Show/Boat: A River Digital Program
SHOW/BOAT: A RIVER
A play with music adapted from Show Boat (1927)
Book and lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Music by JEROME KERN
Based on the novel by EDNA FERBER
Adapted and Directed by DAVID HERSKOVITS
The cast includes Tẹmídayọ Amay, Alvin Crawford, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Suzanne Darrell, Edwin Joseph, J Molière, Steven Rattazzi, Philip Themio Stoddard, Rebbekah Vega-Romero, and Stephanie Weeks
CREATIVE TEAM
Music Director and Vocal Arrangements Dionne McClain-Freeney
Music Director and Orchestrations Dan Schlosberg
Costume Design Dina El-Aziz
Scenic Design Kaye Voyce
Lighting Design Cha See
Sound Design Megumi Katayama
Choreography Caroline Fermin
Production Stage Manager Hethyr (Red) Verhoef
Production Manager Daria Walcott
Assistant Stage Manager Holly Adam
Assistant Director Adam M. Kassim
Associate Costume Design Sera Bourgeau
Props Supervision Patrice Escandón
Assistant Scenic Design Josh Barilla
Assistant Lighting Design Bev Fremin
Assistant Sound Designer Kathy Ruyuna
Production Assistant Octavio Lahiri Vourvoulias
Rehearsal Stage Manager Ryan Gohsman
Cello Nan-Cheng Chen
Reed 2 Nicole DeMaio
Guitar Thomas Flippin
Reed 1 Kristina Teuschler
Bass Sam Zagnit
Come Back to Me music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney, additional lyrics by David Herskovits
Dumisa trad. And new composition by Dionne McClain-Freeney
WHO’S WHO
David Herskovits (he/him; Director) is the Founding Artistic Director of Target Margin Theater. He has directed a broad range of plays, new opera and music-theater, and adaptations of history and literature, for TMT and theaters, festivals, and universities all over. He dedicates his work on this production to his mentor and friend, Richard Foreman.
Dionne McClain-Freeney (she/her; Musical Director/ Vocal Arranger) is a musician, musical director, conductor, arranger, composer-lyricist, and actor. Recent credits: Composer-Lyricist and Musical Director, The Cotillion (Off- Broadway; Drama Desk Award Nominee, AUDELCO Award Nominee); Musical Director and Conductor, When We Get There (York Theatre); Sweeney Todd, Passing Strange (UNCSA); The Color Purple (Cape Fear Regional Theatre); BRECHT ON BRECHT (Theater Breaking Through Barriers); commissioned children’s theatre works for Piper Theatre (Not So Fair-y Tales) and Brooklyn Children’s Theatre (Charisma’s Turn, an adaptation of the eponymous graphic novel by Dr. Monique Couvson; A Royal Roar in Brooklyn, book by playwright Christin Eve Cato; Rice and Rocks, an adaptation of the eponymous children’s book by Sandra L. Richards) including a song honoring, and performed live for, renowned actor Viola Davis; and a song on the album Rainbow Lullaby (Broadway Records), the world’s first collection of lullabies especially for the children of LGBTQ parents. Dionne is grateful for her eternal muse, Lisa. TGBTG!
Dan Schlosberg‘s (he/him; Musical Director/Orchestrator) music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, (le) poisson rouge, and David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption. Dan recently conducted/re-orchestrated Anthony Roth Costanzo’s Marriage of Figaro and current projects include music direction/orchestrations for The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, composition/music direction for Jeremy O. Harris’ A Boy’s Company Presents, and compositions for Patrick Wang’s film A. Rimbaud. He was the pianist for Spielberg’s West Side Story, a featured soloist for Only an Octave Apart with the NY Philharmonic and on NPR’s Tiny Desk, and has collaborated with Angel Blue, Ariana DeBose, Tony Kushner, Ben Stiller, and Justin Vivian Bond. He received a 2023 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play (Montag, Soho Rep). Schlosberg is Music Director of Heartbeat Opera, and The New York Times described his work as “the vision of a master sculptor.” danschlosberg.com
Dina El-Aziz (she/her; Costume Designer) Target Margin projects include Pericles, One Night, P*ssyC*ck Know Nothing, Marjana and the Forty Thieves, Pay No Attention To The Girl. Regional Theater: Forgiveness, (Barrington Stage); Lost Girl (Dartmouth); Selling Kabul (Northern Stage); English (Barrington Stage); Layalina (The Goodman); Selling Kabul (Seattle Rep/ Williamstown Theatre Festival); Unseen (OSF); When Monica Met Hillary (Miami New Drama); This is Who I Am (OSF/Woolly Mammoth/The Guthrie/ART/ PlayCo); 9 Parts of Desire (Portland Center Stage); King Lear (Northern Stage); Noura (The Guthrie/The Old Globe). Off-Broadway: We Live In Cairo (NYTW); The Mulberry Tree (La MaMa); Munich Medea, Weightless (WP Theater); The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater); Spindle Shuttle Needle (Clubbed Thumb); Heartland (Geva Theater/59E59); First Down (Noor Theater/59E59); Hindsight (Fault Line Theater); Target Margin Associate Artist. dinae.me.
