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JULIANNE BOYD, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

AND Carla and Edward Slomin PRESENT

BY

FEATURING Mark H. Dold Angela Janas Caitlin O'Connell Tyler Lansing Weaks

SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER Brian Prather Elivia Bovenzi Matthew Richards

SOUND DESIGNER COMPOSER VIOLIST Joel Abbott Alexander Sovronsky Susan French

HAIR & WIG DESIGNER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CASTING Caitie Martin Patrick David Egan Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski, CSA

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

DIRECTED BY Julianne Boyd

SPONSORED IN PART BY Hildi and Walter Black & Arnold Kotlen and Stephanie Fleckner Student matinees sponsored in part by the Dobbins Foundation & The Alpern-Rosenthal Foundation

THE GLASS MENAGERIE is presented by special arrangement with DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC.

BOYD-QUINSON MAINSTAGE OCTOBER 3-21, 2018 SETTING An alley in St. Louis, now and the past. CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Tom Wingfield...... Mark H. Dold* Amanda Wingfield...... Caitlin O'Connell* Laura Wingfield...... Angela Janas* Jim O'Connor...... Tyler Lansing Weaks* Violist...... Susan French STAFF Production Stage Manager...... Patrick David Egan* Stage Management Intern...... Rachel Lynne Harper Dialect Coach...... Susan Finch Dramaturg...... Rebecca Weiss Charge Scenic Artist...... Emma McDonough Costume Shop Manager...... Trinity Melissa Koch Stitcher...... Alyson Boughter Props Master...... Jessica Sovronsky Master Electrician/Lightboard Operator...... Miranda Tremblay Assistant Master Electrician...... Joseph Rainone IV Audio Engineer/Soundboard Operator...... Nichole Seul Wardrobe Supervisor...... Caitie Martin Scenic Carpenters...... Andrew Boucher, Brad Steele, Daniel Stone

*Actors and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association. CAST MARK H. DOLD (Tom Wingfield) Associate Artist. 14 seasons at BSC from 2004-2018. Highlights: The Importance of Being Earnest, Freud’s Last Session, Breaking The Code, Shining City, His Girl Friday, THIS and Gaslight. Mark has worked at regional theatres from coast to coast and appeared on and off Broadway. He has guest-starred on network television, web series and just finished shooting Louie, a movie written/ directed by the Berkshires' own Robert Biggs. Mark is the recipient of Critics Circle and San Diego Critics Awards and a Berkie nominee. He is a graduate of Boston University and The Yale School of Drama. He is a member of The Actors Center. The run of this show is dedicated to dear friends Carole, June and and his own beautiful sister Laura. markhdold.com

2 ANGELA JANAS (Laura Wingfield) BSC Debut! Off Broadway: Stuffed (Westside Theatre), , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, , A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (The Acting Company). Regional: The Lion in Winter (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), , The Three Musketeers, (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), In Game or Real, The Winter’s Tale (), The Merchant of Venice, Starcrossed (Gulfshore Playhouse), Arcadia (Nevada Conservatory Theatre). Training: BFA, University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater. Love to Carl. angelajanas.com

CAITLIN O'CONNELL (Amanda Wingfield) Broadway: , Mothers and Sons, The Heiress, 33 Variations. Off Broadway: TACT: The Killing of Sister George; NYSF: All’s Well That Ends Well; Public: Stuff Happens; LCT: Third; Primary Stages: Boy; Clubbed Thumb: Baby Screams Miracle, 16 Words or Less. Regional: Berkeley Rep: Watch on the Rhine; Guthrie: Watch on the Rhine, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Playboy of the Western World; Williamstown Theater Festival: Pygmalion; South Coast Rep: Habeus Corpus; Shakespeare Theatre: , , Merry Wives of Windsor; Center Stage: The Matchmaker, The Winter’s Tale, Othello, Oh, Pioneers!; Old Globe: ; Denver Center Theatre Company: Third, The Clean House, Dinner With Friends, The Little Foxes; Everyman Theater: You Can’t Take It With You; ATL/Cincinnati Playhouse: Doubt; Ahmanson, Yale Rep, McCarter, O’Neill Center, Theater Center, Milwaukee Rep, Intiman Theatre. Film: Oppenheimer Strategies, Fizzle, The Automatic Hate, The Stepchild. TV: Unforgettable, Whoopi, L&O, Homicide.

