July 10, 2024 – August 4, 2024
CB sees life through a lens: the camera. CB experiences life – a shifting, repeating fractal that nobody else seems to see – through the lens of their mind. A quick, loving, nonbinary filmmaker with synesthesia, CB follows their parents around the house, documenting them in the pursuit of understanding them. Meanwhile, CB’s parents struggle to love, learn, and support CB in the exploration of their dreams. All the while, the memory of a tornado looms in the distance of a Kansas landscape. This play centers around an autistic teenager (flashing between the ages of 11 and 19) seeking to know and be known.
Sponsored by:
Mina Goodrich & Lawrence Dean • David & Suzanne Alexander
This CATF production is supported, in part, by a grant from The Venturous Theater Fund of The Tides Foundation.
Photo by Seth Freeman
Jean Christian Barry, Roderick Hill, and Jasminn Johnson in the world premiere of Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting by Harmon dot aut.
photo by Seth Freeman
Jean Christian Barry, Roderick Hill, and Jasminn Johnson in the world premiere of Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting by Harmon dot aut.
PLAYWRIGHT INTERVIEWS – dot aut – 2024
Meet Harmon dot aut Harmon dot aut (they/she) Harmon is a non-binary, (dis)abled, Autistic PneumaFractalist. Writer, Filmmaker, Singer/Songwriter, Actor, Visual Artist. An excerpt from Harmon’s play, SPACE, appears in the anthology: WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters – Smith & Kraus, March 2023. Recipient of the 2023 Venturous Playwright Fellowship (PWC) for Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum … Continued
CAST
Chantal Buñuel (CB)
Jean Christian Barry*
Dad (Joseph Agnew)
Roderick Hill*
Mom (Sherri Agnew)
Jasminn Johnson*
PRODUCTION TEAM
Scenic Design
Britton W. Mauk**
Costume Design
Ashley Soliman**
Lighting Design
Kate McGee
Sound Design
David Remedios**
Co-Projections Designers
Caite Hevner**
Paul Lieber
Stage Manager
Paulina “pau” Tobar*
Asst. Stage Manager
Esther Chilson
Dramaturg
Craven Poole
*Actors’ Equity Association
**United Scenic Artists
***Stage Directors and Choreographers Society