Cast & Creative Team for World Premiere Workshop of THINGS WE WILL MISS / May 28, 2023 by Emily Harrison

We are thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for Things We Will Miss: Meditations on the Climate Crisis, running July 7-22 in the Carsen Theater at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder.

A collage-style devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene, THINGS WE WILL MISS is a personal meditation on the climate crisis and the beauty and inevitability of impermanence. The piece asks: What will we remember as we slip into the unknown? What legacy do we seek as we dive, lurch, and tumble head-first into the abyss? What will we miss, what can we miss, if we miss our chance?

Born of the debris of late-stage capitalism and driven by image, light, and sound rather than linear narrative, THINGS WE WILL MISS honors the horror, the hope, the beauty, and the grief inherent in what it means to be alive in this very moment.

THREE WEEKS ONLY!
July 7 - 22 in the Carsen Theater @ the Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut St., Boulder

Tickets available NOW.

Cast & Creative Team

Savanna Arellano, she/her
creative team/performer

Rosie Glasscock, she/they
core creative team/stage manager

Nathaniel Klein, he/him
creative team lead/performer

early stages creative team:

Jess Buttery, she/her
creative team lead/designer

Del Gonzales, he/him
core creative team/performer

Emma Miller, she/her
creative team lead/performer

Juliet Davidson, she/her
core creative team/performer

Emily K. Harrison, she/her
creative team lead/director/performer

Irmak Sagir, she/her
core creative team/assistant director

production made possible in part by support from:

Cast for Limited Run of CELEBRATION, FLORIDA Announced! / February 23, 2023 by Emily Harrison

Celebration, Florida, written by Greg Wohead and directed by Emily K. Harrison, is BACK! We’re thrilled to share this work in Boulder, at the Dairy Arts Center, for a LIMITED RUN, March 15-18. Tickets are available NOW.

Here are this round’s performers:

March 15: March 16:

rita maria aires (they/elle)

March 17:

March 18 (evening):

March 18 (matinee):

Dia Kline (she/her)

DANCE NATION is "cleverly provocative" - Lisa Kennedy for The Denver Post / July 21, 2022 by Emily Harrison

Reviews are in! Lisa Kennedy (for The Denver Post) says Dance Nation is “cleverly provocative,” and notes that “the tween competitors in Dance Nation prove to be surprisingly wild.” Check out the full review below, and get tickets while they last!

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Audience Reviews:

“This play reminded me of another recent play, The Wolves, about a girls high school soccer team. But this one is a much deeper dive. The characters here are dancers, and about 4 years younger, 11 to 13. Necessarily, they are played by older actors, all of whom handled the channeling of a younger self quite ably. The script pulls no punches. We get the whole passion play of adolescence, sometimes in ensemble, sometimes in monologue, always startlingly frank, and often with an astonishing grandiosity or a touching intimacy that will recall tweens you have known. Lacing it all together is a compelling choreography by Laura Ann Samuelson. Go see it!” - Chris Kendall, actor

“I loved this show - what a complicated, brilliant piece of timely art. It brought up thoughts of when I was younger and the struggles with friends, wanting to be ‘in’ with those I deemed popular, the attention of men even though I was only 13 and the yucky feelings I didn't quite understand because of it…my desire to be older, the desire to be chosen, saying stupid stuff to fit in, wishing I was invisible, etc. Every character carried an essence I could feel to my core. I seriously could talk for days about the show and the subtle secrets we all know all too well. Every performance was so complex and brilliant. Dance Teacher Pat's rabid desire to prove himself through a group of youth. Why no one ever referred to Luke in a way that allowed for him to stand in his true form. Maeve, Mom and Connie, just fantastic. And Ashlee's monologue, powerful AF! I had something in common with every role on that stage, we all do, if we are willing to look in the mirror. A phenomenal show.” - Kathleen Ham, owner and agent, Radical Artists Talent Agency

“A really fine evening of theater. The play and actors do a fine job reflecting the imaginations, fears, challenges, and strengths of preadolescent girls and one gay boy.” - Anonymous audience member

“It’s a fantastic show…it just works so incredibly as a whole.” - Anonymous audience member

“Every character was nuanced and rich. Loved the casting and staging. Also quite light in that I didn't feel a heaviness or sadness at the end.” - Anonymous audience member

“Just got home from seeing this raucous, rollicking, challenging, funny, heartbreaking, complicated, complex play--and kinda wanna see it again right away. If you can, go see this!” - Eryc Eyl

Announcing the Cast and Creative Team for DANCE NATION! / June 7, 2022 by Emily Harrison

square product theatre is pleased to announce the cast and creative team for our Regional Premiere of Clare Barron’s Dance Nation.

Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they'll claw their way to the top at the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. But in Clare Barron's raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity, these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, because every plié and jeté is a step toward finding themselves, and a fight to unleash their power. Dance Nation is a play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.

THREE WEEKS ONLY!
July 14 - 30 in the Black Box Theatre @ the ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts, & Performance, University of Colorado Boulder
1125 18th St., Boulder

Tickets available NOW.

ACTING ENSEMBLE

*Anneliese Euler (she/her) as Vanessa/The Moms*

*Rodrigo Gallardo-Antunez (he/him) as Luke*

*Lorenzo González (he/him) as Dance Teacher Pat*

CREATIVE TEAM

*Gleason Bauer (they/them), director/design team*

*Emily K. Harrison (she/her), producer/design team*

*Bailey Trierweiler (he/they), design team*

*Tamara L. Meneghini (she/her), intimacy coordinator*

*Jean Yvonne Tyson (they/them), design team*

*Ash Cossey (she/they), production intern*

Sarah Powers (she/they), assistant director