Mint Theater Company Staff Jonathan Bank Sherri Kotimsky Colleen T. Sullivan
Artistic Director General Manager Box Office Manager
Board of Trustees Jonathan Bank Linda Calandra Jon Clark
Eleanor Reissa Gary Schonwald M. Elisabeth Swerz
“When it comes to the library,” our 2001 Obie citation states, “there’s no theater more adventurous.”
In 2002 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. Mint has a keen interest in timeless but timely plays that make us feel and think about the moral quality of our lives and the world in which we live. Our aim is to use the engaging power of the theater to excite, provoke, influence and inspire audiences and artists alike.
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Staff for Return of the Prodigal Technical Director Scenic Construction Master Electrician Assistant Lighting Designer / Programmer Wardrobe Supervisor Board Operator Carpenters
Evan Schlossberg Carlo Adinolfi Alden Fulcomer Natalie Robin Hunter Kaczorowski Kane Chiang Adam Branson, Paul Burke Dennis Luczak, Justin Hollinger, Kenny Komer, Joe Rayome, John Frankenberg, Joel Garland Mandy Hart, John Ivey Angela Wall, Chris Wolfe
Electricians
House Manager Box Office Associates
Ivana Karapandzic Janel Cooke, Nicole Rose Reuther
The Producers would like to thank the following: Lighting equipment provided by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs.
The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of this Production are represented by United Scenic Artists, local USA-829 of the IATSE Actors’ Equity Association was founded in 1913. It is the labor union representing over 40,000 American actors and stage managers working in the professional theatre. For 89 years, Equity has negotiated minimum wages and working conditions, administered contracts, and enforced the provisions of its various agreements with theatrical employers across the country.
Mint Theater Company
Saul & Lillian Wechter George Weeks Reny Weigert Howard M. & Patricia Weiss Zoe Caldwell Whitehead Robert Wilkens & Walter Rummenie Robert & Lillian Williams Ralph M. Wynn, MD Kenneth Zarecor Burton & Susan Zwick anonymous
Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director Sherri Kotimsky, General Manager
This list represents donations made from January 2006 through May 2007. Every effort is made to insure its accuracy. Please contact us regarding any mistakes.
Bradford Cover, Tandy Cronyn, Leah Curney Robin Haynes, Roderick Hill, Richard Kline Kate Levy, Lee Moore, W. Alan Nebelthau Cecelia Riddett, Margot White
presents
by
St. John Hankin with
Sets & Costumes
Lights
Clint Ramos
Sound
Tyler Micoleau
Jane Shaw
Associate Set Designer / Props
Associate Costume Designer
Production Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Kimothy Cruse
Rebecca C. Monroe
Casting
Press Representation
Crag Napoliello
Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter & Paul Hardt Graphic Design
Jude Dvorak
Hwi-Won Lee
David Gersten & Associates Prodigal Painting
Charlie Mackesy Directed by
Jonathan Bank
Donors
St. John Hankin
Opening night June 6, 2007 Mint Theater gratefully acknowledges public support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. Production support provided by The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation.
by St. John Hankin A Comedy for Fathers “Character is Fate”
CAST
SAMUEL JACKSON MRS. JACKSON, his wife HENRY JACKSON, their elder son EUSTACE JACKSON, their young-
Richard Kline Tandy Cronyn Bradford Cover Roderick Hill
VIOLET JACKSON, their daughter
Leah Curney
SIR JOHN FARINGFORD LADY FARINGFORD, his wife STELLA FARINGFORD, their
Lee Moore Kate Levy Margot White
er son
daughter
DR. GLAISHER MRS. PRATT, the rectors wife BAINES, butler at the Jacksons’
W. Alan Nebelthau Cecelia Riddett Robin Haynes
The action of the play takes place at Chedleigh Court, the Jacksons’ house in Gloucestershire: Acts I and II in the Drawing-room, Acts III and IV on the Lawn. Chedleigh, as everybody knows, is famous for its cloth mills.
