CCMOnStage PLAYS Presents

BLUE STOCKINGS

By Jessica Swale

Feb. 9 (preview) -13, 2022, Patricia Corbett Theater

  • Director Susan Felder
  • Scenic Designer Noam Denenberg*
  • Lighting Designer William Baker*
  • Costume Designer Brittannie McKenna Travis*
  • Sound Designer Alex Brock*
  • Wig & Make-Up Collaborators Tiara Jones* and Brittannie McKenna Travis*
  • Make-Up Designer Tiara Jones*
  • Production Stage Manager Haileigh Warren*
  • Props Manager Finley Fields*
  • Technical Director Jacob Blumberg*
  • Dialect Coach Sarah Summerwell
  • Fight Director k. Jenny Jones

*CCM Student

Blue Stockings will last approximately two hours and 30 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.

Director’s Note

By Susan Felder

Blue Stockings is a true story of female Cambridge students and the battle for equality in education, definition of women’s roles, voter suppression and fear of change (echoes to current world events). Two opposing philosophies meet head-on in a fight for future generations. The play sees scenes and events overlap and juxtapose, as warring philosophies turn from academic debate to explosive reality. It is also a coming of age story for those struggling to have their voices heard; for those who begin to recognize their own privileged status and for all who come to the realization that when one voice is silenced, the song of the entire world is diminished.   

Women who pursued education at the end of the 19th century were referred to as “blue stockings” because you wore your black stockings for serious endeavors. Generations of students at Cambridge University have prided themselves on philosophy, free thinking and being the movers and shakers of tomorrow. Yet when faced with real change (women receiving a degree) the alumni and students met free-thinking and social change with fear.  While in the classroom, ideas were challenged and free-thinking encouraged. In reality, free thinking and challenge of ideas was met with resistance and eventual violence. How can it be that even in a place celebrating the expansion of the human mind, expansion of thought may be seen as dangerous?

The Place and Time

1896 at Girton College, Camridge

The Company

  • Tess | Liza Lagerstrom
  • Celia | Shakoria Davis
  • Carolyn | Emma Fitzgerald
  • Maeve/Prof. Anderson, Lady | Rachel Larson
  • Elizabeth Welsh | Michelle Joy Jardine
  • Eleanor Blake | Ava Panagopoulos
  • Dr. Maudsley/Mrs. Peck | Kristina Steinmetz
  • Miss Bott/Mrs. Lindley | Ava Duvall
  • Billy Sullivan/Prof Radleigh/Librarian | Nora Kovasckitz
  • Minnie/Prof Collins/Waiter | Katie Kinman
  • Edwards (the singer) | Lydia Robison
  • Will | A.J. Civello
  • Ralph | Galen Arnett
  • Lloyd | Noah Buyak
  • Holmes | Luke Danni
  • Mr. Banks | Nathan Flesh
  • Ralph/Will/Lloyd/Holmes/Mr. Banks Swing | Jack McElroy
  • Minnie/Prof. Collins/Waiter/Billy Sullivan/Prof. Radleigh/Librarian/Miss Bott/ Mrs. Lindley Swing | Shaylee Bowman
  • Billy Sullivan/Prof. Radleigh/Librarian/Miss Bott/Mrs. Lindley/Dr. Maudsley/Mrs. Peck Swing | Katie Kinman
  • Fight Captain | Jack McElroy

