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Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 'night, Mother. Other plays include: Getting Out (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Playwright 1977), Circus Valentine (1979), Traveller In the Dark (1984), Third & Oak (1978), The Holdup, Sarah and Abraham, Loving WHTC’s 10th Anniversary Club Daniel Boone, Trudy Blue, and The Master Butcher’s Singing Club (2010). She wrote the book and lyrics Hope W. Asrelsky, Gregory S. Bendelius, for Broadway musicals The Secret Garden, for which Patrick Blake, Lilian Davis, she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Susan G. Goodwin in Memory of Donald E. Harding, Outstanding Book of a Musical, and The Red Shoes, Sandra Kilsby, Loretta Hunt Marion, William G. as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Nevins, Mark D. Ransom & Dr. Jennifer-Scott Purple. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Mobley, Marjorie C. L. Stewart
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2 11 In celebration of our 10th Anniversary White Horse Theater Company Presents:
‘night, Mother By Marsha Norman Directed by Cyndy A. Marion**
Featuring in order of appearance:
Thelma……………………………………………………Joy Franz* Jessie……………………………………………………Laura Siner*
Set Design……………………………………………………Randall Parsons Lighting……………………………………………………Debra Leigh Siegel Costumes……………………………………………………Derek Nye Lockwood Incidental Music/Composer/Arranger……………………………………Joe Gianono Sound Designer……………………………………………………Andy Evan Cohen Dramaturg……………………………………………………Vanessa R. Bombardieri Assistant Director……………………………………………………Brooke Harbaugh Production Stage Manager……………………………………………………Elliot Lanes Assistant Stage Manager……………………………………………………Katie W. Chew Fight Choreographer……………………………………………………Michael G. Chin** Dialect Coach……………………………………………………Julie Foh Understudy for Thelma……………………………………………………Nancy Wolfe* Cover Photo……………………………………………………Ron Bowman Cover Design……………………………………………………Melissa Lin Playbill Production……………………………………………………Right Side of NY Wig Designer……………………………………………………Gerard James Kelly Marketing & Promotions……………………………………………………The Pekoe Group Press Representative……………………………………………………Sam Morris PR
The play will be performed without an Intermission * Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices.
‘night, Mother is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York
Originally produced on Broadway by Dann Byck, Wendell Cherry, The Schubert Organization, and Frederick Zollo.
Original Production directed by Tom Moore.
Originally produced by The American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA.
This is not a production of the Hudson Guild Theatre.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association/Equity Approved Showcase 10 ** Member of Stage Directors & Choreographers Society 3 WHITE HORSE THEATER COMPANY MISSION STATEMENT: Founded in 2003, WHITE HORSE THEATER COMPANY is a not-for- profit organization dedicated to producing and developing American plays. We seek to investigate and celebrate American culture by re-examining American classics and CAST & CREW nurturing new American voices. We aim to shed new light on seldom-produced works or revitalize masterworks making our productions accessible to both the general public and a Joy Franz (Thelma) is thrilled to be a part of this INCREDIBLE Play! Currently she can be seen in Horrible scholarly audience. People Webisode on Youtube. She is a Board and Company member of Marvell Rep: Drama Desk Award nomination for The WHTC BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Three Penny Opera as Mrs. Peachum. Broadway: Into The Woods Cyndy A. Marion ~ Producing Artistic Director (original & revival), A Little Night Music, Pippin, Company, Musical Chairs, Open Admissions, Sweet Charity, Loretta Hunt Marion ~ Director of Marketing & Development Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant. Off-Broadway: Mrs. Warren’s Vanessa R. Bombardieri ~ Managing Director Profession, God of Vengeance, Blood Wedding, The Dybuuk, Rod Sweitzer ~ Founding Artistic Director Avow, Fair Game, Assassins, All My Sons, Brutality of Fact, Tom Foolery, Jacques Brel, I Can’t Keep Running in Place, Don’t Leave it All to Your Children. Many National Tours: ASSOCIATE ARTISTS: Favorite-Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis (US and London) Michael G. Chin ~ Resident