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2016 BAM Winter/Spring #TheJudasKiss

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William . Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Katy Clark, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer

BAM Harvey Theater May 11—14, 17—21, 24—28 & 31, Jun 1—4, 7—11 at 7:30pm; May 14, 21, 28, Jun 4 & 11 at 2pm; May 15, 22, 29, Jun 5 & 12 at 3pm

Running : approx. two hours & 20 mins. including intermission

Written by Directed by

Chichester Festival in association with , Theatre Royal Bath Productions, and Theatre Productions Season Sponsor:

Set design by Dale Ferguson Costume design by Sue Blane Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Lighting design by Rick Fisher The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Sound design by Paul Groothuis Donald R. Mullen Jr. Original Casting Director Cara Beckinsale CDG The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund Composed by Alan John The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc.

Additional support provided by Broadway Stages. The Judas Kiss

FOR THE JUDAS KISS General manager Kathy Bourne Associate director Jonathan O’Boyle Costume supervisor Allan Watkins Co-Costume supervisor/Wardrobe mistress Josie Thomas Wigs supervisor Helen Keelan Associate lighting Andrew Murrell Associate sound David Gregory Production manager Simon Marlow Production carpenter Micky Murray stage manager Ba Penney Deputy stage manager Sophia Dalton Canadian assistant stage manager Kathleen Harrison Rehearsal assistant stage manager Paul Puttock

American stage manager R. Michael Blanco

PRODUCTION CREDITS Robert Allsopp for Robert Allsopp and Associates Italian coach Luca Pusceddu Dialect coach Charmian Hoare Scenery by Theatre Royal TR2 workshop Sound by Sound Associates Lighting by Christie Lights Costume hires CosProp Wig maker Alex Rouse

The Actors are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association.

The American Stage Manager is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

This production was first presented at on September 6, 2012. The Judas Kiss

CAST

ELLIOT BALCHIN ALISTER CAMERON TOM COLLEY

RUPERT EVERETT JESSIE HILLS CAL MACANINCH CHARLIE ROWE

UNDERSTUDIES

TADHGH ALEXANDER HANNAH BOYCE DERMOT MCLAUGHLIN

CAST, IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Arthur Wellesley Elliot Balchin Phoebe Cane Jessie Hills Sandy Moffatt Alister Cameron Robert Ross Cal MacAninch Wilde (Bosie) Charlie Rowe Galileo Masconi Tom Colley

UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

Oscar Wilde/Sandy Moffatt Dermot McLaughlin Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie)/Robert Ross/Arthur Wellesley/Galileo Masconi Tadhgh Alexander Phoebe Cane Hannah Boyce Who’s Who

TADHGH ALEXANDER (Understudy: Lord Tulse Luper Suitcase, and the shorts Strange Alfred Douglas (Bosie), Arthur Wellesley, Galileo Meetings, Private, Time Larks, and Lamb. Masconi) Theater includes Simon Bliss/cover Sandy Tyrrell in (Theatre Royal Bath, HANNAH BOYCE (Understudy: Phoebe Cane) UK and international tour), Edmund/Mercutio/ Theater includes Laura in Dreamboats and Bassianus in Shakespeare Shorts and Samson Petticoats (UK tour 2013/2014), Mavis in in (Action to the Word), Fred Horrible Histories (UK tour 2015), and title role Astaire in Shakin’ the Blues Away (Metra), in & The Seven Dwarfs (2014). Joe in Quicksand (Little Pieces of ), Jim Credits while training include Beth in Merrily We Foreman in Missing Pieces (World’s Edge and Roll Along, Flaemmchen in Grand Hotel, Sarah Newcastle Live), Richard in Woman at the Door/ in , and Dance Captain for Sweet You Can Do It ( Theatre). While in training: Charity. Trained at Dance School of Alistair Ryle in Posh ( School of Drama/ ( Course, ATCL Performance ), George Holly in Suddenly Last Diploma), and Guildford School of Acting (BA Summer (Oxford School of Drama), Mountjoy in Musical Theatre Course). Henry V, and Clown in The Winter’s Tale (Oxford School of Drama/ Blenheim Palace), Surgeon in ALISTER CAMERON (Sandy Moffatt) Theater Orpheus and Eurydice (/ in the West End includes The Judas Kiss and Tunnels), Claudio in Much Ado The Dame of Sark (Duke of ’s Theatre), The About Nothing (The Marlowe Society/Cambridge Real Thing and No Sex Please, We’re British ), Aegisthus in Agamemnon (The (Strand Theatre), House Guest (), Cambridge Greek Play/Cambridge Arts Theatre), The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (), Claudio in Measure for Measure, Agamemnon Rolly-Hyphen-Royce () in Elektra and Sandy Tyrell in Hay Fever and Volpone (). Other theater (Cambridge University Amateur Dramatics Club/ includes Pressure (Royal Lyceum ADC Theatre). includes Breathless and and Festival Theatre), King Lear Murder on the Home Front. Radio includes The (Theatre Royal Bath), , As Masque of Death, Hang Up, Posh, and BBC You Like It, A Midsummer ’s Dream and Radio Shorts. Films include Shells, Enterrement Lady Be Good (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), de Vie de Garçon, Muppets Most Wanted, and The Judas Kiss and King of Hearts (Hampstead the shorts Mahaha, The Holiday, Hell to Pay, Theatre), The Venetian Twins (Octagon Theatre The Seven Princesses, and The Library. Trained Bolton), On Your Honour and The Green Bay at the Oxford School of Drama, Cambridge Tree (), The Taming of the University, and National Youth Theatre. Shrew ( Old Vic), The Conspirators, Chains of Dew, Monkey’s Uncle, The Dock Brief, Edwin ELLIOT BALCHIN (Arthur Wellesley) Theater and Kidneys (), The Lady includes Arthur in The Judas Kiss ( and from the Sea (), and Absurd BAM New York), Keiran in Screwface (Bush Person Singular (Salisbury Theatre). Television Theatre), /Donalbain/Ensemble in includes Silent Witness, Foyle’s War, Aberfan— Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory and The Untold Story, Footballers’ Wives, The International Festival), Evans in Terra Nova, Russian Bride, The Buccaneers, Seaforth, The Sebastian in , Claudio in Measure Show, The World of Pam Ayres, for Measure, Osip in Platonov, Deflores in The —The Series, EastEnders, The Long Changeling and Hukrat in Turbulan Ambassador Way Home, Words of Love, and Starlings. Films (LAMDA), Malvolio in Twelfth Night and include The Imitation Game, Mariah Mundi and Raymond in Ethel and Ernest ( The Midas Box, Into the Storm, The Bourne Playhouse), Luke in He’s Talking and Justin in Ultimatum, , The Duel, The Empire The Spider-man (National Theatre). Television Strikes Back, Anxiety, Remote. He has also includes , Doctors, Peak Practice, and written and directed a number of short films. . Films include Crusade in Jeans, The Cameron also works as a director and producer. Who’s Who

