Three Women in a Wildfire Program

Department of
Theatre & Dance

DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE

David Popalisky, Chair

THREE WOMEN IN A
WILDFIRE

Written by Julianne Jigour

February 26, 2021 7:00 p.m.

February 27, 2021 7:00 p.m.

February 28, 2021 2:00 p.m.

Live Streamed Performances

Directed By Tracy Ward
Costume Design By Patt Ness
Projection Design By Derek Duarte
SCU•Presents
Sound Design By

CAST (in alphabetical order)

Chorus 1, News Reporter A, Jamie Gussman
Tv Sister, Jess, Diane, Weather Jessica Simms
Forecaster, Janie, Radio A, Girl A, Malia Joseph
Emma Lenza
Rev. Matthews Juliet Kulusic
Chorus 2, Meteorologist, Maggie Keane
Tv Father, Dr. Hernandez, Radio B, Scott Lewis
Youth Group Leader, Ned Olson,

Police Officer
Chorus 3, Tv Mother, News
Reporter B, Ghost, Radio C, Girl B,

Kcjw Voice
Kaylee
Dani
Amber
Richard

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SETTING THE SCENE

As wildfires rage through rural California, Amber and her 13-year-
old daughter, Kaylee, find refuge in a devoutly religious man. When
Amber’s 20-year-old daughter, Dani, returns home to find her family’s life
transformed, she senses in her mother’s new male companion a danger
more imminent than the fires outside.
A rural pocket of California. From stage left extends the inside of
a rundown trailer, with a kitchen and a living room. A TV sits in the cen-
ter of the living room. Two bedrooms and a bathroom offstage from the
living room. “the landscape” - Around the trailer, burnt trees and piles of
ash and debris. Two tree stumps representing the driver and passenger
seats of a car. A brick chimney. And somewhere in the destruction, a lone
bed and a lamp.

This play discusses sexual violence and loss; recommended for ages 12+
Approximate running time is one hour and forty minutes.
There will be no intermission.
Each live performance will be followed by a live Talkback with Director, Tracy
Ward and cast as they are able.
The production will also be available to stream from March 3-7, 2021.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

How prescient is a play that is centered on competing primal
forces: Nature and Survival? While the world around us is changing due
to our insistence on a way of life that poses an existential threat- the
private world, too, has its own survival demands. So it is that Amber and
her daughters each struggle with their own questions and choices about
survival while the world outside is, in contrast and synchrony, showing
the repercussions of our choices.
Julianne Jigour has posed essential questions in Three Women
in a Wildfire that tie the lives of the characters to their rapidly shifting
environment(s); from the tender hearted to the savage. Questions we
are all reckoning with as our worlds (inner and outer) are now more than
ever at war with each other. This is the fight of our times.

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PRODUCTION STAFF

Production Manager/Technical Heather Kenyon
Director
Patricia Ness
Costume Shop Supervisor Lucas Simone
Stage Manager Hannah Cole
Heather Kanyon
Assistant Stage Manager Ciona Bohacek
Special Projects Ruth Mikusko
Patricia Ness
Properties Artisan SCU•Presents
Properties Mistress/Master

Wadrobe Mistress/Master
Technical Support

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Joel Bennett, Jackie Schubring & SCU Media Services

Three Women in a Wildfire was commissioned and originally developed
by PlayGround (James A. Kleinmann, Artistic Director) in association
with Planet Earth Arts (Michael Fried, Director).

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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE

David J. Popalisky Pauline Locsin-Kanter
Department Chair Lecturer, Jazz/Tap
Assoc. Professor, Modern/ Ruth E. Mikusko
Choreography/Dance History
Department Manager
Aldo Billingslea
Professor, Kimberly Mohne Hill
Associate Professor,
Acting/Performance Studies
Jeffrey Bracco Acting/Voice
Lecturer, Virginia Munday
Adjunct Lecturer,
Directing/Acting/History Modern Dance
Karyn Connell Barbara Murray

Lecturer, Ballet/Pilates Professor,
Derek Duarte Costume Design/
Sr. Lecturer, Musical Theatre
Lighting Design
Jerald Enos Patt Ness
Lecturer,
Assoc. Professor, Costume Shop Manager
Scene Design David Sword
Barbara Fraser Sr. Lecturer,
Technical Director/
Professor, History/Directing Production Manager
Brian Thorstenson
Karina Gutiérrez Lecturer,
Assistant Professor Playwriting/
Multicultural Theatre History and Devised Theater
Performance Studies
Kristin Kusanovich
Sr. Lecturer, Modern Dance/
Theatre/Pedagogy

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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE DONORS

