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JULIANNE BOYD, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND Jodi and Paul Tartell PRESENT BY David Cale STARRING Mark H. Dold LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER David Lander Alexander Sovronsky PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CASTING DIRECTOR Geoff Boronda Pat McCorkle, CSA BERKSHIRE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVES DIGITAL ADVERTISING Charlie Siedenburg The Press Room The Pekoe Group DIRECTED BY Julianne Boyd SPONSORED IN PART BY Arnold Kotlen and Stephanie Fleckner & Rhoda and Morris Levitt HARRY CLARKE was produced by the VINEYARD THEATRE, (Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director, Sarah Stern, Artistic Director, Suzanne Appel, Managing Director) in New York City, 2017. Subsequently Produced Off-Broadway By Audible (Alexander Dodge, set, Kaye Voyce, costuming, Alan Edwards, lighting, Bart Fasbender, sound design) in New York City, 2018. “Hang On To Your Love” Helen Adu, Stuart Matthewman Use by Permission of Angel Music Ltd. All rights reserved. THE TARTELL FAMILY OUTDOOR STAGE AUGUST 5–16, 2020 CAST Harry Clarke ....................................................................Mark H. Dold* STAFF Production Stage Manager ............................................ Geoff Boronda* Technical Director..............................................................Tom Minucci Scenic Artist ....................................................................... Freda Grim Lighting Supervisor ......................................................... Wylder Cooper Electrician .....................................................................Lucas Pawelski Audio Supervisor/A1 ........................................................ Eddy Mineishi Wardrobe Supervisor .........................................................Caitie Martin *Actor and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association. SPECIAL THANKS TO THE TARTELL FAMILY, without whose generous support this production of HARRY CLARKE would not be possible. CAST MARK H. DOLD (Harry Clarke) Mark is an Associate Artist who began with BSC in 2004. Highlights include: Freud’s Last Session, Breaking the Code, Shining City and The Glass Menagerie. Mark has worked at regional theatres from coast to coast and has appeared on and off Broadway. Most recently he was in the original Broadway company of The Inheritance. He has guest-starred on network television, web series and the recently completed movie Louie; written/ directed by the Berkshires’ own Robert Biggs. Mark is the recipient of Connecticut Critics Circle and San Diego Critics Awards. In 2018, he was named BroadwayWorld Berkshires—Best Actor for The Glass Menagerie. He is a graduate of Boston University and The Yale School of Drama. He is a member of The Actors Center and a patient-to-patient volunteer at MSKCC. Mark would like to dedicate this performance to every member of the Actors’ Equity Association; particularly the heroic Nick Cordero. Special thanks to Julianne Boyd and the BSC family for having the courage and stamina to revive art. Thank you to the residents of Berkshire County. Thank you to my family. MarkHDold.com 2 CREATIVES DAVID CALE (Playwright) is a monologist, playwright, songwriter and actor. He is the writer and performer of solo works including the Obie Award- winning Lillian, The History of Kisses, Palomino, A Likely Story, Deep in a Dream of You (Bessie Award), Smooch Music and The Redthroats (Bessie Award). He collaborated with Dael Orlandersmith on the duet show The Blue Album. He wrote the book, lyrics, co-composed the music and starred in the musical Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky (Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination). His songs have been sung by many artists including Elvis Costello and Debbie Harry. He has acted in plays on and off Broadway, most recently in Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s The Total Bent, and in films including The Slaughter Rule and Light From Light. Cale’s recent works include the solo play Harry Clarke, starring Billy Crudup, for which he received a 2018 Lucille Lortel Award. His solo musical memoir We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time, for which he wrote the book, lyrics and co-composed the music with Matthew Dean Marsh received a 2019 Jeff Award, was listed in The New York Times Best Theatre of 2019 and was the recipient of a 2020 Drama Desk Award Nomination, a 2020 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination, a 2020 Outer Critics Circle Award and a 2020 Obie Award. JULIANNE BOYD (Director) is the Founder (1995) and Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company (BSC) where she has directed many productions, including the critically acclaimed West Side Story (2018) and the 2017 hit production of Company, starring Aaron Tveit. She also directed the world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son, which won the Laurents-Hatcher Award for Best New Play by an Emerging Playwright in 2016. Other productions include the world premieres of Mark St. Germain’s Dancing Lessons, The Best of Enemies and Dr. Ruth, All the Way and the critically acclaimed revival of Goldman and Sondheim’s Follies. In 1997 she directed BSC’s smash hit production of Cabaret, which won six Boston Theater Critics Awards and transferred to the Hasty Pudding Theatre in Cambridge for an extended run. Boyd conceived and directed the Broadway musical Eubie!, a show based on the music of Eubie Blake which starred Gregory Hines and garnered three Tony nominations. She also co-conceived and directed (with Joan Micklin Silver) the award-winning Off Broadway musical revue A…My Name Is Alice (Outer Critics’ Award) and its sequel A…My Name Is Still Alice. 3 In 2000 Ms. Boyd created the Playwright Mentoring Project, BSC’s under- served youth program that won the prestigious Coming Up Taller Award in 2007. In 2015, the Playwright Mentoring Project also won the Common- wealth Award for Creative Youth Development. From 1992 to 1998 Ms. Boyd served as President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreog- raphers, the national labor union representing professional directors and choreographers in the U.S. ALEXANDER SOVRONSKY (Sound Designer) BSC: The Glass Menagerie, The Cake, Typhoid Mary, 10x10 New Play Festival (2017–2020). Original Music/ Sound Design credits include: Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac (starring Kevin Kline). Off Broadway: Mother of the Maid (The Public); Bottom of the World (Atlantic); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theatre); King Lear, Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem); As You Like It (Happy Few Theatre Co); Cyrano de Bergerac (Resonance Ensemble). Regional: Arena Stage, KC Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare & Co., Berkshire Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Wharton Salon, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Off-Square Theatre Co., WAM Theatre. AlexanderSovronsky.com DAVID LANDER (Lighting Designer) BSC: Fall Springs, Gertrude and Claudius, West Side Story. Broadway: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Torch Song with Michael Urie and Mercedes Rhuel, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, The Lyons with Linda Lavin, Master Class with Tyne Daly, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams (Drama Desk Award; Tony and Outer Critics Nominations), 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (Tony and Outer Critics nominations.), I Am My Own Wife (Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations), among others. Off Broadway: The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Vineyard Theatre, among others. Regional: Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, among others. International Theatre and Opera: Dublin, Delhi, London, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, among others. GEOFF BORONDA (Production Stage Manager) BSC: The Chinese Lady, Typhoid Mary, America v. 2.1, Gertrude and Claudius and If I Forget. New York: Ain’t No Mo’, Mobile Unit—Romeo & Juliet and The Comedy of Errors, Buzzer, Ping Pong, The Urban Retreat, The Great Immensity, Fortress of Solitude 4 (The Public Theater); The Undertaking and Whisper House (The Civilians); generations (Soho Rep). Regional: Moby-Dick (American Repertory Theater) Shakespeare in Love, Jazz (Baltimore Center Stage); A View from the Bridge (Center Theatre Group); Hamlet, A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Yale Repertory Theatre); Appropriate (Westport Country Playhouse). Education: MFA Stage Management from the Yale School of Drama. MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE (Casting) (C.S.A.) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 18 years. Pat McCorkle is pleased to be an Associate Artist at BSC. Broadway: Over 50 productions including On the Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights — Clever Little Lies; Sheer Madness; Tribes; Our Town (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 CHARLIE SIEDENBURG (Berkshire Press Representative/Associate Artist) (16th Season) joined the BSC family in 2005 and has represented over 130 BSC productions. His work has led to features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today and American Theatre Magazine. His many PR credits include the Metropolitan Opera (Live in