PAST PROJECTS
By Virtue
Fall
By Virtue Fall -
Spring 2019
The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows
By Gina Femia (SWP 2019 Writer-in-Residence)
Directed by: Blayze Teicher
Measure for Measure
By William Shakespeare
Directed by: Phoebe Brooks
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Our seventh season explored the vital relationship between speech and power. Our production of Measure for Measure focused on women coming together to uncover a history of sexual harassment buried within the Justice System. Paired with the world premiere of The Virtuous Fall of the Girls from Our Lady of Sorrows, a hilarious exploration of teenage revolution in the face of petty authoritarianism, SWP's season re-examined a frustratingly timeless question: even if you speak the truth, who will believe you?
Featuring:
Mia Canter, Shavana Clarke, Alia Guidry, Ashil Lee, Renita Lewis, Blake Prentiss, Sarah Rosengarten, Pearl Shin, and Stephen Zuccaro
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* Denotes SWP Company Member or Artist-in-Residence
Production Stage Manager: Frances Swanson*
Production Manager: Emily Rosenkrantz*
Lighting Design: Yi-Chung Chen*
Set Design: Lindsay Genevieve Fuori
Sound Design: Carsen Joenk
Props Design: Megan McQueeney*
Press Representative: Emily Owens PR
Costume Design: Noelle Quanci
Production Assistant: Eve Brunswick
Assistant Stage Manager (Virtuous Fall): Victoria A. Gelling
Assistant Stage Manager (Measure for Measure): Cafega Haynes-Rodriguez
Dream Season
Dream Season -
Spring 2018
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Merrily, Merrily -
By Iris Dauterman (SWP 2018 Writer-in-Residence)
Directed by: Victoria Teague
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Life Is But a Dream -
Translated by Shawn Morgenlander
from Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño
Directed by: Anaïs Koivisto
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Our 2018 Dream Season explored family dynamics, forgiveness, and the gray area between dreams and reality. Together, the two plays probed the recesses of our self-constructed bubbles and encourage us to judge the subjectivity of our own perceptions.
Featuring:
Nick Bombicino*, Patrick Chang, Veronique Jeanmarie, Katie Rose Krueger*, Dani Martineck, Isabelle Russo, and Stephen Zuccaro.​
*Member of Actors' Equity Association
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# Denotes SWP Company Member | + Denotes SWP Associated Artist
Production Stage Manager - Frances Swanson #
Production Manager: Emily Rosenkrantz #
Set Designer: Caitlynn Barrett
Lighting Designer: Yi-Chung Chen +
Sound Designer: Carsen Joenk​
Props Designer: Megan McQueeney +
Costume Designer: Noelle Quanci
Assistant Stage Manager (Merrily, Merrily) - Sara Nishimura
Assistant Stage Manager (Life Is But a Dream) - Madeline Pomaro
Reigning Women
Reigning Women - SPRING 2017
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COULD THIS MEETING HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL - By Kristin Slaney (SWP 2017 Writer-in-Residence)
Mary Stuart - By Friedrich Schiller, Translated by Phoebe Brooks
Season Director: Phoebe Brooks
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Our Reigning Women season explored the complex history of women in charge, finding both tragedy and hilarity in the journey from the dueling monarchs Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I to the working women chipping away at the glass ceiling in today's corporate culture. During the stark political aftermath of early 2017, these two plays investigated the timely questions of when - if ever- our society is finally ready to let women take control.
Set Design: Beth Svenningsen
Sound Design: Carsen Jewell Joenk
Costume Design: Danica Martino
Fight Choreographer: Jon Meyer
Production Stage Manager: Franny Swanson*
Assistant Directors: Niki Afsar, Nkenna Ibeakanma
Lighting Design: Yi-Chung Chen*
Graphics Design: Sophie Golomb
Props Design: Megan McQueeney
Featuring: Meghan Blakeman, Olivia Jampol, Sam Ogilvie, Jonathon Ryan, Dan Selinger, Pearl Shin, Nicholas Vasilios Pappas & Kimberlee Walker
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*Denotes SWP Artist-in-Residence
Tragislasher
Tragislasher - SPRING 2016
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Bonesetter: A Tragislasher
By Annette Storckman (Spicy Witch Productions' 2016 Writer-in-Residence)
Directed by Anaïs Koivisto
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The Revenger's Tragedy
By Thomas Middleton
Directed by Rebecca Weiss
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The #Tragislasher repertory season investigated gendered violence - exploring our darkest urges, while having fun along the way. Annette Storckman’s campy horror comedy reimagined "The Revenger's Tragedy" as a 1980s slasher flick, exploring the sexual politics that govern both horror movie tropes and the puritanical misogyny of Middleton's era.
