The Garbologists Playwise by Philadelphia Theatre Company

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BY LINDSAY JOELLE

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welcome back. I have been waiting so long to write those words, and to welcome you back to experience theatre again, for our most important season ever. Whether you are one hundred percent ready to sit in this theatre, or if you share the more cautious optimism of so many of our guests, we are truly grateful that you came. I’d like to ask you to hold in your hearts the creative work of our playwright, who will see this very first production of her show, our new-to-PTC director, our designers who have continued to be creative in so many ways but are now able to wrap their arms around a theatre, and finally to our actors already in a field that is inherently difficult - who boldly step onto the stage after 18 months of disruption and recalibration of a kind our field has never seen. Fundamentally, we are all changed. We’ve been changed by a year plus of varying degrees of separation and, in the case of the live arts, the literal inability to do our work. What I learned since March of 2020 is that every day you need to find the small ‘wins’ that help you keep putting things together. It is a deeply uncomfortable time to lead an arts organization. We have effectively been ‘planning’ for 18 months. But with no real certainty, we had to move forward–we are wired to produce and to create. We accept that we’re not going to have all the answers, that we’re going to make mistakes, that we’re going to take too long, we’re going to rush, we’re going to have someone mad at us, maybe, at any given moment...this is the reality of every theatre company right now. I kept my eye on the prize, and I imagined calling actors with offers, I imagined rehearsals, and then I imagined opening the doors to our grateful audiences, who would be transported and maybe even healed a little bit, and that’s what kept me going.

We know what art can do — how it can change perspectives, and even change lives. That’s why the PNC Foundation developed PNC Arts Alive, a multi-year, multi-million-dollar initiative that supports the arts in local communities. Through this initiative, we continue to challenge visual and performing arts organizations to put forth their best, most original thinking while expanding audience participation and engagement. Because when art thrives, everybody benefits. To learn more, go to pncartsalive.com

I also learned that there is no time like the present and so we are going to forge ahead with new plays, and we will hopefully have new faces among our most ardent fans. The season ahead is one of firsts - TWO world premieres! - and offers you three rich sensory experiences. The Garbologists, by Lindsay Joelle, is a slyly off-beat buddy comedy; Choir Boy, by Academy Awardwinner Tarell Alvin McCraney, literally sings with newly arranged gospel and R&B music; and Where We Belong, Madeline Sayet’s poetic and deep solo journey in our globalized but fractured world, takes us through a tactile, sound- and light-filled personal exploration of her people’s cultural history. I’m so proud of the staff, of our board and supporters, of our crew and volunteers and also, so proud to offer YOU our 2021-22 season. Thank you so much for coming.

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Powering partnerships. At PECO, we know that arts and culture organizations greatly impact our local economy. That’s why we provide more than $6 million a year to community and nonprofit organizations across our region that serve people of all ages and backgrounds. Through PECO sponsored programs, we provide access to the arts and imaginative contemporary theater that is focused on the American experience, ignites the intellect, and touches the soul. PECO is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s TONY Award®-winning play CHOIR BOY.

“I’m in a job where I am completely invisible.” - Danny Notes from Dramaturg, Clare Drobot When you take your trash down to the curb, how much time do you spend contemplating where it’s going and how it will get there? For many of us, it’s an automatic routine and the hiss, whine, and grinding gears of a garbage truck trundling up a street is little more than background woven into the sonic pattern of our lives. But for Danny and Marlowe, the central characters in Lindsay Joelle’s The Garbologists, garbage encompasses so much more.

Marlowe and Danny, as uniformed employees of the New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY), are members of New York’s Strongest. The DSNY is New York’s third largest agency with some 7,800 sanitation men and women in its ranks. They are responsible for collecting 12,000 tons of garbage and recycling from the city streets each day. DSNY’s work also includes storm clean up and snow removal; its services are paramount to keeping the city that never sleeps running. Careers in sanitation can be rewarding; as members of Teamsters Union Local 831, sanitation workers are eligible for a pension after 22 years of service and can earn a significant salary when factoring in overtime. However, the work is physically taxing. Sanitation workers walk around 15 miles a day and can lift over 23 tons weekly. It is also hazardous; sanitation is ranked the fifth most dangerous job in the country. Between the physical toll of lifting, sharp or toxic objects hidden in the trash, and contending with traffic hazards, few employees make it through their career without sustaining an injury. DSNY employees take immense pride in their work. Perhaps the combination of demanding labor and hiding in plain sight informs the bonds of the small but mighty force that removes the refuse of millions of New Yorkers. As detailed in Robin Nagle’s 2013 book Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City there is a rich lexicon of trash collection, from words like Junior Flip which demarcates a new sanitation worker like Marlowe to mongo. Coined in the 1980s, mongo is slang for items scavenged from the trash. While technically against DSNY department policy, there is in fact a trash museum of items mongoed from the streets in an East Harlem department garage.

