Introduction - American Repertory Theater

Introduction
Dear Friends,
Marcus Stern’s adaptation of Donnie Darko began life three years ago, as a
workshop with our students in the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre
Training, The Institute—as it is affectionately known. That version was a
phenomenal success, playing to sold-out houses and great acclaim from
young audience members who flocked to our Church Street rehearsal studio.
It’s no wonder that so many people came to those performances in a
basement in Harvard Square; Donnie Darko is one of the most admired and
popular films of the decade. Few other screenplays have so captured a
zeitgeist as Richard Kelly’s fantastical story of teenage America, and the story
remains as fresh and enigmatic as when it was first released in 2001.
Finding a theatrical translation for such a self-consciously cinematic film is
no mean feat, but I hope you’ll agree that Marcus has done so brilliantly. It’s
a pleasure to be presenting the professional debut of his adaptation, which
could never have achieved such complexity and animation without its first incarnation at the Institute.
The Institute is a first-rate professional training program for some forty actors, dramaturgs, and voice students,
who study for two years in Cambridge and Moscow. It is also, as the evolution of Donnie Darko reminds us, a
flourishing incubator for new plays and adaptations, several of which make their way to full-scale professional
production on the stages of the A.R.T.
This fall, the distinguished playwright/actor Ellen McLaughlin is in residence at the Institute to create a new
play with our students, while our graduate actors and dramaturgs have just completed their annual “Bake-Off”—
a high-speed writing and producing marathon run in conjunction with Paula Vogel and the Brown University
playwriting program. Meanwhile the Institute runs its own performance series at Zero Arrow Theatre, including
productions of several world premieres each year.
The Institute is a vital component of the A.R.T., and adds incalculably to the energy and ingenuity of our work.
Best wishes,
Gideon Lester
Acting Artistic Director
Professional Company • 2007–08 Season
Remo Airaldi
Christina Baldwin
Dieter Bierbrauer
Bryan Boyce
Oya Capelle
Thomas Derrah
Flora Diaz
Sercan Engin
Steven Epp
Jeremy Geidt
Bradley Greenwald
Carrie Hennessey
Bryan Janssen
John Kuntz
Paula Langton
Will LeBow
Karen MacDonald
Dan McCabe
Nazmiye Oral
Jennifer Baldwin Peden
Meral Polat
Dominique Serrand
Mara Sidmore
Nilaja Sun
Momoko Tanno
TO OUR AUDIENCE
To avoid disturbing our seated patrons, latecomers (or patrons who leave the theatre during the performance)
will be seated at the discretion of the management at an appropriate point in the performance.
By union regulation:
• Taking photographs and operating recording equipment is prohibited.
• All electronic devices such as pagers, cellular phones, and watch alarms should be turned off during
the performance.
By Cambridge ordinance, there is no smoking permitted in the building.
SEASON 07/08
Comedies and dramas, music and satire,
plays about childhood and revolution,
science and love – this season offers
an amazing range of theatrical
experiences.
February 9
– March 22
November 23
– December 23
Series brochures are
available at the
box office.
617.547.8300
www.amrep.org
January 5
– February 2
Create your own,
personalized
A.R.T. theatre
series
See 3 or more plays
and save up to 27%
over single ticket prices.
April 3 – May 4
Join us.
May 10 – June 8
Create your
customized theatre
series by choosing
three or more
productions from
those listed above.
Zero Arrow Theatre
Our exciting second
performance space!
“Boston’s Best New Theatre”
– Improper Bostonian 2005
The A.R.T.’s flexible and intimate
second performance space at the
intersection of Arrow Street and
Mass. Avenue in Cambridge is now
two years old! This three hundredseat theatre serves as an incubator
for new work in addition to hosting
performances by the A.R.T./MXAT.
Institute for Advanced Theatre
Training. Performance times and
dates will be updated on the
A.R.T.’s website (www.amrep.org).
Don’t miss the adventure of new
work, young artists, and multiple
disciplines all at affordable
prices—the signature mission of
ZERO ARROW THEATRE.
The American Repertory Theatre and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard are
supported in part by major grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and the Carr Foundation. The A.R.T. also gratefully acknowledges
the support of Harvard University, including president Drew Gilpin Faust, Provost Steven E. Hyman,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, the Committee on Dramatics, Dean Michael
Shinagel, and the School of Continuing Education. We also wish to give special thanks to our audience
and to the many A.R.T. Annual Fund donors for helping us make this season possible.
American Repertory Theatre
Advisory Board
Philip Burling Co-Chair
Ted Wendell Co-Chair
Joseph Auerbach, emeritus
George Ballantyne
Page Bingham
William H. Boardman, Jr.
Robert Brustein
Paul Buttenwieser
Greg Carr
Caroline Chang
Antonia Handler Chayes
Clarke Coggeshall
Kathleen Connor
Robert Davoli
Charles Gottesman
Barbara W. Grossman
Ann Gund
Joseph W. Hammer
Horace H. Irvine II
Michael E. Jacobson
Michael B. Keating
Glenn KnicKrehm
Myra H. Kraft
Barbara Lemperly Grant
Carl J. Martignetti
Dan Mathieu
Eileen McDonagh
Rebecca Gold Milikowsky
Ward Mooney
Anthony Pangaro
Beth Pollock
Jeffrey Rayport
Michael Roitman
Henry Rosovsky
Linda U. Sanger
John A. Shane
Michael Shinagel
Donald Ware
Sam Weisman
The A.R.T./Harvard Board of
Directors
Philip Burling
Luann Godschalx
Jonathan Hurlbert (clerk)
Judith Kidd
Robert James Kiely
Jacqueline A. O’Neill (chair)
Robert J. Orchard
American Repertory Theatre
presents
DONNIE DARKO
Based on a screenplay by Richard Kelly
Adapted and Directed by Marcus Stern
Scenic Design
Lighting Design
Costume Design
Sound Design
Stage Manager
Dramaturgy
Voice and Speech
Casting
Matt McAdon
Scott Zielinski
Clint Ramos
David Remedios and Marcus Stern
Katherine Shea *
Ryan McKittrick
Sarah Wallace
Carey Dawson
Judy Bowman Casting
First performance October 27, 2007
Produced by special arrangement with Matthew Garrity
Production Sponsors
Michael Roitman and Emily A. Karstetter
The American Repertory Theatre’s 2007–08 Season is dedicated to the loving memory of Jean
Rudnick for her inspiration, wit, and generosity.
The work of the American Repertory Theatre is made possible in part
by the following sponsors:
CAST
Donnie Darko
Gretchen Ross
Rose Darko
Eddie Darko
Samantha Darko
Elizabeth Darko/Dorky Girl
Dr. Lilian Thurman
Jim Cunningham
Kitty Farmer
Karen Pomeroy/Linda Connie
Dr. Monnitoff/Larry/Ricky
Principal Cole
Rabbit/Frank
Seth Devlin
Joanie/Lanky Kid
Cherita Chen
Roberta Sparrow
Sparkle Motion Dancers
Dan McCabe *
Flora Diaz *
Paula Langton *
Will LeBow *
Carolyn McCandlish
Angela Nahigian
Mara Sidmore *
Thomas Derrah *
Karen MacDonald *
Sarah Jorge Leon
DeLance Minifee
Remo Airaldi *
Perry Jackson
Thomas Kelley
Katherine Lebrón
Talisa Friedman
Greta Merchant
Gillian Gordon
Lisa Woods
Understudies: Joe Almanza, Eddie Darko/Seth Devlin; Sarah Baskin, Dr. Lilian Thurman/Kitty Farmer; Jia
Doughman, Joanie/Lanky Kid/Cherita Chin/Sparkle Motion Dancer; Megan Hill, Gretchen Ross; Thomas
Kelley, Donnie Darko; Adam Kern, Dr. Monnitoff/Larry Reisman/Ricky Danforth/Principal Cole; Yelba
Osorio, Karen Pomeroy/Linda Connie; Liz Power, Rose Darko/Roberta Sparrow; Rocco LaPenna, Jim
Cunningham; Kunal Prasad, Rabbit/Frank; Liz Wilson, Samantha Darko/Elizabeth Darko/Dorky Girl.