Kaye Voyce (she/her; Scenic Design) Previously with TMT: Pericles, Mourning Becomes Electra, Uriel Acosta, Faust, Dido Queen of Carthage, The Seagull, and Cymbeline. Broadway: Uncle Vanya, Sea Wall/A Life (co-design), True West, The Nap, Significant Other, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, and Shining City. Recent off-Broadway: The Welkin (Atlantic), Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons), Jonah (Roundabout), The Bedwetter (Atlantic Theater – book by Sarah Silverman), SHHHH (Atlantic), Morning Sun (MTC), Mud/Drowning (set and costume design, Mabou Mines). Kaye also works with Elevator Repair Service, most recently on The Seagull and Richard Maxwell/New York City Players, most recently on Field of Mars.
Cha See (Lighting Design) is an Obie Award-winning lighting designer from Manila, Philippines. Highlights include: Pericles (Target Margin); Babbitt (La Jolla Playhouse); JORDANS (Public Theater); Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary!; Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Special Citations, Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design); Is It Thursday Yet? (La Jolla, PAC NYC); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout); On That Day in Amsterdam (Drama Desk and Lortel Nominations for Outstanding Lighting Design); The Seagull/Woodstock, NY and one in two (The New Group); Sorry for Your Loss, The Fever, and Lucy (Audible Theater); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T., Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Public Theater); soft (MCC). MFA NYU Tisch. seelightingdesign.com @seethruuu
Megumi Katayama (Sound Designer) NYC/Off-Broadway: Titanic, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Light in the Piazza, The Life (NYCC Encores!), The Public, Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Minetta Lane, 59E59, Little Island, NAATCO, New Victory, Rattlestick, NYTW Gala. REGIONAL: Cambodian Rock Band (Tour), Paper Mill Playhouse, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, Denver Center for Performing Arts, Geva Theatre Center, Two River, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Studio Theatre, Everyman Theater, Woolly Mammoth, Cincinnati Playhouse, KC Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Old Globe, Trinity Rep, Chautauqua Theater Company, Dorset Theater Festival, Zach, Skylight Music Theatre, Theatre Aspen, and more. Megumikatayama.com
Caroline Fermin (she/her; Choreographer) is a choreographer, performer, and educator based in New York. Her work integrates community engagement practices, somatics, and the concepts of joy and play. She graduated from The Juilliard School (BFA) and Wilson College (MFA) and became a founding member of Gallim Dance which performed and toured extensively across the US and Europe. She later became the company’s education chair and rehearsal director. As an educator she works for Juilliard’s K-12 division and is on faculty at Barnard College and Marymount Manhattan College.
Kathy Ruvuna (Assistant Sound Designer) is New York based sound designer and composer. Recent credits include Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm), Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group), Dark Disabled Stories, Self Portraits (Deluxe) (Bushwick Starr), Trouble in Mind, Hot Wing King (Hartford Stage), The Janeiad, What-A-Christmas!, Sweat (Alley Theatre), Exception To The Rule, John Proctor is the Villain (Studio Theatre) The Lion in Winter, Pipeline, Radio Golf (Everyman Theatre), The Great Leap, Read to Me (Portland Stage), This American Wife, Circle Jerk! Live (Fake Friends), In the Southern Breeze, Ni Mi Madre (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). M.F.A. in Sound Design, Yale School of Drama.
