Theatre Performances
- Cancelina
- The Half-Sibling Play
- 809 Almond
- Dead Girl's Quinceañera
- No Singing In The Navy
No Singing In The Navy
by Milo Cramer. directed by Aysan Celik
May 10 - May 18 | Arthur Wagner Theatre
About the Show
Three silly sailors have $100 and 24 hours in San Diego before they’re shipped off to war and certain death. A loving and sardonic riff on the golden (problematic) age of musical theater, NO SINGING IN THE NAVY looks at what happens when American ideas of innocence and nostalgia collide with messy political realities and uncomfortable truths.
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The Cast
Sailor 1: Bailey Lee
Sailor 2: Elliot Saga
Sailor 3: Ellen Nikbakht*
Understudies
U/S Sailor 1: Emjay Williams
U/S Sailor 2: Tommy Huebner
U/S Sailor 3: Madeleine Kerr
*Members of Actor's Equity Association
Creative Team
Music Director: Padra Crisafulli
Scenic Design: Maddie Butler
Costume Design: Ting Xiong
Lighting Design: Stephaney Knapp
Dramaturg: Natalia Demko
Fight & Intimacy Director: Rachel Flesher
Music Mentor/ Accompanist: Kyle Blair
Assistant Director: Clara Williams
Assistant Director: Wes Jensen
Assistant Music Director: Ash Floyd
Assistant Accompanist: Kelly Feng
Assistant Light Design: Melody Vilitchai
Assistant Costume Design: Kiki Drew
Assistant Costume Design: Anthony Mercado
EDI Faculty Advocates: Robert Brill
Stage Management Team
Production Stage Manager: Huai Huang
Assistant Stage Manager: Tess Twomey
Assistant Stage Manager: Connor Rankin
Production Assistant: Angela Zhang
About the Playwright
Milo Cramer is a third-year MFA student. As a child, Milo couldn’t pronounce “r,” “k,” “ch,” “th,” “j,” or “t,” and was in speech therapy until age 10 - a lot of his work is trying to process human connection and misunderstanding on a very basic level! Milo’s audio-play Boy Factory - a thrillingly vulnerable masturbation confessional - can be heard on Playwrights Horizons: Soundstage. His play Cute Activist premiered at The Bushwick Starr in 2018 (“a brilliant match of material and theater…a fable for our times” – Jesse Green, NYT). With New Saloon Theater Company (co-founder), Milo spent four years collaboratively devising Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time (“delightful… a spring-green forum on youth’s discontents” – Helen Shaw, Village Voice), presented at The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival. Milo is a Macdowell Fellow and is under commission from Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons. He is working on a one person musical about the New York City school system.
About the Director
Professor Aysan Celik (she/hers) has worked as an actor and theater-maker for over 20 years. She has originated roles in world premieres of plays, created cutting-edge experimental performances with her collaborators, and inhabited a variety of parts Off Broadway in New York, at U.S. regional theaters, and on international tours. Professor Aysan's research interest, an exploration of the relationship between comedy and social justice, guides much of her recent and upcoming work as a creator and actor.
Professor Celik is an alumna of UCLA and the ART Institute at Harvard and is a member of acclaimed New York theater companies Theater Mitu and The Civilians. Before joining the UC San Diego community, Aysan was a professor at New York University Abu Dhabi for 10 years, where she had the privilege of working with students from over 116 countries. Originally from California, she is the daughter of Middle Eastern immigrants.