HORSE HEAD THEATRE CO. PRESENTS
THE FLICK
BY ANNIE BAKER
Directed by Jacey Little
NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 15, 2018 @ 7:30pm
Houston Warehouse Studios, 1506 Lorraine st. (77009)
TEAM
DIRECTOR ... JACEY LITTLE
DRAMATURG ... LEAH SHORT
STAGE MANAGER ... SYDNEE DAVIS
SCENIC DESIGNER ... TORSTEN LOUIS
LIGHTING DESIGNER ... J. MITCHELL CRONIN
SOUND & VIDEO DESIGNER ... PETER TON
COSTUME DESIGNER ... CLAIR HUMMEL
SOCIAL MEDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY & PR ... TASHA GOREL
CAST
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GREG COTE (SAM) is a proud graduate of the University of Houston SOTD where he received his BFA. He is thoroughly jazzed to be joining Horse Head on stage for the first time. Greg was responsible for the music direction and song writing for Young Jean Lee's Church with HH in 2017. Favorite past roles include: Ensemble in Tamarie's Merry Evening of Mistakes & Regrets, Magic in Small Ball, Paul in Snow White (Catastrophic Theatre); Noah in Cherry Muffins: A Demon Play (Cone Man Running); Ensemble in Love & Information (MST); Matt/Homer in Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (Cape Rep); Billing in An Enemy of The People, Bird/Others/Music Director in The Birds, Fred/Past/others in A Christmas Carol (CTC); Garry in Noises Off, Robert in Boeing Boeing (Unity Theatre); Horatio in Hamlet, Le Beau in As You Like It, and Porter in MacBeth(HoustonShakespeareFestival); and other various readings, workshops and collaborations around Houston. Greg is also a local musician and his band Greg Cote & The Real Life Friends and are releasing new music with Miss Champagne Records throughout the year. Thank you for supporting Houston artists.
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JAYDEN KEY (SKYLER) s so thankful to be back with Horse Head Theatre Co. His acting credits include Horse Head Theatre Co.: Church (Reverend Jayden); Catastrophic Theatre: Curse of the Starving Class (Wesley), The Tamarie Cooper Show: Field Trip! (Snack/Breaking Bad Bert), and Leap and the Net Will Appear (Constantine); Obsidian Theatre: Cabaret (Bobby) and Mr. Burns a Post Electric Play (Bart); Catwalk Theatrical: Amadeus (Mozart); Mainstreet Theatre: Jackie and Me (Joey Stoshack) and Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook (Handsome Warren); Books Alive: Chicken Big (Chicken Big) and Tacky the Penguin (Proper). For more information on Jayden visit www.jaydenkey.com
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ANTONIO LASANTA (AVERY) is currently a junior at the University of Houston receiving his BFA in Acting. Acting credits include Larry (Mr. Marmalade), Brigand (Man and Superman), Narrator (Animal Farm), and Joe Crowell (Our Town - directed by Horse Head’s very own Philip Hays). He is also a playwright, with several 10-minute plays having been produced including Rosemary in Waiting and Live-Action Roleplay. He is incredibly excited to get to work with such amazing artists and talented peers in this dream role. He’d also like to extend thanks to his family and friends for their constant support.
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AVERY PADILLA (ROSE) is a 23 year old actress as well as Houston Native. Avery has received training from San Jac South College and University of Houston’s School of Theatre and Dance. Although stage theatre is her main love, she has been dabbling in film, recently staring in a indie film produced by a group at UT Austin. Some of her latest stage project was Wanda, Daisy and the Great Rapture with Landing Theatre Company, as the role of Daisy. Avery has always had a big soft spot for Horse Head Theatre Company, volunteering for them many times and catching every show she can. She’s very honored to be on the stage for them in this production. Avery would like to thank Horse Head Artistic team for the opportunity and her family and friends for all the endless support.
