Dream Delivery Service
A dedicated team of workers in white-collar shirts and ties assemble each night for a serious purpose: to create and deliver dreams to an unseen Dreamer. Using old-school overhead projectors, fax machines, Xerox copies, and other analog technologies, they create handmade visions that beguile, enchant, frighten, and captivate. But as the night goes on, the Dreamer begins to lose their ability to dream, and the dream-workers find themselves threatened by a powerful new technology. Combining puppetry, projection, physical theater, clowning, and spectacle, Dream Delivery Service is a live cinematic experience about the power of the human connection amidst the distractions and entrapments of the digital era.
A Manual Cinema Co-Production with the University of Chicago as part of the Theatre and Performance Studies Spring Pro Show.
Concept and Direction by Sarah Fornace
Credits
Concept and Direction by Sarah Fornace
Devised by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, & Julia Miller
Original Music & Sound Design by Ben Kauffman & Kyle Vegter
Storyboards, Puppet Design & Construction by Drew Dir
Costume Design by Mieka van der Ploeg
Lighting Design by David Goodman-Edberg
Projection Design by Rasean Davonté Johnson
Additional Puppet Construction by Rooke Hyde
Stage Manager and Board Operator Maydi Díaz
Intimacy Direction by Charlie Baker
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STAFF
Chair, Theatre and Performance Studies John Muse
Director of Performance Devon de Mayo
Director of Dance Julia Rhoads
Director of Design Rasean Davonté Johnson
Director of Undergraduate Studies Tina Post
Director of Creative Research Leslie Buxbaum
Managing Director Jazmin Jones-Oliver
Production Manager Brianna Parry
Academic Administrator Vicki Walden
Technical Director Ben Caracello
Costume Shop Manager Nathan Rohrer
Props Manager Jenny Pinson
Lighting Manager Garrett Bell
Sound Manager Hannah Foerschler
Marketing Coordinator Mari Joy Asiado
Theater Production Coordinator Natalie Rarick
STUDENT PRODUCTION TEAM
Josiah Rubio Assistant Director
Elisa Gao Puppet Construction
Anoushka Gehani Puppet Construction
Jo Selmeczy Puppet Construction
Maddie Mathes Assistant Costume Designer
Ava Pasierb Costume Assistant
Celeste Taylor Costume Fabrication
Lavanya Gupta Costume Fabrication
Zoe Jalkut Assistant Lighting Design
Anna Cho Assistant Sound Designer
Ash Kim Assistant Projection Designer
Coco Huang Dramaturg
STUDENT ACTORS
Nina Maxin Dream Deliverer 1
Nevaeh Chen Dream Deliverer 2
Kaya Kei Lau Dream Deliverer 3
Melanie (Mel) Azpeitia Dream Deliverer 4
Sarah Thau Cyborg Dreamer
Daniel Olmo Father Shadow/Puppeteer
Asteria Mao Romance Woman Dreamer
Faer Son AI Woman
Ian Hopkins Man/AI Man
Julia Morales Monk Dreamer
Julia Miller (MC)^ Abbott
Spencer Roh Claude