JULIANNE BOYD, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

BY Stephen Karam

FEATURING Austin Davidson Ben Getz Betsy Hogg Edelen McWilliams

SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER Reid Thompson Nikki Delhomme Burke Brown

SOUND DESIGNER PROJECTION DESIGNER Palmer Hefferan Alex Basco Koch

CASTING PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski, CSA Paul Vella

BERKSHIRE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE Charlie Siedenburg Matt Ross Public Relations

DIRECTED BY Jessica Holt

THE 2017 ST. GERMAIN SEASON IS SPONSORED BY The Claudia and Steven Perles Family Foundation

SPEECH & DEBATE is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, INC.,

ST. GERMAIN STAGE JULY 13-29, 2017 PLACE Salem, Oregon

CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Howie...... Austin Davidson* Solomon...... Ben Getz Teacher/Reporter...... Edelen McWilliams* Diwata...... Betsy Hogg* Radio Announcer...... Dr. Alan Chartock

MUSICAL THEATRE CONSERVATORY UNDERSTUDIES Howie/Solomon...... Carson Robinette Diwata...... Alex Teman STAFF Production Stage Manager...... Paul Vella* Directing Assistant...... Olivia Ragan Stage Management Interns...... Erin Duffey, Sydney Gustafson Music Director...... Dan Pardo Choregrapher...... Tim Paré Associate Projection Designer...... John Erickson Wardrobe Intern...... Glennda Campbell Lightboard/Projections Operator...... Isabel Hernandez Soundboard Operator...... Jason O'Neal SPECIAL THANKS WAMC

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES TO THE PROGRAM: Blatt Center Line Producer Alyssa Anderson Controller Marty Read General Tech Intern Miranda Kelley KidsAct! Assistant Teacher Louisa Jacobson Stitcher Brianna Wiegand Digital Marketing The Pekoe Group

*Actors and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association. 2 CAST AUSTIN DAVIDSON (Howie) feels blessed to be making his Barrington debut just having graduated this past May from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. There he was seen in the world premiere of The Golem: A Horror Opera (Yitsik), written and directed by Liz Swados, 1776 (Courier) and The Laramie Project (Matt, Doc, Jonas, Jim and others). His film credits include Mia (Stonestreet Studios), The Cleanse (FSU MFA Thesis) and The Storyteller (Dancing Spirit Productions). Thanks to McCorkle Casting, Brett Goldstein and Jessica. Infinite thanks Granny, Papaw, Mom, Dad, Sissy and Winz. All Glory to God! Heb. 13:6.

BEN GETZ (Solomon) is excited to be making his Barrington debut! He was last seen on stage in Sinners (Nur), directed by Brian Cox. Stage credits include Troilus and Cressida (Diomedes), Hurlyburly (Phil), Bachelorette (Joe) and As You Like It (Duke Senior). Film/TV credits include Blue Bloods, Uncaged, Grotto and the newly released series Play by Play on Verizon Go90. Ben can also be seen as the lead in Lady Antebellum/Audien’s music video “Something Better.” Ben is a graduate of NYU-Tisch.

BETSY HOGG (Diwata) is thrilled to be back at BSC, where (unlike Diwata) she got to play Mary Warren in The Crucible. Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (Molly; closing company), Fiddler on the Roof (2005), The Crucible (2002). Off Broadway/Regional: MTC, The New Group, McCarter Theatre, NYSAF, Two River Theater, Bucks County Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, Pioneer Theatre Co., Queens Theatre and TerraNOVA. TV/Film: Law & Order: SVU, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Onion SportsDome, Indignation, The Missing Person, Rocket Science. Proud Northwestern graduate and AEA member. For more, check out betsyhogg.com.

