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Who’s peekin’ out from under a stairway
Callin’ a name that’s lighter than air?
Who’s bendin’ down to give me a rainbow?
Everyone knows it’s Wendy. ❤️
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Thank you for so many wonderful years, baby bear.
🐈 2011-2025 by @melaniechencole

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It’s our last preview tonight for the world premiere production of Like Father at the Alliance Theatre! Honored to have gotten to work with Tinashe on this one.
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Extra love & gratitude to this sound team: my co-designer @imagineeringtheworld our associate @_tamiref and all of AT Sound Department (Michael, Aaron, Emma, Graham) for getting it all up on its feet!
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created by Jacob Ryan Smith
book, music, & lyrics by Jacob Ryan Smith & Caroline Pernick
choreography by Dell Howlett
directed by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
produced by Special Arrangement with Westway Studios
sets: Luciana Stecconi
costumes: Lex Liang
lights: Thom Weaver
co-sound: Melanie Chen Cole & Hidenori Nakajo
associate sound: Tamir Eplan-Frankel
projections: Caite Hevner
dramaturg: Amanda Watkins
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music supervisor: Alejandro Senior
music director: Adam Beskin
assistant music director: Greg Matteson
orchestrator: August Eriksmoen
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stage manager: Jayson T. Waddell
assistant stage manager: Xiaonan Chloe Liu
production assistant: Samantha Honeycutt
production management: Courtney O’Neil
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starring Charity Angél Dawson • Hannah Elless • Benjamin H. Moore • Sophie Pollono • Frankie Rodriguez • Billy Tighe
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production photos by Greg Mooney taken in Atlanta, Georgia by @melaniechencole

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It’s opening day for The Da Vinci Code at Indiana Rep! Love and gratitude for our fearless leader, Ben Hanna. Thank you for bringing this group of artists to make this epic show with you!
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This production is special to me because I was able to collect some of my favorite collaborators from across the country to make this show with me.
- My associate, Caleb, was invaluable to have on this process. Thanks for following me out to Indiana for this show, and thanks for taking this show to Cleveland in 2027.
- My singers and musicians, thank you for bringing my music to life and bringing your own spice to it.
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Scroll these beautiful photos (first four) by Zach Rosing with sound up to hear them play!
Photo 1: Jo Brook on violins , Russell Thomas Bush on upright, Matthew Benenson Cruz on Trumpet, and Keegan Robinson on percussion
Photo 2: Sigrid Wise singing the soprano and alto parts, Michael Grieve on tenor and bass.
Photo 3: Jo Brook on violins.
Photo 4: Sigrid Wise on soprano and alto.
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director: Ben Hanna
dramaturg & intimacy: Claire Wilcher
fights & violence: Rob Johansen
movement: Mariel Greenlee
dialect: Julia Guichard
sets: Christopher & Justin Swader
costumes: Lux Haac
lights: Bentley Heydt
video: Kate Freer
original music & sound: Melanie Chen Cole
associate sound: Caleb Foley
assistant director: Jacob Lang
stage manager: Erin Robson-Smith
assistant stage managers: Becky Roeber
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sound director: Maddie O’Neal
a1: JT Langdon
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starring @natecheeseman @capnkreinch @artzybergzy @samuel_finnegan_pearson • Steve Routeman • Sean Blake • @devanmaureen @eswombat @derdriuring @jenjohansenwon taken in Indianapolis, IN by @melaniechencole

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20 days ago

Happy birthday to my favorite person @benjoelcole ❤️ Celebrating his 45th trip around the sun ☀️ by @melaniechencole

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24 days ago

Didn’t plan to have 3 trips but here we are with another Vegas Girl Summer 🎉 @ktbrad2016 @clairechrzan @jaanicex @benjoelcole @surethingsteve @seanpboyd @meganemilygoyette 😻 taken in Las Vegas, Nevada by @melaniechencole

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2 months ago

Happy 2nd birthday to our Nova girl! She loves to play and be where all the people are, but be warned, she does not want to be pet (only sometimes). Her favorite toy right now is the spring, and sometimes she will fetch with it. She loves to be on Zoom, so you will often catch her on camera 🐈‍⬛ ❤️ by @melaniechencole

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Happy Opening to the cast of crew of Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Globe! It’s such a dream to get to make Shakespeare outdoors in Balboa park every summer. This is my second Much Ado this year, and 19th in the Shakespeare cannon. Thanks for the sound team for all their hard work to make this such a joyful process ❤️
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director: Barry Edelstein
original music: Curtis Moore
choreographer: Patrick McCollum
sets: Lawrence E. Moten III
costumes: Tilly Grimes
lights: Russell Champa
sound: Melanie Chen Cole
assistant sound: Caleb Foley
voice & text: Jesse Perez
stage manager: Jess Slocum
assistant stage managers: Carolina Arboleda & Lily Fizsimmons
stage manager apprentices: Claire Hurd & Aditri Khadilkar
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sound director: Erin Paige-Bhamrah
assistant sound director: Dani Chaparro
a1: Brandon Boomizad
a2: Chloe Lias
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starring Eden Espinosa • @tallysessions @benitomartinezreal21 @seth123487 • Ainsley Melham • Jose Balistrieri • Jimmy Smagula • @stenck @shaaaln @msmadig @3thanfox • Trevor Butler • @kristinahinako @lancedbush • Charlie Alguera • Kayce Wilson • @susanelee • Max Lorne-Krause • @julietteandrewcacciatore @connerkeef
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musician: Morgan Hollingsworth taken in San Diego, California by @melaniechencole

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It’s opening weekend for the Anes Theatre at Utah Shakespeare Festival! Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by David Catlin opens today, and The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarias opens tomorrow. It’s my 3rd season out here in Cedar City, and I’m grateful to have spent this month with this group of creative humans.
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Thank you to the Electrics & Sound team here! There are so many people that make this summer rep theatre run, but extra love to Scott, Danielle, Skylar, Cooper, Krishna & Leigh for all your work to make my time here so wonderful.
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director for Frankenstein: Risa Brainin
director for Book Club Play: Matt Zambrano
sets: Jason Simms
costumes: Devon Painter
lights: Claire Chrzan
sound: Melanie Chen Cole
fight director & intimacy director: Christina Traister
voice & dialect: Steven Eng
stage manager: Emily Marie Wilke
assistant stage manager: Lauren Myers
production assistant: CeCe Crook
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starring Emily Fury • Jacob Dresch • Travis Ascione • Regan Sims • Sean Dale • Chloe McLeod taken in Cedar City, Utah by @melaniechencole

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Happy opening to the cast and crew for Measure for Measure at the Old Globe! It was such a delight working with this team on this Shakespeare piece. Thank you, Vivienne, for creating a wonderful world for us to play in. Extra love to my sound team for always taking care of me! ❤️
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I had fun writing music for this piece and I want to shout out my fantastic musicians who remotely recorded music for this show.
vocals: Sigrid Wise
strings: Jo Brook
horn: Matthew Benenson Cruz
keys: Eliza Vedar
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Thank you Stephanie for singing and playing the guitar so beautifully every night & thanks to Danny Adams for popping in and helping us finesse this piece!
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director: Vivienne Benesch
sets & costumes: Lex Liang
lights: Russell Champa
sound: Melanie Chen Cole
assistant sound designer: Caleb Foley
stage manager: Jenny Kennedy
assistant stage manager: Kendra Stockton & Niko Lambros Smith
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sound director: Erin Paige- Bhamrah
assistant sound director: Dani Chaparro
a1: Brandon Boomizad
a2: Aiko Whitmore
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starring Ato Blankson-Wood • Sam Lilja • Amelia Pedlow • Bruce Turk • Calvin Leon Smith • Reza Salazar • David Patterson • Lance Bush • Kristina Hinako • Stephanie Hinck • Kayce Wilson • Shalyn Welch • Madi Goff • Conner Keef • Juliette Cacciatore • Ethan Fox • Charlie Alguera • Max Lorn-Krause • Trevor Butler • Susane Lee taken in San Diego, California by @melaniechencole

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4 months ago

Can you believe that we both happened to be free on this day 9 years ago? I love our adventure-filled life we’ve built together. ❤️ by @melaniechencole

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Happy opening to the cast and crew for MISERY at the Alley. It’s always a crazy good time with Brandon as our Director! It’s our 3rd collaboration together, and I’m looking forward to more. Extra love to team sound J, Fred & Raul for their work on this one.
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director: Brandon Weinbrenner
sets: Tim Mackabee
costumes: Haydee Zelideth
lights: Seth Reiser
sound: Melanie Chen Cole
fight director & intimacy director: Adam Noble
stage manager: Aaron Elgart
assistant stage manager: Madolyn Friedman
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sound lead: J Jumbelic
sound engineer: Fred Shoppe
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starring Elizabeth Bunch • Chris Hutchison • Christopher Salazar taken in Houston, Texas by @melaniechencole

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