The Rough
Created in partnership with the City of Westminster’s Office of Cultural Affairs
Written by Jessica Jackson in collaboration with the ensemble
Direction by Jessica Jackson
Artistic Direction Amanda Berg Wilson
At the Legacy Ridge Golf Course
Westminster, Colorado
August 8 through August 30, 2020; Extended by demand through September 14, 2020
Featuring: Sean Michael Cummings, Kebrina Josefina De Jesús, Tresha Farris, Sam Gilstrap, Brian Kusic, and Maggie Tisdale. Jason Maxwell appeared in the extension.
Production Design by Matthew Schlief
Choreography by Amanda Berg Wilson and Kebrina Josefina De Jesús
Costume Design by Nicole Watts
Production Stage Management by Wayne Breyer
Assistant Stage Management by Danielle Tamkin
Production by McPherson Horle
In The Rough, audience members experienced an immersive comic romp exploring wildness and tameness, privilege and access, and the journey of the old ball and stick.
The audience experienced the show from golf carts driven around nine holes of a golf course, wearing “bone phones” which allowed them to have an innovative sonic experience as well as a novel immersive one.
The Whiskey Tasting
A virtual immersive theatre experience presented in association with DCPA Off-Center
Conceived of, Adapted, and Directed by Amanda Berg Wilson
Written by David Jacobi
Via Zoom
February 4-March 7, 2021; Extended by demand through March 14, 2021
Featuring: Leah Cardenas, Rhianna DeVries, and Jason Maxwell
Assistant Production Managers: Wayne Breyer and Heidi Echtenkamp
Costume Consultant: Meghan Doyle
Multimedia Designer: Charlie Miller
Producing Director: Melissa Cashion
Production and Prop Design: Eileen Garcia
In 2019, DCPA Off-Center produced Between Us, a series of three intimate, immersive theatre experiences for one actor and one or two audience members at a time. One of these, The Whiskey Tasting, was created by The Catamounts’ Artistic Director Amanda Berg Wilson in collaboration with playwright David Jacobi. The Catamounts remounted The Whiskey Tasting to be an online experience during the COVID pandemic.
Audience members logged on to join their bartender and two other households for a live whiskey tasting, exploring the history and nuanced varieties of this spirit. But as the bartender begins to divulge details about their own life, audience members were be inspired to toast to the moments that brought them where they are today.
Land of Milk and Honey
Written by Jeffrey Neuman
Direction by Amanda Berg Wilson
Dramaturgy by Lynde Rosario
At the Historic Shoenberg Farm
Westminster, Colorado
June 4 through June 27, 2021
Assistant Direction by Joan Bruemmer-Holden
Stage Management by Wayne Breyer
Assistant Stage Management by Josiah Fingerlin and Lara Maerz
Choreography by Amanda Berg Wilson and Joan Bruemmer-Holden
Costume Design by Nicole Watts
Production Design by Matthew Schlief
Sound Design by Max Silverman
Featuring: Chris Kendall, Christine Kahane, Justy Robinson, Amelia Corrada, Joan Bruemmer-Holden, Sam Gilstrap.
Site-specific, in-person theater returned to Westminster with this production that brings to life the rich history of Shoenberg Farm. Small, socially-distanced groups traveled through one of Westminster’s most historic properties, where the state’s agricultural, philanthropic, immigrant, and healthcare heritage once dynamically converged.
Land of Milk and Honey begins with the story of Louis Shoenberg, a Jewish philanthropist who in 1912 founded the Dudley C. Shoenberg Memorial Farm in honor of his son Dudley, who succumbed to tuberculosis. The farm fed patients at National Jewish Hospital, thousands of whom flocked to Colorado in hopes of curing their disease with the dry, high-altitude air.
“While we conceived of this piece before the COVID pandemic, we have been struck by the parallels to our current moment,” said Artistic Director Amanda Berg Wilson. “Bringing to life the buildings’ stories in the buildings themselves feels like a part ghost story and part-time travel. But more than anything, the piece is a reminder of how humans can turn personal tragedy into an act of community caretaking.”