POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee...

12

Transcript of POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee...

Page 1: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse
Page 2: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

Oct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. League of Milwaukee Artists.

Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 15 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 17 Auditions: VPW Young People’s Playwright Project—7-9pm

Oct 18 Auditions: VPW Young People’s Playwright Project—7-9pm

Oct 21 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 22 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 28 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 29 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 30 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—2pm Matinee

Oct 31 Dynamic Youth Syndicate Movie Night

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds—6pm

Nov 11-Dec 4 Watercolor Ease & Metal Mania. Rosalie Robison Art Exhibit

Nov 11 Osher Painting Party—6pm

Nov 12 Opening Reception: Watercolor Ease & Metal Mania.

Rosalie Robison Art Exhibit—4pm

Nov 20 Osher Painting Party—2pm

Dec 2 Village Playhouse Presents

Young People’s Playwright Project—7:30pm

Dec 3 Village Playhouse Presents

Young People’s Playwright Project—7:30pm

Dec 4 GAMMA Holiday Event—2pm

Dec 7-31 Patty Aker & Kay Jelinek Art Exhibit (Sheboygan)

1500 S. 73rd Street

West Allis, WI 53204

4141 587-3474

www.inspirationstudiosgallery.com

INSPIRATION STUDIOS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

—-SPECIAL THANKS—-

Elizabeth Havican

Mary Uttech

West Milwaukee Menards

Vince Hanoski of Ben's Cycle Shop

Lauren Tank and her father, Eric

Milwaukee Repertory Theatre

Members of the The Village Playhouse Board

And all of our wonderful supporters

who made this production possible!

Page 3: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director Dylan K Sladky

Assistant Director Lindsey Erin

Producer Rita Bates

Stage Manager Corrie Tritz

Set Designer Sandra Wyss

Set Construction Larry Beckley

Art Carter

Derek Jacobs

Nancy Siegel

Rita Bates

Sandy Wyss

Lighting Designer Julia Kendl

Costumes / Props / Make-Up Michelle Demos Miller

Erzebet “Bette” Schneider

Antonio Torrez

Sound Designer Thomas “Tom” Courtney

Utilities Outfielder Larry Beckley

Building Manager Erico Ortiz

Publicity Rita Bates

Lindsey Erin

Erico Ortiz

House Manager / Box Office Mary Breitrick

Graphic Designs Derek Jacobs

Lauren Tank

Program Design Erico Ortiz

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

E very now and then, and very rarely, your experience of a perform-

ance can short-circuit your subconscious auto-critic and you are

left to simply be present, listen, and enjoy what is in-front of you. Such

was my experience when I first saw this play performed. At the time I

was a theatre student who had a staunch distaste and aversion to what I

considered art that was weird for the sake of being weird. And then I

saw this play where stones spoke, where language was as much a con-

struct as the set it took place on, where a daughter was reunited with her

father via an elevator to the underworld. It didn’t make “sense” in the

way I had told myself that I preferred things to.

It is a rare and wonderful thing when a play stays with you and causes

you to go back and turn it over in your head. When a play forces you to

be introspective after you walk out, it isn’t necessarily a sign of some-

thing AMAZING or BRILLIANT, but rather a pretty good indicator

that it is worth further exploration. I began to read more of Sarah Rhul’s

work and in doing so found a new favorite writer. I began to look up

photos from other productions (including the World Premiere (which

was in Madison, WI) and in doing so was inspired in a way I don’t

think I ever had been previously. I eventually got my hands on the

script. After a surprisingly quick read I was convinced. I knew. I was

going to take on this world someday. When exactly, I was not sure, but

definitely later. Much later.

I stored the loose-leaf photocopied (and probably very illegal to have)

script on a shelf in my tiny studio apartment, telling myself it was going

to be YEARS before I would ever have the opportunity to direct some-

thing like THAT. I had more to learn. I had experience to gain. I wasn’t

ready to direct anything of that size and scale. Besides, I had other pro-

jects that were more immediate, that were more possible, and that were

far “easier.”

