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around the world (showcase) in 180 days (12 hours) 🌎🐭🥂

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Feeling disk inserted 💿💿💿

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The Summer I Turned Pretty

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Yayyy!🎓 @leo.markos

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🎓🎭 @leo.markos
#gradpics

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more grad photos!! (including some from the actual day!) 🎓🐊💕

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one year in the swamp 🐊

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senior (?) year (!)

its my last day as a student of the sotd today and im feeling very grateful for this year. ive worked on SIX shows since august (thats a lot) AND i’m graduating early?? feeling accomplished and proud and so full of love for gainesville and for my peers and for this life im so so lucky to have.

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Performing as the Burgomaster’s wife in UF’s “The Visit” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt has been such a joyous experience! Thank you to the wonderful director Charlie Mitchell, talented cast, and incredible crew for helping bring the moral complexities of this story to life. 💗⚖️

Photographed by: TF Guntrup, Shanice Gourdet, Leo Lei, Kyle Mainieri 📸

Adapted by Maurice Valency
Directed by Charlie Mitchell 🎬
Costume Design: @stephensstuff 👠
Scenic Design: @kaydazey 🌆
Lighting Design by Travis Smoak 🔦
Hair, Makeup, and Wig Design: @jooshwoots 👩🏻‍🦳
Sound Design by Mady Rego 💥
Stage Managed: @lauren.w.rench @ellacronin @schulz.selena @heatherfortner_ ✨ (loved all the shared laughs! 😊)
Dramaturgy: @leo.markos 📝

Also, continued tags to this joyful cast: @bbeatrizarevalo @maxtempestini @hugo_ratheau

In addition, I wanted to give a shout out to all my loved ones who came to see the show. I love you all a lot!😊💖🎭

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How to put into words the gratitude I feel for this show. I knew the moment I read the script that I was in big trouble- that it would be all to easy for me to fall in love with this kooky world, it’s compelling moral questions, and most of all with the Claire herself. And fall in love I did.

I wanted to bring humanity to this “villain”- to not excuse her actions but to show the audience why she does them. Because all of us have pain, all of us have been wronged at some point in our lives. The question is, what do we do with that pain? How do we interact with those we know are hurting? Maybe, just maybe, if Claire had met someone who looked at her with empathy instead of judgement, her story would have ended differently. And maybe, each of us is called to be that person for someone else.

There are so many people to thank for making this last show at UF extra special for me- our wonderful director Charlie Mitchell who allowed me so much freedom to make discoveries in rehearsal, this lovely ensemble of actors for bringing this story to life with so much commitment and care (finding so many little moments of joy both on and off stage!) the incredible design team with their spectacular vision (I have to give some extra praise to @stephensstuff for not only believing in me before I was even cast, but also for taking such good care of our Clara with costumes beyond my wildest dreams), my darling dressers @isa.casasnovasm and @ella_violett for pampering me and putting up with my daily checklists, the entire SM team for holding such a productive yet joyous workspace, and to Claire herself for teaching me so much about creating power on a stage with both her strength and brokenness.

It’s gonna be hard to let go of this show, but I praise God that this opportunity came at a time when I was ready to embrace it. All the glory goes to Him because I know I couldn’t do any of this alone. And thank YOU if you’ve made it to the end of this tirade 🤪

Let’s visit again some time, Clara.
Adieu 🐝

Somehow didn’t get any pics with @connor_deroche , @alex_naranjo___ , and @actorsingerman but I still love them 💛

#thevisit #seniorshow #clairezachanassian #ufsotd acting

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Güllen in digis 📸

It was such a pleasure and honor to make my SOTD debut in The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, directed by the amazing Charlie Mitchell.

Words cannot express how thankful I am for the amazing cast and crew, but I will try. From day 1 I felt welcomed, supported, and energized by everyone in the room. Going to rehearsal became therapeutic and an event I always looked forward to.

These people and this experience is something I will be forever grateful for. ❤️

Shoutout to the beautiful, talented, and hard-working seniors that are not pictured because they were busy being amazing:
@talia_caso you are already doing, and will do amazing things.
@lauren.w.rench the train could never have arrived at or left the station without you. You carried Güllen on your shoulders.
@ellacronin stage right was truly the place to be
@bbeatrizarevalo can't wait to hear your voice on a Broadway cast recording

A huge thankyou and shoutout to the amazing designers that made the looks in these photos possible!
🧵 Costume Design: @stephensstuff
💄 Hair/Wig/Makeup Design: @jooshwoots

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