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All events take place immediately after the performance and usually last about fifty minutes. They are free and open to the public, no ticket necessary, though seating is subject to availability. Speakers and dates may change. Saturday, September 7 after the matinee: Foster Hirsch, author of George Kelly—a critical biography published in Twayne’s United States Author Series Sunday, September 8 after the matinee: Dr. Mark Caldwell, Senior Professor of English, Fordham University Sunday, September 15 after the matinee: Trav S.D., author of No Applause—Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville FAmous Saturday, September 21 after the matinee: James J. Kolb, Professor of Drama, Hofstra University WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 after the matinee: MAYA CANTU, Doctoral Candidate, Yale School of Drama EnrichMINT Events are supported in part by a grant from The New York Council for the Humanities and the Michael Tuch Foundation.
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Jonathan Bank, Producing Artistic Director Sherri Kotimsky, Finance & Production presents
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with Cliff Bemis, Teddy Bergman, Bernardo CubrĂa, Jennifer Harmon, Carole Healey, Christine Toy Johnson, Natalie Kuhn, Brian Keith MacDonald, Jennifer McVey, & Rachel Moulton Sets Steven C . Kemp
Costumes c arisa kelly
Props Joshua Yocom
Sound toby algya
Production Manager Sherri Kotimsky
Production Stage Manager Michael block
Graphics Hey Jude Graphics Inc . Illustration Stefano Imbert
Adver tising & Marketing The Pekoe Group
Lights christian deangelis Casting Judy Bowman Assistant Stage Manager Laura kathryne gomez Press Representative David Gersten & Associates
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Jerry Ruiz Philip Goes Forth is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. PHILIP GOES FORTH 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.
cast in alphabetical order Mr. Eldridge
Cliff Bemis
Mr. Shronk
Teddy Bergman
Philip
Bernardo Cubría
Mrs. Ferris Mrs. Oliver
Jennifer Harmon
Mrs. Randolph
Carole Healey Christine Toy Johnson Natalie Kuhn
Cynthia Haines
Brian Keith MacDonald
Edna/hazel
Jennifer McVey
Miss krail
Rachel Moulton
ACT One An upstairs sitting-room in the home of Mrs. Randolph—in a City five hundred miles from New York—on an afternoon in May ACT Two In New York, six months later—the common room at Mrs. Ferris’—on a Friday afternoon in November. ACT Three: The same—the following evening about six-thirty.
Cliff Bemis
Teddy Bergman
Bernardo Cubría
Jennifer Harmon
Carole Healey
Christine Toy Johnson
Natalie Kuhn
Brian Keith MacDonald
Jennifer McVey
Rachel Moulton
about the playwright g e o r g e “It is difficult to describe a George Kelly play...,” wrote Mary McCarthy in 1947, “simply because it is not like anything else while on the surface it resembles every play one has ever been to.” Among the most distinctive of interwar American dramatists writing for the Broadway stage, Pulitzer Prize-winner George Kelly wrote ten full-length plays during a distinguished career in the New York theatre. Drawing comparisons to both Chekhov and Molière, the acerbic yet humane “Kelly Touch” blended the subtle details and rhythms of middle-class domestic life with the sharp contours of satire. Kelly crafted indelible American types in his classic “plays of character” The Torch Bearers, The ShowOff, and Craig’s Wife, as well as an array of underappreciated works. George Edward Kelly was born on January 16, 1887 in Schuylkill Falls, Pennsylvania, the seventh of ten children born to the remarkable “Philadelphia Kellys:” an industrious Irish-Catholic family that, not unlike the patriarch in Philip Goes Forth, built a thriving insurance business out of humble origins. George’s illustrious siblings included Olympic sculling champion and construction mogul John Kelly (also the father of Grace Kelly), and Walter C. Kelly, a vaudeville headliner who became world-famous for his dialect comedy as “The Virginia Judge.” Fastidious and shy in contrast to the bon vivant Walter, George was every bit as stage-struck, and after early apprenticeship as a draftsman, he followed his older brother into the theatre. Beginning in 1911, Kelly acted in touring companies and, from 1915, in vaudeville sketches: a staple of the form alongside song-anddance variety. Vaudeville proved formative training ground for Kelly, who honed his “remarkable instinct for the theatre” on the precision and stage business of the “twoa-day.” Beginning with 1916’s Finders
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Keepers, and aided by his enterprising agent and producer Rosalie Stewart, Kelly found great success as a playwright of sketches on the Keith-Orpheum circuit. After serving in France during WWI, Kelly continued to write such comedies as The Flattering Word (1918; Mint Theater Company, 2000), the first of numerous plays with theatrical subjects. While many of Kelly’s peers studied in college playwriting courses – most notably, in George Pierce Baker’s legendary “Workshop 47” at Harvard – Kelly was described in 1927 by Theater Arts Monthly as “more than other young American playwrights of his generation, distinctly of the theatre.” The early 1920s lifted Kelly to the height of popular and critical acclaim, with plays that he both wrote and directed. While 1922’s The Torch Bearers (based on Kelly’s sketch “Mrs. Ritter Presents”) convulsed audiences with its “travesty on the amateur actor,” 1924’s The ShowOff (based on the sketch “Poor Aubrey”) was hailed as a masterwork by many critics, including Heywood Broun, who called it “the best comedy which has yet been written by an American.” Although Kelly decried the Twenties as “The Vulgar Age,” the era’s go-getting business spirit satirically fueled The Show-Off, whose title character Aubrey Piper became a synonym for a blustering braggart. Kelly
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created another American archetype in the obsessive, destructive housewife of his next play, the 1925 psychological drama Craig’s Wife, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. By this time, a new Kelly play excited comparable anticipation to a new work by Eugene O’Neill, with The New Yorker calling Kelly “America’s greatest dramatist.” After Craig’s Wife, Kelly’s plays declined in favor, as he followed his hits with a number of stringent dramas that strayed away “from the satire upon which his reputation is founded,” according to John Mason Brown. Behold the Bridegroom (1927, about a promiscuous upper-class flapper) and Maggie the Magnificent (1929), evoked the playwright’s puritan upbringing and placed him out of step with the uninhibited Twenties. Nevertheless, critics continued to admire the playwright’s “keen insight” and consummate craftsmanship, and Joseph Wood Krutch observed in 1929, “A George Kelly play that is a failure is often more memorable than the successes of other playwrights.” Kelly returned to a theatrical milieu with 1931’s Philip Goes Forth. The play sparked a critical controversy when Brooks Atkinson, in a lashing New York Times review, accused Kelly of “discouraging incipient dramatists” (a charge vigorously
denied by the playwright). Admirers of the play included Outlook’s Otis ChatfieldTaylor, who called Philip Goes Forth “George Kelly at his best” and quoted a friend’s observation: “I haven’t seen (the play) yet, but I know it’s good. I’ve asked several people how they liked it and they all said, ‘Not very much,’ and then proceeded to take half an hour discussing it.” Disappointed by the mixed reception of Philip, Kelly went forth to Hollywood, where he worked for five years as a script consultant and screenwriter. The artistic constraints of the “Dream Factory” proved no less frustrating to the perfectionist Kelly, and in 1936, he returned to New York. Kelly revisited signature themes in his last Broadway plays. Like both The Torch Bearers and Philip Goes Forth, Reflected Glory (1936), a star vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead, treated the theatre “as a disciplined craft and as an art but also something of a divine calling,” as Foster Hirsch describes. The Deep Mrs. Sykes (1945) and The Fatal Weakness (1946), both unconventional dramas of marital infidelity, recalled Craig’s Wife as character studies of suburban matrons. In Ollie Espenshade, the “sentimental” protagonist of The Fatal Weakness, Kelly created one of his most beguiling and complex female characters.
Katie Finneran, Edward Herrmann, and Andrea Martin in The Torch-Bearers at Williamstown Theater Festival, 2009. Photo by T. Charles Erickson
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Jayne Houdyshell, Clea Alsip and Will Rogers in The Show-Off at the Westport Country Playhouse, 2013. Photo by Carol Rosegg
After a 1947 Broadway revival of Craig’s Wife, directed by the playwright, Kelly shifted into semi-retirement. Although four unpublished plays failed to materialize in production, “Playhouse 90” produced his 1956 teleplay starring Shirley Booth as Washington party hostess Perle Mesta. The same year, Kelly’s niece became one of the most famous women in the world, as the movie star Princess of Monaco. As a young girl dreaming of an acting career, Grace Kelly was fondly encouraged by her Uncle George, who applauded Grace’s turn in one of her first theatrical appearances: a 1949 summer stock production of The Torch Bearers at the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Throughout the decades of his own celebrity, Kelly was deeply reticent about his private life. A 1930 profile in Times Square Tintypes claimed, “(Kelly) honestly dislikes publicity and actually goes out of his way to avoid it.” While the press noted him as a lifelong bachelor, Kelly was actually involved, for over fifty years, with his companion William E. Weagly (a union that Kelly kept closely guarded from his conservative family, to whom Weagly was always presented as his valet and private secretary). With Weagly by his side, Kelly moved in 1957 to a retirement village in Sun City, California. He died at the age of
87 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on June 18, 1974, his plays long out of theatrical fashion. In the twenty-first century, Kelly may no longer be “allowed to pass unremarked” (to quote Mary McCarthy), as regional revivals of The Torch Bearers (Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2009) and The ShowOff (Westport Country Playhouse, 2013) surprise and delight audiences once again. Foster Hirsch writes, in summarizing George Kelly’s singular body of work: “Kelly, in fact, merits much more attention than he has received. His dialogue, his theater business, and his controlled rhythm are unfailingly graceful. Kelly is a miniature portraitist of American manners; and within its own self-imposed limits, his vision is shrewd and rigorous. He is a moralist who mixes his homely sermons with droll, ironic laughter, and his manners plays...are among the most distinctively stylized works in the American repertory. Kelly’s position in American drama is unique and it is high.” MAYA CANTU Maya Cantu is a dramaturg, scholar and theater historian devoted to the revitalization of forgotten classics. She is currently completing her Doctor of Fine Arts degree at Yale School of Drama, where she received her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism in 2010.
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CLIFF BEMIS (Mr. Eldridge) originated the role of Ezekiel Foster in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas on Broadway. Other favorite roles and shows include Chris Christopherson in the first NY revival of New Girl In Town at Irish Rep, Feldzieg in The Drowsy Chaperone, Pool Boy at Barrington Stages, Twist at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Wonderful Town for Reprise! In his hometown of Cleveland, he starred in Jacques Brel... which ran for over two years, and is credited as the show that saved the historic Playhouse Square theatres; and spent seven seasons as a guest artist at the Cleveland Play House. Film work includes “Billy”, “Nancy Drew”, “World Trade Center”, “Au Pair II”, and “Straight Outta Tompkins”. Over 75 TV appearances, including “White Collar”, “Law and Order SVU”, “One Life To Live”, “Coach”, and “Cheers”. He established the Cliff Bemis Music Theatre Scholarship at his alma mater, Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio. Proud member of Actor’s Equity since 1968, visit www.cliffbemis.com. TEDDY BERGMAN (Mr. Shronk) recently finished the Broadway run of the Tony Award Winning play Peter and the Starcatcher where he originated the role of Fighting Prawn. He has also recently completed filming “Fading Gigolo” written and directed by John Turturro and starring John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sofia Vergara, Sharon Stone, and Liev Schrieber. Other theater includes: Sex Lives of Our Parents (2nd Stage), Peter and the Starcatcher (NYTW), Seven Minutes in Heaven (HERE), Hell House (St. Ann’s), I.E. (The Flea), I Was Tom Cruise (Fringe NYC, Best Play Award), and regionally at Williamstown, Huntington, and La Jolla. TV: “Law and Order: SVU,” “As The World Turns,” “Submissions Only.” Film work includes: “Fading Gigolo”, “Hairbrained”, “Julie and Julia”, “Little Big League”, and “Honeymoon in Vegas”. Teddy is a co-founder and Executive Director of Woodshed Collective.
BERNARDO CUBRÍA (Philip) Thanks to Jerry, the cast, and everyone at the Mint for their love and support. Favorite credits include Cesar in Basilica (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Husband in So Go the Ghosts of Mexico (La Mama), Luis in American Jornalero (INTAR), The Man (understudy) in A Summer’s Day (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Florizel in The Winter’s Tale (People’s Light and Theatre), Hamlet in Hamlet (New Perspectives Theatre), Manuelo in Boleros for the Disenchanted (Richmond, VA), Marido in Sangre (Central Park SummerStage), and Ed in This is Fiction (Cherry Lane). He’s a proud member of Inviolet Repertory Theatre Company. Film: “Late Phases”, “The Truth About Lies”, “Death of an Ally”. Chiquita tquc. For all the playwrights I know and love. www.bernardocubria.com JENNIFER HARMON (Mrs. Ferris) Mint Theater: Dr. Knock. Broadway credits include Other Desert Cities, The Glass Menagerie, The Dinner Party, Amy’s View (Judi Dench), The Little Foxes, Deuce, School for Scandal, The Sisters Rosensweig, Rumors, Blithe Spirit (Richard Chamberlain) and company member for 7 years Ellis Rabb’s APAPhoenix Repertory. National Tour: The ShowOff (with Helen Hayes). Off-Broadway: In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, HOT L BALTIMORE, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, The Holly and the Ivey. Regional credits include August, Osage County, And Then There Were None, Black Coffee (The Alley Theatre), Richard III (Chicago Shakespeare Rep), To Kill A Mockingbird, 8 by Tenn, Undiscovered Country and The Greeks (Hartford Stage), A Delicate Balance (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Summer and Smoke (Hartford Stage/ Paper Mill Playhouse), Auntie Mame (Charles Busch; Bay Street), Tonight at 8:30 (Williamstown Theatre Festival), King John, King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Wash. DC), The Heiress (Ahmanson Theatre), Later Life (Old Globe), Hamlet (The Guthrie), Danton’s Death (Center Stage), Hedda Gabler, Ghosts
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(The American Ibsen Theatre); and company member for 5 seasons at Williamstown Theatre. Ms. Harmon has appeared in many television programs and films including “The Good Wife”; “Eat, Pray, Love”; “Rescue Me”; “The “M” Word”; “Law & Order”, “Cosby Mysteries”; “Homicide”; “Nate the Great”; “St. Elsewhere”, “Dallas”, “Barnaby Jones”, “The White Shadow”, “One Life to Live”, “How to Survive a Marriage”, “Portrait of an America Actress” and “Madigan” (Richard Widmark). CAROLE HEALEY (Mrs. Oliver) Hannah Jarvis in Arcadia (The Oregon Shakespeare Festival), White People, with Robert Sean Leonard (Philadelphia Theatre Company), The Utah Shakespeare Festival Company Member for 13 seasons: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Portia in Julius Caesar, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Regan in King Lear, Golda in Fiddler on the Roof, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest and many others. Gorgeous in Sisters Rosensweig (Portland Stage), AEA Guest as Rose in Gypsy. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival – company member for 3 years: Titania in Midsummer, Elvira in Blithe Spirit, and many others. Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Kate in Shrew (Southwest Shakespeare), Great Lakes Theatre; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; Theatreworks, CA; Kingshead Theatre, London; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Olney; The Cape Playhouse; Pittsburgh Public and many others. Television and Film: “Law and Order”, “The Guiding Light”, “The Understudy”. Ms. Healey received her MFA from The Professional Theatre Training Program at The University of Delaware.
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Falsettoland; National Tours: Cats, Flower Drum Song, Bombay Dreams; Williamstown, Huntington, NY Public Theatre; nearly 100 TV/film appearances. Her written works are included in the Library of Congress Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection. Currently writing book/lyrics (with composer/ lyricist Jason Ma) to Barcelona and book/ lyrics (with composer David Shenton) to an adaptation of Midnight In Paris for the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop (lyricist/ member). Executive produced/co-directed (with Bruce Johnson) the award-winning documentary feature, “Transcending – The Wat Misaka Story”. Honored with the 2013 Rosetta LeNoire Award from Actors’ Equity, the 2012 “Wai Look Award” from the Asian American Arts Alliance and the 2010 “Salute to Champions Award” from the JACL. For more, please visit www.christinetoyjohnson. com. NATALIE KUHN (Cynthia) is thrilled to be joining the Mint Theater for the first time. Off Broadway: Poetic License (59E59), The Last Seder (Theatre Three). Additional Theater: Appropriate (Humana Theatre Festival at ATL), Stop the Virgens (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Sydney Opera House), Everything That Happens (David Byrne Concert Tour), Specific Ocean (People Get Ready at NYLA), Three Guys and a Brenda, Current Things, Sound in the Throat, Sitstandwalkliedown (Williamstown Theater Festival), The Underpants (Penobscot Theater), Somewhere I Read (Arto Lindsay), Man Is Man (HERE Arts), Sine Wave Goodbye (Ontological), Johnny Applef?%r (The Ohio), One Million Forgotten Moments (NTUSA). Film/TV: “Ride Rise Roar,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Are We There Yet?,” “The Colbert Report,” “Going Local,” “Amateurs,” “Change of Plans,” “Bestsellers,” “PowerHouse.”
CHRISTINE TOY JOHNSON (Mrs. Randolph) is an award-winning actor, writer, filmmaker and advocate for inclusion. Highlights include Broadway: The Music Man, Grease!, Chu Chem; Off Broadway: BRIAN KEITH MACDONALD (Haines) Merrily We Roll Along (revival cast is thrilled to be making his Mint Theater recording), Pacific Overtures, Crane Story, debut! Broadway: The Merchant of CONTINUED
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Venice (Broadhurst); Off-Broadway: The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare in the Park); Regional: King Lear, The Alchemist (Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC); New York: Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing (Island Shakespeare), Hamlet (Sons of Liberty Theatre), Ivanov (Hunger and Thirst Theatre), Platonov (Schapiro Theatre); Television: “Secrets of the Dead” (PBS), “In Search of America” (ABC); Training: Catholic University of AmericaMFA, University of Evansville-BFA. www. briankmacdonald.com JENNIFER McVEY (Edna / Hazel) is thrilled to be making her off-Broadway debut at the Mint Theater. Recent credits include Preacher Man (Manhattan Rep); A Dream Play (Billy&Co); The Awakening, WOH:Gowanus (Ugly Rhino), The 39 Steps (Lake Dillon Theatre); Crimes of the Heart, Godspell (Crossroads Rep). Jennifer holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Glasgow and an MFA in Acting from the New School. Thanks to Jonathan and everyone at the Mint, Jerry, Judy, Martha, Mum and Dad and my far flung family and friends. RACHEL MOULTON (Miss Krail) is absolutely thrilled to be making her Mint debut with PGF! Off-Broadway:Young Zelda Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise (Theatre at St. Clements). Regional: The Columnist and Jericho (Florida Studio Theatre), My Fair Lady (JW Engeman Theatre), Black Comedy and RENT (Pioneer Theatre Company), Midsummer (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), and The Member of the Wedding (RedHouse). Commercials for Office Depot, Olive Garden, and Microsoft. Training: Interlochen Arts Academy, Syracuse University, B.F.A. www.rachelmoulton.com JERRY RUIZ (Director) is happy to return to the Mint, where he previously directed Love Goes to Press. Other recent directing credits include: Basilica by Mando Alvarado
for Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, Enfrascada by Tanya Saracho (Clubbed Thumb), Twelfth Night (Chalk Rep), King of the Infinite Space (Summerstage and HERE Arts Center), Mariela in the Desert, The King is Dead by Caroline V. McGraw and Rattlers by Johnna Adams. Jerry has developed work at Second Stage, Playwright’s Horizons, Soho Rep, The Public, The Atlantic, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Playwrights Realm. Jerry collaborates with Two River Theater Company as the Curator of their new play series, Crossing Borders, and is an Associate Director for Barefoot Theatre Company. MFA in Directing, UCSD. Steven C. Kemp (Sets) Off-Broadway: Love Goes to Press (Mint), The Film Society, The Old Boy, Marry Me a Little (Keen), Extinction (Cherry Lane), Wildflower (Second Stage), Dov and Ali (The Playwrights Realm). Other NYC: Carcass (HERE Arts), I Am The Wind, Tender Napalm (59E59), Enfrascada (Clubbed Thumb), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, New Visions Director’s Festival 2009, 2010, 2011 (New School For Drama), International: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (European Tour). The Physicists (Hungarian Theatre of Cluj). Regional and Opera: Falstaff (Opera Santa Barbara/OSJ), Faust, Idomeneo, Anna Karenina, Il Trovatore (Opera San Jose), A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera Grand Rapids), Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), Spring Awakening (Revision Theatre), Dixie’s Tupperware Party (Royal George Theatre, Chicago), Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol (Gulf Shore Playhouse). Associate credits on Broadway include First Date, Jesus Chris Superstar, High, Memphis, Long Story Short and reasons to be pretty. MFA UCSD. Carisa Kelly (Costumes) is thrilled to be working at the Mint Theater. This is her third collaboration with director Jerry Ruiz. Previous shows together include, Basilica for Rattlestick Theatre and Hamlet, Summer Stage and HERE Arts Center. Other recent works include the TV series “Mysteries at
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the Museum”. “Monumental Mysteries” and “Evil I” for Discovery and Travel Channel. She is currently filming “The American Side”, a feature film starting Matthew Broderick, Greg Stuhr, Janeane Garofalo and Robert Forster. Carisa holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Christian DeAngelis (Lighting) is very excited to be to be returning to the Mint Theater Company. Select credits include Love Goes To Press (dir: Jerry Ruiz-Mint Theater), Through the Night (City Theatre, PA. & Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, OH.), Sangre (dir: Jerry Ruiz-Summerstage), Enfrascada (dir: Jerry Ruiz-Clubbed Thumb), Don Giovanni (Ash Lawn Opera), Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (dir: Tracy Brigden-City Theatre, PA.), Lizzie Borden (dir: Tim Maner-Living Theatre. Drama Desk Nomination) For The Love of Christ (dir: Holly-Anne RuggieroFringe), The Brother’s Size (dir: Robert O’ Hara-City Theatre, PA.), Wild about Harry (dir: Elizabeth Lucas-NYMF), The Clean House (dir: Sam Woodhouse-San Diego Rep), Pericles (dir: Sabin Epstein-Old Globe Theatre). Select Associate credits include work at Seattle’s 5th Avenue, Broadway, and La Jolla Playhouse. Website www. christiandeangelis.com TOBY ALGYA (Sound) NYC: Natural Affection, Lost In Yonkers (TACT); Awake and Sing (NAATCO); Ringmaster (Frigid New York); Human Variations (Blue Print Theatre); Tender Napalm, Whida Peru/ Mosaic (59E59); Pratfalls (Abington Theatre); Where’s My Money (Cherry Lane); The Invested (4th Street Theatre); Rosmersholm (The Pearl); Fantasy Football: The Musical?, Moisty the Snowman (NYMF); Hamlet (The Gallery Players). Regional: Abundance (Hartford Stage); Big River/Will Rogers Follies/The King and I/ Tarzan (Lyric Theatre OKC); Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth (Trinity Shakespeare); Barcelona, Fallow (People’s Light); Oblomov (WHAT); Las Meninas
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(Asolo Rep); The Syringa Tree (Portland Stage Company); Hoover Comes Alive! (La Jolla Playhouse). Education: UC San Diego. JOSHUA YOCOM (Props) collaborates with the Mint yet again on Philip Goes Forth. He also propped their productions of A Picture of Autumn, 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, Frankel Green, Primary Stages,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. MICHAEL BLOCK (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Stick Fly. Off Broadway: Angels in America (Signature Theater Company); Clybourne Park, Circle Mirror Transformation, Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons), Serious Money, Spatter Pattern, The Barker Monologues (PTP/NYC) among others. Regional: Williamstown Theater Festival, Huntington Theater Company, BCAP, Boston Playwrights Theater. Michael is also a playwright. He recently founded Rhapsody Collective, a group of young artists brought together to devise works from the ground up. For more on Rhapsody Collective, like us at facebook.com/rhapsodycollective. LAURA KATHRYNE GOMEZ (Asst. Stage Manager). is thrilled to be working with the Mint Theater for the first time! Broadway: Jekyll and Hyde. Off-Broadway: CONTINUED
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Forbidden Broadway, Wild With Happy, Sleep No More, American Jornalero. Regional: Life Science, Berkshire Playwrights Lab. She would like to thank her family for always believing in her, and Joey for being something awesome.
David serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers and is a member of the Off-Broadway League and a founder of the Off-Broadway Alliance. www.davidgersten. com
JUDY BOWMAN (Casting) For The Mint: A Picture of Autumn. Recent productions include: And Miles to Go (PCP/Hal Brooks), Master & Margarita (Bard Summerscape/ Janos Szasz), Luft Gangster (Abingdon/ Austin Pendleton), & Lee Blessing’s User’s Guide to Hell: Featuring Bernard Madoff (Project Y/Michole Biancosino). Regional Theater: Woolly Mammoth, Actors Theater of Louisville/Humana Festivals, Dorset Theater Festival, SF Playhouse, Kitchen Theatre & American Repertory Theatre (2003-08). Film: “Drawing Home”, “The Word”, “Dinner@40”, 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.
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.
THE PEKOE GROUP (Marketing) 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 Mint Theater Company, Second Stage Theatre, TACT, Peter And The Starcatcher, Avi Hoffman’s Still Jewish After All These Years, How 2 B A New Yorker, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Potomac Theatre Project, and more. www.thepekoegroup.com DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Publicist) also represents INTAR, Keen Company, NAATCO, New Federal Theater, Red Bull Theater, and Summer Shorts the annual festival at 59E59, as well as the OffBroadway hits Cuff Me - The Fifty Shades of Grey Parody, It’s Just Sex, Black Angels Over Tuskegee, the holiday perennial Jackie Hoffman’ s A Chanukah Charol, and the entertainment complex New World Stages.
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 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.
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Assistant Production Manager...... Wayne Yeager Assistant CostumeDesigner........ Begonia Berges
Producing Artistic Director.......... Jonathan Bank
Assistant Lighting Designer/ Light Board Programmer............Chris D’Angelo
Marketing & Audience Relations................ Christina Roussos
Board Operator............... Adam Schofield-Bodt Wardrobe Supervisor....................Ryan Hanson
Assistant to the Artistic Director......................... Jesse Marchese
Production Assistant....................... Aldora Neal
Box Office Manager...............Andrew Hendrick
Deck Crew..................................Nicole Madar
Development Consultant........... Ellen Mittenthal
Box Office Manager...............Andrew Hendrick
Videographer �������������������Joshua Paul Johnson
House Manager.............................Jose Ramos
Casting �������������������������������������Judy Bowman
Videographer....................Joshua Paul Johnson
Auditor...........................Kristin Krauskopf, CPA
Program Desgin/ Graphics..... Christina Roussos
Press Representation ������������������David Gersten & Associates
Advertising, Marketing & Web Site Design................. The Pekoe Group Amanda Pekoe, Jessica Ferreira, Christopher Lueck, Jason Murray, Matthew Perreault, Negeen Ghaisar; Alex Barnard, Erin Wilson, Marivic Tagala Mara Szabo, Ryan Meitzler, Ben Uhrich
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Press Representation...David Gersten Associates David J. Gersten, Daniel DeMello Shane Marshall Brown Lighting installed by the Lighting Syndicate. Set constructed by Carlo Adinolfi. PHILIP GOES FORTH rehearsed at Manhattan Theater Club’s Creative Center. The producers would like to thank John Fistos and Pace University; TDF Costume Collection for its assistance with this production. 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.
Opening Night September 16th, 2013
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Announcing our Online Production Archives Now
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You can view the Archives By Author or By Year or you can view an Archive Slideshow. Take a stroll down memory lane, or investigate shows that you missed. Our online Archives include a brief background on the play and production. George Aiken UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
John Galsworthy THE SKIN GAME
Allan Monkhouse MARY BROOME
Harley Granville Barker A FAREWELL TO THE THEATER THE MADRAS HOUSE THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE
Martha Gellhorn & Virginia Cowles LOVE GOES TO PRESS
Dawn Powell WALKING DOWN BROADWAY
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 Zona Gale MISS LULU BETT
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 N.C. Hunter A PICTURE OF AUTUMN 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
J.B. Priestley THE GLASS CAGE 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
board of trustees Jonathan Bank John P. Harrington
Ciro A. Gamboni Eleanor Reissa
Kathryn Swintek John Yarmick
Mission and Programming 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 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.” 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 “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. 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.
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 Lea & Malvin Bank Bloomberg Philanthropies Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc. 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 Foundation for the Arts 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 SilverMint: $5,000 to $9,999 Axe-Houghton Foundation Virginia Brody The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation 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 Dorinda J. Oliver Wallace Schroeder Sukenik Family Foundation Kathryn Swintek & AndrÊ Dorra Helen S. Tucker, The Gramercy Park Foundation John Yarmick Anonymous
SpearMint: $1000 - $2,499 Harry & Gay Abrams/ Abrams Artists Agency Kim & David Adler Mary Andryc Louise Arias Jonathan Bank & Katie Firth Allison M. Blinken Robert Brenner Linda Calandra Russell Charlton & Julie Norwell Lynne Charnay Jon Clark & Ryan Franco Grover Connell Lewis B. & Dorothy Cullman Foundation Inc Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable Fdn. 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 Joan Kedziora, MD. Drs. Robert M. Koros & Carole M. Shaffer-Koros Sarah-Ann Kramarsky Jonathan Landers & Sandra Reimers Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation Tina & Michael Lobel Charlene & Gary MacDougal George Morfogen James Periconi & Alice McCarthy Pfizer Foundation Lorna Power 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 Michael Thomas 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 Symla & Sal Ayala Henry Badillo Jordan Baker & Kevin Killner Judith Barlow Richard Barnes & Marta Gross Jeanne Bergman & Anna Kramarsky William Berley Barbara Berliner & Sol Rymer Al Berr Nidia Besso Clinton Best Evelyn Bishop Joann & Gene Bissell Steven Blier & James S. Russell Zelda & Julian 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 Maureen & James Callanan Peter Cameron Alice B. Cannon & G. Frederic Perkins Robbie Capp Larry Carlson James Carroll Richard Carroll Chris Catoggio Aurelie Cavallaro Christopher Cayaba Robin Chase
Carolyn Chave Jean Churchill & Elizabeth Smith Joseph Cimmet Abraham Clott Steven R. Coe Toni Coffee Phyllis & Herbert Cohen 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 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 Suzanne Dowling Robert & Nancy Downey, in honor of Sharron Bower Constance Duhamel Kevin Duffy & D.G. Duffy-Weber Herzl Eisenstadt Mina & Martin Ellenberg Marjorie Ellenbogen Monte Engler & Joan Mannion Sara & Fred Epstein Grace & Donald Eremin Judith Eschweiler Ellen & Frank Estes H. Read 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 Charles Flowers Helene Foley Charles Forma Donald W. Fowle & Lionel Lorona Victor Franco Charlotte Frank Diana & Jeffrey Frank Joan & Edward Franklin Vicki & Bobby Freeman
Dr. H. Paul & Delores Gabriel Barbara & Robert Gaims-Speigel Eugene Gantzhorn Michael Garber Mary Ann & John Garland Nomi Ghez & Michael Siegal James Giblin Ardian Gill & Anna L. Hannon Suellen & David Globus Joyce Golden Gloria Goldenberg Beverly & Herbert Goldfarb Lila & Victor Goldin Jane & Charles Goldman Goldman, Sachs & Co. 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 Vincent Grosso Alan Groudan Antonia & George Grumbach Carol & Steven Gutman 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 Cathy Hull & Neil Janovic Anna B. Iacucci Harriet Inselbuch Linda Irenegreene & Martin Kesselman Daisy Irizarry Dana Ivey Jocelyn Jacknis Gale & James Jacobsohn Ellen & Peter Jakobson Weslie & William Janeway
Susan & Stephen Jeffries 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 Frances & Carter Keithley Laurie Kennedy & Keith Mano Roberta & Gerald Kiel Rosemary & James Kindler Joseph Kissane Kaori Kitao Caral Klein Elizabeth & William Kloner Paul Knierieman Allegra Kochman Carol Kochman Marlene & Gerald Kolbert Jean Kroeber 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 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 Carol & Stanley Levy Eva Lichtenberg & Arnold Tobin Claire Lieberwitz & Arthur Grayzel, MD Christopher LiGreci & Robert Ohlerking Ruth Lord Mary & Boyd Lowry Joan M. Lufrano Jon Lukomnik & Lynn Davidson Bette Lyons Mary Rose Main Jane Anne Majeski Vivian & John Majeski Miriam Malach Sophie & David Mann Barry Margolius Jean & Robert Markley Gemzel Hernandez Martinez M.D. Jacqueline Maskey Jill Matichak
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Margaret Mautner Roberta Maxwell Cheryl & Harris May Doris May George Mayer Pamela Mazur, PhD Mary & Lloyd McAulay 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 Elaine & Richard Montag Charlotte Moore Doreen & Larry Morales Joseph Morello Ann Morfogen Zachary Morfogen Frank Morra Elaine & Ronald Morris Muriel Morris 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 Dotti & Richard Oswald Frances Pandolfi Jeanine Parisier Plottel Jonathan Parker Gwen & Bruce Pasquale Cheryl S.& Mitchell Patt Judith & John Peakes Pitney Bowes Sheila & Irwin Polishook Mary & Larry Pollack Georgette & David Preston
Carlo & Bob Prinsky Rose Marie Proietti Judith Quillard Susan & Peter Ralston Linda Ray RBC Foundation Betty Reardon Joe Regan Edith Rehbein Laurence Reich Cordelia & David Reimers Eleanor Reissa Ota & Clayton Reynolds Irvin Rinard Phyllis & Earl S. Roberts Richard V. Robilotti The Rodgers Family Foundation/ Mary R. Guettel 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 Marilyn & Joseph Schwartz Phyllis Schwartz The Martin E. Segal Revocable Trust Norma Segal Harriet Seiler John Settel Barbara & Donald Shack Marjorie & George Shea Camille & Richard Sheely Janet & Joseph Sherman Virginia C. Shields Susan & Zachary Shimer Erika’s Freynds In Memory of Bob Sickinger Shelly & Joel Siegel Kayla J. & Martin Y. Silberberg Joyce Silver Mel Silverman Susanna Sitner Rayna & Martin Skolnik
Janet & Mike Slosberg Barbara Madsen Smith Lily Smith Barbara & Stanley Solomon Dr. Norman Solomon Charles Sperling Linda & Jerry Spitzer Martha S. Sproule Alec Stais & Elissa Burke Marcella Stapor Melissa Steele In honor of Leonard Stein Sherry & Bob Steinberg Gary Stern Frances Sternhagen Faith Stewart-Gordon Doina Stoiana Ilene Stone Elaine & Ulrich Strauss Stella Strazdas Pamela Stubing Carol & Will Sullivan Larry E. Sullivan Bryna Sweedler Myra & Leonard Tanzer Douglas G. Tarr Vivien C. Tartter 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 Wien Family Fund Lillian & Robert Williams Marsha & Vincent Williams Mary C. Wolf Jerald Zimmer Barbara & Donald Zucker Claire & Albert Zuckerman Sue & Burton Zwick Anonymous
This list represents donations made from January 2012 – August, 2013. Every effort is made to ensure its accuracy. Please contact us regarding any mistakes.
To learn more about contributing to the Mint or becoming a member of our First Priority Club, go to minttheater.org or call (212) 315-0231.
PUBLICATIONS from the Mint Theater Company TERESA DEEVY RECLAIMED: VOLUME ONE Temporal Powers, Katie Roche, Wife to James Whelan “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 critical introductions by Christopher Morash, John P. Harrington and the director Jonathan Bank are concise and informative, perfect for students and those new to Deevy’s work. They give insight into the plays, contextualise Deevy’s life, work, and production history, illuminating both Deevy’s brief success on the Abbey stage, and the resistance to her work that she encountered even with the successful plays.” - Emilie Pine, University College Dublin Canadian Journal of Irish Studies WORTHY BUT NEGLECTED: Plays of the Mint Theater Mr. Pim Passes By by A.A. Milne, The House of Mirth by Edith Warton & Clyde Fitch, Alison’s House by Susan Glaspell, Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale, Welcome to Our City by Thomas Wolfe, Diana of Dobson’s by Cecily Hamilton & Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby ARTHUR SCHNITZLER RECLAIMED New English Versions of Far and Wide (Das weite Land) & The Lonely Way (Der einsame Weg) HARLEY GRANVILLE BARKER RECLAIMED The Madras House, The Voysey Inheritance & Farewell to the Theatre ST. JOHN HANKIN RECLAIMED The Return of the Prodigal & The Charity that Began at Home
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“When it comes to the library,” our Obie citation states, “there’s no theater more adventurous.” The Mint was awarded a special Drama Desk Award for “unearthing, presenting and preserving forgotten plays of merit.”
MINT THEATER COMPANY commits to bringing new vitality to neglected plays. We excavate buried theatrical treasures; reclaiming them for our time through research, dramaturgy, production, publication and a variety of enrichment programs; and we advocate for their ongoing life in theaters across the world.
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