From Audience Members:
“Bravo, Bravissimo to you and your curatorial team for bringing the latest play, Gidion's Knot, to the stage…Some of us will tell you, the imperative is entertaining the audience, some will say make them feel, think, a myriad of emotions or explore works about the human condition, all are good reasons for programming. But sometimes, you got to hold up a mirror to show our uncomfortable spots…It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it was hugely well written, the company gave us a virtuoso performance, and it addressed one of the more important topics of our times. It took courage. I know I've been a programmer of music for over 35 years…Sometimes, we must remember and remind our circle that the imperative of a cultural organization is to LEAD the thinking. You and well chosen team did that…Thank you for taking your audience seriously.” —Asadour S.
“I feel compelled to spread the word about this production, which is stunning and outstanding in every aspect of Theatre Art, which I could say about almost every production of Rogue Theater Company. I come away from every production convinced that theatre is the most all encompassing Art Form. These two women have so convincingly embodied their characters that I'm still contemplating the complicated Life/Death Universal puzzles/Gordian knots they so skillfully display for us. This play is way beyond "entertainment". It's a Classic, a Teaching, a Mirror.” —Dot F-S.
Meet the Artists
Domenique Lozano (Heather Clark)
Domenique is a west coast based director, actress, and educator. She was a resident artist with the American Conservatory Theater, (ACT) for 15 years, where she served as a core faculty member and director in the MFA Program, a director and teacher in the Young Conservatory and Studio ACT Programs, and the resident director of the main stage production of A Christmas Carol. Directing work at ACT also includes MFA productions of Fuente Ovejuna, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Sueno, The Skin of Our Teeth, as well as the world premieres of Staying Wild and Home Front. Domenique was an associate artist with the California Shakespeare Theater (CST) and has performed leading roles in over 20 productions, as well as serving as master vocal and text coach on numerous productions. Additional acting credits include work with the ACT, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Repertory Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Jose Stage Company, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). She served on the Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies faculty at UC Berkeley as both a teacher of acting and as a director. Directing credits there include Tartuffe, Curly Fries- a webisode series, and Men on Boats. Acting credits include work with CST where she was an Associate Artist, ACT, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, CenterRep, and OSF. Domenique has also taught at UC Davis, Saint Mary’s College, Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre, CST, Las Positas and Solano Colleges. She is currently an adjunct faculty at Southern Oregon University, where she teaches acting. AT SOU, she directed The Wolves in 2023, and will direct The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2025.
Erica Sullivan (Corryn Fell)
Erica (she, her, hers) is thrilled to make her debut with Rogue Theater Company. In eight seasons with OSF, favorite roles include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Missy Sue/Candace in Confederates, Mavis in The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Maud Lily in Fingersmith. She has also worked in NY and regionally, notably at Lincoln Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Studio Theatre, and Yale Repertory Theatre. TV/Film credits include Licorice Pizza, Shrill, A Girl In The Woods, Inherent Vice, The Librarians, There Will Be Blood and Ready When You Are. She is also an audiobook narrator with over 100 titles recorded. Awards: Best Actress, Helen Hayes Award; Best Actress, Connecticut Critics Circle Nomination; Jerome L. Greene Foundation Scholarship; Herschel Williams Acting Award. She holds an MFA from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Much love to her two daughters, Miranda and Avelyn. www.ericasullivanactor.com.
As an unapologetic feminist, I’m beyond thrilled that we’re producing a play featuring two strong, fiercely talented female actors, written and directed by extraordinarily accomplished women. It moves me deeply and fills me with pride. ~Artistic Director Jessica Sage
Terri McMahon (Director)
Terri McMahon holds a BFA from the University of Southern California in LA. Her most recent directing credits include: Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor at American Players Theatre as well as a triple co-production of Merry Wives with Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Other credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival), Macbeth (Arabian Shakespeare Festival), Love’s Labor’s Lost (ATP University of Utah), and Othello (Island Shakespeare Festival). A veteran actor of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, her 20+ seasons at OSF have included 19 Shakespeare productions in a wide range of roles on the OSF mainstages as well as world premieres (Lynn Nottage's Sweat, and Robert Schenkkan's All the Way and The Great Society are a few) and other classic, contemporary and devised work. Terri has directed as well as adapted OSF School Visit Program touring performances; devised and directed an OSF Green Show called Give It Up for Elizabethan-ness; directed OSF staged readings and has both acted and directed multiple times in OSF’s The Black Swan Lab for new play development. Other directing credits include: Southern Oregon University, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Oregon Repertory Theater, Kern Shakespeare Festival and OSF’s Daedalus Project AIDS Benefit (multiple times). She directed Sweetly Writ at the Hult Center in Eugene, a collaboration between OSF and the University of Oregon to celebrate UofO’s Shakespeare First Folio Exhibition. She also devised and directed a piece for Eugene Symphony’s 50 piece orchestra combining Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet and Sergei Prokofiev’s music of the same name. Terri completed the Lincoln Center Theater Directing Lab in 2017 and was a member of SDC's Observership class in 2020. Visit her website at: www.terrimcmahon.com
Johnna Adams (Playwright)
Johnna is a 2012 graduate of the Rita & Burton Goldberg MFA Program at Hunter College (led by Tina Howe), the 2011 recipient of the Princess Grace Award and a finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Her play Gidion’s Knot was published in the December 2012 issue of TCG’s American Theatre Magazine and received an ATCA/Steinberg Citation. She is a past Reva Shiner Award winner, winner of the OC Weekly’s Best Original Play award (twice), finalist for the Christopher Brian Wolk Award, finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and a New York Innovative Theatre Award nominee. Her play SANS MERCI was produced in New York by Flux Theatre Ensemble, and Boomerang Theatre produced her rhyming verse comedy, Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens. Johnna’s plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. and Original Works Publishing (www.originalworksonline.com). www.johnnaadams.com
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SEASON SPONSORS
Carol Fellows and Tim Bewley, Carolyn Mandell, Stan and Miriam Schiffman, and Dick and Elaine Sweet
AND OUR SHOW SPONSOR
In Memory of Claudette Paige