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Not What Happened

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Major support for theater at BAM provided by:The Morris and Alma Schapiro FundThe SHS FoundationThe Shubert Foundation, Inc.

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CONCEIVED AND WRITTEN BY Ain Gordon

DIRECTED BY Ken Rus Schmoll

WITH Birgit HuppuchKim Martin-Cotten

DATES: Sep 25—28 at 7:30pm Sep 29 at 3pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

RUN TIME: 70min no intermission

ARTIST TALK: Ain Gordon and Forrest Holzapfel moderated by David Finkle Fri, Sep 27 (post-show) BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Free for same-day ticket holders

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Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer

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IMAGES BY PHOTOGRAPHER Forrest Holzapfel

SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BY Arnulfo Maldonado

SOUND DESIGN BYJane Shaw

LIGHTING DESIGN Nick Ryckert

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Ed Fitzgerald

VIDEO SUPERVISORGrant McDonald

PRODUCTION MANAGER Nick Ryckert

PRODUCED BY Alyce Dissette

Not What Happened considers the historical re-enactment of rural, pre-industrial America —a nation of fewer artifacts—of greater distances in which those few artifacts could be lost. Can we research the absent? Can we enter a time whose greatest specific is the vastness of an unyielding landscape now crowded and paved?

Not What Happened was supported, in part, by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund co-commissioned project. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endow-ment for the Arts (a federal agency). Collaborating organizations with the leadership participation of the Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) include VPL, Marlboro College, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and Juniata Presents, with additional production development support from Baryshnikov Arts Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts/University of IL at Urbana—Champaign, MASS MoCA and the Playwrights’ Center.

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AIN GORDON Writer

Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer, director, and actor, a two-time NYFA recipient, and a Gug-genheim fellow in playwriting. Recent projects include writing and directing If She Stood at the Painted Bride Arts Center supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (PA), and where (we) live, a collaboration with So Percussion at the Walker Art Center (MN) and BAM Next Wave Festival, and performances at River to River Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Sacrum Profanum Fes-tival in Poland, ICA Boston, and others. Gordon’s work has been seen at New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep., The Public Theater, 651 ARTS, DTW, PS 122, BAC, HERE, Mark Taper Forum, George Street Playhouse, MASS MoCA, Krannert Center, Baltimore Museum of Art, Vermont Performance Lab, Di-verseWorks, North Fourth Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Dance Space, Silvermine Arts, and LexArts, and others. Gordon’s Art Life & Show-Biz: A Non-Fiction Play is published in Palgrave’s Dramaturgy Of The Real. Collaborations with chore-ographer Bebe Miller: Wexner Center, Bates Dance Fest, Helena Presents, and others. Collaborations with David Gordon: ART, ACT, and AMTF. Gordon

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was in the original off-Broadway cast of Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell and toured to PICA, ICA Boston (Elliot Nor-ton Award nomination), and the Walker, among others. Gordon also wrote for NBC’s Will & Grace. He is a former core writer of the Playwright’s Center, was the inaugural visiting artist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and is cur-rently a resident artist at The Hermitage in Florida, a member of the Center for Creative Research, and co-founder of the Urban Memory Project. Gordon has been co-director of the Pick Up Perfor-mance Co(s) since 1992.

Ken Rus Schmoll Director

Ken Rus Schmoll is a two-time Obie Award-winning director whose cred-its include Red Dog Howls (New York Theater Workshop); Luther, Telethon, Amazons and Their Men, Demon Baby (Clubbed Thumb); The Peripherals (The Talking Band); Death Tax (Humana Festival); A Map of Virtue, Mark Smith, Aphrodisiac, The Internationalist (13P); Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River Theater); FUREE in Pins and Needles, Telephone (Foundry Theatre); Middletown, The Internationalist (Vineyard Theatre); What Once We Felt (LCT3); and Aphrodi-siac (Long Wharf). He staged Charles Wuorinen’s cantata It Happens Like This (Tanglewood, Guggenheim) and Wolf-gang Rihm’s opera Proserpina (Spoleto Festival USA). Schmoll is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb, a Sundance Theatre Institute alum, and co-chair of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

Birgit Huppuch Silence

Birgit Huppuch recently played Gail in The Debate Society’s Blood Play at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Credits include: Blood Play (Public, Bushwick Starr, ArtsEmerson), A Map of Virtue (13P), Telephone (Foundry, 2009 OBIE for Performance), Neighbors (Public), Angel Reapers (Joyce Theater, tour), Telethon and DOT (Clubbed Thumb), Miss Saint’s Hieroglyphic Suffering (Guggenheim), What the Public Wants (Mint Theater), (Drama League, Direc-torFest), Burnt Umber (Soulographie/LaMama), and Beowulf (Banana, Bag and Bodice, LES). Regional: In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Cleveland Playhouse); Twelfth Night, Pay Up, and Isabella (Pig Iron); Peer Gynt (Kansas City Rep/La Jolla Playhouse); and Bog-wog (O’Neill). Web series: High Main-tenance. Film: The Sisterhood of Night. BA, Williams College.

