A Christmas Carol

A PlayMakers Special Event

Charles Dickens’

A Christmas Carol STARRING

Ray Dooley

adapted by William Leach directed by Michael Perlman The video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

The Professional Theatre of the Department of Dramatic Art Kathryn Hunter-Williams, Chair Vivienne Benesch, Producing Artistic Director Produced in association with the College of Arts and Sciences The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DECEMBER 16 - 17, 2023 Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art | playmakersrep.org | 919.962.7529

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Photo of Ray Dooley by HuthPhoto

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ARTIST BIOS Ray Dooley Storyteller

PlayMakers: Company member from 1989 to 2021. Most recently: The Skin of Our Teeth, The Storyteller, Ragtime, Dairyland, Life of Galileo, Bewilderness, She Loves Me, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood. Broadway: Macbeth. Off-Broadway: Three seasons with Classic Stage Company (OBIE Award for Distinguished Performance, Peer Gynt).

International: European premiere of Doubt (Vienna’s English Theatre); Amadeus, The Lark (Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Canada). Regional: Guthrie Theater, Folger Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Shakespeare Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre Company, among many others. Film/TV: Dopesick (Disney/Hulu); Trainhopper, Changeover, The Trial of Standing Bear, Stonebrook, One Life to Live, Guiding Light. Education/ Other: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; BA, Hamilton College (Phi Beta Kappa). Professor Emeritus, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Dramatic Art; C. Knox Massey Award for Unusual, Distinguished and Meritorious Service to the University. Member Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA.

Michael Perlman Director

Michael returns to PlayMakers where he served as Associate Artistic Director for two seasons between 2017 and 2021. A New York based Writer and Director, Michael has directed at Goodspeed Opera House, Cleveland Play House, Trinity Repertory Company, Kitchen Theatre Company, Arvada Theater Center, Boise Contemporary Theater, Creede Repertory Theater, Swine Palace, Maples Rep, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep and the Brown/Trinity MFA Programs as well as workshops with The Playwrights’ Center, The Magic Theater and Young Playwrights, Inc. He’s the Associate Director on Fiasco Theater’s Into the Woods which was seen at the McCarter Theater, Old Globe, Menier Chocolate Factory and Roundabout Theater Company, in addition to Noises Off at Roundabout. Michael’s plays include At The Table and From White Plains, which is the recipient of a 2013 GLAAD Media Award and was nominated for New York Innovative Theater awards for Outstanding Premiere Production and Outstanding Full-Length Script. In addition, Michael’s one-person show Flying on the Wing was presented at the New York Fringe Festival, where it was the winner of Outstanding Solo Show. Michael is an Artistic Associate with both Fiasco Theater and Fault Line Theatre. He is proud to be a member of SDC, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and holds a BA and MFA from Brown University, where he has also served on faculty.

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