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BAM 2013 Winter/Spring Season #TheMasterBuilder Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, The Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, Master President Joseph V. Melillo, Builder Executive Producer By Henrik Ibsen Translated by David Edgar Directed by Andrei Belgrader BAM Harvey Theater May 12 & 19 at 7pm; May 14—18, 21—25, 28—30; Jun 1, 4—8 at 7:30pm; May 25, Jun 1 & 8 at 2pm; May 26, Jun 2 & 9 at 3pm Approximate running time: two hours and 10 minutes including one intermission Produced by BAM Set design by Santo Loquasto Costume design by Marco Piemontese Lighting design by James F. Ingalls BAM 2013 Winter/Spring Season sponsor: Sound design by Ryan Rumery Original music written and performed live by Christian Frederickson and Ryan Rumery Wig and hair design by Paul Huntley BAM 2013 Theater Sponsor Casting by Nancy Piccione, CSA Major support for theater at BAM: The Corinthian Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen, Jr. The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Barbara & David Zalaznick Who’s Who Katherine Borowitz Ken Cheeseman Julian Gamble Kelly Hutchinson Max Gordon Moore Wrenn Schmidt John Turturro The Master Builder CAST, in order of appearance Knut Brovik Julian Gamble Kaja Fosli Kelly Hutchinson Ragnar Brovik Max Gordon Moore Halvard Solness John Turturro Aline Solness Katherine Borowitz Dr. Herda Ken Cheeseman Hilde Wangel Wrenn Schmidt MUSICIANS Piano, synthesizer, percussion Ryan Rumery Viola, guitars Christian Frederickson Production stage manager James Latus Assistant stage manager Samantha Watson This adaptation first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester on September 9, 2010 Adaptation © Goodwrite Enterprises Ltd 2010 Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd; alanbrodie.com The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States UNDERSTUDIES Knut Brovik / Halvard Solness Sean Cullen Kaja Fosli / Hilde Wangel Rachel Mewbron Ragnar Brovik / Dr. Herdal Dylan Chalfy Aline Solness Kate Hampton ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant director Alicia D. House Associate scenic designer Antje Ellerman Assistant costume designer Luana Busetti Assistant lighting designer Aaron Porter Assistant scenic designer Jisun Kim Assistant scenic designer Alexander Woodward Casting assistant Felicia Rudolph PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Set constructed by Hudson Scenic Studio The Master Builder Katherine Borowitz, John Turturro, and Wrenn Schmidt in The Master Builder. Photo: Graeme Mitchell. Who’s Who Katherine BOROWITZ (Aline Solness) joined Flame Keeper, and Call the Children Home. Actor’s Equity by playing a tree in the forest of He was on the national tour of 12 Angry Men. Arden in Andrei Belgrader’s production of As Gamble has also appeared in over 120 produc- You Like It at Yale Rep. Other regional theater tions at regional theaters across the country. includes Hedda Gabler, once as Thea, once as Hedda; Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; KELLY HUtchinsON (Kaja Fosli) has per- Hannah in Arcadia; Leonid in The Triumph of formed on Broadway in Desire Under the Elms, Love; and the title role in The Mai by Marina Major Barbara, and Macbeth; off-Broadway Carr. Off-Broadway she has worked at Classic in Or (The Women’s Project), The Voyage of Stage Company in A Spanish Play by Yasmina the Carcass (Soho Playhouse), Tony Kushner’s Reza, in Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Homebody/Kabul at New York Theater Work- Ui; and very briefly in Three Sisters. She also shop, and Romola and Nijinsky at Primary played Edward/Victoria in Cloud 9 and all Stages. Regional theater includes The Heir non-Yoko Ono women as well as keyboards in Apparent (Shakespeare Theatre), Emma (The Lennon at the Entermedia before it became a Old Globe), How Shakespeare Won the West multiplex. On Broadway last year she played the (Huntington Theatre), The Unmentionables (Yale Mother in Ethan Coen’s contribution to Relatively Rep, directed by Anna D. Shapiro), Rocket to Speaking. Television credits include Miami Vice, the Moon (Bard), The Understudy (Cincinnati various Law & Orders, teleplays, and a season of Playhouse), Penelope of Ithaca (Hangar), and Hothouse. Among her film work: Internal Affairs, shows at the Pioneer Theater, Baltimore Center Baby Boom, Men of Respect, Mac, Illuminata, Stage, Barrington Stage, Indiana Rep, and more. The Man Who Wasn’t There, Somewhere To- On television Hutchinson has been seen on The night, and A Serious Man. Good Wife, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Hack, and The Jury, as well as in a recurring KEN CHEESEMAN (Dr. Herdal) has performed role on Strangers with Candy. Films include with New York Shaksespeare Festival in Measure Catch Me If You Can, Slippery Slope, Hysterical for Measure, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Psycho, Don Peyote, and The Sea is All I Know La MaMa ETC in King Lear; and CSC in Amphi- with Melissa Leo. tryon, Scapin, and The Cherry Orchard. Other productions: Long Wharf, The Misanthrope; Yale MAX GORDON MOORE (Ragnar Brovik) has Rep, Scapin; Baltimore Center Stage, Travels with performed on Broadway in Relatively Speaking My Aunt and The Cherry Orchard. At Huntington and off-Broadway in Man & Superman and It’s Theatre: Prelude to a Kiss, All My Sons, and Civil A Wonderful Life (Irish Rep) and The Ameri- War Christmas. At American Repertory Theatre: can Song Project (The Flea). Regional theater We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, Doctor’s Dilem- includes Tragedy: A Tragedy (Berkeley Rep); The ma, Othello, Three Farces and a Funeral, and Seagull (Cleveland Playhouse); Richard III, As The Merchant of Venice. At Trinity Rep: Marvin’s You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Room and One for the Money. Feature film roles Merchant of Venice (California Shakespeare The- include Shutter Island, Mystic River, Leaves of atre); Bach at Leipzig (ACT); John Bull’s Other Grass, Malice, and Next Stop Wonderland and Island (Geva Theatre); Pleasure and Pain (Magic on TV, Monk and Law & Order. Cheeseman is a Theatre); Private Jokes, Public Places (Aurora senior artist in residence at Emerson College. Theatre); Learned Ladies and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Texas Shakespeare Festival); and Family JULIAN GAMBLE (Knut Brovnik) has appeared Alchemy (Traveling Jewish Theatre). Film: Gods on Broadway in The Seagull, Democracy, The Behaving Badly and Terrors of Basketweaving. Invention of Love, The Iceman Cometh, A Month Television: The Good Wife. He received an in the Country, and Dinner at Eight. Films in- MFA at the Yale School of Drama. clude Blood Ties, For Ellen, Taking Chance, First Born, and Quiet Killer. Television: Guest Star and WRENN SCHMIDT (Hilde Wangel) has ap- recurring roles on Law & Order, Third Watch, peared on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba SVU, Rubicon, Criminal Intent, Delocated, Willy, (MTC) and on national tour in Who’s Afraid of H.I.E.R., Perry Mason, Lifestories, Dallas, One Virginia Woolf? with Bill Irwin and Kathleen Life to Live, Days of Our Lives, and Remember Turner. Off-Broadway shows include Be a Good Wenn. Off-Broadway: You Never Can Tell, The Little Widow (Ars Nova), Beyond the Horizon, The Master Builder Katherine Borowitz. Photo: Graeme Mitchell. Who’s Who Sive (Irish Repertory Theatre), Jailbait (Cherry Wilderness (Vivian Beaumont Theater) and The Lane Theater), Katie Roche, Temporal Powers Rose Tattoo (Circle in the Square) and off-Broad- (Mint Theater Co.), Phantom Killer (Abingdon way in The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Ur- Theatre Co.), Caesar & Cleopatra (Resonance ban Stages); Big Potato (Duke Theater); Home of Ensemble), and Crazy for the Dog (Jean Cocteau the Brave (91st St Playhouse); and Blood Guilty Repertory). Regional: Proof (Cape May Stage) (Ensemble Studio Theater). Regional productions and Heaven (Kitchen Dog Theater). Film: Our include Emma (Book-It Rep); Secret Order (Alley Idiot Brother, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Theatre); Rabbit Hole (Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Spitzer (“The Projectionist’s Best Performances of Hartford Theaterworks); Doubt (George St 2010,” New York magazine), The Necklace, and Playhouse); and Misalliance and Cymbeline Javelina. Upcoming: How to Follow Strangers (Old Globe Theatre). Film and television appear- and Mary & Louise. TV: Julia Sagorsky on Board- ances: The Carrie Diaries, The Americans, Box, walk Empire, Blue Bloods, Body of Proof, Mercy, Blue Bloods, Delocated, Guiding Light, Rescue Law & Order, and 3 LBS. Training: SCGSAH and Me, One Life to Live, Law & Order, Law & Meadows School of the Arts, SMU (BFA). Special Order: SVU, Conviction, Oz, and The Hand- thanks to MA and love to JR. maid’s Tale and on BBC Radio. JOHN TURTURRO (Halvard Solness) studied at SEAN CULLEN (understudy: Knut Brovik, the Yale School of Drama. For his theatrical de- Halvard Solness) appeared earlier this year in but he created the title role of John Patrick Shan- Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed production of ley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, for which Clifford Odet’s Golden Boy, directed by Bartlett he won an Obie Award and a Theater World Sher. He also guest starred in a recurring role on Award. Since then, he has performed on stage in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and completed filming Waiting for Godot; the title role of Brecht’s The Lou Howe’s Gabriel, starring Rory Culkin. In Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Eduardo De Filippo’s 2012, Cullen appeared at the Williamstown The- Souls of Naples, for which he was nominated for atre Festival in David Hyde Pierce’s production a Drama Desk Award; and Endgame at BAM.