The New American Theatre presents The World Premiere BOXING LESSONS written by JOHN BUNZEL directed by JACK STEHLIN* Produced by JEANNINE WISNOSKY STEHLIN EVE DANZEISEN* STEPHEN TYLER HOWELL ERIC CURTIS JOHNSON* LUKE McCLURE BRUCE NOZICK* SUSAN WILDER* JOHN IACOVELLI JOSEPHINE WANG Scenic Design Lighting Design CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO FLORENCE KEMPER BUNZEL Sound Design Costume Design DAVID SAEWERT LUCY POLLAK Propmaster Publicity VICTORIA HOFFMAN* AVK CREATIVE Casting Graphics DEREK R. COPENHAVER* Production Stage Manager *member of Actors Equity Association THE NEW AMERICAN THEATRE 1312 N. Wilton Pl. Hollywood, CA 90028 [email protected] NewAmericanTheatre.com This performance is supported, in The New American Theatre part, by the Los Angeles County (formerly Circus Theatricals) Board of Supervisors through the Los is a member of the LA Stage Alliance. Angeles County Arts Commission. Facebook.com/NewAmericanTheatre @NewAmericanThtr @NewAmericanTheatre BOXING LESSONS / 1 CAST (in order of appearance) Judy...............................................................................EVE DANZEISEN* Ned....................................................................................LUKE McCLURE Sheriff Bob.......................................................ERIC CURTIS JOHNSON* Meg..................................................................................SUSAN WILDER* Steve...............................................................STEPHEN TYLER HOWELL Billy..................................................................................BRUCE NOZICK* Place: A remote cabin somewhere in the San Juan Islands, in Washington State Time: Summer Boxing Lessons will be presented without an intermission Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes. The taking of photographs or recordings of any type is strictly prohibited. Please turn off your mobile phones and refrain from texting during the performance. *Member of Actors Equity Association This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule. Boxing Lessons Performance Schedule: April 26, - June 2, 2019 Run: Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Select Sundays at 3pm: April 28, May 26, June 2 The New American Theatre 1312 N. Wilton Pl. Hollywood, CA 90028 Reservations: NewAmericanTheatre.com Information: NewAmericanTheatre.com or [email protected] Facebook.com/NewAmericanTheatre NewAmericanTheatre.com @NewAmericanThtr [email protected] @NewAmericanTheatre BOXING LESSONS / 2 WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST EVE DANZEISEN Judy Theatre includes: LA: 4Play: Sex in a Series (TripLA), Cold Sweat (Atwater Village Th.), The Trip Back Down (Whitefire Th.) NY: world premiere of The Body Politic (59E59), U.S. premieres of Construction of the Human Heart (Access Th.), and Romeo and Hamlet (Abington Th., Gayfest), with The Old Globe (San Diego): Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Uncle Vanya, and more. On camera credits include: her film The Hardest Part (Tropfest Best Actress Award), Fire in the Hole, Reason, Heyday, Pooched, & 3 yrs. as the Optimum Business spokesperson. Sarah Lawrence College (BA), The Old Globe (MFA), evedanzeisen.com STEPHEN TYLER HOWELL Steve LA local, Texan, and is delighted to make his New American Theatre debut. Theatre credits include: Nude/Naked (Det./Stevie) at The McCadden Place Theater, Finks with Rogue Machine, Red Speedo (alt. cast) and A Delicate Ship (alt. cast) both at The Road Theatre, the title role in Macbeth x 5 at The Odyssey, and Hot N’ Throbbing with Illyrian Players. His BFA in Theatre is from UT Arlington and studied in the MFA Acting program at Cal State Fullerton (‘11-‘13). The feature Sometimes Our Friends Come Over is currently on the festival circuit and has been featured by NFMLA, Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival, and Portland Unknown Film Festival. www. stephentylerhowell.com ERIC CURTIS JOHNSON Sheriff Bob Sacred Fools: Gibson/Burns in Mr. Burns, Rumfoord in Sirens of Titan; Mycroft in Watson; Deckard in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; The Dads in Neighborhood 3; JFK in The Magic Bullet Theory. A Noise Within: Creon in Jean Anouilh’s Antigone; Kurt in Strindberg’s The Dance of Death; Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. Other local favorites: Garry in Noises Off (Rubicon Theater); Driscoll in Kong (SkyPilot Theater); many different roles in Magnum Opus Theater and Serial Killers. Stars as Bob Dil in Borderline on Amazon Prime. ecurtisjohnson.com LUKE McCLURE Ned U.K. Theatre: Grey Days, by Colin Goodwin (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Dinner on the Fourteenth Floor, by Evan Placey (Hampstead Theatre, London). L.A. Theatre: Yellow, by Del Shores, The Boomerang Effect by Matt Leavitt, Enron, by Lucy Prebble (West