The Garbologists delves into the world of trash collection, uncovering the hidden secrets lining the streets of New York. Through Danny and Marlow’s journey, the script brings into focus the unexplored, herculean task of keeping a city’s streets clean. Perhaps the next time you hear sanitation workers outside your window, you’ll pause to thank them for their essential labor and wonder what treasures they might uncover during their day. 4

THE GARBOLOGISTS Paige Price Producing Artistic Director

Emily Zeck Managing Director

This play will be performed without intermission. Photos may be taken in the theatre before the performance, during intermission, and following the performance. If you share photos, please credit the designers and tag @philatheatreco. Taking photos, video, and/or audio recording during the performance is strictly prohibited. Please remember to silence your mobile devices.

CAST Marlowe.......................................................................................Ngozi Anyanwu* Danny...........................................................................................Steven Rishard*

STAGE MANAGEMENT Stage Manager...........................................................................Alison Hassman*

BY LINDSAY JOELLE A Co-World Premiere with City Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA

Production Assistant.............................................................................Jamel Baker

PRODUCTION SUPPORT Props Supervisor........................................................................Shannon O’ Brien

Movement and Fight Consultant......................................................J. Alex Cordaro Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Officer.................................Noelle Diane Johnson

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Scene Shop...............................................................................Scenery First,Inc. Scenic Design Christopher Ash Dramaturg Clare Drobot

Costume Design LeVonne Lindsay Technical Supervisor Nick Kargel

Lighting Design Alyssandra Docherty

Sound Design Daniel Ison

Production Manager Will Cruttenden

Stage Manager Alison Hassman

Additional Scenic Elements....................................Philadelphia Scenic Works *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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Directed by Estefanía Fadul THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Linda & David Glickstein | Laura & Richard Steel PRODUCERS Gayle & David Smith ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS

The Garbologists was workshopped at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA as part of the 2019 Momentum Festival. Originally commissioned by The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project and developed with the support of PlayPenn, Paul Meshejian, Artistic Director. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. 6

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We recognize and acknowledge that the Suzanne Roberts Theatre stands on the Indigenous territory known as “Lenapehoking,” the traditional homelands of the Lenape, also called Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Indians. These are the people who, during the 1680s, negotiated with William Penn to facilitate the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania. The Lenape diaspora includes five federally recognized nations in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Pennsylvania is one of only a few Eastern states that does not recognize any native tribes. We Are The Seeds is one of many local organizations you can support: wearetheseeds.org. You can also learn more by visiting The Lenape Nation of PA Cultural Center in Easton, PA: lenape-nation.org/cultural-center.

SPECIAL THANKS Our Volunteer Ushers Opera Philadelphia Theatre Exile Nevin Steinberg Scenery First A special thank you to those Individuals, Foundations, and Government Agencies that made relief funds available to Philadelphia Theatre Company and other cultural organizations during pandemic-related shutdowns.

WHO’S WHO? CAST BIOS

Ngozi Anyanwu | Marlowe is a playwright and performer. She’s very excited to be making her Philadelphia Theatre Company acting debut close to her hometown of Bensalem, PA. She most recently completed a run at The Atlantic Theater Company off-Broadway in The Last of The Love Letters in which she wrote and performed. Other acting credits include: (THEATRE) The Vineyard Theatre, The Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Center Theatre Group, The City Theatre; (TV and FILM) The Deuce, The Good Fight, Law and Order (SVU) , Dead Beat. Education: Point Park University (BA), University of California San Diego (MFA).

Steven Rishard | Danny was last seen in Describe the Night, at the Wilma Theater. Here in Philadelphia, his other credits include work with Azuka Theater, Boycott Esther, and The Arsonists. With the Arden Theatre, Cabaret, and Doll’s House 2 ; Straight White Men at Interact Theatre, The Few at Theatre Horizon, and Detroit at Philadelphia Theatre Company. At the Wilma Theater, where he has been a HotHouse member since 2014, he has been in several plays including When the Rain Stops Falling, Adapt! , Romeo and Juliet, and The Hard Problem. His New York credits include The Bacchae for The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, In the Penal Colony at Classic Stage Company, Luz at LA Mama Theatre, and with Division 13 Productions, Cascando and Journeys Among the Dead at H.E.R.E Art Space, and Act Without Words 1 at the Brooklyn Can Factory. TV credits include Law & Order, Treme, Law & Order: SVU, Kings, and The Americans. Film: Shelter (6 Souls) , Joy D.Vee, and Hal Hartley’s Meanwhile. Look him up on Instagram @srishard. Steven is grateful and thrilled to make his return to PTC, and thanks you for coming out to support live theatre.

Covid-19 Arts Aid PHL Free 2 Be Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts Covid-19 Cultural and Museum Preservation Grant The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Shuttered Venue Operators Grant

WHO’S WHO? CREATIVE BIOS Lindsay Joelle | Playwright is a Chicago-born, NYC-based playwright and screenwriter drawn to stories of outsiders, rebels, and the un-assimilated. Plays include TRAYF (Geffen ’22, Theater J, New Rep, Penguin Rep), The Messengers (Audible Theater audioplay), A Small History of Amal, Age 7 (Forward Flux/Pratidhwani), and The Garbologists (Philadelphia Theatre Company, City Theatre ’22). She has been awarded an Audible Theatre Emerging Playwright commission, Ensemble Studio Theatre / Sloan Foundation Science & Technology commission, Vital Theatre new musical commission, Irving Zarkower Award, and Goldberg MFA Playwriting Prize. BA from Columbia University and MFA from Hunter, studying under Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, and Samuel D. Hunter. Alumna of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Nashville Repertory Theatre’s Ingram New Works Lab, and 2017-2018 NNPN Playwright-in-Residence at Curious Theatre. Non-theatrical writing includes restaurant reviews for New York Magazine’s Grubstreet and the prep book Tutor Tells All: ACT Test Strategy. www.Lindsayjoelle.com

Estefanía Fadul | Director (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based Colombian-American director and deviser of new work. Current and recent projects include Kamloopa by Kim Senklip Harvey (WAM), Carla’s Quince created with The Voting Project (Drama League Award nomination), Noelle Viñas’ Zoom Intervention (Weston Playhouse, NYTimes Critics Pick), Christina Quintana’s Azul (Southern Rep) and Scissoring (INTAR), Stefan Ivanov’s The Same Day (Sfumato Theatre, Bulgaria), and Preston Max Allen and Jessica Kahkoska’s musical Agent 355 (Chautauqua, NYSAF). Estefanía has developed new work off-Broadway and regionally at the Public Theater, Playwrights’ Realm, Long Wharf, Juilliard, Repertorio Español, and more. She is the inaugural recipient of New York Stage and Film’s Pfaelzer Award, and an alumna of the Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship, Drama League Directors Project, O’Neill/NNPN National Directors Fellowship, Van Lier Fellowship at Repertorio Español, and NALAC Leadership Institute. Estefanía is an artist with the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, and a member of the Drama League Directors Council, New Georges Jam, Latinx Theatre Commons advisory committee, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and SDC. B.A. Vassar College. www.estefaniafadul.com

Christopher Ash | Scenic Design Philadelphia-based Designer and Filmmaker. Previous PTC productions include Sweat, Having Our Say, and Rizzo. Christopher Ash’s work has been seen in 13 countries and been recognized for 15 awards. Equally at home designing projections, scenery or lighting for theatre, opera, and dance as well as direction and cinematography for film. Broadway credits include, Sunday in the Park with George, Saint Joan, Network, The Prince of Broadway, The Crucible, and On The Town. His opera designs have been seen at The Met, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera, and Houston Grand Opera, and Christopher holds an MFA in design from the Yale School of Drama.

LeVonne Lindsay | Costume Design is the Costume Shop Manager and Adjunct Assistant Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Education: B.S. in Fashion Design from Philadelphia University, M.F.A in Costume Design from the University of Maryland, College Park. Recent work: Ragtime, Gem of the Ocean, Arden Theater; Sweat- Philadelphia Theater Company; Kill, Move, Paradise- Wilma Theater. Awards/Honors: Barrymore Award for Outstanding Costume Design (2019), Allen Lee Hughes Fellow at Arena Stage (2001-2003). 10

WHO’S WHO? CREATIVE BIOS Alyssandra Docherty | Lighting Design is a Philadelphia-based lighting designer originally from northern NJ. After graduating with Honors and a BA in Theatre from DeSales University, Aly continued her training as an Electrics Apprentice at Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut. She spent five seasons as Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Lighting Supervisor and now tours internationally with both Koresh Dance Company and BalletX. Her work has been recognized with Barrymore and Ostrander Award nominations. www.alyssandradocherty.com

Daniel Ison | Sound Design is excited to be working on his first show at PTC. Off Broadway: Associate Sound Designer Hot Wing King (Signature Theatre). Broadway: Associate Sound Designer: Skeleton Crew (Manhattan Theatre Club) Regional: Gem of the Ocean, Streetcar Named Desire (Arden Theatre);Wilde Tales, Frankenstein, Julius Caesar, Aesop’s Fables (Quintessence); Box Clever, Our Few and Evil Days (Inis Nua); The Audience Disturbs Marcel (Tiny Dynamite); Collected Stories (Act II Playhouse); Ready Steady Yeti (Azuka Theatre); Othello, All My Sons (Curio Theatre); Tartuffe (Mauckingbird). Film/ Television: Howard (Zorinah Juan). Education: BA Music Composition (Eastern University). Awards: Barrymore Winner Sound Design, Gem of the Ocean. Barrymore Nominee Sound Design, Untitled. Barrymore Nominee Original Music, Art of Swimming.

Alison Hassman | Stage Manager is thrilled to return to PTC. New York: Hamilton, The Nutcracker (New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center), Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, A Gentleman and his Ladies (Roundabout, with Alan Cumming), Cherry Lane, Westside Theatre, 59E59, the York, 24 Hour Play Company. Regional: McCarter, Two River, Delaware Theater Company, six seasons with Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Theater Horizon, Trinity Rep, Bucks County Playhouse, Bristol Riverside, Premiere Stages. Love to MDT. Be safe.

Jamel Baker | Production Assistant is excited to be working with PTC on this amazing project! Jamel Baker is a freelance stage manager and has worked with many companies throughout the city including Tribe of Fools (also a company member), Simpatico, Azuka, Passage Theatre and more. Jamel holds a BFA from Millersville University.

Clare Drobot | Dramaturg is currently the Co-Artistic Director of City Theatre along with Monteze Freeland and Marc Masterson. She joined the staff at City in 2015 serving as the Director of New Play Development and Associate Artistic Director (since March 2020). A dramaturg, playwright, and producer Clare has worked in various capacities at Premiere Stages at Kean University, Laura Stanczyk Casting, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The McCarter Theatre, The BE Company, Play Penn, and New Dramatists. Her work as a writer has been seen in Ars Nova’s ANT FEST and the New Hazlett Theatre’s CSA Series among others. She serves on the boards of the National New Play Network and Brew House Association. BA/BFA Carnegie Mellon University, member of LMDA.

WHO’S WHO? CREATIVE BIOS

J. Alex Cordaro | Movement and Fight Consultant has spent the last 30 years studying, practicing, teaching, and directing theatrical violence in the US and Europe. He has Fight Directed over 100 Union shows including 12 Premieres with EQUITY and AGMA (World, United States, and Philadelphia.) When not working in the theater he enjoys cooking dinner with his family, hiking, camping, yardwork, and sitting around a campfire telling lies with old friends. Alex currently runs the stage combat progression at the University of the Arts, across the street in both directions.

Noelle Diane Johnson | EDI Officer (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary Artist and Artist Advocate based in Philadelphia, PA. She is thrilled to be joining Philadelphia Theatre Company for their production of The Garbologists directed by Estafanía Fadul as EDI Officer. She has worked for multiple venues in different capacities including the Wilma Theater, Theatre Horizon, The Lantern Theater Company, Simpatico Theatre Company, Theatre in the X, Shakespeare in Clark Park, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, FringeArts, Long Wharf Theatre, and Playbill among many others. Noelle is also the Founder & Owner of ARTISTS HEAL™, a company designed to create healing and care spaces for collaborative art-making while centering and providing resources for marginalized artists and vulnerable communities. Noelle believes in servant leadership and offers programming to promote self-liberated, inclusive, and equitable spaces designed for healing and expansion through decolonized artistic practice and process. Learn more at artistsheal.org. IG: @warmweathernoelle/@artistsheal

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Audio Described Performance Wednesday, December 1 @ 1:00pm For audience members who are visually impaired or low vision. Through provided assisted listening devices, a trained audio describer fills in the visual details and action on stage while it is performed live. Large print programs available upon special request.

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Sensory workshops and tours are temporarily suspended due to pandemic health restrictions, but we hope they will return next season. Assisted Listening Devices Assisted listening headsets that wirelessly deliver all dialogue, music, and sound from the show at a personally adjustable volume are available for free at every PTC performance through the House Manager or concessionaire. Open Caption Performance Saturday, December 4 @ 2:00pm For audience members who are hearing impaired. A large LED captioning screen, positioned beside the stage, scrolls text of the lyrics/dialogue in tandem with the lyrics/ dialogue of the performance.

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2021/22 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ABOUT SUZANNE ROBERTS / THE SUZANNE ROBERTS THEATRE Suzanne Roberts (1921-2020) Philadelphia Theatre Company is honored to name its home after Suzanne Roberts-actress, playwright, director, educator, producer, and philanthropist. For over 40 years, Suzanne was a leading champion of the Philadelphia theater community. Suzanne engaged as an artist in meaningful public service with projects as diverse as performing in dramas to inspiring the purchase of war bonds during World War II to national appearances in plays discouraging racism and alcoholism. She performed on many stages in plays from Shakespeare to A.R. Gurney and in a variety of media including radio and television. Suzanne is known to audiences as the creator and host of Emmy Award-Winning Seeking Solutions with Suzanne. One of her lifelong passions was using theater to improve the lives of young people. Through the Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund, she supported the outreach work of theater and dance companies in sharing their creativity with school children and young adults. (Photo by Alan Kole.) The Suzanne Roberts Theatre, designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates, is owned and operated by Philadelphia Theatre Company. The space is contemporary, elegant, and urbane, and features a 160’ double-height glass facade on the Avenue of the Arts. The interior is defined by a uniquely warm and sculptural, 365-seat main stage auditorium with a spacious and contemporary mezzanine and a planned 100-seat, flexible second stage for new play development, intimate performances, and educational programming. Our stage house significantly enhances our ability to respond to the most imaginative visions of our creative teams with its spacious wings, soaring fly gallery, and trapped stage. The Theatre offers a full range of public amenities with an on-site box office, public restrooms, a concession stand, and multiple lobbies designed for patron comfort and engagement. A grand staircase leads from the main floor to the mezzanine lobby. The Theatre’s contemporary design makes it one of the country’s most accessible performing arts venues and supports one of PTC’s core values to ensure that our artistry is accessible to everyone in our community.

LEADERSHIP

David L. Cohen, Chairman Gary A. Deutsch, Vice Chair John M. Hanamirian, Treasurer Julia Ericksen, Ph.D., Secretary Kristin Bair Dennis Bianchi Kia Buckner, CPA, CGMA David L. Colman, AIA Stephanie B. Fineman, Esq. Holly Flanagan Teresa Gavigan

Glenn Gundersen Regina Hairston Geoffrey A. Kahn Sally Katz Daphne Klausner John Kuester III Matthew Massaua Stephen J. McConnell Vibhat Nair, PhD Dr. Donna-Marie Peters Paige Price, Producing Artistic Director E. Gerald Riesenbach, Esq. Ryan Schrader Elliot Schwartz Emily Zeck, Managing Director

ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARD

Daryl Roth Harold Wolpert MEMBERS EMERITUS

Sara Garonzik, Executive Producing Director Emeritus Don Rosenblit, Chairman Emeritus Carol Saline Sheldon L. Thompson

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PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY STAFF LEADERSHIP

Producing Artistic Director Paige Price Managing Director Emily Zeck ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION

Resident Artist Jeffrey Page Artistic Programs & Events Manager Allison Fifield Artistic Assistant Angel Chasco Literary Intern Miguel Ortega Production Manager Will Cruttenden Head Carpenter Thomas Cristaldi Sound Supervisor Waylon Ferrell Lighting Supervisor Ben Tilley Props Supervisor Shannon O’Brien Wardrobe Supervisor Danielle Joh Assistant Carpenter Patrick Dougherty Assistant Lighting Supervisor Jeremy Hugo Wardrobe Assistant Sabrina Reichert Assistant Audio Supervisor Robin Clenard House Assistant Mitch Miller

SUZANNE ROBERTS THEATRE AND AUDIENCE SERVICES

Rental Manager Vince Karlen Tessitura Manager Amy Wilson Co-Manager of Audience Services Lauren Davenport Co-Manager of Audience Services Jonathan Wallace Audience Services Associates Cinco Placensia, Emily Wanamaker Front of House Staff Angel Chasco, Tom Irvin, William LeDent, Javier Mojica, Miguel Ortega, Bella Saltzer, Abby Weissman Custodians KZach Janitorial Suppliers BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATION

General Manager Margo Moskowitz Management Assistant Courtney Banks

MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT

Director of Marketing Jessica Ragusa Marketing Assistant Dana Liu Public Relations Kory Aversa and Carrie Gorn of Aversa PR & Events LLC Graphic Design The MyersRoberts Collective Director of Development Nathan Schultz Associate Director of Development Jessica Pasquariello

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