XMPL May 2025
Written and directed by Annie Loui, inspired by the fairy tale “La Belle et la Bete” by Gabrielle Suzanne Villeneuve (1742)
Efren Delgadillo, scenic design
Yee Eun Nam and Junyuan (Betty) Xiong, co-projection design
Ashley Morgan, costume design
Jacob Nguyen, lighting design
Andrew Yoder, sound design
Mike Hooker, music composition
Vicky Michalopoulou, dramaturg
DJ Maloney, stage management
Produced by UC Irvine CTSA Department of Drama

Cast: Gabrielle Suzanne Villeneuve/ Belle – Zoe Rose Davidson; Prosper Crebillon/Beast – Eddie Cruz Jr; Claude Crebillon / others- Jake Stiel; Father/ Voltaire/ others – Kurt Kanazawa; Aunt/Sister #2/ others – Esther Pielstick; Mme Pomadour/ Sister #1/others – Malu Pizzatto; Jeanne Quinnault/ others: Anina Baker; Count Caylus/others- Sophia Gilbert

Produced by CounterBalance Theater with support from the CTSA
Grotowski Barn, UC Irvine

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Additional movement: Caryn Heilman
Music: Nana Simopoulos
Costume consultant: Ashley Morgan

Cast: Viviana McCormick—Demeter and Mary; Tim Frangos—Therapion the Monk ; Sittichai Chaiyahat- the Villager, Head Nymph- Caryn Heilman; Nymphs- Jenya Lynn Gonzales, Lauren Onufryk, Isabella Chinnici, Alex Bloom, & Jeni Coletta

Adaptor/Director: Annie Loui

Lighting Designer, Video & Motion Graphics Editor: Morgan Embry
Composer and Arrangements: Mark Caspary
Song Composition: Jacob Dresch
Lighting Designer: Jacqueline Malenke
Costume Designer: Sebastian Rock
Sound Designer: Aerik Harbert
Production Stage Management: Heather Bennett
Assistant Stage Manager: Sammie Moore

Narrator, Father, Water Monster: Jacob Dresch
Titi and Others: Olivia Wilder
Nunu and Others: Evan Lugo
Klembolo, Giant, Mother: Abel Garcia

Adaptor/Director: Annie Loui

Lighting Designer, Video & Motion Graphics Editor: Morgan Embry
Composer and Sound Designer: Mark Caspary
Colorist & Videographer: Simon Sorin
Costume Designer: Diane Lewis
Production Manager & Stage Manager: Samantha Sorin

Ellen Dubin: Narrator
Thomas Varga: Performer
Skye Schmidt: Performer

produced by the Fountain Theater, Ebony Repertory Theater, Autry Museum of the West, & CounterBalance Theater

Staged Reading at the Autry Museum of the West, L.A. March 2022

Performances May 20th-25th, May 30th- June 1st
Rosenthal Theater, Inner-City Arts, L.A.

Production Stage Manager: Kaitlyn Cramer
Lighting Design: W. Alejandro Melendez
Video Design: Morgan Embry
Sound Design: Aerik S. Harbert
Assistant Projection Design: Jacob Nguyen
Costume Design: Danyele Thomas
Technical Director: Scott Tuomey

Cast: Voice of the Future Tanya Alexander
Mr. Smith: Abel Garcia
Biddy Mason: Mary Hill
Charlie Owens : Wesley T. Jones
Mrs. Smith: Leslie Lank
Pio Pico: Alexander Quiñones
Mother / Mrs. Aston: Kayla Quiroz

eXperimental Media Performance Laboratory: produced by the Department of Drama
co-sponsored by: the UCI Humanities Center
Writer: Dana Johnson;
Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Projection Designer: Morgan Embry
Lighting Designer: Jimmy Balistreri
Costume Designer: Dana Woods
Composer/Sound Designer: Nat Houle with additional music by Vinnie Oliveri
Dramaturg: H Adam Harris
Production Stage Manager: John Pinero

