**Cancelled
Written by Anna Rebek and The GASP! Writers’ Room
Directed by Anna Rebek ‘20
Showtimes
Friday, March 6, 2020 @ 8 pm
Saturday, March 7, 2020 @ 2 pm
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 @ 8 pm
Thursday, March 12, 2020 @ 8 pm
Saturday, March 14, 2020 @ 8 pm
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present the production of GASP!, by Anna Rebek '20
Held on the Bloomingdale’s campus over the course of a 48-hour retreat; eight families, couples, and participants engage in role-playing and writing exercises in order to try and increase their positive communication skills through the lens of horror. Just as the group is coming closer to achieving their communication goals, a journal beckons from the past, and they find out there’s a sinister history to this place. As they continue to dig, they awaken an ancient evil lurking underneath that has an appetite… Truth and communication are put to the ultimate test if they are to work together and make it out alive.
FEATURING
Jumaane Askew, Isaac Beauchamp, Emily Caffery, Jessica Chang, Faith Connor, Kimberly David, Nadia Diamond, Azad Fakhari, Mayelin Geraldino, SaeHwan (Ian) Lim, Stephanie Litchfield, Marina Mikhalyova, Maureen O'Boyle, Paul Weissman, and Rebecca Werner
PRODUCTION TEAM
Producer/Company Manager George Anthony Youakim
Dramaturg Emily Taplin Boyd
Production Stage Manager Taeuk Kang
1st Assistant Stage Manager Cassie Cushing
Set Designer Megan Parker
Costume Designer Lisa Cassidy
Lighting Designer Andrew Carr
Sound Designer Serena Roan
Composer Michael Wyson
Wardrobe Supervisor Lydia Witt
Wardrobe Crew Tenneh Sillah
Wardrobe Crew Amelia Johnson
Run Crew/Props Phoebe Brooks
Light Board Operator Andrew Agress
Run Crew Alaudin Ullah
Strike Only Crew Katherine George
Graphic Designer Annie Jin Wang
About the Director
Anna Rebek is the writer/director of GASP! and is currently in her third year of study as an MFA Directing candidate at Columbia University School of the Arts. During her course of study she has been guided by the auspicious Anne Bogart and the scholastic Brian Kulick to grind her teeth in some of the most challenging material out there, including full productions of Uncle Vanya, MARAT/SADE, and The Tempest. Favorite professional projects include The Two Character Play at the 13th st repertory theatre, Mary V at the nyc fringe, King Lear at the Brick, and the Gasp! Workshop at Dixon Place. Recent regional work includes assisting/observing Saheem Ali on Anne Washburn’s SHIPWRECK at Woolly Mammoth. This spring she will assist Pirronne Yousefzadeh on Vietgone at the Geva Theatre. Anna is thrilled to feature some of her favorite New York writers in her GASP! script, which is filled with their bewitching stories. She hopes you’ll join us in meeting a Lovecraftian world in her thesis, GASP!
Directing Thesis Interview: GASP!
Anna Rebek takes on the task of creating an original Horror work with her Director’s Thesis GASP!