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2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL BAM and Irish Arts Center present Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Howie the Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, Rookie President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Written and directed by Irish Arts Center Gerry Boyle, Mark O’Rowe Board Chair Aidan Connolly, Executive Director

DATES: Dec 10—13 at 7:30pm Dec 14 at 3pm

LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

RUN TIME: 1hr 20min (no intermission)

Season Sponsor:

Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor

Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen Jr. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc

#HOWIETHEROOKIE BAM Fisher 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Howie the Rookie

HAIR AND MAKE-UP WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Val Sherlock Mark O’Rowe

PUBLICIST THE HOWIE LEE / THE ROOKIE LEE Sinéad O’Doherty | Gerry Lundberg PR Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

PHOTOGRAPHER SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BY Patrick Redmond Paul Wills

GRAPHIC DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGN BY Gareth Jones Sinéad McKenna

AMERICAN STAGE MANAGER SOUND DESIGN BY R. Michael Blanco Philip Stewart

PRODUCER Anne Clarke

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Sara Cregan

PRODUCTION MANAGER Eamonn Fox

STAGE DIRECTOR Presented in association with Clive Welsh David Eden Productions Ltd., with

the support of Culture . ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Sarah Baxter The actor appears with the permis- sion of Actors’ Equity Association. The ASSISTANT DESIGNER American stage manager is a member Adrian Gee of Actors’ Equity Association. COSTUME SUPERVISOR howietherookie.com Emily Ní Bhroin 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

NOTES ON THE PLAY Howie the Rookie

The Howie begins the story. The Rookie concludes it. Mark O’Rowe’s electrifying, epic tale is a wild, urban odyssey through a nightmare landscape—hilarious, grotesque, and, finally, deeply moving.

Meet Ladyboy, a psychotic thug on a quest to avenge the deaths of his Siamese fighting fish. Meet malodorous adrenaline-junkies Flann Dingle and Ginger Boy. Meet Avalanche, a ski- panted monster looking for love. Meet the tragic Mouse. Meet the scabies-afflicted Peaches. Meet the Howie. Meet the Rookie.

Photo: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor by Patrick Redmond 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

In 2003, O’Rowe wrote his first feature film, Intermission, which starred and . His other screenplays include adaptations of Who’s Jonathan Trigell’s novel, Boy A, for Cuba Pictures and Channel 4; Perrier’s Bounty; and Daniel Clay’s 2008 novel Broken, which starred Cillian Murphy Who and Tim Roth. He wrote the short films

Epithet (2011) and Debris (2012), MARK O’ROWE which he also directed. Writer and Director

TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR The Howie / The Rookie

Mark O’Rowe’s plays include Our Few and Evil Days ( 2014), From Both Hips (Fishamble, 1997), Howie the Rookie (, 1999), Made in China (Abbey Theatre, 2001), and Crestfall (, 2003). Tom Vaughan-Lawlor graduated with a Howie the Rookie won the George degree in Drama Studies at the Samuel Devine Award when it premiered at the Beckett Centre, Trinity College , by Simon Annand Bush Theatre in 1999. It also won the and continued his training at RADA. Irish Times Best New Play award and the Rooney Prize for . He most recently played the role of Dennis in Mark O’Rowe’s Our Few In 2007 Rowe wrote Terminus, a series

