EUGENE ONEGIN: A New Bluegrass Musical - Developmental Workshop Presentation

FRIDAY, SEPT 13 - 7:00 PM 
ARKELL PAVILION
SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER

Join us for a developmental workshop presentation, sharing songs and stories from Eugene Onegin, a new bluegrass musical by Sarah Gancher directed by Jade King Carroll.

ABOUT THE MUSICAL

Part picking party, part gossip session on the back porch, part epic love story. 

Eugene Onegin by Sarah Gancher (creator of the Obie Award-winning Russian Troll Farm) is a modern bluegrass musical inspired by Pushkin's novel-in-verse and Tchaikovsky's opera, which have been reset and given new life set in 1940s rural Arkansas and then 1960s Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry. Eugene Onegin retells the story of Eugene and Tanya—one of history’s greatest tales of ‘The One Who Got Away,’ when a girl who dreams of writing songs falls for a magnetic but jaded touring musician.

MUSICIANS, JOIN US AFTER for a jam circle open to all. Bring an instrument and get in free! Feel free to call a tune or two! (Contact the box office to get your free ticket)

EUGENE ONEGIN is produced by Dorset Theatre Festival.
RUNTIME
: 2 Hours plus a 15-Minute Intermission

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FRIDAY, SEPT 13 - 7:00 PM 
ARKELL PAVILION
SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER

EUGENE ONEGIN WRITING RETREAT. DORSET, VT 2022

Sarah Gancher and Jess Lynn

EUGENE ONEGIN READING. The Orchard Project, 2023

EUGENE ONEGIN WORKSHOP. TheatreSquared, 2024

MEET THE CAST

  • Marianne is an actor and a musician. She recently wrapped The Life List for Netflix opposite Connie Britton and Sofia Carson. Other films include: One Day as a Lion opposite J.K. Simmons and Virginia Madsen; The Kill Room opposite Maya Hawke, Samuel L. Jackson, and Uma Thurman; and Summer Solstice from writer/director Noah Schamus. She was most recently seen on Season 4 of The CW’s In the Dark.  She was previously seen starring in writer/director Adam Brook's These Days, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Upon graduating from the The Juilliard School, Rendón immediately landed a lead role on the Netflix/Bravo series Imposters and also made her feature film debut in Aaron Katz’s thriller Gemini opposite Zoë Kravitz.  She can also be seen starring opposite Matt Smith and Merritt Wever in Mary Harron’s haunting feature Charlie Says, which had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and as ‘Patti Smith’ in Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Rendón made her Lincoln Center debut in the world premiere of Miranda Rose Hall’s two-hander, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development. Before graduating, she understudied the lead role of ‘Elly’ in David Bowie's musical Lazarus, directed by Ivo Van Hove, at the acclaimed New York Theatre Workshop. She is programmed to perform in a new experimental piece alongside choreographer and dancer Lisa Fagan & Lisa Edelstein, and sound designer Tei Blow at Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane's New York Live Arts in March 2025.

  • Alex Lydon is thrilled to experience Dorset for the first time! Previous credits include: The Old Man and the Old Moon (South Coast Repertory), Eugene Onegin (Arkansas New Play Festival), Cambodian Rock Band (Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, A Contemporary Theatre, Berkeley Rep, TheatreSquared), Such Things As Vampires (People’s Light), Sisters Matsumoto (CenterREP), Dave Malloy’s Moby Dick (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor), and It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Rep). Alex has a BA from Pomona College and studied acting with Joan Rosenfels. www.alexlydon.com

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  • Broadway/off-Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Golden Boy, Festen, Old Acquaintance: Nice Girl, The Model Apartment, Regrets Only, The Young Left. Numerous regional credits, as well as television work. Nominated for Lortel and Drama Desk awards for her portrayal of Debbie in The Model Apartment. Her work in Nice Girl was designated by the New York Times as “one of the Stage’s Best Moments of the Year”. MFA, NYU.

  • Drama Desk Award for Coal Country at the Public and Audible, and Nothing Gold Can Stay at Partial Comfort, and for her NYC theatre career. Numerous productions at the Dorset Theatre Festival, notably in the world premieres of Theresa Rebeck’s The Notebook, and Heidi Armbruster’s Mrs. Christie, (as Agatha.) Broadway: Rock N Roll, Arcadia. Off-Broadway: Coal Country, Giant (The Public), Harrison, TX , Roads To Home, The Tribute Artist, Little Women, Happy Now?, Primary Stages: Women Without Men, The Mint, Becky Shaw, Second Stage: Eccentricities of a Nightingale, TACT, and others. TV/Film: Blue Bloods, FBI Most Wanted, The Mist,The Blacklist, Boardwalk Empire, Mildred Pierce, Elementary, Madame Secretary, The Good Wife, Law and Order SVU; Heirloom, Bad On Paper, Lost Girls, and upcoming hilarious web series GASBAG season 2. For her sweet late husband Andrew Leynse.

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  • Based in the shires of Southern Vermont, Mowgli Giannitti is an in-demand Bassist, Singer, Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist and Instructor. Schooled in composition, bass, and vocals at Bennington College, Mowgli has since performed and recorded with grammy-winning musicians, toured the US and Europe in a variety of ensembles, played on legendary stages like Carnegie Hall, and shaped countless young musical minds on a wide range of instruments. As a Bassist, Mowgli is involved in in a wide range of styles, including Jazz, Classical, Bluegrass, Rock, Salsa, Chicha, Reggae, Gnawa, West African, and more. Mowgli's varied performance interests and compositional aspirations coalesce around his own project, Satyrdagg, a 6-piece "Alchemical Jazz/Rock Opera" involving expert musicians across the northeast. 

