DIXON PLACE PRESENTS

TABULA RASA (Blank Slate)

CAST

BLAIR BUSBEE----------------------------------------------------------------- ENHEDUANNA MARISSA STEWART------------------------------------------------------------------- INANNA LAURE PORCHE--------------------------------------------------------------GEORGE SAND BRANDON TAYLOR----------------------------------------------------FREDERIC CHOPIN JENNIE CAMPBELL-------------------------------------------------------- EMMA LAZARUS TAYLOR GORDON------------------------------------------------------ESTERRE MEUCCI JORDON WATERS---------------------------------------------JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT NICOLE JONES---------------------------------------------------------------ANDY WARHOL

SPECIAL THANKS

TO

VOICE ACTORS

SARA YOKO HOWARD as ENHEDUANNA & EMMA LAZARUS BLAIR BUSBEE as INANNA DOUG ROBINSON as IBEH & JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT CAITLIN GOLDIE as GEORGE SAND, ESTERRE MEUCCI, & NARRATOR SCOTT T. FREEMAN as FREDRICK CHOPIN, ANTONIO MEUCCI, & NARRATOR DANNY BAIRD JR. as ANDY WARHOL ROBIN JOHNSON & MICHAEL JAYSON for your gracious help

DIXON PLACE For giving us the opportunity to present this project

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FOURTH STREET DANCE BLOCK

L IST OF MUSIC

Movement 1 Ancient Assyrian folk music from northern Iraq Violin solo by Michel Schwalbe – from Scheherazade

Movement 2

Frederic Chopin’s Music: - Prelude in D-flat major, Op. 28 No. 15 (Raindrop) – by Vladimir Ashkenazy - Waltz No. 7 on accordion - Berceuse Op 57 D Flat Major - Polonaise No. 6 A Flat Major, Op. 53 (Héroïque) – by Maurizio Pollini

Movement 3

New World Symphony – 2nd Movement Ship horn symphony

Movement 4

From Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Gray Suicide Hotline, Eight-Hour Religion, and Drum Mode Excerpts from Glenn O'Brien’s interview of Basquiat on TV Party

Epilogue

Additional recordings of street performers from Washington Square Park

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TABULA RASA is a work-in-progress. We welcome all forms of feedbacks.

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BIOS BLAIR BUSBEE (Enheduanna) is a recent graduate from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and holds a BFA from the University of Evansville. Proud memeber of AEA. blairbusbee.com MARISSA STEWART (Inanna) is thrilled to be performing at Dixon Place this summer. She originally hails from San Antonio, Texas and after receiving her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. She made the big move to New York. When she isn't acting, dancing, baking, teaching or health coaching. Marissa can be found riding her new bike, Spyro (named after that small yet mighty purple dragon) across the boroughs of NYC. JENNIE CAMPBELL (Emma Lazarus) is thrilled to be playing Emma Lazarus in Tabula Rasa, and has greatly enjoyed the collaborative spirit of working with Ran Xia. Upcoming projects include Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors, in July 2015 with the Bergen Shakespeare Company. Past roles include: Tood in The Cover of Life, Eurota/Hebe in Gallathea, Nini Dorée in Pirate Adventures (Ottawa) and Canada in The War Cabaret (Ottawa). Training: AADA, LAMDA. Much love to my family! Twitter: @JennieCampbell LAURE PORCHE (George Sand) is an actress, writer, dancer, designer, and traveller. Laure follows the winds of her creativity, always striving to find more ways to express humanity. After performing her one woman show, Woman Seeks God, at the EAT New Work Series in May and playing the drunk butler Stephano in a very New Orleansy version of Shakespeare's Tempest in June, she is thrilled to be embodying controversial writer George Sand in this reflection on the invisible thread connecting all creative people. BRANDON MICHAEL TAYLOR (Frederic Chopin) graduated from Point Park Conservatory of Performing Arts with a BA in Theatre Arts and a Dance Minor. His most prized works have been for Pittsburgh's Pillow Project, Civic Light Opera, and playing Joff on A&E's Those Who Kill. In his spare time he enjoys, writing piano, guitar and ukulele music, painting, making sushi and of course dancing. www.brandontaylor.net TAYLOR GORDON (Esterre Meucci) has performed at Lincoln Canter with The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, 4 seasons of The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Off-Broadway and national tour of Angelina Ballerina The Musical, internationally with Cirque Le Masque, Jacob’s Pillow, and Dance Theater Workshop. She trained at Boston Ballet, The Rock School, and Ballet Academy East and spent

summers with Twyla Tharp, Complexions, ABT, & Miami City Ballet. An AGMA and AGVA member, she dances with Exit 12 Dance Company, Ballet for Young Audiences, and Felice Lesser Dance Theatre, has appeared on PBS Great Performance at the Met Live in HD, MTV’s “Made,” The Today Show, and was featured in Dance Magazine, Vanity Fair Online, The Huffington Post, and Dance Spirit. NICOLE JONES (Andy Warhol) holds a BA in Dance and History from Point Park University. She has worked with Vertigo Dance Company’s international program (Jerusalem), Reed Dance, former August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble (Pittsburgh), and performed the works of Noa Wertheim, Ohad Naharin, Martha Graham, Christopher Huggins, Gerald Arpino, Douglas Bentz, Kiesha Lalama-White, and Patrick Franz. Nicole has also worked with artists Stefan Ferry, Vova Zak, Nadar Rosano, Asher Lev, Cheryl Mann, and Reggie Wilson among others. Most recently, Nicole has performed project work of NYC artists Lisa Kusanagi, Katherine Maxwell, and Ran Xia. She is currently a dancer and the Administrative Advisor for Awakening Movement and works for New York University’s School of Law in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations. JORDON WATERS (Jean-Michel Basquiat) was most recently seen in El Teatro Theater’s “Sueno”A Midsummer Nights Dream (Ensemble) directed by Manuel Moran; past credits include: Firehouse Theater-Movin On (Dancer) choreographed by George Fiason; Oregon Shakespeare Festival- Tempest (Ensemble) directed by Tony Taccone; San Marco Theater-Miracles (Dancer) choreographed by Christopher D’amboise. Minneapolis Beldom Lowertown- AKA Father/Son (Son)-directed by Harry Waters Jr. Los Angeles RedCat Theater- Ohad Narharin, Juile Bour, Barak Marshall, Stephan Kopolwitz, Daniel Charon, Laurence Blake.”Film”-A Love That Couldn’t Be- Directed by James Franco, El Pain- Directed by Meryl Murman. California Institute of the Arts 2013. RAN XIA (Playwright/Director) is an interdisciplinary artist and storyteller, permanent and willing captive of the realm of imagination. She uses whatever material at hand to tell stories that matter, and is drawn to the romantics of both arts and science. Visual: Art Takes Times Square, Stories of the Creative (SEE.ME), Dacia Gallery (Times Square Arts Centre), Spiegel Me (Installation at Fountains Foundation, Columbia College, Chicago). Theatre | Dixon Place: North (Playwright), They Lived in the Attic (Playwright, Dir.), [ai] (Script/Director); MITF Short Play Lab: Heavenly Bodies Move in Space, The Invisible of the Sidewalk; Set Design: Animals Out of Papers (by Rajiv Joseph); July House (Fringe 2015)

   

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