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AND Bonnie and Terry Burman PRESENT Camping with Henry and Tom BY Mark St. Germain FEATURING PJ Benjamin Patrick Husted Fisher Neal Kevin O'Rourke SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER David M. Barber Charlotte Palmer-Lane Scott Pinkney Brad Berridge CASTING PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Pat McCorkle, CSA Renée Lutz BERKSHIRE NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE Charlie Siedenburg Matt Ross Public Relations DIRECTED BY Christopher Innvar SPONSORED IN PART BY The Dobbins Foundation & Richard Ziter, MD Camping with Henry and Tom is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. This production made possible through special arrangements with Lucille Lortel, Daryl Roth, Wind Dancer Theatre, Inc. and Randall L. Wreghitt. BOYD-QUINSON MAINSTAGE OCTOBER 5-23, 2016 CAST Henry Ford .........................................................................................Patrick Husted* Warren G. Harding ..............................................................................Kevin O'Rourke* Thomas Alva Edison .............................................................................. PJ Benjamin* Colonel Edmund Starling ..........................................................................Fisher Neal* TIME PLACE July 24, 1921. The woods outside Licking Creek, Maryland. STAFF Production Stage Manager ....................................................................... Renee Lutz* Assistant to the Director .................................................................Becky Abramowitz Wardrobe .......................................................................................Kelsey Vonderhaar Sound Engineers ...................................................Lucas Pawelski, Jaechelle Johnson Research/Dramaturg .............................................. Jorge Miguel LÓpez, Megan Nussle CAST PJ BENJAMIN (Thomas Edison) PJ’s career spans 46 years, including seven years as the Wizard in the blockbuster Wicked on Broadway and on tour. For five years he was lovable Mr. Cellophane in the Broadway hit Chicago. Other Broadway: Torch Song Trilogy, Sophisticated Ladies, Charlie and Algernon (LA Critics Award), Pippin, Sarava, The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. PJ cut his teeth early on with the likes of Bob Fosse, George Abbott, Cab Calloway and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He’s performed roles ranging from Joe Keller in All My Sons to Albin in La Cages Aux Folles. TV: Madam Secretary; Law and Order: SVU; Person of Interest; Louie; The Good Wife and is the voice of the Dodo birds in Ice Age. PJ and wife, actress Louisa Flaningam, own a log house museum on Chincoteague Island, Va. captaintimothyhillhouse.com PATRICK HUSTED (Henry Ford) Patrick played Peter Stockman at BSC in An Enemy of the People. He is a veteran of over 150 stage productions, including NYC productions of the Pulitzer-winning play Wit, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, and worked with Arthur Miller on his remake of The American Clock. Also, Joel Grey directed Patrick in On Borrowed Time. Recent films include The Immigrant with Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix, and The Place Beyond the Pines with Bradley Cooper. Patrick has appeared in numerous TV shows, most recently The Leftovers, Blacklist, Mozart in the Jungle and The Family. He is the author of a memoir, Excavating Pieces: An American Childhood. *Actors and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association. 2 FISHER NEAL (Colonel Edmund Starling) is delighted to be making his Barrington Stage debut. Earlier this year, Fisher made his Broadway debut in Our Mother’s Brief Affair (Seth understudy, performed) at Manhattan Theatre Club. Regionally he has performed with Pittsburgh Public Theater, Yale Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Chautauqua Theater Company, Clarence Brown Theater and Texas Shakespeare Festival. He made his TV debut this summer in Person of Interest. He also is a founder and Co-Artistic Director of Old Sound Room, an international award-winning performance ensemble. BA University of Tennessee, MFA Yale School of Drama. KEVIN O’ROURKE (Warren G. Harding) has performed on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Spoils of War and Alone Together. Other stage credits include The City of Conversation at Lincoln Center, Perfect Arrangement at Primary Stages, and The Night Alive at John Drew; as well as productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, Long Wharf and Williamstown Theatre Festival. TV/film credits include Outsiders, Veep, Remember Wenn, Sopranos, Law and Order, Boardwalk Empire (SAG award, ensemble), and the features Vice Versa, The Aviator, and Freeheld. As a director, Kevin staged the NY premiere of Abi Morgan’s Tender, Soldier at HERE Arts Center and The