A NOTE FROM LEADERSHIP Thank you for joining us for 17 Minutes! We’re thrilled to share this extraordinary piece with you and to provide an artistic home to Scott Organ. We chose to produce 17 Minutes because of its powerful message of compassion and potential. We invite you join us for our other programming this season as well, which will include a F.A.B. Women Festival of New Work focused on creating intimate, powerful, and thought-provoking pieces by female theater artists. Seth Barrish Lee Brock Robert Serrell Co-Artistic Director Co-Artistic Director Executive Director ABOUT 17 Minutes SETTING Somewhere in the United States of America SCENES SCENE 1: January 14 SCENE 2: January 22 SCENE 3: February 6 SCENE 4: February 21 SCENE 5: February 28 SCENE 6: February 28 SCENE 7: March 16 THE BARROW GROUP Seth Barrish & Lee Brock, Co-Artistic Directors | Robert Serrell, Executive Director presents BY SCOTT ORGAN DIRECTED BY SETH BARRISH SCENIC DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Edward T. Morris Solomon Weisbard Emma Wilk COSTUME DESIGN PROPS PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Matsy Stinson Addison Heeren Allison Raynes* PRESS REPRESENTATITVE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION PRODUCTION MANAGER Everyman Agency Porter Pickard Sean T. McGrath ORIGINAL MUSIC Seth Barrish CAST (ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Lee Brock* Larry Mitchell* Michael Giese* Shannon Patterson DeAnna Lenhart* Brian Rojas Running Time: 90 minutes, no intermission * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED, IN PART, BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL. 17 MINUTES IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS WITH THE SUPPORT OF GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO AND THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE. FUNDING MADE POSSIBLE BY MANHATTAN COMMUNITY AWARDS PROGRAM, GAIL BREWER, MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT. WHO’S WHO Lee Brock (Cecilia Michael Giese Bauserman; Co-Artistic (Dan Watson) Director of The Barrow Michael Giese is an Group) award winning ac- Lee Brock has tor who has been overseen, devel- seen on television oped, and/or pro- in As The World duced more than 170 projects with Turns and Nurse Jackie, in multiple The Barrow Group. Directing credits short and feature length !lms, most include: Abigail’s Party (NYT Critic’s recently Life Hack, which can be found Pick), The Pavilion, The Timekeepers, on Amazon Prime, and in numerous Orange Flower Water, Save Me, Art, national network commercials. He ap- and Uncle Vanya, among others. She peared in Grand Theft Auto V as yoga has appeared in theaters throughout instructor Fabien LaRouche and in Red the country including Manhattan Dead Redemption II and has been seen Theatre Club, The Kennedy Center, on stage regionally and O"-Broadway and La Mama e.t.c. Her television in various plays including Henrik Ib- appearances include: Orange is the sen’s An Enemy Of The People, A Low New Black, Law & Order, Law & Order: Lying Fog and AWAKE all at The Barrow SVU, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Group where he also teaches. Michael among others. In 2009 Ms. Brock cre- would like to thank Seth, Lee, Scott, ated F.A.B. (For, About, By Women), a and everyone at TBG for this incredi- developmental wing of TBG dedicat- ble opportunity and his wife Shannon ed to creating women’s projects. One and daughters Lily and Guthrie for of Ms. Brock’s personal missions is to their love and support. For more infor- help artists create their own work. mation, visit speakgiese.com. Lee teaches classes with The Barrow Group. Thousands of students from all over the world have studied with her DeAnna Lenhart in the last 30 years. She’s most proud (Samantha Rubens) of her two favorite productions, her DeAnna Lenhart children, Phillip and Rachel. is thrilled to be working at The Barrow Group. Most recently she was seen in another Scott Organ play, The Thing with Feathers, also at TBG. Prior to that, WHO’S WHO she appeared in Point Last Seen, which workshop premiere of A Steady Rain was performed at the Atlantic Sec- and conceived, produced, and per- ond Stage and The Barrow Group’s formed the solo show, When I Wished production of Phoenix. Other Barrow I Was Here; Dispatches from Fallujah; Group credits include The Fear Project, compiled entirely from the memoirs Release, Short Stu! II, and Short Stu! of former Marine Sgt. Derek McGee. III. Other New York credits include On television, Larry starred as Jay Runners at Atlantic Theater Compa- Paterno alongside Al Pacino in Barry ny’s 453 New Works, Escape From Hap- Levinson’s Emmy-nominated !lm, Pa- piness and The House of Yes (Tantrum terno for HBO. Guest star & recurring Theatre) and What I Like About Breasts TV highlights: Jessica