Running time is about eighty minutes. There is no intermission.
Production Associate
Assistant Director
Assistant Dramaturg
Fight Coordinator
Elizabeth Bouchard
Alison Wood
Lynde Rosario
Adam McLean
Additional Staff: Tova Moreno, Stitcher; Dan Gomez, Andrew Yeskoo, Matthew Breton, Alan Santiago,
Iszac Fleenor, George Kane, Scenic Carpenters; Kristin Knutson, Scenic Carpenter/Painter; Amanda
Cameron, Thomas Stephansky, Properties Artisans; Tori Woodhouse, Stage Management Intern.
Mr. Stern dedicates the production to Ellen “Ellie” Idelson.
Special thanks to Big Picture Framing, Scott Zigler, Sam Weisman. Also to Richard Kelly, who very
graciously and generously allowed us to create this staged version of his film.
Marcus Stern would also like to thank the A.R.T./MXAT Institute Class of 2004 for helping to create the
first stage version of Donnie Darko, and a special thanks to Barbara Whitney, dramaturg and co-director
for the first stage version. Without her great work on the text and staging, the first production would not
have been possible.
Natural Herb Cough Drops – Courtesy of Ricola.
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Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded
in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United
States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an
essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working
conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension
plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts
unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
Fragments from THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIME TRAVEL
by Roberta Sparrow
The intent of this book is for it to be used as a simple and direct guide in a time of great danger. I pray
that this is merely a work of fiction. If it is not, then I pray for you, the reader of this book.
CHAPTER ONE: THE TANGENT UNIVERSE
The Fourth Dimension of Time is a stable construct, though it is not impenetrable. Incidents when the
fabric of the Fourth Dimension becomes corrupted are incredibly rare. If a Tangent Universe occurs, it
will be highly unstable, sustaining itself for no longer than several weeks.
CHAPTER TWO: WATER AND METAL
Water and Metal are the key elements of Time Travel. Water is the barrier element for the construction
of Time Portals used as gateways between Universes. Metal is the transitional element for the
construction of Artifact Vessels.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE ARTIFACT AND THE LIVING
When a Tangent Universe occurs, those living nearest to the Vortex will find themselves at the
epicenter of a dangerous new world. Artifacts provide the first sign that a Tangent Universe has
occurred. If an Artifact occurs, the Living will retrieve it with great interest and curiosity.
CHAPTER SIX: THE LIVING RECEIVER
No one knows how or why a Receiver will be chosen. The Living Receiver is often tormented by
terrifying dreams, visions and auditory hallucinations during his time within the Tangent Universe.
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MANIPULATED LIVING
The Manipulated Living are often the close friends and neighbors of the Living Receiver. They are prone
to irrational, bizarre, and often violent behavior.
CHAPTER TEN: THE MANIPULATED DEAD
The Manipulated Dead are more powerful than the Living Receiver. If a person dies within the Tangent
Universe, they are able to contact the Living Receiver through the Fourth Dimensional Construct.
CHAPTER TWELVE: DREAMS
When the Manipulated awaken from their Journey into the Tangent Universe, they are often haunted by
the experience in their dreams. Many of them will not remember. Those who do remember the journey
are often overcome with profound remorse for the regretful actions buried within their dreams.
– From The Donnie Darko Book by Richard Kelly
Company
REMO AIRALDI – Principal Cole
A.R.T.: Fifty-two productions, including A Marvelous Party!, Oliver
Twist (Mr. Bumble, also at Theatre for A New Audience and
Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Onion Cellar, Island of Slaves
(Arlequin), Romeo and Juliet (Peter), No Exit (Valet), Amerika
(Captain, Green, Head Porter), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Nurse),
The Provok’d Wife (Constable), The Miser (Master Jacques), The
Birthday Party (McCann), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Francis
Flute), Pericles (Fisherman), La Dispute (Mesrou), Uncle Vanya
(Telegin), Marat/Sade (Cucurucu), Enrico IV (Bertoldo), The
Winter’s Tale (Clown), The Wild Duck (Molvik), Buried Child
(Father Dewis), Tartuffe (Monsieur Loyal), Henry IV and V (Mistress Quickly), Waiting for Godot
(Pozzo), Shlemiel the First (Mottel/Moishe Pippik/Chaim Rascal), The King Stag (Cigolotti), Six
Characters in Search of an Author (Emilio Paz). Other: Camino Real and Eight by Tenn (Hartford
Stage), productions at La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Walnut
St. Theatre, Prince Music Theater, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Serious Fun Festival, Moscow Art
Theatre, Taipei International Arts Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.
THOMAS DERRAH – Jim Cunningham
A.R.T.: A Marvelous Party!, Oliver Twist (Mr. Sowerberry, Mr.
Grimwig, also at Theatre for A New Audience and Berkeley
Repertory Theatre), The Onion Cellar, Island of Slaves (Trivelin),
Three Sisters (Chebutykin), Carmen (Zuniga), Olly’s Prison (Barry),
The Birthday Party (Stanley), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nick
Bottom), Highway Ulysses (Ulysses), Uncle Vanya (Vanya),
Marat/Sade (Marquis de Sade), Richard II (Richard), Mother
Courage (Chaplain), Charlie in the House of Rue (Charlie Chaplin),
Woyzeck (Woyzeck). Broadway: Jackie: An American Life (twentythree roles). Off-Broadway: Johan Padan and the Discovery of the
Americas (Johan), Big Time (Ted). Tours with the Company across the U.S., with residencies in New
York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and throughout Europe, Canada, Israel, Taiwan, Japan,
and Moscow. Other: I Am My Own Wife, Boston Theatre Works; Approaching Moomtaj, New Repertory
Theatre; Twelfth Night and The Tempest, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.; London’s Battersea Arts
Center; five productions at Houston’s Alley Theatre, including Our Town (Dr. Gibbs, directed by José
Quintero); and many theatres throughout the U.S. Awards: 1994 Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained
Excellence, 2000 and 2004 IRNE Awards for Best Actor, 1997 Los Angeles DramaLogue Award (for
title role of Shlemiel the First). Television: Julie Taymor’s film Fool’s Fire (PBS American Playhouse),
Unsolved Mysteries, Del and Alex (Alex, A&E Network). Film: Mystic River (directed by Clint
Eastwood). He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Company
FLORA DIAZ – Gretchen Ross
Regional Theatre: Once Removed, Coconut Grove Playhouse;
Fuente Ovejuna and Paradise Hotel, The Court Theatre, Chicago; A
Christmas Carol, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Off-Broadway: Girl,
Double Sophia, Cherry Lane Theatre; With Love, Gabe, Intar;
Crumble, OHIO Theatre; Tooth and Claw, Ensemble Studio
Theatre; Women on Love, The Culture Project; The Secret of
Survival, SOHO Playhouse; SCAB, Women’s Expressive Theatre.
She also performed in the New Works Now! Festival at The Public
Theater. Other: How To Act Around Cops, SOHO Theatre, London.
Film: Roger Dodger. Television: Law and Order, Law and Order: CI
and Law and Order: SVU. Graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Communications.
TALISA FRIEDMAN – Cherita Chen
Theatre credit: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Studio Theatre,
Washington DC. Films: Notes From the Rogues Gallery and Eleven.
She is a sophomore English concentrator at Harvard College, where
she performed in the HRDC’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo
(Joanie), directed by Marcus Stern, as well as in Bright Lights, Big
City (Vicky), and Cabaret (Kit Kat Girl). She is currently press
manager for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
SARAH JORGE LEON – Karen Pomeroy/Linda Connie
Second-year actor at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute. A.R.T.
