Digital Program

Skidmore Theater presents:

WHERE ARE YOU GOING, LITTLE HORSE?
Written by Rada Moskova
Directed by Margarita Blush
Translated by Robert Blush

April 19-21 & 25-27, 2024
All Shows At 8pm, Except Sunday April 21 At 2pm

FEATURING:

Jordan Azzinaro (Little Boy), Claire Butkin (Carnival Master), Amanda Denny (Ensemble), Sky Estrada (Little Boy / Ensemble), Maddie Evans (Carnival Horse), Lucas Falick (Big Horse / Asst. Director), John Harrington (Carnival Master), Sophie Kelly* (Little Horse / Asst. Puppet Builder), Maggie Krieg (Little Horse), Finn Krol (Carnival Master), Emily Landolfi (Ensemble), Max Weigel (Carnival Horse), Isadora Zucker (Little Boy)

*indicates a member of the Miranda Family Fellowship

CREATIVE TEAM:
Garett Wilson (Scenic Design), Samantha Garwood (Costume Design), Jared Klein (Lighting/Video Design), Dylan Salinger (Sound Design)
Hristina Antonova Stoilova (Puppet Designer), Anthony Sellitto-Budney (Puppet Artisan)
Lucas Falick (Assistant Director)
Max Kraftsow (Stage Manager)

PRODUCTION TEAM:
Maggie Hogan (Asst. Stage Manager), Elana Chawla (Asst. Stage Manager), Adelaide Lance (Asst. Scenic Designer), Jess Goerold (Paint Charge), Ella Theoharis (Props Master), Sophie Kelly* (Asst. Puppet Artisan), Allison Green (Asst. Puppet Artisan / Painter), Jared Klein (Technical Director), Brandon Sewall (Asst. Technical Director), Victoria Calabrese (Asst. Costume Designer), Lily Lugiano (Wardrobe Supervisor), Maddie Evans (Master Electrician), Lillian Culver-Anderson (Asst. Master Electrician), Jordan Zickmann (Asst. Sound Designer / Sound Op), Katya Yurkovskaya (Light Op)

*indicates a member of the Miranda Family Fellowship

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

THE PRODUCTION CONTAINS FLASHING LIGHTS + LOUD NOISES
THE RUN TIME IS 60 MINUTES

The 2pm performance on Sunday 4/21 will offer Open Captioning. Open Captioning is a live, word-for-word transcription of what the performers are saying as well as sound cues like “phone rings”, “knock at the door”, or “classical music”. Open Captions are visible to all audience members and no one can enable or disable the captions based on their preferences. Open Captioning is preferred by many, including individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, and people whose second language is English. This service is provided by Ai-Media and sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the Presidential Discretionary Fund, IT/Media Services in collaboration with the Arts Administration Program and Theater Department.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

Join us on April 27th for our Annual HOUSE PARTY! Festivities will commence after the 8pm performance and will be carnival-themed inspired by the show. Help us celebrate the Skidmore Theater Department at the end of our performance Season!

PRODUCTION CREWS:

Scenic Build:
Jordan Azzinaro ’26, Xander Burt ’27, Coltrane Cho ’24, Asher Cortes ’27, Amanda Denney ’27, Becca Durst ’27, Alyssa Galen ’27, Penelope Gibeau ’27, Liz Gluz ’27, Campbell Gray ’27, Emily Lin ’26, Rose Luciano ’27, Sydney Mann ’27, David Shin ’27, Audrey Spiegel ’27, Ava Steiner ’26, Tom Wilkens ’27, Jojo Zou ’26

Electrics Crew:
Sam Baum ’27, Austin Brannan ’24, Xander Burt ’27, Elena Chawla ’26, Coltrane Cho ’24, Liz Gluz ’27, Campbell Gray ’27, Nanz Hu ’26, Taylor LeClair ’27, Emily Lin ’26, Rose Luciano ’27, David Shin ’27, Frankie Sullivan ’27, Max Weigel ’24, Tom Wilkens ’27

