THE REALISTIC JONESES by Will Eno by 4th Wall Theatre Company

THE

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REALISTIC JONESES by WILL

ENO

Directed by

JENNIFER DEAN

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By WILL ENO Directed by JENNIFER DEAN

CAST Bob Jones .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip Lehl* Jennifer Jones .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kim Tobin-Lehl* John Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drake Simpson* Pony Jones .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vaishnavi Sharma*

DESIGNERS/PRODUCTION CREW Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kalin Menzel* Assistant Director .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alanna Dorsett Set Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Rigdon Lighting Design .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Rigdon Sound Design .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yezminne Zepeda Costume Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macy Lyne Properties Master .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Afsaneh Aayani Master Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Addie Pawlick Board Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leslie Sinclair *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Stage Actors and Stage Managers

Setting: The town in which the play takes place is a regular and semi-rural town, not far from some mountains The Realistic Joneses runs approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes with no intermission The Realistic Joneses is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Original Broadway Production Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Stacey Mindich, Susan Gallin, Mary Lu Roffe, Andy Sandberg, Scott M. Delman,William Berlind, Caiola Productions, CandyWendyJamie Productions, Amy Danis & Mark Johannes, Finn Moellenberg Productions, Angelina Fiordellisi, Jay Franke, Gesso Productions, Grimaldi Astrachan Hello Entertainment, Meg Herman, Mara Smigel Rutter Productions, KM-R&D,Will Trice, In association with Yale RepertoryTheatre The Realistic Joneses was commissioned by and premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre; James Bundy, Artistic Director;Victoria Nolan, Managing Director

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DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Will Eno says of his play The Realistic Joneses, “I had wanted for a long time to write a play about mortality, but how we grapple with that...when you think about mortality, you think about how you want to live every day.” Mortality. It’s a complex issue. Faced with that idea we ponder, how do we want to live every day? How do we live when we are faced with a deep struggle? How do we take care of or share that burden with those around us? That’s a lot to think about, and in many cases we don’t think about it until we are face to face with it. That’s one of the things I love about theater, and particularly scripts like this one. It allows us to stop and examine life, a gut check of how we are doing. It gives us a safe place to ask some real, meaningful questions and maybe, if we allow it, to leave that space and do some things different with our days. I know this one will stick with me long after the last curtain call. The Realistic Joneses was a new challenge for me stylistically as a director, but I have loved it. I find the script funny, odd, beautiful, and haunting. There are lines that linger with me even after I leave rehearsal, there are moments that make me cry, and others that have brought me to tears of laughter. Even now as we approach opening night we find ourselves making new discoveries about what something means, and I anticipate that will happen all the way to closing. And what I enjoy most is that I get to experience all of this with a tremendous room of talent. The cast has been amazing to work with in this process. I hope that you enjoy The Realistic Joneses as much as we have, and that you allow it to take root and change you. Let this time together, life flowing through us, make us better. Jennifer Dean, Director

WHO’S WHO KALIN MENZEL (Stage Manager) Recent credits include: 4th Wall Theatre Company: The Glass Menagerie, Collected Stories, The Pussy Grabber Plays Reading Series, Rapture, Blister, Burn, Pride and Prejudice, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Stage Manager), Shakespeare in Vegas, Reckless (Stage Crew); Rogue Productions: I Love You Because (ASM); San Jacinto College South: Hurricane Jacinto, A Confusion of Human Beings (Stage Manager), Such Stuff (ASM); Other credits: Fiddler on the Roof (Properties Master), Beauty and the Beast (Sound Design), The Boys Next Door (Lighting Design), Alice in Wonderland, Hello, Dolly!, South Paciﬁc, and Charlie’s Aunt (Crew Head). Kalin is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association. www.kalinmenzel.com, @kalinmenzel

Kevin Rigdon (Set & Lighting Designer) is a Houston-based, award winning, scenic, lighting and costume designer for theatre. Audiences around the world have seen his work in venues that include Broadway, Off-Broadway, London’s West End, the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal Bath, Donmar Warehouse, and the Peter Hall Company, as well as theatres in Israel and Australia. In the United States, he has created designs for more than 350 productions for organizations that include Steppenwolf Theatre, Alley Theatre, Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Mark Taper Forum, Atlantic Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, and many more. He is the recipient of two Tony Award nominations, four Drama Desk Award nominations, two American Theatre Wing awards, two Houston Theater Awards, and seven Joseph Jefferson Awards. Kevin is the Vice President for International Activities of USITT, and serves on the executive committee of OISTAT. He is the Associate Director/Design of Houston’s Alley Theatre and a Moores Professor of Theatre at the University of Houston, where he is the head of the Graduate Design Program. MACY LYNE (Costume Designer) is a Houston based freelance costume designer and stylist. Texas theaters she frequently designs for include Main Street Theater, Catastrophic Theatre, 4th Wall Theatre, Classical Theatre Company, Stages Repertory Theatre, Miller Outdoor Theatre, Main Street Theater for Youth, The Ensemble Theatre, Rice University, and Unity Theatre. She also enjoys traveling and has designed for Okoboji Summer Theatre in Iowa, Utah Musical Theatre and Utah State University in Utah, and Santa Fe University of Art and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico among others. Opera companies include: The Houston Grand Opera, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Mercury Chamber Orchestra, and Ars Lyrica. Film/Television credits: Feature Film Be Not Afraid, Web Series Penny Power, ZomBFF (promo shoot.) www.macylyne.com