When I received the offer to direct this production for Village Play-

house, I immediately accepted without doing much thinking. I dug up

that shelved script and again, devoured this weird world that Rhul

Page 4: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

weaves into being with her words. And then I panicked. It was too

soon. I still wasn’t “ready.” There were other things that needed to

happen first, right?

After another delve into the words, there was a set of Stage Directions

that jumped out to me:

Eurydice takes a deep breath.

She takes a big step forward on an unseen gangplank.

She is brave.

This play is about bravery. Its characters have the choice to do what is

easy, to take the path more traveled. Instead they look uncertainty and

doubt dead in the face and they take that step forward. They throw their

cautions to the wind to get what they want, what they need, what they

love. Village Playhouse itself was being brave for doing a show like

this, something that is deliberately outside of their wheelhouse of shows

you would typically see them produce. They were also brave for offer-

ing the show to me, me being in Milwaukee for just under a year with

few local credits.

So now it’s my turn to be brave and do something that is outside my

wheelhouse. To push the limits of myself as well as my fantastic cast

and crew. To test the assumptions of the space itself. This is my step

forward. This is our step forward. Enjoy.

Dylan K. Slatky

This play was originally produced by Madison Repertory Theatre,

Madison, Wisconsin, August 29, 2003.

Richard Corley, Artistic Director, Tony Forman, Managing Director.

And subsequently produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2004.

Tony Taccone, Artistic Director, Susan Medak, Managing Director.

And Yale Repertory Theatre.

James Bundy, Artistic Director, Victoria Nolan, Managing Director.

Produced by Second Stage Theatre, New York, 2007.

Carole Rothman, Artistic Director.

SANDRA WYSS—Scenic Designer Theater gives Sandra the opportunity to fully use her creative skills in fine art through

set design and scenic painting, graphic design, prop design, costumes, assistant stage

manager, multimedia video, and acting for Village Playhouse and Over Our Head

Players in Racine. She has had acting opportunities in tv, movies, and independent

film. Wyss has done set design and scenic painting for Midsummer Night’s Dream, All

in the Timing, And Then There Were None, Schoolhouse Rock Live, Pink Panther. She

has provided multimedia (video) for Our Town. Children’s shows include Beauty and

the Beast and Christmas Pageant.

TOM COURTNEY—Sound Design/Technician Thomas is a Chicago native, transplanted to Milwaukee via a

detour to Missouri. He has worked as a sound engineer and

designer with several musical groups. Thomas is excited to be

working on Eurydice with an excellent group of people

ANTONIO TORREZ—Costumes/Props/Make-up Designer

Antonio has been a Costume Designer for A Midsummer Night's Dream

and How I Learned to Drive (UW-Parkside), and Zap Bang Pow (children's theatre,

Florida Studio Theatre). He has also been an Assistant Costume Designer for multiple

shows in various locations.

MICHELLE DEMOS MILLER—Costumes/Props/Make-up Designer Michelle has been working with Village Playhouse for almost 2 years! She was last

seen on stage in the 30th Anniversary of Village Playhouse's One Act Festival, as well

as VP's 2014 Christmas show. Additionally, she assisted backstage for VP's Moon Over

Buffalo. Ms. Miller has also performed as Miss Trent In Madam’s Been Murdered, Tea

Will Be Late (West Allis Players).

ERZEBET "BETTE" SCHNEIDER—Costumes/Props/Make-up Designer

Eurydice is Bette’s Milwaukee Premiere show! Past credits of hers include: Costume

Designer for Fools and Assistant Costume Designer and Costume Tech for the original

musical The Princess Knight, both at the Malthouse Theater in Burlington, WI. Ms.

Schneider has also done costume work in Elkhorn and Delavan.

JULIA KENDL—Lighting Designer Julia graduated from UW Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts with her Bachelor of

Fine Arts in Technical Production in Theater, with a specialty in lighting. For her inde-

pendent study, she designed the lighting for the school’s production of Into The Woods

in their black box studio in Kenilworth 508. She did the lighting design for Solstice's

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. This is her second professional design outside of

school and she is excited to be a part of the Village Playhouse production of Eurydice.

PRODUCTION TEAM BIOGRAPHIES CONTINUED

Page 5: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

DYLAN K. SLADKY—Director Dylan is simply thrilled to be directing Eurydice for the Vil-

lage Playhouse and couldn’t be happier with his creative

team for helping bring this dream of a play into reality. Dylan

graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wash-

ington and now works for the Artistic Department at the Mil-

waukee Repertory Theater, where he served as a Directing

intern for the 2009/10 season. He also served as the Producing

Artistic Director of the small musical theatre company Pipe

Dream Productions in downtown Seattle. Favorite directing

credits include Angels in America: Perestroka, This Property is Condemned, The Odd

Couple, Previously Performed Privately: A Cabaret, While the Auto Waits, and Reciting

Emily Dickenson. Kudos and thanks to everyone who came out to support him and his

fellow artists, and special thanks to Rita, Lindsey, Corrie, Roy, and the whole Fluid

gang.

LINDSEY ERIN—Assistant Director Lindsey Erin is a Director and Actor from Waukesha/

Milwaukee who earned her BA in Drama from UW-Stevens

Point. In 2015, she received an Honorable Mention for “Best

Actress” in Shepherd Express’ Best of Milwaukee. Recent di-

recting credits include: The Darfsteller (Milwaukee Fringe

Festival), Death Ship 666! (Giant Spider Produc-

tions). Recent Acting credits include: Jake Revolver: Freelance

Secret Agent (Village Playhouse), The Women’s Follow Your

Dream Club (Cooperative Performance Milwaukee). Her

next projects will be performing as the killer monster “Bat Girl”

in Milwaukee Metro Voices’ A Cabin in the Woods (the par-

ody musical) next month, and directing the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Lake

Country Playhouse this spring! She’d like to thank her friends, boyfriend, and family

for their continual support and love, and you the audience for joining us! www.lindsey-

erin.com

RITA BATES—Producer Rita thanks all cast and crew members and everyone who contributed to this production

of Eurydice for putting together this interesting and amazing production. She has fallen

in love with this show as she knows the audience will too.

CORRIE TRITZ—Stage Manager Corrie Tritz is a Milwaukee-based stage technician and theater artist, and currently

serves as a house stagehand at Alverno College and sound engineer for Optimist Thea-

tre. Previous affiliations include: Huntington Theatre Company (Boston, MA),

American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA), North Shore Music Theatre

(Beverly, MA), The Theater Offensive (Boston, MA), Portland Stage (Portland, ME),

and Deertrees Theatre (Harrison, ME). Locally, Corrie is an active member of Coop-

erative Performance Milwaukee, having most recently directed The Women's Follow

Your Dream Club for the CPM One-Acts Festival. Corrie holds a BA in theater from

Emerson College in Boston and a professional certificate in arts management from the

University of Massachusetts Amherst.

PRODUCTION TEAM BIOGRAPHIES Angels Program

Donations/Ang

Directed by Dylan K. Sladky

First Movement The World

Second Movement The Underworld and the World

Third Movement The Underworld

Ashley Jordan ………………………………………... Eurydice

Scott Stenstrup ………………………………………... Father

Derrion Brown ………………………………………. Orpheus

Derek Jacobs … ……………….. Nasty Interesting Man / Child

Lord of the Underworld

Anna Lee Murray ………………..………………. Little Stone

Paul Zaragoza ……………………..………………. Big Stone

Jackie Benka ……………………………………. Loud Stone

Page 6: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

Meet The Players

ASHLEY JORDAN—Eurydice Ashley is thrilled to work with Village Playhouse with this

fascinating story of Eurydice. She is a teaching artist in

Milwaukee, WI. Her credits iinclude Beneatha (A Raisin in

the Sun), Miss Pat (The Colored Museum), U/S Madame

Zeroni (Holes), Payton (A Sister's Bond). Her training

includes Alverno College, UW-Milwaukee, and First

Stage Children's Theatre. Blessing and enjoy the show!

