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Company Fresh Night 1

Wayne State Theatre and Dance Peer Mentors
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WELCOME to Day 1 of our Company Fresh Festival! Tonight you’ll see some incredible work created by students in the Theatre & Dance Department at Wayne State University. Reminder to join us April 11th through April 16th for a collection of new work every night! *ABOUT THE SHOW* Company Fresh is our freshman production experience initiative. Students in Company Fresh are guaranteed choreography, performance, design, or stage management opportunities in their first year. Student choreographers/dancers work collaboratively in small groups to create unique screendance performances, including choreographing, filming, and video editing a …...more
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Company Fresh Night 1
WELCOME to Day 1 of our Company Fresh Festival! Tonight you’ll see some incredible work created by students in the Theatre & Dance Department at Wayne State University. Reminder to join us April 11th through April 16th for a collection of new work every night! *ABOUT THE SHOW* Company Fresh is our freshman production experience initiative. Students in Company Fresh are guaranteed choreography, performance, design, or stage management opportunities in their first year. Student choreographers/dancers work collaboratively in small groups to create unique screendance performances, including choreographing, filming, and video editing as parts of the creative process. Under the guidance and support from faculty, dancers are encouraged to draw inspiration from life experiences to create work that reflects current challenges. Theatre student members are cast into a select group of 4 to 5 performers. An upper-class student serves as director. Selected playwrights from the community are connected with each group and a short, original play is developed to reflect the performers’ experiences. This means that students will have a play that is specifically written for them! On behalf of our entire team, enjoy the show! *CONTENT WARNING* The following videos contain strong language and thematic elements that may be triggering to some audiences. *PRODUCTION TEAM* Billicia Hines - Executive Producer Dr. RAS Mikey Courtney - Dance Faculty Advisor Hannah Anderson - Dance Faculty Advisor Lisa LaMarre - Dance Faculty Advisor James Fortune - Advising Producer Olivia Kimes - Artistic Director/Producer Morgan Listenbee - Artistic Director/Producer/Director Lisa McCabe - Managing Director/Producer Kate Spademan - Managing Director/Producer Liam Lynch - Head of Marketing/Producer Morgan Montgomery - Production Stage Manager *SHOW CREDITS* 00:00 Welcome Video Billicia Hines - Executive Producer Dr. RAS Mikey Courtney - Dance Faculty Advisor James Fortune - Advising Producer Olivia Kimes - Artistic Director/Producer Morgan Listenbee - Artistic Director/Producer/Director Lisa McCabe - Managing Director/Producer Kate Spademan - Managing Director/Producer Liam Lynch - Head of Marketing/Producer Morgan Montgomery - Production Stage Manager Samantha Stafford - Director Rachel Meloche - Choreographer/Dancer/Ensemble Get to know some of the faces behind the Company Fresh Festival! Enjoy the show! 20:30 The Colonel Bern Series Faith Berry - Director/Playwright Alex Morrison - Playwright CJ Rhodes - Playwright/Ensemble Ryan Bernier - Grad Mentor Sharon Larita Ashford - Ensemble Marck Kiselevach - Ensemble Rachel Meloche - Ensemble Anette Orellana - Ensemble Joshua Prim - Ensemble Nicole Turner - Ensemble A beginning sorceress accidentally creates a wish-granting action figure that gets placed in the hands of 4 individuals. Over time, some of those individuals begin to flourish with this newfound power. Others find controversy concerning the doll arising in their relationships. Thanks to Alex and Drew for their contributions! 41:58 Bored Meeting Jaeden Kalbol - Dance Project Lead/Collective Choreographer Elijah Lennington - Collective Choreographer Katelyn Oliver - Collective Choreographer Maggie Gates - Collective Choreographer/Video Editor Matthew Daher - Soundscape Artist We thought of this ideas to symbolize the way we feel in our virtual zoom life. The sound is monotoned and boring to give more of an emphasis to the Bored Meeting. Virtual zoom life has taken a toll on a lot of us and we wanted to incorporate our experience through this Company Fresh Piece. Special Thanks to Dr. RAS Mikey, Lisa LaMarre Wilmot and Hannah Anderson for collectively helping us through this process. 50:31 “...And Justice For All” Morgan Listenbee - Director Brandon Wright - Playwright X. Alexander Durden - Grad Mentor/Actor Jo Jackson - Stage Manager Geoff Nathan - Actor Asha John - Actor Graham Dallas - Actor Kyra Barbee - Actor Talia Bowes - Designer/Editor Under a newly devised government, We the People takes new meaning. The government has passed an Executive Order approving the creation of a Supreme Court Justice Selection Committee. If/when a vacancy exists on the Bench, the committee of citizens, selected at random, convene at an undisclosed location to nominate the country's new Justice. This is the first such meeting... I want to thank everyone in the cast and creative team for making this play come to life, giving it your all everyday, and being the BEST ensemble I could ever ask for! We did it :) 1:42:48 Six Feet Apart Rachel Meloche - Choreographer/Dancer Meghan Allen - Choreographer/Dancer/Video Editor Hunter Haase - Choreographer/Dancer Hunter Martin - Choreographer/Dancer Autumn Smith - Videographer Crowander - Music A dance piece meant to represent the physical distance created in the time of the pandemic and how that has affected our lives and relationships with one another.

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Wayne State Theatre and Dance Peer Mentors

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