the bandaged place Upstage Guide

Spotlight on the bandaged place.

Spotlight on the bandaged place Creative Team.

Playwright Harrison David Rivers

Set Design Wilson Chin

Lighting Design Nic Vincent

Sound & Original Music Mauricio Escamilla

Fight Director & Intimacy Rocío Mendez

Director David Mendizábal

Costume Design Ásta Bennie Hostetter

Make-up Design Kirk Cambridge Del-Pesche

Choreographer Tislarm Bouie

What is the show about?

Struggling to recover after an assault, Jonah realizes the only way to heal is by mending the relationships with his family. Directed by David Mendizábal of The Movement Theatre Company, this world-premiere production offers a humane statement about the scars we inherit and the beauty they create.

Where.

Harlem and various other locations around New York City

When.

November 2006, pre iphone

Meet the characters.

Jonah Irby
Ella’s biological father, but not her legal guardian. Recently injured and still a bit shell-shocked.

Geraldine Irby
Jonah’s grandmother and Ella’s great-grandmother and legal guardian. Accustomed to holding things together.

Ella Irby
8-years-old. Jonah’s daughter. Wise beyond her years.

Sam Yates
Ella’s ballet teacher. A bit goofy. Stronger than he looks.

Ruben Torres
Jonah’s ex-boyfriend. The kind of guy you don’t say ‘no’ to.

Back to the bandaged place Upstage Guide table of contents

Harrison David Rivers

Playwright

HARRISON DAVID RIVERS (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright, librettist and television writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His plays include the bandaged place (New York Stage & Film, Roundabout), This Bitter Earth (New Conservatory Theatre Center, Penumbra, About Face, Theater Alliance, Richmond Triangle Players, The Road, InterAct, TheatreWorks Hartford), Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown), When Last We Flew (NYFringe, Diversionary, TheatreLAB, Real Live Arts, Out Front), and the musicals Five Points with Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar (Theater Latté Da), We Shall Someday with Ted Shen (Signature, Theater Latté Da) and I Put a Spell on You with Nubya Garcia. His television credits include “One of Us is Lying” (Peacock) “The Nevers” (HBO), “Wytches” (Amazon) and “The Plot” (Hulu). Harrison sits on the Board of Directors of The Movement Theatre Company and the Playwrights’ Center. He is a graduate of Kenyon College and the Columbia University’s School for the Arts.

Wilson Chin

Set Design

WILSON CHIN (Set Design). Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over (Drama Desk, Lortel, Hewes Award nominations), Next Fall. Off-Broadway: A Bright New Boise, Sunset Baby (Signature Theatre); The Animal Kingdom (The Connelly); This Land Was Made (Vineyard); Space Dogs (MCC, Lortel Award nomination); Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/The Public); Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible). Opera: Turandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Eine Florentinische Tragödie/Giani Schicchi (Canadian Opera, Dora Award). Film/television: Pass Over (dir. Spike Lee), “Game Theory with Bomani Jones” (HBO), “Blindspot” (NBC). @wilsonchindesign

Nic Vincent

Lighting Design

NIC VINCENT (Lighting Designer). Nic is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer originally from Toronto, Canada. He designs for theatre, dance, opera, film, and everything in-between. Recent credits include The Barber of Seville (Sacramento Opera), Jane Anger (New Ohio), Everybody, Constellations (Brown/Trinity Rep), The Indigo Room (La Mama), Fragments, Lists & Lacunae (New York Live Arts), Hoppla, We’re Alive! (New School), NIGHTGOWNS (Sasha Velour/The Documentary Group), El Huracán (Yale Rep/The Sol Project). MFA: Yale School of Drama. nicvincent.com

