Break legs! Jaime and Patrina Hurtado, Owners...My fantasy game of choice is the card game, Yu-Gi-Oh, and my knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons came from The Big Bang Theory. I was much

Break legs! Jaime and Patrina Hurtado, Owners

INSPIRATION STUDIOS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Jan 27-Feb 28 Modern Vejigantes Exhibit by Jose T. Maxwell

Feb 10 Village Playhouse presents She Kills Monsters—7:30pm


Feb 14 Modern Vejigantes Open Gallery—4-6pm





Feb 25 “The Actors Bag o Tricks” Workshop—10am-Noon


Feb 26 Village Playhouse presents She Kills Monsters—2pm Matinee


Mar 10 Village Playhouse presents Nightingale—7pm

Mar 11 Village Playhouse presents Nightingale—2pm Matinee


Mar 24 Village Playhouse presents A Doll’s House—7:30pm



Apr 1 Village Playhouse presents A Doll’s House—7:30pm



Apr 9 Village Playhouse presents A Doll’s House—2pm Matinee

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PRODUCTION TEAM

Director Maria Pretzl

Producer / Stage Manager Paul Zaragoza

Set Designer Derek Jacobs

Gabe Rosenthal

Set Construction Larry Beckley

Scott Sorensen

Derek Jacobs

Tim Kietzman

Dragon Design Derek Jacobs

Melody Lopac

Lighting Designer Julia Kendl

Sound Designer Harper Demos

Sound / Light Technician Michelle A. Demos

Fight Choreographer Tawnie Thompson

Fight Captains Paul Sullivan

Lily Sullivan

Hair Design Victoria Diaz

Costume Designer Erzebet “Bette” Schneider

Costume Masters Michelle Miller

Michelle A. Demos

Erzebet “Bette” Schneider

Props Master Moondancer Drake

Building Manager Erico Ortiz

Photography Traveling Lemur

Productions, LLC

Publicity Erico Ortiz

House Manager / Box Office Mary Breitrick

Graphic Designs Derek Jacobs

Program Design Erico Ortiz

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

I’ll admit before taking on this show, I knew next to nothing about Dungeons

& Dragons. My fantasy game of choice is the card game, Yu-Gi-Oh, and my

knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons came from The Big Bang Theory. I was

much like our protagonist when confronted with some of these monsters. For

example, my mental image of a Bug Bear was a grizzly bear with antennae

and beetle wings. I was quickly corrected. But there is more to this show than

monsters.

This show is about the bond between sisters (on that note, hi Moni!) and about

fantasy. Games are among the entertainment mediums that help provide an

escape from the real world. It gives us the opportunity to be strong, magical,

wise or silly, if we so choose. We can weave these follies so we can experi-

ence impossible dreams, grapple with the struggles in reality and find a way to

recharge our personal batteries. And in today’s in social climate a little escape,

a little fantasy, is something we all need.

I would like to thank Paul Zaragoza and the Village Playhouse for this oppor-

tunity, Nate for his support and insight, and of course my parents for every-

thing they’ve done.

I hope you enjoy She Kills Monsters.

-Maria Pretzl

______________________________________________

Music

"Aggregation" production music

courtesy of epidemicsound.com

Other music used under Creative Commons License from Kevin

MacLeod at http://incompetech.com/

SHE KILLS MONSTERS

is produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

http://incompetech.com/

She Kills Monsters Directed

by

Maria Pretzl

(Cast of Characters)

Agnes... Andrea Roedel-Schroeder

Tilly... Lauren Heinen

Chuck... Noah Kennedy

Lillith / Lily... Jackie Benka

Kaliope / Kelly... Sara Wawrzyniak

Miles... Matthew M. Collie

Orcus / Ronnie… James Sullivan

Evil Tina / Farrah... Brianna Sullivan

Evil Gabbi... Victoria Wozniak

Vera... Lily Sullivan

Steve... Will Drake

Narrator... Michelle Miller

Monsters... Noah Kennedy

Victoria Wozniak

Moondancer Drake

Matthew M. Collie

Brianna Sullivan

Maria Pretzl (Director) has a BFA in

Film & Video production and a BA in

Theatre Studies from UW-Milwaukee.

