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The Snow Queen

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When a young boy named Kai is taken away by a wicked enchantress, his best friend Gerda must embark on a perilous journey to the north pole to rescue him.  Using puppets, music and magic, this exuberant, heart-warming production will take you a theatrical journey to a magical kingdom and the Snow Queen’s icy palace.

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Credits

Creative team

Written by

Tyler J. Monroe

Written by

Tyler J. Monroe

Adapter

A.R.T.: Prometheus Bound (assistant-dramaturg). A.R.T. Institute: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (dramaturg). In Chicago: dramaturg on Curse of the Starving Class, Polaroid Stories, Heloise and Abelard, The Helpless Doorknob. Adaptor on The New Tenant and Gone Flyin’ (performed at City Lit Theatre’s Art of Adaptation Festival). Upcoming: adapter of Tales of Poe at New Rep Theatre.

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From the story by

Hans Christian Andersen                     

Puppets by

Michael Kane

Puppets by

Michael Kane

A.R.T.: Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps (Japhy), As You Like It (Duke Senior), The Snow Queen (Grandfather), The Donkey Show (DJ). A.R.T. Institute: Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories). Theater: Montana Repertory, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Colorado Shakespeare. Michael received a B.F.A. at the University of Montana and is a graduate of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

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Directed by

Allegra Libonati

Directed by

Allegra Libonati

A.R.T.: The Pirate Princess, The Light Princess, Hansel and Gretel (Director); The Snow Queen (Director/Adapter); The Donkey Show (Resident Director); The Tempest, Prometheus Bound (Associate Director), Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Best of Both Worlds (Assistant Director). OBERON: Once In Hell: Dante’s Inferno in 10 Dinner Courses; Matchmaker, Matchmaker, I’m Willing to Settle: A Musical Guide to Internet Dating. Broadway: HAIR (Assistant Director, Tony Award-winning Revival). Summer Theater of New Canaan: South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, H4 (an original adaptation of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2).

 

 

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Production Designer

David Reynoso

Production Designer

David Reynoso

A.R.T.: The Snow Queen, Cabaret, Sleep No More, Alice vs. Wonderland, Trojan Barbie, Copenhagen, No Man’s Land, The Keening. A.R.T. Institute: I Speak, Therefore I Am; Hamletmachine; Ajax in Iraq; Abigail’s Party. Other work: Punchdrunk/Emursive’s Sleep No More NYC (OBIE Award Special Citation for Design); Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Othello, The Comedy of Errors (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Costume Design); Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Lyric Stage; The Woman in Black, Gloucester Stage. David also designed Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under tour costume and directed/designed Juan Son’s Mermaid Sashimi Tour in Mexico. Music Video Art Direction: Juan Son’s Mermaid Sashimi (Universal Music); Porter’s Host of a Ghost (Universal Music, Tercer Piso Records).

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Costume Designer

Mallory Frers

Costume Designer

Mallory Frers

Costume Designer

A.R.T. Institute: Tough Titty, I Speak Therefor I Am, Trojan Women, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Drums in the Nights, History of the American Film, The Skin of our Teeth, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Seriously Funny. Regional credits: Broke-ology, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Shipwrecked!, Speech and Debate, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Lyric Stage Company; The Hound of the Baskervilles, Central Square Theater; Measure for Measure, UMass Lowell. She currently serves as the wardrobe supervisor for Emerson Stage and is a graduate of Emerson College where she earned her B.F.A in Design Technology.

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Lighting Designer

Kirsten Opstad

Lighting Designer

Kirsten Opstad

Lighting Designer

A.R.T. (Lighting Assistant): Once, Prometheus Bound, Ajax, R. Buckminster Fuller, The Blue Flower. A.R.T. Institute: Ladybird. When not designing lights, Kirsten performs comedy at the Improv Asylum in the North End and folk music. 


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Sound Designer

Aaron Mack

Sound Designer

Aaron Mack

A.R.T.: The Light Princess (A.R.T. and New Victory Theater), The Snow Queen, Hansel and Gretel. Recent work: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Production Manager); Santa Fe Opera Company (Titles Administrator); Brown University/ Trinity Rep (Sound Design Artist in Residence); OBERON (Head of Sound). Aaron is currently the Associate Director of Production at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, a new venue and organization on Bleecker Street in NoHo.

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Production Coordinator

Taylor Brennan

Production Coordinator

Taylor Brennan

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: HEAR WORD!Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education1984; O.P.C.The Shape She MakesThe Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Bedlam's Sense & SensibilityThe Night of the IguanaFingersmithRoosevElvisKansas City Choir BoyNatasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812The Heart of Robin HoodAll the WayThe Glass MenagerieThe Lily’s RevengeOnce. Production Associate: Prometheus BoundThe Blue FlowerCabaret. Education/Training: Graduate of Boston University (Summa cum laude) College of Fine Arts.

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Assistant Director/Choreographer

Lanise Shelley

Assistant Director/Choreographer

Lanise Shelley

A.R.T.: The Snow Queen (Assistant Director/Choreographer). A.R.T. Institute: Tough Titty(Imani). Milwaukee Repertory Theater(member for five years. Actor/Choreographer): The Night is a Child; I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda; The Crucible; Eurydice; King Lear; Gem of the Ocean; The Glass Menagerie; Intimate Apparel; Lady Windermere's Fan; Yes. No (Maybe So); You Can't Take It With You; I Just Stopped By To See The Man. Regional: Julius Ceasar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Cry The Beloved Country, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Book-It Repertory Theatre: Shock Brigade: Women in Combat, Baby Yaga, Black Sci-fi Festival; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Goodman Theatre; Lookingglass Theater; Film: "Chrysanthemum" (Nurse), "Discovery World Secret Labs" (Abigail Adams). Lanise studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford England and received a B.F.A. in Theater at Cornish College of the Arts. Currently a second-year student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training.

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Dramaturgy

Christina Farris    

Liana Stillman

Dramaturgy

Liana Stillman

Liana Stillman received an MFA from The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently a second-year at the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

 

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Vocal Coach

Ron Carlos   

Co-Lyricist

Liana Stillman

Co-Lyricist

Liana Stillman

Liana Stillman received an MFA from The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently a second-year at the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

 

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Cast

Rose, Robber Girl, Sun

Milia Ayache

Rose, Robber Girl, Sun

Milia Ayache

A.R.T.: The Snow Queen. A.R.T. Institute: Tough Titty (St. Agatha and other roles), Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories) (Administrator/Clara 3). Other theater: Lysistrata (Koryphaios of Women). Film: Whatever Lola Wants (Yasmine). Currently a second-year student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training.

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Grandmother, Flower Witch, Guard, Robber, Odd Woman

Liza Dickinson

Grandmother, Flower Witch, Guard, Robber, Odd Woman

Liza Dickinson

A.R.T.: As You Like It (Phebe), The Snow Queen (Grandmother). OBERON: O.N.C.E. In Hell (Francesca/Ensemble). A.R.T. Institute: Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories) (Clara4/Ensemble). Off-Broadway: Uncommon Women and Others (Rita Altabel), Dorm Stories (Brooke), Bound/Shadow (Johann Kaspar Lavater), A Report to the Academy (The Monkey). Regional: Hamlet (Ophelia), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia), Stop Kiss (Callie). Graduated from Oberlin with a B.A. in Theater with an Acting Concentration. Currently a second-year student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training.

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Goblin, Rose, Prince, Robber

Dustyn Gulledge

Goblin, Rose, Prince, Robber

Dustyn Gulledge

A.R.T.: The Snow Queen (Goblin/Prince). Other theater credits: Burn This (Pale), The Food Chain (Serge). Dustyn attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from The New School in NYC. Dustyn is a graduate of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training.

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Rose, Princess, Robber Girl

Teri Gamble

Rose, Princess, Robber Girl

Teri Gamble

A.R.T.: As You Like It, Futurity, The Snow Queen. A.R.T. Institute: Tough Titty (Angela), Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories) (Clara 2/Airline Captain). Regional: Ragtime (Harlem Ensemble); Little Shop of Horrors (Chiffon); Children of Eden (Aphra); Once on This Island (Mama Euralie); Jesus Christ Superstar (Simon Zealots). Television: “ER,” “Hot Properties,” “Comedy Central’s Reel Comedy: I Spy.” Teri is a proud member of the SAG-AFTRA and holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.B.A. with an emphasis in Marketing from the University of Phoenix and recently completed her MFA in Acting at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

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Grandfather, Swallow, Flower, Guard, Robber, Reindeer

Michael Kane

Grandfather, Swallow, Flower, Guard, Robber, Reindeer

Michael Kane

A.R.T.: Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps (Japhy), As You Like It (Duke Senior), The Snow Queen (Grandfather), The Donkey Show (DJ). A.R.T. Institute: Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories). Theater: Montana Repertory, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Colorado Shakespeare. Michael received a B.F.A. at the University of Montana and is a graduate of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

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Swallow, Flower, Raven, Robber

Luke Lehner

Swallow, Flower, Raven, Robber

Luke Lehner

A.R.T.: The Snow Queen (Raven, Swallow, Ensemble). OBERON: Once in Hell (Ensemble). A.R.T. Institute: Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories) (Nathaniel 1). Egypt: Party Time (Terry), Celebration (Lambert), Death and the Maiden (Dr. Roberto Miranda). Currently a second-year student at the A.R.T./M.X.A.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training.

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Snow Queen

Lindsey Liberatore

Snow Queen

Lindsey Liberatore

A.R.T.: As You Like It, The Snow Queen. New York: Antigona Furiosa (Antigona); The Clouds (Strepsiades), Enthuse Theatre; Sensory (Jaime); The Bacchae (Agave). Television: “The College Humor Show.” B.F.A. in Acting Marymount Manhattan College. Currently a second-year student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training.

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Gerda

Lisa Maley

A.R.T.: The Snow Queen (Gerda). A.R.T. Institute: Nutcracker Turbo( and Other Love Stories) (Olympia), Tough Titty (Dr. Li, Rashida). New York: Like The Night, The Tank; There Will Come Soft Rains (NY Int'l Fringe Encore Series), Barrow Street Theater. Regional: Youth Ink Play Festival, McCarter Theater; Poison Project, Far Away (Joan), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Wall), Williamstown Theater Festival Workshop; The Tempest (Miranda), Oberlin Summer Theater Festival. Film: Death: A Love Story. Lisa studied at the British American Drama Academy in London and holds a B.A. in Theater from Oberlin College. Currently a second-year student at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Training.

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Kai, Robber

Scotty Ray

Kai, Robber

Scotty Ray

A.R.T.: The Snow Queen (Kai). A.R.T. Institute: Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories). Other theater: The Crucible (John Proctor); The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (The Maniac); The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio); Pirates of Penzance; Bimbo the Pirate (Bimbo); The Diary of Anne Frank (Peter Van Daan); The Miracle Worker (Captain Keller). Scotty graduated from Walla Walla Unviversity with a B.A. in Mass Communication and minors in drama and religion. Currently a second-year student at the A.R.T./M.A.X.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training.

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