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LOVER I'LL BRING YOU BACK TO LIFE
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By
WHITNEY WHITE
Directed by
MELISSA KIEVMAN
Featuring:
Di/ Composer
WHITNEY WHITE
Director
MELISSA KIEVMAN
Idol Friend
BRITT FAULKNER
The Master
KENARD JACKSON
Kyle/Drummer
DAVE REGISTER
Dude/Guitar
BILLY FINN
Other Dude/Bass
LESTER ST.LOUIS
Guitar
DAN ROSATO
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ABOUT
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LOVER I'LL BRING YOU BACK TO LIFE follows Diana, a black female living in New York as she attempts to bring her scorned dead boyfriend back to life with the power of Vodoun. Along the journey we meet a hipster Vodoun master, her infamous aunt Sadie, a best friend, and the lover in question, all as she tries to piece her life back together.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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WHITNEY WHITE is a theatre artist and musician based in Brooklyn. She is currently the 2017 Roundabout Directing Fellow. This winter Whitney assisted Sam Gold on
Othello at The New York Theatre Workshop starring Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo.
Lover I'll Bring You Back to Life was first part of Ars Nova's 2016 ANT Fest, and her musical adaption of
Macbeth: Macbeth in Stride was part of Chautauqua Theatre’s 2016 season. Film/TV:
Ocean’s 8 (2017),
Louie (FX),
The Playboy Club (NBC). MFA in Acting, Brown University/Trinity Rep, BA in Political Science and Certificate in Musical Theatre Northwestern University. whitney-white.com.
MELISSA KIEVMAN (Director) directed the Ars Nova Project Residency of
Those Lost Boys. She's directed and developed new plays at The La Jolla Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Soho Rep, Atlantic Theater Company, TheaterworksUSA at the Lucille Lortel, Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis, Hangar Theatre, O’Neill Theater Center, The Guthrie Lab, ACT Seattle, Roadworks in Chicago, Asolo Rep, Great Lakes Theater Festival/Cleveland Public and the Gate Theater, London. She is a member of EST, a New Georges affiliated artist, a Lincoln Center Lab alumna, a Drama League fellow and recipient of the NEA/TCG Program for Directors. Kievman formerly served as Associate Artistic Director of New Dramatists, facilitating the development of hundreds of new plays and new music-theater pieces. She is co-creator of Chekhov at Lake Lucille, an annual retreat and performance project in upstate New York.
Photo by Julia Robbs
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THE DETAILS
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