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LOCATION: RUN TIME: DATES: #BAMNextWave #TheUndertaking 1hr 20minsnointermission BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) Sep 25at3pm Sep 21—24at7:30pm The Shubert Foundation,The Shubert Inc. The SHSFoundation Donald R. Mullen Jr. Foundation Trust The Francena T. Harrison provided by: fortheateratBAM Major support Fund Innovation. forArtistic fromtheJosephV.support Melillo This productionismadepossiblewith the Rockefeller BrothersFund. New York by supported Cityartists Programming intheBAMFisher by Season Sponsor Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, President Katy Clark, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard Adam E.Max, Vice ChairmanoftheBoard William I.Campbell, Chairman oftheBoard Alan H. Fishman, Brooklyn AcademyofMusic 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 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.

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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 and Kansas Currently creating an original series City Rep; ’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, ; 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, 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 Hot Date. Design for The Little Dog Laughed Norton Award; Watermill Center; Kids (2011), Alien Brides (2013), and (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis) as well Macdowell Colony Residencies. Glitch (2015). Fiksel is the recipient of as a 2007 Bessie Award for design for She has been visiting professor/ a Lucille Lortel Award, multiple Joseph IRENE LUCIO Nottthing Is Importanttt (DD Dorvillier/ artist at UCLA, Parsons, Wesleyan, Jefferson Awards, and the Michael Actor human future dance corps). Swarthmore, Barnard College, Williams Maggio Emerging Designer Award. He College, and Technische Universität is a proud member of TSDCA and USA. Irene Sofia Lucio’s recent credits (TU) in Berlin, Germany. mikhailfiksel.com include Wit on Broadway; King MARSHA GINSBERG Liz (Second Stage); Love and Set and Costume Design Information (NYTW); We Play for the Gods (Women’s Project); Marsha Ginsberg is an - and Estrella Cruz, The Junkyard winning scenic and costume designer. Queen (Ars Nova). Regional credits Recent work in opera includes projects include Bad Jews (Studio Theater); with directors Christopher Alden, Roy Pygmalion (Cal Shakes); Romeo Rallo, Lydia Steier, Jay Scheib and and Juliet, Masterbuilder (Yale Rep); Ted Huffman at San Francisco Opera, Opera, and Michigan Opera Theater. Songs of Lear by Poland’s Song TAL YARDEN CHERIE B. TAY She has worked with Jennifer Tipton, of the Goat Theatre (BAM 2016 Projection Design Stage Manager Chris Akerlind, Mark McCullough, Next Wave, September; US Tour), Beverly Emmons, Guy Simard, Traci Memory Rings by Phantom Limb Tal Yarden has recently created video Cherie B. Tay is an AEA stage manager Klainer, Robert Henderson, Kendall Company (BAM 2016 Next Wave, designs for Les Damnes (Comédie and music assistant in NYC. Broadway Smith, and Seth Reiser. She graduated November), Theatre for One (upcoming Française); The Exterminating Angel credits include Dr. Zhivago, Bring It from NYU’s graduate design program installation at Signature Theatre, (Royal Opera/Metropolitan); The On, and August: Osage County. Tour in 2005 and is a member of USA 829. NY, November 2016), and Our Crucible (Broadway); Lazarus (New credits include War Horse and In the Secrets by Hungary’s Béla Pintér and York/London); and Indecent (Vineyard). Heights; London productions include Company (US Tour Jan—Feb 2017). Other notable productions include Billy Elliot, Shakespeare’s Globe, and JANE JUNG Current clients include the Jerome Kings of War, Antigone, Cries and the National Theater, and regionally at Producer Robbins Foundation, Baryshnikov Arts Whispers, and Roman Tragedies (BAM/ Walnut St Theatre, Arden Theatre, and Center, , Fiasco Barbican); and The Fountainhead, LaJolla Playhouse. cheriebtay.com Jane Jung is managing director of Theater, The Wilma Theater, Tectonic Husbands, The Russians, Children The Civilians. With The Civilians, Theater Project, and The Civilians. of the Sun, Antonioni Project, Angels she produced Pretty Filthy (Abrons octopustheatricals.com In America, and Mourning Becomes STACEY BOGGS Arts Center). She has developed and Electra (Toneelgroep Amsterdam). Production Manager produced new work at the New Ohio Video designs for opera include Theatre’s Ice Factory Festival, Women’s Between Worlds (English National Stacey Boggs is a New York based Project Theater at City Center Stage II, Opera); Brokeback Mountain production manager and lighting The Bushwick Starr, La MaMa, and (Teatro Real); Der Schatzgräber designer. She comes to The Civilians’ The Public Theater’s Under the Radar (De Nederlandse Opera); Mazeppa team from working as the lighting Festival. From 2010—14, she was (Komische Oper Berlin); Macbeth director for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie General Manager of Ping Chong + (Opéra de Lyon); La Clemenza de Zane Dance Company. She has also Company. Jung serves on the Network Tito, Idomeneo (La Monnaie); and worked as a lighting supervisor for The of Ensemble Theaters board and the Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Vlaamse Wooster Group and as the technical Yale Theater Management Knowledge Opera). He has also designed video and lighting director for Ailey II. She Base Editorial Board. for Pop! (Yale); King Lear (Public); was the production manager for Distracted (Roundabout); Ludwig II Miriam (MassMoCa, BAM 2012 Next (Münchner Kammerspiele); Edward Wave, EMPAC) and has designed for OCTOPUS THEATRICALS II, The Misanthrope (Schaubühne); choreographers Bill T. Jones, Troy Little Foxes, Liberty City, Beast, The Powell, Robert Moses, Christopher Founded in 2013 by creative producer Misanthrope, Kaos (New York Theater Wheeldon, Chang Yong Sung, and Mara Isaacs, Octopus Theatricals Workshop); Lush Valley, Sounding Stephane Boko. She has also designed is dedicated to producing and (HERE); Futura (NAATCO); The King Is #9, Marco Millions (based on lies), consulting in the performing arts. Dead, Not Garden (Stephen Petronio); and The|King|Operetta (Waterwell); From experimental to commercial, and Tight Right White, Quotations Soundtrack 63 (651 ARTS); The they collaborate with artists and From A Ruined City (Reza Abdoh). Diary of Anne Frank (Theatre Three); organizations to foster an expansive Production designs include Corpus I Love a Piano (National Tour); and range of compelling theatrical works Exquisitus and A Dog and Pony Urinetown (Saint John’s University). for local, national, and international (Chashama). He has also VJ’d and She has designed at the John F. audiences. They eschew boundaries— directed live video with Annie Lennox, Kennedy Center for the Performing aesthetic, geopolitical, institutional— Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alicia Keys, Arts and Carnegie Hall on numerous and thrives on a nimble and rigorous Snoop Dogg, James Brown, Wyclef occasions and has also worked at the practice. Current projects include Jean, Peaches, Patti Smith, and Moby. Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell,