In 1995 he started Richmond Productions and ; B Monkey; My Best Friend’s has since toured British theater to the Middle Wedding; Dunston Checks In; The Madness East and Asia, North Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri of King George; Prêt-à-Porter; The Comfort of Lanka, and Eastern Europe. Strangers; Tolérance; Hearts of Fire; The Man with Gold Rimmed Glasses; Chronicle of a Death TOM COLLEY (Galileo Masconi) Theater Foretold; Dance with a Stranger; and Another includes Galileo Masconi in The Judas Kiss Country. Currently, Everett is in pre-production (Hampstead Theatre, UK tour, and Duke of writing, producing, and directing The Happy York’s Theatre), Rich in As Is (Finborough Prince, a film about the last years of Oscar Theatre), Spr John Booth in The Two Worlds Wilde’s life in Europe, in which he will also play of Charlie F (Toronto and UK tour), Steve in the starring role. The Happy Prince is due to Contact (Waterside Theatre Aylesbury), Creon in begin filming this autumn. Antigone (Michael Cacoyannis Theatre), and (). Television JESSIE HILLS (Phoebe Cane) Theater includes and film includes , Salting the Phoebe in The Judas Kiss (Toronto), Thea in Battlefields, The Silver Goat, Petroleum Spirit, Spring Awakening and Vaine/Team Leader/Media Obsession I—Dark Desires, and The Proxy. Court Officer in Vernon God Little (ArtsEd). Workshops include Tilly in Junk (Headlong RUPERT EVERETT () Theater Theatre) directed by . Television includes The Judas Kiss (Toronto, Hampstead includes Call the Midwife. Films include the Theatre, and West End), The Importance of shorts My First and Vodka Diaries. Trained at Being Earnest (Theatre National ), Blithe Arts Educational Schools (BA Hons). Spirit (Broadway), (Chichester Festival Theatre), (Garrick Theatre West CAL MacANINCH (Robert Ross) Theater End), Some Sunny Day (Hampstead Theatre), includes Nikolai Koslov in My Eyes Went Dark The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore and (), in The Mass Appeal (Lyric ), Picture of Judas Kiss (Hampstead Theatre and Duke of Dorian Grey and Heartbreak House (Citizens York’s Theatre West End), Duke of Cornwall in Theatre Glasgow), A Waste of Time, Don Juan, King Lear, Robert in , Harry Carney and Chinchilla ( Glasgow and in A Whistle in the Dark, in Hamlet, London), (Queens Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus Rex, Arialdo in Enrico and (Citizens Theatre Glasgow Four, Defence in , Walton/ and Garrick Theatre). Television includes The Clerval in Frankenstein and Grimaldi in ‘Tis Pity Musketeers, The Other Wife, ’s End, She’s a Whore (Citizens Theatre Glasgow), The , Boston Legal, Surgeon in Wee Andy (Òran Mór Glasgow), and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Dangerous Captain Hook in Peter Pan (National Theatre Liaisons, Mr. Ambassador, The Far Pavilions, Scotland), Pentheus in The Bacchae (National Princess Daisy, The Hour, and Theatre Scotland and Lincoln Center, New . Films include Miss Peregrine’s York), John Silver in Under the Black Flag Home for Peculiar ; A Royal Night Out; (Shakespeare’s Globe), Wood Demon in The Altamira; ; St. Trinian’s II—The Legend Wood Demon (Playhouse), Vronsky in Anna of Fritton’s Gold; Wild Target; St. Trinian’s; Karenina (Shared Experience), John in The Stardust; the Third; Quiet Flows the Don; Philanthropist, and the Passer By in The The Chronicles of Narnia—The Lion, the Witch Cherry Orchard (Dundee Repertory), Wilfred and the Wardrobe; Separate Lies; A Different Owen in Not About Heroes (Heroes Theatre Loyalty; People; ; To Kill a King; The Wild Company), Peter in How Like an Angel (Traverse Thornberrys Movie; Unconditional Love; The Theatre Edinburgh), and Macbeth in Macbeth Importance of Being Earnest; South Kensington; (Unnatural Acts Theatre). Television includes The Next Best Thing; ; Scott & Bailey, DCI Banks, Banished, Mr. Inspector Gadget; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Selfridge, , Silent Witness, L-R: Charlie Row, Rupert Everett, Cal MacAninch. Photo: Johan Persson Who’s Who

Garrow’s Law, , Strike Back, director/assistant producer, Jeremy Goldstein Wild at , Merlin, Blue, Sorted, Ghost Productions, Arcola, OVT, and Albany, London), Squad, Murphy’s Law, Rockface, Waking the and Lucky Stiff (assistant producer/director, Dead, Best of Both Worlds, Littlebird, Warriors, ). McLaughlin has a fresh Lake of Darkness, Speak Like a Child, Nervous adaptation of a classic novel on commission and Energy, Dangerous Lady, —The Big is working towards two productions in London , A Mind to Murder, Taggart, The Riff Raff during 2016/17. Element, The Chestnut Soldier, Alive & Kicking, The Advocates, and The Paradise Club. Films CHARLIE ROWE (Lord Alfred Douglas [Bosie]) include The Hamilton Trilogy 2, The Awakening, Theater includes The Judas Kiss (Toronto), The Screwed, Slapper, Doomsday, Rag Tale, Dear Winslow Boy (The Old Vic), and The Snowman Frankie, Breathtaking, The Point Men, Truel, (West End). Television includes Videosyncrasy Best, The Lost Son, Sentimental Education, (HBO), Red Band Society (Fox), The Secrets, The Woodlanders, Splitting Heirs, and Doctor Neverland, and Robin Hood. Films include Reitzer’s Fragment. Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, Never Let Me Go, The Boat That Rocked, and The Golden DERMOT McLAUGHLIN (Understudy: Oscar Compass. Wilde, Sandy Moffatt, Robert Ross) Trained at the Guildford School of Acting and more CREATIVE TEAM recently completed his MA in Creative Producing for Theater at Birkbeck College University of DAVID HARE (author) London. Theater credits as an actor include Hare is the author of more Taken at Midnight ( than 30 plays including and Chichester Festival Theatre), Amadeus , (with (Chichester Festival Theatre), (Savoy ), The Theatre London), As You Like It (Wooden O at Secret Rapture, Racing Bridewell Theatre), An Italian Straw Hat and Demon, , Amy’s Lark Rise (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham), View, , ’s Forty Years On (Leatherhead), , , , and Tales from Kites Hill (Community Tour, , The Judas Kiss, and The Cheltenham). His many musical theater credits Moderate Soprano. He has written more than 20 include (Theatre Royal screenplays for film and television. They include Plymouth), The Phantom of the (Cameron Licking Hitler, Dreams of Leaving, Saigon: Year Macintosh Tour), (West of the Cat, Wetherby, Damage, The Hours, Playhouse), (Singapore), The Reader, and The Worricker Trilogy: Page They’re Playing Our Song (Scarborough), The Eight, Turks & Caicos, . Go-Between (Perfect Pitch Showcase), and His first work of memoir The Blue Touch Paper the British premiere of ’s was published in the autumn of 2015. His early work Anyone Can Whistle (Everyman new film Denial has just finished shooting, and Cheltenham). Producing and directing credits the National Film Board of Canada full-length include Gaslight (company manager, , animated film of will soon be completed. Toronto), Judy, The Songbook of starring (company manager, 2015 NEIL ARMFIELD (director) Armfield is a leading UK tour), There Were Two Brothers (producer, Australian director of theater, opera, and film. He Brighton 2013, Glasgow 2014, and 2015 was co-founder of Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre and tour), Futebol: The Alternative World Cup its artistic director for 17 years, during which (associate producer, Light Up The House, 2014 time he directed more than 50 productions, tour), Cover Her Face (associate producer for with a particular focus on new and indigenous Inky Cloak, Bethnal Green Working Men’s writing, the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson, Club), Penny Arcade B!D!F!W! (associate Chekhov and Gogol, Patrick White and David Who’s Who

