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George Aiken UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
Zona Gale MISS LULU BETT
Allan Monkhouse MARY BROOME
Harley Granville Barker A FAREWELL TO THE THEATER THE MADRAS HOUSE THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE
John Galsworthy THE SKIN GAME
Dawn Powell WALKING DOWN BROADWAY
Martha Gellhorn & Virginia Cowles LOVE GOES TO PRESS
J.B. Priestley THE GLASS CAGE
J.M. Barrie ECHOES OF THE WAR QUALITY STREET S.N. Behrman NO TIME FOR COMEDY Arnold Bennett WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS Rachel Crothers A LITTLE JOURNEY SUSAN AND GOD Teresa Deevy KATIE ROCHE TEMPORAL POWERS WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN St. John Ervine JOHN FERGUSON Rose Franken SOLDIER’S WIFE
Susan Glaspell ALISON’S HOUSE Cecily Hamilton DIANA OF DOBSON’S St. John Hankin THE CHARITY THAT BEGAN AT HOME THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL Ernest Hemingway THE FIFTH COLUMN George Kelly THE FLATTERING WORD D.H. Lawrence THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD A.A. Milne MR PIM PASSES BY THE TRUTH ABOUT BLAYDS
Lennox Robinson IS LIFE WORTH LIVING Jules Romains DR. KNOCK Arthur Schnitzler FAR AND WIDE THE LONELY WAY Githa Sowerby RUTHERFORD AND SON Leo Tolstoy THE POWER OF DARKNESS Maurine Watkins SO HELP ME GOD Edith Wharton & Clyde Fitch THE HOUSE OF MIRTH Thomas Wolfe WELCOME TO OUR CITY
MINT THEATER COMPANY Jonathan Bank, Producing Artistic Director Sherri Kotimsky, Finance & Production presents
- A Picture of -
AUTUMN by N . C . H U N T E R
with Helen Cespedes, Christian Coulson, Barbara Eda-Young, Katie Firth, Jonathan Hogan, George Morfogen, Paul Niebanck, Kraig Swartz, and Jill Tanner Sets CHARLES MORGAN
Costumes SAM FLEMING
Lights WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
Props JOSHUA YOCOM
Sound JANE SHAW
Dialects & Dramaturgy AMY STOLLER
Production Manager SHERRI KOTIMSKY
Production Stage Manager KATHY SNYDER
Assistant Stage Manager LAUREN M C ARTHUR
Graphics HEY JUDE GRAPHICS INC.
Illustration STEFANO IMBERT
Casting JUDY BOWMAN
Advertising & Marketing THE PEKOE GROUP
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Press Representative DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES
GUS KAIKKONEN
Opening Night June 10th, 2013 A Picture of Autumn is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited, London.
A PICTURE OF AUTUMN is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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IN SPEAKING ORDER
SIR CHARLES DENHAM
Jonathan Hogan
LADY MARGARET DENHAM
Jill Tanner
NURSE
Barbara Eda-Young
HARRY DENHAM, Charles’ Brother
George Morfogen
ROBERT DENHAM
Paul Niebanck
ELIZABETH, Robert’s Wife
Katie Firth
FELICITY, Elizabeth’s Daughter
Helen Cespedes
FRANK,, Robert’s Brother FRANK
Christian Coulson
PARGETER/JOHN
Kraig Swartz
October 1951 , Winton Manor, Wiltshire ACT One, Scene 11: A morning in early October. ACT One, Scene 22: Afternoon, two days later.
Intermission ACT Two: Late afternoon—a few days later.
Intermission ACT Three: Scene 1: Morning, two weeks later. ACT Three: Three Scene 2: Two mornings later.
Helen Cespedes
Christian Coulson
George Morfogen
Barbara Eda-Young
Paul Niebanck
Kraig Swartz
Katie Firth
Jonathan Hogan
Jill Tanner
N.C. HUNTER
N.C. Hunter (1908-1971) was one of the leading English dramatists of the 1950s and early 1960s. As theatrical revolution—spearheaded by John Osborne and his school of “angry young men”—exploded around him, Hunter kept his head down and provided moving portraits of a people questioning their own purpose in chaotic post-war England. Norman Charles Hunter was born on September 18, 1908 in Derbyshire. Originally intending to follow in the footsteps of his father, a decorated Lieutenant Colonel, Hunter was educated at the Royal Military College. In 1930 he was commissioned in the Dragoon Guards but relinquished his position three years later, deciding to devote his life to literary pursuits. He found a day job on the staff of the BBC and began writing. In the years prior to the outbreak of World War II, Hunter produced six plays and four novels. His early plays, all farcical comedies, showed the promise of a true writer with a strong sense of craftsmanship. Hunter returned to playwriting in 1947 after having served with the Royal Artillery during the war. Over the next four years, Hunter continued to develop his craft, discovering a voice that would be considered distinctly his own. In 1951, Hunter introduced A Picture of Autumn as the first in a series of plays that would establish his reputation as an “English Chekhov”. Set in a decaying Wiltshire manor, Hunter’s elegy for an aging middle class drew immediate comparisons to Chekhov’s presentation of the last days of the Russian aristocracy. This was quickly followed that same year by Hunter’s major success, Waters of
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the Moon. Another nuanced portrayal of faded gentility struggling for survival, the play opened at the Theatre Royal in London with a cast that included Dame Sybil Thorndike and Dame Edith Evans. The production ran for 835 performances and established Hunter as one of Britain’s most popular dramatists. Hunter’s firmly crafted and bittersweet comedies continued to garner successful West End runs, attracting many of the leading actors of the day. A Day by the Sea opened in 1953 and ran for 386 performances starring Dame Sybil Thorndike, Irene Worth, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. In New York, A Day by the Sea opened in 1955 with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn headlining the cast; Hunter’s only Broadway production. In 1958, A Touch of the Sun opened in London with a