and Evil Days at the Abbey Theatre. Vaughan-Lawlor ; (right) Tom of interlocking monologues, which Other theater credits include The Quare opened at the Abbey Theatre and won Fellow, directed by (Oxford a Fringe First when it transferred to Stage Company); Translations, directed Kavanagh Ros the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. It by Sean Holmes (National Theatre, undertook a major world tour in 2011, ); The Field, directed by Róisín touring for five months to the US, UK, McBrinn (Tricycle Theatre); and This and Australia. Photos: (left) Mark O’Rowe by Photos: (left) Mark O’Rowe 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Lime Tree Bower, directed by Yael performance in Howie the Rookie. Shavit (). His other recent theater roles include Vaughan-Lawlor appeared at the Abbey Frank Lubey in with David Theatre, Dublin, as Christy Mahon in Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker, directed The Playboy of the Western World, by in the West End; which also toured . His and Jerry Devine in Juno and the other performances include Lyngstrand Paycock, directed by Howard Davies in Ibsen’s , with Ciarán Hinds and Sinéad Cusack directed by Lucy Bailey at for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and Repertory Theatre; Joseph Surface in the National Theatre, London. He also The School for Scandal, directed by appeared in ’s 55 Days Jimmy Fay at the Abbey Theatre; Len at the , directed by in ’s Saved, directed by Howard Davies. Jimmy Fay at the ; and the Dauphin in Henry V, directed Vaughan-Lawlor plays the leading role by Jonathan Munby at the Manchester of Nidge in the award-winning RTÉ Royal Exchange, for which he was TV drama series Love/Hate written nominated for an Award. by Stuart Carolan, for which he won Best Actor at the 2013 Irish Film and His film appearances includeThe Television Awards. Next year, he will be Tiger’s Tail opposite , seen in the role of PJ Mara in the RTÉ directed by John Boorman; and with drama Citizen Charlie, produced by Maggie Smith, Anne Hathaway, and Touchpaper TV / Element Films. Julie Walters in Becoming Jane, directed by Julian Jarrold for Miramax Films. For the BBC, he played the PAUL WILLS eye-catching cameo of IRA man Byrne Set and Costume Designer in Peaky Blinders, opposite Cillian Murphy. Radio credits include The Theater designs include: The Two Leopard, directed by Lucy Bailey (BBC Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Anna Radio 3). Christie, Making Noise Quietly, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Cut Other theater appearances include (); Di and Viv and Solyony in ’s acclaimed Rose (West End); A Human Being production of ’s adaptation of Died that Night (BAM Spring 2015 and Bob Acres in Patrick and international tour); Routes, Acid Mason’s production of Sheridan’s The Test, Breathing Corpses (Royal Court); Rivals, both at the Abbey Theatre. Our Few and Evil Days, Drum Belly Also at the Abbey, he played the title (Abbey Theatre Dublin); The Lightning role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Child, Doctor Faustus, Frontline, We Ui, directed by Jimmy Fay, for which the People (Shakespeare’s Globe he won the Best Actor award at the Theatre); Barnum (UK tour); Theatre Awards. He won Hypochondriac, A Steady Rain, a second Best Actor award at the Home (Bath Theatre Royal); Saved, Irish Times Theatre Awards for his Blasted, Punk Rock, Secret Theatre, 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

