The AmericanThe American Century Century Theater Theater presents
by S N Behrman Biography
ON STAGE The American Century Theater presents
About The American Century Theater The American Century Theater was founded in 1994. We are a professional nonprofit theater company dedicated to presenting great, important, and worthy American plays of the twentieth century—what Henry Luce called “the American Century.” The company’s mission is one of rediscovery, enlightenment, and perspective, not nostalgia or preservation. Americans must not lose the extraordinary by S. N. Behrman vision and wisdom of past playwrights, nor can we afford to surrender the moorings to our shared cultural heritage. Our mission is also driven by a conviction that communities need theater, June 7–29, 2013 and theater needs audiences. To those ends, this company is committed to Gunston Theatre Two producing plays that challenge and move all Americans, of all ages, origins, 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington and points of view. In particular, we strive to create theatrical experiences that entire families can watch, enjoy, and discuss long afterward.
Director Board of Directors Steven Scott Mazzola Chair Louis George Vice-Chair Wes MacAdam Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Secretary Ann Marie Plubell Robert Gato Echanique Alison Samantha Johnson Jason Treasurer Wendy Kenney Aufdem-Brinke Board Paige Gold, Gabe Goldberg, Vivian Kallen, Jack Marshall, Kevin McIntyre Sound Design Properties Design Scenic Artist Staff Ed Moser Lindsey E. Moore Annalisa Dias-Mandoly Jack Marshall Artistic Director Stage Manager Assistant Stage Managers Paige Gold Managing Director Tré Wheeler Charles Lasky Rip Claassen Steven Scott Mazzola Ashley Crouch Brian Crane Lindsey E. Moore Ellen Dempsey Emily Morrison Kate Dorrell Ed Moser Setting Tom Fuller Joli Provost Rhonda Hill Ginny Tarris Act I A New York City apartment on an afternoon in November 1931 10-minute intermission This program is supported in part by Arlington County through the Arlington Commission for the Arts and Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division Act II, Scene 1 Three weeks later of Arlington Economic Development; the Virginia Commission for the Arts; Scene 2 Two weeks after that the National Endowment for the Arts; and many generous donors.
Please—Turn off cell phones and other distracting devices. The use of recording equipment and taking of photographs during the performance are strictly prohibited. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Cast in order of appearance Richard Kurt ...... Daniel Corey Minnie ...... Cam Magee Biography (1932), by S. N. Behrman Melchior Feydak ...... Craig Miller Marion Froude ...... Jennifer J. Hopkins With Biography, S.N. Behrman becomes The American Century Theater’s Leander “Bunny” Nolan ...... Jon Townson second most produced 20th century American playwright, after The Master, Warwick Wilson ...... Frank Britton Eugene O’Neill. For a company dedicated to presenting that century’s best Orrin Kinnicott ...... Joe Cronin works that the rest of the theater world has forgotten, this is most fitting, for Slade Kinnicott ...... Caitlyn Conley Behrman epitomizes the brilliant theatrical talent of the past whose creations are being consigned to undeserved oblivion due to no flaw of their own. Behrman’s curse is that none of his plays became famous enough or provided the inspiration for a movie popular enough to keep him nailed to Production staff the brains of the public and producers. Philip Barry, a similar playwright and Director ...... Steven Scott Mazzola contemporary who was rightly viewed—even during his peak—as inferior to Behrman, had a play turned into a classic movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Scenic Design...... Robert Gato Echanique Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart. No Behrman film adaptation was ever Costume Design...... Alison Samantha Johnson successful: the most famous, the big-budget MGM musical adaptation of Lighting Design...... Jason Aufdem-Brinke Behrman’s atypical romance The Pirate, starring Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, Sound Design...... Ed Moser was famous for being a bomb. Biography, Behrman’s best play and arguably Properties Design...... Lindsey E. Moore superior to The Philadelphia Story, was given a new (and lousy) title, Biography Stage Manager...... Tré Wheeler of a Bachelor Girl, and made into a blah film starring the forgettable Ann Assistant Stage Managers ...... Charles Lasky, Ashley Crouch Harding. In the absence of one well-known title (Biography also has the curse Master Carpenter ...... Jonathan Hudspeth of having such a generic title that it is almost un-Google-able) or frequently Scenic Artist ...... Annalisa Dias-Mandoly produced play to moor him to American cultural memory, Behrman, for all Set Construction...... Ashley Crouch, Thomas Linn, Colin Manning his play-crafting skill and verbal dexterity, is all but lost. Additional Scenic Painting...... Ashley Crouch, Lindsey E. Moore, He is not alone. TACT has been excavating the vaults of 20th century Colin Manning, Ed Moser American theater for seventeen years, and some of our greatest and, during Dialect Coach...... Karin Rosnizeck their lifetimes, most acclaimed, playwrights haven’t been produced here Master Electrician ...... Jonathan Weinberg even once, never mind three times. We began with a list of such playwrights, Wardrobe Assistant ...... Ashley Crouch whose number we have slowly—too slowly—reduced through the years, Photography...... Johannes Markus and it is depressingly distinguished still. We managed to remove one member, George Kelly, from the list this past season, with the production of Publicist...... Emily Morrison his masterpiece, The Show-Off. The list, now nicknamed “The Behrman List” in honor of the first genius we rescued from it, today includes five. They are . . . 1. Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959) An undeniable giant among American playwrights, his fatal flaw was to specialize only in genres that have fallen Special thanks to— out of favor with audiences and producers: verse plays, anti-war plays not Jeffrey Akman Marilyn Johnson Sewing and about Vietnam or Iraq, and histories. His casts were also massive. Only his American Backstage, Inc. Design Studio atypical thriller, The Bad Seed, has commercial potential, and that show relies Brian Crane Michael Kahn on a juvenile actress of rare ability. Among Maxwell’s best: High Tor, Winterset, Karen Currie Constance McBride-Johnson Elizabeth the Queen, What Price Glory, Mary of Scotland, Valley Forge, Anne of Victor and Dale Gold Caitlyn Staebell a Thousand Days, and Key Largo. The latter was made into a film noir classic, Happenstance Theater it’s true, but the movie is so different from the play that companies are afraid that the play will disappoint theater goers. 2. Elmer Rice (1892–1967) The pre-eminent playwright in America before Frank Britton (Warwick Wilson) returns to The American Century Theater 1930, the inventor of the flashback device and responsible for the first after appearing in last season’s Marathon ’33 and as Banquo in this season’s credible courtroom dramas, Rice was as prolific and almost as experimental Voodoo Macbeth. Recent appearances include No Man’s Land, The Bacchae, Les as O’Neill (he put forty-four plays on Broadway), but only his expressionist Justes, and the title role in Richard III (among a dozen productions at WSC Avant classic The Adding Machine gets regular productions, and then mostly on Bard, where he is an Acting Company Member), The Minotaur (World Premiere, college campuses. His Street Scene is famous for its opera version; the play, Rorschach Theatre), Shape (DC World Premiere and NYC Premiere at La MaMa which is wonderful, is considered too expensive to risk producing. ETC with force/collision, where he is Core Ensemble/founding member); 3. Robert Sherwood (1896–1955) TACT finally began to do Sherwood justice productions with many other area theatres, including Arena Stage, Round with its “Rescues Series” staged reading of Abe Lincoln in Illinois this year, House Theatre, Synetic Theater, Theater Alliance, Scena Theatre, Constellation but a full production of a Sherwood play still resides in the uncertain future. Theatre Company, Forum Theatre, and Spooky Action Theater; and, regionally, He might be the best writer on the list. Sherwood also liked histories, and with the Virginia Shakespeare Festival and Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. in his case, successful films of his plays have not translated into theatrical Upcoming: The Iceman Cometh (Quotidian Theatre Company). immortality. In addition to his Lincoln play, Sherwood wrote There Shall Be No Caitlyn Conley (Slade Kinnicott) is making her American Century Theater Night and Idiot’s Delight, all three garnering Pulitzers. He also wrote the plays debut. Boston credits include True Believers (Vagabond Theatre), Tom Sawyer Tovarich, The Petrified Forest, Waterloo Bridge, Reunion in Vienna, and This Is in Huck Finn (New Repertory Theatre), The Blue Room (Speakeasy Stage), and New York—successful films and forgotten plays all—as well as others. Farragut North (Zeitgeist Stage). She can also be seen in the upcoming film 4. Sidney Howard (1891–1939) The most famous distinction won by Howard Labor Day. Caitlyn is a three-time nominee and finalist for the Irene Ryan came after he was dead: he won a posthumous Academy Award for Best scholarship for acting from the Kennedy Center. Adapted Screenplay for his work on the script for Gone with the Wind. His Daniel Corey (Richard Kurt) is pleased to join The American Century Theater Broadway output was impressive and successful however, including twenty- for the third time, following performances in Marathon ’33 and On the nine plays, notably They Knew What They Wanted (Pulitzer Prize), The Last Waterfront. Other area credits include: A Man, His Wife, and His Hat (The Hub Night of Don Juan, The Silver Cord, Lute Song, The Late Christopher Bean, Alien Theatre), Suite Surrender (1st Stage), Qualities of Starlight (Source Festival), after Corn, Dodsworth, Yellowjack, Paths of Glory, and the charming Madame, Will the quake (Rorschach Theatre), Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (Chesapeake You Walk, a personal favorite, his final play, also produced posthumously. Shakespeare Company), Macbeth (Impossible Theater Company), Juno and 5. Sidney Kingsley (1906–1995) Kingsley’s advantage over the other the Paycock and Richard III (WSC Avant Bard), and Captain Drew on Leave playwrights on this list is that he lived longer than any of them. His (Quotidian Theatre Company). Daniel will be playing the role of Richard disadvantage is that everyone gets him mixed up with Sidney Howard (and Mayhew in Rorschach Theatre’s forthcoming production of Neil Gaiman’s vice versa). Kingsley had two hit plays that were more successful at the box Neverwhere. He holds a Master of Arts in Theatre Education from The Catholic office than anything the other Sidney wrote: Dead End and Detective Story University of America. (which was TACT’s first “Rescues” staged reading.) He also favored large casts and histories, and he had guts: his 1935 play Men in White was about illegal Joe Cronin (Orrin Kinnicott) has appeared with The American Century Theater abortions. The Patriots, a 1943 drama that won the New York Drama Critics as Father in Life with Father, MacBird in MacBird!, Mr. Rogers in The Show-Off, Circle Award for Best Play, tells the story of the forming of the nation, with Pop Doyle in On the Waterfront, and many others. He recently appeared with Thomas Jefferson as its hero. WSC Avant Bard as the Lord Chief Justice in Henry I(V) and with the now- defunct Bay Theater of Annapolis as Burgess in Candida and Wilson in Harvey. We certainly hope it doesn’t take another seventeen years to get these five Capital Fringe audiences saw him a few years ago in the title role of the great and neglected playwrights off “The Behrman List” and on the stage critically acclaimed Captain Squishy’s Yee Haw Jamboree. Regional appearances: where they belong. By the time we do, however, more—equally deserving— Arena Stage, Theater J, National Players, Olney Theatre Center, Rep Stage, Solas will have surely taken their places. Nua, Interact Theater, Everyman Theatre, Washington Stage Guild, The Keegan —Jack Marshall Theatre, and Spooky Action Theater. NYC appearances: Heritage Theater. Joe Artistic Director, The American Century Theater has an MFA in acting from The Catholic University of America. Jennifer J. Hopkins (Marion Froude) is a convert to the DC theater scene from NYC. Jennifer originally came to the Metro Area to attend the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting. She was Steven Scott Mazzola (Director) is an Artistic Associate with The American seen last year in Sam Shepard’s Tooth of Crime with WSC Avant Bard, as Century Theater, where he has directed The Country Girl, Serenading Louie, the Woman in Blue in Longacre Lea’s Goldfish Thinking, and as part of the Seascape, Thicker than Water (2008 Capitol Fringe), The Eccentricities of a ensemble of Richard III with Chesapeake Shakespeare. Earlier this year she Nightingale, Drama under the Influence: Celebrating Women Playwrights of the played Maria in Taffety Punk’s Helen Hayes–recommended production of Prohibition Era, The Autumn Garden, Tea and Sympathy, A Flag is Born, The Second Twelfth Night. Man, Picnic, and Hotel Universe and produced Beyond the Horizon. He has also Cam Magee (Minnie) recently appeared as Sister Mary in The American directed for WSC Avant Bard (The Bacchae, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, and In the Century Theater production of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You. Summerhouse; Assistant Director for Strange Interlude, The Winter’s Tale, and She has spent her professional life in Washington DC working as an actor, a Marat/Sade); The Keegan Theatre (A Streetcar Named Desire, USA and Ireland teaching artist, and a dramaturge. A graduate of The Catholic University of productions; Shakespeare Theatre Company (Assistant Director for Love’s America, Cam has appeared at the Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Labor’s Lost at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford); The In Series (La Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth, WSC Avant Bard, Theater J, Catalyst Clemenza di Tito); Source Theatre Festival; Round House Theatre; Little Theatre Theater, Source, Rorschach Theatre, and the Washington Stage Guild, where of Alexandria; Cherry Red Productions; and Autonomy Productions. Teaching: she received a Helen Hayes nomination as Mrs. Cheveley in An Ideal Husband. The University of Maryland–University College, Northern Virginia Community She is a teaching artist with the Folger Shakespeare Library’s educational College, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre touring company, Bill’s Buddies. Company. Steven works at the D.C. Commission on the Arts. Craig Miller (Melchior Feydak) ) is in his seventh production for The Jason Aufdem-Brinke (Lighting Designer) designed for The American American Century Theater, after appearing in Seascape, Will Success Spoil Rock Century Theater’s Voodoo Macbeth and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Other Hunter?, The Tenth Man, Little Murders, Marathon ’33, and The Show-Off. He recent designs: Little Monsters (Imagination Stage), The Tempest (We Happy recently completed a run as Morrie with Paul Morella in Tuesdays with Morrie Few), Intersections Festival (Atlas Performing Arts Center), and the Spring at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. Biography is his 120th production dating back and Winter Concerts (Maryland Symphony Orchestra). Upcoming designs: to 1966. He has performed extensively in the DC area with Woolly Mammoth, The Cat in the Hat (Adventure Theater), Stargazing and The 50’s Front (alight Howard Rep, Synapse Theatre, Heritage– O’Neill Theatre, and Adventure dance theater), and Detective Pimbley and the Case of the Rich Dead Lady (The Theatre, among others. Prior to returning to the States in 1983, he performed Impressionable Players). and directed in Europe for ten years. He received his formal theatre training Ashley Crouch (Assistant Stage Manager) is a graphic design student, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. seamstress and scenic carpenter. She worked for Ringling Brothers in wardrobe Jon Townson (Leander “Bunny” Nolan) has played at The American Century for four years and has done scenic carpentry for various theaters in the DC/ Theater as John F. Kennedy in The Titans and Price in Stalag 17; as Adult Men Virginia area. in Spring Awakening, Juror 12 in Twelve Angry Men, Simon in An Irish Carol, Annalisa Dias-Mandoly (Scenic Artist) recently served as Assistant Director Brendan in The Weir, Freddy in Noises Off, and Henry VIII in A Man for All for The American Century Theater’s Voodoo Macbeth. Other credits include Seasons (all with The Keegan Theatre, where he is a Company Member); as Dramaturg Assistant for The Conference of the Birds (Folger Shakespeare Jamie in Long Day’s Journey into Night (Firebelly Productions); and as Bazarov Theater) and Original Dramaturg for #crazypants (The Catholic University of in Nothing Sacred (Firebelly Productions). Film/TV: PBS, Carmax, and Comcast, America). She regularly presents research at national academic conferences History Channel, National Treasure, The West Wing, and a few other bits and and has published work in Text & Presentation, the journal of the Comparative bobs to help pay off student loans. Drama Conference. Annalisa is Director for an international documentary film,The Salima Project, about her upcoming work teaching theatre and community health in rural Africa (http://salimaproject.org).
Download the podcast. Artistic Director Jack Marshall discusses The American Century Theater production of S.N. Behrman’s Become a fan of The American Century Theater on Facebook. Biography with Director Steven Scott Mazzola and actors Jennifer J. Keep up with shows, auditions, volunteer opportunities, podcasts, Hopkins and Daniel Corey. videos, and more. www.AmericanCentury.org Roberto Gato Echanique (Scenic Design) is an award-winning artist and designer, native to the DC area. He creates for both gallery and stage, across a wide range of materials and aesthetics. His work has been seen in Washington DC, Baltimore MD, Alpena MI, and St. James NY and can be found in collections around the country. His theater and performing arts production career spans more than seventeen years at countless venues of every size and shape. When not making art, he works as Technical Director for CulturalDC, helping other artists and facilitating production of hundreds of performances at their venues Flashpoint and Source. Alison Samantha Johnson (Costume Design) is a freelance costume designer previously based in Philadelphia and a graduate of the University of the Arts. Washington DC area credits include: On the Waterfront (The American Century Theater), Atheist’s Paradise (Edge of the Universe Players II), and StopGap (Field Trip Theater). Philadelphia area credits: Bachelorette (Luna Theater) and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Rutgers University). Alison also styles hair/wigs and is credited as key makeup artist in multiple independent feature films. www.alisonsamantha.com Charles Lasky (Assistant Stage Manager) is a recent transplant to the DC area, having recently finished an internship with the Theater for Young Audiences Department at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Lindsey E. Moore (Properties Design) has been Stage Manager for Voodoo Macbeth, The Show-Off, Stage Door, and Marathon ’33 with The American Century Theater, where she also manages properties and set storage. She worked in stage management in Roanoke VA for shows including Antigone, The Laramie Project, and The Good Woman of Setzuan. Edward Moser (Sound Design) is a regional audio production veteran whose designs include Visit to a Small Planet, Country Girl, Little Murders, Marathon ’33, J.B., and The Show-Off (The American Century Theater); Long Day’s Journey into Night, Little Trick, Afterplay, Master Harold and the Boys, and A Walk in the Woods (Quotidian Theatre); Amelia (a Kennedy Center Page-to- Stage reading), and A Christmas Carol, Underneath the Lintel, and Tuesdays with Morrie for Paul Morella. Favorite musical credits include Señor Discretion Himself (Arena Stage), Urinetown (University of Maryland), David in Shadow and Light (Theater J), and Godspell (Olney Theatre Center). Tré Wheeler (Stage Manager) graduated from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. After performing with the Actors Repertory Theatre, he took a break from acting to pursue the more technical aspects of the theater. He has stage managed with Fully Charged Productions, the Actors Repertory Theatre, The Theater Alliance, Dance Metro, Adventure Theatre-MTC, and Washington Revels. He has also assisted with new play development and education with The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. This will be his first production with The American Century Theater. The Players ($100–$249) continued Rhonda Hill Elizabeth McDaniel Roxanne Hoare Alexandra McElwaine Thank you to the many generous donors who provided support from Thomas Holzman and Alison Drucker David and Judi McGarvey June 1, 2012–May 31, 2013. Katharine Hood John Peterson Thomas W. 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Cohen and Mary McGowan Ann Marie Plubell Mary Ann Lawler and Neal Signom Andrea Walker Dennis Deloria and Suzanne Thouvenelle Victor Shargai Mark Longo Douglas and Evelyn Watson Vivian and Arthur Kallen Margaret Lorenz Marilynn Wilson Gudrun Luchsinger Robert Wood Mercury Theater Backers ($500–$999) Angus and Sharon MacInnes Michael Wyckoff Constance McAdam Jacqueline and Thomas Manger Lory Manning Robert DuBois Sheldon Wallerstein Living Theater Lovers ($250–$499) The Federal Theater Funders ($10–$99) John A. Acton IBM International Foundation Elizabeth and Tom Anderson Gerald Greenwald Donald Adams and Ellen Maland Robert Krubsack Barbara Bear Adriana Hardy James Bertine Marjorie Mayer Tom and Loretta Beaumont Rachel Hecht Rosemarie Bowie Richard and Dorothy Miller Elizabeth Borgen Christine Hill David W. Briggs and John F. 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Dugan Robert Gronenberg Gabriel Goldberg David Ochroch Timothy Edwards Jack Hahn Madi Green Ricardo Parra Carol Erion Jean Handsberry Beth and Marshall Green Ruth and Charles Perry The Federal Theater Funders ($10–$99) Jane Petkofsky Marjorie Townsend Gerda Picco Martha Trunk Greg Renz Gordon and Mary Tubbs Andrew Reynolds William Turner Francis Roche George and Kay Wagner Sharon Schoumacher Josephine Wagner John Seal Renate Wallenberg Carole Shifrin Barbara Washburn Bertha Shostak Patrick Wesley Pat Spencer Smith Clifford Whitham Nancy Snyder Bonnie Williams and Bob Skelly Paul Steinmetz Carol and Henry Wolinsky Ginny Tarris Mary Ann Wren Kathryn Tatko Jeanette Wurster Sharon Theodore Donors-in-kind Rebecca Christy, Brian Crane, Dennis Deloria, Ellen Dempsey, Kate Dorrell, Vic and Dale Gold, Bill Gordon, Vivian Kallen, Wendy Kenney, Loren Platzman to subscribe to The American Century Theater’s exciting 2013–2014 season. You’ll see—
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