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AND Roz and Charles Stuzin PRESENT BY Steven Levenson FEATURING J. Anthony Crane Mitch Greenberg Laura Jordan Isaac Josephthal Lena Kaminsky Kathleen Wise Robert Zukerman SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER John McDermott Elivia Bovenzi Scott Pinkney Palmer Hefferan PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CASTING Leslie Sears Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski, CSA PRESS REPRESENTATIVE DIGITAL ADVERTISING Charlie Siedenburg The Pekoe Group DIRECTED BY Jennifer Chambers SPONSORED IN PART BY Arnold Kotlen and Stephanie Fleckner & Art and Terry Wasser Originally Produced in New York City by Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director; Harold Wolpert, Managing Director; Julia C. Levy, Executive Director; Sydney Beers, General Manager) at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre / Laura Pels Theatre on February 22, 2017. If I Forget is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. ST. GERMAIN STAGE AUGUST 1–SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 TIME & PLACE Act One: July 29, 2000 Act Two: February 18, 2001 Tenleytown, Washington D.C. CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Michael Fischer .............................................................................. J. Anthony Crane* Ellen Manning .....................................................................................Kathleen Wise* Holly Fischer ........................................................................................ Laura Jordan* Howard Kilberg ................................................................................ Mitch Greenberg* Joey Oren .........................................................................................Isaac Josephthal Sharon Fischer .................................................................................. Lena Kaminsky* Lou Fischer .................................................................................... Robert Zukerman* STAFF Production Stage Manager ......................................................................Leslie Sears* Stage Management Intern ..................................................................... Lindsey Walko Assistant to the Director ........................................................................ Kylie Fletcher Master Electrician/Light Board Operator ..............................................Joey Rainone IV Sound Engineer .......................................................................................... TJ O’Leary Wardrobe Supervisor .........................................................................Gwendolyn Kunz MTC Understudies ...................................................Julia Ty Goldberg, Maya McQueen *Actors and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association. CAST J. ANTHONY CRANE (Michael Fischer) BSC: Tateh in Ragtime. Broadway: The Country House, Sight Unseen (MTC), Butley, The Winslow Boy (Roundabout). Off Broadway, National Tours and Regional: Cyrano (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), Watch on the Rhine (Arena Stage) The Lion King (First National Tour), Les Misérables (N. America Tour), Spamalot (Wynn Las Vegas), Modern Orthodox (Dodger Stages), Disgraced (Goodman Theater, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, Mark Taper Forum). Additionally: LaMama, TUTS, The Old Globe, Dallas Theatre Center, Capital Rep, Merrimack Rep, CATF, Pasadena Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville and others. Helen Hayes and BATCC Nominations. TV/Film: Chicago PD, Madam Secretary, Elementary, CSI, Life on Mars, The Practice and USA’s The Big Easy. Theatre from Northwestern University. For Susan Ellen. IG: janthonycrane 2 MITCH GREENBERG (Howard Kilberg) BSC debut. Teachers: Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, William Esper. Selected Broadway: It Shoulda Been You, Fiddler…(2015), Hollywood / Ukraine (debut), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Threepenny Opera, Marilyn…, Yiddle with a Fiddle (Carbonell Award), Can-Can, et al. Regional: Rags, Freud’s Last Session, …Anne Frank, Sunset Blvd., Brighton Beach / Broadway Bound, etc. Off Broadway: …Harvey Milk, Wiesenthal, …Thomas Scott, Right Kind of People, Old Wicked Songs, Baker’s Wife, Crazy Mary. Elsewhere: Snapshots, Beau Jest, The Chosen, “Art”, My Fair Lady, Talley's Folly, Two for the Seesaw, You Never Know, A Funny Thing…, The Cocoanuts (Hayes nominee), The Good Doctor, Run for Your Wife!. Doting dad and “certifiable genius” (NY Times). LAURA JORDAN (Holly Fischer) BSC debut. Broadway: In My Life, Cry-Baby. Off Broadway: Silence! The Musical, Perez Hilton Saves the Universe, Sam’s Room, Glimpses of the Moon, .22 Caliber Mouth. Regional (selected): Noises Off! (The Guthrie & Actors’ Theatre of Louisville), Into the Woods (TUTS), Company (Bucks County Playhouse), The Great American Mousical (Goodspeed Musicals, directed by Julie Andrews), [title of show] (Theatreworks Palo Alto), The Wizard of Oz (NSMT). Film: Drunk Parents, Admissions. TV: The Deuce, The Loudest Voice, The Other Two, The Path, Happy!, Younger, A Gifted Man, The Big C, Glee. Writer/creator of the web series OTP: One True Pairing. TheLauraJordan.com ISAAC JOSEPHTHAL (Joey Oren) BSC debut. In New York: Public Enemy (The Pearl Theatre Co.) and the premiere of Lars von Trier's Dogville (Tisch, dir. Robert O'Hara). Regional: The Lion in Winter (Cape May Stage). International: Julius Caesar and Jean Genet's Splendid's (French National Theatre). TV: Big Dogs, Divorce (HBO), Hightown (Starz). BFA: NYU. Endless thanks to Jennifer, Julianne, Pat McCorkle and Michal. For my own Jewish family. IsaacJosephthal.com LENA KAMINSKY (Sharon Fischer) BSC debut. Selected credits: 2.5 Minute Ride (Kitchen Theatre Company); Fortune (Geva Theatre); Kodachrome and Black Pearl Sings! (Portland Center Stage); My Name is Asher Lev (George Street Playhouse); In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play (Syracuse Stage); Outside Mullingar (Saint Michael’s Playhouse); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Virginia Stage Company); Love, Janis (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); as well as work with Hartford TheaterWorks, Cleveland Play House, Northern Stage and others. TV/ Film: Law & Order, Reunion (also co-producer) and upcoming feature film The Informer. LenaKaminsky.com 3 KATHLEEN WISE (Ellen Manning) BSC debut. Theatre: Indecent (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Oslo (Rep Theatre St. Louis), Grounded (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Rep St. Louis/Cincinnati Playhouse), The Humans (Rep St. Louis), Dancing Lessons (Penguin Rep), The Winslow Boy (Rep Theatre of St. Louis), Talley’s Folly (Merrimack Rep), Julius Caesar (Acting Company/ Guthrie Theater), Vinegar Tom (Potomac Theatre Project), Murder on the Nile (Dorset Theater Festival). Film/TV: Ironwood, Historias del Canal, Antidote, 4 Nights in the Hamptons, The Path, Unforgettable, She’s Lost Control, Palimpsest (Sundance Film Festival). Training: MFA NYU Grad Acting, BA Sarah Lawrence College. kathleenwise.squarespace.com @kafaweenwise ROBERT ZUKERMAN (Lou Fischer) BSC: Thief River, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ring Round the Moon, The Crucible, His Girl Friday, 10x10 (‘12, ‘14, ‘15, ‘18, '19). Other theatre credits include Indecent (Pittsburgh Public Theater), The Price (Triad Stage, NC), Broadway Bound (Gretna Theatre, PA), Relativity (Florida Studio Theatre & Penguin Rep), A Walk in the Woods (Franklin Stage & Hubbard Hall) and two dozen plays Off Broadway (at the Atlantic, CSC, Theatre for a New Audience, The Pearl, Westside Theatre, etc.). Narration: The Library of Congress. Tour: USAF bases in Greenland for the USO. San Diego Critics Circle Award for Finkelbaum in The Puppetmaster of Lodz. CREATIVES STEVEN LEVENSON (Playwright) is the Tony Award-winning book writer of Dear Evan Hansen. His plays include If I Forget, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, Core Values, The Language of Trees and Seven Minutes In Heaven. Honors include the Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, Drama Desk Nomination, Hull-Warriner Nomination, Lucille Lortel Nomination and the Helen Hayes Award. A former Artist in Residence at Ars Nova and a member of the Roundabout Leadership Council, he worked for three seasons as a writer and producer on Showtime’s Masters of Sex and is a founding member of Colt Coeur and an alumnus of MCC’s Playwrights Coalition and Ars Nova’s Play Group. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts. A graduate of Brown University, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. and the WGA. JENNIFER CHAMBERS (Director) BSC: The Cake. Jennifer developed and directed the world premieres of The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter, Bed by Sheila Callaghan and Better by Jessica Goldberg. She has worked at theatres across the country including The Geffen, Echo, IAMA, Cal Arts, UCLA, CTG, South Coast Rep, Old Globe, McCarter and Barrington Stage Company. She is honored to be a member of the new class of The Kilroys and is all about using her voice and her work to change the paradigm and achieve gender parity in the theatre. BS in Theatre Arts from Northwestern University. She lives in LA with her husband, two kids and three dogs. ELIVIA BOVENZI (Costume Designer) BSC: Time Flies and Other Comedies, The Glass Menagerie, Typhoid Mary, The Birds, Kunstler and peerless. She has designed an extensive 4 repertoire of Shakespeare including Much Ado About Nothing, The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet and Titus Andronicus (New York Shakespeare Exchange); Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Sound). Assistant