11th Annual Ten Minute Play Festival: May 2009

TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL: Previews

Update: In the Press: print editions of the Arcata Eye (4/29), North Coast Journal (4/30) and Eureka Times-Standard Northern Lights (4/30.)

On the Internet: at HSU Now (front page) (permalink story)

On the Radio: KHSU ARTWAVES with Wendy Butler: Tuesday 1:30 p.m. Listen Live Link.

YOU'LL LAUGH!

Mason Lev and April Kitty Grenot in Oatmeal Under the Elder Tree. (All photos by HSU Graphic Services. Click photo to enlarge.)

YOU'LL CRY!

Jonny Barrett and Patrick Croft in Te East London Coffee Sop.

YOU'LL QUAKE!

Claire Smith, Ethan Heintz and Brian Pike in Love Me, Love My Dog.

YOU'LL SHIVER!

Ken Klima and Amanda Sharp in Untitled Fit #9.

YOU'LL SWOON!

Calder Johnson and Kelly Whitaker in Double-Sided.

TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL: Opens April 30!

Comedy! Drama! Romance! Fantasy! And ten minutes later another one! It’s the annual HSU Ten Minute Play Festival, on Thursdays through Saturdays, April 30-May 2, May 7-9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gist Hall Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. $5/$3 students and seniors, with a limited number of free seats to HSU students for each performance, from the HSU Box Office in the campus bookstore (826-3928) or at the door.

TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL: More Than Ever

In the past decade, the annual Ten Minute Play Festival has gone from a classroom project to one of the more popular presentations on the HSU production calendar. This year—the 11th—there are more plays than ever: 10 instead of the usual eight.

“Every year is different,” said Margaret Thomas Kelso, HSU professor in the Theatre, Film and Dance department and coordinator of the festival since she began it in 1998. “This year the emphasis is comedy, but different kinds of comedies, including some that incorporate drama.”

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The 2009 Ten Minute Playwrights trying (mostly) to look serious and profound. Front row: Jonny Barrett, Julius McKee; Second row: Ali Beltramo, Kristin Mack, Amy Echeverra, April Kitty Grenot; Back row: Craig Slayton Smith, Emily Ruebl, Steven Robert King, Joshua D. Nelson.

Students work all year writing and developing plays. A committee of faculty members chooses the final scripts, and the collaborative process of producing them begins.

Though the process begins in playwriting workshops, not all of the scripts are written by students whose main theatrical interest is playwriting. “A lot of these are by students in the department who’ve never written a script before,” Kelso said. “We believe that by going through the play development process as playwrights, they will be better designers, directors and actors.”

This year's playwrights in a more natural pose.

Writers often also work on other plays in the festival as actors and directors, gaining additional perspective on bringing a play from the page to the stage. “A lot of universities don’t teach these skills,” Kelso pointed out. “When our students go out into the world, they take these skills and this experience with them.”

Audiences complete the process. "While the audience is important in all play productions,” Kelso said, “it’s particularly important with new plays, because that’s how the playwrights know if what they are trying to communicate is getting across.”

10 MINUTE FESTIVAL: THE PLAYS

Claire Smith, Ethan Heintz

Love Me, Love My Dog
A dark comedy about a couple invaded by a burglar.

Writer: Ali Beltramo
Director: Alex Gradine
Anne: Claire Smith
Brian: Ethan Heintz
Robber: Brian Pike

The Show Must Go On

Comedy-drama about traveling theatre artists trying to make it to their next show.

Writer: Craig Slayton Smith
Director: Megan Hughes
Lou: Michael Pietrelli
Sam: Nicole Cowan

Ken Klima, Amanda Sharp

Untitled Fit #9

Struggles with a neurotic man trying to leave his apartment.

Writer: Emily Ruebl
Director: Clayton Cook
Man: Ken Klima

Woman: Amanda Sharp

JoJo
Drama about a young man confronting his alter ego.

Writer: Joshua D. Nelson
Director: Richard Renteria
Ryan: Omari Howard
Diana: Samantha Kobelin
JoJo: Brittany Williams

Mason Lev, April Kitty Grenot

Oatmeal Under the Elder Tree

A mother-son relationship explored in comic terms.

Writer: Steven Robert King
Director: Kady Pomerleau
Jude: Mason Lev
Mom: April Grenot

Trick Or...

Comedy about three friends on Halloween confronting misunderstandings.

Writer: Amy Echeverria

Director: Joshua Ruebl
Skip: Gabriel Holman
Mike: Logan Porrazzo
Jenny: Kyra Gardner

Jonny Barrett, Patrick Croft

Te East London Coffee Sop

Comic plans of two East Londoners dreaming up their own gang.

Writer: Julius McGee
Director: Steven Robert King
Keaton: Jonathan Barrett
Ryan: Patrick Croft

Sweet Mother of God

Comedy about a certain archangel visiting a modern woman.

Writer: Kristin Mack
Director: Emily Ruebl
Mary: Kristin Hoffman
Gabriel: Alex Gradine

Calder Johnson, Kelly Whitaker

Double-Sided

A comedy of office romance errors.

Writer: Jonathan Barrett
Director: Christina Focht
Jeff: Calder Johnson
Anne: Kelly Whitaker
Trish: Keili Marble-Simmons

It’s a Hard Knocks Life

A woman helps her impoverished friend, with comic and dramatic results.

Writer: April Grenot
Director: Craig Smith
Laura: Mackenzie Cox
Mary: Amy Gross

TEN MINUTE PLAYS: Our Production

Megan Hughes, Mychal Ducken.

Coordinator: Margaret Thomas Kelso
Student Producer: Megan Hughes
Assistant Student Producer: Alex Gradine
Stage Manager: Mychal Ducken
Assistant Stage Manager: Kylie Washer
Light Board Operator: Clark Kelly
Sound Board Operator: Jamie Banister
Technical Director: Jayson Mohatt
Costume Designer: Amy Echeverria
Costume Shop Supervisor: Catherine Brown
Prop Shop Graduate Supervisor: Calder Johnson

Remembrance of 10 Minutes Past

Images from the past three Ten Minute Play Festivals...

BETWEEN FLOOR AND FLIGHT: April 2009

BETWEEN FLOOR AND FLIGHT: Review

"The big rushes of group movement, the clarity of intention and physical emotion of Jaese Lecuyer and Jerri Sweeney in duet, are the reasons people dance, why people go to see others dancing." North Coast Journal review is here.

BETWEEN FLOOR AND FLIGHT: Preview

Off the front page at Humboldt State Now.

BETWEEN FLOOR AND FLIGHT

Fifty dancers performing ten dances, including a dance that just received top honors at a major regional dance conference, and another that features the 60-voice Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir: the perenially popular HSU spring dance concert will fill the Van Duzer Theatre stage, beginning Thursday, April 9.

This year’s concert is called Between Floor and Flight, and as usual, it features dances choreographed and performed by HSU students, faculty and members of the community. Faculty choreographers include Jandy Bergmann and Shoshana.

New to choreographing for the HSU dance faculty this year is Jaese Lecuyer, well known locally as a singer who conducts the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir. He brings the Choir along for “Finding Flight,” the dance he choreographed with local dance artist Athena Clune, and with Sharon Butcher, head of the dance program in the HSU Department of Theatre, Film and Dance. Within the 3-part dance, which depicts a journey of liberation from bondage, LeCuyer dances a duet with student Jerri Sweeney.

“I Take Myself Back,” created and performed by student Cheri Anchondo, received top honors at the American College Dance Festival Northwest Conference in mid-March. She explores the influence of place on Native American dance forms, and includes an original sound collage based on a poem by Joy Harjo.

Other dances explore environmental, social, personal and interpersonal themes, sometimes with a comic touch. This year HSU Department of Theatre, Film and Dance graduate students in the new area of scenography have created coordinated scenic, costume and lighting design for each dance.

Inspiration for these dances came from many sources, including poems by Joy Harjo and North Coast poet Jerry Martien, an opera, and a painting by the choreographer’s father. “Positive transformation is a theme that runs through quite a few of the dances,” observes artistic director Sharon Butcher.

“We had a very strong group of seniors last year,” Sharon Butcher said, “ but this year, we have probably the most talented group we’ve ever had together on one stage. And not just as dancers and choreographers, but as a really fine group of human beings. They’re smart, kind, considerate, compassionate, interested and involved.”

Once again this year, there is a silent auction on the second Saturday (April 18), to raise funds for dance student travel and other educational activities.

Between Floor and Flight is the HSU spring dance concert presented Thursdays through Saturdays, April 9-11 and 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Van Duzer Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $10 general, $8 students/seniors, with a limited number of free seats for HSU students at each performance, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. A Department of Theatre, Film & Dance production; Sharon Butcher, artistic director.

BETWEEN FLOOR AND FLIGHT: The Dances

The ten dances in Between Floor and Flight are described below. The descriptions come from statements by the choreographer of that particular dance. Quotes in italics are comments by Artistic Director Sharon Butcher. No photos were available for two of the dances, and in some photos the dancers are in rehearsal gear rather than the costumes they will wear on stage. All photos by HSU Graphic Services. Click on the photos to greatly enlarge.

The Dances: "I Take Myself Back"

I Take Myself Back
Choreographer: Cheri Anchondo
Dancer: Cheri Anchondo

Text: Joy Harjo
Spoken by: Cheri Anchondo, Jerri Sweeney, Jackie Silva
Sound Score: Cheri Anchondo and Glen Nagy

Costume and Light Design: Ali Bertramo

This dance received highest honors at the American College Dance Festival Northwest Conference in March 2009.

A solo inspired by a Native American poem that focuses on the resilience of the human spirit and the resolute nature of survival in the face of oppression. The goal of this contemporary piece is to pay homage to all peoples who have endured suffering and chosen to reclaim their identities and re-instill in themselves their value and self worth. " Cheri, who is a double major in Dance and Geography, had this dance selected as one of the top 10 dances (out of 66 dances) in the Northwest Region of the American College Dance Festival. It was featured in a Gala concert that closed the conference activities in Utah. It's a deeply moving solo work based on a poem by Native American author, Joy Harjo, who gave permission and her blessings to Cheri to use the poem, “I Give You Back” for a sound score and for public performance. Cheri and sound designer, Glen Nagy, collaged excerpts of the text using multiple women's voices and translations into other languages."

The Dances: "Finding Flight"

Finding Flight
Choreographers: Athena Clune, Jaese Lecuyer, Jerri Sweeney
and Sharon Butcher.
Dancers: Cheri Anchondo, Shelly Brantigan, Nerissa Castilleja, Alisha Goodrich, Jaese Lecuyer, Kendra Staton, Jerri Sweeney.
Vocal performers: Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir

Percussionists: Jim Froland, Dave Janssen, Jesse Jonathan, Oliver Ebrihiminkm.

Lighting Designer: Lisa Voelker
Costume Design: Erin Voudy

This collaboration with the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir blends the body of dance and the voice of Gospel song. It represents a journey from struggle and oppression to a freedom of soul and mind. There are three sections in this dance: the first represents struggle and the camaraderie formed through trying situations; the second is a duet, representing one woman’s journey into a more empowered way of being and the guide who takes her forward; the third section is a celebration - the group rejoicing in the freedom gained when fears are confronting, new journeys are undertaken, and the soul soars unburdened.
"The dance opens with a group of people facing hardship, their movement is weighted and burdened. Then one of the dancers--Jerri Sweeney-- is in a place on stage where she can move forward. Jaese serves as the ferryman who can show her the way—they do a really nice duet."

The Dances: "Quest I on"

questIon
Choreographer: Jerri Sweeney
Dancers: Nerissa Castilleja, Arianna Chapman, Valerie Cloon, Kendall Lewis, Natasha Harrell, Jessica O. Manuel, Leann Sutton
Music: Tye Tribbett and G.A “Bless the Lord (Son of Man)”
Edited by: Glen Nagy
Lighting Design: Lisa Voelker

Costume Design: April Grenot

"This very personal dance has roots in the Christian praise dance, using contemporary artistry."

The Dances: "Thursday, 9:05 a.m."

Thursday, 9:05 a.m.
Choreographer: Nena Sivess
Dancers: Johanna Kaplan-Coleman, Julia Giardino, Gabby Munguia, Julia Vigneaud, Xelha Weisman.
Music: Edgar Meyer
Scenic and Light Design: Amy Echeverria and Mason Daryl Lev
Costume Design: Amy Echeverria

This dance captures the interaction and exchange between people of opposite personality types, blending and affecting both worlds. It expresses the notion that everyone in your life has the ability to alter or influence your personal path if given the opportunity. “Three dancers on kind of the same level are joined by this other whacky, quirky dancer, and the dance explores how we are influenced by others and take on their qualities—consciously or not. It’s playful and very funny.”

The Dances: "Darkness, She Speaks"

Darkness, She Speaks

Choreographer: Jessica O. Manuel
Dancers: Nerissa Castilleja, Nena Sivess, Kendra Staton, Jerri Sweeney
Music: Osvaldo Golijov: Opera Ainadamar
Edited by: Glen Nagy
Scenic and Light Design: Calder Johnson and Henry Echeverria

Costume Design: Henry Echeverria

The dance is set to a fusion of two pieces from Osvaldo Golijov’s opera, Aindadamar. The dance takes the viewer through the process of grief and loss. It opens with a surge of intensity as fear and anger are expressed upon the moment of facing death and impermanence. At one point there is an exhaustion of this energy and these emotions. At this break and transition, grief and sadness are uncovered. Raw gesture and rhythmic movement portray the journey through death. “It’s really powerful—the women dance it with full out commitment--very, very strong. It’s gripping and stunningly evocative.”

The Dances: "Revenge Served Cold"

Revenge Served Cold
Choreographer: Jackie Silva
Dancers: Nerissa Castilleja, Juan Cruv, Sierra Goncharoff, Monica Hernandez, Ozvaldo Ricardez, Xelha Weisman.
Scenic Design: Ali Bertramo and Kelsey Morgan

Scenic Artist: Osvaldo Ricardez
Costume and Light Design: Ali Bertramo

A dance that portrays every girl’s dream-vendetta towards her cheating boyfriend. Through comedic, literal and abstract movements, we watch as Hot-Rod Dolls are toyed with, and lied to by two heart-throbbing Daddy-O’s. Once these oblivious dolls figure out the Daddy-O’s game, the dolls form an alliance. The result is, of course, revenge. “ The dancers are an over-the-top rockabilly street gang; This is basically a love triangle, times two: the guy, the good girl and the Other Woman. It’s funny and fun.”

The Dances: "Currents"

Currents

Choreographer: Nerissa Castilleja
Dancers: Erika Burg, Arianna Chapman, Hannah Farrell, Kelly Gordon, Jessica Jewett, Keli Marble, Jerri Sweeney
Music: Steve Reich, Electric Counter Point, Fast, performed by Pat Methany.

Edited by: Glen Nagy
Scenic and Light Design: Julia Chase and Laura Rhineheart
Costumes Design: Laura Rhineheart
This dance was featured at the American College Dance Festival Northwest Conference in March.

From the depths of the ocean an array of colors arise! A school of fish moving across the stage as in water, on an upward journey, rising towards the surface sunlight. This dance is an abstraction of nature’s own choreography and uses the playful color pallet found in the reefs of Hawai'i". “Nerissa went to Hawaii on an educational exchange program, where she was so taken with the colors and the light. In this dance she uses the momentum and fast-changing directions of schools of fish.”

The Dances: "AlieNation"

AlieNation
Choreographer: Alisha Goodrich
Dancers: Cheri Anchondo, Nerissa Castilleja, Hannah Farrell,
Sierra Goncharoff, Kelly Gordon, Jessica Jewett, Jackie Silva, Kendra Stanton, Jerri Sweeney.

Sound Design: Glen Nagy and DJ Boogie
Music: Mixed by DJ Boogie

Musical Excerpts: DJ Shadow, Erykah Badu, Sam Cooke and DJ Z-Trip
Scenic and Light Design: Rachel Parti and Genneveve Hood
Costume Design: Laura Rhinheart

Inspired by a painting by the choreographer’s father and by her desire to capture the concept of personal and societal alienation in an abstracted dance composition. The dance combines strong, sculptural movements and scenic design, and is danced to a contemporary and relevant score that highlights the concept of alienation as well as the possibility for resolution. “The music has a very urban flavor, with interjections of hip hop and sections of speeches. Alisha is playing with different ways that we as Americans and as human beings have feelings of alienation. It’s evolved into this really powerful, beautiful dance.”

The Dances: "Cove Swimmer's Prayer"

Choreographer: Jandy Bergmann and dancers
Dancers: Cheri Anchondo, Nerissa Castilleja, Valerie Coon, Alisha Goodrich.
Musical Excerpts: "Dark Blue Circumstance" by Paul Dresher
Lighting Design: Lisa Voelker
Costume Design: Catherine Brown

Inspired in part by the inventiveness of choreography students at HSU. The dance is composed entirely of movements which the four dancers created. I have also been inspired recently by the experience of adopting twin 2 and 1/2 year old girls. I am amazed at the emotional challenges, at how much sadness, anger, and fear I sometimes feel. Cove Swimmer's Prayer is about how these feelings can *heal* though, and about a certain kind of communion with nature which helps that process. I titled the dance after a poem by the local writer, Jerry Martien. "One of the things that Jandy does best in is process, in having the dancers and the choreographers create together. This is a lovely, delicate dance--it's like a piece of spacious poetry."

The Dances: "Raks al Farah" (Dance of Joy)

Choreographer: Shoshanna
Dancers: Jaqueline Bookstein, Janet Garcia, Julia Giardino, Jessica Haley-Clark, Monica Hernandez, Jenny James, Jessica Jewett, Golden Moeras Kamphuis, Gabby Munguia, Lindsey Pollock, Yasmin Prado, Suzy Sciancalepore, Julia Vigneaud, Xelha Weisman.
Music: Milen Natchev
Prop Design: Calder Johson
Lighting Design: Lisa Voelker
Costume Design: April Grenot

Reminiscent of dance styles from a surge in popularity of Egyptian cultural arts in the 1950's, this dance is a joyful celebration of life and good times with good friends. Theatrical staging and my own perspective as an American dancer blend with traditional folk dances to share a glimpse into the heart of Egyptian dance.

The music, "Mawwal" by Milen Natchev, is lively with traditional instruments such as the doumbek (drum), nay (reed flute), and rebab (folk fiddle). A highlight of the song is a vocal improvisation called a mawwal, during which the dancers move improvisationally, inspired by the interplay of instruments and voice along with their own daydreams and mental meanderings. The mood of the rest of the piece is energetic, with plenty of room for the personalities and spirits of the dancers to shine through.

Student Production April 2

Student Union Productions presents the first act of Patrick Marber’s Closer in the HSU Studio Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 2-4, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, April 5. Director Steven Robert King describes the play as a “complexly plotted look at modern love and betrayal” and “a love story for today, revealing how little we sometimes know in the Information Age.” The production features Jamie Banister, Johanna Hembry, Omari Howard and Jessi Walters. Tickets are free at the Studio Theatre box office, which opens one hour before performances. Closer contains adult content and may not be suitable for all.

JAGUN FLY: February/March 2009

JAGUN FLY, connecting Africa to America through ritual, language and truth, by John Oluwole ADEkoje, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 26-28, March 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. in Gist Hall Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $10 general, $8 student/senior, with a limited number of free seats available at each performance to HSU students, from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928.) This is the featured production of the HSU New Plays Season. Poster image by Johanna Hembry.

JAGUN FLY Soars!

From the review in the Eureka Times-Standard Northern Lights by Beti Trauth:

"... from its unique storyline and perfect ensemble casting, to every outstanding artistic and technical element, this is definitely a stunning production to be reckoned with..."

"[Playwright John] Adekoje has created people and behavior that alternates between the graphically natural and ritualistically mystical..."

Dion Davis plays the elder Babalawo with intense authority, as he manipulates the others with his spells. As Oba, the father, Thomas Tucker brings an edge of humor to the role, overlaying his loneliness with brash bravado.

His estranged son Omo Alade (whom he has not seen for years), is played with edgy poignancy by Siray Ronta' Rodgers; and Natasha Harrell is heartbreakingly real as the damaged deserted wife/mother, Oyaba."

"Running without an intermission to interrupt the flow of the script, the audience is completely immersed in the action, from start to finish -- and it's not an easy journey. But “Jagun Fly” is worth it. It's a stunning piece of theatre that will surely become even more so as it grows artistically with each performance. I highly recommend that you see the show before it closes this weekend. "

JAGUN FLY: Previews

Previews of JAGUN FLY appear in the Eureka Times-Standard, HSU Now, Arcata Eye, North Coast Journal and HSU Lumberjack.

Front Page News!

JAGUN FLY opening is front page news at Humboldt State Now!

