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Merchant on Venice by Shishir Kurup

 

Where
THE BARD Meets BOLLYWOOD!


Playwright Shishir Kurup

 

 

Photos by Johnny Knight

THE WORLD PREMIERE

Written by Shishir Kurup  
Directed by Stuart Carden

Silk Road Theatre Project
at The Historic Chicago Temple Building
77 W. Washington St., Pierce Hall, Chicago
September 15 - November 4, 2007

 
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About

In Shishir Kurup’s Merchant on Venice, Venice, Italy intersects with L.A.’s Venice Boulevard in a wickedly funny, wildly inventive and politically provocative re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Written in iambic pentameter and vividly colored by Indian, American and Latino pop references, playwright Kurup transforms Shakespeare’s original by injecting the story with Bollywood musical numbers, L.A. Punk, Hindu-Muslim tensions, and a distinctly American landscape.

Cast

Sharuk   Anish Jethmalani*
Yogananda/Murali/Butcher   Madrid St. Angelo

Armando

 

Gerardo Cardenas

Devendra

 

Kamal Hans

Shivanandra/Rasik/Toufiq/
Understudy for Sharuk

 

Vincent P. Mahler

Jitendra

 

Andy Nagraj

Amithaba

 

Marvin Quihada

Noorani   Sadieh Rifai
Kavita   Amira Sabbagh

Pushpa

 

Pranidhi Varshney

Tooranpoi/S.A.B.U. Rep/Aravind

 

Tariq Vasudeva

 

 

 

Understudy

 

Dipika Cherala

Understudy

 

Minita Gandhi

Understudy

 

Julian Martinez

Understudy

 

Collin Tongue

* Denotes member of Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

 

Production Staff

Director

 

Stuart Carden

Producers

 

Malik Gillani and
Jamil Khoury

Scenic Designer

 

Lee Keenan

Costume Designer

 

Carol J. Blanchard

Lighting Designer

 

Rebecca A. Barrett

Sound Designer & Original Music

 

Robert Steel

Props Designer

 

Daniel Pellant

Choreographer

 

Alka Nayyar
Production Manager   Alexandra Herryman

Production Dramaturg

 

Lavina Jadhwani

Stage Manager

 

Benjamin D. Herman

Technical Director

 

Charles Ziggy Olson

Assistant Director

 

Jamie Abelson

Assistant Production Manager

 

Isaac Sernoffsky

Assistant Stage Manager

 

Amber Mack

Casting

 

Adam Silver, Silver Casting Ltd.

Publicity Consultant

 

Cathy Taylor Public Relations

Wardrobe Assistant

 

Cara Cusano

Video Production Services

 

The Stage Channel

Poster Art Illustrator

 

Andrew Skwish

House Manager

 

Christine Nelson

Box Office Manager

 

Todd Lauterbach

Group Sales Coordinator   Amber Mack

Carpenter

 

Adam Cobb

The Saints Coordinator

 

Richard Goerne

Community Outreach Coordinator

 

Kant Desai, Faruk Menguc & Megha Ralapati

Dialect Coach   Eva Breneman

Production Intern

 

Daniel Katz

Management Intern

 

Laura Klauser