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Proudly presented online Friday, February 5, 2021 at 8p
Theater Grottesco in PIE is funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead
funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Touchstone Theatre proudly presents
Theater Grottesco in PIE
Creators/Writers
Kent Kirkpatrick, John Flax, Danielle Reddick, Apollo Garcia, Tara Khozein
Performers
Apollo Garcia, Tara Khozein, Danielle Reddick, John Flax
Director
Kent Kirkpatrick
Choreographer
Apollo Garcia
Musical Director
Tara Khozein
Lighting Designer
Skip Rapoport
Sound Designer
J.A. Deane
Graphic Designer
Bob Brady
Props & Construction
Patrick Mehaffy, Apollo Garcia
Sound Techincian
Giuseppe Quinn
Light Board Operator
Karyna Swing
Stage Hand
Alec Spradling
Administrative Consultant
Janey Potts
The performance lasts 85 minutes. There will be no intermission.
Immediately following the performance, please join us for a brief talkback/Q&A
session with Danielle Reddick and John Flax
ABOUT PIE
The Grottesco ensemble has a wide range of age and experience. Some of us push
for complex ideas and spectacular imagery, others search for simplicity. Some view
the work from the audience’s perspective, asking, “I know this makes sense to us,
BUT...”. Some search for the musical potential of each moment, and others put
the styles and narrative in historical context asking, “What is the overarching conceit
of this piece?” This dynamic tension within the ensemble alchemizes, leaving us
wondering who came up with each idea in the first place.
We began work on PIE after our last major piece, The Moment of YES! was on its
feet. The same creative team set out to build on the discoveries made in YES! and to
explore the content and theatrical forms each member was passionate about. Over a
year was spent exploring the ideas and connections springing from the Carl Sagan
quote, before we began to create content in the rehearsal hall. Eventually the bones
of a story emerged and we began exploring character and situation. We spent
six months on our feet, creating the show.
We imagine PIE will mean something different to each of you. Stick around for the
talk-back after the show. We want to hear your impressions.
ABOUT GROTTESCO
Formed in Paris in 1983, Theater Grottesco crashes classical theatrical styles into
modern form juxtaposed with a poetic research of culture and imagination. Over the
past 38 years, the company has created 16 full-length productions and more than 40
shorter works. Grottesco has performed in 8 countries, 31 states, most major U.S.
cities and hundreds of smaller communities winning critical awards in Paris, San
Diego, Detroit and Houston. The Angels’ Cradle was seen off-Broadway in 1999
and will be permanently archived in the New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts. Grottesco was one of six 2017 National Theatre Project Award Winners.
Grottesco artists conduct workshops, master classes and residencies in physical
theater and the creation of original work with professional theaters, college theater
programs, public schools and corporations. With over 3 decades of dynamic
creations, Theater Grottesco has developed a distinct approach to making
theater which is playful, intelligent and always surprising – work which is
equally engaging to the child, the novice, and the connoisseur.WHO’S WHO APOLLO GARCIA ORELLANA is a performer, director, collaborator, and educator. He is a graduate of The Lecoq School in Paris, and has also trained with NoFit State Circus (Cardiff, Wales) and at Les Noctambules École de Cirque (Paris). He is a co- founder of the underground cabaret-cirque duo, Les Douleurs Exquises, and has worked as both an educator and performer in refugee camps on the borders of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria with the Her Yerde Sanat Social Circus. Apollo first appeared with Theater Grottesco in 2006 in WENOMADMEN and again in 2015 with The Moment of YES!. Before joining the PIE team, he was dancing on London’s West End. Other Santa Fe credits include Meow Wolf, Wisefool, and The Santa Fe Opera. Apollo currently lives in Berlin. TARA KHOZEIN is a classically-trained singer, improvisor, and graduate of the Jacques Lecoq School of Theater. She is currently exploring the intersections of classical singing and physical theater by continuing her vocal training, practicing vocal improvisation, and working as a performer in Budapest, Hungary. PIE is Tara’s second production with Grottesco, following The Moment of YES! in 2015. DANIELLE LOUISE REDDICK is from New York City where she worked as an actor, solo performer, puppeteer, percussionist and in the international touring company of STOMP. She has worked with Shepard Sobel, founder of the Pearl Theater in New York City and with Jon Jory, formerly of the Actor’s Theater of Louisville. In New Mexico she has performed with Ironweed Productions, Theaterwork, Mother Road Theatre Company and Santa Fe Performing Arts. She performs two solo shows: Ask Louise and Hypnopompic. She is an immersive theater artist at Meow Wolf, and a facilitating artist for Littleglobe. Danielle has worked as an actor in film, television and new media, is a member of the Baumann Marionette Puppet Troupe and participated in the 2019 National Puppetry Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. She is a nationally certified fitness instructor, has developed a system of individualized movement training called SoHyp, and has been the curator of the RedQuyn Space. Danielle graduated magna cum laude from Santa Fe University of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in theater/acting and is currently a MFA graduate student at Goddard College’s Multidisciplinary Arts program. JOHN FLAX has worked with the Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis and Paris, The Paris Circus, London’s Theatre Complicite, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Choreographer Della Davidson, the Sundance Playwriting Laboratory and the Out of Context Orchestra. He has taught at theaters and colleges nation-ally and internationally along with 8 years as a National Endowment for the Arts artist-in- the-schools. He was a board member of the national Network of Ensemble Theaters and is a graduate of the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris where he also studied with Phillipe Gaulier. He studied voice with Arthur Lessac, holds a BA in
Environmental Studies from Prescott College and an ABD Ed.D in Anthropology and Philosophy. At the age of 12, Flax was a state judo champion. In his early 20’s, he led a 2,000 mile kayaking expedition across Canada. *** KENT KIRKPATRICK, DIRECTOR– has worked in all aspects of theater and film, from writing and acting to teaching, directing and producing. In New Mexico he has worked with Shakespeare in Santa Fe, Theater Grottesco, Red Thread Collective, Theater work, Santa Fe Opera, College of Santa Fe, and the Santa Fe Playhouse. For Theater Grottesco he directed The Richest Deadman Alive, and acted in This Is Life As We Know It, Keyholes, Fortune: the Rise and Fall of a Small Fortune Cookie Factory. He has had a hand in development and/or directing OM: Ten Epic Plays in an Outlet Mall, The Moment of YES!, and The Translator. SKIP RAPOPORT, LIGHTING DESIGNER– has designed lighting in New York, Los Angeles and many points in between; at NY’s American Place Theater and Dance Theater Workshop, LA’s Vanguard Theater and Schönberg Hall, and Chicago’s Body Politic Theater. His clients have included The Acting Company, Mark Taper Forum’s New Theater for Now, Donald Byrd and the Group, and Nevada Dance Theater. In Santa Fe, he has designed for The Lensic, and Theaterwork, among many others. Recent work includes Death of a Salesman, Bus Stop, Welcome to Arroyo’s, and the inaugural season of New Mexico Actors Lab. This is Skip’s fourth collaboration with Theater Grottesco, and it just doesn’t get old. KARYNA SWING, LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR– grew up with music and African dance. She joined Kumusha Women’s Marimba Ensemble in 1998, and also played in Trillium Marimba Ensemble, a nationally touring group. She has studied with Bala, Lansana Kouyate, Djembe, Fred Simpson and Gumboot and Lucky Moyo. Karyna has been a full-time member of Polyphony Marimba since 2012 and has been a lighting designer and tech-nician for 30 years. GIUSEPPE QUINN, SOUND OPERATOR– is a stage and screen actor, movie editor, producer, and is media mashup performance artist Agramzu. Giuseppe was born and raised in the circus, and clowned professionally from age five till attending college. He has also worked with Theaterwork, Santa Fe Shakespeare Society, Shakespeare in Santa Fe, Wise Fool’s Circus Luminous, and Santa Fe Playhouse. He and his wife Danielle L. Reddick are RedQuyn Productions, creators of movies, live theater, performance art, and the curators of RedQuyn Experiences, a performance salon, which are held regularly in RedQuyn Space. JANEY POTTS, ADMINISTRATION – is a consultant for arts organizations and other not-for-profit entities. With more than 40 years of experience in non-profit management, Potts consults in the areas of finance, administration, marketing, development and event
planning and execution. Past theatrical experience includes Managing Director of
Shakespeare in Santa Fe and Sacramento Theatre Company, Development Director
for Sacramento Opera and the Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles). Current and previous
clients include the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Institute of American Indian Arts, The
Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico School for the Arts, the Santa Fe and New
Mexico Community Foundations, New Mexico Land Conservancy, Northern New
Mexico College and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design among many others.