  • Alex Deane originally hails from Nashville, TN where she developed a love for acoustic music and singing with dear friends. Since moving to New York in 2011, she has dedicated herself to community organizing to create a world that prioritizes people and the planet over profit. A songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, graphic designer, and printmaker, she believes in the power of art and music to inspire change and build stronger, more connected communities.

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  • Nikolai Margulis has appeared as John Bechdel in Fun Home, in the developmental reading of A Place Called Home (both at TheatreSquared), and in the workshop production of Sarah Gancher’s Eugene Onegin at the Arkansas New Play Fest. As a banjoist and songwriter, he is the winner of 2023 FreshGrass Banjo Award, and has performed with artists like Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck at venues throughout the country. Nikolai is a Prucha artist.

  •  Off-Broadway: Lucky Star (59E59), Lunch Bunch and Motel Cherry (Clubbed Thumb), Play for Any Two People (Playwrights Horizons), Not WATER (New Georges). Regional: Milton (PearlDamour), Conversations with My Father (Seattle Rep), Seven Blowjobs and Aunt Dan and Lemon (New City Theatre). Film/TV: Law & Order SVU, Last Week Tonight, The Good Shepherd, Eugene! (Comedy Central), Georgia, recurring on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Songwriter with Americana band Hammer County and soft rock love krewe Sweet Surrender. For Gracie.


MEET THE CREATIVE TEAM

  • Sarah Gancher is an Obie Award-winning playwright whose work has been seen at London’s National Theatre, Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, The Public Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, The Vineyard Theatre, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, RoundHouse (DC), Seattle Rep, and Ars Nova, among others. Recent work includes Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Vineyard Theatre & Geva Theatre, in association with Dori Berinstein, dir. Darko Tresnjak; online production for Theaterworks Hartford/Theatre Squared/The Civilians, dir. Jared Mezzocchi & Elizabeth Williamson; NY Times Top 10 Theater of 2020.) She was the book writer for two musicals with The Bengsons, Anne Kauffman, and Sonya Tayeh: Hundred Days and The Lucky Ones, and the collaborating playwright for The TEAM’s Mission Drift, composed by Heather Christian and directed by Rachel Chavkin. Honors include the Richard Rodgers Award, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award, New York Stage and Film Founders’ Award, The Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, the James Stevenson Prize for Comedy, several Lortel, Drama Desk, and Drama League nominations, and the AR Gurney Prize. An alumna of Ars Nova Play Group, WP Lab, P73 and The Playwrights’ Realm, she is a current resident at New Dramatists. She also plays bluegrass fiddle.

  • Off-Broadway: Proof of Love (New York Theatre Workshop/Audible at Minetta Lane/audiobook);  Autumn’s Harvest  (Lincoln Center Institute); Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth (The Playwright’s Realm); New Golden Age (Primary Stages-Susan Smith Blackburn nominated); Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money (Atlantic Theater – NYT Family Pick). Regional: The Jumping Off Point (Round House Theatre)Seven Deadly Sins - Wrath (Miami New Drama – Drama League Award); New Age (Milwaukee Rep); Red Velvet (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Detroit ’67 (McCarter Theatre co-production with Hartford Stage); Intimate Apparel, The Piano Lesson (McCarter Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage);  Having Our Say (Hartford Stage co-production with Long Wharf Theatre); Trouble in Mind (Two River Theater & Playmaker’s Rep); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Syracuse Stage); Stew (Ebony Rep Theater); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Whipping Man, Native Gardens, Skeleton Crew, Bad Dates, Perseverance, How I Learned What I Learned (Portland Stage); The Revolutionists, Sunset Baby (City Theatre); A Raisin In The Sun (Perseverance);  Seven Guitars, The Persians  (People’s Light and Theatre);  Fat Ham (Playmaker’s Rep); Still Life (Ancram Opera House); King Hedley II  (Portland Playhouse); A Raisin the Sun, Cardboard Piano (Juilliard) Laughing Wild, Redeemed, Skeleton Crew  (Dorset Theatre Festival); Audio Dramas:“Marvel’s Wastelanders: Doom”(Marvel, Ambies Nomination for Best Production); “Proof of Love” (Audible); “Redeemed” (Broadway Podcast Network/Dorset Theatre Festival); “The Bleeding Class” (Geva Theater); “Isolated Incidents” (Broadway Podcast Network). Broadway, Associate Credits: Associate Director The Gin Game, A Streetcar Named Desire. Jade is the Producing Artistic Director at Chautauqua Theater Company where she has directed The Light and The Dark (World-Premiere), Pride and Prejudice, The Tempest Awards: Paul Green Award from the Estate of August Wilson, Drama League, Gates Millennium Scholar. 

  • Ginger Dolden is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, teaching artist, composer, and creative producer. She has collaborated with A24 Films, Anthony Braxton, John Cale, Yoshiko Chuma, Tony Conrad, Durand Jones & The Indications, Aaron Frazer, Haley Heynderickx, Lady Lamb, and Katie Von Schleicher. Alongside her musical endeavors, Ginger brings experience in design and project management across digital and print media, photography, music, and film

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