She thanks her aunties for their unending love!

SCOTT STENSTRUP—Father Scott is proud to be doing his second show here at VP.

Some of his most enjoyable shows have been Anything

Goes at Imagination Theatre (Eli Whitney), Spamalot at

Lake Country Playhouse (Black Knight), Skin of Our

Teeth at VPW (Fortune Teller) and Little Shop of Horrors

at New Berlin Community Theatre (Orin Scrivelo).

Scott would like to thank his castmates and director for

making this a truly memorable experience. He would also

like to thank his family and friends for putting up with this

insanity that is called theatre. But mostly he would like to

thank you, the audience, for without your support of live

theatre, we would not be able to have the experience that

we have.

DERRION BROWN—Orpheus Derrion is honored to be a part of thie Village Playhouse

production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice. He would like to

thank his amazing cast and crew for their inspiration, and

his close associations and family for their support.

DEREK JACOBS —Nasty Interesting Man/Child/Lord of the Underworld Being a “nasty interesting man” may not be too much of a

stretch for Derek. He doesn’t even mind playing that role in

a great production such as this. The poetic nature of this

play and the way it is being presented, along with a won-

derful cast, makes it a thrill to be a part of this experience.

Previous shows with the Village Playhouse include a hos-

tage in Two Rooms, the lead in Sherlock Holmes and En-

field in Jekyll & Hyde. Derek has also had the pleasure of

performing with other community theatre groups in the

greater Milwaukee area in years past.

CAST BIOGRAPHIES CAST BIOGRAPHIES CONTINUED

ANNA LEE MURRAY—Little Stone Anna is so excited to be a part of Eurydice! Her past produc-

tions include playing Thomasina Coverly in Arcadia and Mary

in Mary’s Wedding with the Commonweal Theatre in Lanes-

boro, Minnesota. Her Milwaukee-area productions include

Grandma in Death Ship 666 with Giant Spider Productions,

Shelby in Steel Magnolias with Sunset Playhouse, Laura Fin-

negan in Reciting Emily Dickenson with the Cooperative Per-

formance Milwaukee One Act Festival, and most recently,

Emmy Award in Jack Revolver: Freelance Secret Agent. Anna

would like to thank her parents and husband, Lance, for their

constant love and support as she pursues her dream of becom-

ing a professional actor. Enjoy the show!

PAUL ZARAGOZA—Big Stone This is Paul’s seventh show with Village Playhouse. He was

last seen as the Foley Artist in Jake Revolver: Freelance Secret

Agent and Miles Webster in What About The Baby at the One

Act Festival in June. Other credits from Village Playhouse

include: Eric in Group Therapy, Gus in The Runaway and

Agent Max Crusher in Willing and NSA-bled in the 30th Annual

One Act Festival and Nephew Fred, Young Ebeneezer and

Belle’s Husband in A Christmas Carol. Other local credits in-

clude From Whom The Southern Belle Tolls (Tom Wing-

field), Psycho Beach Party (Yo-Yo), Dial L For Latch-

key (Bob), We Need To Talk About Hitler (Adolf Hitler) and The Underpants (The

King) at Theatre Unchained. Paul holds a BA in Theatre-Acting from UW-

Milwaukee.

JACKIE BENKA—Loud Stone Jackie is thankful for the opportunity to work on this truly

unique show. Her favorite roles include Cookie from Neil

Simon's Rumors, Feste from Twelfth Night, and her on going

role as Brad Majors and Emcee of Sensual Daydreams Mil-

waukee's shadow cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

When not appearing onstage she works as lead writer for

Cabaret MKE.

www.villageplayhouse.org

Page 7: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

Meet The Players

ASHLEY JORDAN—Eurydice Ashley is thrilled to work with Village Playhouse with this

fascinating story of Eurydice. She is a teaching artist in

Milwaukee, WI. Her credits iinclude Beneatha (A Raisin in

the Sun), Miss Pat (The Colored Museum), U/S Madame

Zeroni (Holes), Payton (A Sister's Bond). Her training

includes Alverno College, UW-Milwaukee, and First

Stage Children's Theatre. Blessing and enjoy the show!

