SPring awakening, 2020: the trailer

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Live a less less complicit…

The mission of Spring Awakening: 2020 was to highlight, exemplify and make clear notions of survival as well as the importance of racial and global citizenship while incorporating themes of advocacy, protest, personal and community responsibility. As Producer and Director, I looked to celebrate all diversity and the acceptance of such notions. During the time of modern social distancing, I wished to draw parallels to the distance of the period of the show while bringing together a cast from various backgrounds and professional achievements— both seasoned Broadway actors and Tony Award nominees and winners and incredibly and equally talented and worthy of recognition non-Union talents in a production accepting of and focusing heavily on the narratives of the characters through the perspectives of a cast featuring BIPOC, LGBTQ++ and Neuro-diverse performers, using their his/herstories as we developed their characters and context, in order to tell this story of intimacy and progressive and actionable process in the most effective and strong ways possible. With this production of "Spring Awakening" we had a challenging but desperately needed opportunity to lead the theatrical and artistic community in this time of darkness and dramatic change. Leading by example and showing that theatre was not only still possible, but viable and successful -- and that the artistic community was here, alive, supportive of new work and interpretation, and ready to resume work in socially and health responsible ways, Spring Awakening: 2020 proved that despite hardship, adversity can still be overcome, and the Arts remain the masthead for Change and continuously and timelessly act as the voice of the Greater Good.

SPRING AWAKENING 2020

CAST

WENDLA Victoria Rae Gill

ADULT WOMAN Alice Ripley*; Beth Malone*

ILSE Katie Harwood

MARTHA Carli Hamilton

ANNA Tyla Collier*

THEA Samantha Searles

ADULT MAN Rene Pfister

MELCHIOR John Arthur Greene*

MORITZ Billy Luce, Jr

HANSCHEN Jake Egan

GEORG Devon Stone*

OTTO Michael Buck

ERNST Michael DeRosa

*Appears courtesy of The Actors Equity Association (AEA)