Costume Shop:
Maddy Abramson ’27, Charlotte Ballantoni ‘26, Victoria Calabrese ’24, Ken Caron-Quinn ’27, Lillian Culver-Anderson ’26, Sophie D’Amore ’26, Becca Durst ’27, Alyssa Galen ’27, Penelope Gibeau ’27, Liz Gluz ’27, Maggie Krieg ’26, Max McGuire ’24, Lila Sandler ’27, Audrey Spiegel ’27, Ava Vitale ’27, Tom Wilkens ’27, Elina Zhu ’26, Jordan Zickmann ’26

Paint Crew:
Charlotte Ballantoni ’26, Lilian Culver-Anderson ’26, Amanda Denney ’26, Penelope Gibeau ’27, Maggie Hogan ’27, Kal Katz ’27, Adelaide Lance ’24, Lily Lugiano ’26, Ida Mihok ’24, Kelly Murata ’27, Amara Rozario ’27, Dylan Salinger ’24, Lillie Shelor ’25, Katie Steele ’26, Frankie Sullivan ’27, Audrey Tignor ’27, Ava Vitale ’27, Meghan Wax ’27, Elina Zhu ’26, Jordan Zickmann ’26

Props / Puppet Crew:
Maddy Abramson ’27, Grace Collins ’27, Asher Cortes ’27, Sofia Fenner ’25, Mikaela Kraus ’27, Cat Scales ’27, Eva Steiner ’26, Logan Waugh ’26, Meghan Wax ’27

Front of House Team:
Austin Brannan ’24, Christina Constantinou ’27, Anne Huffines ’26, Keryn Math ’24, Pearl McKay ’27, Sylvie Robinson ’27, Sanjana Salian ’24, Ally Stanton ’27, Audrey Tignor ’27, Mahamadou Touray ’27

Newsletter Writers:
Sylvie Robinson ’27, Allie Pape ’27, Bel Kiely ’24, Kit Simpson ’27, Max McGuire ’24, Keryn Math ’24, Ellery Shea ’25, Ben Harris ’27, Emily Landolfi ’27

MANAGEMENT STAFF:
Sue Kessler (Management Director), Chavon Patterson ’24 (General Manager), Aminah Hopewell ’26 (Advertising / Office Manager), Maggie Krieg ’26 (Online Media Manager), Sophie Kelly ’25 (Publicity & Social Media Manager), Lucas Falick ’25 (Program Manager), Gigi Brown ’24 (Visuals Manager), Coltrane Cho ’24 (Photography Manager), Reyn Ricafort ’25 (Newsletter Editor-in-chief), Ida Mihok ’24 (Front of House Manager), Sofia Fenner ’25 (Box Office Manager)

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SPECIAL THANKS:

Frank Moskowitz & The Zankel Production Team
Travis Richardson & The Dance Department
Willa Wilder Klein
Penelope Schebetta
August Sylvester

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CAST BIOS:

Jordan Azzinaro ‘26 (Little Boy) is a sophomore Theater and Anthropology double major. Their previous credits include Edie and Mae (Edie), Blood and Bows (Jasper), The Place That Made You (Swing), Up Your Ass (Little Boy), Under Your Roof (Peter), and Everybody (Everybody). They are also the president of Skidomedy and looking forward to attending the Accademia Dell’Arte this summer. They would like to thank the cast, crew, and puppets for their support and for bringing this show to life, as well as their family for teaching them what it means to be Big and Brave. 

Claire Butkin ‘27 (Carnival Master) is a History/English double major. She is from Tulsa, Oklahoma! Her previous credits include The Thugs (Daphne), Smokefall (Beauty), Little Women the Musical (Meg March), The Lovely Bones (Lindsay Salmon), The Wolves (#46), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), and How to Make Friends and Kill Them (Ada). Claire is on the executive board of Skidmore Hillel and is also a member of the Ad-Libs, Skidmore’s improv group. Claire would like to thank the cast and crew of WAYGLH. She looks forward to continuing her theater studies and applying all that she’s learned from this production to future productions. She would also like to say BOOMER SOONER and Horns Down!!!

Amanda Denney ’26 (Ensemble) is a Theater major with an Anthropology minor. Her previous credits include [RE]MAKING and Eurydice (Swing), Game 58 by Katya Yurkovskaya (Stranger Two), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (the Dwarf), Aladdin (Kassim), The Lightning Thief (Half-Blood/Newscaster), and Pippin (Noble/Peasant). Amanda music directs and performs in Off-North Broadway’s musical theater cabarets. Her English translation of ESCENA CERO (SCENE ZERO), a theater comedy by Pablo Martella, will be presented at the Academic Festival in May. She wants to thank Margarita, Lucas, and Little Horse’s wonderful cast. 

Maddie Evans ‘24 (Carnival Horse/Master Electrician) is a Theater major and Anthropology and Gender Studies double minor. Their previous credits include The Thugs (Diane), The Place That Made You (Jonah), The Cagebirds (The Mistress), 4.48 Psychosis (Lead), Zombie Rain (Zombie), and I Talk to the Flowers (Sylvia Plath). This past summer Maddie attended Accademia dell’Arte’s intensive physical theater program, an experience which lended itself greatly to this process. Maddie is an aspiring actor and technician, who hopes to survive being a starving artist long enough to make a living once they graduate this spring. They would like to thank everypony (puppets included) for their love and support, and for making their last performance so special. BRAVO!

John Harrington ’24 (Carnival Master) is a Mathematics major and French minor.  His previous credits include Heddatron (Cubby Gordon), The Sandbox (Young Man), All My Sons (Joe Keller), and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear). John is also the President of the Skidmore Bandersnatchers, and the Treasurer of the Ad-Libs, the best improv comedy group on campus. He is also an aspiring stand-up comedian. He would like to thank the cast and crew of Little Horse, as well as his friends and family for their support. Additionally, John wants you to know that LeBron > MJ. 

Sophie Kelly ‘25 (Little Horse / Assistant Puppet Artisan) is a junior Theater major/Creative Writing minor, and a member of the Miranda Family Fellowship. Her previous credits include The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs (Ribete), The Chaparral (Alexis), Eurydice (Loud Stone), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander), Les Miserables (The Gate), and Standard Procedure (Playwright/Director). She is looking forward to attending the Accademia Dell’Arte this summer, and would like to thank the cast, crew and her family for their endless support. NEIGHHHHH! 

Finn Krol-García ‘27 (Carnival Master) is a Theater major and an Intergroup Relations/Periclean Honors Forum double minor. This is his first show with Skidmore Theater! His previous acting credits include 12 Angry Jurors (Juror 6), RENT! (Dancer) and Hamlet (Lord). He assistant-produced 12 Angry Jurors and wrote a play called The Grief We Carry in 2023. Finn will also be presenting a staged reading of his translation of the Cuban play Parece Blanca (She Looks White) by Abelardo Estorino at the 24th Annual Academic Festival in May. He extends special thanks to H.G., D.K., and Z.V..

Max Weigel ’24 (Carnival Horse) is a Theater major. His prior credits at Skidmore include I Love XXX (Ensemble), Heddatron (Rick), Eurydice (Nasty interesting man/child), and The Place That Made You (Bud). Some of his favorite roles outside of Skidmore were in Love/Sick (Ben/Mark), Godspell (Jesus), and Radium Girls (Tom). For a few summers, he worked as an assistant director at Bucks Rock, a performing and creative arts camp in New Milford, Connecticut. This is Max’s fourth and final Seminar production at Skidmore, and he is incredibly excited to work with this wonderful cast and crew! He would like to thank this wonderful cast and crew for making this show possible, and his friends and family who supported him through the process.

