Mo' olelo Performing Arts Company Presents

BY Quiara Alegria Hudes

BEATRIZAAR()N and ()thers

() LIVIAl'vL\N VEL and ()thers

Time: 1986

Setting: Paoli, PA; Philadelphia, PA; and the openroad ro Yellowstone

-rhe play is 90 minutes long with no intermission.

Please note that the [aldng ofpictmes or the mak­ing of recordings of any kind during the

per!-(nmance is prohibited. If you must exit the

theater dming the performance, we request [hat

you do so as quiedy as possible, and pkasc note

rhar you mighr not be allowed back in. Mo'oldo

reserves rhe riglu to refuse service to anyone whose

behavior poses a danger or distraction to [he actorsand other audience members.

*Mcmber of Actors' Equity Association, [he Union

of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in theUnired States

26 ;Hiies is presented by special arrangement vV'ith

Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

l\1o'oJclo PcrformingAns Company

Cast (In alph;Jberic;JI order)

Cassie Benavidez

Jacob Bruce*Hannah Rose KornfeldRaul Cardona*

Artistic'Tean1DIRECTOR

Sccma Sucko"

I\SSISTM'rr DJRECTOR

Jessica Bird

PRODUCTION STAGE M;\t-.!i\CER

{v1cghan Bourdeau*

SCENiC DESiGNER

David F. \X/eincr

VIDEO PROJECTIONS DESiGNER{vbrilia Maschion

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Chris Rynnc

COSTUlvlE DES!C;NER

Jeannie Galioro

SOUND DESICNER

Joe Huppert

PROPS DESIGNER

Jenny Fajerman

DIALECT COACH

rvlicha Espinosa

PJ\iN"I'ING "BUFFALO CROSSINC"

Jerry LoFarojeny/ofi:tro.com

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Sarah Loffler ytmhlolfler. com

PAIN"I'ERS & CARPENTERS

Kyle A!quist, lvlihai Anronescu, Jacob "Lenny"Bruce, JR "comrade" Bruce, 'Thomas Lucenti,'J}rone Meservy, Preston Spence

LlGHTINC, SOUND & PROJECTIONS CRE\V

Krisren Flores, Andy Lowe, Mike Lowe,Steve Negrete .

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Artists' ProfilesArtists' Profiles

OLIVIA

Hannah Hose Kornfeld 17 years-old, is excited to be working for her first time at Mo'olelo.

Hannah's San Diego credits include Little Red (Jnto the Woods) at New Village AI1s (San Diego

Critics Circle Nomination Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical), Annie (Annic> at

Starlight Theater, Dorothy (TI1c Wizard of Oz) at Coronado Playhouse (Aubrey Award Winner

Best Lead Actress in a Musical), and Teen Who (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) at The Old

Globe. Hannah lived in the San Francisco B~!y Area until 2008 where she worked at many

wonderful theaters including A.e.T., Curran Theater, and Marin Shakespeare and in sOl11egreat roles including Alice

(Alice in Wonderland), Young.Joan (Far Away), Gloria (Wait until Dark) and Mary Lennox (The Secret Garden>.

BE:\TRIZ

Cassie Benavidez has been in over 60 1110tionpicture and television projects. Her TV credits

include such hit shows as "The Shield," "Veronica Mars," and "Lincoln Heights". She has

appeared in pilots by directors Guy Hitchie (Sony Pictures), Adam Shankman (Disney), Adam

Bernstein (CBS/Paramount), and producer Bany Schindel, to name a few, and in such inde­

pendent feature films as "Clipping Adam" starring Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher,

and "The Exorcist Chronicles". She was also seen in the award-winning short film "Begleiter,"

directed by Dan Margules, with whom she Co-\vrote the feature-length screenplay "The Fifth Direction"," a psycho­

logical thriller that explores the mystical world of curanderisl11o. Cassie attended San Diego State {Jniversity where

she earned her B.A. Degree in Latin American Studies.

Seema Sueko

Quiara Alegria HudesPLA.YWRICHT

Quiara Alegria Hudes wrote the book for the Broadway hit In the Heights. In 2008,

In the Heights received the Tony Award for Best Musical and was a Pulitzer Prize Fi­

nalist. OIl-Broadway, In the Heights won the Lucille LOt1el and Outer Critics Circle

Awards for Best Musical. Quiara is currently completing The Elliot Trilogy, including

the dramas Elliot, 11 Soldier:r Fugue (Pulitzer Finalist), \\7ater By the SpoOl?fitf (openingat Hartford Stage Company this fall), and nil' '-{appieJI SOI~~ P/C!)'J {,(/J/. Other works

include the plays 26 Miles and Yemaya:r Belly; the children's musical Barrio Grrrl! which premiered at the

Kennedy Center for tbe Performing Arts; and a children's hook Welcome To My Neighborhood!, puhlished

by Scholastic. Quiara recently received a United States Artists FontanaJs Fellowship and a Resolution

from tbe City of Philadelphia, her hometown. Sbe is a resident playwright at New Dramatists in New

York. Previously she was a ,Joyce Fellow at tbe Goodman Theatre, the Aetna New Voices Fellow at

Hartford Stage, a two-time fellow at the Sundance Thelter Institute, and a resident playwright at the

O'Neill The<lter Center. Quiara is on the hO<lrd of Philadelphb Young Playwrights, which produced

her first play in the tenth grade. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter. Her plays arepublished hy Dramatists Play Service.

