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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TWENTY YEARS AGO, GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE OPENED its doors with Four Dogs and a Bone, a play by none other than John Patrick Shanley. We are journeying back into our own heritage by bringing you another of John’s creations in this anniversary season, and Outside Mullingar is also a pilgrimage of sorts for John. He says it is a play that takes him into a rich Irish family history never before explored in his work. While Outside Mullingar is very much rooted in how things get passed down from generation to generation, whether it be land, family feuds or good ol’ Irish sarcasm, its story is, in fact, about what changes over time. The cyclical nature of farm life is the perfect backdrop for John to reflect on life’s opportunities grasped and those forgone. As two elderly parents seek to leave thriving farms, their adult children discover a need to turn the pages of their lives to something new while maintaining the history so deeply embedded in them and the Irish countryside. This wonderfully quiet story muses both on the passage of time and the great need to embrace it before it’s gone. As always, I have the great good fortune of working with a team of wonderful designers who were tasked with creating not one farm but two. The richness of time and place that this team brings to this production, creating the Ireland that John has written with great detail, allows the setting to be its own character. As we joyfully welcome John back to the Geffen, we also welcome you. The richness of the Geffen history is based on your participation in it, and we are glad to have you here for Outside Mullingar. Enjoy the show! Randall Arney ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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PAMELA ROBINSON CO-CHAIR PATRICIA KIERNAN APPLEGATE RANDALL ARNEY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS HOLIDAY SEASON for Outside Mullingar, written by Pulitzer, Tony and Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley and directed by our very own Randall Arney. After a successful Broadway run in 2014, we hope this heartwarming romantic comedy will delight Los Angeles audiences during this holiday season filled with family, friends and gratitude. We are grateful that you are part of the Geffen Playhouse family and that you have chosen to support the theater by being here today. This fall, we have expanded our Geffen Playhouse family to include a select group of veterans who have been participating in our first-ever Veterans Writing & Performance Workshop. This four-month pilot project began in August and culminates in a final performance of monologues in our Gil Cates Theater on Monday, December 7. If you’d like to learn more about this new initiative or are interested in attending the culminating performance on December 7, please contact Regina Miller, Chief Development Officer, at 310.208.6500 ext. 112 or reginam@geffenplayhouse.com. As our 20th Anniversary season progresses, we would like to thank the many subscribers, donors, Board members and artists who have shared their Geffen stories with us thus far. Please continue to send us your favorite memories of how you fell in love with theater or the Geffen Playhouse to anniversarystories@geffenplayhouse.com. Our sincere thanks to all of you for joining us for today’s performance and for being part of our Geffen Playhouse family. Happy holidays to you and your loved ones! We look forward to seeing you at the theater in 2016. Enjoy the show!
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JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY ON HIS IRISHNESS AND OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
BY JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
I NEVER WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT THE IRISH. When I got out of the Marine Corps in 1972, I was invited to a lunch of Irish-American writers. At a table of perhaps 10, I was conspicuously underaccomplished. I’d been brought along by my old professor Terry Moran (he was perhaps 37), because I was a poet. At the table, among others, were James T. Farrell and Jimmy Breslin. Farrell had 50 books to his credit, including, most famously, the Studs Lonigan trilogy. Breslin had reinvented blue-collar New York and maybe journalism. I had a good time. Breslin held forth about Nixon. Around dessert, Farrell, who had downed several brandies, burst into tears, pointed at me, and said, “He’s the one we should be helping.” I tried to look less in need. A waiter appeared. There was a call. It was my then wife, Joan. I’d just gotten an acceptance letter. Two of my poems were going to be published. I was 22. Heading home on the F train to Brooklyn, I thought about what I wanted to do, big picture. And I decided right P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE
then, I didn’t want to be helped, and I didn’t want to be labeled an Irish-American writer. I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to write about everybody. And for the next 30 years I did. I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. This attraction resulted in plays and films with titles like Italian American Reconciliation and Moonstruck, and not a lot of jobs for Irish-American actors. I always knew I’d have to come home eventually. I’m Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn’t own being Irish. Something in me hated being confined by an ethnic identity, by any family. In addition, I have often found procrastination to be an enriching exercise. Not saying increases what I have to say. Not writing about the Irish was building up a hell of a lot of pressure to do just that.
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TURNS OUT HIS BLOOD RUNS GREEN When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it. When I sat with my father in that farm kitchen, the one that he had grown up in, and listened to my Irish family talk, I recognized that this was my Atlantis, the lost and beautiful world of my poet’s heart. There was no way to write about the farm, yet I had to write about it. I listened to the amazing language these folks were speaking as if it were normal conversation, and I knew this was my territory. But it was new to me. It was a time to listen, not to write. It took about 20 years. When I turned 60 and flipped out (the number, the guy in the mirror with gray hair), I felt I had nothing left to say or do. I wanted to go on vacation some place warm for the rest of my life. I was miserable, dead barren and solitary. I moved to an apartment in Williamsburg where I could see the sun and the river. My parents were dead now. It was just me and the river and the sun and time. A year went by. One quiet day, I sat down without a thought in my head and wrote a play about the farm. The farm had become a place in my imagination where I had stored up so many things. My love for my father was there. Feelings of grief. My romantic hunger, my frustration with this unpoetic world. I had held back much for a long time, and I kind of erupted with language. I felt free suddenly, free to be Irish. Family stories, family names, changed by dreaming, mixed with my own long longings for love, and impossible happiness unfurled across the page. I had turned 60, and the knife at my throat woke me to the beauty of my own people, the fleeting opportunities of life, the farce of caution. I wanted to write a love story. I wanted to find all the words I had not been able to find because what I have been unable to express has caused me anguish, even as what I have given adequate voice has lent me peace. I found a strange relief in the play. I called it Outside Mullingar, a prosaic title perhaps to balance the poetry it contained. The script was a refuge and a consolation for me. Manhattan Theater Club signed on to do it, and we put a team together. I decided to return to the farm and bring my son Nick. He drove me, as I had driven my father. He was taking me home now. And then the director, Doug Hughes, said, “I’m going to Ireland, too.” And the designer, John Lee Beatty, said, “I’m coming as well, and bringing my partner.” I announced I would make a documentary. (I
always go too far.) My son, who’s a photography major at Parsons, was drafted as cinematographer. And, of course, we never got around to that, but that’s O.K. My cousin Anthony was not perfectly delighted that I had written a play set on his farm and that the main character was named Anthony. And he was openly terrified when all these theater folk piled out of a couple of cars to photograph his home and him. But his good manners got the best of him, and he made us tea. Doug, exhibiting his considerable social skills, talked Anthony into a state of relative comfort, and we had a good chat. After, we went into the fields where my father had grown to manhood among the cattle, in the quietly overwhelming green fields. I knew I was imposing. That is the artist’s way. We take the real and refashion it to our purpose. The desire is strong, and reality must give way. Anthony, me, my father, the farm, all of these things, my Uncle Tony, my Aunt Mary, all things animate and otherwise, existed only as materials for my use. I had a home being born in me, and I had to build it before the dream faded. I had written the play, but now, being on the farm, I held the script like tracing paper over the real and looked for gold in the differences. There was gold. It was a strange week. Nothing was real to me, not the play nor this world as it is. I stumbled forward with a kind of double vision. The Irish side of my family is a patient lot and endured my interviews with grace. They trusted me, and they didn’t. They knew I wouldn’t be telling the truth about them. I’d be telling my own truth, using them. They watched as my designers photographed their stoves and sheds, their cattle and mangers. I came back to New York and went into rehearsal. As the actors and director took the play, I watched the world I’d created leave me and felt the supreme loneliness of that. For a moment though, through the spell of storytelling, I had a home. I was Irish. And then the moment faded. That’s how it is with writers. We keep getting evicted from our own imaginations. We are wanderers, dreaming, and then our dreams become real and push us out. The play opens in New York shortly. The lights will rise on a farmhouse kitchen in rural Ireland. If things go well, my longtime traveling companions, the audience, will share with me something of my Uncle Tony, my Aunt Mary and my cousin Anthony. I’m glad.
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THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF
Written by
John Patrick Shanley
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Anthony T. Fanning
Lighting Designer
David Kay Mickelsen
Sound Designer
Daniel Ionazzi
Jonathan Burke
Production Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Young Ji
Amy Ramsdell
Composer
Peter Golub
Casting Director
Phyllis Schuringa, CSA
Directed by
Randall Arney Recipient of the 2014 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award Originally commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) with funds provided by U.S. Trust, and received its world premiere there on January 3, 2014 Outside Mullingar is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS
Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Gail & Andrew Roth Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin • Miranda & Brett Tollman
Opening Night: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS
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Rosemary Muldoon ................................................................................................................... Jessica Collins Tony Reilly .................................................................................................................................... Jarlath Conroy Anthony Reilly ............................................................................................................................... Dan Donohue Aoife Muldoon ................................................................................................................ Robin Pearson Rose
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Rosemary Muldoon ................................................................................................................. Donnla Hughes Tony Reilly ................................................................................................................................ Don Oscar Smith Aoife Muldoon ............................................................................................................................... Eileen T’Kaye Anthony Reilly .............................................................................................................................. Jay Whittaker
SETTING/TIME Killucan, Ireland, 2008 – 2013 RUNNING TIME Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes There will be no intermission.
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
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JESSICA COLLINS (Rosemary Muldoon) Jessica Collins made her Broadway debut alongside Laura Linney in Les Liasons Dangereuses, for which she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. Off-Broadway Jessica was seen in We Live Here (Manhattan Theatre Club), Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons) and King Lear (Shakespeare in the Park). On television, she has had starring roles in AMC’s Rubicon and ABC’s The Nine, and numerous appearances on House, Revolution, Law & Order, The Good Wife and CSI. On the film side, Jessica will next be seen in the independent So B. It, and Free State of Jones alongside Matthew McConaughey and Keri Russell. She was last seen in the Academy Award-nominated Zero Dark Thirty. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
JARLATH CONROY (Tony Reilly) Broadway: The Seagull with Kristin Scott Thomas; The Weir; The Iceman Cometh; On The Waterfront; Ghetto; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Visit; Comedians. Off-Broadway: Loot, The Coward, Finn, A Man of No Importance, Our Lady of Sligo, A Life, Gardenia,
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Translations, The Matchmaker. Regional: Annie Baker’s The Last of the Little Hours at Sundance Theatre Lab; The Homecoming; Catchpenny Twist; The Steward of Christendom (Barrymore Award); Juno and the Paycock (Helen Hayes Award); Henry V (Helen Hayes Award nomination); Faith Healer; Twelfth Night; Ah, Wilderness!; Inherit the Wind; A Christmas Carol. Internationally he has appeared at The Royal Court, London in Cromwell and Hamlet; The White Devil at The Old Vic and numerous plays at Nottingham Rep. Film and TV: Putzel, True Grit, Day of the Dead, Across the Universe, Kinsey, Stay, Day of the Dead, Heaven’s Gate, The Art of Getting By, Law & Order, Law and Order SVU, NYPD Blue, Summer. His directing credits include True West and Human Resources.
DAN DONOHUE (Anthony Reilly) Broadway: Scar in The Lion King. Regionally: The Night Alive and Radiance (Geffen Playhouse); One Man, Two Guvnors (Berkeley Repertory Theatre and South Coast Rep). Dan has been a fixture at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival since 1994, performing in over 30 productions in such roles as Hamlet, Mercutio, Caliban, Iago, Henry V, Richard III and Dvornichek (Rough Crossing). Other credits include The Triumph of Love (Long Wharf Theatre), The Game of Love and Chance (Seattle Repertory Theatre), Servant of Two Masters (Intiman Theatre) and roles at Arizona Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, San Jose Rep, Asolo Rep and elsewhere.