Isadora Zucker ‘25 (Little Boy) is a Neuroscience Major and Theater Minor. Previous Skidmore Theater credits include [RE]MAKING (Body), Horse Girls (Margaret), and The Cagebirds (The Gossip). She has also performed in a production of You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow with Skidmore’s Music Department, as well as a reading of Palindrome (The Woman) in tandem with the Tang Museum’s Art and Empathy exhibit. Outside of the theater, she can be seen singing with the Skidmore Sonneteers. Isadora would like to thank everyone involved in this production (especially the puppets!) and the support of her friends and family!

Maggie Krieg ‘26 (Little Horse) is a Theater Major and a Film and Media Studies and Arts Administration Double Minor. Her previous Skidmore Theater credits include [RE]Making (Body), and Horse Girls (Ashleigh). She is also a part of the sketch comedy group “The Sketchies.” She has truly enjoyed this process so much and has been so grateful for the hard work and dedication of her fellow castmates and the crew. She would like to thank everyone involved in this process for making it such an incredible and fun production to be a part of, and would like to thank her friends and family for their endless support!    

Sky Estrada ’27 (Ensemble/feet) is a Theater major. This is her first production at Skidmore! Whoop Whoop! She is so proud of the work everyone has put into the production. Everyone absolutely killed it. Sky would like to thank her family and friends for supporting her through the process. She would also like to thank everyone in the cast and crew for making her feel so welcome and pushing her to do her best! 

Emily Landolfi ’27 (Ensemble) is a first year prospective Theater and English double major. This is her first Seminar production and second show at Skidmore, her previous credit being The Thugs (Mercedes). Emily is also a member of the Sketchies comedy group and involved with vocal opportunities on campus. She is grateful for the cast and crew for putting in endless hours to make this production possible and for being the friendliest faces. She would also like to thank her friends and family for their endless support! 

PRODUCTION BIOS:

Margarita Blush (Director) is a Bulgarian American theater artist. She works in the field of devised and visual theater as a creator, director, performer, and educator. Margarita is the Producing Artistic Director of Margarita Blush Productions, an ensemble-based company which performs nationally and internationally. Margarita’s work has been supported by The Jim Henson Foundation, TCG, USArtists International, and many others. She has received Asian Cultural Council and a Grant Wood fellowships. Margarita is passionate about collaborations with artists and organizations from around the world. She has performed, taught, directed, and studied in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey, Germany, France, U.K., Japan, Indonesia, and USA. www.MargaritaBlush.com

Victoria Calabrese ‘24 (Assistant Costume Designer) is a Theater major. Her previous credits include Preaching to the Choir (Ellie Carlson), Standard Procedure (Dr. Katherine Andrews), The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs (Wardrobe Supervisor), The Place that Made You (Wardrobe Supervisor), Eurydice (Wardrobe Supervisor), Silent Sky (Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor), Heddatron (Wardrobe Crew), Baby Makes Seven/The Chaparral (Wardrobe Crew). They would like to thank Lily G and Lily L for their constant support and shared love for wardrobe and Sam Garwood for believing in her and giving her the opportunity to assist her in designing the show.

Elena Chawla ‘26 (Assistant Stage Manager) is a Theater and English double major. While at Skidmore, Elena has been on light crew and has spent some time in the scene shop. Her previous theater credits include “Tuesday Night’s Film” (costume designer and co-writer). Elena would like to thank the mock up puppets for being great assistants, her family for flying over here to see a puppet show, and her friends for eating dinner at 5:30 pm every night. 

Lucas Falick ’25 (Assistant Director / Big Horse) is a Theater major with a concentration in Directing, and a Political Science minor. His previous directing credits include “Fugue,” “Shotz Colors,” (Director), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Arsenic and Old Lace, Rent, and Pippin (Assistant Director). Select acting credits include The Thugs (Bart), Cowboy Mouth (Slim), “Under Your Roof” (Sebastian), “Standard Procedure” (Patrick), 4:48 Psychosis, and John Proctor is the Villain. Lucas is also the Vice President of the Bandersnatchers, Skidmore’s best (and only) TTB acapella group. He’d like to thank everypony :3 on the Little Horse team for making this perhaps the greatest play of all time. 