She thanks her aunties for their unending love!

SCOTT STENSTRUP—Father Scott is proud to be doing his second show here at VP.

Some of his most enjoyable shows have been Anything

Goes at Imagination Theatre (Eli Whitney), Spamalot at

Lake Country Playhouse (Black Knight), Skin of Our

Teeth at VPW (Fortune Teller) and Little Shop of Horrors

at New Berlin Community Theatre (Orin Scrivelo).

Scott would like to thank his castmates and director for

making this a truly memorable experience. He would also

like to thank his family and friends for putting up with this

insanity that is called theatre. But mostly he would like to

thank you, the audience, for without your support of live

theatre, we would not be able to have the experience that

we have.

DERRION BROWN—Orpheus Derrion is honored to be a part of thie Village Playhouse

production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice. He would like to

thank his amazing cast and crew for their inspiration, and

his close associations and family for their support.

DEREK JACOBS —Nasty Interesting Man/Child/Lord of the Underworld Being a “nasty interesting man” may not be too much of a

stretch for Derek. He doesn’t even mind playing that role in

a great production such as this. The poetic nature of this

play and the way it is being presented, along with a won-

derful cast, makes it a thrill to be a part of this experience.

Previous shows with the Village Playhouse include a hos-

tage in Two Rooms, the lead in Sherlock Holmes and En-

field in Jekyll & Hyde. Derek has also had the pleasure of

performing with other community theatre groups in the

greater Milwaukee area in years past.

CAST BIOGRAPHIES CAST BIOGRAPHIES CONTINUED

ANNA LEE MURRAY—Little Stone Anna is so excited to be a part of Eurydice! Her past produc-

tions include playing Thomasina Coverly in Arcadia and Mary

in Mary’s Wedding with the Commonweal Theatre in Lanes-

boro, Minnesota. Her Milwaukee-area productions include

Grandma in Death Ship 666 with Giant Spider Productions,

Shelby in Steel Magnolias with Sunset Playhouse, Laura Fin-

negan in Reciting Emily Dickenson with the Cooperative Per-

formance Milwaukee One Act Festival, and most recently,

Emmy Award in Jack Revolver: Freelance Secret Agent. Anna

would like to thank her parents and husband, Lance, for their

constant love and support as she pursues her dream of becom-

ing a professional actor. Enjoy the show!

PAUL ZARAGOZA—Big Stone This is Paul’s seventh show with Village Playhouse. He was

last seen as the Foley Artist in Jake Revolver: Freelance Secret

Agent and Miles Webster in What About The Baby at the One

Act Festival in June. Other credits from Village Playhouse

include: Eric in Group Therapy, Gus in The Runaway and

Agent Max Crusher in Willing and NSA-bled in the 30th Annual

One Act Festival and Nephew Fred, Young Ebeneezer and

Belle’s Husband in A Christmas Carol. Other local credits in-

clude From Whom The Southern Belle Tolls (Tom Wing-

field), Psycho Beach Party (Yo-Yo), Dial L For Latch-

key (Bob), We Need To Talk About Hitler (Adolf Hitler) and The Underpants (The

King) at Theatre Unchained. Paul holds a BA in Theatre-Acting from UW-

Milwaukee.

