CCMOnStage PLAYS Presents

THE BURIALS

By Caitlin Parrish

April 21-24, 2022, Cohen Family Studio Theater

  • Director Richard Hess
  • Scenic Designer Abigail Heyd*
  • Lighting Designers Kristen Peck* and Paige Baumann*
  • Media Designer Ian Macintosh*
  • Costume Designer Chloe Marstellar*
  • Sound Designer Patrick Kiernan*
  • Production Stage Manager Maggie Seibert*
  • Assistant Directors Ava Duvall* and Debra Najor*
  • Props Managers Madisen Frazier* and Finley Fields*
  • Assistant Movement Director Lucia Duque

*CCM Student

The Burials run time is 100 minutes and is performed without an intermission

Director’s Note

By Richard Hess

Every day, 316 people are shot in the United States (source: BradyUnited.org). Among those: 

  • 106 people are shot and killed 
  • 210 survive gunshot injuries 
  • 95 are intentionally shot by someone else and survive 
  • 39 are murdered 
  • 64 die from gun suicide 

Every year, 115,551 people are shot. Among those: 

  • 38,826 people die from gun violence 
  • 14,062 are murdered 
  • 76,725 people survive gunshot injuries 
  • 34,566 are intentionally shot by someone else and survive 
  • 23,437 die from gun suicide 

Source: BradyUnited.org

We tell this story, this difficult American story, to confront a difficult truth. When gun violence does not touch our lives, we do not see the impact. But the impact is real, and it is insidious. We think it does not touch us, but it does. Thank you for joining us to sit with us and feel the impact. Some theatre is not easy, but we hope it is rewarding.

So many stories. For 32 years I have been telling stories/making theatre with students at CCM. So many students. I have changed. The world has changed. The students have changed. I started directing and teaching professionally in 1983. It seems forever ago. 

What hasn’t changed, is my love for this art form, my love of actors and designers and technicians and brave storytellers everywhere. Every show I’ve ever done at CCM is my favorite show. Thank you all. Please enjoy my new favorite show: The Burials. I hope it makes you feel.

With love and gratitude and support,
-Richard Hess

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Ty Olwin, Caitlin Parrish, Sarah Summerwell, Kelly Yurko and Lauren Steiger Hess, always and forever.

The Place and Time

America: Now

The Company

  • Sophie Martin | Maddie Gaughan
  • Chloe Martin | Lyd Noll
  • Ben Martin | Hunter Trammell
  • Ryan Martin | Kevin Naddeo
  • Zoe Lucas/Mrs. Souder | Zoë Peterson
  • Janette | Becca Anderson
  • Jayden | Malik Smith
  • Brianna | Sydni Solomon
  • Greg | Brandon Cook
  • Camera Operator #1 | Clark Comstock
  • Camera Operator #2 | Jake Weinheimer

Production Staff

  • Technical Director | Steve Miller
  • Assistant Stage Managers | Kali Ashurst, Sarah Patisaul
  • Production Assistant | Emily Mallendick
  • Assistant Production Managers | Leah Berry, Emma King
  • Assistant Lighting Designer | Andrew Gange
  • Assistant Sound Designer | Kayla Chen
  • Assistant Costume Designer | Quinn Collins
  • Wardrobe Crew Head | Nato Hermann
  • Costume Crew | Corey Cochran, Savannah Brooks, Amira Rowe
  • Costume Graduate Assistants | Meredith Buckley, Maria Ortiz Lopez, Brittannie McKenna Travis, Natasha Cox, Clara Cavins
  • Media Content Creation | Rama Van Gils
  • Head Electrician | Eli Suarez
  • Assistant Head Electrician | Abby Fluck
  • Media Tech/Operator | Kyle Strickland
  • Light Board Operator | Andrew Gange
  • Lighting Graduate Assistants | Baron Leon, Alex Mason, Kristen Peck, Alaina Pizzoferrato
  • Assistant Technical Director | Janay Sukkaireh
  • 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 | Sean Haffey
  • Paint Crew | Samantha Tamulonis, Anna Campisano, Suzanne Barnes, Madelyn Byrnes, Abigail Heyd, Madisen Frazier, Alexandra Flanagan, Mia Adrian, Melanie Reitman
  • 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 | Sophia Gamble
  • Production Sound Engineer | Michael Donahue
  • A2 | Kayla Chen
  • Sound Board Operator | Michael Donahue
  • Sound Shop Graduate Assistants | Alex Brock, Ryan Hurt, Patrick Kiernan, Aaron Woodstein
  • Wig and Make-Up Graduate Assistants | Tiara Jones, Colin Gallaher
  • Stage Management Office Assistant | Jie Min

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Scholarship and Resident Artist Sponsor
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
CSO/CCM Diversity Fellowship Sponsor
The Corbett Endowment at CCM
Dance Department Sponsor
All-Steinway School Sponsor
Louise H. & David S. Ingalls Foundation, Inc.
Community Partners
The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation, Ritter & Randolph, LLC, Corporate Counsel
Visiting Artists & Thinking About Music Sponsor
Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer 
Greg Mathein 
Gary & Barb Cummins 
Jim & Linda Miller 
George & Carroll Roden
Musical Theatre Department Sponsors
Genevieve Smith
Opera Production Sponsor
Rafael and Kimberly de Acha
Opera D’Arte Sponsor
An Anonymous Donor
Estate of Mr. William A. Friedlander
Mrs. William A. Friedlander
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
Choral Studies Sponsors
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
Piano Department Sponsors
Kevin and Nancy Rhein
   Wind Studies Sponsor
Buddy Rogers Music
LINKS Sponsor
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