Mauricio Escamilla

Sound & Original Music

MAURICIO ESCAMILLA (Sound & Original Music). MOWRI is a sonic artist, music producer, composer, percussionist and audio engineer based in Brooklyn, New York. Education: BFA Kinetic Imaging, VCU, Richmond, Virginia. MSc Sound Design, The University of Edinburg, Scotland. Notable credits include: A Walk Into Slavery (The Billie Holiday Theatre), The Bandaged Place (Powerhouse), On the Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf), WILD: ACT 1 (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), SOFT (MCC), iNegro (The New Ohio), we are continuous (Williamstown Theatre Festival).mescamilla.com

Rocío Mendez

Fight Director & Intimacy

ROCÍO MENDEZ (Fight Director & Intimacy) (They/She). Member of Unkle Dave’s Fight-House and proud New Yorker committed to building confidence in brown and black girls through storytelling. Credits include: Broadway: POTUS, or behind every great dumbass is seven women trying to keep him alive. The Metropolitan Opera: Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Eurydice, Rigoletto, Rodelinda, Lucia. New York/Regional Theater: Merry Wives, Romeo y Julieta (Public Theater), On Sugarland (NYTW), This Bitter Earth (TheaterWorks), Black No More (The New Group), Vietgone, The Royale (Geva Theater Center), The Wolves (Actors Theater of Louisville), Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company). Rocío is also an award-winning actor. rociomendez.com

David Mendizábal

Director

DAVID MENDIZÁBAL (they/he) (Director) is a director, designer, one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of the OBIE Award-winning The Movement Theatre Company, and Associate Artistic Director of The Sol Project. Select directing credits include: Mushroom (People’s Light), Sanctuary City (Berkeley Rep/Arena Stage), Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Board Members (Soho Rep/Sol Project – Director & Costume Designer), This Bitter Earth (TheatreWorks Hartford), Don’t Eat the Mangos (Magic Theatre/Sundance), On The Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf), Then They Forgot About The Rest (INTAR), And She Would Stand Like This, Look Upon Our Lowliness (The Movement), and Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic). David is a 2021 Princess Grace Award Honoraria Recipient in Theater. They were part of the inaugural Soho Rep Project Number One Residency, where they created and directed the short film, eat me!. Alumnus of Ars Nova Vision Residency and Maker’s Lab, Drama League Directors Project, Labyrinth Intensive Ensemble, artEquity, NALAC, LCT Directors Lab, and TCG Leadership U: One-on-One. BFA – NYU/Tisch www.davidmendizabal.com | IG: @its_daveed

Ásta Bennie Hostetter

Costume Design

ÁSTA BENNIE HOSTETTER (Costume Designer) is a costume designer who has designed twice at the Roundabout Underground: Usual Girls, and Bobbie Clearly. Recent work includes: Dom Juan (Bard Summerscape), Gnit (Theater for a New Audience). Favorite New York world premieres include: Mrs. Murrays Menagerie (Mad Ones), Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), Wolves (Lincoln Center), John (Signature), Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons). Ásta also recently directed Marie It’s Time, a project by minor theater at HERE arts center. USA 829 member. A member of minor theater, Target Margin, and The Mad Ones.

Kirk Cambridge Del-Pesche

Make-up Design

KIRK CAMBRIDGE DEL-PESCHE (Make-up Design). KCD made his Broadway debut as Make-up Designer with Trouble in Mind and Clyde’sSkelton Crew, Birthday Candles, Skin Of Our Teeth, For Colored Girls…, Strange Loop, POTUS, Into the Woods, and The Piano Lesson. Off-Broadway: Merry Wives, Sand Blasted, Confederates, Into the Woods, and ME – My Window.

Tislarm Bouie

Choreographer

TISLARM BOUIE (Choreographer) is a filmmaker and choreographer from Brooklyn. He’s a graduate of PPAS NYC and The University of the Arts. His work has been featured in Dance Magazine, Young Choreographers Festival and residences at Ars Nova and New York Theater Barn. As a performer select credits include Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (Broadway), In the Heights (Warner Bros) and Saturday Night Lives. @tislarmbouie

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