Trudy and Max in Love
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50th Season • 476th Production JULIANNE ARGYROS STAGE / JANUARY 5-26, 2014 Marc Masterson Paula Tomei ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR David Emmes & Martin Benson FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTORS presents the world premiere of Trudy and Max in Love by Zoe Kazan Laura Jellinek Melanie Watnick Lap Chi Chu Cricket S. Myers SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Kimberly Colburn Jackie S. Hill Kathryn Davies* DRAMATURG PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Directed by Lila Neugebauer Pam and Jim Muzzy Honorary Producers TRUDY AND MAX IN LOVE was commissioned by South Coast Repertory and workshopped and developed in the 2013 Pacific Playwrights Festival. Trudy and Max in Love • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS Trudy .............................................................................................. Aya Cash* Other Woman ............................................................................ Celeste Den* Other Man ............................................................................. Tate Ellington* Max ...................................................................................... Michael Weston* SETTING New York: Present day. PRODUCTION STAFF Casting ......................................................................... Joanne DeNaut, CSA Production Assistant .................................................................. Kristen Coen Assistant Director .................................................................. Travis Kendrick Assistant Scenic Designer ....................................................... Yin-chiao Liao Assistant Costume Designer ........................................... Adriana Lambarri Stage Management Intern .................................................... Lilly Deerwater Light Board Operator ........................................................ Sumner Ellsworth Sound Board Operator ......................................................... Bryan Williams Dresser ...................................................................................... Jessica Larsen ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Thank you to The New Group in New York City for its support in the development of Trudy and Max in Love. Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. Video taping and/or recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. P2 • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • Trudy and Max in Love Lovestruck “Friendship is born at that “Let me live, love and say it moment when one person well in good sentences.” says to another: “What! ~ Sylvia Plath, You too? I thought that no The Bell Jar one but myself . .” ~ C.S. Lewis, “I generally avoid tempta- The Four Loves tion unless I can’t resist it.” ~ Mae West “Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copula- “Confusing monogamy tion (a desire that extends with morality has done to an infinite number of more to destroy the con- women) but in the desire science of the human race for shared sleep (a desire than any other error.” limited to one woman).” ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness “Love is that condition in of Being which the happiness of another person is essential “We write to taste life to your own.” twice, in the moment and ~ Robert A. Heinlein, in retrospect.” Stranger in a Strange Land ~ Anaïs Nin “How I feel is that if I “I believe that everything wanted anything I’d take happens for a reason. it. That’s what I’ve always n a study published in the People change so that you thought all my life. But it Journal of Social and Personal can learn to let go, things happens that I want you, go wrong so that you ap- and so I just haven’t room Relationships, Linda Sapadin preciate them when they’re for any other desires.” asked more than 150 profes- right, you believe lies so ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, I sional men and women what they you eventually learn to The Beautiful and trust no one but yourself, Damned liked and disliked about their cross- and sometimes good things sex friendships. Topping women’s fall apart so better things “We have to continually be list of dislikes: sexual tension. Men, can fall together.” jumping off cliffs and de- ~ Marilyn Monroe veloping our wings on the on the other hand, more frequently way down.” replied that sexual attraction was a “Have you ever been in ~ Kurt Vonnegut prime reason for initiating a friend- love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. “What I’m saying is — and ship, and that it could even deepen It opens your chest and it this is not a come-on in any a friendship. Either way, 62 per- opens up your heart and it way, shape or