The Chair Plays (Lyric Hammersmith); Ladies and Gents, which has toured , A Number, Blue/ cities throughout the world and, more Orange, Gladiator Games, Sisters recently, for her work on Howie the (Sheffield Crucible);Once a Catholic, Rookie. She was also nominated for a The Field (Tricycle Theatre); Buried for her design of Child ( Curve); Ben Rough Magic’s Improbable Frequency Hur, Little Voice (Watermill); The in 2009. Stock Da’wa (Hampstead Studio); Novecento (Donmar Warehouse Recent designs include at season at Trafalgar Studios); Orpheus the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Quietly at Descending, 1984, Macbeth, See the Peacock Theatre; The Titanic Boys How They Run (Royal Exchange); for Martin Lynch; The Plough and the Waiting for Godot, Yerma (West Stars for the Abbey Theatre; Greener Yorkshire Playhouse); The Second Mrs. for Landmark Productions; and Dublin- Tanqueray, Treasure Island (set design, ers for the Corn Exchange at the 2012 Rose Theatre, Kingston); Dandy in Dublin Theatre Festival. Other recent the Underworld, Overspill (Soho); theater designs include The Magic Serious Money (Birmingham Rep); Flute for Opera Theatre Company; 16 The Indian Wants the Bronx (Young Possible Glimpses (Abbey); Alice In Vic); Prometheus Bound (Classic Funderland (Abbey); and Stage Company, New York/ Sound (Town Hall, ). London); Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse/Tricycle/Bath); A Kind Previous designs include The New of Alaska, A Slight Ache (Gate Electric Ballroom (Druid); The Impor- Theatre); Mammals (Bush Theatre); tance of Being Earnest, Improbable The Changeling, Mother Courage (set Frequency, The Parker Project, Life is design, ETT); Crestfall (Theatre 503); a Dream, Attempts on Her Life, and and Sleeping Beauty (Helix Theatre, Dream of Autumn (Rough Magic); Dublin). October, The Last Days of the Celtic Ti- ger, and (Landmark); God’s Opera includes: Intermezzo (Buxton Grace and Adrenalin (Semper Fi); The Festival); Rusalka (English Touring Burial at Thebes, Howie the Rookie, Opera); Sweetness and Badness and Finders Keepers (Peacock); Circus (Welsh National Opera); and The (Barabbas); (Gate The- Magic Flute (National Theatre of atre); and Honor (b*spoke). Palestine). She has also designed Macbeth, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, , SINÉAD MCKENNA and How Many Miles to Babylon Lighting Designer (Second Age); All Over Town and Wunderkind (Calipo); and Hencefor- Sinéad McKenna is one of Ireland’s ward ( Playhouse). For Gúna Nua most in-demand lighting designers. she designed Skindeep, Scenes from a She has won the prestigious Irish Watercooler, , and Din- Times Theatre Award for Best Light- ner with Friends. For The Performance ing Design twice: for Semper Fi’s 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Corporation she designed Candide and original music for the Abbey Theatre’s The Butterfly Ranch. Other theater critically-acclaimed staging of Tom designs include Shooting Gallery Murphy’s The House. His sound (Bedrock); The Snow Queen and Merry design for The Early Bird, produced Christmas Betty Ford (Lyric Theatre); by Natural Shocks, was nominated for The Gist of It (Fishamble); Hard to an Irish Times Award. He Believe (Storytellers); The Woman who previously worked on Terminus, written Walked into Doors (Upbeat Produc- and directed by Mark O’Rowe, which tions); and Diarmuid and Gráinne for premiered at the Peacock Theatre in Passion Machine. 2007. Stewart studied composition at Trinity College Dublin under Donnacha Dance and opera designs include A Dennehy and Roger Doyle. Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Ireland); Does She Take Sugar? for Jean Butler; Swept (CoisCéim Dance DAVID EDEN PRODUCTIONS, LTD Theatre); As a Matter of Fact (Dance Theatre of Ireland); and La Bohème for David Eden Productions, Ltd. (DEP) Co-Opera. has been one of the leading American organizations devoted to producing McKenna’s international work includes international work in the US for over La Traviata for Malmö Opera House. 25 years. Most recently, DEP has Her comedy designs include Bovinity produced US tours of Théâtre de la for Tommy Tiernan, the Tongues and Ville’s Ionesco Suite and Pirandello’s Fitting In tours for Des Bishop, Neil Six Characters in Search of an Delamere at Vicar Street, and Maeve Author (2014), Bouffes du Nord’s The Higgins’ Ha Ha Yum. Suit (2013—14), Batsheva Dance Company (2012, 2009, 2004, 1998), Théâtre de la Ville’s production of PHILIP STEWART Ionesco’s Rhinoceros (2012), the Sound Designer Republic of Georgia’s Ensemble Basiani (2012), Gate Theatre Dublin’s Philip Stewart has contributed music Endgame/Watt (2011) and Krapp’s and sound design to a broad spectrum Last Tape (2012, 2011), Maly Drama of genres including theater, dance, Theatre’s Three Sisters (2012) at BAM, documentaries, and short films. as well as the North American tour of Recent credits include original music Galway’s Druid Theatre’s Cripple of for Mark O’Rowe’s Our Few and Inishmaan (five-month tour, 2011). Evil Days (Abbey Theatre); original Other recent tours include Declan music and sound design for The Donnellan’s Twelfth Night (2006) and Vortex (Gate Theatre); The Talk of a 2010 Kennedy Center retrospective the Town (Hatch Theatre Company, of Donnellan’s Russian work, Gate Landmark Productions, and Dublin Theatre Dublin’s Waiting for Godot Theatre Festival); original music (2006), Propeller’s The Winter’s Tale for The Speckled People by Hugo (2005), and di Milano’s at the Gate Theatre; and Arlecchino (2005). In 2004, Eden 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL curated Lincoln Center Festival’s Highlights of our programming in 2014 Ashton Celebration, a two-week include the American premieres of Lip- centennial retrospective at the py, The Irish Times Theatre Award-win- Metropolitan Opera House celebrating ning play from Dead Centre, at Abrons master choreographer Frederick Arts Centre, and Brokentalkers’ Have I Ashton. In 2000, in association with No Mouth, at Baryshnikov Arts Center; the Kennedy Center, he toured the Masters in Collaboration, our two-artist full Bolshoi Ballet throughout the US, weeklong residency featuring Dana marking the company’s first US tour Lyn & Louis de Paor and Caoimhín Ó since the end of the Soviet era. Eden Raghallaigh & Cleek Schrey; Camille also produced the Bolshoi Ballet’s O’Sullivan: In Residence, named by subsequent national tour in 2002 and Time Out’s Adam Feldman as “one of curated the Kennedy Center’s Arts of the top five cabaret shows of the year”; the United Kingdom (Summer 2001), Muldoon’s Picnic, a monthly residency where he developed a commissioning with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul project between the Muldoon and his band with special Company and Kennedy Center, guests; Debut Voices, a literature series producing Frank Wedekind’s Lulu. featuring first-time authors with Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half- Formed Thing; PoetryFest, our annual IRISH ARTS CENTER November celebration of the best of PERFORMANCE | EXHIBITION | EDUCATION Irish and American poetry; the annual season of the Bessie Award-nominated Founded in 1972, Irish Arts Center Darrah Carr Dance; and Celtic Appala- (IAC) is a New York-based arts and chia, Mick Moloney’s annual celebra- cultural center dedicated to projecting tion of Irish influences on American a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish old-time, country and bluegrass music. America for the 21st century, building community with artists and audi- Irish Arts Center is currently develop- ences of all backgrounds, forging and ing plans to construct a new facility to strengthening cross-cultural partner- serve our multi-disciplinary program. ships, and preserving the evolving The New Irish Arts Center will contain stories and traditions of Irish culture for a 199-seat theatre, an 85-seat intimate generations to come. IAC presents and café venue; studio spaces for classes, produces multi-disciplinary program- rehearsals, and the development of ming, centered around three core ar- new work; technology capability to eas: Performance—including live mu- project Irish Arts Center on the digital sic, dance, theater, film, literature, and platform and a social environment for the humanities; Exhibition—including meetings, collaboration, and conver- visual arts presentations and cultural sation before and after the show. For exhibitions that tell the evolving Irish more information on the New Irish Arts story; and Education—with dozens of Center, or to support our campaign, classes per week in Irish language, his- Almost Home, please visit irishartscen- tory, music, and dance. ter.org or almosthome2016.org. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Irish Arts Center Honorary Chairs: and

