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HAPPY NEW YEAR! IT’S AN HONOR TO WELCOME YOU to Martyna Majok’s Ironbound, both because of the beauty and insight of her play and since this is my first chance to address you as the new Artistic Director of the Geffen. I have helmed three productions at the Playhouse over the last five years and loved the experience of working in this beautiful space, alongside an incredible staff and supported by a passionate theater-loving audience. Joining this community on a full-time basis is a dream come true. I believe in powerful storytelling that transports audiences. I seek out plays that have a strong sense of immediacy and contemporary relevance—whether that work is a world premiere or a revival, the production should truly resonate within the context of our society. And as a native Californian (seventh generation born in Ventura!), I thoroughly believe that the plays produced on our stages must reflect the diversity and vitality of Los Angeles itself. I look forward to partnering with all of you to make that happen. A special thank you to Ironbound director Tyne Rafaeli and her outstanding cast and stellar design team for bringing Martyna’s beautiful work to life. And thank you for making the work we do here possible. See you at the theater! Matt Shakman Artistic Director
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“Writer-performer Sarah Jones is amazing!”
Written & Peformed by SARAH JONES Directed by CAROLYN CANTOR In her new solo show, Tony Award-winning writer/performer and true chameleon comedian Sarah Jones brings to life an entire cast of characters, all of whom have something to say about gender, sex work and the time in which we are living.
ON STAGE FEBRUARY 27 – APRIL 8 AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER AT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GIL CATES, JR. Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography
WELCOME TO OUR FIRST SHOW of 2018, Martyna Majok’s Ironbound. We are proud to present this relevant, powerful story of one immigrant’s experiences at a time when questions around immigration are at the center of our national—and international—discourse. This past November we were thrilled to welcome the remarkable Lin-Manuel Miranda to launch the Geffen Playhouse Unscripted Speaker Series, produced by Board members Loretta Everett Kaufman and Pamela Robinson. Centered around a conversation between Lin-Manuel and KPCC’s John Horn, the event raised awareness and much needed funds to support disaster relief efforts in hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico. The full conversation is currently available for free, along with more than 30 other episodes, on our Geffen Playhouse Unscripted podcast, available on iTunes or at geffenplayhouse.org/podcast. Additionally, we are pleased to share that the filmed version of the Geffen Playhouse production of Thom Pain, directed by Oliver Butler and Will Eno and starring Rainn Wilson, is now officially available through our partnership with BroadwayHD.com. These partnerships are some of the primary ways that we extend the Geffen’s signature artistic excellence beyond our stages and to audiences worldwide. Thank you for your support of local, live L.A. theater here at the Geffen. Enjoy the show!
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IRONBOUND PLAYWRIGHT MARTYNA MAJOK
SKELETON CREW PLAYWRIGHT DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU
MARTYNA MAJOK SHINES A LIGHT ON THE INVISIBLE IN IRONBOUND Reprinted with permission from American Theatre magazine (December, 2016). By Dominique Morisseau
DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU AND MARTYNA MAJOK met at the Lark in New York City when Majok’s play Ironbound and Morisseau’s play Skeleton Crew [which will close the Geffen’s 2017/2018 season] were being read aloud for the first time. Both pieces feature strong female characters and center on work in factories. The playwrights admired each other’s work and have been in touch ever since. Dominique Morisseau: We instantly connected over the loss of factories, and the dirt under the nails of the working class. Can you talk about what your attraction is to that world and to those folks? Martyna Majok: Ironbound was based on my mother’s experiences in America. She and I
came to North Jersey from Poland when I was young. We lived in the Newark area, surrounded by factories. Most of the folks living in my neighborhood were also recent immigrants, from all over, also working in factories or in construction or cleaning houses. My mother cleaned houses—she still cleans houses. She worked in a paper factory, a cookie factory and a book-lining factory in Jersey City, and she also worked as a caregiver for the elderly. I was pulled to write Ironbound the way I did, with a working-class immigrant woman as an intelligent and capable but flawed core of a story, because center stage wasn’t afforded these types of characters in the stories I had access to growing up—in the latchkey-kid TV that I watched. They were a joke. Their English was a punch line. Or they were some magical GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 5
