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They are heading toward a gig in China, if they can find it…and if they can survive to get there.\u003C/p>",{"time":23,"blocks":24,"version":41},1777219841355,[25],{"id":26,"type":27,"data":28},"IO-lWAnWit","image",{"caption":29,"withBorder":30,"withBackground":30,"stretched":30,"file":31},"Pictured: Lori Elizabeth Parquet, Chris Wight. 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Associate Lighting Designer for Slutforart/98.6 inGothenburg, Sweden with Muna Tseng.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>West coast designs: El Portal’s Monroe Forum Theatre, Los Angeles and Z Space, San Francisco. Dance designs: Flamenco Vivo National tours, Forward Motion, Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, Lighting Designer and mentor for Ethical Culture Fieldston High School Dance Company since 2015. Guest Lighting Designer: Lafayette College, Easton PA,  the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and for the South Carolina Governors School of the Arts, Greenville, SC. 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Since then, she has played Soldier/Debbie in \u003Cem>Ajax in Iraq,\u003C/em> Leah in \u003Cem>Jacob’s House,\u003C/em> Nola in \u003Cem>Angel Eaters\u003C/em>, Philostrate in \u003Cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003C/em> and Tycle in\u003Cem> Rue\u003C/em>. Tiffany was the assistant director for both \u003Cem>Dog Act \u003C/em>and\u003Cem> Life is a Dream.\u003C/em>\u003Cem>\u003Cbr>\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Other roles include Laura in \u003Cem>Knave of Hearts\u003C/em> (InnovativeStages), Connie in \u003Cem>Acceptable Losses\u003C/em> (To & Fro Productions), Goldie Lox in \u003Cem>The Three Bears Hanukkah \u003C/em>(Grove Street Playhouse), and Sylvia in \u003Cem>Sylvia\u003C/em> (The Little Theatre), and performances with the Hudson Shakespeare Company \u003Cem>(Cymbeline\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>Coriolanus\u003C/em>). Her credits onscreen include the films \u003Cem>Couple Hood\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>Mercy\u003C/em>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Tiffany has studied at the Chautauqua Conservatory Theatre, and in New York City.\u003C/p>",[125,133,141,149,157,165],{"role_name":126,"content":19,"sort":60,"person":127},"ZETTA",{"first_name":128,"last_name":129,"slug":130,"headshot":131,"bio":132,"pronouns":67},"Lori Elizabeth","Parquet","lori-elizabeth-parquet","ddcde8a6-d369-4d95-937a-19145efcc3de","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Lori Elizabeth Parquet \u003C/strong>is a Flux Creative Partner and actor, director, and playwright from New Orleans, Louisiana with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. Her New York City stage credits include \u003Cem>Macbeth\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Dispatches From (A)mended America\u003C/em> (Off-Broadway, Epic Theatre Ensemble), \u003Cem>The Providence of Neighboring Bodies\u003C/em> (Dutch Kills Theater/Ars Nova), \u003Cem>The Honeycomb Trilogy: Sovereign \u003C/em>(Gideon Productions), \u003Cem>Medea \u003C/em>(Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), \u003Cem>Dog Act\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Ajax in Iraq\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Honey Fist, Operating Systems\u003C/em> (Flux Theatre Ensemble), and \u003Cem>Republic\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Baal\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Murder In the Cathedral\u003C/em> (JACK/Hoi Polloi). She made her international debut performing in \u003Cem>Pillars of Society\u003C/em> at Teater Ibsen in Skien, Norway. She also performed in \u003Cem>The Providence of Neighboring Bodies\u003C/em> at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018. In 2019 she was nominated for and won the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her performance in \u003Cem>Operating Systems. \u003C/em>As a director, Lori has directed \u003Cem>Topdog/Underdog \u003C/em>at Princeton Summer Theater and assistant directed The Public Theater’s most recent Shakespeare in the Park productions of \u003Cem>As You Like It\u003C/em>, and \u003Cem>Twelfth Night\u003C/em>.  She was alsoas an acting coach on Disney’s \u003Cem>Hercules\u003C/em>, a Public Works production.  Lori just served as Associate Director of New York City Center’s Encores: Off-center production of Maria Irene Fornes’ \u003Cem>Promenade \u003C/em>and has directed many readings and workshops with Public Works, Flux Theatre Ensemble, The Brooklyn Generator, and other theatre companies across New York City\u003Cem>.\u003C/em>  As a playwright, Lori was selected as one of six featured playwrights for Season Five of The Fire This Time Festival, which produced a reading of her full-length play \u003Cem>In Communion\u003C/em>, and her short plays have been produced through Flux Theatre Ensemble, New York Madness, and other NYC indie theatres and festivals.\u003C/p>",{"role_name":134,"content":19,"sort":70,"person":135},"DOG",{"first_name":136,"last_name":137,"slug":138,"headshot":139,"bio":140,"pronouns":84},"Chris","Wight","chris-wight","2f8c9d85-06f9-49c6-a7c7-f0065cd2c894","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Chris Wight\u003C/strong> is a Creative Partner with Flux and a longtime artistic member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has composed and performed original music for a number of productions including Flux’s \u003Cem>Dog Act\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>Hearts Like Fists\u003C/em>, and more recently provided guitar accompaniment for Flux’s Food:Soul production of \u003Cem>Fear & Wonder\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>The Elephant Play\u003C/em>.\u003C/p>",{"role_name":142,"content":19,"sort":19,"person":143},"BUD",{"first_name":144,"last_name":145,"slug":146,"headshot":147,"bio":148,"pronouns":19},"Julian","Stetkyvech","julian-stetkevych","fdd92ae7-e1b7-4de6-9695-a2570b14bb38","\u003Cp>Julian Stetkevych is a professional actor and teacher of acting, voice, and movement at Elon University.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>During his eight years in New York City, he acted for and worked with Classic Stage Company, Playwright’s Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Theatre 1010, Packawallop Productions, and Oxford Shakespeare Co., among others. Regionally, he has appeared at the American Conservatory Theater, The Steppenwolf Theater, and Theo Ubique in Chicago and multiple productions at Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk. He was a teaching artist for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, teaching at schools around the New York City area and their summer program in the Hudson Valley, and comes to Elon after seven years of teaching at Christopher Newport University in Virginia.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>He is a member of the professional union Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Mid-America Theatre Conference, and has presented at their annual conferences. He is also a member of the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA) and a Certified Teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique through both MICHA and the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. Additionally, he is also a member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers.\u003C/p>",{"role_name":150,"content":19,"sort":19,"person":151},"COKE",{"first_name":152,"last_name":153,"slug":154,"headshot":155,"bio":156,"pronouns":84},"Zack","Robidas","zack-robidas","43e7d3bc-99fb-44b5-a306-b3f916b72048","\u003Cp>Zack Robidas has appeared in PSF’s \u003Cem>Henry V\u003C/em> (title role), \u003Cem>Love’s Labour’s Lost\u003C/em> (Berowne), \u003Cem>The Foreigner\u003C/em> (David), \u003Cem>The Two Gentlemen of Verona\u003C/em> (Proteus), \u003Cem>Measure for Measure, The Importance of Being Ernest, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, Taming of the Shrew, and Macbeth\u003C/em>. Film: \u003Cem>It’s Complicated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Arbitrage, The Golden Scallop, Stereotypically You\u003C/em> and the recently completed \u003Cem>Empathy Inc\u003C/em>. 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