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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 , , 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 on Broadway and on tour. For five years he was lovable Mr. Cellophane in the Broadway hit . Other Broadway: , Sophisticated Ladies, Charlie and Algernon (LA Critics Award), Pippin, Sarava, and . PJ cut his teeth early on with the likes of , , and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He’s performed roles ranging from Joe Keller in 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 , Bill W. and Dr. Bob, and worked with on his remake of . Also, Joel Grey directed Patrick in On Borrowed Time. Recent films include The Immigrant with Marion Cotillard and , and The Place Beyond the Pines with . 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 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 .

KEVIN O’ROURKE (Warren G. Harding) has performed on Broadway in , Spoils of War and Alone Together. Other stage credits include The City of Conversation at , 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 ’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 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: , 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, , Pittsburgh Public, Colorado Shakespeare, 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, , , 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 . Film credits: Guarding Tess and Quiz Show. Recent credits: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (, 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: Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy. Off Broadway: Vincent, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Majestic Kid, Divine Fire and The World is Made of Glass. Regional: On Bottles for Israeli Stage (IRNE Nomination), for Denver Center (Denver Critic’s Circle Award), Comedy of Errors for Commonwealth Shakespeare ( Award), Balkan Women for BRT (Barrymore Nomination) and My Fair Lady for TheatreVirginia (Phoebe Award). Internationally: Singapore Rep and Club Mohamed-Ali in Cairo. Scott is an Associate Professor at Emerson College. www.slpinkney.com

RENÉE LUTZ (Production Stage Manager) Over 55 productions for BSC including American Son, , Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me Kate, , Much Ado, Follies, etc. Most recent credit: Pericles for Theater for a New Audience directed by . Numerous credits include: Hamlet, directed by ; Merchant of Venice, both national tour and the Royal Shakespeare Company; Hartford Stage; ART; New York Public Theater; Playwrights Horizons; Manhattan Theater Club; Signature; Classic Stage; Coconut Grove and others. Her very best credit and longest run is her husband, actor Gordon Stanley.

PAT MCCORKLE (Casting) (C.S.A.) McCorkle Casting LTD is pleased to be named “Associate Artist” and has been casting actors for Barrington Stage for 14 years. Broadway: Over 50 productions including , Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, , She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights— Clever Little Lies, Sheer Madness, Tribes, (Barrow Street), Freud’s Last Session, Toxic Avenger, Almost, Maine, Driving Miss Daisy. Feature film: Premium Rush, Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: Twisted, St. George, Sesame Street, Hack, Californication, Max Bickford, Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, etc. mccorklecasting.com

SPECIAL THANKS 62 Center at Williams College Rick Drone Ron Maybrook of Maybrook Tractors North Shore Music Theatre Shakespeare & Co

5 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mary Ann Quinson, Chair Marita O’ Dea Glodt, President Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director Rosita Sarnoff, Vice President Sydelle Blatt, Secretary Ira Yohalem, Treasurer

Carole Burack | Bonnie Burman | Warren Dews, Jr. | Reba Evenchik Isanne Fisher | Ralph Friedner | Sherwood Guernsey | Rhoda Levitt | Robert Petricca Sheila Richman | Robert K. Rosenthal, M.D. | David Schulman | Mark St. Germain Laurie Schwartz | Roz Stuzin | David Tierney | Eleanore Velez Robert Youdelman | Michael Zaccaro BOARD EMERITI Kathleen Chrisman | “Mike” S. Faust | Jeananne Hauswald Harris Marcie Imberman | James M. Lamme III | James A. Lapenn Heather Nolin | Roberta Olsen | Jude Sabot Marion Simon | Richard Solar | Reid White | Eileen Young

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING UPDATES TO THE PROGRAM Assistant to the Managing Director Katherine (Kate) McCombs Technical Director David Nelson Associate Technical Director Tom Rindge Development Associate Rebecca Barrow Assistant to the Artistic Director/Literary Associate Rebecca Weiss

ANNUAL FUND Our Season went to print on May 10th. We greatly appreciate the support of the following donors who have supported BSC since that date:

