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Director's Note

Stripped of everything besides skin and soul, how do we survive?

Yet again, our Greek ancestors are begging us to answer questions that reach greater than our existence. The Persians, at large, emphasizes a cycle we are all too familiar with today: hope, loss, and rebuilding. With every repetition of the cycle we must reevaluate what has brought us to the beginning again and how to best move forward.

To place WWIII on the same microscopic lens, we are forced to recognize an event that looms in the back of our minds and attempt to answer that essential question, how do we survive? How can we possibly survive from something so devastating? There are no right answers to this question, only our own solutions. It is all of our jobs to find them and embed them into our beings, into our relationships and communities. The Play we offer to you today has been a collective effort to answer that question, to provide our solution to the problem. 

-Mitchell Pelissier

Cast

Justin Autz
Atossa
Brandon Sarti
Xerxes
Natalie Ehrensbeck
Darius
Jack Bausch
Herald
Natalie DeBoer
Chairman
Jenn Sanchez
State
Makenzie Claire Bush
Religion
Becca Hammack
Treasury
Matt Neary
Justice
Alexa Adler
Navy - Admiral
Chloe Williams
Army - General

Creative/Production Team

Mitchell Pelissier

Director

Natalie Marino

Movement Director

Rylan Jenkins-Snaith

Music Director/Composer

Gemma Vodacek

Assistant Director

Carlea Grant

Stage Manager

Matthew B. Cullen

Assistant Stage Manager

Delaney Jessica Gruber

Assistant Stage Manager

Jay Gleason

Videographer/Editor

Tina Mistric

Costumer Designer

Nax Sidoni

Lighting Designer

Special Thanks to

Kevin Ganzekaufer for poster design

Meghan Crouth for photography

Faculty members lending their time, energy, materials, and space, Czerton Lim, Eric Hadley, Ted Sharon

Khristian King and Vince Gugino for working so hard to allow us to film this in person

&

Ann Vodacek, Tony Vodacek, Elaine Pelissier, Lafe Pelissier for their camping supplies

PAC Executive Board

Executive Producer - Maia Magerle

Asst. Executive Producer - Jack Bausch

Production Manager - Molly Conklin

Asst. Production Manager - Alexa Kartschoke

Director of Finance - Donovan Gale

Dir. Of Performance and Outreach - Mitchell Pelissier

Business Manager - Gemma Vodacek

Director of Operations - Tori Kozegi

Technical Supervisor - Donald Woodard

Asst. Technical Supervisor - Karlie Robinson

Executive Assistant - Gabrielle Nunzio

Freshman Representative - Delaney Jessica Gruber

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