The Production: Cast and Creative Team

DAVID STRAITHAIRN (Jan Karski) Theatre credits include NY: The Birthday Party (CSC); Dance of Death, Salome, The Heiress (Broadway); Hapgood (Lincoln Center); A Lie of the Mind (Second Stage); Eyes for Consuela (Manhattan Theatre Club); Ashes to Ashes (Roundabout); Conversations at Tusculum (The Public Theater). Regional credits include The Tempest, Scorched, Underneath the Lintel (A.C.T./SF); I’m Not Rappaport, Ghosts (Seattle Rep); Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, IMKA Theater, Warsaw Poland, Shakespeare Theatre Company DC). Film credits include Nomadland, Nightmare Alley, Lincoln, Good Night and Good Luck, Sneakers, A League of Their Own, Eight Men Out, Matewan and Beyond the Call. Since 2009 he has been a company member of Theater of War Productions.

DEREK GOLDMAN (Director, Co-Author) is artistic and executive director and co-founder of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (The Lab) at Georgetown University, with the mission of humanizing global politics through performance (globallab.georgetown.edu). He is an award-winning stage director, educator, playwright/adapter, scholar, producer and developer of new work, whose work has been seen widely around the world, including at leading U.S. venues such as Shakespeare Theater Company, Steppenwolf, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Baltimore CenterStage, Folger, Ford’s Theater, Chicago Shakespeare and many others. He is the author of more than 30 professionally produced plays and adaptations and he has directed over 100 productions. He holds a PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University, and he received the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at Georgetown. He is creator of In Your Shoes, an internationally recognized groundbreaking model for using performance to counter polarization. With Jeff Hutchens, he co-directed the feature film version of his production Remember This (rememberthiskarskifilm.com).

David Strathairn (Karski). Photo by Hollis King.

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

CLARK YOUNG (Co-Author). New York: Theatre for a New Audience (debut). International: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski at The Wellbeing Summit in Bilbao, Spain; Queen Mary University, London; Teatr IMKA, Warsaw, Poland. Regional: Remember This (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Remember This, The Taming of the Shrew (free-for-all), The Servant of Two Masters (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Fly, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Ford’s Theatre); Full Circle (Woolly Mammoth); Astro Boy and the God of Comics (Studio Theatre); george WASHINGTON (National Symphony Orchestra). Film: Remember This. Teaching: Georgetown University (acting, directing). Education: Georgetown University; NYU Tisch. Publications: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski (GU Press, 2021). Upcoming: 406 Below, a new play about Ted Williams.

MISHA KACHMAN (Scenic Designer) has worked at Arena Stage, Asolo Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Children’s Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Court, Kennedy Center, Opera Royal Versailles, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Round House, Seattle Opera, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Wilma and Woolly Mammoth, among many other companies. Mr. Kachman serves as professor and head of MFA in design at University of Maryland. mishakachman.com

IVANIA STACK (Costume Designer) has designed over 300 shows in 20 years. Her work as been seen at several regional and D.C. area theatres including Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Center Stage, McCarter Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (company member), Round House Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Theatre J and Gala Hispanic Theatre.

ZACH BLANE (Lighting Designer). Television: “Wicked in Concert” (PBS, dir. Baayork Lee). International: Remember This (Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain), Shrek (Sofia National Opera House, Bulgaria). New York (selected): Titus Burgess, Take Me to the World (Carnegie Hall); Into the Woods, In Concert (Town Hall); Too Much, Too Much, Too Many; Suicide Incorporated (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Siblings Play (Rattlestick Theater); Would You Still Love Me

David Strathairn (Karski). Photo by Hollis King.

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

If (New World Stages, dir. Kathleen Turner); Charles Busch’s Cleopatra (TFANC); Wringer (City Center). Instagram: @zachblane. ZachBlane.com

ROC LEE (Original Composition and Sound Design) is a Helen Hayes Award-winning D.C.-based composer/sound designer for theatre, film and video games. Credits include Snowchild, The Price, The Year of Magical Thinking, Mother Courage at Arena Stage; Crossing Mnissose at Portland Centerstage; The Great Leap, Small Mouth Sounds at Roundhouse Theatre; Admissions, Curve of Departure at Studio Theatre; Kid Prince and Pablo, The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 at Kennedy Center TYA; Fairview, Describe the Night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Game projects include Sword Reverie, a VR anime JRPG, and Saber Punks, a cyberpunk multi-player VR fighting game. You can follow Roc on Twitter or Instagram: @rocleemusic.

EMMA JASTER (Movement Director) has worked her entire life in theatre, dance, opera and immersive live events. She started onstage with her father, mime Mark Jaster, at the age of 6 and has since worked with U-Theatre in Taiwan, the Natanakairali Institute in India, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center and the Grotowski-based Teatr Zar in Poland, among others. She is a teacher and core member of The Lab for Global Performance and Politics. emmajaster.com

LAURA SMITH (Stage Manager). New York: Shhhh, The Great Leap, Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic Theater); Morning Sun, Bella Bella (Manhattan Theatre Club); Hot Wing King, The Antipodes (Signature Theatre); Dying City (Second Stage); Noura (Playwrights Horizons); The Low Road (The Public); Intractable Woman (Play Company). Regional: National Playwrights Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); Detroit ’67, As You Like It, 4000 Miles, After the Revolution, Wild With Happy (Baltimore Center Stage); Salome (STC); House of Gold, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Unmentionables (Woolly Mammoth).

David Strathairn (Karski). Photo by Rich Hein.

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES (Press Representative) is a Brooklyn- based public relations firm representing arts organizations and cultural institutions. Clients include St. Ann’s Warehouse, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, National Sawdust, The Kitchen, Performance Space New York, PEN America, StoryCorps, Symphony Space, the Fisher Center at Bard, Peak Performances, Irish Arts Center, the Merce Cunningham Trust, the Onassis Foundation, Taylor Mac, Page 73, The Playwrights Realm, PlayCo and more.

THE LABORATORY FOR GLOBAL PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS Founded in 2012 as a joint initiative of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Department of Performing Arts, The Laboratory for Global Per- formance and Politics humanizes global politics through performance. With highly visible original productions, partnerships and initiatives, The Lab cultivates a distinctive global community of collaborators that includes students, emerging and established artists, educators, policy leaders and activists. Our work harnesses narrative, memory and acts of witnessing with the aim of sparking transformation and change. globallab.georgetown.edu

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (Equity), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts union.

STAFF FOR REMEMBER THIS

Production Assistant .................................Corin Greene Assistant Costume Designer.................Sylvana Hardesty Assistant Lighting Designer...........................Zack Lobel Covid-19 Safety Manager ..................... Joana Tsuhlares Wardrobe Supervisor ................................ Brenna Wiist Deck Carpenter......................................... Suneil Cohen Light Board Programmer and Operator ... Paul Kennedy Sound Board and Video Operator...................Amy Liou Production Electrician................................... Sam Short Production Video ............................. Daniel Santamaria Production Audio .................................. Bridget Mundy Assistant Production Audio ..................... Jeffrey Rowell Audio Load-In Crew ........................Jean-Luc McMurty, Scott Fetterman, Nick Ray, Jose Rivas Video Load-In Crew................Greg Sargent, Steven Fine Electricians......................Blaize Adler-Ivanbrook, Avalon Cole, Tony Mulanix, Hailey O’Leary, Tyler Mell, Georgia Piano, Kyr Siegel, Dajane Wilson Lead Carpenter.................................................Leon Axt Lead Rigger.................................................... Joe Galan Riggers ................................. Leon Axt, Victoria Bausch, Maria-Ray Ossino, Daniel Sullivan Driver ........................................................Daniel Sullivan Lead Carpenter.....................................................Leon Axt Lead Rigger........................................................ Joe Galan Asst. Lead Rigger.........................................Cory Asinofsky Load In Crew.............................Cory Asinofsky, Leon Axt, Victoria Bausch, Max Carlson, Matthew Covey, Joe Galan, Nicolis Hall, Najiyah Jones, Michael Nelson, Maria-Rey Ossino, Dan Sullivan, Eduardo Tobon Truck Drivers........Max Carlson, Matt Covey, Jessica Smith

CREDITS Production audio services provided by Five Ohm. Lighting equipment provided by PRG. Video equipment provided by 4Wall Entertainment. Sound equipment provided by Masque Sound.

SPECIAL THANKS Facing History & Ourselves Georgetown University Jan Karski Educational Foundation Andrzej Rojek Bozena Zaremba Museum of Jewish Heritage US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Karski's Yearbook Photo 1977, Georgetown University.