Rogue Bard Program.indd - Rogue Artists Ensemble

The Players:
Taylor Coffman, Jeremy Hohn,
Toby Jacobrown, 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 danse de Falstaff” (Falstaff dance)
and R&J’s “La Rencontre”
Matthew Patrick Davis: “Iambic Pentameter”
Ego Plum: “Track 2” from Ego Plum’s “Unreleased Instrumental
Album” and “Nose Suite” (Curtain Call)
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
Special Thanks
HYPERBOLE: bard is made possible in part by a Culver City Performing
Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.
HYPERBOLE: bard is sponsored by the City of West Hollywood, the City
of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County
Arts Commission.
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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The Players
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
Jeremy Charles* Hohn (Ensemble) This lanky youth
is “as precious as the day is long,” says actor Doug
Jones. He’s a poet, theatre producer and mask maker
from Orange County with a fetish for hat shopping and
a passion for devised theatre. This affect and desire to
create multi-disciplinary theatre sparked in 2011 from
his study of commedia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy, and
lead him to work with such physical theatre and clown
masters as UC Irvine professors Annie Loui and Eli
Simon, John Gilkey of The Idiot Workshop in Hollywood, LA’s favorite
Santa, Donovan Scott, John Achorn of Dell’Arte International and briefly
with Joe Williams exploring Delsarte’s System of Expression. Jeremy is
a curious case, admittedly as green as the whites of his eyes to the world
of art and performance, a kid in a candy shop so to speak. He holds four
Associate Degrees from Fullerton College from “Science & Mathematics”
to “Arts & Human Expression,” and recently, he graduated from the
Drama program at UC Irvine. A Bachelor twice over. He is overjoyed
to be collaborating with Rogue Artists Ensemble and touring this zany
experience, which marks his 18th devised ensemble production. Many
of these Jeremy produced and managed with his partner Alexander
Makardish through their production entity, ClownMa dell’Arte, a
partnership they formed in 2012 to, through primitive storytelling, inspire
surrounding communities and recuperate the stigmatized idea of clown
and mask in America. Thank you K, C, M, V, E, Z & K!
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, stage-managed,
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
Ego Plum (“Track 2” from Ego Plum’s “Unreleased Instrumental
Album” and “Nose Suite”) is a composer for film, stage and television
music producer musical director for the Ebola Orchestra, Green Jelly
guitarist absurdist. EbolaMusic.com
Tyler Stamets (“Out Spot”) comes to the Rogues from the rural San
Diego County arts community of Julian, where his love of theatre and
performance was cultivated by a musical family. Tyler received his B.A.
in Drama from the University of California Irvine where he focused his
studies on sound design, technical direction and acting, working on
over fifteen productions. Tyler is a founding ensemble member of the
Rogue Artists Ensemble and serves as the resident sound designer and
technical director. In addition to various Rogue projects, Mr. Stamets has
worked with Cornerstone Theater, Opera Pacific and other companies in
Southern California.