Dragon Mama

(she/they) A.R.T.: Dragon Mama (2019 Elliot Norton Awards for Best Original Script, Best Solo Performance); Dragon Lady. Sara Porkalob is an award-winning artist-activist, cultural worker, and creator of the Dragon Cycle, a trilogy of matrilineal musicals about her Filipino American gangster family, with one play for each generation built around a central female protagonist. Dragon Lady premiered at Intiman Theatre and was the recipient of three 2018 Gregory Awards (Outstanding Sound/Music Design, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Outstanding Musical Production). Dragon Mama premiered at the A.R.T., which has commissioned the third play, Dragon Baby. saraporkalob.com, @sporkalob.

Andrew is a writer and director whose work focuses on real-life figures who have changed the world, usually through the form of musical theater. As a director this includes Stu for Silverton, a new musical about America’s first transgender mayor, which will premiere in 2020 at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, and as a writer this includes The Long Game, a new musical about whistleblowing and truth-telling in America through the stories of Dorothy Kilgallen, Jack Ruby, Edward Snowden, and Laura Poitras, and American Bounce, an unconventional musical based on the life of Big Freedia.

The Lucky Ones (DD Nom., Ars Nova), Blue Ridge (The Atlantic), Boesman and Lena (Signature), Cardinal (2ST), Twelfth Night (The Public), Fairview (Soho Rep), Fire in Dreamland (The Public), Her Requiem (LCT3), Time’s Journey… (PlayCo.), Stuffed (The Westside Theatre), FADE (Primary Stages), [PORTO] (The Bushwick Starr/ The Women’s Project), Quiet, Comfort (Hoi Polloi). Opera: The Flying Dutchman (Houston Grand Opera), Falstaff (Opera Omaha), The Scarlet Letter (Opera Colorado), Abduction from the Seraglio (Atlanta Opera).

A working performer, producer, dramaturg, DJ, and designer of 10 years, Erin’s off-Broadway, national, and institutional work includes Red Bull Theater, Magic Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, On The Boards, and A Contemporary Theatre Seattle, among others. She has held sound design residencies at University of Washington, Seattle University, and Cornish College of the Arts, and recently became the first female recipient of the Gregory Award in Outstanding Sound Design. She is resident sound designer at Washington Ensemble Theatre and artist liaison with LiveGirls! Theater.

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: HEAR WORD! (2018), Dragon Cycle, The Donkey Show; Assistant Stage Manager: HEAR WORD! (2017); Production Assistant: The Night of the Iguana (Sub to James Earl Jones), Fingersmith (and Child Wrangler); Stage Operations: Endlings, Jagged Little Pill, The White Card. Stage Manager/Crew Swing: Blue Man Group Boston. Stage Management Intern: Mystère, Cirque du Soleil. Assistant Stage Manager: Cirque of the Dead2016 and 2017. Education: BFA, Stage and Production Management (Cum Laude) 2017, Emerson College.

Michael A. Rosegrant (any pronouns said with respect) is a theater artist whose work centers stories of identity, family, and history as a way to combat oppression. She has performed her spoken word poetry at various events including A.R.T.’s New Year Celebration and ACI’s Arts Equity Summit. He serves on the steering committee of the API Arts Network, and is studying Theater and Sociology at Boston University. Love to my pamilya.