Claire Rosenstein Barbara Rosenthal Mark Rossier Isaiah & Enid Rubin, MD Joan & Herb Saltzman Anita Sanford Anne Kaufman Schneider Irwin Schwartz Phyllis Schwartz Sherry Schwartz Susan Scott William & Earlyne S Seaver Dr. Jerome S. & Harriet Seiler Barbara Seril Joseph & Janet Sherman Rebecca & Philip Siekevitz Martin Y. & Kayla J. Silberberg Dorothy Smith Lili N. Smith Philip Smith Dr. Norman Solomon Linda & Jerry Spitzer Nicholas Stathis Erika Stadtlander Michael Stebbins Lee Steelman Bob & Sherry Steinberg Frances Sternhagen Ilene Stone Ulrich & Elaine Strauss Pamela Stubing Kathrin Perutz & Michael StuddertKennedy Larry E. Sullivan Kathryn Swintek Gerda Taranow Leonard & Myra Tanzer Douglas Tarr Caroline Thompson & Steve Allen Thomson Tax & Accounting Alice Timothy Peter & Roberta Tomback Ken & Linda Treitel Alan & Susan Tuck Jan Vinokour Edith & Gordon Wallace John Michael Walsh Henry & Lucille Warner Robb Webb & Pat DeRousie-Webb
Donors
Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
Betsy McKenny Martin & Martha Meisel Richard Mellor, Jr. John D. Metcalfe Ivan & Leila Metzger Radley Metzger Muffie Meyer Eleanor S. Meyerhoff Susan & Ronald Michelow Bernard & Lusia Milch Judith K.& Allan Mohl Elaine & Richard Montag Elaine Montgomery Virginia & Robert Montgomery Doreen & Larry Morales George Morfogen Ronald & Elaine Morris Munsell Family Foundation Janet George & Daniel Murnick Erick Neher Egon & Florence Neuberger Dorinda J. Oliver Shelly G. Orringer Peter & Marilyn Oswald Richard & Dorothy Oswald Satoko Parker Edwin Partikian & Camille Infranco Bruce & Gwen Pasquale John & Judith Peakes Albert & Cleo Pearl David & Jean Plessett Jack & Ina Polak Irwin & Sheila Polishook Stephen W. Porter & Arnold Somers Maria Proctor Barbara & Joseph Psotka David & Phyllis Quickel Judith & Sheldon Raab Norman & Leigh Raben Ken Raboy Anthony & Marianne Reed H. Anthony Reilly Clayton S. Reynolds Jim J. Reynolds Arleigh Richards & William Wise Jeanne Richman Earl S. & Phyllis Roberts Seymour & Renee Rogoff Sylvia Rosen
Donors
Irwin & Ann Jacobs Peter & Ellen Jakobson James & Jacqueline Johnson Roberta A. Jones Ronald & Hildegaard Jones Gerhard Joseph Gus Kaikkonen Eleanor M. Kahn Jane Kapsales Ursula & Frank Karelsen Annette Karan Kathleen Kelly Regina Kelly Gerald Kiel David H. Kirkwood & Annie Thomas Kaori Kitao Caral G Klein Karl Kroeber Leonard Kreynin Carmel Kuperman Anne Lanigan Richard Laster Raymond & Lyette Lavoie Gordon & Margaret Leavitt Ira & Gloria Leeds Robert & Jane Lehrman Eliot & Jane Leibowitz Al & Sally Leizman Ronald Lemoncelli Neil & Harriet Leonard Harriet Levy Barbara & Herbert Levy Stanley & Carol Levy Sheldon & Lucille Lichtblau Allon Lifschitz Vincent & Beth Lima Susan Linder Ross Lipman Joel & Diane Lipset Steven Lorch & Susanna KochanLorch Ruth Lord Mary Ellen Low Jeni Mahoney & Ben Sahl Mary Rose Main John & Vivian Majeski Barry Margolius Margaret Mastrianni Joan & Robert Matloff George W. Mayer, Jr.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE: Jonathan Bank
It is my hope and intention that all of the plays we produce at the Mint are relevant, timely and of interest to contemporary audiences. I’ve never chosen a play with an eye towards illuminating social or theatrical history; my interest lies more in the way things haven’t changed—in the timeless struggle we undertake to find meaning in our lives and in our social, political and personal relationships. Often the clearest way to highlight a play’s relevance is to present it “faithfully,” allowing the audience to marvel at its resonance in spite of its vintage trappings. But sometimes those trappings can obscure a play’s message and diminish its power. I was loathe to let that happen to this play, which at its heart is as modern (and maybe as shocking) as anything being written today, despite having been written over 100 years ago. My designers and I are striving to make the play look and feel as fresh as it seemed when each of us read it (without necessarily “relocating” the play to a specific time or place which presents its own distractions.) Our goal is to make Hankin’s play both familiar and accessible to our audience while remaining in harmony with the words he wrote over one-hundred years ago. I did cut lines that rooted the play in 1905: about the recent addition of electricity and its impact on the running of the Jackson’s cloth mill, for example, as well as references to carriages and lanterns. However, I was reluctant to “update” the text by re-writing lines, so I otherwise made no changes. For reasons of accessibility and familiarity again, we are not performing the play with a British dialect—but again I have left the text unchanged, with its references to Parliament, Pounds and Pence. More than anything, I hope we are serving our author and his remarkable, surprising play; certainly that is both my intention and my goal.
