The Women of Lockerbie
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Approximate runtime: 1hr 20 minutes
Approximate runtime: 1hr 20 minutes
October 22nd Live Stream: completed/closed
8PM Eastern Standard Time
8PM Eastern Standard Time
October 23rd Live Stream: completed/closed
8PM Eastern Standard Time
8PM Eastern Standard Time
The story of The Women of Lockerbie takes place on the seven-year anniversary of the bombing and crash of flight: Pan Am 103. The story follows a couple who have returned to the site in hopes of moving past their grief, and the women who witnessed and dealt with the aftermath.
The Team:
Deborah Brevoort (Playwright) Deborah Brevoort is a playwright and librettist from Alaska who now lives in the New York area. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, one of the original company members of Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, a member of the playwright’s collective at Florida Studio Theatre and a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders, dedicated to international theatre exchange.
She is best known for her play The Women of Lockerbie, which won the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award and the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting Competition. It was produced in London at the Orange Tree, off-Broadway at the New Group and Women’s Project and in Los Angeles at the Actor’s Gang. It is produced all over the US and internationally. Published by DPS and No Passport Press, the play has had over 700 productions to date and is translated into nine languages.
www.deborahbrevoort.com
She is best known for her play The Women of Lockerbie, which won the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award and the silver medal in the Onassis International Playwriting Competition. It was produced in London at the Orange Tree, off-Broadway at the New Group and Women’s Project and in Los Angeles at the Actor’s Gang. It is produced all over the US and internationally. Published by DPS and No Passport Press, the play has had over 700 productions to date and is translated into nine languages.
www.deborahbrevoort.com
Roberto Di Donato (director) Roberto is a Venezuelan-Italian-American artist originally from Texas. At OU Roberto is a founding member and the Co-Executive Producer of Vibrancy Theater. In the School of Theater he has directed a new play by Kirk Lynn titled Effective Magic. Roberto is the Assistant Producer for Tantrum Theater, located in Athens, OH. His translations of the Nobel Prize Laureate, Luigi Pirandello, have been seen in NYC and are projected for a revival. Roberto is working on his debut novel that reflects the complexities of Latin identity in the world of capitalist art making. Roberto is also Associate Artistic Director and co-producer for Frank Wo/Men Collective, the award winning Austin-Based performance collective. Frank Wo/Men was recently named “The Best of Austin” for their work and listed as “Top Arts Related Thing to Do” by the Austin Chronicle. Roberto, with Frank Wo/Men, is an Artist in Residence at Texas Performing Arts at UT Austin.
instagram: @roberto_di_donato
instagram: @roberto_di_donato
Nick Bartleson (Stage Manager) BFA Stage Management, BFA Production Design and Technology, 3rd Year. Ohio University Stage Manager: Effective Magic. Ohio University Assistant Stage Manager: Big Love, Romeo and Juliet. Ohio University Props Master: Angels in America. Ohio University Assistant Props Master: Silent Sky. Ohio University Props Artisan: She Kills Monsters, Romeo and Juliet, Holly Down in Heaven, Carbret. Other: Tantrum Theater: Objects in the Mirror (Assistant Props Master) Rhinoceros (Props Artisan), Tantrum Theater Summer Festival 2019 (Production Assistant). Film: Truck Fishing in America (Co-Head of Art Department). Website: https://bartlesona1.wixsite.com/nickbartleson
Piper Kirchhofer (Lighting Design) is a third year MFA Lighting Design candidate. OU credits: “Romeo and Juliet” (Lighting Design) Fall 2021 “Macbeth” (Lighting Design) “Silent Sky” (Assistant Lighting Design). Other credits include: “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol” (Assistant Design) “Morningside,” (Lighting Design) “Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story,” (Lighting Design) and “Having Our Say, The Delaney Sisters First 100 Years” (Lighting Design).
piperlighting.com
piperlighting.com
Christopher Rees (Scenic/Digital Designer) MFA, Scenic Design, Second Year. Ohio University: Effective Magic (Scenic Designer) She Kills Monsters (Scenic Artist) Silent Sky (Lead Scenic Artist) Other: Tantrum Theater: Rhinoceros (Scenic Artist). West Liberty University: The Secret in the Wings (Scenic Designer), 18 Victoria (Scenic Designer). Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center: Matilda The Musical (Carpenter/Technician). Theater West Virginia: Willy Wonka Jr. (Technical Director) Rocket Boys The Musical (Technical Director).
Chantel Booker (Costume Design) MFA, Costume Design, First Year. The Women of Lockerbie (Costume Designer) Ohio University Theatre. Other: Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder (Costume Designer) Michigan State University – Studio 60 Theatre. Frankenstein (Hair & Makeup Designer) Michigan State University – Pasant Theatre. Costume Designer: Our Town, Dames at Sea, Summer Circle Theatre. chantelbooker.com
Harper Justus (Sound Design) BFA, Production Design and Technology, Third Year. Ohio University Sound Designer: Pluto, Absentia. Assistant Sound Designer: Sunny Days. A2: Cabaret, She Kills Monsters. Summer 2019: Marietta College Summer Theatre Festival (Sound Designer and Engineer) Film: An Illiad dir. Emily Penick (Recording Engineer and Production Mixer).
Alyssa Embry (Props Master) BFA, Prop Technology, Fourth Year. Ohio University: 365 Plays/365 Days (Props Master), Bug (Props Master/Scenic Design), Silent Sky (Props Master), Perfect Arrangement (Props Master/Scenic Design), Romeo and Juliet (Asst. Props Master), She Kills Monsters (Asst. Props Master). Other: Tantrum Theater’s 2018 season (Props Artisan) and Central City Opera’s 2019 season (Props Artisan). Film: Medicaid Equity Simulation Project (Set Dresser/ Props Artisan) and Truck Fishing in America (Co-Artistic Director).
Janai Lashon (Madeline Livingston) MFA, Acting, Third Year. Ohio University: Here Lies Vivenne Greene (Vivenne Greene), Holly Down in Heaven (Mia), 365 plays/365 days (Ensemble) Other: Objects in the Mirror (Luopu), Virtual Streaming, Rhinoceros ( Daisy) Tantrum Theater, Black Lives, Black Words (Ensemble) Face Off Theater Company, Chain (Rosa) Epic Theatre.
Future: Graduation Spring 2021
Future: Graduation Spring 2021
DeVantè Malone (Bill Livingston) MFA, Acting, Third year. Ohio University: 365 Plays/365 Days (Man 4), Holly Down In Heaven (Dad), Big Love (Nikos), The Sons of Sally(Israel). DeVante’ is thrilled to be apart of this production.
Katie Kirk (Olive Allison) BFA, Acting, Fourth Year. Tantrum Theater: Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco. Ohio University: She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen (Tilly Evans), Stitched with a Sickle and a Hammer by Inna Tsyrlin (Aleksandra Vinchik), The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (#14), Sterling Summer Theater: 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton and Patricia Resnik (Doralee Rhodes), Chicago by Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, and John Kander (Roxie Hart), Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Audrey).
instagram: @kathryn.kirk
instagram: @kathryn.kirk
Caroline Donato (Woman 1) BFA, Musical Theatre, Second Year. Ohio University Film: Choices (Vanessa) Justine Thomas. Untangled (Lisbeth) Gokulprasath Muralitharan.
Kaylee Michael (Woman 2) BFA, Musical Theater, Second Year. Kaylee is excited to participate in her first show at Ohio University. Other: Godspell(Socrates/Robin) The Carnegie.
Taylor Mickey (Hattie) BFA, Acting, Third Year. Ohio University: Fusion and Fallout of the Nuclear Family (Young Irene). Other: Toxic Growth (Iva Woodward) Ohio University School of Film, The Big Game (Fiona) Ohio University School of Film.
James McDaid (George Jones) BFA, Acting, Third Year. Ohio University: Effective Magic (Bully #2). Film: Sisyphus (Sisyphus) by Steven Kachurik. Other: Dog Sees God (Matt) The Lost Flamingos Company.