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From the artistic Director Longtime members of the Geffen family, Donald Margulies and Daniel Sullivan are a theatrical dream team, having collaborated here on such plays as the world premiere of Time Stands Still and Dinner with Friends among many others. So when they approached us about a new project, our curiosity was piqued, and we were in. The Country House is a beautiful new play rich with complicated family dynamics. This theatrical troupe of dramatis personae is always struggling for top billing. The Country House was commissioned by The Manhattan Theatre Club which will produce the play in the fall of 2014. We have happily worked to great success with them on productions traveling in both directions, and are pleased to be part of the development of this new work. Dan Sullivan has once again brought together a renowned group of designers, including John Lee Beatty (Scenic Designer), Rita Ryack (Costume Designer), Peter Kaczorowski (Lighting Designer), Jon Gottlieb (Sound Designer) and Peter Golub (Composer). They have created the quintessential summer house in Williamstown, MA, complete with decades of memories. It has been 16 years since Dan and Donald first worked at the Geffen. Dan directed Annette Bening in Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and in that same season, my friend, the late Gil Cates helmed Donald’s Collected Stories. Since then Dan has directed five Geffen productions, and The Country House marks the sixth play by Donald we have produced, two of which we commissioned. In every case of working with these two incredible artists, we have always known that we and you, our patrons, are in the hands of phenomenal storytellers. We look forward to collaborating with them for many years to come, and it is our pleasure to welcome them home to the Geffen. Enjoy the show.
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It is our pleasure to welcome you to The Country House, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. We are honored to welcome these two world-class artists back to the Geffen Playhouse this season, and we are thankful they are part of the Geffen family. As our 2013/2014 season comes to a close at the end of this summer, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Board of Directors, Trustees, Advisory Board and donors who have helped us reach our goals year after year. Your generosity, leadership and dedication to the Geffen Playhouse inspire us to make bold, visionary choices for our art on stage and for the work we do in the community. Thank you for believing in our work, its impact and for giving us the opportunity to dream. We invite those of you who are new to the Geffen or who would like to deepen your involvement in the theater, to become donors today. Help us reach our goals this season so we can continue to create rich artistic experiences and innovative arts education programming that will serve the greater Los Angeles community and the American stage for years to come. To learn more about how you can support our work and help us reach our goals, please call our Chief Development Officer Regina Miller at 310.208.6500 ext. 112. Thank you for joining us today.
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Donald Margulies discusses his new play, his process and what it means to be part of a theater family Amy Levinson: As The Country House was commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club, how did it come to premiere at the Geffen Playhouse? Donald Margulies: Dan Sullivan and I have worked together at the Geffen a few times, Dinner With Friends in 2001 and, more recently, our collaboration on Time Stands Still (2009) which began here and then went to Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre. It was extremely useful to both Dan and me to hear the play and see it on its feet before taking it into New York. So when MTC commissioned a new work from me, I was initially ambivalent about it because it would have meant premiering the play — a new play — in New York and I hadn’t done that in many years. I have always found it useful to have at least one production of a new play before taking it into New York. AL: What is the downside of premiering a play in New York? DM: The pressure in New York is unlike anywhere else. You really only get one shot at it — one performance, actually — and if that performance is off, or doesn’t reflect the play at its best, well, too bad, you don’t get a do-over. When MTC commissioned this play for the Friedman (their Broadway space) it was Dan who said we should really do it first at the Geffen. I applauded that idea because I was anxious about plunking a brand new play down on Broadway. For my own artistic needs, I prefer to have the opportunity to work on a play before a Broadway opening. At this point in my career, I’m thrilled and flattered that my new play is coming to Broadway, almost sight unseen, but I also know that my standards are high and I want to give it the best shot for success that I can. AL: If I’m not mistaken, this is the first play that you’ve written about theater folks. What inspired you to take on the world in which you live and work? DM: It’s true, this is the first play I’ve written about theater. While Shipwrecked! is very theatrical and certainly is metatheater in that we’re seeing all of the machinery of putting on a play, it’s not a play “about” theater. But after Time Stands Still, which was a pretty heavy-duty drama, I felt the need to lighten up a bit. I had a kind of PTSD after writing that play (about warThe Country House playwright Donald Margulies. Photo by Ethan Hill. P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINe
Williamstown Theatre Festival Williamstown Theatre Festival was founded in 1954 by members of the Williamstown, MA community and director Nikos Psacharopoulos who, following in the footsteps of other landmark Berkshire cultural institutions, such as Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow, sought to create a premier company and training program for future generations of American theatre artists. In the summer of 1955, a 26-member company was assembled from young New York professionals, Yale actors and alumni, and local students. This first season was successful enough for the theatre to plan a second. Under Nikos’ leadership, WTF’s repertory became increasingly ambitious with productions of Shaw, Miller, Williams, and Chekhov. Over the years, a growing family of actors evolved including Mildred Dunnock, E.G. Marshall, Thornton Wilder, Blythe Danner, Olympia Dukakis, Edward Herrmann, Kate Burton, James Naughton, and Christopher Reeve, whose return year after year gave stability to the Equity company. For over half a century, the Festival’s goals have remained constant: to attract top talent, cultivate young artists, produce invigorated versions of classics and new plays from gifted playwrights, and to continue to attract audiences with the quality and ambition of their work.
