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GENEVRA GALLO-BAYIATES |
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Genevra Gallo-Bayiates began her theatrical career in the 4th grade as Paddington Bear, which was a smashing success. A graduate of Boston University, she went on to found smallchangeTheatreCo. with fellow BU colleagues and worked as a writer and performer on several inaugural productions. While in Boston, she also choreographed Dancing at Lughnasa for Emerson University and The Bacchae at Open Door Theatre. Upon moving to Chicago, she worked as an actress with American Theatre Company, Bailiwick Repertory, and Court Theatre, and performed Off-Broadway in JoAnne Akalaitis' The Iphigenia Cycle. Ms. Gallo-Bayiates was a Neo-Futurist ensemble member from 2001 to 2005; she rejoined the company as an active ensemble member in 2009. She has performed regularly in their late-night hit, .Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind and also has been involved in the following Neo-Futurist full-length productions: Curious Beautiful (performer); 43 Plays For 43 Presidents (choreographer, co-writer/director, performer); Game/Place/Show (co-writer/director, performer); City Girl! (performer, Minneapolis Fringe); It Came from the Neo-Futurarium II & III (performer); A 60-Minute History of Humankind (movement director, choreographer); CHICAGO! The News Show (co-writer, performer); Inside My Mouth (curator, co-writer, performer); Daredevils! (dance choreographer); and Crisis: A Musical Game Show (question writer). Her work has been published in This Day: Diaries from American Women (Beyond Words Publishing, Inc.); Neo-Solo: 131 Neo-Futurist Solo Plays (Hope and Nonthings Publishing); and 200 More Neo-Futurist Plays (Hope and Nonthings Publishing). She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and colleague, Andy Bayiates, their beautiful daughter, and a very loud Boston Terrier.
Plays by Genevra Gallo-Bayiates
44 Plays For 44 Presidents | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, IL | 31 Jan 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Neo-Futurists | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51218 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/drama/experimental/political/historic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 either (5-158 actors possible: 0-158 females, 0-158 males) | |||||
Notes: | by Andy Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Chloe Johnston, and Karen Weinberg | |||||
Synopsis: | 44 Plays For 44 Presidents is a chronological, biographical survey of the lives and presidencies of each of the 44 men who have held the office so far. Their mistakes and successes are celebrated by a company of actors who take turns donning a star-spangled coat that symbolizes the presidency. Beginning with George Washington's almost Eden-like perfection, the scenes shift frequently between the comic and the tragic, from Ben Franklin giving Thomas Jefferson a Borscht Belt-style roast, to the frank portrayal of William Henry Harrison's life as an "Indian slayer," and later the grim onset of the Civil War. Act II starts off the twentieth century with the assassination of William McKinley, moves through a Nixon-praising dance number, a George Bush Sr. mini-musical about dirty campaigning and arrives at a polarized America in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama plays. Audience members consider their role in shaping the history they've just witnessed, as they are left to ponder where the presidency has gone since its fall from paradise. . .and where it will go next. | |||||
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