2022 Perfomances

The Seldom’s Founding Artistic Director writes: Superbloom continues our company’s long-running interest in environmental themes. Previous dance theater pieces have been about plastic pollution, climate change, and the American obsession with the lawn. As points of departure, we will be drawing on the book, The Practice of the Wild by deep ecologist Gary Snyder, which speaks about sustainability, the commons, and wildness.

The Seldoms is a nationally touring dance company from Chicago that creates bold, intellectually adventurous, multimedia performances and has created a series of increasingly ambitious environmentally-themed works.

Jackie Kazarian's paintings, works on paper, and installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide and are in many permanent collections, including the State of Illinois Art Museum, Rockford Art Museum, DePaul University Art Collection, and the United States Embassy, Armenia.

Kazarian served as an art envoy for the U.S. State Department in Syria (2011) and Kuwait (2017) and was a 2009 fellow at the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BS from Duke University.

Her new work will be exhibited September 24-November 13 at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago as part of Toolbox @20: The Seldoms.

A group of highly passionate, but out-of-touch arts administrators struggle to save their dying Opera House in Chicago. General Manager Richard Lewis and his cobbled-together team of employees must execute the turn-around of the century. Their sincere, but often misguided attempts to keep the House from falling off a cliff force them to take a hard look at not only themselves but the House’s past, present, and future - if there is even meant to be one.

Morgan Middleton is most recently a Young Artist with Chicago Opera Theater (COT). She received a 2018 Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was a 2017 Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera. A two-time winner of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Spouses’ Heineken Performing Arts Scholarship, Middleton is equally active as an arts producer. Through a highly competitive process, she was awarded grants by New England Conservatory of Music’s Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department and by The Boston Foundation to produce and perform a one-woman show, Remember When, at the historic Coolidge Corner Theatre.

Henry suffers a head trauma causing him to lose the ability to create new memories. Maria, his wife, and Patrick, his doctor, become entwined as they both struggle to balance their own lives with the life of a man stuck in one perpetual moment. At a time when Patrick becomes frustrated by the lack of progress in his work, Maria convinces him to allow Henry to play piano. When music reenters their lives everything seems to change for the better, until they learn what is lost may never return.

Brian James Polak was raised in New Hampshire and resides in Madison, WI. His plays include WELCOME TO KEENE, NH, THE PATIENT (The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award), LAST TO DIE FOR A LOST CAUSE (The Kennedy Center’s John Cauble Award), HERE RESTS THE HEART, THE GRAVEDIGGERS UNION, and others. His work has been published by Smith & Kraus, Talon Review, Commonplace Books, NoPassport Press, Next Stage Press, and Canyon Voices. Currently writing: HOTEL HOLLYWOOD about the collision between capitalism and homelessness in downtown Los Angeles and THE MEETING about what artists might do in a fascist society where the arts have been banned. Brian is the producer and host of American Theatre Magazine's "The Subtext," a podcast by/for/about playwrights and playwriting. He received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts. 

A stripped-down, theatrical, and unconventional treatment of the classic film, that employs drama, intrigue, mystery, romance, and everything you might expect in a mistaken-identity, erudite potboiler.

Dan Klarer has been seen on and off Door County stages since 2006. Dan is an actor, fight director, stage manager, costume designer, and calls beautiful Door County home. He has worked across America and internationally in the UK. Dan received his master's degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow and has a BA from UW Stevens Point. Recent theater credits include: First Folio, Artists’ Ensemble, Third Avenue Playworks, Door Shakespeare, Peninsula Players, Northern Sky Theatre, Theatre at the Center, Children’s Theatre Madison, Go Fish Productions, Chicago Kids Company, and the Goodman Theatre.

As a Door County artist, Ryan Schabach has directed, designed, produced, taught, choreographed, and acted in numerous productions throughout the peninsula over the past 18 years. Theatre credits include: Milwaukee Rep, The Utah Shakespearean Festival, Next Act, MKE Chamber Theatre, Stages in Houston, and 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA. Ryan recently premiered in John Pielmeier’s newest play - HOOK’S TALE at Stages. He is also the Co-Writer of PANTO STAR FORCE. As a Grad student at Madison, Ryan researched the workings of new-play development under the mentorship of Wisconsin playwright, Richard Kalinoski.

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