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Written by David Kilpatrick
Original Direction by Jennifer Furlong

Arts on the Horizon's inaugural production is back again, just in time for the holiday season! This gentle, playful adventure takes place in a special kitchen, where two friends cook up joyful music together. From a pasta-box Christmas tree to dreidels spinning on pots and pans, these friends (and their live guitar accompanist) bring many of your favorite holiday songs to life like you've never seen before! This whimsical production is a 35-minute interactive, non-verbal show, which features two adult actors and a musician.

Geared towards children ages 2-6.

Workhouse Arts Center
November 30 - December 9, 2012

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Artistic Team

David Kilpatrick (Playwright) David Kilpatrick's playwriting career began in second grade with a show called Father Fox Tries to Get Some Chickens. Written on his parents' typewriter and starring his classmates, the piece proved to be so popular it then toured all the way down the hall to the first grade. Now, all of these years later, he's not only delighted to have made a career in theatre, but is also honored to be writing plays for children under 6 with Arts on the Horizon: Drumming with Dishes: The Holiday Edition and The Young Spectaculars and the Front Yard Adventure. David has directed a number of shows, including Walnut Street Theatre's outreach programs and New York University's New Plays at the Provincetown series. Since 2007, David has been the Manager of Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, working on world premiere commissions/productions, national and international presentations, and the biennial New Visions/New Voices, which develops new work for the field. He received his Masters in Educational Theatre at New York University in 2002 and spent two years afterwards in the education department at NYC's The New Victory Theater. From 2004-2007, David was the Education Outreach Coordinator at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre. David has taught for NYU's Study Abroad programs, has worked with The Jim Henson Legacy and is on the Board of Directors for Theater for Young Audiences/USA. For Ian, who inspired this show, and for Celia, who has kept it fresh.

Cast

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Shea-Mikal Green (Friend) earned a Bachelor of Arts in Acting and a Masters of Arts in Teaching Theatre Arts.  Recent credits include Helen Hayes Award Nominated Little House Christmas (Ma/Mrs. Olsen US) at Adventure Theatre-MTC,Drumming with Dishes: The Holiday Edition  as well  as the original Drumming  with  Dishes  performed at One  Theatre  World (Friend) with Arts on the Horizon,  Avenue Q (Kate Monster/Lucy) at  Cumberland  Theatre, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson(Naomi/Ensemble) at Maryland Ensemble Theatre, and Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical National Tour (US) at the John F. Kennedy Center.  Other recent credits include The Young Olympians (NYC Fringe Festival), Peter Pan (Smee), Boeing, Boeing, (Gabriella), The Rocky Horror Show (Janet), The Importance of Being Earnest(Cecily Cardew), Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitel), Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Cinderella), and The Sound of Music (Leisl), Lysistrata (Lysistrata), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Almost, Maine(Glory, Marci, Rhonda), Stop Kiss (Sara), Into the Woods(Baker's Wife), Urinetown (Little Sally),  Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Trisha) and Victor/Victoria(Victoria Grant).  As a local director and teaching artist, Green works with Arts on the Horizon, Adventure Theatre-MTC, and Imagination Stage.  Next up, she is playing Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest at  Maryland  Ensemble  Theatre and directing Alice in Wonderland at The Edmund Burke School. 
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Danielle Leneé (Child) discovered her passion for acting at the young age of 12 after deciding becoming a ballerina was out of the picture. A native of the DC Metropolitan area, Danielle continued her passion at Suitland High School Center of Performing Arts where she stretched both her acting and choreography skills through various performances. She studied at Syracuse University where she graduated in May 2010 with a BFA in Acting. During her training she participated in the Arielle Tepper Semester for Theatrical Careers in New York City. She was also offered the opportunity to attend the Aaron Sorkin week intensive in LA through Syracuse University. During the summer Danielle is immersed in the Our Time Theatre Company working with youth who stutter where she teaches/directs student written productions.
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Matt Bassett (Guitarist) is thrilled to be back with Arts on the Horizon and thrilled to be asked to play guitar with them! Other than the High-School-Battle-of-the-Bands-winning performance he gave as a senior in high school Matt has played guitar for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, People’s Branch Theatre and the Virginia Shakespeare Festival. As an actor, Matt has appeared locally with Ford’s Theatre, The Bay Theatre, The Hub Theatre, Washington Stage Guild and The Kennedy Center’s Theatre for Young Audiences on Tour as well as in short films and a recent Emmy-nominated miniseries, “The Men Who Built America,” for The History Channel. Matt holds a BA in English from Tennessee Tech University and an MFA in Acting from the University of Tennessee and teaches with Montgomery College, The National Conservatory of the Dramatic Arts, Imagination Stage and Metropolitan School of the Arts. He lives in Takoma Park, MD, with his beautiful and talented wife and collaborator, Tia Shearer, their son, Charlie, and feline jazz legend Charlie Parker. Catch Matt and Tia’s latest collaboration with Arts on the Horizon, Under the Canopy, in February 2014!





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Drumming with Dishes Activity
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