365 Plays / 365 Days
Week Nine: 365 Plays/365 Days
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
Original Music Composed/Performed by: Anacron for Manoemusicc Productions
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Plays:
There’s Nothing Here: January 8th
Directed by Margot Bordelon
Jack: Beethoven Oden
Jill: Sienna Harris
The Palace at 4am: January 9th
Directed by Anthony Moseley
King: Len Bajenski
Queen:Kay Schmidt
Things are Tough All Over: January 10th
Directed by Eric Ziegenhagen
Man: Brad Smith
Woman: Sarah Gitensetein
Space Invaders: January 11th
Directed by Ian Forester
Shooter: Max Lesser
Scooter: Brad Akin
Hamlet/The Hamlet: January 12th
Directed by Brant Russell
Hamlet: David Dastmalchian
Mother: Morgan McCabe
Meeting Brad Pitt: January 13th
Directed by Sarah Moeller
Man: Egan Reich
Woman: Kristala Pouncy
Trust Life: January 14th
Directed by Joel Moorman
Woman: Merci Bunmi Oni
and company
Producer: Ian Forester
Associate Producer/Dramaturg: Becky Perlman
Casting Director: Sarah Gitenstein
Set Designer/Art Director: Sebastian Grouard
Associate Set Designer/Art Director: Carolina Avalos
Lighting Designer:Jeremy Getz
Costume Designer: Aly Greaves
Music Director/Composer: Anacron Allen
Sound Designer/Engineer: Miles Polaski
Visual Art Curator: Marshall Preheim
Muralist: Robert Funderburk
Projected
Media Guru: Eric Gehlerter
Production/Stage Management: Dietrich McGaffey
Collaboraction Executive Artistic Director: Anthony Moseley
Marketing Coordinator: Julianna Minotty-Mendohlsonn
Development Director: Michelle Kelly
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Refreshments provided by: Enoteca Roma.
What is 365 Plays/365 Days?
365 Days/365 Plays started in November 2002 when Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog, Fuckin’ A, In the Blood) committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days. The world premiere of this play cycle, 365 Days/365 Plays, will be performed as a yearlong national festival simultaneously in major cities and communities around the country. From November 13, 2006 to November 12, 2007, over 600 theaters in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Washington D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis, the Carolinas, Mississippi River towns, and university campuses will create the largest theater collaboration in U.S. History. In each of the participating cities or regions, networks of 52 theatre companies perform the entire cycle, one week per company. The plays will be performed simultaneously in each city/region network for the entire year.
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks’ audacious theatrical voice embraces vernacular slang, repetition, and musicality. Her socially and politically-aware works often feature marginalized men and women struggling with conflicts of race, class, and gender. After writing several well-received off Broadway plays including In the Blood, and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Parks was awarded a 2001 MacArthur “Genius” grant. A year later, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Topdog/Underdog – she is the first African-American woman to be awarded the Pulitzer in Theatre. Her other plays include Fucking A, The Sinners Place, Devotees in the Garden of Love, Betting on the Dust Commander, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 Obie Award for Best New American Play), The America Play, and Venus (1996 Obie Award). Suzan-Lori has also written screenplays (Girl 6 for Spike Lee, Their Eyes Were Watching God) and a Faulkner-inspired novel, Getting Mother’s Body.
Collaboraction’s presentation of 365 Plays/365 Days is generously supported by Open-End Gallery, Sound Investments, the Cobra Lounge, and Enoteca Roma. C
Special Thanks: open-end, Marshall Preheim, Fulton Street Collective, Jason Loewith, Melanie Esplin, Phil Smith, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Matt Woodburn, Steve Morgan, Tim Borntrager, Tom LaPorte, Michael David Rose, Scott Westerman, Carl, Glen Jennings, Steep Theatre, Shelby Greaves, West Grand Studios , College of DuPage Costume Shop, Olivia Bleu, the Allen Family, the Harvey Family, the Jackson Family, The Peanut Gallery, Netherworlds, Old Man Malcolm, The L.A. Breakers, Bryce Martin, Bill Green, Hamilton Music Academy (CA), Interlochen (MI). R.I.P. Jairo Gutierrez, Matt woodburn Our Programming is made possible by the generous support of: The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Illinois Arts Council, A State Agency The Alphawood Foundation The Lloyd A. Frye Foundation The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation Cityarts, The Department of Cultural Affairs The Saints And our Board of Directors and Donors.
