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BEDLAM: + SAINT JOAN APR 5 - 15

Directed by Eric Tucker © C. King Photography © C. King

Theater at The Broad Stage made possible in part by generous gifts from Bill & Laurie Benenson and Susan Stockel. Run time for each work: 3 hours including two intermissions. Saint Joan is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Very Special Thanks to Carolyn Elliott, Eric Bloom, Jane Deknatel, Ernest Figueroa and the amazing staff at Broad Stage.

16 MAR/APR 2018 HAMLET by William Shakespeare

SAINT JOAN by

Directed by Eric Tucker Set Design by John McDermott Lighting Design by Les Dickert Costume/Sound Design by Eric Tucker Fight Direction by Trampas Thompson Production Management by Juliana Beecher Stage Management by Caroline Englander Associate Set Designer, Clifton Chadick US premiere tour produced in association with ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann

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Actor 1 Actor 2 Aubie Merrylees Aundria Brown Hamlet in Hamlet Gertrude/Ophelia and others in Hamlet Dunois/Warwick and others in Saint Joan Joan in Saint Joan

Actor 3 Actor 4 Kahlil Garcia Sam Massaro Polonius/Horatio and others in Hamlet Claudius/Rosencrantz and others in Hamlet Dauphin/John de Stogumber and others Cauchon/Poulengey and others in Saint Joan in Saint Joan

MAR/APR 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 17 BIO AUBIE MERRYLEES (Actor #1) Regional credits include Hand to God (Philadelphia AUNDRIA BROWN (Actor #2) Regional: Theatre Company), Caucasian Chalk Actions & Objectives (Triad Stage) Crumbs Circle (Yale Rep), Stupid Fucking Bird, and from the Table of Joy (Martha’s Vineyard Rachel Bonds’ At the Old Place (Arden Playhouse). Local: CRH (The Kraine Theatre Company), The Aliens (Theatre Theater); Aint No’ Mo (New York Theater Exile), The Liar (Lantern), My Romantic Workshop); Mary/Stuart (BAM); What I Tell History (Inis Nua), and A Bright New Boise You in the Dark (National Black Theater Of (Simpatico). Aubie is also a company Harlem). VOICEOVER WORK: Man in the member at People’s Light & Theatre, High Castle: Resistance Radio. Education: where he has appeared in more than 10 University of North Carolina School of the productions, including End Days, One Flew Arts. Give a listen to me as Miss Evangeline Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Beautiful Boy for Man in the High Castle: Resistance and Stargirl. He is a graduate of Brown Radio @ www.resistanceradio.com University and the Yale School of Drama. website coming soon @ driabrown.com. For Mom, always. KAHLIL GARCIA (Actor #3) Kahlil is thrilled ERIC TUCKER (Director) Wall Street for his Bedlam debut! Regional Theatre: Journal DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 2014. Off Pride and Prejudice (Bingley), MacBeth Broadway: Peter Pan (Bedlam, Duke on (MacBeth), (Oliver) New York 42nd); Vanity Fair (The Pearl); Bedlam’s Theater: The Tempest (Caliban), Hard Sense & Sensibility (Off Broadway Alliance Times (Blackpool) Film/TV: The Newsroom, Award, Lortel nom, Best Director, Drama The Goodwife, The BlackList. Founding League nom, Best Revival); A Midsummer Member 15-501 Productions (@15501pros) Night’s Dream (Drama League nom Best Twitter/IG: @kg_garcia MFA: UNC Chapel Revival, WSJ Best Classical Production Hill. BFA: Pace University. 2015; NY Times Critics Pick), Bedlam’s SAM MASSARO (Actor #4) Sam recently Saint Joan (NY Times/Time Magazine graduated from UC Irvine with his top 10; Off Broadway Alliance Best MFA in Acting. A NY based actor from Revival 2014), Bedlam’s Hamlet (NY Times Florida, he’s worked regionally with top 10; Time Out NY and Backstage companies including Mad Cow Theatre, Critics’ Pick), Tina Packer’s Women of Summer Repertory Theatre, New Swan Will. For Bedlam: Sense & Sensibility Shakespeare festival and the B Street A.R.T.; Hamlet/Saint Joan McCarter Theatre. Some favorite roles include Theater; Central Sq. Theater (Elliott Robert in Boeing Boeing, Touchstone in Norton Outstanding Visiting Production/ As You Like It, Lee in True West, Liam in Outstanding Ensemble, Boston Globe Top Bad Jews, and Michal in The Pillowman. Ten); Dead Dog Park, New York Animals He will be making his film debut this year (World Premiere by Steven Sater/Burt opposite Christian Bale in Adam McKay’s Bacharach), and What You Backseat. A proud member of Actors Will (NY Times Critics Picks), Equity and honored to be represented by (WSJ Best Classical Production 2014). the team at CLA Management! Other: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Two

