Rachel
Writer | Angelina Weld Grimké
Director | Lori Elizabeth Parquet
Scenic and Props Designer | John Michael Eddy
Costume Designer | Bethany Sassen
Lighting Designer | C Archer Touchet
Sound Designer | Tyler Kieffer
Stage Manager | Sarah Statham
This play examines difficult themes surrounding race and racism, as it relates to
motherhood.
The following poem - "Incident" by Countee Cullen - includes a racial slur.
Incident
by Countee Cullen
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, “n____.”
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That’s all that I remember.
Rachel Loving | Simone Jackson |
Mrs. Loving | Gabrielle Taylor |
Tom Loving | Teiron Motley |
Jimmy Mason | Kaylon Cormier |
Mrs. Lane | Lauryn Chapman |
John Strong | Daimon Kokro |
Children | Madison Arceneaux, Déjà Gordon, Jalia Martin, Zoe Wyman
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Production Manager/Technical Director | James L. Murphy |
LaDonna Oueddraogo | Assistant Director |
Michael C. Brown | Asst. Scenic/Props Designer and Paint Charge |
Alan White | Vocal Coach |
C. Hayner | Design and Construction of Victoria Coal Fireplace |
Kyla Kazuschyk | Costume Mentor/Shop Manager |
Jeremy Bernardoni | Costume Mentor |
Drake Coffey | Wardrobe Head |
Kristina Cole | Wardrobe |
Shaylee Holiday | Wardrobe |
Ricardo Mendoza | Wardrobe |
Nicholas Mougel | Wardrobe |
Toni Richardson | Wardrobe |
Sydney Sanchez | Wardrobe |
Julio Huihui | Stage Crew |
Rose Jerry | Stage Crew |
Sarah Sagrera | Stage Crew |
Heaven Swanier | Stage Crew |
Isaiah Cleveland | Ensemble/Stage Crew |
Eric Rhode | Soundboard Operator |
Gabrielle Montagnino | Lightboard Operator |
Alexandra Grace Arnold | Props Artisan |
Timothy J. Bourgeois | Props Artisan |
Lacey R. Duplessis | Props Artisan |
Brynn Griffin | Props Artisan |
Randy David Quincey III | Props Artisan |
Kayla Short | Props Artisan |
Sarah Short | Props Artisan |
Brody Christopher Walker | Props Artisan |
Madison Arceneaux
Madison Arceneaux (Martha) is a Junior Theatre (performance) major with a Pre-dental track. Previous Credits include St. Ignatius School’s Angels on an Assignment, Opelousas Little Theatre Miracle on 34th Street, Scottie Bean’s Theatre Unpacking my Baggage, Beau Chene High’s Alice in The Wizard of Oz, Opelousas Catholic School’s This is A Test and The Art of Rejection.
Lauryn Chapman
Lauryn Chapman (Mrs. Lane) is a freshman Theatre (performance) major in LSU’s College of Music and Dramatic Arts. She is very excited to be a part of this production as this is her LSU Mainstage debut. She comes to LSU from Heritage High School Academy of Performing Arts in Conyers, GA.
Kaylon Cormier
Kaylon Cormier (Jimmy) is a junior theatre (performance) major. This is his main stage debut. He has done background acting and was in a play in high school. He also worked backstage for Airness in the shaver theatre.
Deja Gordon
Deja Gordon (Ethel) is a senior Theatre (Film & Televison) major. Credits include LSU Theatre Lab Show an talk, Women talk.
Simone Jackson
Simone Jackson (Rachel Loving) is a sophomore Film and Television BFA major. Credits include LSU Theatres Lab All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten and upcoming LSU Geaux Film Dream List.
Daimon Kokro
Daimon Kokro (John Strong) is a sophomore Accounting major. Previous credits include LSU Theater Lab’s To Stand in the Waterby Alice Wilkinson and In the Spirit of Twain from HopKins Black Box Theater by Travis Brisini.
Jalia Martin
Jalia Martin (Louise) is a sophomore Theatre (performance) major. Previous credits include Geauxfilm: Araignée. Short Films: Prom, Laveau, Dime Size and Klepto.
Teiron Motley
Teiron Motley (Tom Loving) is a freshman Film and Television major. His previous credits include LSU School of Theater’s The Dream List.
Lori Elizabeth Parquet
Lori Elizabeth Parquet (she/her) is an actor, director, and playwright from New Orleans, Louisiana with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. As a director, Lori recently helmed White on White at JACK alongside Alec Duffy and served as the Associate Director of SUFFS and As You Like It at The Public Theater. She was also Associate Director of New York City Center’s Encores production of Promenade. She has directed Topdog/Underdog at Princeton Summer Theater and many other plays and staged readings at theatre companies and universities across New York City and the country. Her NYC acting credits include Macbeth, Dispatches From (A)mended America (Off-Broadway), The Providence of Neighboring Bodies (Dutch Kills Theater/Ars Nova), The Honeycomb Trilogy: Sovereign (Gideon Productions), Medea (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Dog Act, Ajax in Iraq, Honey Fist, Operating Systems (Flux Theatre Ensemble). International acting credits include Pillars of Society at Teater Ibsen in Skien, Norway and The Providence of Neighboring Bodies at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2019 she won the NYIT Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her performance in Operating Systems.
Gabi Taylor
Gabi Taylor (Mary Loving) is a junior Mass Communication (Journalism) major and Theater minor. This is her first Swine Palace Production. Credits include the LSU Musical Theater Club’s Production of Singeaux and Twisted.
Zoe Wyman
Zoe Wyman (Nancy) is a junior Theatre (performance) major and Business minor. This is her first LSU production she has been a part of, and she is so excited to be in more shows this upcoming fall semester.
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