Bloodletting Program Page | Pork Filled Productions

Pork Filled Productions, in association with Theatre Off Jackson, presents

A play by Boni B. Alvarez
Directed by Zenaida R. Smith

Cast

Leelee	Anna Mulia
Jenry	Sam Prudente
Farrah	Jen-Ai Clinton
Bosley	Matt Dela Cruz

Understudy	Anamaria Guerzon
	Kendall Uyeji

Staff

Assistant Director	David Le
Stage Manager	Omar Faust
Assistant Stage Manager	Alister James Stern
Cultural Consultant and Dramaturg	Eloisa Cardona
Assistant Dramaturg	Anamaria Guerzon
Community Outreach Coordinator	Eloisa Cardona
Outreach	Sam Qiambo
Props Designer	Jessamyn Bateman-Iino
Lighting Designer	Emily Leong
Intimacy Director	Jasmine Lomax
Set Designer and Builder	Robin Macartnery
Costume Designer	Corinne Park-Buffelen
Sound Designer	Josh Valdez
Social Media Coordinator	Linda RIgor
Production Manager	P. Alyda Sorm
Graphic Designer	Kwesi Phillips
Producers	Omar Faust
	David Le
	P. Alyda Sorm
	Roger Tang
	Kendall Uyeji
	Josh Valdez

PFP is a proud member of Theatre Puget Sound and is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike. PFP’s season is supported by 4Culture, ArtsFund, ArtsWA (and the NEA), and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture,

Acknowledgements

Artswest, Gracie Santos Guce (Project Manager Filipino Community of Seattle), David Hsieh and ReAct Theatre, Jennifer Johnson (Black Pinay, Owner Proprietor, Co-Founder Palengke) Reboot Theatre, Bennyroyce Royon (Culture and Arts Program Coordinator), University of Puget Sound, Geri Ventura (FANHS National Board of Trustees member)

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A Word from the Director

I find few stories more affecting than psychological horror tales. Bloodletting exemplifies the best of the genre: it explores family and community trauma, feeling disconnected from your origins, the pain of otherness.

Filipinos have powerful familial bonds, and that means there is an equally powerful fear of rejection by family or community, and that fear of rejection often festers into a sense of internalized monstrosity.

I keep coming back to the line: “You tell them they are evil, you think they will not want to hurt you more?” It’s a cruel thing. When we tell a person that they are evil or wrong, inherently and irrevocably, we speak it into truth. We eliminate their potential to do or be better.

Sometimes we tell this to ourselves.

This story reminds us that humans make monsters, and learning about our monsters makes us better humans. Take care learning about these monsters.
Zenaida