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Annie Baker (Playwright) Annie Baker's full-length plays include The Flick (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Playwriting, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, OBIE Award for Best New American Play), Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, for which she also designed the costumes (Soho Rep). Ms. Baker's plays have been performed at over 100 theatres across the USA and in England, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Latvia, Sweden, and Russia. She is a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and a member of New Dramatists, MCC’s Playwrights Coalition and EST. Recent honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, a Lilly Award, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, a MacDowell fellowship and a Master Artist Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts. A published anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, is available from TCG books.
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J. Mitchell Cronin (Lighting Designer) Horse Head Theatre: The Judgement of Fools; Main Street Theater: The Last Wife, Native Gardens, How I Became a Pirate (MATCH and Hobby Center),The Revolutionists, Duck for President, RFK, Red Hot Patriot, Harriet the Spy, Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans, Goodnight Moon, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse; Prague Shakespeare Company MST: Much Ado About Nothing, Venus in Fur, Twelfth Night; Stages Repertory Theatre: Honky Tonk Angels at Miller Outdoor Theatre (Assoc. Design), Panto Wonderful Wizard, Panto Snow Queen: Unfrozen; The Ensemble Theatre: Simply Simone, The First Noel, A Soulful Christmas; Catastrophic Theatre Company- Tamarie's Merry Evening of Mistakes and Regrets; Classical Theatre Company- The Bear/Proposal, The Ghost Sonata; A.D.Players: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,Charlotte’s Web; Prohibition Theatre: Eat Me, The Jazz Age; Opera in the Heights: The Telephone and the Medium; DiverseWorks: What Shall We Do Next; Urban Souls Dance Company: Between Two Worlds, Three City Blocks; Sam Houston State University: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Much Ado About Nothing, Trojan Women, Waiting for Godot, Enron; (Dance Lighting Design) Spectrum: Drift; It’s Good to See You Again; Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Theatre Design and Technology; Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas. www.JMCdesigns.com
Sydnee Davis (Stage Manager) began with Horse Head as Stage Manager for Church by Young Jean Lee and earlier in 2018, she stage managed We’re Gonna Die. Since then she has worked with The Landing Theatre and Ensemble Theatre. She is a graduate of Hendrix College, where she was stage manager for Mr. Marmalade and had several acting roles, including “Abby” in The Hourglass Project and supporting roles in L’estrange Mysteriux. Film/Television credits include Fleur, Nicole, a mini-series.
Tasha Gorel (PR, Social Media, Photography & Videography) graduated from The University of Texas at Austin where she earned a dual BA degree in Theatre and History. Since her move to Houston three years ago, she has started her own photography company (Natasha Nivan Photography), joined Horse Head Theatre Co. as a company member (overseeing all PR, social media management, photography, videography and program creation) as well as joining the artistic company at Rec Room (company manager, front of house manager, in house photographer, videographer, and casting director.) Before embarking on her career behind the scenes, Tasha worked over a year with The Alley Theatre workshopping, acting in and touring their theatre for young audiences productions as well as appearing as an actress in over ten Houston theatre productions. Tasha also manags and designs websites for artists throughout the city. Email her if you need anything done in the digital storytelling field at [email protected].
Clair Hummel (Costume Designer) is a Houston based freelance Costume and Puppet Designer, as well as Costume Coordinator for Houston Grand Opera. Hummel is an Indiana native that received her undergraduate degree from Indiana State University and her MFA from the University of Houston. She has designed for companies including: HGOco, HGO To GO!, Alley Theatre OSKAR, REC Room Arts, Jhon Stronks-there in the sunlight, Crossroads Repertory Theatre, The Landing Theatre Company, VauLt Houston, Musiqa Houston, Classical Theatre Company, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Rice University, ROCO, Mildred's Umbrella and University of Houston.
