TWAIN'S WORLD
Twain's World, First Floor Theater's second annual literary festival featured a selection of new ten minute plays inspired by the life and work of Mark Twain. Given the choice of three classic authors, the attendees of the annual season kickoff party selected Mark Twain as the muse for the 2014 literary festival. This brought an exciting and diverse group of playwrights into a conversation about themes in Twain's work: institutionalizing racism, satirizing civilized society and establishing a new American identity. The festival saw a full range of adaptation, offering everything from page-to-stage to musical shadow puppetry.
Festival Staff:
Curator - Hutch Pimentel*
Dramaturg - Ken Warren
Stage Manager - Xan Belzley
Scenic Designer - Bobby Huggins*
Lighting Designer - Sarah Collonge*
Sound Designer - Graham Carlson
Live Music - Ben Heller
Associate Producer - Autumn McConnico
Title Card Illustrator - Claire Stone*
Assistant Stage Manager - Derek Spencer
The 2014 Twain's World Lineup:
Little Bessie
by Marilyn Campbell
directed by Jesse Roth*
with Amanda Fink* and Rebecca Marquardt
Sender
by Ike Holter
directed by Josh Altman
with Jessica Marks and Tony Santiago
Parker
by Paul Oakley Stovall
directed by Taylor Bailey
with Bear Bellinger and Colin Sphar
A Medieval Romance
by Molly FitzMaurice*
directed by Brandon Moorhead
with Aurora Adachi-Winter, Rachel Copel, and Abe Elmourabit
Dear Liv
by Morgan McNaught
directed by Thrisa Hodits
with Hannah Alcorn and Chris Fowler
Death of Jean
by Emmett Rensin*
directed by Andrew Cutler*
with Kate Cornelius Schecter* and Conor Woods
When Beggars Die, There Are No Comets Seen
by Will Bishop*
co-directed by Andrew Rovner* & Will Bishop*
with Jay Cullen, Antora DeLong, Jenni Hadley, Ben Heller, and Johnard Washington
*Denotes First Floor Theater company member