Visionary $10,000-$24,999 Leader $1,000-$1,994 Benefactor $500-$999 Judith Goldsmith David & Stephanie Abramson Iris & Mel Chasen Leslie & Steve Jerome J. Capizzi & G. Riddell Lawrence Levinson & Jill & Harold Gaffin Joseph Deleo Director $5,000-9,999 Lorna & Edwin Goodman Marjorie & Anthony Elson Jody & John Arnhold George Greene Ginger & George Elvin Deborah & A. King Francis Patti & Louis Grossman Scott & Ellen Hand Nancy & Morris Offit in honor Marianne & Richard Jaffe Maureen & Paul Hickey of Carole & Dan Burack Alice McInerney Carole & Gordon Hyatt Enid Michelman & Phyllis (Patti) & Harvey Klein Founder $1,995-$4,999 Arthur Sherman Joan & Paul Kopperl Barbara Cutler Emden & Judith & Fred Robins Linda & Burton Imberman James B. Emden Elisabeth & Robert G. Wilmers Elaine & Steve Mack Michael Goldsmith Phyllis A. & Harvey Klein

6 Charitable Fund Anita & Howard Kleinbaum Howard & Nancy Waxman Lawrence & Betty Sue Rosenthal Saul Kramer & Susan Shaber Douglas White Jeffrey & Karen Ross Ellen & Mark Levy Judith Rupinski Ralph & Dena Lowenbach EDUCATION DONORS Judith Schuchalter & Jayne & Charles Maller Director $5,000-$9,999 Albert Gordon Helen & James McCarthy The Ruth P. & Nicholas Boraski Caryl & Robert Siskin Nina Molin Family Education Fund Lauren Spitz Jody & Harold Nelson Sandi Stern Don & Nora Quadrozzi Leader $1,000-$1,994 Karen & Paul Whitby Kathleen Quinn & Barbara Feakes Jill Wolling James Lortsher Lenox Educational Enrichment Anita & Jack Zwick Mr. & Mrs. David Quinlan Program Leonard & Elizabeth Rosenfeld Angel $250-$499 Dr. Janet & Mr. David Rothstein Benefactor $500-$999 Lorinda Ackley Mazur & Ellen & Peter Rowntree J. Capizzi & G. Riddell Thomas Mazur Carole Schwartz Arlene & Norman Basner Anne & Barry Sheridan Friend $100-$249 Eva & Jean-Paul Blachere Louise Simmons Gail Smallridge Michael C. Brook, Ph.D. Norman Solomon, M.D. Paula Consolini & James Mahon Abbe & Peter Steinglass Elaine & Michael Christopher Gail Street & Anita Stuart CAPITAL Eugene Dellea Sylvia & David Steiner $500,000 – $1,000,000 Sophie & Lee Dichter Jeffrey & Susan Tannenbaum Jessie & Bernard Wolfson Sheila & Barry Halpern John Toole Ruth Houghton Tuesday Club of Stockbridge $50,000-$100,000 Barbara McCullough Dr. & Mrs. George Vazakas Sydelle & Lee Blatt Silvia & John Ogilvie Myra & Warren Widmann Sue Z. Rudd Dee & Frank Wind $1,000-$1994 T & M Electric, Inc. Dr. Barbara Winslow Esther & Robert Rosenthal David Topchik Estelle & Jacob Wolansky $100-$249 Friend $100-$249 Supporter $50-$99 Gail Smallridge Marsha Altschuler Anonymous Gail & Joel Appelbaum Pamela Burger ENDOWMENT FUNDS & Ellen J. Bernstein Jennifer Clark LEGACY DONORS* Louis Bernstein Susan Diamond The Ruth P. & Nicholas Boraski Barbara & Mark Cohen Anne & Robert Gagnon Family Foundation Jan & Lloyd Constantine Lenore Greenstein Sydelle & Lee Blatt Diana & Stanley Feld Lee & Jo Ann Hauge Claudia A. Brown Dery Funeral Home Bill Jeonnotte Stuart M. Fischman Nathan Doctrow Amy & Alan Levine Marcia (Mickey) & Norma & Gilbert D’Oliveira Arthur Lifton Norman Resnick Stephanie & Arthur Gilbert Zelda & Stephen Litwin John Gillespie Karen Ludington Sylvia D. Gingras Eleanor Montgomery Stephanie & Bob Gittleman Erin Peck Dr. Jacob & Myrna Golden Alvin & Myrna Schneiderman Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Hamovit Florence & Irwin Speyer Dr. Bernard & Rose Ann & William Sturgeon Mrs. Deborah Harris in honor of Karen & Robert Byron C. Huse Youdelman’s 50th Anniversary Malinka & Kenneth Jackson Susan & Jules Titelbaum Susan & Gordon Josephson Marge & Rusty Van Houten Joan G. Kinne George A. Wachtell

*If you have designated Barrington Stage as a beneficiary on an insurance policy, a will, a trust or other estate planning document, please contact Martin Mansfield in Development to be recognized and included on future lists. (413) 997-6116 [email protected]

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