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE SPONSOR ROBERTA POLLOCK & JAMES SADD FRIEND
CAROLYN SILBERMAN* & TED PATRICIA K. APPEL* DAVID POPALISKY KATHERINE ALMAZOL
ROBERT BAINES LEILA POULOS
BIAGINI JERALD ENOS & CLEMENT STASI LORETTA REZOS* MAURA BONINI*
ROBERT DE MATTEI* VICTOR BECKMAN ANNE ROSENTHAL SARAH BONINI
JOHN BRACCO DONNA SCHEER* ANDREW BRANNON*
DEREK DUARTE MELANIE BRACEZ CYNTHIA M. SEELY GIULIANA CHION
BEN HEMMEN* EILEEN BRISBANE MIKE & COLLEEN SEXTON HOBART DAVIS
MARTIN KEANE KARYN CONNELL GLENN SIKKEMA HUNTER DONOVAN*
BARBARA MURRAY* SUSAN CONNELLY MARYANN STEWART* FREYA HELTON*
WICK MUSSON DEBBIE CUCALON* LAUREN THOMASSON MARISSA LEBARRON
MICHAEL & VICKIE POITEVIN* RUTH DAVIS* KALFRED WONG MARVIN & MAUREEN LEWIS
JUDY GILLETTE & JOHN PRICE RUTH DETWILER WENDY WONG ELLEN MCCORMICK
SCU PRESENTS HAROUT DIMIJIAN* ZENON W. ZABLINSKI* VERONIKA OLAH*
BENEFACTOR LARRY DIKE ALICIA ORTIZ
BERNARD ANCHETA* CHAD ESCHMAN* DONOR HAROLD PESTANA
LAUREN BAINES* JAMES* & MARSHA FENTON AILENE C. CANTELMI* EMERITA POSTLEWAIT
AMBER DE BUIZER* KATHY MATTINGLY WILLIAM DUGGAN* JENN PORET*
RAYMOND & CLAIRE LATHAM DAVID GENOCHIO EUGENE DUNSMORE ALEXA ROJEK*
CYNTHIA LE* BRENT GILLILAND* TRICIA EATON-SAVITT ROSA E. SEGURA*
DONNA RYAN* LYDIA GREEN JOHN FETTER ROSANNE SERATTI
ASSOCIATE PATRICIA HORA* RICHARD HENDRICKS* MADELINE SCHRAMM
RICHARD FOSTER TENNYSON JONES* JAIME L. KENDALL JENNIFER SOLORIO
GAURAV KRIPALANI* JOAN KJEMTRUP DIANA STAHLNECKER
THU LU* KRISTIN KUSANOVICH* CELESTE PISTORESI LAILA WAHEED*
STEPHEN PARKS* GINA LABOZETTA* JANET WALSH
LEE & MARIA SHAHINIAN PAULINE LOCSIN-KANTER LAURIE WALDMAN
CAMERON WELLS*
RUSSELL MANGAN* SHAYLONA WHEELER
MARK NOVAK* KALINA VENUGOPAL*
MARY JEANNE OLIVA*
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SCU•PRESENTS DONORS

BENEFACTOR DONOR FRIEND FRIEND
PUJA BOHACEK ANDRE ABRAHAMIANS ELIZABETH ACKERMANN CHRISTINA MARTNEZ

ASSOCIATE VICTOR BECKMAN BOB ALSON MARTHA MAYEN
ANONYMOUS CYNTHIA BOJORGUEZ SAMANTHA ANDRES TOM MCMULLEN
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RUTH SCHLOTZHAUER EMMA BOLICH MIKE METCALF
SPONSOR EILEEN CHIN LINDA BENDER MARIONE MICHLICH
PHYLLIS BROWN THERSA CRAWLEY KANNENGEISER WALT BLOMQUIST BLANCA MONCADA
MIKE & DOROTHY CALLAN RUTH DAVIS MAURA E. BONINI CHARLOTTE MURRAY
MARTHA CHAMPION NICHOLE DE LEON JAIME CALDERON JACQUELINE O’LEARY
PAULINE COLE ROBERT & MARIAN DE MATTEI ROSALINA CESENA SHIRLEY OKUMURA
KRIS COYNE LARRY DIKE MARK DESPOSITO ALBERTO ORTEGA
LARRY & DELORES DIKE EUGENE DUNSMORE EUGENE DUNSMORE
LISA GIANONNEZ ROSEMARY EVERETT ALICIA ORTIZ
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JOAN KJEMTRUP MARVIN & MAUREEN LEWIS LETICIA HERNANDEZ DOROTHY SHOUP
KATHERINE MARRON STEPHEN MADDEN LAURA C. HOLLISON REBECCA SILVA
ELIZABETH MEAD JOHN & JEAN MCCARRON GABRIEL IBARRA NIKITA SMELKOV
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