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Mint Theater Company Jonathan Bank Artistic Director Ted Altschuler Associate Director Kj Swanson Assistant to the Artistic Director Rochele Tillman Box Office Manager Jim Creighton Box Office Assistant Sherri Kotimsky Bookkeeper Aaron Lenehan Website Design

Board of Trustees Board of Advisors Geoffrey Chinn, President John A. Booth Elsa A. Solender, Secretary J. Ellen Gainor Linda Calandra Carol Chinn Austin Pendleton Jon Clark George Morfogen Toehl Harding David Rothenberg Eleanor Reissa Gary Schonwald M. Elisabeth Swerz Kate Weingarten Jonathan Bank

“When it comes to the library,” our 2001 Obie cita- tion states, “there’s no theater more adventurous.”

In 2002 the Mint was awarded a special for “unearthing, presenting and preserving forgotten plays of merit.”

MINT THEATER COMPANY commits to bringing new vitality to worthy but neglected plays. We excavate buried theatrical treasures; reclaiming them for our time through research, dramaturgy, production, publication and a variety of enrich- ment programs; and we advocate for their ongoing life in theaters across the world. Mint has a keen interest in timeless but timely plays that make us feel and think about the moral quality of our lives and the world in which we live. Our aim is to use the engaging power of the theater to excite, provoke, influence and inspire audi- ences and artists alike. 311 West 43rd St. 5th floor , NY 10036 www.minttheater.org Box Office: (212) 315-0231

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Gilbert & Ildiko Butler Foundation - Intermission - Robert Sterling Clark Foundation The Old Lady Shows Her Medals The Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation MRS. DOWEY...... Frances Sternhagen Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable Fdn. MRS. TWYMLEY...... Kathrine McGrath Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation MRS. MICKLEHAM...... Pat Nesbit Phyllis Fox & George Sternlieb Foundation THE HAGGARTY WOMAN...... Mary Ellen Ashley The Grammercy Park Foundation MR. WILLINGS...... Richard Easton Grand Marnier Foundation PRIVATE DOWEY...... Gareth Saxe Hickrill Foundation Time: War-time. Scene 1: Tea-time. Foundation Scene 2: Five days later. The Memorial Foundation for the Arts Scene 3: A few months later. JP Morgan/Chase Foundation Setting: , in a basement apartment. Michael Tuch Foundation Ted Snowdon Foundation STAFF The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Scenic Artists...... Tony Andrea, Julia Hahn Dept. of Cultural Affairs Costume Associate ...... Cheryl Lovett Technical Director...... Carlo Adinolfi The New York State Council on the Arts Master Electrician...... Danielle Maul The Shubert Foundation House Managers...... Jim Creighton, Kiko DeLorenzo Carpenters...... S. Jacob Oakely, Tim Gallagher, Brian Steele Corporations & Matching Gifts Electricians...... Jason Brandt, Phillipe Bachy, Ted Bannigan, Michael Kang Aegon Transamerica Production Assistant...... Katherine Heberling AOL Time Warner Ms. Sternhagen’s Merino dress was built by The Gallery of Wearable Art. AT&T Foundation Matching Gifts American International Group, Inc. SPECIAL THANKS Bank Of America Materials for the Arts, Bronnie Kupris, Henry Jackson, The Costume Collection, Purchase College, I.B.M International Foundation Purchase College Props Department, Patrick Lee at Actors’ Equity Association. Lighting equipment provided by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York JPMorgan Chase Fdn Matching Gifts through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York Department of McGraw Hill Cultural Affairs:special thanks to Mary Jane Louaver. Foundation Actors’ Equity Association was founded in 1913. It is the labor union The James B. Oswald Company representing over 40,000 American actors and stage managers working in the Pfizer, Inc. professional theatre. For 89 years, Equity has negotiated minimum wages and working conditions, administered contracts, and enforced the provisions of its various agreements with theatrical employers across the country. This event is made possible with public funds from The Director is a member of the Society of Stage the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Directors and Choreographers, an independent and the New York State Council on the Arts, national labor union. a State agency. A Note from the Director

These plays are about the reverberations of war. Over eight million men were killed in the First World War. As we know, that was to be the war to end all wars. A mere twenty years later came the Second World War, also pledged to be the last. Since then, there have been too Are you sitting in the best many more wars, with too many more millions gone and bereaved. What J.M. Barrie has done is brought the war home. Literally. He brings us into the home-- seats in the house? the middle class and working poor home--and lets us meet some rather average people affect- ed by the war. As in an ocean, Barrie takes us to the furthest, smallest wake that is left by the steamship War. Usually evoked by the enormous number of dead or wounded, widowed, childless, fatherless or brotherless, these plays take us down a simpler road. Barrie chooses to paint a more personal picture of war for us. How to achieve intimacy in the few moments one has with someone about to depart for the front and how two lost souls affected by the war find love are the ways Barrie attacks the emotional cruelties of war. Little has changed in the nature If not, then you're probably not a of war or humankind in the ninety years since Barrie wrote these works. They ring as true : today as when they were written. The strength of these plays is reflected in how his charac- member of the First-Priority Club ters reach deep within themselves to be the opposite of war--human. ***** When a play is read in rehearsal, one glances at the stage directions, takes note of them and Only First-Priority Club members receive advance notification then proceeds. They are certainly considered but often the artist seeks to find their own way of all of our performances via first-class mail. through the text and create a life based on the dialogue, character, and event. However after reading these J.M. Barrie works, the question is not how much to consider the playwrights First-Priority Club members receive notes but rather to consider creating an additional character for the play in order that the notes Only can be read aloud to the audience! Barrie’s notes are not only extraordinarily helpful and clear- an exclusive newsletter for each production ly the suggestions of a man with tremendous theatre sense, but they are as beautifully written containing features about the play and its history. as the dialogue itself. The clarity Only First-Priority Club members have of character and ticket exchange privileges. event is told in such a literate, colorful, evoca- tive, and witty Make a fully-tax deductible contribution of $100 or more way that they are and become a member of the First-Priority Club! thrilling to read. We found our- Use the envelope in your program to send in your contribution. selves reading them over and over, either silently or aloud, which was a Thanks for your support! delight as well Barrie as Captain Hook, with Michael Llewelyn Davies as Peter Pan, 1906 as a continuous guidepost for us. For this production, it was decided that adding this ‘Barrie character’ would distance us from the characters that the playwright has so beautifully drawn. But I would rec- ommend that when you have a moment, reading these works for yourself would be an addi- tional pleasure that would commend you even further to this terrific playwright.

Eleanor Reissa J.M. Barrie and the War whose production of Northanger Abbey Amy for the National Asian American Theater by Gad Guterman won a 2000 off-off-Broadway Review Award Company, John Brown’s Body, The Double Bass for Excellence as a dialect coach and actor. and Three Days of Rain for the Miniature Theater of Chester and Candida and Mr. Pim James Matthew Passes By for the Peterborough Players. He Are The New Word and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals anti-war plays? Today’s audi- Barrie (Playwright, earned his M.F.A. from Case Western Reserve 1860-1937). If J. M. ences might easily come to that conclusion. But the answer to the question becomes less University in his hometown of Cleveland, OH. clear when we look into the life of J.M. Barrie and his connections to World War I. Barrie had only written Peter Pan, Ted Altschuler (Associate Director) has direct- its enduring popu- ed opera at The New York City and Santa Fe Barrie, like many of the leading writers of the time, felt that it was his duty to support larity would testify Operas, the Rode Hoode in Amsterdam and at the British efforts during the war that would end all wars. England had to lead the cause to his talents as a Juilliard Opera Theater, where he is on faculty. towards democracy in Europe and the sacrifices made would be worth the resulting dramatist. As it is, Peter Pan, which celebrates Plays include: On the Verge, The Road to the peace. its 100-year anniversary this year, now only Graveyard, and at Clavis obscures Barrie’s gifts as a dramatist of signifi- Theater Ensemble in Milwaukee, where he was Barrie understood that he and his fellow writers had a responsibility to England. The cance. In his lifetime, Barrie was much admired Artistic Director and many other productions government also understood that writers could prove an important tool in swaying peo- by his peers and even regarded as a genius, how- regionally including the long-running, award- ple’s thoughts towards supporting British military action. On September 2, 1914, Barrie, ever his work fell out of favor in later years. His winning Virginia (at Cloud 42, Chicago). alongside other distinguished authors, was summoned to formulate a plan for the “liter- full length plays include Quality Street, The Recently: an opera of Poe’s A Tell Tale Heart, Admirable Crichton, What Every Woman and a performance piece on Georgie O’Keefe. ary dissemination of the British point of view.” After the meeting, Barrie opted to trav- Knows, Dear Brutus, and Mary Rose. One-act Sharron Bower (Casting Director) continues el with A.E.W. Mason to the in the hopes of convincing influential plays include The Twelve-Pound Look, The Will her second year of casting here with passion for Americans that their country should not and could not remain neutral in the conflict at and A Well-Remembered Voice among many the Mint’s mission. Additional casting work hand. Barrie took to the project with enthusiasm, relishing the mystery and excitement others. During World War I, Barrie devoted includes Vermont Stage, Mill Mountain Theatre, that came with it. himself to raising funds for various charities and Princeton Rep, The Miniature Theater of war efforts. The proceeds from the 1917 New Chester, animation voiceovers and independent York run of The New Word and The Old Lady The war provided Barrie with a challenge. He had to create theatre that would comfort films. Bower co-founded Lysistrata Project, a Shows Her Medals were donated in their entire- audiences, but at the same time, inspire them. The New Word was written in 1915 as an day of 1,029 political play readings in 59 coun- ty to the Stage Women’s War Relief Fund, the introductory piece for Rosy Rapture, a musical review meant to entertain and relax. tries in March 2003. Bower taught acting and organization that went on to become The Vanity Fair wrote, “The offering of this human little incident in the graver note of the speech at the college level, and has worked with American Theatre Wing. The Times reported corporate clients and politicans to diminish hour before the bubbling nonsense of Rosy Rapture is a beautiful bit of tact characteris- that this was “the first time in the annals of the stage fright and increase public speaking chutz- tic of the man who wrote both plays.” By the time it premiered in the United States in local stage that the profits of an entire engage- pah. Training: MFA, Univ. of Texas, Austin. 1917 American soldiers were fighting in Europe. In The New York Tribune, Heywood ment have been devoted to charity.” When Broun extolled Barrie's play for highlighting the one quality “above all others which the Barrie died, The New York Times obituary called David Gersten & Associates (Press writers of war plays should ever bear in mind.” In his article, Real Soldiers Don’t Swank, him “one of the least well known great men of Representatives) ) In addition to continuing our Broun suggests that reticence, which shapes Barrie’s characters in The New Word, is an his time.” relationship with the Mint, Gersten & Associates currently represents Tony N' Tina's essential attribute for a soldier to possess. “There can be no question that the plays in Jonathan Bank (Artistic Director) With Bank Wedding (now in its 16th year!) Ensemble which American and British officers swank and utter heroic sentiments totally misrepre- as Artistic Director, Mint has been nominated Studio Theatre, Jean Cocteau Rep, Storm for a Drama Desk Award and awarded both an sent the forces in the field.” Broun appreciated a play in which the characters did not Theatre, Edge Theatre, Resonance Ensemble, Obie and a Drama Desk in the last three years make heroic speeches and understood that, “the value of the stage as a medium for patri- NY Classical Theatre, The Lucille Lortel and established a place for itself in New York’s otic propaganda [would] soon be entirely lost if playwrights [did] not refrain from ham- Foundation, The Drama League, and The theatrical landscape. Bank has unearthed and mering their points so hard.” League of off-Broadway Theatres & Producers’ produced more than 20 worthy but neglected annual Lortel Awards (9th year!), which David plays including The Daughter-In-Law by D. H. also writes and co-produces. David serves on The Old Lady Shows Her Medals was also received as an act of patriotism and support Lawrence and Arthur Schnitzler’s Far and Wide the Board of Governors of ATPAM, the for the Allies’ cause. The play premiered as part of a triple bill at the New Theatre on which he adapted and directed. He is the editor Association of Theatrical Press Agents & April 17, 1917, two days after the entry of the United States into the war. According to of Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Managers. David is currently producing Tea at Barrie's biographer Denis Mackail, the short play “was perfectly timed.” Theater Company which includes his adapta- Five starring Kate Mulgrew as Katherine tions of ’s Welcome to Our City Hepburn, now on tour following its successful and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, both Both pieces played in the United States together (and were published two years later in off-Broadway run. the same collection, Echoes of the Wars). All the profits derived from the performances of which he directed at Mint, along with five were donated to the Stage Women’s War Relief, and American critics were very recep- other Mint rediscoveries. Bank directed Othello North, Theatre of the Stars, Lyric Opera, Jana Llynn (Production Stage Manager) tive to the two works. The New York Times claimed that they were “written with rare art Lake George Opera Festival. TCG/NEA Design Broadway: Roundabout, New Victory. Off- and [were] infinitely appealing.” In May of 1917, critic Louis V. De Foe published an arti- Fellow. Member USA Local 829. Broadway: , NYSF/Public cle titled Two Plays That Glow With a True War Spirit. He wrote, “Something of the true Theater, , LAByrinth, Bruce Ellman (Sound Designer) New York spirit bred of the war is beginning to be felt and reflected in the plays now being inspired Rattlestick, CSC, JRT, WPA, WPP. Regional: includes: Iron, Rose's Dilemma, Bad Dates, Last La Jolla Playhouse, , Cleveland by the great conflict and the sacrifices it is visiting upon the peoples who are fighting the Dance, Polish Joke, Kimberly Akimbo, The Tale Playhouse. Credits include: Matt & Ben; Five battles of democracy.” He praised Barrie's two short plays for rising above the “melo- of The Allergist's Wife (Broadway), Runt of the Flights featuring Alice Ripley; Dream A Little dramatic claptrap and banality of some of the other hastily contrived plays of the early Litter, Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Fully Committed (LA Dream, The Mamas & The Papas Musical star- days of war.” He concluded, “Everyone should see these two playlets in the Barrie group, Drama Critics Circle nomination), The Waverly ring original "Papa" Denny Doherty; Jerry Gallery, Full Bloom, Yard Gal, Comic Potential no less for the deep emotion they stir than for the patriotic purpose which their production Herman's Mack & Mabel (featuring The Radio (Drama Desk nomination), House and Garden, serves.” City Rockettes); Jubilee at (dir. Fuddy Meers, Full Gallop, Three Viewings, The Herbert Ross, starring Bea Arthur, Tyne Daly, Radical Mystique, Current Events, Four Dogs Barrie clearly proved a bright light for England, particularly dur- Sandy Duncan); The Shawl (dir. , and a Bone, Beggars in the House of Plenty, ing its darkened period of World War I, but he also suffered great starring Dianne Wiest); The Entertainer (featur- Tea, Wolf-Man, Jenny Keeps Talking, Pretty ing Jean Stapleton); George C. Wolfe's losses. Among the casualties was George Llewelyn Davies, who Fire, Mambo Mouth, Political Animal, Beauty's Caucasian Chalk Circle; Beau Jest (3 years Off- died early in the morning on March 15, 1915. George was one of Daughter, The Old Boy, and To Gillian on Her Broadway & director for Boston production). five orphan brothers whom Barrie had virtually adopted in the 37th Birthday. Favorite industrial credit: PSM for the Pfizer- early 1900's. These “lost boys” served as the inspiration for Peter Judi Guralnick (Prop Specialist) is the Prop Brazil Viagra Launch. Pan, and they meant the world to Barrie. He wrote constantly to Shop Supervisor for the Conservatory of Debra Stein (Costume Designer) was the cos- George when the young man joined the army, sending gifts and Theater Arts and Film at Purchase College, and tume designer for the original production of supplies with the letters. As the war escalated and George's freelances in the New York area. She spent 5 Peter Llewelyn Davies Forever Plaid in New York, and the Plaids since involvement in the fighting continued, Barrie's sentiments towards years as Prop Specialist at the Walnut Street (Peter Pan’s namesake) then with national and international produc- Theatre in Philadelphia, and many summers at war shifted. He wrote to George: in uniform in 1917 tions, as well as productions of Plaid Tidings at Maine State Music Theater. Some favorite Pasadena Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, and March 11, 1915: “I don't know when news from quite near you may reach you props she has created: the fruit for a Fruit of the Studio Arena in Buffalo. Ms. Stein was costume Loom commercial, carousel animals for a pro- - perhaps later than we get it - but we have just heard that your uncle Guy has designer for NBC’s Another World, PBS’s A duction of Joseph…, a macramé ass's head for A been killed… Of course I don't need this to bring home to me the danger you are Marriage: O’Keeffe and Stieglitz (with Jane Midsummer's Night Dream and a lamb for always in more or less, but I do seem to be sadder today than ever, and more and Alexander & ), and associ- Winter's Tale. Judi has also designed sets for more wishing you were a girl of 21 instead of a boy, so that I could say the things ate designer for CBS’s At Mother’s Request (a theaters from Maine to Washington, DC and in to you that are now always in my heart… I don't have any little iota of desire for mini-series with Frances Sternhagen & Stefanie Israel. Judi was part of the Arad Arts Project in Powers). In New York she was the costume you to get military glory. I do not care a farthing for anything of the kind, but I Israel, where she had a one-woman show of her designer for many productions at Primary have the one passionate desire that we may all be together again once at least. drawings, sculpture and macramé hangings. She Stages including The Old Settler (with Leslie You would not mean a feather-want more to me tho' you came back a General. I seems to have become the resident Prop Uggams), This Lime Tree Bower, When They just want yourself… I have lost all sense I ever had of war being glorious, it is Specialist at Mint for the past several years. Speak of Rita (written by Daisy Foote, dir. just unspeakably monstrous to me now.” Traci Klainer (Lighting Designer) New York ), Nasty Little Secrets, The High includes: the Broadway production of Prune Life and Brutality of Fact (by Keith Reddin & Barrie’s two nephews met the same fate as George, both killed in the autumn of 1916. Danish starring Jackie Mason; Christopher dir. Casey Childs). George's brother, Peter, also joined the army. Although he fared better, Peter was himself Shinn's Four at Theatre Club Amy Stoller (Dialect Coach and Dramaturge) injured while in action in France, and had to return to England in a badly shell-shocked (Lucille Lortel nomination); Dragapella, recently coached Milne at the Mint, and is condition. Upstairs at Studio 54, directed by Glenn Casale; delighted to be "home" again so soon. Other Betty Buckley in Concert at Maxim's; The Mint credits: The Daughter-in-Law, The Charity Minstrel Show directed by Rob Urbanati; and The two short plays alone reflect this heavy sense of loss. The final moment in The Old That Began at Home, Rutherford & Son, Diana Aliens in America at Second Stage. Regional Lady Shows Her Medals differs gravely from the anticipation the family feels at the begin- of Dobson's, The Voysey Inheritance, and an includes: Cowgirls directed by Eleanor Reissa; ning of The New Word. Juxtaposing those two instances seems a fitting reflection of earlier production of Mr. Pim Passes By. She is Bingo directed by Glenn Casale; Jacques Brel is Barrie's experiences from 1915 to 1917, when the plays were respectively written. The the sole proprietor of Stoller System, Dialect Alive and Well and Living in directed by sense of adventure was replaced by grief. Perhaps it is this sorrow that transcends time Coaching & Design. Clients include Jean Gordon Greenberg; the 20th Anniversary pro- Cocteau Rep, the Drama League DirectorFest, and shapes the way in which we view the plays today. duction of Pump Boys and Dinettes and Let Me Hypothetical Theatre Co., Theater Ten-Ten, the Sing, both directed by Michael Bush. Excerpted from an article that is published in its entirety on our website: Ellis Island Foundation, and Distilled Spirits, in http://www.minttheater.org/onstage/notes.html or ask the house manager for the full printed text. Mary Ellen Ashley (The Haggarty Woman) Days. At Stratford, Connecticut he was Romeo, Spoleto Festival), Collected Stories (The "Sex and the City," "," "E.R.," "Law & Broadway, television, film, & radio since the Puck, Osrick, Florizel, Claudio etc. In England Caldwell Theatre), and Copenhagen (Geva Order," 's "Golden Years," "The age of 4: Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel he played in Lear and Much Ado... with John Theatre). Pat is very happy to be making her Road Home," "Follow Your Heart," "Resting Merman! Recent years: Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft; with Kenneth first appearance with Mint Theater. Place," "At Mother's Request," "Tales from the Todd, Mama Rose - Gypsy, Dolly Levi - Hello Branagh he played Jaques, Claudius and Crypt," "The Con," "Reunion," "Locked Away." Gareth Saxe (Kenneth Dowey) Off- Broadway: Dolly, Follies, Fiddler, the Witch - Into The Leonato; in four years at the RSC he played Don Luther in The Daughter in Law at Mint; Bert in Jenny Strassburg (Emma Torrance) Jenny is Woods, Maggie Jones - 42nd Street, Fraulein Armado, The Ghost in , the Constable of The Wax at Playwrights Horizons; Understudy thrilled to be making her off-Broadway Debut in Schneider - Cabaret, etc. Plays include: Yentl France etc. Films: Finding Forester, Henry V, for Buddy in Kimberly Akimbo at MTC; The New Word. Jenny recently graduated with with Tovah Felshuh; After Play with Rue Dead Again. Assorted TV: including the title Archidamus in The Winter's Tale at the her BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan McClennahan; Norman Is that You with Don role in “” for PBS which won NYSF/Public Theatre; Elliot in The Stolen Child College. She would like to thank Eleanor and Knotts; ; Bermuda Avenue a 2003 Emmy Award. with the Drama League Dir. Project. Regional: Jonathan for this opportunity, her fellow actors Triangle; Marathon 33; The Matcmaker; and Aaron Krohn (Roger Torrance) LCT/ Understudy for Stanley in A Streetcar Named for their talents, her parents for their support and many more at theatres such as Guthrie, Actors Broadway: Henry IV; . Off Desire at The Kennedy Center; Thaliard/ love, her brothers for loving Piglet, Richard Theatre of Louisville, St. Louis Rep, Baltimore Broadway: Philoktetes. Regional: The Hostage, Leonine in Pericles at the Old Globe. Film: Niles and Liz Swain for their wisdom and guid- Stage, , Broadway, off- (Old Globe Theatre); In the Happy Trails, dir. Michael Goldburg; The ance, Brenna, Fay, Caroline, and Candice for Broadway. Host of her own children's TV show Jungle of Cities; Macbeth; Our Town; Cyrano Wormhole, dir. Jessica Sharzer, winner of the their friendship, Benay, Joy, and Bart for their on ABC, recurring roles on soaps, several “Law de Bergerac (The Alley Theatre); Sheppey; 2002 Student Academy Award Gold Medal. patience, love, and generosity and finally, Mari and Order”s. Will be seen in A Tale Of Two Much ado About Nothing (Alabama Gareth is a graduate of NYU’s MFA acting pro- Lyn for her constant faith, love, and support. Pizzas - film to be released this fall. Shakespeare Festival). Aaron recently toured gram. Eleanor Reissa (Director) Broadway: Those Anne-Marie Cusson (Mrs. Torrance) Last sea- Ireland in The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Frances Sternhagen (Sarah Ann Dowey) Were the Days (Tony Nomination), Nothing Like son, Anne-Marie appeared as Frau Wahl in over Abridged. MFA, Old Globe, University of San recently appeared in Talking Heads Off- a Dame (Marquis Theatre); Off-Broadway: 100 performances of the Mint's Far and Wide. Diego. Broadway, ( Outer Critics Circle Award). Before Director/Choreographer - Cowgirls (Minetta Other New York appearances include Craig Katherine McGrath (Mrs. Twymley) that, she appeared in Morning's at Seven on Lane); Songs of Paradise (NY Shakespeare Lucas' one-woman piece Your Call Is Important Broadway: The Music Man (Widow Paroo), Broadway, (Tony nomination). In 2000, she Festival); Diana of Dobson’s (Mint Theater); and Unmemorable with Circle East, and the Night of the Tribades. Off-Broadway: A Man of starred Off-Broadway in The Exact Center of Sweet Dreams, A Klezmer’s Tale, An American American premiere of the British two-handed No Importance, Dear Liar, The Real Inspector the Universe. Nominated seven times for a Tony Family ( Theatre), Out of thriller Killing Time. Regional roles: Teacher in Hound, After Magritte, The Bacchae, Enter a Award, she has received it twice, for The Good Sterno (Cherry Lane Alternative) Regional: Defying Gravity, Liz in Present Laughter, the Free Man, The Perry’s Mission. Regional: Old Doctor and . Other Broadway Avenue X, Syncopation, Somewhere Over The Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Globe Theatre (Associate Artist; over 50 pro- appearances: , On Golden Pond, Rainbow: Yip Harburg’s America. As play- Dangereuses, Truvy in Steel Magnolias, Bella in ductions there, including Shirley Valentine, Grownups, The Sign in Sydney Brustein's wright: The Last Survivor (Northlight Theatre, Lost in Yonkers, both Maggie and Kate in sepa- Moon for the Misbegotten, The Rivals, Memoir, Window, , You Can't Take It With You, Chicago; Taper Too, LA, dir. Gordon rate productions of Dancing at Lughnasa, and Morning’s at Seven), Guthrie, McCarter, Home Front. Other awards: the Clarence Davidson), Wishful Thinking (2000 Dorothy Josie Hogan in O'Neill’s A Moon for the Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Hartman, South Derwent, the Delia Austrian Medal from the Silver Playwright Award). Thicker Than Water Misbegotten for which she was nominated for Coast Rep, Kennedy Center and all three of the Drama League, two Drama Desks, two Obies, (Fringe Festival at Stamford Center, ). Former Boston's Outer Critic's Award. Los Angeles Music Center theaters. Film: the Sydney Kingsley-Madge Evans Award, and artistic director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Richard Easton (Mr. Torrance/Mr. Willings) Scandal in a Small Town. TV: “Cheers”, she was just inducted into the Theatre Hall of Theatre. An actress on and off-Broadway, most first appeared with Ms. Sternhagen playing John “”, “Hill Street Blues”, “General Fame. Off-Broadway: Mary Tyrone in Long recently: title role Off-B’dwy in Yentl. Worthing to her Gwendolyn in The Importance Hospital.” Day's Journey Into Night, Miss Daisy in Recordings: Songs in the Key of Yiddish; Going of Being Earnest in 1960. He received the 2001 Driving Miss Daisy, Theresa in Remembrance, Home - Gems of Yiddish Song. Upcoming con- Pat Nesbit (Mrs. Mickelham) Broadway Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Margaret in A Perfect Ganesh; earlier appear- cert - Eleanor Reissa and Friends at Merkin includes: The Young Man From Atlanta, The Awards for his performance in 's ances: The Admirable Bashville, Missalliance, Hall, Oct., 2004. Last Night of Ballyhoo, the National Tours of The Invention of Love and followed that with Sir The Pinter Plays, Ulysses in Nighttown, Copenhagen, Biloxi Blues, Lincoln Center’s Vick R. Davis (Set Designer) Mint: Far and Tom's Every Good Boy Deserves Favor with the Laughing Stock, The Return of Herbert Spinning Into Butter. She has done various pro- Wide, Welcome to Our City, The Voysey Philadelphia Orchestra. Other Broadway credits Bracewell, The Red Eye of Love, Little Murders. ductions with Manhattan Class Company. Inheritance, Miss Lulu Bett, August Snow & include: Henry IV, Noises Off, , The As a member of APA and Lincoln Center com- Regional Theatre includes: Night Dance, The House of Mirth, The Time of Misanthrope, , Cock-a- panies: , Cockadoodle (San Jose Repertory), The Last Night of Your Life, and costumes for Pericles. Regional: Doodle Dandy, Hamlet, Back to Methuselah, Dandy, The Playboy of the Western World, Ballyhoo, (Coconut Grove Theatre), Steel Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, Kansas City and The Country Wife and The School for Scandal Enemies. Film: Hospital, Starting Over, Fedora, Magnolias (Cincinnati Repertory), Blithe Spirit Utah Opera Cos, Dallas Theatre Center, with and Ralph Richardson. Off Outland, Independence Day, Bright Lights Big (Asolo Theatre), (Syracuse Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Starlight in Broadway: Observe the Sons of Ulster City, Romantic Comedy, Communion, See You in Theatre), The Young Man From Atlanta Kansas City, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Marching Toward the Somme; Give Me Your the Morning, , Sibling Rivalry, Doc (TheGoodman Theatre), Barter Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, The Answer, Do; Waste; Hotel Universe; and Salad Hollywood, Raising Cain, Curtain Call. TV: (The Alliance Theatre), Eleemosynary (The Miniature Theatre of Chester, Music Theater