Program

UNIVERSITY THEATRE
presents

ADA AND THE ENGINE
by Lauren Gunderson

Titmus Theatre, Frank Thompson Hall

Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing.

MIA SELF
Director

DANICA JANELLE JACKSON
Fight/Intimacy Director

JAYME MELLEMA*
Scenic Design

LAURA J. PARKER
Costume, Hair & Makeup Design

ROBYN WARFIELD
Lighting and Sound Design

JOSHUA REAVES
Projection Design

DAVID JENSEN
Technical Direction

BRIANNE CRAWFORD*
Stage Manager

*Member of Alpha Psi Omega Honorary Theatre Society

Program Director
JOSHUA REAVES

Acting Coach
DANICA JANELLE JACKSON

Costume Shop Manager
LAURA J. PARKET

Costume Technician
ADRIENNE McKENZIE

Assistant Technical Director
MICHAEL WHITE

Scenic Charge Artist & Props Manager
JAYME MELLEMA*

Scenic Artists
VANESSA MILLS-WEBB — REBECCA JOHNSON

Finance & Business
EMILIE WOOD

Marketing & Playbill
RONALD A. FOREMAN*

*Member of Alpha Psi Omega Honorary Theatre Society

Act 1

Scene 1: London, the home of Lady Anabella Byron and her daughter Ada, 1833

Scene 2: A Salon hosted by Mr. Charles Babbage, later that evening

Scene 3: A garden gathering hosted by Mr. Charles Babbage, a few weeks later

Scene 4: The Byron home, a few weeks later

Scene 5: The Byron home, months later

Scene 6: The ambiguous world of letters, years pass

Scene 7: Surrey, the estate of Lord and Lady Lovelace, 1842

Scene 8: London, the office of Mr. Charles Babbage, 1843

Intermission (15 minutes)

Act 2

Scene 1: The same place and moment in time

Scene 2: Letters between friends, mid-1852

Scene 2: At Ada’s bedside, November 1852

Scene 2: With Byron (and Babbage), some time after

Scene 2: Ada Byron Lovelace, poetry in the great beyond

CHLOE DEXTER
Lady Ada Byron Lovelace

KIRA LEE BRITT
Lady Anabella Byron

BRAYDEN SPENCER HEARN
Charles Babbage

SOLOMON HILL
Lord Lovelace

DASHA ROYAL
Mary Sommerville

BECKET PATTERSON
Lord Byron

BRIANNA BERNHARDT
Ensemble, Dance/Movement Captain

BRINLEY CARTER*
Ensemble, Fight/Intimacy Captain

CONSTANTINA ANASTASIA PAPPAS
Ensemble

ABHIRAMI ARCHANA LINESH
Ensemble

QUINN KINSER
Ensemble

NICOLE COOPER-WILLIAMS
Ensemble

ANGELA N. FARMER
Ada Swing

LUCY ROSEMAN
Anabella, Sommerville, and Ensemble Swing

CONNOR MARTINEZ
Babbage, Lovelace, and Byron Swing

*Member of Alpha Psi Omega Honorary Theatre Society

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
Kat Kimbrell* — Andrew Jackson

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
Sullivan Schwartz — Nicolas Chancafe

ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
Jackson Griffin* — Bean Hopper*

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER
Daniel De Leon

DANCE/MOVEMENT CAPTAIN
Brianna Bernhardt

FIGHT/INTIMACY CAPTAIN
Brinley Carter*

COMPANY REP
Kira Lee Britt

SOUND BOARD OPERATORS
Neha Parthasarathy — Sage Wieck

LIGHT BOARD OPERATORS
Isabella Vlach — Makayla Harman

SUPERTITLES OPERATORS
Maya Lennon — Graham McPhail

SCENIC CARPENTERS
Kai Williams* — Luke Anderson*

SET CREW – Scene Shop Volunteers
Benny Salvatore — Annie Dang
Eric Liu — Madi Pruette
Renee Moore — Katie Waldo
Addison Davis — Devyn Williams
Jenny Flowers* — Sarah Kenny
Abbie Lake — Griffin James*
Melissa Garcia Corona — Amelia Allen
Daria Gubina — Cora Jones
Neha Parthasarathy — Vincent Wu
Isabel Chang — Trent Naclerio
Sylvia Snyder — Isabella Vlach
Trinidad Melendez — Taylor Tetrault
Caleb Sowah — Maia Lindgren

SET CREW – THE 103 Students
Savannah Sobha — Bailey Bray
Emily Partridge — Nicolas Chancafe
Anna Haviland — Jake Wydick
Aislynne Brock — Jasper Villa
Bridget Klug — Caroline Holhouser
Ally Tennany — Brayden Spencer Hearn

WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Oviya NagarajPrema

STUDENT COSTUME TECHNICIANS
Grey Burns — Megan Mersch
Elise Sharpe

COSTUME CREW – Volunteers
Noah Edwards — Brooke LaFuente
Faith Richards — Cornell Devlies
Pen Hunter — Andrew Jackson
Devyn Williams — Jada Williams
Sonia Pereira — Morgan Wade
Arynn Baginski

COSTUME CREW – 103 Students
Sinai Avalos-Beltran — Maddie Clark
Brianna Bernhardt — Rachel Jiang
Ariel Modeen — Jocelyn Tucker
Audrey Bruening — Bridget Klug
Noah Steadman — Alexa Lee
Adam Wampler

LIGHTING CREW
Lagan McGinnis*

LIGHTING CREW – Volunteers
Daniel De Leon — Adriana Hernandez
Neha Parthasarathy

LIGHTING CREW – 103 Students
Isaiah Alicea — Evie Shackles
Hunter Crone — Kimberly Tran
Adam Wampler

HOUSE MANAGER & USHERS
University Theatre House Crew

*Member of Alpha Psi Omega Honorary Theatre Society