Classical Actors Lab presents: The Burial at Thebes
Classical Actors Lab presents: The Burial at Thebes
by Sophocles
Translated by Seamus Heaney
Directed by Rosey Hay
PRODUCTION TEAM
Rosey Hay (Director)
Asher Vaglica (Stage Manager)(they/them) is a Junior DPP major. Past UArts stage management credits include My Mother Once Read..., Family Undone, and clusterpuck! They would like to thank the amazing actors and creative team behind Thebes and hope you enjoy the show.
Riley Mehrtens (Movement Coach)
Zoe Nebraska Feldman (Intimacy Director)
Meghan Jones (Set Designer)
Alice Poznyack (Assistant Set Designer)
Kelly Hayes (Prop Head)
Naia Morgan (Assistant Prop Head)
Ash Marlar (Lighting Coordinator)
Sydney Taper (Programmer)
Kalyn Paradis (Costume Coordinator)
Damien Figueras (Sound Designer)
Ethan Paone (Assistant Sound Designer/A1)
Troy Martin-O'Shia (Production Electrician)
Joe Fasciano (Technical Director)
Anna Sorrentino (Costume Shop Manager)
V Perlah-Hard (Wardrobe Supervisor)
Holly Fasciano (Scenic Artist)
Anna Ryabova (Image Designer)
CAST
Katy Robinson (Antigone)(she/they) is a Junior Acting major. Past UArts credits include: Fit For a Queen. An immense thank you to my parents and sister for being the foundation to everything I know today.
Logan Brooks (Ismene)(she/her) is a Senior Acting major. Past UArts credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Snout), WITS (Ma, SPX), This Beautiful City (Ensemble), Esther's Play (Coco). She send thanks to all of her family and friends for the support!!!
Carl Bright-Walck (Creon)(he/him) is a Senior Acting major. He gives his love to his Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, and Boyfriend. Thanks to Rosey and Asher for making this possible. That's all. Ta ta my friends, ta ta!
Michael McLaughlin (Tiresias)
Stevie Reynolds (Haemon) is a Junior Acting major and Musical Theater minor who is so glad to be back at UArts after spending last semester studying at Rose Bruford College in London. Past UArts Credits include: Classical Actors Lab’s Hamlet (Player King) and Equinox 2022’s A Little Death (Ensemble). Stevie would like to say a huge thank you to the entire cast and crew for making this production such a wonderful experience.
Chloé San-Horstman (Guard 1)(she/her) is a Junior Acting major. Chloé recently transferred to UArts and is ecstatic to make her Brind School debut! Previous credits include The Moors (Agatha, UIUC), Fun Home (Joan cover, UIUC), and Little Women (Beth, UIUC). She wants to thank her family and friends for their endless support!
Ella Kahan (Guard 2)(she/her) is a Junior Acting major, MT minor. Past UArts credits include The Masque of the Red Death (Princess Opula), The Sweet Hereafter (Nichole), Family Undone (Alanis), Everybody (Ensemble), and A Little Death (Ensemble). Many thanks to everyone involved in Burial at Thebes!!
Jordan Neff (Messenger)(she/they) is a Junior Acting and DPP major. Past UArts credits include Untitled JesusXJudas Lesbian Play (Playwright), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Robin Starveling), Felipillo (Gómara), Woyzeck (Cathy), and Cerebral (Keeper/Lou). Endless thanks to my friends and family!
Emerson Howard (Euridice)(she/her) is a Senior Musical Theater major. Past UArts credits include Tiffany in Horse Girls.
Sophia Rowland (Chorus Leader) is rising Senior studying acting at UArts. You may have seen her dressed as a lion playing Snug in A Midsummer Nights Dream last semester, or playing Bear Otto In The Polyphone Festivals " The Sweet Hereafter" last year. Soph is estactic to be on stage again with such a powerhouse cast, crew and director. ROLL CORNS!!!
Herman Epperson (Chorus)(he/they) is a Sophomore double major in Acting and Creative Writing. This is their very first acting role in a stage production.