Dan was an inaugural recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship and a 2012 Grammy Award Nominee (Best Spoken Word — HAMLET). Film/TV credits include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Scream Queens, The Mentalist, Shameless, Return to Zero, Water & Power and The Closer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
ROBIN PEARSON ROSE (Aoife Muldoon) Theater: Broadway: Holiday, The Visit (Hal Prince, Director). Regional: Old Globe Theatre: Other Desert Cities, Good People, August Osage County, Vincent in Brixton, Da, All My Sons (San Diego Critics Circle Award), Voir Dire, Dancing at Lughanasa, Wonderful Tennessee, Remembrance. Roundabout Theatre: Summer and Smoke. Rubicon Theatre: Doubt (Ovation Award nomination), You Can’t Take It With You, All My Sons (Ovation nomination), Happy Days. Southcoast Repertory Theatre: The Carpetbagger’s Children, Dragon Lady. Center Repertory Theatre: Amy’s View. American Conservatory Theatre: Juno & The Paycock. Pasadena Playhouse: Joined at the Head. Film: Annabelle, Something’s Gotta Give, What Women Want, Speechless, Fearless (Peter Weir, Director), An Enemy of the People (opposite Steve McQueen). Television: Mad Men, NCIS, Enlightened, Life, Vanished, The Nine, Grey’s Anatomy, Boston Legal, Cold Case Files, Without a Trace, Boston Public. Associate Artist, The Old Globe Theatre. MFA, Yale School of Drama.
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright) John Patrick Shanley is from The Bronx. His plays include Outside Mullingar (Tony nomination), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance and Beggars in the House of Plenty. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play Doubt, he received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the arena of screenwriting, he has nine films to his credit, most recently Doubt, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis; Doubt, directed by Mr. Shanley, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed) and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For his script of Moonstruck he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for best original screenplay. In 2009, The Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the Lifetime Achievement In Writing.
RANDALL ARNEY (Director / 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
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ANTHONY T. FANNING (Scenic Designer) Broadway: August Wilson’s Two Trains Running. National Tour: The Who’s Tommy directed by Victoria Bussert. Regional: The Guthrie, South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Ahmanson Theatre, San Diego Opera and
the Geffen Playhouse. As an Art Director for film, Tony has had the privilege of working with Steven Spielberg (Lincoln, Munich, War of the Worlds, Amistad), Robert Zemeckis (The Polar Express, What Lies Beneath), Sam Raimi (SpiderMan), Steven Soderberg (Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen), Nancy Meyers (What Women Want) and Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) Film and Television Production Design include: Jim Sheridan’s Brothers, Rod Lurie’s remake of Strawdogs, Jim Field Smith’s Butter, Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal, Chris Carter’s The After and Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s Better Call Saul. Tony won an Emmy for his Art Direction on the pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing. DAVID KAY MICKELSEN (Costume Designer) Mr. Mickelsen returns to the Geffen Playhouse having previously designed The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty, The Female of the Species, All My Sons and Paint Your Wagon. He has designed over 300 productions at many regional theaters across the country. Companies include South Coast Repertory; Pasadena Playhouse; The Old Globe; Laguna Playhouse; The Guthrie Theater; Ford’s Theatre; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Denver Center Theatre Company; Northlight Theatre Company; The Oregon, Colorado, Illinois and Utah Shakespeare Festivals; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Arizona, Pioneer, and Geva Theatre Companies; Tennessee, San Diego, New Mexico, Missouri, and St. Louis Repertory Theatres; Williamstown and Sundance Theatre Festivals; and the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis. Originally from Canby, Oregon, Mr. Mickelsen now makes his home in Long Beach, California.
