AT THE PERFORMANCE
Profile Theatre Presents
BY SARAH RUHL ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL BY VIRGINIA WOOLF DIRECTED BY MATTHEW B. ZREBSKI
CAST
Orlando............................................................................................................... Beth Thompson Chorus...................................................................................................................Crystal Muñoz Chorus...................................................................................................................Ben Newman* Chorus...................................................................................................................... Ted Rooney* Chorus............................................................................................................ Elizabeth Rothan*
DESIGNERS & PRODUCTION
Scenic Design.......................................................................................................... Tal Sanders Lighting Design...........................................................................................................Carl Faber Costume Design...................................................................................................Alison Heryer Sound Design.........................................................................................................Em Gustason Props Design..................................................................................................... Drew Dannhorn Stage Manager.................................................................................................. D Westerholm* Production Assistant...........................................................................................Ross Jackson RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY TWO HOURS WITH ONE FIFTEEN MINUTE INTERMISSION.
Orlando (Sarah Ruhl) is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the professional union of actors and stage managers. Profile Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.
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DIRECTOR’S NOTES BY MATTHEW B. ZREBSKI Countless academics and literary scholars have Or perhaps we use the term “hat.” We talk about the contemplated Virginia Woolf ’s phantasmagoric satire myriad roles we must endure to get through our lives. on gender…looking through the lens of history…the And I consider: when do we wear the mask to hide? way each era shines on a man or woman…illuminating When do we wear the mask to assimilate? And when that fundamental power struggle that seems to rest do we stumble upon the mask that, in that moment, in the bones of humans. And what has always struck projects our actual truth. Of course, I suspect all three are me about this vigorous story—both in Woolf ’s original happening simultaneously, in rapid succession. Orlando and now Sarah Ruhl’s inventive, theatrical rendering— is doing it at every turn, showing us the desperate search is that it elevates so far above a “man vs. woman” to discover acceptance from others and from self amidst dynamic. It also dares to bring the constructed social a hammer down on cisgender norms—all to soothe an culture, perhaps cracking open inherent loneliness. our perceptions of ourselves, WHAT MASK AM I helping us to embrace that, in That process of discovery WEARING TODAY? fact, we are not as divided as we is like being inside an ever want to believe, that within each changing painting, inside a of us lies both woman and man, a potential union that blank canvas where the splatters of color decorate and yields the greatest empathy for it opens our senses to all then quickly evaporate. That process of discovery is like in the world. being inside an ever changing symphony, inside a silence where fragments of melody puncture the void and then In the big picture, and politically, those are the issues I quickly fade. That process of discovery is like being inside consider as I dive into this fantastical setting. But, this an ever changing costume, inside a dress form where is also about an individual. A person named Orlando. It vibrant threads of fabric cover and then quickly unravel. is personal. And it’s always in the intimate story that the most powerful questions lie. As I witness this person But finally…that process of discovery? It isn’t like struggle and celebrate through hundreds of years, in anything. It is being inside our skin. Naked. In every so many forms and in so many roles, I ask: what is the sense. Completely exposed. Completely vulnerable. It is mask? a remembering. Born whole. All things. Not alone. And inside the chaos of time, remembering that. We say it all the time. “What mask am I wearing today?”
We say it all the time.
ABOUT SARAH RUHL Sarah Ruhl’s plays include The Oldest Boy; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; The Clean House; Passion Play; Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando; Late: a cowboy song, Dear Elizabeth and Stage Kiss. She is a two-time Pulitzer prize finalist and a Tony award nominee. Her plays have been produced on Broadway at the Lyceum by Lincoln Center Theater, off-Broadway at Playwrights’ Horizons, Second Stage, and at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater. Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country, often with premiers at Yale Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, the Goodman Theater, and the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago. In 2014 she was
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the second most produced playwright in the country. Her plays have also been produced internationally and have been translated into over twelve languages. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. She has received the Susan Smith Blackburn award, the Whiting award, the Lily Award, a PEN award for mid-career playwrights, and the MacArthur “genius” award. You can read more about her work at www.SarahRuhlplaywright.com. Her book of essays 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was published by Faber and Faber last fall. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
She bridges the vast and the life-sized, the straightforward and the artful, the lyrical and the starkly dramatic.
VITA AND VIRGINIA By Natalie Genter-Gilmore The effect of Vita on Virginia is all contained in Orlando, the longest and most charming love letter in literature, in which she explores Vita, weaves her in and out of the centuries, tosses her from one sex to the other, plays with her, dresses her in furs, lace and emeralds, teases her, flirts with her, drops a veil of mist around her. –Nigel Nicolson, son of Vita Sackville-West Virginia Woolf and Vita SackvilleWest met at a dinner party in 1923. For almost two decades, they sparked in each other love, friendship and literary inspiration. Though open homosexual relationships were virtually unheard of in the era, Vita and Virginia were part of a daring and experimental social circle of intellectuals and writers that embraced unconventional relationships. Both women were married, and yet carried on their passionate love affair for many years.
Profile Theatre’s In Dialogue program offers our audiences and community the opportunity to engage with the work, the themes and the aesthetic of our featured writer through a broad, vibrant and ever changing series of events and presentations. Join us before or after performances of Orlando. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Opening Night Reception SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH | POST-SHOW
Mat Chat with Orlando director Matthew B. Zrebski SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH | POST-SHOW
Dinner Dialogue (Additional Tickets Required) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH 5:15PM GRACIE’S RESTAURANT
Throughout their relationship both women were writing prolifically, Virginia and Vita in 1932 and producing some of their best work. Woolf completed To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and A Room of One’s Own. Sackville-West published All Passion Spent and The Edwardians among many others. Both served as critic and supporter of each other’s work. Vita writes in a letter, “I shall work so hard, partly to please you, partly to please myself. It is quite true that you have had infinitely more influence on me intellectually than anyone, and for this alone I adore you.” Hogarth Press, the publishing company Virginia owned with her husband, even published several of Vita’s novels.
World of Woolf: A Series of Readings
Vita’s husband, Harold Nicolson, often worked as a diplomat so the couple was frequently abroad. Vita and Virginia wrote lengthy, affectionate letters during these separations. Vita wrote, “...there is at the back of my mind all the time...a glow, a sort of nebula, which only when I examine it hardens into shape; as soon as I think of something else it dissolves again, remaining there like a sun through a fog, and I have to reach out for it again, take it in my hands and feel it’s contours: then it hardens. Virginia is coming on Saturday.”
45th Parallel Chamber Music Our year-long collaboration concludes with two performances of a specially curated concert inspired by Orlando.
The two maintained this relationship for many years. Though they often quarreled about Vita’s perceived infidelity, Virginia wrote to Vita, “Never do I leave you without thinking its for the last time. Since I am always certain you’ll be off and on with another next Thursday week…” Indeed, the character of Orlando reflects Vita’s many romances and lack of fidelity. These tensions took their toll, and the love affair cooled in the early 1930s. However Vita and Virginia remained close friends and were in touch until Virginia died in 1941.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH | 6:45PM
The Work of Sarah Ruhl Lecture with Professor Karin Magaldi SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH | 6:45PM
Mat Chat with the Orlando cast SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH | POST-SHOW
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH | 6:45PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH | 6:45PM
Adapting Orlando for the Stage Lecture with Gemma Whelan FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH | 6:45PM
The Life of Virginia Woolf Lecture with Kathleen Worley SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST | 6:45PM
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CAST & CREATIVE TEAM BETH THOMPSON Orlando Beth Thompson is a performer, teacher and maker of new works. She was last seen in Profile’s In the Next Room… playing Annie. She is deeply grateful to Virginia, Vita and Sarah Ruhl for Orlando’s challenging, fluid, luminescent Truth and the opportunity to play in it. Portland is Beth’s home and here she collaborates with Shaking the Tree Theatre, Many Hats Collaborations, The Forgery, Theatre Vertigo, Portland Playhouse, PCS’s JAW Festival, Action/ Adventure, and Oregon Children’s Theatre. www.bethjthompson.com CRYSTAL MUÑOZ Chorus Crystal is excited to return to Profile, having last appeared as Consuela in Eyes for Consuela. Favorite Portland credits include Twelfth Night (Portland Shakespeare Project), A Pigeon and a Boy and The Ministry of Special Cases (JTC’s Page2Stage), The Huntsmen (Portland Playhouse), Kiss of the Spider Woman (triangle productions), and Hamlet (Anon It Moves). Crystal is also a 2013 Drammy winner (Matilde in The Clean House, Lunacy Stageworks). BEN NEWMAN Chorus Portland stage credits include: Middletown at Third Rail Repertory Theatre, CoHo Summerfest, Blood Knot and True West at Profile Theatre, Promising Playwrights/Visions to Voices at Portland Center Stage. New York: High Plains (A Western Myth) at Jimmy’s No. 43 and Edinburgh Fringe Festival ‘13, The Town of No One at NY Fringe ‘11, Henry VI, Part III with Classic Stage Company, Romeo and Juliet at Columbia Stages, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Wide Eyed Productions. Regional: Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Kansas City Actors Theatre, Riverside Shakespeare Festival.
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TV: Grimm. Ben is an instructor at Portland Actors Conservatory, and has directed in Israel and the University of Northern Colorado. BA University of Northern Colorado. MFA University of Missouri-Kansas City. TED ROONEY Chorus Thanks to Profile Theatre, Ted is making his first appearance in a fully staged play in Portland since he was Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona at Lewis & Clark College in 1984. Regional Theatres: Ahmanson, Williamstown, The McCarter, The Wilma, The Arden, Portland Stage, Idaho Shakespeare. 10 off-off Broadway credits and 10 with The Actors Co-op (LA): Uncle Vanya, The Foreigner, Man of La Mancha, Terra Nova, Damn Yankees, and Twelfth Night. Ted has 35 TV guest-star credits, over 20 principal film roles and over 35 commercials. MFA from Temple University. ELIZABETH ROTHAN Chorus Elizabeth Rothan has dedicated her life to the performing arts as actor, playwright, director, producer and teacher. She has worked with playwrights Mark Medoff in The Gulf War Chronicle, Meline Marnich in Quake and Mac Wellman in Two September. Regional credits include: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Retreat from Moscow, Dixie Swim Club, Be Aggressive, and the role of Simone de Beauvoir in Transatlantic Liaison at the Harold Clurman Theater in NYC. Elizabeth has taught diverse acting disciplines at Eugene O’Neill’s National Theater Institute, University of Portland, Linfield College, and is currently teaching at Portland Actors Conservatory. Upcoming directing credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream at PAC (December, 2015) and Andrea Stolowitz’s Successful Strategies (June, 2016) at Theater 33.
MATTHEW B. ZREBSKI Director A founding member of Playwrights West, Matthew B. Zrebski is a multiaward winning director, playwright, composer, script consultant, teaching artist, and producer whose career has been defined by new play development and innovative productions of classic stories. Recent directing credits include Up the Fall (PHAME), Bob: A Life in 5 Acts (Theatre Vertigo; Drammy Award, Best Director), The Sweatermakers (Playwrights West), The Giver (OCT) and Ablaze (Staged!). He serves as the Resident Teaching Artist at Portland Center Stage and holds a BFA in Theatre from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. TAL SANDERS Scenic Design Tal is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at Pacific University. He is a member of the United Scenic Artists, and has designed lighting and scenery for many aspects of entertainment including: theatre, film, television, theme parks, concert stages, cruise ships, mall décor and zoos. He previously designed for the Neil Simon season at Profile Theatre. Tal holds an MFA from CalArts. CARL FABER Lighting Design Recent lighting design credits include: Dead Man’s Cell Phone and Eyes for Consuela (Profile Theatre), 4000 Miles and The Price (Artists Rep), Mary Poppins (NWCT, PAMTA nomination), Trouble in Mind (Arena Stage), Wilderness (Uferstudios, Berlin), The Experiment (Boston ICA), Brother Brother (Theater Freiburg). Founding Member and Resident Designer for NYC-based immersive theater company Woodshed Collective. Touring: Bon Iver, The National. Grounds Lighting Designer: Eaux Claires Music Festival. Lighting Supervisor: Williamstown Theatre Festival ‘08–‘09. Broadway Associate/Assistant: The Book of Mormon, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, August: Osage County. Education: Catlin Gabel, Vassar College. www.carlfaber.com.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM ALISON HERYER Costume Design Alison Heryer is a designer for theatre film and print. Her work as a costume designer includes productions at Steppenwolf Theatre, The New Victory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, ZACH Theatre, Redmoon Theater and La MaMa. Recent awards include the Austin Critics Table Award for Costume Design and the ArtsKC Inspiration Grant. Heryer holds an MFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of United Scenic Artists. She is currently the Assistant Professor of Costume Design in the School of Theatre + Film at Portland State University. EM GUSTASON Sound Design Em is delighted to be making his Profile debut with this amazing show and team of collaborators. He has recently been recognized at the Drammys for his work on The Sweatermakers, for which he won Outstanding Sound Design. He has worked around town with companies including Coho, Playwright’s West, OCT, Third Rail, PCS and most recently Portland Playhouse. He holds a BA in technical theatre and audio recording from The Evergreen State College. DREW DANNHORN Props Design Drew is an artist, tinkerer and dreamer. He is a Drammy Award winning prop designer (The Giver) who has been involved in more than a hundred local productions. Other prop credits include: Third Rail Repertory, Portland Center Stage, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Mount Hood Repertory, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Bag & Baggage, Broadway Rose, and Gypsy Films. Drew is a graduate of Northwestern University’s theatre school and a former student of The Actor’s Gymnasium.
D WESTERHOLM Stage Manager Portland Stage Management credits: Fall Festival: Passion Play; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Dead Man’s Cell Phone; True West; Festival of One Acts; Buried Child; Eyes for Consuela; The Road to Mecca (Profile Theatre); The Price (Artists Repertory Theatre); The Light in the Piazza (Portland Playhouse). Oregon Shakespeare Festival, non-equity Assistant Stage Manager: The Unfortunates (2013), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013), Troilus and Cressida (2012), The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa (2012), Julius Caesar (2011), The African Company Presents Richard III (2011). BA in Theatre Management from Western Washington University, MFA in Stage Management from Columbia University. ROSS JACKSON Production Assistant Ross assisted on True West, Inside Out Tour and Festival of One Acts with Profile. Ross also recently stage managed the tour of The Lady Onstage. Other recent credits include; The International and UCI’s Coast-to-Coast Showcase (Playwright’s Horizons), The Anarchist Girl (New Musicals Inc.), and several productions with the University of California, Irvine from which he holds his Master of Fine Arts degree. This summer, Ross had the pleasure of working as the Stage Management Intern for Wicked on Broadway. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.www.actorsequity.org
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