Theater as an institution and as a pursuit is very much like creating a family, and I have always gravitated towards stories about families. And here it’s compounded because the theatrical denizens of my play are members of a family as well. I think everybody who has worked in the theater recognizes how intense these short-term relationships get. I’ve often equated putting on a show with jury duty: You’re thrown into a very intense situation, with a fateful decision at hand and people who may otherwise not have had their paths cross find themselves together in a pressure-cooker environment for eight or ten or twelve weeks and then it’s over. And people take the residue of that experience, both positive and negative, and they carry it with them for the rest of their lives. There are feelings of love and animosity and passion and hurt towards those people with whom they spent a relatively short chapter of their lives — much like the nature of family. AL: Why Williamstown? DM: The Williamstown Theatre Festival is an American theatrical tradition. It began as summer theater and became a kind of Mecca for actors, a place where after having become famous in television or film, they could return to get their fingernails dirty again and sharpen their skills on the stage. It’s a great, vibrant place, to this day. The play isn’t set at the festival, but nearby, in the Berkshires, with the festival providing the backdrop, the reason they are all there. I wanted to keep the action in the house and not have it become a backstage comedy, it’s more like an off-stage comedy, focusing on what’s happening under the roof of this house with a history — where these people have spent many summers over decades, have had the times of their lives, and where a beloved family member has recently died. Williamstown has long-served as a mooring for actors so it suits the story of The Country House (a purposely Chekhovian title), which, among other things like time, beauty, age and memory, explores the universal idea of coming home. PErFORMANCEs MAGAZINE P5
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Christopher Reeve and Blythe Danner in Holiday (1983). Photo by Bob Marshak.
scarred journalists), which required that I immerse myself in research, oral history, documentary and imagery that were often horrific and hard to shake. I have always wanted to do a backstage comedy, which you know, is really a sub-genre of drama — everyone from Shakespeare (the actors in Hamlet) to Chekhov (The Seagull) to Kaufman and Ferber (The Royal Family) to Frayn (Noises Off) to Stoppard (The Real Thing), they’ve all done backstage, behind-the-scenes comedies of one kind or another, dealing with actors and playwrights. After writing plays for forty years, I felt that I had absorbed and observed enough to give my own take. The desire to do that coincided with the offer of a commission from Manhattan Theatre Club and this is, in fact, the first commission I’ve accepted from a New York theater in over 25 years. All of my work since the late 80s has been on commission, through Long Wharf, Actor’s Theater of Louisville, the Geffen or South Coast Rep — my various summer and winter homes in regional theater. Initially I proposed doing a new adaptation — possibly Strindberg or Chekhov or Ibsen. I read a lot of the very good contemporary American (as opposed to Anglo) versions currently in use and concluded that those classics didn’t need my particular aesthetic brought to them. I couldn’t justify revisiting work already reinvigorated beautifully by the likes of David Mamet, Sarah Ruhl, Tracy Letts and Annie Baker. So I set aside the idea of doing “my” Vanya. A few weeks later I decided to take a new approach: what if rather than being an adaptation of a single play it was instead a mash-up, a collage, an homage to the spirit of Chekhov without its being reflective of a single work. That’s how The Country House came to be. I imagined my own take, in a contemporary American setting, using themes and images and archetypes from Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull (the Chekhovs I love most). Heck, even little bits of Shaw and Ibsen and O’Neill are sprinkled here and there. I decided to simply embrace that idea, making it my own while celebrating a revered tradition of playwriting with affection and respect.
THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE By special arrangement with Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer Presents
Written by
Donald Margulies Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
John Lee Beatty
Lighting Designer
Rita Ryack
Peter Kaczorowski
Sound Designer
Composer
Jon Gottlieb
Peter Golub
Production Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Casting
Assistant Director
Young Ji
Phyllis Schuringa, CSA Caparelliotis Casting
Maggie Swing
Scott Behrend
Directed by
Daniel Sullivan The Country House was originally commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer, with funds provided by Bank of America.
Opening Night: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR s
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Susie Keegan............................................................................................................................... Sarah Steele Anna Patterson........................................................................................................................Blythe Danner Michael Astor.................................................................................................................................Scott Foley Elliot Cooper....................................................................................................................................Eric Lange Nell McNally............................................................................................................................. Emily Swallow Walter Keegan...........................................................................................................................David Rasche
setting/time A century-old house in the Berkshires, near Williamstown, Massachusetts. Summer. Present. ACT ONE Scene One: Friday afternoon. Scene Two: Later that night. ACT TWO Scene Three: An afternoon a few days later. Scene Four: Later that night. Intermission ACT Three Scene One: The following day. Scene Two: Later. Dusk.
