KATIE ROCHE BY
TERESA DEEVY
PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
JONATHAN BANK FINANCE & PRODUCTION
SHERRI KOTIMSKY
DIRECTED BY
JONATHAN BANK
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.
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.
Under the leadership of Jonathan Bank as Producing 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.”
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 “EnrichMINT Events” enhance the experience of our audience and help to foster an ongoing dialogue around a play. These post-performance discussions feature world class scholars discussing complex topics in an accessible way and are always free and open to the general public.
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.
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 five volumes in our “Reclaimed” series, each featuring the work of a single author: Teresa Deevy, Harley Granville Barker, St. John Hankin and Arthur Schnitzler.
PRODUCTION HISTORY (by author) 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
KATIE ROCHE by
TERESA DEEVY with
Margaret Daly, Patrick Fitzgerald, Jon Fletcher, David Friedlander, Jamie Jackson, John O’Creagh, Wrenn Schmidt, Fiana Toibin SETS
COSTUMES
LIGHTS
Vicki R. Davis
Martha Hally
Nicole Pearce
DIALECTS & DRAMATURGY
SOUND
PROPS
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Joshua Yocom
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Sherri Kotimsky
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Jonathan Bank OPENING NIGHT FEBRUARY 25TH, 2013
Katie Roche is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, 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.
CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
STANISLAUS GREGG
Patrick Fitzgerald
KATIE ROCHE Wrenn Schmidt REUBEN Jamie Jackson MICHAEL MAGUIRE Jon Fletcher AMELIA GREGG
Margaret Daly
JO MAHONY David Friedlander MARGARET DRYBONE
Fiana Toibin
FRANK LAWLOR
John O'Creagh
SETTING:
The action of the play takes place in the living room of Amelia Gregg’s cottage in Lower Ballycar, Ireland, 1936. Act I. An August afternoon. Act II. Four months later. Act III. Eight months later. There will be two 10 minute intermissions.
MARGARET DALY
JAMIE JACKSON
PATRICK FITZGERALD
JON FLETCHER
DAVID FRIEDLANDER
JOHN O'CREAGH
WRENN SCHMIDT
FIANA TOIBIN
A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR JONATHAN BANK
The conflict that I find in almost all of Teresa Deevy’s plays is between ambition and contentment, between striving and acceptance, pride and humility. “Only a fool is content when he could have better,” James Whelan argues. “What good is any man if he don’t outdo who’s living beside of him?” Min asks in Temporal Powers. Content? “That’s the worst we could be—” says Martin Shea in The Wild Goose. But in each of these plays, the argument for acceptance and humility is also stated with conviction. Rarely do her plays resolve the conflict. I can imagine, given the fierce and even-handed struggle she depicts, that in her own youth Deevy herself was deeply ambitious and proud. She created so many vital young women, like Ellie Irwin of In Search of Valour who admires Shakespeare’s Coriolanus for his disdainful superiority: “He done things proper…tramplin’ on the lot of them to the end of his life.” And Annie Kinsella, who imagines herself the King of Spain’s Daughter, riding white ships. And like Katie Roche, a brave and spirited woman who is one of Deevy’s most ambitious characters. “I am done with humble,” she proclaims: “I was meant to be proud!” Deevy makes Katie’s ambition wonderfully attractive and compelling, so compelling that we may even want her to achieve the grandeur that she longs for, and we may resent anyone who stands in her way. But I wonder if that’s what Deevy was after. Late in her career Deevy wrote a play for broadcast called One Look and What it Led To focused on another brave and spirited young woman, Mary Magdalene. Mary is transformed by one look. “She that was proud and haughty…now so humble—you’d love her for it…” Talking about her transformation later, one woman points out the struggle she may have faced, “You can’t tell what went on within her.” Whatever the struggle, Deevy herself seems to have “conquered”. James Cheasty, a Waterford playwright who was her friend later in her life wrote an appreciation on the occasion of her death in 1963. As a person Teresa Deevy was, first of all heroic. She did not allow herself to be oppressed by a severe physical handicap which would have daunted countless others of lesser courage. The fact that she achieved success as a writer in spite of this handicap was to say the least remarkable. But she was a remarkable woman in many ways. Her kindness and simplicity of manner were well known to all those who had the pleasure of knowing her. Truly it can be said of her that she had the humility of the great.
