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The Undertaking BAM and Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Théâtre de la Ville Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, (Paris, France) Vice Chairman of the Board present Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Katy Clark, President Joseph V. Melillo, The Executive Producer Undertaking Written and directed by Steve Cosson The Civilians In collaboration with Jessica Mitrani Part of Brooklyn—Paris Exchange and Tandem Paris—New York Season Sponsor DATES: Sep 21—24 at 7:30pm Sep 25 at 3pm Programming in the BAM Fisher by New York City artists supported by LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. RUN TIME: 1hr 20mins no intermission This production is made possible with support from the Joseph V. Melillo Fund for Artistic Innovation. Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Donald R. Mullen Jr. #TheUndertaking The SHS Foundation #BAMNextWave The Shubert Foundation, Inc. BAM Fisher The Undertaking SPECIAL THANKS Amber Cavaly and Undertaking LA, Anthony Bossis, PhD., BJ Evans, Barbara Toy, Bobby Asher, Brandon DiSabatino, Dinah Bazer, Emma Bianchi, Fatima Maan, Felicia Limada, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CAST Additional Staff for The Undertaking Ian Daniel, Jennifer Hollis, Jennifer Steve Cosson Steve (and others) Dan Domingues Sherman, Jess Levine at Ars Nova, Lydia (and others) Irene Lucio Assistant Director Judith Shotwell, Kailen Todt, Katherine CREATIVE COLLABORATOR Sophie Blumberg Lane, Kara Wharton, KC Luce, Limor AND PSYCHOPOMP Tomer and the Metropolitan Museum Jessica Mitrani Set and Costume Design Assistant of Art, Martin Wollesen, New York Blake Palmer Theatre Workshop, Nickolas Pappas, SET AND COSTUME DESIGN Nicole Eldritch, participants in The Marsha Ginsberg The Civilians are advised and Lighting Design Assistant Civilians’ projects Be the Death of represented by Octopus Theatricals. Brittany Spencer Me and The End and The Beginning, LIGHTING DESIGN Rob Richter, Rodney Dumond, Roy Thomas Dunn Mara Isaacs Consulting Producer/ Sound Design Assistant Scranton, Simon Critchley, Tim Smith, Artistic Advisor Josh Friedman Veronica, and Waverly Engelman. SOUND DESIGN Mikhail Fiksel Ronee Penoi Associate Producer Projection Design Assistant Rasean Davonte Johnson #UndertakingYou PROJECTION DESIGN Julia Glawe Project Consultant Be part of this eternal conversation. Tal Yarden Associate Production Manager Shoot a short (under one-minute) video G. Ben Swope of yourself answering the question, STAGE MANAGER “What do you think happens after you Cherie B. Tay Technical Directors die?” Use the hashtag #Undertak- Andy Sowers and Matt Mauer ingYou and upload it to Instagram or PRODUCTION MANAGER Developed with assistance from Facebook, and we’ll share your video Stacey Boggs the Orchard Project, a program of Props Master on Extended Play, The Civilians’ online The Exchange, The Clarice Smith Becky Parker Geist publication. Visit extendedplay.thecivil- PRODUCER Performing Arts Center at the University ians.org to learn more. Jane Jung of Maryland, and onStage at Wig Designer Connecticut College. J. Jared Janas DRAMATURGY Jocelyn Clarke and Jacey Erwin Company Manager The actors and stage manager Bryan Hunt employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Photo: Zach Hyman Stoop Stories; Spring Awakening; Bus Stop; and the US premiere of Attempts on Her Life. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Oberon Who’s Books, and Playscripts, Inc. JESSICA MITRANI Who Creative Collaborator STEVE COSSON Jessica Mitrani is an artist working in Writer and Director performance and film. She recently wrote and directed Traveling Lady Steve Cosson’s recent work includes (Crossing the Line Festival, Paris’ New the world premieres of José Rivera’s Settings), La Divanee (Marfa Film Another Word for Beauty at the Festival, Oaxaca FilmFest, Nowness), Goodman Theatre; Rimbaud in New and Headpieces For Peace (ASVOFF5 York (writer/director), BAM Spring Festival Grand Prix). Other film festivals 2016; and Michael Friedman and include Oberhausen Short Film Festival Bess Wohl’s musical Pretty Filthy; and Festival Hors Pistes (Centre as well as the off-Broadway revival Pompidou, Paris). In addition, she has of The Belle of Amherst with Joely exhibited her work at museums and Richardson. Recently, The Civilians galleries internationally. was the first theater company in residence at the Metropolitan Museum This fall, Traveling Lady will be of Art. Other world premieres include reimagined as an installation for The Great Immensity (writer/director) Miami’s Screening Room project space. at The Public Theater and Kansas Currently creating an original series City Rep; Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns of shorts for Brazil’s ARTE 1 