She also studied at Chicago Drama-

tists. She is Co-founder of Traveling

Lemur Productions, LLC. Previous

credits include the following: Theatre:

10 Minute Play Program (Chicago

Dramatists, writer), Scene Shop

Showcase (Chicago Dramatists,

writer), Songs of Love: A Theatrical

Mixtape (TWS, director), Mystery of

Twicknam Vicarage (TWS, co-

director). Film: Super Dad! (director/

writer), Richard II (director/writer),

Cinderella, The First 30,000 Years

(director). She would like to thank

Paul for the opportunity, Nate for his

support and insight and her parents for

everything they’ve done.

Julia Kendl (Light Designer) gradu-

ated from UWM with her BFA in

Technical Production in Theater, with

a specialty in lighting. For her inde-

pendent study she designed the light-

ing for the school’s production of Into

The Woods in their black box studio in

Kenilworth 508. She did the lighting

design for Solstice’s Bloody Bloody

Andrew Jackson and for Village Play-

house’s Eurydice. This is her third

professional design outside of school

and she is excited to be a part of Vil-

lage Playhouse’s production of She

Kills Monsters.

Tawnie Thompson (Fight Choreogra-

pher)is an actor and

Fight Director who

graduated from the

UW-Whitewater

with a BFA in Thea-

tre with an emphasis on performance.

Over the last 4 years (and with special

thanks needed to Christopher Elst) she

has been studying Stage Combat and

holds several certifications through

the DAI and SAFD. Her recent fight

direction credits for the stage include

Coriolanus and Romeo and Juliet with

Voices Found Repertory and The

Wild Party with All In Productions.

Recent film credits include the forth-

coming White Owl series and Beneath

the Tree, a 48HFP production. She

looks forward to continuing her stage

combat journey and thanks the Vil-

lage Playhouse for the fun and ex-

perience and hopes you all enjoy this

wonderful production of She Kills

Monsters!

Paul Zaragoza (Producer/Stage

Manager) is cele-

brating his tenth

show with Village

Playhouse, but first

time being Producer

and second time as Stage Manager.

Previous shows from Village Play-

house include Eurydice, Jake Re-

volver: Freelance Secret Agent, What

About The Baby? and countless other

shows as actor and director. He also

has worked as a light and sound board

operator, Sound Designer and Assis-

tant Director in Theatre Unchained.

PRODUCTION TEAM BIOGRAPHIES


Moondancer Drake (Props Master)

is a Cherokee per-

formance artist and

published fiction nov-

elist. Moon holds a

BFA in Technical

Production in the area of Theatre

from UW-Milwaukee, with a special-

ity in prop-making.

Harper Demos is a theatre student at

Cardinal Stritch University. She en-

joys acting, painting miniatures, and

playing D&D and Warhammer when-

ever she gets the chance in her spare

time. She'd like to thank her family

and friends for all of their love and

support and would especially like to

thank Paul and Maria for this oppor-

tunity to try her hand at sound design.

She hopes you enjoy the show!

SaraLynn Even-

son (Dance Choreog-

rapher) has dance

captained, choreo-

graphed and in-

structed actors, sing-

ers and dancers at

numerous theatres throughout the

US. Most recently as a performer, she

has made her Milwaukee debut play-

ing the role of Muriel in Mirrors of

Desire. For years prior, SaraLynn

acted in many collaborative works in

New York City including Laguerta

in Dex! A Killer Musical – off Broad-

way and Yeast Nation workshops

while simultaneously singing day to

day at the Stardust and dancing regu-

larly at the Alvin Ailey American

Dance Theatre. Favorite regional

credits include Kate in Taming of a

Shrew, Pennywise in Urinetown,

Witch in Into the Woods, Martha

in The Secret Garden, Helena in A

Midsummer Night's Dream, Velma

in Chicago and Woman 1 in Little By

Little. SaraLynn Evenson earned her

BFA in musical theatre and dance

minor at Viterbo University in La

Crosse, WI and continues her studies

at DanceworksMKE, Alvin Ailey and

StepsNYC.

Derek Jacobs (Set

Designer) has played

Dungeons & Dragons

only once, but has

always been fasci-

nated by the world

and artwork behind

the genre. Because of

this, Derek wanted to be a part of this

production. He has been involved

with Village Playhouse for a number

of shows, mostly on stage, but re-

cently is getting more involved be-

hind the scenes. Working in set de-

sign and construction helps give a

broader view of this great thing we

call community theatre.

Erzebet “Bette” Schneider (Costume Designer) is pleased to

continue working with the Village

Playhouse after her Milwaukee debut

last fall with Eurydice. Past credits

include Costume Designer

for Fools and Assistant Costume De-

signer and Costume Tech for the

original musical The Princess

Knight, both at the Malthouse Thea-

ter in Burlington, WI. Ms. Schneider

has also done costume work in Elk-

horn and Delavan.

by

Qui Nguyen

Prologue

Scene 1: Game Shop in Athens, Ohio

Scene 2: Agnes' House/Mystical Beachside in New Landia

Scene 3: Orcus' Cave in New Landia

Scene 4: Vera's Office

Scene 5: New Landia

Scene 6: Farrah's Enchanted Forest

Scene 7: Agnes' House

Scene 8: New Landia


Scene 10: New Landia/Agnes' House


Scene 12: Foot of the Mountain of Steepness

Scene 13: Agnes' Classroom

Scene 14: Agnes' House/Mountain of Steepness

Scene 15: Vera's Office/Ronnie's and Kelly's House

Scene 16: Castle of Evil

—————————————

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

JACKIE BENKA (Lillth/Lily) is thankful

for the opportunity to

work on this truly unique

show. Her favorite roles

include Cookie from Neil

Simon's Rumors, Feste

from Twelfth Night, and

her on going role as Brad Majors and Em-

cee of Sensual Daydreams Milwaukee's

shadow cast of the Rocky Horror Picture

Show. When not appearing onstage she

works as lead writer for Cabaret MKE.

MATTHEW M. COL-

LIE (Miles/Monster) is

making his Village Play-

house debut. A recent

transplant to Milwaukee,

Matthew appeared in The

Best Christmas Pageant

Ever as Father/Bob Brad-

ley this December at Sunset Playhouse.

Other credits include The Sweet New

(Lorenzo), Equivocation (Shag), THE OIL

PROJECT, 33 Variations (Anton

Schindler), and Wit (Dr. Jason Posner)

with Theater B of Fargo, North Dakota;

and The Diviners (Basil Bennett) with

Fargo-Moorhead Community Theater.

Matthew is a member of the National Fo-

rensic Association Hall of Fame.

WILL DRAKE (Steve)

is a Cherokee actor and

singer. Past productions

include Midsummer

Night`s Dream by Wil-

liam Shakespeare, a play

called XII by teacher

John Price, and the 2015

and 2016 Young Person`s Playwriting

Project with Village Playhouse. Will

appreciates the opportunity to to be in this

production.

LAUREN HEINEN (Agnes) is excited to be

involved in her first show

with the Village Play-

house! She was last seen

as a singing elf in For

Purely Elfish Reasons at

Waukesha Civic Theater, and as Frau

Blucher in Young Frankenstein at Lake

Country Playhouse. She admittedly has

never played D&D, but used to work at

the Bristol Renaissance Faire and is

thrilled to do so much butt kicking in this

show.

NOAH KENNEDY (Chuck/Monster) is

pleased to perform in

his second production

with Village Playhouse.

He was last seen in the

2016 Young People’s

Playwriting Project and

looks forward to many more shows in the

future. He hopes this show will be a

“Bigg” hit with the audience.

MICHELLE MILLER (Narrator) Michelle is

happy to be back at Vil-

lage Playhouse for She

Kills Monsters. Most re-

cently she has worked

behind the scenes and

appeared on stage in

VPW's 30th annual One Act Festival and

their 2014 Christmas show. She has previ-

ously appeared in Madam's Been Mur-

dered Tea Will Be Late as Miss Trent with

the West Allis Players.

ANDREA ROEDEL-

SCHROEDER (Tlly)is

honored to perform in her

first show with Village

Playhouse. A newcomer

to the theater, she has

previously appeared in the Boozy Bard’s

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

production of The Picture of Dorian Gray,

and looks forward to continuing to learn

and grow her abilities with talented groups

and exciting roles. Andrea is a purchasing

agent by day and a speculative fiction

author in her spare time. Throughout her

education, she developed a lifelong love of

the written word, as well as plays and

performances and is thrilled to have the

opportunity to participate in an art that she

loves so dearly. Many thanks and much

love to the cast & crew that have been

such a joy to work with, to Inspiration

Studios for hosting us, and to her hus-

band, co-workers, family, & friends for

their infinite support through late nights,

line running during lunch, and for their all

-around awesomeness (and to her two cats,

for always insuring she never loses her

script by laying on it whenever possible!).

