The Metal Shop Performance Lab/JunkHeart present

Anatomy of a Suicide

by Alice Birch

Directed by Alex Mallory

Playing August 12 - 30
Wednesdays - Saturdays at 7: 30PM
Sundays at 3: 30PM

at Redtwist Theatre
1044 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Chicago, IL 60660

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Anatomy of a Suicide follows three generations of women fighting against the current of mental illness and inter-generational trauma across three simultaneous timelines. Featuring an ensemble of ten actors playing 26 characters, Alice Birch’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play draws the audience into a whirlpool of past, present, and future, and the vestiges they leave behind.

There are only 35 seats in the theater, so we recommend reserving yours in advance!
Show poster featuring collaged water on cardboard with a handpainted woman's face with dark hair floating on the water and hands out to her sides. A red bouy floats in the distance.
Production Team:
  • Director/Co-Producer: Alex Mallory
  • Co-Producer: Tatiana Pavela
  • Stage Manager: Sofie Schmeltzer
  • Assistant Stage Manager: Annabelle Lamb
  • Rehearsal ASM & Assistant Producer: AJ Noon
  • Production Manager: Dusty Brown
  • Assistant Director: Marlee Feacher
  • Intimacy Director: Toranika Washington
  • Scenic & Lighting Design: Daphne Agosin
  • Costume Design: Katherin 'Kat' Poon
  • Sound Design: Gina Montalvo
  • Props Design: Lolo Ramos
  • Technical Director: Tom Daniel
  • Costumes Pre-Production: Naomi Arroyo
  • Graphic Design: Andi Muriel
Ten actor headshots arranged in a 3x4 grid with one blank space reading Anatomy of a Suicide and the other reading THE CAST! in red sharpie
Featuring:
  • Carol: Tatiana Pavela
  • Anna: Taigé Lauren
  • Bonnie: Isabel Lee Roden
  • John: Josh Razavi
  • Jamie: Raúl Alonso
  • Jo/Laura/Lola/Woman: Allyce C. Torres
  • Dan/Dave/Nurse/Felix/Luke: Wisterman
  • Emma/Karen/Adult Daisy/Esther/May/Diane: Jocelyn Maher
  • Daisy/Young Anna/Child: Laila Malak
  • Toby/Tim/Mark/Man: Faiz Siddique
Understudies:
  • u/s Carol: Ellen Campbell
  • u/s Anna: Taylor McWilliams-Woods
  • u/s Bonnie: Ashley Leake
  • u/s Jamie: DeVaughn Asanté Loman
  • u/s Jo/Laura/Lola/Woman: Liliana Mastroianni
  • u/s Dan/Dave/Nurse/Felix/Luke: Derek Ray Preston
  • u/s Emma/Karen/Adult Daisy/Esther/May/Diane: Lori Navarrete
  • u/s Daisy/Young Anna/Child: Mery Drilling-Coren
  • u/s Toby/Tim/Mark/Man: Darius Stubbs

This production is independently funded through personal savings, a few generous individual donors, and a grant from Independent Productions Initiative. All donations directly go toward paying artists.

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to make a tax-deductible donation through The Metal Shop's fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.

ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE is presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp.
www.concordtheatricals.com

About JunkHeart
Alex Mallory, photo by Tyler CoreTatiana Pavela, photo by Hannah Ruwe
JunkHeart is a new artistic collaboration between Alex Mallory and Tatiana Pavela. JunkHeart seeks to create bigger worlds for people to witness, so they have bigger worlds to exist within.

Junk because it describes how we often make theatre: recorded on voice memos, written on scçraps of paper, costumed from the back of our closets and thrift store finds. We collect salvaged wood from the landlord’s garage, borrow furniture from our own living rooms, and assemble a motley crew of people to come together because they can’t envision doing anything else

Heart because art should fracture something open to give people more space. We want our projects to expand audiences’ ideas of humanity and leave them feeling more, connecting more, envisioning more possibility. Can your heart be split open and be put back together slightly changed, with light pouring through the cracks?