Music by Susan Kander
Libretto by Roberta Gumbel
Friday, January 27, 2023 at 7:30pm
Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 2:30pm
Red Mountain Theatre Arts Campus, Discovery Theatre
Cremaine Booker* music director/cello
Aija Penix* stage director
Featuring
Allison Sanders soprano
David Verin* percussion
*denotes Opera Birmingham debut
Support for dwb provided by
The Hon. and Mrs. J. Scott Vowell
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Permission to perform this work provided by Subito Music Corporation.
OPERA BIRMINGHAM
Production Stage Manager
Kristen Aragon
Scenery Designer
Lynne Hutton
Costume Designer
DeLee Michiko Benton
Lighting Designer
Lyndell McDonald
Makeup/Hair Designer
Holly McClendon
Supertitle Cuing
Keith A. Wolfe-Hughes
RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE
Director of Production
Phil Richardson
Patron Experience Manager
Dakota Patrick
Business Development Manager
Stephanie Anthony
dwb (driving while black) will be performed with no intermission.
Approximate run time is 1 hour.
Please join us following the performance
for a conversation with the artists, part of
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dwb (driving while black) is a montage of poetic and haunting moments examining the trials and triumphs Black mothers experience as their children come of age in a society plagued by racism and inequality. In the central narrative, we meet the Mother in her home. The dangerous world outside, however, is out of the Mother’s control, and anxiety builds in her mind and heart as her “beautiful brown boy” approaches manhood and the realities of modern life as a Black person in America.
Supertitle system generously provided by ConcertCue, developed by the Music Technology Lab at MIT. Visit concertcue.org for more information.
David Page, UAB Department of Theatre
Christopher Crews, Samford University Department
of Theatre
Dr. Gene Fambrough, UAB Department of Music
Seth Noble
Phil Richardson and the production staff of
Red Mountain Theatre
The company debut of Aija Penix was partially supported by OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors, generously funded by the Marineau Family Foundation.
Our season has been made possible, in part, by grants from The Caring Foundation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, and Hugh Kaul Foundation.
Student tickets are supported by The Caring Foundation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama.
Alabama Media Group is the Official Media Sponsor of Opera Birmingham. Additional support provided by Bham Now.
Opera Birmingham acknowledges that we are on the traditional land of the Kosati speaking Mvskoke (Muscogee/Creek) People. Alabama has been home to the Alabama, Biloxi, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Mobile Tribes—including the Abihka, Alabama-Coushatta, Coosa, Tallapoosa, and the Yuchi Peoples—and is home to the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, the Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama, the Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, the Machis Lower Creek Tribe, the Mowa Band of Choctaw, and the Star Clan of Muskogee Creeks. We honor and thank the Indigenous peoples connected to this territory and give gratitude to this land.
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