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5 A Welcome from the Artistic and Managing Directors 6 Fellowship Program Launches Careers 8 Leslye’s Seven Deadly Scripts 10 Laughing Through the Pain: An Interview with Leslye Headland and Trip Cullman 12 Show Program: Cult of Love 14 The Artists 18 Donors 21 Staff, Board of Trustees, and Sustaining Advisors 22 Making Theatre
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Welcome to Cult of Love. As I write this, the holidays are ahead, and I imagine many of us are anticipating time with family (biological or chosen) with all the joy and complication that entails! By the time you sit to read this, preparing for the lights to dim in the Roda Theatre, surrounded by friends and strangers, the celebrations will be behind us, and perhaps Cult of Love can provide an opportunity to reflect on these experiences that are so very specific and unique, and yet simultaneously full of universal truths. One of the many things Leslye Headland has captured so beautifully in this play is the particular musicality of the Dahl family. And while none of my families sing (be grateful!), each tribe has its own set of rhythms, rituals, and vernacular. To enter the Dahl home as participant or witness is to have to find one’s way into the overlapping language, the shorthand, and the memories, whether they be objectively true or simply accepted lore. Trip Cullman’s masterful orchestration of Leslye’s dialogue envelopes us in the hyper-realism of the simultaneous speech and the mini events overlapping throughout the overstuffed rooms. And Trip’s trademark deftness ensures that our eyes and ears will always be guided to the places that they most need to be. In this we benefit so greatly from the many years that Trip and Leslye have spent crafting worlds together, from their respect for and trust in the skills they each bring to a process, and the deep love they share for these exquisitely complicated characters. Enjoy! Warmly,
When I first read Cult of Love, I immediately loved it, despite it conjuring many holiday memories. Having grown up in a very Christian family, I saw myself and my relatives in the Dahls; and the family rituals, the repressed feelings, the forced cheer, and the trauma were unfortunately all too familiar. No matter how terrible we were to one another, the fact that we are family and love one another was supposed to absolve any mistreatment. There is a saying that “drama is when bad things happen to you, and comedy is when bad things happen to other people.” With a little distance from the holiday season, hopefully, through the power of laughter, we can see that the challenges we face are not unique, that we are not alone — and we can heal. Maybe we can see where pride got in the way of kindness and compassion. And that is what great theatre can do. As we pass the midpoint of the 2023/24 season, three more fantastic, theatrical stories await: the West Coast premiere of Lloyd Suh’s breathtaking epic immigration drama, The Far Country; the dazzling world premiere, Broadway-aimed musical, Galileo; and Octavio Solis’ 21st-century sequel to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Mother Road. We are also deep into planning your 2024/25 season, and we look forward to sharing more in the coming weeks about what thrilling times we will share together in the theatre next season. In the meantime, thank you for joining us today, and enjoy the show! With deep appreciation,
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Berkeley Rep welcomed 12 emerging theatre professionals from across the nation into our 2023/24 fellowship program. Now in its 41st year, this program serves as a launchpad for those eager to improve existing skills and gain new ones in theatrical production, administration, and direction. The fellows gain hands-on experience in the Theatre’s daily operation and learn alongside experienced artists, a dministrators, g uest directors, and designers, where they gain practical experience applicable to many industries. Former fellows have gone on to careers in regional theatres and on Broadway, in the film and streaming industries, and even in politics. One of this season’s fellows, Kayla Badia, came from Houston to participate in the production management fellowship, which she calls a “perfect mix of fun and challenge.” This fellowship 6 | THE BERKELE Y REP MAGA ZINE
combines contracting, budgeting, expense tracking, and scheduling, which requires the “ultimate team vibe” to succeed. Production management works directly with m a n a gement sta f f, tech n ica l crews, and designers to ensure the success of each production. Kayla gets to meet everyone from the designers to tech gurus, and “takes a peek into every aspect of a show from the beginning to opening.” After being mentored by Berkeley Rep’s staff, Kayla in turn will mentor teens as the production manager for this spring’s High School Theatre Festival.
Berkeley Rep is looking for highly motivated individuals to take part in our 2024/25 fellowship program. If you (or anyone you know) are interested in applying, find more information at berkeleyrep.org/about/get-involved/
Kiahana Toomer, 2021/22 lighting fellow
E. Wayman-Murdock, 2023/24 scenic art fellow
THE FAR COUNTRY BY LLOYD SUH DIRECTED BY JENNIFER CHANG MAR 8–APR 14, 2024 Following a critically acclaimed debut in New York, Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh brings The Far Country back to its roots in a triumphant West Coast premiere. In the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Moon Gyet has arrived at San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island Immigration Station with an invented biography and a new name, both given to him by a man who made the same arduous crossing several years earlier. But passage to San Francisco — and the dream of a better life for future generations — commands a very high price. Spanning two countries and three generations, Lloyd Suh’s breathtaking account of immigration, identity, and memory has been called “Artful…an act, loving and sorrowful, of reclamation” by The New York Times. 2023/24 | ISSUE 4 | 7
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Originating from Roman Catholic theology, the seven deadly sins — or cardinal sins — are seven ways of rejecting God. Many sects of Christianity consider these broad transgressions to be manifestations of selfishness, the root cause of all unholiness. In 2007, after writing the play Cinephilia, Leslye Headland realized the script examined themes of lust, and thus decided to write six more plays, one for each of the deadly sins. In this Sin Plays cycle, which premiered between 2007 and 2018 at IAMA Theatre Company, each play offers an exploration of how these vices manifest in the 21st century. Cult of Love is the seventh and final play in the cycle, representing pride. In conversation with Headland, she said, “I tried to think of the sins in a way that they might reveal themselves in modern day.” Rather than “this kind of cartoonish version of what these sins were,” her plays are about “how they creep up on people.” Read on to learn more about each play and its corresponding sin.