EDELEN MCWILLIAMS (Teacher/Reporter) NY Theatre: Victory (PTP/ Atlantic Stage 2), A Doll’s House (Infinite Theatre), I Heart Kant (Committee Theatre), Tabletop (Working Theater), Admissions (directed by Austin Pendleton; Blue Heron), I Wanna Be Adored (by Marc Spitz). Regional: Jester’s Dead (co-creator; The Outfit; Philadelphia Fringe), As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Don Juan, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors (Old Globe), Don Juan (Baltimore Center Stage). Film: Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women. TV: Luke Cage, Elementary, Madame Secretary, Homeland, Boardwalk Empire, Nurse Jackie, Law & Order: SVU (recurring), L&O, Royal Pains, Canterbury’s Law, Guiding Light (recurring). Graduate of Old Globe/USD and Middlebury College. CREATIVES

STEPHEN KARAM (Playwright) plays include (Tony Award, for Playwriting and Pulitzer Prize finalist), Sons of the Prophet (Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Speech & Debate. His adaptation of Chekhov’s premiered on Broadway as part of Roundabout’s 2016 season and his film adaptation of starring Annette Bening will premiere in

3 2017. Recent honors include two Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League Award and Hull-Warriner Award. Stephen is a graduate of and grew up in Scranton, PA.

JESSICA HOLT (Director) is thrilled to make her BSC debut with Speech and Debate. Recent directing projects include Female Beginner (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Rich Girl (Florida Studio Theatre), Venus in Fur (Virginia Stage Company), Ugly Lies the Bone (Alliance Theater), Significant Other (Actor’s Express) and Bright Half Life (Magic Theatre). Other favorite projects include: The Lily’s Revenge, Act 5 (Magic Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Boxcar Theatre), The Children (Yale School of Drama), The Seagull (YSD) and Have I None (Yale Cabaret). 2016 National Directing Fellowship with The O’Neill Theatre Center/National New Play Network. MFA, Directing, Yale School of Drama. jessicaholt.org

BURKE BROWN (Lighting Designer) Recent designs include projects with the English National Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballett and Mabou Mines. Previously with Jessica Holt: Bright Half Life (Magic Theatre, San Francisco). Other designs include projects with Two River Theater, Ars Nova, NYSF-Public Theater, Playmakers Rep, Cleveland Playhouse and Center Stage. His work has been presented at the Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Center, Yerba Buena Center and across North America, Europe and Russia. Recent dance design includes work with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Parsons Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Houston Ballet and Aszure Barton & Artists. MFA, Yale. Wingspace Theatrical Design.

NIKKI DELHOMME (Costume Designer) is a Brooklyn resident and Texas native. Her designs have recently been presented at People’s Light Theatre, Bedlam Theatre Ensemble, Kimmel Center, Yale Repertory, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Disney’s RedCat, Trinity Repertory, Amherst College, CalArts University, The Flea, Redhouse Theatre, Teatro Vision, A Noise Within, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Piven Theatre Ensemble and Princeton University, amongst many others. She assisted on True Blood (HBO) and Party Down (Starz). She taught scenic and costume design at Amherst College. MFA Yale, BFA Carnegie Mellon, proud member of USA829. nikkidelhomme.com

PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer) Selected credits- Off Broadway: Orange Julius (Rattlestick), Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre), Friend Art (Second Stage Uptown), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Henry Hewes nomination), Samara (Soho Rep.), Important Hats… (MTC), A Delicate Ship (Playwrights Realm). Regional: peerless (Marin Theatre), Henry IV, Part One (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Romance Novels for Dummies (Williamstown), Tiger Style! (Alliance, Huntington), Guards at the Taj (Helen Hayes nomination), Baby Screams Miracle, Women Laughing Alone With Salad and Cherokee (Woolly Mammoth), Twelfth Night (Center Stage), Twelfth Night and Pride and Prejudice (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). MFA: Yale School of Drama.

