**Online tickets are sold out. Walk-ups will be admitted, space permitting.
by Euripides
Adapted by Ben Power
Directed by Tiffani Swalley
Showtimes
Thursday, February 23, 8pm
Friday, February 24, 8pm
Saturday, February 25, 2pm
Saturday, February 25, 8pm
Sunday, February 26, 2pm
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Medea, a directing thesis production by current student Tiffani Swalley.
“I choose to take back my life. My life.”
For the sake of her husband, Jason, Medea left her home and gave him two sons in exile. But when Jason abandons his family for a new bride and a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. She begs King Kreon for one day's grace. Is one day enough time to carry out her plans? Will the gods provide her a way out? Will she take fate into her own hands and how far will she go? How far would you go, to take back your life?
Content Warning
Please be advised that this production contains or discusses the following themes: Sexual Content, Domestic Violence, Murder, Child Murder, and strobe lighting.
Run Time
100 minutes, no intermission
Featuring
Emily Sullivan - MEDEA
Joseph Kane - JASON
Derek Herman- JASON’S ATTENDANT
Rebecca Wood - NURSE
Patrick Troy-Brandt - KREON
Aaron Good - AEGEUS
Erin Long - KREUSA
Isaac Woods - MEDEA’S SON
Peter Bertucco - MEDEA’S SON
Leigh Dillon - WOMAN OF CORINTH
Sheena Laird - WOMAN OF CORINTH
Griffin Lockette - WOMAN OF CORINTH
Paris L’Hommie - WOMAN OF CORINTH
Lavender/Logan Kelley - WOMAN OF CORINTH
Mackenzie Moyer - WOMAN OF CORINTH
Tiffany Tan - WOMAN OF CORINTH
Production Team & Crew
Director Tiffani Swalley (current student)
Production Stage Manager Amelia McGinnis (current student)
Producer Mary Alex Daniels (current student)
Assistant Stage Managers Ruth Gershberg (current student)
Assistant Director Josie Bourelly (current student)
Thesis General Manager Zhiwei Ma (current student)
Choreographer Sheena Laird
Intimacy Director Jacqueline Holloway
Scenic Designer Nadja Antic
Costume Designer Liv Rigdon
Prop Designer Erin Long
Lighting Designer Natasha Rotondaro
Sound Designer Max Silverman
Video Designer Vivienne Shaw (current student)
Dramaturgs Dezi Tibbs and Begum (Begsy) Inal (current student)
Company Manager Savana Leveille (current student)
About the Artist
Tiffani Swalley (she/they) is a third year Director at Columbia University School of the Arts. Their work at Columbia includes new plays such as: God and Girl, Deep Soil, Purgatory for Women who have Committed Suicide and Queen of the Hive which she also wrote. Other Columbia works include Shakespeare’s MacBeth and An Evening of Chekhov’s Vaudevilles. This past fall, Tiffani Assistant Directed Siti Company’s Radio MacBeth and War of the Worlds, directed by Anne Bogart. Currently, Tiffani is Assistant Directing, Broadway’s The Thanksgiving Play, directed by Rachel Chavkin and written by Larissa FastHorse. Tiffani would like to thank everyone who made this production of Medea possible, including but not limited to Anne Bogart, Brian Kulick, Ben Power, Dan and Judi Moore, Erin Long, Sheena Laird, the whole Creative Team, Production Team, staff of Lenfest Theatre and Columbia University.