Hare. Notable productions include: Cloudstreet opera credits include and Eugene (toured to London twice, , Zurich, New Onegin (Opera ), Otello (Cape Town York/BAM); Diary of a Madman (with Geoffrey Opera, Western Australia Opera and Queensland Rush, toured to Moscow, St. Petersburg, New Opera), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Houston York/BAM); Exit the King (Sydney and Broadway, Grand Opera, Canadian Opera, and Lyric Opera winning Geoffrey Rush a Tony); The Book of of ), Ariadne auf Naxos (Welsh National Everything (toured to New York), and The Judas Opera and Boston Lyric Opera), and The Kiss (toured Australia starring Bille Brown). Marriage of Figaro ( and Welsh Armfield has directed for English National Opera, National Opera). Ferguson is the recipient of , Chicago the Australian Helpmann Award and four Green Lyric Opera, National Opera, Room Awards for design. He was also nominated Zurich Opera, Bregenz Festival, and regularly for a and two with Opera Australia, Canadian Opera, Welsh in 2009 for set and costume design for the National Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. He Broadway adaption of Exit the King. has directed new by Alan John and Brett Dean, as well as Mozart, Strauss, and cycles SUE BLANE (costume design) After leaving of Janacek and Britten. Armfield’s feature film Central School of and Design, London, with Candy, starring and Abbie Cornish, a diploma in 1972, Blane spent two years at screened in competition at the Berlinale and the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow. Since then she played 20 other international festivals. Since has designed productions for most of the leading directing this production of The Judas Kiss in theater, opera, and ballet companies in the UK, London in 2012/13, he has directed Wagner’s and many abroad. She created the costumes for in Melbourne, Tristan the original cult Horror Show for stage and und Isolde in Washington, an adaptation of Kate film. Other film credits include Peter Greenaway’s Grenville’s The Secret River, and Geoffrey Rush The Draughtsman’s Contract and Julien in King Lear (both for Sydney Theatre Company) Temple’s Absolute Beginners. Her production and his feature film Holding the Man. Armfield (set and costume) credits include designs for has won two AFI Awards, eight Helpmann (Scottish Opera), The Awards, and many Sydney Theatre, Victorian Thieving Magpie, The Duenna (Opera North), Green Room, and Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle Christmas Eve (ENO), A Midsummer Night’s Awards. He has honorary doctorates from Dream (RSC Stratford-upon-Avon, Stockholm, Sydney and NSW Universities, and in 2007 was and New National Theatre, Tokyo), appointed Officer of the Order of Australia. (), The Relapse (National Theatre), Alice in Wonderland and The DALE FERGUSON (set design) Ferguson has Nutcracker (English National Ballet), and Sylvia worked extensively with major theater and opera (Birmingham Royal Ballet). Costume designs companies around the world. Theater credits include (National Theatre), Porgy include season of Exit the King and Bess, Carmen (Glyndebourne), Fanciulla and the English tour of The Convict Opera. In del West (, ), , Love Australia he has worked primarily for the Sydney for 3 Oranges (ENO), Canterville Ghost (ENB), Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Lohengrin (Bayreuth), Into the Woods (Old Vic), Malthouse Theatre, and the Belvoir Street The Planets (Royal Ballet), Disney’s Hunchback Theatre where this production originated. Recent of Notre Dame (), ’s productions include The Blind Giant is Dancing, Dance of the Vampires (Vienna, Paris, Berlin), Jerry’s Girls, , Night on Bald Mountain, Kiss Me, Kate (Volksoper, Vienna), The Judas Dance of Death, Timeshare, The Speechmaker, Kiss (Hampstead, Theatre Royal Bath, and West , , End), Aladdin (a three-act ballet at Birmingham Top Girls, , Summer of ), (Châtelet, Paris and Seventeenth Doll, The Drowsy Chaperone, God Chicago Lyric Opera), and currently, a trilogy of of Carnage, and August: Osage County. Recent new productions for Welsh National Opera: ’s Who

Barber of Seville, , and and Guildenstern Are Dead (and Theatre Royal Figaro Gets a Divorce. She is one of few theater Haymarket). Other credits include The King and I designers to be a Royal Designer for Industry (, UK tour); (Albery); (RDI), and in 2007 was awarded an MBE, by ’s Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells, Her Majesty, the Queen, for services to drama. UK, US, Japan, Korea tours); Dorian Gray, The Car Man, Edward Scissorhands, Highland Fling, RICK FISHER (lighting design) Born in Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty (Dublin); Oliver! Philadephia, Fisher is the winner of Tony, Drama (London Palladium, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Billy and UK tour); and (UK tour, North Elliot on Broadway and a Helpmann Award American tour, and Holland). Groothuis was for in Sydney, two Olivier Awards awarded Live! magazine’s Sound Designer of the for Best Lighting Design, and a Tony Award Year Award for his work on Oklahoma! and Oh for . Theater includes Waste What a Lovely War. (National Theatre), Peter Pan (Regent’s Park), Sunny Afternoon (West End), CARA BECKINSALE CDG (original casting (West End and Broadway), The Merchant of director) Theater experience includes Little Eyolf Venice and Othello (Singapore), Galileo (RSC), and Dark Earth and the Light Sky (Almeida), The Judas Kiss (Hampstead, West End and Mr. Foote’s Other Leg (Hampstead Theatre and tour), and (West End). Previous West End), Dealer’s Choice (Royal & Derngate work includes An Inspector Calls (West End), Northampton), (Almeida, West End and Jerry Springer the Opera, Blue/Orange (National BAM/New York; 3 Olivier Awards), Raving and Theatre and West End), Far Away (New York), A The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre), Number (Royal Court), Disney’s The Hunchback Chariots of Fire (West End transfer), Cat on a of Notre Dame (Berlin), Via Dolorosa (Royal Hot Tin Roof (West Yorkshire Playhouse), and Court and Broadway), and Matthew Bourne’s The Judas Kiss (Hampstead Theatre, West End, (London, , Broadway and Toronto). Television includes Witless, Big and world tour). Musicals and opera includes Bad World, Home and Away (London episodes), (Japan), (Regent’s Park), Coma Girl, Stella Vexed, Touch of Frost, Time The King and I (Paris and Chicago), Sweeney of Your Life, The State Within, Beneath the Todd (Paris, Houston, San Francisco), Oscar Skin, and Recovery. Radio includes Victory. (Philadelphia), Falstaff (Los Angeles), and 20 Films include London Town, Heart of Lightness operas for Santa Fe Opera. (selected for Film Festival 2014), Forget Me Not (London Independent Film PAUL GROOTHUIS (sound design) Born in Awards Best Film 2010), The Dyatlov Pass Holland, Groothuis trained as a stage manager Incident, Creation, The Nutcracker, Secret of at Central School of Speech and Drama. Moonacre, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, and Good. Between 1984 and 2003, he was a member of the sound department at the National Theatre ALAN JOHN (composer) John is a composer, where his designs included Anything Goes, musical director, musician, and actor. Theater His Dark Materials, , My work includes , The Diary of Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, Sunday in the Park a Madman, , and Stuff Happens with George, and The Wind in the Willows. At (all for Company B Belvoir); , Chichester Festival Theatre, his work includes The White Guard, Gallipoli, Mother Courage Mack & Mabel, A Damsel in Distress, Amadeus, and Her Children, and Hedda Gabler (all for Guys and Dolls (and West End), (and Sydney Theatre Company); As You Like It, West End), Neville’s Island (and West End), Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Henry IV (all for The Pajama Game (and West End), Private Bell Shakespeare). Music theater work includes Lives (and ), Kiss Me, Kate the hugely successful opera The Eighth Wonder (and The Old Vic), Sweeney Todd (and Adelphi for Opera Australia, Through the Looking Glass Theatre. Olivier nomination), and Rosencrantz and How to Kill Your Husband for Victorian

