Calf Scramble
By Libby Carr
This performance will take place at Open Jar Studios - Studio 12J, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 at 3pm on Sunday March 19.
In a barn outside Huntsville, Texas, five Future Farmers of America raise and ruin their prize-winning calves. calf scramble is a raucous rodeo of girls playing God and wrangling for power—over their animals, their bodies, and each other.
Join us for Libby Carr's dangerously funny play in this Workshop Lab presentation. A portion of ticket sales and donations will benefit Harlem Grown, a non-profit inspriring youth to lead healthy and ambitious lives through mentorship and hands-on education in urban farming, sustainability, and nutrition.
Libby Carr is a writer and dance artist from Houston, Texas. Their work lives at the intersection of hyperrealistic dialogue, movement spectacle, and ungroomed youth. Libby’s plays have been developed or produced at the Kennedy Center, the Workshop Theater, the University of Texas at Austin, MOtiVE Brooklyn, and Austin’s Ground Floor Theater. Libby’s thesis play, A Normal Misfortune: More or Less the Story of Iphis, was awarded the 2021 Trice Prize for Creative Scholarship in a Thesis. They were a 2021 and 2022 semifinalist for the Bay Area Playwrights’ Workshop and a 2021 finalist for Playwrights’ Center’s Jerome Fellowship. They have a BA in Playwriting and Directing and a BA in Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin.-- libbycarr.com
Gabby Farrah is a Brooklyn-based director of new work, originally from Boston, MA. She has worked at Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, PlayCo, NYTW Next Door, Page 73, The Kennedy Center, Vox Lab/Dartmouth College, Playground-NY, The Brick, The Tank, MAD House, and Eggtooth Productions. She is currently a Robert Moss Directing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons and she received her BA from Smith College, where she was awarded the Samuel A. Eliot Jr. & Julia Heflin Award for Directing.
Maaike Laanstra-Corn is so excited to be a part of this process!! Recent Credits include Button Lake Band Camp (Clubbed Thumb), Ms. Lily (Clubbed Thumb), Me and Who (The Brick/Rough Draft Festival), Grendel’s Mother (Hunter MFA Playwrights Festival), kemps and Your Own Personal Exegesis (Brown University). BA Brown University!
Bianca Norwood* (They/Them/b) is a Queer, gender fluid, Creole, and Mexican American Theatremaker based in NYC. Credits include work at New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Tectonic Theatre Project, and The Old Globe .They can be seen playing Ryan in the Apple TV+ series WeCrashed (2022) and Christina Delgado in Let The Right One In (2022). b plays Azera in the Qcode podcast Birds of Empire created by Jason Lew. b graduated from The Juilliard School's Drama Division in 2021. b does and is lots of other things but bios can only b so long.
Carmen Berkeley* (she/her) is from Washington Heights, New York, and is currently based in Brooklyn. Recent credits include Wintertime (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater/Second Stage), and Our Town (Barnstormers Theatre). In addition to the Workshop Theater, she has worked with New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Shakespeare's Globe, ArsNova, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Playwrights Realm, Page 73, Normal Ave, Westport Playhouse, La Femme, and others. TV: Law and Order: SVU. BFA: Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Fiona Selmi (dramaturg) is a theater artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She is primarily a dramaturg and director of new works, as well as a producer and a writer. Currently, she is the Artistic Fellow at Playwrights Horizons. Fiona’s work centers gender performance and feminist practices, most notably her recent thesis work entitled “Teenage Girls and Femme Futurities: A Investigation into Contemporary Feminist Storytelling,” Recent projects include: SPITFIRE: a space femme fantasia (Williams College) SKYSCRAPER LULLABY (Audible Theater); THE PODCASTER (Audible Theater); and DOUBT: A PARABLE (Studio Theater). She holds a BA from Williams College in Theater and Political Science
Rebecca Jimenez* Off-Broadway: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (2nd Stage/WP). NY Theatre: Superstitions (New Ohio), The Sketchy Eastern European Show (Players Theatre). BFA graduate from SUNY Purchase.
Juliana Sass* (she/her) recently played Shelby in the world premiere of Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor is the Villain (Studio Theater, Helen Hayes nominated for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play). Other theater credits include Erica Schmidt’s Mac Beth (Hunter Theater Project) and Julius Caesar (Theater for a New Audience). Film credits include A Call to Spy, Radium Girls, and The Sisterhood of Night. Juliana graduated with a BA in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.
*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.