Jacey Little (Director) Jacey is the Artistic Director of Horse Head Theatre Co. and directed We’re Gonna Die by Young Jean Lee and The Flick by Annie Baker in 2018 with Horse Head. She also was the Co-Assistant Director on Catastrophic Theatre’s Curse of the Starving Class. Previously, she directed Church by Young Jean Lee, Sensitive Guys by MJ Kaufman (staged reading), The Whale; or, Moby-Dick (Houston Press 2015 “Best New Play”) and Spaghetti Code by Abby Koenig (BroadwayWorld Houston 2014 “Best New Play”) with Horse Head; Feathers and Teeth by Charise Castro Smith and Dollface by Katharine Sherman (Houston Press 2016 “Best New Play”) with Mildred’s Umbrella; the first workshop performance of Dialogues on Grace by Cressandra Thibodeaux; and Ten Ways on a Gun by Dylan Lamb with The Landing Theatre. Jacey is the former Literary Manager and Dramaturg for the Alley Theatre., former Production Manager for the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and former Managing Director for Obsidian Theatre. Highlights of her Alley credits include Warrior Class by Kenneth Lin, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall and What We’re Up Against by Theresa Rebeck. Jacey holds an MA in Dramaturgy and Theatre Historiography from University of Houston and a BFA in Dramaturgy & Acting from University of Oklahoma.
Torsten Louis (Scenic Designer) is the design and technical coordinator at Wildfish Theatre in Houston, TX. When not working at Wildfish, Torsten freelances as a set and lighting designer mostly in the Houston area. Set designs in the past year include Trouble in Tahiti and Signor Deluso for Baylor Opera Theater, Book of Will, Pinkalicious the Musical and Sideways Stories from Wayside School for Main Street Theater, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Theatre Under the Stars Humphreys School at Miller Outdoor Theatre, All My Sons for Unity Theatre, and Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers for Houston Grand Opera-to-Go.
Leah Short (Dramaturg) holds a B.F.A. from University of the Ozarks in Theatre and Sociology and an M.A. in Theatre Historiography from University of Houston. Professional credits include dramaturgy at the Alley Theatre, Catastrophic Theatre, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Horse Head Theatre Company, and Black Lab Theatre, with directing and design credits at Clarksville Children's Company in Clarksville, AR, and stage management credits with Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, MA and Horse Head Theatre Co. Leah is Company Manager of Horse Head Theatre Co. as well as a Theatre teacher and program director in AISD.
Peter Ton (Sound & Video Designer) is a Houston-based filmmaker and theatre director\designer. His credits include: Stages Repertory Theatre: Panto Star Force, Swimming While Drowning, We Are Proud to Present…, Alma en Venta, My Mañana Comes,Straight White Men, Miss Teen, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Marie Antoinette, Songs I Was Born to Sing, Mack and Mabel; Main Street Theater: Daisy, Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook, The Wizard of Oz, Copenhagen, Bunnicula, Mockingbird, RFK, Red-Hot Patriot; Shrek, the Musical, Silent Sky; Horse Head Theatre Company: The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise; 4th Wall Theatre Company: Reckless; Mildred’s Umbrella: Pretty Little White Girls (short), The Bake Sale (short); Standing Room Only Productions: The Who’s Tommy; Rice Players: The Glass Menagerie. Film / TV: (Director) “BLUE” (2018), "eumenides" (Cannes Film Festival, 2013); Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Theatre – Acting\Directing.
Sydnee Davis (Stage Manager) began with Horse Head as Stage Manager for Church by Young Jean Lee and earlier in 2018, she stage managed We’re Gonna Die. Since then she has worked with The Landing Theatre and Ensemble Theatre. She is a graduate of Hendrix College, where she was stage manager for Mr. Marmalade and had several acting roles, including “Abby” in The Hourglass Project and supporting roles in L’estrange Mysteriux. Film/Television credits include Fleur, Nicole, a mini-series.
Tasha Gorel (PR, Social Media, Photography & Videography) graduated from The University of Texas at Austin where she earned a dual BA degree in Theatre and History. Since her move to Houston three years ago, she has started her own photography company (Natasha Nivan Photography), joined Horse Head Theatre Co. as a company member (overseeing all PR, social media management, photography, videography and program creation) as well as joining the artistic company at Rec Room (company manager, front of house manager, in house photographer, videographer, and casting director.) Before embarking on her career behind the scenes, Tasha worked over a year with The Alley Theatre workshopping, acting in and touring their theatre for young audiences productions as well as appearing as an actress in over ten Houston theatre productions. Tasha also manags and designs websites for artists throughout the city. Email her if you need anything done in the digital storytelling field at [email protected].
