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The Skin of Our Teeth

by Thornton Wilder


The marketing poster for the 2018 production of The Skin of Our Teeth

Synopsis: Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve: the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain); and their garrulous maid, Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of character and interrupt the course of the drama at every opportunity (“I don’t understand a word of this play!”). Whether he is inventing the alphabet or merely saving the world from apocalypse, George and his redoubtable family somehow manage to survive – by the skin of their teeth.

Completed by the author less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) broke from established theatrical conventions and walked off with the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Combining farce, burlesque, satire, and elements of the comic strip, Thornton Wilder depicts an Everyman Family as it narrowly escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after another, from the Ice Age to flood to war.

CAST

 

Announcers Danielle Barrie
  Michael Anthony Butler
Mr. Antrobus Mason St. Germain
Mrs. Antrobus Elaina Keyes
Gladys Aletta Kemp
Henry Benjamin Tanner
Sabina Sara Grace Wallace
Messenger Chase Redig
Fortune Teller Kaela Tibbs
Mrs. Fitzpatrick Mia Carisse
Broadcasters Eleni Demos*
  Hope Englestad
  Joshua Birdsong
Ensemble Collin Crews
  Dakota Scarborough
  Jordan Whorton

* "conveener Dance" Choreographer

PRODUCTION TEAM

 

Director Marci J. Duncan
Lighting Designer Jennifer Cullen
Scenic Designer Maranda Straub
Costume Designer Elizabeth Blanco Saenz
Technical Director & Sound Designer Phillip Brulotte
Dramaturg Eleanor Sweeney
Stage Manager Brittney Lester
Scenic Charge Artist Jessica Milam
Assistant to the Director Lena Sakalla
Assistant Stage Manager Tareca Siplin
Master Carpenter Jessica Edge
Props Master J.P. Riddle
Asst. Costume Shop Mgr. & Wardrobe Supervisor Katrina Lundquist
Light Board Operator Kaitlyn Gardner
Sound Board Operaotr & Master Electrician Hannah Chism
Wig Artist Hannah Hiers
Dressers Alicia Hill
  Jericka Hunter
  Alyssa Lee
  Will Mettlach
Props Run Crew Delaney Beal
  Jessica Broadnax
  Rey Garcia
Stage Crew Laurine DeLamater
  Maria Parada Ruiz
  Garrett Summitt
House Manager Alex Brookins
Poster Design John Lhotka
Scene Shop Crew Ben Bailey
  Michelle Barber
  Amanda De Benedetto
  Josh Birdsong
  Aletta Kemp
  Phillip Lucas
  Aubrey Shelton
  Katie Smith
  Arin Walker
Costume Shop Crew Val Besser
  Edee Green
  Michelle Barber
  Jessica Broadnax
  Maddie Carr
  Cameron Carter
  Laurine DeLamater
  Jessica Edge
  Hope Englestad
  Wisdom Harris
  Alicia Hill
  Jericka Hunter
  Elaina Keyes
  Will Mettlach
  Eleanor Sweeney
  Megan Weiskopf
Lighting Crew Branden Ellington
  Kaitlyn Gardner
  John Perez
  Allen Westerkom
Paint Crew Caitlin Artrip
  Cassidy Beal
  Mary Kate Bowdoin
  Rebecca Douglas
  Dylan Garofalo
  Kasey Kucera
  Cherry Rendell
Props Crew Matthew Chamberlain
  Wyatt Davis
  Jericka Hunter
  Emerson Smith von Wiegen
Scene Shop Student Staff Hannah Chism
  Jessica Edge
  Tyler Frayer
  Kaitlyn Gardner
  Dylan Garofalo
  Jessica Milam
Costume Shop Student Staff Elizabeth Blanco
  Hannah Hiers
  Katrina Lundquist
  J.P. Riddle
  Emily Wilson
  Jessi Winter
Box Office Student Staff Alayshia Green
  Katrina Lundquist
  Victoria O'Dell
  Dakota Scarborough
  Eleanor Sweeney