Created, Composed and Directed by Elizabeth Swados
Books Cook! is a carnival vaudeville which celebrates reading and the acrobatics of the imagination. Reading is an incredible adventure. See beloved children’s books acted out and sung. The cast plays hundreds of characters. Literature becomes a playground, a kitchen and a circus.
Books Cook! marks the first collaboration between the Tisch Drama Department and Atlantic Theater Company’s Atlantic for Kids.
CAST:
David J. Berg, Katharine Eisenberg, Stephanie Hsu, Hannah Kiem, Natalie Peyton, Ryann Redmond, Anthony Ritosa, Will Seefried, Michael-Anthony Souza, Andy Zou
TEAM:
Musical Director: Kris Kukle
Assistant Director: Matthew Gehring
Stage Manager: Claire Marberg
Lighting Designer: Gabriel Evansohn
Costume Designer: Sara Ryer
Props Designer: Travis Boatright
Artistic Director: Alison Beatty
Support for Atlantic’s Arts Education Programming is generously provided by: New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Heckscher Foundation for Children, Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, and the Tiger Baron Foundation. And the following individuals for their leadership support of our student matinees: Charlie Bendit, Carol Auerbach and Al Berger, Cathy Effron, Wolf Hengst, Cathy Lasry, Jay and Robin Lewis, Kevin Lyle, William H. Macy, D. Moross, Olaf and Anna Olafsson, and Peter and Susi Wunsch
