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2021-2022 Season

Passover: March 25-April 9

“Passover”

By Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu

March 25, 2022 - April 9, 2022
March 25, 26, 31, April 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 at 8 pm, and March 27 and April 3 at 2 pm


Premiered March 2022
Presented by iTheatre Collaborative

A modern riff on "Waiting for Godot" and the Exodus story, set on a city street corner, Moses and Kitch stand around — talking smack, passing the time, and hoping that maybe today will be different. As they dream of their promised land, a stranger wanders into their space and disrupts their plans. This not an Easter play.

Pass Over contains frequent profanity, gunshots, and flashing lights. May not be suitable for people under 13.

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Cast (Alphabetically)

Joshua Ambrose is in the cast

Joshua Ambrose

as Moses

Joshua is a 22-year-old Liberian American actor from the North Phoenix area. He recently graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance. This production of Pass Over will be his debut performance with iTheatre Collaborative.

Johnny Kalita is in the cast

Johnny Kalita

as Ossifer

Johnny is excited to debut with iTheatre in Pass Over. Johnny has performed in numerous theatrical productions, films and commercials. You can see him in the 2022 Arizona Grand Lottery Commercial as Daniel. Originally from Chicago, Johnny spent 10 years performing and studying theatre and improvisation. His most recent Chicago theatrical credits include Invictus Theatre's Love's Labour's Lost, Bare Knuckle Production's History of Violence, and appeared on stage as a townsperson in The Goodman Theatre's Enemy of the People. Johnny started his own theatre in Chicago, Black Mamba Theatre, where he produced Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. He is a graduate of Black Box Acting Academy Meisner based studio, The Second City Conservatory, The Annoyance Theatre, i.O. Chicago, and recent film credits include Angry Mule Production's Bride of the Killer Pinata, Outerloop Production's The Anomaly, and a local indie where he starred with Pass Over lead David Rice in Upside Down, which recently won 3rd place out of 1,400 films in a film festival. Johnny can also be seen performing on the Mainstage at Bridge Improv Theatre in Tempe.

Greg Lutz is in the cast

Greg Lutz

as Mister

Greg is delighted to be returning to the iTC stage in such a powerful and timely story. reg was last seen at iTC in Frost/Nixon. Some of Greg’s favorite appearances at iTC are Bug, Huey, Eat the Taste, Gallows Humor and Three Men on A Horse. In addition to a rich theatre background, Greg has appeared in films such as Come Sunday on Netflix and The Miss OTB Scandal and on TV as Mayor Bernhadt in the CW's Roswell. He pays the bills by running a local Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre Company, Murder Ink Productions. He also tours the globe as singer/comedian Jackie Fontaine. He has studied with Charles Nelson Reilly in Los Angeles and with E.E. Moe and Sid Morrison of The Megaw in Los Angeles/Phoenix. Greg is represented by the FORD/Robert Black Agency.

David W. Rice is in the cast

David W. Rice

as Kitch

David is an artist based out of Phoenix, Arizona. David's love for the craft of storytelling has landed him various leading roles in films around the Valley. Seeking to push his desire to hone in on what it really means to "live in the moment," David has been on a mission to get into theater. Pass Over will be David's first live performance and he couldn't be more excited to share the stage with such talented individuals.

Playwright

Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu is a playwright

Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu

Playwright

Antoinette is a New York-based writer for stage, film, and television. Her play Pass Over made its New York debut at LCT3/Lincoln Center in 2018. A filmed version of the Jeff Award-winning Steppenwolf production — directed by Spike Lee — premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and at SXSW, and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Victory Gardens produced the World Premiere of her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate in February of 2018. Antoinette is a MacDowell Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, an Ars Nova Play Group alum, and a Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Literary Fellow. Honors include a Lilly Award (2020); a Lucille Lortel Award (2019); the Whiting Award (2018); the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award (2017); the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award (2008); the Negro Ensemble Company's Douglas Turner Ward Prize (2008), and spots on the 2016 and 2017 Kilroys lists. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Theater Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, Ignition Fest, the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, the Kennedy Center, Page73, PlayPenn, Southern Rep, The Flea, Naked Angels, Fire This Time and The Movement Theater Company. Antoinette has a bachelor's degree in English, magna cum laude, from Harvard College; an MSc from The University of Edinburgh; and an MFA from NYU Tisch. Antoinette is a writer on the second season of Spike Lee’s She's Gotta Have It for Netflix, and will premiere her play Tuvalu, or The Saddest Song at the Vineyard Theater in New York City once the theater is allowed to reopen.

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Creative Team (Alphabetically)

Elizabeth Broeder is part of the creative team

Elizabeth Broeder

Sound Design

Elizabeth is so happy to be working with iTheatre Collaborative this season. She is an interdisciplinary artist who has been artistic associate with iTheatre since 2017. Her recent iTheatre productions include Kunstler (sound design), Frost/Nixon (stage management/sound design) and Actually (acting/sound design). She is a Core Member of Southwest Shakespeare Company and a dance instructor/choreographer with Phoenix Country Day School and Prima Dance Arizona. She sends all of her love and gratitude to dad, mom, Sarah, Charles, Chris & Rosie, John, Johnny and Jake.

Rosemary  Close is part of the creative team

Rosemary Close

Producer

Rosemary has been involved in theater in the Valley for over thirty years. Her work dates back as far as the Arizona Contemporary Theater Company, Northwest Studios and the Glendale Little Theater to name a few oldies. Her onstage credits include: Frozen, Harvey, Chapter Two, Barefoot in the Park, Cabaret, The Balcony, The Way We Live Now, Royal Gambit, Loves Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Reel to Real, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The Maids, Skimpies and The Bad Seed. Her recent directing credits include: last season’s Velocity of Autumn and Hughie, previous season’s Grounded and An Almost Holy Picture. In 1991, Rosemary began her longtime association with the New York theater company, Mabou Mines. She appeared in numerous productions with that company both in Phoenix and New York. The highlight of that work with Mabou Mines was a leading role in the multimedia stage production, Wrath of Kali, directed by the award winning and acclaimed, Lee Breuer. Currently, she is the Managing Director for iTheatre Collaborative and is proud to be a part of the impact iTheatre has made in the Phoenix downtown community.

Christopher Haines is part of the creative team

Christopher Haines

Designer, Producer

Christopher is a theater veteran with over thirty years of experience as an actor, producer, stage manager, writer, director and designer. He graduated in 1991 from Duke University and in 2016 from Arizona State. Directing credits include: (for iTheatre) White Guy on the Bus, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney, A Bad Friend, The Fish Must Die, Molly Sweeney, and Cat’s Paw. As a designer his work includes: Topdog/Underdog, A Raisin in the Sun, Gunplay, Peter Pan and Wendy, The Wizard of Oz, The Colored Museum, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Horn in the West, a 1500-seat outdoor amphitheater in Boone, N.C. In 1994, Mr. Haines collaborated with the internationally acclaimed director, Lee Breuer (founder of Mabou Mines), on his project Wrath of Kali, as the Director of Videography, both in its debut in Phoenix, AZ and in New York. Other design work in video, photography and media includes; the Daniel Lentz Group's “A Crack in the Bell,” such plays as Jack, Reel to Real, Romeo and Juliet, Sweet Thunder, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, and he has worked as the Director of Photography on the feature films Wake of the Hero and Means of Escape and was the production designer for the independent film Hack. In 2002 he co-founded iTheatre Collaborative. His work at iTheatre has garnered national attention and recognition with invited performances at the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C., the Black Arts Movement Festival in Austin, TX and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, AK. For iTheatre he has produced well-over sixty productions in the Valley with numerous regional and world premieres.

Jacob Nichols is part of the creative team

Jacob Nichols

Production Stage Manager

Jacob is an artist and recent graduate from ASU. Along with performing, he has directed two short films. Video and visual media production is where he is trained, but he has also worked to design projections and sounds for live stage performances. Jacob thanks his mother, friends, Charles St. Clair, and iTheatre for all of their support.

Charles St. Clair is part of the creative team

Charles St. Clair

Director

Charles is an interdisciplinary artist with over 400 major productions to his credit in theatre, lm and video. Some directing credits include: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Race, Indivisible, August in April, TopDog/UnderDog, Death and the Maiden, The 36th, Underneath the Lintel, Venus, Bee-Luther-Hatchee, The Piano Lesson, A Raisin in the Sun, Mozart’s Opera The Marriage of Figaro, The Impresario, as well as The Three Penny Opera, Faust, Tosca, La Traviata, Carmen and the ve- time ariZoni award winning production of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Mr. St. Clair was Resident Equity Stage Manager for Burt Reynolds’ Theatre in Jupiter, FL, the Ruth Foreman Theatre in Miami, FL and the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. He has been a technical director and production manager for over 300 productions and events, including the Closing Ceremonies of the Winter Special Olympics, the Orange and Sun Bowl half time productions and tours to Europe, China, India and the Middle East. He has also had the opportunity of lighting such well-known performers as Liza Minnelli, Barbara Mandrell, Pia Zadora, Alabama, Harry Belafonte and tours of the Broadway shows A Chorus Line, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Into My Parlor, I’m Not Rapport and Arsenic and Old Lace. Mr. St. Clair presently serves on the faculty of Arizona State University at the West campus where he teaches Acting and Directing and serves as the Technical Director for the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences.

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