BUNNY, GODMOTHER OF TITLE IX Comes to Dixon Place For One Night Only

Dixon Place presents the incredible true story of Dr. Bernice "Bunny" Sandler. Almost 50 years ago, Bunny filed the lawsuit that turned into Title IX and made sex discrimination illegal in higher education. In this one-woman show, Rora Brodwin, Bunny's great niece, tells her story. Bunny, The Godmother of IX will be performed for one night only at Dixon Place in NYC on March 14th at 7:30pm.

"As we continue to grapple with #MeToo, the Kavanaugh hearings, and Betsy DeVos's proposed overhaul of Title IX regulation, there is a yearning for authentic stories about women's continuing struggle for recognition and equality. Here is a remarkable and true story that addresses this hunger," said Brodwin.

The creative team for Bunny, The Godmother of Title IX includes Elise Morrison (director), Adam Thompson (set design), Judy Kagel (lighting design), Payson Whitwell (costume design), Ryan Seffinger (projections designer), Margaret Gleberman (production stage manager), Olivia Ragan (assistant producer), Lilla Brody (assistant producer and assistant director), Alexandra Cadena (executive producer) and Stark Kirby (marketing director).

Performance of Bunny, Godmother of Title IX will take place March 14th at 7:30pm at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street, Manhattan). Critics are welcome. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $12 for students, seniors and NYC ID holders. https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10377853

Rora Brodwin (Writer/Performer) is an NYC based actor and playwright. She recently graduated from Yale, where she co-adapted The Hours to the stage and directed Yale's only experimental theater ensemble. Rora's stage credits include: Saliere in Amadeus (Yale), Major Powell in Men on Boats (dir. Sherri Barber), and Soldier in The Square Root of Three Sisters (Yale School of Drama and the Kyrmov Lab production). NYC acting credits: A Modest Proposal (Cherry Lane Theater), Uncle Vanya (Columbia MFA). www.rorabrodwin.com

ELISE MORRISON (Director) is an Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Yale. Directing credits include Zoologic, with LostWax Multimedia Dance for FirstWorks Providence. She was a resident artist at Perishable Theater in Providence and Sleeping Weazel in Boston, and has devised and performed numerous feminist intermedia cabarets. She is currently directing Electr(onic)a, a transmedia adaptation of Electra at Yale.

ALEXANDRA CADENA (Producer) is a theater/film producer whose work includes NYC Fringe, Corkscrew Theatre Festival, The 24 Hour Plays, Mabou Mines and more. She has vast experience in film and her production company, AC Pictures, has several award-winning shorts/features that have premiered at NIFF, Worldfest, and SENE film festivals. Upcoming work: Narrowsburg (film), White Flags (film), A Doll's House: A New Opera at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, Byzantine Choral Project at New Ohio/IRT. https://www.a-c-pictures.com/

MARAGRET GLEBERMAN (Production Stage Manager) is a recovering architecture student and freelance stage manager from New York. She enjoys puzzles, the word hootenanny, and the Oxford comma. Recent work includes The End of Mermaids (Corkscrew Theater Festival), Then She Fell (Third Rail Projects), and Oh My Sweet Land (The Play Company).

JUDY KAGEL (Lighting Designer) is a NYC based Lighting Designer for theater, dance, and cabarets. Recent credits include: ECHOensemble: ONE (Dixon Place), Orphans (Access Theater), SCUM: A Fantastical Burlesque Show (Shapeshifter Lab), Sister Act (Emerson Jr./Sr. High School), and Into the Woods (The Abraham Joshua Heschel School). Upcoming projects include: Lighting Designer for How to Mourn an American(Rought Draft Festival. Resident Lighting Designer for The Dead End Kids Theater Company, The Nightingale-Bamford School, and ECHOensemble, a devised dance company. B.F.A. in Lighting Design, SUNY Purchase College. www.JudyAKagel.com

LILLA BRODY (Assistant Director/Assistant Producer) is an actor and director based in New York. Acting credits include: Mother Peep/Concierge in The Killer (Egg and Spoon Theatre Collective), Margie in Good People (Yale Theater Studies), and Catherine in The Heiress (Yale Theater). Many thanks to Rora for her friendship and for Bunny. https://www.lillabrody.com/

OLIVIA RAGAN (Assistant Producer) is a New York-based Theatre Artist committed to sharing stories that challenge social constructs and societal expectations through her work as a director, producer, and stage manager. She has worked as an intern in the Artistic Department at The Drama League. She also co-directed the Musical Theater Conservatory at Barrington Stage Company in several cabarets the summer of 2017. Olivia holds a Bachelors in Theater Arts from Marymount Manhattan College.

Ryan Seffinger (Projections/Technical Director) is a lighting and projections designer at Yale University. Previous work includes The Effect, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, So I Killed a Few People, Reverie, Tenn: A New Musical, Company, Medea, Macbeth, Angels in America, Next to Normal, Julius Caesar, The Colored Museum, and more. www.ryanseffinger.com

Adam Thompson (Scenic Design) is an undergraduate student at Yale University, studying architecture. He experiments with theatre and performance, using it to explore the political body's relationship to the object world. Adam is excited to continue working on the Bunny team.

PAYSON WHITWELL (Costume Design) is an undergraduate Art History major at Yale University. Her passion for costumes comes from an exaggerated personal style and desire to decorate other people the way she does herself. She has only ever costumed Rora Brodwin and hopes to keep it that way.

STARK KIRBY (Marketing Director) is thrilled to be involved with this incredible production. He most recently co-produced and helped market the Cleopatra Experience off-Broadway. Instagram: @starkkirby

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