coast premiere), Henry IV, Part 1 (Little Fish Theatre), Pericles (Porters of Hellsgate), An Evening Betrayal and Hamlet (The 6th Act). Film/ TV credits: Nip/Tuck, Castle, All Together Now, Southern Baptist Sissies, Sleep With Me, This is My Year and more. BA in Drama and Film, University of Kent ; MA in Acting, Central School of Speech and Drama, London. www. lukemcclure.com BOXING LESSONS / 3 BRUCE NOZICK Billy Bruce just completed a successful run in the Rogue Machine production of Finks. He also appeared a few years ago in Rogue’s hit production of Honky. Bruce will appear on the upcoming season of Showtime’s Big Little Lies. TV appearances include The Last Ship, Weeds and playing Stanley Levison in the HBO film All The Way. Other theatre includes the Off-Broadway hit A Shayna Maidel, touring with the First National Company of Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, and appearing at dozens of Regional Theatres around the country. He’s also a member of Rogue Machine and The Pacific Resident Theatre Company. BruceNozick.com SUSAN WILDER Meg LA stage includes: Rogue Machine in Still Life, Between Friends at Ensemble Studio, and Freddy at the Fountain. Other theatre credits include: King Lear (with Christopher Plummer), Ivanov (with Kevin Kline) at Lincoln Center; Heartbreak House (Berkeley Rep); City of Conversation (Delaware Theatre Company); Other Desert Cities (Walnut Street); Orson’s Shadow (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Magic Fire (Wilma); A Little Night Music (Arden); and six years with People’s Light & Theatre Company. Recent television includes: Searching for Neverland, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, Do You Want to See a Dead Body and LA Macabre. WHO’S WHO IN THE PRODUCTION JOHN IACOVELLI Scenic Design John Iacovelli created memorable designs for more than 300 plays and musicals at most major theatres in the U.S. including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Center Theatre Group. He is the resident Scenic Designer at the Matrix Theatre. Iacovelli received a primetime Emmy for the broadcast of the Broadway production of Peter Pan. He was the production designer on Ruby in Paradise, starring Ashley Judd, and art director on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! His television credits include The Old Settler starring Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen, The Gin Game staring Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke, Babylon 5, Ed, Resurrection Blvd. and Lincoln Heights. He has an MFA in scenic design from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Scene Design and Technology from The U.S. Institute of Theatre Technology. iacovelli.com BOXING LESSONS / 4 JOSEPHINE PU-SHENG WANG Lighting Design is a Los Angeles-based Taiwanese lighting designer/artist. She’s worked with Jessica Hannah, Heidi Duckler, James Franco, Edgar Arceneaux, and Andrew Schneider, and brought her artwork overseas to Cuba and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She develops unconventional design techniques for performances, installations and everything in between. Josephine received a BS in Computer Science from NCVU, Taiwan, and a BFA in Theatre Lighting Design fro CAlArts. With her cultural background and skills, Josephine hopes to be a technological innovator in lighting design, bridge the gaps between classes and races, and dedicate her life to social justice and human rights around the world. CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO Sound Design Recipient of the 2018 LADCC and 2015 Stage Raw awards for Sound Design, Christopher Moscatiello is also a composer, sound editor/mixer and music director for theatre, television and film. Theater credits include The New American Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institution, The Folger Shakespeare Theater, Rogue Machine Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre, The Odyssey Theatre, and The Road Theater. TV credits include The Walking Dead (AMC), Human Target (Fox), Eureka and Caprica (both SyFy), Psych (USA), The Cape and Trauma (both NBC), and he has scored full series and specials and promos for National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, HBO, BBC, Animal Planet, MSNBC, AOL/Time Warner, The History Channel, The Learning Channel and ZDF Germany. Chris was the Associate Artistic Director and Conductor of the Boston Chamber Ensemble, and wrote a ballet commissioned by the Kirov Ballet Academy. FLORENCE KEMPER BUNZEL Costume Design Television: HBO’s Tales From the Crypt, ABC’s Camp Wilder Nickelodeon’s All That, The Amanda Show, Drake and Josh, Carsey-Werner’s Grounded for Life and The Tracy Morgan Show, HBO’s Unscripted, NBC’s Teachers. Film: Highway to Hell, The Perfect Game, Movie 43. Theater: Miss America’s Ugly Daughter, 63 Trillion (The New American Theatre),