Hethyr (Red) Verhoef (Production Stage Manager) has worked on numerous productions over the years and continues to be deeply invested in theater, art, diversity, and all of the elements it takes to create magic. Member AEA.
Daria Walcott (Production Manager) is a producer and production manager for theater and events, and is also a licensed NYC tour guide. When not inside of a performance venue, she can be found creating elaborate costumes for the Easter parade, lifting weights, watching documentaries, or walking her adorable dog Bentley who is afraid of small children, large children, dogs held aloft by their owners (“sky dogs”), the sound of his leash tags clinking against his water bowl, street sweepers, and people who are backlit. For less dog-centric information on Daria, visit: glitterponyproductions.com
Bev Fremin (she/her, Assistant Lighting Designer) Broadway: Oh, Mary! (Lyceum Theatre); Cabaret (Kit Kat Club). Off-Broadway: Covenant (Roundabout Underground); Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm); Export Quality (HERE Arts); pre-existing condition (Connelly Upstairs); Oh, Mary! (Lucille Lortel); SMART (Ensemble Studio Theater). Regional: Rent (Paper Mill Playhouse); Espejos: Clean (Hartford Stage). BFA: Rutgers MGSA. bevfremin.com
Holly Adam (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: Stereophonic. Off-Broadway: Stereophonic, Teeth, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: La bohème, Vanessa, Ruinous Gods (Spoleto Festival USA). U of Michigan. Love to Mom. @holly.adam
Adam M. Kassim (he/him; Assistant Director) is a Palestinian American director and serves as the Associate Artistic Director for Target Margin Theater. He has created projects and collaborated with numerous theater companies including Target Margin, The Mercury Store, The Orchard Project, Mosaic Theater Company, and Boston Playwrights’ Theater. For more information, check out Adam’s website at adamkassim.com.
Sera Bourgeau (she/her; Associate Costume Designer) Previous TMT Productions: One Night, Pericles. Selected design credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Honky Tonk Angels (Capital Rep); Some Lovers; Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Adirondack Theatre Festival); Something Happens for Joe (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Still Life With Iris (Long Wharf Theatre); Pete(Her) Pan, Jr. (Northern Stage); Misconceptions, La Musica Deuxieme, Battle of Angels, Refuge (Blessed Unrest); Nickel Mines (New York Musical Theatre Festival, ACT of Connecticut); Sound of Music, Intimate Apparel (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center); The Lion in Winter, Chapter Two, Outside Mullingar (Cape May Stage). MFA: University of California, Irvine. @serabourgeau serabourgeau.com
Patrice Escandón (Props Supervisor) is delighted to be working with Target Margin. Selected include: An American Soldier at PACNY; Le Prophete, Henri Viii, Die Schweigsame Frau, Heliane, And Roi Arthus, for Bard Summerscape Festival Seasons 2018-2024. Mask Designer for Job Off-Broadway and Broadway productions. Other specialty props she’s made include: a giant gold baby, various realistic fake foods, dead animals, and some cool puppets for Broadway and Off-Broadway. Offstage passions: illustration, puppets, flamenco, and folk music. All her love to her “turtle guy” B. proptrinka.squarespace.com
Josh Barilla (he/him; Assistant Scenic Design) is a set and production designer based in NYC. Upcoming: The Great Comet (co-design/dir. Nigel Maister); Sheltered at the cell (dir. Liz Peterson). Recent projects: Other People’s Dead Dads at Dixon Place (dir. Rory Pelsue); THE DREAM at Bard (dir. Jorge Shultz); Staf Meal at Playwrights Horizons (assist. to Jian Jung). Selected design credits: Pipeline (dir. Brandon Dirden). Selected assistant design credits: Floyd Collins (dots); Infinite Life (dots); Madam Butterfly (dots); Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (David Zinn). He received his MFA: NYU Tisch. joshbarilladesign.com
Octavio Lahiri Vourvoulias (he/him; Production Assistant) is an actor based in Brooklyn, making his Target Margin debut! He has trained with BADA, Powerhouse Theater at Vassar, Stromboli Linklater Voice Seminar, and the Stella Adler Studio. He graduated this year with a degree in classics from Columbia where, for his senior thesis, he wrote an adaptation of Aristophanes’ Frogs. Octavio recently performed in A Sketch of New York (Producers’ Club Theaters), V From Vitality (The Tank), and assorted films. He is eternally grateful to David and the entire team for letting him learn from such amazing artists and corrode their stomach lining with his coffee.
