KASPAR Who's What?

Kaspar
by Peter Handke
directed by Ioana Jucan ‘11

IOANA JUCAN
Ioana is a senior at Brown double-concentrating in Theatre Arts & Performance Studies and Modern Culture and Media. She loves working on at the intersection between theatre arts, performance studies, continental philosophy, new media and software studies. She is an interdisciplinary performance maker primarily focused on directing and playwriting. Apart from her most recent baby, Kaspar, she has recently dramaturged NYC Player’s production of Vision Disturbance directed by Richard Maxwell at the Abrons Arts Center in NYC. She is currently complementing her practical performance work with a theoretical project on Wittgenstein and the contemporary avant-garde theatre of awareness as well as an investigation of the face as a culturally-determined signifying system in the contemporary culture of the interface.

CAST

JULIANA UNANUE BANUCHI

I was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 2, 1991 (where it's nice and warm all year long). My father passed when I was six year old, so I mainly grew up with a single mother and two older sisters. There was a lot of woman loving in my house. I traveled plenty as a child. My mother was quite an adventurous and active mom, so when I wasn't in school I was probably pulling a jeep out of a mud pit, snorkeling in some beach, or barbecuing something outside (my mom is a bad-ass chef). When I was in 5th grade I had a secret singing career- I recorded a CD that was going to go on sale when my mother freaked out in the lawyer's office and decided not to sign the release documents (it would have been so embarrassing if she had!). After being mad at my mom for not doing so for a few months, she now thinks that I should be a famous pop-star (she has not yet to realized that my dreams have shifted since I was in 5th grade). I have continued to travel and now am loving Brown and ready to study Education Studies as a means to work in education reform back home in PR.

ARIANNA GENESON

Arianna Geneson is a freshman and plans to concentrate in Theatre Arts. She just finished a gap year in which she interned at the Washington National Opera in the production office and with the stage management team and then lived in Florence, Italy, studying Italian for five months. Geneson sang with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in several productions with its Children's Chorus and also sang the role of The First Spirit in Die Zauberflöte. Other recent performances include The Vagina Monologues ("My Vagina was my village") with Florence International Theatre Company and Brown Opera Productions's 2010 Opera Scenes--The Tales of Hoffman (Olympia). She is excited to share the messages of Kaspar with the Brown community.

AVA LANGFORD

Hi! My name is Ava Langford. I'm from Calhoun, GA. I am a freshman here at Brown. I enjoy romantic Ratty dinners, and sunsets at the SciLi. My outfit of choice is a nude leotard. Overall I'm a pretty simple girl exploring language through Kaspar.

JARRETT KEY

Jarrett Key is sophomore, planning to concentrate in Theater and Sociology. Active in the performing arts at Brown, he is a member of the Brown Opera Productions Board, Brown Arts Mentoring Program, New Works Dance Co. and the Applied Music Program for voice. He has been involved in several productions at Brown including Leavittsburg , OH, Monsieur Choufleuri, Magic Flute, Madoff Play, The Cook, Turn of the Screw, Baz and Me, and Gianni Schicchi. Recently he is playing the role as Kaspar 1 and Prompter 1 in Handke's Production of Kaspar.


CARA NEWLON

Cara Newlon is a freshman, major undecided. Before coming to Brown, she went to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia. In high school, she directed Black Comedy and starred in productions such as Meet Me in St. Louis and Up the Down Staircase. She also starred in a professional production of Alice in Wonderland at Classika Theatre and attended Virginia Governor's School for the Performing Arts.

MATT SLAUSON

Matt Slauson plays Pokemon like a boss. He enjoys star gazing, long walks on the beach, boondoggling and putting on his robe and wizard's hat. He would like to dedicate his performance to fellow trainers Joseph Rosales and Jared Rosa.

SISSI SUN

Sissi Sun '12 is a Theater Arts concentrator at Brown. Besides stage performance, she also enjoys film acting, production and writing. She is an opinion columnist for The Brown Daily Herald. Sissi transferred from Northwestern University in '10 and loves the cool things that she gets to do here. Starting next semester, Sissi will be taking a year off in Beijing, China. She looks forward to writing her own play and learning a few new languages during that time and will surely miss her lovely company at Brown and also Mimi, Niu and Bubble, her beloved pet hamster and rats.


STAFF

LIZ CONNOLLY

Liz Connolly '11 has been sewing and designing her own clothes ever since she was little. This is her third year working in the Brown University costume shop. In addition to designing for Kaspar, she has previously designed costumes for PW's production of The Clean House in 2010. She is also a serious violinist and President of the Brown University Orchestra. She is an East Asian Studies concentrator.

ROMAN GONZALEZ

Roman Gonzalez is a senior philosophy concentrator from Corpus Christi, Texas with six years of creative and commercial video production experience behind him. He is the former President and Chief Revivalist of both Brown University Student Television and the Brown University Philosophy Undergraduate Group, and has also worked two years with the Programming team of the Ivy Film Festival. He holds particular interests in existential philosophy, reductive naturalism, moral psychology, Russian literature, postmodern fiction, and the multidisciplinary study of romantic love. While he usually writes and produces short films, Roman has enjoyed collaborating on this more experimental approach to the visual medium.

JONATHAN KEY

Jonathan Key is a sophomore at Rhode Island School of Design where he is concentrating in Graphic Design. Involved in the Brown Theater community, Jonathan was thrilled to be asked to be the Light Designer for this show! For Kaspar, his focus was using the light to create an atmospheric state and to play the role as a omniscient character.

BENJAMIN NICHOLSON

Ben grew up on a farm in Deerfield, NH. He had a computer then and he currently has a computer.