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BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO

By Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Ian R. Crawford
The Levin Stage
Co-Produced with UMKC Theatre

December 3-28, 2014

The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by an encounter with a quick-witted tiger who haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad attempting to find meaning, forgiveness and redemption amidst the city’s ruins.

CAST

Tiger | Theodore Swetz*
Tom | Danny Fleming
Kev | Matthew J. Lindblom
Musa | Michael Thayer
Uday/Iraqi Man | Damron Russel Armstrong*
Iraqi Teenager/Hadia | Mariem S. Diaz
Iraqi Woman/Leper | Manon Halliburton*

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director | Ian R. Crawford
Stage Manager | Tanya Brown*
Scenic Designer | Sarah White
Lighting Designer | Kristopher Kirkwood
Sound Designer | Sarah B. Putts
Costume Designer | Lindsay W. Davis
Production Assistants | Kelly Schmidli & Morgan Lea

Properties Designer | Bret Engle
UMKC Technical Director | Adam Terry
UMKC Assistant Technical Director | Meg Dolben
Dramaturg | Alyson Germinder
Technical Coordinator | Alex Perry
Assistant Technical Coordinator | Jamie Lindemann

Vocal/Dialect Coach | Scott Stackhouse
Arabic Language Coach | Qays Saud
Translations/Cultural Consultants | Raida Fahmi & Ammar Ramzi
Sound Engineer | Nihan Yesil
Paint Crew | Alexander LaFrance, Zoë Still, Joshua Christ, Bret Engle, & Tzu-Ching Cheng