janitor that came in for a scene to offer sage advice to the main character about how it’s “best to live a simple life” or some s***. It’s about who’s telling the story and who’s seen as the “other.” When I first started writing plays, they were from that perspective, but I think people felt a little bit strange in them. DM: How so? MM: When I first took a playwriting workshop in college, I’d bring in plays about my neighborhood back in Jersey that were written in dialect. I didn’t even think of them as “written in dialect”—it was just the way people spoke. People called them “accent plays,” like, “Here’s another accent play from Martyna.” It was definitely, like, an eye-opener about class, you know? I was a scholarship kid and this was a new world to me. People didn’t respond to the humor I was attempting—the characters’ circumstances felt too dark—and the language often sounded strange in the other people’s mouths. DM: That’s so deep to me; you’re talking about how people perceive immigrants. Do you feel the burden of upholding their reputation? I kind of hate when people ask me this, as if it’s some kind of burden to be black and a woman and write about it. But it can also kind of be burdensome to try to carry an entire community on your back, especially when they’ve been marginalized. MM: When I’m writing working-class folks from Jersey, or immigrants—particularly Eastern European immigrant women—that’s usually when I can get into an actual flow. That’s probably the most pleasurable that writing gets for me. I usually hate writing. It’s agony for me. DM: What? MM: I hate it. [Laughs] I love being in the room with people, collaborating, deepening a play. I don’t love being by myself with my computer, digging up all my stuff and trying to fashion it into some kind of arc. When I started writing Ironbound, I assumed nobody would give a f***, to be honest. I thought, “Who’s gonna care about a poor Polish immigrant?” So it 6 PLAYBILL
didn’t feel like I had a mission. And I was also at a place where I was wondering whether or not to keep going with playwriting. So I asked myself, if I stopped right now, what would I regret not having said? I had to write a play for the end of my [National New Play Network] residency, so what you heard at the Lark was me writing for five days straight in a tiny room in Jersey. I figured I should make this a play that I could stage for $75 in a basement myself, if I had to—’cause I figured I’d have to! In that moment, it didn’t feel like, “I have to speak for my people.” It was more, “Nobody is going to care about this,” so I’d better make it the clearest, most cost-conscious, most generous version of this story that I’m capable of creating. DM: Your play also jumps time. How did you master that? Did it come to you when you were writing it, or did you have to map out your structure? MM: I wanted to show Darja’s relation to her dreams over time. She has a plan for her life, the best of intentions—we see that spark and that hope in her original dream in the ’90s— and then we check in on her 10, 20 years later, and her life has become something very different. We’re always making the best decision we think we can make in the moment. We only find out later how that decision works out. I wanted to show the different sides of this one particular woman’s life and spirit. She has agency over her choices and she definitely f**s s*** up a few times, but there are also circumstances that strongly affect her that are just beyond her control. Like the factory. I used the factory as an anchor of time—because I’d seen what happened with these factories in Jersey over 20 years—as a reflection of what was happening economically. In the ’90s, the factories were full and running; in the 2000s, they were starting to shut down and outsource; in 2014, they’re gone. They’re ghosts. That factory I was writing about is now just rubble. DM: Did your play teach you something about what it is that you didn’t know when you were first writing it?
MM: In early readings, audiences would ask me what Darja’s dream is. I’d say security. Survival. And I still think that’s true. But there’s more. I think Darja makes a choice in that early scene with Maks to commit her life fully to something that belongs to her, to something that can’t be taken away from her. And she’s gonna work to the bone to ensure its success, its safety and its happiness. Toward the end of the play, Darja tells Tommy that there can only be one mother for her son—that she occupies a single important position in his life—and that he can’t throw that away. But he sort of has been doing just that for most of her life, as have many of the other men. The choices she’s made for her son have actually ended up hurting her. I’ve seen my mother go through similar things. Choosing practical security over intangible things like love and pride. It’s a trade I’ve watched her quietly make. In my lowest moments, so have I. It usually ended badly for both of us. It’s this paradox that in trying to prevent her family’s suffering by being with these men, it ended up hurting us more. I wonder sometimes about what my life might have been like had I never left Poland. I wonder about who this other version of myself would’ve been had I stayed. I hope it’ll turn out to be worth it—that I make something of value, something even a fraction worth the sacrifices of my family and the time lost. DM: That’s all gorgeously deep. In Ironbound, you see your mother and she’s a lot of the story and a lot of Darja’s inspiration. For me, in Skeleton Crew that’s my aunt. Of course, my aunt will never see herself. MM: Oh yeah, my mother doesn’t see herself either. I warned her in Chicago [at the Steppenwolf workshop production], “Just so you know, I took a few things from your life.” And she looked at me as the lights were going down with that face like, “I drove here from Jersey. You better not have taken some s*** from my life.” She assured me after the show that that wasn’t her. But now, she’s seen it, like, three times in New York. Somebody was sitting next
