DECEMBER 18 – 20, 2014 at THE BUSHWICK STARR Text by Paul Rome Music by Roarke Menzies Directed by Mark Jaynes Performed by Paul Rome, Roarke Menzies & Katie Schottland Additional Songs Written & Performed by David Kammerer & Katie Mullins Lighting Designer: Cecilia Durbin Dramaturge & Production Assistant: Rachel Levens Production Manager: Roarke Menzies Company Bio: Longtime neighbors in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, writer Paul Rome and composer Roarke Menzies have collaborated since 2010. Their previous works include a staged radio play and a web-‐based audio fiction series. Philadelphia and Other Stories is a continuation of their work pairing literary fiction with music and sound. Artist Bios: Paul Rome (writer, performer) is a writer of fiction and performance literature. His first novel, We All Sleep in the Same Room, was longlisted for the 2014 PEN/Bingham Prize for debut fiction. He has also written for The Huffington Post, PEN America, The Minetta Review and Mercer Street. Rome lives in Brooklyn where he manages the Wyckoff Starr coffee shop. Roarke Menzies (composer, performer) is a New York City-‐based artist and composer. He has created original music for VICE Media Group, BalletX, game developers InterAction Education, dance-‐theater artist Jack Ferver and many others. Menzies has worked extensively in performing arts management and production, coordinating tours to major US venues and producing and curating events and multi-‐disciplinary arts projects in and around New York. Mark Jaynes (director) is a Michigan-‐born, Brooklyn-‐based performer and theater-‐maker. He has created and performed work with acclaimed experimental company Radiohole, including the 2013 New York Times Critic’s Pick Inflatable Frankenstein, and toured internationally with award-‐winning ensemble Half Straddle. He is a member of Bushwick-‐based rock band Not Blood Paint. Katie Schottland (performer) is an actor and musician from Philadelphia. After traveling and working in various countries around the world, she completed the Maggie Flanigan conservatory in New York City in the spring of 2014, as well as improvisational classes at both The People's Improv Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade. Schottland lives in Brooklyn and plays in the band The Get Real Gang. David Kammerer's (songwriter, performer) organic approach to guitar, banjo and slide came together in the 90's alternative music scene during which time he played with various bands, including Famous Potato, Construction Joe, and The Scheisters. He currently plays with the rock trio A/D. Katie Mullins (songwriter, performer) is a singer, songwriter and educator living in Brooklyn. She has self-‐released two albums to date: Pastoral (2009) and Wedding (2013). She writes mostly about love's labors and about dreams she has. Rachel Levens (dramaturge, production assistant) is a New York City based theater artist. She received her BFA in theater from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she served as dramaturg on productions of The Bacchae, Eclipsed, Urinetown, A Memory of Two Mondays and The Simon Fairchild Animal Memorial Choir. Levens was assistant dramaturg on the world premiere of Stuck (Washington Ensemble Theater, Seattle, WA). She has served as an applied theater co-‐facilitator at Recovery Cafe, Powerful Schools at Hawthorne Elementary (Seattle, WA) and CO/LAB Theater Group (New York, NY). Cecilia Durbin (lighting designer) recently designed for The Theater at Monmouth 2014 Repertory Season, Love Alone (Playmakers Rep Co.), The Seagull (Barnard College), Machinal (Duke University), Android Tears (JACK), Ballet Confessions (Judson Gym), A Winter's Tale: Shakespeare Remix(Epic Theatre Ensemble), Near Vicksburg & Requiem for Black Marie (both scenic and lighting design for Incubator Arts Project and Walker Space), Look Homeward, Angel (Compass Rose Theatre), The Seagull, and A Very Special Christmas Special (Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble), Soul Travel Workshop (Incubator Arts Project Short Form Festival 2013), We are Proud to Present... (InterAct Theatre Co.), and Loving v. Virginia (Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop). Ms. Durbin received her M.F.A. in Lighting Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Acknowledgements: Scott McGibney, Anna D’Agrosa, Paris Smeraldo, Meg Lipke, Dmitri Karapanos, Gerelyn Blackstone, Jacob Bagswell, Kevin and Deb Adey, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Joshua Simpson, Benjamin Lehn, Sam Wadsworth, Natia Bejiashvili, Christi Hansen, Courtney Foster, Erica DeWitt, Olivia Gilmore, Sue Bernstein, Noel Allain, Sue Kessler, The Bushwick Starr, the lovely staff of The Wyckoff Starr, Café Ghia, Los Hermanos, Pearl’s Social and Billy Club, The Rome Family and The Menzies Family. Special thanks to our generous contributors: Wyckoff Starr, Café Ghia, Northeast Kingdom, Archie’s