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THE FLEA THEATER JIM SIMPSON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CAROL OSTROW PRODUCING DIRECTOR BETH DEMBROW MANAGING DIRECTOR PRESENTS THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF THE RECOMMENDATION WRITTEN BY JONATHAN CAREN DIRECTED BY KEL HANEY FEATURING THE BATS CAITE HEVNER KEMP SET DESIGN NIck SOLYOM LIGHTING DESIGN SYDNEY MAREscA COSTUME DESIGN ELISHEBA ITTOOP SOUND DESIGN MARK OLSEN FIGHT DIRECTOR JACQUELINE FILER STAGE MANAGMENT WORLD PREMIERE AT THE OLD GLOBE, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA BARRY EDELSTEIN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MICHAEL G. MURPHY, MANAGING DIRECTOR CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Dwight Barnes.......................................................Barron B. Bass Iskinder Iudoku.......................................................James Fouhey Aaron Feldman...........................................................Austin Trow UNDERSTUDIES Aaron Feldman..........................................................Alex J. Gould Iskinder Iudoku..................................................Donaldo Prescod Dwight Barnes.....................................................Orlando Rivera The Recommendation CREATIVE TEAM Playwright...........................................................Jonathan Caren Director.........................................................................Kel Haney Set Designer....................................................Caite Hevner Kemp Lighting Designer......................................................Nick Solyom Costume Designer..............................................Sydney Maresca Sound Designer.....................................................Elisheba Ittoop Fight Director..............................................................Mark Olsen THE FLEA THEATER Stage Manager....................................................Jacqueline Filer Actor Coach......................................................Jennifer McKenna Associate Costume Designer.......................Sarah Thea Swafford This play is dedicated to Amdie Mengistu. 23 FLEA STAFF Artistic Director.........................................................Jim Simpson Producing Director....................................................Carol Ostrow Managing Director.................................................Beth Dembrow Technical Director......................................................Liz Blessing Company Manager.......................................................Erin Daley Development Associate..................................................Alek Deva Marketing Associate...............................................David Sernick Audience Development Associate.......................Dominic Spillane Assistant Technical Director.................................Brandon Stock Graphic Designer.......................................................Jaime Vallés Videographer........................................................Crystal Arnette The Recommendation Costume Manager..................................................Josh Boerman Theater, Technical & Production Consultant............Kyle Chepulis Accountant......................................Joel Faden & Company, Inc. Attorney.........Carol M. Kaplan/Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP Development Consultant......................................Rachel Colbert Press Representative.................................Ron Lasko/Spin Cycle Special Thanks to Technical Artistry, ThinkSo, Tribeca Lighting, Brett Hunter, and Souths THE FLEA THEATER The playwright would like to thank Lou Spisto, Jack Depalma, Eric Louie, Marsha Norman & Chris Durang, Tanya Barfield, Joe Kramer, Evan Cabnet, Jerry Patch, Annie MacRae, Jonathan Lomma, Di Glazer, Laura Savia and Alex Barron. 33 CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Barron B. Bass (Dwight Barnes) The Flea Theater: a cautionary tail (dir. Benjamin Kamine), New York: Flying Fables (dir. John Martin-Green), Regional: Shakespeare In Vegas (Dreamcatcher Rep/NJ Playwrights Theater). Barron recently received his BFA from Rutgers University, MGSA. www.BarronBBass.com James Fouhey (Iskinder Iudoku) This will be James’ second show at The Flea after debuting as Loveless in Restoration Comedy. Regionally, he has performed in Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington Theatre), in Cyrano The Recommendation De Bergerac (Oak Park Festival Theatre), and in A Perfect Wedding (Circle Theatre) among other productions. He is a BFA graduate of Boston University. You can visit him at www.jamesfouhey.com. Austin Trow (Aaron Feldman) graduated from Yale University in 2012 with a BA in Theatre Studies and History. The Flea: The Shakes: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), #serials@theflea. THE FLEA THEATER Other NYC credits include And We Shall Never Speak of This Again (Performance Research Group), Fry Side (New Light Theatre Project). Other favorite productions include: Othello (Iago), R&G Are Dead (Rosencrantz), and Rabbit Hole (Jason). 43 UNDERSTUDIES Alex J. Gould (Aaron Feldman) has appeared in christopher oscar pena’s a cautionary tail, Thomas Bradshaw’s Job, The Shakes: Romeo and Juliet and #serials@theflea. Other NYC Credits include: Fast in Fire (Theater for the New City), East in Red (Dreamcatcher Entertainment), Much Ado About Nothing (EBE Ensemble). Regional: WHADDABLOODCLOT!!! by Katori Hall, The Valley of Fear, Summer in the Country, The Applicant, The Sandbox (Williamstown Theater Festival). Education: AMDA. Donaldo Prescod (Iskinder Iudoku) The Flea: The Wundelsteipen by Nick Jones, Future Anxiety, serials@theflea. Other New York credits include: Richard III, Orestes 2.0, Pillars of Society, Harold Pinter’s Celebration, The Recommendation originated the role of Patrick for Kyle Bradstreet’s Patrick Story. California credits: Angels in America, Burn This, and Lend Me a Tenor. In addition to being an actor, Donaldo is also a playwright, having written plays for The Flea Theater; his work has been directed by Elizabeth Carlson, Sarah Krohn, and other prominent New York directors. www.donaldoprescod.com Orlando Rivera (Dwight Barnes) is an actor/ nurse/poet from the Bronx and has been THE FLEA THEATER a proud Bat since June of 2012. Past Flea credits: christopher oscar peña’s a cautionary tail, Thomas Bradshaw’s Job, The Shakes: Romeo & Juliet, #serials@theflea and recent workshops of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (dir. Kristan Seemel) & The Juarez Project (dir. Danya 53 Taymor). Select credits: Michal in The Pillowman, Balm in Gilead - 2010 NYIT Award for Best Production of an OOB Play (T. Schreiber Studio). CREATIVE TEAM Jonathan Caren (Playwright) Plays include The Recommendation (The Old Globe, ‘12 Craig Noel Outstanding Play), The Morning The Sun Fell Down (MTC 2013 7@7), The Venerable Raman Gupta (Sundance Lab ’13 Finalist), Open Heart Meditation (Ars Nova Out Loud ’11), and Catch The Fish (NY Fringe, Outstanding Play). 2011-12 Dramatist Guild Fellow, 2011 New York Stage And Film Founder’s Award, T.S Eliot Old Vic/New Voices Network member, SPACE @ Ryder Farm fellow, two-time Lecomte du Nouy award winner. Jonathan graduated from the The Juilliard School and Vassar College where he studied mythology and religion. Kel Haney (Director) Recent directing credits include: The Shakes: (The Flea), by Jonathan The Recommendation Romeo and Juliet The Dance Company Caren (Keen Company/Keen Teens), El Fugo by Edith Freni (Partial Comfort Productions), Row After Row by Jessica Dickey, Little Rock by Rachel Bonds (both at Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Consequences with music and lyrics by Nathan Leigh and Kyle Jarrow, book by Kyle Jarrow (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre). She has directed and developed new work at Ars Nova, The Directors Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Youngblood, The Lark, Ma-Yi, New Dramatists, New Georges, NY THE FLEA THEATER Fringe Festival, Rattlestick, Rising Phoenix, Studio 42, Vampire Cowboys, Westport Country Playhouse, & the 52nd Street Project. Also: Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Old Vic/New Voices Exchange Program and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. www.kelhaney.com 63 Caite Hevner Kemp (Set Designer) is a New York based scenic and projection designer. Previously at The Flea: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce. Upcoming: Smokey Joe’s Café, Arena Stage, Surviving Twin, Playmakers Rep. Off-Broadway (selected): Triassic Parq, Jukebox Jackie, Honky, Son of a Gun. New York (selected): La Scala di Seta and Il Cambiale di Matrimonio, The Juilliard School; Miss Lilly Gets Boned, Billy Witch and My Base and Scurvy Heart, Studio 42; March, Red Fern Theater Company. Regional (selected): Williamstown Theatre Festival, ArtsEmerson, Chautauqua Theater Company, Infinity Theatre Company, Yale Dramat, Greenwich Music Festival. Graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts (MFA) and the Yale School of Drama. Member of Wingspace Theatrical Design. www.caitekemp.com Nick Solyom (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be designing his first production at The Flea. Past designs include: The Reformed The Recommendation Drunkard (Little Opera Theatre of NY), The Glass Menagerie (College of New Rochelle) and Blogologues (Lively Productions). In addition, he was the 2010-2011 Resident Lighting Designer for Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company, where he designed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vieux Carre, The Rover, and The Threepenny Opera. He is an alumni of NYU’s Graduate Department of Design for Stage and Film. www.SolyomDesign.com Sydney Maresca (Costume Designer) recently designed the THE FLEA THEATER costumes for Blood Play (The Debate Society), Finks (Ensemble Studio Theater), Alice in Wonderland (New York