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An Introduction to the World of the Play

Grief is a funny thing. Gil’s boyfriend has left him, his acting career isn’t exactly taking May 28–Jun 29, 2014 off, and his mother just passed away. He’s not taking it all very …. 2 The Setting Wild with Happy

3 Meet the Playwright By AUNT GLO. You’re in GRIEF! GRIEF! I saw that on that Dr. Medical something. That Directed by Jeremy B. Cohen woman wrote about it. Lizabeth...Cuba...Gooding! The stages of grief! You got, 4 Leaning into Grief stage one and two! Denial mixed in with a little anger. 6 Cinderella as Inspiration

9 Bios: The Cast The Cast In her 1969 book On Death and Dying, Elisabeth (in order of appearance) 10 Bios: The Artistic Team Cuba Gooding Kübler-Ross introduced the theory of the Forrest McClendon* Gil five stages of grief. Often applied not just to the dying, 12 Bios: The Staff but to anyone going through a life-threatening or life- James Ijames* Terry, Church Nurse 13 Q&A with Kwame and Stephen Stages altering event, these stages are denial, anger, bargaining, Chivas Michael* Mo, Elder Bovane 5 depression, and acceptance. 15 Audience Services Stephanie Berry* Adelaide, Aunt Glo ofGrief: In Wild with Happy, Gil faces the recent loss of his mother 19 Supporting the Annual Fund at a time when he already feels alone and rejected—both 25 Preview: 2014/15 Season Stage Manager by work and by his former lover. To top it all off, he must Laura Smith* 26 Center Stage Celebrates also deal with the presence of his Aunt Glo, who copes Caitlin Powers* Assistant Stage Manager with her own grief by clinging to the funeral rites of 28 Staff * Member of Actors’ Equity Association Denial their community. But Glo isn’t far off in her assessment of Gil’s state. The Artistic Team Despite all evidence to the contrary—and his insistence Anger that he’s fine—Gil has detached himself, in a phase of Jeremy B. Cohen Director Bargaining denial and isolation, from family and the traditions that Tony Cisek Scenic Designer Aunt Glo wants for his mother. Alejo Vietti Costume Designer Depression Resisting the consoling efforts of a sensitive funeral Robert Wierzel Lighting Designer director and his outrageous best friend, Gil can’t repress Acceptance the memory of the times he should have been there Robert Kaplowitz Sound Designer and Additional Music for his mother as she faced her fate. In an attempt at Jeff Sugg Projection Designer avoidance, and denying his need to grieve, he rushes back Season 51 Presenting Sponsor: to his familiar—albeit floundering—life in New York. Catherine María Rodríguez Production Dramaturg

In his haste to deal with his loss and move on, Gil lashes out in anger. He refuses to see Pat McCorkle Casting Director what good religion ever did for his mother. He fights against Glo’s demand for a big memorial. He blames his mother for what he considers her naively childlike belief in Media Partner: magic, wonder, and hope.

Gil may think he’s had the last word, but as Kübler-Ross warns, there are still more stages left on the road to acceptance. There will be no intermission.

PLEASE TURN OFF ALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES. AUNT GLO. Strange you laughing like that. Season 51 at Center Stage is made possible by: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY 410.986.4080 (during performances). GIL. I feel like I am having an out-of-body experience.

AUNT GLO. Mmm hmm. I don’t know what stage that is. World Premiere production by

Center Stage is funded by an operating grant (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director) from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant Wild with Happy was developed, in part, with the assistance of The Sundance Institute Theatre Laboratory. cultural community where the arts thrive. Wild with Happy was also developed at TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA as part of their New Works Festival (Robert Kelly, Artistic Director; Phil Santora, Managing Director).

Wild with Happy | 1 Setting MEET time and Place The playwright

Playwright Colman Domingo Colman Domingo is an award-winning actor, playwright, and director known for his work on stage, television, and film. The proud son of Clarence and TIME: Edith Bowles, Domingo was born The Present and raised in , where he completed a degree in journalism at and where the New York PLACE: journey of Wild with Happy begins. Philadelphia Philadelphia & on the Road To pen Wild with Happy, Domingo drew inspiration from a trip to When asked what fairy tale Disney World, from his mother’s passing, and from the experiences character he would be if given the of close friends. The play is a celebratory satire about love, loss, and choice, Domingo laughed, “This faith. Reflecting on Wild and his work as a playwright, Domingo shared, “I’m trying to take you to a place in your dreams. Other sounds so silly, but I would be Dopey from Snow White and the Richmond playwrights can write about the troubles in the world and the politics of the world. I want to focus on magic and taking your Seven Dwarfs. He’s marching to his breath away.” own drum. I don’t know if he’s really

As a playwright, Domingo showcases a range of influences, from aware of the story in many ways. magical realism to Shakespeare and Ionesco. His plays, in which But I think he’s an innocent. he frequently acts, have enjoyed productions and critical success He may be a little off—but very across the United States and internationally. Domingo is currently sweet and earnest.” under commission from American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater Underground, the off-Broadway Inner Voices Savannah series, and People’s Light and Theater Company. He has been awarded residencies at Sundance Theater Lab, Yaddo, and Banff Playwrights Colony (Canada).

Jacksonville Domingo has starred on Broadway (including The Scottsboro Boys with Forrest McClendon, seen in this production as Gil), television, and in film. In addition to his artistic credits, Domingo also serves as an educator. He is on the faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and has taught, guest lectured, and mentored at various institutions, including the Savannah College of Art and Design, The New York Writers Institute, Temple University, The Art Institute of , and Community College of Philadelphia (The Center for Male Engagement).

