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JEWQUEEN
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DIRECTED BY MICHAEL LEVINTON
CREATED BY THE COMPANY

MARCH 17-APRIL 2 @ UNDER ST. MARKS
PRESS OPENING MARCH 18

 


Little Lord’s rough and ready collective of shiksas, queers, and misinformed Jews stages a slap-dash celebration of the biblical Book of Esther. Combining the sincere but awkward rawness of faith-based community happenings with Little Lord’s signature “cheap ’n cheerful” style, JEWQUEEN is a holiday party for the haters.
Created and performed by Julia Arazi*, Sarah Bishop-Stone, Das Elkin, Diana Konopka, Michael Levinton*, Rodney Pallanck* & Laura von Holt; Directed by Michael Levinton; Dramaturgy by Sarah Bishop-Stone
Little Lord (a theater company) manipulates classic texts, pillages faulty nostalgias, and celebrates the homemade as a means to create vibrantly bawdy, offbeat, intelligent, queer, funny (and often musical) theater. Little Lord's work is "created from the stuff theatrical dreams are made of."www.littlelord.org

JULIA ARAZI (Performer) New York credits include Three Sisters (OVNV, directed by Eve Best), Therapy Rocks! (EAT), Pigeons, Knishes and Rockettes (NYC Fringe), The Game Boy (Vital Theatre Co.), Who Will Carry the Word (Red Fern) Orestes 2.0 and Mosheh, a VideOpera (both HERE ARTS). Favorite regionals and tours include HAIR, Dames at Sea, Big River and If You Give a Pig a Pancake. Julia is a graduate of Tufts University and has trained at Manhattan School of Music and the National Theater Institute. Happy Purim!

SARAH BISHOP-STONE (Dramaturg/Performer) Production dramaturgy: Loves Labour's Lost and La Ronde (Yale School of Drama), Happy Now and Compulsion (Yale Rep). Before joining Little Lord, Sarah worked as producer and dramaturg for Nerve Ensemble. Previously, she spent several years in the literary office of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and stage-managed new plays for companies such as Soho Rep, Pig Iron, Clubbed Thumb, New York Stage and Film, and New Dramatists. She has also worked with The Civilians, The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and Second Stage Theatre. BA, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University (2004). MFA, Yale School of Drama (2010).

DAS ELKIN (Performer) is a recent graduate of the musical theater program at Pace University. She was last seen on stage as Cheri Netherland in the Heights Players' production of Women Behind Bars. Das loves all things over-the-top and kooky...and is so thrilled to have found Little Lord!

DIANA KONOPKA (Performer) Recently The Magic Flute and The Municipal Abbatoir (both Target Margin Labs), In His Bold Gaze, My Ruin Is Writ Large (Crown Point Festival), and No Where Can Be Here Now (Mile of String; The Chocolate Factory). Diana received a 2007-09 TCG New Generations grant to work with Clubbed Thumb, where she is currently the Associate Director. She is an Associated Artist with TMT and a Lad with Little Lord (a theater company). B.A. University of Chicago; M.A. NYU (Performance Studies).

MICHAEL LEVINTON (Director/Performer) As Artistic Director of Little Lord, Michael has written, directed and performed in five original pieces for the theater: oh my god I am so THIRST(y) (Incubator Arts Project 2010, Chocolate Factory 2009), Babes in Toyland (OHIO Theatre’s Ice Factory 2009), The Pronoun ‘I’ (Bushwick Starr 2010), Balabustas (!) (HERE 2007), and The Barbie-steia (OHIO Theatre). He also performed in David Greenspan’s Old Comedy (Classic Stage Company) and is an Artistic Associate with Target Margin Theater.

RODNEY PALLANCK (Performer) is delighted to be back in a Little Lord show! Most recently with Little Lord: Mother Goose and Musical Direction in Babes in Toyland (Ice Factory 2009) and the original production of THIRST(y) (Chocolate Factory/Target Margin). Highlighted regional credits include: West Side Story (A-Rab); Peter Pan (Slightly); Biloxi Blues (Epstein); Music Man; Baltimore Center Stage's Galileo. Proud member of AEA. Let the dream begin.

LAURA VON HOLT (Performer) Laura is a marginally famous writer and performer from Hawaii and serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Little Lord. With Little Lord: THIRST(y) at Incubator Arts Project and Babes in Toyland (Ice Factory) and Target Margin Labs The Pronoun 'I', oh my god I am so THIRST(y) and Balabustas (!). She is best known as her pinup and performance artist alter ego, von Hottie. Currently, Laura chronicles her adventures in training to be an aerial silks acrobat for SocialWorkout.com in her blog series, The Silk Road. vonhottie.com and lauravonholtinc.com