Collected Stories Program

Mad Cow Theatre Presents

A Drama by Donald Margulies

ColleCted StorIeS By donald Margulies June 21-July 14, 2013

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Mad Cow Theatre Presents

COLLECTED STORIES

by Donald Margulies June 21 - July 14, 2013 The Black Box

- FEATURING Karel K. Wright* Piper Rae Patterson Costume Design Emily Smith

Scenic Design Richard Russell

Stage Manager Linda Romanello

Lighting Design Erin Miner

Sound Design Carson Scott

Director Denise Gillman * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S.

COLLECTED STORIES is presented by special arrangement with with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York 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.

“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.

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CAST OF CHARACTERS in order of appearance

Ruth Steiner........................................Karel K. Wright Lisa Morrison......................................Piper Rae Patterson

SETTING Ruth’s apartment in Greenwich Village 1990 to 1996.

Act 1 Scene 1 - September 1990. Late Afternoon.

Scene 2 - May 1991. Night.

Scene 3 – August 1992. One year later. Sunday Brunch.

Act 2 Scene 1 - December 1994. Nearly two and a half years later.

Early morning.

Scene 2 - October 1996. Nearly two years later.

The auditorium of the 92nd Street Y. Scene 3 - Later that night. Ruth’s apartment.

PRODUCTION TEAM Assistant Stage Manager.....................Emily Dorff Technical Director................................Douglas Gessaman Carpenters..........................................Daniel Cooksley .........................................................Kaleb Knoblauch Scenic Charge....................................Lisa Buck Electricians.........................................David Clenney, Peter Ruiz Props Master & Set Decor....................Frank Siano Props Assistant....................................Lisa Buck COLLECTED STORIES is performed with one intermission.

Out of respect for the audience and the artists, patrons who leave the theatre during the performance and patrons who arrive late will be re-admitted at House Manager’s discretion.

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DONALD MARGULIES Donald Margulies (Playwright) received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner With Friends. His many plays include Time Stands Still, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment— The Amazing Adventures of Louis du Rougemont (As Told By Himself), Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, and Collected Stories. His plays have been performed at major theatres across the United States and around the world.

Theatre Communications Group has published seven volumes of his work.

Dinner With Friends was made into an Emmy Award-nominated film for HBO, and Collected Stories was presented on PBS. Currently, he is adapting the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides into an HBO miniseries. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954, Mr. Margulies now lives with his wife, Lynn Street, a physician, and their son, Miles, in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.

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August 2 - 25, 2013

COLLECTED STORIES Denise Gillman (Director) is overjoyed to return to Orlando and Mad Cow Theatre, her artistic home. She is an Associate Professor of Directing & Dramatic Literature at Christopher Newport University (CNU) in Newport News, Virginia, and a Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Union member. At Mad Cow, she’s directed Legacy of Light, Pericles, Eurydice, Talley’s Folly, Humble Boy and Mary’s Wedding. She also directed Mary’s Wedding for the Orlando International Fringe Festival. In Los Angeles, she directed the World Premiere of Bertolt Brecht and W.H. Auden’s adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi which was critically acclaimed by The LA Times, Back Stage West, LA Weekly and American Theatre Magazine. She directed the American Premiere of Mad Boy Chronicle, and a production of Terra Nova, which garnered “critic’s choice” from The Los Angeles Times. At The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis she directed The Complete Story of the War. At CNU, Denise has directed Mary Stuart, The Duchess of Malfi, Enchanted April, Grapes of Wrath, Summer and Smoke, Great Men of Science Nos. 21 & 22, Arcadia, Dancing at Lughnasa, Scarlet Letter and Three Sisters. She would like to thank Karel, Piper, Linda, Emily and the production team for an amazing collaboration and Shawn and Amelie for their steadfast love and support. A big thanks to Roy and Connie Brand for their generous spirit and Villa ConRoy. Erin Miner (Lighting Designer) Collected Stories marks Erin’s 66th show with Mad Cow Theatre. She is glad to once again be working with Denise! When not at Mad Cow, she can be found in the fields of Apopka High School as a drama teacher.

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COLLECTED STORIES Piper Patterson (Lisa Morrison) is celebrating her third moo with Mad Cow. A graduate from the University of Central Florida with a BFA in Musical Theatre, Piper has toured with Missoula Children’s Theatre as an Actor/Director. Her travels have taken her to over 30 states across the US with King Arthur’s Quest and The Princess and the Pea. Some favorite roles include the Mouse in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Greenbrier Valley Theatre), Christina in Dancing at Lughnasa, Caroline Bramble in Enchanted April at Mad Cow, and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility at Orlando Shakespeare Theater. Piper is currently starring in multiple projects by local film makers, and regional commercials as well as writing, directing, and producing short films of her own.

Linda Romanello (Stage Manager) is a recent graduate from UCF with a Theatre BFA in Stage Management. She began her theatre career at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Department of Theatre Dance and Film. This is her fifth production with Mad Cow; she has previously worked on Sunday in the Park with George, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Enchanted April as Assistant Stage Manager and Backstage Manager for the Orlando Cabaret Festival.

Her other previous credits include Barefoot In the Park (UCF Stage Manager), Vinegar Tom (UCF ASM), Harvey (UTEP ASM), and Gem Of the Ocean (UCF Props Master). She would like to thank her husband and family for all their love and support.

Richard Russell (Scenic Designer) designed scenery for theatres around New England and taught scenic design at Wellesley College for many years. Richard has extensive experience as a fundraising executive and currently runs his own consulting firm, helping not-for-profit organizations with campaigns and other fundraising initiatives. Richard attended Yale and serves on the boards of Mad Cow Theatre, Florida Alliance for Arts Education, and Zebra Foundation for Youth.

Special Thanks to:

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The City of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer & City Council Downtown Development Board Community Redevelopment Agency

COLLECTED STORIES Carson Scott (Sound Designer) has served as the audio engineer for this year’s Orlando Cabaret Festival and was the Sound Designer for Dreamgirls.

Other design credits include: As You Like It, Allegro (Lyric Stage Co., Boston), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Diary of Anne Frank (Arizona Repertory Theatre, Tucson). After designing Collected Stories, Carson and his beautiful fiancée, Megan, will be moving to Tucson, Arizona where he will begin a new job at the University of Arizona.

Emily Smith (Costume Designer) celebrates her sixth show this season with Mad Cow. Her costume, prop, and scenic work has been seen across Central Florida and New England theatres and theme parks. She fondly remembers designs for Cabaret (Annie Russell Theatre), Around the World in 80 Days (Hippodrome State Theatre), Is He Dead? (Theater at Monmouth), The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid (Shakespeare & Company), and of course most recently Mrs Warren’s Profession and Enchanted April, both here with Mad Cow. That being said, perhaps her greatest accomplishment was being honored with a Fred Stone Award for her stage debut as a silently disapproving waitress in This is How it Goes. It was a memorable 45 seconds, and she’s stayed safely offstage ever since.

Karel K. Wright (Ruth Steiner) Mad Cow Audiences may remember Karel as Mrs. Graves in Enchanted April, Mrs. Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer, Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady and Lavinia in The Heiress. Karel was Mattie Fae in August: Osage County at American Stage, Claire Castle in Kiss the Moon Kiss the Sun at the Banyan Theatre, Mrs. Bradman in High Spirits (with Gerogia Engle) at TheatreZone . Karel is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and received her BFA from the University of Minnesota and MFA from the University of Illinois with additional training at The American Conservatory of Theatre in San Francisco. Karel would like to thank her brother Dan for his unwavering support. www.karelkwright.com

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