by Ted Talley
Directed by Marybeth Bielawski-DeLeo
Produced by Inukshuk Productions
at 6th @ Penn Theatre

April 18 - May 11, 2008
Thursday - Friday - Saturday 8:00pm / Sunday 2:00pm

At the center of an ever increasing debate about the causes and effects of global warming and the future of the earth, the Arctic and the Antarctic perhaps exhibit these changes with the greatest clarity. Lest we forget, it is important to recall the contributions of the first explorers who risked and sacrificed their lives to bring those continents to the attention of the world.

Director Bio ◊ Our Cast ◊ Production Staff

(Terra Nova Hut)
 

Terra Nova at Ross Island	The Cape Crozier Group

An extraordinarily inventive play, first presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre and then produced to national acclaim at the renowned Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles. Dealing with the ill-fated Antarctic expedition of Robert Falcon Scott, the play employs an ingenious free-form construction to capture the sweep—and personalities—crucial to this compelling study of heroism in the face of bitter failure. "…an impressive first work…" —The Hollywood Reporter. "…explores the heart of courage in a white hell of adversity." —Time. "Mr. Tally is a most literate writer." —NY Times.


Drawn from the journals and letters found on the frozen body of Captain Scott, the action of the play blends scenes of the explorer and his men at various stages of their ordeal, with flashbacks of Scott and his young wife and with fateful glimpses of his Norwegian rival, Roald Amundsen, whose party beat him to the South Pole. Refusing the use of sled dogs as unsporting, Scott and his team struggle to drag their heavy gear across a frozen wasteland, only to find that Amundsen has preceded them to their goal. The play is also a study of British pride and upper-class resolve—Scott's aristocratic sense of destiny and command and his young bride's ability to understand her husband's compulsive drive while failing to accept his motivations. But it is in the tragic trip back, as the members of the expedition die one by one, that the play reaches its dramatic apogee, capturing with chilling intensity the awesome bravery of men who must accept the bitter knowledge that suffering and death will be the only reward for their heroism.

Tom Andrew* (Robert Scott) NATIONAL TOURS: Olin Britt/Quartet in MUSIC MAN, Officer Murdoch in TITANIC.  REGIONAL: Jerry Lukowski in THE FULL MONTY at Arts On Real, Austin, TX, Man 1 in I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE and Sparky in FOREVER PLAID at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Centre, Tampa, FL, Jeff Douglas in BRIGADOON and Utterson in JEKYLL AND HYDE at Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, NY, Motel in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at Performance Riverside and Starlight, Bela Zangler in CRAZY FOR YOU at Moonlight, The Baker in INTO THE WOODS, and Seymour in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Starlight, as well as shows for Lamb's Players, The Welk Resort, he Old Globe, North Coast Rep, and Theatre In Old Town. *Tom is a member of Actor's Equity.

Matt Thompson* (Amundsen)  Select San Diego acting credits: Dracula, Leading Ladies, A Thousand Clowns (North Coast Rep), Cold Comfort Farm (Lamb's Players), Shear Madness (The Theatre in Old Town). Regional credits: Moonlight and Magnolias (Sierra Rep), The Tempest (Kingsmen Shakespeare), Hitler's Head (Road Theatre). TV credits: C.S.I, Veronica Mars, Fashion House, Cover Me, Watch Over Me, 18 Wheels of Justice, The Invisible Man, and Baywatch. His published plays include If the Shoe Fits, The Play's the Thing (Dramatic Publishing), Return to Sender, Tough as Nails (Heuer Publishing), All the World's a Stage and Nobody's Perfect (Brooklyn Publishing). *Proud member of AEA.

Amanda Cooley Davis (Kathleen) Inukshuk & Sixth at Penn debut! Amanda recently understudied Chevalier in The Deception at La Jolla Playhouse. Other SD credits: The Long Christmas Ride Home (Diversionary Theatre), The Bear (Tonic Productions at North Coast Repertory), Peace (Chronos Theatre at the Lyceum), Arcadia (Don Powell Theatre), and Romeo and Juliet (Stage at the Pub). Three national children’s theatre tours with Traveling Lantern Theatre Company. New York stage includes: The Glass Menagerie, Escape from Happiness, and Blood Wedding (Gershwin Theatre - Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts), Nine Feet High (The Brick Theatre & Parkside Lounge Stage); many new works with Theatre-Studio Inc., Epiphany Theater, blessed unrest, The Flea Theatre, and Jean Cocteau Repertory. Film includes festival picks “Still Life” and “Last Minute Alien”; currently in production on “That’s What I Love About Art”. MFA – Acting, Brooklyn College; MA - Theatre Arts, SDSU (coursework completed). Dedicated in loving memory to Liz, who shared Kathleen’s elegance, grit and humor.
 