Cast: Mary Hill- Biddy Mason; Abel Garcia – Master Smith, Judger Hayes; Robert Zelaya- Pio Pico and Dr Griffith; Julian Tushabe- Charlie Owens and Narrator; Kayla Quiroz – Rita, School Teacher, Mrs Aston; Aziza Stewart- Ellen Mason , Ann Mason, Dana; Rachel Lichen- Mrs Smith, Young Bandit

xMPL

Sponsored By: The Institute for 21st Century Creativity; the Chancellor’s Initiative for the Arts and Humanities; and the Medical Humanities Initiative
Script and Director: Annie Loui
Script and Projection Design: Antoinette LaFarge
Scenic and Lighting Design: Lonnie Alcaraz
Composer: Mark Caspary
Sound Design: Vinnie Olivieri
Costume Design: Holly Po Durban
Media Content Creation: Morgan Embry
Projections and Networking Engineer: Merle DeWitt III
Preshow Audio Composition: Mark Zaki


Cast:

Mary Shelly: Kaden Kearney
Creature: Abel Garcia
Video Reporter: Dudley Knight
Scientist Jim Fallon: himself

xMPL
Sponsored By: the Institute for 21st Century Creativity and Illuminations: the Chancellor’s Initiative for the Arts and Humanities
Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Music: Mark Caspary
Sound Design: Ben Elliot
Projection Design:Hanah Tran
Lighting Design: Jake Brinkman
Costume Design: Jojo Siu

Cast:
Xander de Angeles, Meg Evans, Jawoine Hawkins, Anya Johnston, Amilcar Jauregui, Aaron Miller, Maya Smoot, Kerry Vang

xMPL
Sponsored By: the Institute for 21st Century Creativity and Illuminations: the Chancellor’s Initiative for the Arts and Humanities
Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Music and Sound Design: Jordan Tani
Set Design: Tessa Bookwalter
Lighting and Projection Design: Morgan Embry
Costume Design: Ashton Montgomery

Cast:
Anica Garcia-DeGraff, Emily Daly, Gavin Mueller, Kayla Kearney, Kieran Barry, Michael Calacino, Nicole Cowans, Xander Ritchey

Winifred Smith Hall: produced by the Department of Drama
co-sponsored by: the Department of Classics, the Humanities Core, and the Sawyer Seminar on War

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Composition and Sound Design: Benjamin Scheff
Lighting Design: Ebony Madry
Costume Design: Abigail Caywood
Dramturgy: Zina Giannopoulou

Iliad cast:
Anita Abdinezhad, Sam Arnold, Amandla Bearden, Amy Bolton, Michael Calacino, Nicole Cowns, Amy Tilson-Lumetta, Jennifer Holcombe, Nick Manfredi, Edmund Truong, Thomas Varga

Experimental Theater Lab (xMPL);
Grotowski Barn, UC Irvine
sponsored by the Chancellor’s Initiative for the Arts

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui

Music and Sound Design: Mark Caspary
Projection Design: Andy Broomell
Lighting Design: Ebony Madry
Associate Lighting Design: Sarah Reisch

Cast: Thomas Varga, Nick Manfredi, Alex Raby, Kayla Kierney, Xander Ritchie, Megan Gainey

Tamkin Hall; Medical School UCI produced by the Medical Humanities Initiative and Chancellor’s Initiative for the Arts

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Lighting Design: Brady King
Music and Sound Design: Mark Caspary
Set and Projection Design: Andy Broomell

Costume Design: Kaitlyn Kaufman

Stage Management and Assistant Producer: Matt Terzigni


Cast: Maribel Martinez, Craig Brauner, Adam David Schroeder, Alex Raby, Megan Gainey, Thomas Varga

Claire Trevor Theater, Illuminations Series; La Stalla, Arezzo ITALY; Grotowski Barn UC Irvine.

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Lighting Design: Darrin Wade
Sound Design: Mark Caspary
Costume Design: Kaitlyn Kauffman
Stage Management: Nate Chase
Producer: Julia Lupton

Cast: (Illuminations series) Zach Houston, Kelsey Jackson, Kelsey Jennison, Colin Nesmith, Nicholas Manifredi, Kevin Shewey, Amy Bolton

(Le Grande Meaulnes)

eXperimentalMediaPerformance Lab, UC Irvine

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Lighting Design: Ashley Casias
Sound Design: Josh Fehrmann
Stage Management: Phil Baranski
Producer: Eli Simon and Don Hill

Cast: Connor Alhart, Alison Boresi, Rebecca Clouse, Brooke Curtis, Claire Edmonds< Jeremy Hohn, Kyle Johnston, Alex Makardish, Derek Ocampo, Margie Rodriguez, Jeffrey Salsbury, Marlene Yarosh

WORLD PREMIERE

Claire Trevor Theater

Direction and Choreography:  Annie Loui
Scenic Design:  Sarah Palmrose
Lighting Design:  Catherine Hegdale
Composer: Nathan Birnbaum
Costume Design:  Nicole Korzenik
Conductor:  Stephen Tucker
Vocal Coach: Robin Buck
Stage Management: Cristin Downs

Cast: Davina Agudelo, Michelle Cowin, Daren Hebert, Justin Lujan, Carla Maltz, Michael Morgan, Rick Prigge, Omar Ricks, Emily Rogge, Patrick Sabongui, Michael Reed, Lisa Schwartz, Sean Tarrant, Thalia Thiesfield, Tina Tong, Rebecca Tourino, Kyra Zagorsky

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

Winnifred Smith Hall, UC Irvine

By: Chuck Mee
Direction and Choreography: Annie Loui
Scenic Design: Amy Maier
Lighting Design: Tonya Moake
Sound Design: Mike Hooker
Costume Design: Ashley Rhodes
Musical Direction: Gary Busby
Stage Management: Kevin Kresco

Cast: Katie Duthler, Jamie Elvey, Rachel Grate, Evans Jarnefeldt, Joe Johnson, Nylda Mark, Marissa Moses, Stephanie Philo, Ethan Sawyer,
Tyler Seiple, Vincent Torres, Benny Wills

Winifred Smith Hall, UC Irvine

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Scenic and Puppet Design: Glenn Baker
Lighting Design: Brady King
Sound Design: Mark Caspary
Composer: Josh Fehrmann
Costume Design: Julie Carr
Stage Management: Ross Jackson Jr.
Producer: Gary Busby and Don Hill

Cast: Oge Agulue, Rosie Brownlow, Jacob Dresch, Amani Dorn, Claire Edmonds, Matt Koenig, Leslie Lank, Derek Miller, Misa Moosekian, Colin Nesmith, Daniel Song, Lilian Wouters, Renee Wylder

WORLD PREMIERE

ARK Theater, Los Angeles
By Chuck Mee
Direction and Choreography: Annie Loui
Scenic Design: Darcy Prevost
Lighting Design: Jeff Davis
Costume Design: Amanda Sutton Davis
Sound Design: Corwin Evan
Stage Management: Tyne Guadielle

Cast: Adrian Alita, Michael Doonan, Liz Eldrdge, Rachel Grate, Anna Quirinc Miranda, Marissa Moses, Jim Senti, Tyler Seiple, Jason VandeBrake

Edison Theater, St Louis; eXperimentalMediaPerformanceLab, Claire Trevor Theater & Grotowski Barn, UC Irvine

Adapter and Director: Annie Loui
Lighting Design: Lonnie Alcaraz
Sound Design: Beth Lake
Costume Design: Shigeru Yagi
Associate Lighting Design: Dan Schreckengost
Assistant Sound Design: Elliot Davoren
Stage Management: Phil Baranski

Cast: Maddy Barker, Jacob Dresch, Leah Dutchin, Brittany Egbert, Soren Santos, Anika Solveig, Abbey Smith

Clark Library, “Contemporary@the Clark Series”;  Claire Trevor Theater, Grotowski Barn UC Irvine.

Adaptor and Director:  Annie Loui
Lighting Design:  Lonnie Alcaraz
Sound Design:  Cinthia Palmer
Costume Design: Kaitlyn Kauffman
Stage Management and Assistant Producer: Penn Ross Jackson
Producer:  Joel Veenstra

Cast:  Oge Agulue, Connor Bond, Jacob Dresch, Claire Edmonds, Brittany Egbert, Josh Odess-Rubin