JACKIE BENKA—Loud Stone Jackie is thankful for the opportunity to work on this truly

unique show. Her favorite roles include Cookie from Neil

Simon's Rumors, Feste from Twelfth Night, and her on going

role as Brad Majors and Emcee of Sensual Daydreams Mil-

waukee's shadow cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

When not appearing onstage she works as lead writer for

Cabaret MKE.

www.villageplayhouse.org

Page 8: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

DYLAN K. SLADKY—Director Dylan is simply thrilled to be directing Eurydice for the Vil-

lage Playhouse and couldn’t be happier with his creative

team for helping bring this dream of a play into reality. Dylan

graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wash-

ington and now works for the Artistic Department at the Mil-

waukee Repertory Theater, where he served as a Directing

intern for the 2009/10 season. He also served as the Producing

Artistic Director of the small musical theatre company Pipe

Dream Productions in downtown Seattle. Favorite directing

credits include Angels in America: Perestroka, This Property is Condemned, The Odd

Couple, Previously Performed Privately: A Cabaret, While the Auto Waits, and Reciting

Emily Dickenson. Kudos and thanks to everyone who came out to support him and his

fellow artists, and special thanks to Rita, Lindsey, Corrie, Roy, and the whole Fluid

gang.

LINDSEY ERIN—Assistant Director Lindsey Erin is a Director and Actor from Waukesha/

Milwaukee who earned her BA in Drama from UW-Stevens

Point. In 2015, she received an Honorable Mention for “Best

Actress” in Shepherd Express’ Best of Milwaukee. Recent di-

recting credits include: The Darfsteller (Milwaukee Fringe

Festival), Death Ship 666! (Giant Spider Produc-

tions). Recent Acting credits include: Jake Revolver: Freelance

Secret Agent (Village Playhouse), The Women’s Follow Your

Dream Club (Cooperative Performance Milwaukee). Her

next projects will be performing as the killer monster “Bat Girl”

in Milwaukee Metro Voices’ A Cabin in the Woods (the par-

ody musical) next month, and directing the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Lake

Country Playhouse this spring! She’d like to thank her friends, boyfriend, and family

for their continual support and love, and you the audience for joining us! www.lindsey-

erin.com

RITA BATES—Producer Rita thanks all cast and crew members and everyone who contributed to this production

of Eurydice for putting together this interesting and amazing production. She has fallen

in love with this show as she knows the audience will too.

CORRIE TRITZ—Stage Manager Corrie Tritz is a Milwaukee-based stage technician and theater artist, and currently

serves as a house stagehand at Alverno College and sound engineer for Optimist Thea-

tre. Previous affiliations include: Huntington Theatre Company (Boston, MA),

American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA), North Shore Music Theatre

(Beverly, MA), The Theater Offensive (Boston, MA), Portland Stage (Portland, ME),

and Deertrees Theatre (Harrison, ME). Locally, Corrie is an active member of Coop-

erative Performance Milwaukee, having most recently directed The Women's Follow

Your Dream Club for the CPM One-Acts Festival. Corrie holds a BA in theater from

Emerson College in Boston and a professional certificate in arts management from the

University of Massachusetts Amherst.

PRODUCTION TEAM BIOGRAPHIES Angels Program

Donations/Ang

Directed by Dylan K. Sladky

First Movement The World

Second Movement The Underworld and the World

Third Movement The Underworld

Ashley Jordan ………………………………………... Eurydice

Scott Stenstrup ………………………………………... Father

Derrion Brown ………………………………………. Orpheus

Derek Jacobs … ……………….. Nasty Interesting Man / Child

Lord of the Underworld

Anna Lee Murray ………………..………………. Little Stone

Paul Zaragoza ……………………..………………. Big Stone

Jackie Benka ……………………………………. Loud Stone

Page 9: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

weaves into being with her words. And then I panicked. It was too

soon. I still wasn’t “ready.” There were other things that needed to

happen first, right?

After another delve into the words, there was a set of Stage Directions

that jumped out to me:

Eurydice takes a deep breath.

She takes a big step forward on an unseen gangplank.

She is brave.