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Surfer Girl / SLOTH
IAMA premiere: 2008; NYC premiere (Animus Theatre Company with The Dirty Blondes): 2018
Cinephillia / LUST IAMA premiere: 2007
Set in Brooklyn, NY, an on-again, off-again young couple discusses their love, hatred, and lust for both film and each other.
“But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Matthew 5:28
Bachelorette / GLUTTONY
IAMA premiere: 2008; NYC premiere (Second Stage): 2010
The night before their friend’s wedding, three gorgeous girls embark on a night of gluttony that snowballs from playfully wasted to cataclysmically ruinous.
“Drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.” Proverbs 23:21 Headland wrote and directed a film adaptation of Bachelorette. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, and Isla Fisher, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.
Assistance / GREED
IAMA premiere: 2008; NYC premiere (Playwrights Horizons): 2012
Inspired by Headland’s experience working as Harvey Weinstein’s personal assistant, a group of young assistants seek to please their implacable boss, making great sacrifices as they greedily aspire towards power.
“Then He said to them, ‘Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.’” Luke 12:15
A couch surfer rides the waves of a notquite-homeless, not-quite-broke life of sloth, surviving off the hospitality of others, avoiding responsibility, and longing for home.
“He who is slothful in his work is a brother to him who is a great destroyer.” Proverbs 18:9
Reverb / WRATH IAMA premiere: 2009
An LA rocker attempts to rekindle a volatile, wrathful, and (consensually) violent romance with his ex-girlfriend while coping with his abusive father’s ailing health.
“Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord.” Romans 12:19
The Accidental Blonde / ENVY IAMA premiere: 2010
Two ex-best friends exist separately, one on a TV cooking competition, the other in a therapy session, the baggage and envy from their shared past seeping into their present lives.
“A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” Proverbs 14:30
Cult of Love / PRIDE IAMA premiere: 2018
The Dahl parents and the Dahl children, now adults with beliefs of their own, perform joyous carols and bizarre family rituals, fueled by alcohol and forced cheer—until it all descends into pride-fueled chaos.
“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.” Proverbs 11:2
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Playwright, screenwriter, and film/television director Leslye Headland and theatre director Trip Cullman were strangers when they were first paired in 2010 for the NYC premiere of Leslye’s play Bachelorette. Now, 13 years and four major collaborations later, their working relationship has blossomed into an artistic marriage where Trip is Leslye’s self-proclaimed “theatre husband.” Berkeley Rep staff sat down with the power duo to find out what makes their partnership work and discuss the inspiration and approach behind bringing this dark comedy to the stage and the importance of the great American family drama. Below are highlights from the conversation: LESLYE ON THE PLAY’S INSPIRATION The inspiration is my family. I love them very much, and I wrote the play to work out a lot of the things that we didn’t ever get a chance to talk about. I just felt like there were so many things I wanted to say in the moment, but I didn’t know how to. And so, I wrote them many years later. My family was a very musical family. All my siblings and I would play instruments and sing together. I liked the idea of a family drama that was orchestrated and that the dialogue would become like a piece of music that had to be conducted in a way that felt chaotic but was very planned in its execution. So, it’s a difficult play to do, but I think when it’s done right, you get a sense of really being a fly on the wall of what a family gathering is like. 10 | THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE
LESLYE ON WORKING WITH TRIP When I was first asked who my dream director would be back in 2010 for my production of Bachelorette, I said Trip Cullman because I really admired his work, and I felt like we would make a good match, and I was right. I think our sensibilities are just so similar. I write plays where everything starts out put together and then slowly the entire thing falls apart, whether it’s a hotel being trashed, or an office space being broken down by a tap dance. Trip is great at staging controlled chaos, so our strengths complement each other.
TRIP AND LESLYE ON THE PLAY’S TONE TC: I think about this play as a kind of transgressive iteration of the great American family drama. Like, if you look at Long Day’s Journey into Night, Death of a Salesman, August: Osage County, or A Raisin in the Sun, this play is the 2023 version of that tradition. LH: It’s also a bit of a send up of those plays. There’s a lot of tropes that we dismantle either because everything descends into chaos or because the characters are left of center. No one is really fighting for this family in the same way you see in those other plays. TC: The characters are put into a cycle of emotions that range from ecstasy to utter despair, and the play requires the audience to go through a kind of emotional crucible. It is wildly funny, upsetting, tender, and moving. I’m thinking that audiences will have barely recovered from their own Christmas experiences with their family and might see a lot of their own dynamics being played out.
