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Becoming Dr. Ruth THE FLEA THEATER JIM SIMPSON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CAROL OSTROW PRODUCING DIRECTOR BETH DEMBROW MANAGING DIRECTOR PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF FAMILY FURNITURE WRITTEN BY A.R. GURNEY DIRECTED BY THOMAS KAIL RACHEL HAUck SET DESIGN BETSY ADAMS LIGHTING DESIGN CLAUDIA BROWN COSTUME DESIGN BART FAsbENDER SOUND DESIGN ANDREW DIAZ PROP DESIGN CALLERI CASTING CASTING ANDREA O. SARAffIAN STAGE MANAGER MICHELLE KELLEHER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER SETTING: The play takes place during a summer in the early 1950’s in and around a house on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie not far from Buffalo, New York. CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) Nick.........................................................Andrew Keenan-Bolger Russell....................................................................Peter Scolari Peggy.................................................................Ismenia Mendes Claire...........................................................Carolyn McCormick Betsy.........................................................................Molly Nordin Family Furniture CREATIVE TEAM Playwright..................................................................A.R. Gurney Director......................................................................Thomas Kail Set Designer...........................................................Rachel Hauck Lighting Designer......................................................Betsy Adams Costume Designer.................................................Claudia Brown Sound Designer....................................................Bart Fasbender Props Designer..........................................................Andrew Diaz Assistant Director........................................... THE FLEA THEATER Sherri Eden Barber Casting.................................................................Calleri Casting Stage Manager................................................Andrea O. Saraffian Assistant Stage Manager..................................Michelle Kelleher Light/Sound Board Operator.............................John Paul Harkins Wardrobe.............................................................Sarah Anderson 23 All actors and stage managers appear courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association. SPECIAL THANKS: Technical Artistry, ThinkSo, Tribeca Lighting, Souths, Helen Uffner Vintage Clothing LLC, and Bob Murphy FLEA STAFF Artistic Director.........................................................Jim Simpson Producing Director....................................................Carol Ostrow Managing Director.................................................Beth Dembrow Technical Director......................................................Liz Blessing Family Furniture Company Manager.......................................................Erin Daley Development Associate..................................................Alek Deva Marketing Associate...............................................David Sernick Audience Development Associate.......................Dominic Spillane Assistant Technical Director.................................Brandon Stock Graphic Designer.....................................................David Prittie Videographer........................................................Crystal Arnette Photographer............................................................Joan Marcus Costume Manager..................................................Josh Boerman THE FLEA THEATER Theater, Technical & Production Consultant............Kyle Chepulis Accountant......................................Joel Faden & Company, Inc. Attorney.........Carol M. Kaplan/Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP Development Consultant......................................Rachel Colbert Press Representative.................................Ron Lasko/Spin Cycle 33 CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Nick) Broadway: Crutchie in Newsies (Outer Critics Circle nominee), Roberston Ay in Mary Poppins, Seussical, Beauty And The Beast, A Christmas Carol. 1st Nat’l Tours: Spelling Bee, The Grinch, Mary Poppins, Ragtime. TV/Film: Billy in the upcoming Untitled Hugh Grant/Marisa Tomei film, Alex in the upcoming HBO series, Looking, Corey in the upcoming film You Must Be Joking, The Naked Brothers Band, Marci X, One Life To Live. B.F.A. from the University of Michigan. Co-creator of the webseries Submissions Only (www.submissionsonly.com). As a filmmaker his work has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Family Furniture Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly and New York Magazine. He is currently writing a children’s book series with collaborator Kate Wetherhead for the Penguin Group. Ismenia Mendes (Peggy) is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School, where she played roles such as Lorna (Golden