This play is about bravery. Its characters have the choice to do what is

easy, to take the path more traveled. Instead they look uncertainty and

doubt dead in the face and they take that step forward. They throw their

cautions to the wind to get what they want, what they need, what they

love. Village Playhouse itself was being brave for doing a show like

this, something that is deliberately outside of their wheelhouse of shows

you would typically see them produce. They were also brave for offer-

ing the show to me, me being in Milwaukee for just under a year with

few local credits.

So now it’s my turn to be brave and do something that is outside my

wheelhouse. To push the limits of myself as well as my fantastic cast

and crew. To test the assumptions of the space itself. This is my step

forward. This is our step forward. Enjoy.

Dylan K. Slatky

This play was originally produced by Madison Repertory Theatre,

Madison, Wisconsin, August 29, 2003.

Richard Corley, Artistic Director, Tony Forman, Managing Director.

And subsequently produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2004.

Tony Taccone, Artistic Director, Susan Medak, Managing Director.

And Yale Repertory Theatre.

James Bundy, Artistic Director, Victoria Nolan, Managing Director.

Produced by Second Stage Theatre, New York, 2007.

Carole Rothman, Artistic Director.

SANDRA WYSS—Scenic Designer Theater gives Sandra the opportunity to fully use her creative skills in fine art through

set design and scenic painting, graphic design, prop design, costumes, assistant stage

manager, multimedia video, and acting for Village Playhouse and Over Our Head

Players in Racine. She has had acting opportunities in tv, movies, and independent

film. Wyss has done set design and scenic painting for Midsummer Night’s Dream, All

in the Timing, And Then There Were None, Schoolhouse Rock Live, Pink Panther. She

has provided multimedia (video) for Our Town. Children’s shows include Beauty and

the Beast and Christmas Pageant.

TOM COURTNEY—Sound Design/Technician Thomas is a Chicago native, transplanted to Milwaukee via a

detour to Missouri. He has worked as a sound engineer and

designer with several musical groups. Thomas is excited to be

working on Eurydice with an excellent group of people

ANTONIO TORREZ—Costumes/Props/Make-up Designer

Antonio has been a Costume Designer for A Midsummer Night's Dream

and How I Learned to Drive (UW-Parkside), and Zap Bang Pow (children's theatre,

Florida Studio Theatre). He has also been an Assistant Costume Designer for multiple

shows in various locations.

MICHELLE DEMOS MILLER—Costumes/Props/Make-up Designer Michelle has been working with Village Playhouse for almost 2 years! She was last

seen on stage in the 30th Anniversary of Village Playhouse's One Act Festival, as well

as VP's 2014 Christmas show. Additionally, she assisted backstage for VP's Moon Over

Buffalo. Ms. Miller has also performed as Miss Trent In Madam’s Been Murdered, Tea

Will Be Late (West Allis Players).

ERZEBET "BETTE" SCHNEIDER—Costumes/Props/Make-up Designer

Eurydice is Bette’s Milwaukee Premiere show! Past credits of hers include: Costume

Designer for Fools and Assistant Costume Designer and Costume Tech for the original

musical The Princess Knight, both at the Malthouse Theater in Burlington, WI. Ms.

Schneider has also done costume work in Elkhorn and Delavan.

JULIA KENDL—Lighting Designer Julia graduated from UW Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts with her Bachelor of

Fine Arts in Technical Production in Theater, with a specialty in lighting. For her inde-

pendent study, she designed the lighting for the school’s production of Into The Woods

in their black box studio in Kenilworth 508. She did the lighting design for Solstice's

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. This is her second professional design outside of

school and she is excited to be a part of the Village Playhouse production of Eurydice.

