Produced by Marty Goldin @ TBD Capital, LLC
Director: Kevin Ray
Choreographer: Ai Toyoshima
Original piano score by: Martin Hennessy
Stage Manager: Henry Menestrier
Assistant Choreographer: Fuka Kojima
Co-producer: Laura Downing Lee

This project is supported in part by funds from the FAIR Artist Grant.

Professor Griffin Bates is a dynamic choreographer who has built a top-ranked dance department at Midwestern University. He struggled to hold the program together during the recent pandemic, teaching dance classes online. Now that the students are finally back on campus, he decides to reinvigorate the department with an especially ambitious spring production: an original ballet version of The Tempest—and audaciously casts himself as the magician Prospero. But is Griffin prepared to navigate the minefield of today’s culture wars? A provocative and timely dance/theatre piece, “Dismantling Prospero” takes an unflinching look at diversity training, Shakespeare, artistic freedom, and campus politics in our rapidly changing world.

Cast:

Dale - Edgar Eguia*
Francine - Joyce Goldin
Wanda - Candice Tiffany Gordon*
Sara - Calista Jones
Marcus - Joshua Elijah Lewis
Emily - Monique Ward Lonergan*
Christina - Dana Segal*
Griffin - Andy Start*
Jake - Jake Wallack

*Member of Actors Equity Association. An AEA-approved Showcase.

Check out our show website at www.tomrowan.net/dismantlingprospero

Bio

Tom Rowan (Playwright) Tom’s produced plays include Kiss and Cry (GLAAD Nomination), The Second Tosca, Faye Drummond, David’s Play, The Blue Djinn (Best Short Play, Fresh Fruit Festival 2014), and Tears of a Clown (Red Bull Short Play Festival, 2014). He has held commissions from The Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Maryland Opera Studio, where his libretto for The Young King (music by Martin Hennessy) was heard in concert in 2017. Tom’s work has been published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, Smith & Kraus, Next Stage Press, The New York Theatre Experience, and Steele Spring Stage Rights. Tom has directed over 75 plays and musicals, and has worked as a Casting Director and Literary Manager. He is the author of the books A Chorus Line FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Broadway’s Singular Sensation and Rent FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About Broadway’s Blaze of Glory. www.TomRowan.net.