Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood
By the Brooklyn College Playwrights
March 17 - 20, 2016
Each year, three playwrights in Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney's Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program apply their distinct visions to the same source material, coming up with separate beautiful, bizarre, delicate, and disturbing theater pieces, performed together in one evening. This year, John Budge, Zarina Shea, and Heloise Wilson take on Maxim Gorki's Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev. Prepare to be dazzled by these weasely writers and their deranged minds. Directed by Mia Rovegno.
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, March 17 at 8 pm
Friday, March 18 at 8 pm
Saturday, March 19 at 8 pm
Sunday, March 20 at 2:30 pm
CAST:
Eliza Bent
Charise Greene
Yehuda Hyman
Michael Patrick Kane
Ryan Pater
Julia Sirna-Frest
Merlin Whitehawk
ARTISTIC AND PRODUCTION TEAM:
Mia Rovegno - Director
Joe Burkard - Set
Katie White - Props
Jay Maury - Lights
Ezra Lowrey - Composer/Sound Designer/Music Director
Izzy Fields - Costumes
Katie Rose Mclaughlin - Choreography
Rebecca Guskin - Stage Manager
Rafael Vasquez - Assistant Stage Manager
Tara Elliot - Assistant Director
PANEL DISCUSSION about adaptation in the theater
Saturday, March 19 at 5:30 pm
Mac Wellman, Anne Washburn, Dennis A Allen II, Amina Henry
Moderated by Erin Courtney
THE WRITERS:
John Budge is a Brooklyn based writer, actor and filmmaker who recently graduated from the MFA Playwriting program at Brooklyn College. He earned his BFA in Acting from the University of Montana and while there, co-founded The Buttenik Ensemble, a theatre dedicated to creating and performing original works. His plays have been performed in Washington, California, Montana, Wisconsin and New York. In recent years, he started Budge Films (www.budgefilms.com) to give a venue to ideas and stories which translate better to film than to theatre. John’s interests also include Seattle Mariners baseball and ultrarunning, having completed distances ranging from a marathon to 100 miles. It is said that his years of enduring pain as a Mariners fan have translated directly to making him a natural suffer-loving ultrarunner. He is also the box office manager at The Bushwick Starr.
Heloise Wilson is an actor, a writer and sometimes a filmmaker. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College and is a graduate of the Stella Adler studio of Acting. She also produces new work with her theatre and film company, Little y, implanted in Sydney, Australia and New York City. She lives in Brooklyn with Arthur, her extremely active goldfish.
Zarina Shea is currently a member of the Clubbed Thumb early-career Writer’s Group. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College and an MFA in Acting from Brown University, where she was the recipient of the David Wickham Playwriting Award. She’s spent the last ten years in and out of South Africa and various nearby nations, exploring Theater for Social Justice and the ways in which storytelling can effect change. Performing credits include work at Ars Nova, Williamstown Theater Festival, Trinity Rep, and the Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. BA, University of Chicago.
Maxim Gorki (born 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died June 14, 1936), Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths.