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My Story is Gluskabe
adapted by Carol Dana
and other story-keepers of the Penobscot Nation

Produced by Penobscot Theatre Company
March 2024
Bangor, ME

​About the show:

In the earliest days, a boy called Gluskabe ventures into the world. With the wisdom and guidance of his Grandmother Woodchuck, the young Gluskabe discovers and shapes the Wabanaki landscape and brings balance to all elements that affect human life: the land, water and sky – the animals and the environment.

Through a series of remarkable adventures, Gluskabe grows into the Penobscot Nation’s cultural hero, still remembered and revered today. With music, dance and theatrical spectacle we reimagine a production first produced in our DA program as Transformer Tales. We are thrilled to bring these stories to our mainstage series, partnering with the remarkable young people from our DA program and citizens of the Wabanaki nations to bring these stories to brilliant theatrical life.

Cast

Matt Cross*- Gluskabe

Kaili Y. Turner*- Grandmother Woodchuck, Ensemble

 

Lilah Akins- Lead Ensemble

George Loring- Lead Ensemble

 

Vero Villalobos- Lead Ensemble

Dramatic Academy Youth Ensembles

Nsáwαkan (eagle) Cast
Sophie Robinson
Kaia
Hayden Crane
Miles Green-Hamann
Derrick Johnson
Caleb
Nadia Rodriguez
Adrian Sockalexis

Áwehsohs (bear) Cast

Maia Johnson

Kira Hendrickson

Monika Vijay

Quin Byrne

Jackson Woodworth

Aiden Byrne

Fiona Rigler

Adrian Sockalexis

Creative

Lighting Designer
Isaac C. Anderson

Projection Designer
Arturo Camacho

Scenic Designer
Nathan Ynacay

Prop Designer
Reed Davis

Puppet Designer
Gwen Elise Higgins

Costume Designer
Grace Wylie

Assistant Costume Designer
Emmett Sockalexis

 

Stage Manager

Reed Davis*

Sound Designer, Composer
Firefly

Sound Engineer
Neil E Graham

Choreographer
Donna Brown

Co-Choreographer/ DA Instructor
Danielle Barrett

Fight & Intimacy Director

Angela Bonacasa

 

Dramaturg

Margo Lukens

 

Cultural Consultant

Sage Neptune

Production Photography

Bill Kuykendall

* denotes a member of Actor's Equity Association

© 2025 by Jorden Charley-Whatley


 

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