Fight Choreographer Favorite Regional roles: The Glass Menagerie, Grey Gardens Leslie Feffer ~ Program Designer and Othello as Emilia & Desdemona’s Father-Brabantio! TV/ Joe Gianono ~ Resident Composer/Arranger Film: Law & Order, Central Park West, Conan O’Brian, One Life To Live, As The World Turns, Under Red Lantern, No Elliot Lanes ~ Resident Stage Manager Picnic for Penny. She’s an avid dog lover and is very Melissa Lin ~ Resident Graphic Designer grateful. Jennifer-Scott Mobley ~ Resident Curator, Actor, Dramaturg Mark D. Ransom ~ Resident Actor Laura Siner (Jessie) last appeared with White Horse Theater as Miriam in In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. More recently, John C. Scheffler ~ Resident Set Designer (In Memoriam) she played Ramona in Hadrian’s Wall (New York International Debra Leigh Siegel ~ Resident Lighting Designer Fringe Festival). Other stage credits include Lawyer/Amanda David B. Thompson ~ Resident Costume Designer in American Rapture, Goneril in King Lear, Masha in The Jen Wiener ~ Resident ASM/Graphic Artist Three Sisters, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, the title character in Phaedre (all with Oberon Theatre Ensemble),and Kirsten in Days of Wine and Roses (Boomerang Theatre). Special Thanks on this production: Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA. Graduate: Yale University. ❖ Michael G. Chin www.laurasiner.com ❖ Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Nancy Wolfe (Understudy for Thelma) A student of Sanford Meisner, Nancy Wolfe is best known for her star turn as the psychotic Education Susan Atkins in Tom Gries’s 1976 TV special Helter Skelter. This ❖ Sarah Levine is, however, merely one of her accolades: she’s guest-starred in, ❖ Brittany Crowell among other things, two Hallmark Hall of Fame specials, The ❖ Julia Ramirez Incorvaia Ordeal of Patty Hearst and 70s TV series Baretta and Barnaby ❖ Ron Bowman Jones. Her stage career includes leading roles in Come Back ❖ Blythe Colombo Little Sheba and The Gin Game, which won the ADA Award for Best ❖ Gerard James Kelly Revival, and she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination ❖ Estate of Ruth A. Hunt for 4318 Clarendon Road. Nancy’s thrilled to be part of Cyndy Marion’s production of ‘night, Mother.
4 9 Gerard James Kelly (Theatrical Wig & Hair Design) Broadway Cyndy A. Marion (Director/Producing Artistic Director) A native production of HAIR which won the Tony Award for best revival of a New Yorker, Cyndy was named one of nytheatre.com's “People of musical. The Mint Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights the Year” for 2007. Her directing credits with WHTC include: Horizons, The York Theater and Classic Stage Company. Regionally, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, SMALL CRAFT Gerard has designed extensively throughout America, including WARNINGS, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL, BURIED CHILD, THE LATE over 35 productions for Westchester Broadway Theater, over 40 HENRY MOSS, STATES OF SHOCK, A LIE OF THE MIND, TRUE WEST and productions for North Shore Music Theater, 30 productions for the Workshop/Lab productions of HALF & FREEZER DREAMS. Other Walnut Street Theater, 14 productions for Maltz Jupiter Theater, directing credits include: the world premieres of The Book of 12 productions for Dallas Theater Center, 6 productions for Maine Lambert and MINA by Obie-winner Leslie Lee (La MaMa E.T.C.), State Music Theater, and 21 productions for Carousel Dinner PB&J (NYC International Fringe Festival, La Turista and Red Theater. His Shakespeare festivals include The New York Cross (Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.), Twister with an Octopus and Shakespeare Festival (14 productions), The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry (The Puerto Rican Festival (8 seasons), The New Jersey and Idaho Shakespeare Traveling Theatre), Fool for Love and MUD (Brooklyn College), Festivals, and The San Francisco Shakespeare festival. Gerard Last Train to Nibroc (American Theatre of Actors), 12 Angry Men has designed many premiers including Tom Jones, Memphis, Fanny and Fighting The Gorilla (Riant Theatre) and The Mandala (The Hill, The Three Musketeers, The Internationalist, Tale Of Two White Heron Inc.). She has directed readings of new plays for Cities and Slug Bearers Of Kayrol Island. Gerard has also