Barbecue

This production contains strong language and drug and alcohol use

Cast

Noelle Backman is a third year BFA actor at SUNY Purchase from California. Purchase Credits include: Truth and Reconciliation (Bosnian Woman), Babette’s Feast (Martine), and currently Barbecue (Adlean). Other credits include Waiting For Lefty (Edna), The Greek Project (Ismene), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta). Many thanks to her supportive family and friends!

Keymer Cuesta is a third year BFA acting major from Brooklyn, NY and of Afro-Dominican descent. His past credits include Jean-François Millet in Is He Dead? and most recently, Truth and Reconciliation (Son in South Africa) and Babette’s Feast (Dean/Espen) at Purchase.

Sanise Lebron is a third year acting major in Purchase’s Theater Conservatory program. She is from the Bronx, New York and has the pleasure of playing Marie. Past Purchase credits include: Truth and Reconciliation (Wife), Babette’s Feast (Young Lowenhelm/Lief), and Pirandello Party (Lignota). She would like to thank her family and friends for their constant support and love. Cheers!!

Corinne McLoughlin is a fourth year BFA actor from Buffalo, NY. Some past Purchase credits include: Life is a Dream (King Basilia), Everybody, Passage (Q, M), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Matthias of Galilee). She wants to thank Co. 47 for the warm welcome and Co. 46 for lifting her spirits at every turn.

Arielle Moore is a third-year BFA acting major from Harlem, NY. Past Purchase credits include: Truth and Reconciliation (Man/Mama) and Babette’s Feast (Mrs. Lowenhielm/Lady of the Court). Other credits include A Little Night Music (Petra) at LaGuardia High School. She sends so much love and gratitude to her supportive family, friends and mentors.

Ndeye Daro Niang is a third year BFA actor from Harlem, New York. Purchase Rep credits include: Babette’s Feast (Babette), and Truth and Reconciliation (Daughter/Woman). Other credits include the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and placing third in the New York Shakespeare competition. Many thanks to all her close friends and companions who support and uplift her!

Daija North is a Brooklyn native, in her 3rd year at Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts. Past Purchase credits include Truth and Reconciliation (Widow) and Babette’s Feast (Erna). She sends love and hugs for all the support.

Precious Omigie is a third year BFA actor from Brooklyn, New York. Purchase Rep credits include: Truth and Reconciliation (Child/Grandma) and Babette’s Feast (Astrid). Thank you to her family and friends for their love and support!

Katie Parkinson is a third year BFA actor from Seattle, Washington. You may have previously seen her in Truth and Reconciliation as Woman, Babette’s Feast as Philippe, or Pirandello Party as Ines and Signora Onoria. She is sending lots of love and thanks to her family back home, especially her dogs.

Eli Stiewing is a third year BFA actor from Annapolis Maryland and Brooklyn New York. Purchase credits include Loewenhielm (Babette’s Feast), Serbian Man 2 and Northern Irish Man B (Truth and Reconciliation), and Grotti and Anselmo (The Pirandello Party). Some outside credits include Adam (DNA) with Piper Theatre and Judas Iscariot (The Last Days of Judas Iscariot) with LaGuardia High School. Eli would like to give special thanks to his family, his friends, his teachers, and everyone who’s supported him along the way!

Design & Production

Celia HuttonJohns is a fourth year Stage Manager from Philadelphia, PA. Purchase Rep credits include Wolves Eat Elk (Stage Manager), Scenes from Metamorphoses, Mr. Burns, and Exit Strategy (Lead Shop Carpenter). Other Credits include Pericles and Peril’s Island (Assistant Stage Manager) at Shakespeare in Clark Park. Thanks to her family and friends for constantly helping her step outside her comfort zone.

Becca Lambert is a senior technical director from Massachusetts. She would like to thank her family for helping her get here and supporting her theatrical endeavors. Her past credits include The Colored Museum/The Misanthrope (Technical Director), As you Like It (Production Carpenter), and What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Production Carpenter).

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Peter Lopez is a fourth year lighting designer from Brooklyn, NY. Purchase Rep credits include: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (ALD), Marisol (ME), and A Bright Room Called Day (ME). Other credits include Purgatorio Wonderland (ALD). Much appreciation for his friends and family who’ve supported him along the way.

Jaqueline Cabrero is a third year BFA Design/Technology Lighting Design student from White Plains, NY. Purchase Rep credits include: Passage (Programmer), Wolves Eat Elk (Programmer), Blood Wedding (Run Crew). Purchase Dance Conservatory credits include: Fleeting Touch, Midnight Snack, Omni, Asé, Play (Master Electrician). Jackie would like to thank her friends and family for all their love and support!

ROBERT O’HARA has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies and the Herb Alpert Award. Broadway: Slave Play (Tony Nomination). Off Broadway: He directed the world premieres of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, Nikkole Salter and Dania Guiria’s In the Continuum, Tarell McCraney’s The Brother/ Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’s Wild with Happy, Kirsten Childs’ Bella: An American Tall Tale, Baum and Cheri’s Gun and Powder at Signature Theater, Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun at Williamstown Theater Festival, Aziza Barnes’ BLKS at MCC, Inda Craig-Galvan’s Black Superhero Magic Mama at The Geffen Theater, the Universes’ Uni/Son, inspired by the poetry of August Wilson at OSF and Shakespeare’s Macbeth at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, as well as his own plays, Mankind, Bootycandy and Insurrection: Holding History. His plays Zombie: The American and Barbecue world premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theater and The Public Theater, respectively.

Logan Pitts (Director) is a NYC-based director, performer, and collaborative artist across theater, opera, dance, music, and film. Logan specializes in facilitating creative spaces and communities as powerful conductors for change, with keen focus on nuanced, marginalized yet joyful narratives that expand beyond preconceived foundations of trauma-guzzling, tragedy-sucking, oppression-exploiting theater of Black & Queer stories. Standing 6’6’’, a natural leader reinforced with intensive experience, Logan is passionate about creating fun, zany, adventurous, inclusive, people-forward environments in which to collaborate.

In the past year, Logan held the Artist-in-Residence position as Guest Director with Vassar College, pioneering new forms of virtual and hybrid theater. This experimental space reinforced his artistic voice seen in pandemica works such as Dancing Through (The Tank/Allongé Film), Twilight LA (NYSEC), Iolanthe (NYGASP), Noir Femme Avengers (Harlem9), and Reparations (Gloucester Stage). Equally commanding onstage and an advocate for the development of new theatre, Logan has premiered original works such as Bran Castle (Signature Theatre), Bach & Bleach (LaMaMa), The Light Years by The Debate Society (Powerhouse Theater/NYSAF), I Am Antigone (Theater for a New City), and The Secret (NYNW, Theatre Row). Vocally, Logan has performed in major venues across the city such as Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, and Symphony Space. Other favorite productions include Waxler’s On the Town, The Madison Theatre’s West Side Story, and the US tour of The Mikado & Pirates of Penzance.

His work has been seen Off- Broadway, regionally, as well as many prolific venues such as Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall, and touring nationally.

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