Director’s note
Judith Eschweiler H. Read Evans Bruce & Adele Fader Angela T. Fiore Eva & Norman Fleischer Barbara Fleischman Charles Flowers Fred Forrest Donald Fowle Nancy Fowler Jessica Franken & David Korr Mio Fredland Monroe Freedman Robert Freedman Sandra & Burton Freeman Dr. H. Paul & Delores Gabriel Mary Ann & John Garland Ellen Gibbs James C. Giblin Ardian Gill & Anna L. Hannon Howard & Joann Girsh David & Suellen Globus Joyce Golden Charles & Jane Goldman Caryl Goldsmith Gordon & Mary Gould Anna Grabarits Richard Grayson Noel Grean Anita & Edward Greenbaum Greenwich House Senior Center Pat Griffith Marta Gross & Richard Barnes Lois & Stewart Gross Victoria Guthrie James C & Julia Hall Katherine Halmi Mimi Halpern Bob & Lynne Hanson Carol Hekimian Reily Hendrickson Sigrid Hess Anita Highton Ellen & Harvey Hirsch Eleanor Hodges Milton & Madelaine Horowitz Anne Humphreys Harriet & Elihu Inselbuch Jocelyn Jacknis Ellie Jacob
BRADFORD COVER (Henry Jackson) Broadway: A Thousand Clowns. Off Broadway:
The Gentleman Dancing Master, Arms and the Man, School for Wives, Richard II, School for Scandal, The Forest, Misalliance, The Beaux Strategem, When Ladies Battle , and Mrs. Warren's Profession among
others (The Pearl Theatre Company. Company Member). OffOff Broadway: Waxing West, (The Lark) A number of staged readings with The Actor’s Company Theatre. Regional: Spike Heels (Syracuse Stage) The
Blue Room, The Importance of Being Earnest (Cleveland Playhouse) Betrayal (Vermont Stage Co.) Learned Ladies (McCarter Theatre) Lives of the Saints (Philadelphia Theatre Company) Sleuth, Othello (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival) An Empty Plate at the
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(New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), Private Lives, Charley's Aunt (St. Michael's Playhouse) . Television: “Law and Order”, “All My Children”. Directed House of Bernarda Alba , and Summer at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. CoFounder and Associate Artistic Director of Bowman Ensemble in Baltimore MD. Graduate of Denison University, and PTTP University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. For my fiancée Jennifer with all my love.
Anna B. Iacucci Linda Irenegreen & Martin Kesselman Joseph Family Charitable Trust Peter Judd Joan Kedziora, MD Rose Klimovich Anna Kramarsky & Jeanne Bergman Mildred C. Kuner Eugene M. Lang Foundation Kent Lawson & Carol Tambor Levenstein Family Foundation Samuel & Gabrielle Lurie Daniel Loos Macken Robert & Marcia Marafioti The Memorial Foundation for the Arts Joel & Susan Mindel Joseph Morello Carol 7 Dick Netzer The New York Times Company Foundation Naomi & Gerald Patlis Pfizer Foundation Jeffrey & Judith Prussin Susan & Peter Ralston Joe Regan, Jr. Eleanor Reissa & Roman Dworecki Richard Frankel Productions Irven Rinard George Robb Susan & Jon Rotenstreich Rubin Foundation Judy & Sirgay Sanger The Martin E Segal Revocable Trust Carole M. Shaffer-Koros & Robert M. Koros Stephen Siderow Rob Sinacore David Stenn Suzanne & Jon Stout Dennis & Katherine Swanson The Ellen M. Violett & Mary P. R. Thomas Foundation, Inc Jill Tran Litsa Tsitsera anonymous
First Priority Club
Marilyn & Meyer Ackerman Actors Equity Foundation Judith Aisen & Kenneth Vittor Eleanor Aitken Laura Altschuler Stephen Anderson & Amy Cohn Carmen Anthony Earl Bailey Judith Barlow Larry Beers Robert & Ellie Berlin Nidia Besso Mary & Jeffrey Bijur Evelyn Bishop David M. Blank Steven Blier Barbara & Ronald Blumenthal Constance Boardman Rose-Marie Boller & Webb Turner Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Borer Lori & Rick Borman Len & Barbara Bornstein Lynn Brenner Patricia Broderick June Barbi Brogan Leslie Bryant Ann Butera Elaine B. Bye Richard Carroll Andrew H. Chapman Robert Chlebowski Stephen & Elena Chopek Herbert & Phyllis Cohen Kathleen H. Corcoran Samuel & June Costello Penelope & Peter Costigan Bruce Deal Patricia & Charles Debrovner Anthony & Ruth Demarco Gennaro A. DeVito Bernard & Katherine Dick M. Burton Drexler Martin & Mina Ellenberg Monte Engler Jeanne Epstein Rachel & Mel Epstein Don & Grace Eremin Sharon Esakoff
Donors
Biographies
Measure for Measure, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost
TANDY CRONYN (Mrs. Jackson) has appeared on Broadway as Sally Bowles in the original production of Cabaret and Off-Broadway in A Shayna Maidel and The Killing of Sister George. She has toured in the Sondheim musical Company, and in A. R. Gurney’s comedy The Cocktail Hour. Over the years Tandy has performed major roles in both classical and modern plays in repertory theaters across America: notably Barrington Stage Company; San Diego’s Old Globe Theater; Denver Center Theater Company; Hartford Stage; Yale Rep; Cleveland PlayHouse; and Missouri Rep, where she played Emily Dickenson in The Belle of Amherst. She has appeared in the greatest variety of roles at PlayMakers Repertory Company at UNC, Chapel Hill, where she has played Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra, Estragon in Waiting for Godot, and Vivian Bearing in Wit, among many others. She has also played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Stratford Festival of Canada, subsequently televised by the CBC. On television she has been seen in the movies “Getting Out”, “The Story Lady”, “AgeOld Friends”, and “The Guardian”, as well as episodes of “Law & Order” and “The Book of Daniel”. Tandy also serves as Creative Consultant to Poetry Theatre, Inc., a developing website of spoken poetry at www.poetrytheatre.org
The following generous Individuals, Foundations and Corporations support Mint Theater, and we honor their contributions: Patrons
Robert Brenner Lucille Lortel Foundation National Endowment for the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council on the Arts The James B. Oswald Co. The Tony Randall Theatrical Fund The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Michael Tuch Foundation anonymous
Artistic Directors Circle
Geoffrey & Carol Chinn Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Mary Rodgers Guettel Edgar & Renee Jackson DJ McManus Foundation Newman’s Own Foundation The Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation The Ted Snowden Foundation Mary Elisabeth Swerz
First Priority Gold Club
Lisa Ackerman American Friends of Theatre Inc Sari Anthony Jonathan Bank Bank of America Ezra Barnes Andre Bishop Bernice & Frederick Block Allan & Joan Blumenthal Virginia Brody Jon Clark Jeffrey Compton & Norma Ellen Foote Grover Connell Robert & Ruth Diefenbach Cory & Bob Donnally Charitable Fund ExxonMobil Foundation Fine Family Foundation Nicholas & Edmee Firth Barbara Fleischman Charles Flowers Holly Fogler & Michael Solender Edward & Lori Forstein Phyllis Fox & George Sternlieb Foundation Edward & Joan Franklin Burry Fredrik Ruth Friendly Mr & Mrs Ciro Gamboni The Gordon Foundation The Gramercy Park Foundation Inc Virginia Gray Kristin Griffith Antonia & George Grumbach Guilford Publications Guild Family Foundation Ron Guttman Toehl Harding George B. Hatch Hickrill Foundation Barbara Hill Edward & Dorothy Hoffner
ROBIN HAYNES (Baines) has appeared on Broadway, in the original cast of Blood Brothers and in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; in the National Tours of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and Jekyll & Hyde; and Off-Broadway, in Perfect
Crime, Twelfth Night, Minor Demons, She Loves Me, Romeo and Juliet, Billy Bishop Goes To War, and others. His work in
feature films includes Mel Brooks’s “To Be Or Not To Be”, the classic “Hot Dog! The Movie” and the recent independent features “Homecoming” and “Soldier’s Heart”; and he has made guest appearances on television, in such shows as “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, “Third Watch”, “Cosby”,
“M*A*S*H”, “Dallas”, “House Calls”, “Quincy, M.E.”, and “Guiding Light”. Robin has worked regionally at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The Hartford Stage Company, and the Seattle Repertory Theatre, among others; and at stock theatres across the country. RODERICK HILL (Eustace Jackson) was most recently seen on Broadway as Mr. Gardner in Butley starring Nathan Lane, and as Nicolas in Lestat. His other credits include: Cymbeline (The Royal Shakespeare Company/Theatre For A New Audience), Singing Forest (Long Wharf Theatre), The Irish Curse (The New York International Fringe Festival) Nerds: The Musical (New York Stage and Film), What The Butler Saw (Huntington Theater Company), Diosa (Hartford Stage), Rock Shore (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), Much Ado About Nothing (Great Lakes Theater Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Harold... and the boys (Playmakers Rep.), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare & Co.) Film/Television: “Kinsey”, “Cosa Bella”, “Oxygen”, “Ready For Action”, “Chappelle’s Show”, “Stranger’s With Candy”. Roderick is a graduate of The Juilliard School and The Interlochen Arts Academy. For Caitlin and Webster.
Biographies
Donors
First Priority Platinum Circle
American Theater Wing Axe-Houghton Foundation Malvin & Lea Bank Linda Calandra Adam D. & Linda Chinn Edward & Lori Forstein The Heidtke Foundation Kendal at Oberlin Karl Lunde Edith Meiser Foundation The New York Times Company Foundation Fund for Mid-size Theaters, a project of A.R.T./New York Tina & Howard Rieger Gary A. Schonwald Wallace Schroeder Stephen D & Elsa A Solender
The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Sukenik Family Foundation
LEAH CURNEY (Violet Jackson) is a recent transplant and thrilled to be making her NY debut with the Mint. She is a proud graduate of the Guthrie Theater/University of Minnesota Actor Training Program, and has performed in several shows at the Guthrie including, Hamlet (Ophelia), Pericles (Marina/Ensemble), and Six Degrees Of Separation (Tess). Regionally, she has worked with The Chautauqua Theater Company, American Players Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and most recently The Milwaukee Rep where she played Maire in Translations. Thanks to Jonathan and Jack for the leap of faith and the family for their steadfast support.
KATE LEVY (Lady Faringford) Most recently appeared in the Broadway national tour of On Golden Pond with Michael
Learned and Tom Bosley. Her other national tour was The Graduate. New York Theatre: Soldier’s Wife, The Mint; HalfWay Home, The New Group;
An Empty Plate In The Cafe Du Grand Boeuf, Access Theatre; The Normal Heart, Alchemy Theatre. Regional: The Goat,
Arena Stage, D.C.; Itamar Moses' Outrage, Portland Center Stage; On Golden Pond , Cleveland Play House; Uncle Vanya, Denver Center Theatre Co.; Present Laughter, Pioneer Theatre Co,; Heaven, Yale Rep; Dinner With Friends, Alliance; The Hand Of God , O'Neill Theatre Center; The Real Thing , Alley Theatre. Also: Florida Stage, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Rep, Clarence Brown, Philadelphia Festival for New Plays, BoarsHead. Numerous Shakespeare roles at festivals in Idaho, Santa Cruz and Pittsburgh. Television: “Law And Order”, assorted soaps and movies of the week. Film: “The Origins Of War”. BA, Tufts University; MFA, American Conservatory Theatre. Twenty year sometimes militant member of Actors Equity. LEE MOORE (Sir John Faringford). Mr. Moore is delighted to be back home at the Mint where he appeared in Alison’s House,
The Charity that Began at Home and Welcome to our City. A veteran of Stock, Regional and Off-Broadway theatre, he has garnered critical acclaim for his recent performances in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at The
1996 where he has unearthed and produced dozens of lost or neglected plays. Bank adapted and directed Arthur Schnitzler's Far and Wide and The Lonely Way which he also cotranslated (with Margaret Schaefer). These two plays were published in a volume entitled Arthur Schnitzler Reclaimed which Bank edited. He is also the editor of Worthy But
Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company which in-
cludes his adaptations of Thomas Wolfe's Welcome to Our City and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, both of which he directed, along with five other Mint rediscoveries. Bank also directed The Truth about Blayds and Mr. Pim Passes By both by A.A. Milne , as well as Susan and God. Other directing credits include critically acclaimed productions of Ivanov and Othello for the National Asian American Theater Companyand Hobson’s Choice, Candida and Mr. Pim Passes By for the Peterborough Players. He earned his M.F.A. from Case Western Reserve University in his hometown of Cleveland, OH. ST. JOHN HANKIN (Playwright) began to contribute humorous essays and dramatic parodies including new “last-acts” for well-known plays to Punch magazine 1898. In 1901 some of his contributions were anthologized as “Mr. Punch’s Dramatic Sequels”. Hankin also contributed about seventy drama reviews to “The London
Times” before beginning his career as a playwright in 1903 with The Two Mr. Wetherby’s. Hankin was actively involved in running the Stage Society, a London theater group that supported plays of literary merit, founded in part, to avoid the Lord Chamberlain’s censorship. Hankin was the only living dramatist other than Shaw to have more than one fulllength play produced at the Royal Court during the important Vedrenne-Barker years from 1904 to 1907. Granville Barker produced the premieres of both The Return of the Prodigal and The Charity That Began at Home. During Hankin’s youth his father suffered a nervous breakdown, which left him an invalid. Hankin himself began to suffer from increasing ill health in 1907 and he was plagued with the fear that he would suffer the same fate as his father. On a “dull, sultry, wet” day in June of 1909, St John Hankin tied two seven-pound dumbbells around his neck and drowned himself in the river Ithon. He left his wife a letter expressing his fear that he would “slip into invalidism,” which he could not bear and ended by telling her, “I have found a lovely pool in a river and at the bottom I hope to find rest.” George Bernard Shaw described his death as “a public calamity.”
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RICHARD KLINE (Mr. Jackson) recently returned from Seattle’s Intiman Theater where he played Boris Max in Richard Wright’s Native Son. He costarred with Annie Potts in Diva at the Pasadena Playhouse and with Judith Light in Stephen Sondheim’s Company. He made his Broadway debut in City of Angels, in film with Barry Levinson’s “Liberty Heights” and in television with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. His solo show, Boychik has been performed at Theater Four and many venues throughout the U.S. Other stage credits include: Death Of A Salesman, Chemin de Fer, Henry V, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Titanic, They’re Playing Our Song, Do I Hear A Waltz?, The Rothschilds, and Hello Again. In the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s By Jeeves, he played Jeeves both at the Goodspeed Opera and the Kennedy Center. Over 70 television credits include “Three’s Company”, “Maude”, “ER”, “NYPD Blue, “Gilmore Girls”, “Judging Amy”, “LA Law”, “St. Elsewhere”. As a director, Richard won the LA Drama Critics Award for his direction of Noel Coward’s Present Laughter. For television, he has directed Bruce Davison, Burt Reynolds and Billy Connolly. As always, for Beverley.
Sadie Thompson with June Havoc (PSM), Colette with Leslie Caron (PSM), Come Back, Little Sheba with Donna McKechnie (PSM) , Mary Todd…A Woman Apart, The Tillie Project, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard ,The Poetry Of Pizza, Footloose, Jekyll & Hyde, 42nd. Street, Cabaret, South Pacific, Beauty & the Beast, Aida, and The Full Monty (PSM). Mr. Cruse has directed over 60 productions in his career and is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.
REBECCA C. MONR OE : (Assistant Stage Manager): Ms. Monroe has multiple credits on and off-Broadway, in regional theatre and opera, industrials, television and film. STUART HOWA RD, A MY SCHECTER & PAUL HARDT (Casting) have cast hundreds of shows over the past 25 years. Among their favorites are: Broadway: Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Chicago (Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking), Sly Fox (Richard Dreyfuss), Fortune's Fool (Alan Bates, Frank Langella) & the original La Cage Aux Folles. Off Broadway: I Love
You, You're Perfect, Now Change & The Normal Heart.
DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Press Representatives) is proud to continue our relationship with Mint. DGA currently represents the Off-
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www.davidgersten.com SHERRI KOTIMSKY (General Manager) Produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape, Shy-
ster, 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. JONATHAN BANK (Artistic Director) Bank has been the artistic director of Mint since
Cleveland Playhouse, City of Light at Buffalo Arena Theater, Permanent Collection at The Arizona Theater Company and Steve Martin’s Underpants at Rochester’s Geva Theater. TV and film credits include Mr. Bing on “Hope and Faith”, roles on every daytime drama including seven years as Glenn Taggart on “Guiding Light” and numerous independent films. He has written a screenplay, which is in pre-production. He and his wife, Mezzo-Soprano Leslie Middlebrook wrote and perform in A Victorian Evening . Opera aficionados, they share love and life with two indispensable cats, Mario Cavaradossi and Romeo Montecchi. W.
ALAN NEBELTHAU (Dr. Glaisher) This is Alan's first appearance at the Mint. he has appeared on Broadway. in Oscar Wilde's Salomé and in numerous Off and Off-off Broadway. productions including premieres by Mac Wellman (The Lesser Magoo), Israel Horovitz (Dr. Hero), Irene Fornes, (Mud). His evening of Beckett (Krapps's Last Tape and Other Short Works) was produced by Lincoln Center Institute. Regional credits include: Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, others. On an I.T.I grant he worked with Peter Brook & Co. in Paris. TV: “One Life to Live”, “Guiding Light”, “Loving”, “Remember WENN”. He studied with Sanford Mesiner. Alan made his stage de-
but in Kabul, Afghanistan at the Kabul Amateur Dramatic Society. CECELIA RIDDETT (Mrs. Pratt) is happy to be back at the Mint where she was last seen as Miss Smithers in Diana Of Dobsons. N.Y. credits: Manhattan Theater Club, Circle-in-theSquare Downtown, Axis Theater, Harold Clurman, St. Clement's, Vital Theater, Trinity, et al. Regional: Arena Stage, Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, A Contemporary Theater, Studio Arena, GEVA, Arden, Va. Stage, Mill Mt. Playhouse, Olney, Folger, Wayside, Cincinnati Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, et al. Film: "Where Are My Children?", "Pride and Glory". T.V: "Law and Order", "Empty Nest", "F.B.I.: the Untold Stories", "The Adams Chronicles", "As the World Turns", "The Young and the Restless", et al. Education: B.A. Barnard College, M.A. Catholic University of America. Celebrating thirtyfive years in Actors' Equity Association. MARGOT WHITE (Stella Faringford) Margot is thrilled to be making her Mint debut. Favorite credits include: Broadway: Bobbi Boland (u/s); Off Broadway: Georgette: The Traveling Lady (E.S.T – Drama Desk Nomination); Marina: Pericles (The Culture Project, NYC); the world premiere of When They Speak of Rita, directed by Horton Foote (Primary Stages,
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Happily casting for The Mint for the past 2 seasons
Broadway hits Altar Boyz (3rd year), Naked Boys Singing! (8th full frontal year), The Awesome 80s Prom (4th year) and the new play Elvis People. Other current clients include York Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New World Stages, Stage Entertainment US, The Lucille Lortel Foundation, and The League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers' annual Lortel Awards, which David also writes and co-produces. Also a producer, David presented Tea At Five starring Kate Mulgrew as Katharine Hepburn, as well as the musicals Dr. Sex and
NYC); Nina: The Seagull (The Pearl Theatre); and the lead in the premiere of India Awaiting at the Samuel Beckett. Regional theatres include: A.C.T., The Studio Theatre, STNJ, PTC, and Great Lakes Theatre Festival. She has been featured on “Guiding Light”, and “All My Children”, and has done commercials for both Turner Classic Movies and Asahi Beer (Japan). She most recently played the lead in the Indie Short “Good Night Kiss”. Margot has studied with both the NYSF Shakespeare Lab and the London Academy of Performing Arts. For always, for Paul. CLINT RAMOS (Sets & Costumes) Mint : Madras House, NY : Ensemble Studio Theater, The Play Company, Rude Mechanicals, Foundry Theatre, La Mama, Here Arts Center, PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Dancespace, Duke, Ohio , SPF, MCC, Red Bull Theater and others. Regional : Asolo Repertory, American Repertory Theater, Merrimack Repertory Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Baltimore Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Theater, Speakeasy Stage, East West Players, Opera Boston, Opera Theater of St.Louis and others. International: Barbican (London), Noorlaand Operan (Stockholm), Kanon Dance ( St. Petersburg), Teatro Pilipino (Manila), Ballet Stuttgarter (Stuttgart), DeNederlandse Opera (Amsterdam). Recently
TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting Designer) This is Tyler’s first collaboration with Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theater. Recent Off-Broadway credits: God’s Ear (New Georges); Gutenberg! The Musical ! (Actors Playhouse); A Very Common Pro cedu re ( MCC) ; Anon (Atlantic Theater); The Attic, Romania Kiss Me! (Play Company); At Least It’s Pink (Ars Nova); Widowers Houses (Epic Theater Center); Hell House (St. Ann’s Warehouse/Les Freres Corbusier). Regional: Wilma, Delaware, NJ Shakespeare, Prince Music Theater, Hangar, Syracuse Stage, Portland Center Stage, Shakespeare Theater, Long Wharf. Faculty: Sarah Lawrence College Dept. Of Dance. Awards: Lucille Lortel, OBIE (for BUG, Barrow Street Theater). JANE SHAW (Sound Design) At the Mint: Lonely Way, Ivanov, Susan and God (Jonathan Bank), Walking Down Broadway (Stephen Williford), No Time for Comedy (Kent Paul). Designs include: Theater for a New Audience’s Merchant of Venice and Jew of Malta, Susan Marshall's Cloudless ; Big Dance Theater's The Other
Here, Plan B, Antigone, A Simple Heart, Another Telepathic Thing, The Pearl Theatre's Biography, Gentleman Dancing Master and Mary Stuart; Studio 42’s Giants at HERE, and The
Underpants and Syncopation at Capital Rep in Albany. Her designs have toured from Shanghai to Muenster, Charleston to Los Angeles. Ms. Shaw held positions at NYU Tisch and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. She received a Meet the Composer Grant, 2006 for Hecuba at the Pearl Theater, and is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program, 2005 – 2007. . CRAIG NAPOLlELLO (Associate Set Designer) New York Credits include: Associate Scenic Designer on Return of the Prodigal, I-Land, Purity under Clint Ramos. Some of his past shows include The Germans In Paris, Verse Theater Manhattan, Savage in Limbo, SameVein Productions, Torch Song Trilogy, Gallery Players, True West, Lily Lodge’s Actors Conservatory, Intellectuals , WorkShop Theatre Company, Solicitation, New York Fringe Festival, Fallen, New York Theatre Experiment, Heartbreak, Edge of Insanity and Porn and Happiness. Other credits: Moon Over Buffalo, Iowa Summer Rep, Betty's Summer Va-
cation, Dollhouse, Shadows of the Reef. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa.
HWI-WON LEE (Associate Costume Designer) is a third year Graduate student at Carnegie Mellon Drama school. Costume designs include As You Like It directed by Di Trevis at CMU, Ana 311 and A River Apart at
the Kraine Theatre, directed by Anjali Vashi. The Tempest directed by Neal Freeman at the 45th Street Theatre. Dust choreographed by Camille Brown Stream and Holding Time by Christen Von Howard with Alvin Ailey, Ssoot and Darkwood by Youn Soon Kim with White Wave Co She has been costume assistant to Robert Perdiziola for Anna Karenina at Florida Grand Opera and with Clint Ramos for The Taming of the Shrew at Dallas Theatre Center. KIMOTHY CRUSE (Production Stage Manager) has been a professional actor, director, producer and writer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in film and television. His credits include: Broadway: The Little Foxes with Elizabeth Taylor & Maureen Stapleton (Assoc. Director), All Over Town with Dustin Hoffman (Ass’t. Director). Off-Broadway:The Threepenny Opera with Bea Arthur, Charlotte Rae, Bob Cuccioli & Donna McKechnie (PSM), Weird Romance with Karen Ziemba & Deven May (PSM), Portraits with Roberta Maxwell, Victor Slezak and Dana Reeve (PSM), My Deah with Nancy Opel & Maxwell Caulfield (PSM), A Servant Of Two Masters, Fanny, Best Foot Forward , Perfect Crime and Mary Todd…A Woman Apart (PSM). Regional: On A Clear Day…with Robert Goulet and Joanna Gleason (Ass’t. Dir.), Pal Joey with Dixie Carter and Elaine Stritch (Ass’t. Dir.),
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Soldiers Wife, Susan and God .
featured in Live Design magazine as one of 2007’s Designers to Watch. MFA from NYU.