SEASON 36 | SEPTEMBER 2023
GREEN NEW THEATRE SYMPOSIUM Program
SEPTEMBER 14-17, 2023
Thursday September 14, 5 p.m. - Midnight
Friday September 15, 5 p.m. - Midnight
Saturday September 16, 10 a.m. - Midnight
Sunday September 17, Noon - 4 p.m.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
MC - Eva Margarita
5pm Opening Ceremony
Indigenous Cultures Institute
• Maria F. Rocha
• Dr. Mario Garza
Summer Underground
by Marissa Castañón-Hernandez
Directed by Blaise Ricin
• Laura- Erin McNellis
• Zoe- Lilly Percifield
• Chris- Phillip Smith
• Media Manager- Keaton Patterson
• Environment Czar- Samuel Grimes
• Mabel- Sherris Runcie
• Mia- Alyssa Rosa
• Don- Pablo Munoz-Evers
• Luis- Michael Galvan
• City Official/Enforcer- Campbell Duffy
Oil Heads on Parade
by Whitney Mosery and Madge Darlington
• Eliot Fisher
Marching band:
• Fareeda Alrokh
• Maxwell Franko
• Erin Valentine
• Georgia Williams
• Karol Yanez
• Alejandra Martorell
HER
by Nia Perez Herrera
• Tatyana Smith
• Erin McNellis
Key Note Speakers
• Khristián Mendéz Aguirre
• Miriam Conner
MotherTree
Conceived and Directed by Bonnie Cullum
Devised by the Ensemble
• Choreography by Toni Bravo
• Playwriting by Sarah Saltwick
• Dramaturgy by Caili Crow
• Original Songs by Nicole Boyd, Bonnie Cullum
• Drone by Linda Leseman
• Sound Design by Johann Solo
• Audio Recording and Original Music by Chad Salvata
• Scenic Design by Lilly Percifield
• Lighting Design by Kendra Wiley
• Stage Management by Tamara L. Farley
• Assistant Stage Management by Chloe Smyers, Sunny Smith
• Scenic Construction: Daniel Hernandez, Alex Cogburn, Sunny Smith,
Fredrick Demps, Tamara L. Farley
• Scenic Painting: Lilly Percifield, Lena Alexander
CAST:
• Erin McNellis
• Tatyana Smith
• Lilly Percifield
• Johnny Veal Jr.
• Caili Crow
• Benjamin Cervantes
• Gabriel Maldonado
• Alyssa Rosa
• Nicole Boyd
• Anderson Dear
• Judy Lee
• Alaithia Velez
Dedicated to my mother, Susan Kelso
Splosh
Created and performed by Greer Sikes
Climate Refugee Puppet
by Glass Half Full
• Caroline Reck
• Gricelda Silva
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
MC- Jacqui Calloway
Walden (remixed)
by KJ Sanchez
Directed by Caley Chase
• H: Angela Mata
• Larry Bird: Ellenor Riley-Condit
• Emily: Valeria Najera
• Alex: Joe Adkins
• Marshall: Chandler Collins
• Lucy: Angel Hernandez
• Stage Directions: Yobany Pizano
Mother Earth
• Donna Norman
• Celeste Aguirre
• Abimbola Osho
• Suyra Peña
Dark Motherhood
• Ella Kent
Playing in the Garden of Earthly Delights: An Ecosexual New Theater
• Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens
Plus a sneak peek of the new film, Playing With Fire—An Ecosexual Hot Mess
Eco-Sexual Jazz Cabaret
• Jade Fusco
• Ryan Murphy
• Tosin Awofeso
Climate Refugee Puppet
by Glass Half Full
• Caroline Reck
• Gricelda Silva
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
10am-12pm Urban Nature Walk at Boggy Creek Greenbelt, 1114 Niles St. 78702
• Emma Robertson
• Cathryn Ploehn
• Cedar Stevens
@ The VORTEX
MC- Jasmine Games
Ongoing:
• Green Cube by Alex Cogburn
• Sunny Lane Succulents
• Natural Magick Coop
Papakō: The Journey, a play for young audiences
by Maria F. Rocha, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, and Genevieve Schroeder-Arce
• Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
• Genevieve Schroeder-Arce
• Maria Rocha
• Oscar Franco
• Barbara Mojica
• Bella Varela
• Cherry Mendoza
• Rafael De La Cruz
• Yobany Pizano
• Angela Tolle
• Erica Saenz
• David Segura
Entangled Moments
• Nic Bennett (Joker/Facilitator/Director)
• Tulasi Ravindran (Stage Manager)
• Harsha Ketavarapu
• Nikita Rajesh Nair
• Celeste Izaguirre
• River Terrell
• Cristopher Ferreon
Yana Wana’s Legend of the Bluebonnet
Film and Discussion
• Maria F. Rocha
• Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Arbolito
by Raul Garza
Directed by Jerry Ruiz
• Esther: Yesenia García Herrington
• Octavia: Taylor Childress
• Paula: Tonie Knight
• Nelson: Jonah Fujikawa
• Hollis: Garry Peters
Earthly Narratives: Cultivating Livable, Wondrous, and Just Communities
with Caili Crow, Cathryn Ploehn, Alex Beasley
Cathryn (Cat) Ploehn (she/they) is an interaction designer and professor at the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin. Her data visualization work interrogates how to design for livability in the midst of climate crisis and injustice. Escaping from the captivity of extractive data visualization trends, her research practice, Feral Data Visualization, builds theories and practices for designing data for livability. Feral data visualization demands an embrace of place-based, situated, embodied, vegetized, and feral forms of visual pattern making that de-estrange us from ecological and social community. Her work has been featured in the Museum of Human Achievement, IEEE Vis Arts Program, Eyeo Festival, and has been longlisted in the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards. She holds a Master of Design in Design for Interactions from Carnegie Mellon University.
Caili Crow is a San Antonio-based dramaturg and storyteller specializing in stories of enchantment as environmental advocacy. She holds a degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and a masters degree in Playwriting and Dramaturgy from the University of Glasgow. She was a 2021 Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow and served as the 2021-2022 Dramaturgy Apprentice at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, where she worked on the world premiere musical Knoxville by Frank Galati, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty. Her research centers on interdisciplinary storytelling across music, movement, and text; peacebuilding and the arts; and fairy tales and folklore in contemporary literature and performance. Most recently, she was the dramaturg and an ensemble member for Mother Tree at The Vortex, and is working with the The Digital Development Project to launch a new initiative connecting emerging playwrights and emerging new play dramaturgs beyond locational barriers.
Alex Beasley is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses in the history of capitalism, the history of energy, urban history, the history of race and gender, and U.S. empire. He is the author of Expert Capital: Houston and the Making of a Service Empire, forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He is also co-editing, with Jessica Levy, a volume entitled Capitalism and the American Century: Towards a Global History of Postwar America (under contract with The University of Pennsylvania Press). He also serves as the Associate Editor for Book Reviews at Enterprise and Society.
Entierro
Created and performed by Eva Margarita
Climate Refugee Puppet
by Glass Half Full
• Caroline Reck
• Gricelda Silva
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
MC- Indiia Wilmott
Climate Change Theatre Action Plays
https://www.climatechangetheatreaction.com/
This year’s theme: “All Good Things Must Begin”
Transmission
by Kevin Matthew Wong
Directed by Nola Lafayette
Production Company - Tooth and Claw
• Kevin James Gunter
This Play
by Kendra Fanconi
Directed by Patti Neff Tiven
Production Company - Ground Floor Theatre
• Actor One- Karina Dominguez
• Deus Ex Machina- Zac Crofford
50 Ways to End Mother Earth—In Under Five Minutes!
by Kirby Vicente
Directed by Jasmine Games
• Avital Cuevas
This Play Is Written In Mushroom
by Haeweon Yi
Directed by Eva Margarita
• Caili Crow
• Johnny Veal Jr.
Cassandra Drowning
by Nathan Joe
Directed by Jasmine Games
• Her: Renita James
• Him: Allen Porterie
Magical Fungi in Time Square
by Chantal Bilodeau
Directed by Heather Barfield
• Pablo Munoz-Evers
• Haley Perez
• Norman Tran
Tree People
by Heidi Kraay
Directed by Lilly Percifield
• Tree: Oskar Brian
• She: Campbell Duffy
The Polar Bears
by Nicholas Billon
Directed by Kate Meehan
Production Company - Tooth and Claw
• Adam Martinez
• Adam Martinez
Kids For Saving the Earth Club #121
by Gab Reisman
Directed by Ken Webster
Production Company - Hyde Park Theatre
• Sarah Chong Dickey
• Esther Park
• Mary Vo
A:X (The Tonkawa Word for Water)
A film by Ben Livingston
Live Music by Bob Hoffnar
Climate Refugee Puppet
by Glass Half Full
• Caroline Reck
• Gricelda Silva
Thank you for coming to our Green New Theatre Symposium at The VORTEX.
Please join us by becoming a Member or making a donation at Vortexrep.org.
Producing Artistic Director
Bonnie Cullum
Managing Director
Melissa McKnight
Financial Director
Krystle Cline
Box OfficeManager & Keeper of the Butterfly Sanctuary
Alex Cogburn
Production Manager
Katie Hamilton
Associate Artistic Directors
Rudy Ramirez, Teresa Cruz, Clarissa Smith, Chris Fontanes
Butterfly Bar Manager
Emma Robertson
Director of Education and Social Justice Activation
Jasmine Games
Director of Marketing
Linda Leseman
Outreach Coordinator
Indiia Wilmott
Marketing & Development Associate
Campbell Duffy
Technical Associates
Daniel Hernandez, Tamara L. Farley
Sound Engineer & Music Booking
David Edwards
Box Office Assistants
Chelsea Nguyen, Daniel Ramerez
Technical Assistants
Frederick Demps, Sunny Smith, Nicole Casaca-Watkins, Celeste Izaguirre, Makayla Ad Elakun, Eric Kwon
Butterfly Garden Assistants
Morgan Kuang, Raelynn Sellers
Administrative Assistants
Daniella Duran, Mauricio Rios, Chiamaka Emerenini, Abimbola Osho
Green New Theatre Symposium is supported in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, the City of Austin Economic Development Department, the Texas Commission on the Arts, Six Square Austin’s Black Cultural District, and ATX Theatre.
