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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PERFORMING ARTS EN GARDE ARTS PRESENTS BY SETH BOCKLEY AND ANNE HAMBURGER C INTRODUCTION ommunication between parents and their teenage children is inevitably fraught with a seemingly unavoidable gulf of misunderstanding. Most of the time, families weather the tide of these difficulties. Yet, there are those across America facing a realization that the gulf has become impassable due to a myriad of problems: drug, alcohol, or computer addiction, emotional withdrawal and depression. When communication has reached a dead end, families seeking a way through this difficulty can choose to send their kids to wilderness programs. Wilderness is a theatrical production produced by the award-winning theatre company En Garde Arts. Derived from stories gathered from families and teens across the country who have taken this journey, the piece includes contributions from past participants as well as therapeutic professionals and the trained transporters hired by families to take these kids from their homes to programs designed to provide them with a fresh start. Wilderness is a collaboration with writer/director Seth Bockley, co-adaptor and director of the critically acclaimed BASETRACK Live; movement director Devon De Mayo and alternative folk composer Kyle Henderson, front man for the band Desert Noises. En Garde Arts is planning a community engagement program to be developed in parallel with the production, reaching out to educators and families to help shed light on options that are available to troubled teens and families that have reached the end of their rope. Wilderness can help put an end to shame surrounding these issues and promote community and conversation. WWW.PERFORMINGARTS.UFL.EDU CAST (In alphabetical order) HOLLY DEMORRO (Chloe) is ecstatic to be part of Wilderness! Holly is a New York-based actor, musician and writer who recently graduated from Pace University’s School of Performing Arts. Past performances include Bury the Dead (HERE Arts Center, International Theatre Festival of Sibiu) and As You Like It (Michael Schimmel Center). She would like to thank her loved ones for their endless support, and the cast and creative team of Wilderness. CAITLIN GOLDIE (Elizabeth) This is Caitlin’s third collaboration with En Garde Arts. She performs regularly with This is Not A Theatre Co. and numerous other companies in NYC. She has performed at The National Theatre of Luxembourg, various fringe festivals, and has created and toured two solo plays. Please ask her about her dinner party solo show, A Cabernet Cabaret, which toured wineries in Washington. Caitlin holds a BA in theater from Whitman College. TAYLOR NOBLE (Sophia) is a NY-based singer/actor and graduate of the Pace University BFA musical theater program. Off-Broadway: The Good Swimmer (HERE Arts Center), A Lasting Impression (NYTW); NYC: The Years Between, Popstar, Zombie Wedding, Factory Girls; concerts: Women of Note (NYMF), Lilly Awards, B’Way Sings for Amigos de Jesus (Kimmel Center) as well as sold out shows at The Highline Ballroom, Joe’s Pub and more. You can catch Taylor as the lead singer in her band she. www.taylornoble.com/www.shetheband.com RILEY SUTER (Cole) has loved being a part of the workshopping and development of Wilderness. His favorite past credits include Horst in Bent, Yolland in Translations and Woof in Hair. He’d like to thank his mom, dad, the team at Wolf Talent Group, Seth, Anne, and the entire cast and crew of the show! Training: Pace University BFA in acting. WELKER WHITE (Mom)* Welker has originated roles in plays by acclaimed playwrights Craig Lucas, John Patrick Shanley, David Ives, Keith Reddin, Mac Wellman, Joanna Murray-Smith, Lisa Kron and Amy Freed, among others. On film, Welker has worked with noted directors Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Wolf), Peter Weir (Dead Poet’s Society), Nora Ephron (This Is My Life), Ed Burns and Chris Rock, among others, and has appeared on numerous television shows. Welker holds an MFA in directing from Brooklyn College, where she is an adjunct professor in the theatre department. JAKE WILLIAMS (Michael) is very excited to work with such a talented cast and crew. He was trained at the Pace School of Performing Arts where he obtained his BFA in acting in 2016. Some of his past roles include: Sol Weisenheimer in Drop Dead, The Narrator in The Pavilion, and Monsieur D’arque in Beauty and the Beast. He thanks his friends and family for helping to make his life extraordinary. LUKE ZIMMERMAN (Dylan) is honored to be a part of the Wilderness team. Selected credits include: NY Theatre: A,B…Z (Public Theater), Le Jeté (SoHo Rep) and To Dance the Musical (NYC Fringe Festival); regional: The Little Prince (Hangar Theatre), Yo, Vikings! (Hangar Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Sacramento Theatre Company) and Cinderella (Sacramento Theatre Company). Luke earned a BFA from NYU Tisch. A thousand thanks to Mom, Dad, Julia and Ana for their limitless love and support. www.LukeMZimmerman.com *Courtesy Actors Equity Association PRODUCTION TEAM SETH BOCKLEY (Co-adaptor, Director) Plays: 2666, adapted with Robert Falls from the Roberto Bolaño novel, Goodman Theatre; February House, with lyricist and composer Gabriel Kahane, The Public Theatre; Ask Aunt Susan, Goodman Theatre; The Elephant & The Whale, Redmoon, Chicago Children’s Theatre; adaptations of George Saunders’ short stories CommComm, Goodman commission, New York’s Page 73 Productions; and Jon, winner of the 2008 Equity Jeff Citation for Best New Adaptation. Directing: BASETRACK Live, En Garde Arts; The Picture Book, Chicago’s Redmoon Theater, Donegal Arts Festival, Ireland. Other credits include: Caught by Christopher Chen; Samsara by Lauren Yee; The Foundry Theatre’s The Box: A Black Comedy by Marcus Gardley; Ewald Palmetshofer’s Hamlet is Dead; No Gravity; Philip Dawkins’ Failure: A Love Story; Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat) and 1001. He teaches at the University of Chicago and is a writer in residence at the Goodman Theatre. ANNE HAMBURGER (Co-adaptor, Executive Producer) founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and is responsible for putting site-specific theatre on the map in New York City, developing shows with such iconoclastic artists as Charles Mee, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau and Reza Abdoh. She commissioned and developed shows that used the city as its stage, producing large scale outdoor productions such as Orestes, Father Was a Peculiar Man and Another Person is a Foreign Country. In 1999, she became the artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse where she developed the initial workshops for Spring Awakening. She later became the executive vice president of Creative Entertainment at Disney, a division she originated and which brought nationally recognized artists into the parks worldwide. In 2014, she returned to New York to relaunch En Garde Arts. DEVON DE MAYO (Co-Movement Director) is a Chicagobased director, movement director and teacher. In Chicago, she’s directed at Northlight Theatre, Next Theatre, Shattered Globe, side project, Steppenwolf, American Theatre Company, Timeline and Dog & Pony Theatre Company. She has done movement work on many Dog & Pony shows as well as at the Luminaria Festival in San Antonio. She trained at Middlesex in London, UK, GITIS in Moscow and the Indonesian School for the Arts in Bali. PATRICK MCCOLLUM (Co-Movement Director) A Southern California native, Patrick’s choreographic works include: Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theater Festival) and Rain (The Old Globe, San Diego). Broadway: The Last Ship (Associate Choreographer to Steven Hoggett), Peter and the Starcatcher (Movement Associate), Rocky (Associate Fight Choreographer) and Wicked (North American Dance Supervisor). OffBroadway: Murder Ballad (Manhattan Theater Club, Associate Choreographer to Doug Varone), Oh, Hello! (Cherry Lane Theater, Dance Consultant) and Permission (MCC, Movement Consultant). CAROLYN MRAZ (Set Design) Recent credits include: Porgy and Bess and Afram ou La Bella Swita (Spoleto Festival USA), The Tomb of King Tot (Clubbed Thumb, NYC), Pioneers! (JACK, Brooklyn), I’ll Never Love Again (Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn) and The Bachelors (Lesser America, NYC). Carolyn is an associate artist of Target Margin Theater (Brooklyn) and A Host of People (Detroit), and teaches at the University of New Haven. She is an alumna of Oberlin College and earned her MFA from NYU Tisch. CLAUDIA BROWN (Costume Design) Credits for En Garde Arts include: BASETRACK Live, Crowbar, Bad Penny and Another Person is a Foreign Country. NYC Theater: Take Care, Family Furniture, I See You, The Vandal, Dawn, Oh, The Humanity and Mrs. Farnsworth (The Flea Theater); What I Did Last Summer (Signature Theater); Crazy Mary and Psych (Playwrights Horizon). Regional: Hartford Stage and Williamstown. Regional ballet: Hartford Ballet, Arizona Ballet and Zig Zag Ballet. Film credits: River’s Edge, Trust, The Ballad of Little Jo, Smoke, Copycat and Starting Out in the Evening. SCOTT BOLMAN (Lighting Design) NYC credits include: This Time (Rising Circle), Fortuna Desperata (Performa), Urban Renewal (FIAF + Paris) and