Current Festival
Current Festival
November 12-13, 2024
The Fall 2024 Director’s Festival explores extremely varied themes that all boil down to the way we reckon with time and its relation to the identity of the self. Whether it’s the way the past is reckoned with, our relationship with death, the potency of memory, or the way we must grow up; time is a throughline that facilitates a wide array of nuanced conversations.
These conversations often end up subverting or reframing a particular identity in each piece which reflects the identities and curiosities alive in each director whether that be cultural, sexual orientation and gender, familial or the intersection of multiple. As we transform across worlds where space and time is suspended, we tackle big-picture issues that piece together the core of who each director is and what they desire to call into question.
Festival Information
Creative
Faculty Advisor: Michael Alvarez (He/Him)
Producer: Gianna Marullo (She/Her)
Dramaturgy: Breylyn Brown (She/Her)
Marketing: Lily Afghani (They/Them) and Mina Oelrich (She/Her)
Deck Stage Manager: Eryn Lemmert (She/Her)
Sound Operator: Gabe Pettener (He/Him)
Lighting: Deandra Bromfield (She/They) and Logan Whitten (He/Him) Photographer: Daniel
Rosales (He/Him)
"Giving Up the Ghost" by Cherríe Moraga
Directed by Lily Afghani (They/Them)
Marisa — Sabrina Majack (She/They)
Amalia — Diana Aldaco-Soto (She/Her)
Corky — Brianna Aguilera (She/Her)
"Far Away" by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Mina Oelrich (She/Her)
Joan — Réal Nero (She/Her)
Todd — Sam Wade (He/Him)
Harper — Ellie Chickoree (She/Her)
"Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine" by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Breylyn Brown (She/Her)
Undine — Shelby Denise Smith (She/Her)
Mother — Aria Avena (She/Her)
Father/Dealer — Zion Rivas (He/Him)
Flow — Jahleel E. Johnson (He/Him)
Grandmother — Raynah Joi Howard (She/Her)
"Three Tall Women" by Edward Albee
Directed by Gianna Marullo (She/Her)
A — Mary Brigham (She/Her)
B — Helena Engberg (She/Her)
C — Amita Devotta (She/Her)
The Young Man — Jakob Gruntfest (He/Him)
"Blackbird" by David Harrower
Directed by Eryn Lemmert (She/Her)
Una — Uliana Klimchuk (She/Her)
Ray — Alex Ekker (He/Him)
Girl — Zakiya Hall (She/Her)
"Dog Play" by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Gabe Pettener (He/Him)
Dog — Miranda Faria (She/Her)
Daughter — Grace Hoy (She/Her)
Mother/Queen/Grandmother — Kara Sparks (She/Her)
Sister/Doctor — Katie Gaven (She/Her)
Father/Grandfather — Wyatt Rogers (He/Him)
Schedule and Details
Performances
- November 12, 2024 7:30 p.m.
- November 13, 2024 7:30 p.m.
Location
UNCSA Performance Place - Catawba Theatre
1533 South Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC