Mainstage Playbill Richard Hopkins, Producing Artistic Director This project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida. Christopher M. Smith. Photo by Matthew Holler. CLEVER LITTLE LIES by Joe DiPietro CAST (in alphabetical order) Jane....................Allyson Jean Malandra* Alice...................Rita Rehn* Bill Sr..................Jon Shaver* Billy....................Christopher M. Smith* Scenic Designers Costume Designer Michael Pasquini Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay Kathleen Geldard Stage Manager: Lighting Designer Kelli Karen* Assistant to the Director: Timothy VanBeverhoudt Directed by: Kate Alexander Season Underwriters Gerri Aaron, Ed & Judy Christian, Georgia Court, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Bob & Bonny Israeloff, Ernie Kretzmer in loving memory of his wife Alisa Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Anne Nethercott, Dorothy Waldron Show Co-Producers Jane Baisley, Barbara Lupoff, SCENE Magazine Special Thank you to Georgia Court for her generous donation of artwork and an oriental rug to Studio South Fitness and the YMCA for their towel donation Premiere Production Presented by George Street Playhouse November 22, 2013 David Saint, Artistic Director; Kelly Ryman, Managing Director Originally Produced by Joan Raffe, Jhett Tolentino, Douglas Denoff, Edward Walson Clever little Lies is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. * Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTIST PROFILES ALLYSON JEAN Reuther) - Rep of St. Louis. A Man for All MALANDRA (Jane) is Seasons (Henry VIII) Fulton Theatre. The Nerd thrilled to be making her (Axel), The Importance of Being Ernest (Lane) Florida Studio Theatre - Arrow Rock Lyceum. TV: Deadbeat, Madame debut!! Favorite roles Secretary, Elementary, Orange is the New Black, include Amy in Dry HappyISH, The Good Wife, 30 Rock, Law & Order. Land (Contemporary Film: Men in Black III, The Family, Respect the American Theatre Festival), Kate Hardcastle Jux. in She Stoops to Conquer, and Rutheé LaVie CHRISTOPHER M. SMITH in the world premiere of The Makeover. (Billy) is excited to be MFA Acting: University of Iowa; BFA Music making his Florida Studio Theatre: Shenandoah Conservatory. “At three Theatre debut. Past theatre minutes past eight, you must dream.” www. credits include: Sex with allysonjeanmalandra.com Strangers (Portland Center RITA REHN (Alice) FST: The Stage), Other Desert Cities (Speakeasy Stage, Roommate, Over the River, Boston); Eurydice (Walking the Dog Theatre, Sylvia, Patsy Cline! Film: NY); The Pavilion (Los Angeles premiere), Tennis The Producers with Nathan in Nablus (NY premiere); The Cherry Orchard; Lane, Pocket Pair, Extras, Orange Flower Water; True West; Fool For Love. HBO Show Me a Hero, HBO He also co-adapted and starred in a production The Jinx! Television: Law & of Henry James’ Washington Square with The Order, Miami Vice, Moon over Miami, B.L.Stryker, Actor’s Ensemble in NY. TV: The Blacklist, I Love Tough Cookies, General Hospital, Superboy, You but I Lied, upcoming tv series for LMN. Black Jack Savage! Broadway: Tony Award www.christophersmithactor.com winning Nine, A Chorus Line, Royal Family, (with KATE ALEXANDER Rosemary Harris)! Tours: Tale of the Allergist’s (Director) is the Associate Wife (with Valerie Harper)! Off Broadway: Director of FST and the Marsha Norman’s Last Dance (with Jo Beth Founder of the FST Theatre Williams), John Patrick Shanley’s Defiance School. Ms. Alexander with (Stephen Lang); Charles Busch’s Our has directed numerous Leading Lady! 103 professional plays; dozens of productions and premieres commercials, v/o. on the FST stages including Alabama Story; JON SHAVER (Bill Sr.) Outside Mullingar; Over The River And Through Off-Broadway: Who The Woods; Chapatti; Dancing Lessons; Becoming Killed Woody Allen? (Det. Dr. Ruth; Freud’s Last Session; Thurgood; South John Allman) - The Triad. Beach Babylon; The Columnist; Talley’s Folly; Regional: All The Way Jericho; Next Fall; The Savannah Disputation; (George Wallace, Walter Ghost- Writer; Two Jews Walk into a War...; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Sylvia; Shotgun; ARTIST PROFILES The Miamians; Brooklyn Boy; The Exonerated; Daddy Long Legs; Monty Python’s Spamalot; Wit; Proof; Lobby Hero; and Ten Unknowns. Ms. The Underpants; The World Goes ‘Round; The Alexander has also been a resident actress for Columnist; Smokey Joe’s Café; Perfect Wedding; over 25 years. Some of her leading roles were in Jericho; Next Fall; Next to Normal; Cowgirls; the plays: Edward Albee’s The Goat; Filumena; Ghost-Writer; Shear Madness; I Love You, You’re Master Class; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, Perfect, Now Change; The 39 Steps; Beehive: The The Occupant , The Play About the Baby; Golda’s 60s Musical; Ruined; The 25th Annual Putnam Balcony; and Taking Shakespeare. Ms. Alexander County Spelling Bee; Edward Albee’s Occupant; is the recipient of numerous acting, directing, Motown Cabaret. and public service awards, including FAER, She ISABEL & MORIAH CURLEY-CLAY (Scenic Knows Where She’s Going Award (Girls, Inc.), Designer) Moriah and Isabel are award winning The Woman of Light Award, National Council of scenic designers whose theatrical work can be Jewish Women, The Woman of Power Award, seen on regional stages across the U.S. Past the Sarasota County Arts Leadership Award, designs at FST include The God of Isaac; The Education Award, Sarasota Manatee Jewish Fabulous Lipitones; Alabama Story; Outside Federation, and most recently The Unity Award. Mullingar; Butler; Taking Shakespeare; Chapatti; Ms. Alexander leads the FST Forums Series and Inspired Lunacy; Dancing Lessons; Hairspray; developed the Blue Butterfly Theatre Program, and One Man, Two Guvnors. Isabel and Moriah’s a program for teens suffering from grief industrial design work includes groups such through loss. She created the Art of The Gesture as The World of Coke, and West Quoddy program at Ringling College of Animation and Head National Park Visitors Center. They is the co-author of The Animated Short, with were recently featured in American Theater Karen Sullivan, now in its 3rd edition. Magazine’s Roll Call, 7 Theatrical People To KELLI KAREN (Stage Manager) has been an Watch. Isabel and Moriah are resident scenic integral member of Florida Studio Theatre. designers at Horizon Theatre, Artistic Associates Kelli began at FST as a dance teacher in the at Theatrical Outfit and members of United education department in 1993. In addition Scenic Artists Local 829. to her classes at FST, Kelli has created and KATHLEEN GELDARD (Costume Designer) taught outreach programs at Care Pointes Regional Theatre: most recently Little Shop of in Swaziland, South Africa, The Pines of Horrors at Portland Center Stage. Also, designs Sarasota, Girls Inc., The Boys and Girls Club, have been seen at Arena Stage; Huntington and has taught playwriting at numerous Theatre Company; Woolly Mammoth local elementary schools as well as our Theatre Company; Signature Theatre; La sister city of Dunfermline, Scotland. Stage Jolla Playhouse; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; management credits: Off Broadway: The Center Stage; Studio Theatre; Kennedy New Victory Theater (Fly). Selected Regional Center for the Performing Arts; Round House Credits: Pasadena Playhouse (Fly), Crossroads Theatre; Imagination Stage; Folger Theatre; Theatre (Fly), FST Credits: Inspired Lunacy; Fly; Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse; Cincinnati Play Taking Shakespeare; Pump Boys and Dinettes; House in the Park; and Children’s Theatre of ARTIST PROFILES Charlotte. Awards: 2012 Bay Area Critics Circle JOE DIPIETRO (Playwright) won two Tony Nomination for Ruined, Berkeley Repertory Awards for cowriting Memphis, which also Theatre; 2012 IRNE Nomination for Ruined, received the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk and Huntington Theatre Company; 2009 Helen Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. Hayes Nomination for The Neverending Story, His other plays and musicals include I Love Imagination Stage; named Artistic Associate for You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (the longest Signature Theatre, 2011. running musical revue in off-Broadway MICHAEL PASQUINI (Lighting Designer) is history); The Toxic Avenger and The Thing excited to be returning to FST. Recent designs About Men (both winners of the Outer Critics include, Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves, and The Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway musical,); God of Isaac for FST; Black Nativity, and The Wiz the much-produced comedy Over The River for Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe; The Secret And Through The Woods; The Art Of Murder World of Og for the Sarasota Youth Opera; Gypsy (Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Play) for The Players; and My Fair Lady for Manatee and the Broadway musical All Shook Up. His Players. Michael will be returning to the Utah drama Creating Claire debuted at George Street Shakespeare Festival this summer to design Playhouse in 2010. His work has received As You Like It in the Engelstad Shakespeare thousands of productions across the country Theatre. Prior to that, Michael will spend and around the world. the winter at the Sarasota Opera as Head Electrician and Assistant Lighting Designer. SEASON UNDERWRITERS GERRI AARON To me, FST is a great theater the environment. Learn more at GulfCoastCF. experience in the respect that I’ve seen plays in org New York