Jones, NOS4A2, (Exploding Moment). Regional Cred- The Blacklist, The Good Fight, The En- its: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ida- emy Within, Blue Bloods, Sneaky Pete, ho Shakespeare Festival) and Sincerity Hostages, Mysteries of Laura, among Forever (New City Theater, Seattle). others. Film highlights: The Departed, Short Films: Curfew and So Grown Up. American Gangster, Blame, and Aaron She has a BFA in Acting from Cornish Sorkin’s upcoming directorial release, College of the Arts. She has also been The Trial of the Chicago 7. He is from seen in several national and regional Littleton, CO. commercials. Deep gratitude to Seth and Lee for 20 years of teaching, men- torship and support, and much love to Shannon her two biggest joys in life, Henry and Patterson Arlen. (Mary Stevens) Shannon is thrilled Larry Mitchell to be coming back (Andy Rubens) to the stage to be a Larry ’s most recent part of this incredi- appearance at The bly thoughtful sto- Barrow Group was ry. The Barrow Group has been Shan- in the title role (Dr. non’s artistic home since 2001, where Stockmann) in En- she also teaches and has spent the emy of the People. last decade developing and directing Previously he has appeared in TBG new plays. As a director, her most re- productions of Lobby Hero, Orange cent credits include the NY Premieres Flower Water, and Short Stu! II. Larry of Torben Betts’ Muswell Hill (a TBG originated the role of Joey in the NYC and Pond Theater Co-production) and WHO’S WHO Erik Gernand’s The Beautiful Dark, as Scott Organ(Playwright) well as John Yearley’s The Unrepeat- Scott Organ’s plays have been com- able Moment also here at The Barrow missioned by The Atlantic Theater Group. My thanks to Scott for thinking Company, developed by theaters in- of me and to Seth & Lee —under your cluding The Barrow Group, The New trusting guidance the spark and love I Group, Page 73, South Coast Rep, have always had for this art form has and performed and workshopped now grown into well-cultivated !re. I throughout the United States, Eu- dedicate this to my Iowa family who rope, and South America. Scott’s play are my heart, to my powerhouse girl- The Thing With Feathers premiered at friends whose support and care get The Barrow Group in 2018. His play me through, and to Mike, Lily & Guth- Phoenix premiered at the Humana rie who are my home & remind me Festival of New American Plays and daily that I am blessed. For G & GP. was subsequently produced at The shanpatterson.com Barrow Group and through Rattles- tick at Cherry Lane Theater. Phoenix Brian Rojas (De- has been translated into Portuguese, tective Virgil Morris) Spanish, and French. His writing has Brian Rojas is a been featured in Arts In The Armed Colombian-Amer- Forces. Scott’s plays can be found in ican actor and New Playwrights - The Best Plays 2010, native New York- Humana Festival 2010 – The Complete er making his Plays, New American Short Plays 2005, O"-Broadway de- Best American Short Plays and Great but. He is ecstatic and honored to play Short Plays. Scott is a writer on the alongside this talented cast. Brian de- short !lms Playdate (TriBeCa Film Fes- veloped his acting approach here at tival, London City International Film The Barrow Group–this is his home. Festival - 3rd place, Vimeo Sta" Pick) His recent stage credits include: Sa- The Board (TriBeCa Film Festival) and vana Glacial (Fringe NYC- UT Patet The One (Palm Springs International Theater Co.), Macbeth (Red Monkey Film Festival) and the features Phoe- Theater Group), Dead Man’s Cell Phone nix and History of Technology (written (RMTG), Stop Kiss (RMTG), and reading with David Shane.) of Swing (Negro Ensemble Co.). Thank Seth Barrish (Director; Co-Artistic Director of you to Scott and Seth for inviting me The Barrow Group) to tell this amazing story, for the guid- Directing Credits include (Broadway) ance and trust. Love you mama. For Mike Birbiglia’s The New One; (O" you Darius. Broadway) The New One (Drama Desk WHO’S WHO & Outer Critics Circle Awards OUT Edward T. Morris (Scenic Design) STANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE); The Edward T. Morris has designed for Tricky Part (OBIE Award, Drama Desk Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Yale Nominations for BEST PLAY and BEST Repertory Theatre, Martha Graham SOLO SHOW), All The Rage (Lucille Dance Company, LaMama, The Bar- Lortel Award for BEST SOLO SHOW), row Group, Goodspeed Opera House, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, (Lucille Lortel Opera Memphis, Yale Opera, Cherry Award for BEST SOLO SHOW, Drama Lane Theater, Minetta Lane Theatre, Desk and Outer Critics Circle nomi- The Magic Theatre, Weston Playhouse, nations for BEST SOLO SHOW—Final Westport Country Playhouse, and the performance at Carnegie Hall), Sleep- comedian Colin Quinn.