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MONICA VIA BROOKLYN PRESENTS

MONICA: THIS PLAY IS NOT ABOUT MONICA LEWINSKY

BY DIANNE NORA

FEATURING

CAROLINE KINSOLVING RAFE TERRIZZI MARTÍN SOLÁ JACK COLLARD CORI HUNDT

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER LIGHTING & PROJECTION DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER JESSI COTTER CAROLINE TREWET ALLYSON STEELE

SOUND DESIGNER ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER PROPS DESIGNER RAFE TERRIZZI LUCCA DAMILANO IAN HARKINS

SCENIC DESIGNER GENERAL MANAGER ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER HANNAH TOVA WOLFF DANIELLE JOY COLEMAN RAY CLARK

GRAPHIC DESIGN BY UNDERSTUDY UNDERSTUDY HYPEFRINGE HANNAH TOVA WOLFF IAN HARKINS

PRESS RELATIONS (US) PRESS RELATIONS (UK) POSTER PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL MATTHIAS MATTHEW SHELLEY JEANNIE SPRECHER

LEAD PRODUCER CO-PRODUCERS IAN HARKINS CORI HUNDT RAFE TERRIZZI HANNAH TOVA WOLFF DIRECTED BY HANNAH TOVA WOLFF THE ENSEMBLE

Caroline Kinsolving* (Monica) Movement Studio; Tom Todoroff Studio; University Of Caroline’s theatre credits include Vanda Buffalo. He would like to thank this magnificent team in Venus in Fur (San Diego Rep - for always getting it done. The best of the best! Critic’s Circle Best Actress Nomination); Elmire Tartuffe (Shakespeare Theatre); Peer Gynt (Boston Symphony Hall); Martín Solá* (Sam) Martín is a New Olivia in Twelfth Night (The Old York based actor, singer and teacher. In Globe); Amanda in Private Lives (ICT); the fall of 2018, he travelled to Jennie in Chapter Two (ECT and Laguna); Jo in where he appeared in “The Orphan of Little Women (North Coast Rep); Kate in The Taming Zhao”, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, at of the Shrew; Viola in Twelfth Night, Rosalind in As The Beijing Music Festival. In 2012, You Like It (Kingsmen); Beatrice in Much Ado About Martín was a member of the distinguished Shakespeare Nothing (Woodshill); John Cariani’s Almost, Maine Lab at The Public Theater. Other highlights include (The Colony Theatre), Love/Sick (Arc Stages), and Emilio in the off-Broadway World Premiere of “All Lurene in Last Gas (Shadowland Stages); Helena in A Eyes and Ears”, and Luís Trescante in the US premiere Midsummer Night’s Dream, All in the Timing (Harold of “Olives and Blood” at Connecticut Repertory Theater. Clurman Rep); Coriolanus (Shaw Theatre); The IcePick Martín also starred in the award winning independent Killer (Guild Hall); Word Play (Playwrights Horizons); film short “Sabado Morning”, written and directed by Love, Loss and What I Wore with Christine Baranski Puerto Rican filmmaker Ramon Ricard; and in 2013, he and Mia Farrow. Television: “Medium,” “Criminal made his episodic television debut as a Secret Service Minds” (with Tim Curry),“Cold Case,” “Satisfaction,” Agent on the CBS primetime show “Hostages”. On “My Crazy Ex,” “Sam Has 7 Friends,” “Headhunters” Broadway, Martín has appeared in Gloria and Emilio (Pilot), “Whistleblowers” (Pilot), “The Blue Marble” Estefan’s production of “On Your Feet”. He made his (Pilot). Film: “The Watcher,” “Krankenhaus,” “The Pink Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning revival Conspiracy,” “Break,” “The Adventures of Umbweki,” of “” starring Lou Diamond Phillips “Noobz,” “Puppy Love,” “The Collaboration.” Her and . Additional Broadway credits project, FOEMS, brings poetry to the screen and has include Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s “La a strong following of international students, teachers, Bohème” and “Coram Boy”. Martín has also appeared and poetry lovers on YouTube. Caroline graduated from in productions with the prestigious City Center Vassar and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Encores, Public Theater, The Goodspeed Opera House, Art in , Stella Adler, Yale, Steppenwolf, and with New York City Opera, and many regional theater Jeff Perry, Earl Gister, Jack Plotnick, Gerald Shoenfeld, companies throughout the United States. He has also Kristin Linklater, and the late, great Mike Nichols. She made a number of television appearances singing for holds gobsmacking amounts of gratitude for supportive Andrea Bocelli. Martín’s students regularly perform on parents, lovely agents, a strangely good boyfriend, and Broadway, and regional theaters, as well as TV and film. Monica Lewinsky. www.carolinekinsolving.com www.martinsola.com

Rafe Terrizzi* (The Ex-Pat/The Yuppy) Off Broadway: A Wilder Christmas (Peccadillo Theater). Regional: (Hangar Theater); Tales End (Hangar Theater); She Stoops To Conquer (Hudson Warehouse); As You Like it (Princeton Rep.); Henry IV, pt. II (ShakespeareIn Delaware Park); A Shot Away (Red Fern Theatre Company); Flight Of Angels (Emelin Theater). Opera: Tosca; Candide (NYC Opera). Film: “Howl”, “A Good Marriage”, “Back To The Front”. Education: William Esper Studio; Actors THE ENSEMBLE

Jack Collard (The Youth) Dianne Nora (Playwright) Jack is a highly versatile Dianne lives and works in Chicago, young actor who received his Brooklyn, and Dublin, Ireland. She professional actor training at is a 2018-2019 member of Goodman LAMDA. He has worked across Theatre’s Playwrights Unit, where she a wide variety of performance has been commissioned to write a new mediums, both domestically and internationally, play about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She including Film, Theatre, Voice Over, Puppetry, Radio, assisted her mentor Tracy Letts on the world premieres Virtual Reality, and lately Motion/Performance of his plays Mary Page Marlowe, Linda Vista, and The Capture. He has recently performed on stage in Minutes, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Magpies and Mischief at the Jersey Arts Centre, Mr. Her full-length plays include Come Here to Me, Julie Popper’s Penguins at Seattle Children’s Theatre, in (25F), Country, In Rooms Such As These, short films Loyalty and An Encounter, voiced the Everybody’s Legs, Wasps, Ye That Dwell In Dust, and Audiobook “World War O”, and provided the Motion Prodigal. BA: ; MPhil: Trinity Capture for a project recorded at ALIVE Studios. College Dublin; MFA: School of Since training his credits also include Frank in the the Arts. UK tour of Think of England, St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre (Rosemary Branch), All That Lives (Ovalhouse Hannah Tova Wolff (Director) Theatre) by Tatty Hennessy, and in Naked Not Nude by Hannah is a director, actress and Anthony Clark (The Print Room). He prides himself on producer working in New York being extremely adaptable to each project’s needs and and Chicago. New York Directing thriving in their restrictions in whatever form they take, Credits ​Security! ​(Secret Theatre), ​ and is enormously excited to with working with Via Bleachers (Secret Theatre) Still Rising (The​ Tank), Brooklyn on Monica and returning to the Pam’s Key (Gallery Players), Between​ Men (Jewel Box Fringe. Theatre), and Bachelorette​ ​(Walkerspace at Soho Rep.). Chicago Directing Credits: A Bad Night (Frontier​ Theatre), Fade​ ​(Assistant Director, Victory Gardens), ​ Cori Hundt* (The Lover/The Woman) Exposing Abraham’s Bosom (Women’s Theatre New York Theatre: Territories: The Alliance), and For The Loyal (Assistant Director, Spoils (PTP/NYC), Women Are Crazy Interrobang Theatre Project). In 2016 Hannah won Because Men Are Assholes (Abingdon), Best Director at the Midtown International Theatre Fuente Ovejuna (FringeNYC Overall Festival for her production of Between​ Men. ​She was a Excellence Award Winner), She Stoops participant in the Chicago Director’s Lab and a 2017/18 to Conquer (Hudson Warehouse), The Fabulous Allen Directing Fellow in the Director’s Inclusion Initiative at Parsons Show (Broadway Comedy Club),12 Angry Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. Following Monica Jurors (The Alpha NYC), Oy! (The Alpha NYC), Hannah will be Associate Director to Michael Wilson Grand Unified (Ugly Rhino Productions), Warehouse of on the US premiere of The King’s Speech by David Horrors (Ugly Rhino Productions), Collide (Rhapsody Seidler at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Hannah will Theatre Collective), The Ride (Experience the Ride), then accompany the production on its national tour. Aesthetic Anarchy (Performa 11), and Something Hannah received her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Outrageous (45th Street Theatre). US Regional Theatre: and History from Northwestern University. Hannah is The 39 Steps (Southampton Cultural Center), Wild grateful to be directing the world premiere of Monica: Oats (12 Miles West Theatre Company), and Dames This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky and​ she of Thrones: Richard III (International Shakespeare strives to continue to tell female-forward stories that Center). UK Theatre: The Collection (The Wallace start conversations about gender equality and identity Collection). TV/Film: “Avenue 5” (HBO-Upcoming), politics. www.hannahwolff.com “Fatal Encounters” (NBC Peacock), “Celebrity Ghost Stories” (Biography Channel), and “Audition the Film” Equity Approved Showcase (Viacom). New Media: “Kevin Spacey Teaches Acting” *Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity (Masterclass.com). MA: LAMDA, BA: Middlebury Association College. www.CoriHundt.com THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS

Zach Rich Jessica Giannone Carol Terrizzi Anja Fenzlein Caroline Kinsolving Danielle Joy Elaine and Michael Ries Martin Sola Doris Wolff Bill Hannay Sheryl Markman Erik Berg Gui Agustini Mike Scheinberg Caroline Schwartz Michael Altman Dana Clinkman Gabe Koplowitz Linda Rothschild Andrew Hundt Pat Mcgovern Coleman Clark Jessica Keith Michael Wilson Katie More Mike Lacon & Erica Mandell Rachel Wolff & Jonathan Sanden Tom & Michelle Hundt Megan Pinto The Southampton Inn Megan Magee Scott Mandell Dan DeSalva The Krutzler Family Patrick Daly Amy Walsh Steph & Val Naratil The Levine Family Matthew Cullen Lauren Sevigny Ann Marie Carr Stephen Wolff & Marla Mendelson Jason Brett & Lauren Streicher Julia Wilson Annabell Ho Jeffrey Ho Ellen Zimmerman Cheri Wicks Maria Lopez Guardone Doreen Beninati Jake Russo Melissa Loewinger Thomas Terrizzi Jessica Spar Michele Harkins Ajay Tungare Noah Therrien Christian Kelly Madera Alex Manges Katherine Walker THANK YOU SEASON SPONSORS ABOUT VIA BROOKLYN

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