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We’re Live

By Nate LePelley

We're Live follows a college boy, Ky, who is looking to make it big as a streamer in the ever-changing environment of content creators. As he changes his plans and ideas to grow an ever-increasing following, what does he have to sacrifice in order to make his dream a reality? Will he have to alter who he is? Only time will tell how much needs to be lost so that he gains what he’s wanted.

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Cast

Joshua Federman (Ky) is a second-year Math major. This is his UT debut, and he has previously performed in productions of The Tempest, Henry V, Hamlet, As You Like It, Macbeth, 12th Night, The Winter’s Tale, Julius Caesar, and After This Episode. He has read two novels titled after Macbeth quotes. His most profound experience working on this show was watching his director recite a particularly moving 25-minute passage from The Odyssey in the original Greek.

Carrie Semmel (Amanda) is a third-year Political Science and Psychology major. She has previously performed for Cactus Flower (Customer and Waiter). In the rehearsal room, she has profoundly discovered the cure to cancer, thanks to her fellow cast.

Maxwell Beck (Dr. Esquire) is a first year prospective Sociology and Philosophy major. He has previously performed in Radio Play Disaster (Furious Hamster); The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go! (The Great Prognosticator); YAMO ‘65, ‘66, and ‘67 (various roles); Urinetown (Old Man Strong); Matilda (Nigel); and Candide (The Baroness). Throughout the production of this play, he discovered the true meaning of life: working with others to putt something together from scratch, and SMASHING THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON!

Lavanya Gupta (Minny) is a second-year Physical Chemistry major. This is her first time working with UT and she was really excited to call basically everyone she has interacted with at this college to opening night. Over the course of the play, she single-handedly kept the audio industry afloat — snapping three pairs of wired headphones (one pair somehow made it through a laundry cycle) and somehow also managing to murder a perfectly innocent pair of wireless ones for good measure.

Gavin Robalino (Oscar) is a third-year Comparative Human Development and English major. He profoundly learned the true meaning of friendship in the rehearsal room.

Production Staff

Nate LePelley (Director, Writer, Costume Designer, Scenic Designer, Props Designer) is a third year Cognitive Science major. His credits in UT include Strings Attached (Assistant Stage Manager), Much Ado About Nothing (Stage Manager), Troilus & Cressida (Stage Manager), Cactus Flower (Music Lover). Nate would like to say that this show was as sublime as any of Mary Shelley’s works and was very sage-like. Thank you to the cast and crew for letting him write and direct whatever this experience ends up being.

Maddie Mathes (Stage Manager) is a fourth-year Creative Writing & Gender and Sexuality Studies major. In UT, she has previously worked on The Tempest (Assistant Stage Manager). She has also previously stage managed the past two summers for the Chicago Summer Opera on productions of Hansel and Gretel, Gianni Schicchi, Giulio Cesare, The Medium, and The Magic Flute.

Sara Romai (Production Manager) is a third-year Political Science and Economics major. In UT she has previously worked on Much Ado About Nothing (Assistant ProductionManager), If/Then (Assistant Stage Manager) and Cactus Flower (Stage Manager).

Max Jervis (Lighting Designer) is a third-year Physics and Philosophy major. He’s done lighting design for one full UT mainstage musical, If/Then (Lighting Designer) last winter, and a weekend of workshops in Winter 2024. He’s also performed in four UBallet productions, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Sylvia, and Coppelia. He’s looking forward to We’re Live and is excited to get to do more lighting design and work with this company. He enjoys jumping into the deep end of a pool and can sit on the floor pretending to have milk and cookies. Enjoy the show!

Brooklyn Myers (Sound) is a 3rd year Biology and HIPS major. She was an ASM in high school, but has not been part of any productions at UChicago until now. She thanks her friends for making her want to do theatre again, and her cat for waking her up in the morning. This experience has been unlike any other prodcution I have done. Decades from now, intellectuals will analyze not only the play itself, but the revolutionary production and reception of We’re Live at UChicago in 2025. Imagine the scene in Ratattouille where the critic flashes back to his childhood. This has been an extremely profound experience.

Kaden Kaden (Magnanimous Problem Solver) is a third-year History and Linguistics major. They have previously worked on Cactus Flower (Associate Lighting Designer) Troilus and Cressida (Sound Designer), The Play That Goes Wrong (Lighting Designer); Strings Attached (Assistant Costume and Assistant Lighting Designer); Much Ado About Nothing (Assistant Scenic Designer); Arcadia (TAPS Pro-Show) (Lighting Programmer and Board Operator); Muscle Memory (Lighting Designer); and six Theater [24]s (Lighting/Sound Designer). Their most profound experience on this show was coming to terms with the inescapable and infinite passing of time.

Giancarlo Beritela (Committee Liaison) stopped filling out bio forms in Fall 2024. We are unsure if this is a political statement or personal choice.