TYLER LANSING WEAKS (Jim O'Connor) BSC debut! Previously, he has performed in Shakespeare, farces and musicals at Lincoln Center Theater, , the Old Globe in San Diego, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theater, Trinity Repertory in Providence and many more. TV appearances include The Good Wife and Elementary on CBS. Most recently, he has worked in the upcoming films The Chaperone, A Rainy Day in New York and Nighthawks. Tyler thanks Abrams and Paige.

SUSAN FRENCH (Violist) has served as Concertmaster for the First National Broadway tours of An American in Paris, Lincoln Center’s , Evita and the National Tour of The Wizard of Oz. Broadway orchestral highlights include On the Town, White Christmas (2008) and Off Broadway’s Queen of the Mist. Susan has performed with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music since 2004, and has held positions with Santa Fe Symphony (Assistant Concertmaster), New Mexico Symphony and Des Moines Metro Opera. Additional engagements include Follies at the Kennedy Center, Glimmerglass Opera Oman Tour, SONOS, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, , Harlem Chamber Players, American Modern Ensemble and Berkshire Music School Faculty.

3 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: ART IMITATES LIFE

The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams’s most autobiographical play. Until he was seven, Tennessee’s family lived with his mother’s parents in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The middle child of Cornelius and Edwina Williams, the family enjoyed a wonderful life; his grandfather was a minister and well thought of in the community. However, Tennessee’s home life changed dramatically when his father obtained a job in a shoe factory in St. Louis, necessitating the family’s move. Away from the loving grandparents, the family unit seemed to crack and all but disappear, with Cornelius leaving for long bouts of time, and often coming home drunk and abusive. Tennessee’s mother was trapped in a loveless and difficult marriage, and while the three children had compassion for her, she was also stern and overbearing as she fought to keep the family together.

Tennessee’s beloved older sister, Rose, suffered from schizophrenia and periodic outbursts, and his mother was preoccupied with Rose’s withdrawn nature. From an early age, Tennessee had struggles of his own, though his were with depression. Fortunately, his mother recognized that he was different from other boys and bought him a typewriter when he was twelve. Writing soon became his way of escaping from his tumultuous home life. In 1943, a 32-year-old Tennessee was lured to Hollywood to write scripts for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. He disliked the job, but for the first time, he was holding down a steady writing job.

Rose was hospitalized several times and in the same year that Tennessee went to Los Angeles, Edwina had reached her limit with Rose’s outbursts. Without telling Tennessee, Edwina had Rose hospitalized at a state institution in Farmington, Mississippi, where she gave them permission to perform a lobotomy. It was an act that forever haunted Tennessee, one that he never recovered from or forgave himself for, and it was that same act that led to his writing of The Glass Menagerie.

The characters that inhabit The Glass Menagerie are all recognizable as the people from Tennessee’s world: Amanda is his mother Edwina, described in his cast of characters as "there is as much to love and pity as there is to laugh at. She has an endurance and a kind of heroism." Laura is his sister, Rose; Tom and the Narrator are both thinly disguised Tennessee. By placing himself in the roles of both the Narrator (telling the story as a Memory Play) and Tom, Laura’s younger brother, Tennessee attempts to rid himself of the overwhelming guilt he felt when he was not home to protect, and ultimately save, Rose. The resulting play is an American masterpiece; it’s simultaneously a recognition of Tennessee’s past and an attempt to move beyond his personal circumstances to become the artist and writer he longed to be.

4 CREATIVES TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983) (Playwright) was one of America’s most prolific and important playwrights. His prodigious output included The Glass Menagerie (NY Drama Critics Award 1944), (New York Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize 1947), (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New York Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize 1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1963), Out Cry (1973), Vieux Carre (1977), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979) and Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981). Not About Nightingales, which he wrote in 1947, was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London, and at the , Houston, in 1998 with great success.

JULIANNE BOYD† (Director) For bio, see page #12 in Season Playbill.

JOEL ABBOTT (Sound Designer) BSC: Well Intentioned White People, Gaslight, Taking Steps. He has designed and assisted on shows on Broadway, Long Wharf, Theaterworks, McCarter Theatre Center, Roundabout, , Bay Street Theatre, Yale Rep, St. Michael’s Playhouse, Vermont Stage, Totem Pole Playhouse, and Theatre Club. His television music has been heard on The Vampire Diaries, Southern Charm and Pawn Stars. He is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and he received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

ELIVIA BOVENZI (Costume Designer) BSC: Typhoid Mary, The Birds, Kunstler and peerless. She has designed an extensive repertoire of Shakespeare including Much Ado About Nothing, The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet and Titus Andronicus (New York Shakespeare Exchange), Macbeth and Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Sound). Assistant design credits: Broadway revivals of and Fiddler on the Roof; and for The Father and Incognito (MTC); Plenty (Public Theater); War Paint (); Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage) and My Heart Is In The East (LaMaMa). MFA: Yale, where her credits include An Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Yale Rep/Berkeley Rep), Cloud Nine and Richard II. eliviabovenzi.com

CAITIE MARTIN (Hair & Wig Designer) is a partner in Wigs and Whiskers, a small theatrical wig company. She started working in professional theatre at the age of 9 and began building wigs when she was 16. She has built and styled wigs in theatres across the nation including Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre, , Dobama Theatre, Cleveland Opera Theater, Case Western Reserve University, The Marriott Theatre and TUTA. Caitie designed the wigs for this year’s 10x10 and assisted on The Royal Family of Broadway. She is the Mainstage Wardrobe Supervisor for Barrington Stage Company this season.

BRIAN PRATHER (Scenic Designer) BSC Associate Artist and designer of BSC productions: A Doll's House Part 2, Typhoid Mary, Ragtime, American Son, Breaking the Code, Engagements, Dr. Ruth: All the Way, The Memory Show, Freud’s Last Session, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Burnt Part Boys and many others. Recent Off Broadway: Daniel’s Husband, Widowers’ Houses, A Christmas Carol, Becoming Dr. Ruth, The Memory Show, Freud’s Last Session, Nymph Errant, The Burnt Part Boys. International: Chung-mu Hall (South Korea). Regional and other: Alley Theatre, , TheaterWorks Hartford, Virginia Rep., Broad Stage, Mercury Theatre, Delaware Theatre Co., Shakespeare on the Sound, Capitol Rep. Regional Emmy nominee, Jeff Award and BTCA Award winner. brianprather.com 5 MATTHEW RICHARDS (Lighting Designer) BSC: The Cake, Kimberly Akimbo, Art, Elegies. Broadway: Ann. Opera: Macbeth at L.A. Opera. Off Broadway: Is God Is at Soho Rep; Absolute Brightness…, and The Curvy Widow at Westside Arts; The Killer, Tamburlaine and Measure for Measure at Theatre For a New Audience; A Funny Thing… at MCC. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville; ; Baltimore Center Stage; Cincinnati Playhouse; Cleveland Playhouse; Dallas Theater Center; Ford’s Theatre; The Goodman; Hartford Stage; The Huntington; ; Long Wharf; The Old Globe; Shakespeare Theatre; Westport Playhouse; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Yale Repertory Theatre.

ALEXANDER SOVRONSKY (Composer) BSC: The Cake, Typhoid Mary, 10x10 New Play Festival (2017, 2018). Music/Sound Design credits: Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac (starring Kevin Kline). Off Broadway: Bottom of the World (Atlantic); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theatre); King Lear, (Classical Theatre of Harlem); (Happy Few Theatre Co); Cyrano de Bergerac (Resonance Ensemble). Regional: Shakespeare & Co., Berkshire Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Wharton Salon, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Off-Square Theatre Co., WAM Theatre. His music can be heard in Mother of the Maid, now playing at in NYC, starring Glenn Close. AlexanderSovronsky.com

PATRICK DAVID EGAN (Production Stage Manager) BSC debut! Broadway: Fun Home, Newsies. Off Broadway: Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly, Giant, Fun Home, Barbecue, Privacy, Southern Comfort, The Mystery of Love and Sex, Cyprus Avenue. National Tours and other credits: Roman Holiday, War Horse First National Tour, 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables, Newsies, Billy Elliot, Finding Neverland, The Kennedy Center, and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Love to BG.

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE, KATJA ZAROLINSKI (Casting) (C.S.A.) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 15 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, Amadeus, She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights — Clever Little Lies; Sheer Madness; Tribes; (Barrow Street); Freud’s Last Session; Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; . 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 the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), Paper Mill Playhouse (1999-2004), George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, and Two River Theatre Company. Charlie is personal publicist to Broadway’s 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. 6 PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING UPDATES TO THE SEASON PROGRAM Production Stage Manager (Typhoid Mary, The Chinese Lady)...... Geoff Boronda Production Stage Manager (Well Intentioned White People)...... Heather Klein Stage Management Fellow...... Becky Abramowitz Production Intern...... Savannah Deal MTC Music Director...... Micah Young Mainstage Audio Engineer...... Brian Davis Wardrobe Intern...... Kay Collins Stage Management Intern...... Emily Kluger Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director/Literary Associate...... Leila Teitelman Associate Director of Education...... Michael Dowling Company Manager...... Lizzy Cook Development Associate...... Jade Nicholas Marketing Associate...... Paige Stefanski Education Fellow...... Natalie Boles ANNUAL FUND Our Season Playbill went to print on May 10th. We greatly appreciate the support of the following donors who have supported BSC since that date:

Artistic Circle $25,000+ National Alliance for Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder Stacey Mindich Productions LLC Ann and Joseph Gallo Vicki and Bruce Safran Jacqueline and Robert Gentile Producer $10,000-$24,999 Jacqueline and Robert Spielman Judith and Bruce Grinnell Roxanne and Scott Bok Laurie and David Tierney Sheila and Barry Halpern Hermine Drezner Ray Ellen and Allan Yarkin Dr. Lynn Harrison in honor Liz and George Krupp of Dr. Robert Rosenthal The Leon Lowenstein Foundation Benefactor $500-$999 Joan Kinne Jodi and Paul Tartell Bill and Hinda Bodinger Judy Kittredge Erik Bruun Robert La Fosse Director $5,000-$9,999 Marietta Rapetti Cawse Sharon Lewis Carr Hardware and James Cawse Sandy and Rich Pilatsky Zelda Schwebel Bobbi and Michael Cohn Gil and Debbie Schwartzberg Linda Febles Sheila Terens Founder $2,500-$4,499 Patricia Montgomerie Irwin and Judith Wrubel Michael Beck Diane and Arthur Provenz Ellen Ziskind Linda and Kenneth Keyes Judith Rupinski Jeryl and Stephen Oristaglio Friend $100-$249 Angel $250-$499 Anonymous Leader $1,000-$2,499 Michael Alpert in honor of Michael Alper and Bruce Moore Alyson Brandt and Charlie Miller Marshall and Marion Raser Pat and Warren Archey Linda Dulye Alison and Ed Bermant Gwen Art Violet and Chris Eagan Mary Ellen Bradshaw-Weisbuch Kathleen and Byron Backenson Herman Goldman Foundation and Jonathan Weisbuch Doreen Beller The Goldsmith Family in honor Maggie Brenner Jo Bellomo of Judi Goldsmith Elaine and Michael Christopher Paula Blagg Eileen and George Greene Brenda Curtis Judy and Tim Boomer Valerie and Allen Hyman Raymond DeAngelo Suzanne Cassidy and Chris Visher Marianne and Richard Jaffe Helen and Al Febbo Karin Cattarulla Sara and Richard Koffman Fern Flomenhaft Gerald Caprio 7 Lisa and Ivan Chait Myra and Dr. Warren Widmann Brinberg, Bonnie and Terry Joan and Bruce Cohen Martin Williams Burman, Cynthia and Jeffrey Jan and Lloyd Constantine Barbara Winslow Caminiti, Lauren Fine, Lloyd Mary and Ray Demott Marie and John Woodward Frank, Marita and David Glodt, Joe Dowling Virginia Gold, Nicole and Joshua Josh Dubin The Following individuals have Greenblatt, Karel and Frank Marilyn Dukoff made donations to The June M. Greenberg, Jane Johnston, Rona Carolyn Fefferman Guertin Archives at Barrington Kaplan, Joyce and James Lapenn, Jo Anne and Philip Freedman Stage Company in memory of Judy and Stuart Mencher, Roxie Lynn Fuhr June Guertin: Pin, Sheila and Harold Richman, Sylvia Gingras Sue and David Rudd, Morris Robert Gold Anonymous, Alkon & Levine, PC, Sandler, Patricia Schein, Richard Paul Goldberg Christine Armstrong, Beacon Hill Schneidman, Lois and Allan Charles Hayes Seminars, Susan and Lee Berk, Schottenstein, Debbie Schloss, Arthur and Louise Hillman Sydelle and Lee Blatt, Rhona Elaine and Ben Silberstein, Lois Hobbs and Bob Luhmann and Steven Brand, Michael Stephanie and Richard Solar, Rita Jakubowski Brook, Bonnie and Terry Burman, Margie and Michael Stern, Carol David and Rori Kanter Jennifer Caprio, Darren Cohen, Welsch, Rita Yohalem Katherine Kennedy Melita Davis, Reba and Bruce Katherine Kolbert Evenchik, Elissa Fenster, Marita EDUCATION Daniel Klein and David Glodt, Bambi Good, Susan and Kenneth Kramer Cassandra Gordon, J. Ryan Visionary $10,000-$24,999 Janet Lapierre Gunsalus, Carol and Sherwood Avangrid Foundation Pommy and Jerry Levy Guernsey, Margaret and Buell Roz and Richard Lorge Hollister, Christopher Innvar, The Director $5,000-$9,999 Ed and Joan Mahler LaMee Family, Rhoda and Morris Deborah and A. King Francis Linda Malamy Levitt, Martin Mansfield, Pat The Estate of Ruth I. Krauss Jayne and Chuck Maller McCorkle and Jeffrey Dreisbach, Gay Malin and Francis Kelly McCorkle Casting, Mary McRae, Founder $2,500-$4,999 Betsey McKearnan Carolyn and Eli Newberger, Debra Jo Rupp Eugene Meyer Jane O’Leary and Myles Evans, Marcia and John Miner Roxie Pin, Scott and Debra Leader $1000-$2,499 Ann Mulally Pinkney, Brian Prather, Mary A.J. Schnopp Jr. Construction Judy and Stuart Nevins Ann and Bruno Quinson, Sheila Malinka Jackson Susan Pearson and Harold Richman, Esther Pamela Marie Poggio and Robert Rosenthal, Elaine Benefactor $500-$999 Emily Rechnitz F. Sandler, Laurie and Martin Maxene Kupperman-Guinals Gloria Reynoso Schwartz, Stage Directors and Ann and Don Morrison Lesley and Martin Robins Choreographers Society, Charlie Martine and Joshua Taylor Joan and Michael Salke in honor Siedenburg, Marc Solomon, of Rhoda and Morris Levitt Rosalyn and Charles Stuzin, Angel $250-$499 Susan Salvini Nancy Workman Susan and Joel Cartun Mike Schiffer Raquel and Lear Levin Debbie and Gil Schwartzberg The Following individuals have Ricki Schweizer made donations to Barrington Friend $100-$249 Gail Silverman Stage Company in memory of Ira Elaine and Ben Silberstein Carla and Robert Skidmore Yohalem: William and Rose Ann Sturgeon Debbie and Ashley Smith Mary and Steve Yarmosky Janis and Jeff Sperber Anchin, Block and Anchin, Stephen Sultan Anonymous, Joseph Allen, Taffy George and Joan Vazakas Benjamin, Renee and Barry Deborah Verlen Brandeis, Judith and Simeon

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