Based on true events, Vivian's Music 1969, is about a bubbly 14-year-old bundle of energy named Vivian, the mysterious jazz legend Luigi Wells, and the racial tensions of a segregated American city in 1969 that all combine in this fantasia on, race, music, and family. Vivian is shot in the back of the head during a protest by a white cop inciting one of the worst race riots the United States has ever seen. This fantasia for two actors gives Vivian a life, a family, a love of music, and a reason to live; the jazz legend whos back in the neighborhood might be her real father. Can they find each other, before the city explodes? ...
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Based on true events, Vivian's Music 1969, is about a bubbly 14-year-old bundle of energy named Vivian, the mysterious jazz legend Luigi Wells, and the racial tensions of a segregated American city in 1969 that all combine in this fantasia on, race, music, and family. Vivian is shot in the back of the head during a protest by a white cop inciting one of the worst race riots the United States has ever seen. This fantasia for two actors gives Vivian a life, a family, a love of music, and a reason to live; the jazz legend whos back in the neighborhood might be her real father. Can they find each other, before the city explodes?
Edinburgh Fringe Festival review: "A moment of theatrical brilliance." Gareth Vile, The List.
About the Artists
Kailah S. King (VIVIAN STRONG) Recent graduate, NYU. Staged readings of Vivians Music, 1969 and Chosen Child by Monica Bauer (Emerging Artists Theaters New Works Series) and Last Night and The Night Before (The Labyrinth Theatre), recent roles in The One-Minute Play Festival at The New Ohio Theatre, Napping Pods for NY Summerfest, EstroGenius Short Play Festival and others. @kaleuhstar
Russell Jordan* (LUIGI WELLS) two-time Planet Connections Theatre Festivity outstanding actor award recipient. Recent credits include: TV, The Dangerous Book for Boys (Amazon Prime), The Blacklist, Bluebloods. Theater, off-off Broadway: Doric Wilsons Street Theater (The Other Side of Silence Theater), HARAM!IRAN! (Emerging Artists Theatre), A Touch of Cinema (The Wild Project), Doors of Perception (New Persepctives Theater Company). www.russelljordan.com
Glory Kadigan (director) Founder and Artistic Director for six seasons, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. Selected directing credits: world premieres include ReGina Taylor's Biting the Bullet, John Patrick Shanley's Doublecross, Pregnitude by Lucy Boyle, A Play About New Mexico by Halley Feiffer, St. Anne's Soup by Israel Horovitz, and most recently, Erik Ehn's Clover at La Mama.
Andy Evan Cohen (Sound Design) Off-Broadway: Dear Jane and In Bed With Roy Cohn (Perry St.), If Only (Cherry Lane), Ay Carmela! (Repertorio Español). US/Canada Tours: Hamlet, Sense and Sensibility, and Our Trojan War (Aquila Theatre); The Hungry Hungry Games (Mills Entertainment). TV and Film: PBS TV documentaries, Show & Tell Tango, The Mall, Martys Shadow, My Dinner With Schwartzey. @AndyEvanCohen
Benjamin Ehrenreich (Lighting Designer) REGIONAL: Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins (Berkshire Theatre Group) Owners (Yale Repertory Theatre). NYC: Playwrights for a Cause 2016-2017, PharmaBro, Safe by Penny Jackson (Planet Connections), Clover by Erik Ehn (La Mama), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Gallery Players). Allen Lee Hughes Light Fellow at Arena Stage, MFA in Lighting Design, Yale School of Drama.
Janet Mervin (Costumes) Two-time Planet Connections Outstanding Costume Design Award winner. Selected projects: Basement by Michael Hagins, Whorticulture by Emma Sherman-Goldman, Committed by Natalie Menna. Planet Connections Theater Festivity: Horse by Janet Bentley, The Chaplin Plays by Don Nigro. Other off-off Broadway, The Troubador Struck by Lightning by Ed Malin (Fringe NYC), and Lost/Not Found by Kirby Fields (UP Theater).
Monica Bauer (playwright) Selected credits: My Occasion of Sin, Urban Stages (Winner, Emerging Playwright Award), Made for Each Other: Edinburgh Fringe, United Solo. Chosen Child, Boston Playwrights Theatre (nominated, Best New Play, Independent Reviewers of New England), Anne Frank in the Gaza Strip, Planet Connections Theater Festivity (winner, Best New Comedy). Full production history, awards, and publications at www.monicabauer.com
*member, Actors Equity Association: The Union for Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
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