Dead Man's Cell Phone (Fall 2023)
November 2-5 & 9-11, 2023 in Spanos Theatre
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends.
So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
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Cast
| A WOMAN, JEAN | A DEAD MAN, GORDON | GORDON'S MOTHER, MRS. GOTTLIEB |
| Lane Ludwig | Isaac Lewis | Jordan Bates |
| GORDON'S WIDOW, HERMIA | GORDON'S BROTHER, DWIGHT | THE OTHER WOMAN / THE STRANGER |
| Casey Reichenthal | Liam Armistead | Carly Medina |
Artistic/Production Team
FACULTY/STAFF
Director, Sound Designer, Fight Choreographer,
& Dialect Coach - Karin Hendricks-Bolen
Scenic Designer - Jason Bolen
Costume Designer - Thomas John Bernard
Costume Shop Manager - Laina Annette Babb
Technical Director - Brian Healy & Richard Jackson
GUEST ARTISTS
Lighting Designer - Cody Soper
Intimacy Coordinator - Shae Palic
STUDENTS
Asst. Director - Elise Chubb
Stage Manager - Niah Alexander Pratt
Asst. Stage Managers - Steffan Evans & Paul Tungol
Dramaturg & Wardrobe Supervisor - Millie Harrison
Asst. to the Director - Julianna Valencia
Original Musique Concrète Compositions - Aldo Rominger
Fight Captain - Isaac Lewis
Costume Shop Assistants - Abigail Gan, Natalie Rathle, & Aldo Rominger
Costume Crew - Lexi Behrens, Colin Elman, Millie Harrison, Kasey Knapp, Julia Neils, Theodore Puleston, & Sofia Rakowski
Light Board Operator - Tyler Suzuki
Sound Board Operators - Ben Walker
Stage Crew - Phoebe Dueltgen, Annabel O'Gorman, & Josh Rudner
Scenic Builders & Painters - Anla Bolkan, John DeVries, Phoebe Dueltgen, Lucy Fossa, Lane Ludwig, Drew Mahecha-Sherrard, Addie Moffatt, Tyler Suzuki, Ben Walker, Alli Zamora
Cuesta College Scenic Crew - Mary Alvarado, Aiden Douglas, Dawson Bondie, Braiden Eighmy, Thomas Gutierrez, Donnie Kyle, Isabelle Margason, Nicholas Merzon, Alexander Nelson, Jonacellus Popplewell, Annie Kay Rocci, Liliana Santibanez, Evan Wise, & Stuart Wittman