Physicists at Williamstown Theatre Festival. For 10 years he, was Artistic Director of the Williams College Summer Theatre Lab. CREATIVE TEAM MARK ST. GERMAIN (Playwright) Barrington Stage Associate Artist. Mark has written the plays Freud’s Last Session (Off Broadway Alliance Award), Camping with Henry and Tom (Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award), Forgiving Typhoid Mary (Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”), Becoming Dr. Ruth, Best of Enemies, Ears on a Beatle, Scott And Hem and Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap. His most recent play, Relativity, was commissioned by the Florida Studio Theater and will open October 28th at TheaterWorks in Hartford starring Richard Dreyfuss. With Randy Courts he has written the musicals The Gifts of The Magi, Johnny Pye and The Foolkiller (AT&T “New Plays For The Nineties Award,” Lamb’s Theater) and Jack’s Holiday. Mark’s musical, Stand by Your Man, The Tammy Wynette Story, was created for Nashville’s Ryman Theater. With John Markus he wrote the comedy with music, The Fabulous Lipitones, produced nationally. Mark co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Warner Brothers film, Duma. He most recently directed and co-produced the documentary, My Dog, An Unconditional Love Story. My Dog features Richard Gere, Lynn Redgrave and Glenn Close among many others. Mark wrote the award winning children’s book Three Cups. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writer’s Guild East and an Associate Artist at the Barrington Stage Company. 3 CHRISTOPHER INNVAR (Director) Barrington Stage Associate Artist. Chris has acted and directed in productions at BSC since 2003. Recent work includes directing Conor McPherson’s Shining City starring BSC favorite Mark H. Dold, and playing Walter Burns in John Guare’s adaptation of His Girl Friday. Chris directed Mark St. Germain’s The Collyer Brothers At Home/Period Piece at BSC in 2006 and is thrilled to be working on another one of his plays. Upcoming: Chris will play Doc in Come Back Little Sheba with the Transport Group in NYC and his play Turtles will be published in a compilation for teens by Applause Books. Many thanks, as always to Artistic Director and BSC Founder, Julianne Boyd. DAVID M. BARBER (Scenic Designer) At BSC: Sleuth, Crucible, All My Sons, Best of Enemies, Lord of the Flies, Scott and Hem, An Enemy of the People, His Girl Friday. Off Broadway: ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Women Beware Women, The Most Deserving, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Vandal, others. Regional: Denver Center, Hartford Stage, Centerstage, Contemporary American Theater Festival, ART, Pittsburgh Public, Colorado Shakespeare, Cleveland Public, Two River, Idaho Shakespeare, others. Television: E! Entertainment, The TODAY Show, Football Night, (Art Dir.), Woodstock ‘99 (Production Designer). Film: It’s All Relative, Day 39 (Production Designer). Other: Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant (ensemble member). Awards: Drama Desk, Henry Hewes, Connecticut Critics Circle, Denver Critics Circle. BRAD BERRIDGE (Sound Designer) Over a dozen shows at BSC. Highlights: The Best of Enemies, The Crucible, A Streetcar Named Desire, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Whipping Man, Pool Boy, Presto Change-O, American Son. Off Broadway: 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti (world premiere), Loot, Cactus Flower. Locally, many shows at Capital Repertory Theatre; highlights: Gypsy, The God Game (world premiere), A Christmas Carol, Other Desert Cites, The Secret Garden. Brad is an Associate Artist with WAM Theatre and has designed and composed music for nearly all of their local productions. Brad lives in the Berkshires with his wife, Ashley Berridge, and their two children. www.bradberridge.com CHARLOTTE PALMER-LANE (Costume Designer) Originally from the UK, Charlotte has worked for the BBC as a costume designer and assistant. Credits include: The Chronicles of Narnia, Miss Marple, Dr. Who and She’s Been Away directed by Sir Peter Hall. Film credits: Guarding Tess and Quiz Show. Recent credits: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, The Three Musketeers, The Liar, Othello, Winters Tale, An Iliad and As You Like It), Pennsylvania Shakespeare (Blithe Spirit), Mint Theatre (Rutherford & Son), Penguin Rep (Drop Dead Perfect, My Name is Asher Lev and Playing the Assassin) and Hudson Stage (Family Reunion, The God Game, Outside Mullingar and Other Desert Cities). Proud member of United Scenic Artists 829. charlottepalmerlane.squarespace.com 4 SCOTT PINKNEY (Lighting Designer) Scott, BSC Associate Artist, returns for his thirteenth season. Past designs include American Son, His Girl Friday, Scott & Hem, Best of Enemies, The Crucible, Whipping Man, Carousel, Streetcar Named Desire and Follies. Broadway: Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch