A Distinct Society

By Kareem Fahmy

The Haskell Free Library & Opera House, where the action of A Distinct Society occurs, is a real place—a historic building that sits atop the Canada/U . S . border, a line of tape running through its rooms indicating the divide . The events of the play, though highly fictionalized, are inspired by what was happening at the library in 2017, when families separated by the so-called “Muslim ban” were using the space to connect with each other .

In writing this play, I’m inviting audiences into my backyard . Like the character of Declan, I hail from the city of Sherbrooke, about a thirty-minute drive from the library in a beautiful corner of Quebec called the Eastern Townships Like many people, I romanticize my childhood . Everything was so idyllic and peaceful! But was it really?

When the referendum for Quebec separation was called in 1995, my idea about what it meant to be a Canadian (and the child of Middle Eastern immigrants to Quebec) started to shift . When corruption and divisiveness begin to creep into a political system, how do everyday people remain uncorrupted and united? It’s this question, one I grappled with first as a young person in Quebec and then again as an adult in America, that centers this play .

A Distinct Society is about five people who are craving connection in a world determined to keep them apart . In this one room that exists in two countries (or perhaps neither country?), can their humanity win out over the system? Welcome to the Haskell Free Library . .

Kareem Fahmy, January 2022

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

This World Premiere has been years in the making and I am thrilled that it is finally here!

From my first reading of Kareem Fahmy’s A Distinct Society, back in 2019, I was intrigued by how vividly the story humanized the way political policy affects people

The moment we read the play, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (where I’m the Director of New Works) committed to including the show in our August 2020 New Works Festival . And then . . well . . 2020

Through all the delays wrought by COVID, Kareem and I kept working on the story, doing many Zoom readings . Even in that strange medium, it was apparent how deeply this play resonated with audiences .

Perhaps that’s because A Distinct Society is a play populated by ordinary people—good, complicated people in whom we see ourselves reflected—who are forced to deal with extraordinary circumstances . This is a play born of this moment—a moment when a line can divide a family, a country, and people from their best selves .

Good stories reveal our common humanity and connect us to one another This one connected TheatreWorks with Karen Azenberg and Pioneer Theatre Company . It’s been a wonderful, fruitful collaboration and we’re looking forward to sharing this beautiful story with all of you . Thank you for being here It’s story time in the Haskell Free Library . Enjoy!

Giovanna Sardelli, January 2022

VANEH ASSADOURIAN* (Shirin) is an actor, VO artist, and audiobook narrator based in Los Angeles and Detroit . Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Vaneh started in the theater at the age of 4, where she performed with Shant Yev Shantik Theatre Company . Notable collaborations include work with The Geffen Playhouse in Association with UCLA, The Los Angeles Theatre Center, Skylight Theatre Company, and The Hammer Museum . Her voice can be heard as a narrator for Apple News+ and on numerous audiobooks on Audible . A lover of languages, Vaneh is fluent in Farsi and Armenian, and speaks conversational German . She holds a BA in Acting and Directing from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and is repped by SLJ Management She would like to dedicate this performance to the women of Iran and the people of Artsakh .

COREY JONES* (Bruce) Corey (based in Los Angeles) is thrilled to be making his debut with Pioneer and to work on this project with this fantastic cast and creative team . Broadway: 1st and 2nd National Tours The Book of Mormon, Regional: A Few Good Men (La Mirada); Million Dollar Quartet, Our Town (South Coast Repertory); Grinch (Old Globe); How to Fight Loneliness, King John, Titus Andronicus, Tempest (Utah Shakespeare); Wild With Happy (Pittsburgh City Theater), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Dallas Theater Center); Color Purple (Celebration Theater); Gee’s Bend (Arkansas Repertory); Othello (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Macbeth, Ragtime (PCPA); roles at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Illinois Shakespeare Festival . Education: University of Texas-Austin and Washington University in St . Louis

ABDULLAH KHALIL* (Peyman) grew up in Detroit, Michigan and comes from a blue-collar, working-class family . Abdullah left medical school and chose to study in the BFA Theatre Program at Wayne State University . As a theater student, he also had the opportunity to study at the world-famous Moscow Art Theatre School in Moscow, Russia . Abdullah moved to Los Angeles to further advance his career in the performing arts, but after a personal event, he took a hiatus from acting and became a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D .) . He returned to performing full swing and has starred in S.W.A.T. on CBS, and numerous other

film and television productions . When Abdullah is not performing, he helps children and their families as a pediatric emergency/trauma pharmacist at the local children’s hospital .