The Geffen Playhouse gratefully acknowledges the following media sponsors for their generous support of The Country House.
The Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. The Geffen Playhouse, a non-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
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BLYTHE DANNER (Anna Patterson) Blythe Danner won two Emmy awards for her role on Showtime’s Huff and was nominated twice for roles on Will & Grace and in Joyce Carol Oates’ We Were the Mulvaneys. She received a Golden Globe nomination for Anne Tyler’s Back When We Were Grownups, and her list of career accomplishments continues with a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in Butterflies Are Free and nominations for roles in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Stephen Sondheim’s musical Follies. She most recently appeared on Broadway in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It and Off-Broadway in The Commons of Pensacola at MTC. Her film roles include Woody Allen’s Alice, The Great Santini, the Meet the Parents trilogy and Sylvia, a film in which she appeared with her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow. Most recently Danner has appeared in Hello I Must Be Going, and she will next be seen in the films I’ll See You In My Dreams and Tumbledown. Danner takes action to support causes that are important to her. She has passionately advocated for environmental concerns for more than 40 years as a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists and other groups, and serves on the national board of Planned Parenthood. Since the death of her husband Bruce Paltrow from oral cancer, she has also been helping the Oral Cancer Foundation raise awareness of this disease. P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINe
SCOTT FOLEY (Michael Astor) Currently starring in ABC’s hit drama Scandal, Scott Foley has appeared in over 250 episodes of television including Felicity, True Blood, Grey’s Anatomy, The Unit and Scrubs. He will next be seen in the film Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife which he also wrote, produced and directed. Foley’s theater credits include The Violet Hour (MTC, Broadway), The Cherry Orchard (OffBroadway, ATC) and An Oak Tree (Off-Broadway, BST). Foley lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two (and a half!) children, a dog, a cat, three chickens, a turkey, two horses and a donkey named Spanky. Because.
Eric Lange (Elliot Cooper) Eric Lange starred on the first season of FX’s hit drama, The Bridge. He has a long list of TV credits but is perhaps best known for his recurring arcs on Weeds (Showtime) and Lost (ABC). On film, Lange will next appear in Dan Fogelman’s Imagined (opposite Al Pacino) and Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler (opposite Jake Gyllenhaal). Previous films include Secretariat for Disney and Barry Levinson’s HBO biopic
You Don’t Know Jack. On stage, Lange received an Ovation Nomination for his work in Driving Miss Daisy at the Rubicon Theatre Company. He was in A Streetcar Named Desire, also at the Rubicon, Ugly’s First World at the Actors’ Gang, The Normal Heart at the Hudson Backstage Theatre, and Asylum at the Court Theatre. He is thrilled to be a part of this beautiful play and group of amazingly talented artists. When not acting, Lange enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, Lisa.
David Rasche (Walter Keegan) David Rasche began his career at Chicago’s “Second City” cabaret. Broadway credits: Speed-The-Plow (David Mamet), Lunch Hour, with Gilda Radner, (dir. Mike Nichols), Loose Ends (Michael Weller.) Off-Broadway: Warrior Class (Second Stage), Chekhov’s The Seagull at CSC (Richard Seff Award) Regrets Only by Paul Rudnick (Manhattan Theater Club), Mamet’s Edmond (Atlantic). TV credits: recurring roles on HBO series Veep with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Bored to Death with Ted Danson, and shows from Miami Vice to Monk. He was Sledge Hammer in the series of that name. Films include: In the Loop (Armando Iannucci), Burn After Reading (Coen Brothers), Men in Black III (Sonnenfeld), Flags of our Fathers (Clint Eastwood), Flight 93 (Paul Greengrass), The Sentinel (with Michael Douglas), Manhattan (Woody Allen).
Sarah Steele (Susie Keegan) Off-Broadway: Slowgirl, Russian Transport, AllAmerican, Speech and Debate, The Netflix Plays, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Regional: Not Waving (Williamstown Theater Festival) Film: The Untitled Gerardo Naranjo Project (upcoming) Trouble Dolls, (upcoming), Brother’s Keeper (upcoming), The Mend, Song One, The To-Do List, Please Give, Margaret, Spanglish, Last Kind Words, Man (short). Television: Girls, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Blue Bloods, Harry’s Law, Gossip Girl, Law and Order.