DANIEL IONAZZI (Lighting Designer) Recent designs for the Geffen Playhouse include The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty; Ruth Draper’s Monologues; Slowgirl; Build; Yes, Prime Minister; American Buffalo; The Jacksonian; Radiance; Red Hot Patriot; and Superior Donuts. His work has also been seen at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, and Denver Center Theatre Company. His design for the New York production of The Jacksonian garnered a Lucille Lortel nomination. He designed the lighting installation for Teatro alla Moda for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Trajectoire and Catapult for the dance company Diavolo. His design work can also be seen in the 4-D cinematic experience, Beyond all Boundaries, at the National World War II Museum. Daniel is Production Manager for the Geffen Playhouse, a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Director of Production for the Department of Theater. He is the author of The Stage Management Handbook and The Stagecraft Handbook. JONATHAN BURKE (Sound Designer) Off-Broadway: Lonesome Traveler, The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman (59E59). Regional: Heroes, You Can’t Take It With You, Cookin’ at the Cookery, He Hunts, The Weir (Geffen Playhouse), Avenue X, Beast on the Moon, If We are Women, Jack and Jill and Molly Sweeney (City Theatre Company), My Fair Lady, Last Five Years (Ovation Nomination), Hello! My Baby, Daddy Long Legs (Ovation Nomination), The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, Fiddler on the Roof, A Delicate Balance, Man of La Mancha, Lonesome Traveler,
Food Confessions, Our Town (Rubicon Theatre Company). Jonathan has been the Resident Sound Designer for Cabrillo Music Theatre (Ovation Nominations for Singin’ in the Rain and The Sound of Music) since 2003 and has worked on productions for the LA Opera, Mark Taper Forum, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Hollywood Bowl. In addition to designing, Jonathan is the Academic Coordinator and Lecturer for UCLA’s School of Theater and owner of JABWORKS, a theatrical sound rental and recording company. jonathanburkesounddesign.com PETER GOLUB (Composer) Geffen Playhouse: The Country House, Time Stands Still, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, He Hunts. Broadway: The Country House, The Heiress, Time Stands Still, Hedda Gabler, Come Back Little Sheba. Off-Broadway: The Laramie Cycle (BAM), Suddenly Last Summer (Roundabout Theatre Company), numerous scores for Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Scores for Delacorte, Public Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre Company, La MaMa, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, others. Film scores: Songs My Brothers Taught Me, All Work All Play, These Amazing Shadows, Frozen River, The Great Debaters, The Laramie Project, Wordplay, Countdown to Zero. Recent concert works: Garden Paths (Debussy Trio), Sleepwalking (cello concerto for Matt Haimovitz); Dark Carols (song cycle at the Mark Taper Library); Suite from These Amazing Shadows (Chattanooga Symphony); Boxes, Buckets and Bags (Liederabend Festival at The Kitchen). He has written
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more than 10 productions for the theater, most recently The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty, 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: Slowgirl, The Seafarer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death 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.
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES four ballets and 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 currently teaches at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. YOUNG JI (Production Stage Manager) Geffen Playhouse: The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty; The Country House; 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. Married to actress/director Jeanie Hackett. AMY RAMSDELL (Assistant Stage Manager) Past Geffen Playhouse credits include Bad Jews, Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, Choir Boy, The Country House, Slowgirl. First Date: The Musical, Billy Elliot (McCoy Rigby Entertainment), Immediate Family (Center Theatre Group), Joffrey Ballet West. Additional credits include Once: First National Tour (Production
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Assistant), The Awakening of Angel DeLuna (New York Musical Theatre Festival), American Night (La Jolla Playhouse), As You Like It, Inherit the Wind, Richard III, Broadway Bound and Brighton Beach Memoirs (The Old Globe), The Sound of Music, Love Changes Everything, Jekyll & Hyde and Jesus Christ Superstar (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera). Amy graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Stage Management from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting) Phyllis has been the casting director at Geffen Playhouse for 12 years and now is also the Artistic Associate. Recent plays at the Geffen include Bad Jews; The Night Alive; Switzerland; The Country House; Wait Until Dark and American Buffalo. 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 Award 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.
GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director) Gil Cates, Jr. has proudly served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012 and has years of producing and directing experience in theater, film, and television. Gil’s theater credits include the award winning Names (Matrix Theatre) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey, The Night I Knocked Out Joe Frazer and Lost 90 Pounds (Gardner Stage Theater), as well as Three Sisters and David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, AnnMargret and recent Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor). In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which won best documentary at the Phoenix Film Festival and later had its premiere Christmas Eve on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning), The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris), and the critically acclaimed independent film Order of Chaos. Gil also made his TV directorial debut with an episode of the NBC comedy, Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a BFA in Drama from Syracuse University in 1991.
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, The Clinton Foundation, Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative, Hank Azaria’s Determined to Succeed, Charlize Theron's Africa Outreach Project, Water.org, Codenow. org 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.
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The cast of These Paper Bullets! with playwright Rolin Jones and director Jackson Gay
Opening Night of These Paper Bullets!