CARRIE PAFF* (Manon) is thrilled to make her Pioneer Theatre debut with this beautiful play Off-Broadway: About Alice (Theatre for a New Audience), Ideation (59E59) . Regional: King Charles III and After the War (A .C . T .), Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, Stage Kiss, and Stupid Fucking Bird (SF Playhouse), Double Indemnity (ACT Seattle), Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Holmes & Watson (Arizona Theatre Company), The Real Thing, A Delicate Balance, and Betrayal (Aurora Theatre), The Other Place (Magic Theatre), The Big Meal and Legacy of Light (San Jose Rep), A Streetcar Named Desire and Tiny Alice (Marin Theatre Company), Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress (Leicester Square Theatre, London) . Carrie holds a Master’s Degree from NYU . She can be heard in Pixar’s Finding Dory, The Good Dinosaur, and Lamp Life.

EMMET SMITH* (Declan) (he/him) is an actor, songwriter, and climate activist originally from NYC . Since graduating from Northwestern University last year, Emmet has been acting on television (New Amsterdam, Law and Order, Blue Bloods) . He is thrilled to return to the stage in this remarkable, evocative play Theatre includes Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA), Soul Doctor (New York Theatre Workshop), and The Sound of Music (Marriott Theatre) Award-winning composer/ lyricist (Write Out Loud, New Musicals Inc .) of musicals performed Off-Broadway and regionally . “We Are Here” (English lyrics, script) debuted this January at Carnegie Hall featuring Harvey Fierstein, Chita Rivera, Joel Grey, and more . Thanks to Kareem and Giovanna, love to Maddie, Mom, Dad, Ian, and CGF, always – in brightest day, in blackest night . @emmetsmithnyc

KAREEM FAHMY (Playwright) Kareem is a Canadianborn playwright and director of Egyptian descent . He received the 2022 Woodward/Newman Playwriting Award (for American Fast), a NYSCA/NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, the Janet Sloane Literature Residency at Yaddo, is a two-time finalist for the National Showcase of New Plays, and was named a Rising Leader of Color by TCG . Plays include American Fast (Rolling World

Premiere: Artists Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, InterAct Theatre), A Distinct Society (Pioneer Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Writers Theatre), Dodi & Diana (Colt Coeur, O’Neill NPC Finalist), Pareidolia, The In-Between, and an adaptation of the acclaimed novel The Yacoubian Building . Kareem’s work has been seen at Atlantic Theatre Company, Denver Center, Northlight Theatre, and more . Co-founder/ Chair of the Middle Eastern American Writers Lab . MFA (Theatre Directing), Columbia . KareemFahmy .com

GIOVANNA SARDELLI (Director) Besides Sardelli’s well-received productions with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, where she is the Director of New Works, she has directed and developed plays around the country, including many off-Broadway productions . Sardelli’s directing credits include many collaborations with Matthew Lopez and Rajiv Joseph, including the production of Joseph’s Obie Award-winning play Describe The Night at Atlantic Theatre, and her production of Joseph’s Guards at the Taj for the Geffen Theatre, which won the 2016 Ovation Award for Best Production of a Play She recently directed the Marvel podcast Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show!, which you can check out anywhere you listen to podcasts . Sardelli holds an MFA in Acting from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and taught in NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, as well as its Dance Department, for over a decade

JO WINIARSKI (Scenic Design) Jo’s previous designs at PTC were Ass, The Lifespan of a Fact, and Ain’t Misbehavin’ . Jo’s Off-Broadway credits include HYPROV, Accidentally Brave, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, and Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional design credits include Guthrie Theater; Arizona Theatre Company; Utah Shakespeare Festival (over 40 shows); The Old Globe; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Dallas Theater Center; and Geva Theatre Center . Additional credits include Wishes for Disney Cruise Line Jo was the art director on Late Night with Seth Meyers (episodes 1-844), and received an Emmy nomination for art direction for A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All .

DINA EL-AZIZ (Costume Design) [She/Her/Hers] Target Margin projects include One Night, P*ssyC*ck Know Nothing, Marjana and the Forty Thieves, Pay No Attention To The Girl; Regional Theater: Selling Kabul (Seattle Rep); Unseen (OSF); When Monica Met Hillary, (Miami New Drama); This is Who I Am (OSF/Woolly Mammoth/The Guthrie/ART/PlayCo); 9 Parts of Desire (Portland Center

Stage); King Lear (Northern Stage); Noura (The Guthrie); Noura (The Old Globe); Selling Kabul (Williamstown Theatre Festival) Off-Broadway: Weightless (WP theater), The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater); Spindle Shuttle Needle (Clubbed Thumb); Heartland (Geva Theater/59E59); First Down (Noor Theater/59E59); Hindsight (Fault Line Theater); Design for Stage and Film M .F . A . - NYU Tisch School of the Arts . www .DinaE .me

PAMILA Z. GRAY (Lighting Design) has been a working designer for thirty years, designing over 300 musicals, opera, plays, and industrials Her designs have been seen in Los Angeles, Portland, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Sacramento, Ft . Lauderdale, Colorado Springs, Minneapolis/St . Paul, Washington, D C ., and the San Francisco Bay area . Her work includes the world premieres of My Antonia, Kept, and Baby Taj for TheatreWorks; Western Star for CLO of South Bay Cities; Metamorphosis: Junior Year for Palo Alto Children’s Theatre; the American premiere of The 3 Musketeers for American Musical Theatre of San Jose; and the West Coast Premiere of Silent Night for Opera San Jose . She has been rewarded with Bay Area Critic’s Circle Awards, Dean Goodman Awards, and Dramalogue Awards . Ms . Gray is a graduate of Northwestern University and is a member of United Scenic Artists .

ELTON BRADMAN (Sound Design) Everett Elton Bradman’s 2021-2022 composer/sound designer credits include world premieres (Lear at Cal Shakes), West Coast premieres (Trayf and Mindplay at the Geffen Playhouse), audio dramas (Aurora Theater’s The Bluest Eye), student productions (UC Riverside’s Red Oleanders), Zoom theater (Actors Theaters’ Romeo & Juliet: Louisville 2020), podcasts (Z Space/Word for Word’s Retablos trilogy), filmed theater (San Francisco Playhouse’s Hieroglyph), hybrid visual/audio (New Conservatory Theater Company’s Interlude), and outdoor performances (Oakland Theater Project’s The Waste Land) . Other recent adventures include teaching an online undergraduate course in theatrical sound design, and co-writing a musical for Bay Area Children’s Theater and the Rose Theater in Omaha, Nebraska . Stop by and say hello at EltonSounds .com!

SAMANTHA WOOTTEN (Wig and Makeup Design) is excited to continue another season with PTC and the University of Utah as Wig Master . Previous career highlights include Wig Designer for the Utah Opera and Santa Fe Opera, Wig Master for the Washington National Opera, Wig and Makeup Designer for

Glimmerglass Opera, Associate Wig Master for Los Angeles Opera, and Wig Master for the Repertory Theatre of St . Louis .

SARAH SHIPPOBOTHAM (Dialect Coach) is an actor, dialect coach, intimacy consultant, and Professor in Acting and Dialects at the University of Utah . Sarah trained as a Voice and Dialect Coach at The Central School of Speech and Drama in London . Her work as Dialect Coach for PTC includes Fireflies, Once, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Oslo, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Last Ship, and Oliver! . Other Dialect/Voice coaching credits include eighteen seasons with the Shaw Festival (Canada), and shows for Salt Lake Acting Company including Sleeping Giant and Passing Strange . In 2011/12 Sarah spent 7 months in New Zealand working as a Dialect Coach on The Hobbit films

EMILY NACRISSA GRIFFITH* (Production Stage Manager) This is Emily’s seventh season with Pioneer Theatre Company She graduated from UVU with multiple awards for her work, including the Kennedy Center’s Meritorious Achievement Award . She has also managed Sundance’s Summer Theatre for the past two seasons .

TRACEY WOOLLEY* (Stage Manager) Some favorite credits include Blue Man Group, Cirque Du Soleil’s Mystere, Dragone’s Le Reve (Las Vegas); Off-Broadway: The Book of Merman (St . Luke’s Theater), Verso (New World Stages), The Brobot Johnson Experience (Bushwick Starr); Heathers (New World Stages); Phoenix (Cherry Lane Theatre); 1st National Tour of The Lincoln Center Production of South Pacific, The HipHop Nutcracker; Regional: The Buddy Holly Story, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Grease, The Witches of EastwickNational Premiere (The Ogunquit Playhouse), The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (The Cape Playhouse) Proud member of AEA, but even more proud to be a member of my family . Love you guys! CTR

BOB CLINE (Casting) is the founder of Bob Cline Casting in New York . He has cast film, TV, commercials, over 75 national tours, and numerous regional theaters across the country . He has been associated with the casting for PTC for many years . Cline is currently a proud faculty member in Pace University’s theatre program, in charge of the senior BFA musical theatre majors . He is the Associate Director of Broadway Artists Alliance, enjoys working with The Open Jar Institute, and often teaches through The Growing Studio and The Actor’s Loft .

PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC) Now celebrating its 61st season, the award-winning PTC is Utah’s premiere professional theatre company and leading arts organization of the West . Led by Artistic Director Karen Azenberg and Interim Managing Director Diane L Parisi, PTC presents world-class productions that celebrate diversity in culture and society and serve as the connecting bridge between art and scholarship as an affiliate of the University of Utah .

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

............KAREN AZENBERG

ARTISTIC

Associate Artistic Director/ Director of Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric Jackson

Resident Fight Choreographer . . . Christopher DuVal

Resident Scenic Designer . . . . . . . . George Maxwell

Resident Sound Designer . . . . . . . . Bryce Robinette Resident Hair & Makeup Designer . . .Samantha Wootten

PRODUCTION

Production Manager ............. Reed Rossbach Production Stage Manager ....... Tracey Woolley Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Nacrissa Griffith

Technical Director .................... John Mack Charge Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Jensen

Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amanda McMall

Stage Technicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Davies, Cara DelloRusso, Clifford Merritt Painters . . . . . . . . . Cara DelloRusso, Trish Whitekettle

Props Master ................... Laura A. Walters

Props Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christa Kinch Technical Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lee Hollaar Costume Shop Manager ........... Phillip R. Lowe First Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K .L Alberts Asst . Costume Shop Manager . . . . .Wendy Schow-Massine Cutter/Drapers . . . . . . . . Lauren Haskins, Steve Schmid, Wendy Schow-Massin, Margo Seamons Millinery/Crafts Artisan . . . . . . . . Wilson Leibering Stitchers . . . . . Madeline Clark, Brandee Jenks-Kluthe, Sophia Koester, Summer Rose Van Wardrobe Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . Maxwell Paris Costume Rental Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . Do’nel Ault PTC/University of Utah Interns . . . . . Serena Haravon Collins, Michael Hartman, Langley Hayman, Jessie Kranz, Brynoch Rammell, Hannah Staudinger

INTERIM MANAGING DIRECTOR

DIANE L. PARISI

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DEVELOPMENT

Director of Development ............ Geoff Doiron Development Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katina Nikols

MANAGEMENT

Management of Finance and Admin. ..... Mary Dy Company & Operations Manager..... Lisa Edwards Assistant Business Manager . . . . . . . . . . Cathy Arnold

MARKETING

Director of Marketing and Comm. ..... Joshua Black Coordinator, Marketing and Comm . . . . Megan Tigue Photo/Video Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BW Productions Season Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modern8

PATRON SERVICES

Director of Patron Services ...........Heidi Bruce House Manager/Asst Patron Services . . . . . . . Nikki Baum Coordinator, Patron Services . . . . . Jenifer Christensen Front of House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susannah Castleton, Sophia Dodge, Caroline Esparza, Amona Faatau, Jade Goring, Elijah McCann, Katina Nikols, Sasha Pinegar, Priscilla Santos, Caprice Schulte, Ian Shannon, Sophia White

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Mar. 3 –18, 2023

Musical

Words & Music by Stephen Sondheim and Julia McKenzie Directed by Gerry McIntyre

Putting It Together is a musical revue showcasing the songs of Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd, Company, Follies, A Funny Thing Happened...). Drawing its title from a song in Sunday in the Park with George, it celebrates Sondheim’s incomparable career in musical theatre. Featuring nearly thirty Sondheim tunes, Putting It Together is a tour de force by only five performers and is a perfect tribute to one of the greatest composer/lyricists of the American musical theatre.

A musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim, the greatest composer and lyricist of the 20th century.