Lookingglass Alice

November 30–December 31

Lookingglass Alice
Adapted by David Catlin from the works of Lewis Carroll
Directed by Jeremy B. Cohen

REDISCOVER THIS TALE OF CURIOSITY AND WONDER

This contemporary retelling puts a fresh, modern twist on Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. Alice falls through the looking glass and finds herself on a journey of self-discovery. She encounters the familiar and fantastical in this world of curiosity and wonder, coming face to face with wild characters, and obstacles and oddities. Inspired by Carroll’s beloved stories, Lookingglass Alice is an Alice for all generations.

“Joyous and smart, playful and wise.” –Chicago Tribune

Content Advisory: This whimsical journey inspired by the imagination of Lewis Carroll is appropriate for theatergoers of all ages (ages 6 and up are welcome into the theater).

Approximate runtime is 1 hour and 15 minutes. There will be no intermission.

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Cast

Jessica Bennett
Ensemble

Patrice Covington*
Red Queen / Dormouse / Caterpillar / Tweedle Dee

David Darrow*
Cheshire Cat / Mad Hatter / Caterpillar / Humpty Dumpty

Markita Prescott*
Alice

Christopher Ramirez*
Dodgson / White Queen / Caterpillar / Tweedle Dum

Sensei Silab
Ensemble

Garrett Turner*
White Rabbit / White Knight / Wicket / March Hare

Baltimore Center Stage:  debut. Off Broadway—The Actor’s Temple: Honestly Abe (Jessie); The Pit: Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood (Echinacea.) Tour—Theatreworks USA: We the People (Dawn). Regional— Keegan Theatre: Chicago (May 2018); Artscentric: Chicago (Velma); Stillpointe: The Last Five Years (Cathy); Iron Crow: Fucking A (Hester), The Wild Party (Kate; B.U.L.S.H.I.T. award, Supporting Actress); New Hazlett: Ragtime (Sarah’s Friend); Millbrook Playhouse: Hairspray (Dynamite). Entertainment—Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd: Lead Vocalist. Education—BFA: Ithaca College (Musical Theatre).

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Sensei Silab emmigrated from the Philippines to the United States in 2008. She is currently a senior in high school at The Baltimore School for the Arts, majoring in theater. Grateful to be a part of this amazing ensemble, Sensei has been in numerous school performances. In 2016, she participated in the MICA film project, Mischievous Pupil (starring as “Olivia”). In her free time, Sensei loves to play the guitar, go on nature walks, and meditate. She also enjoys singing. Other than English, Sensei is fluent in Bisaya and Tagalog. One of Sensei’s many goals is to be able to speak Spanish fluently.

A proud native of Florence, Alabama, Garrett Turner received his Masters from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. NYC: The Dove (York Theatre Company), Acappella the Musical (NYMF). Regional: Half Time (Jerry Mitchell; Paper Mill Playhouse), Holler If Ya Hear Me (Kenny Leon; True Colors Theatre), The Royale (Theatrical Outfit), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Asolo Rep), Lookingglass Alice (Baltimore Center Stage), Memphis (Mason Street Warehouse), In the Heights (Aurora Theatre), Dreamgirls (Atlanta Lyric Theatre). TV: Law & Order: SVU, Madam Secretary. Emory Grad. Marshall Scholar. Psalm 115:1 – garrett-turner.com – @garrettmturner

