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Que Será, Será

A Life’s Journey of Sexual Orientation

& Gender Expression

 
 
 
 
   
 
Written, Performed & Produced by 
Zelda
aka Judith Z. Miller
 
 
 
 

The show length is approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.

NO PHOTOS OR RECORDING DEVICES. PLEASE SILENCE/TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONES.

 
 

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Why Que Será, Será, and why now?

We are in a time of deep discord and danger for many marginalized people. The sands are shifting for the LGBTQ community and there seems to be no stable ground. While I’ve often felt both angry and terrified about the actions of the Right Wing, my heart and my experience tell me that along with the necessity of direct political action, there is nothing like personal story to affirm common experience and build bridges. My deepest hope is that sharing my raw and real personal story will help move us in that healing direction.

THANKS!

Special thanks to the following people and organizations for their assistance in making the development and production of this show possible: Thomas R. Bruce, George Greczylo, Audrey Keefe, Eve Diana, Denise Parent, Lilia Perez, Gloria Waslyn, Autumn Pond, James Martin, Mallorey Yannone, Donnie Quarles, Patt Blue, Rebecca Morton, Dale Greenfeld, Neva E. Wartell, Merritt Minnemeyer, Linda Marston-Reid, Lucy Rosenthal, Bobby Sabella, Jamie Mulligan, Madeleine Kelleyan, John Hvasta, Felicia Kacsik, Catherine Berg, Cori Sherow, Elizabeth Menendez, Julie Williams, Peter Michael Marino, Angie Siegler, Amber Billey, Nancy Bowles, Melanie Baise, The TMI Project, Dutton Architecture, Radio Kingston, Arts Mid-Hudson, and the interview subjects: Angelina V Bouros, Denise Parent, “M” and“E”.

 

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Credits

Zelda: Writer, Performer, Artist, Producer 

Script Editor: Raine Grayson

Que Será, Será Theme Song:

Kate Skwire, Vocalist/Composer

Bobby Sabella, Producer/Arranger

Music: Bobby Sabella

Technical Director: Sebastian Seda

Rosendale Theatre Technical Director: Justin Peone

Radio Kingston Technical Director: Daniel Stout, Assistants: Eli Winograd, Tinora Locke

Radio Kingston Community Engagement Coordinator: Eria Brown

Stage Manager: Leah Gherardi

Artwork: Zelda; except for ''Helen Hide Bird' by Lisa Fifield

Video Documentation:  Radio Kingston, Tola Brennan; Video sound editor, Noel Smith

Photo documentation: James Orr, Gloria Waslyn

Poster Design: Raine Grayson

Poster images: Eva Mueller, Gloria Waslyn

Photo contributors: Dee Johnson, Speedy Lee, Jackie Rudin, Dick Miller, Laurie Rendler, Gloria Waslyn, Eva Mueller, Michael Haight, Theresa Keil, Efram Gonzalez, Valentin Mitskevitch, Ron Djemshidoff. 

Que Será, Será Theme Song

Kate Skwire, Vocalist/Songwriter/Composer

Bobby Sabella, Producer/Arranger

 

I am all alone ready to ditch this ride

Confused, shameful, maybe society is right

I’m wrong I have turned your hateful gaze inside

No one to show me to know me to help me find my pride

 

Que Será, Será what will be will be

I gotta claim myself no apologies

I’m a hammer here to slam ya I’m a honey--bee

Que Será, Será what will beeeeeee…… will be

 

I am human I am whatever I feel inside

Precious child of god, I will not be defined

Don’t try to squeeze me to make me fit your narrow mind

You don’t comprehend and I can’t compromise

 

Que Será, Será what will be will be

I gotta claim myself no apologies

I’m a hammer here to slam ya I’m a honey--bee

Que Será, Será what will beeeeeee…… will be!