Clair Hummel (Costume Designer) is a Houston based freelance Costume and Puppet Designer, as well as Costume Coordinator for Houston Grand Opera. Hummel is an Indiana native that received her undergraduate degree from Indiana State University and her MFA from the University of Houston. She has designed for companies including: HGOco, HGO To GO!, Alley Theatre OSKAR, REC Room Arts, Jhon Stronks-there in the sunlight, Crossroads Repertory Theatre, The Landing Theatre Company, VauLt Houston, Musiqa Houston, Classical Theatre Company, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Rice University, ROCO, Mildred's Umbrella and University of Houston.
Jacey Little (Director) Jacey is the Artistic Director of Horse Head Theatre Co. and directed We’re Gonna Die by Young Jean Lee and The Flick by Annie Baker in 2018 with Horse Head. She also was the Co-Assistant Director on Catastrophic Theatre’s Curse of the Starving Class. Previously, she directed Church by Young Jean Lee, Sensitive Guys by MJ Kaufman (staged reading), The Whale; or, Moby-Dick (Houston Press 2015 “Best New Play”) and Spaghetti Code by Abby Koenig (BroadwayWorld Houston 2014 “Best New Play”) with Horse Head; Feathers and Teeth by Charise Castro Smith and Dollface by Katharine Sherman (Houston Press 2016 “Best New Play”) with Mildred’s Umbrella; the first workshop performance of Dialogues on Grace by Cressandra Thibodeaux; and Ten Ways on a Gun by Dylan Lamb with The Landing Theatre. Jacey is the former Literary Manager and Dramaturg for the Alley Theatre., former Production Manager for the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and former Managing Director for Obsidian Theatre. Highlights of her Alley credits include Warrior Class by Kenneth Lin, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall and What We’re Up Against by Theresa Rebeck. Jacey holds an MA in Dramaturgy and Theatre Historiography from University of Houston and a BFA in Dramaturgy & Acting from University of Oklahoma.
Torsten Louis (Scenic Designer) is the design and technical coordinator at Wildfish Theatre in Houston, TX. When not working at Wildfish, Torsten freelances as a set and lighting designer mostly in the Houston area. Set designs in the past year include Trouble in Tahiti and Signor Deluso for Baylor Opera Theater, Book of Will, Pinkalicious the Musical and Sideways Stories from Wayside School for Main Street Theater, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Theatre Under the Stars Humphreys School at Miller Outdoor Theatre, All My Sons for Unity Theatre, and Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers for Houston Grand Opera-to-Go.
Leah Short (Dramaturg) holds a B.F.A. from University of the Ozarks in Theatre and Sociology and an M.A. in Theatre Historiography from University of Houston. Professional credits include dramaturgy at the Alley Theatre, Catastrophic Theatre, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Horse Head Theatre Company, and Black Lab Theatre, with directing and design credits at Clarksville Children's Company in Clarksville, AR, and stage management credits with Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, MA and Horse Head Theatre Co. Leah is Company Manager of Horse Head Theatre Co. as well as a Theatre teacher and program director in AISD.
Peter Ton (Sound & Video Designer) is a Houston-based filmmaker and theatre director\designer. His credits include: Stages Repertory Theatre: Panto Star Force, Swimming While Drowning, We Are Proud to Present…, Alma en Venta, My Mañana Comes,Straight White Men, Miss Teen, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Marie Antoinette, Songs I Was Born to Sing, Mack and Mabel; Main Street Theater: Daisy, Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook, The Wizard of Oz, Copenhagen, Bunnicula, Mockingbird, RFK, Red-Hot Patriot; Shrek, the Musical, Silent Sky; Horse Head Theatre Company: The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise; 4th Wall Theatre Company: Reckless; Mildred’s Umbrella: Pretty Little White Girls (short), The Bake Sale (short); Standing Room Only Productions: The Who’s Tommy; Rice Players: The Glass Menagerie. Film / TV: (Director) “BLUE” (2018), "eumenides" (Cannes Film Festival, 2013); Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Theatre – Acting\Directing.