LESLYE AND TRIP ON THE PLAY’S COMEDY LH: My experience over and over has been that with all my work no matter how serious I try to be, everyone always ends up laughing. So, I do think that I would characterize Cult of Love as a comedy. I would say it’s a comedy about dark subject matter. TC: The comedy in Leslye’s work doesn’t come from zingers and one-liners, ever. The comedy is my favorite kind of comedy, which is that it comes from pain. It’s situational and characterological. So much of what is funny in the play is about the dynamics between the characters and inside of the family; there is very little filter. LESLYE ON RELIGION AND QUEERNESS In Cult of Love, I really wanted to take a look at the double meaning of pride. One, as a gay woman, how I’ve been able to find my own sense of pride being raised within a
religious family and how you have to sort of stand up for yourself with the people that were put in charge of loving you. Two, the working definition that I used for the play was that if you’re suffering from the sin of pride, it’s because you think that you’re right. And I think everyone in the play thinks they’re right, and that’s sort of the problem. They can’t see past their own experiences within the family. I feel conflicted having been raised in a Christian home, specifically Catholic, and then when I was older, nondenominational Christianity. The type of environment that I grew up in and the type of events that I took part in, whether it was youth group or Young Life retreats, a lot of it is buffered with the word “love.” God loves you; Jesus loves you; we love you, but then there’s this underlying weirdness of not accepting people. It’s like, we love you, but we don’t accept you. We love you, but we don’t want to talk about the truth of a situation or things that might be a little bit more complicated. The tenet of Christianity that I believe in and still hold dear in my heart and was important for me to express in the play is that I know there is love there, and I know that people are doing the best they can, but as with all my plays, sometimes people’s best isn’t that great.
LESYLE ON WRITING FOR STAGE VS SCREEN I heard this quote once that in a play the audience is wondering what’s happening now, and in a film, they’re wondering what’s happening next. When the audience is physically in the theatre, they’re so immersed in the present moment. Whereas in television and film, the audience can get ahead of the action in a weird way, even if it’s by a millisecond. They register things in a safe cocoon place where they digest it very quickly, and therefore it takes more to shock them or get them to laugh. They don’t have their peers to rely on in terms of how to react to something. You can inflict more daring or defiant moments on a theatre audience. They really don’t have the ability to disconnect from what’s happening. I also think that the musical moments in this show would be almost impossible to recreate in film and television. You could do it, of course, but there’s nothing like live music. You are affected by it so much more viscerally than, you know, watching it on your phone.
SHOW PROGRAM: CULT OF LOVE
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director | Tom Parrish, Managing Director in association with Red Yes Studio, Rachel Sussman, and Seaview presents
CULT OF LOVE BY
LESLYE HEADLAND DIRECTED BY
TRIP CULLMAN SCENIC DESIGN
COSTUME DESIGN
LIGHTING DESIGN
SOUND DESIGN
ARNULFO MALDONADO
SOPHIA CHOI
HEATHER GILBERT
DARRON L WEST
MUSIC DIRECTOR AND ARRANGEMENTS
CASTING
JACINTH GREYWOODE
STEPHEN KOPEL, CSA CARRIE GARDNER, CSA
STAGE MANAGER
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
LESLIE M. RADIN*
EMMA WALZ*
World Premiere presented by IAMA Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA, 2018.
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William “Bill” Dahl Virginia “Ginny” Dahl
Dan Hiatt* Luisa Sermol*
Mark Dahl
Lucas Near-Verbrugghe*
Rachel Dahl
Molly Bernard*
Evie Dahl
Virginia Kull*
Pippa Ferguson Diana Dahl Bennett
Cass Buggé* Kerstin Anderson*
James Bennett
Christopher Lowell*
Johnny Dahl
Christopher Sears*
Loren Montgomery
Vero Maynez
UNDERSTUDIES (in alphabetical order)
Diana Dahl Bennett/Evie Dahl
Jess Andrews*
James Bennett/Johnny Dahl/Mark Dahl
Ben Euphrat*
Virginia “Ginny” Dahl Loren Montgomery/Pippa Ferguson/Rachel Dahl William “Bill” Dahl
Sharon Lockwood* Emily Ota* Robert Parsons*
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CAST
SHOW PROGRAM: CULT OF LOVE
THE ARTISTS
Dan Hiatt William “Bill” Dahl
Kerstin Anderson Diana Dahl Bennett
Kerstin Anderson (she/her) is thrilled to be making her Berkeley Rep debut! Broadway/Tour: My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle), The Sound of Music (Maria). Other theatre appearances include Unknown Soldier (Playwrights Horizons), Afterwords (5th Avenue), Doubt (Westport Playhouse), and Row (Audible). She can be heard on Ryan Scott Oliver’s albums Darling: Live in Concert and Future Demons, Ethan Carlson’s Her Sound, and the original cast album of Unknown Soldier. Upcoming short film: Ventriculus. @kerstanderson1 Molly Bernard Rachel Dahl
Theatre credits include the NYTW Off-Broadway production of House Plant and Soho Rep’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. In television, Molly starred in Paramount+’s Younger from Darren Star, recurred in NBC’s Chicago Med, the Emmy-winning Amazon series Transparent, Amazon’s Alpha House, HBO’s High Maintenance, and NBC’s Blindspot. In film, she will next appear in Richard Linklater’s Hitman. Additional film credits include Milkwater, which she also executive produced, the independent feature films Best Man, Dead Man and Lone Star Bull, Netflix’s comedy film Otherhood, Sully opposite Tom Hanks, Pay it Forward, and The Intern, directed by Nancy Meyers. Bernard received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Cass Buggé Pippa Ferguson
Berkeley Rep debut. Theatre includes Dance Marathon (Barbican, UK), Bombs in Your Mouth (Cherry Lane Theatre), Every Girl Gets Her Man (Soho Rep), as well as two solo shows performed at The UCB, PIT and Magnet theatres in NY. TV includes Amazon’s Night Sky opposite Sissy Spacek and JK Simmons, Chuck Lorre’s Disjointed, For All Mankind (Apple), Better Things (FX), Transparent (Amazon), The Brink (HBO), and the upcoming Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (Disney +). Film includes the Carrie Brownstein and St. Vincent mockumentary The Nowhere Inn and Miguel Arteta’s Yes Day.
