UPCOMING
by Dylan Thomas
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By Donald Margulies
STARRING: Karel Wright* ............................................................Ruth Steiner Piper Rae Patterson................................................ Lisa Morrison Denise Gillman**............................................................. Director Andrea Estevez..................................................... Stage Manager *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage manager in the U.S. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union
SETTING Ruth’s apartment in Greenwich Village, 1990 to the present
COLLECTED STORIES Originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club with funds provided by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust on April 30, 1997. Commissioned and first produced by South Coast Repertory. SPECIAL NOTE ON COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL “Not So Far as the Forest (I)” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems, HarperCollins. Copyright © 1939, 1967 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by permission of Elizabeth Batnett, Literary Executor. “Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day” by Delmore Schwartz, from Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge. Copyright © 1959 by Delmore Schwartz. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Short quotations by Delmore Schwartz, from In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. Copyright © 1961 by Delmore Schwartz. Reprint by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Short excerpt by Delmore Schwartz, from Delmore Schwartz Poems. Copyright © 1998 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
WHO’S WHO DENISE GILLMAN (Director) is an Associate Professor of Directing & Dramatic Literature at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA and a Stage Directors and Choreographers Society member. For over two decades, science theater has been a major focus of her teaching, directing and scholarship. She recently received CNU’s Faculty Development Award for Mentoring and the inaugural Faculty Excellence Award for Interdisciplinarity. She is the first recipient of the Prize for Teaching Innovation from Association of Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region IV (Southeast) for her teaching, directing and scholarship on science plays. She launched the science play digital database (scienceplays.org) in 2017 and is the Artistic Director for CNU’s annual Science Play Festival. At Mad Cow, she previously directed Mary’s Wedding, Humble Boy, Eurydice, Pericles, Legacy of Light, Collected Stories, Dinner with Friends and Photograph 51. PIPER PATTERSON (Lisa Morrison) was raised in Central Florida and is excited by this opportunity to make a remote return to the pasture. She is a fourth year MFA at The Juilliard school and most recently worked on Suzan Lori Parks Red Letter Plays, The Cherry Orchard and Coriolanus. Past MadCcow productions include Dancing at Lughnasa, Venus in Fur, Enchanted April, and of course Collected Stories! She currently resides in NYC and will graduate in June 2021. KAREL K WRIGHT (Ruth Steiner) is happy to be back in the pasture! Previous roles at Mad Cow include Aoife in Outside Mullingar, Ben Franklin in 1776, Aunt Kate in The Dead, Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories, and many others. A few of her favorite regional credits: It Shoulda Been You, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, August: Osage County, Kiss the Moon Kiss the Sun, and Blithe Spirit. To learn more about Karel, please visit her website at www.karelkwright.com.
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