2 Wild with Happy | 3 Playwright Colman Domingo on Grief, Healing, and Cinderella Stories Leaning into Interview by Catherine María Rodríguez, my dearest friends shows up late. He has a baby in his Satire is, I think, very honest. Maybe it’s my point of view as a things up, to fill a void. Two, I was also inspired by faith and belief. Production Dramaturg arms—no one still knows who the baby was. He runs playwright. I’m not the child of ; I think I’m more of Anika, my best friend, took me to Disney World. (She gave me the up, puts the baby down with someone, and comes up. the child of Nicky Silver, of Ionesco. There’s something about lifting title of the play, because she actually said, “Look at these people! Catherine Maria Rodriguez: I’ve heard you say that in For my brothers and sisters and me, it’s this precious our experience up so that it doesn’t just live in realism; I think Everybody’s just wild with happy.”) That place really takes everyone your own healing process, after losing your mother, moment, the last time we’re gonna see mom’s face. that we live in magical realism as well. Also, this state of grief, for back to their childhood to believe in magic again. I wanted to take you “leaned into grief.” What do you mean by that? And all of a sudden, my friend sticks his face in. I’m me, is odd. Just like a fairy tale, it’s surreal. I think it’s fun that the a character and take everything away from him and then challenge Colman Domingo: No one ever knows unless you like “What the—what are you doing?!” So not everyone audience puts it together that they’ve been living in a fairy tale him to believe again. Because my own personal belief is that you’ve lose a parent and you hear those words that your is really equipped to handle grief. But they love you, and the whole time. There’s always that moment [in fairy tales] where got to believe in something in order to live. You gotta have some mother’s gone...and I know a sound came out of me they’re doing their best. And that’s the thing, I think, they’re like, “Oh… I already had the power, I had it inside of me all faith, some hope; if you don’t, you’re a walking corpse. that I’ve never heard before, and I never will hear again, especially around death: everyone is doing their best along.” But no matter what, you can’t deny it—if you are a princess, hopefully. But it was an animal sound. It was that deep. with what they can. you’re going to be a princess, you know? Who is Wild for? And what are you looking to leave your It was howling for, I don’t know, the Alpha and the audiences with? This is a new play woven from personal stories, but This is the first production in which you’re not playing the Omega. I have no idea. But once you feel that, you think I honestly think that Wild is for everyone, but especially for the it also borrows from—and winks at—a very old and character of Gil. What’s changed for you in that time? you’re devastated and you’ll never be the same. I really cynics in the world. For those people who have seen everything, universal tale: it’s a Cinderella story. And how is it to just watch? didn’t know who I was anymore. All of a sudden I’m an but somewhere in their most private moments they want to orphan. A dear friend said to me “Let it wash over you. Wild with Happy is a lot of gathered stories. For me, It’s great. I think I’m able to clarify the thoughts even more. I see believe again. I want to be breathless in the theater, I do. I want Don’t fight it.” I took that advice. I didn’t try to hold it in. honestly, this story is not about me: this is your story. even more objectively how tough a play this is—it’s really hard to everyone shoulder to shoulder, laughing together, crying together, I was raw. It hurts, and you have to allow it to happen. It’s all of our story. It started to become that fairy tale. do. Where I am with [the play] now, I am very proud that it’s out saying, “Oh my God, that’s my story, too.” I want to come and be I already had this protagonist, and I already knew that into the world and that it’s for another actor to experience. I get taken away somewhere with everyone else. I really hope that Was Wild with Happy a part of that healing process he lost his mother, so it’s kind of a happy accident to just watch and be delighted by the way I’m hearing lines. I’m a young people come to see this show, as well as people who’ve seen for you? that these two thematically and structurally make playwright who will change something based on what the actor is everything, maybe a bit more jaded. That’s my audience. The more I think so. I wrote another play, A Boy and His Soul, sense. With all the research I was doing, I was looking doing. I can actually help give you words, or just change something jaded, the better. Because I have a challenge for you: I’d like for you which was more of that process of picking up the at deconstructing these characters, to heighten because I think it makes more sense coming out of your mouth this to just relax your arms, open up your heart again. That’s the power pieces. Wild with Happy was more of an examination everything a bit. We’re able to examine human conflict way. I’m all for it. of theater and what we can do. To just lift us, maybe to lift us to of grief, and a satire. Really looking at all the absurdities and very deep things like grief if there’s a little satire possibility again, and to hope. that surround death. You know, like the idea that one attached to it. What sparked you to write Wild with Happy? minute she’s your mother, the next someone is calling Two events. One, I was inspired by the loss of my own mother, her “the body.” No one prepares you for any of this. I and the losses of many of my friends and their mothers. I was remember when we were at the funeral home, one of interested in what people do when they’re grieving to cover

4 Wild with Happy | 5 In search of You’re in GRIEF! The stages of grief! You got, stage one and two! Denial, mixed with a little anger. It’s something. my mother’s garden, People must know when it’s their time. I found my own. —Aunt Glo, Wild with Happy –Alice Walker

