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AND Bonnie and Terry Burman PRESENT

BY Stacey Rose GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF BSC'S BONNIE & TERRY BURMAN NEW PLAY AWARD

FEATURING Ansa Akyea Jordan Barrow Kalyne Coleman Peterson Townsend Peggy Pharr Wilson

SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER Jack Magaw Ntokozo Fuzunina Kunene Cha See Luqman Brown

DRAMATURG PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CASTING Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe Geoff Boronda Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski, CSA

BERKSHIRE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE DIGITAL ADVERTISING Charlie Siedenburg Matt Ross Public Relations The Pekoe Group

CHOREOGRAPHED BY Kevin Boseman DIRECTED BY Logan Vaughn

SPONSORED IN PART BY Audrey and Ralph Friedner & Claudia Perles Community Outreach Tickets and Talk Backs Underwritten by Greylock Federal Credit Union America v. 2.1 was developed in the 2015 The Dramatist Guild Fellows program and the 2018 Sundance Theatre Lab. It had its first public reading in 2017 at The Fire This Time Festival.

ST. GERMAIN STAGE JUNE 14–30, 2019 PLACE In a secured theatrical venue near you and its backstage area. TIME The not too distant future. CAST Donavan ...... Ansa Akyea* Grant ...... Jordan Barrow* Leigh ...... Kalyne Coleman* Jeffery ...... Peterson Townsend* The Voice ...... Peggy Pharr Wilson* STAFF Production Stage Manager ...... Geoff Boronda* Stage Management Interns ...... Ashton Pickering, Lindsey Walko Master Electrician/Light Board Operator ...... Joey Rainone IV Sound Engineer ...... TJ O’Leary Wardrobe Supervisor ...... Gwendolyn Kunz SPECIAL THANKS Douglas Seldin, Alyssa Anderson Kunz, Ken Cerniglia, Natasha Sinha, Mark St. Germain † *Actors and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association. CAST ANSA AKYEA (Donavan) BSC Debut. Regional Credits include: : Cyrano De Bergerac (Rageneau), (Albert/Kevin), To Kill a Mockingbird (Tom Robinson), A Christmas Carol (Christmas Present), Harvey (EJ Lofgren); Ten Thousand Things: Othello (Othello), Pericles (Pericles); Children's Theater Company: Shrek (Donkey); Old Globe/CTC: The Lorax (Daddy Onceler); Park Square: Cardboard Piano (Soldier/Paul); Mixed Blood: Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Chad Deity), How to Use a Knife (Steve), (David Battle). Film/TV Credits: House of Tomorrow, Into Temptation, Memorial Day, Kid West, In an Instant (ABC). Merci Dieu, Seena, mes enfants, famille Akyea. @ansaakyea

JORDAN BARROW (Grant) BSC debut. Jordan was last seen as Ronny in the west coast premiere of Witness Uganda. Prior to that, he created the role of Themba in the world premiere Maltby & Shire musical, Sousatzka, in Toronto. TV: Pose (FX) and Broad City (Comedy Central). Off Broadway: The Tempest (Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park) and Held Momentarily (NY Fringe Encore Series). Regional: Peter Pan and The Miracle Worker (Paper Mill Playhouse), Finian's Rainbow (Music Theatre of Wichita), and Hairspray (Charleston Stage). Training: BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan, The Royal Academy of Dramatic . Thanks to family, friends, and the Abrams team. @JordanT_B 2 KALYNE COLEMAN (Leigh) BSC debut. Kalyne is from Richmond, Virginia and is a proud member of the Brown/Trinity MFA in Acting program’s Class of 2020 and University of Pennsylvania alum. Credits include — Trinity Rep: Nella Pea, Black Odyssey. Rites and Reason: Young Fannie Lou/Myrlie Evers, A Seat at the Table. Shakespeare Academy at Stratford: Lady Anne, Richard III & Rosaline, Love’s Labour’s Lost. 4A, UPenn: Beneatha, Raisin in the Sun & Latisha, The Story. Brown Trinity: Brutus, Julius Caesar; Selector, How We Got On; Henrietta, Last Days of Judas Iscariot; and upcoming, Gabriela in References to Salvador Dali: Make Me Hot. She sends gratitude and joy to her family and friends for their love and support. @kalynecoleman

PETERSON TOWNSEND (Jeffery) BSC debut. Past credits include: Antigone (Haemon) at Baltimore Center Stage; Ms. Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Charles Bingley) at St. Louis Rep; Satchel Paige & the KC Swing (Art Young) at Cincinnati Playhouse/St. Louis Rep; A Raisin in the Sun (George Murchison), Cinderella (Prince Sebastian), History Boys (Crowther), Our Town (George Gibbs) at the Arden Theatre; (Sebastian) at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Romeo et Juliet, Samson et Dalila, Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met Opera. TV/Film credits: Twelve, Law & Order SVU/CI/ Prime, The Code, The Good Fight, Elementary, Madame Secretary, FBI, Gossip Girl.

