ST. GERMAIN STAGE JULY 13-29, 2017 PLACE Salem, Oregon
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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., New York 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 The Humans (Tony Award, Obie Award for Playwriting and Pulitzer Prize finalist), Sons of the Prophet (Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Speech & Debate. His adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard premiered on Broadway as part of Roundabout’s 2016 season and his film adaptation of The Seagull 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 Brown University 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, New York City 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: