A borderlands exploration of sex and justice.
Fourth READING IN OUR SEASON FOUR READING SERIES.
Runs Mar 20th through Apr 11th, 2021
SPECIAL OPENING EVENT & TALKBACK on Mar 20th @ 2:00PM
Title IX
by Elaine Romero
An Audio Rehearsed Reading for Scoundrels (Reading Series)
From Elaine Romero’s U.S./Mexican border trilogy, Title IX follows a border family of Latina educators from 1972 to the present. Does the right to equal treatment lead to that equal treatment or is it an insidious path to something else?
Directed by Eva Tessler
For Scoundrels ages 18+
Showtimes:
SPECIAL OPENING EVENT & TALKBACK: March 20, 2021 @ 2:00 STREAM ONLINE: Mar 20 - Apr 11, 2021
Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes.
Audience: Best enjoyed by Scoundrels ages 18+.
Ticket Prices
$11 Opening Event & Talkback
$11 Streaming Access (Online)
Questions? Call our Box Office at 448-3300.
Location: The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre at The Historic Y
738 N 5th Avenue, Tucson, AZ, 85705
Enter from the parking lot behind The Historic Y (parking lot entrance off of 5th Avenue).
This show is free for The Scoundrel Society.
Scoundrels can reserve a ticket
by calling our box-office at (520) 448-3300
or emailing boxoffice@scoundrelandscamp.org.
March is RomeroFest!
In collaboration with Arizona Theatre Company and Winding Road Theater Ensemble, the Scoundrel and Scamp is presenting RomeroFest, a month-long celebration of the diverse, thoughtful and impactful works of playwright Elaine Romero with digital performances by theatre companies across the U.S. and in Mexico in March. The S&S is presenting Title IX as a part of our reading series and our participating event on March 20th.
Among the theatre companies presenting Romero’s work virtually, either live or by video, are Arizona Theatre Company, The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre; Winding Road Theatre Ensemble; Foro Shakespeare; Artists Repertory Theatre; Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; Colorado College; The Justice Theater Project; The School of Theatre, Film and Television, University of Arizona; Teatro Milagro; InterAct Theatre Company; and Theatre Ariel.
Visit the RomeroFest Festival Site for more information on the festivities!
Our Artistic Team
DIRECTION
Direction
Eva Tessler
CAST
Sandra / Valeria……………….Brie Zepeda
Principal Butler…………………..Tony Caprile
Pamela / Adrienne…...……Molly Lyons
Gloria /Milagro…………………..Alida Gunn
Angel / Bill…………………………….Robert Encila
Kathy / Kimberly………..……China Young
Stage Directions……….….….Norma Medina
DESIGNERS
Sound Design and Engineering
Tiffer Hill
PRODUCTION STAFF
Associate Producer
Raulie Martinez
Resident Stage Manager
Tiffer Hill
Master Electrician
Raulie Martinez
About the Playwright
Award-winning playwright Elaine Romero has had her plays presented at the Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Kennedy Center, across the U.S. and abroad. Her war tetralogy includes Revoluciones (Latino Theatre Company with Foro Shakespeare/Mexico), Graveyard of Empires (Blue Ink Playwriting Award, 16th St. Theatre/World Premiere), A Work of Art (Chicago Dramatists/Goodman Theatre, World Premiere), and When Reason Sleeps. Recent commissions: Ford’s Theatre (Modern Slave), Arizona Theatre Company (Title IX), Goodman Theatre (Playwright’s Unit, A Work of Art). This past season included Revoluciones, Like Heaven (Arizona Repertory Theatre), Undocumented (Cal State Dominguez Hills), and Bloody River (Union College). Title IX was featured at the 2017 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Romero is a member of the Latinx Theatre Commons Steering Committee, a Playwright-in-Residence at ATC, and an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona.
Her war pentalogy includes Graveyard of Empires (Blue Ink Playwriting Award), A Work of Art, developed as part of the Goodman Theatre Playwright’s Unit, and the upcoming Rain of Ruin. Graveyard of Empires (16th Street Theatre) and A Work of Art (Chicago Dramatists/Goodman Theatre) premiered in Chicago, and Revoluciones (LATC). At Headlands Center for the Arts, Martinez in Taos (Arizona Theatre Company), Elaine began the final play of the project, When Reason Sleeps.
Modern Slave was featured at the 2017 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. It received readings at ACT (Seattle), Victory Gardens (Chicago) and the Road Theatre (LA).
Publishers: Samuel French, Playscripts, Smith & Kraus, Simon and Schuster, and Vintage Books. Barrio Hollywood was the first play, in Samuel French’s 175-year history, published in both English and Spanish acting editions.
Elaine is an Affiliate Writer at the Playwrights’ Center and a long-time member of the Dramatists Guild for which she serves as Southwest Regional Rep. She holds her MFA from UC Davis. She previously taught at Northwestern University UW-Madison. Elaine is Playwright-in-Residence at Arizona Theatre Company and a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Her pilot, Killing Beauty, was a finalist for the Orchard Project’s TV Episodic Lab. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona in the School of Theatre, Film, and Television.