NAME: _____ (Fall 2020)

A Brady Bunch style array of colorful boxes with students singing
Poster for the TDM production of NAME

Created by TDM's Making Horizontal Theater Production Studio: Senator Atwater, Jonathan Castillo, Caron Kim, Madi Fabber, Vincent Pan, and Eileen Tucci, in collaboration with EllaRose Chary and Jay Stull.

Music Direction by Cynthia Meng
Sound Design by Andy Russ
Video Design by Katherine Freer
Website Design by LROD

ABOUT NAME:______

“It’s an exploration, an opportunity for us to explore what names mean to people, um kind of from the lens of legal names that you’ll find on passports, driver licenses, other legal documents, but membership cards and stuff like that, but also just what people decide to do with that name, what those names mean, how they shape identities, or they don’t. Whether we could live without them, and things like that. So um if at any point, you don’t want to talk about something, if you’re uncomfortable, just say it, and that is completely fine.

"I just want to hear about your own experiences with them.

"We take those words, verbatim, and turn them into lyrics, dialogue, and we compose an entire show.

"Names! What is your name?”

Senator Atwater stands behind a string of outdoor lights at night and sings
Six brightly colored boxes of students singing
Jonathan Castillo sits in the driver's seat of a car