SATELLITES
A NEW INTERSTELLAR LOVE STORY
AUGUST 6 - 16
Two weeks ONLY!
By ERIN BREZNITSKY
Directed by ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT
ABOUT THE PLAY
Girl meets Boy, Girl marries Boy, Girl moves on after Boy goes missing in outer space...Until Boy mysteriously reappears on Earth 7 years later.
Astronaut Mike and climate scientist Katherine awkwardly meet again for the first time in a NASA waiting room. While he has been lost in the far reaches of the cosmos, she has forged ahead on her own, grounded in the earthbound reality of career and motherhood. Memories of the couple’s romantic past converge with an impossible reunion in the present as they attempt to bridge the astronomical gap between then and now. Intimate, charming, and beautiful, Satellites is about time, space, and two people with great ambitions searching for connection.
“A mesmerizing story of career, cosmos, and caring. […] [Satellites] was recently chosen as the winner of the 2022 Premiere Play Festival, and it’s easy to see why. This two-hander brings heart and humor to an incredible story.”
“ funny and poignant, but above all else, it is a romance grounded in reality, and it is one of the best shows I’ve seen this year. […] Playwright Breznitsky proves herself a talent to be watched.”
SCHEDULE
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WEDNESDAY, August 6 - 7:30 PM (PREVIEW)
THURSDAY, August 7 - 7:30 PM (OPENING NIGHT)
FRIDAY, August 8 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, August 9 - 2:00 PM
SATURDAY, August 9 - 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, August 10 - 2:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY, August 13 - 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, August 13 - 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, August 14 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, August 15 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, August 16 - 2:00 PM (Closing Performance)
MEET THE CAST
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Theatre includes “James” in Cult of Love (Broadway/Berkeley Rep), “Bo” in Jacuzzi (Ars Nova), “Paul Bratter” in Barefoot in the Park (Old Globe). Film work includes Oscar-Winners Promising Young Woman (“Al Monroe”) and The Help (“Stuart Whitworth” SAG Award, Critics Choice Award), “Piz” in Veronica Mars, Up In The Air, Perpetrator, Complete Unknown. TV includes “Bash” on GLOW (SAG nominations, Netflix), “Jesse” on How I Met Your Father (Hulu), “Dell” on Private Practice (ABC), Inventing Anna (Netflix), ROAR (Apple TV), Graves (Epix), Enlisted (Fox)
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Theatre: The Fears (prod. Steven Soderbergh, Off-Broadway), Pygmalion (Roundabout, Broadway), An American Daughter (Williamstown), Barefoot in the Park (Old Globe), My Name is Rachel Corrie (Minetta Lane), The Hairy Ape (Irish Rep). Select TV: “Super Pumped,” “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,” “Amazing Stories,” “The Romanoffs,” “Halt and Catch Fire” (Women’s Image Award Nominee), “Narcos,” “Scrubs,”. Select Film: Very Best People (upcoming), Madame Web, Happily, The Evening Hour, How It Ends, Rupture, The Ticket, Max Rose, Grand Piano, Blue Highway, Goodbye World, The FitzGerald Family Christmas, Argo (SAG Award Winner), Newlyweds, Red State, Nice Guy Johnny. As a science communicator and host of the podcast HYPERTHETICAL, Kerry works to bridge the cultural divide between the arts and sciences.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
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Erin Breznitsky is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work has been seen in NYC and abroad. Most recently, her play Satellites was named the winner of Premiere Stages’ Play Festival and has been workshopped with Cape Cod Theatre Project and Colt Coeur. Her other plays have been performed at FringeNYC, Rogue & Peasant Players, Six Part Productions' "Love Drunk" series, New York Madness, and English Theatre of Rome in Italy. Erin has been a finalist for Shakespeare's New Contemporaries, a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwright’s Conference and the Princess Grace Playwriting Award. She has also received the Lipkin Prize for Playwriting and a full scholarship to La MaMa's International Playwrights Retreat in Spoleto, Italy. She holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
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Adrienne is an award-winning NYC-based director and choreographer and the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Recent world premieres: Still (Sheen Center, Colt Coeur at DR2, NYC & Dorset Theatre Festival, VT), Finn by Chris Dimond, Michael Kooman and Chris Nee (Kennedy Center), Dodi & Diana by Kareem Fahmy (Colt Coeur at HERE), Afterwords, by Emily Kaczmarek, music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, choreographed by Ebony Williams (5th Avenue Theater, Heileman & Haver Award for Best New Musical), NY premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector (Colt Coeur), Other World, by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann McNamee, choreography by Karla Puno Garcia (Delaware Theatre Company, BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Musical), We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater, Pittsburgh), Hatef**k, by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), Joan by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck starring Tyne and Tim Daly (Primary Stages), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur), Seven Minutes in Heaven by Steven Levenson (Colt Coeur). Currently developing work with Jaclyn Backhaus & Jonatha Brooke (Tempus). Associate Director of Dear Evan Hansen (OBC). Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award, "25 Women to Watch on Broadway". AdrienneCampbellHolt.com.