Potts has been working with Theater Grottesco since 2004.
MARIAH OLESEN, MEDIA MANAGER – is an actor and an all-around theater
creator who studied musical theater at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She
holds many acting credits with Santa Fe theater companies, including Adobe
Rose Theatre, Shakespeare in the Gardens, and Santa Fe Playhouse. Most recently,
she co-produced and assistant directed Hostagefor the Adobe Rose Theatre
Productions.
***
LOOKING BACK ON THE HISTORY OF GROTTESCO:
Crusoe, 1983 - a clownesque economic unraveling of Defoe’s novel
The Insomniacs, 1984 - a comedy in half-mask spoken in an invented language
The Big Move, 1985 - a farce in the old style performed with the Paris Circus
The Gryphon, 1986 - a half-mask, buffoonesque tragedy
Fortune: The Rise & Fall of a Small Fortune Cookie Factory, 1987 - an
expressionistic melodrama
The Richest Dead Man Alive!,1988 - a modern farce
WENOMADMEN (We-Nomad-Men), 1989 - a sci-fi tragi-comic look at the future
Grottesco Shorts, 1990 - ten short plays in eight different styles
The Angels’ Cradle, 1993 - an epic tale of a buffoon civilization living beneath an
abandoned city
Grottesco Shorts II, 2000 - eighteen short and very short plays
This is Life as We Know It..., 2001 - a dance theater collage tracing
five interweaving livesKeyholes, 2003 - seven new short and adapted plays in six different styles A Dream Inside Another, 2005 - a dance theater collaboration with Sideshow Physical theater, Della Davidson - Artistic Director, based on stories by Isabel Allende Swimming in the Gases of Jupiter, 2006 - two one acts exploring myth. Grottesco’s 12th Night, 2008 - A re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, told from the perspective of the serving class... OM, Ten Tiny Epics in an Outlet Mall, 2010 - Thirteen New Short Pieces STORM, 2012 - A spoken opera created in collaboration with the Out of Context Orchestra on the convergence of environmental crises Consider This..., 2014 - A lecture-performance on creating relevant theater using historical theatrical style The Moment of YES!, 2015 - 4 performers on a bare stage create society. The Translator, 2016 - A lecture-demonstration on the history of Western Theatre is subverted by the translator who uses the historical styles to speak to contemporary issues. PiE, 2017 - “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”– Carl Sagan DIFFERENT, 2019 - An adaptation of the Joan of Arc story delivered as physical Greek Tragedy. KWAK, 2020 THE KING WITHOUT A KINGDOM - A buffoon fairy tale, delivered as a COVID isolation streamed video, for the 2020 election.
Touchstone Board of Trustees
Neal Koplin, President
Cindy Glick, Vice President
Bekah Eichelberger, Secretary
Camille Quiba, Treasurer
Diane Elliott, Esq.
John Fallock
Jp Jordan
Lisa Jordan
Alexis Leon
Alison O’Connell
Michele Pappalardo
Ernie Thomas Stiegler
Honorary Council
Linny* & Beall Fowler
Ellen Baker-Ghelardi
Ruth Marcon
Mary Meilinger*
Mrs. Katherine Merle-Smith Thomas*
Joan Moran
Barbara Pearson*
Denise Stangl
Sharon Yoshida
*In Memoriam
Company Members
Jp Jordan, Artistic Director/Ensemble Member
Lisa Jordan, Managing Director/Ensemble Member
Bill George, Co-Founder/Ensemble Member
Emma Ackerman, Ensemble Member
Christopher Shorr, Ensemble Member
Mary Wright, Ensemble Member
Chris Egging, Ensemble Associate
Apprentices/MFA Students
Kat Anderegg Sara M. Group
Jessica Boothe Abbie Jean Litman
Sean Patrick Cassidy Matt Prideaux
Adam D. Ercolani
Ensemble Affiliates
Alyssa Lou Ann Allen Michael Duck
Steven Barnett Jason Hedrington
Samantha Beedle Ashley Tait Weller
Erick Black Silagh White
Shawn Cavanaugh
Interns
Jolianna Lanning
Kyra Zimmerman
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