cast that boasted Sir Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard and a young Vanessa Redgrave. Hunter wrote four more plays in the decade preceding his death on April 19, 1971. By this time, England’s cultural revolution was in full swing. Hunter’s restrained naturalism fell out of fashion as playwrights like Joe Orton introduced flamboyance and controversy into the British theatre. In a critical sketch published in a 1979 volume entitled Great Writers of the English Language, scholar William M. Tydeman writes: A valid critical assessment must weigh Hunter’s unquestioning preference for conventional models against his careful characterisations and finely orchestrated dialogue his immaculate control of exposition and dénouement, his overall craftsmanship. Hunter’s work may yet receive that fuller appraisal its quality still merits. JESSE MARCHESE
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HELEN CESPEDES (Felicity) is thrilled to make her New York debut at the Mint. Regional: Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (with Tyne Daly) directed by David Hyde Pierce (Williamstown Theater Festival), The Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost directed by Ethan McSweeney (Chautauqua Theater Company); Romeo and Juliet, The Clean House, Williams in Transit, Ivanov, After the Revolution, Henry V (The Juilliard School). She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Barnard College and is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School’s Drama Division. She is the 20122013 recipient of the John Houseman Prize. CHRISTIAN COULSON (Frank) Theater: Travesties (McCarter), Dutch Masters (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Rumble Ghost (PS122), Ghosts (London’s Gate Theatre), Festen (UK national tour), Journey’s End (West End), Romeo and Juliet (Liverpool Playhouse). Founder member of QWAN with whom he has performed Notes! (Abrons Arts Centre and elsewhere) and Swan!!! (PS122 and elsewhere). Film: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”, “Gayby”, “Leaving Circadia”, “I am Nasrine”, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, “The Hours”, “Four Feathers”. TV: “Nurse Jackie”, “The Good Wife”, “Gossip Girl”, “Miss Marple”, “Charles II”, “Little Britain”, “Hornblower”, “Forsyte Saga”, “Love in a Cold Climate”. Directing: Jeffery and Cole Make It Bigger (Here Arts Centre/Dixon Place), Kim Smith: Misfit (New York & Australia). BARBARA EDA-YOUNG (Nurse) Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Honey in Operation Sidewinder by Sam Shepard, Mrs. Domik in Slavs by Tony Kushner for which she won an OBIE, Trueblinka by Adam Rapp, Drinks Before Dinner by E.L. Doctorow directed by Mike Nichols, A Shout Across the River by Stephan Poliakoff, Mensch Meier by Franz Kroetz. She originated the role of Velma Sparrow in Birdbath by Leonard
Melfi and was co-author of The Hawk. Regional: Maggie in After the Fall, Rose in American Clock, Natasha in The Three Sisters at Williamstown Theater. Bananas in The House of Blue Leaves at Cleveland Playhouse & The East European Tour. A Fair Country at Steppenwolf and many more. Films include “Serpico” and “The Murder Of Mary Phagan”. Most recently she appeared at La MaMa E.T.C. in her play, Lillian Yuralia which was subsequently published by Samuel French. KATIE FIRTH (Elizabeth) At the Mint: Susan and God and Far and Wide. Other NY includes: The Hiding Place, Atlantic Theatre Company; Humble Boy, Manhattan Theater Club; Only the End of the World, The Quiet Room and Stephen Belber’s solo play, Finally, Company Charniére; Museum, Keen Company; Golden Prospects; The Winters Tale; The Wild Duck; Three Sisters; Stonewall:Night Variations; and Dario Fo’s A Woman Alone. Regional: Catherine Sloper in The Heiress, Peterborough Players; Placement, The Black Dahlia, (LA Weekly Outstanding Performance nomination); King Lear: Storm at Home, Virginia Stage; Day of the Kings, Alliance Theater; Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; Picnic, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Persephone, Mettawee Theatre Co; and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Film & TV includes: ‘Ugly Betty’, ‘Law & Order’, Honey, ‘Guiding Light’, and BBC’s ‘Grange Hill’. Ms. Firth is a narrator for Recorded Books. JONATHAN HOGAN (Sir Charles Denham) last appeared at the Mint Theatre in The Madras House. He has appeared on Broadway in Comedians, Otherwise Engaged, Fifth of July, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, As Is (Tony and Drama Desk nominations for Best Actor), Burn This, Taking Steps, and The Homecoming. A few of the plays he appeared in as a member, for 25 years, of the celebrated, award winning and
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late, lamented Circle Rep include The Hot l Baltimore, The Mound Builders, and Balm in Gilead (in collaboration with Steppenwolf). Other performances Off Broadway include Molly Sweeney, Heroes, Book of Days, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer and The Conscientious Objector. Recently he acted in A Delicate Balance at The Berkshire Theatre Festival. He has also performed at The McCarter Theatre, George Street Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Hartford Stage. Films include “In Country”, “The House On Carroll Street”, “A Fish In The Bathtub” and “Revolution #9”. On television he has been seen on “As The World Turns”, “One Life To Live”, several Movies of the Week, “L.A. Law”, “Quantum Leap”, “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, and “Law & Order: Trial by Jury”. Mr. Hogan is a graduate of The Goodman Theatre and School of Drama. GEORGE MORFOGEN (Harry Denham) Mint: The Madras House, The Voysey Inheritance, Uncle Bob – (Premiere), The Lonely Way. Broadway: A Man for All Seasons, Fortune’s Fool, An Inspector Calls, Arms and the Man, Kingdoms, John Gabriel Borkman. Off Broadway: Richard II (Bayfield Award), Three Sisters, The Forest, Uncle Vanya, Ivanov (CSC); All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra (TFANA), Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Country Girl, Cyrano (Roundabout), Principia Scriptoriae, Golden Age (MTC), Heartbreak House, Vieux Carre (Pearl), Hamlet, Othello, Cymbeline, Henry V, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Public), The Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion (Urban Stages), Freud’s Last Session (New World Stages). Regional: Golden Age (Premiere) – Philadelphia and Kennedy Center, Baltimore, Arizona, Seattle, Long Wharf, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Manitoba, Peterborough NH, Williamstown. Films Include: “Twenty Bucks”, “What’s Up Doc?”, “Those Lips, Those Eyes”, “They All Laughed”. TV includes: “Oz” (HBO),
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“Damages”. Fox Fellow, 2000. Brown University, Yale School of Drama. PAUL NIEBANCK (Robert Denham) New York: RX (Primary Stages); Blood and Gifts, In the Next Room or the vibrator play (LCT); Shockheaded Peter, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus (Theatre for a New Audience); Pericles directed by Bartlett Sher (TFANA at BAM); The American Clock, The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man (Signature); Great Expectations (Lortel); The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theater); Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Richard III, The Seagull, The Country Wife (Pearl); Leaving Queens (Women’s Project). Regional: In the Next Room or the vibrator play (world premiere at Berkeley Rep); Joan Dark (Goodman); Iago in Othello (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Pygmalion, The Illusion, The Crucible (with Dana Reeve), Rhinoceros (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); Syracuse Stage; Kansas City Rep; Chautauqua Theater Company; St. Louis Rep; Delaware Theatre Company; Huntington Theatre Company; Arena Stage; Yale Rep. Sundance Institute/Public Theater workshop of Marcus Gardley’s And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi. MFA, Yale School of Drama. KRAIG SWARTZ (Pargeter / Cab Driver) is happy to be back at the Mint, where he appeared in The Voysey Inheritance, The Madras House, and So Help Me God! at The Lucille Lortel. Other NYC credits include Tartuffe at The Pearl Theatre, and Jungle Book at BAM. Regional credits include: Mason Marzak in Take Me Out (Barrymore Award), and Fully Committed (Barrymore Award) both at Philadelphia Theatre Co., and Betty/Edward in Cloud 9 at The Wilma Theatre (Barrymore Award nom.). Also, the Guthrie, the Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Victory Gardens, The Kennedy Center, Alabama Shakespeare Fest., Rep. Theatre of St. Louis, Asolo Theatre, Coconut Grove, Bent at Caldwell Theatre (Carbonell CONTINUED
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Award nom.), I Am My Own Wife at Gulfshore Playhouse, Louis in Angels in America at Milwaukee Rep., and Santaland Diaries at Boston’s New Rep. He has appeared on SNL, and in the film “World and Time Enough”. JILL TANNER (Margaret) Mint: Mary Broome. Broadway: Dividing the Estate, Enchanted April, Rose, My Fat Friend, No sex Please, We’re British. National Tour: Lettice and Lovage. Off Broadway: The Golden Bowl with Pilobolus Dance Company. Regional: Enchanted April, Hartford Stage Company; Richard III, Guthrie Theatre, The Rivals, ACT; Coriolanus, You Never Can Tell, Denver Theatre Center; The Importance of Being Earnest, Enemy of the People, Mc Carter Theatre; Premiere of Horton Foote’s Vernon Early, Last Night of Ballyhoo, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Over a hundred books on tape for the Library of Congress and Recorded Books. Training: the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. KATHY SNYDER (Production Stage Manager) is very excited to be back at the Mint. Other credits include Mary Broome and What the Public Wants. She recently completed her eighth season at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey having done such shows as Othello, The Misanthrope, The Lion in Winter, No Man’s Land, Hamlet, The Bald Soprano, and most of Shakespeare’s Henrys (Henry IV, Part One, Henry V, and Blood and Roses: Shakespeare’s Henry VI). Other credits: Staged Readings of Very Very and The Room at the End of the Hall. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Glyn Maxwell’s Wolfpit and The Lifeblood with the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble; The Man Who Came to Dinner, ‘Art’ and The Drawer Boy with New Century Theatre; Belize and Delicious Rivers with The Talking Band at La MaMa, E.T.C.; Party Time at the Napoli Scena Internationale Festival in Naples, Italy; and All My Sons, Proof, The Piano Lessons, Fully Committed and the national tour of
Romeo and Juliet with Arkansas Repertory Theatre. LAUREN McARTHUR (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to work with the Mint Theater again! Previous Mint shows she has Assistant Stage Managed include: Mary Broom, Temporal Powers, What the Public Wants, The Wife to James Whelan, So Help Me God!, and Is Life Worth Living? Other NYC credits: Stage Manager: Airswimming (Irish Repertory Theatre/Fallen Angels Theatre Company); Life in a Marital Institution (59E59 Theaters & SoHo Playhouse); Savage in Limbo (The Process Group). Assistant Stage Manager: Musicals In Mufti: Housewives Cantata and Tomfoolery (York Theatre); This Side of Paradise (Culture Project); Widows (59E59/Reverie); The Kids Left, The Dog Died, Now What? (NYMF); The Program (NY Fringe Festival). Regional/Tour: The Wild Duck (Bard Summerscape); The Laramie Project & The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later Tour (Tectonic Theater Project). Film: Production Designer- “Wunderkind” (Dir: Lauren Rosen). AEA. CHARLES MORGAN (Sets) is pleased to return to the Mint where he previously designed The Charity That Began at Home, Madras House and Dr. Knock. Mr. Morgan has designed scenery for over 200 shows in Chicago, New York and Boston. He has designed for The Peterborough Players, The Barter Theater, Bristol Riverside Theater, Merrimack Repertory Theater, American Stage Festival, and Gloucester Stage Company. Special thanks to Mystic Scenic Studios, where he is senior designer, for supporting his theatre habit and KC, Nora, Catherine & Miles for sharing the adventure with him. SAM FLEMING (Costumes) Her costume designs have been seen at theatres across the country including the Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera (world premiere of Dead Man Walking, with the international premier
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at State Opera South Australia), Alley Theatre in Houston, Arizona Theatre Co., Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre Company, Playmaker’s Repertory Company, Hartford Stage Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Center Stage, Peterborough Players, Houston Opera Studio, Skylight Opera Theatre, Texas Opera Theatre, ACT Seattle, Georgia Shakespeare Festival and Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Craig Lucas’s award-winning Reckless). She designed over 50 productions for Milwaukee Repertory Theater during her 14 years with the company. Ms. Fleming received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her designs for the Dr. Seuss-inspired A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Westwood Playhouse. Off-Broadway, she designed the new musical Prince and the Pauper, and has worked with the Pearl Theatre, Manhattan Class Company , The Women’s Project, and The Mint. She is the associate costume designer for The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, WILLIAM ARMSTRONG (Lights) is pleased to be returning to the Mint having previously lit Dr. Knock, The Voysey Inheritance, The Flattering Word & A Farewell to the Theatre, and The Charity The Began at Home. Mr. Armstrong has lit numerous productions in New York City, both on and off Broadway, as well as for many of the regional theatres across the country. For the past twenty years he has also worked as an architectural lighting consultant and designer with his company, William Armstrong Lighting Design. JANE SHAW (Sound) Previously with the Mint: Katie Roche, Wife to James Whelan, Dr. Knock, Return of the Prodigal, Susan and God, Fifth Column, Walking Down Broadway, Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Fifteen years designing Off and Off Off Broadway, productions including Food and Fadwa (New York Theater Workshop), Merchant of Venice (TFANA/RSC/National Tour), The Coward
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(Lincoln Center 3), Figaro (The Pearl), Jackie (Women’s Project, Lortel Nomination), Basilica (Rattlestick), Pinkolandia (Intar), Septimus and Clarissa (Ripe Time). Dance: Big Dance Theater (collaboration for over 12 years, Bessie Award, 2010), Susan Marshall. Regional theater includes: Hartford Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company (Henry Award), Asolo, City Theater (Pittsburgh), Capital Rep (Albany), Yale Repertory, Dorset Theater Festival. Recipient: Premios ACE 2012, NEA-TCG Career Development Grant, Meet the Composer. Nominations: Eliot Norton, Connecticut Critics Circle. Graduate of Harvard and Yale School of Drama. JOSHUA YOCOM (Props) collaborates with the Mint yet again on A Picture of Autumn. He also propped their productions of Katie Roche, Rutherford and Son, A Little Journey, Love Goes to Press, Mary Broome, and Temporal Powers. Joshua has worked as a properties master and freelance artisan with a number of New York companies, including Keen Company, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Red Bull Theatre, Pearl Theatre Company, Second Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, Gotham Chamber Opera, NYC Ballet, Lincoln Center, Dreamlight Theatre Co, Mannes Opera, Queens Theatre, Summerworks, Across the Aisle Productions, Snug Harbor, the Atlantic Theater Co., The New School of Drama, and the York Theatre Company. Joshua also props and styles bedding and rooms for print through collaboration with the Mayo photography studios. AMY STOLLER (Dialects & Dramaturgy) has been the Mint’s resident dialect designer/ coach (and occasional dramaturge) since 1996—most recently for Katie Roche and Mary Broome. Previous productions with director Gus Kaikkonen include The Madras House, The Charity that Began at Home, and The Voysey Inheritance (Mint); I Have Been Here Before (Pearl); title roles for Freud’s Last Session and Educating Rita CONTINUED
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(Peterborough Players). New York credits include Let Me Down Easy at Second Stage (plus national tour); productions at Keen, Origin, Drama League DirectorFest, others. Regional work includes the premiere of Anna Deavere Smith’s On Grace at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; four world premieres at Long Wharf; Arena Stage; ART; People’s Light & Theatre. Amy also coaches privately and as a guest instructor at arts and education institutions. In June she will join Anna Deavere Smith, and others at the top of their professions, on the faculty of Acting and Empathy, an intensive acting workshop at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Learn more at www.stollersystem.com.
DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Publicist) also represents INTAR, Keen Company, New Federal Theater, Red Bull Theater, and Summer Shorts the annual festival at 59E59, as well as the OffBroadway hits Rain Pryor’s Fried Chicken & Latkes, Black Angels Over Tuskegee, the holiday perennial Jackie Hoffman’s A Chanukah Charol, and the entertainment complex New World Stages. David serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers (Chair, Press Agent Chapter) and is a member of the Off-Broadway League and a founder of the Off-Broadway Alliance. www.davidgersten.com
JUDY BOWMAN (Casting) This is Judy’s first show casting for the Mint, and she is thrilled to join the team here. NY collaborations with: LAByrinth, Partial Comfort, Rattlestick, Project Y, HERE, TFANA. Regional Theater: DC’s Woolly Mammoth, Actors Theater of Louisville & Humana Festivals, Dorset Theater Festival, SF Playhouse, Kitchen Theatre & American Repertory Theatre (2003-08). Film: “Indian Summer”, “Drawing Home”, “Ice”, and many short films/webseries. Producer: Billy & Ray (Falcon Theatre/dir. Garry Marshall). LPTW, Private Theater, and Adjunct Asst. Professor at Columbia University’s MFA film program.
GUS KAIKKONEN (Director) is happy to be back at the Mint where he has previously directed his own translation of Jules Romains’ Dr. Knock, three plays by Granville-Barker: The Madras House, The Voysey Inheritance, and Farewell To The Theatre, as well as Hankin’s The Charity That Began At Home and George Kelly’s The Flattering Word. He has also acted at the Mint in Mary Broome and The House of Mirth. Other Off-Broadway directing credits include The Philanderer, Tartuffe, Arms And The Man, The Gentleman Dancing Master, I Have Been Here Before, and Heartbreak House at the Pearl, Janie Condon: Raw and Unchained at St. Luke’s, Antigone (Wall Street Journal Best of 2006) and Art for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and Susan Sandler’s Under The Bed at HB. In the regions, he has directed at Merrimack Rep (Gordon Clapp in This Verse Business) Goodspeed, Ford’s Theatre (Trying with James Whitmore), Geva, the Asolo, the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Coconut Grove Playhouse (About Time with Theodore Bikel). For eighteen years he has been the Artistic Director of New Hampshire’s Peterborough Players. Awards include two NYSCA grants, the Lecomte du Nouys Playwriting Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, seven New Hampshire Theatre Awards for Direction, and the James Thurber Fellowship.
THE PEKOE GROUP (Marketing) is a full-service advertising and marketing company for theatrical events and attractions, specializing in niche marketing and tailor-made strategic campaigns based on each event’s target demographic. Clients include Mint Theater Company, Second Stage Theatre, TACT, Forbidden Broadway, Women of Will, Love Therapy, I Love Lucy Live on Stage, How 2 B A New Yorker, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Season of Cambodia, I Forgive You Ronald Reagan, Potomac Theatre Project, and more. www.thepekoegroup.com
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SHERRI KOTIMSKY (Finance & Production) has been working happily at the Mint since 2005. Previously produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape, Shyster, Omnium Gatherum, Fear: The Issues Project and several seasons of workshops and readings. As Naked Angels Managing Director, Hesh and Snakebit. Produced: Only the End of the World, and Blood Orange. For two years Theatre Manager for the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University. JONATHAN BANK (Producing Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint since 1996. Most recently at the Mint, he directed Katie Roche, Temporal Powers and Wife to James Whelan by Teresa Deevy. Other Mint credits include: Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse; Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me God! at the
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Lucille Lortel, which received four Drama Desk nominations, including Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director; Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living?, the American Professional Premiere of The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway, The Return of the Prodigal by St. John Hankin (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revival) and Susan and God by Rachel Crothers. Bank both adapted and directed Arthur Schnitzler’s Far and Wide and The Lonely Way which he also co-translated (with Margaret Schaefer). These two plays were published in a volume entitled Arthur Schnitzler Reclaimed which Bank edited. He is also the editor of four additional volumes in the “Reclaimed” series (Teresa Deevy, volumes One and Two, Harley Granville Barker, and St. John Hankin) as well as Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company.
The following generous Individuals, Foundations, & Corporations support the Mint Theater, and we honor their contributions: Crème de Mint: $10,000 & above The Estate of Barbara F. Austin Lea & Malvin Bank Bloomberg Philanthropies Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Fnd. The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Fnd. Inc. The Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Fnd. Mr. & Mrs. Ciro A. Gamboni The Little Family Foundation / Jann Leeming The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council on the Arts The National Endowments for the Arts Anne Sheffield The Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Ted Snowdon Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation The Geraldine Stutz Trust Inc. Litsa Tsitsera Anonymous SilverMint: $5,000 to $9,999 Axe-Houghton Foundation Virginia Brody Lori & Edward Forstein Lucille Lortel Foundation The Richenthal Foundation The South Wind Foundation Michael Tuch Foundation ChocolateMint: $2,500 - $4,999 William Downey Janet & John Harrington The Heidtke Foundation Dorothy Loudon Foundation Executive Director, Lionel Larner New York City Council for the Humanities New York Foundation for the Arts Dorinda J. Oliver Eleanor Reissa Wallace Schroeder Sukenik Family Foundation Kathryn Swintek & Andre Dorra Helen S. Tucker, The Gramercy Park Foundation* John Yarmick Anonymous
SpearMint: $1000 - $2,499 Harry & Gay Abrams/ Abrams Artists Agency Kim & David Adler * Louise Arias * Jonathan Bank & Katie Firth Joann & Gene Bissell Robert Brenner Linda Calandra Russell Charlton & Julie Norwell Jon Clark & Ryan Franco Grover Connell Lewis B. & Dorothy Cullman Foundation Inc. * Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable Foundation Jennifer & Greg Ezring Edmee & Nicholas Firth Joan & Edward Franklin The Friars Foundation Ruth Friendly * Agnes & Emilio Gautier * Mary Geissman The Gordon Foundation Ronald Guttman Sarina Gwirtzman Julia B. Hall Carol & Patrick Hemingway Hickrill Foundation Christopher Joy & Cathy Velenchik William Karatz Joan Kedziora, MD. Drs. Robert M. Koros & Carole M. Shaffer-Koros * Sarah-Ann Kramarsky Jonathan Landers & Sandra Reimers Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation Charlene & Gary MacDougal Edith Meiser Foundation John Meyer – TeenInk Pfizer Foundation Lorna Power Susan & Peter Ralston George Robb Karen Kelly Sandke Judy Goetz Sanger & Sirgay Sanger Rob Sinacore John Q Smith David Stenn Katherine & Dennis Swanson M. Elizabeth Swerz Bertram Teich Wien Family Fund Anonymous DoubleMint (First Priority Club) ACE Charitable Foundation Actors Equity Foundation
Mary & Thomas Adams Gretchen Adkins * Wilma & Arthur Aeder Judith Aisen & Kenneth Vittor Toni Albanese Shihong & Peter Aldin Louis Alexander Dean Alfange Linda Alster Linda & Lloyd Alterman Laura Altschuler Margaret & James Andreassi Marc Anello Carmen Anthony Sylma & Sal Ayala Henry Badillo Jordan Baker & Kevin Killner Judith Barlow Richard Barnes & Marta Gross Hugh Baron & Carla Lord Frances Bauer Julia Beardwood & Jonathan Willens Jeanne Bergman & Anna Kramarsky William Berley Barbara Berliner & Sol Rymer Al Berr Nidia Besso Clinton Best Evelyn Bishop Steven Blier & James S. Russell Allison M. Blinken Zelda Block Ronald Blumer & Muffie Meyer Dorothy & Stuart Blumner Rose-Marie Boller & Webb Turner Jeffrey S. Borer Audrey Boughton Bristol- Myers Squibb Co. Debra Brockway, in memory of Clinton Brockway Edgar Brown Stephen Brown Ann Butera E. Ralph Buultjens Jason J. Buzas Maureen & James Callanan Peter Cameron Alice B. Cannon Robbie Capp Larry Carlson James Carroll Richard Carroll Chris Catoggio Aurelie Cavallaro Andrew Chapman Lynne Charnay Robin Chase Carolyn Chave
Jean Churchill Joseph Cimmet Abraham Clott Steven R. Coe Toni Coffee Phyllis & Herbert Cohen John Comisky Jane Condon Julie Cushing Connelly Margaret Cooper Chuck Cordray JoAnn Corkran Penelope & Peter Costigan Audrey & Fergus Coughlan Tandy Cronyn Susan & George Crow Michael Crowley Sue & Stuart Davidson David Day Ruth & Anthony DeMarco Denny Denniston & Christine Thomas Pat DeRousie-Webb & Robb Webb Edwin & Paula DeYoung Katherine & Bernard Dick Ruth & Robert E. Diefenbach Thomas Dieterich Nancy M. Donahue Martin Dooley Peggy Dooley Robert & Nancy Downey, in honor of Sharron Bower Constance Duhamel Kevin Duffy & D.G. Duffy-Weber Bonnie Edwards Herzl Eisenstadt Mina & Martin Ellenberg Marjorie Ellenbogen * Monte Engler & Joan Mannion Sara & Fred Epstein Grace & Donald Eremin Eugene Ernst Sharon Esakoff Judith Eschweiler Ellen & Frank Estes H. Read Evans Quince Evans Barbara Farrar & Tom Evans Colleen Fay Eric Fedel Benjamin Feldman & Frances Stern Thomas J. Filipi Irving and Gloria Fine Foundation Angela T. Fiore Jean & Raymond Firestone Norman Fleischer Barbara Fleischman Jerry Floersch Charles Flowers Janet & Jerry Fodor Helene Foley Charles Forma
Donald W. Fowle & Lionel Lorona Victor Franco Charlotte Frank Diana & Jeffrey Frank Vicki & Bobby Freeman Dr. H. Paul & Delores Gabriel Barbara & Robert Gaims-Spiegel Eugene Gantzhorn Michael Garber Mary Ann & John Garland Phyllis Gelfman Nomi Ghez & Michael Siegal James Giblin Ardian Gill & Anna L. Hannon Suellen & David Globus Ruth Golbin Joyce Golden Gloria Goldenberg Goldman, Sachs & Co. Jane & Charles Goldman Beverly & Herbert Goldfarb Samuel Gonzalez Margaret Goodman Mary Ellen Goodman Joyce Gordon & Paul Lubetkin Stanley Gotlin & Barry Waldorf Mary & Gordon Gould Anna Grabarits Virginia Gray Annette Green Anita Greenbaum Caroline Greenberg Tosia Gringer Antonia & George Grumbach Gunilla Haac Lanie Hadden Edith & James Hammond Joseph Hardy Frederica Harlow Laura & David Harris Phyllis & Robert Haserot Henry Hecht & Sally Wasserman Carol Hekimian Reily Hendrickson Michael Herko David Herskovitzs Karin & Henry Herzberg Sigrid Hess Barbara Hill Lee Ho Dorothy & Edward Hoffner Robert & Mary Barbera Hogan Heather & Bruce Horner Tobey Horowitz Anne Humpherys Elizabeth Ellis Hurwitt Anna B. Iacucci Harriet Inselbuch Linda Irenegreene & Martin Kesselman Daisy Irizarry Dana Ivey
Jocelyn Jacknis James Jackson Gale & James Jacobsohn Ellen & Peter Jakobson Weslie & William Janeway Susan & Stephen Jeffries Jacqueline & James Johnson Wendy & David Johnston Roberta Jones Joseph Family Charitable Trust Gerhard Joseph Sandra Joys Peter Haring Judd Fund Margaret & William Kable Gus Kaikkonen & Kraig Swartz Thomas Kane Anne Kaufman Jules Kaufman & Ann MacDougal Frances & Carter Keithley Laurie Kennedy & Keith Mano Roberta & Gerald Kiel Joseph Kissane Kaori Kitao* Caral Klein Elizabeth & William Kloner Paul Knierieman Susanna Kochan-Lorch & Steven Lorch Allegra Kochman Carol Kochman Marlene & Gerald Kolbert Jean Kroeber Maria Kronfeld Charles Kuhlman & Margery Reifler Mildred G. Kuner Carmel Kuperman George LaBalme Paul LaFerriere & Dorrie Parini Mary & David Lambert William & Robert Lang Thomas Langston Judith & John LaRosa Kent Lawson & Carol Tambor Pearl & Karl Lazar Margaret & Gordon Leavitt Gloria & Ira Leeds Jane & Eliot Leibowitz Laura & Rodney Leinberger Dr. Albert Leizman & Ann Hartz Moira & Joseph Le May David J. Lesenger Linda Levine Gloria & Mitchell Levitas Carol & Stanley Levy Eva Lichtenberg & Arnold Tobin Claire Lieberwitz & Arthur Grayzel, MD Ruth Lord Mary & Boyd Lowry Jon Lukomnik & Lynn Davidson Estelle Lynch
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Bette Lyons Mary Rose Main Jane Anne Majeski Vivian & John Majeski Miriam Malach Sophie & David Mann Barry Margolius Jean & Robert Markley Erica Marks Gemzel Hernandez Martinez M.D. Jacqueline Maskey Jill Matichak Margaret Mautner Roberta Maxwell A. Cushman May Cheryl & Harris May George Mayer Pamela Mazur, PhD Mary & Lloyd McAulay Francis McGrath Carolyn McGuire Betsy McKenny Martin Meisel Richard Mellor, Jr. Joan & John Mendenhall John David Metcalfe Leila & Ivan Metzger Radley Metzger Ellen & Leonard Milberg Lusia & Bernard Milch Ellen Mittenthal Judith & Allan Mohl Elaine & Richard Montag Charlotte Moore Doreen & Larry Morales Joseph Morello George Morfogen Frank Morra Elaine & Ronald Morris Muriel Morris D. S. Moynihan Carole & Theodore Mucha Georgia & Mark Munsell Janet & Daniel Murnick Karol Murov Maureen Murphy Amanda Nelson Mary Martin Nelson Nancy Newcomb & John Hargraves* Oanh Nguyen Jean & B.W. Nimkin Tim Nolan Jeanne Olivier Stephanie & Robert Olmsted Linda Oprysko Trisha Ostergaard Dotti & Richard Oswald Frances Pandolfi Jeanine Parisier Plottel
Jonathan Parker Francis C. Parson & Brinton Taylor Gwen & Bruce Pasquale Cheryl S.& Mitchell Patt Judith & John Peakes Peggy & William Pennell Pitney Bowes Sheila & Irwin Polishook Mary & Larry Pollack Georgette & David Preston Carlo & Bob Prinsky Rose Marie Proietti Judith Quillard Linda Ray Betty Reardon Joe Regan Edith Rehbein Laurence Reich Cordelia & David Reimers Ota & Clayton Reynolds Irvin Rinard Peter Robbins & Paige Sargisson Phyllis & Earl S. Roberts Richard V. Robilotti Ona Robinson & Edward Stephens The Rodgers Family Foundation/ Mary R. Guettel James Roe Renee & Seymour Rogoff Sylvia Rosen Mark Rossier Marcia & Marvin Rotman Marcia & Michael Rubin Meryl & Charles Rubin Joan & Herb Saltzman Deborah Samuelson JB Sandler Catherine Scaillier Judith & Richard Schachter Maxine Scherl Barbara Schoetzau Daphne & Peter Schwab Jay M. Schwamm Marilyn & Joseph Schwartz Phyllis Schwartz Veronica Scutaro The Martin E. Segal Revocable Trust Norma Segal Harriet Seiler Eleanor Selling John Settel Barbara & Donald Shack Marjorie & George Shea Camille & Richard Sheely Janet & Joseph Sherman Virginia C. Shields Susan & Zachary Shimer Shelly & Joel Siegel Kayla J. & Martin Y. Silberberg Joyce Silver
Mel Silverman Adrianne Singer Susanna Sitner Rayna & Martin Skolnik Janet & Mike Slosberg Barbara Madsen Smith Douglas Smith Lily Smith Barbara & Stanley Solomon Dr. Norman Solomon Sandra & Graham Spanier Charles Sperling Linda & Jerry Spitzer Martha S. Sproule Alec Stais & Elissa Burke Trudy Steibl Sherry & Bob Steinberg Gary Stern Frances Sternhagen Faith Stewart-Gordon Doina Stoiana Ilene Stone Elaine & Ulrich Strauss Stella Strazdas Pamela Stubing Joseph Sturkey Carol & Will Sullivan Larry E. Sullivan Bryna Sweedler Myra & Leonard Tanzer Douglas G. Tarr Vivien C. Tartter Sheila & Arthur Taub Annie Thomas & David H. Kirkwood Joan Vail Thorne * Jeanne & Lee Toole Jill Tran Linda & Ken Treitel Susan & Charles Tribbitt Helen & William van Syckle Joan & Bob Volin Gerald Wachs Jacob Waldman John Michael Walsh Robert G. Walsh Gina & Earl Weiner Tamara & Gerald Weintraub Richard Weisman Patricia & Richard White Lillian & Robert Williams Marsha & Vincent Williams Kurt Wissbrun Mary C. Wolf Jerald Zimmer Barbara & Donald Zucker Claire & Albert Zuckerman Sue & Burton Zwick Anonymous
This list represents donations made from July 2011 – May 10, 2013. Every effort is made to ensure its accuracy. Please contact us regarding any mistakes. *Committee Member “Playing Favorites” Benefit 2013
A PICTURE OF AUTUMN
staff
Assistant Production Manager
Wayne Yeager
Assistant Costume Designer
Ryan Hanson
Light Board Programmer
James Bedell
Board Operator
Adam Schofield-Bodt
Wardrobe Supervisor / Dresser
Ryan Hanson, Elise Jayne Sumner
Production Assistant / Deck Crew
Colleen Lacy
Production/Office Interns
Domenika Sieruta, Dorka Tavarez
Rehearsal Intern
Lawrence Lesher
Box Office Manager
Andrew Hendrick
House Manager
Jose Ramos
Videographer
Joshua Paul Johnson
Program Desgin/Graphics
Adrienne Scott
Advertising, Marketing & Web Site Design
The Pekoe Group / Amanda Pekoe, Jessica Ferreira, Christopher Lueck, Matthew Perreault, Negeen Ghaisar, Alex Barnard, Jason Murray, Erin Wilson, Marivic Tagala, Mara Szabo, Ryan Meitzler, Ben Uhrich David Gersten Associates / David J. Gersten, Daniel DeMello
Press Representation
Lighting installed by the Lighting Syndicate. Set constructed by Carlo Adinolfi. A PICTURE OF AUTUMN rehearsed at Manhattan Theater Club’s Creative Center. The producers would like to thank J.C. Wells, Mary Howland, Marina Tyndall, Paul Fisher Davies, Helen Ashton, Rebecca Root, and Lise Olson; TDF Costume Collection, The Pearl Theatre Company and OSF Costume Rental for its assistance with this production. Special thanks to Peterborough Players. Lighting equipment provided in part by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs.
Actor’s Equity Association was founded in 1913. It is the labor union representing over 40,000 American actors and stage managers working in the professional theatre. For 89 years, Equity has negotiated minimum wages and working conditions, administered contracts, and enforced provisions of its various agreements with theatrical employers across the country.
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MINT THEATER COMPANY STAFF Jonathan Bank Sherri Kotimsky Jesse Marchese Andrew Hendrick Ellen Mittenthal Joshua Paul Johnson Judy Bowman Kristin Krauskopf, CPA David Gersten & Associates The Pekoe Group
Producing Artistic Director Finance & Production Assistant to the Artistic Director Box Office Manager Development Consultant Videographer Casting Auditor Press Representative Marketing & Advertising
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jonathan Bank John P. Harrington
Ciro A. Gamboni Eleanor Reissa
Kathryn Swintek John Yarmick
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