Mammelephant
featuring Imani Russell as Nikky/Youngest
via Superhero Clubhouse:
"Mammelephant is a musical epic exploring displacement and identity in the era of climate change through the eyes of the world’s first mammoth-elephant hybrid and the humans confronting rapidly thawing Arctic permafrost. Inspired by the Pleistocene Park geoengineering experiment, the Colossal de-extinction project, and an ancient Sakha song-poem, the play follows the first “mammelephant” as they try to make a hopeful future in a place where everything– knowledge, ancestry, even the ground beneath their feet– is unstable."
Mammelephant played at Mabou Mines from July 21-August 6, 2022
production photos.
photos by Maria Baranova
Imani Russell as Nikky in "Mammelephant"
Izzy Sazak as Mammelephant and Imani Russell as Nikky in "Mammelephant"
Imani Russell as Youngest and Zhanna Zakharova as Mother in "Mammelephant"
Imani Russell as Youngest in "Mammelephant"
The Cast of "Mammelephant"
Imani Russell singing and playing guitar in "Mammelephant"
show information.
Written by Lanxing Fu
Directed by Nana Dakin
Performed by Jen Anaya, Imani Russell, Izzy Sazak, and Zhanna Zakharova
Music Composed by Trevor New
Production Design by Alejandro Fajardo
Costume Design by kindall houston almond
Sound Design and Engineering by Trevor New
Crankie Design by Lexy Ho-Tai
Music Direction by Erika Ji
Additional Music by Treya Lam
Additional Sound Design by Eva von Schweinitz
Understudied by Belle Le and Jackie Rivera
Produced by Jem Pickard
Production Managed by Kelly Lamanna
Stage Managed by Rachel Denise April
Assistant Stage Managed by Olivia Kurima
Associate Production Designer Cosette Pin
Creative Marketing Producer Emily C. Bell
Press Representative John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency
Production Interns Wells Mundell-Wood and Nisani Walser
Graphic Design by Alexandra Kwiatkoski and Lanxing Fu