See Her on the Radio!

Natasha Harrell and other JAGUN FLY cast members, plus playwright John ADEkoje will be featured with Wendy Butler on KHSU's Artwaves, Tuesday, February 24 at 1:30 pm.

With humor and drama, dreams and hard reality, language and rhythms from both Yoruba ritual and contemporary urban America, Jagun Fly is in many senses an African American play.

JAGUN FLY: The Story

A family in an unnamed city is in crisis: the absent father (played by Thomas Tucker), the alcoholic mother (Natasha Harrell) and the teenage son whose life is on the streets (Siray Rodgers.) Click photos to enlarge.

A Yoruba spiritual elder (played by Dion Davis) performs a cleansing ceremony for them, not sure if it will work. “He is afraid his rituals no longer serve his people who are now spread throughout the world,” said the play’s director, John Heckel. “He’s afraid they’re losing their connection with their African roots of culture, tradition and history. So he’s afraid he will never be able to fly again, because his flying depends on these rituals working.”

The ritual must help these individuals confront truths of their lives, to examine the dark sides of their stories.

Facing such truths can be dangerous, and that’s the role of ritual. “I think one of the things the playwright is saying is that a connection with their African ancestry, history, mythology and tradition can provide a container and a safety net,” director Heckel said, “so they can look at some of the darker sides of their stories.”

Jagun Fly is the featured production of the HSU New Plays Season, the winner of a national competition held every three years.

JAGUN FLY: The Playwright

Playwright John ADEkoje is a graduate of the HSU Department of Theatre, Film and Dance. He originally came to HSU to study filmmaking, but dramatic writing program director Margaret Thomas Kelso convinced him to try writing plays. “So it’s her fault,” he said.

It seems to be paying off. Now living in Boston, his play Shoeshine Safari is scheduled for production by the Providence Black Repertory Theatre, and his rock musical will be produced next year at the Boston Playwrights Theatre. He is currently an artist in residence at the University of Massachusetts in Boston (where another play is in process) and he teaches playwriting and film at the Boston Arts Academy.

Jagun Fly began as three short plays, one of which ADEkoje wrote while at HSU. “It was called 'Love Jones,' about a kid talking to a gun about death.” In two other plays after that, “I kept playing with this idea of a mother, a father and a son who are estranged from each other, where communication is a problem.”

That related to the African Diaspora, with people separated all over the world and not able to communicate with each other. “I used the estranged family to talk about that issue.”

But it was after watching a play in New York that he realized how to bring all three plays together. “That play used the Yoruba tradition. I use it in a different way, but I noticed this was something I was doing in all my plays. It dawned on me that there was a connection between them. So I just sat down and tried to combine the three plays into one, with the ritual behind it.”

Having been reminded by director John Heckel that the competition was coming up for the HSU New Plays Season held every three years, he entered this play—“And I kind of won.”

JAGUN FLY: Our Cast

Dion Davis, Thomas Tucker, Siray Rodgers and Natasha Harrell, at an early rehearsal.

Oyaba: Natasha Harrell
Oba: Thomas Tucker
Omo Alade: Siray Ronta' Rodgers
Babalawo: Dion Davis

JAGUN FLY: Our Production

Props Designer Mason Lev tests the rigging. Click photo for bigger image.
Playwright: John Oluwole ADEkoje
Director: John Heckel
Music: Missy Hopper
Stage Manager: Christina Focht
Set Designer: Amanda Cordell
Lighting Designer: Calder Johnson
Technical Director: Henry Echeverria
Sound/Media: Michelle Cartier
Properties Designer: Mason Lev
Costume Designer : Amy Echeverria
Shadow Puppets: Perry Cage, Claire Smith
Hair/Make-up: Natasha Harrell
Dramaturg: Alex Gradine
Prop/Set Advisor: Jody Sekas
Costume Advisor: Rae Robison
Costume Shop Advisor: Catherine Brown
Scene Shop Supervisor: Jayson Mohatt
Scene Shop Graduatee Supervisor: Allyson Beltramo

JAGUN FLY: Some Links

JAGUN FLY on Facebook

Yoruba People: Wikipedia

Yoruba People

Yoruba History Page

Yoruba Legends

Yoruba Washington DC

Yoruba Proverbs

HSU Multicultural Center: Social Justice Summit