Production Staff

 
  • Assistant Stage Managers | Emma King, Katie Reus
  • Production Assistant | Emily Mallendick
  • Assistant Production Managers | Leah Berry, Emma King
  • Assistant Scenic Designer | Amber Szpak
  • Assistant Costume Designer | Miranda Cotman
  • Assistant Lighting Designers | Kate Ingram, Claire Michels
  • Wardrobe Supervisor | Megan Vaughn
  • Pattern Maker/Draper | Meredith Buckley
  • Wardrobe Crew Head | Nato Hermann
  • Wardrobe Crew | Ryan Behan, Kristen Das
  • Costume Crew | Corey Cochran, Savannah Brooks, Amira Rowe
  • Costume Graduate Assistants | Meredith Buckley, Maria Ortiz Lopez, Brittannie McKenna Travis, Natasha Cox, Clara Cavins
  • Head Electrician | Samuel Wilson
  • Assistant Head Electrician | Vincent Vandeleest
  • Board Operator | Vincent Vandeleest
  • Deck Electricians | Hannah Burford, Sarah Patisaul
  • Electrics Crew | William Baker, Paige Baumann, Aiden Bezark, Jason Bowden, Natalia Carlson, Abby Fluck, Andrew Gange, Oliver Hunt, Kathryn Ingram, Ashton Karp, Tal Kochav, Ian MacIntosh, William Meckstroth, Dionte Mercado, Claire Michels, Nate Miller, Bella Pfeiffer, Sydney Riddle, Riley Rowan, Kyle Strickland, Eli Suarez, Vincent Vandeleest, Rama vanGils, Samuel Wilson
  • Lighting Graduate Assistants | Baron Leon, Alex Mason, Kristen Peck, Alaina Pizzoferrato
  • Assistant Technical Director | Janay Sukkarieh
  • Head Carpenter | James Allison
  • Set Construction Crew | Mia Adrian, Shelby Allred, Annalee Crosser, Peggie Dona, Izzy Dillon, Abby Fluck, Sophia Gamble, Hannah Kate Hawver, Alex, Husiung, Ashton Karp, Bri Kelley, Benji Lookatch, Emily Mallendick, Nate Miller, Liz Mitan, Meredith Randall, Anika Shirvalker, Brady Smith, Cassie Smith, Macay Smith, Lucia Thill, Lauren Wooten
  • Staff Scenic Artist | Karolyn Hasselfeld
  • Scenic Charge Artist | Ali Flanagan
  • Scenic Artist’s Assistant | Amber Szpak
  • Scene Shop Assistants | McKenna Brennan, Maya Eberhardt, Aaron Graham, Nick Hunley, Thomas Iodice, Grace Mayo, Stephanie O’Rear, Janay Sukkarieh, Logan Vanderpool
  • Set/Props Running Crew | Mia Adrian, Izzy Dillon, Abby Fluck, Melanie Reitman, Macay Smith, Lucia Thill
  • Assistant Sound Designer | Alena Milos
  • Production Sound Engineer | Corbin Hopkins
  • Sound Board Operator | Brian Haack
  • Mic Tech | Aaron Woodstein
  • Sound Load in/Out | Ben Stacy
  • Sound Shop Graduate Assistants | Alex Brock, Ryan Hurt, Patrick Kiernan, Aaron Woodstein 
  • Wig and Make-Up Running Crew | Lucy Acuña, JT Langlas
  • Wig and Make-Up Graduate Assistants | Colin Gallaher, Madison Weber
  • Props Construction Crew | Lauren Wooten, Nick Hunley, Madisen Frazier, Simon Knox, Maddy Byrnes, Suzanne Barnes, Ali Flanagan, Rachel Ledington, Sage Shepard, Roza Gaurlidis, Mia Adrian, Melanie Reitman, Oliver Hunt
  • Stage Management Office Assistant | Jie Min

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Greg Mathein 
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Opera Production Sponsor
Rafael and Kimberly de Acha
Opera D’Arte Sponsor
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Dr. Randolph L. Wadsworth
Judith Schonbach Landgren and Peter Landgren
Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen
Elizabeth C.B. Sittenfeld
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman
Mrs. Theodore W. Striker
Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer
Ariel Quartet Sponsors
Jan Rogers
Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation
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Anonymous
  Classical Guitar Sponsor

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn
Orchestral Sponsor
Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation
Starling Pre-Collegiate Sponsor
Starling Strings Sponsor
Dr. Timothy E. and Janet L. Johnson
Thom Miles and Roberta Gary
Organ Department Sponsors
Keyboard Club of Cincinnati
Louis and Susan Meisel
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