From a conversation These tales with Professor Jack Zipes: were told to give There’s something people hope very natural that you could A dream is a wish your The display of that Cinderella work through represents, this heart makes here was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she grief makes more sorrow, that story represents: When you’re felt her end drawing near she called to her daughter to come demands than you could work that natural love, fast asleep. Tnear her bed, and said, “Dear child, be pious and good, grief itself. through loss, that and God will always take care of you, and I will look down How few men deep love that you could work In dreams you lose upon you from heaven, and will be with you.” And then she closed her are sad in their binds mother and through injustice. your heartaches: eyes and expired. The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and child together. own company. • • • wept, and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow The key is a turning point, F Whatever you wish for, or Wild with Happy, playwright Colman covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the when the protagonist The tales tend to be you keep. –Seneca early spring [it] melted it away. (whether male or female) Domingo drew from many inspirations, counter-tales to the shows true grief. It is at including his own fractured take on the reality in which the tellers –Walt Disney’s Cinderella […] and to Cinderella, her father gave [a] hazel-twig. She thanked him, that point that other traditional Cinderella story. For some insight or writers are living. We and went to her mother’s grave, and planted this twig there, weeping so It’s all right to cry people come to the aid of could even say that today. bitterly that the tears fell upon it and watered it, and it flourished and on grief and loss in fairy tales generally, Crying gets the sad the person who’s crying We’re living in a really became a fine tree. Cinderella went to see it three times a day, and wept and the very special role of the mother in Sometimes crying or weeping. You don’t find perverse world. And why and prayed, and each time a white bird rose up from the tree, and if she out of you or laughing are the that type of grieving—or Cinderella, production dramaturg Catherine do we tell tales and go uttered any wish the bird brought her whatever she had wished for. only options left, and It’s all right to cry protecting of the child— María Rodgríguez turned to Jack Zipes— to see movies that have laughing feels better –Cinderella, Jacob and Wilhem Grimm It might make you in other tale types. one of the world’s foremost experts on folk these fairy tale motifs? There is hope; we can • • • and fairy tales, and Professor Emeritus of right now. feel better. see that things could be If you show true sorrow in German and Cultural Studies at the University different. The fairy tales –Veronica Roth, Divergent –Free To Be You and Me a fairy tale, that can show of Minnesota. Here are a few of his thoughts. offer alternatives to the your integrity, your loyalty, perverse world. That your faith; and it will be notion in Cinderella and heard—not by, say, God many other tales that or anything like that, but Don’t be ashamed to weep; ‘tis right to grieve. you can work through other people—good people, Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit sorrow, loss, and injustice or sometimes animals, cannot grow without water. But there must be is really crucial for who then come to the sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, understanding what the rescue of the protagonist and when it does, the memory and love of our lost fairy tales are all about;

who has suffered a loss ones is sealed inside to comfort us. they’re very serious. or is being misjudged or –Brian Jacques, Taggerung treated unkindly.