Featuring: Clio Contogenis, Amelia Dudley, David Federman, Meghann Garmany, Isaac Allen Miller, Brandon O'Sullivan, Cristina Ramos, Matthew Schott, Kimberlee Walker, Alison Wien, and Madison Welterlen.
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*Denotes SWP Artist-in-Residence
Production Stage Manager: Frances Swanson*
Assistant Stage Manager / Assistant Director (Revenger's Tragedy): Niki Afsar
Lighting Designer: Yi-Chung Chen*
Hair & Makeup Designer: Meagan Gorham
Props & Blood Designer: Megan McQueeney
Fight Choreographer: Jon Meyer
Set Designer: Caitlyn Murphy
Assistant Stage Manager / Assistant Director (Bonesetter): Elizabeth Power
Fight Captain: Christina Ramos
Costume Designer: Alexandra Rozansky
Sound Designer: Andrew Tarr
The Cuntry Wife
The Cuntry Wife - FALL 2015
The Cunt by Elle Anhorn (SWP Writer-in-Residence 2015)
Directed by Francesca DiCesare
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Directed by Phoebe Brooks
The "Cuntry Wife" repertory season explored sexual freedom, gender fluidity and the rules and boundaries of monogamy. Our inaugural Playwright in Residence season paired a genderqueer interpretation of The Country Wife, a classic Restoration Comedy, with the world premiere of The Cunt by Elle Anhorn, a burlesque-filled adaptation of Wycherley's play set in contemporary Brooklyn.
Featuring: Zach Bryant, Amanda Ebert, Katie Fanning, Kristin Guerin, Tim Haber, Hannah Hammel, Zach Libresco, Isaac Miller, Kat Murphy, and Samantha Nugent
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Production Stage Manager: Frances Swanson
Lighting Designer: Yi-Chung Chen
Hair & Makeup Designer: Meagan Gorham
Props Designer: Mariya Sudarska
Set Designer: Robert Burszytn
Assistant Stage Manager: Chiara Johnson
Costume Designer: Alexandra Rozansky
Sound Designer: Andrew Tarr
Projections Designer: Caleb Sharp
Un-Rom Coms
Un-Rom Coms - FALL 2014
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Directed by Meghan Blakeman
Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo
Directed by Phoebe Brooks
The Spicy Witches take on beauty, appearance, and the choices women make when faced with judgement from the opposite sex in these two bittersweet comedies.
Who is Silvia
Music by Nick Bombicino for Two Gentlemen of Verona
Performed by: John Hardin (Proteus), Maren Fischer (Thurio), Mia Canter (Julia), and Kelly Karcher (Silvia)
The White Wife Series
The White Wife Series - Fall 2013
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Othello
Directed by Rebecca Weiss
Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief by Paula Vogel
Directed by Sarah Lemanski
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Our first season paired Shakespeare's Othello, performed by an all-female cast, and Paula Vogel's Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief. By pairing the plays together and having actresses play the same parts in both plays, we investigated themes of the female voice, the public and private spheres, and our gendered and non-gendered views of deception, lying, jealousy, and status.
Meghan Blakeman, Gianna Cioffi, Hannah Giddings, Hannah Hammel, Lee Ann Hoover, Sarah Lemanski, Katie Medved, Victoria Nassif, Isabelle Russo, and Monique St. Cyr
The White Wife: A Reading
The White Wife:
A Reading
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Our inaugural event consisted of a combined reading of portions of Othello and Desdemona: A Play About a Handkercheif, featuring an all-female cast. By juxtosposing both shows within the same time frame, the reading gave new life to examinations of reputation, jealousy, status, and competition in both plays.
Directed by Rebecca Weiss and Sarah Lemanski
OTHELLO: JoLisa Jones
DESDEMONA: Isabelle Russo
IAGO: Sarah Lemanski
EMILIA: Meghan Blakeman
CASSIO: Gianna Cioffi
BIANCA: Hannah Hammel
LODOVICO: Camilla Skoglie