to her at Rattlestick—a complete stranger— and she turned to him and said, “That’s me.” She’s, like, taken it on now. Did your aunt see Skeleton Crew? DM: No, my aunt didn’t see it. She wouldn’t think it was her either. But when the audience says, “God, I freaking love Darja,” or “I love Faye,” that’ll turn you. You don’t realize how much the little everyday stuff that you do, your route to survival is, like, deeply inspirational and heroic. MM: I hope so. I hope too that she can see it’s out of love, fascination, and gratitude that Darja exists. The first time my mother heard a play of mine was my last year of college, and I think she felt betrayed by it. There was a time when we were undocumented, living with domestic violence, and the one time I wrote something for elementary school about what was going on at home, I got sent to the nurse’s office. When I told my mother, she became terrified that we’d be separated, that someone might take me and my younger sister away from her. So I went back to school and told them I made it up. I continued to write—but I called it fiction. By the time my mother saw my first play, she was naturalized and free from that abusive marriage, but I think it still was very deep in her. Then, on opening night at Round House [in Bethesda, MD], 300 people gave Ironbound a standing ovation. It was the best moment of my career, because next to me was this woman who, for most of her adult life, was considered invisible. Who’d just been trying to survive as best she could. Who maybe didn’t think her contribution was important. But here were all these people standing, witnessing, moved. And I think in her heart she knew she was valued. I think she might even be cocky about it now. “Shining a Light on the Invisible” by Dominique Morisseau. Originally appeared in American Theatre magazine, Vol. 33, No. 10 (December 2016). Used with permission from Theatre Communications Group. GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 7
THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF
WRITTEN BY
Martyna Majok SCENIC DESIGNER
COSTUME DESIGNER
Tim Mackabee
Elizabeth Caitlin Ward
LIGHTING DESIGNER
SOUND DESIGNER
Lap Chi Chu
Leon Rothenberg
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Elizabeth A. Brohm
Ross Jackson
CASTING DIRECTOR
Phyllis Schuringa, CSA DIRECTED BY
Tyne Rafaeli OPENING NIGHT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2018 THIS PRODUCTION OF IRONBOUND IS DEDICATED IN LOVING MEMORY TO RICHARD DUNN Ironbound was commissioned by a grant from the National New Play Network, with funding from the Smith Prize for New Plays, and was the winner of the 2014 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize at Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA (Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director; Michael Barker, Managing Director) Ironbound was developed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company through its New Play Initiative, and was presented as part of its First Look Repertory of New Work at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL (Martha Lavey, Artistic Director; David Hawkanson, Executive Director) Originally produced at Round House Theatre Company (Ryan Rilette, Producing Artistic Director) The New York Premiere of Ironbound was produced in 2016 by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Women’s Project Theater Ironbound is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS
Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Jason & Yvonne Lee • B. Scott Minerd Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin • Kimberly Steward & Josh Godfrey • Miranda & Brett Tollman 8 PLAYBILL
CAST OF CHARACTERS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Maks .................................................................................................. Josiah Bania* Tommy ............................................................................... Christian Camargo* Darja ................................................................................................ Marin Ireland* Vic ................................................................................................... Marcel Spears*
UNDERSTUDY Darja ............................................................................................. Annie Worden* *Indicates member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Understudies never substitute for listed players unless specified.
TIME 2014, 1992, 2006. Not necessarily in that order.
SETTING A bus stop a quarter mile from a factory in Elizabeth, NJ. Or where there used to be a factory, depending on the year.
RUNNING TIME Approximately 80 minutes. There will be no intermission.
PLEASE NOTE There is no photography or filming of any kind allowed in the theater. Please turn off all electronic devices, including cell phones. Thank you!
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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
JOSIAH BANIA (Maks) Off-Broadway: Ironbound (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). Regional: Archduke (Mark Taper Forum), Fingersmith (American Repertory Theater), The Way of the World (Dorset Theatre Festival), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Chautauqua Theater Company), The History Boys (Artists Repertory Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Portland Center Stage) and Three Sisters (Yale Repertory Theatre). Yale School of Drama: Othello, The Seagull, Petty Harbour, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra and No More Sad Things. Television: The Good Wife, The Mysteries of Laura and Leverage. Education: Yale School of Drama (M.F.A.).
CHRISTIAN CAMARGO (Tommy) Theater includes: Romeo and Juliet, All My Sons and Skylight (Broadway); The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court Theatre, London); The Tempest and 10 PLAYBILL
As You Like It (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Kit Marlowe, Hamlet, Henry V and Timon of Athens (Public Theater) Henry V and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (inaugural company member of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, London). Title roles: Pericles (Polonsky Shakespeare Center); Hamlet and Coriolanus (Theatre for a New Audience). Film includes: Highway (Upcoming); Romeo and Juliet; Days and Nights; Europa Report; The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Parts 1 & 2; The Hurt Locker; National Treasure: Book of Secrets; K19: The Widowmaker; Plunkett & MacLeane. Television includes: The City & The City (Upcoming), Wormwood, Penny Dreadful, House of Cards, Elementary, The Good Wife, Dexter, The Mentalist, Medium, Numb3rs, Law & Order, Ghost Whisperer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Without a Trace. Awards: Obie Award Winner and Drama League Award nomination for Hamlet, Theater World Award Winner for Skylight. Training: Juilliard School of Drama.
MARIN IRELAND (Darja) Marin Ireland’s theater credits include Reasons to be Pretty, for which she won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for a Tony Award. Her other
New York credits include After Miss Julie and The Big Knife on Broadway; Ironbound at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; Kill Floor at Lincoln Center Theater; Blasted and Marie Antoinette, both at Soho Rep; Three Sisters at Classic Stage Company; Cyclone at Studio Dante (Obie Award), In the Wake at the Public Theater and On the Exhale at Roundabout Theatre Company (Drama Desk nomination). Some of her television and film work includes Girls, Homeland, Masters of Sex, The Divide, The Slap, Glass Chin (Independent Spirit nomination 2016), Sparrows Dance, The Family Fang, 28 Hotel Rooms, In the Radiant City, Hell or High Water, Flint and Sneaky Pete.
MARCEL SPEARS (Vic) Marcel Spears was most recently seen co-starring on the ABC comedy The Mayor. Spears’ New York theater credits include: Mother Courage (Classic Stage Company) and the world premiere of Judy (Page 73; directed by Ken Rus Schmoll). Spears starred in the Classic Stage Young Company’s productions of Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, for which he was awarded the Rosemarie Tichler Fund Grant for his performance. Regional:
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Rachel Bonds’ At the Old Place (La Jolla Playhouse); Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (The Old Globe); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Two River Theater; directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson); and Trouble in Mind (Guthrie Theater). Spears is a New Orleans native and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University.
MARTYNA MAJOK (Playwright) Martyna Majok’s plays have been presented at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Women’s Project Theater and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, among others. Awards include Dramatists Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award, Lilly Award, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play (Helen Hayes Awards), The Ashland New Plays Festival Women’s Invitational Prize, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award, David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project Prize and the NNPN/Smith Prize for Political
Playwriting. Commissions from Lincoln Center Theater, Bush Theatre in London, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory and Manhattan Theatre Club. BA: University of Chicago; MFA: Yale School of Drama; Juilliard. Majok was a 2012-2013 NNPN Playwright-in-Residence and the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center. Upcoming: queens at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater.
