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THE FLEA THEATER JIM SIMPSON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CAROL OSTROW PRODUCING DIRECTOR PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF I SEE YOU WRITTEN BY KATE ROBIN DIRECTED BY JIM SIMPSON KYLE CHEPULIS SET DESIGN BRIAN ALDOUS LIGHTING DESIGN CLAUDIA BROWN COSTUME DESIGN JANIE BULLARD SOUND DESIGN KELLY DAVIS PROP DESIGN MICHAL V. MENDELSON STAGE MANAGER JONATHAN COTTLE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR RON LAskO/SPIN CYCLE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE CALLERI CASTING CASTING I SEE YOU was originally commissioned by South Coast Repertory. CAST Nina .................................................................. Danielle Slavick Jesse ...................................................... Stephen Barker Turner CREATIVE TEAM Playwright ..................................................................Kate Robin Director ................................................................... Jim Simpson Set Designer .......................................................... Kyle Chepulis Lighting Designer ....................................................Brian Aldous Costume Designer ................................................Claudia Brown I See You Sound Designer ...................................................... Janie Bullard ER Prop Designer .............................................................Kelly Davis T Casting ............................................................... Calleri Casting Stage Manager ........................................... HEA Michal V. Mendelson T Technical Director ..............................................Jonathan Cottle Assistant Stage Manager ..................................... Kara Kaufman LEA Stagehand...................................................... John Paul Harkins F Stagehand...............................................Alexander Kushi-Willis HE T Sound Board Operator ..................................................Ivey Long Pianist..........................................................................Or Matias SPECIAL THANKS: Technical Artistry, ThinkSo, Tribeca Lighting, Souths All actors and stage managers appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. 23 FLEA STAFF Artistic Director ....................................................... Jim Simpson Producing Director ................................................. Carol Ostrow General Manager ................................................... Joshua Cohen Company Manager ......................................................Erin Daley I See You Marketing Manager ...............................................David Sernick Development Associate .........................................Alvin C. Taylor ER Audience Development Associate ............................ T Ellen Joffred Assistant Technical Director ................................ Brandon Stock HEA Graphic Designer .................................................... David Prittie T Videographer .......................................................Crystal Arnette Photographer...................................................... Hunter Canning LEA F Theater, Technical & Production Consultant ...........Kyle Chepulis Accountant ......................................Joel Faden & Company, Inc. HE T Attorney ....... Carol M. Kaplan/Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP Development Consultant ..................................... Rachel Colbert Press Representative ............................... Ron Lasko/Spin Cycle 33 CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Danielle Slavick (Nina) Broadway: u/s for The Other Place (Joe Mantello/MTC), Off-Broadway includes:Through the Yellow Hour (Adam Rapp/ Rattlestick), Bright New Boise (Davis McCallum/ Partial Comfort),That Pretty Pretty or The Rape Play (Kip Fagan/Rattlestick), Blind (Lucie Tiberghien/ Rattlestick), 10×25 (Annie Baker/Atlantic Theatre Company), Love Song of an Albanian Sous Chef (Moritz von Stuelpnagel/EST). Regional includes: Sam Hunter’s A Permanent Image (Kip Fagan/ BCT), The Diary of Anne Frank (Paul Barnes/Denver Center), Clybourne I See You Park (Wes Grantom/Premiere Stages) TV/Film: Recurring on Hostages and Guiding Light, Unforgettable. Upcoming: Noah Baumbach’s While ER T We’re Young, Ross Katz’s Adult Beginners MFA: National Theater Conservatory. Originally from Timberlake, Ohio Danielle now lives in HEA Brooklyn. T LEA F Stephen Barker Turner (Jesse) most recently HE appeared in the Off-Broadway premiere of Rajiv T Joseph’s The North Pool at the Vineyard. Other premieres include David Adjmi’s The Evildoers, Dead Accounts and The Scene (both by Theresa Rebeck), After Ashley, and Compulsion by Rinne Groff, directed by Oskar Eustis with Mandy Patinkin. Other New York theatre: Benefactors (Keen Company), Richard III, Measure For Measure, and All’s Well That Ends Well (all NYSF), Race (CSC), and All My Sons (Roundabout), among others. Regional: Arena Stage, Yale 3 4 Rep, Long Wharf, The Denver Center, Williamstown, A.C.T., Humana Festival, Cal Shakes, and NY Stage and Film, among others. TV: Body of Proof, Blue Bloods, all three Law and Order franchises, Hack, Sex and the City, and Swift Justice, among others. FILM: Blair Witch 2, Cosmopolitan, Machiavelli Rises, Human Resources, The Warrior Class, We Pedal Uphill, and Seducing Charlie Barker (based on Theresa Rebeck’s The Scene, 2011 Tribeca Film Fest), among others. Stephen is a graduate of The Juilliard School, and a Fox fellow. CREATIVE TEAM Kate Robin (Playwright) Theater: What They Have (South Coast Rep.) Anon. (Atlantic Theater Co.), Intrigue With Faye (MCC & New York Stage & Film), The Light Outside (The Flea),Swimming In March (The Market Theater, winnerIRNE Best Play of 2001 award), Bride Stripped Bare (ThreadWaxing Space), Given Away I See You (Playwright’s Collective). Her plays have been commissioned and developed at SCR, MTC, Playwrights’ Horizons, New York Theater ER T Workshop, The Atlantic Theater Co., The Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference, JAW/West at Portland Stage, and EST. I HEA See You was commissioned by South Coast Rep. Television & Film: T Six Feet Under(writer/supervising producer) and Coming Soon. LEA Currently Kate is a writer and co-executive producer of The Affair, F on Showtime this fall. She is also developing a pilot for HBO. Kate HE received the 2003 Princess Grace Statuette for playwriting and is T an alumna of New Dramatists. Jim Simpson (Director) was a child actor in his hometown of Honolulu, as a teenager worked with Jerzy Grotowski in Poland, and holds degrees from Boston University School for the Arts and the Yale Drama School. He’s worked at many venues in New York City, Nationally and Internationally. Drama Desk cited for Downtown Adventurous Theater, Two-time OBIE-award winner, 3 National Board of Review Excellence in Filmmaking, and cited for 5 artistic leadership in Downtown New York by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Kyle Chepulis (Set Design) A co-founder of The Flea Theater, he has worked with Jim Simpson on many productions, most recently Future Anxiety. He is currently working on the new Flea Theater being built at Thomas Street. He has worked as a set and lighting designer on many theatrical productions and events, recently Mac Wellman’s 3 2’s; or AFAR at Dixon Place, and 1965UU at The Chocolate Factory. His company, Technical Artistry, provides lighting design and technical consultation to museums, exhibitions, and galleries. In 2008, started Tribeca Lighting, Inc. in lower Manhattan, a theatrical lighting rental and sales shop supporting theater in New York City. Brian Aldous (Lighting Design) has worked at The Flea frequently. Among the shows he’s lit here are The Vandal, Future Anxiety, The I See You Oldsmobiles, The Parent’s Evening, and A.R.Gurney premieres Mrs. Farnsworth, Post Mortem and Heresy. He began lighting ER T theatre in New York twenty-five years ago at Circle Rep, EnGarde Arts, Cucaracha and the Jean Cocteau and somehow survived HEA when they did not. Recent designs elsewhere include Motel Cherry T for Clubbed Thumb, Mac Wellman’s 3 2’s; or Afar at Dixon Place and for the New York Philharmonic at the Park LEA Philharmonic 360 F Avenue Armory, the latter two continuing his two decades of design collaboration with set designer Kyle Chepulis. HE T Claudia Brown (Costume Design) has designed costumes for film, theater, and dance. She has designed costumes for plays at The Flea, Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theater, and the Soho Rep. She has designed costumes for Dawn by Thomas Bradshaw, Oh, The Humanity by Will Eno; Crazy Mary, Mrs. Farnsworth and Post Mortem by A.R.Gurney; Crowbar, Bad Penny, and Sincerity Forever by Mac Wellman; Like I Say and Limbo Tales by Len Jenkin; Nixon’s 3 Nixon by Russell Lees; and The Guys by Anne Nelson. Her film 6 credits include River’s Edge, Trust, The Ballad of Little Jo, Smoke, Copycat, and Starting Out in the Evening. Janie Bullard (Sound Designer) is an NYC based sound designer. Upcoming Work: Once Upon a Bride There Was a Forest (Flux Theatre Ensemble) and Winners at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Recent Work: A Fable and Scarcity (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Carnival Kids (Lesser America), Jane the Plain, Sans Merci and Honey Fist (Flux Theatre Ensemble), Stockholm (One Year Lease at 59e59) The Cottage (APAC), Slipping (Rattlestick in LA), Headstrong (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Janie was the recipient of the USITT/ LDI Rising Star Award for 2014, and was named an Indie Theatre Person of the Year for 2013. She also received 3 Best Sound Design nominations for the 2014 NYIT awards. Janie received her MFA in Theatre Sound Design from the North Carolina School of the Arts.