Presents the World Premiere of:

Written by Cusi Cram ​ With Dramaturgy by Guy Lancaster ​ Directed by Daniella Topol Sept 5-Oct 13, 2019 ​

NOVENAS FOR A LOST HOSPITAL

Written by: Cusi Cram ​ With Dramaturgy by: Guy Lancaster ​ Directed by: Daniella Topol ​

CAST Elizabeth Seton: ​ Lazarus/Dr. Mott: Ken Barnett ​ Dr. Potter/Antonio/Patient: Leland Fowler ​ JB: Justin Genna ​ Pierre Toussaint/Dr. T: Alvin Keith ​ Sr. Mary Xavier, Sr. Angela, Nurse #1, Flora: Kelly McAndrew ​ Sr. Ulrica, Nurse #2: Natalie Woolams-Torres ​ Ensemble: Goussy Célestin, Steven Jeltsch, Shayne Lebron-Acevedo, Noriko Omichi, Rafael ​ ​ ​ Sánchez, and Laura Vogels ​ ​

Choreographer: Edisa Weeks Associate Director: Em Weinstein ​ ​ Set Designer: Carolyn Mraz Stage Manager: P. Tyler Britt ​ ​ ​ Costume Designer: Ari Fulton Production Manager: Jenny Snyder ​ ​ Lighting Designer: Stacey Derosier Technical Director: Aaron Gonzalez ​ ​ Co-Sound Designers: Brian Hickey & Sinan Zafar Creative Partner: Lannyl Stephens ​ ​ ​ ​ Composer: Serge Ossorguine Casting: Tara Rubin ​ ​ Props Designer: Rhys Alexander Publicity: John Wyszniewski/Everyman Agency ​ ​ Dialect Coach: Amanda Quaid Graphic Design: Naomi Usher/Studio Usher ​ ​ Nurse Dramaturg: Fidel Lim ​

Presented in partnership with: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The , Gay, Bisexual, and ​ Transgender Community Center, NYC AIDS Memorial Board, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, PrEP4All, St. John's in the Village, Village Preservation, and Visual AIDS. ​ ​

Assistant Choreographer: Jasmine Oton Asst. Stage Manager: Carolina Arboleda ​ ​ Movement Assistant: Steven Jeltsch Asst. Prod. Manager: Guillermo Contreras ​ ​ Asst. Set Designer: Pricilla Alpizar Singing Coach: Robin Freeman ​ ​ Asst. Costume Designer: Illana Breitnan Wardrobe Supervisor: Sarah Gallegos ​ ​ Asst. Lighting Designer: Tyler Dubuc Master Electrician: Joe D’Emilio ​ ​ Assistant to Composer: Noah Penkrat Production Assistant: Sydney Haas ​ ​ ​

Enjoy Happy Hour rates for drinks at Fiddlesticks Pub & Grill before and ​ ​ after our shows! Just present your ticket or program. Fiddlesticks is just two blocks away at 56 Greenwich Ave. ​ ​ ARTIST BIOS

CUSI CRAM (Playwright) Cram’s plays have been produced by LAByrinth Theater , Primary ​ Stages, The Denver Center, South Coast Repertory, The Williamstown Theater Festival, New Georges, and on stages large and petite all over the country. She has written on numerous television programs for both kids and adults and been nominated for three Emmy Awards. She is currently an Assistant Arts Professor in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU. She has lived on West 11th street for over 25 years.

GUY LANCASTER (Dramaturg) learned a lot about as a proofreader for The New York ​ Observer. He has written for the WGBH children’s series, , and the NBC/Time Life series, Lost ​ ​ ​ Civilizations. Other recent NY obsessions include the NYC telephone booth and the Flatiron district (for ​ Sage Coombe architects); NY State politics and the MTA (for different activist groups); and Hart Island (upcoming performance, Hudson River Park AIDS Memorial). But it has been through the prism of St Vincent’s that he has understood the history of the Village and NYC most intimately in the past two years. He has lived here on one street or another for almost 30 years.

DANIELLA TOPOL (Director) World-premiere productions include: Martyna ​ Majok’sIronbound(Rattlestick; Roundhouse; Steppenwolf’s First Look, NY Times Critics’ Pick), ​ ​ (Not)Water, co-created with Sheila Callaghan (New Georges/3LD), Jessica Dickey’s Charles Ives Take ​ ​ Me Home(Rattlestick) and Row After Row(Women’s Project), Cori Thomas’s When January Feels Like ​ ​ ​ ​ Summer(Ensemble Studio Theatre/P73/Women’s Proj; NY Times Critics’ Pick), Sheila Callaghan’s Dead ​ ​ City(New Georges) and Lascivious Something(Women’s Project), Catherine Treischmann’s How the ​ ​ ​ ​ World Began(South Coast Rep and Women’s Project), Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India(MaYi and Magic). ​ ​ ​ Daniella has been the Artistic Director of Rattlestick since April 2016.

CAST BIOS

KATHLEEN CHALFANT (Elizabeth Seton) BROADWAY: (Tony and Drama Desk ​ ​ ​ nominations), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. OFF-BROADWAY: (Drama Desk, , Outer ​ ​ ​ ​ Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Obie Awards), For Peter Pan on Her 70th ​ Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nomination), (), Armenians ​ ​ ​ ​ (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award). & LOS ANGELES: Ovation Awards for ​ ​ Wit and Red Dog Howls. FILM: Isn’t it Delicious?, MURDER and murder, Five Corners, Duplicity, Kinsey, ​ ​ ​ ​ and Bob Roberts. SELECT TELEVISION “High Maintainance,” “The Affair,” “The Strain,” “The ​ ​ Americans,” “House of Cards,” “The Book of Daniel,” “One Life to Live”; “Madam Secretary,” “Elementary. AWARDS: 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, 2004 Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the League of Professional Women, and the 2018 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement. She received the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Cooper Union.

KEN BARNETT (Lazarus/Dr. Mott) , Wonderful Town, The Green Bird. Off-Broadway: Cradle ​ ​ ​ ​ Will Rock (Classic Stage), America Is Hard To See (HERE), The Light Years (Playwrights’ Horizons); ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Plenty, Fortress of Solitude, February House (Public Theater); Too Much Sun (Vineyard); La Ronde ​ ​ ​ ​ (HERE--Best Actor, Fringe Award); Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street); The Whore of Sheridan Square (La ​ ​ ​ ​ Mama—NYIT Award nomination). Regional favorites: The Waves, Private Lives, True West, Gentleman’s ​ Guide to Love & Murder (CT Critic’s Circle Award/San Diego Critics Circle Nomination), Next Fall, Burn ​ ​ This, Merrily We Roll Along. TV roles include "Godfather of Harlem”, “The Good Fight”,“American Crime ​ Story: Versace”, Christophe on “Mozart in the Jungle”, “House of Cards”, “High Maintenance”, “The Knick”, “Mad Men”. Films include Lavender (Sundance & SXSW 2019, acquired by Fox Searchlight), ​ ​ Friends With Kids, People Like Us, Puccini for Beginners. www.kenbarnett.net & @kbnyc ​

GOUSSY CÉLESTIN (Ensemble) Haitian-American artist Goussy Célestin interchanges the roles of ​ ​ ​ pianist, composer, vocalist, dancer, and arranger with ease. She is a faculty member at Jazz at Lincoln Center, a mother of two sons - her "greatest creative compositions,” and is honored to reprise her role in Novenas for a Lost Hospital.

LELAND FOWLER (Dr. Potter/Antonio/Patient) Off-Broadway: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka ​ ​ (); Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public); Measure for Measure ​ ​ ​ (TFANA). Regional: Skeleton Crew (Westport Country Playhouse, Dorset Theatre Festival); Protect the ​ ​ ​ Beautiful Place (McCarter Theatre Center); Seven Guitars (Yale Rep); The Taming of the Shrew, Tiny ​ ​ ​ ​ Houses (Chautauqua Theatre Company); Songs to Grow On and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Alliance ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Theatre). TV: “City On A Hill.” BA: Morehouse College. MFA: Yale School of Drama

JUSTIN GENNA (JB) This is Justin Genna’s Rattlestick and Off Broadway Debut. Genna holds an MFA in ​ Acting from the American Conservatory Theater. Regional Credits: Marie, Dancing Still (5th Avenue ​ ​ Theatre), The Little Dog Laughed, Rock of Ages (Summer Repertory Theatre), On The Town (San ​ ​ ​ ​ Francisco Symphony Broadway Cast), The Boy From Oz (Theatre Rhinoceros), A Christmas Carol ​ ​ ​ (American Conservatory Theater). TV/Film: ’s Little Women (2019). He has worked with ​ ​ Milwaukee Ballet Company and Oakland Ballet. Genna is part of the local film collective Bad Guru Productions. @jgenna13 justingenna.com

ALVIN KEITH (Pierre Toussaint/Dr. T) BROADWAY: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. NEW YORK: Apollo Theater, ​ ​ ​ New Worlds Theater, New Federal Theater, Primary Stages. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company - The Orestia (dir. Michael Khan), Arkansas Rep - Windfall (dir. Jason Alexander), Cincinnati ​ ​ ​ ​ Playhouse, Wooly Mammoth, St. Louis Rep, Swine Palace, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, Guthrie Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Crossroads Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. FILM: Last Fair Deal, Ambition’s Debt, If You Could Say It In Words, Kinsey. TELEVISION: ​ ​ Fosse/Verdon, The Blacklist, Mr. Robot, Trial By Jury. TRAINING: Alabama Shakespeare Festival/UA - ​ MFA Classical Acting; Morehouse College; Public Theater - Shakespeare Lab (dir. Barry Edelstein).

STEVEN JELTSCH (Ensemble) is a NYC based artist with a strong foundation in dance/movement and ​ performance art. Along their journey, they've created and performed for international choreographers from Times Square to the ADF stage. As a budding artist, they hope to investigate, dissect, and patchwork an essence of performance, often citing its enigmatic relationship to the present-day interactions of the world.

SHAYNE LEBRON-ACEVEDO (Ensemble) was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and is a Brooklyn-based ​ cellist and teaching artist. After partnering with the Department of Education for his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2016, he has taught and performed as a teaching artist in various public schools throughout NYC. Shayne went on to earn a B.M. from CUNY Brooklyn (2012), where he studied with Dr. Frederick Zlotkin. He was then awarded a full-tuition Graduate Assistantship for his M.M. at Ball State University (2015) in Muncie, Indiana, where he studied with Dr. Peter Opie. Shayne also maintains a performance schedule with several ensembles of varying styles.

KELLY McANDREW (Sr. Mary Xavier, Sr. Angela, Nurse #1, Flora) was privileged to be a part of ​ Novenas as a workshop production last Spring at Rattlestick and is honored to be a part of it again. ​ New : Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb , Perfect Arrangement at ​ ​ ​ ​ Primary Stages, Abundance at The Actors Company Theatre, Almost, Maine at Transport Group, Good ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Television at Atlantic Theatre Company. Still Life at MCC Theater, The Cataract at The Women’s Project, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Book of Days at Signature Theatre. TV: Daredevil (recurring), New Amsterdam, The Sinner, The Good ​ ​ ​ ​ Fight, Orange is the New Black (recurring), House of Cards, Elementary, Law & Order: SVU, Smash, Law ​ ​ & Order and Gossip Girl. Film: A Kid Like Jake (Sundance 2018), When the Moon Was Twice as Big (due ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ out 2020), Island Zero, Appropriate Behavior (Sundance 2014), In the Family (2011 SPIRIT nomination), ​ ​ ​ ​ Everybody’s Fine (with Robert DeNiro) and Superheroes. ​ ​

NORIKO OMICHI (Ensemble) is a New York based musician and dancer who received years of ​ professional training in Chinese Classical Dance before becoming a flautist. Noriko studied at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College under Judith Mendenhall. She gained experience in modern dance through strong involvement with the Dance Department. She has put her multi-arts performance in theater play with Cornerstone Theater Company. Noriko frequently holds solo recitals with the purpose of combining different art forms, performing the standard flute repertoire while incorporating her own choreography—a fusion of classical and modern dance—into collaborative performances with live musicians.

RAFAEL SÁNCHEZ (Ensemble) is a based artist. Recent shows include Life of a Flower, ​ ​ Rafael Sánchez with Ellen Cantor, Jim Fletcher, Gail Thacker, Mark Morrisroe at Galerie Max Meyer, ​ Düsseldorf (2019); Tree of Heaven at Marlborough Contemporary (2018); For A Reading Yet Unread for ​ ​ ​ ​ Visual AID’s Last Address Walk at St. Vincent’s Triangle Park, May, 2018. Visual art and performances have been presented at Artists Space, ICA , Jackie 60, Thread Waxing Space, Participant Inc, MoCA North Miami, El Museo Del Barrio. He was a patient of St. Vincent’s HIV Clinic from 2002 until it’s closing in 2010.

LAURA VOGELS (Ensemble) is classically trained in London at Italia Conti, LAMDA and RADA. Laura ​ has enjoyed performing roles from classical texts such as Shakespeare & Coward to original works of established playwrights & fresh new voices. Grateful to have worked on both London & New York stages, on cable TV & Independent Film, and in VO (in both English and Dutch), Laura is focused on ethical storytelling that brings to life stories & experiences that feed the mind, thrill the body and elevate the soul.

NATALIE WOOLAMS-TORRES (Sr. Ulrica, Nurse #2) has most recently completed her third run of the ​ original production of Tiny Beauty Things directed by Tommy Kail at and Pasadena ​ ​ Playhouse directed by Sherri Eden Barber. Other Public Theater Credits include Mobile Unit’s , ​ Directed by Patricia McGregor, and A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Jenny Koons. Shakespeare ​ ​ in the park credits include Comedy of Errors directed by Daniel Sullivan, the all female Taming of The ​ ​ ​ Shrew directed by Phyllida Lloyd, and Caesar directed by Oskar Eustis. Film credits include ​ ​ ​ Farewell the most recent feature film directed by actor Chris Chalk. TV credits include Difficult People, ​ ​ ​ HBO’s Room 104 and High Maintainance. She attended SUNY Purchase Theater Arts and Film. ​ ​ ​ ​

CREATIVE TEAM BIOS

EDISA WEEKS (Choreographer) is an educator, performer, maker, choreographer and founder of ​ DELIRIOUS Dances. She creates multimedia interdisciplinary work, that merges theater with dance to ​ explore our deepest desires, darkest fears and sweetest dreams. She grew up in Uganda, Papua New Guinea and Brooklyn, NY. She has a BA from Brown University, and received a full fellowship to attend ’s TISCH School of the Arts where she obtained an MFA in choreography. She has had the pleasure of performing with –B Parsons Big Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Dance Brazil, Jane Comfort, Jon Kinzel, Muna Tseng, Reggie Wilson Fist & Heel Performance Group, Sally Silvers, Spencer/Colton Dance, among others. She is an Associate Professor of Dance at Queens College.

CAROLYN MRAZ (Set Designer) is a Brooklyn-based designer. Previously at Rattlestick: {my lingerie ​ ​ play}. Other favorites: I'll Never Love Again (Bushwick Starr), Marjana and the Forty Thieves (Target ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Margin), Charlatan (), and Spaceman (Loading Dock). Carolyn teaches at the University of the ​ ​ ​ ​ Arts, and is an Oberlin alum with an MFA from NYU/Tisch.

ARI FULTON (Costume Designer) is a New York based costume designer for stage, film, opera and ​ dance. Ms. Fulton has over 15 years experience working with theatrical costumes. She has trained at DePaul University, receiving a BFA in Costume Design. Ms. Fulton followed her undergraduate studies, with receiving a MFA in Design for Stage and Film, from New York University’s, Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Fulton has designed in Paris, Ghana, and Nigeria. Recently, she has wrapped design for the feature film Nigerian Prince, shot on location in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian Prince is 2017’s Tribeca and AT&T New ​ ​ Voices recipient, receiving a grant of one million dollars. Ms. Fulton is the recipient of the Lily Creative Spirt Award for her design of theatrical costumes. Ms. Fulton is most interested in captivating the imagination, by creating iconic characters that stick with the viewer, long after the performance has ended. Ms. Fulton is currently on faculty at Queensborough Community College where she teaches Costume Design.

STACEY DEROSIER (Lighting Designer) is a NYC based lighting designer. Her credits include: ​ Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre) No One is Forgotten (Rattlestick Playwright’s ​ ​ ​ ​ Theatre), the bandaged place (NYSAF Powerhouse), Playing Hot! (Pipeline Theater Company), The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Climb (Cherry Lane - Mentor Project), The Last Stop on Market Street (), Mies ​ ​ ​ ​ Julie (), Dance of Death (Classic Stage Company), The Good Person of ​ ​ ​ ​ Szechwan (Brown/Trinity MFA), , tick, tick...BOOM! (Brown/Trinity MFA), Detroit ’67 (The Julliard School), ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The Revolving Cycles Truly & Steadily Roll’d (Playwright’s Realm), 1969: The Second Man (3rd Place ​ ​ ​ Projects) as co-lighting designer.

