AT THE PERFORMANCE Profile Theatre Presents

BY SARAH RUHL PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH SHAKING THE TREE THEATRE DIRECTED BY SAMANTHA VAN DER MERWE

CAST Mary 1/Elsa...... Foss Curtis Machinist/German Officer ...... Sam Dinkowitz Village Idiot/Violet...... Shawna Holt Carpenter 1/Ensemble...... Michael C. Jordan Carpenter 2/Ensemble...... Colin Kane Fisherman/Eric...... Matthew Kerrigan Director/Queen Elizabeth/Hitler...... Diane Kondrat Pontius the Fish Gutter/Foot Soldier ...... Garland Lyons Mary 2...... Alex Leigh Ramirez Visiting Friar/Englishman...... Paul J. Susi

DESIGNERS & Scenic and Props Design...... Samantha Van Der Merwe PRODUCTION Lighting Design...... Jeff Woods Costume Design...... Sara Ludeman Sound Design...... Annalise Albright Woods Stage Manager...... D Westerholm* Production Assistant...... Natasha Stockem

RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS AND 30 MINUTES WITH ONE-FIFTEEN MINUTE INTERMISSION. Passion Play (Sarah Ruhl) is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

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PROFILE THEATRE PASSION PLAY | P1 DIRECTOR’S NOTES BY SAMANTHA VAN DER MERWE Why I love and fear Sarah Ruhl the Christ, during three different times in history. Craftily, the playwright has us look farthest away I am a fool for beautiful poetry. It lulls me, seduces first, in medieval England under Queen Elizabeth’s me, calls to me. When I sit down to read a play and reign in 1535. Then in 1934 Oberammergau, Bavaria, a magical, poetical line appears, I must confess, I’m as Hitler is rising to power. And finally Spearfish, hooked! 13 lines into Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl, South Dakota, from the time of Vietnam through this very instance occurred: Reagan’s presidency. (Part III will be performed at Shaking the Tree, opening September 25, 2015). “We ask you, dear audience, to use your eyes, ears, your most inward sight As the three plays progress, the lens sharpens For here is day (a painted sun), and we begin to grapple with the state of politics, And here is night (a painted moon).” religion, and morality in modern times. Have we really progressed much at all? Religion is still used There it was. She had me. And this is how it has as currency so that we can wage our wars, name our happened with so many others who write magical enemies, keep women “in their place.” The list goes realism —Tennessee Williams and Caryl Churchill on. Sarah Ruhl’s cautionary tale points a “bony little especially. How do these brilliant playwrights finger” at us so that we can turn inwards to examine manage to seduce me with their beauty? Once my the roles we play in the play within the play. eyes are clouded over (perhaps like one of those Lotus Eaters that Odysseus would have met on his journey), they undo their spell and wallop me, schooling me in pain, politics, and often, horror. Passion Play took Sarah Ruhl 12 years to finish. Parts I and II were written first and Now, I have fully woken up from Sarah’s Part III completed the triptych in response spellbinding lotus offering and we offer for you to George W. Bush’s presidency and the giant puzzle that is Passion Play! Three plays contemporary American politics. about a troupe of actors putting on the Passion of

ABOUT SARAH RUHL Sarah Ruhl’s original plan was nominee. Her plays have been mid-career playwrights, and the poetry, but while studying at produced on Broadway at the MacArthur “genius” award. You can Brown University, Paula Vogel Lyceum by Lincoln Center Theater, read more about her work on www. convinced her to switch to off-Broadway at Playwrights’ SarahRuhlplaywright.com. Her book playwriting. The worlds in which Horizons, Second Stage, and at of essays 100 Essays I Don’t Have Ruhl’s characters live are none-to- Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Time to Write was published by far from our own, but the magic Theater. Her plays have been Faber and Faber last fall. She teaches she creates comes from a place she produced regionally all over the at the Yale School of Drama, and she describes best for herself, “I like country, often with premiers at lives in Brooklyn with her family. to see people speaking ordinary Yale Repertory Theater, Berkeley words in strange places, or people Repertory Theater, the Goodman speaking extraordinary words Theater, and the Piven Theatre in ordinary places.” She bridges Workshop in Chicago. In 2014 she “She bridges the vast and the life-sized, the was the second most produced straightforward and the artful, the playwright in the country. Her the vast and the lyrical and the starkly dramatic. plays have also been produced internationally and have been life-sized, the Ms. Ruhl’s plays include The Oldest translated into over twelve straightforward Boy, In the Next Room, or the languages. vibrator play, The Clean House, and the artful, the Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Originally from Chicago, Ms. Phone, Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Ruhl received her M.F.A. from lyrical and the Orlando, Late: a cowboy song, Brown University. She has received Dear Elizabeth and Stage Kiss. the Susan Smith Blackburn starkly dramatic.” She has been a two-time Pulitzer award, the Whiting award, the prize finalist and a Tony award Lily Award, a PEN award for

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In Dialogue is our series of COLLABORATION. lectures, pre-show talks, post- By Adriana Baer and Samantha Van Der Merwe show discussions, concerts and A little over a year ago, we were walking around Artists Rep’s other supplemental programming big red building, brainstorming about where we could stage that explore our featured Play One of Sarah Ruhl’s three play cycle, Passion Play. We were writer’s world. Profile Theatre dreaming big. Could it be site-specific? Could we have a parades? is committed to providing our What would our In Dialogue conversation be—could we involve a audiences with opportunities to dozen local visual artists? engage with our featured writer in What we didn’t realize yet was that the simple act of agreeing to unique and varied ways. Through take on the entire project (as a collaboration between two theatre our In Dialogue programming, companies) was the big dream. It’s so rare that companies, even we extend the event of a Profile in this city which prides itself on local conversations and helping production beyond the bounds each other out, will endeavor to a co-production. But by doing of what is onstage, bringing so, we expand the reach of our productions. Audiences get to the community together for see this epic work (too large for either of our organizations to do exciting, provocative and inspiring on our own), and by sharing resources we are making work in a sustainable and conscientious way. experiences.

It has taken a year of planning to get to this point. Many details For our Fall Festival: Passion Play have been ironed out, contingency plans have been made, and we are thrilled to be partnering changed, and re-made, many meetings have been held, teams with local artists and with the (and teams within teams) have been assembled, all so that, when Geezer Gallery on an exploration we come to doing the creative work, things run smoothly. This of the impact of religious art and is how small towns came together to plan and implement the iconography on visual artists. Join Passion every year. The Carpenters Guild co-ordinated with the us prior to each performance to Baker’s Guild, and so on. hear from a different artist about If this is how early theatre was made, by bringing groups their work and about how religion together, and approaching it as a city-wide communal event, informs their process, be it to then we are big fans. move them towards or away from an expression of faith. We have built a new community by uniting our two companies from across the river...we are doing site-specific work. And For the duration of the festival, parades? Yes, there are plenty. Because our acting troupe and we invite you to enjoy the display production team get to imagine three different worlds, in two different buildings, the journey feels thrilling beyond measure. on the wall in our lobby of work We get to travel our Passion Play across the city, and fully by each of the artists we are celebrate the world of brilliant playwright Sarah Ruhl. featuring. Like Passion Play itself, the pieces reveal that religion and art continue to inform and affect ABOUT PROFILE THEATRE one another, producing work we Now in our 18th season, Profile’s mission can all engage with, experience is to produce a season of plays devoted and ponder. to a single playwright, engaging with our Artists include Mary Pacios, community to explore that writer’s vision Eva MacLowry and Mary Tapogna. and influence on theatre and the world at large. Founded in 1997 by Jane Unger, Profile is nationally-recognized for deeply exploring a writer’s work through productions of exemplary artistic merit and quality.

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FOSS CURTIS MICHAEL C. JORDAN DIANE KONDRAT Mary 1/Elsa Carpenter 1/Ensemble Director/Queen Elizabeth/ Portland credits include A recent graduate of Hitler Buried Child, In the Next Portland State University, Diane was recently seen at Room, or the vibrator Michael has appeared Profile Theatre as Mom in play (Profile Theatre), in The Winter’s Tale True West. After moving Xmas Unplugged; The (Anon It Moves) and to Portland in 2013, she Reason for the Season (Artists Repertory The Ministry of Special Cases (Jewish performed the marriage of Rosalee Theatre), The Tempest, The Taming of the Theatre Collaborative), and recently and Monroe on Grimm, appeared in Shrew, The Admirable Crighton (Portland finished his third season with Original the indie filmThe Funeral, and played Shakespeare Project), Spokesong (Corrib Practice Shakespeare Festival. He also the Librarian in Third Rail Repertory’s Theatre), Two Gentlemen of Verona performs semi-regularly as part of The Middletown. Her favorite roles include (Playmakers at Disjecta). Classically Jewish Theatre Collaborative’s touring Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia trained in London at the British educational program in Life Liberty Woolf?, Winnie in Beckett’s Happy Days, American Dramatic Academy, Foss and the Pursuit of Wellbeing: the Story of Barbara in August: Osage County, and received her undergraduate degree Lillian Wald. Dianne in Square One. from Sarah Lawrence College. Film/TV credits include Waiting, The Descent of COLIN KANE GARLAND LYONS Walter McFea, Tahoe, Grimm and The Carpenter 2/Ensemble Pontius the Fish Gutter/ Librarians. Colin is a theater arts Foot Soldier major at Portland State Passion Play marks SAM DINKOWITZ University. He has worked Garland’s seventh Machinist/German Officer with Original Practice production with Profile Recent local credits: Static Shakespeare Festival, Theatre, having last at Third Rail Repertory, the Funhouse Lounge, and the Fertile appeared as Bradley in Buried Child. He Twist Your Dickens 2013 Ground Festival. He is very excited to most recently performed in American & 2014 at Portland Center be working with Profile Theatre and Night at Milagro and was involved in Stage, Wait Until Dark Shaking the Tree for the first time The Snowstorm, which won a Drammy with Northwest Classical Theatre, The through the Profile Theatre internship for Best Production. Additional local Tempest and Taming of the Shrew with program. theatrical credits include Portland Portland Shakespeare Project, Lost Boy Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, at Artists Repertory Theatre, A Pigeon MATTHEW KERRIGAN Defunkt, Post5, Theatre Vertigo, NW and A Boy Jewish Theatre Collaborative, Fisherman/Eric Classical, Stark Raving, Lakewood, Dracula: A Musical Nightmare at Matthew Kerrigan, a CoHo, Public Playhouse, NW Children’s Stumptown Stages, and Julius Caesar, Chicago native, has Theater and Quintessence. In 2010, Henry IV, and Arabian Nights at Post5 called Portland home Garland earned a Drammy for his role as Theatre. Other credits include: Oregon since 2010. Training The Judge in Theatre Vertigo’s Romance. Shakespeare Festival (Macbeth, Othello, grounds include Dell’Arte Favorite roles include Bottom in A A View from the Bridge, Coriolanus, and International School of Physical Theatre Midsummer Night’s Dream and Aaronow A Servant of Two Masters) and Utah and Illinois State University. Local in Glengarry Glen Ross. Film/TV credits Shakespeare Festival (Diary of Anne Credits include In the Next Room, or the include: Grimm, , Leverage, Frank, Pericles). Sam received his BFA vibrator play (Profile),The Snowstorm Emeril, The Falls and Restless. Garland from Southern Oregon University. (CoHo/Many Hats Collaboration), holds degrees in Theatre and Psychology Suddenly Last Summer, Masque of from the University of Washington. SHAWNA HOLT the Red Death, One Flea Spare, Wild Village Idiot/Violet Tales (Shaking The Tree), The Tempest ALEX LEIGH RAMIREZ Shawna is is a senior (Portland Shakespeare Project), Much Mary 2 theatre major at PSU, Ado About Nothing (Northwest Classical Alex is a Portland area where she studied acting Theatre Company), The Boys In The actor, deviser, and under Devon Allen. Band (Defunkt), Sherlock Holmes theatre-maker. Favorite Some of her notable roles and the Case of the Christmas Carol credits include: Bloody include Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (dir. (Artists Repertory Theatre). He is a Bloody Andrew Jackson Jim Iorio), Ensemble member in Dead proud member of Shaking The Tree (Portland Playhouse), Dance For a Dollar Man’s Cell Phone (dir. Adriana Baer), and Performance Group. (Miracle Theatre), and A Midsummer Harper in Angels in America (dir. Alex Night’s Dream (Post5 Theatre). She is Picard). When she is not on stage, you dedicated to creating original devised can find Shawna on the rugby pitch or theatre and is a proud member of String out hiking. House, an independent producing title, new works laboratory, and two-time

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Drammy Award nominated company of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe, Island (Enlightened Theatrics), Eyes for “Best Devised Production.” When not featuring Playwrights West), Suddenly for Conseula (Properties Design, Profile onstage, Alex is inspired by the impact Last Summer (Tennessee Williams), and Theatre), True West (Profile Theatre), theatre has on Portland’s youth and is The Dissenter’s Handbook (Dario Fo). American Night (Milagro Theatre), proud to work with PlayWrite Inc. and In 2009, she was awarded a Drammy and Under the Influence (Fuse Theatre with Portland Center Stage’s touring for Direction for her production of Ensemble). education program, All is Fair in Love Statements After an Arrest…and in and Shakespeare. 2012 she was awarded a Drammy for D WESTERHOLM Producing The Tripping Point. Stage Manager, Production Manager PAUL J. SUSI Portland Stage Management credits: In Visiting Friar/Englishman JEFF WOODS the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Dead Paul is an educator Lighting Designer Man’s Cell Phone; True West; Festival of and a performing artist Jeff has designed over 200 shows since One Acts; Buried Child; Eyes for Consuela; based in Portland. He 1996, and has worked with many local The Road to Mecca (Profile Theatre); The has appeared onstage favorites including Lakewood Theatre Price (Artists Repertory Theatre); The with Push Leg, Anon It Company, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Light in the Piazza (Portland Playhouse). Moves, Action/Adventure Theatre, Los Northwest Classical Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, non- Portenos, Boom Arts, Cerimon House, Theatre Vertigo, Shaking the Tree, and equity Assistant Stage Manager: The Northwest Children’s Theater, defunkt, triangle! Productions. Recent designs Unfortunates, A Midsummer Night’s Hand2Mouth Theatre, Shakespeare include Up the Fall for PHAME, Looped Dream (2013), Troilus and Cressida, Santa Cruz, Vermont Stage Company, at triangle productions!, Cymbeline for The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa Stacja Szamocin, and The Forgery. Paul Anon it Moves, Suddenly Last Summer (2012), Julius Caesar, The African has worked at several local nonprofit and Masque of the Red Death at Shaking Company Presents Richard III (2011). BA organizations serving at-risk youth, the Tree, Prime for Southwest Stage in Theatre Management from Western including New Avenues for Youth, Janus Works, The Sexual Neuroses of Our Washington University; MFA in Stage Youth Programs, and Hooper Detox. Parents with Theatre Vertigo, She Loves Management from Columbia University. Self-produced devised work include Me for Lakewood, and Learn to be Latina (On Holding On), 2012, and All At at Teatro Milagro. NATASHA STOCKEM Sea, 2013. Paul coaches regularly with Production Assistant PlayWrite, Inc. ANNALISE ALBRIGHT WOODS Previous credits include co-stage Sound Designer managing Far Away, assistant stage SAMANTHA Favorite Portland area design credits managing Romeo and Juliet, and stage VAN DER MERWE include The Masque of the Red Death and managing Last Summer at Bluefish Director, Scenic Suddenly Last Summer with Shaking Cove. She has worked as part of rig and and Props Design the Tree, pool (no water) (Drammy focus crews for a varity of productions. Samantha is the founder, Award) and The Long Christmas Ride She was the blood maven for Macbeth Artistic Director and Home with Theatre Vertigo, Crooked for and the properties mistress for The teacher at Shaking CoHo Productions, Locomotion, Charlie Importance of Being Earnest and Romeo the Tree Theatre, where she directs and the Chocolate Factory for Oregon and Juliet, all of which she had the theatrical productions and teaches Children’s Theatre, Mimesophobia for opportunity to do at Portland State drama classes for children aged five Sand and Glass Productions, and Find University where she received a Masters and up. She is a Licentiate of Trinity Me Beside You, Mutt, Restroom, for Many of Arts in theatre studies with a focus College, London and holds an (LTCL) Hats Collaboration. Annalise received an in tech. Teaching diploma in Speech and Drama. MFA in sound design from the California Samantha founded Shaking the Tree Institute of the Arts and spends her days SHAKING THE TREE THEATRE in 2003, and after a few years as a as a program manager with a local social Shaking the Tree Theatre is an intrepid thriving art and drama studio, she began service agency. young theatre company that seeks to directing. Favorite projects include meld the boundaries of theatre and Statements After an Arrest Under the SARA LUDEMAN visual art by presenting audiences Immorality Act (Athol Fugard), East of Costume Designer with thrilling and immersive theatrical the Sun and West of the Moon (Nancy Sara is overjoyed to have been asked experiences. Founded in 2003 by Willard), The Little Prince (Antoine to be on the design team for Profile Samantha Van Der Merwe, Shaking the de Saint-Exupery), The Tripping Theatre and Shaking the Tree Theatre’s Tree uses innovative ways to inhabit Point: a theatrical exhibition of eight collaborative production of Passion Play. space, creating a heightened surrounding fairytale installations (Playwrights Education highlights include: Script that allows audiences to experience a West), Far Away (Carol Churchill), Analysis at Portland State University deeper, more active connection to Wilde Tales (Oscar Wilde/Adapted with Karen Magaldi, Costume Design the work. by Karin Magaldi), One Flea Spare mentorship with Jessica Bobillot, and an (Naomi Wallace), pool (no water) (Mark internship with Profile Theatre in 2012. Ravenhill at Theatre Vertigo), Masque Design credits include: Once on This

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