Kim Martin-Cotten Guide

Kim Martin-Cotten’s recent acting work includes, on Broadway: Portia in Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino (understudy & performer); August Osage County (national tour); Josie in Moon for the Misbegotten (Drama Desk nomination, Pearl Theatre:); King Lear with Stacy Keach (Goodman Theatre), and the premiere of Ghostwritten by Naomi Izuka. She has done many productions of Shakespeare’s plays and been involved in the development of new works. She is also a director and recently helmed productions of Death

Photo: Birgit Huppuch By Jeff Woodward

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of a Salesman, Cabaret, Proof, Taming of the Shrew, and The Dumb Waiter, as well as assisting Anna Deveare Smith in her initial production of House Arrest: First Edition at Arena Stage. Up-coming projects: Antony and Cleopatra and Orpheus Descending.

Forrest Holzapfel Images

Forrest Holzapfel is a photographer and local historian who resides in and makes work about his hometown of Marlboro, VT. A 1997 graduate of the Bard College photography program, Holzapfel has spent the last decade photographing, collecting stories, and interviewing his fellow townspeople in the tradition of small town photography that reaches back to the early 1900s. A recipient of numerous grants and awards from the Vermont Humanities Council, Vermont Arts Council, and the Vermont Folklife Center, Holzapfel created a traveling exhibition called A Deep Look at a Small Town: Marlboro, Vermont, which began at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury in 2010, and has since shown at three other locations around the state. The creation of a vivid sense of place is central to his vast body of work about this single town.

Arnulfo Maldonado Set & Costume Design

Arnulfo Maldonado is a New York City-based set and costume designer. Select design credits: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Central City Opera), Tosca (Anchor-age Opera), Betrayal (Perseverance

Theatre), Love in the Time of Cholera (Repertorio Español), Electra and Orestes (Centro Cultural Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru), The Kitchen (Teatro Britanico, Lima, Peru), La Bohème (Anchorage Opera), Jomama Jones: Radiate (Soho Rep), Medea (Centro Cultural PUCP, Lima, Peru), and Orpheus in the Underworld (Central City Opera). With Ken Rus Schmoll: sets and costumes for The Foundry Theatre’s Furee in Pins & Needles, the world premiere of Madeleine George’s Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River Theater), and Ethan Lipton’s Luther (Clubbed Thumb). Additional work: engagements with San Francisco Ballet, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Westport Country Playhouse, and Studio Arena, among others. He has exhibited at the Prague Quadren-nial, the international exhibition of sce-nography and theater architecture. He is a recipient of a Princess Grace The-ater Fellowship (Fabergé Theater Award) and a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts Department of Design for Stage and Film.

Nick Ryckert Lighting Designer/Production Manager

Nick Ryckert is a New York-based lighting designer. Pick Up Performance Co(s) credits: If She Stood, The History of Asking the Wrong Question, In This Place. Recent design credits: Odes (So-kolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, NY); American Tall Tales (Compass Players, NY); Tosca e le Altre Due (Kairos Italy Theater, NY); Hamlet, A Body of Water, Crimes of the Heart (Firebelly Produc-tions, VA). Associate/assistant design: Inflatable Frankenstein, Sontag: Reborn (New York Theatre Workshop), The

Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Spy Garbo (with Laura Mroczkowski); Collapse, The Jammer (with Paul Whitaker) Pi-casso’s Closet (with Martha Mountain); Open the Door, Virginia! (with Allen Lee Hughes). Ryckert is the resident lighting designer for the Kirov Acad-emy of Ballet and the Annual National Capital Area Cappies Awards Gala at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

Jane Shaw Sound Designer

Jane Shaw makes her Pick Up Per-formance Co(s) debut with Not What Happened. Other credits: with Ken Rus Schmoll: Red Dog Howls (New York Theater Workshop). With Birgit Hup-puch: In the Next Room… (Cleveland Playhouse). Dance designs: Susan Marshall (Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories at BAM Next Wave), Big Dance Theater (Bessie Award for Comme Tou-jours Here I stand, Supernatural Wife at BAM Next Wave), Terry Creach, Da-vid Dorfman, Tami Stronach. Theater designs include A Picture of Autumn (Mint), Basilica (Rattlestick), The Catch (Denver Center, Henry Award), Jackie (Women’s Project, Lortel nomi-nation), En el tiempo de los Mariposas (Repetorio Español, Premios ACE Award), Wind Up Bird Chronicles (Ed-inburgh International Festival), Breath and Imagination (Hartford Stage, City Theater). This fall: Macbeth and La Dispute (Hartford Stage), Trading Practices (HERE Arts Center). Recipi-ent: NEA-TCG Career Development Grant, Eliot Norton nomination, Meet the Composer. Graduate of Harvard and Yale School of Drama.