Emily Swallow (Nell McNally) Emily just finished a season as Agent Kim Fischer on CBS’ The Mentalist. She previously played Dr. Michelle Robidaux on David E. Kelley and Sanjay Gupta’s show Monday Mornings; other television appearances include Southland, Flight of the Conchords, The Good Wife, Medium and NCIS, to name a few. On stage, Emily recently created the role of “Flo” alongside Mark Rylance in Nice Fish, a world premiere penned by Rylance and poet Louis Jenkins. Emily has appeared on Broadway in High
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Donald Margulies (Playwright) The Country House is Mr. Margulies’ sixth production at the Geffen Playhouse, preceded by Coney Island Christmas, Time Stands Still, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Dinner with Friends and Collected Stories. His many other plays include Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, The Loman Family Picnic, God of Vengeance, The Model Apartment, What’s Wrong with this Picture? and Found a Peanut. He has won a Lucille Lortel Award, an American Theatre Critics Award, two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards, two OBIE Awards, two Dramatists Guild HullWarriner Awards, one Tony Award nomination, six Drama Desk Award nominations, two Pulitzer Prize nominations and one Pulitzer Prize. His works have been performed on and off Broadway; at major theatres across the United States including South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival; and in Paris, London, Rome, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Sydney, Berlin, Vienna, Istanbul, Mumbai and many other cities around the world. Mr. Margulies
has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature, by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with its Cultural Achievement Award, and was the recipient of the Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. He is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University. DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director) Daniel Sullivan most recently directed The Snow Geese, Orphans and Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway. For The Public Theater, Sullivan directed A Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stuff Happens and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Among his Broadway credits are The Columnist, Good People, Time Stands Still, Accent on Youth, The Homecoming, Prelude to a Kiss, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Julius Caesar, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, I’m Not Rappaport, Morning’s at Seven, Proof, the 2000 production of A Moon for the Misbegotten, Ah, Wilderness!, The Sisters Rosensweig, Conversations with my Father and The Heidi Chronicles. Among his Off-Broadway credits are Charlayne Woodard’s The Night Watcher, The Way Things Are and Neat; Intimate Apparel; Far East; Spinning into Butter; Dinner with Friends; and The Substance of Fire. From 1981 to 1997, he
served as artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre. Sullivan is the Swanlund Professor of Theatre at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. RITA RYAcK (Costume Designer) Broadway: My One and Only (Tony nom), The Human Comedy, Time Stands Still (Donald Margulies, Daniel Sullivan), Casa Valentina (Tony nom, Harvey Fierstein, Joe Mantello). Off Broadway: The Loman Family Picnic (Donald Margulies), What’s Wrong With This Picture? (Donald Margulies), A Lie Of The Mind (Obie), Anteroom, It’s Only A Play, The Vampires, The Foreigner, etc. 40+ Films include Casino, Cape Fear, Hairspray, Rock Of Ages, Apollo 13, Wag The Dog, The Grinch (Oscar Nom, CDG Award), Teeth, A Beautiful Mind. TV movies: You Don’t Know Jack (Emmy Nom). Regional: American Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Williamstown, etc. Music Video: Michael Jackson’s “Bad”. Coming up: Hair at the Hollywood Bowl. JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Designer) Broadway: After Midnight, Mothers and Sons, Outside Mullingar, The Nance, Other Desert Cities, Venus in Fur, Good People, Time Stands Still, Chicago, Doubt, Rabbit Hole, The Color Purple, Proof, The Sisters Rosensweig, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Crimes of the Heart, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Talley’s Folly, Burn This, many, many more. Off-Broadway: Sylvia; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; A Life in the Theatre. His long relationships with Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theater, Circle Repertory and City Center Encores! have led to multiple Tony, Obie, Outer Critics Circle
and Drama Desk awards, and the Theater Hall of Fame. He is a graduate of Brown and the Yale School of Drama. Peter Kaczorowski (Lighting Designer) Previously at the Geffen Playhouse: The Gift, Ruined, Time Stands Still. Broadway: more than 50 plays and musicals including Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot in rep, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Assembled Parties, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Wit, The Road to Mecca, Venus in Fur, Anything Goes, A View from the Bridge, Waiting for Godot, Grey Gardens, Contact, The Producers, Kiss Me Kate, Steel Pier. Mr. Kaczorowski also has extensive Off-Broadway and NY resident theatre credits with companies such as Lincoln Center, MTC, Roundabout, NY Shakespeare Festival, Playwright’s Horizons, 2nd/ Stage, Classic Stage, Signature, The Vineyard, and Encores as well as many credits with most leading regional theatres in the U.S. Opera credits include productions at: The Met, NYCO, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe, St. Louis, LAMCO and Seattle Opera. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera/North, Maggio Florence, L’Arena di Verona, La Fenice, Bonn, Lisbon. Recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Dramalogue and Hewes Design awards. Jon Gottlieb (Sound Designer) Jon’s design work at the Geffen Playhouse includes Equivocation and George Gershwin, Alone (2007 Ovation Award). He most recently designed Master Class with Tyne Daily at the Vaudeville Theatre in London as well as productions at Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway and the Kennedy
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Fidelity, off-Broadway in John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger’s Romantic Poetry (Manhattan Theater Club), Measure for Pleasure (Public Theater), The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop) and more. Regional credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lobby Hero. Emily stars in an upcoming yet-to-be-titled feature directed by Shana Betz (Free Ride). MFA from NYU Graduate Acting Program.
