Rogue Bard Program.indd - Rogue Artists Ensemble

Featuring:
Tovya Jacobs, Taylor Coffman
Jeremy Hohn, Sarah Kay Peters, Miles Taber
Featuring Music by:
The Ditty Bops: “Waste Away”
Tyler Staments: “Out Spot”
Z.N. Lupetin: “Fume Of Sighs” (Romeo & Juliet) sung by
Z.N. Lupetin & Liz Beebe, “Lovers Lament.”
Songs composed by Z. Lupetin with The Dustbowl Revival
Gregory Desgouttes: “Intro Storm”
Adrien Prevost: “La rencontre”
Matthew Patrick Davis: “Iambic Pentameter”
Production Staff
Sean T. Cawelti: Director
Julia Garcia-Combs: Movement Coach
Lori Meeker: Costume Designer
Cristina Bercovitz: Puppet Designer
Sean T. Cawelti: Puppet Designer
Noelle Hoffman: Sound Designer
Sean T. Cawelti: Mask Designer
Jack Pullman: Mask Designer
Brittany Blouch: Prop Designer
Brandon Baruch: Lighting Designer
Alexis Robles: Production Stage Manager
The Ensemble
Taylor Coffman (Ensemble) a transplant from
Washington, DC, has been working in LA in film, TV,
and theatre. An Associate Artist with Rogue Artists
Ensemble, she has been nominated for an LA Weekly
Award for Best Comedy Ensemble (D is for Dog) and
appeared in Songs of Bilitis at the Getty Villa, the
workshop of Pinocchio, and last year’s HYPERBOLE:
bard. Recently, she has been filming the webseries
Ruby & Martin, an official selection of the International TV Festival and
a finalist in the Comedy Central Pilot competition. Other performing/
writing credits include Stream for the Kennedy Center Page to Stage
Festival, Best of Craigslist for the Hollywood Fringe, ‘Hilda’ in Ibsen’s
Lady from the Sea, ‘Thyona’ in Big Love, and ‘Juliet’ in Romeo & Juliet.
She was also a fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC, studied
at the advanced program at Upright Citizens Brigade, and worked in late
night comedy for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Thanks to Sean, the Rogues, and
Z. taylorcoffman.com
Tovya Jacobs (Ensemble) recently made his Rogue
Artists Ensemble debut as a puppeteer in Zen Shorts
at the Skirball Puppet Festival and the Japanese
Garden. Growing up in a theater family, he began
apprenticing 20 years ago and since has traveled
from Seattle to Florida to Switzerland performing and
teaching traditional mask movement and puppetry.
Meanwhile, he has written, directed, performed, stagemanaged, and composed scores in over 30 productions (not necessarily
all at once). Tovya is an unrepentant Shakespeare fan, may or may not
have read through an entire complete works, and has performed in at
least seven of Shakespeare’s plays. Next on the docket, Tovya is looking
forward to a public reading of his own play, Kafka in Bed, produced by
Company of Angels.
Sarah Kay Peters (Ensemble) Sarah’s life-long
love for theatre, music and dance has taken many
forms in her career. She has been an actor, dancer,
musician and teaching artist in all three disciplines.
She studied theatre and dance and received a BA
in Theatre Acting/Directing in Colorado, traveled to
Oxford to study Shakespeare with the British American
Drama Academy and appeared in numerous shows
in Chicago and Los Angeles. After taking a few years away from
theatre to create World Citizen Baby, a multicultural, multilingual
early childhood music and movement program exploring culture
through music and dance, she went back to theatre in 2012, earning
her MA in Applied Theatre Arts from USC in 2013 which included
an externship with The Center for Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio
de Janeiro. Sarah began working with the Rogues as Education
Manager in January 2014 and is very excited for the opportunity to
be back onstage in HYPERBOLE: bard.
Miles Taber (Ensemble) A graduate of UC Irvine, Miles has acted
as a designer, performer, writer or director for the majority of the
Rogues’ productions. Outside of the Ensemble, he can be found
working on his illustrations, improvisation, podcast, pub quiz,
puppetry videos, or as Merch Guy for legendary art rock band
The Residents. Please note that all of these pursuits are fairly
ridiculous.
The Production Staff
Sean T. Cawelti (Director, Puppet and Mask Design) graduated from
the University of California Irvine with his BA in Drama with honors in
Directing and studied puppetry at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Sean
has won awards for his work as a designer, director and playwright,
honored with a UNIMA Citation of Excellence for Gogol Project and was
a 2013 finalist for Center Theater Group’s Sherwood Award as a director.
He was selected by the City of Los Angeles’ Cultural Affairs Department
to travel to Brazil for two months to study woodcarving and Candomblé,
a religion born of African and Catholic traditions. Sean is the founding
Artistic Director of Rogue Artists Ensemble a multi-media, puppet and
mask company in Los Angeles. His directing work has been seen at the
Getty Villa, South Coast Repertory, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, The
Geffen Playhouse and the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. He has
designed puppets, masks, props and video for theater, music videos,
museums, concerts and arena shows including the recent Kanye West
Yeezus world tour. More info at www.seancawelti.com
Lori Meeker (Costume Designer) is an artist and designer hailing from
beautiful Los Angeles, California and is thrilled to be working with The
Rogues for the first time. Costume credits include Measure for Measure
and The Traveling Carnival Freakshow for ECT, and the short film Thugs
the Musical. She also created costumes for The Drew Carey Show,
Firefly and Austin Powers: Goldmember. Lori is a founding member of
SparkleBlob Collective contributing to Gothtober and the annual holiday
puppet shows, where she created tiny costumes for puppet Liberace and
an angelic Gram Parsons. She recently collaborated with Gary Baseman
for his recent retrospective at the Skirball and works as the in-store sign
artist for Trader Joe’s. Lori would like to thank Chelsea Sutton, Grimace
Boyer, Rosemary Meeker and Koshka the Cat for all their love, support
and mrows. Annually updated info can be found at lorimeeker.com
Noelle Hoffman (Sound Designer) has been happily working with the
Rogues since 2011. She recently became an ensemble member and
is excited for the opportunity to do even more work with these amazing
artists. During the day, Noelle is the Sound and Video Supervisor for
Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Educational Theatre Program
and also freelances as a sound designer and engineer for such
companies as USC (New Works Festival; In the Blood), Diablo Sound
(Halloween Horror Nights), and Unbound Productions (Wicked Lit). An
MFA graduate of UC Irvine, Noelle would especially like to thank the Leo
Freedman Fellowship for their support during grad school.
Brandon Baruch (Lighting Designer) is a lighting designer and
playwright. He recently designed Duke Ellington’s street opera Queenie
Pie for both Long Beach Opera and Chicago Opera Theater. LA Designs
include: Always...Patsy Cline (El Portal Theatre); The Second City’s
A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens and Twist Your Dickens ReLoaded! Re-Twisted! (Kirk Douglas Theater); BARE - A Rock Musical
(The Hayworth Theater); and Spring Awakening (The Arena Stage at
Theatre of Arts - Ovation Award Nomination). His latest play, NO HOMO,
received its world premiere in the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival, where
it garnered multiple awards including The Encore! Producers’ Award, The
Golden Elephant Award for Best Playwright and The Fringe Freak Award
for Best in Ensemble Theater and Best World Premiere.
Brittany Blouch (Prop Designer) was born and raised in Anchorage,
AK. She has a BS in Architecture and is currently an MFA candidate
for Scenic Design at California State University Long Beach. Scenic
Design work includes: Blackbird (California Repertory Company), The
Thugs (California Repertory Company), By the Bog of Cats (University
Players), Songs for a New World (Theatre Threshold), The Hive at
Westmont (Westmont College Fringe). Props Design work: Tartuffe:
Lab (California Repertory Company), Blind Mouth Singing (University
Players), Lost Moon Radio- America (South Coast Rep Studio Series),
Lost Moon Radio Presents: Roger Wodehouse’s Androgymnasium
(Hollywood Fringe Festival). Painting Assistant: A View From the Bridge
(Pacific Resident Theatre), Painting/Building Assistant: Sweet Charity
(Peninsula High Drama Boosters). Currently she is working on Merrily
We Roll Along (University Players). This is her first show with Rogue, and
she couldn’t be more excited to be a part of it!
Alexis Nicole Robles (Production Stage Manager) is a Los Angeles
based stage manager that is an Associate Artist with Rogue Artists
Ensemble, and the resident Production Stage Manager for RIOT stage, a
rock and roll event company based out of Long Beach. She is so excited
to be on the HYPERBOLE: bard team this summer and hopes you are
ready for the Rogue-y shenanigans to commence!
Musicians
The Ditty Bops (“Waste Away”) also known as Amanda Barrett and
Abby DeWald, have been writing and performing music together since
2003. They are also avid visual art making machines and create music
inspired by their magical lives at a treehouse studio in Hollywood. They
wrote and illustrated their first kids books, Ruffy Loves to Exercise, Jelly
Loves Jam, Panc and Choc Love to Cook, and The Little Pumpkin. Many
of their paintings and drawings are being shown in Los Angeles. They
released two albums on Warner Bros Records, The Ditty Bops and Moon
Over The Freeway, as well as the EP Pack Rat, and four independent
recordings - Songs for Steve, The Color Album, Love Letters, Jelly For
President - Yes We Jam, and their pop-up CD Summer Rains, which was
nominated for a Grammy.The duo sang with Bob Dylan on his album
Christmas in the Heart and with Natalie Merchant on her new record.
They were named one of Billboard Magazine’s Top Ten Green Bands
for riding 4,700 miles from LA to New York solely by bicycle, performing
40 concerts along the way. They have been featured on Late Night with
Conan O’Brian, The Late Late Show with Craig Fergusson, The L Word,
Extra, NPR’s All Things Considered, and A Prairie Home Companion.
Their music has appeared on Grey’s Anatomy, Men in Trees, Castle,
Ellen and in numerous films and commercials. Check out their music at
www.TheDittyBops.com
Z.N. Lupetin (“Fume Of Sighs” and “Lovers Lament”) is a composer,
playwright and touring bandleader of the LA based roots orchestra The
Dustbowl Revival. A long time Shakespeare lover, he last composed a
depression-era bluegrass score to Twelfth Night for The Old Globe in
San Diego. He has written and directed three plays in LA, most recently
at The Hudson Theatre in Hollywood and his play Sweet Tooth received
it’s debut at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. He teamed up with Taylor
Coffman on a play Catchers about cannibals falling in love last year at
the Skylight Theatre in LA where he is in a playwrights development lab.
His musical collective Dustbowl Revival has toured the United States in
2014.
Gregory Desgouttes (“Intro Storm”) French-American drummer,
composer and visual artist. After studying jazz at the New School in New
York City, where he spent almost ten years, Gregory leaned towards
electronic musics upon arriving in Paris in 2002. Percussionist, he
mingles with sounds, instruments or computers, without formality.
Naturally theater became one of his favorite workfields. He has played
at the famous Avignon Festival live music and visuals. He’s a member
of many Paris-based theater companies and multimedia collectives and
has played in different pop and jazz bands. He relocated to Los Angeles
in January 2014.
Mathew Patrick Davis (“Iambic Patemeter”) is an actor, musician, and
composer. He has co-written, composed, and starred in musicals based
on Jurassic Park, The Shining, and The NeverEnding Story, as well as
the 8-bit arcade opera The King of Kong: The Unauthorized Musical, all of
which have been staged at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles. He recently
debuted his first solo show, Matt Davis Gets a Girlfriend, a one-man
musical about one man’s quest to not DIE ALONE. He composed and
stars in the forthcoming short film Bulimia: the Musical. An accomplished
pianist, Matt also performs a solo act that highlights original comedy songs
such as “Guns!”, “Facebook Birthday,” and “She Doesn’t Like Radiohead.”
Those songs, and many others, can be seen on his YouTube page. As
an actor, he has appeared on television shows such as Community, The
Sarah Silverman Program, Sam & Cat, Greek, Joan of Arcadia, and Days
of Our Lives. His stage work includes critically-praised productions with
the Kennedy Center, the Pasadena Playhouse, the La Jolla Playhouse
and the Reprise Theatre Company. www.matthewpatrickdavis.com
Rogue Artists Ensemble
Rogue Artists Ensemble is a collective of multi-disciplinary artists who
create Hyper-theater, an innovative hybrid of theater traditions, puppetry, mask work, dance, music, and modern technology. Through a
collaborative development process, with an emphasis on design and
storytelling, the Rogues create original, thought-provoking performances. We cultivate unique audience experiences that appeal to multiple
generations of theatergoers in order to expand the boundaries of contemporary American theater.
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