in Toyland (Ice Factory) and Target Margin Labs The Pronoun 'I', oh my god I am so THIRST(y) and Balabustas (!). She is best known as her pinup and performance artist alter ego, von Hottie. Laura chronicles her adventures in training on the aerial silks for SocialWorkout.com. vonhottie.com and lauravonholtinc.com Stephanie Weeks (Ensemble) is delighted to be working with Little Lord once again. She has performed for a number of regional theaters as well as with the off-­‐broadway Obie Award winning companies, Target Margin and Hoi Polloi. Some of her favorite roles include Salima in Ruined, Belle in A Christmas Carol, Charmian in Antony & Cleopatra and Shark in oh my god I am so THIRST(y) (NYITA Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble). Training: London Academy of Music and Drama, MFA, American Conservatory Theater. Enrico D. Wey (Ensemble) has shown curatorial/performance work since 2006 for Danspace, New Museum, and Movement Research. He was in Ishmael Houston-­‐Jones’ Bessie Award-­‐
winning reconstruction of THEM (PS122, Pompidou Center, REDCAT). As a member of Handspring (South Africa) since 2004, he was a puppeteer in Tall Horse (BAM, Kennedy) and in William Kentridge's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse (SF MOMA, Edinburgh International Festival). He spent two years on Broadway as "Joey" in the Tony Award-­‐winning War Horse. Future projects include a collaborative work at Danspace and the Chanukah Special for THE OUTS. He is excited to join the team of War Horse in Europe this summer. Serena Wong (Associate Lighting Designer) Serena is a freelance lighting designer and supervisor based in Brooklyn. Recent credits include the American Realness Festival, Ghost Wife Radio, Radiolab Live: In the Dark, and Glimmerglass Festival. She is delighted to be assisting Natalie at the Bushwick Starr. Congrats to the cast and crew for all your hard work! ABOUT LITTLE LORD Little Lord is a New York City-­‐based theater company that produces fun, irreverent, and intelligent theater, merging big-­‐
scale theatricality with homemade resources. Focusing on offbeat adaptations of classic (or neglected) texts, Little Lord plunders the theatrical canon in order to forge new plays from old parts. Originally formed in 2007 under the guidance of Target Margin Theater, Little Lord has since brought our signature homemade aesthetic to venues such as the Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, the OHIO Theater, the Chocolate Factory Theater, Incubator Arts Project, and the Brick. With every show, we aim to create an atmosphere of shared experience in which nostalgia, discovery, densely-­‐
layered cultural references, and a simultaneous delight in and irreverence towards text all combine to make a whole that is far more than the sum of its many parts. For more information, visit www.littlelord.org. For more on this project, visit www.littlelordpocahontas.com. Artistic Director -­‐ Michael Levinton * Associate Artistic Director -­‐ Laura von Holt * Associate Producer/Dramaturg -­‐ Sarah Bishop-­‐Stone * Producer -­‐ Jane Jung DONORS Ann and Gil Abramson, Dania Abu-­‐Shaheen, Bruce Allardice, Anastasia Andino, Julia Arazi, Mallory Avidon, James Reed Ball, Tiffany Baran, Elisabeth Bayer, Lisa Bender, Lorraine and Jerry Bernstein, Herbie and Michele Better, Evelyn Bishop, Gene Bishop and Andrew Stone, Michael and Shirley Bishop, Leah Bishop and Gary Yale, Ben Bishop, Bodine Boling, Christopher Bowers, Jessica Brater, Micah Bucey, Travis Chamberlain, Rosalyn Chi, Arlene Chico-­‐Lugo, Siena Chrisman, Erin Clark, Michael Yates Crowley, Julia Dahl, John Del Gaudio, Sophie Donelson, Suzanne Elkin, Miriam Felton-­‐Dansky, Sheryl Goodspeed, David Gwinup, Judy and Will Hancock, Katie Hartman, Hannah Hessel, Foxy and Matthew Hickman, Megan Hill, Meret Hofer and Jared Rohrer, Kristina Hoge, John Issendorf, Julia Jarcho, Carol Jin, Sheehan and Jon Joseph, Stanton and Susan Joseph, Adam and Andrea Joseph, Sandra Joseph, Jeannie and Wooyeol Jung, Daniel Jung, Julia Kelly, Sutton Kiplinger, Diana Konopka, Andrew Lawton, Allison Lear, Polly Lee, Judith Lee, Caitlin Leffel, Erica Levinton, Howard and Peggy Levinton, Melissa Li, Charles London, Margaret McCary, Lauren E. Mancia and Adam Gidwitz, Colin Mannex, Koren Manning, Michael Markham, Laura McKenna, Lindsey Medeiros, Kaaron Minefee, Briana Mowrey, Jillian Niesley, Katherine Nintzel, Peter Nish, Isaac Oliver, Natalie Orcutt, Amy Lee Pearsall, Kara Petraglia, Art Priromprintr, Donald Roeseke, Jr., Rachael Rose, Alyse Rothman, Gregory Sargeant, Kate Scelsa and Amanda Villalobos, Aaron Schwartzbord, Merle and Steve Seigel, Lisa and Ben Seigel, Susan Sharer, Dans Sheehan, Mayumi Shimose Poe, Franny Silverman, Bruce Steinberg, Adrienne Stone and Richard Smith, Maria