production biographies Center in Washington D.C. Recent Broadway credits include QED with Alan Alda at Lincoln Center, Dinner Party and Master Class. Local credits include iWitness (LA Drama Critics Circle Award), The Flower Drum Song (Ovation Award) and Hughie with Al Pacino for Center Theatre Group as well as work with the Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts Center and The Pasadena Playhouse. Jon has received eight LADCC Awards, three LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, and over 60 Drama-Logue, L.A. Weekly and NAACP Theater awards. Jon also serves as the Head of the Sound Design program for the School of Theater at CalArts. PETER GOLUB (Composer) Broadway: The Heiress, Time Stands Still, Hedda Gabler, Come Back Little Sheba; Off Broadway: The Laramie Cycle (BAM), Suddenly Last Summer (Roundabout), productions at Geffen Playhouse, Delacorte, Public Theatre, Williamstown, Mark Taper, Playwrights Horizon, Huntington, La Mama, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, La Jolla, Old Globe and others. Film scores include: Frozen River, The Great Debaters, The Laramie Project, Wordplay, Countdown to Zero. Recent concert works include: Sleepwalking (cello concerto for Matt Haimovitz); Dark Carols (song cycle at the Mark Taper Library); Suite from These Amazing Shadows (Chatanooga Symphony); Boxes, Buckets and Bags (Liederabend Festival at The Kitchen). He has a DMA from the Yale School of Music; composition teachers include Toru Takemitsu, Jacob Druckman and Henry Brant. He has been Director of the Sundance Film Music Program since 2000 and is currently on the music faculty at UCLA. He dedicates this score to Nicky Martin.
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YOUNG JI (Production Stage Manager) Geffen Playhouse: Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen, The Pianist of Willesden Lane, Play Dead, Rapture, Blister, Burn, Yes, Prime Minister, American Buffalo, Nothing to Hide, Build, The Exorcist, The Jacksonian, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Extraordinary Chambers, In Mother Words, Love Loss & What I Wore, Ricky Jay: A Rogue’s Gallery; Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara. NYC: The Jacksonian; Assistant Director (The New Group). Other Regional: Center Theatre Group: The Cherry Orchard (Taper); Wrecks, Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Pyrenees, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Kirk Douglas Theatre). Other Los Angeles: Cousin Bette, King Lear, The Autumn Garden (Producer); La Ronde, The Glass Menagerie (Director); Tonight at 8:30, Phaedra (Getty Villa), Mother Courage and Her Children, Pera Palas, Chekhov X 4. MAGGIE SWING (Assistant Stage Manager) Geffen Playhouse: The Judy Show, American Buffalo. Off Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labors Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company). Regional: Bell, Book and Candle (Co-Production with Long Wharf), The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Dividing the Estate, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Bluest Eye, Our Town (Hartford Stage Company). PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting) Phyllis has been the Casting Director at the Geffen for 12
years and now is also an Artistic Associate. Recent plays are Wait Until Dark, American Buffalo, Yes, Prime Minister, The Gift, Coney Island Christmas, Build and the Los Angeles production of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Before joining the team at the Geffen, she was the Casting Director for Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago where her favorites include Frank Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath (also La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre in London, and Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Play), the original production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (and subsequent productions including Westwood Playhouse and Briar Street Theater in Chicago), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow and Charles L. Mee’s Time to Burn. Broadway transfers include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony for Best Revival) and The Song of Jacob Zulu. She teaches auditioning at Steppenwolf West and is a member of the Casting Society of America. Caparelliotis Casting / david Caparelliotis, csa (Casting) Broadway includes: Holler If Ya Hear Me, Casa Valentina, The Snow Geese, The Trip to Bountiful, Craig Wright’s Grace, Theresa Rebeck’s Dead Accounts, Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, Seminar, The Columnist, Stick Fly, Good People, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The House of Blue Leaves, Fences, Lend Me A Tenor, Everyday Rapture and Royal Family. Also: Second Stage, MTC, Atlantic, LCT3, Ars Nova, The Old Globe, Goodman, Arena and Williamstown Theatre Festival (3 seasons). Recent film/ television: How to get Away with Murder (ABC, pilot), Odyssey (NBC, pilot), Ironside (NBC), HairBrained (with Brendan Fraser) and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime).
scott behrend (Assistant Director) Scott Behrend is co-founder and Artistic/Executive Director of Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP), a professional theatre company in Buffalo, New York. Mr. Behrend, a graduate of Syracuse University, has directed and/or produced over 45 productions in RLTP’s 10 year history, including 23 world premieres. He has been nominated five times by Buffalo’s Artie Awards as Best Director, winning in 2009. He has directed and produced three special event performances with award-winning actor Alec Baldwin and is a founding board member of the Greater Buffalo Cultural Alliance. Scott would like to thank his family and especially his wife Betsy for all their love and support.
RANDALL ARNEY (Artistic Director) Randall Arney has been a theater professional for over 30 years and has served as Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse since 1999. In addition to his artistic programming and oversight at the Geffen, Arney has helmed more than 10 productions for the theater, most recently Slowgirl, American Buffalo, Superior Donuts, The Female of the Species, The Seafarer, Speed-the-Plow and All My Sons. Arney is an ensemble member and former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre where his directing credits include: The Seafarer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death
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KEN NOVICE (Managing Director) Ken Novice’s career in the professional theater spans 25 years and over 250 productions. Prior to joining Geffen Playhouse, he served as Managing Director and Director of External Affairs at Pasadena Playhouse where his credits include the revival of Fences starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett and the world premieres
of Sister Act the Musical, Ray Charles Live, Stormy Weather starring Lesley Uggams and many others. He was Director of Marketing and Public Relations for San Diego’s Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre where his credits include Jack O’Brien’s acclaimed revival of Damn Yankees, the Tony Awardnominated musical The Full Monty, Henry IV starring John Goodman and Sheldon Epp’s Tony-nominated hit Play On! among many others. His credits also include marketing and public relations for the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theater Company and New York’s Circle Repertory Company. As Director of Programming for YouthStream Media Networks he developed national marketing and public relations programs for most of Hollywood’s major motion picture studios. Novice also served as Head of the Theatre Management MFA/MBA program at California State University, Long Beach and has been a guest lecturer at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. He holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from San Diego State University. Novice was recently named the Secretary of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) after previously serving as a member of LORT’s Executive Committee.
BEHNAZ ATAEE (General Manager) Behnaz Ataee is a financial professional with more than 27 years of experience in for-
profit and nonprofit financial management and auditing. Behnaz joined the Geffen Playhouse in 1999 and this marks her ninth season as the theater’s General Manager. She began her career in the Bay Area as a partner in a small family start-up before joining FBS Management where she acted as Director of Accounting, overseeing the finances of more than 25 non-profit organizations. Behnaz continued her work with non-profits as an auditor for Trump and Van Sloten CPA and then returned to the for-profit sector at Ultratech, before ultimately landing at the Geffen Playhouse. Behnaz has a Master’s degree from Pepperdine University.
REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer) Regina has been a development professional for over 18 years, working with non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has worked for Simon Wiesenthal Center, William J. Jefferson Clinton Foundation, Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative, Hank Azaria’s Determined to Succeed, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Kind Campaign, Jewish Museum of Prague, among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that
advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Regina also has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York. From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program which incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as wrote and produced a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad. Manhattan Theatre Club Under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country’s most prominent theatre companies. Productions at its Broadway and Off-Broadway venues have earned numerous awards including 19 Tony Awards and 6 Pulitzer Prizes. The Country House will mark Donald Margulies’s tenth production at MTC, including Time Stands Still, Sight Unseen and Brooklyn Boy. Other MTC productions include 2014 Best Play Tony nominees Casa Valentina and Outside Mullingar, and The Assembled Parties, Choir Boy, The Other Place, Murder Ballad, Wit, Venus in Fur, Good People, The Whipping Man, Ruined, Blackbird, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Eastern Standard and Ain’t Misbehavin’. www. ManhattanTheatreClub.com
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and the Maiden, Curse of the Starving Class, Killers and The Geography of Luck, among others. Arney also directed Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, as well as the subsequent national and international acclaimed productions. Mr. Arney’s acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday, Ghost in the Machine, The Homecoming, Frank’s Wild Years, You Can’t Take it with You, Fool for Love, True West, Balm in Gilead and Coyote Ugly. As the Artistic Director for Steppenwolf from 1987 to 1995, he oversaw the creation of a new stateof-the-art theater which is Steppenwolf’s current home. Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations) and The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney has an MFA degree in Acting from Illinois State University and has taught master classes and workshops at UCLA, Steppenwolf, around the U.S. and in Tokyo.
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CHOIR BOY West Coast Premiere Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney Directed by Trip Cullman Featuring Jeremy Pope Additional cast to be announced September 16 – October 26, 2014 At the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, a young black man knows what is expected of him. Work hard, fall in line and if you’ve got the voice for it, use it to praise God in the school choir. Within these walls, Pharus Young, with the voice of an angel and a keen mind, should be a star. But in the face of Drew’s time-honored traditions, can music overcome silence? Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney navigates expectation, alienation and the overwhelming desire to be heard. gil cates theater at the geffen playhouse
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HERSHEY FELDER AS IRVING BERLIN World Premiere Written by Hershey Felder Directed by Trevor Hay Featuring Hershey Felder November 11 – December 21, 2014 “Irving Berlin has no place in American music, he is American music.” — Jerome Kern Hershey Felder brings to life the remarkable story of Irving Berlin, “America’s Composer.” From the depths of anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia, to New York’s Lower East Side, and ultimately all of America and the world, Berlin’s story epitomizes capturing the American dream. Featuring the composer’s most popular and enduring songs from “God Bless America,” to “White Christmas” and beyond, Hershey Felder’s masterful creation of character and musical performance makes this evening with Irving Berlin an unforgettable journey. gil cates theater at the geffen playhouse
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Written by scott carter Directed by matt august
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october 7 – november 16, 2014 A founding father, a Victorian novelist and a Russian revolutionary walk into a…stop me if you’ve heard this one. Thomas Jefferson (yes that one), Charles Dickens (the very same) and Count Leo Tolstoy (who else?) are brought together in a blistering battle of wits for the ages. Scott Carter’s whip-smart comedy examines what happens when great men of history are forced to repeat it.