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Alexander is a New York based multi-hyphenate, designer, organizer, and artist for live performance in theatre, opera, and dance with credits all over, including the world and Broadway premier of The Sound Inside, and of the ballet Their Eyes Were Watching God. Born and raised in Vermont, they are thrilled to be returning to DTF! Previous credits for Dorset include the world premiere of Still, Mrs. Christie, Pride and Prejudice, Baskerville, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. Alexander is the Head of the BFA & MFA Design and Technical Theatre program at the University of Connecticut and serves on the faculty of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. As a designer and educator Alexander is an avid proponent for advancing arts advocacy, exploring all aspects of our medium as a form for social change & a tool to shape the environment around us. In recent years Alexander has served on the executive board for Wingspace, a non-profit organization that promotes conversation on design, our community, and furthers activism within the industry. MFA Yale School of Drama, USA 829. Instagram @alexanderwoodwarddesign and alexanderwoodward.com.
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Off Broadway: Rheology, A Woman Among Women (Bushwick Starr); Six Characters (LCT3); Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons); Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb); Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons/Abrons Art Center); Montag (Soho Rep). Regional: The Inspector (Yale Rep); Primary Trust (La Jolla Playhouse); Eternal Life, Part 1 (The Wilma); The Appointment (Lightning Rod Special); Dance/Opera: Plenum/Anima (LADP); Terce (Prototype); Me. You. We. They. (LA Dance Project/Paris Philarmonie); morning/mourning (Prototype/HERE); Deepe Darknesse (Lisa Fagan/Lena Engelstein/NYLA); Unstill Life (LA Dance Project); Rodelinda (Hudson Hall/Santa Fe Opera); Der Freischütz (Wolf Trap Opera). She is a proud member of USA829. MFA Yale School of Drama. More info at www.mashald.com.
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So happy to return to Dorset this season! New York based award-winning sound designer. Off Broadway&NYC: Still (Sheen Center), Molly Sweeney (Irish Rep), The Life & Smiles of Marc Summers (New World Stages), The Creeps (Playhouse 46),OCTET (Signature, Obie Award, Drama Desk nom., Lucille Lortel nom.), Autumn Royal (Irish Rep, Drama Desk nom.), Dodi & Diana (Colt Coeur), Regional: The Subject Was Roses (Bay Street Theatre), OCTET (Berkeley Rep), Moby Dick (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award), Guys & Dolls (Guthrie), Other World (Delaware Theater Company), Hold These Truths (People’s Light), Into the Burrow, A Peter Rabbit Tale (Alliance, GA, Suzi Bass Awards) Broadway Associate: Camelot, The Kite Runner, The Front Page. Broadway Assistant: The Lightning Thief, Be More Chill, Allegiance, Gigi. Tour Associate: Sailor Moon-The Super Live, The Kite Runner, My Fair Lady. A member of Colt Coeur Company, United Scenic Artists Local USA 829. hjnsounddesign.com.
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Joey Moro (Projection Designer)- Joey is a New York based designer, who designs lighting, projection, and scenery. Joey has designed over 150 productions in NYC, regionally, and abroad. Recent lighting:What the Constitution Means to Me (Hangar Theatre), La tragédie de Carmen (Stony Brook), Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO Off-Broadway), No Child (Kitchen Theatre Co), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Choir Boy (Le Petit Light/Set), The Rape of Lucretia (Boston Lyric Opera), Awful Event (Baryshnikov Arts Center.) Recent projection work:The Wanderers (Roundabout), Good Vibrations (Houston Ballet), Sunken Cities Exhibit (Virginia Museum of Fine Art), Wet Brain (Projection Engineer). Joey creates and engineers video systems for on/off Broadway, museums, and installations. MFA Yale School of Drama. Joey is an Associate Professor in Design at BerkleeNYC, and a lecturer at the Yale School of Drama and NYU Tisch.
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Joe has worked extensively in theater with Caparelliotis Casting since 2014, as well as with Meredith Tucker Casting in film & television. His most recent theater credits include the Broadway productions of Good Night and Good Luck, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Sam Gold's Macbeth, and The Minutes, as well as off-broadway productions at Signature Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Vineyard, and Ars Nova. Television credits include all three seasons of The White Lotus (HBO), Godfather of Harlem (EPIX), Ray Donovan (Showtime), and the final season of The Bold Type (Freeform).
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Select credits include Macbeth in Stride, Wish You Were Here (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Carlotta Festival, Cleansed, Color Boy, WAKE (David Geffen School of Drama); The Day the Butcher Shop Closed and UDO (Yale Cabaret); Alabaster, Northwest 10, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Oregon Contemporary Theatre). Other theatrical credits include Co-Executive Artistic Director of Yale Summer Cabaret Season 50 Greenhouse, sound design for Arlington (Yale Cabaret Season 56 Sandbox), and The Betrayal Project (Yale Summer Cabaret: Development Studio 49). They hold a Bachelor of Science in Theatre Arts and Anthropology from the University of Oregon and upon completion of their thesis, will hold a Master of Fine Arts in stage management from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.
ADVISORY: TBA
RUNTIME: 90 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION
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