Alyce Dissette Producer

Alyce Dissette is the producing direc-tor of the Pick Up Performance Co(s), producing the work of writer-director Ain Gordon and choreographer-director-writer David Gordon. A live performance/television/digital media producer based in New York City, she has worked on more than 50 produc-tions with internationally known artists, venues, and arts organizations ranging from and including the Metro-politan Opera presentations depart-ment, as former executive producer of the PBS national series Alive From Off Center/Alive TV, and James Turrell’s Roden Crater. She was the director of one of the first international digital art works competitions New Voices, New Visions sponsored by Paul Allen, the Voyager Co., and WIRED Magazine. She serves on the board of directors of ODC/Dance Company in San Fran-cisco and until recently for nearly 10 years on Alliance of Resident Theaters New York (A.R.T./NY) Board, the service organization serving nonprofit theaters in New York City.

Ed Fitzgerald Production Stage Manager

Ed Fitzgerald has been a profes-sional stage manager for 40 years, working on Broadway (Da, A Little Family Business, The Tap Dance Kid, Carrie: The Musical, The Violet Hour), off-Broadway (Manhattan Theatre Club: The Best of Friends; Tick, Tick...Boom), off-off- Broadway, and in major regional theaters throughout the

Photo: Forrest Holzapfel

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country (ART, ACT, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, BAM, Spoleto USA) and overseas (London, Berlin, Singa-pore, Seoul, Avignon, Strasbourg). He has been associated with Ain Gor-don, David Gordon, and the Pick Up Performance Co(s) for 23 years and numerous productions.

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Pick Up Performance Co(s), a non-profit producing organization, was founded in 1971 and incorporated in 1978 to facilitate projects created by David Gordon. The company expanded in 1992 to include projects by Ain Gordon, initiating a plural artistic leadership with projects created inde-pendently by each artist. Since David Gordon’s beginning as a founding artist of the seminal Judson Church performances and the improvisation group Grand Union, he examined, expanded, and torpedoed conventional lines between theater and dance and pioneered the use of text and textual narrative in movement work. His dual status as movement artist and theater artist was acknowledged when he was awarded a Pew Charitable Trust National Dance Residency grant and a National Theater Residency grant in successive years. He recently received NEA Masterpiece grants for his works Trying Times, Shlemiel the First, and Dancing Henry Five.

Ain Gordon began writing and direct-ing his own work in 1985, emerging in the downtown dance/performance scene with four consecutive seasons at

DTW plus performances at Movement Research, the Poetry Project and PS 122. By 1988 he was recognized in the inaugural round of the NEA’s New Forms initiative which offered funding for artists who defied single-discipline classification. In 1990, Gordon began touring his work with performances at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Dance Place in DC and entered a multi-year relationship with Soho Rep, which resulted in five workshops and productions. In 1993, Ain and David Gordon collaborated on The Family Business (as writers, directors, and performers) and received an Obie for their efforts. The particular duality of both artists’ creative instincts was celebrated when the Village Voice re-viewed The Family Business in both its theater and dance columns simultane-ously. Further illustrating these artists’ hybrid appeal, it is worth noting the journey of this work from the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church to Seri-ous Fun! at Lincoln Center to Dance Theater Workshop to New York Theater Workshop to Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Ain and David Gordon went on to collaborate on Punch And Judy Get Divorced for American Repertory Theater and American Music Theater Festival and The First Picture Show for The Mark Taper Forum and American Conservatory Theater. David Gordon continues to fuse text and movement for both dance and theater venues; among his many awards and fellow-ships are two Drama-Logue awards, two Obie Awards, three Bessie Awards, two Guggenheim Fellow-ships, and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. Ain Gordon continues to straddle the traditions of playwriting and performance forms blending fact and fiction in theatrical ruminations on history and memory. He is the recipi-

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heim in playwriting, two NYFA Fellow-ships, four Multi-Arts Production Fund (MAP) Grants, and the Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Pro-gram grant funded by the Doris Duke Charitable trust. He was the inaugural Visiting Artist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage 2011—13.

For the Pick Up Performance Co(s)

CO-DIRECTORS Ain Gordon and David GordonPRODUCING DIRECTOR Alyce DissetteARCHIVIST & ADMIN ASST. Patsy GayDEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Rhoda CerritelliFINANCE MANAGER Henry Liles

Thank you to the following for support: Linda Chapman, Sage Cowles, Molly Davies, Jacqueline Z. Davis, James H. Duffy, Karen Graham, Michael & Betty Howard, Fran Kumin, Nancy Kux, William Kux, Margaret Jenkins & Albert Wax, Susana & Pierre Leval, Donna Lieberman, Cynthia J.Y.K. Mayeda, Marie Christophe De Menil, Samuel A. Miller, Jon Nakagawa, Patricia Remer, Jean Rigg, Joan Rosenbaum, Bill Schaffner, Jennifer Tipton, Laurie Uprichard, Suzanne Weil, Catherine Wyler, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Fan Fox & Les-lie R. Samuels Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts.

On the web: pickupperformance.org

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