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How many things can you make with a cardboard box? In box., Mr. Dennis takes on this challenge and more in this often poignant and always hysterical, journey through our infatuation with the corrugated cardboard box mapping out missed turns, blind alleys and dead-ends of one man’s struggle to traverse the toll-road to middle age . . . in a box.(bag dash)
Mr. Dennis romps through India seeking the mysteries of life and political correctness: a solo tour de force combining comedy, angst and social media. bag—, showcases Elkins’ madcap race trying to accomplish three things: scatter his son’s ashes, grab a divine epiphany about life after 50 and see the Taj Mahal—against the backdrop of the 2016 elections.(blood line)
Growing up Kansas, he was taught that if you work hard and obey God, you get rewarded with a happy home, a good job, a white picket fence, a dog, a cat and 2.3 children. How’s that working for you, Mr. Dennis? blood is a musical “treasure hunt” intent on finding the culprit responsible for such a fable and will go into rehearsal Fall 2020.writer and actor
25 years, until mid-2017, were focused on academic theatre in the US Southeast and Rocky Mountain areas. He currently resides in New York or on the road. Recently, Elkins has been creating three original solo shows celebrating the escapades of Mr. Dennis in the N trilogy: box., bag— and blood. The trilogy is a composite of three independent plays tracking the unpredictability of cardboard boxes, the chaotic travels of a middle-aged man on the loose in India and the inevitable chaos of retirement (when set to music). Dennis has also developed and performed other one-man shows of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Poe’s Never Bet the Devil Your Head, and Tipping the Glass, an Evening with O. Henry. Favorite roles include Lear, Shylock, Polonius, Sir Toby, Rothko, Picasso, Joe Keller and Edna Turnblad. Favorite venues include the Nashville Rep, the Clarence Brown Company, the Colorado and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore and Thingamajig Theatre Company, Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Directing credits include Merry Wives of Windsor and Comedy of Errors for the New Mexico Shakespeare Festival, The Pirates of Penzance, Spring Awakening, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Learned Ladies and Little Women. Elkins is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and a member of Actors’ Equity Association.
director/co-collaborator
Karla Knudsen Director/co-collaborator of the box. trilogy and the solo acoustic musical, A Sea Full of Stars. She has directed/performed with Savannah Shakes, Savannah Rep, and Collective Face Theatre and taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Karla serves as consulting editor for ARTPULSE.
Summers, she can be found hiking glaciers and building tiny houses with her family. Karla holds degrees from SCAD and Carnegie Mellon University.
lighting designer
ELAINE WONG is from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and received her MFA in Lighting Design from Rutgers University. She is currently a freelance lighting designer and master electrician based out of Toronto, and a member of Resolve Productions.
Her work has been seen with Resolve Productions, New Light Theater Project, Thingamajig Theatre Company, Mile Square Theatre, The Flea, Snapped Productions, American Theater Group, The Princeton Festival and others.
www.elainewong-lx.com
sound Designer, composer
Robert is thrilled to be joining Dennis again on another epic tale of adventure. Robert is a Sound Designer, Composer, Hacker, and Educator based out of Chicago IL. Scratch this part of your program (or screen) to hear a fun sound, or check out some of his previous work at Techmagicdesigns.com. Proud member of USA 829.
stage manager, design assistant and board operator
Monique is from Colorado Springs Colorado, and she recently graduated from Fort Lewis College with a BA in Technical Theatre. During her time at Fort Lewis College, she had one World Denver Broadway nomination in 2017 for Best Lighting Design for a straight play. This performance of box. is Monique’s first show after graduation. She is excited to work with outstanding designers as well as participating in the directing process.
graphic design
Brooklyn based graphic designer, writer, actor and improviser. Max is available for all your print design and/or comedy needs! Huge thanks to Mr. Elkins for having me along for this wild ride. Please visit maxreinhardsen.com for more information.
videographer
William Kyle Odum is a Nashville based Director, Producer, Sound Designer, Lighting Designer and all-around theatre-maker. He is also a Co-Founder and an Artistic Council member with Woven Theatre Company and serves as a producer on all productions. Mr. Odum holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Directing and is a member of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) and the Association of Sound Designers (ASD). woventheatre.org
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