BRIANNA SULLI-

VAN (Farrah/Evil

Tina/Monster) is happy

to be fighting in She

Kills Monsters. She

performed as a Magic

in the Children’s show,

The Sorcerer’s Appren-

tice, and was a stage elf in Rumpelstiltskin.

She has worked the last two years with

The Young Person’s Playwriting Project.

She hopes you will enjoy the show.

LILY SULLIVAN (Vera/The Beholder)

Lily has worked with

Village Playhouse,

onstage and off. In

The 39 Steps, she

played Pamela Ed-

wards. She was a Magic in the Children’s

show, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and

worked the lights in Rumpelstiltskin. She

enjoyed stretching her acting skills in the

2016 Young Person’s Playwriting Project

as well. She would like to thank her fellow

actors for making her laugh. Please, enjoy

the show.

JAMES SULLIVAN (Orcus/Ronnie)

has performed for two

years with the Village

Playhouse’s Young

Person’s Playwriting

Project, in multiple

roles. He performed a few years ago in the

Village Playhouse One-Act Festival in

Maps. He has enjoyed working with such

a fun group of actors, and with such a fun

script. He hopes that you enjoy the show.

SARA WAWRZYNIAK

(Kaliope/Kelly) has per-

formed on a variety of

stages since her first pro-

duction of The Wizard of

Oz when she was seven.

She had an early taste of

the theater and couldn’t resist falling into

it with such gusto. Year after year, and

sometimes multiple times a year, she per-

formed in both recreational summer plays

and musicals. She also participated in

school productions as well as community

theatre. Her major roles include Hook

from Peter Pan, Juror Number Three from

Twelve Angry Men, and Rheba from You

Can’t Take It With You. Sara is very ex-

cited to be a part of this production with

its humorous dialogue, fun stage combat,

and “bad-ass-ery”. She hopes you all en-

joy the production and get as much of a

kick out of it as she did! VICTORIA WOZNIAK (Evil Gabbi/Monster)

makes her debut on the

Village Playhouse stage.

She is new to Wisconsin

and hopes you enjoy the

show.

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

JACKIE BENKA (Lillth/Lily) is thankful

for the opportunity to

work on this truly unique

show. Her favorite roles

include Cookie from Neil

Simon's Rumors, Feste

from Twelfth Night, and

her on going role as Brad Majors and Em-

cee of Sensual Daydreams Milwaukee's

shadow cast of the Rocky Horror Picture

Show. When not appearing onstage she

works as lead writer for Cabaret MKE.

MATTHEW M. COL-

LIE (Miles/Monster) is

making his Village Play-

house debut. A recent

transplant to Milwaukee,

Matthew appeared in The

Best Christmas Pageant

Ever as Father/Bob Brad-

ley this December at Sunset Playhouse.

Other credits include The Sweet New

(Lorenzo), Equivocation (Shag), THE OIL

PROJECT, 33 Variations (Anton

Schindler), and Wit (Dr. Jason Posner)

with Theater B of Fargo, North Dakota;

and The Diviners (Basil Bennett) with

Fargo-Moorhead Community Theater.

Matthew is a member of the National Fo-

rensic Association Hall of Fame.

WILL DRAKE (Steve)

is a Cherokee actor and

singer. Past productions

include Midsummer

Night`s Dream by Wil-

liam Shakespeare, a play

called XII by teacher

John Price, and the 2015

and 2016 Young Person`s Playwriting

Project with Village Playhouse. Will

appreciates the opportunity to to be in this

production.

LAUREN HEINEN (Agnes) is excited to be

involved in her first show

with the Village Play-

house! She was last seen

as a singing elf in For

Purely Elfish Reasons at

Waukesha Civic Theater, and as Frau

Blucher in Young Frankenstein at Lake

Country Playhouse. She admittedly has

never played D&D, but used to work at

the Bristol Renaissance Faire and is

thrilled to do so much butt kicking in this

show.