Jonathan Bank
THE TERESA DEEVY PROJECT “Of all the lost names unearthed by the Mint Theater Company, surely the most significant has been the rediscovery of the Irish playwright Teresa Deevy.”
David Barbour, Lighting and Sound America
PRODUCTIONS
WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN Jonathan Bank July 29, 2010-October 3, 2010 directed by
A love story examining a conflict between ambition and contentment, WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN was originally shunned by Ireland’s Abbey Theater, despite their having already produced six of Deevy’s plays between 1930 and 1936. Our production, the play’s American premiere, marked the beginning of Mint’s ambitious Teresa Deevy Project. Shawn Fagan and Rosie Benton
“The Mint Theater is certainly making an elegant case that the Abbey Theater in Dublin missed an opportunity almost 70 years ago when it declined to produce WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN… never less than compelling.” Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times
“Deevy’s dialogue, colloquially simple and straightforward, seems artless at first. But on closer inspection, it turns out to gleam, like rich ore, with glints of subtext’s precious metal. Hearingimpaired or not, she listened acutely.” Michael Feingold, The Village Voice
Janie Brookshire and Shawn Fagan
THE TERESA DEEVY PROJECT
PRODUCTIONS
TEMPORAL POWERS directed by
Jonathan Bank
August 3, 2011- October 9, 2011
The Mint continued The Deevy Project with a production of TEMPORAL POWERS. Teresa Deevy’s explosive love story won first-prize in the new play competition held in 1932 by Ireland’s world-famous Abbey Theatre. It was revived once by the Abbey in 1937, and then almost vanished forever until the Mint finally gave the play its American Premiere.
Aidan Redmond and Rosie Benton
“A couple struggling mightily with poverty and each other find a sack of cash wedged in the eave of the ruined hovel they’re living in, having been evicted the day before. She wants to keep it; he wants to turn it over to the church. What unfolds is a rich and richly troubling portrait of a marriage, and a community, struggling in the vast, disaster-pocked no-man’s-land between comforting moral absolutes and total exigency. ” Scott Brown, New York Magazine
“Unfailingly moving.” Eli James and Wrenn Schmidt
perceptive,
poetic,
and
The New Yorker
READINGS THE KING OF SPAIN’S DAUGHTER September 19, 2010 STRANGE BIRTH December 6, 2010 LIGHT FALLING April 11, 2011 IN THE CELLAR OF MY FRIEND August 22, 2011 WITHIN A MARBLE CITY and EYES AND NO EYES February 23, 2013
Shawn Fagan (Wife to James Whelan) and Ellen Adair (What the Public Wants) in light falling by Teresa Deevy
THE TERESA DEEVY PROJECT
PUBLICATIONS
TERESA DEEVY RECLAIMED Volume One TEMPORAL POWERS, KATIE ROCHE, WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN
Jonathan Bank, John P. Harrington, and Christopher Morash edited by
“Deevy’s work should, and hopefully will, be known to a wider audience. This edition of her three act plays, the first of two planned volumes, could do much to help that hope. The play scripts and play introductions provide a real resource for teaching, as well as greatly aiding researchers and theatre historians. Ultimately, what the Mint Theater productions and this edition of her plays show, is that Deevy is a writer for right now, not a figure to be relegated to the dusty past of theatre history.” Emilie Pine, University College, Dublin Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
“Deevy surely belongs in the canon of the Irish playwrights we return to from the first half of the 20th century, not far behind the greats like Synge and O’Casey. Her prime turf is the small town hinterland, conveying a distinctive Irish sensibility and ambiance, moral and social; but her subject is the rocky field of intimate human relations. She creates characters who are neither types nor symbols, but mixed, difficult, quirky, needy, stubborn, self-wounding and occasionally selftranscending, like the rest of us. Her language is eloquent as action and interaction, original, seeming plain and unpretentious and true to character, and marvelously effective on the stage.”
Martin Meisel, Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus of English & Dramatic Literature, Columbia University
TERESA DEEVY RECLAIMED Volume Two edited by
Jonathan Bank, John P. Harrington, and Christopher Morash
IN SEARCH OF VALOUR THE KING OF SPAIN’S DAUGHTER HOLIDAY HOUSE DIGNITY STRANGE BIRTH LIGHT FALLING
EYES AND NO EYES WITHIN A MARBLE CITY GOING BEYOND ALMA’S GLORY ONE LOOK AND WHAT IT LED TO IN THE CELLAR OF MY FRIEND CONCERNING MEAGHER
TERESA DEEVY ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
She was sent to London to study lipreading. To practice, she went to the theater. Night after night, she sat in the front row, entranced. The plays of Shaw and Chekhov were her favorite. She admired their richly drawn characters, finely crafted dialogue, and serious themes. Long ago, her mother had encouraged her to write stories. Now Tessa knew how she wanted to tell them. She decided to become a playwright.
TERESA DEEVY (1894-1963) Teresa Deevy was born on January 21, 1894 at Landscape, her family’s home in Waterford. Nicknamed Tessa, she was the youngest of 13 children. Her father died when she was two, so Tessa formed an especially close bond with her mother. Mrs. Deevy fostered young Tessa’s imagination, encouraging her to make up stories about the people and things she saw about the house. Details were important- the way light fell across a door frame, the difference between an August morning and an October afternoon—all these made a difference. This stayed with Tessa throughout her writing life. In 1913, Tessa enrolled at University College, Dublin. She wanted to become a teacher, but after a few months she was struck by a mysterious illness. Her ears rang; she would suddenly get so dizzy so couldn’t stand up; her head throbbed. Doctors eventually diagnosed her with Meniere’s disease, an incurable condition caused by fluid imbalance in the inner ear. Meniere’s can cause deafness, and by 1914, at the age of 20, Tessa had completely lost her hearing.
It was an unusual ambition. Tessa had no theatrical connections. As a woman and as a person who was deaf, she didn’t fit the then-typical image of a playwright. But she was undaunted. Tessa had a quiet genius for understanding the intricacies of the human heart. Her plays would show not only a distinct gift for dialogue, but an uncanny appreciation for meaning hidden between the lines. Years after her death, Tessa’s nephew Jack would recall her striking ability to read people’s thoughts even before they spoke them—a sixth sense perhaps heightened by her deafness. In 1925, at age 31, Tessa finally felt ready to send her plays to the Abbey, Ireland’s national theater. They were rejected, but one reader had been particularly impressed. This was Lennox Robinson, the Abbey’s managing director and a playwright himself. (Mint audiences may remember his Is Life Worth Living? from 2009). He encouraged Tessa to keep writing. In 1930, at Robinson’s urging, the Abbey accepted Tessa’s Reapers, a sweeping family epic set in a rural “big house.” In 1932, Tessa won first prize in the Abbey’s new play contest with Temporal Powers (seen at the Mint in 2011). After seeing Temporal Powers, author Frank O’Connor sent Tessa this note: “When I saw Reapers, I knew something was happening. When I saw your new play, I realized it had happened with a vengeance.” The years from 1930 to 1936 were among the happiest in Tessa’s life. She moved to
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Dublin with her sister, Nell, who served as a companion and interpreter. She had six plays produced at the Abbey and was considered one of Ireland’s most promising playwrights. Her most popular play, Katie Roche (1936), about an illegitimate servant girl who longs to achieve greatness, was produced in Dublin and London and was included in the Abbey’s 1937 American tour. It was also published in Victor Gollancz’s influential anthology “Famous Plays”. Then, in the 1940’s, the Abbey mysteriously turned down Tessa’s next play, Wife to James Whelan (seen at the Mint in 2010). Tessa’s career at the Abbey was effectively over, though they continued to revive some of her older work (Katie Roche was revived five times during her lifetime) and they produced her one act Light Falling at their experimental space, the Peacock, in 1948. (Light Falling was read at the Mint’s benefit in 2010). Deevy eventually managed to find other venues for her new work: Wife to James Whelan was produced at Dublin’s tiny Studio Theatre in 1956, Light Falling was the curtain-raiser for Jack McGowran’s production of Shadow of A Gunman at London’s Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 1957. Meanwhile, to support herself, Tessa turned her attention to the burgeoning field of radio. Between 1938 and 1946, she wrote over a dozen plays for the B.B.C. and Radio Éireann, as well as adapted her stage plays for broadcast. She supervised rehearsals by reading the actors’ lips and amazed everyone with her precise orchestration of sound. Teresa’s beloved sister Nell died in February 1954. Without Nell as her interpreter, Tessa could not survive in Dublin. Heartbroken, she returned home to Landscape. Tessa was now removed from the center of Ireland’s artistic life, but she was not yet forgotten. In October 1954, she was elected to the Irish Academy of Letters, Ireland’s highest literary honor, though without Nell the triumph was bittersweet.
Landscape, Deevy’s Home
Gradually, as the years passed, people forgot Tessa. Many Waterford townsfolk weren’t aware she was a playwright. To them, she was a sweet old lady on a bicycle who wore mismatched socks. Poet Sean Dunn recalled her eccentric reputation: In the Fifties, she was a thin woman on a bicycle, her gray hair tucked under one of an assortment of strange hats. She rode through the streets of Waterford and those who knew her tensed as she passed in case a car might hit her. She heard nothing and just cycled on with the nonchalance of a girl cycling along a country lane. Her clothes never seemed to match. She was seen wearing sandals or runners even in the middle of winter. Some people thought she’d once written plays. Others knew it, but it was a long time ago. In her final years, Tessa’s vertigo—a recurrent symptom of Meniere’s—worsened. Hardly able to stand on her own, and losing her eyesight, she was moved to Maypark Nursing Home. She died there on January 19, 1963. James Cheasty, a poet and one of Tessa’s protégés, wrote in her obituary for the Irish Independent: Teresa Deevy is dead, but she will not be forgotten. Those of us who were her friends can never forget her kindness and her great humanity. For remembrance among the general public she has left behind her work, which is monumental.
KATIE ROCHE BIOGRAPHIES
MARGARET DALY (Amelia Gregg) At the Mint: Is Life Worth Living? Other OffBroadway/New York: Alphabetical Order, Theophilus North (Keen Company), All Day Suckers, T.L.C. (NY Int’l Fringe). National Tour: The Importance of Being Earnest (dir: Sir Peter Hall). Regional: American premiere of Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art (The Studio Theatre; Helen Hayes Award Nom.); Othello (The American Shakespeare Collective); Bill W. and Dr. Bob (Cleveland Play House); A Delicate Balance, Jane Eyre (The Guthrie); Mark Twain’s The Diary of Adam & Eve (Vineyard Playhouse); The Time of Your Life, A Mother, Juno and the Paycock, A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); Present Laughter, Hedda Gabler (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Rhinoceros, The House of Blue Leaves (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and many others, including three seasons with Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Founding Member: The American Shakespeare Collective. Film: “Manhattan Romance”. TV: “Boardwalk Empire”, “The Following”, “Mercy”, “One Life to Live”, “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: CI”, “Nash Bridges”. PATRICK FITZGERALD (Stanislaus Gregg) made his stage debut in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s first production The Plough and the Stars. He has appeared in Whistle in the Dark, Playboy of the Western World, Philadelphia Here I Come, The Shaughraun (twice), Hal Prince’s Grandchild Of Kings (Clarence Derwent award) and numerous other productions for the company. Other theatre credits include The Sisters Rosensweig (Lincoln Center and Broadway), Mike Leigh’s Ecstacy (New Group-Obie Award), Mojo (Atlantic) and A Clockwork Orange (Steppenwolf). Film credits include Marian Quinn’s “32A” and Terry Kinney’s “Diminished Capacity”. His own play, Gibraltar: An adaptation after James Joyce’s Ulysses, opened in Dublin on
January 1st 2012; to celebrate Joyce’s works coming into the Public domain. Co-starring Cara Seymour, Gibraltar will be produced this May/June as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre’s 25th anniversary season. JON FLETCHER (Michael Maguire) is thrilled to be back at the Mint, and back working in Deevyland, after playing Apollo Moran in Wife to James Whelan. Broadway: Bonnie and Clyde. Off-Broadway/New York: Giant (Public Theater), A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Irish Rep), Fortress of Solitude (CTG), Irma la Douce. Nat’l Tours/ regional: 25th Ann. Tour Les Miserables, The Who’s Tommy (Lyric OKC). Film/TV: “The Good Wife” (CBS), “Pan Am” (ABC). Cheers to my Family, Friends, and Mariss. @realjonfletcher DAVID FRIEDLANDER (Jo Mahony) is proud to be making his Off-Broadway and Mint Theater debut with Katie Roche. Previous credits include Amadeus (Venticello), The Little Prince (King), Romeo and Juliet (Peter, Gregory), and Stones in His Pockets (Jake) all with PlayMakers Repertory Company, Twelfth Night (Sebastian) with the Mountain Playhouse, The Boss (Lawrence Duncan) at the Metropolitan Playhouse, and a second run of Stones in His Pockets at the Majestic Theatre, MA. Last season also saw his television debut with HBO’s “Girls”. Education: MFA; The University of North Carolina; BA Yale University. JAMIE JACKSON (Rueben) is excited to be making his Mint debut. Born and trained in Australia, his theatre credits include: The 39 Steps (Off-Broadway), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (National tour), Sweeney Todd, Phantom, My Fair Lady (Gateway Playhouse), Annie, Michael Archangel (Fulton Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Pioneer Theatre), The Brain that Wouldn’t Die! (NYMF), Great Expectations
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(Goodspeed Opera), King Lear, The Crucible, Henry IV, Part 1 (Sydney Theatre Company). TV: “Zero Hour” (ABC), “Flight of the Conchords” (HBO). Film: “My Man Is A Loser”. With his wife, composer SoHee Youn, Jamie has written several musicals including I Spy a Spy! (which will have a NY workshop, Feb. 2013) and Love: A Multiple Choice Question (NY Fringe, York Theatre, and Sydney and Melbourne, Australia). Jamie also performs standup for Laughing Liberally. Love and gratitude to SoHee, and Henderson Hogan Agency. www.jamiejackson.com JOHN O’CREAGH (Frank Lawlor) is delighted to be returning to the Mint. He has just returned from the National Tour of West Side Story, in which he played Doc. He has also appeared as Chris Christopherson in Anna Christie and on television in “John Adams”, “Life On Mars”, “Law and Order SVU”, “Kidnapped”, and “Sex and The City”. He’s currently preparing a book of light verse for publication. WRENN SCHMIDT (Katie Roche) at the Mint: Temporal Powers. Broadway: Come Back, Little Sheba (MTC). National tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner. OffBroadway: Beyond the Horizon, Sive (Irish Repertory Theatre); Be a Good Little Widow (Ars Nova); Jailbait (Cherry Lane Theater); Phantom Killer (Abingdon Theatre Company); Caesar & Cleopatra (Resonance Ensemble); Crazy for the Dog (Jean Cocteau Repertory). Regional: Proof (Cape May Stage) and Heaven (Kitchen Dog Theater). Film: “Our Idiot Brother”, “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” (“The Projectionist’s Best Performances of 2010”, NY Magazine), “The Necklace”, and “Javelina”. Upcoming: “How to Follow Strangers”. TV: Julia Sagorsky on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”, “Blue Bloods”, “Body of Proof”, “Mercy”, “Law & Order”,
and “3 LBS”. Training: SCGSAH and Meadows School of the Arts, SMU (BFA). Love to DSM & JR. FIANA TOIBIN (Margaret Drybone) at the Mint: Temporal Powers, The Glass Cage. BROADWAY: Long Day’s Journey into Night (with Vanessa Redgrave), The Weir (Royal Court) and Shining City (MTC). OFF-BROADWAY: Sive, The Yeats Project, My Scandalous Life (Irish Repertory Theatre), The Boys (Outhouse), The Ginger Man (IAC), Fire Eater (CSV), Lovers (Abingdon). REGIONAL: Conversations on a Homecoming (Druid/ Donmar Warehouse), Mrs. Packard (McCarter), Cyrano (Shakespeare Theatre DC), The Weir (Pittsburgh Public, Geffen Playhouse), A Streetcar Named Desire, Fen (Ovation Nomination Open Fist LA), After Miss Julie (Purple Heart), Hamlet, The Witches, A Doll’s House. FILM: “Twelve” (Joel Schumacher), “The Boxer”. TV: “Boardwalk Empire” (recurring), “The Sopranos”, all three “Law & Order” shows, “All My Children”, “Fair City”. Fiana was chosen by Backstage for their Best Performances of The Year for her performance as Olive in Crestfall (Origin/59E59) and recently had the pleasure of recording I’m with Ya’ Duke with Jerry Stiller for “Playing On Air”. ALLISON DEUTSCH (Production Stage Manager) Previous Mint Theater credits include – Rutherford and Son, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The Fifth Column, Power of Darkness, The Madras House, Far & Wide, The Voysey Inheritance, No Time For Comedy. Other Off-Broadway credits include: New World Stages – White’s Lies with Betty Buckley and Peter Scolari; Perry Street Theatricals - A Dangerous Personality; Rattlestick - Down South; Om Productions - WASPs In Bed. Regional credits include: Ford’s Theatre – Trying starring James Whitmore; Geva Theatre Center - Gem of the Ocean; Peterborough
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Players - eleven seasons including the World Premiere of This Verse Business starring Gordon Clapp, The 39 Steps, The Admirable Crichton, Measure for Measure, Dr. Knock, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Tartuffe, Little Shop of Horrors, Heartbreak House, Doubt, Our Town, Last 5 Years, The Heiress, Cookin’ at the Cookery, Inherit the Wind, Candida, and Mr. Pim Passes By. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. ANDREA JO MARTIN (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to be back at the Mint! Credits include: the Mint – Rutherford and Son, Temporal Powers, A Little Journey, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The Glass Cage, The Madras House. Broadway: RENT (sub); Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraiser Broadway Backwards 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Off-Broadway: The Vineyard – Checkers (with Anthony LaPaglia & Kathryn Erbe); The York Theatre – Busker Alley (with Glenn Close & Jim Dale), Fanny Hill, A Fine and Private Place, and 10 Musicals in Mufti; at New World Stages – La Barberia, White’s Lies (with Betty Buckley & Peter Scolari), Love Child, Naked Boys Singing! (sub); at Theatre Row – NEWSical (sub), Beauty on the Vine (with Olivia Wilde & David Strathairn), WASPs In Bed; Regional – Heat Wave; at NYMF: Date of a Lifetime, Judas & Me. VICKI R. DAVIS (Sets) Previous productions at the Mint: Rutherford and Son, Temporal Powers, Wife to James Whelan, The Fifth Column, The Skin Game, The Lonely Way, Echoes of the War, Far and Wide, Rutherford & Son, The Voysey Inheritance, Miss Lulu Bett, Welcome to our City, August Snow & Night Dance, The House of Mirth, and The Time of Your Life. Off Broadway: Shpiel, Shpiel, Shpiel, Pirates of Penzance, A Novel Romance, Songs of Paradise, An American Family, Yoshke Muzicant (Folksbiene), Meanwhile, On... Mount Vesuvius (Adobe), Caucasian Chalk
Circle (LaMaMa), ‘Til The Rapture Comes (WPA), The Occupation, Slasher, Out To Lunch and Relative Values. Regional: Arena Stage, The Alliance, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Laguna Playhouse, Starlight Kansas City, Madison Rep., The Barter, Capital Rep., Passages, Georgia Shakespeare, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Utah Opera, Kansas City Opera, Omaha Opera, Theater of the Stars, Boston Lyric Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Chester Theatre, and Music Theater North. Ms. Davis received a TCG/NEA Design Fellowship and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. MARTHA HALLY (Costumes) MINT: Mary Broome, A Little Journey, Wife To James Whelan (Hewes nom.), Is Life Worth Living?, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. NEW YORK: Three Men On A Horse, The Late Christopher Bean, Bedroom Farce (TACT); Secret Order (59E59); Banished Children of Eve, Gaslight, The Field (Irish Repertory Theatre); Treason (Perry St). REGIONAL: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, CenterStage, Resident Ensemble Players (Univ. of Delaware), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theater of St Louis, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage. OPERA: Chicago Opera Theater, Virginia Opera, Little Orchestra Society of Lincoln Center, Center For Contemporary Opera (NYC). UPCOMING: Fever (Theresa Rebeck world premiere, REP), Neville’s Island (Olney), Richard 3 (Idaho Shakespeare/ Great Lakes). www.marthahally.com NICOLE PEARCE (Lights) Previously with the Mint Theater: Wife to James Whelan, Rutherford and Son, and Mary Broome. Selected NY credits include: The American Dream & The Sandbox directed by Edward Albee, The Lady with All the Answers, The Amish Project, & Housebreaking (The Cherry Lane); Beebo Brinker Chronicles
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JOSHUA YOCOM (Props) collaborates with the Mint yet again on Katie Roche. He also propped their productions of 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 JANE SHAW (Sound) Mint production’s the Mayo photography studios. include: Temporal Powers, Wife to James Whelan, Love Goes To Press, Mary Broome, AMY STOLLER (Dialects & Dramaturgy) A Little Journey, Dr. Knock, Return of has been the Mint’s resident dialect designer/ the Prodigal, Fifth Column, Widowing of coach (and occasional dramaturge) since Mrs. Holroyd (Lortel Nomination). New 1996—most recently for Mary Broome, York: Food and Fadwa, Red Dog Howls Love Goes to Press, and Rutherford and (New York Theater Workshop), Figaro Son. Previous Mint highlights include (the Pearl), Supernatural Wife (Big Dance Teresa Deevy’s Temporal Powers and Theater - BAM), Lincoln Center 3, Theater Wife to James Whelan, The Daughterfor a New Audience. Regional: Breath and in-Law, Milne at the Mint, Echoes of the Imagination (Hartford Stage), RED (Maltz War, and The Voysey Inheritance. Other Jupiter and Asolo), In the Next Room, or the New York credits: Dedalus Lounge (Royal vibrator play (Cleveland Playhouse), and Family); A Moon for the Misbegotten and productions at the Denver Center Theatre The Bald Soprano (Pearl); Let Me Down Company (Henry Award for The Catch), Easy at Second Stage (also national tour); City Theater (Pittsburgh), Williamstown productions at Keen, Origin, Drama League Theater Festival, Capital Rep (Albany), DirectorFest, Urban Stages, Boomerang, Yale Repertory, Dorset Theater Festival, others. Regional credits include the premiere Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Upcoming of Anna Deavere Smith’s On Grace at shows include Jackie (Women’s Project) Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; four and La Casa de los Espiritus (Gala Theater, world premieres at the Long Wharf; Arena Washington D.C.). Recipient: NEA-TCG Stage, ART, People’s Light & Theatre, and Career Development Grant, Premios ACE Peterborough Players. Television includes award (Repertorio Español), Meet the Anna Deavere Smith’s “Let Me Down Easy” Composer. Graduate of Harvard and the on PBS “Great Performances,” animated series, commercials, and a documentary. Yale School of Drama. Learn more at www.stollersystem.com. directed by Leigh Silverman (37Arts); US Drag & Edgewise directed by Trip Cullman; Carmina Burana (Carnegie Hall); Savage in Limbo directed by Pam MacKinnon (The Juilliard School); Penalties & Interests (LABrynth Theatre Company) Expats, Strangers Knocking (The New Group); Betrothed (Ripetime Productions); Sakhram Binder (The Play Company); Trial by Water (Ma-Yi Theatre Company). Regionally: Sugar Syndrome; A Nervous Smile and Blithe Spirit directed by Maria Mileaf (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Dance with choreographers Mark Morris, Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, Jessica Lang, and Andrea Miller; Netherlands Dance Theater; Introdans; Brimingham Royal Ballet; Ballet Memphis & The Joffrey Ballet.
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JESSE MARCHESE (Assistant to the Director) most recently directed 50 Things I Love about Frank for Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival as well as assisted the Mint’s Mary Broome and Rutherford & Son. Jesse’s work as a director has also been seen at New World Stages with Moses Mogilee’s original production of Ghosts of Provincetown: two one-act plays. Jesse would like to thank Jonathan Bank for this wonderful experience. AMY SCHECTER (Casting) casting for the Mint since 2005.
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DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Press Representatives) also represents INTAR, Keen Company, New Federal Theater, Red Bull Theater, and the annual Summer Shorts Festival, as well as the Off-Broadway hits Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience, Black Angels Over Tuskegee, Rain Pryor’s Fried Chicken & Latkes, and the entertainment complex New World Stages and its parent company, Stage Entertainment. David serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers (where he is chair of the Press Agent Chapter) and is a member of the OffBroadway League and a founder of the OffBroadway Alliance.www.davidgersten.com THE PEKOE GROUP 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 Forbidden Broadway, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Mint Theater Company, Second Stage Theatre, I Love Lucy Live on Stage, Season of Cambodia, All The Rage, Women of Will, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, and more. www.thepekoegroup.com
SHERRI KOTIMSKY (Finance & Production) 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, including Theater Breaking through Barriers and Premieres. JONATHAN BANK (Producing Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint since 1996. Most recently for the Mint, Bank directed Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse, Temporal Powers and Wife to James Whelan by Teresa Deevy. Other Mint credits include: Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me God! at the 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 and above The Estate of Barbara F. Austin Bloomberg Philanthropies Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation The Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation 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 Lea & Malvin Bank Linda Calandra 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 & Roman Dworecki Wallace Schroeder Sukenik Family Foundation Kathryn Swintek & Andre Dorra anonymous
SpearMint: $1000 - $2,499 Harry & Gay Abrams/ Abrams Artists Agency Louise Arias Jonathan Bank & Katie Firth Robert Brenner Russ Charlton & Julie Norwell Jon Clark & Ryan Franco Grover Connell Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable Foundation Jenn & Greg Ezring Edmee & Nicholas Firth The Friars Foundation Ruth Friendly Agnes & Emilio Gautier Mary Geissman Beverly & Herbert Goldfarb Lila & Victor Goldin The Gordon Foundation Ronald Guttman Sarina Gwirtzman Julia B. Hall Carol & Patrick Hemingway Hickrill Foundation Christopher Joy & Cathy Velenchik William Karatz Joan Kedziora, MD. 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 Helen S. Tucker, The Gramercy Park Foundation 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 Margaret & James Andreassi Linda Alster Linda & Lloyd Alterman Laura Altschuler Marc Anello Carmen Anthony Symla & 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 Barbara Berliner & Sol Rymer Al Berr William Berley Clinton Best Evelyn Bishop Joann & Gene Bissell 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 in honor of Sharron Bower 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 Robbie Capp Larry Carlson James Carroll Richard Carroll Chris Catoggio Aurelie Cavallaro Lynne Charnay Robin Chase Carolyn Chave Jean Churchill
Joseph Cimmet Abraham Clott Steven R. Coe Toni Coffee 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 Louise Hirschfeld Cullman Sue & Stuart Davidson David Day Ruth & Anthony DeMarco Denny Denniston & Chris 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 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 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 Janey & Jerry Fodor Helene Foley Charles Forma Donald W. Fowle & Lionel Lorona Victor Franco Charlotte Frank Diana & Jeffrey Frank Joan & Edward Franklin Bobby & Vicki Freeman
Barbara & Robert Gaims-Speigel Dr. H. Paul & Delores Gabriel Eugene Gantzhorn Michael Garber Mary Ann & John Garland Phyllis Gelfman James Giblin Ardian Gill & Anna L. Hannon Suellen & David Globus Ruth Golbin Joyce Golden Gloria Goldenberg Jane & Charles Goldman 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 James Hammond Joseph Hardy Frederica Harlow Laura & David Harris 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 Barbara Hogan Heather & Bruce Horner Tobey Horowitz Wesley & William Janeway Wendy & David Johnston 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 Susan Jeffries Jacqueline & James Johnson 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 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 Drs. Robert M. Koros & Carole M. Shaffer-Koros 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 Christopher Lawrence 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 Bette Lyons Mary Rose Main Jane Anne Majeski Vivian & John Majeski Miriam Malach David Mann Barry Margolius Jean & Robert Markley Erica Marks
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KATIE ROCHE STAFF Assistant Production Manager Wayne Yeager Assistant Costume Designer Leah Alice Mitchell Assistant Lighting Designer Alling Langin Assistant to the Director Jesse Marchese Box Office Manager Adrienne Scott Board Operator Ebony Burton Production Intern/Deck Crew Ruby Hutson-Ellenberg Rehearsal Intern Kelsey Shapira Costume/Wardrobe Intern Yael Rose Office Intern Dominika Sieruta House Manager Valena David Program Design Assistant Lee Scott Videographer Joshua Paul Johnson Advertising, Marketing & Web Site Design The Pekoe Group / Amanda Pekoe, Jessica Ferreira, Jason Murray, Matthew Perreault, Katlyn Campbell, Negeen Ghaisar, Trevor Hock Press Representation David Gersten Associates / David Gersten, Daniel DeMello Lighting installed by the Lighting Syndicate Set constructed by Carlo Adinolfi KATIE ROCHE rehearsed at Manhattan Theater Club’s Creative Center The producers would like to thank Mairéad Delaney, Abbey Theatre Archivist; TDF Costume Collection and University of Delaware Theater Dept. for its assistance in this production. Alterations by Studio Rouge. Lighting equipment provided in part by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of ResidentTheaters/New York through the generous support of the New York City council and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs.
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