Live Arts 2017 Production TeamCreated, Performed and Produced Kara McLane Burke & Siân Richards Direction & Story Collaboration Martha Mendenhall Original Music and Lyrics Jim Waive Texts Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell Light Design Heather Hutton Set Design JP Scheidler, Sian, Kara & Martha Set & Props Construction JP Scheidler, Paul Borzelleca, Jim Waive, Will May Set Painting John Owen, Zap McConnell Sound Design and Operator Opal Lechmanski Additional Sound Design Louis Schultz Light Operator Toby Beard Backstage Assistants Oliver Zatcoff Sewing Corey Lloyd & Lisa Eller Dance Advisor Jennifer Tweel Kelly Poster Design Vu Nguyen Photography Doug Berndt, Will Kerner Painting Assistant Eva Pfefferkorn Orchestration for Pip’s big number Curtis Pettit SPECIAL THANKS Chris Burke Tomas Rahal & Mas Tapas Madwoman Project Charmed Designworks Live Arts Bree Luck August Givens Tracie Skipper Leo Arico Chris Kelly Jim Waive Jen Downey Marisa Vrooman Lydia Horan & Tandem Friends School Corey Lloyd Gary Warwick White Market Street Wineshop Boomie Pedersen & Hamner Theater Morgan Ashcorn Dolly Joseph Laura Galgano David Brents Ceri and Angela Richards The McLane Family Erin and Haley Burke Denise Stewart Miller Murray Susen Mark McLane ALC Copies Skyclad Aerial & Will Kerner Photography Will Richey Paul Borzelleca & Modernboy Woodshop Strauss Construction Alloy Workshop Mudhouse Coffee Roasters Tenth Street Warehouses Bittersweet |
PEP (originally Performers Exchange Project) is a professional theatre company that has been making original work in the Charlottesville area since 2005. They created the original plays Zelda & Lucia’s Loony Bin Tragedy, Dido Versus the Squid Monster, Our American Ann Sisters, and The Convolution of Pip and Twig. They co-produced two large-scale collaborative art carnivals called A Charlottesville Wunderkammer and Shentai. PEP hosted an artist salonat the Bridge PAI called Assembly, and toured Our American Ann Sisters and a working demonstration called “Building Performance: A Look at Actor-Created Physical Actions.” They have worked with artists from around the U.S. and the world for residencies of performance, workshops, and exchange, including Serbia’s DAH Theatre from Serbia, Denmark’s Annika Lewis, American companies from New York and Washington, DC, as well as Virginia organizations like Live Arts, Hamner Theater, Zen Monkey Project, Madwoman Project, the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Hollins University, and Mary Baldwin University. PEP is Doreen Bechtol, Kara McLane Burke, Martha Mendenhall, Siân Richards, and Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell. They are based in Charlottesville VA, with members also living in Staunton, VA and Winston-Salem, NC.
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