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IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE ON BECKETT /IN SCREEN CONCEIVED AND PERFORMED BY BILL IRWIN REFLECTIONSA PERFORMANCE OFON SCREEN MOLLY BLOOM IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE CHARLOTTE MOORE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CIARÁN O’REILLY, PRODUCING DIRECTOR A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN ON BECKETT / IN SCREEN EXPLORING THE WORKS OF SAMUEL BECKETT CONCEIVED & PERFORMED BY BILL IRWIN DIRECTED FOR CAMERA BY M. FLORIAN STAAB & BILL IRWIN scenic design lighting design music, sound design, & mix director of photography & editor CHARLIE MICHAEL M. FLORIAN BRIAN CORCORAN GOTTLIEB STAAB PETCHERS production management press representative general manager CHRISTINE MATT ROSS LISA LEMME PUBLIC RELATIONS FANE Passages from Texts For Nothing, Watt, Waiting For Godot, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett. The Work of Samuel Beckett presented through special arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the Estate of Samuel Beckett. All rights reserved. The 2018 on-stage production of On Beckett featured Set Design by Charlie Corcoran, Lighting Design by Michael Gottlieb, Sound Design by M. Florian Staab, Costume Consulting by Martha Hally, and featured performer Finn O'Sullivan. THIS PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, AND OTHER PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS, AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE MANY GENEROUS MEMBERS OF IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE. CAST Bill Irwin Performer ON BECKETT RUNNING ORDER Introduction / IN SCREEN From: Texts For Nothing, Text #1 From: The Unnamable From: Watt From: Texts For Nothing, Text #9 From: Waiting For Godot CONCEIVED & PERFORMED BY BILL IRWIN From: Waiting For Godot From: Texts For Nothing, Text #11 DIRECTED FOR CAMERA BY M. FLORIAN STAAB & BILL IRWIN RUNNING TIME: 1hrs 30mins SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to Lisa Loosemore, Rachel McAndrew, Morgan Entrekin, Grove At- lantic, Martha Roth, Valerie Borchardt, Santos Irwin, Nan Irwin, Edward Beckett, Gary Gersh, and Vineyard Theatre. Irish Repertory Theatre would also like to thank the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Emigrant Support Program of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. On Beckett / In Screen is a digital adaptation of On Beckett, which premiered at Irish Reper- tory Theatre in 2018. Earlier versions of On Beckett were performed at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco in consultation with Artistic Director Carey Perloff. On Beckett was also workshopped at the Vineyard Theatre and the Cornish College of the Arts. Produced under the 2020 SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement. WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST BILL IRWIN (Performer, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and National Director) Bill Irwin is a Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Tony Award winning actor, director, writer, and clown. SAMUEL BECKETT (Playwright) (1906- Original works include 1989) Samuel Beckett was an Irish The Regard of Flight; playwright, writer, poet, and director Largely New York (Four Tony born in Dublin on Good Friday, April 13, Nominations); Fool Moon; Old Hats, The 1906. He lived in Paris for much of his Happiness Lecture; and others. He has life and wrote in both English and played in many Broadway, Off- French. Beckett penned plays, novels, Broadway, and regional stage short stories, poems, and French- productions, including, The Iceman English translations. His best-known Cometh, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf plays include Waiting for Godot and (Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play), Endgame. Beckett received the Croix The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Waiting For de Guerre and the Médaille de la Godot (2009 for a Drama Desk Award Résistance for his participation in the nomination); Endgame; The Tempest; French Resistance during World War II. Texts for Nothing; Garden of Earthly His writing earned him a number of Delights; Accidental Death of An awards, including the 1969 Nobel Prize Anarchist; Showboat – and the Tony for Literature. Award winning Fool Moon, which he created with David Shiner. On CHARLIE CORCORAN (Scenic Design) television, Irwin appears as Mr. Noodle NY designs include: The Seafarer, of Elmo’s World and Carey Loudermilk Shining City, The Emperor Jones (Hewes of LEGION. The Regard of Flight (PBS) design award nomination), The Quare with Doug Skinner, Michael O'Connor, Land (Origin First Irish Award), The and Nancy Harrington. Film credits Weir (Irish Rep) Billy and Ray (Vineyard include Rachel Getting Married, The Theatre), Straight (Acorn Theatre), The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Eight Men Marriage of Figaro, The Triumph of Out, Interstellar, Stepping Out, Love (Juilliard). Craving for Travel Unsilent, and more. Irwin was an (Peter J. Sharp Theatre), The Last original member of Kraken, a theatre Smoker In America (Westside Theatre), company directed by Herbert Blau, and A Perfect Future (Cherry Lane), The was also an original member of the Bully Pulpit (Beckett Theatre), Exits Pickle Family Circus of San Francisco And Entrances (Primary Stages). with Larry Pisoni and Geoff Hoyle. Irwin Regional theatre designs include: A is the grateful recipient of MacArthur, Comedy of Tenors, (Outer Critics Circle WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Award) (Cleveland Playhouse / Rep); The Emperor Jones and Shining McCarter Theatre), Vanya & Sonia & City (Irish Rep); Minor Character (New Masha & Spike (The Goodman Theatre), Saloon); A Hunger Artist (Tank/Sinking The Barber Of Seville, The Marriage Of Ship); This Lingering Life (Here Arts); Figaro (The McCarter Theatre), Ma Mad Libs Live! (New World Stages); Rainey’s Black Bottom, Absurd Person The Bonapartes (Ars Nova); A Bright Singular, Lives of Reason (Two River New Boise (Partial Comfort) and The Theatre), Without Walls (Center Theatre Suitcase Opera (Chicago Opera Group), The 25th Annual Putnam Vanguard). Staab was born and County Spelling Bee (Buck’s County raised in Germany and received his Playhouse), Bad Jews (Ensemble BA from Oberlin College and MFA from Theatre Company/English Theatre of Krannert Center. He is an associate Frankfurt). Opera designs include: artist with Sinking Ship Productions Fidelio (Santa Fe Opera), Cosi Fan and the resident sound designer at Tutte (co-production Metropolitan the O’Neill National Playwrights Opera And Juilliard), Don Giovanni, Conference. FlorianStaab.com Katya Kabanova (Juilliard) The Turn of the Screw, The Flood (Opera Columbus), MICHAEL GOTTLIEB (Lighting Designer) The Magic Flute, The Bartered Bride has designed more than 28 productions (Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara), at the Irish Rep. His credits include L’Opera Seria (Wolftrap Opera), TV Woman and Scarecrow, The Home Place, designs include: “Full Frontal with Woody Sez, Shining City, The Weir and Samantha Bee” (TBS), “Mozart in the Freedom of The City. His other New York Jungle” (Amazon), “Believe” (NBC), designs include Lysistrata Jones “Madam Secretary” (CBS). (Broadway), Storyville (York), Major Barbara (Pearl), Rated P, Signs of Life, M. FLORIAN STAAB (Director, Music, Spain (MCC), and Election Day (Second Sound Design & MIx) is a sound Stage). Regional work includes credits at designer and composer based in The Goodspeed, Trinity Rep, The Hangar, Brooklyn, NY. Credits include: The The Long Wharf, and The Old Globe. His Library, Pretty Hunger, and Teenage work in television lighting has earned Dick (Public Theater); Uncle Vanya him an Emmy Award and several other (Pearl Theatre Company); Into the award nominations. mgld.com Breeches! (Trinity Rep); Winners (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Death of BRIAN PETCHERS (Director of the Liberal Class (New Ohio); Photography & Editor) Brian is an Crackskull Row (The Cell and Irish Emmy-winning New York City based WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST music video and commercial CHARLOTTE MOORE (Artistic Director) director. After taking part time Recent directing assignments include: classes at NYU and working on film Love Noël: A Performance on Screen, sets he began directing music Molly Sweeney: A Performance on videos. He earned recognition with Screen, London Assurance, Love, Noël, Cannes Young Director Award The Plough and the Stars as part of nomination for his short ‘There’s The O’Casey Cycle, On a Clear Day You More To Life.’ Brian’s narrative and Can See Forever, Three Small Irish magic realism aesthetic has helped Masterpieces by William Butler Yeats, him gain the attention of major Lady Gregory and J.M. Synge. New York record labels. His work has garnered premiere of Brian Friel’s The Home hundreds of millions of views for Place, World premiere of Larry Kirwan’s directing music videos for a wide Rebel in the Soul, Finian’s Rainbow, range of musicians some of which The Phyllis Newman Women’s Health include Meghan Trainor, Wiz Khalifa Initiative gala, Truman Capote’s A and Pentatonix. Brian earned an Christmas Memory, and Juno and the Emmy with his directorial work on Paycock and Dancing at Lughnasa. the Forbes Under 30 documentary New York stage appearances include A series. He currently is directing and Perfect Ganesh, Meet Me in St. Louis, photographing branded content The Perfect Party, Morning’s at Seven, videos for Forbes. His work has Private Lives (with Elizabeth Taylor been seen in Times Square, New and Richard Burton), and many York Times, The Ellen Show, Forbes performances with the New York and MTV. Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Moore has received two Tony Award nominations, CHRISTINE LEMME (Production the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Management) Productions at Drama Desk Award, the Drama League Irish Rep: On Beckett, Quietly, Award, the Irish America Top 100 Irish Shining City, Belle of Belfast, A Award, The Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Celebration Of Harold Pinter, Achievement Award, and the 2008 Transport, Gibraltar, New Girl in Irish Women Of The Year Award. She is Town, Ernest in Love, The Irish... the recipient of the St. Patrick’s and How They Got That Way, The Committee in Holyoke’s John F. Kennedy Devil's Disciple, Around The National Award, and has thrice been World In 80 Days and Gaslight. listed as one of the “Top 50 Power Broadway: reasons to be pretty Women” in Irish America Magazine. and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Charlotte was named “Director of the WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Year” by The Wall Street Journal in “Third Watch,” “Bored to Death” and 2011.