Scott Striegel (Bowers) is pleased to be making his San Diego stage debut with 6th@Penn. After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Scott was a member of the original casts of Blitzkrieg, Y2Gay, and High Strung Quartet, and the revival of Green Julia. He has worked in Los Angeles (Do You Want Me Dead?, Oxfords Will) and last seen as Henry Ford in Ragtime at Seaside Music Theater in Florida. Scott implores other San Diego Theaters to support local artists!

Ryan Schulze (Oates) is pleased to be on stage at 6th@Penn with another talented cast. TERRA NOVA marks his fourth venture in Hillcrest's most unique theater. Previous 6th@Penn credits include Dirk in FOURTH STREET BRIDGE, Satan as well as a priest & more in BROTHERS ALL, and a part in a wonderful Instant Theater project titled MORTEK SAVES THE DAY. Ryan has also spent time on stage at the Coronado Playhouse (MY THREE ANGELS) and Faultline Theatre. He owes his passion for the craft of acting and the pursuit of truth in the character to his teacher, Carey Scott of San Diego's Rehearsal Room.

Eddie Yaroch (Wilson) is really looking forward to performing at 6th@Penn in TERRA NOVA. He moved to San Diego in June, got involved in the Fritz Blitz (Ben in ISAAC, I AM) and am getting a feel for all that San Diego theatre has to offer. Eddie has a BFA in Theatre from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, then primarily acted on stages in Washington, DC, NYC and throughout Europe. He also co-wrote, produced and directed a family film in South Dakota called CLASS PRESIDENT that sent his credit scores tumbling, but at least gave him credit on a movie.

Tom Hall (Evans) Tom recently appeared as Terry in 6th @ Penn's Patte Award winning production of A Hundred Birds, as well as the poet Percy Byshhe Shelly in Howard Brenton's Bloody Poetry, also at 6th @ Penn. Other recent performances include: The Magic Fire at the Moonlight/Avo Playhouse; Julius Caesar at New Village Arts; Hay Fever and Bedroom Farce, also at Moonlight; Relatively Speaking at the North Coast Repertory Theatre; and productions at the Diversionary Theatre and other San Diego theatres. Tom also served as the male understudy for The Love of Three Oranges at the La Jolla Playhouse. North Carolina theatre credits include: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Art, Little Murders, Fuddy Meers; Inherit the Wind. Tom has a
B.A. in Theatre from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Our Production Staff
 

Marybeth Bielawski-DeLeo (Director) holds her Master’s in Theatre Arts with distinction from SDSU’s School of Theatre, Television, and Film where she currently teaches Directing I . With Random Access Productions she directed the world premiere of Lord Derby’s Giant Eland by Patricia Loughrey, (2005 Kennedy Center Mark Twain Award), Assistant Director Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Old Globe, Director NCRT New Works Moonglow, Director WIT, Eccentric Theatre Co., Associate Director Angels in America I, II, SDSU, Director Theseus in the Labyrinth, SDSU, Director SEEK, SDSU, Assistant Director Bug, It’s A Wonderful Life, The Matchmaker, Cygnet Theatre Co. Assistant Director The Laramie Project, SDSU, (2003 Pattè).
 

Christopher Burger (Assistant Director) love for theatre began when he landed a role in his senior year production in high school. He graduated from Coker College in Hartsville, SC with a mathematics major and minors in art and theatre. While in college he received the Irene Ryan nomination for his role in Macbeth. After college, he began teaching math classes in private schools and eventually began directing plays and musicals for each school he has taught at. He has directed Fools, Clue, Once Upon a Mattress, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Fugue in a Nursery.
 

Ryan Ford (Stage Manager) Ryan is pleased to be working on Terra Nova with Inukshuk Productions and 6th at Penn. Ryan's theatre credits include: Scripps Ranch Theatre: Red Herring (Production Stage Manager); North Coast Repertory Theatre: String of Pearls and Dracula (Production Assistant), Honky Tonk Angels and Back to Bacharach and David (Sound Mixer), Leading Ladies and Tuesdays With Morrie (Run Crew), Late Nite Catechism, Sister's Christmas Catechism, The Life and Loves of Dinah Washington, and A Conversation With Edith Head (Stage Manager). Ryan received his B.A. in Theatre Arts from UCSD where he directed Patrick Marber's Closer and served as Producer for Our New Play Spectacular.
 

Mark Helmuth (Set Designer)
 

Bonnie Breckenridge (Light & Sound Designer) made her San Diego debut with Diversionary Theatre, creating the sound design for The Busy World Is Hushed, the lighting for Torch Song Trilogy and the lighting and sound design for the world premiere of The Daddy Machine. She moved to San Diego in 2004 to enter the MFA program in theatrical design at SDSU after a 20 year career in NYC as a technition and designer which included Theatre for the New City, The New York Shakespeare Festival, Sesame Street, Lifetime TV and designs for several community theatres in upstate New York.
 

Kelley Convery (Costume Designer)
 

Amy Reams (Prop Master)
 

Simon Marshall (Projections)
 

Lesley Paterson (Projections)
 

Peter Herman (Make-Up and Hair)
 

Joan Westmoreland (Box Office)