ALEX BASCO KOCH (Projection Designer) BSC: The Birds. Selected credits- Concert Design: The Magnetic Fields “50 Song Memoir.” Broadway: Irena's Vow (Walter Kerr). Off Broadway: Buyer & Cellar (Barrow Street; Rattlestick), Body of an American (Primary Stages), The Liquid Plain (Signature Theatre), Lenin's Embalmers (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: Marley (Center Stage, Baltimore), Invisible Man (Court Theatre, Chicago; Studio Theatre, Washington DC; Huntington Theatre Company, Boston), ReEntry (Center Stage, Baltimore; Round House, Washington DC; Actors Theatre of Louisville). alexbascokoch.com

4 REID THOMPSON (Scenic Designer) is a Brooklyn-based scenic designer for plays, musicals and opera. Recent NYC credits: Butterfly, Lucia Di Lammermoor and Dido & Aeneas (Heartbeat Opera), Among The Dead and House Rules (Ma-Yi), The Electric Baby (Fordham), Empathitrax (Colt Coeur), Tartuffe and The Love of The Nightingale (Atlantic Theater School), Dust Can’t Kill Me and Lisa and Leonardo (NYMF 2016), Half Moon Bay (Lesser America), A Delicate Ship (Playwrights Realm). Recent regional: Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Alliance), Into The Woods (Princeton/McCarter), Lucretia (Stony Brook Opera), Little Shop of Horrors, The Homecoming and Bells Are Ringing (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Disgraced (Asolo Rep), Fault (TheatreSquared), Merrily We Roll Along (Yale Dramat), A Streetcar Named Desire (Yale Rep). Upcoming: Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Roundabout) and Gloria (Asolo Rep). BFA: School of the Art Institute of Chicago. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Reid is a proud member of Wingspace and USA-829. reidthompsondesign.com

PAUL VELLA (Production Stage Manager) BSC: Broadway Bounty Hunter, Kimberly Akimbo, Engagements, Shining City, The Golem of Havana, Muckrakers, Bashir Lazhar. Off Broadway: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Park), The Skin of Our Teeth (Theatre for a New Audience), Death for Five Voices (Prospect Theater Company). Regional Theatre: Trinity Repertory Company, Swine Palace Productions, Ocean State Theatre Company, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Little Theatre of the Rockies. Paul is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE & KATJA ZAROLINSKI (Casting) (C.S.A.) has been casting actors for Barrington Stage for 15 years. Pat McCorkle is pleased to be an Associate Artist at BSC. Broadway: Over 50 productions including , 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) joined the Barrington Stage family in 2005 and has represented over 80 BSC productions. His work has led to features in , Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today and American Theatre Magazine. He began working as a publicist in 1990 at the Barn Theatre in August, MI, working with folks like Marin Mazzie and . His many PR credits include the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), (1999-2004), George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, , Long Wharf Theatre and Two River Theatre Company. Charlie is personal publicist to Broadway’s Leslie Kritzer and Patrick Page. Charlie serves as National Press Rep for Chautauqua Theater Company, Project Shaw, Surflight Theatre and Wagner College Theatre. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation.

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SPONSORED BY SYDELLE AND LEE BLATT

I'm just feeling a sudden sense of urgency mixed with intense exhaustion

That’s called middle age,Alan

AUGUST 3–AUGUST 27 BY MELISSA JAMES GIBSON DIRECTED BY LOUISA PROSKE

A very funny play that received raves when it played Off Broadway. This captures the hilarious yet touching relationships of a circle of friends as they back their way into middle age.

