The Convolution of Pip and Twig
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Live Arts 2017 Production Team



Created, 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 
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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






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​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. 
www.performers-exchange.org


PEP -  PO BOX 744  Charlottesville, VA 22902  • PEPCVILLE@GMAIL.COM  •  434-806-9506   
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