THE CIVILIANS Literary Associate THE BROOKLYN/PARIS EXCHANGE “I am thrilled with this innovative part- Jacey Erwin nership, a result of inspiring exchanges Led by artistic director Steve Cosson The 2016 Next Wave Festival includes with Joe Melillo,” says Demarcy-Mota. and managing director Jane Jung, Editorial Associate four engagements representing the “BAM and Théâtre de la Ville are sister The Civilians creates new theater James Carter Brooklyn/Paris Exchange, a new col- theaters, with common values based from creative investigations into the laboration between BAM and Paris’ on community and global involve- most vital questions of the present. R&D Group Coordinator Théâtre de la Ville. In this cross-cultur- ment, as well as artistic audacity. Most Recent credits include Rimbaud in Megan McClain al initiative, companies chosen by the importantly, our relationship will make New York (BAM Spring 2016), Another institutions’ respective artistic lead- it possible for American and French Word for Beauty, Pretty Filthy, Mr. Finance Manager ers, Joseph V. Melillo and Emmanuel artists’ work to transcend borders and Burns, A Post-Electric Play, and The Patricia Taylor Demarcy-Mota, will make their Paris or be seen more widely.” Great Immensity. In the 2014—15 Brooklyn debuts as part of the other’s season, the company was the first ever The Civilians Board of Directors upcoming season. Melillo’s selec- theater company in residence at the Rick Dean, Chair tions—the explosive Zimbabwe-born Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since its Jody Falco, Vice Chair choreographer nora chipaumire and in- founding in 2001, the OBIE Award- Elizabeth Angell, Secretary novative theater troupe The Civilians— winning company has been produced Aaron Stone, Treasurer represent the breadth of the borough’s at The Public Theater, Vineyard Steve Cosson current creative output. Demarcy- Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, Suany Chough Mota’s selections are similarly expan- Barrow Street Theater, Playwrights John McGinn sive, bringing celebrated circus artist Horizons, and nationally at Goodman Michael Friedman Yoann Bourgeois (Minuit, Oct 5—8) Theatre, Center Theatre Group, A.R.T., Jessica Harris and the hip-hop-inflected movement La Jolla Playhouse, HBO’s US Comedy Daniel P. Kim of dance duo Company Wang Ramirez Festival, the TED Conference, and Jeanhee Kim (Monchichi, Oct 12—15) to Brooklyn Actors Theatre of Louisville, among Julia Lazarus for their Next Wave debuts. Melillo and others. The Civilians’ podcast Let Me Jennifer R. Morris Demarcy-Mota are, in essence, giving Ascertain You can be found on The David Singer one another carte blanche to program Civilians website, Sound Cloud, and Suzanne Thompson a section of their corresponding artistic iTunes. thecivilians.org seasons, while also placing trust in the The Civilians would like to thank the artists, and audiences, that the work The Civilians Staff Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New will transcend cultural barriers. York Theater Program, A.R.T/New York, Artistic Director Axe-Houghton Foundation, Barbara “I am so excited to embark on this Steve Cosson Bell Cumming Foundation, Emma creative partnership with my esteemed A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, Howard colleague Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota,” Managing Director Gilman Foundation, Jerome Robbins says Melillo. “BAM and Théâtre de la Jane Jung Foundation, John Golden Fund, Ville institutionally—and Emmanuel Lucille Lortel Foundation, National and I personally—share a set of values Institutional Giving Manager Endowment for the Arts, New York City about the importance of performance Jeremy Olson Department of Cultural Affairs, The in the creation and expansion of local New York State Council on the Arts, a and global communities. I think of this Artistic Associate State Agency, Shubert Foundation, and exchange as a cultural conversation Tommy O’Malley many generous individual donors. that will enrich everybody involved.” BAM

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