Amber
Waves
by James Still
(in repertory with Still Life With Iris by Steven Dietz)
Director: Doug Weaver (KU ‘80)
Scenic Designer: Mark Reaney
Costume Designer: Kay Traver
Lighting Designer: Nicholas C. Mosher
CAST
Deb: Courtney Schweitzer
Penny: Kate Giessel
Mike: Carter Royce Waite
Scott: James Horton
Julie: Katrina Alford
Johnny: Ron Willis
Originally commissioned and premiered
at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as a one-act play, Amber Waves has
won several awards including the Distinguished Play of the Year Award from
the American Alliance for Theatre & Education. In 2000, the Indiana Repertory
Theatre commissioned Still to expand Amber Waves into a full-length two-act
play. Set on a Kansas farm, the play looks deeply at people who live off the
land, love their farms, and will do anything it takes to protect the way of
life they embrace.
Still's award-winning plays have been produced throughout the United States,
Canada, Europe, and Australia. He is a two-time recipient of the prestigious
TCG-Pew Charitable Trusts National Theatre Artist Residency Grant with the
Indiana Repertory Theatre and a winner of the William Inge Festival's "New
Voices in American Theatre" award and the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright
Award for Distinguished Body of Work. Three of his plays have received the
Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education.
His newest play, Searching for Eden, recently premiered at the American Heartland
Theatre in Kansas City. His other works include He Held Me Grand, And Then
They Came for Me, A Village Fable, and Hush: An Interview with America. Still
also works in television and film and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards,
the Humanitas Prize, and a Television Critics Association Award. He is producer/head
writer for the series "Paz," airing daily on both TLC and Discovery
Kids. For Nickelodeon he was a writer and story editor for Maurice Sendak's
"Little Bear" and the Bill Cosby series, "Little Bill."
He wrote "The Little Bear Movie" and the feature film, "The
Velocity of Gary." Originally from Pomona, James, a 1982 KU theatre graduate,
now lives in Venice, California.
Performance
dates & times
October 1st at 8:00 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 2nd at 8:00 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 3rd at 2:30 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 7th at 7:30 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 8th at 7:30 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 9th at 7:30 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre
Scenic Design by Mark Reaney
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