Kathy
Boussina (Producer/Playright) Kathy Boussina is a playwright whose
plays examine psychological motivations, the complexity of relationships, and
personal and societal strains on ethics. Kathy holds a degree in psychology
from San Francisco State University and has studied playwriting at Berkeley
Repertory Theater School, New Conservatory Theater Center, San Francisco State
University, The 3 Girls Theater Group, and the Tennessee Williams Institute,
Provincetown, MA. She is a member of Berkeley Playground Writers’ Pool
and the Playwright's Center of San Francisco. Other full-length
plays include Tenn, a play about Tennessee Williams and his psychiatrist
Dr Kubie, and A Place for Grace, a southern family’s unearthed tale.
Kathy is deeply appreciative of Dragon Theater for the opportunity to bring Cirque
Exotique du Monde to the stage and to the tremendous directors, cast and
creative team. More about Kathy and her plays can be found at: www.strictlyplays.com
Lessa
Bouchard (Co-Director) Lessa
Bouchard is a member the Cubberley Artists Studio Program in Palo Alto. She has
a BFA in theatre performance from the University of Detroit Mercy, and MFA in
Interdisciplinary Art and Media from Columbia College Chicago. She has written,
directed, performed and taught production and performance for 20 years. She produced
and directed over 60 plays in Detroit, including Recuerdos de los
Repatriados: Memories of the Repatriated, Night, Mother, The Elephant Man,
Trinity, Hannah Free, and Raincheck. She
directed and performed in Victory Gardens ACCESS project in Chicago, helping to
launch Crip Slam! A celebration of disability and performance. She
directed Grey at EP theatre, Feeding the Moonfish with Core
Project, and Widdershins and Back Again, a multichannel video
installation. She
has performed with SF fringe, Epic Immersive, and City Lights in SJ, and
as The Professor/Mrs Soames In Our Town at The Pear. At Dragon,
she appeared in Memory of Water, Dangerous Liaisons, The Woman in Black,
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, directed Tongue of a Bird, and led
ensemble-created A Moment Unbound - a “stand out new work.”
Bora
“Max” Koknar (Co-Director) Bora “Max” Koknar is a Turkish-born director,
actor, producer, writer and educator. Over a professional career of a dozen
years as an actor and variety performer, Max has entertained over a half
million people. His projects have been featured on publications such as San Francisco
Weekly (Ancien Regime, Epic Immersive, 2016, Associate Director & Actor)
and The New York Times (Headlands Gamble, First Person Travel, 2015 - 2017,
Actor & Assistant Director). During his career Max has had the honor
of collaborating and training with movement coaches who’ve trained the Blue Man
Group and the stars of Marvel’s Thor, students and collaborators of Marcel
Marceau, Obie Award Winners, and Cirque du Soleil clowns. As an educator and
consultant, Max partnered with institutions including U.C. Berkeley (Berkeley,
CA), The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) and K-12 Schools in Ohio and
California. Max is currently the Education Director, Monday and Late Night
Events Coordinator, and Assistant Production Manager at Dragon in addition to
also serving as Associate Artistic Director of Epic Immersive. He is so excited
to be bringing the world premiere of this beautiful and timely play to life
with such an amazing team of collaborators.
Emma Feeney (Rehearsal Stage Manager) Emma Feeney is overjoyed to be working at
Dragon Productions Theatre Company for the first time as the Rehearsal Stage
Manager! She has previously stage managed two short plays at Ohlone Community
College as well as assistant directed and stage managed Singin’ in the
Rain Jr. for Chrysalis Youth Theatre. She also co-directed Pride
and Prejudice. However, she began her theatrical journey as an actress,
earning her B.A. in Musical Theatre from San Jose State University, her
favorite productions being The Laramie Project: 10
Years Later (“Beth Loffreda and Ensemble”), Disney:
Workshop (“Flounder”), and Hair the Musical: Workshop. Emma
would like to thank her loving parents for their support, as well as Dragon for
giving her the opportunity to work with this fantastic company!
Katie Forrest (Production Stage Manager) Katie is delighted to be working with Dragon
Productions Theatre Company for the second time. She has worked behind the
scenes and on stage for many previous shows. Her most work was done at Woodside
High School, taking on various roles in productions. She is also studying at
Canada College to obtain a double major in Business and Theater.
Charles
McKeithan (Master Carpenter) has been working in Bay Area theater for over
ten years now as an actor and a carpenter and is happy to be back with the Dragon
for another round of fun. His past works include Voice of the Prairie at
the Dragon, Walls of Jericho at the
Pear, Collosus at SF Playhouse, and countless productions with Ron
Gaspernetti under the guise of Thrust Scenic Design.
Nathanael Card (Scenic Designer/Lighting Designer/Properties Master)
Nathanael Card does it all for theatre.
When he isn't designing, he keeps busy as resident PM/TD for Youth Musical
Theater Company, and also directs their teen apprenticeship program. At
TheatreWorks, he recently Assistant Directed Constellations. He
also works extensively as an electrician for companies including Berkeley Rep,
ACT, CalShakes, and Smuin Ballet. Occasionally he even performs as a tap dancer
and actor. He is a BFA graduate of the Theatre Apprentice program at Stephens
College for Women (2006). Follow him @NCardCreative #DanceEveryDay
Kathleen Qiu (Costume Designer) is excited to be joining Dragon Productions for Cirque
Exotique du Monde. You can see more of her work right now at Custom Made Theater
Co (How I Learned to Drive).
Previously in the Bay Area, she has designed at the SF Playhouse (You Mean to Do Me Harm), Palo Alto
Players (The Graduate), Custom Made
Theatre Co (The House of Yes) and
Tri-Valley Repertory Theatre (In the
Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar). Her other credits include Pirates of Penzance, Steve
Martin’s The Underpants,
Dracula, War of the Worlds,
and Picture Imperfect, among others,
with a variety of theatres in Tallahassee and Chicago. She graduated from the University
of Chicago with degrees in Chemistry and Psychology. She would like to thank
the production team for this opportunity and her family and friends for their continued
support.
Nick Ferraro (Sound Designer)
Nicholas Solasteas is thrilled to be working in an age of miracles with this
merry band of makers! He is a graduate of Santa Clara University, and has been
working in (mostly) production roles for south bay theatres for nearly a
decade. Favorite productions include The
Charitable Sisterhood of Second Trinity Victory Church (Dragon
Productions Theatre Company) Arc:Hive presents A Moment Unbound (Dragon Productions Theatre Company), Side Effects (San Jose Rep’s
Emerging Artist Lab), and A Christmas
Carol (Northside Theatre Company). Nick also performed in a different
kind of Carol with Bora "Max" Koknar in Make Christmas Great Again: A More Accurate Account of that Infamous
Christmas Eve as Told by the Miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. Of late, he has been
working with Epic Immersive as a writer, designer, and community member. When
he's not making theatre, he likes to play tabletop role playing games (bigger
stories, smaller budgets) with the Society of Spectacled Merrymakers.
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