Love’s Fire Program Details

The Department of Performing Arts and Humanities
of the School of Liberal Arts at CCBC
presents

A COLLECTION OF ONE-ACT PLAYS INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS

LOVE’S FIRE

Director
Peter Carver

Set Designer
Terri Raulie

Lighting Designer
Michael Rasinski

Costume Designer
James J. Fasching

Sound Design/Engineer
Everett Simkins

Stage Manager
David Sunderland

April 27 at 12:45pm and 7pm
April 28 at 11am & 8pm
April 29 at 8pm
May 1 at 11:15am
May 2 at 2:30pm

TERMINATING was produced by The Acting Company in association with the Guthrie Theater Lab in January 1998.

TERMINATING OR SONNET LXXV OR “LASS MEINE SCHMERZEN NICHT VERLOREN SEIN” OR AMBIVALENCE is produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC. www.broadwayplaypub.com

BITTER SAUCE is produced by special arrangement with the playwright. 100monologues.com

THE COMPANY

TERMINATING…

Henryk | Jason Samios-Uy
Billygoat | Darius Foreman
Ester | Claire Wescott
Dymphna | Cece Heck

THE CALLBACK

Arlene | Nancy Murray
Harold | CD Denicolis
Carter | Matthew Anthony

LOVE’S BEST HABIT

Kevin Blank | Matthew Anthony
Desiree Blank | I. Joanna Ahmed
Michael Phelps | Darius Foreman
Wymberly | Sophia Pompa
Jeffrey Bank | Jim Driver
Ralph | Claire Wescott
Host | CD Denicolis

BITTER SAUCE

Herman | Ben Chen
Red | CD Denicolis
Rengin | Cece Heck

ARE YOU THE ONE?

JASON SAMIOS-UY

DARIUS FOREMAN

CLAIRE WESCOTT

(Ester, Ralph, Narrator) After performing in The Elephant Man, The Menaechmi Twins and Love’s Labour’s Lost, Claire will be performing their last show, Love’s Fire, for CCBC. They are a theatre major and will be transferring to Towson University next fall. They hope to continue working as an actor in the future. Studying Theatre in CCBC has been a valuable experience and a pleasure for them, and hope you will enjoy the show.

CECE HECK

NANCY MURRAY

CD DENICOLIS

(Harold, Host, Red) is a 37 year old student of life who is happy to be able to be surrounded by so many talented people who are a part of this production.

MATTHEW ANTHONY

I. JOANNA AHMED

SOPHIA POMPA

(Wymberly, Molly) is a Criminal Justice major in her first semester at CCBC. She is very excited about her upcoming roles in Love’s Fire but is never doing theater again.

JIM DRIVER

(Jeffrey Bank) is making his first theatrical debut in his second semester here at CCBC. He has always admired the performing arts and has decided it is better late than never to do something you love. He has enjoyed his time working on Love’s Fire for the past couple of months and is ecstatic to be playing the role of Jeffery Banks. He would love to give a special thanks to director, Pete Carver, his acting 1 teacher Zach Hartley, and Love’s Fire’s amazing stage manager, David Sunderland. Jim is also currently training for a 75 mile bike ride to benefit “Lucky Cat Rescue,” an organization dedicated to helping homeless and abused cats and kittens. Love’s Fire has been a great theatrical experience and Jim hopes to be in more to come.

BEN CHEN

(Herman, Aris) is an aspiring filmmaker, who was roped into this production by fellow cast member Matt Anthony. On the day of the auditions, Ben went to get tacos and arrived late as everyone was exiting the room. Matt managed to cajole Ben to stay and read with him. And the rest is history.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

PRODUCTION STAFF

Director | Peter Carver
Stage Manager | David Sunderland
Scenic Designer | Terri Raulie
Lighting Designer | Michael Rasinski
Shop Supervisor | Jason Randolph
Light Board Operator | Anna Steuerman
Sound Designer/Engineer | Everett Simkins
Costume Designer | James J. Fasching
Costume Shop Associates | Amy Fowler
Scene Shop Associates | Sam Callanta, Thomas P. Gardner, Miles Lawlor
Glen Haupt, David Sunderland, Anna Steuerman
Box Office Manager | Lisa L. Boeren
Box Office Staff | Eva Grove, Thom Purdy
Communications Assistant | Jim Lefter
Production Photographer | Katie Simmons-Barth
www.katiesimmonsbarth.com
Production Coordinators | Julie Lewis

Production Staff Bios

PETER CARVER, MA, MFA (Director) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Theatre, and Mass Communication. He founded and led the AFA Drama Program at A-B Tech in Asheville, NC, and taught as an adjunct faculty member at UNC Asheville for over a decade. Some of his favorite directing credits over the years include Boston Marriage, Hamlet, Miss Julie, Twelfth Night, This Is Our Youth, Noises Off and Equus. Pete has a BA in Communication Studies and Theatre Arts from Stetson University, an MA from Texas Woman’s University, and an MFA in Directing from the University of New Orleans. He has worked with such companies as NC Stage, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville Community Theatre, Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre, Red Noses Productions, Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival and South Carolina Children’s Theatre. Peter teaches Acting for Television & Film and Screenwriting.

TERRI RAULIE (Set Designer) is an Assistant Professor in the Performing Arts and Humanities Department at CCBC. She holds a BFA and an MA in Theatre Design and Production from Montclair State University in New Jersey. Professional and regional credits include The Whole Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, and Playwright Horizons in New Jersey and New York. Locally, she has designed sets and/or lights for productions with Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, Phoenix Festival Theatre and the Baltimore School for the Arts.

JAMES J. FASCHING (Costume Designer) is the resident costumer in the Performing Arts and Humanities Department at CCBC. His career in design has taken him from designing for the Miss America Pageant, to having his own television spot on KDKA-TV for interior design tips, to designing hundreds of productions for Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, Dundalk Community Theatre, Peabody Opera Company, Theatre Hopkins, and The School for the Arts in Philadelphia, to name a few. Mr. Fasching teaches Makeup Design for the Theatre program.

MICHAEL RASINKSI (Lighting Designer)

EVERETT SIMKINS (Sound Designer/Engineer)

DAVID SUNDERLAND (Stage Manager) is a Theatrical Design and Production student in his last semester at CCBC. He has previous credits as Shadow Designer in last Fall’s production of Macbeth and Assistant Designer for Love’s Labour’s Lost. He is immensely proud of his cast and crew for all their hard work these past two months. He will be transferring to Towson in the Fall and would like to thank Terri Raulie for keeping him looking at big picture whenever things got tough.

Special Thanks

Dr. Sandra Kurtinitis | President, CCBC
Dr. Mark McColloch | Vice President of Instruction
Dr. Rich Lilley | Vice President of Enrollment & Student Services
Dr. William Watson | Dean of Liberal Arts
Patti Crossman, Chair | Performing Arts & Humanities
Jacqueline Lucy | Media Relations Coordinator
Jacqueline McTear | Graphic Designer
Marc Smith | Technical Director, CCBC Dundalk
Jason Randolph | Technical Director, CCBC Essex
Brian Russell