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Dan Hiatt has appeared at Berkeley Rep in Menocchio, Dinner with Friends, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. His Bay Area credits include Father Comes Home from the Wars, Vanity Fair, and The Birthday Party (American Conservatory Theater); Hamlet, Man and Superman, and Uncle Vanya (California Shakespeare Theater); Anne Boleyn (Marin Theatre Company); Gem of the Ocean (TheatreWorks); and Arsonists (Aurora Theatre Company). Regional work includes King Charles III (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Mary Stuart (Huntington Theatre Company), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Arizona Theatre Company), and Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Ford’s Theatre. Virginia Kull Evie Dahl
Broadway: The Heiress, Man and Boy, and Horton Foote’s Tony-nominated Dividing the Estate. Off-Broadway credits include Rapture Blister Burn, Leslye Headland’s Assistance, Sex Lives of Our Parents, and Orphans’ Home Cycle, for which she was named a 2010 Drama Desk Award recipient. TV/film: Selected credits include Percy Jackson and the Olympians, NOS4A2, Super Pumped, The Looming Tower, Mr. Mercedes, Big Little Lies, Sneaky Pete, Twin Peaks, Gracepoint, Boardwalk Empire, 20th Century Fox’s The Empty Man, and upcoming David E. Kelley’s Presumed Innocent. Training: SMU Meadows School of the Arts. Christopher Lowell James Bennett
Berkley Rep debut. Theatre includes Jacuzzi (Ars Nova), Barefoot in the Park (Old Globe), Kinship (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film includes Promising Young Woman (Dir. Emerald Fennell), Perpetrator (Dir. Jennifer Reeder), The Help (SAG Award, Critics Choice Award, Dir. Tate Taylor), Up in the Air (Dir. Jason Reitman), Complete Unknown (Dir. Joshua Marston), My Best Friend’s Exorcism (Dir. Damon Thomas), and Veronica Mars (Dir. Rob Thomas). TV includes GLOW (SAG nominations, Netflix), Inventing Anna (Netflix), Private Practice (ABC), Graves (Epix), Enlisted (Fox), and How I Met Your Father (Hulu). Vero Maynez Loren Montgomery
Vero Maynez (she/they) is a queer, Mexican-American actor. Selected theatre credits include Toros (u/s Second Stage), The Snow
Queen (The House Theatre), Alma (u/s American Blues Theater), Feel the Spirit (Shotgun Players), and The Mathematics of Love (Brava Theater Center). Onscreen, one can catch Vero inaugurating @cheezit TikTok, in Cheez-It Puff’d and Cox Communications commercials, and in the upcoming indie, horror films Invader (director, Mickey Keating; producer, Joe Swanberg, et al) and Mr. Dust (director, Spencer W Parsons; producer, Eddie Linker). Vero has her MFA in Acting from DePaul University, and is represented by Paonessa Talent Agency. @veronicamaynez, veromaynez.com
Lucas Near-Verbrugghe Mark Dahl
Lucas Near-Verbrugghe is thrilled to be making his Berkley Rep debut. He’s appeared on Broadway in Bloody Blood Andrew Jackson and The Ritz as well as Off-Broadway in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Permission, boom, Oohrah!, and Leslye Headland’s Assistance. Los Angeles and Bay Area theatre credits include Icebergs (Ovation nomination), Seminar, Need to Know, and An Entomologist’s Love Story. Film credits include Our Idiot Brother, A Birder’s Guide to Everything, Lazy Eye, and A Woman, a Part. TV credits include Splitting Up Together, Dickinson, Ten Days in the Valley, Grimm, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU. Lucas has an MFA from NYU. Christopher Sears Johnny Dahl
New York theatre: Only Yesterday (59E59), Gently Down the Stream (The Public Theater), The Harvest (LCT3), Stupid Fucking Bird (The Pearl Theatre). Select regional: Life Is a Dream, Bakkhai, The Folks at Home (Baltimore Center Stage), Sister Sorry (Barrington Stage Co.). Film/television: The Wisdom Tooth (Indie), Law & Order: SVU (NBC). Christopher is also a composer and musician. Christopher has also just finished his first opera, Moonchildren, with his sister Sienna Sears, Sydney Shepherd, and Adrian Enscoe. For more info on new works go to his Instagram, @christophersearsart (he/him/his) Luisa Sermol Virginia “Ginny” Dahl
Berkeley Rep debut! NY credits include Hamlet (Roundabout), Tennessee and His Women (Lincoln Center), Macbeth (Classic Stage Company). Bay Area/regional credits include: Hurricane Diane (Aurora); They
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Jess Andrews U/S Diana Dahl Bennett/Evie Dahl
Jess Andrews is delighted to be working on this production. With Berkeley Rep, she participated in The Ground Floor’s workshop of The Keening. Other credits include South Coast Repertory, KCRep, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, Unicorn Theatre, Coterie Theatre, KCAT, and Great River Shakespeare Festival. She also recently performed alongside the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Jess received her MFA from UMKC and is a teaching artist with Storïwr Theatre Company in Los Angeles.
