About the Artists

Paul Crewes Rachel Fine KAREN ALDRIDGE Artistic Director Managing Director numbers on the trombone and harpsichord. He spent the early part of his career working with (Actress) starred in the Recently he has been on tour with The Suit directed Peter Cheeseman at The New Vic Theatre in Stoke- international tour (2001-2002) PRESENTS by Peter Brook. on-Trent where he continues to work and he is now IN THEIR of Le Costume, also directed by based in Stoke-on-Trent. Sean has been in OWN WORDS Peter Brook. She originated the ERY NZARAMBA (Actor) productions throughout the UK including Liverpool, role of Mrs. Phelps in the Royal trained as an actor at the Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham, Plymouth "The Mahabharata is not simply Shakespeare Company’s Conservatoire Royal de and recently worked with director Rachel O’Riordan a book, nor a great series production of Matilda the Musical on Broadway. Bruxelles in Belgium and at the on Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer and with John of books, it is an immense Chicago theatre credits include: Margaret in Tug of Birmingham School of Acting in Dove in Edinburgh in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer. He BATTLEFIELD War, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Lady Macbeth in the United Kingdom. Battlefield has won and has also been nominated for a number canvas covering all the aspects Macbeth, Edward II, Love’s Labour’s BASED ON THE MAHABHARATA AND THE PLAY of human existence. In it we Isabelle in and is Ery's second production with of theatre awards including The Irish Times Theatre find all the questions of our Lost at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Trinity River the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, following two Awards and The Scottish Critics Awards. Sean has Plays WRITTEN BY JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE lives, in a way that is at once (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best world tours of The Suit, also directed by Peter Brook worked extensively in Film and TV including Maria The Good Negro, The Ballad of Emmett Till, ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY contemporary and urgent. Over Actress), and Marie-Hélène Estienne. Ery Nzaramba has Graham directed by Valeria Sarmiento, Bigga Than The Cook, and Proof (Joseph Jefferson Award Ben PETER BROOK AND MARIE-HÉLÈNE ESTIENNE many thousands of years the twice been awarded a Grant for the Arts by Arts directed by Suzie Halewood and won the Mahabharata shows us, in an nomination for Best Actress) at the Goodman Council England in 2012 and 2015 to write his play Granada Film Festival Award for best actor. He Theatre; The Qualms, Clybourne Park, and Tracy Dream Of A Nation X always-unexpected way, how . A public rehearsed reading took recently finished a Canadian TV series called Letts’s Pulitzer Prize nominated Man from Nebraska Company to open our eyes to what reality place at the Theatre Royal Stratford East London in MUSIC BY at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she Split/Mixed demands. The Mahabharata July 2015. He wrote the one-man play originated the role of Tamyra. Other notable To the Naked TOSHI TSUCHITORI Toshi Tsuchitori speaks of a great war of and wrote and directed the short films (Composer and Musician) Chicago roles include Nina in Seagull at Writers’ Eye (Legacy Film Festival 2011) and The Blues Lover was born in Kagawa prefecture of Japan in 1950 extermination, which tears apart Theatre; Far Away and In the Blood (Joseph (Portobello Film Festival 2014). Heis currently and began performing on Japanese traditional the Bharata family. On one Jefferson Award nomination for Best Actress) at co-writing Flora& Dambudzo (working title), a drums at an early age. Since the 1970's he has COSTUMES BY LIGHTING BY side there are 5 brothers, the Next Theatre Company. Her regional credits include feature film to be shot in 2015, based on the life performed internationally with specialists in free Pandavas, and on the other side Oria Puppo Philippe Vialatte productions with the Indiana Repertory Theatre, and work of cult Zimbabwean author Dambudzo improvisation such as Milford Graves, Steve Lacy, their cousins, the Kauravas, the Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Alabama