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Selected Literary Work

SELECTED LITERARY WORK

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME by Heidi Schreck
Dramaturg
Milwaukee Rep

As a teenager, Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the country. In this hilarious, witty and refreshingly honest new play, she revisits her fifteen-year-old self to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the lasting impact of the document that shaped their journey. Since its premiere in 2019, this Pulitzer Prize finalist has taken the theatrical world by storm, breathing new life into our Constitution by imagining how it will shape the next generation of Americans.

 

CAST

Heidi … Jessie Fisher

Danny/Legionnaire … Will Mobley

Young Debaters … Rose Campbell, Hazel Dye, Maya O’Day Biddle

U/S Heidi … Carmen Cecilia Retzer

U/S Danny/Legionnaire … Ethan Smith

CREATIVE

Director … Laura Braza

Scenic Designer … Collette Pollard

Costume Designer … Destiny Harris

Lighting Designer … Noele Stollmack

Sound Designer … Victoria Deiorio

Casting Director / Line Producer … Jonathan Hetler

Stage Manager … Kimberly Carlous

Assistant Director … Jess Yates

Stage Management Resident … Jessica Wexler

 
 
 

SHOUT SISTER SHOUT! by Cheryl L. West
Script Supervisor & Assistant to the Playwright
Seattle Rep

Long before ‘women in rock’ became a media catchphrase, Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fashion that women rocked. Inspired by Gayle F. Wald’s book Shout, Sister, Shout!, this new theatrical work tells “The Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s” incredible story. Ambitious, courageous, and uncompromisingly public, Sister Rosetta Tharpe became a legend who redefined the national and international music scene in the 1930s and 40s.

 

Featuring: Carrie Compere, Christin Byrdsong, Joseph Anthony Byrd, Jason Kappus, Allison Semmes, Chaz Rose, Porscha Shaw, Carol Dennis, Ty Willis, Timothy Ware, Shaunyce Omar, Alexis Tidwell, Nehemiah Hooks, Darryl Reuben Hall

 

CREATIVE & BAND

Director … Randy Johnson

Choreographer … William Carlos Angulo

Music Director & Additional Arrangements/ Orchestrations … Sheilah V. Walker

Set Designer … GW Skip Mercier

Costume Designer … Emilio Sosa

Lighting Designer … Robert Wierzel

Sound Designer … Joanna Lynne Staub

Projection Designer … Kwame Braun

Associate Director … Tyler Rhodes

Orchestrator/Arranger … Brendan Milburn

Associate Choreographer … Emily Madigan

Stage Manager … Stina Lotti

Assistant Stage Manager … Shellie Stone

Assistant Stage Manager … Cristine Anne Reynolds

Associate Music Director … Emma Weiss

Copyist … Elisa Money

New York Casting … Laura Stanczyk, CSA/Brick Wall Theatrical

Seattle Casting … Kaytlin McIntyre

Associate Sound Designer … D.R. Amromin

 

Guitar … Justin S. Davis

Guitar … Daniel Rainard

Conductor/Hammond Organ … Sheilah V. Walker

Keyboard 1/Rehearsal Pianist … Emma Weiss

Bass … Evan Flory-Barnes

Drums … Jamael Nance

Trumpet … Nathan Breedlove