Charlie Rowe and Rupert Everett in The Judas Kiss. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann Who’s Who

Opera. Television work includes The Shark Net, and the ballets Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella The Farm, and The Beautiful Lie. Feature films (Tokyo). Credits as costume supervisor include include Looking for Alibrandi, The Bank, and The Merchant of Venice (Broadway), plays in Holding the Man. John was awarded an APRA/ London and New York including Les Liaisons Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award Dangereuses, and operas for Covent Garden, for Best Music in a Feature Film, Short Film, Glyndebourne, ENO, Innsbruck, Toronto, Miniseries/Telemovie, and was nominated for a and Washington, DC, and the Royal Opera’s Drama Desk award for The Diary of a Madman. forthcoming The Importance of Being Earnest. The Eighth Wonder won a Helpmann Award and Many ballet productions include new works Through the Looking Glass took a Green Room by , Russell Maliphant, Award for Best New Operatic Work in 2008. Wayne McGregor, and Hofesh Shechter, and reconstructions of works by MacMillan and JONATHAN O’BOYLE (associate director) Ashton for London’s Royal Ballet; revivals of O’Boyle is an associate director at Theatre503, Cranko’s Onegin, and new productions of The and is currently trainee associate director at Nutcracker and harlequinades for the Tivoli Chichester Festival Theatre. Directing credits Gardens . He is working on costume include Four Play, Sense of an Ending (Time designs for Mahagonny for Royal Danish Opera. Out Critics Choice), and Water Under the Board (Theatre503), (Central School of JOSIE THOMAS (costume supervisor/wardrobe Speech and Drama), The Surplus (), mistress) Thomas has been costume supervisor The Verb, To Love, and Made In Britain (Old on shows including Good People (West End Red Lion), All the Ways to Say Goodbye (Young transfer Noel Coward Theatre), Summer Vic, 5 Plays), Bash Latterday Plays (Trafalgar Day’s Dream (Finborough Theatre), The Glass Studios/Old Red Lion; Time Out Critics Choice), Menagerie (The Theatre, Chipping Norton), Last Online Today and Guinea Pigs (Crucible The Possibilities (Tristan Bates Theatre), Lay New Writers’ Project Sheffield Crucible Studio), Down Your Cross, and Calibre. 45 (Hampstead and Credit and The Monster Bride (Tristan Bates Downstairs). Film and television credits Theatre). Associate director credits include includes SUS, Chucklevision, Scoop, and Hotel Mack & Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre and Trubble as costume assistant. From 2009 to UK tour), Bull (Young Vic, Sheffield Crucible 2014 Thomas was the wardrobe mistress at and New York), This Is My Family (Sheffield Hampstead Theatre working on most of the and UK tour), Amadeus (Chichester in-house productions from What Fatima Did, Festival Theatre), The Scottsboro Boys (Young The Judas Kiss, to Good People. She is also an Vic), Manon (Royal Opera House), My Fair Lady occasional costume maker for Grange Park Opera and The Village Bike (Sheffield Crucible), and and Chichester Festival Theatre. Trained at Royal Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Southwark Welsh College of Music and Drama. Playhouse). Trained at Central School of Speech and Drama and Birkbeck . HELEN KEELAN (wigs supervisor) Keelan completed her training at the London College of ALLAN WATKINS (costume supervisor) Fashion in Make-up and for the Performing Watkins has created costume designs for many Arts. Since then she has worked extensively RSC productions including Romeo and Juliet, in musical theater, opera, and ballet as a wigs , and Coriolanus. Other design work mistress. Credits include the Musical; includes Richard II, King Lear, The Government ; Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Jerry Inspector, and the operas Leonora and King Springer — the Opera; Matthew Bourne’s Swan Priam. Credits as design assistant include Lake, Nutcracker, and The Car Man; Phantom Mahagonny (Florence Maggio and Paris Opera), of the Opera; Guys and Dolls; Porgy and Bess; The Trojans (Florence), A Midsummer Night’s and Billy Elliot. She has also worked at the Royal Dream (Stockholm Dramaten), La Bayadère Opera House and English National Opera and (London, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Moscow), has been wigs mistress at Grange Park Opera Who’s Who

for 10 years. Keelan worked as wigs mistress on Richard III, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors, The Judas Kiss in London and on the UK tour. Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, and The Taming of the Shrew (UK ANDREW MURRELL (associate lighting) Recent and world tours). He won the 2015 TTA Award lighting design for shows includes Into the Hoods for Theater Sound and was nominated for Off (London and UK tour), Mad Hatter’s T Party West End Sound Design 2015. (Linbury Theatre), Groove On Down the Road Davidgregory.org.uk (QEH), and Matthew Bourne’s Mr. Wonderful Memorial Gala (Sadler’s Wells) and Early SIMON MARLOW (production manager) Marlow Adventures (UK tour and Sadler’s Wells). As an became a production manager having previously associate, Murrell has worked The Judas Kiss worked as a stage manager for English National (London, UK tour, Toronto), and with Matthew Opera and Scottish Opera. For 20 years he Bourne’s New Adventures for the last 15 years, was co-owner of Crosbie Marlow Associates; recreating the lighting for Swan Lake, Sleeping he runs Marlow Production Management. Beauty, Cinderella, Nutcracker!, The Car Man, Previous productions include Disney’s Beauty Edward Scissorhands, Dorian Gray, Play Without and the Beast and in London, Words, and Highland Fling internationally. Other ’s Sunset Boulevard, work includes (UK tours), Cabaret , The Beautiful Game, ( Theatre), Disruption (Barbican), and numerous international productions of Celebrity Autobiography ( The Phantom of the Opera. Other ), David Michelek Slow Dancing (Village productions include Showboat, Notre Dame Underground), Dylan Moran—LIVE! (Palace and de Paris, Napoleon, Lautrec, The Full Monty Wyndhams Theatres), Columbia—The Opera Musical, Mamma Mia!, Contact, The Graduate, (BAC), The Orlando Consort, and Huun Huur The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Lady in the Tu (East Neuk Festival). Murrell won the Phillips Van, , , Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Technical Art, , Ducktastic, I Am Theatre Awards 2015. Trained at LAMDA, his My Own Wife, Daddy Cool, Dirty Dancing, lighting career began at the Thorndike Theatre Spamalot, Brief Encounter, , God of Leatherhead and The Old Vic. Carnage, Deathtrap, , , Sister Act, Backbeat, The Lady Killers, Ghost DAVID GREGORY (associate design) Theater the Musical, Viva Forever, , and credits include Romeo and Juliet and Alice in The Full Monty (Play). Marlow has technically Wonderland (Watermill Theatre); Brenda (High managed 19 international productions of Tide Festival and Hackney Yard); When We Mamma Mia!. In Toronto, he recently production Were Women (Orange Tree Theatre); Generation managed Backbeat, The Last Confession, Titanic of Z (White Chapel); Our Friends the Musical, and Gaslight, and in London, the Enemy (UK tour and NYC); New Voices and In the Heights. Writing Festival sound designer and Various 24 marlowproductionmanagement.com Hour Plays New Voices and Celebrity Plays (The Old Vic); Luce, These Trees are Made of Blood, MICKY MURRAY (production carpenter) and Next Fall (); NYT rep Murray began his career with the Royal season 2014 (Ambassadors Theatre); Red Forest Shakespeare Company at the Theatre (Belarus Free Theatre and Young Vic); Housed and on numerous international tours. As (OVNV); and Eldorado (Arcola production carpenter he has worked on many Theatre); Some Girl I Used to Know (UK tour West End and Broadway productions including and Arts Theatre, London); eBay Pantomime , Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, The Phantom (); Lament Opera (Tête à of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion Tête and Arcola); and (Royal Court King, Mamma Mia!, and Jersey Boys. He has Theatre). For Propeller Theatre Company: Pocket travelled the world with most of these shows. Henry, Pocket Merchant, Pocket Comedy, Who’s Who

BA PENNEY (company stage manager) Theater (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Offensive Fouls credits include Enron, A Month in the Country, (Hustle ‘n Bustle Theatre), and Danny, King of South Downs/The Browning Version, Heartbreak the Basement (Roseneath Theatre); assistant House, , Amadeus, Taken at stage manager for Henry V (Stratford Festival), Midnight, The Rehearsal, Young Chekhov (all The Diary of Anne Frank (Theatre Aquarius), CFT); Equus, , Blithe Spirit, The Drowsy Chaperone (Thousand Islands Three Days of Rain, Tommy, Disney’s Beauty Playhouse), and La Bohème (Canadian Opera and the Beast, Jerry Springer—the Opera, Kiss Company). Harrison graduated with honors from Me Kate, Contact, Guys and Dolls, The Secret Queen’s University Department of Drama. Garden (all West End); Billy Elliot, Beauty and the Beast and (Denmark); American PAUL PUTTOCK (rehearsal assistant) Stage Psycho (Almeida); Rhinoceros and Piano/Forte manager theater credits include Mack & Mabel (Royal Court); six years with the RSC including for Chichester Festival Theatre (assistant stage world tours of Peter Brook’s production of A manager; UK & tour); in the West End Midsummer Night’s Dream, ’s (ASM), Les Misérables (ASM Book Hedda Gabler and Sherlock Holmes on Cover), Jersey Boys (ASM Book Cover), Wicked Broadway; Carmen Jones (Japan); and 35 (ASM Book Cover), The Wizard of Oz (ASM productions at the Lyric Hammersmith. Trained Book Cover), Viva Forever! (ASM Book Cover), at RADA. (ASM), (ASM Book Cover), Once (ASM Book Cover), The Mousetrap SOPHIA DALTON (deputy stage manager) (DSM Dep), Matilda the Musical (ASM Dep), Theater credits include Hapgood, Firebird, Good and (ASM Book Cover). Other People, Drawing the Line, The Empty Quarter, A theater credits include The Scottsboro Boys Human Being Died That Night, The Judas Kiss (ASM Book Cover—Young Vic), in Concert and The Complaint (all Hampstead Theatre), (ASM—). Workshops include Who Cares, Fireworks, Adler & Gibb (Royal Viva Forever! and Made in Dagenham. Trained Court Theatre), Thérèse Raquin, Relative Values at RADA. (Theatre Royal Bath), The Winslow Boy, (Octagon Theatre Bolton), No Man’s Land, R. MICHAEL BLANCO (American stage The Removalists, The Crucible, Eating Ice Cream manager) Blanco has been the stage manager With Your Eyes Closed, The Importance of at BAM for Karole Armitage’s The Predator’s Ball; Being Earnest, Ruby Moon, Beckett x3, Who’s ’s St. Matthew Passion and Così Afraid of , John Gabriel Borkman, fan tutte; Playing Shakespeare USA with John A Property of the Clan, Hamlet, Private Lives, Barton; Sydney Theater Company’s White Devil Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of and Hedda Gabler; Donmar Warehouse’s Uncle Sommerset, Daylight Atheist, The Goat or Who Vanya/Twelfth Night; the RSC’s , is Sylvia (all Queensland Theatre Company). A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hecuba; Trained at Queensland University of Technology, Watermill/Propeller’s Merchant of Venice; and Australia. Vesturport Theatre’s Metamorphosis; Faust: A Love Story, The Young Vic’s A Doll’s House; KATHLEEN HARRISON (assistant stage and Fugard Theatre’s A Human Being Died That manager) Theater includes Titanic, The Wizard Night. At the Metropolitan Opera: Kirov of Oz, Rock of Ages, My Mother’s Lesbian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, and Robert Wilson’s Le Jewish Wiccan Wedding, The Sound of Martyre de Saint Sebastian. Music, Dirty Dancing, We Will Rock You (all for ). Elsewhere: assistant CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE (producer) stage manager for North American tour of The Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the UK’s Wizard of Oz (Troika Entertainment); stage flagship theaters with an international reputation manager for Henry and Alice: Into the Wild, The for producing work of the highest quality, ranging Marvelous Wonderettes, and The Drowning Girls from large-scale musicals to distinguished Who’s Who

dramas. Situated in a cathedral city on ’s A Delicate Balance, Who’s Afraid of Virginia south coast, the Festival Theatre’s bold thrust Woolf, The Weekend, Me and Mamie O’Rourke, stage design makes it one of the UK’s most Anything Goes, Vita and Virginia, Amy’s View, striking playhouses; a studio theater, the Minerva Skylight (1996), The Ride Down Mount Morgan, Theatre, sits nearby. The newly refurbished Burn This, Mad House in Goa, Torch Song Festival Theatre reopened in 2014, following Trilogy, The Seagull, Lettice and Lovage, Chess, the completion of a major project to restore J J Farr, Interpreters, Orphans, Another Country, and upgrade its Grade II* listed building, and Anyone for Denis?, and Goosepimples. New now proudly matches its world-class artistic York theater credits include Lazarus, Skylight reputation with world-class spaces. Many of its (2015), The Audience, Back productions have further lives beyond Chichester. on Broadway, A Behanding in Spokane, God of In addition to The Judas Kiss, co-presented by Carnage, Exit the King, Frost/Nixon, The Vertical CFT in Toronto and New York, Jonathan Kent’s Hour, , , The Boy from Oz, staging of Young Chekhov—the playwright’s Gypsy, The Big Love, The Blue Room, , three early plays Platonov, Ivanov, and The Vita and Virginia, Amy’s View, Skylight (1996), Seagull, in versions by David Hare—transfers Chess, and Lettice and Lovage. Australia theater to the National Theatre of Great Britain from credits include Broadway to Oz, The Boy from July. Guys and Dolls is currently playing in the Oz Arena Tour, The Boy from Oz, and Talking West End and simultaneously touring the UK Heads. Films include Atonement, Notes on a Singin’ in the Rain is on tour in Scandal, Closer, The Hours, Iris, A Month by the and Australia. Gypsy with was Lake, and Another Country. Television includes filmed during its West End run at the Savoy The Crown (). Theatre; the BBC broadcast was watched by more than a half million viewers and a DVD will THEATRE ROYAL BATH PRODUCTIONS be released soon. Alongside its productions, the (producer) Theatre Royal Bath Productions is the theater has a much-valued program of learning Theatre Royal Bath’s production arm. West End and participation work. For more information, credits include ’s The Birthday Party visit cft.org.uk (Piccadilly Theatre), ’s Entertaining Chairman: Sir William Castell Mr. Sloane (Arts Theatre), Ron Hutchinson’s Artistic Director: Jonathan Church The Beau (Theatre Royal Haymarket), David Executive Director: Alan Finch Williamson’s Up for Grabs (Wyndham’s Theatre), Theatre Manager and Licensee: Janet Bakose Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party (New Ambassadors/ Director of Marketing & Communications: Lydia Theatre), Shakespeare’s Romeo & Cassidy Juliet (Arts Theatre), Harold Pinter’s Betrayal Director of Development: Katie Cotton (), ’s Happy Technical Co-ordinator: Sam Garner-Gibbons Days (Arts Theatre), ’s The Finance Director: Simon Parsonage Dresser (Duke of York’s Theatre), Bernard Shaw’s Education Director: Dale Rooks You Never Can Tell (Garrick Theatre), Amy’s View Head of Production: Dan Watkins by David Hare (Garrick Theatre), Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville ROBERT FOX (producer) London theater credits Theatre), Legal Fictions by (Savoy include , The Audience (2015), Theatre), by Skylight (2014), Fatal Attraction, Stephen Ward, (), Shaw’s Pygmalion (Old The Audience (2013), The Judas Kiss, South Vic), Alan Bennett’s Enjoy (Gielgud Theatre), Downs/The Browning Version, The Harder They Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker (Trafalgar Studios), Come, The Lady from Dubuque, Frost/Nixon, Noel Coward’s Private Lives (Vaudeville Theatre), Hedda Gabler, The Breath of Life, Vincent in Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Comedy Brixton, Masterclass, Closer, When She Danced, Theatre), Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals , Three Tall Women, The (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Coward’s Blithe Importance of Being Earnest, The Caretaker, Spirit (), Bennett’s The Madness of Who’s Who

George III (Apollo Theatre), Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s in the US, and in Japan and Italy. Executive Party (Wyndham’s), Hare’s The Judas Kiss producer for Headlong Theatre (as maternity (Duke of York’s), ’s Quartermaine’s cover) 2008—09, in which time the company Terms (Wyndham’s Theatre), ’s produced Six Characters in Search of an Author Relatively Speaking (Wyndham’s Theatre), (Chichester and West End), King Lear with Pete August Wilson’s (Duchess Theatre), Postlethwaite ( Everyman and Young ’s Another Country (Trafalgar Vic), and ENRON (Chichester Festival Theatre Studios), Coward’s Relative Values (Harold and Royal Court). Pinter Theatre), ’s Speed-the- Plow (), Bad Jews by Joshua HAMPSTEAD THEATRE (originating theater) Harmon (Arts Theatre/Theatre Royal Haymarket), Hampstead Theatre is one of London’s leading Coward’s Hay Fever (Duke of York’s Theatre), venues which focuses on producing original The Father by Florian Zeller (Wyndham’s and entertaining theater. From the start of Theatre/Duke of York’s Theatre), Mrs. Henderson its theatrically rich 55-year history, it quickly Presents (Noel Coward Theatre), and The attracted a generation of talent that helped to Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys (Theatre Royal redefine British theater, that not only entertained Haymarket). but propelled the art form forwards; from Harold Chairman: Stephen Ross Pinter testing out his early plays to the likes of Managing Director: Danny Moar Mike Leigh, David Hare, , and Finance Director: Gabby Akbar Terry Johnson—all starting their illustrious General Manager: Eugene Hibbert careers here. Since Edward Hall took over as Production Administrator: Nicky Palmer artistic director in 2010, Hampstead Theatre Finance Supervisor: Cheryl Hardy has experienced its most successful years ever. Production Associate: Katherine Lazare Many plays that originated at Hampstead have gone on to fill theaters all over the country GREG RIPLEY-DUGGAN for HAMPSTEAD and beyond. The Judas Kiss is one of many THEATRE PRODUCTIONS (producer) Hampstead Theatre productions where demand Greg Ripley-Duggan is Edward Hall’s executive has outstripped supply and transferred elsewhere producer and co-chief executive at Hampstead to meet demand. Autumn 2015 marked the Theatre. West End productions include Mr. fifth anniversary of Hampstead Downstairs, Foote’s Other Leg, Sunny Afternoon, Good Hampstead Theatre’s intimate studio, which People, The Judas Kiss, Ecstasy, The Old has produced more than 40 new plays since Masters, Life x 3 (NT Production), On the opening. Hampstead Downstairs is solely Ceiling, Peggy For You, and The Memory of dedicated to showcasing new and unperformed Water (Olivier Award Winner). Tours include plays. Since 2013, Hampstead Theatre has Misconceptions, Heroes, Spend Spend Spend, free-streamed one production a year over the I Am Shakespeare, In the Club, Harvest, and internet as part of our Access for All program. , My Part in His Downfall. Executive Anyone with access to a computer can watch producer for Shakespeare’s Globe 1996—2006, one of our plays for free and . So far, with responsibility for each season’s commercial our five free-streamed productions have attracted strategy and the presentation of 41 plays, as more than 50,000 views in 86 countries. well as seasons of work in New York, on tour Hampsteadtheatre.com