SOU Theatre presents: Museum written by Tina Howe and directed by David Kelly. Museum performances run November 14- 24, 2024 on the SOU Main Stage Theatre.

Tickets are available online at https://sou.universitytickets.com or by calling the OCA Box Office at 541-552-6348. Accommodations for wheelchair seating and assisted listening devices are available by request via email: boxoffice@sou.edu

The OCA Box Office opens 1 hour prior to the performance, regular hours M-F Noon-6pm. Doors open at 7:30pm for the 8:00pm show and 1:30pm for the 2:00pm shows. Parking is free in Lot #36 across from the SOU Theatre Building.

PERFORMANCES:
November 14 - 8:00pm (opening)
November 15 - 8:00pm
November 16 - 8:00pm
November 21 - 8:00pm
November 22 - 8:00pm (Talk back w/ actors after the show)
November 23 - 2:00pm
November 23 - 8:00pm
November 24 - 2:00pm (closing matinee)

ABOUT THE PLAY: "Museum" by Tina Howe and directed by David Kelly is set in the 1990's in an unnamed New England art gallery on the final day of an exhibit titled “The Broken Silence.” The colorful world of artists, collectors, browsers, and curators - and even the security guards who watch over it all - become part of an interwoven, comedic display. Be prepared for some laughs as art and theatre intersect.
 

CAST:

Guard: Aud Godlove

M. Wall: Pierce Bach

Jean-Claude/Steve Williams: Byers Sullivan

Francoise: Natalie Guidi

Annette/Julie Jenkins: Artemisia Chargualaf

Liz: Georgia Black 

Carol/Lillian: Mary-Ellen McGinnis

Blakey/M. Gregory: Miyabi Saito

F. Izumi: Vincent Bohren

Elizabeth Sorrow/Chole Trapp: Sonja Kinney

Peter Ziff/Giorgio: Trevor Bikos

Mr. Salt/Harriet: Sarah Watson

Mrs. Salt/May: Loren Donely

M. Snow/Ada Bilditsky: Morghan Rash

Bob Lamb/Bill Plaid: Aidan Jenkins

Will Willard/Mr. Moe: Evan Lucas

Barbara Castle + Mrs. Moe: Leora Aurilio

Barbara Zimmer: Samantha Sinclair

Hollingsford/Gilda Norris: Gabi Vidaña

Passing Person 1/Tink Solheim: Alexis Edwards

Mira Zadal/Kate Siv: Bella Black

Guard #1: Shane Howard

Guard #2: Grant Halverson

Understudies & Recorded Voices: Ella Vandal, Nicolas Budde

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Tina Howe (1937-2023) was a prolific and influential American playwright. Her most produced plays include Birth and After Birth, Museum, The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, Approaching Zanzibar and Pride’s Crossing. These and other works premiered at the Public Theater, the Kennedy Center, Second Stage, The Old Globe Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Atlantic Theater Company and Primary Stages, as well as being translated and produced abroad.

Among her many awards were an Obie for Distinguished Playwriting, a Tony Award nomination for Best Play, an Outer Circle Critics Award, a Rockefeller Grant, two N.E.A. Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Sidney Kingsley Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, two honorary degrees, the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre, a Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement and, most recently, PEN’s Master American Playwright award in 2015.

A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Ms. Howe taught at NYU, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon and UCLA before becoming Visiting Professor at Hunter College in 1990, then going on to launch the Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA in Playwriting in 2010 as Playwright-in-Residence.

Her works can be read in numerous anthologies as well as in Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays by Tina Howe and Birth and After Birth and Other Plays: A Marriage Cycle, published by Theatre Communications Group. Her other publications include her translations of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and The Lesson (Grove Press) and Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lilies: Seven Brief Plays about Women in Distress (Samuel French). She is also the subject of Howe in an Hour, edited by Judith Barlow, published by Smith and Kraus. Ms. Howe was proud to have served on the council of the Dramatists Guild from 1990 to 2023.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: David is overjoyed to be back at SOU where he taught for more than15 years and directed Ring Around the Moon. He has been acting at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for thirty years. Some of his favorite productions at OSF include: The Book of Will, The Pirates ofPenzance, Richard II, The Imaginary Invalid, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guys and Dolls, Timon of Athens, Baltimore Waltz, Welcome Home Jenny Sutter, Pravda, Death of a Salesman and Hairspray. Recently, David has been working at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Huntington Theater in Boston, The Guthrie, Berkeley Repertory, Arizona Theater Company, and last fall at The Public Theater in Manahatta, which premiered at OSF in 2018. David is also proud to have been a 2nd grade teaching assistant at Walker Elementary School in Ashland during the Pandemic.