Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
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Then Act Like It

by Savannah Lyons Anthony '27 MFA
directed by Tatiana Baccari

Performance Dates & Times
Saturday, March 8, 11 AM (Talkback)
Sunday, March 9, 2PM

Tickets will be available online beginning
at 9AM the morning of each performance. 

Ashamu Dance Studio
83 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912

A group of actors and their director join for their weekly class where the lines blur between acting exercises and real life. Someone has died! But everyone is acting like everything is fine. Will everyone be held hostage by their desire to do a good job? Or will the Janitor make sure everyone is okay? 

CW: Notions of Death / Murder, Kidnapping or Abduction

Artist Bios

Savannah Lyons Anthony '27 MFA is a writer and performer making work for the stage and film. She is from St. John, Virgin Islands. She holds a BA in Dance from Bard College. 

Tatiana Baccari (she/they) is a generative director, producer, and educator of theater and film. Their work lives at the intersection of queerness, the divine feminine, disability, and intergenerational society. Balancing tragedy with humor, Tatiana’s fun-house aesthetic makes the absurd poignant and the heartbreaking unexpectedly funny. She serves as Producing Artistic Director of Experimental Bitch, developing new performance with artists/companies such as Anya Pearson, Nia O. Witherspoon, Diana Oh, HERE Arts Center, and The Bushwick Starr. Tatiana created Bitchin’ Heals, radically accessible workshops and performances dedicated to uplifting disabled joy, co-presented with JACK Arts. Directing highlights include Then Act Like It by Savannah Lyons Anthony (Writing Is Live/Brown), Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play by Anne Washburn (Carnegie Mellon University), LEAR by Young Jean Lee (Carnegie Mellon University), Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph (Jobsite Theater/Straz Center) and Tanya’s Lit Clit, a musical phantasmagory about women’s chronic illness co-created by Baccari and Emma Goldman-Sherman (NY Theatre Barn). They’ve been awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation, A.R.T./NY, NYSCA, and NYFA. Upcoming: Goodnight, Oscar by Doug Wright (Asolo Rep Directing Fellow, 2025). MFA: John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (2025); SDC Associate. TatianaBaccari.com experimentalbitch.net.

Cast & Crew

- Cast - 

Navaiya Williams '25
Quinn West '26 MFA
Thomas Ward '27
Haley Sandlow '25
Don Shumbusho '28
Erin Lockett '26 MFA
 

- Crew - 

Savannah Lyons Anthony '27 MFA: Playwright
Tatiana Baccari: Director
JD Stokely PhD: Dramaturg
Faith Cantrell '26: Stage Manager
Corine Adams '28: Assistant Stage Manager