Shakespeare Marechera – and Ery will star as Dambudzo. Ery's Derek Baily and others. He began working with hundred sons of the blind King Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Magic theatre credits include: The Suit (Théâtre des Peter Brook’s theatre group in 1976, and has since Dritarashtra. Both sides use Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, and Marin Bouffes du Nord, world tour); The Bacchae and created the music for productions including Ubu, STARRING terrible weapons of destruction. Theatre Company. Karen appears in a guest star Blood Wedding (Royal & Derngate Theatre); As You The Conference of the Birds, L’Os, The Mahabharata, Karen Aldridge, Jared McNeill, Ery Nzaramba, At the end the Pandavas win. recurring role as Adele Kipling in the Netflix series Like It (Curve Theatre); The Epic Adventure of The Tempest, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Eleven and Millions of dead bodies lie on The Get Down and Sean O’Callaghan (produced and directed by Baz Nhamo the Manyika Warrior (Tricycle Theatre/Tiata Twelve, Tierno Bokar, and The Valley of the ground. And now the eldest Luhrmann). Other television & film credits include : Fahodzi); Split/Mixed (United Solo Theatre Festival Astonishment. He studied traditional music from all of the Pandavas –Yudishtira Dr. Kendra Perrington on NBC's Chicago Fire and in NY); The Snow Queen (Trestle Theatre/British over the world and for over a decade has been -is compelled to become King. Chicago Med, Dr. Ella Harris in the Golden Globe- Council, India tour); The Jew of Malta (Hall for researching the earliest strata of Japanese music The victory has the bitter taste winning series Boss, Blue Bloods (CBS), Unforgettable The Three Musketeers The Tempest MUSICIAN Cornwall); and and presenting the results as musical performances. of defeat. Both Yudishtira and (CBS), and Ron Howard's The Dilemma. (Unicorn Theatre). His film & TV credits include: The He has released a series of three recordings of Toshi Tsuchitori Dritarashtra, the old King, are Gates of Vanity (feature film, Future Focus Films); prehistoric Japanese sounds entitled Dotaku, in deep distress and remorse, JARED McNEILL (Actor) The Bill (television, ITV); His radio credits includes: Sanukaito and Jomonko. Recently he researched questioning their past actions, trained at Fordham University 43:59: Yara, The Torturers' Tales, Ball & Chains, and played ancient music in the prehistoric painted trying to unravel their own at Lincoln Center in New York When I Lived in Peru (radio, BBC Radio Drama) cave of France. Tsuchitori also collaborated with the COMPANY STAGE MANAGER responsibility for the disaster. City where, in 2008, he traditional master musician Harue Momoyama Thomas Becelewski How, having to live with this graduated with a degree in SEAN O’CALLAGHAN since building a studio together in1988, working terrible massacre, having lost Theater and Visual Arts. His first (Actor) come's from Cork in both with local villagers and international artists. their sons, their families, their professional role taken that Ireland. He trained at RADA Toshi has recorded many CDs and has written three allies, will the new King and the same year, in Chisa Hutchinson's She Like Girls at under Hugh Cruttwell. He has books: an autobiography, called Spiral Arms, a MAY 24-28, 2017 old one find an inner peace? The the Lark Theatre. Jared McNeill played various roles just finished working with study of the music of prehistoric Japan, The Sounds Bram Goldsmith Theater richness of the language of this in Peter Brook's 11 and 12 and had recently the Alexander Zeldin at London’s of Jomon, and The Sound Of Painted Cave, about timeless epic, and its always role of Maphikela in The Suit. Since then, he has National Theatre in Beyond the origins of music Fences Running Time: 70 minutes with no intermission. astonishing stories, allow us to performed in August Wilson's at the Geva Caring. He spent five years working at the RSC with bring to the stage this situation, Theater Center, and in various chapters of Tarell directors such as Terry Hands, Michael Bogdanov, PETER BROOK (Adapter and Director) Peter Brothers/Sisters Trilogy which, belonging to the past, Mccraney's at Pittsburgh's Michael Attenborough and Mathew Warchus, and Brook was born in London in 1925. Throughout his reflects at the same time the City Theater, as well as San Francisco's Marin also performed in productions of Shakespeare at career, he distinguished himself in various genres: Theater Company and American Conservatory harsh conflicts of today." the RSC. He appeared in new plays by David Edgar, theater, opera, cinema and writing. He directed his Production C.I.C.T. - Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord Theater. Most recently, Jared completed work as an Coproduction The Grotowski Institute, PARCO Co. Ltd / Tokyo, Anne Devlin and Nick Dear. Sean was in the first first play there in 1943. He then went on to direct understudy in The Roundabout Theater Company's new play produced at the new Globe Theatre with over 70 productions in London, Paris and New York. Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Young Vic Theatre, — Peter Brook and Singapore Repertory Theatre, Le Théâtre de Liège, C.I.R.T., Attiki cultural Society, production of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, Augustines Oak and Abi Morgan’s new play Tender His work with the Royal Shakespeare Company Marie-Hélène Estienne Cercle des Partenaires des Bouffes du Nord as well as adopting the role of Desmond in Young at The Hampstead Theatre. He is an associate artist includes Love’s Labour’s Lost (1946), Measure for Jean Lee's The Shipment, and playing in a recent Measure Titus Andronicus King Lear US Tour produced by David Eden Productions Ltd. with Howard Barker’s theatre company the (1950), (1955), New York production of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Wrestling School and has worked with them over a (1962), Marat/Sade (1964), US (1966), A Galileo, during which he performed musical sixteen year period touring Europe and Australia. Midsummer Night’s Dream (1970) and Antony and

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P27 About the Artists Support ANNUAL DONORS Cleopatra (1978). In 1971, he founded with enchantée. She shares in the creation The Suit in DAVID EDEN PRODUCTIONS LTD (US Tour The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges your generous support and investment Micheline Rozan the International Centre for 2012 and The Valley of Astonishment in 2013. Producer) has been one of the leading American in our cultural community. The following list recognizes donors who made contributions to The Wallis’ Annual Fund Theatre Research in Paris and in 1974, opened its organizations devoted to producing international between March 1, 2016 - April 1, 2017. For any questions regarding your donations or if you would like to join The permanent base in the Bouffes du Nord Theatre. PHILIPPE VIALATTE (Lighting Designer) work in the US for over 30 years. Most recently, Wallis’ Annual Fund, please call 310.246.3800 ext. 715. There, he directed Timon of Athens, The Iks, Ubu started at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in 1985 DEP has produced tours for Druid Theatre, Bouffes aux Bouffes, Conference of the Birds, L’Os, The as a light operator on Le Mahabharata, also directed du Nord, Maly Drama Theatre, Théâtre de la Ville, PLATINUM CIRCLE ($50,000+) Cherry Orchard, The Mahabharata, Woza Albert!, by Peter Brook. He assisted Jean Kalman for the Ensemble Basiani from Republic of Georgia, Gate The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Ada and Jim Horwich The Tempest, The Man Who, Qui est là, Happy Days, light design of Woza Albert! and La Tempête, Theatre Dublin, and Batsheva Dance Company. The Ahmanson Foundation Julie and Bruce Goldsmith Linda Janger Annenberg Foundation Marjorie Goodson Sally Karbelnig Je suis un Phénomène, Le Costume, The Tragedy of directed by Peter Brook. Since the creation of The Meridith Baer Home In memory of Morris A. Hazan Stuart Klabin Hamlet, Far Away, La Mort de Krishna, Ta Main dans Man Who in Paris in 1993, he has designed the DEP has produced tours for The Public Theatre, Lynn and Les Bider Family Foundation Jewish Community Foundation Charlene and Dr. S. Sanford Kornblum la Mienne, The Grand Inquisitor, Tierno Bokar, Sizwe lights for Peter Brook’s plays in the Theatre des Martha Clarke, Declan Donnellan, Propeller, Rezo Delta Air Lines Suzanne and Richard Kayne Lawry’s The Prime Rib Banzi, Fragments, Warum Warum, Love is my Sin, Qui est là, Je suis un phénomène, Bouffes du Nord. Gabriadze, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, London’s Royal Betty Hayman Cinny Kennard Jacqueline and Hoyt B. Leisure / 11 and 12, Une Flûte Enchantée (opera) and lately Le Costume, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Far Away, La Court Theatre, Russian Patriarchate Choir of Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills Laurie and Lyn Konheim Leisure Family Foundation The Suit (2012), The Valley of (2014) – many of mort de Krishna, La Tragédie d’Hamlet, Ta main Moscow, State Ballet of Georgia, plus Bolshoi and Montage Beverly Hills Kris Levine Cathy and Mark Louchheim these performing both in French and English. In dans la mienne, Tierno Bokar, Le Grand Inquisiteur, worked on special projects with John F Kennedy The Seattle Foundation/Katharyn A. Gerlich Elisabeth and Jeffrey Lipsman Pasadena Showcase for the Arts opera, he directed La Bohème, Boris Godounov, The Sizwe Banzi est mort, Fragments, 11 and 12, and Center for the Arts, Lincoln Center, American Dance GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation / Lois and Jerry Magnin In memory of Lily Rosman Olympians, Salomé and Le Nozze de Figaro at recently A Magic Flute, The Suit, and Valley of Festival, and Jacob’s Pillow. Gregory Annenberg Weingarten & Family The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation Ginny Mancini Covent Garden; Faust and Eugene Onegin at the Astonishment. He travels with all these plays on Coldwell Banker Linda May and Jack Suzar Cookie Miller Metropolitan Opera House, New York, La Tragédie tour and in each space redesigns and adapts the Producer: David Eden David C. Bohnett Jamie McCourt The Estate of Leah and William Molle de Carmenand Impressions of Pelleas, at the lights to each show. General Manager: Pat Kirby Los Angeles County Arts Commission Daphnah Nazarian Nic’s Beverly Hills Bouffes du Nord, Paris and Don Giovannifor the Aix Production Consultant: Chris Buckley - P&PFC,Inc Lori and Robert N. Goodman New England Foundation for the Arts Porta Via Restaurant In Memory of Benjamin Norton Melissa Rosenberg and Lev Spiro en Provence Festival. Peter Brook’s autobiography, ORIA PUPPO (Costume Designer) Stage and Visa Coordinator: Elise-Ann Konstantin Lois Harwin Lauren B. Leichtman and Gloria and Richard Pink Gail and Lee Silver Threads of Time, was published in 1998 and joins costume designer, Oria Puppo works between Travel Agent: Lori Harrison, Atlas Travel Arthur E. Levine Family Foundation Ronald D. Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Stein other titles including The Empty Space (1968) – Buenos-Aires and Paris. In Argentina, she has Meeghan and Michael Nemeroff Judy Henning and Richard S. Rosenzweig Mr. and Mrs. Michael Towbes The Shifting translated into over 15 languages, created sets and costumes for directors like Diego Arline and Buddy Pepp Bruce Schulman Sally and David Weil Point There are no Secrets Evoking Martha Stutz (1987), (1993), Kogan ( by Javier Daulte), Rafael Marc Selwyn Fine Arts Joan and Paul Selwyn (and Forgetting) Shakespeare (1999) and The Spregelburd (Modesty by Rafael Spregelburd), Van Cleef & Arpels Mark S. Siegel ENTHUSIAST ($1,000 – $2,499) Quality of Mercy (2014). His films include Moderato Roberto Villanueva (Queen of the Night by Thomas Vanity Fair Eva and Marc Stern Gay and Harry Abrams Cantabile (1959), Lord of the Flies (1963), Marat/ Bernhard, The Goldberg Variations by George Luanne Wells Tobey Cotsen-Victor and Jonathan A. Victor Diane and Ken Bishop Sade (1967), Tell me Lies (1967), King Lear (1969), Tabori), Ciro Zorzoli (State of Wrath after Henrik Marilyn Ziering Rhea Coskey Meetings with Remarkable Men (1976), The Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler) and Alejandro Tantanian GOLD CIRCLE ($25,000 – $49,999) Hedva and Dudley Danoff Mahabharata (1989) and The Tragedy of Hamlet (Travellers that die by D. Veronese, Knives in Hens Camille and Arnon Adar DIRECTORS CIRCLE ($5,000 – $9,999) Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Deutch (2002, TV). by David Harrower or Los mansos by Alejandro Jacqueline and Clarence Avant Barbara Belzberg Bunni and Murray Fischer Tantanian after Dostoievsky’s The Idiot). She also Hon. MeraLee Goldman Sam Delug Pat and Sandy Gage MARIE-HÉLÈNE ESTIENNE (Adapter and worked as technical director for the Buenos Aires Bram Goldsmith* Beth Rudin DeWoody Dr. Kenneth Geiger Sonia and Robert Freedman Howard Gleicher Director) In 1974, she worked with Peter Brook on International Festival from 1999 to 2007. Oria Carol Goldsmith Leon Lowenstein Foundation / Mr. and Mrs. David I. Gindler Susan Howard the casting for Timon of Athens, and consequently Puppo has also taken part in Alejandro Tantanian’s John M. Bendheim Lisa and Josh Greer Ms. Susan Jeffries joined the Centre International de Créations creation of Romeo and Juliet by William Matt Construction Marcy and Edgar Gross Dorothy and Philip Kamins Ubu aux Théâtrales (CICT) for the creation of Shakespeare (Théâtre de Lucerne, Suisse), for Playboy Enterprises Vera and Paul Guerin Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kibler Bouffesin La Gabbia opera in 1977. She was Peter Brook’s assistant on Tiziano Manca’s (Stuttgart Theater, Vicki Reynolds and Murray Pepper Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald Mr. Stuart Klabin La tragédie de Carmen, Le Mahabharata, and Allemagne) and for Amerika after Franz Kafka and Lynda and Stewart Resnick The Loewenstern Fund at Joanne C. Kozberg collaborated to the staging of The Tempest, Threpenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht (National Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Rosenstein Community Foundation Santa Cruz County Eyvinne and Kay Lee Impressions de Pelléas, Woza Albert! and La tragédie Theatre of Mannheim). For the Théâtre des Bouffes Ruby Family Foundation Marlene and William Louchheim Gayle Leventhal d’Hamlet (2000). She worked on the dramaturgy of du Nord, she participates as technical director in Wendy and Ken Ruby Ann Mulally Barbara and Joel Marcus Qui est là. With Peter Brook, she co-authored works by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, Marc Selwyn Palm Restaurant Jade and Adam Mills L’homme quiand Je suis un phénomène shown at Tierno Bokar from the novel by Amadou Ampathé Vicki and Ron Simms Michal Amir Salkin and Kenneth H. Salkin Anne Osberg and Moose Moravec the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. She wrote the Bâ, Mozart’s A Magic Flute (co-created with Franck The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Steinway & Sons Beverly Hills Sandra Karole Peters French adaptation of the Can Themba’s play Le Krawzcyk) and as costume co-designer for The Suit Susan and Peter Strauss Mary Ann Weisberg Mr. and Mrs. Marc Platt costume, and Sizwe Bansi est mort, by authors Athol based on the novel by Can Themba. Recently, she Viceroy L’Ermitage Beverly Hills Ron Watson Gelila and Wolfgang Puck Georgina and Alan Rothenberg Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. In 2003 did the decor for Haendel’s Resurrection directed by Wells Fargo ARTISTS CIRCLE ($2,500 – $4,999) Marc Scott she wrote the French and English adaptations of Le Lilo Baur at the Paris Opera Atelier Lyrique and sets SILVER CIRCLE ($10,000 – $24,999) 360 Group International, Inc Louise and Robert Schwab Grand inquisiteur –The Grand Inquisitor based on and costumes for Jean Genet’s Maids directed by Debbie Allen Betsy and Harold Applebaum Carol (Jackie) and Charles Schwartz Dostoievsky’s Brothers Karamazov. She was the Ciro Zorzoli with Marilú Marini in Buenos-Aires. Maynard and Linda Brittan Martha and Berry Berkett Manuel Silverman Tierno Bokarin author of 2005, and of the English John W. Carson Foundation Judy Carroll Dr. and Mrs. Hal Slavkin adaptation of Eleven and Twelve by Amadou Dan Clivner and Steve Cochran Marcy Carsey Lisa Weinberg Spector Hampaté Ba in 2009. With Peter Brook, she Colburn Foundation Dr. Fanya Carter Karen Sulzberger and Eric Lax co-directed Fragments, five short pieces by Beckett, Eunice David Mrs. Howard Deshong Jr. Mr. DL Stuart, Jr and again with Peter Brook and composer Franck Sharon and Gov. Gray Davis Diane and Scott Eblin Lenore Sussman Krawczyk, she freely adapted Mozart and Louise and Brad Edgerton Ronald Frazier Trust Elizabeth Topkis Schikaneder’s Die Zauberflöte into Une flûte Hon. Donna Ellman Garber John and Amy Jo Gottfurcht / Michael Towbes Beverly and Herb Gelfand SSI Investment Management Yaspan Unterberg Foundation Lisa and Josh Greer Steve Ghysels * IN MEMORIAM P28 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P29