NOAH KENNEDY (Chuck/Monster) is

pleased to perform in

his second production

with Village Playhouse.

He was last seen in the

2016 Young People’s

Playwriting Project and

looks forward to many more shows in the

future. He hopes this show will be a

“Bigg” hit with the audience.

MICHELLE MILLER (Narrator) Michelle is

happy to be back at Vil-

lage Playhouse for She

Kills Monsters. Most re-

cently she has worked

behind the scenes and

appeared on stage in

VPW's 30th annual One Act Festival and

their 2014 Christmas show. She has previ-

ously appeared in Madam's Been Mur-

dered Tea Will Be Late as Miss Trent with

the West Allis Players.

ANDREA ROEDEL-

SCHROEDER (Tlly)is

honored to perform in her

first show with Village

Playhouse. A newcomer

to the theater, she has

previously appeared in the Boozy Bard’s

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

production of The Picture of Dorian Gray,

and looks forward to continuing to learn

and grow her abilities with talented groups

and exciting roles. Andrea is a purchasing

agent by day and a speculative fiction

author in her spare time. Throughout her

education, she developed a lifelong love of

the written word, as well as plays and

performances and is thrilled to have the

opportunity to participate in an art that she

loves so dearly. Many thanks and much

love to the cast & crew that have been

such a joy to work with, to Inspiration

Studios for hosting us, and to her hus-

band, co-workers, family, & friends for

their infinite support through late nights,

line running during lunch, and for their all

-around awesomeness (and to her two cats,

for always insuring she never loses her

script by laying on it whenever possible!).

BRIANNA SULLI-

VAN (Farrah/Evil

Tina/Monster) is happy

to be fighting in She

Kills Monsters. She

performed as a Magic

in the Children’s show,

The Sorcerer’s Appren-

tice, and was a stage elf in Rumpelstiltskin.

She has worked the last two years with

The Young Person’s Playwriting Project.

She hopes you will enjoy the show.

LILY SULLIVAN (Vera/The Beholder)

Lily has worked with

Village Playhouse,

onstage and off. In

The 39 Steps, she

played Pamela Ed-

wards. She was a Magic in the Children’s

show, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and

worked the lights in Rumpelstiltskin. She

enjoyed stretching her acting skills in the

2016 Young Person’s Playwriting Project

as well. She would like to thank her fellow

actors for making her laugh. Please, enjoy

the show.

JAMES SULLIVAN (Orcus/Ronnie)

has performed for two

years with the Village

Playhouse’s Young

Person’s Playwriting

Project, in multiple

roles. He performed a few years ago in the

Village Playhouse One-Act Festival in

Maps. He has enjoyed working with such

a fun group of actors, and with such a fun

script. He hopes that you enjoy the show.

SARA WAWRZYNIAK

(Kaliope/Kelly) has per-

formed on a variety of

stages since her first pro-

duction of The Wizard of

Oz when she was seven.

She had an early taste of

the theater and couldn’t resist falling into

it with such gusto. Year after year, and

sometimes multiple times a year, she per-

formed in both recreational summer plays

and musicals. She also participated in

school productions as well as community

theatre. Her major roles include Hook

from Peter Pan, Juror Number Three from

Twelve Angry Men, and Rheba from You

Can’t Take It With You. Sara is very ex-

cited to be a part of this production with

its humorous dialogue, fun stage combat,

and “bad-ass-ery”. She hopes you all en-

joy the production and get as much of a

kick out of it as she did! VICTORIA WOZNIAK (Evil Gabbi/Monster)

makes her debut on the

Village Playhouse stage.

She is new to Wisconsin

and hopes you enjoy the

show.

CAST BIOGRAPHIES


Moondancer Drake (Props Master)

is a Cherokee per-

formance artist and

published fiction nov-

elist. Moon holds a

BFA in Technical

Production in the area of Theatre

from UW-Milwaukee, with a special-

ity in prop-making.

Harper Demos is a theatre student at

Cardinal Stritch University. She en-

joys acting, painting miniatures, and

playing D&D and Warhammer when-

ever she gets the chance in her spare

time. She'd like to thank her family

and friends for all of their love and

support and would especially like to

thank Paul and Maria for this oppor-

tunity to try her hand at sound design.

She hopes you enjoy the show!

SaraLynn Even-

son (Dance Choreog-

rapher) has dance

captained, choreo-

graphed and in-

structed actors, sing-

ers and dancers at

numerous theatres throughout the

US. Most recently as a performer, she

has made her Milwaukee debut play-

ing the role of Muriel in Mirrors of

Desire. For years prior, SaraLynn

acted in many collaborative works in

New York City including Laguerta

in Dex! A Killer Musical – off Broad-

way and Yeast Nation workshops

while simultaneously singing day to

day at the Stardust and dancing regu-

larly at the Alvin Ailey American

Dance Theatre. Favorite regional

credits include Kate in Taming of a

Shrew, Pennywise in Urinetown,

Witch in Into the Woods, Martha

in The Secret Garden, Helena in A

Midsummer Night's Dream, Velma

in Chicago and Woman 1 in Little By

Little. SaraLynn Evenson earned her

BFA in musical theatre and dance

minor at Viterbo University in La

Crosse, WI and continues her studies

at DanceworksMKE, Alvin Ailey and

StepsNYC.

Derek Jacobs (Set

Designer) has played

Dungeons & Dragons

only once, but has

always been fasci-

nated by the world

and artwork behind

the genre. Because of

this, Derek wanted to be a part of this

production. He has been involved

with Village Playhouse for a number

of shows, mostly on stage, but re-

cently is getting more involved be-

hind the scenes. Working in set de-

sign and construction helps give a

broader view of this great thing we

call community theatre.

Erzebet “Bette” Schneider (Costume Designer) is pleased to

continue working with the Village

Playhouse after her Milwaukee debut

last fall with Eurydice. Past credits

include Costume Designer

for Fools and Assistant Costume De-

signer and Costume Tech for the

original musical The Princess

Knight, both at the Malthouse Thea-

ter in Burlington, WI. Ms. Schneider

has also done costume work in Elk-

horn and Delavan.

by

Qui Nguyen

Prologue

Scene 1: Game Shop in Athens, Ohio

Scene 2: Agnes' House/Mystical Beachside in New Landia

Scene 3: Orcus' Cave in New Landia


Scene 5: New Landia

Scene 6: Farrah's Enchanted Forest

Scene 7: Agnes' House

Scene 8: New Landia


Scene 10: New Landia/Agnes' House


Scene 12: Foot of the Mountain of Steepness

Scene 13: Agnes' Classroom

Scene 14: Agnes' House/Mountain of Steepness

Scene 15: Vera's Office/Ronnie's and Kelly's House

Scene 16: Castle of Evil

—————————————

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

She Kills Monsters Directed

by

Maria Pretzl

(Cast of Characters)

Agnes... Andrea Roedel-Schroeder

Tilly... Lauren Heinen

Chuck... Noah Kennedy

Lillith / Lily... Jackie Benka

Kaliope / Kelly... Sara Wawrzyniak

Miles... Matthew M. Collie

Orcus / Ronnie… James Sullivan

Evil Tina / Farrah... Brianna Sullivan

Evil Gabbi... Victoria Wozniak

Vera... Lily Sullivan

Steve... Will Drake

Narrator... Michelle Miller

Monsters... Noah Kennedy

Victoria Wozniak

Moondancer Drake

Matthew M. Collie

Brianna Sullivan

Maria Pretzl (Director) has a BFA in

Film & Video production and a BA in

Theatre Studies from UW-Milwaukee.

She also studied at Chicago Drama-

tists. She is Co-founder of Traveling

Lemur Productions, LLC. Previous

credits include the following: Theatre:

10 Minute Play Program (Chicago

Dramatists, writer), Scene Shop

Showcase (Chicago Dramatists,

writer), Songs of Love: A Theatrical

Mixtape (TWS, director), Mystery of

Twicknam Vicarage (TWS, co-

director). Film: Super Dad! (director/

writer), Richard II (director/writer),

Cinderella, The First 30,000 Years

(director). She would like to thank

Paul for the opportunity, Nate for his

support and insight and her parents for

everything they’ve done.

Julia Kendl (Light Designer) gradu-

ated from UWM with her BFA in

Technical Production in Theater, with

a specialty in lighting. For her inde-

pendent study she designed the light-

ing for the school’s production of Into

The Woods in their black box studio in

Kenilworth 508. She did the lighting

design for Solstice’s Bloody Bloody

Andrew Jackson and for Village Play-

house’s Eurydice. This is her third

professional design outside of school

and she is excited to be a part of Vil-

lage Playhouse’s production of She

Kills Monsters.

Tawnie Thompson (Fight Choreogra-

pher)is an actor and

Fight Director who

graduated from the

UW-Whitewater

with a BFA in Thea-

tre with an emphasis on performance.

Over the last 4 years (and with special

thanks needed to Christopher Elst) she

has been studying Stage Combat and

holds several certifications through

the DAI and SAFD. Her recent fight

direction credits for the stage include

Coriolanus and Romeo and Juliet with

Voices Found Repertory and The

Wild Party with All In Productions.

Recent film credits include the forth-

coming White Owl series and Beneath

the Tree, a 48HFP production. She

looks forward to continuing her stage

combat journey and thanks the Vil-

lage Playhouse for the fun and ex-

perience and hopes you all enjoy this

wonderful production of She Kills

Monsters!

Paul Zaragoza (Producer/Stage

Manager) is cele-

brating his tenth

show with Village

Playhouse, but first

time being Producer

and second time as Stage Manager.

Previous shows from Village Play-

house include Eurydice, Jake Re-

volver: Freelance Secret Agent, What

About The Baby? and countless other

shows as actor and director. He also

has worked as a light and sound board

operator, Sound Designer and Assis-

tant Director in Theatre Unchained.


PRODUCTION TEAM

Director Maria Pretzl

Producer / Stage Manager Paul Zaragoza

Set Designer Derek Jacobs

Gabe Rosenthal

Set Construction Larry Beckley

Scott Sorensen

Derek Jacobs

Tim Kietzman

Dragon Design Derek Jacobs

Melody Lopac

Lighting Designer Julia Kendl

Sound Designer Harper Demos

Sound / Light Technician Michelle A. Demos

Fight Choreographer Tawnie Thompson

Fight Captains Paul Sullivan

Lily Sullivan

Hair Design Victoria Diaz

Costume Designer Erzebet “Bette” Schneider

Costume Masters Michelle Miller

Michelle A. Demos

Erzebet “Bette” Schneider

Props Master Moondancer Drake

Building Manager Erico Ortiz

Photography Traveling Lemur

Productions, LLC

Publicity Erico Ortiz

House Manager / Box Office Mary Breitrick

Graphic Designs Derek Jacobs

Program Design Erico Ortiz

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

I’ll admit before taking on this show, I knew next to nothing about Dungeons

& Dragons. My fantasy game of choice is the card game, Yu-Gi-Oh, and my

knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons came from The Big Bang Theory. I was

much like our protagonist when confronted with some of these monsters. For

example, my mental image of a Bug Bear was a grizzly bear with antennae

and beetle wings. I was quickly corrected. But there is more to this show than

monsters.

This show is about the bond between sisters (on that note, hi Moni!) and about

fantasy. Games are among the entertainment mediums that help provide an

escape from the real world. It gives us the opportunity to be strong, magical,

wise or silly, if we so choose. We can weave these follies so we can experi-

ence impossible dreams, grapple with the struggles in reality and find a way to

recharge our personal batteries. And in today’s in social climate a little escape,

a little fantasy, is something we all need.

I would like to thank Paul Zaragoza and the Village Playhouse for this oppor-

tunity, Nate for his support and insight, and of course my parents for every-

thing they’ve done.

I hope you enjoy She Kills Monsters.

-Maria Pretzl

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Music

"Aggregation" production music

courtesy of epidemicsound.com

Other music used under Creative Commons License from Kevin

MacLeod at http://incompetech.com/

SHE KILLS MONSTERS

is produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

http://incompetech.com/


Jan 27-Feb 28 Modern Vejigantes Exhibit by Jose T. Maxwell








Feb 25 “The Actors Bag o Tricks” Workshop—10am-Noon


Feb 26 Village Playhouse presents She Kills Monsters—2pm Matinee


Mar 10 Village Playhouse presents Nightingale—7pm









Apr 9 Village Playhouse presents A Doll’s House—2pm Matinee

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