Cassie Benavidez

Hannah Rose Kornfeld

MANUEL, TAMAL SELLER, Um"HWA. READER I

Raul Cardona returns to San Diego peeing his pants in excitement to be on stage with

Mo 'olelo Performing Arts Company ;11The 10th Avenue Theatre after closing his Los Angeles

directorial debut with the second annual site specific traveling show Meet Me @Mctro for

Watts Village Theatre Company! Theatre credits include work with San Diego Repertory

Theatre, Teatro Mascara Magica, EI Teatro Campesino, La Jolla Playhouse, Four Brown Hats

Ente11ainment, Los Angeles Theatre Center amongst others. Currently lvlr. Cardona completed

collaboration·on staging a student written performance with a fine team of teaching artists from The Unusual Suspects

and youth from Fremont High School in South Los Angeles and is organizing an after school theatre program with

Animo Watts Charter High School that will perform Josefina Lopez, Simply Maria or The American Dream next year.

Support the arts!

AARON, GAS STATION ATTENDAi'rr, JOE, READER 2

Jacob Bruce (Aaron and others) graduated from the University of Illinois with a BFA in acting.

He appeared in plays around the city of Chicago including Orlando in "As You Like It", Jed

Rowan in "The Kentucky Cycle", and The Creature in "Playing With Fire". He then moved to

Los Angeles and landed recurring roles on the shows "Crossing Jordan" and "]{oswell", and

episodes of shows including "ER", "Las Vegas", "Standoff" and "American Dreams". Jacob was

also in the award-winning films "Donut Run" and "Night of the Dog", the Hallmark MOW

"Prairie Fever", and the horror feature "The Rig". As a member of the Knightsbridge Theatre in Los Angeles, Jacob

played Randle P. McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", a "Critic's Pick" in Backstage West and co-created

"The $5 Only Tmprov Show". He was has been seen here in San Diego in "Yellow Face" with the Mo'olelo Performing

Arts Company and in several staged readings of new works with Native Voices Theater and the "Straight From The

Page" program at the La .Jolla .ICe.

Jacob Bruce

Raul Cardona

DJREC'rOR

Seema is the Co-Pounder and Executive AI1istic Director of Mo 'olelo. Directing credits include: Since

Africa at The Old Globe and Mo'olelo (Patte Award Outstanding Ensemble); Yellow Face, Good Boys, Per­

manent Collection, and The Adoption Project: Triad at Mo'olelo. Acting credits include: The Intelligent Design

offenny Chow at Yale ReI' and The Old Glohe (Patte Award and Craig Noel Award for acting); Rashomon

at North Coast l{ep; A Christmas Carol at San Diego Ikp; and A Chorus Line at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre

among others. She is a three-time recipient of the Chicago's Jeff Award for her performances in The

Crime oftlH Century, 11 Piece oIMy Heart (Circle Theatre), and The -waiting Room (Stage Left Theatre). Play­writing credits include: remaim (McDonald Playwriting Award); commission from Mixed Blood Theatre

in Minneapolis to co-write Messy Utopia (Ivey Award) and Hijab Tube, a play for young audiences on the

theme of Islam in America. Seema developed Mo'olelo's greening initiative, consensus organizing

methodologies, and led the Company through its selection as the Inaugural Resident Theatre Company

at La Jolla Playhouse for the 2008-2009 season. She served as At1ist in Iksidence at University of Cali­

fornia San Diego's Thurgood Marshall College for 2008-2009 and taught Theatre & Society at University

of San Diego in 2009. She holds an l'vIA in International Iklations from the University of Chicago, is amember of Actors' Equity Association, and received the 2010 Des McAnull New Vision Award from

The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle.

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Meghan BourdeauPRODUC'I"ION STACE M.!\NI\CEH

Meghan Bourdeau is delighted to be stage managing 26 Miles with Me> olelo Pertc>nning Atts Company!

This is Ms. Bourdeau's first production with M<>olelo. Ms. Bourdeau has been stage managing profes­

sionally in San Diego fc)r eleven years, and has worked at San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Diego Musical

Theatre, The Jolla Playhouse, and The Old Globe. She is very excited about this amazing productioil.

David F.WeinerSCENIC DESIGl'.JER

Previously for Mo'olelo: Cowbo)' veml.f Samurai, Permanent Collection, Night Sk)', Good Bo)'s, 9 Parts of Desire,

Yellow Face, and Stic/, Fly. David has designed for Broadway and national and international tours. Locally,

David has designed Ic)r La.folla Playhouse, S;1I1Diego Rep, Diversionary Theater, Sledgehammer Theater,AAI~T, Renaissance, and olhers.

Marilia MaschionVIDEO PROJECTlON DESIGN

Marilia Maschion works in multimedia and is currently shooting photo and video for Bujaldol1

Photography. She is excited to be a part of Mo'olelo's creative team Ic)r its production of 26 Miles.

Jeannie GaliotoCOS'I"U.ME DESIGNER

Jeannie is thrilled to be a patt of 26Miles. She has an MFA in Costume Design and won the Patte award

for her design of Twist at Diversionary. Her credils include productions fc)r the San Diego Hepertory,

Moxie, Ion, The Asian American Repertory, The GUlhrie Lab, l'vIixed Blood Theatre, and Shakespeare

in the Park to name a few. In addition to freelance designing, she has taught at SDSU and Palomar

College. She is currenlly working as the costume shop manager and assistant professor at USD and as

an instructor at FIDM. Please visit her website al www.jcanniegalioto.com.

Joe HuppertSOUND DESIGNER

Joe Huppet1 is delighled to work with Mo'olelo again, having previously designed Good13o)'s, Yellow

Face, and Stick Fly. Other local work includes Parasite Drag and }'rozen for Ion Theater Company, Peter and

the Starcatc!Jt'/:f at La Jolla Playhouse, and Seven Against 1'lJebes, lvluzungu, In A WOrd and Clementine and the

Cyber Ducks Ic)r UC:SD. Regional work includes Over the Tavern, Urinetown, Kiss of the Spiderwoman and

others in Chicago, Sound oIM/Hic, Oklahoma, Do I Hear a Waltz and more in Indiana, as well as Deathtrap,

Cabaret, Into the Woods and Noises O/Tin Wisconsin.

Jenny Fajerman

Jessica Bird

PROPS DESIGNER

Jenny Pajerman is dated lo he working with Seema Sueko and 1\10 'olelo for the first Lime. She has

heen in San Diego Ic)r four years working at the La Jolla Playhouse as a crafts person and now the

Props associale. She relocated from Las Vegas where she worked on Mamma Mia, Hairspray and Cirque

Du Solie!. She would like give a big shout out to you Ic)r supporting local theater here is San Diego.

ASS1STANT DIRECTOR

Jessica is thankful to have the opportunity to work wilh Seema and Mo'olelo f()r the first time. SDIkp:

In the Next Room (Asst. Director) PiCtls.w and Boom (ASM). The Old Globe: 2009 Summer Intensive Shake­

speare Program (Lead Teaching Attist). Cygnet: Norman Conquests (ASM) Torah High: Cinderella (Director)

PLNU: The Ptmtasticks (Musical Director), Blind Date (Director), Urinetown (Stage Manager), The Tempe.ft

(Ariel, Costume Designer), The Glass Menagerie (Amanda), CauCtlsian Chalk Circle (Grusha, Costume

Designer), Little WfJfnen (Mannie, Co-Costume Designer). Jessica is on staff with SDRep as the Attistic,

Casting and Literary Coordinator.

Chris RynneLrGHTIf~C DESIGi'~

26 Miles marks Chris' firsl production with Mo'olelo as well ;\S the first opportunity to design with the

new energy efficient theatrical lighting system donaled lo the lheatre. Ikcent local productions of note

include Cygnet's Little Shop ofHorror.f and Glbaret, Dr Horrible:f Sing A/ong Blog at The 10th Ave Theatre,

and Life of Rile)' and Plaid Tidings at The Old Globe. Chris has also designed several productions for

other theatre companies such as San Diego Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Madison Opera, Michigan

Opera Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, and South Coast Rep. In addition, Chris has worked as a lighting

consultant with the Mingei International Museum, The San Diego Natural History Museum, The City ofSan Diego, nightcluhs, casinos, schools and churches.

Micha EspinosaDIALECT COACH

(BFA, Stephens College; MFA Acting, U.c. San Diego), Assist;mt Professor of Voice/Acting, Arizona State

University, Actor (member AFTRA, SAG), teaches workshops nationally and internationally, associate

teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, trainer for the Fitzmaurice Voice work Teacher Cettification Program.

She serves as an officer in Voice and Speech Trainers Association, is an associate editorJor the Inter­

national Dialects of English Archive, and has published in the lIoice and Speech RevieuJ and the JournaljOr

Intergroup Relations. "ACTORS'EQUITYASSOCIATION 1913

Actors' Equity Association - Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913,

represents more lhan 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity

seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essenlial com­

ponent of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing

a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of

the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing

arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company

is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG)

the naLional organization for the American theatre.

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