vaishnavi sharma (Pony Jones) New York: Pygmalion (Bedlam), The Seagull and Sense & Sensibility (Bedlam), Queen of the Night (Paramount), This Side Of Neverland (The Pearl Theatre), The Iliad (Lucille Lortel Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Blessed Unrest), Brainpeople (NSD). Regional: Pygmalion (Central Square Theater), The Death of the Novel (San Jose Repertory), Around the World in 80 Days and Hamlet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). Film/TV: Mr. Robot (USA), The Leftovers (HBO). jennifer dean (Director) Jennifer Dean is thrilled to be back working with 4th Wall Theater once again. Jennifer works full time as the Marketing Director for A.D. Players at The George Theater. She has worked in Houston as an actor and director since she graduated from Baylor University with a BFA in Theater Performance in 2000. She has appeared onstage at A.D. Players in Pride and Prejudice, Anastasia, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Diary of Anne Frank, Shadowlands, Charley’s Aunt and more; at 4th Wall Theater in Reckless; at Classical Theater in Miss Julie; at Main Street Theater in Enemies, Silent Sky, The Coast of Utopia, I Am Barbie and Driftwood; and Stages Repertory Theater in Dollhouse. Directing credits include The God Game, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Collected Stories, Shakespeare In Vegas and co-director of Lobby Hero at Stark Naked/4th Wall; 12 Angry Men, Leaving Iowa, Charley’s Aunt, and Tuesdays With Morrie at A.D. Players. Jennifer is delighted to work with this amazing cast and crew, and thankful to her husband Kevin, and daughter Livey, for their continuous support. Alanna dorsett (Assistant Director) Originally from Texas, she spent most of her childhood abroad living in Hong Kong and Australia, before finishing high school in Houston. She moved to New York City at age nineteen and immersed herself in its riches. While working in TV, film, and theatre in NYC, she became interested in directing, further broadening her skill set and leveraging her scope of the dramatic arts. Alanna holds a MFA in Directing from Actors Studio Drama School, a BFA in Theatre Arts, with majors in Acting and Directing from Five Towns College, and an Associate Degree in Acting from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has served as a Teaching Artist at the Young Performers Studio at The Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, worked with the Center Stage program for public schools in Queens, New York, sponsored by Queens Theatre In The Park, and was a member of The Playwright Directors Unit at The Actors Studio focusing on the creation of new works. A few of her favorite New York City directing credits include No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Snow Angel by Lewis John Carlino, Savage In Limbo by John Patrick Shanley, and Tape by Stephen Belber. After 10 years in New York City and backpacking around the world, Alanna returned to Houston and is thrilled to be Assistant Directing with 4th Wall.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

WHO’S WHO

WILL ENO is a Residency Five Fellow at the Signature Theatre in New York, which presented Title and Deed in 2012, and The Open House in 2014. Following an acclaimed run at Yale Repertory Theatre, his play The Realistic Joneses was on Broadway in 2014, directed by Sam Gold and staring Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, and Marisa Tomei. The Realistic Joneses won a Drama Desk Award, was named USA Today’s “Best Play on Broadway,” topped the The Guardian’s 2014 list of American plays, and was included in The N.Y. Times’ “Best Theatre of 2014.” The Open House won the 2014 Obie Award, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Drama Desk Award, and was included in both the Time Out New York and Time Magazine Top 10 Plays of the Year. Title and Deed was on The N.Y. Times and The New Yorker magazine’s Top Ten Plays of 2012. His play Gnit, a loving but aggressive adaptation of Peer Gynt, premiered at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville in 2013. Middletown, winner of the Horton Foote Award, premiered at the Vineyard Theatre and subsequently at Steppenwolf Theater and many other American Theaters and universities. His internationally heralded play Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He was recently awarded the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award. His plays are published by Samuel French, TCG, Dramatists Play Service, and playscripts in the U.S., and Oberon Books in London.

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WHO’S WHO Philip lehl (Bob Jones) is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of 4th Wall Theatre Company, and is also an actor, director, and teacher. For 4th Wall/Stark Naked he has acted in Pride & Prejudice, Shakespeare in Vegas, Disgraced, Much Ado About Nothing, True West, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Ho Ho Humbug, Stage Kiss, The God Game, The Winter’s Tale, Faith Healer, Macbeth, Debt Collectors, and Dinner With Friends; and directed or co-directed The Glass Menagerie, Reckless, Much Ado About Nothing, Winter’s Tale, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Debt Collectors, and Body Awareness. Broadway performances include Blood Brothers and The Kentucky Cycle. Off-Broadway: Hundreds of Hats. National Tour: Titanic, the Musical. Since arriving in Texas in 2001: over thirty productions at The Alley, including: Clybourne Park, The Pillowman, The Farnsworth Invention, Eurydice, The Crucible, The Exonerated, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Mousetrap, The Nether, Hamlet and The Invention of Love. Stages Repertory Theatre: Who Am I This Time, Oh, the Humanity, Yankee Tavern, I Am My Own Wife, Mr. Marmalade, Lady, Souvenir, Amy’s View, The Pavilion, and Dirty Blonde. A.D. Players: You Can’t Take It With You, 12 Angry Men. Main Street Theatre: Arcadia. Classical Theatre Company: The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Uncle Vanya, and Ghosts. Houston Shakespeare Festival: King John, Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Julius Caesar, and Cymbeline. TUTS: Memphis, LMNOP, A Wonderful Life, The Sound of Music, and one memorable performance of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Generations: Bat Boy, Spring Awakening, Our Town. BCCM: On the Town, Fiorello, Assassins, She Loves Me. EHS: The Tempest. Regional: St. Louis Repertory, Cleveland Play House, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The New Harmony Theatre and Weston Playhouse. Education: The Juilliard School, Drake University, NTI, Moscow Arts Theatre School. Lehl teaches classes privately through Kim Tobin Acting Studio, and also at the HGO Studio. Lehl is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association. KIM TOBIN-LEHL (Jennifer Jones) is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of 4th Wall Theatre Company with her husband Philip Lehl. At 4th Wall, Kim has appeared in The Glass Menagerie, Collected Stories, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare In Vegas, Small Mouth Sounds, Stage Kiss, The God Game, Ho Ho Humbug, Debt Collectors, All Girls, Body Awareness, God of Carnage, Macbeth, Reckless, Much Ado About Nothing, Faith Healer, and Dinner With Friends. Other professional credits in Houston include Almost, Maine with Brave Dog Theatre Company; Speech and Debate at Stages Repertory Theatre; and Proof at Texas Rep. While living in New York, Kim

WHO’S WHO was an officer with the New Mercury Theatre Company, where, among other roles, she produced and starred as Sally in the 1995 revival of Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind. Kim later became the Artistic Director of the Blue Sphere East theatre company (the New York sister company to the acclaimed Blue Sphere Alliance theatre company based in Los Angeles). Some of her favorite Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway credits include: Talk to Me Like the Rain…, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Fifth of July, Fool for Love, Savage in Limbo, The Smell of the Crowd, Bed, Bawd & Beyond, Impassioned Embraces (Emotional Recall), Ctrl, Alt, Delete and Trust; the Barrow Group’s production Short Stuff Two, and their production of her original one woman show, Inside Out. Kim lived in LA studying with Sandy Marshall and Larry Moss. Some of her LA theatre credits: the world premiere of Children of Shame, The Interrogation, Masseur, as well as productions of Baby with the Bathwater, Check to Check, and The Foreigner. Kim has a long list of directing credits as well in Houston and New York City which include numerous award nominations and wins. Kim’s film credits include roles in The Big Lebowski, The Alarmist, and Sex Maniac, as well as the television series Sunset Beach. In addition to her extensive body of work and training history with iconic institutions and teachers, Kim is a highly sought-after acting and directing teacher herself, and her studio focuses on the Sanford Meisner approach to acting and offers an array of courses (from beginner to advanced levels). Kim is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. drake simpson (John Jones) has previously appeared in 4th Wall Theatre/Stark Naked Theatre productions of Lobby Hero, True West, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, God of Carnage, Body Awareness, and Dinner with Friends. Other Houston credits include Red Light Winter, Fault Lines, Among The Thugs, The Aliens and The Spaghetti Code with Horse Head Theatre (for which he is also a founding member); Hotel Fuck, Tamalalia 2000, and Roberto Zucco (Catastrophic Theatre); The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety, The Laramie Project, Shakespeare’s R&J, and Heart of A Woman (Stages Repertory Theatre); American Buffalo (Landing Theatre Company); The Man Who Had Three Arms and This is Our Youth (Atomic Café); and Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing (Houston Shakespeare Festival). Los Angeles credits include Recent Tragic Events, Kith and Kin, The Baby Dance and Zastrozzi. Film/Television credits include Notes From The Underbelly (ABC), Todd’s Coma (Happy Madison Productions), Canooks (Those Damn Canadians) and the independent films The Riot Act, Dirty Mary, Worms, and Palps.