Who's Who


Cast

Zelda aka Judith Z. Miller

Writer, Performer, Visual Artist, Producer

Creative Team

Bobby Sabella

Music
Kate Skwire

Composer/Songwriter/Vocalist

Meet the Performer


Zelda aka Judith Z. Miller (Writer, Performer, Visual Artist, Producer)
Zelda (aka Judith Z. Miller) is a multifaceted artist: performer, producer, visual artist, teacher, workshop leader and healer who lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe. As a feminist Jew who studies shamanism, she is inspired by the beauty of nature and the guiding force of her intuition as she explores the themes of connection to the Earth, spirituality, sexuality and gender via a variety of art forms. In 2022 Zelda was awarded an Arts Mid-Hudson “Jumpstart” grant to support performances of her solo show Que Será, Será: A Life’s Journey of Sexual Orientation & Gender Expression. Originally developed under an Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Commission in 2019, Que Será, Será was live-streamed and recorded by Radio Kingston, shared at Fringe Festivals nationally and internationally, and will be streaming on the new HUDSY-TV app and housed in the Lesbian Herstory Archives in 2022. In 2021 Zelda was selected to participate in the NYSCA/NYFA/Arts Mid-Hudson Artist as Entrepreneur Program. She was awarded an NEA Arts Management Fellowship in Theatre, a Fractured Atlas Development Grant, and a winner of the British Airways Face of Opportunity Contest. She produces Zelda's Happenings, a series of black light, body-painting, percussion dance parties. As the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Fine Line Actors Theatre in Washington DC Zelda produced and performed in special constituency projects, including the groundbreaking Women’s Prison Project. As the owner of ZAMO! (Zelda’s Arts Management Organization) Zelda produced numerous showcases at APAP (The Association of Performing Arts National Conference in NYC) and co-produced the acclaimed APAP Special Event, “Presenting Latin Music,” at Broadways’ New Victory Theatre. She performed at such venues as Source, GALA Hispanic Theatre and the Kennedy Center in DC, in NYC at WOW Café Theatre and Dixon Place, and with the TMI Project in Kingston. Zelda was profiled in The Daily News; the subject of feature articles in Mann About Town magazine, Home News Tribune, In Brooklyn, The Park Slope Paper, The Wave, and The Daily Sitka Sentinel, featured on NY-1 Television. Zelda is published in Inside Arts magazine, The Washington Post, American Theatre magazine, Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love, she is a contributor to Queeries Blog, and her paper “Sometimes a Tree isn’t just a Tree” was read at the International Linguistic Conference in Morocco. Zelda lives at the Lace Mill artist residence in Kingston New York with her Great Dane Mademoiselle ZaZelle.
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Bobby Sabella (Music)
Bobby Sabella is a studio/live performer who has been on the scene for 35 years working with the likes of John Patitucci, (Chick Corea), Bob Mayo (Peter Frampton),Tony Purrone (The Heath Brothers), Hugh McDonald (Bon Jovi) Andy Snitzer (The Rolling Stones), and Chip Taylor (Wild Thing, Angel of the Morning). He has also scored documentaries, TV and radio commercials and produced music for the educational and children’s markets. Currently, Bobby is busy in the Hudson Valley and beyond, performing on drums and percussion with a wide variety of groups and artists.
Kate Skwire (Composer/Songwriter/Vocalist)
Kate Skwire is a Hudson Valley based singer-songwriter. She is known for her soulful vocals, wholehearted performance, and her honest original music.

Multimedia



Live performance photo by James Orr


Live peformance photo by James Orr


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Que Será, Será show trailer

Donors

Thank you to all whose contributions made this show possible. Please support the continued development of Que Será, Será with your tax-deductible contribution: Please donate here

Major Contributor, $400+

Tobie Patmas, Julie Williams & Steve Ellman

Angel: $150 +

Robert Parnes, Dick Miller, Susanna Rakusin, Eve Diana, Heidi and Dale Sorenson, Anonymous, Rosi Amador

Theatre Lover: $75 +

Heidi and Dale Sorenson, James Klatsky

Theatre Enthusiast: $25+

John Wackman Philip Gurrieri, Susan DePaulis, Lisa Haas, Angelina Vail-Bouros, Charles Isaiah Steele, Rebecca Morton, Isabel Cotarelo, Lucinda Segal , Jon Palmer Claridge, Patrice Heber, Valerie A. King, Rose Rudnitski, Peter W. Bohn, Dor Dotson,  Eva Mueller, Lori Doyle, Anonymous, Anonymous Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous

The Supportive Masses: Up to $24

Lorah Yaccarino, Sylvia Diaz, Moonbeam Diamonde, Patt Blue, Carole Forman Bettina Kindermann, Roberta Odom, Peter Bohn, Jeffrey Golden, Wayne Lopez, Peter Michael Marino, Meg McConkey, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous

Que Será, Será: A Life’s Journey of Sexual Orientation & Gender Expression is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

Radio Kingston is our Community Partner.

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“See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God's sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to wither in themselves.”

― Robert R. McCammon

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Community Support

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