Striar, Andrew Szegedy-­‐Maszak, Robert Talesnik, Jonathan Tarlin, Allison Taylor, Angela Taylor, Patrick Tonks and Jen Steiner, Pono and Angie von Holt, Catherine Wallach, Stephanie Weeks, Michael and Sara Weinberg, Liz Wexler, Danny Williams, Khaliah Williams, David Winitsky, Barry Winkler, Eve and Will Wolff, Sarah Wozniak, Rebecca Yale, Elizabeth Yale, Sara Zatz, Lanie Zipoy, Anonymous (8) POCAHONTAS, AND/OR AMERICA has been developed in residencies with Judson Church and The Bushwick Starr and is supported by grants from the Mental Insight Foundation and the Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of A.R.T./New York. This project is also sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) and the A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant Program. SPECIAL THANKS Gary Levinson and the Pearl Theatre Company, Materials for the Arts, Department of Cultural Affairs, Micah Bucey and Judson Memorial Church, Jeffrey Jones and Little Theatre, Caleb Hammons, Andrew Dinwiddie, Jeff Larson and CATCH, Robert Lyons and the New OHIO Theatre, The Amoralists, Jennifer Bickford, Jesse Casey, Manda Martin, Liz Wexler, Matty Hickman, Luke Stoffel, Stephanie Koschl, Stephanie Jean, Ruth Chan All the brave souls that have participated in the process of making this play: Julia Arazi, Lance Bankerd, Arlene Chico-­‐Lugo, Ka-­‐Ling Chung, Rachel Levens, Meg MacCary, Wayne Petro, Joy Radish, Dan Regelski, Leah Rudick, Franny Silverman, Sam Soghur, Donya Washington, Nicholas Williams WORKS CONSULTED (a selection) The Generall Historie of Virginia, by John Smith (1624) ~ John Smith's letter to Queen Anne (1617) ~ John Rolfe's letter to Sir Thomas Dale (1614) ~ First Charter of Virginia (1606) ~ Ben Jonson's The Vision of Delight (1617) ~ Travels of Four Years and a Half in The United States of America by John Davis (1803) ~ The Indian Princess, or La Belle Sauvage by James Nelson Barker (1808) ~ Pocahontas, or The Settlers of Virginia by George Washington Parke Custis (1830) ~ Pocahontas by Robert Dale Owen (1838) ~ Forest Princess, or Two Countries Ago by Charlotte Barnes Conner (1848) ~ Pocahontas, or The Gentle Savage (a burlesque) by John Brougham (1855) ~ “Prologue” and “Princess Pocahontas” from Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People (1912) ~ “Pocahontas in London” from Historical Plays of Colonial Days for Fifth Year Pupils (1913) ~ “John Smith” from Historical Plays for Children (1916) ~ Pocahontas by Susan Donnell (romance) (1991) ~ The Double Life of Pocahontas, by Jean Fritz (1983) ~ In Their Own Words (Scholastic series): Pocahontas, by George Sullivan (2001) ~ Childhood of Famous Americans (Simon & Schuster series): Pocahontas, Young Peacemaker, by Leslie Gourse (1996) ~ Pocahontas, by Ingrid and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (1946) ~ Jamestown, The Perilous Adventure, by Olga Hall-­‐Quest (1950) ~ My America (Scholastic series): Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary (2001) ~ Fearless Captain: The Adventures of John Smith, by Aleck Loker (2006) ~ John Smith Escapes Again! by Rosalyn Schanzer (2006) ~ NOVA | Pocahontas Revealed (PBS, 2007) ~ The Pocahontas Archive (Edward J. Gallagher, Lehigh University Digital Library) ~ Jamestown Settlement: A Pictorial Guide (book) ~ “I Am America. (And So?),” by Wyatt Mason, NY Times Magazine December 7, 2007 ~ YMCA Adventure Guides: Indian Guides and Indian Princess Tribes ~ Founding Myths: Ray Raphael, Revolutionary Historian (website) ~ Disney's America (Wikipedia) ~ American Dream (Wikipedia) ~ God Bless America, First Radio performance, Armistice Day November 10, 1938, Kate Smith ~ Portrait of George Washington (1799) ~ Apotheosis of George Washington (Capitol Rotunda, 1865) ~ A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen, by Mason Locke Weems (1918) @littlelordnyc #poca Little Lord (a theater company) OUR STAFF
SUE KESSLER - Executive Director, Founder
NOEL JOSEPH ALLAIN - Artistic Director, Founder
JAY MAURY - Technical Director, Resident Designer
MARK SITKO - Associate Artistic Director
MARIA PORTMAN KELLY - General Manager
WILLIAM BURKE - Operations Manager
JOHN BUDGE - Box Office Manager
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Laura Braslow
Brenda Davis
Missy Flower
Matthew Harrison
David Herskovits
Rob Marcato
Charlie Veprek
Aaron Welch
ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARD
Jason Andrew
John Del Gaudio
Andrew Dinwiddie
Jesse Hawley
Jake Hooker
Julia May Jonas
Jeff Larson
Kate E. Ryan
Shannon Sindelar
Tommy Smith
Ethany Uttech
Reggie Watts
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COMING UP NEXT…
APRIL 27 + 28, SAT. + SUN at 4pm, plus SAT. at 7pm
The matinees are FREE
Tix for the Sat. 7pm Special Benefit show will go on sale April 1st