PEGGY PHARR WILSON (The Voice) BSC: Gaslight, His Girl Friday, Guys and Dolls, , To Kill A Mockingbird, Carousel, Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, 10x10 Festival (all 8 years!); BAT: Doubt; Shakes & Co: Leap Year; New York: Six Women with Brain Death (co-author, and performed it also in Chicago, Dallas & Kansas City). Regional: 10 seasons with Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado performing over 50 roles, including Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Best Actress, Ovation Award Denver Post), Shirley Valentine, Moon for the Misbegotten and 3 Viewings. Many regional including: Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre 3, Kansas City Rep, Unicorn, KC Lyric Opera, White River in Vermont and Rose Theatre in Chicago.

CREATIVES STACEY ROSE (Playwright) is a proud Black woman, daughter, sibling and mom. Her work celebrates and explores Blackness, Black identity, Black history, body politics and the dilemma of life as "other." Stacey's work has been presented at: The Fire This Time Festival, The Lark, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, National Black Theatre and Pillsbury House Theatre. Stacey has held fellowships/residencies with The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights' Center, Sundance Theatre Lab and The . Stacey's play Legacy Land, developed at The Playwrights' Center, will have a world premiere at KC Rep in February 2020.

OTIS CORTEZ RAMSEY-ZÖE (Dramaturg) recently served as Dramaturg for Klytemnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (Theater Alliance), Song For the Genius Child — Young Basquiat (John F. Kennedy Center), Legacy Land (The Playwrights’ Center), In the Southern Breeze (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), America v. 2.1 and All the Natalie Portmans (Sundance Institute Theatre Lab) and 3 Hooded or Being Black for Dummies (Mosaic Theater Company). He is a Series Editor for NoPassport Press’ Dreaming the Americas Series and was a Lecturer of Theatre Arts at Howard University, Associate Artistic Director at banished? productions, and Future Classics Program Coordinator at The Classical Theatre of Harlem.

KEVIN BOSEMAN (Choreographer) is a former principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and member of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Theatrical credits include Broadway: ; Broadway National Tours: The Lion King, The Color Purple and Shrek the Musical; Off Broadway: Accidentally, Like a Martyr; Regional: Ragtime (Kennedy Center) and A Chorus Line (Paper Mill Playhouse); Concerts: Once On This Island and The Music Man. He most recently choreographed a concert presentation of Tony Award winner Jason Michael Webb and Lelund Durond Thompson’s new musical WiLDFLOWER, a co-production between National Black Theatre and The Apollo, directed by Logan Vaughn.

LOGAN VAUGHN† (Director) is a New York-based Artist and Director. Logan was Playwrights Horizon's Director in Residence 2012–2013. In 2012 Logan was also named a Member of the Director's Lab, Lincoln Center. As a Director, she has worked with , MCC Theater, Kansas City Rep Theatre, Geva Theatre, Playwright's Center, Playwrights Realm, Mosaic Theatre, 59E59, National Black Theatre and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her work in film includes assisting the Academy Award-winning producing team behind Precious and Monster's Ball as well as serving as head of casting for several award-winning independents. Logan most recently directed the New York premiere of Loy Webb's The Light at MCC Theater, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Direction of a Play. This production is dedicated to all the black and brown bodies throughout American history that have been misplaced, silenced or forgotten. "This was a war for the possession of his body and that would be the war of his whole life." Ta-Nehisi Coates

LUQMAN BROWN (Sound Designer) designed What Are You (Globe Theater), The Corpse Washer, How to Defend Yourself and We’ve Come to Believe and created original music for Everybody Black, all for the 2019 Humana Festival. His regional theatre credits include: Detroit ’67 (The Juilliard School), Skeleton Crew (TheatreSquared), The Three Musketeers (Classical Theatre of Harlem), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Sense & Sensibility (Cape Fear Regional Theatre), The Parchman Hour (Guthrie Theater) and Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR Theatre). His Off Broadway credits include Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (The Duke on 42nd Street) and Hurt Village (Signature Theatre Company). Mr. Brown won both the 2017 and 2018 AUDELCO Awards for Sound Design. As a professional musician, he has performed in numerous bands and produced many others. luqmanbrown.nyc.

NTOKOZO FUZUNINA KUNENE (Costume Designer) is a South African costume and production designer based in New York. Recent credits include — The Public: The Winter’s Tale (Lee Sunday Evans, director), On the Grounds of Belonging (David Mendizábal, director), Wild Goose Dreams (Leigh Silverman, director). Off Broadway: Dutch Masters (André Holland), Queen (Awoye Timpo, director). Regional: Familiar (Danya Taymor, director), Master Harold and the Boys (Ryan Rillet, director). Film: Brave music video (Spike Lee, director), Forever Tree (Alrick Brown, director). She holds an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. fuzunina.com 4 JACK MAGAW (Scenic Designer) Recent Chicago and regional design credits include Indecent (), The Scarlet Ibis (Chicago Opera Theater), Approval Junkie (Alliance Theatre), Support Group for Men (Goodman Theatre), The Agitators and Other Than Honorable (Geva Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Kansas City Rep), The Realistic Joneses (Theatre and Shattered Globe Theatre), Buried Child (Writers’ Theatre), The Bridges of Madison County and Miss Holmes (Peninsula Players Theatre), Radio Golf (Court Theatre), Man of La Mancha (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Eleven Joseph Jefferson Award nominations include designs for East Texas Hot Links (Writers’ Theatre) and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Court Theatre). Upcoming projects include Silent Sky (Peninsula Players Theatre) and the world premiere of Stacey Rose’s Legacy Land (Kansas City Rep). Jack lives in Chicago and teaches design at The Theatre School at DePaul University. jackmagaw.com

CHA SEE (Lighting Designer) is from Manila, Philippines. Credits include: Cute Activist (Bushwick Starr); Macbeth In Stride (Joe’s Pub); The Triumphant (Target Margin Theatre); Nora (The Juilliard School); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement); Mondo Tragic (National Black Theatre); Plural Love (Soho Rep Lab); Anna May Wong (Mabou Mines); The Maturation of an Inconvenient Negro (Cherry Lane); SKINNAMARINK (NYTW Next Door); Marisol (Trinity Rep). Upcoming: On the Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf Theatre); In the Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T., The Public); EVERYBODY (PlayMakers Rep). Cha is exhibiting her works at the Prague Quadrennial 2019. Training: MFA NYU Tisch. For more: seelightingdesign.com

GEOFF BORONDA (Production Stage Manager) BSC: The Chinese Lady, Typhoid Mary. New York: Ain’t No Mo’, Mobile Unit—Romeo & Juliet, Mobile Unit—The Comedy of Errors, Buzzer, Ping Pong, Under the Radar Festival, The Urban Retreat, The Great Immensity, Fortress of Solitude (The Public Theater); The Undertaking (The Civilians); generations (Soho Rep). Regional: Shakespeare in Love, Jazz (Baltimore Center Stage); A View from the Bridge (); Hamlet, A Doctor in Spite of Himself (); Appropriate (Westport Country Playhouse). Education: MFA Stage Management from the Yale School of Drama.

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE, KATJA ZAROLINSKI (Casting) (C.S.A.) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 17 years. Pat McCorkle is pleased to be an Associate Artist at BSC. Broadway: Over 50 productions including On the Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, , She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights — Clever Little Lies; Sheer Madness; ; Our Town (Barrow Street); Freud’s Last Session; Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; Driving Miss Daisy. Feature film: Premium Rush, Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: Twisted, St. George, Sesame Street, Hack, Californication, Max Bickford, Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, etc. mccorklecasting.com

CHARLIE SIEDENBURG (Berkshire Press Representative) joined the Barrington Stage family in 2005 and has represented over 80 BSC productions. His work has led to features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today and American Theatre Magazine. He began working as a publicist in 1990 at the Barn Theatre in August, MI, working with folks like Marin Mazzie and Tom Wopat. His many PR credits include

5 the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), Paper Mill Playhouse (1999-2004), George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, , Long Wharf Theatre and Two River Theatre Company. Charlie is personal publicist to Broadway’s Leslie Kritzer and Patrick Page. Charlie serves as National Press Rep for Chautauqua Theater Company, Project Shaw, Surflight Theatre and Wagner College Theatre. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING UPDATES TO THE SEASON PROGRAM Head of Maintenance...... Joe Gunn Maintenance ...... William Parmelee IV Casting Assistant ...... Nathan Francis Community Engagement Coordinator ...... Sharron Frazier-McClain Artistic/Literary Intern ...... Gabriel Walker Production Assistants ...... Christina Briggs, Jared Whitman

ANNUAL FUND AND GALAS Our Season Playbill went to print on May 1st. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following donors who have supported BSC since that date.

Producing Partner Circle $50,000+ Leslie and Roy Kozupsky Arnold Kotlen and Stephanie Fleckner Alan and Nancy Milbauer Burt D. Miller Artistic Circle $25,000–$49,000 Ann M. and Don Morrison Greylock Federal Credit Union Diane and Arthur Provenz Barbara and Michael Rosenbaum Director $5,000–$9,999 Carol and Marvin Schwartzbard Jody and John Arnhold Betsey and Mark Selkowitz Marion Simon Founder $2,500–$4,999 Barbara and Edward Sirkin Berkshire Bank Foundation National Alliance for Musical Theatre Benefactor $500–$999 Jane and Martin Schwartz Toshi Abe and Dr. Nancy Hall Arlene and Donald Shapiro Helen and Michael Apton Anne and William Tatlock Mark and Elaine Cancilla Karin and Elliot Cattarulla Leader $1,000–$2,499 Lynn and Stephen Cohen Helene Berger Roberta and Michael Cohn Judy Bergman and Dr. Richard Budson Paula Consolini and James Mahon Mr. and Mrs. Donald I. Bierman Jeff Davis Hinda and Bill Bodinger The GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program Susan and Duncan Brown Renee Gross in honor of Julianne Boyd Marianne and Richard Jaffe Jill and Harold Gaffin Linda and Ken Keyes Naomi and Roger Gordon Maxene Kupperman-Guiñals Wendy and Peter Gordon Raquel and Lear Levin 6 Irving Marks and Alice Nathan Ruth Friendly Jacqueline and Jaan Metsma Marianne and Jim Gambaro Diana Hitt Potter Sylvia Gingras Frances and Donald Putnoi Dr. Jacob and Mrs. Myrna Golden Paula and Steven Schimmel Martin and Joann Gorman Rochelle and George Stassa Louise Kaminow Alexandra Warshaw Alice and Norman Klein Judy and Irwin Wrubel Mark and Ellen Levy in honor of Sheila Richman Angel $250–$499 Joan and Edward Mahler Anonymous Judith Neidenberg Michel and Abby Araten Mary K. and Robert O'Brien Elaine and Michael Christopher Stephen and Constance Pajeski Elizabeth and Richard Colten Adele Rodbell in honor of Marita Glodt Sandi and Alan Rubin Amy Dean and Allan Kluger Jane K. Ryan Linda and Dan Dillon Sybil and Marshall Sigel Peggy Herzog and Brian Rohman Debbie and Ashley Smith Helga Kaiser Janis and Jeff Sperber Wilma and Norman Michaels Eleanore Velez Fern Portnoy c/o The Roger O. Goldman Barry Waldorf and Stanley Gotlin and Fern Portnoy Family Foundation Barbara Winslow Qualprint, Inc. Joanne Solomon EDUCATION Drs. Jonathan Weisbuch and Mary Ellen Bradshaw-Weisbuch Artistic Circle $25,000–$49,000 Greylock Federal Credit Union Friend $100–$249 Anonymous Founder $2,500–$4,999 Louis Bernstein The Estate of Ruth I Krauss Barbara and Irving Brown Ellen and Jon Channing JUNE M. GUERTIN ARCHIVES Debora S. Cole-Duffy Susan and Edmund Dana Sarah Boyd and Jennifer Rothman Joe-Tom Easley and Peter Freiberg Dr. J. Ryan Gunsalus Judith Ferber AMERICA V. 2.1 — BEYOND THE STAGE SERIES SPECIAL POST-SHOW CONVERSATIONS Join community leaders to continue an important dialogue about race and the issues this explosive play raises. Following all evening performances except June 20. Go to BarringtonStageCo.org for more details and to view the schedule of speakers.

7 The 5-Time Tony Winning Musical! BOYD-QUINSON MAINSTAGE JUNE 19–JULY 13 Sponsored by Carole and Dan Burack

Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book by Originally Directed on Broadway by JAMES LAPINE Orchestrations by JONATHAN TUNICK Musical Direction by DARREN R. COHEN Directed by JOE CALARCO Sponsored in part by The Feigenbaum Foundation & Marvin Seline 8