Metamorphoses Digital Playbill

Metamorphoses runs approximately 85 minutes with no intermission.  

For the performances on Tuesday, October 8th through Thursday October 10th, the following cast changes have been made:
  
Kimmi Curcio as Silenus and Snake
Jessica Garcia as Oread
Adeline Atkins as Philemon

CONTENT NOTE:

This production of Metamorphoses contains mature content and sexual themes including incest, death and/or dying, and loss/grief. There is explicit violence including death/drowning, kidnapping, self-harm and attempted suicide/attempted murder, and flashing lights.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE:

   “It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately, we give our mythic side scant attention these days. As a result, a great deal escapes us and we no longer understand our own actions. So it remains important and salutary to speak not only of the rational and easily understood, but also of enigmatic things: the irrational and the ambiguous. To speak both privately and publicly.” (Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses)

    What drives human behavior – not just the mundane and everyday, but the most extreme and dangerous? The Greeks and Romans of the ancient past looked to the Gods to explain the seemingly unexplainable – long before Freud or psychology or psychotherapy. Are we accountable? The myths of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, as depicted here by Mary Zimmerman’s more contemporary re-telling, connect human choice with God-sized consequences: we are left to examine our human accountability in the face of powers far beyond human control.

   While we are not using an actual pool in this production (as was the primary set design for the original productions of the play), the element of water is vital to the storytelling, and we explore it through physical and behavioral metaphor. As a director, I am most interested in how large physical gesture and movement can reveal internal struggles and psychology. Metamorphoses is literally mythic in its scope, and we have worked to find the physical acting that can match the size of its storytelling and language.
- Ellen Orenstein 

Please click for a note from our dramaturg, Kristina Silva. 

CAST

PRODUCTION TEAM

 

 

Production Manager - Hannah Mason
Assistants to the Director - Jayson Lemaire Adkins, Caitlin Bell, Elyssa Musial
Movement Direction Assistants - Kara Alexandra, Ivy Goeckner, Cecilia Hughner, Gabby Pannone
Dance Captain - Kimmi Curcio
Associate Lighting Designer - Michele Torres
Assistant Scenic Designer - Sydney Borislow
Assistant to the Projections Designer - Rosanna Medlock
Assistant Costume Designer, Hair and Makeup Designer - Bex Jones

Props Assistant - Mimi Coventry

Deck Stage Managers - Tika Begleiter, Penny White
Voice and Speech Coordinator - Jeff Morrison
Intimacy and Fight Director - Prather Rehm
Dramaturg -  Kristina Silva  

Head Carpenter – Emilia Kaczmarkiewicz
Scene Shop Supervisors - Erin Bidori, Mimi Coventry, Anastasia Georgiopoulos, Andrew Maroney, Betty Schneider
Scenic Charge - Jessica Turberville
Scenic Painters - Samantha Beneventin, Andy Bell, Nina Bogosian, Ireyssa Cardona, Beverly Crawford, Andrew Darling, Olivia Enciso, Riley Fisher, Nalani Johnson, Ben Orzell, Madalyn Payne, Lexi Peterson, Sawyer Scardigno, Jailynne Woods

Scenic Construction - DJ Belanoff, Marcus Brooks, Ireyssa Cardona, Beverly Cranford, Junie Edwards, Olivia Enciso, Riley Fisher, Neve Holloway, Nalani Johnson, Tyler LaPointe, Benjamin Orzell, Madelyn Payne, Lexi Petersen, Sawyer Scardigno, Rafaela Vianna, Jailynne Woods

Wardrobe Supervisor - Avery Baum, Christopher Macconnach
Wardrobe Crew - Amaiah Baez, Jacob Galloway, Jadon Gladstein, Levi Laddon, Sofia Rama, Alexander Reyes, Lila Goldstein

Head Electrician - Sara Hansen 
Light Board Programmer - Lily Kroller
Light Board Operator - Sara Hansen

Electricians - Abigail Beair, Valentina Fermin, Ava Hedge, Riley Keohane, Theresa Landis, Audrey Lucas, Caroline Mack, Adrianna Neal, Isabella Paragas, Drew Rivera, Justine Rogers, Mya Sanders, Rose Shyk, Maryanna Tollemache, Mike Vigilante, Ethan Foley, Lilly Koller, Penny White, Madi Remigio, Ash Mineo, Emmanuel Nzaramba, Riley Weis, Adaryn Healy, Charlie Trzell

Projections Operator - Alexander Burnett
Sound Board Operator - Sydnee Byrne

Backstage Crew - Lupa Aguilar, Andrew Bell, Olivia Coronel, Ellias Koppen 

House Managers – Gabriella Gonzalez, Katie Meade
Front of House Crew - Jose Sanchez Acosta, Ella Blankinship, Emma Dias, Ryan McDonald, Sofia Storey, Barbara Tiernan, Michele Torres

Production Photographer - Carol Rosegg
Production Videographer - Alex Pearlman/Bardo Arts

Special Thanks to Jordan Horsley, Richard Sheldon, Martin Perrin, Glen Scott Designs, Claire DesBecker, The Costume Collection, Jhona Coombs

Chair, Department of Theatre Arts - Jill Stevenson
Assistant Chair for Production Pedagogy, Department of Theatre Arts - Lori Ann Zepp
Operations Director, VPA - Katie Meade
Technical Director - Rob Dutiel
Interim Technical Director - Courtney Ross
Theatre Technician - Millie Cowan
Costume Shop Supervisor - Cassandra Deveau
Asst. Director, VPA Operations- Gabriella Gonzalez
Costume Design Faculty - Vanessa Leuck
Lighting Design Faculty - Ray Recht
Stage Management Faculty - Lori Ann Zepp