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the POWER OF DUFF
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Written by conor mcpherson Directed by RANDALL ARNEY
Written by STEPHEN BELBER Directed by PETER DuBOIS
FEBRUARY 3 – MARCH 15, 2015
april 7 – may 17, 2015
Tommy owes more than he earns. When he is unexpectedly compelled to help Aimee, a young woman with much harder luck than his own, the taste of turmoil he suffers becomes a fullblown meal. With his trademark humor and humanity, Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) makes Phoenix Park, Dublin a place where anyone can rise from the ashes.
Charlie Duff’s nightly newscast makes him a voice to be heard, so why isn’t his teen-age son listening? When an on-air prayer for his father goes viral, Duff finds himself at the center of a firestorm over God’s place in the newsroom. When his prayers turn prophetic, Duff suddenly has the power to reach everyone — except his own son. Stephen Belber’s sharp new play asks is there anything more vital than the faith we have in one another?
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switzerland co-world premiere Written by joanna murray-smith march 3 – april 12, 2015 Patricia Highsmith, master of the macabre, is racing to finish her novel when an attractive young man arrives representing her impatient publisher. Anxious to be rid of him and return to self-imposed exile, she attempts to terrorize him into fleeing. But he has a dark agenda of his own and will not leave until the final chapter is written. In this new Geffen Playhouse commission, Joanna Murray-Smith (The Female of the Species), with her unique brand of humor and mystery, brings to life this literary giant best known for Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
BAD JEWS world Premiere Written by Joshua Harmon Directed by Matt Shakman June 9 – July 19, 2015 In the Feygenbaum family, Daphna is the most devout. Just ask her. But her cousin Liam has the rights of the first born grandchild. Just ask him. When their grandfather dies leaving a treasured family heirloom, a battle ignites escalating to Old Testament proportions. Hailed as one of the funniest plays of the year, Bad Jews can’t resist pointing out the worst in all of us.
A Geffen Playhouse commission funded by the Edgerton Foundation
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Geffen Playhouse Veteran Nights in partnership with the Gary Sinise Foundation Through a partnership with the Gary Sinise Foundation, we welcome veterans and their families to attend a dinner and the final dress rehearsal before each main stage show. A big thank you to the Gary Sinise Foundation, Guggenheim Partners, JP Morgan, Northern Trust, Fay & Frank Mancuso and all of our donors for making our programs that serve Veterans possible. 1) Gil Cates, Jr., (Geffen Playhouse Vice Chair), Randall Arney (Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director), and Stacy Taylor (former Gary Sinise Foundation Development Director) welcome veterans. 2) Veterans attend special final dress rehearsal of American Buffalo. 3) Regina Miller (Geffen Playhouse Chief Development Officer), guest, Freddy Rodriguez (actor, American Buffalo), Judith Otter (Executive Director of the Gary Sinise Foundation) welcome Michael Schlitz, a veteran severely wounded in Iraq. 4) Dinner before the show.
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Robert & Gabrielle Greenberg Lance Hagenbuch Carolyn & Bernie Hamilton Stanley Handman Kay Harrington Sheila & Chester Hasday Barbara & Bud Hellman Mr. & Mrs. William Hellman Murray & Gail Heltzer Helene Hendrickson Andy Heyward Mrs. Dorothy Hoffman Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson Kelley M. Hogan Judith Hohman Gerald Isenberg Jackie & Warren Jackson Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob Nancy & Len Jacoby Terry & Marc J. Jacoby Edward & Aya Jakobovits Mary James Josh Jones Joyce & Don Kaiserman Ruth & Marvin Kalin Trudy & Albert Kallis Avi Kamienny Drs. Elaine & Jeff Kamil Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kamine Anita Karbelnig Laurence O. Karsh Roy Kaufman Saul & Rima Kay James Kelly Dr. Ann Kirsch & Mr. Jonathan Kirsch Ron Kolar Ron & Joanne Kramar Dr. Marina Kovalevsky & Yana Kovalevsky Carol & Richard Kurland Tam & David Lachoff Joan & Christopher Larkin Jeanne & Christopher Lavagnino Peter Levin & Audrey Davis Levin Burton & Anita Levinson Barry Levinson Mary Shannon Little Neil L. & Ora D. Macfarlane Elizabeth Marcellino Mr. & Mrs. Phillips H. Marshall