Boy), Snug the Joiner THE FLEA THEATER (Midsummer), and Jackie Coryton (HayFever). Since graduating, Ismenia has played in a variety of productions - among them: Katharine/The Boy in Shakespeare’s Henry V (Two River Theatre), and a new play at Clubbed Thumb, Baby Screams Miracle. She has also had the great fortune of joining a wonderfully talented company of artists in StrangeMen & Co. 43 Carolyn McCormick (Claire) Broadway: Equus, Private Lives, The Dinner Party. Off Broadway: Ten Chimneys (Pecadillo Theatre), Black Tie (Primary Stages), Celebration (Atlantic), Privilege (Second Stage), Biography (Pearl), EVE-olution (Cherry Lane), Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts), Ancestral Voices (Lincoln Center). Film:You Know My Name, Loverboy, A Simple Twist of Fate, Enemy Mine, Nights at Rodanthe, Company Retreat, Whatever Works, Downtown Express, The Shells, That Thing With the Cat.TV: Dr. Olivet on Law and Order, series regular on Spenser for Hire and Cracker. Blue Bloods, Body of Proof, Cold Case, Judging Amy, The Practice, Homicide, Star Trek, LA Law. A narrator of myriad audio books and Ken Burns documentaries. BFA Williams College, MFA American Conservatory Theatre. More info at www.CarolynMcCormick.com Family Furniture Molly Nordin (Betsy) is thrilled to make her NYC debut at The Flea after just receiving her BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Big thanks to A.R. Gurney for his beautiful play. Thank you, John Crosby, Calleri Casting, Ma & Pop, and all of her favorite people at UNCSA. Peter Scolari (Russell) TV: Three-time THE FLEA THEATER Emmy Nominee, VQT Emmy Award Winner for Newhart, also Bosom Buddies, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The West Wing, ER, Family Ties, White Collar, King of Queens, Reba, Ally McBeal, From the Earth to the Moon (HBO), Stop the World, I Want to Get Off (Showtime). Film: That Thing You Do, Polar 3 Express, Suburban Girl, Camp Nowhere, The Ryan White Story. 5 Broadway/NY: Lucky Guy, Hairspray, Sly Fox, Magic/Bird, Out of this World and Ziegfeld Follies of 1937 (City Center Encores!). World Premieres of Daniel Sullivan’s Inspecting Carol and Ken Ludwig’s Fox on the Fairway. Winner Best Actor, Berkshire Theatre Festival for The Foreigner. Music Man at Ogunquit Playhouse, Forum at Bay Street Theater. Film Critic’s Award Nomination as Best Featured Actor for Girls (recurring as Lena Dunham’s Dad) (HBO). CREATIVE TEAM A.R. Gurney (Playwright) has been writing plays for over fifty years. Among them are: The Grand Manner, Scenes from American Life, The Dining Room, The Middle Ages, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, Sylvia, Far East, Ancestral Voices, Big Bill Indian Blood, Crazy Mary, Buffalo Gal, and Black Tie. At The Flea he has premiered Heresy, Office Hours, Post Mortem, Screenplay, Mrs. Farnsworth, A Light Lunch and O Jerusalem. He has also written three novels, a few television scripts, several unproduced movies, and the librettos Family Furniture of two operas. Gurney is a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has honorary degrees from Williams College and Buffalo State University, and taught literature at M.I.T. for many years. Thomas Kail (Director) Broadway: In the Heights (Tony nomination); Lombardi; Magic/Bird. Off B’way: In the Heights (Callaway Award, Drama Desk nom., Outer Critics nom.); Lincoln Center Theater: Broke-ology and When I Come to Die; New York City Center: The Wiz; THE FLEA THEATER Second Stage Uptown: The Tutors. Other recent credits include: Williamstown Theater Festival: Broke-ology; National Tour: In the Heights; Paper Mill Playhouse: Once on this Island. Co-creator and director of the hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love. Recipient of the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center. Graduate of Wesleyan University, CT. 63 Rachel Hauck (Set Designer) NY: Patron Saint of Sea Monsters,The Call, Go Back To Where You Are, 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons); Stay (Rattlestick), The Tutors (2nd Stage Uptown) An Iliad (NYTW, McCarter, La Jolla, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep); Slowgirl (LCT3), Harper Regan, Bluebird (Atlantic); Regrets (MTC); This Wide Night (Naked Angels, Lortel Nom); Picked, A Boy and His Soul (Vineyard); Orange, Hat and Grace (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Nom); Creature (P 73/ New Georges); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass, 37 Arts); Fever Chart, Poor Itch, Tongue of a Bird (Public). Recent regional: Clybourne Park, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Guthrie); McCarter, OSF, Taper, Shakespeare Theater, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Playmakers Rep, and others. Resident designer for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference since 2005. Betsy Adams (Lighting Designer) designed The Laramie Project Cycle at BAM as well as the world premiere of TLP (Denver Center); and the New York, Berkeley and La Jolla productions.
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