and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Bay Area Critic’s Circle Award), Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell, Wintertime, and The Triumph of Love. She has also appeared regularly at American Conservatory Theater, including 17 seasons playing Mrs. Dilber/Mrs. Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol. Other Bay Area credits include Aurora Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, and many seasons with the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Other regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, San Diego Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, and the Alley Theatre. She received the Theatre Bay Area Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018, presented by Berkeley Rep’s former Artistic Director Tony Taccone. Emily Ota U/S Rachel Dahl/ Loren Montgomery/ Pippa Ferguson
Berkeley Rep mainstage debut! Various credits include New York: Off-Broadway, EST, New Dramatists, The Lark, The Public Theater, four seasons at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Regional: three seasons at OSF, Oregon Symphony, Berkeley Rep Ground Floor. Sweet and Sour (Audiobook, Scholastic); Tabling: The Podcast. Much love to my family! IG: @emilyota (she/her) Robert Parsons
Ben Euphrat U/S James Bennett/ Johnny Dahl/ Mark Dahl
Theatre includes Water by the Spoonful (SF Playhouse), Once (42nd Street Moon), The Siegel (City Lights), Shakespeare in Love (Marin Theatre Company), the SF and Off-Broadway productions of Ideation (SF Playhouse), Project Ahab (Central Works, nominated: Outstanding Music Direction), Mirandolina (Center Rep), Twelfth Night (Shotgun Players), and HIR (Magic Theatre). Screen includes Lullaby (Lianne Walden), Saltwater (Lisa Swenson), Stray (Aida Daay). Ben works as a video and audio designer for theatre and film. He has studied improv in LA with the Groundlings and IO West. His recent album, A Portrait of a Girl, is available everywhere. beneuphrat.com Sharon Lockwood U/S Virginia “Ginny” Dahl
Sharon Lockwood has performed at Berkeley Rep for almost 35 years. Favorite credits include Vanya
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Berkeley Rep: The Heiress. New York: K or the Future’s So Green (Here Arts Center). Regional: The Rivalry (Ford’s Theatre), The Black Rider (ACT/Sydney Festival/CTG Ahmanson), Rock ’n’ Roll (ACT/Huntington Theatre Company), Misalliance (Alley Theatre), Buried Child (LA Theatreworks), The Heiress (Arizona Theatre Company), Cyrano, Two Gents (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Bay Area: ACT, Magic, Aurora, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, SF Playhouse, Word for Word, Cutting Ball, San Jose Stage, Shotgun. Film: Freaky Tales, Fairyland, Interview with Traveler# 582, Freeland, Prufrock. Founding member of Actors’ Reading Collective (arcstream.org). robertparsonsactor.com
Leslye Headland Playwright
Cult of Love is the final play in Leslye Headland’s Seven Deadly Plays series, which originally premiered at the IAMA Theater Company in Los Angeles. NY theatre: Bachelorette and The Layover (Second Stage), Assistance (Playwrights Horizons). Film:
Her directorial debut was the adaptation of Bachelorette, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. Her second feature, Sleeping with Other People, also premiered at Sundance in 2015. TV: Co-creator and showrunner of the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series Russian Doll. Creator, producing director, and showrunner of the upcoming Star Wars: The Acolyte. Up next, she will executive produce and direct Dying for Sex, starring Michelle Williams for FX. Other TV credits include pilots for HBO, ABC, and NBC, as well as episodic work for FX, Showtime, Starz, and Paramount. Trip Cullman Director
Broadway: The Rose Tattoo, Choir Boy, Lobby Hero, Six Degrees of Separation, Significant Other. Select Off-Broadway: I Can Get It for You Wholesale (CSC); Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, YEN, Punk Rock (Obie Award), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City (MCC); Days of Rage, The Layover, The Substance of Fire, Lonely I’m Not, Bachelorette, Some Men, Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage); Unknown Soldier, The Pain of My Belligerence, Assistance, A Small Fire (Drama Desk nomination), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Choir Boy (MTC); Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theatre); The Mother, I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard (Atlantic); Roulette (EST); The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick); The Last Sunday in June (Rattlestick and Century Center); Dog Sees God (Century Center); US Drag (stageFARM); and several productions with The Play Company. London: The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, PA (Tricycle). Select regional: Arena, Geffen, Alliance, Old Globe, La Jolla, South Coast Rep, Bay Street, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Arnulfo Maldonado Scenic Design
Berkeley Rep: Goddess, An Octoroon. Broadway: A Strange Loop (Tony nominee), Topdog/ Underdog, Trouble in Mind. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, CSC, Lincoln Center, MCC, MTC, New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theater, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep. Regional: Alley Theatre, ART, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Faberge Theater Award, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. IG: @arnulfo.maldonado.design arnulfomaldonado.com
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Promised Her the Moon, Archduke, In Every Generation (TheatreWorks); The Siegel (City Lights); Noises Off, It’s Only a Play (Hillbarn); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Portland Center Stage); Romeo and Juliet, A Little Night Music, The Maids (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, The Humans, Cuba Libre, The Goat, Sideman, Three Sisters, Master Class, Night of the Iguana (Artists Repertory Theatre). Film/television: Grimm, Leverage, Zero Effect, Insect Poetry. Luisa is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a founding member of The Actors’ Reading Collective (ARC).
