JONATHAN BANK artistic director
SHERRI KOTIMSKY general manager
A PLAY BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY DIRECTED BY JONATHAN BANK
ABOUT THE MINT THEATER
1995-1998 QUALITY STREET By J.M. Barrie MR. PIM PASSES BY By A.A. Milne UNCLE TOM’S CABIN By George Aiken THE HOUSE OF MIRTH By Edith Wharton & Clyde Fitch 1999-2000 THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE By Harley Granville Barker ALISON’S HOUSE By Susan Glaspell MISS LULU BETT By Zona Gale 2000-2001 WELCOME TO OUR CITY By Thomas Wolfe THE FLATTERING WORD & A FAREWELL TO THE THEATRE By George Kelly & Harley Granville Barker
DIANA OF DOBSON’S By Cecily Hamilton 2001-2002 RUTHERFORD AND SON By Githa Sowerby NO TIME FOR COMEDY By S.N. Behrman 2002-2003 THE CHARITY THAT BEGAN AT HOME By St. John Hankin FAR AND WIDE By Arthur Schnitzler THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW By D.H. Lawrence 2003-2004 MILNE AT THE MINT Two Plays by A.A. Milne ECHOES OF THE WAR By J.M. Barrie 2004-2005 THE LONELY WAY By Arthur Schnitzler THE SKIN GAME By John Galsworthy 2005-2006 WALKING DOWN BROADWAY By Dawn Powell SOLDIER’S WIFE By Rose Franken SUSAN AND GOD By Rachel Crothers 2006-2007 JOHN FERGUSON By St. John Ervine THE MADRAS HOUSE By Harley Granville Barker RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL By St. John Hankin 2007-2008 THE POWER OF DARKNESS By Leo Tolstoy THE FIFTH COLUMN By Ernest Hemingway
Mint Theater Company produces worthwhile plays from the past that have been lost or forgotten. These neglected plays offer special and specific rewards; it is our mission to bring new vitality to these plays and to foster new life for them. Under the leadership of Jonathan Bank as Artistic Director, Mint has secured a place in the crowded theatrical landscape of New York City. We have received Special Obie and Drama Desk Awards recognizing the importance of our mission and our success in fulfilling it. The Wall Street Journal describes Mint as “one of the most consistently interesting companies in town.” Our process of excavation, reclamation and preservation makes an important contribution to the art form and its enthusiasts. Scholars have the chance to come into contact with historically significant work that they’ve studied on the page but never experienced on the stage. Local theatergoers have the opportunity to see plays that would otherwise be unavailable to them, while theatergoers elsewhere may also have that opportunity in productions inspired by our success. Important plays with valuable lessons to teach—plays that have been discarded or ignored—are now read, studied, performed, discussed, written about and enjoyed as a result of our work. Educating our audience about the context in which a play was originally created and how it was first received is an essential part of what we do. Our “Surround Events” enrich the experience of our audience and help to foster an ongoing dialogue around a play— post-performance discussions feature world class scholars discussing complex topics in an accessible way and are always free and open to the general public. We not only produce lost plays, but we are also their advocates. We publish our work and distribute our books, free of charge to libraries, theaters and universities. Our catalog of books now includes an anthology of seven plays entitled Worthy but Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater plus three volumes in our “Reclaimed” series, each featuring the work of a single author: Harley Granville Barker, St. John Hankin and Arthur Schnitzler.
Mint Theater Company
Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director Sherri Kotimsky, General Manager presents
the fifth column by
Ernest Hemingway
with James Andreassi, Heidi Armbruster, Kelly AuCoin, Ryan Duncan, Ronald Guttman, John Hayden, Joe Hickey, Carlos Lopez, Ned Noyes, Maria Parra, Joe Rayome, Nicole Shalhoub, Teresa Yenque Set design
Costume design
Vicki R. Davis Properties Design
lARA fABIAN
Linda Harris
AssT. COSTUME DESIGN
HUNTER KACZOROWSKI
Press Representative
David Gersten & Associates
Dialect coach
Juan Salas
stage manager
Jerry Ruiz
Jane Shaw
Dramaturgy
eRIN kENNEDY lUNSFORD
Assistant Director
Sound design
Jeff Nellis
HAIR & MAKEUP DESIGN
Scott Brodsky Asst. SET DESIGN
Lighting Design
Clint Ramos
Amy Stoller
Assistant stage manager
Jeff Meyers
Asst. LIGHTING dESIGN
BEN KRALL
Illustration
Stefano Imbert
AssT. sOUND DESIGN
ENRICO WEY
Graphics
Hunter Kaczorowski
Casting
Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter & Paul Hardt Directed by
Jonathan Bank Opening night March 27th, 2008
The Fifth Column is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Production design support provided by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation. Marketing support provided by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
THE FIFTH COLUMN BACKGROUND The action of The Fifth Column takes place in and around Madrid in the fall of 1937, one year into the Spanish Civil War which lasted until 1939. The insurgent forces (Rebels or Nationalists), led by General Francisco Franco, were unable to take the city which was defended by an army of workers and peasants loyal to the newly elected Republican government (Republicans or Loyalists). This ill-equipped and untrained army was aided by the presence of volunteer soldiers from across the world. Hitler and Mussolini offered Franco both troops and supplies while the democratic governments of France, England and the U.S. adopted a policy of non-intervention. Some 40,000 passionate and liberal-minded individuals from across the world volunteered in Spain, hoping to prevent the spread of fascism throughout Europe. The Brigades included close to 3,000 Americans and many German and Italian victims of fascist oppression who escaped their own countries and traveled to Spain to fight the Good Fight. They formed the International Brigades, armed in part with the aid of the Soviet Union. Hemingway wrote in his introduction to the published play in 1938, “the title refers to the Spanish rebel statement in the fall of 1936 that they had four columns advancing on Madrid and a Fifth Column of sympathizers inside the city to attack the defenders from the rear.”
