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Dr. Rees Ziti's Pageant for a Better Future

In the not-so-distant future, after decades of natural decline, we can still count on one splashy spectacle of glamour: Dr. Rees Ziti’s Pageant for a Better Future. Beauty contestants compete to determine who deserves to carry us forward in this zany variety-show-meets-harrowing-government-propaganda-machine.

Ars Nova's ANT FEST 2019

Upcoming: Fool's Fury 2021

Created by The Bellwether Project and Lauren Wimmer

Written by Lauren Wimmer

Directed by Jack Dentinger

Produced by Bixby Elliot, Aubyn Heglie

Original Workshop Production Team

Stage Manager - Samantha Blinn

Costume Design - Nix LoPinto

Set Design - Kassidy Curtis-Lugo

Lighting Design - Jacob Wesson

Sound Design - Caroline Eng

Original Music - Billy Recce

Dramaturgy - Rebecca Hermenze

Choreography - Timiki Salinas & Emilia Suarez

Assistant Costume Design - Lilly Cunicelli

Original Workshop Cast

Restin - Iris Beaumier*

Peiddle - Ariel Neema Blake

Manchini - Carlo Bosticco*

Tesha - Avalon Christie

Ceptia - Chantelle Guido*

Renner - Isabel Pask*

Dr. Rees Ziti - Carson McCalley*

Seloppie - Emilia Suarez

Deffy - Saisha Talwar

Linguine - Marc David Wright

Rae-Yuna - María José Zuniga

Voice Over Aritist - Kennedy McMann

* Appearing Courtesy of Actors Equity Association

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