ShiningGirls Creative
Production Staff
Production Manager: Roberto Di Donato
Intimacy Choreographer: Devin Franklin
Scene Shop Manager: Nicole Hankins
Costume Shop Manager: Sofia Perez
Electrics Shop Manager: Quentin Kurtz
Sound Shop Manager: Kerrie Lane
Lead Carpenter: Jaxon Meadows
Lead Electrician: Quentin Kurtz
Assistant Lighting Designers: Lillie Wright, Natalie Doocy
Assistant Stage Managers: Addi James, Yuki Laffin, Rylee Lee
Assistant Lead Electricians: Lillie Wright, Natalie Doocy
Lighting Draftsperson: Madeleine Hebert
Light Board Programmer: Madeleine Hebert
Fight Captain: Kayamarie Roll
SCENE SHOP
Carpenters: Lydia Ball, Rosemary Burmester, Sydney Campbell, Nic Crews, Kirstie Fontanez, Scarlett Fried, Karlie King, Tyler Murray, Molly Nixon, Alexander K. Olsen, Elisabeth O'Neill, Charley Peck, Terin Reiber, Christopher Reinhardt, Grayce Roderick, Finn Smith, Audrey Voccio, Lucy Walter, Simon Welch, Elliott Wortley
PAINT SHOP
Scenic Artists: Hannah Carey, Princess Ibeh, Zach Snow
Paint Crew: Morgan Beck, Katie Carpenter, Kasey Dingee, Eliza Harbaugh, Adrien Legarth, Paige Marshall, Emma Mayes, Hope McQuiston, Elle Mitsch, Madison Russell, Morgan Sprouse, Nick Swope, Paige Weir, Sebastian Yobe-Bowen, Isabella Zallo
PROP SHOP
Prop Artisans: Bear Alvarez, Iz Bawn, Logan DeLuca, Billy Elias, Sam Erwin, Gwyn Gaunt, Annaka Guerrero, Elizabeth Nease, Lucy Reinke, Eliza Russo, Dino Scott, Erin Stone, Gabriel Story, Katherine Telkamp, James Walkowski
COSTUME SHOP
Draper: Jackie Sokel
First Hands: Georgia Fried, Esther Yali-Williams, Madeline Hammons
Stitchers: Britney Cox, Georgia Fried, Madeline Hammons, Campbell Hogue, Jaimon Lovins, Sean McGlynn, Mei (Emersen) Miller, Allyn Simon, Jackie Sokel, Aiden Travis, Esther Yali-Williams, Ry Zornak
CRAFT SHOP
Crafts Artisans/Stitchers: Sarah Beth, Carissa Knitkowski
WARDROBE
Wardrobe Crew: Ben Griffithe, Nick Latham, PJ Pavot
ELECTRICS SHOP
Undergrad Shop Manager: Lillie Wright
Light Board Operators: Juniper George, Christopher Williams, Dora Gehrum
Deck Electricians: Ryan Ball, Nick Sklenar
Lighting Crew: Emma Archer, Lily Boulard, Devin Chen, Addie Collard, Jack Connelly, Ella Decker, Destery Gunther, Teigue Hardestry, Charlie Herrman, Cameron Hess, Amanda Johnson, Kharla Landrau, Chance Lane, Seth Langenkamp, Katie Mangan, Simon McFawn, Joey Negrete, Chris Penn-Hoffman, Jacob Simmons, Julia Smith, Tobby Tao, Aidan Timko
SOUND SHOP
Sound Board Operators: Ella Langiotti, Sofia Maggard, Talitha Thomas
Sound Crew: Erin Abney, Nick Foster, Kekoa Huihui-Andrew, Ayana Johnson, Sid McCarty, Michael Mylen, Kyler Rogers, Dan Rozin, Isabella Scanlan
PUBLICITY/FRONT OF HOUSE
Crew: Elizabeth Amstutz, Abby Covalin, Julia Germer, Abbie Hancock, Braven Jones, Madison Keally, Abbi Lindsey, Bella Martin, Alexander Olsen, Amy Pilgrim, Audrey Phipps, Alina Rosado, Anna Scott, Katherine, Soltis, Vivian Waye
BACKSTAGE RUN CREW
Crew: Zoe Zoller, Katy Price, Molly McHugh
ARTWORK BY
Phil Herrold and Georgia Fried
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Director, School of Theater: Merri Biechler
Assistant Director, School of Theater: Rachel Cornish
School of Theater Faculty and Staff
The SHAPe Clinic
SPECIAL THANKS
In making horror theatre, I have thought a lot about who the monster is in our story; thought about how humans name monsters so that the fear in their lives can bleed and maybe one day be defeated. When normality gets a hold of the word ‘monster’ they make it about the deviant, about the different, about threats to the mundane. The lie of normalcy makes the monstrous taboo - but there is no growth without taboo, without transgression. As trite as it may sound, our monsters live inside. Truthfully, I am Hero and Monster all at once, always. We all are. I have only scratched the surface of the monstrous, but I have learned that I love monstrosity.
ShiningGirls is a monstrosity built by many many many artists.
Please allow me a moment to praise and thank these beautiful monster makers:
Thank you to Millie, Kaitlin, Levi, joolz, Maggie, Josephine, and Tyler for letting me dump my brain out in your laps. Thank you for taking that gray matter and molding it into ghosts of anxiety, hope, and despair. You gave the breath of life to this play when I didn’t know it was suffocating. It lives because of you. God, I just love you guys.
Thank you to Sid and Georgia and Maddie and Bear. From the beginning you each have looked me in the eye and said “yeah, this is going to work.” In fact, you assured me when I didn’t believe it. Thank you for cracking open the egg and making amazing art with all the rot inside it.
Thank you to Chris for pouring yourself into Hank and loving him enough for us all.
Thank you to Hannah at Bleeding Heart for being here and being down for the cause!
Thank you to all the little monsters in my cohort who cheered me on, rain or shine.
To Josie, Addi, Yuki, Rylee, and the whole cast of fifteen incredible actors - thank you for coming together as a team. You lifted these characters and this world off the page and loved them! You loved every gross, selfish, sorrowful ounce of them. You made this eternity of building and rehearsing a god damn joy.
To the whole design team, faculty, and crew, thank you for being brave enough to give me a chance! You jumped into the unknown; thank you for your trust.
To my husband, Owen, thank you for making me dinner every night. You take care of me so well. I couldn’t have survived this without you.
Sid, again, thanks the fries and Dr. Pepper. I’ll get the next one.
To Jeanette, you took a chance on me. You changed my life. Thank you.
Oh and Maggie, whether you know it or not, you are all over this play. You’re in my prayers.
My heart is so full because everyone who has embraced this monstrosity also embraced me. And in that embrace, here at the end of my graduate career, I not only survived, I thrived.
Thank you.
Molly