By Stefanie Zadravec
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
Narrated by the ghost of a missing 15-year-old girl, and woven together by a chorus of parents of lost and missing children, Zadravec’s lyrical, edgy poetry explores the cost one family is willing to pay for a second chance. In an effort to get their lives on track, recovering addicts Mark and Julia have taken over an apple orchard in rural Oregon when their estranged son reappears in their lives. With little experience and a family in crisis, the couple quickly realizes they are in over their heads, yet they believe if they produce a viable crop, a new beginning is possible. Set against the contemporary plagues of meth addiction, missing children, and a failing ecology, Colony Collapse is equal parts Greek tragedy and American drama, illuminating a search for humanity in a world with little shelter from harm.
Cast
Leandro Cano
Julia Cardia
Paula Christensen
Chris Conner
Adrian Gonzalez
Sally Hughes
Emily James
Jully Lee
Tracey A. Leigh
Riley Neldam
production team
Choreography – Kitty McNamee
Scenic Design – Susan Gratch
Lighting Design – Karyn Lawrence
Costume Design – Garry Lennon
Sound Design – John Nobori
Properties Design – Jenny Smith Cohn
Casting Director – Michael Donovan
Assistant Director – Gabe Figueroa
Dramaturg – Matthew Quinlan
Production Stage Manager – Julie Oullette
Production Photography – Ed Krieger
Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and recipient of a 2015 Helen Merrill Award. Her plays have been produced and/or developed at The Kennedy Center, New Dramatists, Play Penn, The Lark, The Playwrights Realm, Theater J, Two River Theater Company, The Working Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco Playhouse, The Barrow Group, EpicTheatre Ensemble, Quantum Theater, Theater 167, and among others.
Honors include: Francesca Primus Prize (The Electric Baby), The Helen Hayes Award (Honey Brown Eyes) an Edgerton Foundation grant, NYFA Fellowship, a NYSCA Artists Grant, Lark Playwrights Fellowship, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Sewanee Writers Conference Fellowship, A Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Women in Arts & Media Award, and a Ford Foundation Human Rights Commission. Stefanie is an alumnus of The Women’s Project Lab, The Lark Playwright’s Workshop, and a current writer-in-residence at The Women’s Project.
Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and featured in Best Women’s Stage Monologues (Smith & Kraus). Stefanie teaches playwriting at PlayPenn and Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts.
Colony Collapse by Stefanie Zadravec was commissioned by:
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Artistic Director, Bill Rauch
Executive Director, Cynthia Rider
Executive Director Emeritus, Paul Nicholson
In partnership with Full Stage USA at New Dramatists
A program made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
