Written and Directed by Patrick W. Lord and Megan Thrift
This world-premiere, nonverbal production is best for children ages 2-5 and their families
This world-premiere, nonverbal production is best for children ages 2-5 and their families
Three siblings find themselves in a room full of possibilities and one not so simple task- to put things in their proper place. However, they soon discover that throwing this and that into a box is not the same as finding where it fits in.
Through clowning, movement, and original music, three performers will transform everyday objects into something extraordinary. Is a blanket a blanket? Or is it the sail of a boat setting off on an epic voyage? Together, we can find the magic buried in the bottom of every box, and hidden inside the world around us!
Through clowning, movement, and original music, three performers will transform everyday objects into something extraordinary. Is a blanket a blanket? Or is it the sail of a boat setting off on an epic voyage? Together, we can find the magic buried in the bottom of every box, and hidden inside the world around us!
In Alexandria, VA: March 10-26, 2023
At 1st Stage: March 31-April 2, 2023
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Artistic Team
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Raven Lorraine
(Co-Creator, Co-Director, & Choreographer) Raven (she/her) is a director, an actor, and an activist currently residing in the Washington, DC area. A proud member of Actor's Equity Association, she has performed all across the country with professional companies such as Virginia Repertory Theatre, Synetic Theatre, Hampstead Stage Company, The National Theatre for Children, and The John F. Kennedy Center's Theatre for Young Audiences. Raven has also worked as a teaching artist and children's theatre director with Educational Theatre company, Cadence Theatre Company, and at Henrico High School Center for the Arts. She is an active Company Member with Only Make Believe DC and Synetic Theatre and serves as a Board Member and Facilitator with The Conciliation Project whose mission is "to promote, through active and challenging dramatic work, open and honest dialogue about racism and oppression in America in order to repair its damaging legacy." |
Christopher Michael Richardson
(Co-Creator, Co-Director, Composer, & Video Editor )
Christopher (he/him) is an actor, director, and teaching artist in the Washington D.C. area. He is the creator/composer of Everyday Magic, an interactive digital series with Arts on the Horizon, and has appeared in Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Musical) at The John F. Kennedy Center TYA(Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding TYA Production); Gun & Powder at Signature Theatre; Matilda at Olney Theatre Center; You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown at Imagination Stage (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding TYA Production); The Wiz at Ford’s Theatre (Helen Hayes Nomination, Supporting Actor); The Book of Will at Round House Theatre; and Macbeth at The Shakespeare Theatre. He holds a B.A. in English and Theatre from The College of William & Mary.
www.cmrich.me
(Co-Creator, Co-Director, Composer, & Video Editor )
Christopher (he/him) is an actor, director, and teaching artist in the Washington D.C. area. He is the creator/composer of Everyday Magic, an interactive digital series with Arts on the Horizon, and has appeared in Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Musical) at The John F. Kennedy Center TYA(Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding TYA Production); Gun & Powder at Signature Theatre; Matilda at Olney Theatre Center; You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown at Imagination Stage (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding TYA Production); The Wiz at Ford’s Theatre (Helen Hayes Nomination, Supporting Actor); The Book of Will at Round House Theatre; and Macbeth at The Shakespeare Theatre. He holds a B.A. in English and Theatre from The College of William & Mary.
www.cmrich.me
Kelly Colburn (Virtual Background Designer and Animator)
Kelly (she/they/Kelly) is DC-based multi-disciplinary artist working as a producer, director, projections & multimedia designer, and deviser for live performance. She is the Artistic Lead for Theatre at Flying V as well as the Digital Producer at Theater Alliance. She is a DCCAH Fellowship Awardee, a recipient of a 2019 Helen Hayes Award for Lighting/Projections Design for Blood At The Root (co-received with Alberto Segarra), a 2017-2018 NextLOOK Resident and a recipient of the 2018 Jim Henson Puppetry Grant. BFA NYU Tisch ’11 | MFA UMD ’18.
www.kellycolburn.com
Alexa Duimstra (Costume Designer)
Alexa (she/her) is a DC area costume designer and illustrator. Previous work includes The Madness of Poe and Snow Queen at Synetic Theater, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Candide at Gallaudet University.
You can check out her other work at alexaduimstra.com
Brian Gillick (Props Designer)
Brian (they/them) is excited to be joining Arts on the Horizon! Prior credits include This Bitter Earth and Going to a Place Where You Already Are (Theater Alliance); Coriolanus and The Trojan Women Project (Brave Spirits Theatre); Truth and Beauty Bombs: A Softer World and Very Still and Hard to See (Rorschach Theatre). Brian graduated in 2014 from the University of North Carolina: School of the Arts with a BFA in set design.
