creating small thunder

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creating small thunder(2023)

Role: Vine

Student Performance Project through Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts

Written and Directed by Mya Vandegrift

  • One: McKenna Troy, Two: Lucy London, Three: Skye Tarshis, Four: Mia Van de Mark

    Bird: Sarah Novak, Vine: Nora James Eikner, Lamb: Kate McCracken, Butterfly: Lili Tarnopol, Lilac: Yara Nasr, Calf: Georgia Mann, Elk: Lou Stockmeyer

  • Director: Mya Vandegrift

    Producer: Leo Kurland

    Stage Managers: Liam Jeninga and Aiden Kaliner

    Scenic Designer: Sam Webster

    Costumer Designer: Alex Devito

    Projections: Ethan Keras and Maggie Munday Odom

  • An original opera following a mourning wife on her midwestern farm as she tries to recite incantations to bring her wife back.

“What are ghosts, if not loved ones staying with us?”

— Mya Vandegrift, Writer and Director