BWW Stage Mag I and You - Langhorne Players Stage Mag

I and You
 
at
Langhorne Players at the Spring Garden Mill
 
 
by
Lauren Gunderson
 
 
Starring
 
Madison Russell
 
 
Favian Harris
 
 

I and You was first produced in a rolling world premiere

by Marin Theatre Company (California), Olney Theatre

(Maryland), and Phoenix Theatre (Indiana) as part of the

National New Play Network’s Continued Life program.

 

Originally commissioned and developed by South Coast Repertory.


 
 

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Director's Note:

Thank you for coming to this production of I and You!  This is a play that I fell in love with when I first read it way back in 2016.  I found it profoundly beautiful in its creation of ultimate high-stakes conflict.  An examination of incendiary elements that are thrown together, the results of which are unknown!  More than that, this play contains a very unlikely event: two teenagers actually TALK to each other! How lovely that we get to witness the evolution of a relationship that contains the multitudes of face-to-face communication?  While we can't fully ignore the cyber world and the technology of today, we must do as Anthony does and intentionally engage each other.  Maybe, just maybe, on the other side of this engagement is a kind of unity that we only dream of.   I don't need to tell you that today's world is divisive. Division is easy today.  We can hide behind the shield of our Instagram handles and only show the parts of us we choose to show the world.  This play invites us to see what happens when we allow others fully into our weird little worlds warts and all.  I am proud of the work of the young people involved in this production.  I am in awe of their ability to connect with each other and with you.  It is my hope that you let them in, and for the 90-100 minutes of the show, create a unity that we dream the world to find.  

 

SETTING.

Now.

In your city. 

In Caroline’s room.

 

Cast

Madison Russell
Caroline
Favian Harris
Anthony

Creative Team

Jarad Benn

Director

Jack Bathke

Producer & Scene Designer

David Sullivan

Lighting Designer

Karolina Matyka

Stage Manager

Mark Kolber

Sound Designer

Terri Bentley

Properties

Robert A. Norman

Technical Director/Lead Carpenter

Light/Sound Operator

Isaiah Davis

Meet the Company

Madison Russell

Caroline
MADISON RUSSELL (Caroline) is so excited to be making her Langhorne Players debut! Madison is a recent graduate of Pennsbury High School where she was a member of the National Honor Society, Key Club, and the Drama Club. Some of her past credits include “A Christmas Carol” (McCarter Theatre), “Into the Woods” (Venice Island Performing Arts Center), and “These Shining Lives,” where she was awarded Best Dramatic Performance at the Bucks County Playhouse Student Theatre Festival. She plans on attending Ohio University in the fall to pursue a BFA in Musical Theatre and is a member of the honors program.

Favian Harris

Anthony
FAVIAN HARRIS (Anthony) is beyond thankful to be working together with the cast and crew of Langhorne Player’s production of “I and You”. Favian is a recent graduate of Drexel University with a degree in Music Industry. While he was not performing for the stage during his college studies, some of his past credits include “Oliver!” (Walnut Street Theatre) and “Jonah” (Sight & Sound Theatres). He looks forward to continuing creative collaborations throughout the Philadelphia area and elsewhere.

Jarad Benn

Director
Jarad Benn (Director) is a director, actor, and theater educator originally from Northeast Philadelphia. Jarad holds a BA in Theatre and Music from Muhlenberg College, an MA in Theatre from Villanova University, and an MFA in Acting from Ohio University. He also is a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov acting technique. Jarad has directed and acted in plays and musicals all throughout the country but has always returned "home" to Southeastern PA. Jarad currently resides in the Lehigh Valley with his wife Victoria, two daughters, Josephine and Willamena, and dog, Dublin. He is an avid Philadelphia sports fan and can often be seen making a delicious mess in the kitchen. Jarad and Vicky are the proud co-owners and directors of: www.dramakids.com/pa4

Jack Bathke

Producer & Scene Designer
Jack Bathke (Producer, Scene Designer) is a native of Texas, graduate of Texas A&M, and a public school teacher at Princeton High School. As a director, some of his favorite productions are 33 Variations (Kaufman), Breaking the Code (Whitmore), Buried Child (Shepard), Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Giurgis), Church & State (Williams), and Henry V (Shakespeare). As an actor, he has appeared onstage at the Actors Studio (New York City) in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie with Ossie Davis. With the Actors Studio Drama School, he has appeared in William Saroyan’s Time of Your Life (Blick) and Murray Schisgal’s The Tiger (Ben). Other theatrical credits include: Talley’s Folly (Matt Friedman), The Lion in Winter (Geoffrey), A Man for All Seasons (Cromwell), Speed-the-Plow (Bobby Gould), Inherit the Wind (Hornbeck), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Pato), The Grapes of Wrath (Jim Casy), Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Into the Woods (Narrator/Mysterious Man), A View from the Bridge (Eddie), All My Sons (George), Gypsy (Herbie), The Diary of Anne Frank (Otto), and 12 Angry Men (Juror #4). He won the 2011 Perry Award for Best Featured Actor. Member: Dramatists Guild of America.

David Sullivan

Lighting Designer
David Sullivan (Lighting Designer) David is grateful to return to Langhorne Players where he has appeared in All My Sons and Buried Child. He was excited to design nights for Meteor Shower last year, but the flood abruptly ended that production. He was most recently seen gouging out eyes in the production of King Lear at Actor'sNet.

Karolina Matyka

Stage Manager
KAROLINA MATYKA (Stage Manager) is excited to be backstage again at Langhorne Players. She recently stage managed our production of “A Kid Like Jake.” Her crew experience also includes stage-managing “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” as well as “Seven Keys to Baldpate'' at ActorsNET and producing “Reckonings in New Hope” at ActorsNET. Karolina is also ActorsNET’s marketing assistant and webmaster. When not at the theater, Karolina works as a senior paralegal in Philadelphia and studies Video Production at Bucks County Community College.

Mark Kolber

Sound Designer
Mark Kolber / Allegro Audio Mark has designed sound and mixed many theatrical productions including Ohev Shalom Player's The Wizard of Oz, Bye Bye Birdie, Beauty & the Beast, Joseph, Seussical, Annie, Shrek, Mary Poppins, Little Shop of Horrors, Willy Wonka, also NVMT's production of My Fair Lady, Young Frankenstein and Annie. Also Langhorne player's The 39 Steps, Olive and the Bitter Herbs and A Kid Like Jake. Mark has also produced recordings for local musicians such as the Southampton Community Band, Tri County Band and The Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra. Mark also provides production recording and post production sound editing for local indie films including Hood Shenaniganz Mania, Bruce, An Angry Man and Rewin. Mark is a retired electronics design engineer. He designed RF communications equipment for Cessna, Honeywell, Motorola and Curtis Wright. Mark enjoys theatrical/film sound design/production because it requires the combination of creative arts and technological science.

Terri Bentley

Properties

Robert A. Norman

Technical Director/Lead Carpenter

Light/Sound Operator

Isaiah Davis

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