18 MAR/APR 2018 River), Disney’s Beauty & The Beast Theater, others. Dance: White Oak Dance (OSF); Pericles (APT, WSJ Best Classical Project, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Production 2017); Sense & Sensibility Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, (The Folger Theater, 4 Joffrey Ballet, San Diego Ballet, Orlando awards including Best Director and Best Ballet. International: Le Louvre, Centre Production), Copenhagen (Central Square Pompidou, La Scala, and the National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ballets of England, Denmark, Australia, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (HVSF), Belgium, Canada and Russia. Awards: Mate (The Actors’ Gang). Eric received his Mahindra, Ovation, multiple Hewes M.F.A. from the Trinity Rep Conservatory. nominations. Les is a graduate of the Yale He resides in where he is School of Drama. Artistic Director of Bedlam. JULIANA BEECHER (Production Manager) JOHN MCDERMOTT (Set Design) For Juliana Beecher has worked with Bedlam Bedlam: Hamlet, Saint Joan, New York on two previous renditions of Hamlet & Animals, Sense & Sensibility, The Seagull, Saint Joan, and on Sense & Sensibility Dead Dog Park. HVSF: Pride and Prejudice, & The Seagull. Primarily a lighting Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Measure For designer, she works in New York and New Measure, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, England. She has designed for Bridge The Arabian Nights. Shakespeare and Rep of Boston, Playhouse Creatures, Company: 4,000 Miles, Red Velvet, The Northeastern University, Boston Comedy of Errors, The Taming, Ugly Lies University, Fresh Ink, Highland Centre the Bone. Other shows include The Singing for the Arts and others. Her work as an Forest (NYSF); Play Yourself (New York assistant includes productions at LCT3, Theater Workshop); Dry Land, Everything HERE Arts Center, New Rep, BAM and the is Ours, Fish Eye (Colt Coeur Company New England Conservatory. Juliana holds member). Rattlestick Playwrights a B.A. from Northeastern University. Theater: 25 designs including 3C, Lady, The Undeniable Sound of Right Now, The CAROLINE ENGLANDER (Stage Manager) Revisionist. Assistant Professor, Adelphi Off-Broadway: Describe the Night (Atlantic University. Theater Company), Toshi Reagon’s Parable of the Sower (UTR), The Outer Space LES DICKERT (Lighting Design) Les (Pubic/NYSF), HAMLET (Waterwell), Sense Dickert designs for a diverse range of & Sensibility (BEDLAM), The Flick (Barrow contemporary and classical theater, Street Theatre), Little Children Dream modern dance, ballet and international of God (Roundabout). The Civilians’ The performance art. Many off-Broadway Great Immensity (Public/NYSF), Richard productions include Bedlam’s Sense Nelson’s The Apple Family Plays (Public/ & Sensibility, The Seagull, New York NYSF) GOODBAR (Waterwell / UTR). Recall Animals, Twelfth Night, What You Will, and (Colt Coeur). Various productions at Cry Havoc; Regional: Shakespeare and Juilliard and NYU Tisch Graduate Acting. Company, Great Lakes Theater Festival, B.A. Barnard College. Geva Theater, Perseverance Theater, Syracuse Stage, Triad Stage, Arden MAR/APR 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 19 TRAMPAS THOMPSON (Fight Director) Grant. Bedlam has also been nominated is thrilled to be collaborating again with for two , a Drama his friends from Bedlam. In addition to League award, and five Elliot Norton choreographing the original critically awards, winning for Outstanding Visiting acclaimed run of Bedlam’s Hamlet, Production and Best Ensemble for Saint his theatrical work includes Women Joan and Outstanding Visiting Production of Will for Tina Packer and Richard III for Twelfth Night / What You Will. Bedlam for Shakespeare Dallas. Trampas has also offers a free Veteran Outreach been a professional stuntman and stunt program and adult education workshops coordinator in film and television for over in acting, producing and directing. 20 years. His 100+ credits include four www.bedlam.org Pirates of the Caribbean films, National Treasure and Zombieland, among many ARKTYPE / THOMAS O. KRIEGSMANN, others. Trampas was Keaton’s producer, is Founder and President of stunt double in the films Birdman and ArKtype, a management and production Spider-Man: Homecoming. He is a company specializing in new work member of SAG-AFTRA and the Directors development and touring. His past work Guild of America. Complete credits can be in the U.S. and abroad includes projects found on IMDb. with Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, New BEDLAM is a NYC-based not-for-profit York Theatre Workshop, Market Theatre theatre company under the leadership (Johannesburg), Hartford Stage Company, of Artistic Director, Eric Tucker, and Barbican Centre, Oxford Playhouse, Managing Director, Kimberly Pau Boston. Noorderzon Festival, Performance Space Founded in 2012, Bedlam received instant 122 (Fresh Terrain Festival of Performance recognition for its production of George Theater, Austin, TX), Berkeley Rep, Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan in which only Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper four actors played over 25 characters. Forum, Bouffes du Nord and The Kitchen, Additional, past shows include Sense & among many others. His work includes Sensibility, Peter Pan, The Seagull, Dead projects with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Dog Park, New York Animals, Hamlet and Brook, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael two productions of Twelfth Night that Farber, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Lisa ran in rep with each other. Bedlam’s Peterson, Jay Scheib, Peter Sellars, Julie productions have been noted as Ben Taymor and Tony Taccone. Most recently Brantley’s “Critics’ Picks” for The New he served as Director of Programs at York Times six times, included on The New New York Live Arts. Recent ArtsEmerson York Times “Top Ten Best Show Lists” two premieres include Big Dance Theater / times, as well as those of The Wall Street Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Man in a Case, the Journal and Time Magazine respectively. U.S. premiere of Nalaga’at Theater’s Not The Wall Street Journal also named Eric By Bread Alone, and Denis O’Hare and Tucker as “Director of the Year” in 2014. Lisa Peterson’s An Iliad. Other recent Bedlam has won three Irne Awards, two premieres include Andrew Ondrejcak & Off Broadway Alliance Awards and an Obie Shara Worden’s You Us We All and Elijah

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Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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