Ryan Gohsman (he/him; Rehearsal Stage Manager) Target Margin: Uncle Vanya. Broadway: Here Lies Love (also Public Theater; consultant for National Theater, London). Select Off-Broadway/NYC: Little Shop of Horrors (current revival); Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Staff Meal, The Light Years, Antlia Pneumatica, Detroit, Maple and Vine, 10-11 Fellow (Playwrights Horizons); Mary Jane, Hundred Days (NYTW); Pretty Filthy (Civilians); anatomy theater, Thumbprint, Sumeida’s Song (David Herskovits, dir) (PROTOTYPE); Signature. Select Regional: A View from the Bridge (Long Wharf); Aquanetta (Bard SummerScape); Barrington Stage; Westport. International: London’s Royal Opera; Edinburgh International Festival; Holland Festival. @rye.gohsman
Tẹmídayọ Amay (they/them/he; Frank and others) is a Black Trans Non-Binary writer, actor, singer, and queer activist. Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company; MCC Theater; Classical Theatre of Harlem; The Public Theatre; Ars Nova; Clubbed Thumb. Regional: Round House Theatre: School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play (Helen Hayes Award winner); Signature Theatre; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Arena Stage; The Kennedy Center; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Longacre Lea: The Interstellar Ghost Hour (Helen Hayes Award nominated). Tẹmídayọ Amay is currently writing Bell/e: The Musical, and Pool, Part One: An American Fantasia. Afiliates: BTB New Works Playwright, MAESTRA Mentee, TPOC Fellow, MTF Musicals Fellow. temidayoamay.com
Caitlin Nasema Cassidy (she/her; Ellie and others) actor, director, and producer of Irish and Arab lineage. She has toured internationally from Shakespeare’s Globe to The Spoleto Festival to The New York Times Climate Forward stage at COP28. Recent work includes The Vagrant Trilogy at The Public Theater, Ferry Tales at The Kennedy Center, and We Hear You – A Climate Archive with the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, Georgetown University, and The Swedish Embassy. Caitlin makes her home in NYC, where she serves as Co-Artistic Director of LubDub Theatre Co. Proud alum of the Franklin School for the Performing Arts. Caitlin NasemaCassidy.com
Alvin Crawford (he/him; Joe and others) Broadway: Mufasa in The Lion King, Lion in Candide, John in Miss Saigon, and Sam Cooke in The Buddy Holly Story. National Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Martin Guerre. Regional: A Raisin in the Sun at Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad; The Odyssey at The Globe Theater; Man of La Mancha at Milwaukee Repertory Theater; and Famous Orpheus at Geva Theatre Center. TV/Film: Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU, Nurse Jackie, Show Boat, South Pacific, It Runs In The Family, and And So It Goes.
Suzanne Darrell (she/her; Queenie and others) Target Margin Theatre debut. She is an African-Bermudian, New York based MFA actor and classically trained Contra. Her theatre credits include: Unfallen Fruit by Nathaniel Blake Johnson, UP Theatre’s My Body No Choice, and Cate Wiley’s Two Truths and a Lie. She originated roles in Katori Hall’s Children of Killers (Mama) and Azure D. Osborne-Lee’s Mirrors (Bird) @NYTW Next Door. She also performed in the Obie Award winning Harlem 9’s 48 Hours in Harlem C3’s Where the Sun Don’t Shine (Mother). She is overjoyed to be part of this reckoning of a classic. SuzanneDarrell.com
Edwin Joseph (he/him; Steve and others) is an Indian actor and singer based in New York City. Recent theater credits include the title role in Heartbeat Opera’s Eugene Onegin, the Tony-nominated revival of Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater and Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding in Doha, Qatar (Special programming, 2022 FIFA World Cup). Other select theatre: Beauty and the Beast (Disney Theatrical; Mumbai, Delhi), The Zoo Story (Old World Festival), The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus (Shakespeare Society, Delhi), ¡Figaro! 90210 (Chautauqua Opera), Florencia en el Amazonas (Yale Opera). Film/TV: Found (NBC/Warner Bros). Edwin holds degrees from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and Yale.