6 Wild with Happy | 7 Photos Bios first Rehearsal The Cast

Stephanie Berry*— Shipwrecked; Wilma Theatre: Angels in Chivas Michael*—Mo Adelaide/Aunt Glo. Center America Part 1 and 2 (Barrymore Award, (and others). Center Stage: Stage: Gleam. Broadway & Supporting Actor); Philadelphia Theatre debut. Off Broadway— Off Broadway—credits Company: Grey Gardens, Ruined; The Public Theater/Royal include her one-woman Mauckingbird Theatre: The Threshing Floor, Shakespeare Co/GableStage: show, The Shaneequa The Importance of Being Earnest; InterAct Antony & Cleopatra; Classic Chronicles: The Making of a Theatre: We Are Proud To Present…. Stage Co: Romeo & Juliet; Black Woman in New York (, two Education—BA in Drama Morehouse BAM: Brooklyn Omnibus (Song Cycle, soloist); Audelco Awards); Classical Theatre of College, MFA in Acting Temple University. Lincoln Center: The Broadway Problem; Harlem: (King of France/Hostess); 2011 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging NYTW: Sliding into the Beast. Regional— Woodie King’s New Federal Theatre: Cool Philadelphia Artist recipient. Professional— : Servant of Two Masters; Blues; National Black Theatre: Macbeth; Assistant Professor of Theatre, Villanova Yale Rep/Berkeley Rep: A Doctor in Spite of National Black Theatre Festival: Iced-Out, University. James is thrilled to be making Himself; Shakespeare on the Sound: Much Shackled and Chained. Regional—Denver his Center Stage debut in this production Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Center Theatre: Gee’s Bend; Studio Theatre: of Wild with Happy. Dream; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Marcus and the Secret of Sweet; Milwaukee A Funny Thing…; Tulane Shakespeare Festival: Rep: Trouble in Mind, Gem of the Ocean; Forrest McClendon*—Gil. Hamlet; Porthouse Theatre: Oklahoma!; Center Stage staff and guests gather Mark Taper Forum: Distracted; Philadelphia Center Stage: debut. Mahogany Theatre: I Am a Man, Once on to greet the cast and crew of Wild with Theatre Company: Intimate Apparel; Broadway/London—The This Island, Flyin’ West, A Chorus Line. Happy, a tradition the Theater enjoys at Delaware Theatre: Spunk; Portland Center Scottsboro Boys (Tony Award —Fish: The True Story of a Boy in a the first rehearsal of every show. After Film Stage: King Lear; Oberlin: Hamlet; Arden nomination). Off Broadway— Men’s Prison. —New York welcoming remarks and introductions, University Theatre Company: (Barrymore Award : The University: The Winter’s Tale, Our Lady of 121st the Artistic Team gives presentations of Nomination). —The Delivery Man, Scottsboro Boys; New Federal St., Kalakkuta Show, Rocket to the Moon, their work and vision, offering the staff Film/TV Invasion, No Reservations, Finding Forrester, Theatre: : A Soul on Fire. Other Gem of the Ocean, A Month in the Country, deeper insight into the play. Staff and Blue Bloods, Louie, all of the Law & Order New York—Theater at St. Clements: ; Dillard University: The guests are then invited to observe the Mandela: A New Musical (Thembi). programs, among numerous others. Wiz, El Haj Milik. Education—MFA, NYU first reading. —Guthrie/Philadelphia Theatre Awards—Recognized as “Making a Regional Graduate Acting Program. Company: The Scottsboro Boys (Barrymore Clockwise from top left: Scenic Designer Difference” local hero of PS 123 in Harlem; Tony Cisek; Director Jeremy Cohen and 2010 recipient of the TCG/Fox Foundation Award); North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: Stephanie Berry; Forrest McClendon and Resident Actor Fellowship as a Distinguished (Friar Lawrence); Cohen; James Ijames; Colman Domingo and Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre: Othello Artist. Other Professional—Founding Cohen; seated from left: McClendon, Cohen, (title role); Lantern Theater Company: Julius Berry; standing: Robert Kaplowitz, member of Blackberry Productions Theater Caesar (title role); Zach Scott Theatre: The Domingo, Chivas Michael. Company, a Harlem-based organization that develops new works and brings theater to America Play (B. Iden Payne and Central underserved populations throughout New Texas Critics Table Awards); Westport York. Ms. Berry is a veteran actor, writer, and Playhouse: A Christmas Carol (Christmas teaching artist and has been recognized as a Past); Two River Theater: Jacques Brel Is Alive… pioneer in the field of Arts in Education. and Living in Paris (Man #1); Walnut Street Theatre: The Maids (Claire); Wilma Theater: th James Ijames*—Terry The Threepenny Opera (Street Singer); 11 (and others). Center Stage: Hour Theatre Company: Avenue X debut. Regional—Arden (Barrymore Award). Education—University Theatre: Empty Plate at the of Connecticut. Professional Adjunct Cafe du Grand Beouf, James Professor, Brind School of Theater, University and the Giant Peach, Romeo of the Arts; Artist-in-Residence, Boyer and Juliet, Superior Donuts College of Music & Dance, Temple University. (Barrymore Award, Supporting Actor), Awards—2014 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship; The Whipping Man, Endgame, Three Sisters; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship/ People’s Light and Theatre: One Flew Interdisciplinary New Performance Forms. Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Gossamer, www.forrestmcclendon.com