The Box (Foundry). Regional: Goodspeed Opera, Chautauqua Theater Company, Playmakers, Studio Theatre and Trinity Rep. International: Waiting for Godot, Antigone (Athens) and MIDNIGHT (Berlin). With Robert Wilson: Zinnias (U.S. and France) and Odyssey (Greece and Italy). Founding member of Wingspace Design Collective. MIKHAIL FIKSEL (Sound Design) is a sound designer, composer, musician and a DJ based in Chicago and NYC. Recent credits include projects with Playwrights Horizons, The Civilians, La Jolla Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2nd Stage Theatre, The Pearl, American Conservatory Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Dallas Theatre Center, The Old Globe, Cleveland Playhouse, Redmoon Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, The Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Victory Gardens, Albany Park Theatre Project, Writers Theatre, Timeline and The Hypocrites. www.mikhailfiksel.com SOLOMON WEISBARD (Associate Lighting Design) is a Brooklyn-based, Oregon-born lighting designer for live performance. Upcoming: Duat at Soho Rep and Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons. Recent NYC credits: Daniel Alexander Jones’ An Integrator’s Manual (La Mama), This Is the Color… (BAC/Door 10), Christina Anderson’s Hollow Roots (Public/ Under the Radar), The Film Society (Keen/Theatre Row), Owl Answers/Sun (Fordham), Cherry Smoke (Working Theater) and The Pavilion (Barrow Group). Numerous other pieces with rising and established composers, choreographers and theater- makers, including four works as associate set designer with Bill T. Jones. MFA: Yale. Member: USA 829. www.solweisbard.com MICHAEL HUNTER (Music Director) is a multiinstrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. An unusually versatile musician, Michael is a professional level violinist, pianist, guitarist, bassist, drummer, singer and advanced level cellist. He has composed string arrangements for Grammy-winning producers and engineers, shared legendary stages with iconic musicians, and performed shows in front of thousands across the U.S. KYLE HENDERSON & DESERT NOISES (Original Songs) released two albums with Desert Noises, Mountain Sea and 27 Ways. KYLE MILLER, TOW’RS (Original Songs) Every story begins somewhere. Ours began in the mountains of Flagstaff, Ariz. We were originally a group of strangers who found each other through a deep love for music and storytelling. Over the years, we have become a family, writing not just our music together, but our lives. Our sights are set on being students of story with one another and loving people through our craft. Through our music, we explore the questions that haunt us, the pain that marks us, and the hope that redefines everything for us. We invite you into the conversation, build with us, find your place at the table. REBECCA KEY (Production Manager) is a freelance production manager and technical director in NYC. This is her first production with En Garde Arts. Production management credits include working with such groups as Elevator Repair Service (ERS), the TEAM, Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Guild Hall and Strangemen and Company. STEPHANIE KLAPPER (Casting) is thrilled to be part of the Wilderness team. Her work is often seen on Broadway, OffBroadway, regionally, internationally and on television, film and the internet. She is the resident casting director for Primary Stages in NY and continues her long collaborations with numerous companies such as New York Classical Theatre, The Pearl Theatre Company, among others. Stephanie has many exciting projects running and upcoming both in NYC and regionally as well as in film, on the web and TV. She is a member of the Casting Society of America and League of Professional Theatre Women. EN GARDE ARTS (Producer) is a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to developing and producing site-specific theatre that has social impact at its core, telling stories of relevance to 21st century audiences through live performance, movement, music and design. For every project, En Garde Arts assembles an artistic team that is committed to the discovery of the nuances inherent in an issue, then uses the process of creation to form constituencies of community leaders, social service workers and academic partners to effect conversation and progress. En Garde Arts’ most recent production BASETRACK Live, a multi-media production about the impact of war on veterans and their families, was originally developed in residency at the University of Florida, Gainesville. It was named a Top Ten Production of 2014 by The New York Times and completed a 40 city tour around the U.S.