WOLVES EAT ELK

The Cast

Abby Burris is a third year BFA actor from Greensboro, North Carolina. Purchase rep credits include: Marisol (Homeless ensemble and Young Woman), The Laramie Project (Reggie Fluty, Rebecca Hilliker, Waitress), and Civic Duty (The Sister-in-law). She would like to thank her friends, family, and especially the members of Company 46 for being constant sources of joy and inspiration.

Tatiana G. Graves-Kochuthara is a third year BFA actor from Queens, New York. Purchase Rep credits include; Marisol (Voices/Homeless People) and Everything You Love (Panacea Touch). She sends all of her love to her mom, grandparents and friends for all of the love and support they give her. A very special shoutout to her grandfather, Milford Graves: I love and miss you endlessly, and I will continue to make you proud.

Sean Kaufman (he/him) is a current third year student attending the Conservatory of Purchase for Acting. Credits include Manifest (NBC), Law and Order SVU (NBC), and Fen (Purchase). He would like to thank his friends, family and cohort for endless support and inspiration.

Grace McCulloch is a third year BFA actor from Madison, New Jersey. Past Credits include Merry Wives of Windsor (Bardolph), Richard II (Lord Willoughby), and The Laramie Project. Grace wants to thank her family and friends for their constant support and love.

Darian Negron-Ortiz is a third year BFA actor coming from Central Florida. Purchase Rep. Credits: the original devised work Eclipse (Skylight), and The Laramie Project (Rulon Stacey, Father Roger Schmidt). Other credits include In The Heights (Usnavi) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander). He would like to thank his family, friends and all the members of Company 46. for motivating him every step of the way. A special thank you to everyone who has ever supported him, even if they are no longer here to do so. Rest In Peace Daniel Mills, forever loved and missed.

Vincent Szutenbach is a third-year BFA actor from Texas. Past Credits include The Laramie Project, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and Civic Duty. Vincent wants to thank his parents for putting up with him and his brother for buying him drinks when he runs out of money.

The Design Technology Team

Ruby Goldstein (Scenic Consultant) is a fourth year scenic designer from Boca Raton, Florida. Previous credits include Dialogues Of The Carmelites (Associate Designer) and Eclipse (Scenic Designer). She would like to thank her family for their everlasting love and support, as well as her cat, Fillary, for her curiosity and unwillingness to compromise on things that are important to her (especially pets).

Massimiliano DiMartino (Lighting Designer) is a fourth-year lighting design major from Newburyport, Massachusetts. His past credits include Systems Design and Isadora Programming for the 2020 Virtual Theatre festival and Sound Designer for Marisol.

Nickolas Lambert (Sound Designer) is a fourth year BFA theatre design/technology major from Poughkeepsie, New York. His previous design credits at Purchase include Sound Design for Mr. Burns, Exit Strategy, Helen, Bibles & Candy, Not My Place, A Bright Room Called Day, and Everything You Love. Nick would like to thank his family and friends for their continued support as well as Dj, Gaby and Ben for their hard work.  

Kaleb Perez (Production Stage Manager) is a fourth-year stage management major from Boston, Massachusetts. His past credits include Production Stage Manager of Civic Duty and Stage Manager of A Bright Room Called Day. 

Hannah Eckert (Technical Director) is a fourth year BFA Theatre Design/Technology student from Ellenville, NY. Past SUNY credits include: Marisol (Production Flyman), A Bright Room Called Day (Production Flyman), The Wolves (Lead Technical Draftsman), and Earthquakes in London (Master Carpenter). She would love to thank her family for always supporting her through all of her endeavors.

MJ Kaufman is a playwright and television writer from Portland, OR. Their plays include: Whisper’s Gone (Theatre Exile), Double Atlas (workshop at Playwrights Realm), Masculinity Max (Public Theater Studio production, Pride Plays ’20 reading), Sensitive Guys ( InterAct Theater and numerous theaters and schools around the country) and A Walrus in the Body of a Crocodile (Clubbed Thumb). Their work has also been produced and developed at WP Theater, Huntington Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the New Museum, NAATCO, Playwrights Realm, Colt Coeur, Yale School of Drama, and the Lark Play Development Center, as well as in Russian in Moscow and in Australia.

Josiah Davis (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist from Dallas.
A director, choreographer, designer and actor, his work intersects expressive movement, live music, emerging technology, and ritual to breathe new life to physical storytelling. Asking, how do we create space for people to be in sync when we are pulled apart by invisible systems? He is a graduate from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, a Brown/Trinity MFA Directing 2020, a company member of Theatre Lumina, a NYTW 2050 fellow, a National Black Theatre Soul Resident, and Associate Artistic Director of On The Verge Theatre Festival in Santa Barbara: www.onthevergefest.org/. He also does work in projection, video editing, sound, and lighting design. Most recently he was the video designer/editor for Lessons In Survival (Vineyard Theatre) and CAPSULE by Whitney White and Peter Mark Kendall at Under The Radar (Public). He has Assistant Directed under William Friedkin, John Rando, Tyne Rafaeli, Oliver Butler and Rainn Wilson.

In our teaching and art, the Conservatory values inclusiveness, equality, and excellence. Upholding all of our training is our aim to train and graduate citizen artists: multifaceted people with a strong sense of purpose in approaching an arts education.

What is a citizen artist? Citizen artists seek to discover how their unique voices can contribute to our world. They understand what it means to be an artist, and what they are here on earth to say and do and make.
The Conservatory trains future citizen artists in three degree programs:

+ BFA Actor Training. The BFA is an intensive professional training program offered to a highly select and diverse group of students. The professional training is anchored in four years of study in acting, voice, speech, and movement, complemented by offerings in dramatic literature and analysis, history of the theatre, stage combat, improvisation, mask work, acting for the camera, and the business of acting. As one of five schools in the Consortium of Professional Theatre Training Programs, Purchase is one of a handful of colleges in the world capable of training artists at this level—and of drawing a faculty from the ranks of professional theatre

+ BFA in Theatre Design/Technology. Emphasizing studio and classroom training, our professional training program in theatre design/technology gives students the guidance and support of established and theatre industry professionals. Many of our alumni are recognized at the top of their field, and have received Tony, Emmy, Obie, and Drama Desk Awards, among other honors. Quite literally, Purchase grads are working in or have worked in every theatre on Broadway, in all tristate venues, and with countless touring productions

+ BA program in Theatre and Performance. From traditional theatre to cutting-edge interdisciplinary work, the theatre and performance major encourages creativity, intellectual curiosity, social engagement, and critical thinking. The core requirements combine scholarship and practice to provide students with a strong foundation in theatre history and dramatic literature, with mandatory stagecraft/production courses. Theatre and Performance majors are encouraged to expand the scope of their education by studying abroad, as well as pursuing coursework in other programs of study within the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Purchase College