Playwright Rolin Jones with These Paper Bullets! songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong
Geffen donors Jim, Manuela and David Goren get into the ‘60s theme with The Quartos
Geffen donors Donna McKenna and Flynn Chernos in front of the newly renamed Geffen Playhouse bar
Geffen donors Jonathan and Mara Blum have fun with the ‘60s theme
UCLA Center X Teacher Leaders for the Geffen Playhouse Literacy Project with Director of Education & Community Engagement Jennifer Zakkai and their guests
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Merle Dandridge joins Gil Cates, Jr. and Randall Arney to tell her story and have some fun
Gil Cates, Jr. and Randall Arney speak to the crowd
20th Anniversary Open House On Saturday, October 10, 20 years after the curtain first went up on the theater’s very first production, Four Dogs and a Bone, Geffen Playhouse celebrated with a 20th anniversary open house. Guests enjoyed bagels, coffee, donuts and mimosas prior to Randall Arney and Gil Cates, Jr. taking the stage to talk about 20 seasons of memories and the current season of shows.
Geffen Playhouse patrons David and Sydelle
Geffen Playhouse artist Merle Dandridge joined Randy and Gil to share her favorite Geffen Playhouse stories and her love for the Geffen. It was a wonderful morning for all who were able to attend! THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
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Some of the Geffen Playhouse staff ready for a wonderful open house
Geffen Playhouse patrons Emily and Rob Bishop
20-year Geffen Playhouse subscriber Arlene poses in front of the Geffen Playhouse
Geffen Playhouse patrons showing some love
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“It has been a long time since a new work has challenged the very core of existence.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer
Written by BESS WOHL Directed by TRIP CULLMAN When a young American tourist has a wild night out with an elegant Spaniard, what begins as a drunken fling becomes a searing and seductive look at two lost souls seeking solace in each other. Bess Wohl’s biting humor uncovers the individual tragedies and triumphs that build us up as well as tear us down.
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SHARE YOUR STORY IF A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, THEN A MEMORY MUST BE PRICELESS. This season, after 20 amazing years of storytelling from the stage, it’s time to hear your stories from the audience! What first inspired you to come to the Geffen Playhouse? What keeps you coming back? This is your time to shine! Please email your stories to anniversarystories@ geffenplayhouse.com. For this installment, we celebrate the early days of the Geffen with stories from long-time subscribers Corrinne Mann Kempinsky & Louis Kempinsky, as well as a true Geffen love story between actors Vanessa & French Stewart.
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CORRINNE MANN KEMPINSKY & LOUIS KEMPINSKY How long have you been subscribing to the Geffen Playhouse? Louis Kempinsky: For 20 years, since the beginning! What keeps you coming back year after year? LK: The art. We like to think of ourselves as open-minded, and we love the variety of offerings at the Geffen. Corrinne Mann Kempinsky: Even though we may not love everything we see, we value the artistic quality at all times. I also enjoy hearing other audience members’ conversations about the plays. It’s always interesting to hear how different people are affected by the same material. You learn a lot about the art from the dialogue it inspires in the audience. LK: And onstage! Years ago, I remember bringing my daughter, who was then a teenager, to see Carrie Fisher in Wishful Drinking. It had not been a great fatherdaughter bonding day, and she sat down in our front row seats intent to watch the show with her arms crossed and a scowl on her face. Early in the first act, though, Carrie, having observed her, walked over and said, “You really don’t want to be here, do you?” They then had a brief exchange, and my daughter immediately cheered up. I couldn’t believe it! I learned then and there that the actors can definitely see the audience from the stage! What a fun show — and experience. What other fun memories or Geffen stories would you like to share with us? CMK: We really do feel like this is our neighborhood P16 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE
theater. It has such a comfortable, warm feel to it when you walk in the building, an authentic quality we appreciate. And the staff is wonderful — always helpful. LK: There was a time years ago where we were traveling for work a lot and had to exchange our season tickets frequently. We almost didn’t renew our subscription around that time, but the lovely ticketing staff was so supportive and fantastic that they encouraged us to continue subscribing … and here we are, after 20 years!
