Theodora Skipitares
A Harlot¹s Progress
The Kitchen
September 16-20

Designed and Directed by Theodora Skipitares
Score and Libretto by Barry Greenhut
Written by Greenhut and Skiptares
Associate Designer: Holly Laws
Lighting Designer: Pat Dignan
Costume Designer: Sarah Provost
Music Director: Chris Berg Production
Stage Manager: Hjördis Linn
Dramaturg: Anrea Balis
Creative Consultant: Monroe Denton

Vocalists
Moll: Christina Campanella, Soprano
Lucy, Bowdoin: Martha Mechalakos, Altos
The Men: Lee Winstone, Baritone

Manipulators
Rachel Cohen
Stephen Kaplin
Abigail Kinney
Chris Maresca
Ellen Van Wees

Stage Musicians
Flutes, Saxophones, Clarinets: Sylvio Scambone
Keyboards: Chris Berg, Barry Greenhut
Violin: Chala Yancey
Bass: Audrey Terry

Crew
Proscenium Sculptor: Jane Catherine
Shaw Production Coordintor: Erica Bilder
Assistant Set Designer: Abilgail Kinney
Scenic Artist: Tracy Browner
Music Preparer: Audrey Terry
Videographer: William Comstock
Video Researcher: Lyrysa Smith
Master Electrician: Eva Pinney
Backstage Crew; Dov Leibowitz-Nowak, Khary Wilson, Lisa Protzman, Anney McKilligan, Erica Bilder, Jennifer Stoessner

THEODORA SKIPITARES is a multi-media artist and director who has been creating her own works for the last 20 years. Trained as a sculptor and designer, she began creating personal solo performances in the mid Œ70s. Gradually, she moved away from autobiography and began to examine social and historical themes. Realistic, life-size puppet figures, as well as miniature ones, became the performers in large-scale works that included live music, film, and video. These works include The Age of Invention, an examination of three centuries of American invention featuring 300 puppets, Defenders of the Code, a history of eugenics, and The Radiant City, a music-theater work based on the life of Robert Moses. More recent projects include Under the Knife, a history of medicine, and Body of Crime, a history of women in prison. Ms. Skipitares has received six NEA grants, three NYFA Fellowships, a UNIMA Citation for Excellence in Puppetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a McKnight Playwriting Fellowship, among others. Her visual work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe. Last year, she traveled to Vietnam with Ellen Stewart, where they developed an opera with the National Theater and the Vietnamese National Water Puppet Theater. Recently, Ms. Skipitares directed and designed a production of Charles Ludlam¹s The Enchanted Pig for the Sundance Theater.

BARRY GREENHUT has collaborated with Ms. Skipitares for several years. Body of Crime, their number opera about women in prison, premiered a year ago at La MaMa E.T.C.; it will be expanded and restaged there next spring. Earlier this year they recreated Charles Ludlam¹s The Enchanted Pig as a musical for the Sundance Children¹s Theater. They have collaborated on installations here in New York and for the Assos Festival in Turkey and the Fial Festival in Montenegro. Mr. Greenhut also composes music for contemporary and silent film (Hal Hartley¹s Surviving Desire, Andrew Peterson¹s Safe Storage, Windsor McKay¹s The Centaurs) and radio (with his own group, Ether).