8 Wild with Happy | 9 Bios The Artistic Team

Center Festival, Gotham Chamber Opera. World, Tribes, Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, new transnational collaboration between Colman Domingo is an award-winning Four Noses by singer-songwriter Jonatha Stage, , Guthrie Theater, Regional—includes , A.C.T., The Accidental Trilogy. Regional—Dallas Borderlands Theater (Tucson) and El Círculo actor, playwright, and director. He is Brooke (The Duke on 42nd St.), and the world Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, San Francisco, Shakespeare (DC), Theatre Center: Fortress of Solitude; Alley: Teatral (Mexico City). Notable past credits the author of Wild with Happy (2013 premiere of Aditi Kapil’s Brahman/i (Mixed Milwaukee Rep, , South Shakespeare, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Elephant Man; The Mountaintop; Arena: The include production dramaturgy for Stones Blood). Other Regional—Credits include Coast Rep, Folger, Woolly Mammoth, Round Audelco Awards for Best Production and Goodman, Yale Rep, Guthrie, Mark Taper, Mountaintop; Shakespeare Theater: As You in His Pockets at Center Stage; The NOLA world premieres of Theresa Rebeck’s The House, Indiana Rep, Syracuse Stage, Geva Best Playwright), A Boy and His Soul (2010 Berkeley Rep. Opera—NYCO, Glimmerglass, Like It. He has also worked with Cynthia Project with the New Orleans Museum Novelist (Dorset Theatre); Smart Cookie Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Lucille Lortel Award Best Solo Show and Paris Opera (Garnier), Tokyo, Toronto, Boston, Hopkins, Laurie Anderson, and The Wooster of Art; assisting on two National New (Alliance); Adam Rapp’s Ghosts in the Intiman Theatre, Two River Theatre, Virginia GLAAD Media Award for Best Production San Diego, SFO, HGO, Omaha, Washington Group. Awards—a Lortel, an Obie, a Bessie, Play Network rolling world premieres; Cottonwoods (Victory Gardens); Scott on or off Broadway), Up Jumped Springtime, Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Theatre National, Seattle, Virginia, Chicago and two Hewes Awards. administrative and producing work at McPherson’s Scraped (Bailiwick); The Idiot and the short plays Mission of a Saint and Alliance, Theater J, GALA, Signature, Lyric, Chicago Opera Theatre, Montreal, Steppenwolf; and performance studies Box (Naked Eye Theatre Company, Open Laura Smith*—Stage Manager. Center Redemption of a Sinner. He is currently Berkshire Theatre Festival, Alabama Vancouver, Minnesota, FGO, Portland. research at Northwestern. Catherine holds Fist Theatre). Other—US premiere of Stage: Resident Stage Manager: Twelfth under commission from The American Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Dance—numerous collaborations (27 years) a BFA in Dramaturgy and a BA in Hispanic Mom’s the Word (Metropolis Theatre/Royal Night; Stones in His Pockets; dance of the Conservatory Theater, Off Broadway’s Company, The Kennedy Center. Education— with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Studies from Carnegie Mellon. In 2013, George); East Coast premiere of Closet holy ghosts; Clybourne Park; Beneatha’s Inner Voices Series, and People’s Light and New York University Tisch School of the Co., Doug Varrone, Donna Uchizono, Sean she received the LMDA & Kennedy Center Land (NY Performance Works); and the Place; Bus Stop; An Enemy of the People; The Theater Company. His plays have been Arts. Awards—four Helen Hayes Awards, Curran, Liz Gerring, Andrea Miller, Lyon Regional Student Dramaturgy Award and Midwest premiere of Shopping and F***ing Whipping Man; Gleam; The Rivals; Snow produced at The Public Theater, The Vineyard Washington; four Drammy Awards, Portland; Opera Ballet. Awards—Tony Nomination, debuted as a Dramaturgy Panelist at the Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Working it Out; Theater, Theatreworks, The Tricycle Theater (Bailiwick); The Scene, Bad Dates, and Trip Barrymore nomination, Philadelphia. Fela!, Obie (Special Citation), Bessie (Dance Association for Theatre in Higher Education Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine; (London), Brisbane Powerhouse (Australia), to Bountiful (); the four-city www.tonycisek.com. and Performance), American Theatre