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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

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

Deja Gordon

Deja Gordon (Ethel) is a senior Theatre (Film & Televison) major. Credits include LSU Theatre Lab Show an talk, Women talk.


Simone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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