network, at Playwrights Horizons and Woolly Mitrani was previously an interview Mammoth; In the Footprint (writer/ subject for The Civilians’ The End and director); This Beautiful City (writer/ the Beginning (Metropolitan Museum director) at Vineyard, Kirk Douglas of Art, TEDx Talk). Theatre, Humana Festival; (I am) Nobody’s Lunch, Fringe First Award in Edinburgh, Soho Theatre, London; DAN DOMINGUES Gone Missing with several US and Actor UK productions and a one-year run off Broadway at Barrow Street; Anne Dan Domingues is a Civilians Washburn’s A Devil at Noon (Humana associate artist. His work with the Festival); Ethel’s Documerica (BAM company includes Another Word 2013 Next Wave); and Paris Commune For Beauty (Goodman Theatre, NY (The Public Theater, BAM 2012 Next Stage and Film); The Great Immensity Wave, La Jolla Playhouse). Other (The Public, Kansas City Rep); Let highlights include Dael Orlandersmith’s Me Ascertain You (Joe’s Pub). Off- Broadway work includes Locusts After the Revolution, Golden Gate Konzert Theater Bern, Staatstheater Have No King (INTAR); Fidelis (Public (Williamstown); and Amadeus, Braunschweig, New York City Opera/ MIKHAIL FIKSEL Theater); The Jammer, The Cherry Macbeth (Chautauqua). In TV/Film, BAM, Festival Opéra de Québec, Opera Sound Design Orchard (Atlantic Theater Company); work includes Gossip Girl, Stranded National de Bordeaux, Nationaltheater To the Bone (Cherry Lane Theatre); In Paradise (Hallmark Channel), and Weimar, Theater Basel (Switzerland), Mikhail Fiksel is a designer, composer, Night Sky (Baruch PAC). His regional Casi Casi (HBO Latino). She produces Spoleto Festival (USA), Tanglewood, musician, and DJ. Recent theater theater highlights include Hound of her own webseries called BUTS and the Guggenheim Museum, among credits include A Life by Adam Bock the Baskervilles (Hangar Theatre); (butswebseries.com). She received her others. Recent theater work with (Playwrights Horizons); Tiger Style The Goldilocks Zone (Passage MFA from Yale, her BA from Princeton director Martha Clarke, David Cromer, by Mike Lew (La Jolla Playhouse); Theatre Company); It’s A Wonderful University, and she is a proud member Ken Rus Schmoll, Tea Alagic, Elias Learning Curve (Albany Park Theatre Life (Long Wharf); The Real Thing of the Actor’s Center. Perrig, Katharina Schmitt, Christina Project and Third Rail Projects); The (Studio Theatre); Julius Caesar, A Paulhofer, and David Levine includes Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window Christmas Carol (Portland Stage); sets and/or costumes for The Effect by Lorraine Hansberry and 2666 When the Sun Shone Brighter (Florida THOMAS DUNN (Barrow Street); Angel Reapers by Robert Falls and Seth Bockley Stage); Amadeus, Othello (Pioneer); Lighting Design (Signature); Love in the Wars (Bard (Goodman Theatre); Stupid F*#king Wit, Human Events (George Street Summerscape); Nikolai and the Others Bird by Aaron Posner (The Pearl); Playhouse); and Sunrise at Monticello, Thomas Dunn is based in NYC and (LCT, Mitzi Newhouse); Romeo and and Fulfillment by Thomas Bradshaw Flying Crows (Playwrights Theatre designs lighting throughout US and Juliet (CSC); Jackie, Elfriede Jelinek (Drama Desk Nomination, The Flea). of NJ). His film work includes the abroad. Selected design credits (Women’s Project); Habit (PS 122/ Other credits include projects with Warner Bros. feature Run All Night, includes works with Wally Cardona, FIAF, Luminato Festival, Mass MOCA); Manhattan Theatre Club, Stage the independent films In Stereo and Steve Cosson/The Civilians, Annie and internationally at Hans Otto Theatre, American Conservatory Future ’38, and the award-winning Dorsen, DD Dorvillier/human future Theater, Potsdam; Theater Rampe, Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Dallas short Suffer the Little Children. On dance corp, Daniel Fish, Beth Gill, Stuttgart; Meetfactory, Prague; Athens Theatre Center, The Old Globe, TV he’s had a recurring role on The Trajal Harrell, Jennifer Lacey, Noémie Epidaurus Festival; Thalia Theater; Cleveland Playhouse, The Geffen Blacklist and has appeared on Law Lafrance/Sens Production, David Theaterhaus Jena; and others. Her Playhouse, The Long Wharf Theatre, and Order and Royal Pains. He holds Levine, Ong Keng Sen/TheatreWorks grants and awards include a 2016 Williamstown Theatre Festival, Victory an MFA from the Institute for Advanced Singapore, and Jay Scheib/NYCO. NYSCA grant for FAUST 2.0 (Mabou Gardens, Writers Theatre, Timeline, Theater Training at ART/Harvard and is Dunn is the recipient of a 2009 Kevin Mines); NYFA Architecture Fellowship; and The Hypocrites. Film projects the co-creator and co-host of the movie Kline Award for Outstanding Lighting NEA/TCG Design Fellowship; Elliot include original scores for The Wise podcast
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