Creative Team

Jeremy B. Cohen
Director

Rennie Harris
Choreographer

Tim Mackabee
Scenic Designer

David Burdick
Costume Designer

Rui Rita
Lighting Designer

Lindsay Jones
Original Music, Musical Arrangements, Sound Designer

Caite Hevner
Projection Designer

Jose C. Simbulan
Music Director

Lewis Shaw
Fight Choreographer

Mari Andrea Travis
Assistant Director and Dance Captain

Rebecca Adelsheim
Production Dramaturg

Pat McCorkle
Casting

Katja Zarolinski
Casting

Alicia Quirk*
Stage Manager

Monica Cook*
Assistant Stage Manager

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Wild With Happy, US premiere of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Let There Be Love w/ Avery Brooks. Cohen is the Artistic Director of the Playwrights’ Center. Regional/ NYC—Associate Artistic Director/Director of New Play Development at Hartford Stage (2003-10) directing credits included Snow Falling on Cedars, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mistakes Were Made, The Scene (with George Street Playhouse), Mahalia: A Gospel Musical, I Am My Own Wife, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Bad Dates, A Christmas Carol. Cohen recently directed a new Off Broadway musical My Mother Has Four Noses by singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke (The Duke on 42nd St.), and the world premiere of Aditi Kapil’s Brahman/i (Mixed Blood). Other Regional—Credits include world premieres of Theresa Rebeck’s The Novelist (Dorset Theatre); Smart Cookie (Alliance); Adam Rapp’s Ghosts in the Cottonwoods (Victory Gardens); Scott McPherson’s Scraped (Bailiwick); The Idiot Box (Naked Eye Theatre Company, Open Fist Theatre). Other—US premiere of Mom’s the Word (Metropolis Theatre/Royal George); East Coast premiere of Closet Land (NY Performance Works); and the Midwest premiere of Shopping and F***ing (Bailiwick); The Scene, Bad Dates, and Trip to Bountiful (Alley Theatre); the four-city tour of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Kansas City Rep, New Victory Theatre); Hannah and Martin (Theater J); Nickel and Dimed (Steppenwolf); The Unexpected Man (Adirondack Theatre). Founding Artistic Director of Naked Eye Theatre Company in Chicago, where he has developed/directed 20 plays, including world premieres of Jamie Pachino’s Waving Goodbye (Steppenwolf) and Timothy Mason’s Cannibals and Midwest premieres of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne and Naomi Wallace’s One Flea Spare (Goodman). Workshops/Development—Seminar (NYSF), Brahman/i (LaJolla Playhouse), Some of the People, All of the Time (Pasadena Playhouse), Good on Paper (Denver Center), Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods (New Harmony), The Radiant Abyss (Woolly Mammoth), plays by Adam Bock, Michael Elyanow, Barbara Field, Basil Kreimendahl, Dan O’Brien, Hana Sharif, Mat Smart, and Victoria Stewart. Awards—numerous awards and nominations, including Jeff, Helen Hayes, After Dark. Other Professional—Director and part of the Directing Faculty at the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference/National Theatre Institute, recipient of an NEA/TCG Directors Fellowship, and a Northwestern University award for his play 12 Volt Heart.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Accolades—Considered the pioneer of “Street Dance Theater” Harris was voted one of the most influential people in the last 100 years of Philadelphia history and has been compared to Alvin Ailey and Bob Fosse. Awards—3 Bessie Awards, 3 Alvin Ailey Black Choreographers Awards, the Herb Alpert Award in Choreography, nominated for a Lawrence Olivier Award (UK), Governors Artist of the Year Award, USA Artist Award for Choreography. Education—He’s the first street dancer to receive two honorary doctorates: Bates College (Arts and Humanities) and Columbia College (Fine Arts). International—2014 tour of the Middle East, including Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine. He served as 1 of 4 US Ambassadors as part of President Obama’s cultural exchange program Dance Motion USA, led by former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. “Harris the most profound choreographer of his idiom” (New York Times).

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Shakespeare in Love, Jazz, Amadeus. Broadway—The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End—The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway—MTC: Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century; Atlantic: Guards at the Taj (2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Set Design), Our New Girl, The Penitent; Lincoln Center Theatre: Heathers The Musical, Luce; Vineyard: Gigantic; Public Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing. Regional—ACT San Francisco, Ford’s Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Center Stage Baltimore, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Geva Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, South Coast Repertory, Victory Gardens Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, The Muny, Williamstown Theatre Festival (9 seasons.) Dance—Doug Varone & Dancers, Cedar Lake Dance. TV—Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education—North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Next to Normal; Amadeus; Twelfth Night; dance of the holy ghosts; Animal Crackers; …Edgar Allan Poe; The Mountaintop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; A Skull in Connemara; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Working it Out; Cyrano; Caroline, or Change; Hearts; Things of Dry Hours; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Elmina’s Kitchen; Picnic; a.m. Sunday; The Rainmaker; Blithe Spirit; and many others. Regional—Everyman Theatre: Sweat, Dancing at Lughnasa, Intimate Apparel, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Revolutionists, The Book of Joseph, Dot, Los Ostros, An Inspector Calls, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ruined, Ghosts, Blithe Spirit; Walnut Street/Totem Pole: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Moon Over Buffalo. Opera—Cincinnati: Don Giovanni; Boston Lyric: I Puritani; Tulsa: Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Fidelio. Dance—BAM: FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance; Dayton Contemporary Dance: Lyric Fire (world premiere, dir/choreographer Dianne McIntyre). Other—Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Spectacular.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Wiz, Trouble in Mind, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, King Lear. Broadway—Trip to Bountiful, Velocity of Autumn, Present Laughter, Dividing the Estate, Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, The Price, A Thousand Clowns. Off-Broadway—Second Stage: Happiest Song Plays Last; Roundabout: Just Jim Dale, Talley’s Folly, Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; Signature Theatre: Piano Lesson, Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle; TFANA: Engaged (Obie Award), All’s Well That Ends Well; MTC: Nightingale, Moonlight and Magnolias; Lincoln Center: Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East. Regional—Alley, ACT, Arena Stage, Center Theatre Group, Ford’s Theatre, Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, MacCarter, Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Bus Stop, Let There Be Love, Intimate Apparel. Off Broadway—Public Theatre: Wild With Happy, The Brother/Sister Plays; Playwrights Horizons: The Burnt Part Boys; Primary Stages: Rx; New York Theatre Workshop: Top Secret; many others. International—Austria, Royal Shakespeare Company (England), Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada), and productions in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Scotland, and Austria. Regional—McCarter; South Coast Repertory; Arena Stage; Goodman; Old Globe; Steppenwolf; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Guthrie; Hartford Stage; Chicago Shakespeare; Lookingglass Theatre Company; Yale Repertory; many others. Film/TV scoring work—The Brass Teapot for Magnolia Pictures; A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary Short Subject) for HBO Films. Awards—Six Joseph Jefferson Awards and 16 nominations; two Ovation Awards and three nominations; LA and SD Drama Critics Circle Award; two ASCAP Plus Awards; nominations for Drama Desk, Barrymore, Henry Hewes Design, and AUDELCO Awards; and was the first sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—In Transit. Off Broadway/New York— The Duke on 42nd Street: My Mother Has 4 Noses, (dir. Jeremy B. Cohen); Atlantic Theater Company: Derren Brown: Secret; Primary Stages: DISCORD; The Gym at Judson: DIASPORA; Roundabout Underground: Ugly Lies the Bone; Lynn Redgrave Theater: Tail! Spin!; New York Theatre Workshop Next Door: The Elephant in Every Room I Enter; St. Luke’s Theater: Baghdaddy; Soho Playhouse: Triassic Parq; 59E59:Orwell in America; HERE Arts Center: Science Fair; Avery Fisher Hall: Parade. Regional— Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theater Center, Everyman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre, Northern Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, People’s Light, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Round House Theater, Seattle 5th Avenue, Syracuse Stage, Theater J, Williamstown Theatre Festival. caitedesign.com

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Lestat, A Chorus Line, Mary Poppins. Regional— Arena Stage: The Music Man, South Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George; Connecticut Repertory Theatre: Peter & The Starcatcher; Fiddlehead Theatre Company: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Merry- Go-Round Theatre: West Side Story; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Man of La Mancha; Virginia Repertory Theatre: Gypsy; Signature Theatre: Passion, Into the Woods; Charleston Stage Company: The Producers. Other— Accompanist: Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), Unified Professional Auditions (UPTA). Education—BM: Virginia Commonwealth University (Piano Performance). @JoseSPiano

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, A Skull in Connemara, Gleam, The Rivals, Crime & Punishment, Snow Falling on Cedars. Broadway—Addams Family, Life in Theatre, Shrek, Pirate Queen, Aida, Scarlet Pimpernel, Tarzan. International—West End: Royal Family. Regional—Ben-Hur Live, Metropolitan Opera, Baltimore Opera, Washington Opera, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre. Fight Direction—Everyman Theatre: Private Lives, All My Sons, Mystery of Irma Vep, Filthy Rich, Much Ado About Nothing. Baltimore Opera—Romeo et Juliette, Otello, Elektra, Aida; Studio Theatre: Frozen, Mojo; Rep Stage: Bach at Leipzig, Lonesome West, Swan; Globe Theatre, London (Workshop Season); Shakespeare Theatre: Taming of the Shrew; over 40 episodes of America’s Most Wanted. Film/TV—Killer Joe, Death Games. Other Professional—Weapons and Specialty Prop Design; Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and on faculty for the Opera Studio at University of Maryland, College Park.

Baltimore Center Stage: Mobile Unit Twelfth Night (Choreographer), Skeleton Crew (Assistant Director), Lookingglass Alice (Assistant Director and Dance Captain). Broadway—Fela! (production assistant). Choreography—credits include Morgan State University: Black Nativity, The Wiz; Spotlighter’s Theatre: Ain’t Misbehavin; Arena Players: Smokey Joe’s Café, Coppin State University: For Colored Girls…; guest choreography residencies: Georgetown University, MSU, Duke Ellington School for the Arts, Friends School. Directing—credits include Arena Players: Spell #7, Colorblind: The Katrina Monologues. Education—BA: Morgan State University (Theatre). Professional/Other—Mari is an arts educator and the founder and creative director of Good Stuff On Stage, a community-focused performance art company.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Play Lab 2017: Handle It, To the Flame. Off Broadway—Atlantic & Deaf West: pig.gov (Workshop). Regional—Goodman Theater New Stages: King of Hell’s Palace, And Moira Spins, King of the Yees, On the Exhale; Victory Gardens Theater: Cocked, Ignition Festival: Wolf Play, Kill Move Paradise; Writers: The Mystery of Love & Sex; Steep: Bobbie Clearly; Greenhouse: The Way She Spoke; Sideshow: Mai Dang Lao, Wally World. Professional—Professional Leadership Assistant at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Producer: Victory Gardens, 2nd Story, Directors Gathering; Script Reader: Victory Gardens, Writers, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights, Philadelphia Young Playwrights; Proud member of LMDA. Education—BA: University of Pennsylvania; Kings College London.

Baltimore Center Stage: A Wonder in My Soul, King of the Yees, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, SOUL The Stax Musical, Mobile Unit Twelfth Night, Animal Farm, Skeleton Crew, Lookingglass Alice, The Christians, Jazz, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Detroit ’67, As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, Amadeus, Wild with Happy, Twelfth Night, A Civil War Christmas. Broadway—Amazing Grace, On the Town, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good Men, etc. Off-Broadway—Clever Little Lies, Dr. Ruth, Stalking the Bogeyman, Freud’s Last Session, Tribes, Our Town, Almost Maine and Driving Miss Daisy. Over 50 regional theaters—Guthrie, George Street Theatre, Connecticut Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Barrington Stage. Over 60 films—Senior Moment, Year by the Sea, Child of Grace, Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard III, School Ties. TV/Web—Planned Parenthood series Talkin’ About, Twisted, Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nom), Max Bickford, Hack, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, Chappelle’s Show. mccorklecasting.com

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—credits include Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2, & 3, The Legend Of Georgia McBride, Stupid Fucking Bird, Murder Ballad, The Rocky Horror Show, Seminar, See What I Wanna See, Fair Use, Grey Gardens, Some Men, The Last Five Years, I Am My Own Wife (PSM, Actor’s Express, Atlanta). Sondheim’s Road Show (SMPA, Public Theater NY); Mary Poppins (SMA, 1st National Tour); The Color Purple, Saint Lucy’s Eyes, Pacific Overtures, My Fair Lady, Crowns (Alliance, Atlanta) Mahalia, Lost Highway (Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta). Recent new works include Script and/or Score Supervision for World Premiere Workshop Productions at the Alliance Theatre for Tuck Everlasting, Born For This: The Bebe Winans Story, Twist: An American Musical, Start Down, and The Prom.

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Reviews

“A non-traditional family offering this holiday season.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“This Alice stands for a whole lot more than inquisitive Victorian girlhood.”— The Baltimore Sun

“Crisp and witty.”— The Baltimore Sun

“A delightful family musical with a message of empowerment and frivolity.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“An awe-inspiring mix that tingles all the senses.”— Backstage Baltimore

“HERE AT LAST IS AN ALICE OF OUR TIMES…WHO WE CAN ALL CHEER ON”— JMORE LIVING

“LOOKINGGLASS ALICE IS ONE OF THOSE PRODUCTIONS THAT REMINDS US ALL WHY WE LOVE THEATER.”— MARYLAND THEATRE GUIDE

“IT’S BLESSED WITH A VERSATILE ENSEMBLE CAST, AND THE LIGHTING AND COSTUMES ARE EXTRAORDINARY…. IS THE IDEAL HOLIDAY ANTIDOTE TO CREAKY NUTCRACKERS AND RITUAL ORATORIOS.”— JMORE LIVING

“CHILDREN WILL FIND THE MANY ANTICS QUITE FUN, WHILE ADULTS WILL ENJOY THE WINK-WINK MOMENTS OF HUMOR.”— THE BALTIMORE SUN

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