Institute/Moscow Art Theatre credit:The Phoenician Women
(Chorus). Theatre credits: Blood Weddings (Girl and Madeja), Doña
Rosita the Spinster (Manola), Madre el Drama Padre, (Josefina),
Spanish Repertory Theatre, NY; A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Hermia), All in the Timing (Mrs. Trotsky, Amy and Second
Woman), Stella Adler Studio, NY. She received her BA in
psychology from Manhattanville College.
Company
PERRY JACKSON – Frank/Rabbit
Second-year actor at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute. A.R.T.
Institute/Moscow Art Theatre credit:The Phoenician Women
(Polyneikes). Other credits: Lady in the Dark (Randy Curtis), Trojan
Women (Menelaus), Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (Michael
Kelly), U Penn Annenberg Center; For Black Boys Who Have
Considered Homicide When the Streets Were Too Much(Brother
#8), Romeo and Juliet (Prince Escalus). He holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree in Classical Studies from the University of
Pennsylvania; born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
THOMAS KELLEY – Seth Devlin
Second-year actor at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute. A.R.T.
Institute/Moscow Art Theatre credit:The Phoenician Women
(Eteokles). Other credits: As You Like It, A Christmas Carol, The
Spot, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville.
PAULA LANGTON – Rose Darko
Theatre credits: The Winter’s Tale (Hermione), King Lear (Regan),
All’s Well That Ends Well (Lord II & Mariana), Measure for
Measure (Isabella), Richard III (Rivers, Mayor, & 2nd Murderer),
Actors’ Shakespeare Project; Metamorphoses (Juno), Teatro Eos in
Stromboli, Italy, and Teatro Nacional at The Great Theatre of The
World Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, The Wimberly Theatre with BU;
Scenes From an Execution (Galactia), Much Ado about Nothing
(Beatrice), The Tempest (Miranda), Shakespeare & Company;
Taming of the Shrew (Kate), Boston Theatre Works; Twelfth Night
(Maria) Counterpoint Theatre: Twelfth Night (Feste), Los Angeles
Women’s Shakespeare Company; King Lear (Edgar), Henry V (Bardolph, Westmoreland, Michael
Williams and Captain James), Company of Women. Other: LaMama e.t.c., New York Theatre
Workshop, Hasty Pudding, Charles Playhouse, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Nora Theatre, Gloucester
Stage Company, Coyote Theatre. Film: Summer 2005 Documentary: Giving Voice: An Actor's Journey
With Kristin Linklater. Head of Acting at Boston University School of Theatre.
Company
WILL LeBOW – Eddie Darko
A.R.T.: forty-eight productions, including A Marvelous Party!, Oliver
Twist (Mr. Brownlow, also at Theatre for A New Audience and
Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Capulet), Three
Sisters (Kulygin), No Exit (Garcin), Amerika (Uncle Jacob,
Innkeeperess, Head Waiter), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Jupiter),
The Miser (Valére), The Birthday Party (Goldberg), A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Egeus/Peter Quince), Pericles (Cleon/Pandar),
Highway Ulysses (ensemble), Uncle Vanya (Serebriakov), Lysistrata
(Magistrate), Marat/Sade (Marat), The Doctor’s Dilemma (Sir
Ralph), Nocturne (Father – Drama Desk nomination), Full Circle
(Heiner Müller – Elliot Norton Award for best actor), The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), The Marriage
of Bette and Boo (Karl), The Imaginary Invalid (title role), Shlemiel the First (Shlemiel/Zalman Tippish
– also on tours of the West Coast), The Wild Duck (Hjalmar Ekdal), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Sagot),
The King Stag (Brighella—a role he also performed in Taiwan), Six Characters in Search of an Author
(The Father). Other: The Cherry Orchard, Love’s Labors Lost, The Rivals and Melinda Lopez’s Sonia
Flew (Huntington Theatre), Twelfth Night (Feste, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Brian Friel’s
Faith Healer (Gloucester Stage Company), Shear Madness (all male roles), the Boston Pops premiere
of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (narrator). Film: Next Stop Wonderland. Television: the Cable Ace
Award-winning animated series Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (voice of Stanley).
KATHERINE LEBRÓN – Joannie/Lanky Kid
Fenway High School honor student planning to pursue a Major in
Theatre/Drama in college. She has appeared in school productions
as actor and dancer including Nobody Famous, Harvard University;
Illegal, Fenway High School; La Guerra, Love Has No Color, La
Vida Es Un Carnaval, Hernandez School. She performed in the
Hyde Square Task Force’s Ritmo En Accion (REA) dance group
(ranked among the top fifteen best arts programs in the country) for
three years and has danced at venues throughout Massachusetts,
as well as in Urban Improv.
KAREN MacDONALD – Kitty Farmer
A.R.T.: founding member, sixty-one productions, including A
Marvelous Party!, Oliver Twist (Mrs. Bumble, also at Theatre for A
New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Onion Cellar,
Island of Slaves (Euphrosine), Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), No Exit
(Estelle, Elliot Norton Award), Olly’s Prison (Ellen, Elliot Norton
Award), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Anna), The Provok’d Wife
(Madamoiselle, IRNE award), The Miser (Frosine, IRNE award),
The Birthday Party (IRNE Award), A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Hypolita/Titania, IRNE award), Pericles (Dionyza), Highway
Company
Ulysses (Circe), Uncle Vanya (Marina), Lysistrata (Kalonika), Mother Courage and Her Children
(Mother Courage), Marat/Sade (Simone), Othello (Emilia, IRNE award). Director of Dressed Up!
Wigged Out!, Boston Playwrights Theatre. New York: Roundabout Theatre, Second Stage, Playwright’s
Horizons, and Actors’ Playhouse. Regional: The Misanthrope (Arsinöe), Berkshire Theatre Festival;
Infestation (Mother), Boston Playwrights Theatre; Hamlet (Gertrude) and Twelfth Night (Maria),
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Maureen) and The Last Night
of Ballyhoo (Boo) Vineyard Playhouse; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Martha, Elliot Norton Award)
and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Frankie), Merrimack Repertory Theatre; As You Like It
(Rosalind), Shakespeare & Co; Shirley Valentine (Shirley), Charles Playhouse. Other: Alley Theatre
(Company member), the Goodman Theatre, the Wilma Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Geva Theatre,
Syracuse Stage, Buffalo Studio Arena, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Philadelphia Festival of
New Plays.
DAN McCABE – Donnie Darko
Theatre: Tea & Sympathy, Keen Company; Millicent Scowlworthy,
Summer Play Festival; Pen, Playwright’s Horizon; The Dear Boy,
2nd Stage; Donna Morelli, NY Stage & Film; The Fear Project,
Barrow Group; Kimberly Akimbo, Hartford Theater Works; Trust,
Play Company; The Dead Eye Boy, Cincinnati Playhouse. Film/TV:
War Eagle, The Namesake, Stephanie Daly, The Cake Eaters, The
Boys of Sunset Ridge, Law and Order.
CAROLYN McCANDLISH – Samantha Darko
Recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology
from Harvard College, where she performed in numerous
productions, including: The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Emily),
directed by Marcus Stern; Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider); Carousel
(Snow Child, Ensemble); Bradbury and Beyond (Wendy/Stranger);
An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein (Sarah Cynthia Sylvia
Stout/Nellie); The Alchemist (Dame Pliant) and several studentwritten musicals. She appeared as the young Lee Bouvier in the
miniseries A Woman Named Jackie (NBC).
Company
GRETA MERCHANT – Roberta Sparrow
A.R.T: Wings of Desire. Turtle Lane Theater: The Sound of Music
(Frau Schmidt); Brookline Community Theater: Crossing Delancy
(Bubbie). Film: Follow the Broccoli, The Music Club in the Bowery
NYC: Improvisations. Film: Dreams. Film: The Perfect Storm
(Extra). Puppet Plays in NYC. Emerson and BU Student Films.
DeLANCE MINIFEE – Dr. Monnitoff/Larry Reisman/Ricky Danforth
Second-year actor at the ART/MXAT Institute. A.R.T.
Institute/Moscow Art Theatre credit: Phoenician Women (Kreon).
New York credits: ABK for Life, Columbia University; The A-Train
Plays. Neighborhood Playhouse. Chicago credits: Death in Venice,
Chicago Opera Theatre; Amistad Voices, Chicago Shakespeare
Theatre; Let The Circle Be Unbroken, Apple Tree Theatre;
Homebound, Congo Square. Other: Holes, Walden Media, Denver;
Smokey Joe’s Café (tour), and Civil War, Prather Productions;
Smokey Joe’s Café (Nominated for Best Actor in a MusicalMemphis Ostrander Awards), Memphis Playhouse on the Square; A
Soldier’s Play, Dreamgirls, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (tour), Anything Goes,
Damn Yankees, Dracula, The Wizard of Oz, and Voices on the River, Arkansas Repertory Theatre;
Blood Knot, Arkansas Shakespeare Festival. Film: Barbershop II, MGM. Chasing the Dragon, Lifetime
Entertainment. Even if I told you, Hollywood Black Film Fest. The Missing Peace, Boston International
Film Fest. He has toured Germany as a Dancer with BMG Music, toured the Mississippi Delta as a
Storyteller, and was the Assistant Director of Living History at the Historic Arkansas Museum. B.A. in
Theatre Arts from Henderson State University. Mr. Minefee appears in this production by courtesy of
Actors’ Equity Association.
ANGELA NAHIGIAN – Elizabeth Darko/Dorky Girl
Second year acting student at the A.R.T. Institute. A.R.T.
Institute/Moscow Art Theatre credit: The Phoenician Women
(Chorus). New York: The Blue Room (Au Pair, Model).
Berkeley: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Player), The Taming of
the Shrew (Gremio), John Fisher’s Cleopatra! The Musical
(Iris), Crime of the Twenty First Century (Hoxton), Escape from
Happiness (Elizabeth). BACH Opera: The Magic Flute (1st
Lady). Featured soloist: PBS Music in Our Schools Concerts,
UC Berkeley Symphony & Chorus. Ms. Nahigian is a founding
Company
member of Close to Six Company in New York. BA in Theatre from University of California at
Berkeley.
MARA SIDMORE – Dr. Lilian Thurman
A.R.T.: Balthazar (Juliet u/s) in Romeo & Juliet, The Woman (u/s)
The Keening, Cleanthis (u/s) Island of Slaves. Other: The Winter’s
Tale, Actor’s Shakespeare Project, Burn This and The Three Sisters,
Devanaughn Theatre, Antony & Cleopatra, Boston Theatre Works,
Butley (Anne Butley u/s), Huntington Theatre Company, Macbeth,
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Van Gogh in Japan and
Smelling a Rat, Nora Theatre Company. A.R.T./MXAT Institute:
Pants on Fire, Mayhem, Crime and Punishment, The Bacchae.
Mara has a BS in Education/English Literature from Gordon College
and an MFA in Acting from A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced
Theatre Training.
Creative Staff
RICHARD KELLY – Screenwriter
Richard Kelly has achieved great success as a director and screenwriter in Hollywood. Upon graduating
from film school at the University of Southern California, Mr. Kelly wrote and directed the independent
film Donnie Darko. The film opened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and was nominated for the
Grand Jury Prize. Donnie Darko became a cult hit and helped launch the careers of actors Jake and
Maggie Gyllenhaal. It is now one of the most acclaimed independent films of all time. Mr. Kelly has
since written the screenplay for the action-thriller Domino directed by Ridley Scott. Southland Tales,
written and directed by Kelly, is set for release in November 2007, with an all-star cast including Justin
Timberlake, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Mr. Kelly and producing partner
Sean McKittrick have recently formed Darko Entertainment to produce director-driven, independent
films. Under this banner, they are currently working on The Box starring Cameron Diaz, both written
and directed by Mr. Kelly.
MARCUS STERN – Adaptor/Director/Sound Designer
Associate Director of the A.R.T. and the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. A.R.T.:
The Onion Cellar with The Dresden Dolls, Suzan Lori Parks’ The America Play, Adrienne Kennedy’s The
Ohio State Murders, Büchner’s Woyzeck, Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, Adam Rapp’s Nocturne,
Christopher Durang’s Marriage of Bette and Boo (also at NYU and Harvard University). A.R.T. Institute:
a stage adaptation of the film Donnie Darko. Other: Hang Ong’s The Chang Fragments and Martin
Crimp’s The Treatment, The Joseph Papp Public Theater; Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits, Theater
Neumarkt, Zurich; Jose Rivera’s Marisol, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival; Mac Wellman’s
Hyacinth Macaw, Primary Stages, New York; Instant Girl’s On the Run, Dance Theater Workshop; Mac
Wellman’s The Land of Fog and Whistles, Whitney Museum Biennial; Neena Beber’s The Living
Goddess, The Magic Theater; and Erin Cressida Wilson’s Cross Dressing in the Depression, Soho Rep.
Adaptations: Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits, Zurich; Phoebe’s Got Three Sisters, Cucaracha Theater in
New York; O’Neill’s The Great God Brown, N.Y.U. and Harvard University. Has taught at the Yale
School of Drama, New York University, and Columbia University, currently teaches at Harvard
University, Harvard’s Extension School, and A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.
MATTHEW McADON – Set Designer
New York: Die Fledermaus, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, The Late Henry Moss,
Accidental Death of An Anarchist, Lapse, Richard III, Fiorello. In The Blood (West Coast Premiere,
L.A.), Pleasure and Pain, Rust (The Magic, S.F.), Salome (L.A.), An Artist’s Workshop (Azuka, Philly),
Candide (Indiana U), Melancholy Play, This Is How It Goes, Arabian Night, Betty’s Summer Vacation
(A.R.T. IATT), Spring Awakening and Simpatico (Boston). Founding member, TENT: PBD Group.
Faculty: Northeastern University.
CLINT RAMOS – Costume Designer
Designs set and costumes for theatre, opera, dance and film. Recent credits include Aunt Dan and
Lemon (Merrimack Repertory Theater), Romania. Kiss Me (The Play Company), Taming of the Shrew
(Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.), Angels in America (Opera Boston). Other credits include
Creative Staff
References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Public Theater/NYSF), And God Created Great Whales
(Foundry Theater/Culture Project). New York: Public Theater, Vineyard Theater, Red Bull Theater,
Dance Theater Workshop, Ma-Yi Theater, Mint Theater and others. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage,
Speakeasy Stage, East West Players, Merrimack Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Boston among others. International: Noorlaand Operan (Stockholm), Teatro
Pilipino (Manila), Kanon Dance (St. Petersburg), Stuttgarter Ballet (Stuttgart), De Nederlandse Opera
(Amsterdam) and others. Upcoming: Ah! Wilderness (Baltimore Center Stage), Purity (PS 122),
Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center), Ophelia 3 (Here Arts Center).
SCOTT ZIELINSKI – Lighting Designer
A.R.T.: Oliver Twist, Three Sisters, Dido, Queen of Carthage, Black Snow, Woyzeck, Peter Pan and
Wendy. New York and regional highlights: Topdog/Underdog (Broadway), Lincoln Center, Public
Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre
Workshop, Signature Theatre, Classic Stage Company, and numerous regional theaters throughout the
U.S. International: productions in London, Paris, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart,
Zurich, Vienna, Stockholm, Oslo, Goteborg, Adelaide, Tokyo, Hong Kong Singapore, Luang Prabang,
Fukuoka, Toronto, and Ottawa. Dance: designs for The Joyce, Kennedy Center, American Dance Festival
(all with Twyla Tharp), American Ballet Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, Centre National de la
Danse, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Kansas City Ballet. Opera: New York City Opera, The
English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Toronto Opera, Pittsburgh Opera,
Arizona Opera, Gotham Opera, Berkshire Opera, Opera Colorado, Spoleto USA, and BAM.
DAVID REMEDIOS – Sound Designer
Over forty productions for the A.R.T., including Donnie Darko, Oliver Twist, Britannicus, The Onion
Cellar, Enrico IV, Absolution, and Man and Superman. He has also toured extensively for the A.R.T.
Other regional credits include designs for CenterStage, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the
Park, New York Theatre Workshop and Vineyard Playhouse. He won the 2007 Connecticut Critics
Circle Award (No Exit, Hartford Stage), the 2001 Elliot Norton Award (Mother Courage and Her
Children) and was nominated for Independent Reviewers of New England Awards for the A.R.T.’s
Island of Slaves, Olly’s Prison, Oedipus, Snow in June, and Highway Ulysses.
ADAM McLEAN – Fight Coordinator
Teaching: Emerson College – Movement and Acting. Boston University School of Music Movement for
Singers. Master classes in Stage Combat at the Opera Institute and the New England Conservatory of
Music. Taught and performed at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival Sibiu, Romania. Recent
credits: Titus Andronicus, Actors’ Shakespeare Project; Mr. Marmalade, Company One; The Tragedy of
Carmen and Guilio Cesare, Florida State University Opera; Marat/Sade, Troilus and Cressida, and The
Mystery of Edwin Drood, Florida State University.
Creative Staff
KATHERINE SHEA – Stage Manager
A.R.T.: Assistant Stage Manager Oliver Twist, The Onion Cellar. Production Associate Island of Slaves,
Desire Under the Elms. A.R.T. Institute Stage Manager The Front Page, Arabian Night, Zoya, Mayhem,
A Bright Room Called Day, Island of Anyplace, The Bacchae, Spring Awakening, Donnie Darko.
JUDY BOWMAN – Casting
American Repertory Theatre: Britannicus, Wings of Desire, Island of Slaves, Romeo and Juliet, The
Keening, Olly’s Prison, Desire Under the Elms. New York: Unconditional, Public Theater; Ariel
Dorfman’s Windows, Night Over Taos (dir: Estelle Parsons), Rearviewmirror, ’Nami, Michael John
Garces’s Points of Departure, Havana Bourgeois, A Matter of Choice, The Wanderer, An American
Maul, Rothchild’s Fiddle, premieres of Keith Reddin’s Almost Blue and Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love,
and several musicals. Regional: Naomi Iizuka’s Strike/Slip and Carlos Murillo’s Dark Play or Stories for
Boys, Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Films: The Garden, Body/Antibody, 508 Nelson,
Duane Incarnate,The Eden Myth. As Casting Associate: NY Casting for the films Mean Girls,
Something’s Gotta Give, John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, and Nowhere To Go But Up. TV:
Animated PBS series Nate the Great and NY Casting for Carsey-Werner television series, presentation
pilots, and internet series. In addition to her work with the A.R.T., she is also the Resident Casting
Director for INTAR, Partial Comfort, and Reverie Productions in New York City.
www.judybowmancasting.com.
MATTHEW GARRITY – M.I.G. Entertainment
Matthew Garrity formed M.I.G. Entertainment to produce and finance a wide array of theatre, film and
television projects. He was a primary investor in the Pulitzer Prize nominated, off-Broadway production
of Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp. Currently in development is a musical based on the novel
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown. Mr. Garrity works in marketing for Jack Morton
Worldwide, and was previously employed in the theatre division of Clear Channel Entertainment.
GIDEON LESTER – Acting Artistic Director
Recent translations: Marivaux’s Island of Slaves and La Dispute
(published by Ivan Dee, directed by Anne Bogart at the A.R.T.),
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage (directed by János Szász), Georg
Büchner’s Woyzeck (directed by Marcus Stern), and two texts by
the French playwright Michel Vinaver, King and Overboard (published by Methuen and staged at the Orange Tree Theatre in
London). Adaptations: Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Peter
Handtke, and Richard Reitinger, directed by Ola Mafaalani; Kafka’s
Amerika, or the Disappearance (directed at the A.R.T. by
Dominique Serrand), Anne Frank for the Carr Center for Human
Rights at Harvard, and Enter the Actress, a one-woman show that he devised for Claire Bloom. Born in
London in 1972, Mr. Lester studied English Literature at Oxford University. In 1995 he came to the US
on a Fulbright grant and Frank Knox Memorial Scholarship to study dramaturgy at the A.R.T. Institute
Creative Staff
for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. When he graduated from the Institute, Mr. Lester was
appointed Resident Dramaturg. He became the A.R.T.’s Associate Artistic Director in 2002, and Acting
Artistic Director in 2007. He teaches dramaturgy at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute and playwriting at
Harvard.
ROBERT J. ORCHARD – Executive Director
Mr. Orchard served as the A.R.T’s founding Managing Director for
twenty-one years. He currently serves as Executive Director of the
A.R.T. and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and Director
of the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University. Prior to 1979, he
was Managing Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and School of
Drama where he also served as Associate Professor and CoChairman of the Theatre Administration Program. For nearly twenty
years, Mr. Orchard has been active facilitating exchanges, leading
seminars, and advising on public policy with theatre professionals
and government officials in Russia. At the A.R.T. he has produced
nearly 186 productions over half of which were new works. In addition, he has overseen tours of A.R.T.
productions to major festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon, Belgrade, Paris, Madrid, Jerusalem, Venice, Sao
Paulo, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, and Moscow, among others. Under his leadership, A.R.T. has performed in eighty-one cities in twenty-two states and worldwide in twenty-one cities in sixteen countries
on four continents. Mr. Orchard has served as Chairman of both the Theatre and the Opera/Musical
Theatre Panels at the National Endowment for the Arts, on the Board and Executive Committee of the
American Arts Alliance, the national advocacy association for the performing and visual arts, and as a
trustee of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the American
professional theatre and publisher of American Theatre magazine. In addition he has served on the
Board of the Cambridge Multi-Cultural Arts Center and as President of the Massachusetts Cultural
Education Collaborative. In 2000, Mr. Orchard received the Elliot Norton Award for Sustained
Excellence.
ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training presents:
A New American Play at Zero Arrow Theatre
Expats
by Heather Lynn MacDonald
Inspired by stories of the thousands of Americans living in Moscow just after
the fall of the Soviet Union.
December 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 15 at 7:30 PM; December 8 and 15 at 2:00 PM
For more information call 617-547-8300 or visit www.amrep.org
About the A.R.T.
A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE
Robert J. Orchard
Executive Director
Gideon Lester
Acting Artistic Director
Robert Brustein
Founding Director/Creative Consultant
The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) occupies a unique place in the American theatre. It is the
only professional not-for-profit theatre in the country that maintains a resident acting company and an
international training conservatory, and that operates in association with a major university. Over its
twenty-seven year history the A.R.T. has welcomed American and international theatre artists who have
enriched the theatrical life of the nation. The theatre has garnered many of the nation’s most distinguished awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, and a Jujamcyn Award. In December 2002,
the A.R.T. was the recipient of the National Theatre Conference’s Outstanding Achievement Award, and
in May of 2003 it was named one of the top three theatres in the country by Time magazine.
Since 1980 the A.R.T. has performed in eighty-three cities in twenty-two states around the country,
and worldwide in twenty-one cities in sixteen countries on four continents. It has presented one
hundred and eighty-eight productions, over half of which were premieres of new plays, translations,
and adaptations.
The A.R.T. was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein and has been in residence for twenty-seven
years at Harvard University’s Loeb Drama Center. In August 2002 Robert Woodruff became the
A.R.T.’s Artistic Director, the second in the theatre’s history. Gideon Lester became Acting Artistic
Director in July 2007, joining Executive Director Robert J. Orchard as the theatre’s management team.
Mr. Brustein remains with the A.R.T. as Founding Director and Creative Consultant.
The A.R.T. is known for its commitment to new American plays and music/theatre explorations; to
neglected works of the past; and to established classical texts reinterpreted in refreshing new ways.
The A.R.T. is also a training ground for young artists. The theatre’s artistic staff teaches undergraduate
classes in acting, directing, dramatic literature, design, and playwriting at Harvard, and in 1987 the
A.R.T. founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. In conjunction with the Moscow Art Theatre
School, the Institute provides world-class graduate level training in acting, dramaturgy, and special
studies.
The A.R.T. attempts to establish historical continuity as contemporary artists reinterpret the past,
and classical work helps to inform the present. The Company prides itself on being an artistic home for
top-level playwrights, actors, directors, designers, technicians, and administrators. A full list of
participating artists can be found on the A.R.T. web site—www.amrep.org
NEW WORKS
The A.R.T.’s American and world premieres include among others, works by Robert Auletta, Edward
Bond, Robert Brustein, Don DeLillo, Keith Dewhurst, Humberto Dorado, Christopher Durang, Rinde
Eckert, Elizabeth Egloff, Jules Feiffer, Dario Fo, Carlos Fuentes, Larry Gelbart, Philip Glass, Stuart
Greenman, William Hauptman, David Henry Hwang, Milan Kundera, Mark Leib, David Lodge, Carol K.
Mack, David Mamet, Charles L. Mee, Roger Miller, John Moran, Robert Moran, Heiner Müller, Marsha
Norman, Han Ong, David Rabe, Franca Rame, Adam Rapp, Keith Reddin, Ronald Ribman, Paula
Vogel, Derek Walcott, Naomi Wallace, and Robert Wilson.
About the A.R.T.
DIRECTORS
Many of the world's most gifted directors have staged productions at the A.R.T., including JoAnne
Akalaitis, Neil Bartlett, Andrei Belgrader, Anne Bogart, Lee Breuer, Robert Brustein, Chen Shi-Zheng,
Liviu Ciulei, Martha Clarke, Ron Daniels, Liz Diamond, Joe Dowling, Michael Engler, Alvin Epstein,
Dario Fo, Richard Foreman, Kama Ginkas, David Gordon, Adrian Hall, Richard Jones, Michael Kahn,
Jerome Kilty, Krystian Lupa, John Madden, Ola Mafaalani, David Mamet, Des McAnuff, Jonathan
Miller, Nicolas Montero, Jerry Mouawad, Tom Moore, François Rochaix, Robert Scanlan, Dominque
Serrand, János Szász, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Susan Sontag, Marcus Stern, Slobodan Unkovski,
Les Waters, David Wheeler, Frederick Wiseman, Robert Wilson, Mark Wing-Davey, Robert Woodruff,
Yuri Yeremin, Francesca Zambello, and Scott Zigler.
TOURING
A.R.T. productions were included in the First New York International Festival of the Arts, the 1984
Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, the Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the
Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the International Fortnight of Theatre in
Quebec; the international festivals in Asti, Avignon, Belgrade, Edinburgh, Haifa, Jerusalem, Ljubljana,
Singapore, Taipei, Tel Aviv, and Venice; and at theatres in Amsterdam, Perugia, Rotterdam, and London
(where its presentation of Sganarelle was filmed and broadcast by Britain’s Channel 4). In 1986 the
A.R.T. presented Robert Wilson’s adaptation of Alcestis at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, where it
won the award for Best Foreign Production of the Year, and in 1991 Robert Wilson’s production of
When We Dead Awaken was presented at the 21st International Biennale of São Paulo, Brazil. In
March 1998, the A.R.T. opened the Chekhov International Theatre Festival in Moscow the first
American company to perform at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre with The King Stag, Six Characters
in Search of an Author, and Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard’s When The World Was Green (A
Chef’s Fable). In October 2000 the A.R.T. embarked on a year-long national and international tour of
The King Stag, with stops in twenty-seven American cities in fifteen states, ending with a three-week
residency at London’s Barbican Centre in the summer of 2001. Most recently, productions of
Lysistrata, The Sound of a Voice, The Miser, Lady with a Lapdog, Amerika, No Exit, and Oliver Twist
have been presented at theatres throughout the US; the A.R.T. returned to the Edinburgh International
Festival two years in a row, with Krystian Lupa’s Three Sisters in 2006, and Robert Woodruff’s
Orpheus X in 2007. In February, 2008, Orpheus X will perform at the Hong Kong International
Festival of the Arts.
FROM THE PRESS
“…the nation’s most prestigious resident theatre. One of the top three theatres in the country."
– Time Magazine
“Theatre that cries out to be seen.” – Boston Globe
“Stretching the limits of artistic possibility with an imaginative daring that has few parallels on the
contemporary scene.” – Washington Post
“One of the most vital influences on the U.S. stage in the last twenty years.”
– International Herald Tribune
“more concentrated, provocative quality than New York City has delivered all year.” – USA Today
We Made It—
Thanks to You!
We reached our goal in a dollar-for-dollar endowment challenge from the
Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke
Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Heartfelt thanks to the generous donors who contributed to this
endowment challenge:
$100,000 and above
Philip and Hilary Burling
Robert Davoli and Eileen
McDonagh
Ted and Mary Wendell
$2,500–$4,999
Carol and Harvey Berman
Mary and Edgar Schein
John A. Shane
Anonymous
$25,000–$75,000
Paul and Katie Buttenwieser
Sarah Hancock
The Hershey Family Foundation
Priscilla and Richard Hunt
Michael E. Jacobson
Donald and Susan Ware
Anonymous
$1,000–$2,499
Joel and Lisa Alvord
George C. and Hillery
Ballantyne
Fay Chandler
Caroline Chang
Kathy Connor
Homer Hagedorn
Michael B. Keating
Barbara and Jon Lee
Barbara Lemperly Grant and
Frederic D. Grant
Paul and Wladzia McCarthy
Joan H. Parker
Suzanne Priebatsch
Michael Roitman and Emily
Karstetter
Henry and Nitza Rosovsky
Mrs. Ralph P. Rudnickº
May Takayanagi
Sam Weisman and Constance
McCashin Weisman
$10,000–$24,999
Ann and Graham Gund
Lizbeth and George Krupp
The Arthur Loeb Foundation
Rebecca and Nathan
Milikowsky
Linda U. Sanger
$5,000–$9,999
Page Bingham and Jim Anathan
Clarke and Ethel D. Coggeshall
Merrill and Charles Gottesman
Barbara and Steve Grossman
Joseph W. Hammer
Glenn KnicKrehm
The Robert & Myra Kraft Family
Foundation, Inc.
Ward K. and Lucy Mooney
Anthony Pangaro
Cokie and Lee Perry
Beth Pollock
$500–$999
Jeffrey Borenstein
Fred and Edith Byron
Moises and Mary Gelrud
Merle and Marshall Goldman
Wendy Shattuck and Samuel
Plimpton
Barbara D. Roby
Kay and Jack Shelemay
Michael Shinagel
Up to $499
Richard and Dorothy Cole
Scott T. Cummings
Alice M. DeLana
Barbara L. Estrin
Joan FitzGerald
Marian Fox
Donna Friedman
Margalit Gai
Kevin F. Gallagher
Howard Gardner
Kathleen and Robert Garner
George Heller and
Laura Wilson Heller
Arthur and Susan Holcombe
Timothy Knox
Victoria Kohler
Allen S. and Jeanne Krieger
Robert MacLaughlin and
Maria Day
Yvette B. Morrill
John L. Peschel
Paul and Anna Maria Radvany
Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel
Linda and Jeff Sheldon
Robert Straus
Betty Taymor
Mark Thurber and Susan Galli
As of 9/30/07
º deceased
Donors
American Repertory
Theatre is deeply grateful
for the generous support
of the individuals,
foundations, corporations,
and government agencies
whose contributions make
our work possible. The list
below reflects gifts
between August 1, 2006
and September 5, 2007
to the Annual Fund and
special events.
Guardian Angel •
$100,000 and above
The Carr Foundation
Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
The President and Fellows
of Harvard College
The Shubert Foundation,
Inc.
Archangel •
$50,000–$99,999
The Boston Globe+
Educational Foundation of
America
The Hershey Family
Foundation
Massachusetts Cultural
Council
The Harold and Mimi
Steinberg Charitable
Trust
Angel •
$25,000–$49,999
Philip and Hilary Burling*
Edgerton Foundation New
American Plays
The E.H.A. Foundation,
Inc.
Ann and Graham Gund*
Cassandra and Horace
Irvine
National Endowment for
the Arts
National Corporate
Theatre Fund
Theatre Communications
Group
Trust for Mutual
Understanding
Ted and Mary Wendell*
Mr. and Mrs. Byron R.
Wien
Benefactor •
$10,000–$24,999
Altria Group, Inc.
Joel and Lisa Alvord*
Bank of America
Philanthropic
Management
Page Bingham and Jim
Anathan*
Boston Investor Services*
Paul and Katie
Buttenwieser*
Ted and Joan Cutler
Étant Donnés
Barbara W. Hostetter
The Roy A. Hunt
Foundation
Merrill and Charles
Gottesman
Michael E. Jacobson*
Lizbeth and George Krupp
Dan Mathieu/Neal
Balkowitsch/MAX
Ultimate Food*+
Rebecca and Nathan
Milikowsky
New England Foundation
for the Arts
Cokie and Lee Perry
Michael Roitman and
Emily Karstetter
The Lawrence & Lillian
Solomon Fund, Inc.
Visionary •
$5,000–$9,999
George C. and Hillery
Ballantyne
Carol and Harvey Berman
Citizens Bank
Clarke and Ethel D.
Coggeshall
Crystal Capital*
Robert E. Davoli and
Eileen L. McDonagh *
Alan and Suzanne
Dworsky
Michael G. Feinstein and
Denise Waldron
Barbara and Steve
Grossman*
Joseph W. Hammer
Glenn KnicKrehm
The Robert & Myra Kraft
Family Foundation, Inc.
Mary and Tom Lentz*
Audrey Love Charitable
Foundation
Dr. Henry and Mrs. Carole
Mankin
Carl Martignetti
Kako and Fumi
Matsumoto
Millennium PartnersBoston*
Jackie O'Neill*
Robert J. Orchard
Anthony Pangaro
The Bessie E. Pappas
Charitable Foundation,
Inc.
Polaris Capital
Management, Inc.*
Beth Pollock*
Provost’s Fund for Arts
and Culture*
Jeffrey F. Rayport
Henry and Nitza Rosovsky
Mrs. Ralph P. Rudnickº
Mary and Edgar Schein
Tony Shalhoub and Brooke
Adams
The Shane Foundation
Donald and Susan Ware*
Anonymous
Associate •
$2,500–$4,999
Enid Beal
John A. Boyd
Terry and Catherine
Catchpole
Stanley and Peggy Charren
Philip and Debbie
Edmundson
Hannelore and Jeremy
Grantham
Wladzia and Paul
McCarthy
Robert and Jane Morse
The Netherland-America
Foundation, Inc.
The Ramsey McCluskey
Family Foundation
The Abbot and Dorothy H.
Stevens Foundation
Caroline Taggart and
Robert Sachs
Francis H. Williams
Partner •
$1,200–$2,499
Elizabeth M. Adams
Howard and Leslie
Appleby
Sharyn Bahn
Barbara E. Bierer and
Steven E. Hyman
Linda Cabot Black
Martha Jane Bradford and
Alfred Ajami
Clark and Gloria Chandler
Caroline Chang
Draper Laboratory
Diane and Joel Feldman
Nicholas Greville
Sarah Hancock
The Harvest+
Michael B. Keating
Nancy P. King
Barbara Lemperly Grant
and Frederic D. Grant
James C. Marlas
Judy and Paul Marshall
Robert and Janine
Penfield
Finley and Patricia Perry
Beatrice Roy
William A. Serovy
Valya and Robert Shapiro
Kay and Jack Shelemay
Michael Shinagel and
Marjorie North
Sholley Foundation
Marshall Sirvetz
The Joseph W. and Faith
K. Tiberio Charitable
Foundation
Leading Player •
$500–$1,199
Sheldon Appel
The Bay State Federal
Savings Charitable
Foundation
William Bazzy
Leonard and Jane
Bernstein
Sheldon and Dorothea
Buckler
Donald Butterfield
Antonia H. Chayes
Jane and Marvin Corlette
Edmond duPont
The Friends of Rob
Merle and Marshall
Goldman
Donors
Charlotte Hall
Dena and Felda Hardymon
Margaretta Hausman
Stefaan Heyvaert
Robert P. Hubbard
Karen Johansen and
Gardner Hendrie
Judith Kidd
Gillian and Bill Kohli
Pam and Nick Lazares
Ann Lenard
John D.C. Little
Joy Lucas and Andrew
Schulert
Gregory Maguire
Arthur and Merle Nacht
Susan and Joe Paresky
Parker Family Fund
Marty Rabinowitz
Renee Rapaporte
Carolyn G. Robins
Arthur P. Sakellaris
Cathy and George
Sakellaris
Lisbeth Tarlow
Julie Taymor
David Tobin
Jean Walsh and Graham
Davies
Ruth and Harry Wechsler
G. Mead and Ann Wyman
Christopher R. Yens and
Temple V. Gill
Anonymous
* includes contributions
to special events
denotes gift-in-kind
º deceased
+
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Theatre Fund
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created to increase and
strengthen support from
the business community
for ten of this country's
most distinguished
professional theatres. The
following foundations,
individuals, and corporations support these
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contributions of $5,000
or more to National
Corporate Theatre Fund:
Altria Group, Inc.
AT&T
Bingham McCutchen
Bloomberg
Bristol Myers Squibb
James Buckley
Steven Bunson
Robert Cagnazzi
Christopher Campbell
Jason and Marla Chandler
Clear Channel
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Citi
Citi Private Bank
Colgate-Palmolive
Company
Credit Suisse Dorsey &
Whitney Foundation
Dramatists Play Service,
Inc.
Ernst & Young
Goldman, Sachs &
Company
HIRECounsel
Big Idea
IMG
JP Morgan Chase
KPMG
Lehman Brothers
Marsh & McLennan
Companies, Inc.
McCarter & English LLP
Merrill Lynch & Co.
MetLife
Morgan Stanley
National Endowment for
the Arts
Newsweek New York State
Council on the Arts
Ogilvy & Mather New York
Pfizer, Inc.
Thomas Quick
Seinfeld Family
Foundation
Sharp Electronics*
George Smith
Theatermania
James S. Turley
UBS
Verizon Communications
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Staff
Robert J. Orchard Executive Director
Gideon Lester Acting Artistic Director
Robert Brustein Founding Director/Creative Consultant
Artistic
Scott Zigler Director, A.R.T. Institute
Jeremy Geidt Senior Actor
Marcus Stern Associate Director
Christopher De Camillis Artistic Coordinator
Arthur Holmberg Literary Director
Nancy Houfek Voice and Speech Coach
Ryan McKittrick Associate Dramaturg
David Wheeler Associate Artist
Administration and Finance
Jonathan Seth Miller General Manager
Nancy M. Simons Comptroller
Angela Paquin Assistant Comptroller
Julia Smeliansky Administrative Director, Institute
Steven Leon Assistant General Manager
Tracy Keene Company / Front of House Manager
Stacie Hurst Financial Administrator
Tali Gai Artistic Associate / Executive Assistant
Alexander Popov Moscow Program Consultant
Development
Sharyn Bahn Director of Development
Sue Beebee Assistant Director of Development
Jan Graham Geidt Coordinator of Special Projects
Joan Moynagh Director of Institutional Giving and
Strategic Development
Jessica Obara Development Officer
Publicity, Marketing, Publications
Ruth Davidson Director of Communications and Marketing
Katalin Mitchell Director of Press and Public Relations
Nicholas Peterson Assistant Director of Marketing
Kerry Israel Audience Development Associate
Douglas F. Kirshen Web Manager
Burt Sun Director of Graphic/Media Design
Stevens Advertising Associates Advertising Consultant
Box Office
Derek Mueller Box Office Manager
Ryan Walsh Box Office Manager
Lilian Belknap Box Office Representative
Public Services
Erin Wood Theatre Operations Coordinator
Maria Medeiros Receptionist
Sarah Leon Receptionist
Killian Clarke House Manager
Doug Fallon House Manager
Shannon Matathia House Manager
Heather Quick House Manager
Matthew Spano House Manager
Production
Patricia Quinlan Production Manager
Christopher Viklund Associate Production Manager
Skip Curtiss Associate Production Manager
Amy James Stage Manager
Katherine Shea Stage Manager
Amanda Robbins Institute Stage Manager
J. Michael Griggs Loeb Technical Director
Lauren Audette Zero Arrow House Technician
Scenery
Stephen Setterlun Technical Director
Emily W. Leue Assistant Technical Director
Alexia Muhlsteff Assistant Technical Director
Gerard P. Vogt Scenic Charge Artist
Evan Wilkinson Scene Shop Supervisor
Peter Doucette Master Carpenter
Chris Tedford Scenic Carpenter
York-Andreas Paris Scenic Carpenter
Jason Bryant Scenic Carpenter
Properties
Cynthia Lee Properties Manager
Tricia Green Assistant Properties Manager
Stacey Horne Properties Carpenter
Costumes
Jeannette Hawley Costume Shop Manager
Hilary Hacker Assistant Costume Shop Manager
Karen Eister Head Draper
Carmel Dundon Draper
David Israel Reynoso Crafts Artisan
Stephen Drueke Wardrobe Supervisor
Suzanne Kadiff Costume Stock Manager
Lights
Derek L. Wiles Master Electrician
Kenneth Helvig Lighting Assistant
David Oppenheimer Light Board Operator
Sound
David Remedios Resident Sound Designer / Engineer
Darby Smotherman Production Sound Engineer
Stage
Joe Stoltman Stage Supervisor
Jeremie Lozier Assistant Stage Supervisor
Christopher Eschenbach Production Assistant
Kevin Klein Production Assistant
Internships
Elizabeth Bouchard Stage Management
Tori Woodhouse Stage Management
Emily Code Administration
Richard Andrew Yeskoo Scenery
Megan Deeley Dramaturgy
Catherine Wilson Electrical
Program
Loeb Drama Center
64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Editors: Katalin Mitchell, Ryan McKittrick
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written & performed by
Nilaja Sun
Nov. 23 - Dec. 22
“It’s enough to make the angels
weep to watch this caring,
committed performance artist
re-create her experiences at
notoriously bad-news schools.
Every kid deserves a teacher
like Nilaja Sun.” - Variety
Loeb Stage
64 Brattle Street
Harvard Square
617.547.8300
amrep.org
Committees
American Repertory Theatre
National Advisory Committee
Dr. Stephen Aaron
Donald and Lucy
Beldock
Alexandra Loeb Driscoll
Ronald Dworkin
Wendy Gimbel
Stephen and Kathy
Graham
Kay Kendall
Robert and Rona Kiley
Rocco Landesman
Wilee Lewis
William and Wendy
Luers
Joanne Lyman
James Marlas
Stuart Ostrow
Dr. David Pearce
Steven Rattner
Nancy Ellison Rollnick
and Bill Rollnick
Daniel and Joanna S.
Rose
Mark Rosenthal
Miriam Schwartz
Daniel Selznick
Rose Styron
Mike and Mary Wallace
Seth Weingarten
Byron Wien
William Zabel
American Repertory Theatre Honorary Board
JoAnne Akalaitis
Laurie Anderson
Rubèn Blades
Claire Bloom
William Bolcom
Carmen de Lavallade
Brian Dennehy
Christopher Durang
Carlos Fuentes
Philip Glass
Andrè Gregory
Mrs. John Hersey
Geoffrey Holder
Arliss Howard
Albert Innaurato
John Irving
Anne Jackson and Eli
Wallach
Robert R. Kiley
James Lapine
Linda Lavin
Jonathan Miller
Kate Nelligan
Andrei Serban
John Shea
Talia Shire
Meryl Streep
Rose Styron
Lily Tomlin
Christopher Walken
Mike and Mary Wallace
Sam Waterston
Robert Wilson
Debra Winger
Frederick Wiseman
Visiting Committee for the Loeb Drama Center
Stockard Channing
Anthony E. Malkin
James C. Marlas
Jeffrey D. Melvoin
Thomas H. Parry
Daniel Selznick
Winifred White Neisser
Byron R. Wien
Institute
A.R.T./MXAT INSTITUTE
FOR ADVANCED THEATRE TRAINING
Scott Zigler, Director
Julia Smeliansky, Administrative Director
Marcus Stern, Associate Director
Nancy Houfek, Head of Voice and Speech
Andrei Droznin, Head of Movement
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE
Robert J. Orchard, Executive Director
Gideon Lester, Acting Artistic Director
MOSCOW ART THEATRE
Oleg Tabakov, Artistic Director
MOSCOW ART THEATRE SCHOOL
Anatoly Smeliansky, Head
The Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard was established in 1987 by the American Repertory
Theatre (A.R.T.) as a training ground for the American theatre. Its programs are fully integrated with the
activities of the A.R.T. In the summer of 1998 the Institute commenced a historic joint program with the
Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT) School. Students engage with two invaluable resources: the work of the A.R.T.
and that of the MXAT, as well as their affiliated schools. Together, this exclusive partnership offers students
opportunities for training and growth unmatched by any program in the country.
The core program features a rigorous two-year, five-semester period of training in acting, dramaturgy, and
special studies, during which students work closely with the professionals at the A.R.T. and the MXAT as well
as with the best master teachers from the United States and Russia. At the end of the program, students
receive a Certificate of Achievement from the faculty of the American Repertory Theatre and an M.F.A. Degree
from the faculty of the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Further information about this new program can be obtained by calling the Institute for a free catalog at
(617) 496-2000 or going to our web site at www.amrep.org.
Faculty
Robert Brustein
Erin Cooney
Thomas Derrah
Elena Doujnikova
Andrei Droznin
Tanya Gassel
Jeremy Geidt
Arther Holmberg
Nancy Houfek
Roman Kozak
Will LeBow
Gideon Lester
Stathis Livathinos
Karen MacDonald
Alexandre Marin
Ryan McKittrick
Jeff Morrison
Pamela Murray
Lori O’Doherty
Robert J. Orchard
Robert Scanlan
Andrei Shchukin
Anatoly Smeliansky
Julia Smeliansky
Marcus Stern
Oleg Tabakov
Tommy Thompson
Robert Walsh
Scott Zigler
Criticism and Dramaturgy
Yoga
Acting
Movment
Movement
Russian Language
Acting
Theatre History and Dramaturgy
Voice and Speech
Acting and Directing
Acting
Dramaturgy
Acting and Directing
Acting
Acting and Directing
Dramatic Literature and Dramaturgy
Voice
Singing
Yoga
Theatre Management
Dramatic Literature
Movement
Theatre History and Dramaturgy
History and Practice of Set Design
Acting and Directing
Acting
Alexander Technique
Combat
Acting, Directing, and Dramaturgy
Staff
Christopher Viklund Production Manager
Acting
Joseph Almanza
Emily Alpren
Renzo Ampuero
Sarah Baskin
Skye Noel Basu
Kaaron Briscoe
Sheila Carrasco
Doug Chapman
Gardiner Comfort
Shawn Cody
Emmy Lou Diaz
Jia Doughman
Carl Foreman
Megan Hill
Manoel Hudec
Perry Jackson
Nina Kassa
Thomas Kelley
Adam Kern
Roger Kuch
Rocco LaPenna
Daniel Le
Sarah Jorge Leon
Careena Melia
DeLance Minefee
Paul Murillo
Angela Nahigian
Yelba Osorio
Kunal Prasad
Elizabeth Power
Anna Rahn
James Senti
Lisette Silva
Josh Stamell
Chudney Sykes
Elizabeth Wilson
Dramaturgy
Sean Bartley
Marshall Botvinick
Njal Mjos
Heidi Nelson
Sarah Ollove
Katheryn Rasor
Lynde Rosario
Sarah Wallace
Voice
Carey Dawson
Julie Foh
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