national conference. Saludos a todos and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Joe Turner’s Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Theater tour of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Wing. Professional—Adjunct Instructor, laissez les bons temps rouler! Alejo Vietti—Costume Designer. Center Come and Gone. Regional—Everyman: Rhinoceros, Thick Description Theater, and (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Rep Theatre NYU/TISCH. Education—University of South Stage: debut. Broadway—Beautiful: The Pygmalion, Shipwrecked, The Exonerated, Pat McCorkle—Casting Director. The Philadelphia Theater Company. He has of St. Louis, Kansas City Rep, New Victory Florida, Yale. Carole King Musical. Other New York— received residencies from Sundance, Banff Theatre); Hannah and Martin (Theater Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, And Center Stage: , A Civil credits include works for Manhattan Theatre Playwrights Colony, and Yaddo. J); Nickel and Dimed (Steppenwolf); The Robert Kaplowitz—Sound Design and a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, War Christmas, Animal Crackers, The Unexpected Man (Adirondack Theatre). Club, Primary Stages, MCC, Radio City Music Additional Music. Center Stage: debut. A Number, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Mountaintop, Bus Stop, Gleam. Pat McCorkle Mr. Domingo, as an actor, has starred on Founding Artistic Director of Naked Eye Hall Rockettes, Irish Rep, The New Group, Broadway—Bill T. Jones’ Fela (Tony Award Yellowman; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome (C.S.A.) is currently casting several Broadway Broadway in , Chicago, Well, Theatre Company in Chicago, where he Rattlestick, Cherry Lane, Soho Rep, Club for Best Sound Design); Roundabout: An Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The productions including Amazing Grace and and The Scottsboro Boys and has co-starred has developed/directed 20 plays, including Thumbed, and Estudio Ensemble, among Almost Holy Picture. Other NYC— the Public/ Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley; Folger: Long Days Journey into Night with Jessica in films such as Lee Daniel’s , world premieres of Jamie Pachino’s Waving others. Selected Regional—Alley Theatre NYSF: John Beluso’s The Poor Itch, Lemon Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors Lange. Broadway cast highlights include End Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, ’s Red Goodbye (Steppenwolf) and Timothy (over 20 productions), Hartford Stage Anderson’s County Of Kings, Neil LaBute’s (ASM); Olney Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Hook Summer, Passing Strange, Miracle at Mason’s Cannibals and Midwest premieres Company, , St. Louis Rep, Wrecks, others. NYTW: Lucidity Suitcase’s Red Alliance: Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea [sic], The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, St. Ana, King of the Bingo Game, Hairbrained, of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne and Naomi Signature Theatre in Virginia, Philadelphia Eye to Havre de Grace, Kia Corthron’s Light, Catalyst: Cloud 9, Longacre Lea: Man with One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, and Newlyweeds among many others. The Wallace’s One Flea Spare (Goodman). Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Raise the Roof; MTC: Abbey Spallin’s Pumpgirl, Bags. She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good acting work of Mr. Domingo has been —Seminar (NYSF), Festival, Guthrie Theater, Pasadena Chloe Moss’s This Wide Night (Naked Men, and recent New York premiers of Our Workshops/Development Caitlin Powers*—Associate Stage honored with Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Brahman/i (LaJolla Playhouse), Some of the Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Paper Mill Angels); SoHo Rep: Adam Bock’s The Thugs; Town, Tribes, Almost Maine, Becoming Dr. Manager. Center Stage: Assistant Stage Drama League, Audelco, and What’s on People, All of the Time (Pasadena Playhouse), Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre in DC, Long Wharf, Playwrights Horizons: A Small Fire; Second Ruth, Lady Day, and Driving Miss