Irish Arts Center Board of Directors: Georganne Aldrich Heller, Gerry Boyle IRISH ARTS CENTER STAFF (Chair), Andrew Breslin, Celestine Director of Children’s Programming Donaghy, John Duffy, James Houlihan, Jen Browne Kevin Keane, Shaun Kelly, John Mar- tin, Michael McGrath, Peggy McGrath, Executive Director Aidan Connolly Shane Naughton, Pauline Turley

Director of Operations Graphic Designer Christine Cullen Patrick A. Morin Website Designer Marketing/Membership Associate Michael Prete Sarah Thorenton Accounting Director of Programming/Education N. Cheng & Co., P.C Rachael W. Gilkey Maintenance Capital Project Manager Jesus Barrientos Carl Gillen Don Cressy Director of Development Maura Greaney IRISH ARTS CENTER 553 West 51st Street Development Associate New York, NY 10019 Adam Lamberg irishartscenter.org

Programming/Education Coordinator This presentation was made possible in Tamar MacKay part through support from Georganne Aldrich Heller. Director of Communications/External Affairs The Opening Night Party is sponsored Nik Quaife in part by Putnam’s Pub & Cooker in Marketing Manager Clinton Hill. Kim Rossi

Production Manager/Technical Director Mac Smith

Programming Interns Megan Scully Gabriella Steinberg

Vice Chair Pauline Turley 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS Producer: Anne Clarke Associate Producer: Sara Cregan Landmark Productions is one of landmarkproductions.ie Ireland’s leading theater producers. Led by Anne Clarke, the company produces wide-ranging and ambitious work in Ireland and tours Irish work abroad. In the past decade, the company’s productions have been seen on tour throughout Ireland, and in London, Edinburgh, and New York. They include the Irish premieres of ’s , Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, David Harrower’s Knives in Hens, and his Olivier Award-winning play Blackbird. Acknowledgements

Recent productions include the world Landmark Productions would like to premieres of Colm Tóibín’s Testament, thank Aidan Connolly, Nik Quaife, co-produced with Dublin Theatre and all at Irish Arts Center; Richard Festival; Emma Donoghue’s The Talk Cook and Jonathan Shankey at the of the Town (Hatch Theatre Company/ Lisa Richards Agency; Denis Desmond Landmark/DTF); and ’s and all at MCD; David Eden and Erica Misterman, which subsequently toured Charpentier at David Eden Productions to St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York Ltd.; Paul Fahy; Georganne Heller; and the National Theatre in London. John McBratney; Shane McCarthy; Most recently, the world premiere of Nick Marston, Camilla Young, and Ballyturk, written and directed by Enda Jessica Coleman at Curtis Brown; Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy, Joseph V. Melillo and all at BAM; Mikel Murfi, and Stephen Rea, played Cian O’Brien and all at Project Arts to sold-out houses at the National Centre; Toni Racklin and all at the Theatre in London. Both Misterman Barbican; Christine Sisk and all at and Ballyturk were co-produced with Culture Ireland; Carol Tambor and Galway International Arts Festival. Kent Lawson; and Jonathan White.

Future plans include a new production of Enda Walsh’s directed by Sean Foley. Starring Brendan Gleeson, , and , it opens at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in January 2015. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

Photo: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor by Patrick Redmond