Natalie Cutcher (Present Box Artisan)
Natalie (she/her) is a proud company member and teaching artist with Arts on the Horizon. She wears many hats including deviser, director, performer, prop builder, and has a pretty green thumb to boot. Some of her memorable projects include assisting Matthew McGee with the Audrey puppets for Constellation's Little Shop of Horrors and creating Squeakers & Mr. Gumdrop with Amanda Forstrom here at Arts on the Horizon.
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Linda Bard (Queue)
Linda (she/her) is ecstatic to jingle all the way with Arts on the Horizon. Previous credits include Once (Hangar Theatre, Olney Theatre Center); The Snow Queen, Aquarium, Inside Out (Imagination Stage); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Theatre); The White Snake, The Arabian Nights (Constellation Theatre Company); 410[gone], A Bid to Save the World (Rorschach Theatre); Alexander and the Terrible...Day (Adventure Theatre); Hello, my name is... (The Welders); The 39 Steps (Workhouse Arts Center); A Midsummer Night's Dream (WSC Avant Bard). Many thanks to the entire creative team, and Happy Holidays! |
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Justin Bell (Pine/Clove/Nutmeg)
Justin (he/him) is an actor, physical theatre artist, playwright, deviser, director/movement director, and general funny man. In addition to his work with the Arts on the Horizon family, Justin is also a company member with Synetic Theater based in Crystal City, VA. Credits include; Synetic Theatre: My Father's Dragon, Hansel and Gretel, The Taming of the Shrew, Dante's Inferno, Alice in Wonderland, A Tale of Two Cities, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Island of Dr. Moreau; Arts on the Horizon: Nutt and Bolt, To the Clouds; WSC Avant Bard: The Tempest; Iron Crow Theatre: BootyCandy (Movement Director); Richmond Triangle Players: This Bitter Earth (Movement Director); Atramental Arts: The Root of All Knowledge (Director); Constellation Theatre Company: Journey to the West; relEASE Physical Theater Company: Straight on til MoUrning. |
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Tori Boutin (Aunt Tea)
Tori (they/them) is a writer, musician, and performer based in Washington, DC. Tori is the resident music director for Prince George's County's Shakespeare in Parks and resident company member of Rorschach Theatre. Local performance credits include Imagination Stage (Balloonacy), Adventure Theatre MTC (Junie B Jones is Not a Crook - Helen Hayes Nominated for Outstanding TYA), Constellation Theatre (The Master and Margarita), Rorschach Theatre (Sing to Me Now, She Kills Monsters, Truth & Beauty Bombs), Arts on the Horizon (Squeakers and Mr Gumdrop - Helen Hayes Nominated for Outstanding TYA ), Faction of Fools (Great Commedia Hotel...), and Majesty & Son’s recent production Twelfth Night, among others. Tori graduated with a BA in Drama and History from The Catholic University of America. Tori's original musical Fantastagirl and the Math Monster premieres at Adventure Theatre MTC in Summer '22. www.toriboutin.com |
Stage Management Team
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Rebecca Talisman (Production Stage Manager) (she/her or they/them) 1st Stage: columbinus, Hero's Welcome; Adventure Theatre MTC: Blueberries for Sal; Constellation Theatre Company: The Master and Margarita; Kennedy Center TYA: All That You Touch (workshop); Mosaic Theater: The Vagrant Trilogy, Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies, Paper Dolls, Queens Girl in Africa; NextStop Theatre: Godspell; Rorschach Theatre: Sing to Me Now; Theater J: Becoming Dr. Ruth, The Jewish Queen Lear, Love Sick, Occupant, Talley’s Folly, The Wanderers; UrbanArias: Glory Denied; The Juliet Letters; Why I Live at the P.O. BFA, Music Composition, Carnegie Mellon University. Up next: Nathan the Wise with Theater J. |
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Irene Hamilton (Assistant Stage Manager) Irene (she/her) recently graduated from James Madison University with a BA in Theatre. She is a company member at Synetic Theater, where she has performed in Treasure Island, Snow Queen, Phantom of the Opera, Shhhakespeare Revue, and more. She has also performed in the Kennedy Center Concert Reading Series (Voir Dire), and the Madison New Works Laboratory (Divided: The Musical/Basement Demons and Trailer Saints). Irene has had the pleasure of working with Arts on the Horizon as a collaborator, camp administrator, and teaching artist. She's excited to add assistant stage manager to that list, and to work with the fantastic creative minds behind Jingle Journey! |