Geoff & Seema Miller Thomas Mitchell Allan M. Mohrman Jr. Bill & Gail Morino In Loving Memory of Harvey S. Morse Sandra Moss John & Sandy Murdock My-Petite Sherri & Arnold Nelson Adrienne & Arthur Omansky Mark Paluch & Bryan Ozamoto Dr. & Mrs. Emil & Dolores Pascarelli Barbara & Gary Pasquinelli C. Alexander Payne Mr. John Perkins Jimi & Inna Petulla, Film Connection Lisa Pierozzi Jon Polito Jack & Jane Pollock Gary & Gail Racheletsky Linda & Manny Rider Carlene Ringer Richard Robertson Dolores Rogers Ronda & Fred Rose Maxine & Gene Rosenfeld Blanche & Bruce Joel Rubin Paul A. Rudnick, M.D. Barry & Nancy Sanders Susan & Martin Schmitt Malcolm Schneer & Cathy Liu Elaine Carey & Vincent J. Schodolski David & Margaret Schwanke Bob & Susan Schwartz Dr. & Mrs. Jack Schwartz Susan Schwarz Michele & Peter Serchuk Bob & Sue Shadur Peggy & Robert Shapiro Jeff Sherman Melinda & Yossi Sidikaro Ronald Hansen Significance Foundation
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annual donors Arthur & Carol Silbergeld Steven Sills Martin & Leah Sklar Dione & Joe Smith Trudy Sokol Susan & Alfred Stern Edith L. Stoell & Linda Gach Ray Aaron Stroud Mr. & Mrs. David Tann Nancy Thomas Judy & Art Tompkins Brigitta Troy Catherine Unger Deborah Valdez Anthony Vasek Ira & Laurie Waldman Marcia & Dr. Charles Wasserman Jay Weinstein & Lori Woldar Pat West Annabelle Weston & Steven Shulman John Weston Bruce Whizin Rae Jeane Williams Lauren Wing & Luke Brown Kyra Woo Anthony P. Zinge
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PErFORMANCEs MAGAZINE P23
geffen playhouse staff Randall Arney Artistic Director
Ken Novice Managing Director
ARTISTIC
Behnaz Ataee General Manager
Regina Miller Chief Development Officer
COMMUNICATIONS
Mary Garrett Amy Levinson Phyllis Schuringa Shannon Noel Kristina Leach Nick Johnson Kristen Osborn
Artistic Manager Artistic Associate / Literary Director Artistic Associate / Casting Director Artistic Coordinator Literary Associate Literary Intern Intern
DEVELOPMENT Ellen Catania Director of Major Gifts & Corporate/Foundation Partnerships Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations Jamie Mikelich Associate Director of Individual Giving Kristen Smith Eshaya Grants Manager & Major Gifts Executive Assistant Scott Kriloff Development Associate & Database Manager Ava Bogle Development Assistant Jessie Sherman Development Assistant
EDUCATION Jennifer Zakkai Education Projects Leader Connor White Resident Teaching Artist & Education Associate Zoe Bader Intern
ADMINISTRATION Frankie Ocasio Executive Assistant to the Managing Director Maryam Meehan Accounting and Payroll Manager Francisca Lopez Accounts Payable Marguerite Harris Receptionist
PRODUCTION Daniel Ionazzi Jill Barnes Matthew Carleton Thomas Watson Rich Gilles James Grabowski Darren Rezowalli Leah A. Lewis
Production Manager Associate Production Manager Technical Director Assistant Technical Director Properties Master Sound Master Master Electrician Wardrobe Supervisor
Tim Choy, Peter Goldman Davidson & Choy Publicity Jonathan Josephson Public Relations Consultant
MARKETING & SALES Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Sponsorships Mark San Filippo Ticket Services Director & Database Administrator Stephanie Strand Audience Services Manager Brian Dunning Graphics / Production Artist Jodi Feigenbaum Advertising & Promotions Assistant Janice Bernal Associate Box Office Manager Bryan Martin Associate Box Office Manager Korie Benavidez, Audrey Cain, Clay Dzygun, Zack Hamra, Richard Martinez, Lilach Mendelovich, Alyssa Tyson, Martin Wurst Box Office Staff
FRONT OF HOUSE Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events David Gerhardt Supervising House Manager Michelle Cantrell, Kevin Cernansky, Amy Farkas, Tommy French, Matt Jones, Erik Odom, Julianne Tveten House Managers Abdoulaye N’Gom Head Usher Sevana Baghdasarian, Taylor Cerny, Vianney Cossyleon, Josiah Davis, Dan Foote, Netta Lee Joseph, Brennan Kelleher Erica Keller, Caroline Harrison Kohler, Brigid Leahy, Nathaniel Meek, Keith Mitchell, Roxana Meyers, Lindsay Nyman, Chase O’Donnell, Jonathan Schwartz, Chelsea Smachetti, Danielle Weisberg Ushers Rob Mersola Bar Manager Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, Jared White, Lyndsi LaRose Bartenders
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Miguel del Castillo Mario Santillan-Perez Juan Carlos Umaña
Facility Manager Custodial Cleaning Custodial
This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. P24 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINe