EVERYTHING

tHAT RISES

MUST CONVERGE





From a story by Flannery O'Connor  and created for the stage by Karin Coonrod,  this is  a tragic-comic interracial seat-shifting dance by whites and blacks on a bus in America's deep South.

Playing and speaking the  original text verbatim, eight actors create all the characters and  give us all the narration. Georgia's red earth is slammed up against the eternal and O'Connor's voice embodied in a company of performers carries the power of this apocalyptic comedy right into the audience.


September 21 - 28, 2019,
at Fordham-Bronx, Loyola University - Chicago, and Yale - New Haven

Loyola University of Chicago
Newhart Family Theatre 

Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music 
Marquand Chapel


Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus
The Curran Center for American Catholic Studies

Cast

Juliana Francis Kelly

Robin Galloway

Dion Graham

Jacqueline Gregg

John Kroft

Olivia Oguma

Jake Austin Robertson

Carlton Terrence Taylor


2015   

On tour in the United States

Loyola University (Chicago), Yale Institute of Sacred Art, St. John the Divine (NYC)

Cast

D’ambrose Boyd

Ayeje Feamster

Mary Christopher

Christopher McClinden

Randolph Curtis Rand

Gordana Rashovich

Carlton Terrence Taylor

Jessica Wagner


Creative Team

Direction: Karin Coonrod 

Costume Design: Oana Botez

Light Design: Chris Akerlind

Music Director: Paul Vasile

Assistant Director: Misti Wills

PSM: Kelly Ice

ASM: Brooke Rowzee

Administrative producer: Alyce Dissette

Photography by: Paula Court


2014

On tour in the United States

Georgetown University, Emory University, Bowdoin College, LR/Elisabeth Irwin HS (NYC)

Cast

Jacqueline Antaramian

D’Ambrose Boyd

Ayeje Feamster

Abigail Killeen

Julienne Hanzelka Kim

Christopher McClinden

Randolph Curtis Rand

Carlton Terrence Taylor 


Creative Team

Direction: Karin Coonrod

Costume Design: Oana Botez

Light Design: Chris Akerlind

Assistant Director: Misti Wills

PSM: Larry Smiglewski

Musical Director: Paul Vasile


2009

Convegno Internazionale su Flannery O’Connor

Pontificia Università Della Santa Croce Rome, Italy

Cast

Ledlie Borgerhoff

Ayeje Feamster

Roderick Hill

Jeffrey Jones

Julienne Hanzelka Kim

Randolph Curtis Rand

James Stovall

Janet Sarissa


Creative Team

Direction: Karin Coonrod

 Light Design: Chris Akerlind

Assistant Director: Heidi Carlsen

Music Director: Paul Vasile

Photography by: Ashley Noronha


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flannery o’Connor in the public square

By Susan Srigley


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A brilliant dramatization of a funny, yet shocking Flannery O’Connor short story.

By Joel Benjamin


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Race and Grace: A classic by Flannery O’Connor comes to life.


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southern stories, on the stage and on their own- The New York Times

By Bruce Weber