WHTC, La MaMa E.T.C., New Dramatists, The Players, and PRTT. She created many wigs for performers such as Harvey Fierstein, trained with The SITI Company, La MaMa Umbria, Fordham in Italy, Felicity Huffman, Laura Linney, Marlo Thomas, The B-52’s, T. Schreiber Studio, The Acting Studio Inc., and NYU. Cyndy (including the cover of there last album Funplex) Varla Jean holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College where she was the Merman, Charles Busch, Francis McDormond, S.Epartha Merkerson, 2001 recipient of the Joel Zwick Scholarship in directing. She is a Sandy Duncan, Jennifer Holiday, Ru Paul, Woopie Goldberg, and member of The Players and The Stage Directors and Choreographers The Lady Bunny. Gerard's work can be seen in films such as Society. For Dad. Transamerica, Girls Will Be Girls, The Ten, The Savages, King Bolden, Notorious and soon to be released The Conjuring. Randall Parsons (Set Designer) Recent projects: Oliver! (national tour); Off-Broadway: Andorra, Blue Window, Pied a Terre Julie Foh (Dialect Coach) holds an MFA in Voice and Speech from and Bliss. Regional: Evita, Proof, Cabaret, Batboy, The Laramie A.R.T.’s Institute for Advanced Theater Training and teaches Project, West Side Story, I Am My Own Wife, Gypsy, Urinetown, voice, speech, and accents at Rutgers. Coaching credits include Aida, and The Wedding Singer. Art Direction: Tim Gunn’s Guide to Suddenly Last Summer (WHTC); Cardenio and Ajax in Iraq (A.R.T.); Style, Bravo, 2008; for PBS Great Performances: My Favorite Nightlands (New Georges); Miss Lilly Gets Boned (Studio 42); Broadway -- The Love Songs, Nature: 25 Years, and Three Mo’ Modern Terrorism (Second Stage Theatre). She is an Associate Tenors. As an Associate Designer on Broadway: the recent Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and of Knight-Thompson revivals of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Big River; On Golden Pond; Speechwork. She is also the Literary Manager of Studio 42. Brooklyn, The Musical; and the national tours of the latter three. MFA: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Sam Morris/Sam Morris PR (Press Rep) A graduate of NYU and a native of Westchester, NY, over the past four years Sam Morris has established himself as a go-to publicist and creative Debra Leigh Siegel (Resident Lighting Designer) Deb has been consultant for a range of clients in New York which have working with White Horse since its beginning. WHTC credits included restaurants, Off-Broadway plays, theater companies, include: lighting and costume design for BURIED CHILD, THE LATE award shows, festivals, non-profit organizations, concerts, HENRY MOSS, and STATES OF SHOCK; lighting design for SUDDENLY cabarets and art exhibitions. On events and projects he’s worked LAST SUMMER, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS, IN with such noted individuals as Liza Minnelli, Mikhail THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL, TRUE WEST and the workshop productions Baryshnikov, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matthew Broderick, Nick of FREEZER DREAMS and HALF; and costume design for A LIE OF THE Jonas, Brooke Shields, Tim Rice, Christie Brinkley, Joy Behar MIND. Debra is also a freelance designer who has designed at the and the Broadway productions of Mamma Mia! and Billy Elliot. Berkshire Theatre Festival, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Bradley Playhouse, Windham Theatre Guild, Eastern Connecticut The Pekoe Group (Marketing & Promotions) is a full-service Ballet, Wings Theatre Company, Michael Chekhov Theater Company, advertising and marketing company for theatrical events Mansfield Council for the Arts, Hackmatack Playhouse, and the and attractions, specializing in niche marketing and tailor-made Harry Hope Theatre. She holds an M.F.A. in Lighting Design with a strategic campaigns based on each event’s target demographic. concentration in Costume Design from the University of Clients include Forbidden Broadway, Women of Will, Mint Theater Connecticut. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Company, Second Stage Theatre, I Love Lucy Live on Stage, How 2 Lincoln College of New England and Three Rivers Community B A New Yorker, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Season of Cambodia, College. She also designs for dance, puppetry, and opera. Love Therapy, TACT, and more.
8 5 A TOKYO HOTEL, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL and SUDDENLY LAST Andy Evan Cohen (Sound Designer) has designed sound and SUMMER. The main themes composed for Small Craft Warnings written music for numerous NYC-area shows, including Off- (Tennessee Williams) and The Book of Lambert (Leslie Lee) were Broadway productions Black Milk and She’s of a Certain Age. featured on Exploring Music hosted by Bill McGlaughlin on WQXR Other recent credits include Incendiary Agents, Listen! The (105.9 FM). Recent and upcoming publications include Trois River at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and several shows Jimnopedies for Flute and Guitar, TNT for Chorus and Piano, and at T. Schreiber studios, including the NYIT Award-winning Elegy for a Solo Cello and String Orchestra. He is an ASCAP Balm in Gilead. Andy holds degrees from Oberlin and the member and is published by Subito Music and ACM Records. Manhattan School of Music; for more information, visit www.joegianono.com www.andycomusic.com. Brooke Harbaugh (Assistant Director) graduated in 2006 with a BA Vanessa R. Bombardieri (Dramaturg/Managing Director) Most recently in English from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She worked as Dramaturg on WHTC’s FREEZER DREAMS, SUDDENLY LAST studied acting at HB Studio in New York City and directing and SUMMER, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL and SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS. Other puppetry performance at Marymount Manhattan College, where she WHTC credits include the Lab production of her one-act play currently works as an administrative assistant for the Theater EVERYBODY DIES IN FEBRUARY, Director for the staged reading of THE Office. She directed children's theater from 2000-2010. After WITCHES’ AVENUE (A EULOGY) by Greg Lemoine and Assistant Director graduating in 2006 from Rollins College, Brooke worked abroad in on HALF, also by Greg Lemoine. Vanessa worked as Assistant Changzhou, China for a year and in Bariloche, Argentina for ten Director on Cyndy A. Marion’s productions of MINA (a new play by months through the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Obie-winner Leslie Lee at LaMaMa, E.T.C.) and PB&J (NYC Fringe program. In both countries, she taught English as a second Festival). She also worked as an Associate Producer for Crossing language and instated afterschool English-speaking theater Jamaica Avenue's production of Thousand Years Waiting at PS 122. programs. Brooke is excited to be cultivating her relationship to Directing credits include: Eugene Ionesco's The Painting and her the NYC theater community through her involvement with the White own adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. Regional and Summer Horse Theater Company. stock credits include: The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival and The New Repertory Theatre. Vanessa holds a BA Michael G. Chin (Resident Fight Choreographer) is a Fight Master in Theatre Directing from Bard College. with The Society of American Fight Directors, one of only seventeen people to hold that distinction. He is a member of SDC Derek Nye Lockwood (Costume Designer) designed the costumes (Stage Directors and Choreographers) and has choreographed on for WHTC’s Workshop of FREEZER DREAMS. Derek was born in Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and in Regional Theatres Santa Barbara, Ca. earned his BA in Theatre with an around the country. He teaches stage combat on the adjunct level emphasis in Costume Design from California Institute of the at The Juilliard School, Brooklyn College, Pace University all in Arts. He recently returned to NYC after a 3-year world tour New York City and at Muhlenberg College in Allentown PA., and for doing wardrobe for Disney Live. Derek also creates “one of The United Stuntman Association. kind” designs for private clients. Elliot Lanes (Production Stage Manager) Previous WHTC credits Joe Gianono (Resident Composer/Arranger) Credits include: include SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, SMALL Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, CRAFT WARNINGS, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL, BURIED CHILD, HALF, BBC, Cleveland, Virginia, Juilliard Symphony Orchestras, among EVERYBODY DIES IN FEBRUARY and FREEZER DREAMS. He also others, Paul Taylor Dance Company, NBA, The British Rock Symphony, collaborated with Cyndy A. Marion on The Book of Lambert (LaMaMa Radio City Music Hall, over 30 Broadway & regional musicals, E.T.C.), PB&J (Fringe NYC) and MINA (LaMaMa E.T.C.). Other SM and Backstreet Boys, Roger Daltrey, Philip Bailey, Michael Feinstein, design credits include productions for MITF, Fringe NYC, New Bryn Terfel, Robert Merrill, PM Dawn, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Thelma Perspectives Theater Company and 3 years as PSM for The Backstage Houston, Ana Belen, Leslie Uggams, Ann Reinking, Kathleen Battle, Bistro Awards. DC theater credits include: Return to Haifa Jessye Norman, Lesley Gore, Chita Rivera, Wynton Marsalis, Michel (Theater J), Two Trains Running (PGCC), Fool At The Circus Camilo, Gene Bertoncini, Bucky Pizzarelli. Film & Television: (Synetic Family Theater), Enoch Arden, SHE and Boston Marriage Booty Call, Two Much, Chip‘n Dale’s Rescue Rangers, Kite, Dora The (all 3 for Capitol Fringe). Explorer, others. His music can be heard on, The Soup and Chelsea Lately and on the E –Entertainment television network. Joe Katie Chew (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: Golden Boy. Off- composed incidental music for The Rose Tatoo, Little Eyolf, Broadway: On the Head of a Pin. Regional: The Threepenny Opera Savannah Black & Blue, Cyndy Marion’s production of Leslie Lee's (Atlantic Theater Company). This past summer, Katie served as the The Book of Lambert and WHTC’s SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS, IN THE BAR OF Stage Management intern at the Chautauqua Theater Company. Katie has a B.A. in English and Theater & Performance Studies from Georgetown University.
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