Lu Glassberg ’26 (Asst. Lighting / Video Designer) is a Theater and Spanish major with an Education minor. Their previous credits at Skidmore include Silent Sky, After Jane (ASM), The Great Impresario… (LD), The Caged Birds and [RE]MAKING (SM) and The Winter Guard Play (Dramaturg & Master Electrician). Outside of Skidmore, Lu trained with the YP Company at OCT and there did In the Forest, She Grew Fangs (Jenny) and Alex Getting Better (SM). They are looking forward to their internship in education in Barcelona this summer, as well as returning to Portland Playhouse as a lead teacher. They would like to thank Jared Klein and the wonderful ME team on this show.

Maggie Hogan ’27 (Assistant Stage Manager) is a possible Theater and English major. This is her first show at Skidmore! Her previous credits include Footloose (Scenic Designer/Assistant Technical Director), Almost Maine (Scenic Designer/Assistant Technical Director), and Avenue Q (Student Technical Director/Scenic Designer). Maggie would like to thank the mock up puppets for being great assistants. She would also like to thank her family for driving 3 hours to see a puppet show, her sister for being only a phone call away when needed, and her friends for being ok with getting dinner at 5pm every weekday.  

Max Kraftsow ‘26 (Stage Manager) is a Theater Major with a concentration in Stage management. His previous Stage management credits include The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs (ASM), The Thugs (SM), and The Place That Made You (ASM). Other Theater credits include The Wizard of Oz (Flight Crew), and Silent Sky (Sound Board Op). Max would like to thank his Mother for her endless support and the production team, cast, and crew for working so hard to make the production a smooth ride.

Jared Klein (Lighting / Video Designer) is an Artist-In-Residence and the Technical Director for the Skidmore Theater Department. Most recently he designed and directed [RE]MAKING, a devised work based on the texts of Charles Mee. Select lighting design credits at Skidmore include: The Courage To Right A Woman’s Wrongs, Eurydice, Somewhere, Radium Girls, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, We Used To Wear Bonnets & Get High All The Time, 33 Variations, Let The Right One In, Balm In Gilead, Fragments, Who Will Carry The Word, Our Town and Blood Wedding. Select visiting artist design collaborations include: Joel Mellin, Phil Soltanoff, Joe Diebes, Sara Juli, Howard Fishman, STREB, SITI and NYSSSA Dance. Previously, Jared was the Production Manager and Technical Director for BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn where he opened their state-of- the-art facility in the heart of downtown Brooklyn’s cultural district, and production managed the inaugural season. Prior to that, Jared spent six years as the Technical Director and Resident Designer for the Tech and Design program at Adelphi University. In addition to more than a decade of educational experience, Jared has twenty years of professional experience as a Technical Director, Lighting/Video Designer, and Production Manager for both theatrical and industrial design companies throughout the US and Europe. He was a member and resident Lighting/Video Designer with the New York-based experimental theater company, Fovea Floods, and a founding member of the Obie award-winning Bushwick Starr Theater in Brooklyn. International lighting design and technical direction credits include: Movement Live (NYU AbuDhabi & Lincoln Center), Big Art Group’s House of No More, Shelf Life, and Flicker. NYC design credits include: Cassandra (Helga Davis, BRIC),Minority and Glee (Nina Winthrop & Dancers, The Flea Theater),The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Fovea Floods, Ontological-Hysteric Theater), One for the Road (Fovea Floods, CSV), The Maids (Fovea Floods, Bushwick Starr), and House of No More (Big Art Group, PS122).

Adelaide Lance ‘25 (Assistant Scenic Designer) is a Theater, with concentrations in Playwriting and Design & Technical Theater, and English, with focus in Creative Writing, double major and Media and Film minor. Her previous credits include Winter Guard (Assistant Scenic Designer), The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs (Assistant Scenic Designer, Props Coordinator), The Great Impresario Boris Lermontov Would Like to Invite You to Dinner (Scenic Designer, Props Coordinator), Hedderaton (Robot Operator) and Blood and Bows (Playwright / Assistant Director). She would like to thank her family and friends for their endless love and support in all aspects of her life!

