La MaMa in association with Crossing Jamaica Avenue presents DEADLY SHE-WOLF ASSASSIN AT ARMAGEDDON! By Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff / Directed by Sonoko Kawahara “graceful and kinetic” New York Times Critic’s Pick A Martial Arts-Samurai Sword Fighting-Music/Theater Fantasy Action-Adventure Blockbuster homage to "Lone Wolf and Cub" (Kozure Ogami) in a story of imperial decline and desperation, revenge, intrigue and catharsis. Fred Ho's super-talented team unleash a music/theater work of dazzling spectacle and emotional power. Performed by: Marina Celander (Narrator), Yoshi Amao (The Rogue Assassin), Ai Ikeda (She-Wolf), Perry Yung (Iyagu), Rick Ebihara (The Shogun), Teake (Bok Mei Lotus), Luca Nicora (Colonel Ulysses Sam Armageddon), Jerry Ford (Qaseem the Killing Machine), Takemi Kitamura (She-Wolf Sister etc.), Koji Nichiyama (Ninja/Samurai), Bradley Fong/Jet Yung (The Boy) The Afro American Music Ensemble : Ben Barson (Baritone Saxophone), Wayne Batchelor (Electric Bass), Art Hirahara (Electric Keyboard), Masaru Koga (Conductor, Alto Sax, Shakuhachi, Fue), Royal Hartigan (Drums, Percussion), Yumi Kurosawa (20-string Koto) Music & Concept by Fred Ho, Written by Fred Ho & Ruth Margraff Directed by Sonoko Kawahara Sword Fighting Choreographed by Yoshi Amao Martial Arts Choreographed by Emmanuel Brown Production Design by Anka Lupes Lighting by Chad McArver Production Stage Manger Youn Jung Kim Assistant Director / Production Assistant Hui-Shurn Yong Deadly She-Wolf Producers: Big Red Media, Inc. & Spectrum Music Deadly She-Wolf Assassin At Armageddon! World premier at La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theater, New York May16-June2, 2013 DEADLY SHE-WOLF ASSASSIN AT ARMAGEDDON! is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, both administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The Nancy Quinn Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York (A.R.T./New York) www.facebook.com/DeadlySheWolf http://www.deadlyshewolf.org Contact: shewolfproduction@gmail.com

Written by: Ruth Margraff Directed by: Kate Hendrickson clip from the best of 25 anniversary of Trap Door Theater, Chicago USA http://trapdoortheatre.com/performance-history/4695-2/ Trap Door Theatre presents The World Premiere of : Fantasy Island For Dummies (low cut daydream too near, too near) A new theatre work inspired by an episode of the iconic television series about the pleasures and perils of wish fulfillment. Devised in a collaborative exploration with Trap Door Theater actors, the piece is written by Ruth Margraff and directed by Kate Hendrickson,with original music composed by Pink Velvet. A 1980 “Fantasy Island” episode about a ventriloquist and her devious dummy inspires a voyage into suppressed identities, ancient Babylonian sex goddesses and a”perfect wife” struggling with her defiant side. Original work inspired by the television show Fantasy Island. September 29th - November 5th, 2016 Cast: Holly Cerney, Casey Chapman, Skye Fort, John Kahara, Lyndsay Rose Kane, Emily Lotspeich, Chris Popio, Bob Wilson Assistant Director/SM Kristin Davis/ Lighting Design Richard Norwood / Set Design AJ Tarzian/ Costume Design Rachel Sypniewski / Music Composer Pink Velvet/ Graphic Design Michal Janicki/ Sound Design Mike Mazzocca/ Movement Director Kasey Foster/ Makeup Design Zsófia Ötvös / Props Design Anne Sonneville

The ground is toxic, the sky has gone dark. Bodies of water have been salvaged into gaudy plastic trash. Disaster’s lover searches the last songlines for the world’s most coveted perfume... TEMPTATION OF THE FRESH VOLUPTUOUS is a tonal landscape—an aural installation—a poem. It is a truth-telling evocation of the over-consumption of women as vessels that have been used up (their natural resources of fertility and labor, aging now, like our planet.) Devised with director Beth Milles as part divine comedy in 3 acts, TEMPTATION manifests a retrospective of writer Ruth Margraff's chance arias, paintings and vocal art. text, ambergris: Ruth Margraff director: Beth Milles guitar: Ignatius Valentine Aloysius violin: Beltran Del Campo videographer: Adam Cooper-Terán production associate: Pierre Clavel design consultant: Anka Lupes Created for the International Nišville Jazz Theatre Festival August 6-9 2017 (Serbia); rehearsed at Red Tape Theater/Art Institute Ballroom (Chicago), and concert staging Coe Marquis Series Sinclair Stage Mar 14-18, 2019 (Iowa). Tracks are being recorded at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. Special thanks to Cornell University, Art Institute of Chicago, Coe College/Dennis Barnett, Dah Teatar Nisville Jazz Theater Festival/Maja Mitic, Dijana Milosevic, performer Anđela Popović, guitarist Marko Radojkovic, and violinist Jelena Funtek. Music composed by Ruth Margraff with PnkVlvt/Nikos Brisco for Ruth's Previously Blue and Ambergris/Apothecary; by Richard Marriott for Ruth's Passion of Leyla; inspired by dakhabraka/Lucia Thomas for Red Tape/ Walkabout’s Mother of Smoke, and Graham Haynes in collaboration with Haleh Abghari, Mathias Kunzli and Peggy Choy Dance Co. for Flight: torn like a rose. Performance consultants: Lauren Steinberg, Jorge Silva, Anya Elsbeth, Antonio Brunetti, David Hernandez. Very special thanks to Sullivan Galleries, Dijana Milosevic, Phil Fried, Donna Janosik-Suppipat, Elyse Singer, Del Hamilton, Faye Allen, Karen Yates, Suleman Shahnawaz, Kevin Veselka, Senyawa/Krems Artist Residency (Austria), Chicago Experimental Sound Studio/Ralph Loza, Kate Hendrickson/Trap Door Theater and Links Hall.

Red Tape Theater (Chicago) concert reading