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Blackbird

By David Harrower

Featuring Jocelyn Fitz-Gibbon Mark Snowden Directed by Peter Hunt Stage Manager Steppe Thanks to The Goodman Community Center, and the Madison Arts Production Center.

Blackbird is presented by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services, Inc., New York

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T H E S H OW BLACKBIRD

By David Harower Una...................................................................................................................Jocelyn Fitz-Gibbon Ray............................................................................................................................. Mark Snowden Directed by...................................................................................................................... Peter Hunt Stage Manager ..................................................................................................................... Steppe Production Design......................................................................................... The Bricks Theatre Production assistant.........................................................................................Stephanie Riedel Time: Before the registry for sex offenders existed Place: A break room The performance will run 90 minutes with no intermission.

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BIOGR APHIES Jocelyn Fitz-Gibbon (Una) is so very happy to be working with The Bricks again, having had such a wonderful experience playing Amy Lee in Laundry and Bourbon. Jocelyn earned her BFA at UW-Stevens Point and has had the pleasure of working with Optimist Theatre, In Tandem Theatre, Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre, Twilight Sun Theatre Co., Mercury Players Theatre, StageQ, and WhoopDeDoo Productions.

Favorite roles include Miranda in The Tempest, Pam/Popo in Fat Men in Skirts, Aurora in How He Lied to Her Husband, Chris in Dancing at Lughnasa, and Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol. Peter, George, Molly, and Dave give her warm fuzzies and she thanks them profusely. T.R. is her everything.

Zoo Story, both for the Bricks Theatre.

Mr. Hunt will make his feature-lenth film debut this December in Dead of the Night, a horror-comedy by Barking Shadow Productions.

David Harrower (Playwright) was born in Edinburgh in 1966. His first play, KNIVES IN HENS (1997), was first produced at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1995. He is also the author of the plays KILL THE OLD TORTURE THEIR YOUNG (1998), and THE CHRYSALIDS (1999), adapted from John Wyndham’s novel, for the National Theatre’s Connections project.

PRESENCE (2001), his third original play, was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in April 2001.

Harrower has also adapted versions Mark Snowden (Ray) returns to The of PIRANDELLO’S SIX CHARACTERS IN Bricks after appearing most recently as SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR (Six Characters Pantalone in Music Theater of Madison’s Looking for an Author (2000)), first “The Glorious Ones”. Other Bricks credits staged at the Young Vic in 2000; include “True West”,“The Zoo Story”, and Chekhov’s Ivanov (2002), performed at “An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein”. the National Theatre in autumn 2002; Other local productions include “Meg” and Buchner’s Woyzeck, performed for Madison Theatre Guild; and “Cloud at the Edinburgh Lyceum in 2002. He 9” and “Tearoom Tango” for Mercury has also translated THE GIRL ON THE Players. He has also acted professionally SOFA (2002), a new play by Jon Fosse, in Seattle and Minneapolis - St. Paul. He presented in a joint production by the studied Theater at UW-SP. Edinburgh International Festival and the Schaubuhne, Berlin. His play, DARK Peter Hunt (Director) has been EARTH (2003), premiered at the Traverse an actor and director in Madison in August 2003. He has also written a theatrical productions for the better new version of Odon von Horvath’s part of the last ten years, and has TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS been a producer for the Bricks Theatre (2003) for the National Theatre, London, since 2009. Recent Bricks stage credits which opened in October 2003. Recent include: Ben in The Mercy Seat, Roy in plays are an adaptation of Schiller’s Lone Star, and Crumpet in the annual MARY STUART (2006) and a new Madison production of David Sedaris’s translation of Brecht’s THE GOOD SOUL The Santaland Diaries. As a director, OF SZECHUAN (2008). David Harrower Peter has helmed True West and The lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

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B R I C K S S TA F F David Pausch....................................................................................................... Producer/Owner Molly Vanderlin.................................................................................................. Producer/Owner Ric Lantz........................................................................... Producer,Technical Director/Owner Peter Hunt............................................................................................................ Producer/Owner George Gonzalez.....................................................................................Lead Producer/Owner

G E N E R A L AU D I E N C E I N F O R M AT I O N Please remember to silence all cell phones and other devices that may make noise during the performance. Restrooms are located in the lobby. Flash photography or video recording of any kind is strictly prohibited for all performances. For emergency information please see box office personnel. The Bricks Theatre are not responsible for lost or stolen property. Bricks Theatre tickets are non-transferable.

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