PRODUCTION TEAM BIOGRAPHIES CONTINUED

Page 10: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director Dylan K Sladky

Assistant Director Lindsey Erin

Producer Rita Bates

Stage Manager Corrie Tritz

Set Designer Sandra Wyss

Set Construction Larry Beckley

Art Carter

Derek Jacobs

Nancy Siegel

Rita Bates

Sandy Wyss

Lighting Designer Julia Kendl

Costumes / Props / Make-Up Michelle Demos Miller

Erzebet “Bette” Schneider

Antonio Torrez

Sound Designer Thomas “Tom” Courtney

Utilities Outfielder Larry Beckley

Building Manager Erico Ortiz

Publicity Rita Bates

Lindsey Erin

Erico Ortiz

House Manager / Box Office Mary Breitrick

Graphic Designs Derek Jacobs

Lauren Tank

Program Design Erico Ortiz

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

E very now and then, and very rarely, your experience of a perform-

ance can short-circuit your subconscious auto-critic and you are

left to simply be present, listen, and enjoy what is in-front of you. Such

was my experience when I first saw this play performed. At the time I

was a theatre student who had a staunch distaste and aversion to what I

considered art that was weird for the sake of being weird. And then I

saw this play where stones spoke, where language was as much a con-

struct as the set it took place on, where a daughter was reunited with her

father via an elevator to the underworld. It didn’t make “sense” in the

way I had told myself that I preferred things to.

It is a rare and wonderful thing when a play stays with you and causes

you to go back and turn it over in your head. When a play forces you to

be introspective after you walk out, it isn’t necessarily a sign of some-

thing AMAZING or BRILLIANT, but rather a pretty good indicator

that it is worth further exploration. I began to read more of Sarah Rhul’s

work and in doing so found a new favorite writer. I began to look up

photos from other productions (including the World Premiere (which

was in Madison, WI) and in doing so was inspired in a way I don’t

think I ever had been previously. I eventually got my hands on the

script. After a surprisingly quick read I was convinced. I knew. I was

going to take on this world someday. When exactly, I was not sure, but

definitely later. Much later.

I stored the loose-leaf photocopied (and probably very illegal to have)

script on a shelf in my tiny studio apartment, telling myself it was going

to be YEARS before I would ever have the opportunity to direct some-

thing like THAT. I had more to learn. I had experience to gain. I wasn’t

ready to direct anything of that size and scale. Besides, I had other pro-

jects that were more immediate, that were more possible, and that were

far “easier.”

When I received the offer to direct this production for Village Play-

house, I immediately accepted without doing much thinking. I dug up

that shelved script and again, devoured this weird world that Rhul

Page 11: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse

Oct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. League of Milwaukee Artists.

Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 15 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 17 Auditions: VPW Young People’s Playwright Project—7-9pm

Oct 18 Auditions: VPW Young People’s Playwright Project—7-9pm

Oct 21 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 22 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 28 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 29 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm

Oct 30 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—2pm Matinee

Oct 31 Dynamic Youth Syndicate Movie Night

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds—6pm

Nov 11-Dec 4 Watercolor Ease & Metal Mania. Rosalie Robison Art Exhibit

Nov 11 Osher Painting Party—6pm

Nov 12 Opening Reception: Watercolor Ease & Metal Mania.

Rosalie Robison Art Exhibit—4pm

Nov 20 Osher Painting Party—2pm

Dec 2 Village Playhouse Presents

Young People’s Playwright Project—7:30pm

Dec 3 Village Playhouse Presents

Young People’s Playwright Project—7:30pm

Dec 4 GAMMA Holiday Event—2pm

Dec 7-31 Patty Aker & Kay Jelinek Art Exhibit (Sheboygan)

1500 S. 73rd Street

West Allis, WI 53204

4141 587-3474

www.inspirationstudiosgallery.com

INSPIRATION STUDIOS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

—-SPECIAL THANKS—-

Elizabeth Havican

Mary Uttech

West Milwaukee Menards

Vince Hanoski of Ben's Cycle Shop

Lauren Tank and her father, Eric

Milwaukee Repertory Theatre

Members of the The Village Playhouse Board

And all of our wonderful supporters

who made this production possible!

Page 12: POE-etry: An Art Exhibit. - WordPress.comOct 7-Nov 5 POE-etry: An Art Exhibit.League of Milwaukee Artists. Oct 14 Village Playhouse presents Eurydice—8pm Oct 15 Village Playhouse