Description:
American television, college, sex, marriage, and patriotism as seen through “alien” eyes? Pretty darn funny. Teens of today looking at everyday life in the 1950s? Looks funny to them. Young people tackling the language and ideas of Gore Vidal? Now we’re moving beyond funny “ha-ha” and right into funny “peculiar.” A Visit to a Small Planet, funny in all kinds of ways, represents both another success from LATTE, the inimitable Live Arts teen ensemble, and the beginning of something new: the first show in the Technical Mentor Apprentice Program. This program pairs each member of the production team with a teen apprentice. Says director Kay Leigh Ferguson, “Out apprentices in design for costumes, set, lights, sound, stage management, props, hair and makeup, puppetry, and master carpentry were hard at work long before auditions and were key players in shaping and then making the entire vision of the production.”
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Cast List
Jacob Vaughan: Kreton
Alison Bushey: Ellen
Aspen Miller: General Powers
Cory Fraiman-Lott: Roger
Leia Squillace: Reba
Justin Weiss: Conrad
Austin Bouchard: Aide
Lara Grady: Delton 4/TV Tec
Production Staff
DIRECTOR: Kay Leigh Ferguson
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Tanya K. Manwill
SET DESIGN: Cecilia Hernandez Nichols / Apprentice: Omar Quarles
LIGHTING DESIGN: Scott Keith / Apprentice: Enya von Schill
SOUND DESIGN: Jamie Coupar / Apprentice: Kurt Woerpel
COSTUME DESIGN: Dorothy Smith / Apprentice: Mitz Germershausen
PROPERTIES DESIGN: Victoria Brown / Apprentice: Megan Haggerty
PUPPETRY & SPECIAL EFFECTS: Ben Jones / Apprentice: Daniel Wagner
HAIR & MAKEUP: Virginia Glenn / Apprentice: Sonya Hayden
MASTER CARPENTER: John Shepard / Apprentice: Kai Irving
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: Laura Nessler / Apprentice: Evan Lang
Production Images
photos by Will Kerner / click on an image to see a larger version
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Playwright:
Gore VidalDirector:
Kay FergusonDates:
Friday, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:00 pmSunday, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:00 pm




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