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FRENCH STEWART & VANESSA STEWART In what ways has being a Geffen artist added value to your life? Vanessa Stewart: Our show Louis and Keely: Live at the Sahara opened originally at Sacred Fools Theater. Gil Cates, Sr. helped us move it to the Geffen back then, and I’ve had a career ever since. As an artist, it was a dream to get a start here. It really validated me as both a writer and performer. French Stewart: I’ve been fortunate to work in multiple capacities at the Geffen. Be it on stage, fundraisers, readings, Story Pirates for kids, or new play workshops. It’s an extremely warm and productive community. I’ve always walked away feeling the enrichment of building something: large, small, or just helpful. What is your favorite memory (backstage/onstage) of being at the Geffen Playhouse? FS: I was doing a play with the wonderful Matthew Modine when I saw a stunning actress walking down the hall in a nurse’s outfit. I said “Hello, nurse.” She said: “You better take your medicine.” Matt saw my face and said “Well, that’s that.” The nurse and myself are now happily married with a two-year-old daughter. VS: It was a green room romance. He had to introduce himself to me twice because I looked completely different out of the Keely wig. The Geffen gave me more than my career. The Geffen gave me my husband and daughter.
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In your mind, what is unique or special about the Geffen? VS: The Geffen feels like a family that really cares about the artists that come through its doors. I remember being schooled by Gil Cates about how to make my show better. And every time I see Randall Arney, I feel included in this lovely way that makes me want to keep telling stories here. FS: Location. It’s smack dab in the middle of Westwood and the UCLA campus. There’s a youthful energy that’s an irresistible reminder to have fun. Walking to rehearsal from your parking spot can be like a really good cup of coffee.
Why do you choose to give your talent to this theater in particular? VS: I’m inspired by the people I see coming in and out of the doors. Not just the incredible actors, writers and directors. It’s also the backstage crew, the staff, the people running the joint: everyone has such a passion for what they do. It’s this infectious energy and love that spills out of the offices and into the rehearsal experience when you come to work. FS: Passion, craftsmanship and care. As an actor that regularly works in 99 seat theater, I deeply appreciate the Geffen’s cultivation of local artists. Truly encouraging. Is there anything else you would like to say about the Geffen? FS: Yes. The next time I walk through the lobby, you can forget the gracious greeting or marvelous entertainment and place a 103 degree double latte into my greedy little hand. Up your game already. VS: Actually, the beautiful glass of wine from Malibu Family Wines suits him just fine. FS: Fair enough. FS & VS: We love you, Geffen Playhouse.
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DID YOU KNOW?
To gear up for 2009’s Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas, Geffen Playhouse founder Gil Cates led staff on “Save the Alpacas” marches throughout Westwood. “You know what would be great?” he said one day, a rhetorical query that always signaled to the staff that they were in for something wild. “If we had live alpacas!” Sure enough, alpacas joined one of the marches and made an appearance at Opening Night!
You can thank founding Board member Ginny Mancini for cutting down those lines to the ladies’ room! In 2003, she generously funded and redesigned the Ginny Mancini Women’s Lounge which doubled its previous size. The men’s room also received its own Mancini makeover — it was renamed the Moon River Men’s Lounge and relocated from the mezzanine level to the lobby for convenience.
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Jim & Kathryn McCaffery Cheryl McCormick Patrick W. McDivitt Maria McDowell Marlene McRae & Terry Winter In Memory of Gil Cates Eileen & Paul Meshekow Reed & Linda Metzger Norma & Larry Meyers Philip & Joan Miller Teddie J. Milner Peter Minarik & Sharon Vera Farbod Mirfakhrai Matlin & Robert Mirman Howard Morris Carol & Jerry Muchin Bill Mullins My-Petite Alex Levine & Catherine Nameth Murray & Lenore Neidorf Mark & Diane Neubauer Tom Nevermann Robert & Anita Nitta Roberta Novick Adrienne & Arthur Omansky Dr. Ronald & Iris Onkin Mr. & Mrs. Irving Ostrow Cynthia & Todd Palm Edward Parker Joanne Patten Kathy & Jeff Perkins Rebecca Perlow Naidu & Jane Permaul Zazi Pope Michael & Rose Porterfield Diane & Michael Poryes Sarah & Christopher Priore Philip Pritchett Neil & Lisa Greer Quateman Joyce S. Rich James Richards Carlene Ringer Lindy Robbins Charles Robertson Maria Rodriguez & Victoria Bullock Barbara & David Rognlien Janis & Avi Rojany Robert Rosania Barry Rosen & Neil Bokal Adrienne Rosenthal Beverly & Melvin Rosenthal Joyce & Deane Ross Lawrence Ross & Linda Nussbaum Georgina & Alan Rothenberg Bert Royal Tyler Rubin Penny Grosz Salomon & Eugene Korney Tawny & Gerry Sanders Nan Sarno Susan & Kenneth Sarno Ellen Sassa Maxine Savitz Clifford Schaffer Laurie Schechter Joel & Sonia Schneider
