Cascarones

 

 

Cascarones was premiered by lead organization DNAWORKS (Daniel Banks and Adam McKinney, co-directors) in collaboration with lead producers Teatro Paraguas (Argos MacCallum, executive director), Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak and Matthew McVey-Lee and associate producers Nicholas Ballas, Estevan Rael-Gálvez and Juan Rios, Diane Karp, Lisa and Les Samuel, and Roxanne Swentzell.

 

The play opened on September 4, 2014 at Teatro Paraguas, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

It was directed by Daniel Banks; the set designers were Dahl Deiu and Wendy Cutcher; the lighting designer and production manager was David “Ross” Rauschkolb; the sound designer was Casey Mraz; the costume designer was Jasminka Jesic, and the prop designer was Paola Vengoechea. Carla Garcia served as stage manager, Jason Jaramillo as assistant stage manager, and Jasper Keen served as assistant to the director. The cast was as follows:

 

in order of appearance:

 

Mary Margaret Caceres .................... Cristina Vigil

Fernando Caceres ................................ Nicholas Ballas

Magdalena Caceres ............................. Bernadette Peña

Debra .......................................................... Nicole Gramlich

Bobby ......................................................... Jonathan Harrell

John Wesley Powell ............................ Marcos Kelly

Donato ........................................................ Roger Montoya 

 

 

An early version of the play was workshopped and presented in a developmental residency as part of the 2003 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Jim Houghton, Artistic Director), New London, Connecticut with Rebecca Taichman as director. The script also received a developmental residency at the Mark Taper Forum with Chay Yew serving as director/dramaturge and was made possible by resources provided by the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California & New World Theater, Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. In 2001 the script won the student division of the Jane Chambers Playwriting competition produced by the Women and Theater Program of the Association for Theater in Higher Education.