THE FIFTH COLUMN SETTING
ACT I
Scene I: A hallway in the Hotel Florida. Scene II: Room 109, 7:30 in the evening. Scene III: Rooms 109 and 110, the next morning.
ACT II
Scene I: Seguridad Headquarters. Scene II: Chicote’s Bar. Scene III: Rooms 109 and 110, later that evening. Scene IV: 4:30 am, the following morning.
ACT III
Scene I: Five days later, late afternoon. Scene II: An Observation Post, that night. Scene III: Seguridad Headquarters. Scene IV: 109 and 110, late afternoon the following day. There will be two 10 minute intermissions.
THE FIFTH COLUMN CAST (In Order of Appearance)
International Brigade Soldier Girl Dorothy Bridges Robert Preston Manager Philip Rawlings Electrician Anita International Brigade Soldier Assault Guard Petra Wilkinson Maid Killer Antonio Waiter Max Sentry Signaller Aide Civilian General
John Patrick Hayden Maria Parra Heidi Armbruster Joe Hickey Carlos Lopez Kelly AuCoin Ryan Duncan Nicole Shalhoub Ned Noyes Ryan Duncan Teresa Yenque Joe Rayome Maria Parra Ryan Duncan James Andreassi Ryan Duncan Ronald Guttman Ned Noyes Joe Rayome John Patrick Hayden Ryan Duncan Joe Hickey
James Andreassi
Heidi Armbruster
Kelly AuCoin
Ryan Duncan
Ronald Guttman
John Patrick Hayden
Joe Hickey
Carlos Lopez
Ned Noyes
Maria Parra
Joe Rayome
Nicole Shalhoub
Teresa Yenque
THE FIFTH COLUMN DIRECTOR’S NOTE In 1940 Hemingway wrote a letter to the publicity director of the Theatre Guild, intended for publication in The New York Times, “about how the play was written.” In it, he wrote about the differences between writing a play and writing a novel: “The making part of a play comes after the writing of it. Other people do all the great detail that you just indicate when you write. Right now I have been working steadily for a year and a month on a novel. In that no one can help you. But in a play the credit for all the really hard work goes to those who stage, direct, and act in it. I had all the fun. They had all the work. Well, that is a nice kind of exchange for once.” Speaking on behalf of all of the talented and creative people who have participated in the making of this production, I respectfully disagree—we’ve had a great deal of fun. Hemingway understood that a play on the page is just an indication—a set of hints and clues—incomplete without the faith, curiosity and sympathetic attention of talented actors and designers. It has been our great honor to collaborate with Mr. Hemingway. We have been challenged, instructed and rewarded. Hopefully our efforts will reveal the many virtues of this rather remarkable play. Why THE FIFTH COLUMN has never been professionally produced in New York until now is a long, complicated and fascinating story. Perhaps one day I’ll write a book about it. Until then I hope you’ll agree with me that it’s about time.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
I would like to extend a very special thank-you to Patrick and Carol Hemingway for their confidence and generosity. Thanks also to: Sean Hemingway; Susan Brady, Archivist: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Sandra Spanier, General Editor & LaVerne M. Maginnis, Associate Editor: Hemingway Letters Project, Penn State University; Kirk Curnutt, Permissions Officer: The Ernest Hemingway Foundation; Susan Beegel, Editor, The Hemingway Review, Susan Wrynn, Hemingway Curator: The J.F.K. Library and Museum; Rosalind Lippel, Associate Publisher: Scribner; Diane Raimondo, Magnum Photos; Frank Hentschker, Daniel Gerould & Ruth Eglsaer: Martin E. Segal Theatre Center; Juan Blas Delgado Ramos, Cultural Director: Instituto Cervantes; Scott Donaldson, Jean S. Ward, Robert C. Harris, Scott R. Lazarus.
Jonathan Bank
JAMES ANDREASSI (Antonio) has performed at Long Wharf Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Rep. of St. Louis, Three River Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Co., the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Pioneer Theatre Co, among others. Mr. Andreassi is the founder and Artistic Director of The Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, CT, where he’s directed Henry IV, Part 1, The Tempest, Macbeth, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Robin Hood and The Three Musketeers. He has taught and lectured on acting, Shakespeare and the theatre at Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University and the Yale Center for British Art. Mr. Andreassi was the recipient of the 2004 Greater New Haven Arts Council award. In 2007 The Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor Leadership School certified him as a Wilderness First Responder.
Festival acting company. Resident actor; New River Dramatists. At New River, and elsewhere, helped develop new plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Rick Dresser, Adam Bock, Karen Hartman, and Julia Jordan, among others. Love to the phenomenal Carolyn Hall.