J Molière (they/them; Parthy and others) was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and is the child of Afro-Caribbean parents. J has worked on many stages, among them La MaMa E.T.C., Target Margin Theater, Moscow Art Theatre,the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Most recently they starred in a new opera at the Tony award winning Wilma Theatre. jmoliere.com
Steven Rattazzi (he/him; Captain Andy and others) 11mshows w/Target Margin including: The Tempest, The Really Big Once, and Dinner Party. Broadway: Indecent. Of- Broadway: This Is Not a Time of Peace (New Light); King Kirby (Brick); Henry V w/Liev Schrieber (NYSF); Galileo w/ F. Murray Abraham, The Tempest w/Mandy Patinkin (CSC); David Adjmi’s Stunning (Lincoln Center); Painted Snake on a Painted Chair (OBIE); McGurk (ERS); Foreman’s Samuel’s Major Problems (Ontological). Regional: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Two River); Lempicka (Williamstown); Seder (Hartford); Marie Antoinette (ART/Yale Rep); Indecent (La Jolla); The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cincinnati Playhouse). Film: Radiant Is the Blood. TV: New Amsterdam; Venture Brothers.
Philip Themio Stoddard (he/him; Ravenal and others) Broadway: Camelot (LCT). New York/Regional: The Extinctionist (Heartbeat Opera); P.Y.G. (NYTW); The Weir (Berkshire Theater Group); Sabina (Portland Stage); Ship of Fools (O’Neill); Don Giovanni (Chautauqua Opera); Oklahoma! (Weston Playhouse); L’arbre enchanté (Hogfish); Children of Eden (Phoenix Theater); Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2, & 3 (Juilliard); A Little Night Music (Arizona Opera); The Tempest (Oregon Symphony).
TV: The Gilded Age (HBO Max). Film: Target; Shroomery (upcoming). Winner: Lotte Lenya Vocal Competition. Training: Juilliard. philiptstoddard.com
Rebbekah Vega-Romero (she/her/ella; Magnolia and others) Performance: Maria, West Side Story (5th Avenue); Luisa, The Fantasticks (Cape Playhouse); Martha Cratchit, A Christmas Carol (Denver Center); Rini, The Moss Maidens (SheNYC Arts festival); Maria, The Zionists (Workshop/ Dramaturg). Writing: 2024 BMI Bookwriting Workshop member; 2024 Finalist for O’Neill NPC; 2024 and 2023 Candela Fellow at DGF; founding member of the DIEZ collective; the Untitled Writer’s Group; Playground-NY. Creator/star of The Question (Official Selection: 5 festivals). Poet featured by Sixfold and Ars.Poetica; creator of Lace/ Love/Letters. LaGuardia (FAME) H.S. and Boston University graduate, YoungArts award-winner, NS 2023 Doreen Montalvo Scholarship honoree. Rebbekah hopes her work inspires other mixed-race girls to share their magic. @RebbekahVR
Stephanie Weeks (she/her; Julie and others) is an award- winning actor and director and has performed at renowned theaters including The Public, La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, and Soho Rep. Her contributions as an Associate Artist with Target Margin earned her an OBIE for Recognition of Artistic Achievement and Commitment to Excellence in Theater. Additionally, Stephanie is a company member of Elevator Repair Service. She starred in acclaimed director Melvin Van Peebles’ Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted-Mutha, an Official Selection of the Tribeca Film Festival. TV: Tales of The City (Netflix), The Good Fight (CBS), and Law & Order (NBC). stephaniejweeks.com
TARGET MARGIN
Target Margin Theater exists to change our shared culture, to remake the world as a more engaged, aware, and humane version of itself. We are founded on the principle. that works of art return us to real truths most powerfully by their divergence from a strict illustration of reality. Over the past 34 years, we have produced more than 50 mainstage productions, 130 individual lab productions by emerging artists, and won multiple OBIE awards. We seek continuously to expand our conception of what can take place in a theater, through innovative, experimental performances of classic plays, opera, literature and historical sources. ‘Diference’ is the generative principle of all we do – from reimagining the relationship between audience and performed event to the strong history of age, race, and gender diversity in our company and is one of Target Margin’s most identifiable features.