“ITS CONFUSED BUT LOVABLE CHARACTERS ARE DRAWN WITH A FINE FOCUS AND A PIERCING EMOTIONAL DEPTH; THE DIALOGUE SPARKLES WITH EXCHANGES AS TRUTHFUL AS THEY ARE CLEVER.” –THE NEW YORK TIMES

SPONSORED IN PART BY DR. ART AND TERRY WASSER

6 ANNUAL FUND Our Season went to print on May 10th. We greatly appreciate the support of the following donors who have supported BSC since that date:

Director $5,000-$9,999 Gerard Caprio George K. Green Alan Sagner Barbara & Roger Coleman Valerie and Allen Hyman Jodi & Paul Tartell Deighna DeRiu Nancy Gayle Ishihara Sophie Dichter Lynn & Michael Jacobson Founder $2,500-$4,999 Ursula Ehret-Dichter Dr. and Mrs. Robert Josell In honor of Judith Goldsmith Janet Eisenstein John Kammerman from her family Laura & Bob Friedman Judy Kelly & Paul Stramese Madeline & Ian Hooper Joan & Egon Fromm Stephen and Audrey Kurtz Al & Kathy Garofolo Hilda & Marty Levine Leader $1,000-$2,499 Ann Ghublikian & Margaret Richard Malthus Dr. Donald & Phoebe Giddon Sutherland Sonja Elizabeth Mason Michele & Stephen Jackman Rhonna & Ezra Goodman Jessica McMullan Joseph McDonald Michael Gottfried Jim Monsonis Alice McInerney Carol and Joel Greenberg M.C. Pomerance Nancy Orovitz Marla Greenfield Diana Potter Diana Hitt Potter Marilyn Haus Beth & Joel Radsken Sheryl Rosenfield & Rita Jennifer Herrion Peter Rintels Glassman Bruce Jonas Paul & Gloria Rodhouse Mrs. Wynn A. Sayman Annbeth Katz Myrna & Stuart Rodkin Betsey & Mark Selkowitz Pincus & Mary Ann Leitner Stephanie & Fred Rothenberg Phyllis Topchik Tracy Lowry Susan Sarlin Judith Mayberry Carol Schneebaum Benefactor $500-$999 Theresa McMahon Regina Schwarz Terry & Melvyn Drucker Jan & Harold Moskowitz Marilyn & Nat Schwartzberg Marjorie & Tony Elson Marie Pindus Monica & John Shanahan Ann Stephanie and Robert Michael Ramella Sandra Siegel Gittleman Linda & Frank Russell Mary Faith Sinnott Shirley & William Lehman Ellsworth M. Sammet Irwin and Dorothy Sklar Rita & Harvey Simon Sue Schulman ______Roberta Seidman Angel $250-$499 Gail & Leonard Silverman IN KIND DONATIONS Judy & Simeon Brinberg Martha & Ron Stewart Rosetta & Donald Bierman Linda Benedict Colvin Tosk Chiropractic Amy & Howard Friedner Ann & Tom Connolly in honor of Daltrey Turner Seymour & Jane Glazer Mary Ann Quinson Dr. Deborah Verlen Freda Grim & Dan Courchaine Jamie deRoy Roy Korins & Gillian Zackham Katherine Gwozdz Lainie Grant & Matt Larkin Alan Marash Scott & Ellen Hand Supporter $50-$99 Eileen Moynihan Yumiko Saito Anonymous (3) Abby Schroeder Dr. Stephen Stambler Shari Abramowitz Deborah and H. Ashley Smith Judy Stolzberg Shelley Berend Cheryl & Michael Zaccaro Jonathan Swartz Louise & Conrad Bernier Karen & Alan Brown ______Friend $100-$249 Jocelyn Cohen Every attempt has been made to Anonymous (2) William F. Cyr ensure accuracy. Please notify Donna M. Abbott Andrew Dolkart us of any name corrections or Leslie Bedford & Frank Upham Fern Lynn Fleckman discrepancies by contacting Daniel & Phillipine Berkenblit John C. Ford & Ashley Pirsig at (413) 997-6110 or Steven Bert Sandra Sollod Poster [email protected]. Jane Braus Susan and Roy Glaser Thank you. Catherine & Paul Buttenwieser Richard E. Goyette 7 ON THESPONSORED BOYD-QUINSON BY CYNTHIA AND RANDOLPH MAINSTAGE NELSON

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