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