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Martin Short and Brendan Fraser in Four Dogs and a Bone. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
TIMELINE
FOUR DOGS AND A BONE In October of 1995, Gil Cates embraced the idea of a theater opening in the heart of a movie town and selected John Patrick Shanley’s Four Dogs and a Bone, a Hollywood satire, to launch the newly minted Geffen Playhouse. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Perkins, Parker Posey and Martin Short, this play set 20 seasons into motion. OCTOBER 1995
EXPERIENCE 20 UNFORGETTABLE SEASONS OF GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTIONS ONLINE AT GEFFENPLAYHOUSE.COM/TIMELINE
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GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE STAFF Randall Arney Artistic Director ARTISTIC
Gil Cates, Jr. Executive Director MARKETING & SALES
Amy Levinson Phyllis Schuringa Young Ji Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Rebecca Birstock
Artistic Associate / Literary Director Artistic Associate / Casting Director Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager Literary Associate Artistic Intern
DEVELOPMENT Regina Miller Ellen Catania Jessica Brusilow Rollins Jamie Mikelich Kristen Smith Eshaya Scott Kriloff Clay Dzygun Ava Bogle Taylor Dearden Justin Baer
Chief Development Officer Senior Vice President, Development Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations Associate Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager Development & Education Programs Coordinator Development Associate & Donor Database Administrator Development Associate Development Coordinator Development Assistant Development Intern
Joseph Yoshitomi Director of Marketing & Communications Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Sponsorships Brian Dunning Graphic Design Manager Kevin O’Brien Marketing & Graphics Coordinator Mark San Filippo Ticket Services Director & Database Administrator Stephanie Strand Audience Services Manager Janice Bernal Box Office Manager Bryan Martin Box Office Manager Zack Hamra Box Office Assistant Manager Korie Benavidez, Kaitlin Huwe, Richard Martinez, Cameron Reck, Celia Rivera, Christine Rivera, Celeste Russi, Alyssa Tyson Box Office Staff
COMMUNICATIONS Katy Sweet, Pam Giangregorio, Carly Yates Katy Sweet & Associates Public Relations Sue Fleishman Consultant, September Media Rebecca Haithcoat Communications Editor
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement Carolyn Marie Wright Manager of Education & Community Engagement Corky Dominguez, David Guerra, Kristina Leach, Juan Rivera, Connor White Teaching Artists
ADMINISTRATION Behnaz Ataee Frankie Ocasio Peter Banachowski Diana Chang Marguerite Harris
Chief Financial Officer Executive Assistant Accounting and Payroll Manager Accounts Payable Receptionist
PRODUCTION Daniel Ionazzi Jill Barnes Sam Craven-Griffiths Evan Friedman Rich Gilles James Grabowski Darren Rezowalli
Production Manager Associate Production Manager / Company Manager Technical Director Assistant Technical Director Properties Master House Sound Supervisor Lighting & Video Supervisor
Karim Bouzzit
System Administrator
FRONT OF HOUSE Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events David Gerhardt Supervising House Manager Jane Phillips Harper Deputy Supervising House Manager Josiah Davis, Amy Farkas, Caroline Harrison Kohler Roxana Meyers House Managers Ally Aberrotman, Rebecca Birstock, Kailey Bray, Christopher Caron, Taylor Cerny, Vianney Cossyleon, Taylor Dearden, Brett Donaldson, Megan Fitzgerald, Mariel Higuera, Netta Lee Joseph, Nathaniel Meek, Keith Mitchell, Aaron Newman, JoJo Nwoko, Shannon O’Hara, James Porter, Luis Ruiz, Jonathan Schwartz, Oliver Vaughn, Dennis Woullard Ushers Rob Mersola Bar Manager and Mixologist Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, Mariel Higuera, Lyndsi LaRose, Kimberly Legg Bartenders
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Miguel del Castillo Mario Santillan-Perez Juan Carlos Umaña
Facility Manager Custodial Cleaning Custodial
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. Geffen Playhouse, a nont-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
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