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Sophia Choi Costume Design
Broadway: KPOP (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: White Rose: The Musical (Theatre Row), Notes on My Mother’s Decline (4th Street Theatre). Regional: An Enemy of the People (Yale Repertory Theatre). Other theatre credits: Intelligence (Edinburgh Fringe and 4th Street Theatre), Anna May Wong: The Actress Who Died a Thousand Deaths (Mabou Mines), Stick Fly (The Juilliard School). Film credits: Oddstruck (short). TV assistant design credits: Sinking Spring (AppleTV), White House Plumbers (HBO), Kaleidoscope (Netflix). Education: Virginia Commonwealth University (BFA), Yale School of Drama (MFA). @sophiachoi
Heather Gilbert Lighting Design
Heather Gilbert is a Chicago-based lighting designer. Berkeley Rep/The Hypocrites: Pirates of Penzance. Broadway: Parade (Drama Desk nomination, Tony nomination), The Sound Inside (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle recognition, Tony nomination). Regional includes Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Center Theatre Group, The Muny, The Guthrie, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Teaching: Head of Lighting Design at Columbia College Chicago. MFA: The Theatre School at DePaul University. Darron L West Sound Design
Previously at Berkeley Rep: Chinglish, Compulsion, To the Lighthouse, and Finn in the Underworld. Darron is a Tony and Obie award-winning sound designer whose 35year career spans theatre and dance, Broadway and Off-Broadway. His work has been heard in over 600 productions all over the United States and internationally in 15 countries. Additional honors include the Drama Desk, Lortel, Audelco, and Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award, among many others. Thirty-year company member designing the productions of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company. His soundscapes for Photograph 51, Paradise Blue, and Coal Country can be heard on Audible. Jacinth Greywoode Music Director and Arrangements
Jacinth Greywoode is a Brooklyn-based composer and music director. Recent credits as music director/arranger/orchestrator include Rose Tattoo (American Airlines Theatre), Soldier’s Play (American
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Airlines Theatre, national tour), and I Can Get It for You Wholesale (Classic Stage). Recent credits as composer include Black Girl in Paris (Joe’s Pub), Iron John (Irish Arts Center), How to Break (Village Theater), and Blended Harmony (History Theatre). jacinthgreywoode.com
Stephen Kopel, CSA Casting
Broadway: & Juliet; Shucked; Good Night, Oscar; Peter Pan Goes Wrong; Christmas Carol; Moulin Rouge!; 1776; Jagged Little Pill; Caroline, or Change; Trouble in Mind; Play That Goes Wrong; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Lifespan of a Fact; Holiday Inn; Once; Noises Off; Amelie; Sunday in the Park; The Winslow Boy; On a Clear Day; Kiss Me, Kate; She Loves Me; Harvey; On the Twentieth Century; Violet; Glass Menagerie; Mystery of Edwin Drood; Anything Goes; Brief Encounter; Scottsboro Boys. Carrie Gardner, CSA Casting
Berkeley Rep: American Idiot. Broadway: & Juliet; Birthday Candles; Caroline, or Change; Trouble in Mind; The Humans; Book of Mormon; Bernhardt/Hamlet; Significant Other; Sunday in the Park; Long Day’s Journey; Violet; Rocky; Machinal; Edwin Drood; The Importance of Being Earnest; American Idiot; Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: Covenant, The Refuge Plays, You Will Get Sick, Toni Stone, Skintight, Amy and the Orphans, Bobbie Clearly, Bad Jews, Dinner with Friends, Tom Durnin, Sons of The Prophet, Tigers Be Still, Ordinary Days, Speech & Debate. Leslie M. Radin Stage Manager
Leslie Radin is thrilled to be back at Berkeley Rep after most recently stage managing Clyde’s, The Good Book, Fairview, An Octoroon, Aubergine, and Head of Passes. She started at Berkeley Rep as the stage management intern in 2003 and has also worked at American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Center Repertory Company, and Santa Cruz Shakespeare. She has traveled with Berkeley Rep productions to the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the New Victory Theater in New York. Her favorite past productions include Angels in America, Aubergine, Bull in a China Shop, House of Joy, Sisters Matsumoto, The Great Leap, Passing Strange, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play).
Emma Walz Assistant Stage Manager
Emma Walz (she/her) has worked backstage at Berkeley Rep on the ripple, the wave that carried me home and Clyde’s, and been on the stage management teams at American Conservatory Theater, Bay Area Children’s Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, The Phoenix Theatre Company (AZ), and All Puppet Players (AZ). Red Yes Studio Red Yes Studio commissions, develops, and produces new work for the stage, screen, and other media by empowering extraordinary generative artists to create with abandon. Launched in 2023, Red Yes Studio builds upon founder Mandy Greenfield’s track record of new work which has garnered every major theatrical honor including Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prizes in Drama, Drama Desk, Obie, and Lortel Awards. Current collaborators include Adam Bock, Sonya Kelly, Emeli Sandé, Benjamin Scheuer, Rebecca Taichman, Sarah Treem, and Anna Ziegler among others. Visit RedYesStudio.com. Gratitude to Leslye, Trip, all of the artists involved with Cult of Love, the team at Berkeley Rep, Seaview, and Rachel Sussman. Rachel Sussman Rachel Sussman is a Tony Award-winning creative producer and educator. She is a co-founder of The Business of Broadway, an educational venture that democratizes commercial producing knowledge to transform the way artists and producers collaborate. Broadway producing credits include Just for Us, Parade (Tony Award), Prima Facie, and What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony nom, Pulitzer Prize finalist). Next: Suffs on Broadway, spring 2024. A former WP Theater Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel was a recipient of the Prince Fellowship in Creative Producing in conjunction with Columbia University and recently named one of Variety’s “10 to Watch on Broadway.” Proud NYU alumna. rachel-sussman.com Seaview Productions Seaview is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatre and film company. On stage: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea starring Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott, Just for Us starring Alex Edelman, Parade starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan, Mike Birbiglia’s The Old Man & the Pool, Selina
IAMA Theatre Company Designated by Playbill as “one of 20 regional houses every theater lover must know,” IAMA Theatre Company is dedicated to developing new plays and musicals by emerging and established playwrights. Founded in 2007, IAMA has produced over 25 world premieres, including the world premiere of Cult of Love and all of Leslye Headland’s Seven Deadly Plays. An award-winning ensemble of Los Angeles-based artists, IAMA is committed to cultivating new voices, creating new work that pushes boundaries and takes risks, and building an inclusive community that inspires and supports a new generation of theatre-makers and audiences. iamatheatre.com
Johanna Pfaelzer Artistic Director
Johanna joined Berkeley Rep in 2019 as its fourth artistic director, following 12 years as artistic director of New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), a New York City-based developer of new works for theatre, film, and television. Johanna is proud to have developed work by notable established and early career writers like Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Goddess by Saheem Ali, Michael Thurber, and Jocelyn Bioh; The Humans by Stephen Karam; Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell; The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe; The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by Taylor Mac; The Homecoming Queen by Ngozi Anyanwu; The Great Leap by Lauren Yee; Doubt by John Patrick Shanley; The Fortress of Solitude by Michael Friedman and Itamar Moses; The Jacksonian by Beth Henley; and Green Day’s American Idiot. Johanna previously served as associate artistic director of American Conservatory Theater and is
a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Program. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, Russell Champa, and their son, Jasper. Tom Parrish Managing Director
Tom has served as a theatre leader and arts administrator for over 20 years, with experience in organizations ranging from multi-venue performing arts centers to major Tony Award-winning theatre companies. Prior to Berkeley Rep, he served as executive director of Trinity Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, and Merrimack Repertory Theatre and as associate managing director/general manager of San Diego Repertory Theatre. His work has been recognized with a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Producer and “Forty Under 40” recognition in Providence, Rochester, the Merrimack Valley, and San Diego. He received his MBA/MA in Arts Administration from Southern Methodist University; BA in Theater Arts and Economics from Case Western Reserve University; attended the Commercial Theater Institute, National Theater Institute, and Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; and is certified in Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Northwestern University. He and his husband live in Berkeley.
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS LOUIS BLACHMAN (BRET C. HARTE ARTISTIC FELLOW) ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
JOE BURT ASSOCIATE SCENIC DESIGNER
SOPHIE LYND (LIGHTING FELLOW) ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER
BELLE ALATORRE (HARRY WEININGER SOUND FELLOW) ASSISTANT SOUND DESIGNER
DAVID MÖSCHLER ASSOCIATE MUSIC DIRECTOR
DAVE MAIER FIGHT CONSULTANT
ANTHONY LOPEZ (STAGE MANAGEMENT FELLOW) PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
KARINA FOX LOCAL CASTING
JAMES MCGREGOR (HEAD STAGE TECHNICIAN) ISSAC JACOBS | SIOBHÁN SLATER DECK CREW
DIELYA DIOP | CAZ HIRO | EMILY MILLS WARDROBE CREW
KENNETH COTÉ LIGHT BOARD PROGRAMMER/OPERATOR
AKARI IZUMI SOUND BOARD OPERATOR
ISAAC JACOBS | CARL MARTIN | SEAN MILLER TYLER SMITH | MAGGIE WENTWORTH LAUREL CAPPS (SCENIC CONSTRUCTION FELLOW) SCENE SHOP
KENZIE BRADLEY | KATIE HOLMES | NEENA HOLZMAN ADELINE SMITH | CAYLA RAY-PERRY E WAYMAN-MURDOCK (SCENIC ART FELLOW) SCENIC ART
BRITTANY WATKINS | KATIE OWEN (PROPS FELLOW) PROPS
JANET CONERY | NELLY FLORES COSTUME SHOP
SHY BANIANI | BRITTANY COBB | RICHARD FONG JACK GRABLE | A. CHRIS HARTZEL TIFFANY HERNANDEZ-ALBERTO JASON JOO | CHARLIE MEJIA | ALAIYA MORGANE RILEY RICHARDSON | TAYLOR RIVERS C. SWAN-STREEPY | MATTHEW SYKES LIGHTING
COURTNEY JEAN | CAMILLE RASSWEILER OLIVIA VAZQUEZ SOUND
KAYLA BADIA (PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT FELLOW) ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER
FAITH ELDER (COMPANY MANAGEMENT FELLOW) ASSISTANT COMPANY MANAGER MEDICAL CONSULTATION FOR BERKELEY REP PROVIDED BY AGI E. BAN DC | JOHN CARRIGG MD CINDY J. CHANG MD | CHRISTINA COREY MD NEIL CLAVERIA PT | PATRICIA I. COMMER DPT KATHY FANG MD PHD | STEVEN FUGARO MD OLIVIA LANG MD | ALLEN LING PT | LIZ NGUYEN, DPT CHRISTINA S. WILMER OD AND KATHERINE C. YUNG, MD SPECIAL THANKS TO CONSULTANTS DR. JOSHUA BRAHINSKY AND NANCY H. LIU, PhD
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Fillinger’s POTUS, Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life starring Jake Gyllenhall and Tom Sturridge, and Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre. On screen: HBO’s Reality starring Sydney Sweeney and NEON’s Cassandra at the Wedding, and projects in development at Amazon Studios, FilmNation, 2AM, Range, and more. Upcoming: Enemy of the People starring Jeremy Strong, Lempicka directed by Rachel Chavkin, Illinoise directed and choreographed by Justin Peck with music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens and book by Jackie Sibbles Drury, and The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth with music by Stephen Schwartz.
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& Daralyn Durie • Fred & Kathleen Taylor • Ruthann Taylor • John & Christine Telischak • Karen Tiedemann & Geoff Piller
• Gerald & Lynda Vurek-Martyn • Brian Watt & Daisy Nguyen •
Dana Tom & Nancy Kawakita • Sarah Van Roo • Liz Varnhagen • Marcia & David Vastine • Rhona & Harvey Weinstein • Peter
Jonathan & Kiyo Weiss
Wiley • H. Leabah Winter
The Michael Leibert Society Berkeley Rep gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who have generously provided for the theatre in their estate plans: Anonymous (9) Norman Abramson & David Beery* Sam Ambler Carl W. Arnoult & Aurora Pan Ken & Joni Avery Nancy Axelrod Edie Barschi Neil & Gene Barth Susan & Barry Baskin Linda Brandenburger Broitman-Basri Family Bruce Carlton & Richard G. McCall* Victoria Carter* Stephen K. Cassidy Paula Champagne & David Watson Terin Christensen Sofia Close Andrew Daly & Jody Taylor Narsai & Venus David M. Laina Dicker Thalia Dorwick Robin & Rich Edwards Thomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-Edwards Bill & Susan Epstein William Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards Bill Falik & Diana Cohen Dr. Stephen E. Follansbee & Dr. Richard A. Wolitz Kerry Francis Dr. Harvey & Deana Freedman Joseph & Antonia Friedman Paul T. Friedman Laura K. Fujii David Gaskin & Phillip McPherson* Marjorie Ginsburg & Howard Slyter Mary & Nicholas* Graves Elizabeth Greene Sheldon & Judy Greene Don & Becky Grether Richard & Lois Halliday
Barry* & Micheline Handon Julie & Paul Harkness Linda & Bob Harris Fred Hartwick Ruth Hennigar Daria Hepps Douglas J. Hill* Peter Hobe & Christina Crowley Hoskins/Frame Family Trust Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley Robin C. Johnson Janice Kelly & Carlos Kaslow Bonnie McPherson Killip Lynn Eve Komaromi Nancy Kornfield Michael H. Kossman Woof Kurtzman Scott & Kathy Law Jim Lillienthal* Dot Lofstrom Helen M. Marcus Dale* & Don Marshall Rebecca Martinez Sarah McArthur LeValley Sandra & Ross McCandless Suzanne & Charles McCulloch John G. McGehee Miles & Mary Ellen McKey Ruth Medak Susie Medak & Greg Murphy Stephanie Mendel Toni Mester Shirley & Joe Nedham Jane & Bill Neilson Pam & Mitch Nichter Sharon Ott Fr. David Pace Amy Pearl Parodi Barbara L. Peterson Regina Phelps Margaret Phillips
Marjorie Randolph Gregg Richardson Bonnie Ring Living Trust David Rovno, M.D. Tracie E. Rowson Deborah Dashow Ruth Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D., Ph.D. Emily Shanks Kevin Shoemaker Theresa Nelson & Bernard Smits Valerie Sopher Michael & Sue Steinberg Dr. Douglas & Anne Stewart Jean Strunsky Mary, Andrew & Duncan Susskind Jim Tibbs & Philip Anderson Henry Timnick Guy Tiphane Dana Tom & Nancy Kawakita Phillip & Melody Trapp Janis Kate Turner Gail & Arne Wagner Barry & Holly Walter Weil Family Trust - Weil Family Susan West Steven & Linda Wolan The Woolfson Blumenfeld Living Trust Karen & Henry Work Anders Yang, JD Martin & Margaret Zankel *deceased
GIFTS RECEIVED BY BERKELEY REP
Estate of Suzanne Adams Estate of Pat Angell, in memory of theater architect Gene Angell Estate of Nina Auerbach Estate of Helen C. Barber Estate of Fritzi Benesch Estate of Carole B. Berg Estate of Nelly Berteaux Estate of Jill Bryans Estate of Paula Carrell Estate of Nancy Croley Estate of John & Carol Field Estate of Ralph Garrow Estate of Audrey J. Lasson Estate of Zandra Faye LeDuff Estate of Ines R. Lewandowitz Estate of John E. & Helen A. Manning Estate of Richard Markell Estate of Sumner & Hermine Marshall Estate of Margaret D. & Winton McKibben Estate of Robert S. Newton, in honor of John T. & Jean Knox Estate of Sheldeen G. Osborne Estate of Timothy A. Patterson Estate of Gladys Perez-Mendez Estate of Margaret Purvine Estate of Guy T. Roberts, Jr. Estate of Leigh & Ivy Robinson Estate of Stephen C. Schaefer, in honor of Jean and Jack Knox Estate of Peter Sloss Estate of Harry Weininger Estate of Grace Williams
As of August 2023. Berkeley Rep makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of these listings. If there is an error or you would like to adjust your listing, please call 510 647-2905.
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Above: Arnulfo Maldonado’s intricate miniature set maquette (above), and corresponding props in our Props Shop.
Playwright Leslye Headland provided a precise vision of the Dahl’s home in the script’s stage directions, which included, “The house is decorated for Christmas. This cannot be overstated. The place is literally stuffed to the brim with goodies, evergreens and cheer.” Scenic designer Arnulfo Maldonado delivered an exquisite three-dimensional maquette, and Berkeley Rep’s talented props artisans spent much of the holiday season making a majority of the decorations from scratch using materials already on hand in our shops. “For example, the angel had to be 3 feet tall,” says Properties Supervisor Jill Green. “It’s nearly impossible to find a 3-foot-tall angel in that style. It ended up being more cost-efficient – and fun! – to build it ourselves.”
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FEB 15–MAR 10
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