Heidi Armbruster (Dorothy Bridges) New York Credits: The Atlantic, Keen Company (Drama League Nomination for Tea and Sympathy), Synapse. Regional Credits: The Guthrie, ACT (Goodman Choice Award for The Glass Menagerie), Seattle Rep., Baltimore Center Stage, Actors Theatre, George Street, Barrington Stage, Folger Shakespeare Library, Cal Shakespeare, Great River Shakespeare. Film and TV Credits: Michael Clayton, Revolutionary Road, The Northern Kingdom, Law and Order, All My Children. MFA: ACT. For my Mom, as always.
Ronald Guttman (Max) originally from Brussels, is very happy to be back at the Mint Theater where he played the lead in the 2005 production of Arthur Schnitzler’s The Lonely Way, under the direction of Jonathan Bank. Selected New York theatre credits include Race, (CSC); Uncle Jack, Funky Crazy Boogaloo Boy, Modigliani, No Exit, The Philanthropist, (Long Wharf) Because He Can, and Coastal Disturbances, 2ST/Broadway. On the screen, currently playing in theaters; “27 Dresses”, “August Rush”. Upcoming: “Tickling Leo.” Other films include: “The Tollbooth” (Spring DVD release), “The Guru”, “The Believer,” “Danton”, “The Hunt for Red October”, “Avalon”, “Munich”, “Greencard”. Television: Guest star roles in “Lipstick Jungle”, “Lost”, “West Wing”, “Sex & the City”, “Law & Order,” “Mrs. Harris” (HBO), “All My Children”, “And the Band Played On” (HBO). His company, highbrow entertainment, co-produced Christine Jorgensen Reveals (Drama Desk 2006), Masked (DR2) and DAI (enough). JOHN PATRICK HAYDEN (International Brigade Soldier/Aide) Broadway : Tartuffe with the Roundabout Theatre Co. Off-Broadway: Fly with Lincoln Center. Regional favorites include: Sheldon Jennings in the World Premiere of Thinking Of You with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Romeo with the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, and the Backlight Theatre Company. Played both Jake and then Charlie in productions of Stones In His Pockets, the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance, and Marlowe in She
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KELLY AuCOIN (Philip Rawlings) Broadway; Octavious Caesar in Julius Caesar, starring Denzel Washington (d. Daniel Sullivan), Copenhagen, staring Len Cariou and Mariette Hartley (Nat’l Tour, d. Michael Blakemore). Off-Broadway: Some Men (Second Stage, d. Trip Cullman), Boy (Primary Stages, d. Joe Calarco), The Sketch Comedian (Drama League, d. Alex Timbers), The Ladies of the Corridor (Peccadillo, d. Dan Wackerman). TV: “Good God” (Comedy Central/Series Regular), “Third Watch”, “Waterfront” (CBS), “The Sopranos”, numerous “Law’s & Order”. Film: “The Kingdom”, “Serial” (staring Lauren Velez), “A Perfect Fit” (starring Adrian Grenier), “A Normal Life”, “Love & Stuff”, “A Perfect Murder”, and “Chicken Bitch”. Regional: The Real Thing and Born Yesterday (Syracuse Stage), Melissa Arctic (Folger Theatre/Helen Hayes Award), Arcadia (Theatre Virginia), Quills (Florida Stage/ Carbonell Award), Oregon Shakespeare
RYAN DUNCAN (Electrician/Assault Guard/ Killer/Waiter/Civilian) Ryan is thrilled to be a part of this world premiere Hemingway piece at the Mint. National Tours: Man of La Mancha, Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway; Ryan originated the role of Juan in Altar Boyz (Drama League nom.), The Body Beautiful, My First Time, theAtrainplays, Real Danger (EAT), Hermanas (FringeNYC ’06). Regional; I’m Not Rappaport starring Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen (pre-Broadway), tick, tick…BOOM! (Adirondack Theatre Festival, NY), 1776 and A Christmas Carol (Ford’s, D.C.), Side Show (Signature, VA), Hair (Studio, D.C.), Forever Plaid (Temple, NC). Film/TV; Stand By, Same Difference, “SNL.” Gracias a Salamanca.
Stoops to Conquer. John has also performed with the Nuclear Family at Dads Garage theatre in Atlanta doing long form improvised musicals. BFA in Acting from Florida State University. JOE HICKEY (Robert Preston, General) is happy to be making his first appearance at the Mint. He recently played the role of Fr. Flynn in Doubt at Virginia Stage Company. Other regional credits include: Orson’s Shadow at Philadelphia Theatre Company, Three Sisters at Baltimore Center Stage, Intimate Apparel at Actors Theater of Louisville, Stones In His Pockets at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Death Of A Salesman at the GEVA Theatre Center, Boy Gets Girl at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Smell of the Kill at the Cleveland Play House; TV/FILM credits include: “John Adams” on HBO; “Law and Order” and “L&O, Trial By Jury” on NBC, “Gossip Girl” on WB, “All My Children” on ABC, “As the World Turns” on CBS. MFA: Cleveland Play House/ Case Western Reserve University.
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CARLOS LOPEZ (Manager) Most recently Carlos played the role of Sancho Ponza in Man of La Mancha, at the WPPAC. Other recent roles: Oscar in The Odd couple, Hot Blades Harry in Urinetown, Smokey in Damn Yankees, and Al Deluca in A Chorus Line. Broadway: Barber in Man of La Mancha, Sonny in Grease, Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun, Speedy in Wonderful Town. Mike and Paul in A Chorus Line, The Pajama Game, Grand Hotel, and Guys and Dolls. He also played Mike in the world tour of A Chorus Line, Arab in the National Tour of West Side Story, Harry the Horse in the national tour of Guys and Dolls, and Karl in Bells are Ringing. TV credits include: “The Sopranos”, “Fort Pit”, “Law and Order”, “Guiding Light”, “All Fired Up.” Movies: “Brooklyn Sonnet”, “Stepford Wives” and “Death Wishes”. Check out his website at http://iamcarloslopez.com/ NED NOYES (International Brigade Soldier/ Sentry) NY debut. Recent credits: A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theater); Cherry Orchard (Steppenwolf Theatre); The Time of Your Life (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pacific Overtures (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); The Glass Menagerie, My Fair Lady, Fraulein Else, Scapin, Mary Stuart (Court Theatre); Orson’s Shadow (Chicago Center); At Wit’s End (Northlight Theatre) and work at Marriott Lincolnshire, Asolo Rep and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Training: Northwestern University. Special thanks extended to KGA and Amy.
MARIA PARRA (Girl, Maid) Mint debut. Was last seen at Vital Theatre Company in Señor Jay’s Tango Palace. She has worked with INTAR New Works Lab on With Love Gabe, and was in the Big Apple Circus 2006-2007 show Step Right Up. Favorite regional credits include Day of the Kings at The Alliance Theatre, Macbeth at Georgia Shakespeare, and Tartuffe at Theatre in the Square. She regularly appears as Dr. MooChacha in pediatric hospitals, entertaining children as a clown doctor with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Program. Maria is a member of the INTAR Actor’s Collective. She is thrilled to be working on this show! JOE RAYOME (Wilkinson/Signaller) was raised in a small mining town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Off-Broadway: Broken Journey (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble). Other NYC: El Depresso Espresso, The Yale Diaries, and a reading of A Brief History of Helen of Troy (National Arts Club). Joe thanks his family and friends in whom he finds constant support and inspiration, and Jonathan for brushing the dust off another “lost” play and giving it the recognition it deserves. Mint Theater debut. Member AEA. NICOLE SHALHOUB (Anita) Mint debut! Off Broadway: The Clean House at Lincoln Center, Hell House at St. Ann’s Warehouse, 100 Things That Make You Better at Chashama. Regional: The Goodman Theatre in Mirror of the Invisible World, adapted and directed by Mary Zimmerman; The American Repertory Theatre in Snow in June, The Island of Anyplace, A Lie of the Mind and Six Characters in Search of An Author, dir. Robert Brustein; Williamstown Theatre Festival in A Murder of Crows and Dr. Faustus Lights the Light. Other New York credits: Fear Up: Stories from Baghdad at FringeNYC 2006; ¿De Dónde?, Turtle Shell Productions, Film/TV: (Upcoming) “The International” with Clive Owen, “Arranged”, “Casting About”, “Law & Order:CI.” BA from Columbia University and MFA from A.R.T, Institute at Harvard University. TERESA YENQUE (Petra) made her Broadway debut in Streetcar Named Desire next to Natasha Richardson; as a member of Spanish Repertory Company you might have seen her in Chronicles of a Death Foretold, The Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba. Last year she worked at INTAR in the Night Over Taos’ workshop directed by Estelle Parsons. Regional: The Uprooted (Victory Gardens/Chicago); Butterflies Are Free (Miami); and Maggy Magalita, (Kennedy Center). Films: “The War Boys”, “Padre Nuestro”, “Bella”, “Dirt”, “The Blue Diner”, “Trust The Man”, “Ash
Wednesday”, “La Ciudad/The City”, “A Further Gesture”, “The Yards”, “Extreme Measures”, “Critical Condition”, “Abuela’s Revolt”, “Stolen Lives”. TV: “Blue Blood”, “Hope & Faith”, “The Sopranos”, “All My Children”, “ED” (recurring), “The Division”, “Law & Order”, “Rescue Me”, “Unsolved Mysteries”, “One Life To Live”, “Still A Stranger”, “Angélica”, “Mi Vida” (Regular). Mother of two successful sons Cesar and Jose Yenque. ERNEST HEMINGWAY (Playwright) did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in the 1920’s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.
Linda Harris (Production Stage Manager) Miss Harris’ Broadway credits include Garden District at Circle in the Square, and A New York Summer at Radio City Music Hall. OffBroadway, she has stage managed The Fantasticks, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Ladies At The Alamo, Drama League’s DIRECTORFEST 2007 and productions at Circle Rep, The Lucille Lortel Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater and The Village Gate among others. Regional credits include The Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, The State Theatre Company in Austin, Cleveland Play House, Northern Stage, Seattle Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, Delaware Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, Capital Repertory, American Players Theatre and NJ Shakespeare Festival. Jeff Meyers (Assistant Stage Manager) was in a play once. He played the “Captain” in the Grand Junction, Colorado, high school production of Carousel. He then turned to stage management. Regional highlights include, The Theater at Monmouth’s 2005, 2006 & 2007 summer seasons, The Underpants (Two River Theater Company) and A Doll House (Epiphany Theater). New York highlights include, Amazons And Their Men (Clubbed Thumb), As You Like It (PoorTom Productions), Girl (Cherry Lane Theater), Living Room in Africa, Orange Flower Water, Now That’s What I Call A Storm & Adam Rapp’s Stone Cold Dead Serious (Edge Theater Company), Hamlet (CSC), Assisted Loving (MCC), Critical Darling (The New Group), and Greg Kotis’ Eat The Taste (Barrow St. Theatre). His union of choice is AEA, and he would like to thank Joan and Don for, well, everything. Vicki R. Davis (Set Design) Previous productions at the Mint include The Skin Game, The Lonely Way, Echoes of the War, Far and Wide, Rutherford & Son, The Voysey Inheritance, Welcome to Our City, The House of Mirth. She most recently designed the Costumes for Arena Stage’s Christmas Carol 1941 and scenery for Burning Coal’s A Love Song For Robert J Oppenheimer and Inherit the
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Jonathan Bank (Director/Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint since 1996 where he has unearthed and produced dozens of lost or neglected plays, many of which he has also directed. Most recently at the Mint, Bank directed The Return of the Prodigal by St. John Hankin and before that, 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 two additional volumes in the “Reclaimed” series (Harley Granville Barker and St. John Hankin) as well as Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company which includes his adaptations of Thomas Wolfe’s Welcome to Our City and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, both of which he directed, along with five other Mint rediscoveries. Other directing credits include critically acclaimed productions of Ivanov and
Othello for the National Asian American Theater Company, John Brown’s Body, The Double Bass and Three Days of Rain for the Miniature Theater of Chester and The Heiress, Hobson’s Choice, Candida and Mr. Pim Passes By for the Peterborough Players. He earned his M.F.A. from Case Western Reserve University in his hometown of Cleveland, OH.
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Wind. Off Broadway credits include productions of Pirates of Penzance, A Novel Romance, Songs of Paradise, An American Family, Yoshke Muzicant, Meanwhile, On...Mount Vesuvius, Caucasian Chalk Circle, ‘Til The Rapture Comes, The Occupation, Slasher, Out To Lunch and Relative Values, as well as productions for HB Studio, AMAS, Blue Heron, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, The Ontological, LaMaMa, Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, Henry Street Settlement, Kings County Shakespeare, Bronx Opera, Bel Canto Opera, Wings, Playhouse 91. Ms. Davis has worked extensively at regional theaters and opera companies around the country including The Alliance, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Starlight Kansas City, Madison Rep., The Barter, Capital Rep., Passages, Georgia Shakespeare, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Utah Opera, Kansas City Opera, Omaha Opera, Theater of the Stars, Boston Lyric Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Miniature Theater of Chester, and Music Theater North. Ms. Davis received a TCG/NEA Design Fellowship and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. In addition to her freelance work she teaches Scenic and Costume design at North Carolina School Of The Arts. Clint Ramos (Costume Design) Mint Theater: Soldier’s Wife, Susan and God, The Return of the Prodigal and The Madras House. Recent credits include sets and/or costumes for Equus, Blonde Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (Asolo Repertory Theater), Edward the Second (Red Bull Theater),The Tempest (The Acting Company), Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), Donnie Darko, Onion Cellar (American Repertory Theater), As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare),Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center), Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), Ah, Wilderness!! (Centerstage Baltimore), Angels in America (Opera Boston). Una Cosa Rara (Opera Theatre of St. Louis) and others. New York: Public Theater, Vineyard Theater, The Play Company, Ma-Yi Theater, Red Bull Theater, Play Company, Women’s Project, PS 122, Foundry Theater, The Culture Project, NAATCO, Juilliard and others. International: De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam), Stuttgarter Ballet (Stuttgart), Rijksteatern & Folkoperan (Stockholm), Teatro Pilipino (Manila), Barbican (London), Kanon Dance (St. Petersburg). Awards and Noms: IRNE, Audelco, Elliot Norton, Gary Kalkin Memorial Award, NYTW Design Fellowship, Live Design Magazine’s list of Designers to Watch for 2007and recently, the American Theater Wing’s Henry Hewes Design Award.
Jeff Nellis (Lighting Design) Mint: The Daughter-In-Law, Diana of Dobson’s, John Ferguson, Power of Darkness, Rutherford and Son. Broadway: Prymate. Off Broadway: Tryst (NY Outer Critics Circle Nomination), The Milliner, Treason, Flight, Shylock, From Door to Door, Zanna Don’t!, One Shot One Kill, Cobb, Our Sinatra, The Devils Music, The It Girl, My Italy Story. Regional: Hartford Stage, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, TheaterWorks, North Shore Musical Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Florida Stage, Madison Rep, City Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Los Angeles Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera. Jane Shaw (Sound Design) Mint: The Return of the Prodigal, Susan and God, Walking Down Broadway, The Lonely Way, Ivanov (NAATCO), and No Time for Comedy. Recent work includes: Big Dance Theater’s “The Other Here;” Susan Marshall’s “Sawdust Palace”, TFANA’s Merchant of Venice and Jew of Malta with F. Murray Abraham, The Mandrake at the Pearl, The Dinner Party with Target Margin, Killing the Boss at the Cherry Lane Studio, and Liberty City at New York Theater Workshop. Upcoming projects include Antony and Cleopatra (TFANA) and Crooked (Women’s Project). Her work has been heard at Capital Rep in Albany, Shakespeare on the Sound, Classic Stage Company, Queen’s Company, Primary Stages, and Urban Stages. Recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program, 2005 - 2007, and Meet the Composer 2006. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and a native of Lawrence, Kansas. Scott Brodsky (Properties Design) is a professional Prop Coordinator and Designer working in New York City and the metro area. Scott has designed props for New York City Opera, The Kennedy Center, Center Theater Group, Signature Theater, The New Group and The Mint Theater. He is also the Properties Director of Bard College’s summer music festival: Summerscape. Scott has toured nationally with The Acting Company and continues to work on projects for CBS, Warner Brothers, and Showtime. Scott is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts. Erin Kennedy Lunsford (Hair and Makeup Design) Recent credits include Jerry Springer- the Opera (in concert at Carnegie Hall); Edward the Second (Red Bull Theatre Company); The Tempest (The Acting
Company); Being Alive (Westport Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company); Walmartopia (Minetta Lane). Her work has also been seen in New York at Playwrights Horizons, The Signature Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, MCC, Atlantic Theatre Company, Century Center and Primary Stages among others. Regionally, she has designed for Syracuse Stages, the University of Michigan Opera and Drama departments, University of Minnesota Opera department and Music Theatre of Wichita. Juan Salas (Dramaturg) As dramaturg of The Fifth Column, he has organized an international panel around the play to take place on March 4 at The Instituto Cervantes in NYC, with the sponsorship of the Instituto Cervantes, CUNY Graduate Center and The Mint Theater. He has recently curated Art and Politics: Posters of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 for Bobst Library at NYU, shown between April and December 2007. Juan has taught in the Drama Department and in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at NYU, and has published several articles on photography of the Spanish Civil War both in Spain and in the USA. He is a coauthor of Facing Fascism: New Yorkers and the Spanish Civil War published by The Museum of the City of New York and NYU Press in 2007 to accompany the exhibition of the same name. Juan is a PhD candidate in the Performance Studies Department at NYU writing on the photographs taken by American volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain during the war of 1936-1939. He is currently preparing an itinerant exhibition in Spain of Lincoln Brigade photographs, opening in August 2008.
Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter & Paul Hardt (Casting) have cast hundreds of shows over the past 25 years. Among their favorites are: Broadway: Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Chicago (Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking), Sly Fox (Richard Dreyfuss), Fortune’s Fool (Alan Bates, Frank Langella) & the original La Cage Aux Folles. Off Broadway: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change & The Normal Heart. They will soon begin work on the 50th anniversary production of West Side Story. Happily casting for The Mint for the past 3 seasons. David Gersten & Associates (Press Representatives) also represents the OffBroadway hits Altar Boyz, My First Time, Naked Boys Singing!, Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew, and The Awesome 80s Prom. Other clients include New World Stages, Red Bull Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers. David is Associate Producer of the new Off-Broadway hit, My First Time; previously, he produced Tea at Five starring Kate Mulgrew as Katharine Hepburn as well as the musical Dr. Sex. He serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, The Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers. www.davidgersten.com Sherri Kotimsky (General Manager) 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, home to National Actors Theatre, Tribeca Film and Theatre Festivals, River to River Festival and the Carol Tambor Awards 2005 productions, amongst many others. Currently working with several theater companies as business consultant.
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Amy Stoller (Dialects) returns to the Mint directly from dialect coaching Anna Deavere Smith in her new one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy, directed by Stephen Wadsworth at the Long Wharf. The Fifth Column is Amy’s thirteenth production at the Mint, where her previous productions include The Madras House, The Daughter-in-Law, Echoes of the War, Milne at the Mint (directed by Jonathan Bank), and The Voysey Inheritance. Credits earlier this season include the US premiere of The Oxford Roof-Climber’s Rebellion at Urban Stages, the US premiere of The Shape of Metal, starring Roberta Maxwell and directed by Brian Murray at Origin; and the Boomerang Theatre Co. 2007 rep season. Other clients include the Pearl Theatre Co., Keen Co.; Drama League DirectorFest; Peterborough Players (NH); Distilled Spirits (OOBR Award, Northanger Abbey), and Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer.
Amy is also Co-Director of Cheer From Chawton, currently touring the US and UK. She is a proud member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. For more information, please visit her website at www.stollersystem.com.
The following generous Individuals, Foundations, and Corporations support the Mint Theater, and we honor their contributions: Crème de Mint: $10,000 and above Robert Brenner Carnegie Corporation of New York Robert Sterling Clark Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation The Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation Lucille Lortel Foundation New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council on the Arts The James B. Oswald Co. The Tony Randall Theatrical Fund The Shubert Foundation, Inc. anonymous SilverMint: $5,000 - $9,999 Axe-Houghton Foundation Virginia Brody Geoffrey & Carol Chinn Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Gardner Grout Foundation Edgar & Renee Jackson The Edith Luytens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation DJ McManus Foundation Newman’s Own Foundation The Ted Snowden Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinebrg Charitable Trust Mary Elisabeth Swerz
DONORS
ChocolateMint: $1500 - $4999 American Theater Wing Malvin & Lea Bank Eugene & Joann Bissell Edith C. Blum Foundation Inc Edward & Lori Forstein Mr. & Mrs. Ciro Gamboni The Heidtke Foundation Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation Dorothy Loudon Foundation Karl Lunde Edith Meiser Foundation The New York Times Company Foundation Fund for Mid-size Theaters, a project of A.R.T./New York G & L Picard Foundation Jeffrey & Judith Prussin Susan & Jon Rotenstreich Gary A. Schonwald Wallace Schroeder Stephen D. & Elsa A. Solender The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Sukenik Family Foundation Michael Tuch Foundation SpearMint: $600 - $1499 American Friends of Theatre Inc. Sari Anthony Jonathan Bank Linda Calandra Jon Clark Jeffrey Compton & Norma Ellen Foote Grover Connell
Cory & Bob Donnally Charitable Fund Monte Engler Fine Family Foundation Holly Fogler & Michael Solender Ruth Friendly The Gordon Foundation Ronald Guttman Hickrill Foundation Joseph Family Charitable Trust Peter Haring Judd Fund Joan Kedziora, MD. Mildred C. Kuner Eugene M. Lang Foundation Penny Luedtke/The Luedtke Agency Carol & Dick Netzer The New York Times Company Foundation Naomi & Gerald Patlis Pfizer Foundation Eleanor Reissa & Roman Dworecki Howard Rieger The Rogers Family Foundation/Mary R. Guettel George Robb State of New York – Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Harriet Seiler David Stenn Suzanne & Jon Stout Dennis & Katherine Swanson Litsa Tsitsera Steven Williford Mrs. Thomas Wyman anonymous DoubleMint (First Priority Club): $150 - $599 Lisa Ackerman Actors Equity Foundation David R. Adler Judith Aisen & Kenneth Vittor Louis Alexander Steve Allen & Caroline Thompson Linda Alster Laura Altschuler Stephen Anderson & Amy Cohn Marc Anello Carmen Anthony AT&T Foundation Mitch Bacharach Mary Bacon & Andrew Leynse Earl Bailey Bank of America Richard Barnes & Marta Gross Julia Beardwood & Jonathan Willens Robert & Ellie Berlin Nidia Besso Elizabeth Bicknell David M. Blank Steven Blier Bernice & Frederick Block
The Gramercy Park Foundation Inc. Virginia Gray Arthur Grayzel, MD & Claire Lieberwitz Harry Greenwald & Babette Krolik Antonia & George Grumbach The Rogers Family Foundation/Mary R. Guettel Victoria Guthrie Gunilla Haac James C. & Julia Hall Katherine Halmi Mimi Halpern Bob & Lynne Hanson Carol Hekimian Reily Hendrickson Cory & Art Henkel Sigrid Hess Barbara Hill Eleanor Hodges Edward & Dorothy Hoffner Milton & Madelaine Horowitz Anne Humphreys Anna B. Iacucci Camille Infranco & Edwin Partikian Karene Infranco Harriet & Elihu Inselbuch Jocelyn Jacknis Ellie Jacob Neil & Cathy Janovic Morton & Dahlia Jarashow James & Jacqueline Johnson Johnson & Johnson Roberta A. Jones Gerhard Joseph Eleanor M. Kahn Jane Kapsales Regina Kelly Laurie Kennedy & Keith Mano Gerald Kiel David H. Kirkwood & Annie Thomas Kaori Kitao Caral G. Klein William & Elizabeth Kloner Susanna Kochan-Lorch & Steven Lorch Sarah Kovner Karl Kroeber Carmel Kuperman Lester Kushner David & Mary Lambert Richard & Lee Laster Kent Lawson & Carol Tambor Gordon & Margaret Leavitt Ira & Gloria Leeds Eliot & Jane Leibowitz Dr. Albert Leizman Roy & Rachel Levit Barbara & Herbert Levy Carol & Stanley Levy Sheldon & Lucille Lichtblau Eva Lichtenberg & Arnold Tobin Allon Lifschitz Susan Linder
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Louis Blumberg Rose-Marie Boller & Webb Turner Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Borer Dorothy Borg Lori & Rick Borman Lynn Brenner Patricia Broderick June Barbi Brogan Ann Butera Elaine B. Bye Peter Cameron Richard Carroll Andrew H. Chapman & Stefania de Kenessey Lynne Charnay Stephen & Elena Chopek The City College of the City University of New York Steven Coe Herbert & Phyllis Cohen Kathleen H. Corcoran Penelope & Peter Costigan Stuart Davidson Anthony & Ruth Demarco Susanne Diamond Robert & Ruth Diefenbach M. Burton Drexler Martin & Mina Ellenberg Jack Ellenberger Marjorie Ellenbogen Fred & Sara Epstein Jeanne Epstein Don & Grace Eremin Judith Eschweiler Susan Etra & Michael Yeoli H. Read Evans ExxonMobil William Finnegan Angela T. Fiore Nicholas & Edmee Firth Eva & Norman Fleischer Barbara Fleischman Charles Flowers Fred Forrest Donald Fowle & Lionel Lorona Nancy Fowler Phyllis Fox & George Sternlieb Foundation Richard Frankel Productions Dr. Mio Fredland Sandra & Burton Freeman Loren Friedman Dr. H. Paul & Delores Gabriel Mary Ann & John Garland James C. Giblin Ardian Gill & Anna L. Hannon Howard & Joann Girsh David & Suellen Globus Ruth Golbin Joyce Golden Charles & Jane Goldman Caryl Goldsmith Gordon & Mary Gould Anna Grabarits
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Kathleen Lingo Joel & Diane Lipset Ruth Lord Daniel Loos Macken Mary Rose Main John & Vivian Majeski Robert & Marcia Marafioti Jacqueline Maskey Margaret Mastrianni Anne McCrory Betsy McKenny Martin & Martha Meisel Richard Mellor, Jr. John D. Metcalfe Ivan & Leila Metzger Radley Metzger Muffie Meyer Bernard & Lusia Milch Judith K.& Allan Mohl Elaine & Richard Montag Elaine Montgomery Virginia & Robert Montgomery Larry & Doreen Morales Joseph Morello George Morfogen Ronald & Elaine Morris Janet & Daniel Murnick Erick Neher The New School Dorinda J. Oliver Robert O’Neill Peter & Marilyn Oswald Richard & Dorothy Oswald Daniel & Polly Paladino Satoko Parker Bruce & Gwen Pasquale John & Judith Peakes Robert & Susan Peterson-Neuhaus Penina Petruck Stepanie Pierson David & Jean Plessett Jack & Ina Polak Irwin & Sheila Polishook David & Phyllis Quickel R Promotions Inc. Susan & Peter Ralston Anthony & Marianne Reed Joe Regan Jim J. Reynolds Howard Reiger Irven Rinard William Robbins Earl S. & Phyllis Roberts Theodore Rogers Sylvia Rosen Claire Rosenstein Mark Rossier Isaiah & Enid Rubin, MD. Jordin Ruderman & Kevin Shand Anita Sanford Ray & Kit Sawyer
Anne Kaufman Schneider Irwin Schwartz Phyllis Schwartz Sherry Schwartz Susan Scott William & Earlyne S. Seaver The Martin E. Segal Revocable Trust Barbara Seril Donald & Barbara Shack Carole M. Shaffer-Koros & Robert M. Koros Richard & Camille Sheely Martin Y. & Kayla J. Silberberg Rob Sinacore Rayna & Martin Skolnik Lily N. Smith Philip Smith Dr. Norman Solomon Linda & Jerry Spitzer Erika Stadtlander Stagedoor Entertainment Alec Stais Nicholas Stathis Lee Steelman Bob & Sherry Steinberg Ilene Stone Ulrich & Elaine Strauss Stella Strazdas Pamela Stubing Larry E. Sullivan Mary Swartz Kathryn Swintek Gerda Taranow Douglas Tarr Anne Teshima Thomson Tax & Accounting Peter & Roberta Tomback Jill Tran Ken & Linda Treitel Charles & Susan Tribbitt Jan Vinokour The Ellen M. Violett & Mary P. R. Thomas Foundation, Inc Bill Vicic & Brian Colbath Joan & Bob Volin Younghee Wait Edith & Gordon Wallace Saul & Lillian Wechter The Sandra and George Weiksner Foundation Frank & Denie Weil Richard Weisman Howard M. & Patricia Weiss Zoe Caldwell Whitehead Robert & Lillian Williams Vincent & Marsha Williams James Wolcott Kenneth Zarecor anonymous This list represents donations made from July 2006 through February 2008. Every effort is made to insure its accuracy. Please contact us regarding any mistakes.
THE FIFTH COLUMN STAFF Assistant Director Assistant Production Manager Assistant Set Designer Assistant Costume Designer Assistant Lighting Designer Assistant Sound Designer Costume Assistants Master Electrician Electricians Head Carpenter Carpenters Scenic Charge Scenic Artists Wardrobe Supervisor Run Crew Board Operator House Managers Box Office Assistant
Jerry Ruiz Kelly Moore Lara Fabian Hunter Kaczorowski Ben Krall Enrico Wey Katie Chihaby, Grier Coleman Guy Carden Wavetek Productions Carlo Adinolfi Jeff Marsey, Matthew Moss, Chris Zeig Julia Hahn Mona Heigler, Brian Howard Kathy Lee, Sarah Rigney Julie Vesselle C.K. Edwards, MichaelWatkins Nicholas Santiago Toni Anita Hull, Allison Rihn Janel Cooke
THE PRODUCERS WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING: Odds Costume Rentals, Juilliard Costume Department, DC Theatricks, Kaufman’s Army/Navy, Western Costume and the tdf Costume Collection for their assistance in this production. Cheryl Brodsky for her help. Waltrudis Buck for the vintage typewriter. Lighting equipment provided by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Ricola Natural Herb Cough Drops courtesy of Ricola USA, Inc.
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MINT THEATER COMPANY STAFF Jonathan Bank Artistic Director Sherri Kotimsky General Manager Colleen T. Sullivan Box Office Manager Hunter Kaczorowski Assistant to the Artistic Director Ellen Mittenthal Development Consultant BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jonathan Bank Linda Calandra Jon Clark Eleanor Reissa Gary Schonwald M. Elisabeth Swerz
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