Daisy. Film Manager for Twelfth Night, The Whipping Stage (London) nominations as well Good on Paper (Denver Center), Lost Boy Pittsburgh Public, Pasadena Playhouse, NY Stage, LAByrinth, LCT3, MCC, Primary Stages, credits include Junction, Premium Rush, Man, A Skull in Connemara, American as winning the Obie, Connecticut Critics Found in Whole Foods (New Harmony), The Stage and Film, Arizona Theatre Company, The Vineyard, and many 99-seat theaters Ghost Town, Secret Window, Basic, Tony and th Buffalo; Associate Production Manager Circle, and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle. Radiant Abyss (Woolly Mammoth), plays and 5th Ave Seattle, among others. Opera— south of 14 St. Philadelphia—PlayPenn, Tina’s Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, 2012–14. Regional—Contemporary American th www.colmandomingo.com by Adam Bock, Michael Elyanow, Barbara New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arden, Interact, Wilma, PTC, PLTC, Azuka, The 13 Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard with Theater Festival: Assistant Stage Manager Field, Basil Kreimendahl, Dan O’Brien, Minnesota Opera, Wolf Trapp Opera, Opera Lantern, Walnut Street. Regional—O’Neill a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television— Jeremy Cohen—Director—is the Artistic for Captors, In a Forest, Dark and Deep, Race, Hana Sharif, Mat Smart, and Victoria Santa Barbara. Ballet—Donesk Opera Theater Conference, Sundance, Guthrie, Alley, Saint George (George Lopez show), Twisted Director of the Playwrights’ Center. Center We Are Here. Arts Emerson: The Color of Rose Stewart. Awards—numerous awards and (Ukraine) and Colorado Ballet. Awards— DTC. Installation—Lincoln Center Library (ABC Family), humans for Sesame Street, Stage: US premiere of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s (World Premiere). Fringe NYC 2009: Muffin nominations, including Jeff, Helen Hayes, Recipient of the 2010 TDF Irene Sharaff Museum. Upcoming—Pig Iron’s Live Faster, Californication (Emmy nomination), Hack Let There Be Love w/ Avery Brooks. Regional/ Man: The Musical. After Dark. Other Professional—Director and Young Master Award. the Public’s Fortress of Solitude, Tuomonan (CBS), Max Bickford (CBS), Strangers with NYC—Associate Artistic Director/Director of part of the Directing Faculty at the O’Neill & Cromie’s Lautrec Project. Education— Catherine María Rodríguez— Candy, Barbershop, Chapelle’s Show, New Play Development at Hartford Stage Robert Wierzel—Lighting Designer. Playwright’s Conference/National Theatre Lecturer in Sound Design, Princeton. As Production Dramaturg—is a New Orleans among others. (2003-10) directing credits included Snow Center Stage: Into the Woods, Who’s Afraid of Institute, recipient of an NEA/TCG Directors always, for N&K. native, who made her Center Stage debut Falling on Cedars, The Adventures of Tom Virginia Woolf?, A Little Night Music, Day of with dance of the holy ghosts. She has Fellowship, and a Northwestern University Jeff Sugg—Projection Designer, is a Sawyer, Mistakes Were Made, The Scene Absence, Open Admissions. Broadway—Lady been named a 2014 Leadership Institute award for his play 12 Volt Heart. Brooklyn-based designer and multi-award (with George Street Playhouse), Mahalia: A Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; Fela!, musical Fellow by the National Association of winner. Center Stage: debut. Broadway— Gospel Musical, I Am My Own Wife, Frankie Tony Cisek—Scenic Designer. Center directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). Catherine Macbeth (LCT), A Time to Kill, Bring It On, and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Bad Dates, A Stage: debut. Off Broadway—Roundabout: Off Broadway—NYSF/Public, Signature, is the dramaturg and archivist for Un Magic/Bird, 33 Variations. Off-Broadway— Christmas Carol. Cohen recently directed a Beyond Glory; New York Theatre Workshop: MCC, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Encuentro: Theater from the Borderlands, a new Off Broadway musical My Mother Has columbinus. Regional—Ford’s Theatre, Arena Mostly Mozart Festival, BAM, Lincoln An Octoroon, Last Five Years, This Clement

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