TARGET MARGIN SPECIAL THANKS
Bushwick Starr, Larry Maslon, Greig Sargeant, William Badgett, John Del Gaudio, Moe Yousuf, Jenny Egan, Emmanuel and Raoul Herskovits, Kate Levin, Eric Sloan and Dominique Bravo, Sydney and Josh Rosenkrantz, Alex Alger and Dan Chung, Kimberleigh Costanzo and the Howard Gilman Foundation, Dana Kirchman, Kim Whitener, Broadway Green Alliance, Victoria Traube, Julia Henderson
TARGET MARGIN DONOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Institutional Support for Target Margin provided by: The Auchincloss Fund, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Charina Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, The Clinton-Walker Family Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Fred Alger Management, Inc., The Howard Gilman Foundation, Iger Bay Foundation, The Jan Don Foundation, MacMillian Family Foundation, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Afairs in partnership with the City Council and Council Member Alexa Avilés, and the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, The Shapiro-Levin Family Charitable Fund, The Shubert Foundation, The Wayfarer Foundation, and our loyal individual donors. For a full list of donors, please visit targetmargin.org.
TARGET MARGIN STAFF
Artistic Director David Herskovits
Associate Artistic Director Adam M. Kassim
Company and Community Manager Alyssa Haddad-Chin
Operations Manager Trey McGee
Marketing Manager Ri Tornello
Finance Manager Erica Laird
Graphic Designer Maggie Hofman
Press Rep John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency
TARGET MARGIN INSTITUTE FELLOWS
Sarah Bellin, Ana Cantorán, Alyssa Haddad-Chin, Carl Holder, Faith Zamblé
TARGET MARGIN BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Purva Bedi, Melody Cooper, David Herskovits, Kate Levin (President), Raymond Lohier, Greig Sargeant, Eric Sloan, and Adam Weinstein
NYU SKIRBALL
NYU Skirball holds close James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” Our mission is to present adventurous, cross-disciplinary work that inspires yet provokes, confirms yet confounds, and entertains yet upends. We proudly embrace renegade artists who surprise, productions that blur aesthetic boundaries, and thought-leaders who are courageous, outrageous, and mind-blowing. We are NYU’s largest classroom. We want to feed your head.
NYU SKIRBALL FUNDING
NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; Collins Building Services; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Villa Albertine; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Goethe Institut; Austrian Consulate General New York; and Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.
BECOME A MEMBER
NYU Skirball Members are friends …. with benefits. Members receive discounted tickets to productions, events, pre-sale opportunities, exclusive invitations, and special access to innovative artists, academics, and thought-leaders. More importantly, members support a broad range of cutting-edge performances to New York City. Memberships start at $75.
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NYU SKIRBALL STAFF
Director Jay Wegman
Supervisor, Lighting And Sound Emily Anderson
Ticket Operation Specialist Cliff Billings
Engagement Director J De Leon, PhD
Theater Technician Brian Emens
Company Manager Tayler Elizabeth Everts
Theater Technician George Faya
Theater Technician Angie Golightly
Operations Manager Jenny Liao
Marketing Manager Clare Lockhart
Box Office Manager Craig Melzer
Development Director Kimberly Olstad
Front of House Supervisor Jordan Peters
Production Manager Alberto Ruiz
Senior Supervisor, Lighting And Sound Don Short
Administrative Coordinator Caroline Grace Steudle
Operations Director Ian Tabatchnick
Press Representative Helene Davis
NEXT @ NYU SKIRBALL
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UNDER THE RADAR
UNDER THE RADAR is New York City’s premier annual festival of experimental theater, featuring cutting-edge performances from around the world and across the U.S. The 20th edition of UTR will run from January 4-19, 2025 presenting over a dozen productions at various partner organizations across the city. We’re honored to be part of a festival that embodies global citizenship, fosters innovation, and provides a stage for new voices.