Lily Lugiano ‘26 (Wardrobe Supervisor) is an Art major with an Italian minor. Her previous wardrobe crew credits include The Place That Made You, After Jane, [RE]MAKING, The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs, and The Winter Guard Play. Her costume design credits include The Cagebirds. Outside of Skidmore, she manages the costume shop and wardrobe crew of the Ocean City Theater Company. She would like to graciously thank her adorable cats, Fluffy and Pushkin. 

Dylan Salinger ‘24 (Sound Designer / Composer) is a Computer Science major and Theater minor. Select Skidmore credits include The Winterguard Play (Sound Design), The Courage to Write a Woman’s Wrong (Sound Design), After Jane (Sound Design), Eurydice (Assc. Sound Design), The Thugs (Sound and Projections), and The Sandbox (Sound Design). Outside of Skidmore, Dylan has enjoyed working at The Shakespeare Theater of NJ in multiple roles including: electrics, carpentry, and audio engineering/design. Dylan is also looking forward to designing sound for the department’s production of Frog and Toad later this semester. He would like to thank Jared Klein for his advising and instruction over the years and looks forward to pursuing an MFA sound design in graduate school.

Ella Theoharis ’26 (Props Designer) is a Theater major, Math major, and Computer Science minor. Her previous Skidmore credits include [RE]MAKING (ASM), The Courage to Write a Woman’s Wrong (Asst. Master Electrician) The Place That Made You (Sound Board Operator), The Great Impresario… (Lighting Designer) and The Winter Guard Play (Master Electrician). Ella’s other credits include Pride and Prejudice and Puppets (Stage Manager, Lighting Designer), A New World (ASM, Fly Operator), and Les Mis (Sound Operator). She is looking forward to working in NYC this summer and would like to thank everyone for the work they put into this show.

Garett Wilson (Scenic/ Video Designer) is a Senior Artist-in-Residence in the Skidmore College Theater Department. Garett has designed scenery, projections, lighting and has done stage work for numerous local and regional companies, including The Maine State Music Theater, The Hampton Playhouse, Portland Ballet, Capital Repertory Theater, Yale Repertory, Candlewood Playhouse, Curtain Call Theatre, ACT, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shadowland Theatre, Theater by the Sea, and the New York State Theater Institute. Garett has designed over thirty operas for the Lake George Opera/Opera Saratoga including La Bohéme, Don Giovanni, The Barber of Seville, Ariadne Auf Naxos, Candide, Il Matrimonio Segreto, Madame Butterfly, the site-specific production of Dido and Aeneas at the National Museum of Dance, and the world professional premiere of Ned Rorem’s Our Town. Garett has also designed scenery, projections, and occasionally lighting, for over sixty productions at Skidmore including Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Imp of Simplicity, Machinal, Arcadia, The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, Museum, A Dream Play, Enemy of the People, Eurydice, Macbeth, and most recently Heddatron and The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs. Garett has collaborated with Denise Limoli from dance and Tony Holland from the music department on scenery for the ballets Sleeping Beauty and an evening of Ballet Russes. He also collaborated with Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins from the music department on scenery for the opera Xerxes. Garett is a board member of the Saratoga Shakespeare Festival and has designed their productions of The Tempest, As You Like I, 12^thNight, Much Ado, and Henry IV parts 1&2. Garett recently designed the lighting and scenery for First Coast Opera productions of Savitri and The Medium in St. Augustine Florida.

Jordan Zickmann ‘26 (Assistant Sound Designer) is a theater major with an intended statistics minor. Previous Skidmore credits include The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs (follow spot operator) After Jane (wardrobe), Inching Towards Yeolha, Eurydice (sound board operator), and Antigone (chorus). Outside of Skidmore, they have worked on Art of Bowing (run crew), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (substitute spot operator), Cabaret (production management intern). They are also a founding member and vice president of Off-North Broadway, Skidmore’s current musical theater club.