form— is cent of all subjects reported that means that someone can that men and women can’t get inside you and mess be friends because the sexual tension was present in their you up.” sex part always gets in the cross-sex friendships. ~ Neil Gaiman, way.” ~ From Psychology Today The Sandman, ~ Harry, from Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones When Harry Met Sally Trudy and Max in Love • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • P3 Artist Biographies AYA CASH* and television credits include “Dumb American Family” Trudy (Adult Swim), “Castle” (ABC), “Criminal Minds” (CBS), “The Doctor” (WB), and Larry Crowne (Universal). is making her SCR debut. She is Den received her BFA from the University of Florida a New York-based actress, last and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. www. seen on the west coast in Semi- celeste.den.com nar at the Ahmanson Theatre. Her New York theatre credits in- TatE ELLINGTON* clude shows at Playwrights Hori- Other Man zons (The Pain and the Itch, Three Changes), Atlantic Theater Company (Happy Hour, Offices), Manhattan is making his SCR debut and is Theatre Club (From Up Here), Rattlestick Playwrights thrilled to be part of this produc- Theater (Killers and Other Family), Ars Nova (Play- tion. His previous theatre credits list, Missed Connections) MCC Theater (The Other include the Broadway production Place) and Summer Play Festival (Whore, Not Wav- of The Philanthropist and off-off ing). Her film credits include Sleepwalk with Me, The Broadway in Dog Sees God (origi- Oranges, The Bits in Between, Deception, Off Jackson nal cast) and The Shape of Things. He has appeared on Avenue, Winter of Frozen Dreams, The Happy House, television in “The Good Wife,” “The Walking Dead,” the upcoming Can a Song Save Your Life? and Why “Psych,” “Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23,” “Wolf- Now? Cash was a series regular on the Fox series “Traf- pack of Reseda” and “Rescue Me.” His film credits fic Light” and has filmed pilots for NBC, FOX, CW and include The Elephant King, The Kitchen, Remember FX, as well as guest-starred on many New York-based Me, Breaking Upwards and The Invention of Lying. shows. She recently recurred on “The Newsroom” He earned his BFA at the University of Mississippi. El- and “We Are Men” and can currently be seen in Martin lington is also an accomplished visual artist. tateelling- Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. tonart.com. For Chrissy. CELESTE DEN* MICHAEL WESTON* Other Woman Max returns after appearing in this sea- is making his SCR debut. His son’s Death of a Salesman and theatre credits include the off- last season’s international tour of Broadway productions of Extinc- Chinglish at SCR, Berkeley Reper- tion and Snakebit; regionally he tory Theatre and the 2013 Hong appeared in Dead End, Match- Kong Arts Festival. Her other the- maker, Johnny on the Spot and, atre credits include the world premieres of Wild Swans Misha’s Party (all at Williamstown Theatre Festival); at American Repertory Theatre and Young Vic in Lon- in the Los Angeles productions of Other Desert Cit- don; Between Two Friends and Island at Actors The- ies (Center Theatre Group) and Waverly Gallery atre of Louisville; 11 Septembre 2001 and Peach Blos- (Pasadena Playhouse). Films include Expecting, Quad, som Fan with Center for New Performance; Spit, Shine, Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, State of Play, Last Glisten with Cotsen Center for Puppetry; and Laws of Kiss, Love Wedding Marriage, Wedding Daze, Gar- Sympathy with Playwrights’ Arena. Regional credits den State, Pathology, Dukes of Hazzard, Harts War, include King Lear with Center for New Performance; Lucky Numbers, Wishcraft, Getting to Know You and Conjunto at Borderlands Theatre; Othello at The The- Coyote Ugly, among others, as well as the upcoming atre @ Boston Court; The Joy Luck Club at East West Wish I Was Here, Gravy and See You in Valhalla. He Players; The Merchant of Venice with LA Women’s has done large recurring arcs on several television Shakespeare; and Attrapee with Poor Dog Group. Film shows including “House,” “Six Feet Under,” “Psych,” P4 • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • Trudy and Max in Love “Scrubs,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and the upcoming “Those Who Kill.” His other television work includes Coma (mini-series), “The Office,” “White Collar,” “CSI: N.Y.,” “The Good Guys,” “NCIS: L.A.” and yes, “Burn Honorary Producers Notice,” among others. Pam AND JIM MUzzY (Honorary Producers) were smitten with Trudy and Max in Love and PLAYWRIGHT, DIREctOR AND DESIGNERS are thrilled to underwrite its world premiere. Among SCR’s most dedicated and enthusiastic ZOE KazaN (Playwright) was born and raised in Los supporters, the Muzzys have served as Honor-