Skin of Our Teeth

Directed by Sarah Rasmussen

@ Sheila & Hughes POTIKER Theatre
UCSD Theatre District/La Jolla Playhouse
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November 19 - December 1

About the Play

About the Author

The very underpinnings of American identity are challenged, as a typical family struggles to survive an iceberg, annihilation by coastal flooding, nuclear war and each other.

Thornton Niven Wilder, master American dramatist, was born into an intellectually gifted, ivy-league educated family ruled by a strict Congregationalist father who was American consul general to Hong Kong in the early 1900’s and nurtured by a poetess mother who taught her children a love for literature, language and drama. Thornton survived his twin brother at birth, had an older brother and three younger sisters – all highly accomplished in their own fields. A novelist and playwright, Wilder is the only Pulitzer-Prize winner to receive the award in both Drama and Literature: he received his first Pulitzer Prize (Literature) for The Bridge of San Luis Rey; his second (Drama) for Our Town; and, his third and last (Drama) for his “most ambitious project,” The Skin of Our Teeth. The latter premiered on a Broadway stage in November 1942 to mixed critical and public acceptance. Amidst accusations of plagiarism, audience walk-outs, and political hotspots over the playwright’s privileged status and intellectual presumptuousness, this playful tragicomic allegory with layer upon layer of “players” is now in its 65th year of production on international stages.

About the Director

Director SARAH RASMUSSEN is a third-year MFA student. Her UCSD directing credits include Red State Blue Grass, Twelfth Night, and Catching Flight. She assistant directed Gum and Blood Wedding. Ms. Rasmussen has directed at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New Dramatists, the Hangar Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center and for Pillsbury House Theatre’s Chicago Ave. Project and has assistant directed at the Guthrie Theatre, Children’s Theater Company, Ten Thousand Things Theatre and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Sarah is the recipient of a Fulbright, a Drama League Directing Fellowship and is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab.

The Cast

The Creative Team

Graduates

Walter Belenky
Lorene Chesley
Michelle Diaz
Liz Elkins
Molly Fite
Joel Gelman
Larry Herron
Rufio Lerma
Rebecca Levy
Pearl Rhein
Brandon Taylor
Josh Wade

Undergraduates

Madeleine Allen
Matthew Black
Matthew Bovee
Lindsey Covarrubias
Al Evangelista
Christine Herde
Nicole Keepers
Nick Louie

Director - Sarah Rasmussen
Production Stage Manager - Kelly Glasow
Dramaturg - Michael Jaros
Scenic Designer - Kristin Ellert
Costume Designer - Rachel Shachar
Lighting Designer - Stephen Sakowski
Sound Designer - Chris Luessmann
Asst Director - Thomas Dugdale
Asst Stage Managers - Sandi Kroll & Kevin Fitzpatrick
Asst Scenic Designer - Robert Tintoc
Asst Costume Designer - Sohhee Han
Asst Lighting Designers - James Tan & Scott Fishbach
Asst Sound Designer - Alyssa Ishii

Performances

Parking&Location

Located at: Sheila & Hughes POTIKER Theatre

Parking: Passes Required: Monday through Friday. Weeknight passes are $2 per vehicle and can be purchased at the parking kiosks near the Mandell Weiss Theatre. Please remember the space number you have parked in as you will need it at the kiosks.

Note: Kiosks take all major credit cards except Discover and when paying with cash you must use exact change, NO CHANGE GIVEN.

Parking Passes Not Required: Saturdays and Sundays

http://www-theatre.ucsd.edu/places/parking.html

Cars without permits are subject to ticketing by UCSD Campus Police. The Theatre & Dance Department does not have the authority to waive and can not pay parking tickets.

Tickets

Advance tickets for this production are available Monday-Friday, noon to 6 pm by calling the Box Office at 858.534.4574 or in person at the Theatre District’s Central Box Office at the Sheila & Hughes Potiker Theatre. 

At-the-Door tickets, if available, can be purchased one hour before show time at the performing theatre’s box office at the Sheila & Hughes Potiker Theatre.

General Admission: $15
UCSD Faculty/Staff and Seniors (over 62): $12
UCSD Students/UCSD Alumni Association (with ID): $10
*Preview performance on Saturday, Nov. 17th at 7:00pm is offered at the reduced ticket prices of $12/$10/$8

Reserve Tickets

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