Couples Counseling

By Carey Lovelace

Directed by Judith Stevens-Ly

VENUE 13 Lochend Close, Canongate August 8-22 at 5:45 p.m. (no performance August 17)

Cast of characters:

Dr. Bob...... Jack Gilpin She ...... Anna Margaret Hollyman He ...... James Kennedy

Technical Crew:

Lighting Designer ...... Sarah Peterson Production Manager ...... Michelle Karem

Couples Counseling received its World Premiere on June 8, 2004 in Los Angeles at the Roy and Edna Disney Theatre, REDCAT, produced by the School of Theatre of California Institute of the Arts.

Special thanks to Jon Gottleib and CalArts for for their support in bringing this production to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

For more information visit: www.loosechangeproductions.org

Carey Lovelace (PLAYWRITE) Carey Lovelace’s plays have been presented at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Repertory Theatre; in Los Angeles at REDCAT Theatre and First Stage; at Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, and at Stageworks in Kinderhook, New York, among many locales. She has been a finalist and semi-finalist, and has won honorable mentions, in numerous competitions, including the Maxim Mazundar One-Act Play Competition and the Samuel French One-Act Festival. The O’Connor Theatre in Oxford, Mississippi presented an evening of her one-act plays; she was one of 17 playwrights selected for the 2004 Edward Albee Festival in Alaska. She is a member of the BMI Librettists Workshop and the Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, as well as the Actors Studio P/D Workshop and the Encore Lab, which grew out of Ensemble Studio Workshop. She has a degree in music composition from California Institute of the Arts; she is also a journalist who has written about the art world for over a decade and a half, co-president emeritus of the International Association of Art Critics, U.S. Chapter, the nation’s largest art writers association.

Judith Stevens-Ly (DIRECTOR) Australian-born Judith Stevens-Ly was Artistic Director of the Hysterick Theatre Company in Tokyo. In New York, she has directed and nurtured new plays at Ensemble Studio Theatre and Looking Glass Theatre, the New York and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, at Manhattan Theatre Club, BRIC in Brooklyn, HERE Arts Center, and Manhattan Theatre Source. She has been honored as an Invited Featured Artist for the Last Frontier Playwright’s Conference in Alaska three years in a row and is currently a member of its National Advisory Board. In 2007 and 2008 Judith was script advisor for the New York Musical Festival and has served as Associate Artistic Director for the First Look Theatre Company at the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts, . She is currently involved with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival as a director, dramaturge, and respondent for the New Plays Program. In March 2008 she directed the nationally reviewed premiere of Anton’s Women by Donna Banicevich Gera at the Maidment Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand. Her direction of The Welcoming Committee by Melissa Rayworth in the New York Fringe Festival was termed “masterful” by nytheatre.com.

Jack Gilpin (DR. BOB) is perhaps best known for his American television roles as defense attorney Jeff Axtell on “Law & Order”, and as Roger on “Kate & Allie”. Other TV credits include the HBO film “White Mile”, the BBC film “Unnatural Pursuits”, “New York Undercover”, “Feds”, “New York News”, “Ed”, “The Cosby Show”, and “The Cosby Mysteries.” He has acted in over 30 feature films, including Something Wild, Reversal of Fortune, Funny Farm, She-Devil, Quick Change, Heartburn, Commandments, Quiz Show, Barcelona, Compromising Positions, The Juror, The Life Before Her Eyes, 21, and Adventureland. He has performed on Broadway in The Elephant Man, Beyond Therapy, Getting and Spending, Lunch Hour, and Players. His most recent New York appearance was in Tina Howe’s Chasing Manet. He has appeared off-Broadway in the original productions of plays by A. R. Gurney, Christopher Durang, Peter Parnell, John Ford Noonan, Wendy Wasserstein, Romulus Linney, and many others. He has performed leading roles in most of the major regional theatres in the , including the Guthrie, the Long Wharf, the Hartford Stage Company, the Yale Rep, the Philadelphia Drama Guild, and the Kennedy Center, and at the major summer theatres in the East: the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, the Barrington Stage Company, the Westport Country Playhouse, the Cape Playhouse, and the Ogunquit Playhouse.

Anna Margaret Hollyman (SHE) played the title role in Adelaide, which recently won Best Short Film and Audience Favorite at the GenArt Film Festival and a National Board of Review award; it was also screened at the Aspen Film Festival and Newport Beach Film Festival this past spring. Other films credits include Samantha, screened at CineVegas; Anna, winner of the Lifetime Student Filmmakers award; The Cult of Sincerity; and The Brave One. Stage credits include Every Girl Gets Her Man at the SOHO Playhouse, Carrie and Lil at the Manhattan Repertory Theater and Overtones at Impact Theater. Anna studied theatre arts and philosophy at and worked with Suzanne Esper in the two-year training program at the William Esper Studio, .

James Kennedy (HE) boasts a diverse resume that spans film, theatre and television. Film credits include CUT, Patriotic, and Platonic Friend Man, to name a few. James has been seen in TV commercials and has done a wide variety of voice-over work for TV, radio, and such video games as Bully and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Recent New York theatre credits: Dirk and Ricky in New Beulah, Francois in Four Stars, Drew in Phantom Limbs, Rob in Brothers of Astoria, Bob in Three Years from Thirty, and various roles in Sharks of Montana and The Last Days of Lenny Bruce.