Faith Jones (Chorus)(she/her) is a first year Acting major. This is her debut in the Brind School community. Her past credits are The Odd Couple (Olive), iThe Christmas Carol ( Ghost of Christmas Present) and Ghost Library (Agatha Christie). Faith would like to give a huge thanks to the cast and crew for being amazing.
Cessie Yu Ling (Chorus)(he/they) as Chorus, is a Junior Acting Major. Cessie has performed in one other UArts production: Hot/Cold Shower, this past Spring, which has been his favorite production he has performed in this far. He also has performed with the dance team at Halloween Nights for 2 years running, and hopes to continue doing more immersive theatre work in the city!
Paige Mullen (Chorus)
Marjorie Kalule (Chorus)(she/her) is a Freshman Acting major. She is very excited about her UArts debut. A few of her favorite past roles include Madame Telsaint in City Without Altar and Mrs. Peacock in Clue.
Amelio Kirshon (Chorus)(he/they) is a Junior Musical Theater major with a Music minor. Past UArts credits include: This Beautiful City (Alt Writer/AMD), The Untitled Cherry Orchard Musical (Lyuba), Ghosttown (Nellie), and Untitled Jesus X Judas Lesbian Play (AD/Composer). He is so thankful for Rosey, Asher, Riley, and his fellow Thebans!
Miranda Ortega (Chorus)(she/her) is a Senior Acting major. Past UArts credits include Horse Girls. Outside of UArts productions her favorite roles have been Nina from In the Heights, Alison-Vernon Williams from Cry-Baby, and Marianne from Sense and Sensibility. Many thanks to her friends, family, and the faculty members who have supported her throughout her time here.
Ksenia Panchenko (Chorus)(she/her) is a Sophomore Acting major. Past UArts credits include Eat the Rich, Audrey! (ensemble) and Terms of Endearment (Equinox Festival (staged reading)) (Worm).
Nat Perrell (Chorus)(they/them) is a first year Acting major. They loved performing in last semester's First Year Event, as well as shows like Seussical (Horton) and Rent (Ensemble) back home in Florida. They are thrilled and so grateful to be a part of this cast!
Chenoa Yelle (Chorus)(she/her) is a Junior Acting Major at UArts. This is her UArts stage debut and is very proud to bring this piece to life with her fellow actors and friends. In previous years at UArts she was involved in crew for Sometimes The Rain, Sometimes The Sea, Wits, and Untitled: A Cherry Orchard. Endless thanks to the Brind students and faculty, friends, and family.
CREW
Gideon McDonald
Zaire Moorer-Washington
Jillian Quintiliani
Sophia Palese
Jillian Potter
About: Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney’s dazzling adaptation of Antigone brings life and breath to Sophocles. After a brutal civil war in Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. Creon, King of Thebes, grants burial to one brother but the other is to be left to rot in the open air. Antigone defies Creon’s edict with devastating and tragic consequences.
Content Disclosures: This production contains images of graphic violence, and discussions/depictions of suicide and murder.
University of the Arts
Kerry Walk, President
Kikau Alvaro, Interim Dean, Ira Brind School of Theater Arts
Aanika Allen, Assistant Dean, Ira Brind School of Theater Arts
Madison Claus, Senior Administrative Assistant
Krista Apple, Program Director, Acting
Amy Dugas Brown, Program Director, Directing, Playwriting and Production
Thom Weaver, Interim Program Director, Theater Design & Technology
Jacob Brent, Interim Program Director, Musical Theater
Quinn Bauriedel, Program Director, Pig Iron School MFA in Devised Performance
Nick Embree, Associate Professor
Sarah Sanford, Assistant Professor
Issac Byrne, Visiting Assistant Professor
Kyle Metzger, Visiting Assistant Professor
Lindsay Cram, Director of Production
Joe Fasciano, Technical Director
Troy Martin-O’Shia, Production Electrician
Anna Sorrentino, Costume Shop Manager
Larry Fowler, Sound Practicum Instructor
Chris Haig, Technical Practicum Instructor
Rebecca Kanach, Costume Practicum Instructor
Juliana Luber, Audience Services Coordinator