Stereophonic
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From the Playwright: David Adjmi Stereophonic came to me when I thought my life as a playwright was over. Early in my career I’d had a bad production experience; when it was done I was left with a bleeding ulcer and, in my bank account, a grand total of seven thousand bucks. I very dramatically announced to all my friends that I was “leaving the theater” — but once I’d made that decision, I was suddenly showered with grants and productions. Plays in my backlog were now seeing production, so I kept delaying my leave of the theater just this once, I’d tell myself, until the next production opportunity arrived, at which point I’d make another temporary volte face. In 2013 I received a grant from the Mellon Foundation, a three-year residency at Soho Rep. As part of the residency, I was meant to write a new play. I thought this sounded terrible — as I’d “left the theater” — but I had to do it, so I agreed to write a brief 70-minute play to fulfill the assignment. But the brief 70-minute play grew to a two-act play, and then a three-act play, and then a four-act play, and before I knew it I found myself in love with plays and playwriting all over again — despite how I’d been bruised, in spite of the dysfunction and craziness of what Zoe Caldwell used to sardonically refer to as “The Industry.” Stereophonic is a play about this kind of love, a love so ardent and intractable it transcends logic; it transcends the humiliation and risk that inevitably come with it. This kind of love is not involuntary, it is something we choose. And it is choice that keeps the members of the band together — a choice they make again and again, day after day, in a process that gets more and more drawn out and feverish until it starts to resemble Hans Castorp’s visit to the sanitorium in The Magic Mountain. Why are we drawn to the things that destroy us? And how is it that these destructive forces can also be life-giving fonts of beauty and profound meaning?
I can’t always point to the exact moment of inspiration for a play, but I can with this one. I was on a flight to Boston when Led Zeppelin’s haunting cover of “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” came on the radio. I knew the song, but I hadn’t ever really listened to it, and I was struck by the rawness and unmasked pain in the vocals. As Robert Plant taunts his lover with this threat of abandonment, his voice soars and shreds in a Dionysian frenzy of Eros and pain: the subtext being I can’t ever leave you. It’s the unresolvable tension between these two that make the song great. Stereophonic is a love letter to artists: to the intransigent insane love that fuels our work and the heartbreak we endure to keep making it. Art is a prism that refracts our nightmares, transforming them into dreams. But dreams and nightmares are flipsides of one coin, just like love and hate. What I didn’t know on that flight to Boston but have since come to realize is that my “babe” is the American theater itself: my soulmate, my abuser, the best lover I ever had. AUTHOR’S THANKS
The play started in a workshop at New Dramatists’ PlayTime program. The play would not be what it is without the incredible largesse and artistry of everyone at New Dramatists—in particular Emily Morse, Adam Greenfield, and my extraordinary set of actors: Mike Shapiro, Gayle Rankin, Alex Hurt, Rebecca Hart, Thomas Jay Ryan. Thank you too to the frighteningly talented pool of actors who gave their time and energy to developing the play in later workshops: Susannah Flood, William Jackson Harper, Alexandra Socha, Chris Sullivan, Theo Stockman, Louisa Krause, Molly Ranson, Stark Sands, Michael Esper, Will Brill, Blake Delong, Andrew R. Butler, Shane Chapman, Sarah Tolan Mee, Alex Breaux, Sarah Hunt, Patch Darragh, Marianne Rendon, Gabriel Ebert, Benj Mirman, John Kroft, Gideon Glick, Colby Minifie, Lola Kirke, Colin Bates, Nick Selting, Noel Allain, Patrick Vaill, Cristin Milioti, Kim Blank, Gus Halper, Danny Wolohan, Laura Dreyfuss, Matthew James Thomas, Damon Daunno, Carla Duren, Bobby Moreno, Nicholas Braun, Paulina Singer, Christopher Sears, Marin Ireland, Matt Bittner, Lucas Pappelias. To John Kilgore, Ryan Rumery, M.P Kuo, for their technical expertise. To P. Carl, Jamie Gahlon and The Mellon Foundation. To Raphael Martin, Sarah Benson, Cynthia Flowers, Jon Dembrow, John Seltzer, and everyone at Soho Rep. Ayad Akhtar, Lynn Nottage, Philip Himberg, Janice Paran, Chris Himberg, and Ignacia Delgado at Sundance. Joy Meads, Pier Carlo Talenti, Kelley Kirkpatrick, and the Center Theatre Group who commissioned and developed Stereophonic in several crucial workshops along with Second Stage Theater. Colleen Sherry, Laura Dupper, Wesleigh Gates, Sarah Blush and Julia Greer. Thank you to Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation, Millay Colony, American Academy of Rome, the Dora Maar House/Brown Foundation. Special thanks to Michael Makeel, Fran Offenhauser, Jim McCarthy, and Gloria Peterson for patronage and support.
Now playing in the Sharp Theater throughout November: three unique solo shows in rotation!
Sad Boys In Harpy Land
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater Artistic Director
Managing Director
Adam Greenfield
Leslie Marcus
General Manager
Carol Fishman
Created and performed by
Alexandra Tatarsky
Stereophonic
Sound composition by
By
Shane Riley Directed by
David Adjmi
Iris McCloughan
Songs by
Amusements
Featuring
Written and performed by
Ikechukwu Ufomadu Directed by
Nemuna Ceesay
Will Butler Andrew R. Butler Juliana Canfield Eli Gelb Will Brill Tom Pecinka Sarah Pidgeon Chris Stack Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Music Director
Vocal, Text, and Dialect Coach
Wig and Hair Design
Props
Casting
Casting Consultant
David Zinn
Justin Craig
Enver Chakartash
Gigi Buffington
Production Stage Manager
Erin Gioia Albrecht
Press Representative
Blake Zidell & Associates
Jiyoun Chang
Tommy Kurzman
Alaine Alldaffer, CSA
Ryan Rumery
Matt Carlin
Taylor Williams, CSA
Associate Artistic Director
School Pictures
Natasha Sinha
Directed by
Daniel Aukin
Written and performed by
Milo Cramer Directed by
Morgan Green
This production has received generous support from the Mellon Foundation, The W Trust, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, and Salman and Vienn Al-Rashid. Stereophonic was developed as a part of the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at MASS MoCA in 2017. Originally co-commissioned by Center Theatre Group, Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director; Douglas C. Baker, Producing Director; and Second Stage Theater, Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Casey Reitz, Executive Director.
Cast Reg Charlie Holly Grover Peter Diana Simon
WILL BRILL ANDREW R. BUTLER JULIANA CANFIELD ELI GELB TOM PECINKA SARAH PIDGEON CHRIS STACK
Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
ERIN GIOIA ALBRECHT ANDIE BURNS
Setting Parts 1-3 are set in a music studio in Sausalito, California. Part 4 is set in a music studio in Los Angeles. PART 1: June/July 1976 PART 2: September 1976 PART 3: Scene 1 — Late December 1976; Scenes 2 and 3 — March 1977 PART 4: June 1977
About the Artists WILL BRILL (Reg) first workshopped Stereophonic in 2015. Playwrights Horizons debut. Brill was most recently on Broadway in Daniel Fish’s revival of Oklahoma!, and Off-Broadway in A Case for the Existence of God, directed by David Cromer at Signature (Drama Desk nomination), and Off-Off Broadway in Uncle Vanya in a loft in Flatiron. He was in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The OA,” “Test Pattern,” and others on streaming platforms and networks. Upcoming: “Fellow Travelers” on Showtime. ANDREW R. BUTLER (Charlie) is an actor, writer, and composer. Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future (Ars Nova; Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical; Drama Desk and Lortel Awards nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Musical; cast album on Broadway Records); The Skin Of Our Teeth (TFANA), Futurity (Soho Rep/Ars Nova), Folk Wandering (Pipeline), Memory Retrograde (Under the Radar), Edelweiss (Dixon Place, Ars Nova). TV/Film: “Girls5Eva,” “Helluva Boss,” Friday Afternoon. JULIANA CANFIELD (Holly). Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Fefu and her Friends (TFANA); Sunday (Atlantic Theatre
Company); The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW); He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (TFANA); Zurich (Colt Coeur). Film/ TV: “Succession” (HBO); “The Calling” (Peacock); “Y: The Last Man” (FX); “Amazing Stories” (Amblin/Apple); The Assistant; On the Rocks; The Neighbor’s Window (short, Academy Award winner). BA: Yale College. MFA: Yale School of Drama. ELI GELB (Grover). Playwrights Horizons debut. Stage: Skintight (directed by Daniel Aukin, Roundabout Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse), The Twenty-Seventh Man (The Old Globe), The North Pool (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Screen: The Squid and the Whale, Holy Rollers, “The Newsroom,” Not Fade Away, Indignation. Proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. TOM PECINKA (Peter). Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Timon of Athens, Henry IV (TFANA); Troilus and Cressida, Richard II (The Public); The Soldier’s Tale (Carnegie Hall); Torch Song (Second Stage). Regional: Ghosts (Williamstown); Father Comes Home from the Wars... (Yale Rep, ACT); Arcadia (Yale Rep); Cloud 9, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage) Television: “American Rust.” Film: The Kill
Room, Oh, Canada. Education: BA: Fordham University; MFA: Yale School of Drama. SARAH PIDGEON (Diana). Playwrights Horizons debut. A Carnegie Mellon graduate, Pidgeon recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Tiny Beautiful Things.” Her performance as Kathryn Hahn’s character’s younger self earned her rave reviews and a Hollywood Critics Association award nomination. She can also be seen in Amazon’s hit series “The Wilds,” which received an Outstanding Drama Series nomination at the 2021 GLAAD Media Awards. Up next, Pidgeon is set to star in Alec Tibaldi’s independent feature Lazareth, opposite Ashley Judd. CHRIS STACK (Simon). Playwrights Horizons: Kirk Lynn’s Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra. With David Adjmi: Marie Antoinette at Soho Rep. Other OffBroadway: The Secret Life of Bees and Blue Ridge at Atlantic Theater Company, Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout), Afghanistan Zimbabwe America Kuwait (Rattlestick/ Rising Phoenix Rep), Wayside Motor Inn (Signature), Killers & Other Family (Rattlestick). Film and TV credits include Midday Black Midnight Blue, Interview with the Vampire, A Better Half, School of Rock, Roger Dodger, and One Life to Live. DAVID ADJMI (Playwright). Playwrights Horizons debut. David Adjmi is the author of The Evildoers, Stunning, 3C, Elective Affinities, and Marie Antoinette. His new play, The Blind King (Parts I and II), is in development at The Public, and he is developing a new musical based on Brian Wilson’s creation of the Smile album for Universal. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Steinberg Playwright Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. David’s memoir, Lot Six, was recently published by HarperCollins, and his two play collections, Stunning and Other Plays and 1789/1978, are available from TCG. WILL BUTLER (Original Songs) is an Oscarnominated and Grammy-winning musician. Playwrights Horizons debut. As a member of Arcade Fire, he released some of the defining rock and roll albums of the 2000s — including Funeral (2004) and The Suburbs (2010), which won the Grammy for Album of
the Year. He has collaborated with a wide range of film and video makers, including Spike Jonze, Chris Milk, and Roman Coppola. Along with Owen Pallett, he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Score for Jonze’s 2013 film Her. He currently records under his own name for Merge Records, and has a forthcoming project with the band Sister Squares. Stereophonic is his first theater work since Godspell, in high school; he played the role of Jesus. DANIEL AUKIN (Director) is a New York based director. Playwrights Horizons: Catch as Catch Can, Rancho Viejo, Placebo, This. Broadway: Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love. World premieres: The Best We Could (MTC), Admissions (LCT & London’s West End), Skintight (Roundabout and Geffen Playhouse), Bad Jews (Roundabout), Fulfillment Center (MTC), What Rhymes with America (Atlantic), Suitcase and [SIC] (Soho Rep), The Fortress of Solitude (Dallas Theatre Center & The Public), Heartless (Signature), 4000 Miles (LCT), The Ugly One (Soho Rep), Back Back Back (MTC), Everything Will Be Different, Cat’s-Paw, The Year Of The Baby, and Molly’s Dream. Also, Apologia and revivals of A View from the Bridge and The Adding Machine. He was Artistic Director of Soho Rep 1998-2006, garnering three OBIE Awards. For Emily. DAVID ZINN (Scenic Designer). Playwrights Horizons: Circle Mirror Transformation, The Flick, Kin, Completeness, Placebo, Hir, For Peter Pan… Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo, Funny Girl, The Minutes, Diana, Choir Boy, Torch Song, Boys in the Band, Spongebob Squarepants, The Humans, Fun Home. Other: NYTW, MTC, MCC, Second Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, CTG, ACT, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie, Yale Rep, ART, National Theatre and Young Vic (UK), Staatsoper Berlin, Theater Basel. Zinn has won Tony, Drama Desk, Obie, and Howard Hewes Awards for his work. ENVER CHAKARTASH (Costume Designer) is a British-born Turkish Cypriot. Playwrights Horizons: The Trees, Catch as Catch Can. Broadway: A Doll’s House, Is This A Room. Off-Broadway: Public Obscenities (Soho Rep), Wolf Play (MCC/Soho Rep), English (Atlantic Theater Company/ Roundabout Theatre Company), Bodies
They Ritual (Clubbed Thumb). Other recent works: Tina Satter/Half Straddle’s Ghost Rings; The Wooster Group’s A Pink Chair, The B-side, The Town Hall Affair, Early Shaker Spirituals; Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group’s POWER. Film: Reality (HBO). JIYOUN CHANG (Lighting Designer). Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: The Cottage, KPOP, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Tony nomination), Slave Play (Tony nomination, Drama Desk, Henry Hewes). Recent credits: The Far Country (Drama Desk nomination, Lucille Lortel nomination), Ride The Cyclone (Arena Stage), The Factotum (Chicago Lyric Opera), Bina’s Six Apples (Suzi Bass Award), Marys Seacole (Henry Hewes nomination), The World is Round (Obie Award), The Public, Roundabout, NYTW, MCC, Signature, ATC, Guggenheim, Berkeley Rep, CalShakes, Guthrie, Old Globe, OSF. RYAN RUMERY (Sound Designer) is a 2017 alum of the Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab: Documentary. Playwrights Horizons: Placebo. Rumery’s music is regularly heard on “This American Life.” Film credits include Food and Country (2023 Sundance), Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (2020 Tribeca), America’s Pandemic (2020 WaPo). Additional music for City of Gold (2015 Sundance), Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock (2017 Tribeca), How to Let Go of the World (2016 Sundance), and When We Walk (2019 Hot Docs). JUSTIN CRAIG (Music Director) is a Grammynominated record producer, composer, and music director. Playwrights Horizons debut. Since 2006, Craig has been touring and performing as an MD and multiinstrumentalist, as well as making records with artists, bands, and songwriters. In 2014 he was musical director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. GIGI BUFFINGTON (Vocal, Text, and Dialect Coach). Playwrights Horizons: Downstate; Catch As Catch Can; Corsicana; Heroes of the Fourth Turning; Noura. Selected Off-Broadway: Evanston Salt Costs Climbing; Prayer For The French Republic. Selected Broadway: Grey House, Between Riverside and Crazy, Cost of Living, The Minutes, Clyde’s, Slave Play, Pass
Over, Linda Vista, Straight White Men; eight seasons at Steppenwolf; one season at Royal Shakespeare Company; Arts Professor, Tisch, NYU. TOMMY KURZMAN (Wig and Hair Design). Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: Gutenberg: The Musical!, The Cottage, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Pictures From Home, The Collaboration, Macbeth, Mrs. Doubtfire, All My Sons, True West, Saint Joan, My Fair Lady, Little Foxes and Bright Star. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, MCC, Atlantic, The New Group, The Public, MTC, and NWS. Regional: The Huntington, The Muny, Geva Theatre, Resident Ensemble Players, Cape Playhouse, Signature VA, and MSM. IG: @tommykurzmanwigs MATT CARLIN (Props). Playwrights Horizons: Wet Brain, Regretfully, So the Birds Are, The Trees, Catch as Catch Can, Downstate, Wish You Were Here. Select OffBroadway credits include The Comeuppance (Signature), A Simulacrum (Atlantic), american (tele)visions (NYTW) and Lessons in Survival: 1971 (Vineyard). Matt also works as a props artisan and his work has been seen on Broadway in Back to the Future: The Musical and The Thanksgiving Play. He received his B.F.A. from Pace University. TAYLOR WILLIAMS, CSA (Casting Consultant). Playwrights Horizons debut. Artios Award Winner. Broadway: Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, POTUS…, Slave Play (Broadway remount and original, CTG, NYTW), Is This a Room & Dana H, What the Constitution Means to Me (NYTW, Barrow Street, Broadway, National Tour). Select Film: The Front Room (A22), Omni Loop (2am Films). New Media: amfAR’s The Great Work Begins featuring scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Ratatouille: the TikTok Musical benefit for the Actors Fund. Taylor is the resident casting director at Page 73 Productions. She has cast various productions in NYC and around the country. Upcoming: Enemy of the People on Broadway. TaylorWilliamsCasting.com ERIN GIOIA ALBRECHT (Production Stage Manager). Playwrights Horizons: A Strange Loop, Wives, Dance Nation, Mankind, Bella, A Life, Men on Boats, Marjorie Prime, The Christians. Broadway: A Strange Loop,
Bullets Over Broadway, Matilda, Bronx Bombers, Hands on a Hardbody. Other OffBroadway: The Light, Charm, Punk Rock, The Village Bike, (MCC); India Pale Ale (MTC); Red Speedo (NYTW). Regional: The Alley, Woolly Mammoth, The 5th Avenue, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse. MFA: UC San Diego. ANDIE BURNS (Assistant Stage Manager). Playwrights Horizons: Corsicana. Broadway: A Strange Loop. Off Broadway: Titanique (Daryl Roth), White Girl in Danger (Second Stage/Vineyard), A Raisin in the Sun (The Public). Regional: Teenage Dick and A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth), FLEX, Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Corpse Washer, The Santaland Diaries, Pipeline, Electric Harvest, Curious Incident… (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Grounded and The 39 Steps (Southern Colorado Rep). BFA in Stage Management from Millikin University. @andieleighburns PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS is dedicated to cultivating the most urgent American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as well as developing and producing
their bold new plays and musicals. Adam Greenfield became Artistic Director in 2020; Leslie Marcus has served as Managing Director since 1993. As it enters its 52nd season, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program, an innovative curriculum at its Theater School, and more. Robert Moss founded Playwrights in 1971 and cemented the mission that continues to guide the institution today. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981–1992. Don Scardino succeeded him and served until 1996. Tim Sanford, the organization’s longest-serving Artistic Director, held the position from 1996-2020. Over its 52-year history, Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including seven Pulitzer Prizes, 15 Tony Awards, and 47 Obie Awards.
Playwrights Horizons Staff
PLAYWRIGHTS DOWNTOWN ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR.................. EVA ROSA-FERRERA
OPENING NIGHT: OCTOBER 27, 2023
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR........ ADAM GREENFIELD MANAGING DIRECTOR......... LESLIE MARCUS GENERAL MANAGER............ CAROL FISHMAN Associate General Manager........................Noah Silva Company Manager.............................. Noa Saunders Assistant Company Manager / Head House Manager........................ HyoJu Hong Assistant to the Artistic Director...... Victoria Provost General Management Fellow....... Victoria Ungvarsky ARTISTIC STAFF ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR....................... NATASHA SINHA Literary Director.......................................Lizzie Stern Director of Artistic Development....Karl Baker Olson Literary and Community Engagement Assistant................May Treuhaft-Ali Artistic Fellow............................................Emily Zhou Script Readers................Rebecca Chan, Noah Ezell, James La Bella, Fiona Selmi, Aydan Shahd CASTING DIRECTOR........ALAINE ALLDAFFER Associate Casting Director.................. Lisa Donadio Casting Fellow...........................................Emma Hart DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT.......... BENJAMIN WEISMAN Associate Director, Institutional Giving and Campaign............................... Susan Ferziger Institutional Giving Associate...........Chani Sebazco Individual Giving Associate ............. Mihika Miranda Development Assistant & Board Liaison....................................Pam Muñoz DIRECTOR OF MARKETING........................ TERESA BAYER Audience Services Manager........... Katasha Nelson Marketing Assistant...................................Libby Carr Box Office Manager.........................Brittany Kressler Assistant Box Office Manager........ Anne Amundson Box Office Associate.........................Michelle Dastur Student Ambassador Program Admin.......Meg Knorr Marketing Fellow..................................Anjali Cornish DIGITAL AND DESIGN Graphic Design Manager........................ Jordan Best Digital Content Producer......................Chelcie Parry Digital Strategy Consultant.................... Alison Koch GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE................ BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES CONTROLLER................................ HOJAE LEE Senior Finance Manager........................... Suzen Bria Data Analytics Manager.......... Bonita Carol Thomas Accounting Assistant.................... Angelica Gallardo DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES................LAUREN BURCHERI Administrative and Office Coordinator....................... Derresha Webb
DIRECTOR OF EQUITY & INCLUSION................... HECTOR RIVERA PRODUCTION STAFF PRODUCTION MANAGER.............JAY JANICKI Technical Director.....................................Ed Massari Assistant Technical Director..............Justus Herrera Costume Shop Manager................... Michael Graller Props Supervisor......................................Matt Carlin Lighting Supervisor.............................. Maxx Serpica Production Coordinator.....................Carol Almonte Building Manager............................Gustavo Naranjo Stage Management Fellows................Nina Schatell, Holly Adam ARTISTIC ADVISORY COUNCIL Daniel Aukin, Catherine Coray, Jorge Cortiñas, Madeleine George, Francis Jue, Todd London, David Mendizábal, Amanda Spooner, Awoye Timpo, Jason Veasey COMMISSIONED ARTISTS Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Commissions David Adjmi, Dave Harris, Lucas Hnath, Ike Holter, Julia Jordan Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Commissions Kate Attwell, Christopher Chen, Heather Christian, Mia Chung Kate and Seymour Weingarten Commissions Cesar Alvarez, Kate Cortesi, Emily Feldman, Dylan Guerra, Ianne Fields Stewart Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Program for Commissioning Women in the Performing Arts Danai Gurira, Aleshea Harris, Sarah B. Mantell, Antoinette Nwandu Amal Commission Mona Mansour Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman Commissions for Emerging Playwrights Brittany K. Allen; John J. Caswell, Jr.; Julia Izumi; Vera Starbard (Tlingit/Dena’ina) M.E.W. Commissions David Adjmi, Anne Washburn Peter Shaffer Commission Agnes Borinsky, Jordan E. Cooper, Phillip Howze, Mara Nelson-Greenberg Berwin Lee & Brown London NY Playwrights Inc. Foundation Mona Pirnot Pinnacle Commission, co-commissioned with South Coast Repertory Theatre Branden Jacobs-Jenkins RESIDENT THEATER COMPANIES Clubbed Thumb, Musical Theatre Factory, SPACE on Ryder Farm
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATER SCHOOL DIRECTOR............................. NICOLE WEE Manager of Academic Affairs.................Kenny Wang Manager of Student Productions.......Leslie N. Ivery Production Coordinator ................... Ryan Courtney FACULTY LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE Area Head, Acting........................... Jedadiah Schultz Jesse Alick, Marika Kent, Emily Mendelsohn, Atticus Orsborn, Sanaz B. Tennent PLAYWRIGHTS REHEARSAL STUDIOS Client Services Manager...................James Wyrwicz Lead Technical Supervisor....................Liam O’Brien Studio Operations Associate..................Angel Rivas Studio Associates........................................................ Sebastian Alberdi, Anna DeNoia, Rebecca Kane, Kevin Kong,Trish Price, Rebecca Samuelson, Destini Stewart, Ryan Szelong SPECIAL SERVICES Legal Counsel.................................. Farber Law, LLC; Andrew Farber, Esq Accountants......................Lutz & Carr/Shari Ferrara Insurance............................Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. of New York, Inc./AliceFay Prine Architect....................... Mitchell Kurtz Architect, PC Telephone Services................................ RingCentral Computer Systems...................Lansend/Ashwin Pai Website Design.........................................Blenderbox CRM Software............................... Tessitura Network Closed Captioning.........................................GalaPro Audio Description............................. Andrea Miskow Digital Advertising............... Allied Global Marketing Telemarketing..................................................SMART, Strategic Marketing for the Arts Custodial Services............Impressive Cleaning Inc. Concessions.................................. Sweet Hospitality Security Services............... Elite Investigations, LLC
SPECIAL THANKS
Thank you to the Queens College Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance. Console Provided by Lenny Grasso. Vintage musical instruments provided by Sam and Ben Ash. Thank you to Mission Sound and Oliver Strauss. Thank you to CDM Sound Studios and Charles de Montebello. Thank you to Figure 8 Recording. Daniel Lazour. Robbie Mangano. Talor Steinberg. Jordan Steinberg
CREDITS
STAFF FOR STEREOPHONIC Company Manager.............................. Noa Saunders Production Stage Manager.........Erin Gioia Albrecht Assistant Stage Manager........................Andie Burns Assistant Company Manager and Head House Manager........................ HyoJu Hong Assistant Director.............................. Onyekachi Iwu Assistant to the Playwright................. Laura Dupper Stage Management Fellow...................... Holly Adam Fight Direction.................. UnkleDave’s Fight-House Associate Scenic Designer................... Tim McMath Assistant Scenic Designer.............Matthew Buttrey Associate Costume Designer................. John Polles Assistant Costume Designer..........Miriam Cortes Associate Lighting Designer................Jonah Bobilin Associate Sound Designer..................Josh Samuels Assistant Properties Supervisor............ Sean Frank Props Artisans.................. Ali Mark, Antonia Howard Scenic Charge...................................Jess Fitzpatrick Painters.............. Michael Hayes, Thomas Jenkeleit, Bella Hollis Carpenters......... David Kaplan, Dulfy Trinidad, Mike Weir, Josh Morgan, Connor Paradis, Kya Naugle, Emily Tabler Wardrobe and Wig Supervisor........Katie Crandall Dresser................................... Kristina Lenkowsky Electricians........................... Liam Corley, Vincent Randazzo, Rhylke C, Max Carney, Caleb Hunt, Kayla Owen, Eva Shannon-Dabek Lighting Programmer................................ Roya Abab Light Board Operator...................... Jimmy Dewhurst Audio Supervisor.................................. Dylan Carrow Audio Supervisor................................Kevin Novinsky A1 ........................................................Nora Simonson A2 ............................................................ Ross Monroe Audio Crew.........................Feliciano Tencos-Garcia, Nick LaGrasta, Alejandro Suquisupa, Jeffrey Salerno Deck Crew...............................................John Murphy Video Crew..............................................Taylor Stuart Artwork Design........................................ Jordan Best House Managers.................................Ashley Burton, Kimberly Chatterjee, Jennifer A. Rico, Lily Welsh Accessibility Assistant....................... Ruby Locklear WARNING: The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages. FIRE NOTICE: The exit indicated by a red light and sign nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of fire or other emergency please do not run – WALK TO THAT EXIT. Thoughtless persons annoy patrons and endanger the safety of others by lighting matches or smoking in prohibited areas during the performances and intermissions. This violates a city ordinance and is punishable by law. FIRE COMMISSIONER
The set was built in the Playwrights Horizons Scenery Shop.
SPECIAL FUNDING
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of actors’ equity association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 is the union representing scenic, costume, lighting, sound and projection designers in Live Performance.
Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty Once on This Island
Taylor Mac Hir Heidi Schreck Grand Concourse Anne Washburn Mr. Burns, a post-electric play Madeleine George The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence 2014 Pulitzer finalist Richard Greenberg, Scott Frankel, & Michael Korie Far From Heaven Amy Herzog The Great God Pan, After the Revolution
“A mainstay of Off Broadway, Playwrights Horizons possesses one of the most distinguished histories among New York’s producers of new work. The list of playwrights discovered or supported by Playwrights Horizons is practically a Who’s Who of contemporary drama.” The New York Times
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS
NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS
Michael R. Jackson A Strange Loop 2022 Tony Award 2020 Obie, Lortel, Drama Desk awards
John J. Caswell, Jr. Wet Brain
Annie Baker The Flick 2013 Obie Award Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Bruce Norris Clybourne Park 2012 Tony Award Doug Wright I Am My Own Wife 2004 Tony Award Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine Sunday in the Park with George Wendy Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles 1989 Tony Award Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy
Bruce Norris Downstate Drama Critics’ Circle Circle Award Mia Chung Catch as Catch Can Will Arbery Corsicana Heroes of the Fourth Turning 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Sanaz Toossi Wish You Were Here Sylvia Khoury Selling Kabul 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist Jaclyn Backhaus Wives, Men On Boats Tori Sampson If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka
Larissa FastHorse The Thanksgiving Play Craig Lucas I Was Most Alive with You Dan LeFranc Rancho Viejo, The Big Meal Max Posner The Treasurer Adam Bock A Life, A Small Fire Lucas Hnath The Thin Place, The Christians 2015 Kesselring Prize 2016 Obie Award Robert O’Hara Bootycandy 2015 Obie Award Jordan Harrison Log Cabin, Marjorie Prime Maple and Vine 2015 Pulitzer finalist
Samuel D. Hunter The Whale 2013 Lortel Award Gina Gionfriddo Rapture, Blister, Burn 2013 Pulitzer finalist Lisa D’Amour Detroit 2011 Pulitzer finalist 2013 Obie Award Kirsten Greenidge Milk Like Sugar 2012 Obie Award Annie Baker Circle Mirror Transformation 2010 Obie Award Melissa James Gibson This Doug Wright, Scott Frankel, & Michael Korie Grey Gardens 2006 OCC Award
Richard Nelson Goodnight Children Everywhere Kenneth Lonergan Lobby Hero Kirsten Childs Bella: An American Tall Tale 2017 Audelco Award The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin 2000 Obie Award Theresa Rebeck The Butterfly Collections Christopher Durang Miss Witherspoon 2006 Pulitzer finalist, Betty’s Summer Vacation 1999 Obie Award, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You 1982 Obie Award A.R. Gurney The Dining Room, Later Life Jon Robin Baitz The Substance of Fire Jeanine Tesori & Brian Crawley Violet 1997 Obie Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Critics’ Circle Award
Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine Sunday in the Park with George 1985 Pulitzer Prize
Adam Guettel & Tina Landau Floyd Collins 1996 Obie Award and Lortel Award Scott McPherson Marvin’s Room 1992 OCC Award
Lynn Nottage Fabulation 2005 Obie Award
Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman Assassins 1991 Drama League Award
David Greenspan Go Back to Where You Are, She Stoops to Comedy 2003 Obie Award
William Finn March of the Falsettos 1981 OCC Award, Falsettoland
Richard Nelson & Shaun Davey James Joyce’s The Dead 2000 Tony Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Critics’ Circle Award
Clare Barron Dance Nation 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist
Photos of Dance Nation and A Strange Loop by Joan Marcus. Sunday in the Park… by Gerry Goodstein. Once on This Island by Martha Swope.
Michael R. Jackson A Strange Loop 2020 Pulitzer Prize 2022 Tony Award
Bruce Norris Clybourne Park 2011 Pulitzer Prize 2012 Tony Award
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Government Support National Endowment for the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Disability Forward Fund New York City Council at the request of Speaker Adrienne Adams and Council Members Erik Bottcher and Carlina Rivera New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature
Peter Mattis Family Foundation Morgan Stanley The Jerome Robbins Foundation NYSCA/TDF TAP Plus William Morris Endeavor $500–$2,499 Actors’ Equity Foundation The Betsy and Alan Cohn Foundation, Inc. Crosswicks Foundation, LTD. ICM Partners National Alliance for Musical Theatre Innovation and Exploration Fund Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation
Playwrights Horizons is a recipient of support from The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Artistic Director’s Circle The Playwrights Horizons Artistic Director’s Circle includes our most dedicated individual donors who have committed to gifts of $10,000 or more each year for a three-year period. The Artistic Director’s Circle joins with the Playwrights Horizons Board of Trustees in supporting the vision of Artistic Director Adam Greenfield. Members of the Artistic Director’s Circle are considered loyal partners in developing and producing new plays by some of the most adventurous and talented artists working in theater today. For more information about the personalized benefits and access available for the Artistic Director’s Circle, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Development Director, at bweisman@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3145. Anonymous Mark & Lillian Banchik Svante Bergström Jarrett & Maritess Lilien
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Tom Healy & Fred P. Hochberg Robert W. Jones Judith H. Krupp Alex Levy Chien Cho Liu Berwin London Stephen & Carolyn McCandless Katrina E. McCann Alan Poul Dr. Robert A. Press Barbara Raho Dan Safin Scott Slobodnyak & Owen Sweeney Tali and Boaz Weinstein Philanthropic Fund Bruce Nathan Wilpon $5,000–$9,999 Seth Ard John & Jill G. Bishop Ruth & Robi Blumenstein Catherine Carmody Ruth Cohen Christopher & Michelle DeLong Richard Feiner & Annette Stover Hazel & Russel Fershleiser Tony & Jane Ford-Hutchinson Friedman Family Foundation Carson Gleberman James Gleick & Cynthia Crossen Maxine Isaacs Spencer Kimball Peter Mattis Family Foundation Nancy Roistacher & Wayne P. Merkelson John Orberg
Carole Pesner James & Gretchen Rubin Nicholas P. Russo Marisa Sechrest Patricia Brown Specter Arun Subramanian Jennifer Treglia Carol & Robert Walport The Wilder Family $3,000–$4,999 Andrew D. Austin & Michael R. Sonberg Kim & Stan Corfman Robert W. Davenport David desJardins Robert A. Gender Roberta A. Jones Ev & Lee Elaine Crowley and John Kuehn Christopher R. Lawrence Gina Maria Leonetti Vicki Gold Levi Daniel R. Levites Nina B. Matis Leni & Peter May Scott McDonald Niclas Nagler & David Alberto Alvarez Rosemary E. Newman Michael & Gabrielle Palitz Karen & Charles Schader Eileen Silvers & Rick Bronstein Marlene Marko & Loren Skeist Lois Smith Carlo Steinman Joseph Tippett
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Richard Arenaro Nancy Ashen Scott Burkhardt & Angela Patmon Linda Calandra M D’Arcy Sandra Davis Michele de Milly Charles Diaz Eric J. Kuhn Charitable Fund Max Evans Patricia Gannon-Lovier & Lester Lovier Ethan Geto David Goldston Victoria Hansen Cristy Hill & Richard Mizer Michelle Kim Peter Lopez Nailah Mohammed Anne G. Myers Asha & DV Nayak Lori and Lee Parks Sowmya Rao Russell Rennie Joshua Safran Jaume Tutusaus Tim Shan Joseph Simonetti & Carol Goldman Robert H. Sinclair Cory Michael Smith Jolyon F. Stern, Dewitt Stern/ Risk Strategies Kristen Wolf Alexandra C. Wood Kofi Yankey
Generation PH Generation PH is a community of theatergoers ages 45 and under who attend Playwrights Horizons productions; mingle with artists, artistic staff, and our Board of Trustees at exclusive parties and receptions; and see theater in a new way by talking to writers about the development of their plays. Plus, a portion of each membership is a tax-deductible contribution that directly supports these amazing artists and their new work. For more information about joining Generation PH, please contact Mihika Miranda, Individual Giving Associate, at 929 445-5361. LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE Katrina E. McCann, Co-Chair Nick Russo, Co-Chair
Betsy Fippinger Anna Mack Elana Propis Shaka Shervington Scott Slobodnyak Carlo Steinman
Aleksandra Szczepanowska Carol Walport Robert Walport Jason Wu
BEST FRIEND ($1,500+) Nicole & Franco J. Azzopardi, Jr. Eugene Brodach Emily Erstling Betsy & Andrew Fippinger Matthew Gabbard Deborah Grant & Serge Tanjga Katrina E. McCann Courtney Mitchell Marc Pickard Nicholas P. Russo Cochleen & Jonathan Sands Carlo Steinman Aleksandra Szczepanowska & Gordon Shearer Carol & Robert Walport Jason Wu
Sammy Lopez Deborah McCandless Anne G. Myers Matt Schneider & Priyanka Garg Briel Lauren Steinberg Martin Woodard
Justin Hale Jolin Mu Jessie Pitluk Andrew Rasmussen Jenna Ready Charles Rosen & Duke Dang Andrea Rota Shaka Shervington & Justine Whittaker
DEVOTED FRIEND ($600–$1,499) Richard Berg Allison Curran & Michael Hilkin Dr. Brett S. East Max Evans Taena Kim Trevor Kokal & Naoki Sasamoto Robert Laqui
GOOD FRIEND ($400–$599) Gina Napolitano Erika Stallings David Stuckey Cynthia Tong Emily Welty Elizabeth Wu Danielle Zarbin
Legacy Circle
Playwrights Horizons gratefully acknowledges those who have chosen to become a member of our Legacy Circle by including a Charitable Bequest for Playwrights Horizons in their estate plans through wills, retirement accounts, life insurance ownerships, and real estate. Members of this group receive invitations to exclusive events and insider information on organizational goals and plans To learn more, or to join, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Director of Development, at bweisman@phnyc.org. Joan B. Cohen Liz Fallon Culp Ann B. Dickinson Howard Epstein Jane Epstein Susan Ferziger Jill Garland Sam Gonzalez Barbara Kreisberg Stu Kreisberg Leslie Marcus
Joseph Andrew Moskal Enid Nemy Dmitri Nesterenko William Louis Nist Dorinda J. Oliver Courtney Patterson Monroe Robertson Linda Rothstein Judith O. Rubin Robert E. Rubin Mikael Salovaara
Carole Schwartz Mal Schwartz Georgina Spelvin Briel Lauren Steinberg The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Emily Tworek Madeline Virbasius Benjamin Weisman Rachel Wilder Amy Hoi Yan Yuan
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NEW FRIEND ($200–$399) Anonymous Henri Benaim Matthew Freeman Jen Hoguet Mac Ingram Cara Kantrowitz Anthony Laura Anna Mack Jarron Magallanes
Matching Gifts Many companies have matching gift programs that enable our donors to double their donations. Playwrights Horizons thanks these companies for matching the gifts of their employees and supporting our theater. For more information about matching gifts, please contact Chani Sebazco, Institutional Giving Associate, at csebazco@phnyc.org. Anonymous The Bank of New York Mellon Charities Aid Foundation of America Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Google LLC JP Morgan Chase Foundation
Meredith Corporation Foundation The New York Community Trust Pfizer, Inc. VMLR Foundation Walt Disney Company
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Join us for the rest of our 2023/24 Season! Sad Boys in Harpy Land
Created and performed by Alexandra Tatarsky Sound compisition by Shane Riley Directed by Iris McCloughan
Amusements
Written and performed by Ikechukwu Ufomadu Directed by Nemuna Ceesay
School Pictures
Written and performed by Milo Cramer Directed by Morgan Green
Teeth
Book and music by Anna K. Jacobs Book and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson Choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly Directed by Sarah Benson Based on the screenplay TEETH by Mitchell Lichtenstein Presented by special arrangement with Mark Gordon Pictures
Staff Meal
Written by Abe Koogler Directed by Morgan Green
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