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SPOILED

Developmental Workshop at Dixon Place, April 2019

conceived, written, and directed by Elizabeth Hess

performed by Vanessa Butler, Ninoshka De Leon Gill, & Rebeca Miller 

dramaturg Gina Stevensen

creative producer Madeleine Goldsmith

Originally commissioned and developed by Elizabeth Scott Osborne at Stage Left Studio

SPOILED is based on true stories of Violence Against Women that will be embodied by diverse female performers but told from the male point of view. The piece sheds light on the role patriarchy plays in perpetuating misogyny by exposing the accepted power of the male voice to co-opt female experience. 

Rigid gender roles do untold damage to all involved - so we need to understand and engage everyone, including men, in conversations about the roots of violence against women.

 

By looking at events that span the globe - zeroing in on India, Turkey, Chile and America - we probe the mindsets that leads to such crimes as campus rape, military assault, female infanticide and bartered child brides. 

 

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ARTISTS BIOS

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VANESSA BUTLER

(Performer)

Vanessa Butler: Scissoring (INTAR Theater) The Colony (Columbia Univ/Signature Theater), Terminus (NYTW: Next Door), Queens for a Year, A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage); Gross Domestic Product, Jimmy & Lorraine (HartBeat Ensemble); Romeo & Juliet (Capitol Classics Theater); Freedom in 3 Acts (Bated Breath Theater Co.); Higgins in Harlem, Thea

ter Uncut Festival 2013, Theater Uncut Festival 2012 (Playhouse on Park); Khalas (Collective Consciousness Theater). Connecticut Critics Circle Award 2017 Outstanding Actress in a Play Education. CalArts: MFA. www.vanessarbutler.com

NINOSHKA DE LEON GILL

(Performer)

Ninoshka De Leon Gill worked with Elizabeth Hess (The Hess Collective), Heidi Miami Marshall, Holli Leggett and Doriane Elliott. Selected Credits: NYC: Meshahnye (Theatre for a New City), Dracula (Morris-Jumel Mansion), Cabaret (The Secret Theatre), The Wishing Tree (Signature Theatre). Regional: The Music Man (Sharon Playhouse).Film/TV: Foreign Nationals (Foreign Entertainment, LLC), Love My Roomie (YháWright Productions). Ithaca College: Environmental Science/Biology/Dance.

REBECA MILLER

(Performer)

Rebeca Miller has worked at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Florida Studio Theatre, and with Theatreworks USA. In New York she has worked with Classic Stage Company, On The Rocks Theatre Company, New York Shakespeare Exchange, Shakespeare in the Square, The Box Collective, Everyday Inferno, and the NYC Fringe Festival, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, Columbia University, New Georges, and Pulse Ensemble Theatre. NYU: BFA. www.RebecaMiller.com

SPECIAL THANKS

Stage Left Workshop

  • Directed by Julie Kline

  • Executive Producer - Elizabeth Scott Osborne

  • Producer - Cheryl King

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Chile Stories

  • Felipe Acevedo

  • Catalina Navarro

India/USA Stories

  • Elizabeth Scott Osborne

Turkey Stories

  • Stella Burg

  • Esma Karamanci Kirim

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