TYNE RAFAELI (Director) Tyne Rafaeli directs classics, new plays and musicals, including the recent world premiere of the Geffen Playhouse’s production of Actually by Anna Ziegler. Her work has been seen at Classic Stage Company, Playwrights Realm, Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, Two River Theater, California Shakespeare Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage & Film, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Julliard, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Great Lakes Theater, American Players Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and PlayPenn, among others. Rafaeli is a 20162018 Time Warner Directing Fellow at the Women’s Project Theater and was awarded the
2013-2014 SDCF Sir John Gielgud Fellowship for Classical Direction. She previously served as Associate Director to Bartlett Sher on multiple Broadway and West End productions. TIM MACKABEE (Scenic Designer) Geffen Playhouse: Actually. Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (directed by Spike Lee). West End: The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: Guards at the Taj (2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Set Design), Our New Girl (Atlantic Theater Company); Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Club); Heathers The Musical, Luce (Lincoln Center Theater); Gigantic (Vineyard Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater). Regional: Geffen Playhouse, A.C.T. San Francisco, Ford’s Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Center Stage Baltimore, Denver Center Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Geva Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, South Coast Repertory, Victory Gardens Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, The Muny, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Dance: Doug Varone & Dancers, Cedar Lake Dance. Television: Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education: North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 11
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES ELIZABETH CAITLIN WARD (Costume Designer) Ms. Ward is thrilled to be working at the Geffen Playhouse and with Ms. Rafaeli. Past work includes: European Capital of Culture; English National Opera; Suzhou Opera/Polo Arts, Beijing; Lithuanian National Opera; Carnegie Hall; New York City Opera; Handel-Haydn Society; Bonsai Ninja Animation with Simmetrico Italia and Battle Royal, Berlin for the Ferrari Museum, Abu Dhabi; Eiko Ishioka and the International Olympic Committee 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony; Aarhus Festival, Denmark; Lincoln Center Festival; Spoleto Festival; Royal Shakespeare Company; Playhouse Theater London’s West End; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Pioneer Theater; Intiman Theatre; Guthrie Theater, Goodspeed Opera House; Metropolitan Museum of Art; United Nations, UNIS. LAP CHI CHU (Lighting Designer) Recent works include world premieres of Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (Playwrights Realm), Rajiv Joseph’s Archduke (Mark Taper Forum) and Suzan-Lori Park’s Father Comes Home From the Wars (Public Theater). He has designed regionally for Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Contemporary Theater, Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, and Portland Center Stage. His New York design credits include Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Performance 12 PLAYBILL
Space 122 and Kitchen Theatre Company. His awards include the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, an Ovation Award, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a “Drammy” for best lighting, as well as a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. Chu is on the lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts. www.lapchichu.com LEON ROTHENBERG (Sound Designer) Recent L.A.: Turn Me Loose at The Wallis, Our Town at Pasadena Playhouse. Select Broadway: A Doll’s House Part 2, Violet, The Realistic Joneses, The Nance (Tony Award), The Heiress, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nomination). Regional: Spoleto Festival, Huntington, A.C.T., Portland Center Stage, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Long Wharf Theater, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theater Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Merrimack Repertory, Delaware Theater Company, New York Stage and Film, Two River Theater, North Shore Music Theater, Theatre By The Sea. Select New York/ Off-Broadway: Second Stage Theater, New York City Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theater, Culture Project, Tectonic. Tours/International: Dirty Dancing, Cirque du Soleil. Faculty, CalArts. klaxson.net ELIZABETH A. BROHM (Production Stage Manager) Liz has stage managed over 25 productions at the Geffen Playhouse dating back to 1999. Highlights include: Underneath the Lintel; Actually; Thom Pain
(based on nothing); Bad Jews; Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress; Boy Gets Girl; Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks; Looking for Normal; The Weir; Defiled; Wit; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. National Tour/Kennedy Center: Wit. Other: Production Coordinator, Geffen Playhouse 2001-2007; Cup Coordinator, X-Prize Foundation; Lecturer in Stage Management, UCLA since 2005. M.F.A. in Stage Management from UCSD. Love to Gino & Mack. ROSS JACKSON (Assistant Stage Manager) Ross Jackson is excited to return to the Geffen Playhouse! A native of New Orleans, LA, Ross is now based in Los Angeles. His recent credits include: A Funny Thing Happened... (Geffen Playhouse); Five Guys Named Moe (Ebony Repertory Theater); The Tempest and Deferred Action (Dallas Theater Center); The Crucible and A Lesson Before Dying (Clarence Brown Theatre); Aladdin and His Winter Wish and Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight (Lythgoe Family Panto); Nickel Mines (New York Musical Theatre Festival); The Lady Onstage, Orlando and True West (Profile Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Swan Shakespeare Festival) and several productions with the University of California, Irvine, from which he holds his Master of Fine Arts degree in stage management. Ross is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Love to Mom, Tom and Megan. PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting Director) Phyllis is an Artistic Associate and the Casting Director for
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES the Geffen Playhouse. Recent casting includes Constellations, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Guards at the Taj, Outside Mullingar, Bad Jews, The Night Alive, Switzerland and American Buffalo at the Geffen, and Shiv at The Theatre @ Boston Court. She has received 4 Artios nominations: Actually, Barbecue, Barcelona, The Country House. Before joining the Geffen, she was the Casting Director for Steppenwolf Theatre Company 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 is a member of the Casting Society of America and the Ovation Rules Committee.
MATT SHAKMAN (Artistic Director) Matt Shakman was named Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse in September 2017,
having previously directed three highly acclaimed productions for the theater: the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of Wait Until Dark and Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews. His theatrical work has also been seen at Primary Stages in New York and South Coast Repertory. Matt founded and was the artistic director of the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles, which was named “one of a dozen young American companies you need to know” by American Theatre magazine and “Best Small Theatre” by Los Angeles magazine. Under his leadership, the Black Dahlia garnered numerous Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and LA Stage Alliance nominations and awards. In 2011, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awarded him the Milton Katselas Award for Career Achievement in Direction. Matt is also well-regarded for his achievements in television and film. He is a director and producer for FX’s long-running show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and has directed episodes of Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Fargo and The Good Wife. His feature film debut, Cut Bank, starring John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Dern, premiered at the Toronto International and Los Angeles Film Festivals and was released by A24. Shakman is a graduate of Yale University and holds a B.A. in History of Art and Theater.
GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director) As Executive Director, Gil Cates, Jr. leads the Geffen Playhouse in its mission to inform, entertain and inspire diverse audiences with live theater of the highest caliber — both within and beyond the non-profit theater’s walls. He has proudly served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012. Gil’s theater credits include the award-winning Names (Matrix Theatre Company) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey and 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, Ann-Margret and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor). In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which premiered on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning), GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 13
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES and The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris). Gil’s television directorial debut was 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 B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University.
REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer) Regina Miller has advised non-profit institutions, foun-
dations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has consulted for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Eastern Congo Initiative, Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project and Kershaw’s Challenge, among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina worked for the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, where she produced an innovative human rights exhibition that traveled to 14 international destinations around Europe, Asia and the U.S. She also 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. Addition-
ally, Regina 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 that incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as writing and producing 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.
THE NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Supporting artists is central to the mission of the Geffen Playhouse, and play commissions are a cornerstone of that support. To commission a playwright to write a play means making a commitment to their voice, craft and vision, with the hope of sharing the fruits of their work on our stage. The Geffen Playhouse’s New Play Development Program is made possible, in large part, through the leadership and generosity of donations from: The Edgerton Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Fay & Frank Mancuso, Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald, Hilary & Jack Angelo, and Mary Bianco, The MOCA Foundation. We are proud to have the following writers under commission: Rachel Bonds Colman Domingo Lindsey Ferrentino Michael Golamco Meghan Kennedy Matthew Lopez
Martyna Majok Michael Mitnick Jiehae Park José Rivera Robert Schenkkan Shaka Senghor
Erika Sheffer Nick Stafford David Wiener Lauren Yee Anna Ziegler
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“HILARIOUS AND POIGNANT... A LOVELY, BITTERSWEET COMEDY ABOUT ROMANTIC YEARNING.” — The Hollywood Reporter
“WITTY AND INSIGHTFUL... AS RICHLY FUNNY AS IT IS ULTIMATELY HEART-STIRRING.” — The New York Times
Written by JOSHUA HARMON Directed by STEPHEN BRACKETT In this smash hit comedy from Bad Jews writer Joshua Harmon, twenty-something Jordan is the life of the wedding party, until it dawns on him that he is “always a groomsman, never the groom.”
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Constellations cast members Ginnifer Goodwin and Allen Leech at Opening Night Photo by Jordan Strauss
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Students participate in a Talk Back with the cast of The Legend of Georgia McBride Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography
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Veterans take a final bow after performing their original monologues Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography
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ANNUAL DONORS Linda & Tom Givvin Jill Glasband Dr. Diane & Michael Glazer Richard & Lori Glucksman Hannah Godwin Michael Golamco Carol & Neil Goldberg Lorain Goldberg Mark & Molly Goldberg Francine Golden & Marvin Schlossman Dr. Peter Goldman Roger Gordon Liz Gottainer & David Sadkin Gigi & Don Grant Russell Grant Debbie & Glenn Gray Madelyne Green Gary & Jeannie Greenberg Paul & Louise Greenberg David Greenwalt Eve Haberfield & David N. Johnson Roberta L. Haft Hanif Haji Mary & Alan Halkett Jane Hall Monica & Mark Haloossim Roberta Hamilton Tess Harper Judy L. Hartley Hanna Heiting Michael & Candie Herman Hernand Family Winifred C. Hervey Penny Hildebrand In Memory of Ross Hunter & Jacque Mapes Robert & Gail Israel Brenda Izzi Frederic A. & Nancy Jacobus Janice Jerde Martha Jones & Paul Zerella Robert Jones & Julie Anne Robinson Jerry Joseph Adriana Kahane Joanne & Larry Kahn Jessica Kaltman Linda Kaplan Eran & Raquel Karoly Susie Kater & Tom Chappell Donald Kates Harris Katleman Family Owen Kato Dana Katz Morgan Kay Jim Keily Michael Keir William & Renee Kendall Louanne Kennedy Cathy Kirkpatrick Irwin Kishner Donna & Jeffrey Klein Dr. Phyllis Klein Laurie & Milton Klorman Delores Komar & Susan Wolford 24 PLAYBILL
Dolph Kornblum & Florence Robins Charles Kristenson Kimberly & John Kruse Jill & Michael Lasky Ana Launes Susan Lava Sharon & Lawrence Lavenberg Rhonda Lawrence Learning Encounters Ginger Leibovitz Ann Leland Adam Lesh Maxine & Gary Levine Anita & Burton Levinson Dr. & Mrs. Isaac Levy Rick & Vivian Levy Lawrin & Linda Lewin Angela Light Victor & Madeline Lindenheim Joanne Lindsay Bonnie Lisle Leslie & Adam Lobel Alex Loewenthal Lori & Tom Low Anne L. Lynch Dr. Linda Maeder Carol & Doug Mancino Pauline Marks Annette Marmalefsky Goran Marnfeldt Phyllis & Bert Massing Douglas Mcavoy, Jr. Jeanne McDonald-Powers & Travis Powers Cynthia Melville Sumitra Menon R.G. Mercer Eileen & Paul Meshekow Erik & Melanie Messerschmidt Dr. & Mrs. H. Reed Metzger Cathleen Meyers Lori Meyers & James Marano Sara Michrowski Judith & Jeff Milman Teddie J. Milner Peter Minarik & Sharon Vera Barrett Moore Christy & Leon Moore Marvin & Jean Moore Christopher Morden Shelagh Moriarty Howard J. Morris John Moschitta Jonathan Murray Charlotte C. Myers Jason Neidleman Robert M. Nelson Sherri & Arnie Nelson Tom Nevermann Charna & Allen Nissenson Doreen & Donald Nortman Lawrence Ross & Linda Nussbaum Doron Ofir Sandy & Alan Olick Adrienne & Arthur Omansky
Dr. Ronald & Iris Onkin Janie Orenstein Sylvia & Robert Paris Edward Parker Paul Pepperman Naidu & Jane Permaul Susan Petelik Fran & Bruce Peters Berta & Lou Pitt Jack & Jane Pollock Zazi Pope Cheryl & Mel Posner Susan Poulson Lance Powell Philip Pritchett Neil & Lisa Greer Quateman Dr. Stephen & Lani Rabin Fred & Rebecca Raskin Michael & Gloria Rausch Andy Relis Marianne Reynolds Linda & Erin Rice Elaine Richards Mara Richards In Memory of Robert J. Richards William & Polly Ridgeway Alan Robinson Barbara & David Rognlien Janis & Avi Rojany Robert Rosania Barry Rosen & Neil Bokal Mary Ann Rosenfeld & Sheldon Kadish Maxine & Gene Rosenfeld Priscilla Rosenfeld Adrienne B. Rosenthal Beverly & Melvin Rosenthal Dr. Martin & Lorraine Ross Virginia Ross Michael, Michon & Jackson Roth Terry Ryan Leslie & Daniel Sackheim Lori Sanchez Nan Sarno Susan & Kenneth Sarno Janet Sasson Maxine Savitz Linda & Cliff Schaffer Chris T. Schmidt Joel & Sonia Schneider Gary & Karen Schneider Stanley Schneider Christine Schultz Janet & Michael Schwartz Lester Schwartz John H. Scott Marc Seltzer Scott Shagrin Elise Shanfeld Barbara Vickery & Martin Shapiro
Leonard & Annette Shapiro Judy & Tom Sharp Melanie Sharp & Kevin Miller Shelly & Greg Sherwin Lisa Siegel Seymour & Dorothy Siegel Linda & Ronald Slates Diane Good & Frank Smith Barbara & Hal Smith Marcia L. & Mark J. Smith Jean Smith-Moore Karen Smits Christine Sorgi Dr. Robert & Margo Sorrentino Stephanie Sourapas Bruce Spector Debra Spector M Leslie Stearns Christy Stevens Irina & Alex Stavchanskiy Frances & Sy Strasberg Penny Strowger Alec Sulkin Mr. Kayser Sume & Dr. Renee Sabshin Miriam & Gene Summ Ann Sunderland Lance & Maureen Tan Phyllis & Franklin Tell Cathy Thomas Cathy & Asher Thompson Courtney & Jay Tobin Judy & Art Tompkins Joyce & Josh Trabulus Miriam Trogdon Brigitta Troy Richard Turner Dr. Harold Urman Deborah Valdez Lorraine & Erich Van Lowe Anthony Vasek Bobette Vikan Carole Wagner-Vallianos & Peter Vallianos Ann W. Wang Marvin Wasserman Elisa Wayne Myrna & Art Weiner Sherry Weinman & Michael Umansky Ben & Rose Weinstein Marsha & Steven Weiss Jacqueline Weitz Rae Jeane Williams Karen & Gary Winnick Jan & Edward Woods Joseph Wu Arnold & Tricia Zane Harriet Zaretsky Lynn & Meir Ziv Sandy Zwirn
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Matt Shakman
Gil Cates, Jr.
Artistic Director
Executive Director
ARTISTIC Amy Levinson Artistic Associate / Literary Director Phyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting Director Young Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Literary Associate
PRODUCTION Daniel Ionazzi Production Manager Jill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company Manager Sam Craven-Griffiths Technical Director Evan Friedman Associate Technical Director Rich Gilles Properties Master James Grabowski House Sound Supervisor Darren Rezowalli Lighting & Video Supervisor Ramine Ameli Assistant Lighting Supervisor Liz Rose Wardrobe Supervisor
ADMINISTRATION Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial Officer Peter Banachowski Staff Accountant Kisha Wilson Payroll Specialist & Staff Accountant Clay Dzygun Office Coordinator Marguerite Harris Receptionist
DEVELOPMENT Regina Miller Chief Development Officer Ellen Catania Senior Vice President of Development Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations Jamie Mikelich Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager
Mark San Filippo Associate Director of Planned Giving & Donor Relations Scott Kriloff Development Concierge & Database Manager Taylor Cerny Development Associate Jessie Sherman Development Assistant Taylor Dearden Development Assistant Annika Patton Development Intern
EDUCATION Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement Carolyn Marie Wright Manager of Education & Community Engagement Brandon Drea Education Assistant Brian Allman, Darien Battle, Ramy El-Etreby, David Guerra, McKenna Kerrigan, Robert Paterno, Carissa Pinckney, Celia Rivera, Tecoyia Scott Littleton Teaching Artists Brian Majestic Mission Continues Fellow
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jessica Buzzard Director of Marketing & Communications Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Audience Development Brian Dunning Director of Content & Creative Ashley Bodul Director of Public Relations Zack Hamra Associate Director of Audience Services & Ticketing Kevin O’Brien Marketing Manager Quinn Francis Outreach Coordinator Ramon Garcia Video Producer Kristina Leach Social Media Associate
Janice Bernal Box Office Manager Bryan Martin Box Office Manager Alyssa Tyson Assistant Box Office Manager Clifton Adams, Vaneh Assadourian, Britney Campbell, Lexy McAvinchey, Sam Peurach, Cameron Reck, Celia Rivera, Morgan Steele Box Office Staff Sue Fleishman Communications Consultant
FRONT OF HOUSE Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events David Gerhardt Supervising House Manager Amy Farkas Lead Concierge Isaac Jay, Sarah Lyddan, Nathaniel Meek, James Porter, Dennis Woullard House Managers Claudia Baffo, Kailey Bray, Jensen Chambers, Evan Davis, Kelsey Gold, Danie Hakimi, Fiona Leahy, Hunter Lowden, Olivia Lowe, Austin Merrill, Aaron Newman, JoJo Nwoko, Aubrey Peeples, Alec Shamas, Madison Shamoun, Charmee Taylor, Adam Turney, Isaac Vaughn, Jenna Wilcox, Cody Williams Ushers Rob Mersola Bar Manager & Mixologist Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager Skylar Adams, Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, Sarah Drescher, Ryan Turner Bartenders/Event Staff
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Karim Bouzzit System Administrator
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial Juan Carlos UmaĂąa Cleaning Custodial Camerina Martinez 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 not-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
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