BRIAN HICKEY (Co-Sound Designer) is a Brooklyn based sound designer. He has designed, engineered ​ and assisted at various theaters and venues here on the east coast and in the Bay Area. He is very excited to be making his debut collaboration with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Additionally, Brian is a musician and composer, with a focus on experimental electronic work. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

SINAN REFIK ZAFAR (Co-Sound Designer) is a New York based sound designer and composer. ​ [Broadway] What The Constitution Means to Me. [Broadway] What The Constitution Means to Me ​ ​ ​ (NYTW, Clubbed Thumb); What To Send Up When It Goes Down, And She Would Stand Like This (The ​ ​ Movement Theatre Co); Hamlet (Waterwell); Intelligence (Next Door @ NYTW); Richard in 9 Poses ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (Clubbed Thumb). [Regional] A Human Being of a Sort (Williamstown Theatre Festival); What The ​ ​ ​ Constitution Means to Me (Berkeley Rep); The Language Archive (Theatreworks Silicon Valley); Jump ​ ​ ​ (Playmakers Rep); peerless (Yale Rep); The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Wolves, Detroit, Intimate ​ ​ ​ Apparel (TheatreSquared); We are Proud to Present (Yale Dramat); Midsummer (Tiltyard), Macbeth (d. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Will Frears). Wingspace. [Edu] M.F.A., Yale School of Drama; B.A., UC Irvine. Sinanzafar.com ​ ​

SERGE OSSORGUINE (Composer) Born in Brooklyn to Russian immigrants, Serge Ossorguine is an ​ audio engineer, composer, designer who creates sound content and technology infrastructure using a fundamental aesthetic principal derived from his training as a musician: "An instrument must be in tune and be easy to play, and then practice, practice, practice." His multi-faceted career includes theater sound design (Broadway and off-Broadway), post production mixing for television, film, documentary, sound effects recording and design, and live sweetening for broadcast, film scoring, and game audio design and authoring. Serge consults architects on A/V, network design, and acoustics. Serge is a two-time Emmy Award winner for his work while staff sound effects artist at ABC News and ABC Daytime (1995, 1997), He also has won a Telly Award (2016).

RHYS ROFFEY (Props Designer) is a transmasculine designer, actor, and choreographer based in NYC. ​ His recent props credits include Accidentally Brave (DR2 Theater), Outside of Eden (New Ohio), and No ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ One is Forgotten (Rattlestick). www.rhys-roffey.com ​ ​

FIDEL LIM (Nurse Dramaturg) has worked as a critical care nurse for 18 years and as a faculty at NYU ​ Rory Meyers College of Nursing. He also works as a Nurse Educator in a Magnet-designated hospital. He has published on an array of topics ranging from nursing education, LGBTQ health, reflective practice, men in nursing, and Florence Nightingale.

EM WEINSTEIN (Associate Director) is a writer and director of theater, film and opera. Em has written ​ and/or directed work for companies such as New Georges, the 52nd Street Project, Shakespeare & Company, Glasshouse Lab, Collaboraction, Working Theater, En Garde Arts, The Museum of Ice Cream, the Orchard Project, and the Prototype Festival. Em’s short film Candace played numerous festivals ​ ​ worldwide including the Mill Valley Film Festival, Outfest, and the American Pavilion Emerging LGBTQ Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won Best Film. Em has an M.F.A. in Directing from Yale School of Drama and a B.A. from Smith College. www.emweinstein.com ​ ​

P. TYLER BRITT (Stage Manager) Brooklyn based theater practitioner and teaching artist. Previously at ​ Rattlestick: New Songs Now (SM), Lockdown (ASM). Graduate from Hunter College where they were the ​ ​ ​ ​ recipient of a Robert LoBianco Scholarship for Theater and Tyrone Guthrie Award for directing. Thanks to friends, family, cast and crew.

CAROLINA ARBOLEDA (Assistant Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT ​ ​ ​ GOES DOWN (The Movement Theatre Company), SHE CALLS ME FIREFLY (Parity Productions & New ​ ​ ​ ​ Perspectives Theatre Company.) International: Festival de Teatro Alternativo, Festival de Mujeres En Escena Por la Paz. She is delighted to be collaborating for the first time with the Rattlestick Playwrights ​ ​ ​ ​ Theater.

JASMINE OTON (Assistant Choreographer) began dancing at the age of three at Rising Stars Dance ​ Studio. There she remained for 10 years developing her skills and competing across the country. In 2008,Jasmine started training at Talent Unlimited High School learning from former Principle Ballerina Wilhelmina Frankfurt of the New York City Ballet. She also began learning the Martha Graham repertoire during her last two years of high school. After graduating in 2012, she left to the world of dance pursuing a career in health science at Delaware State University. Later she realized she would not be happy continuing in this field so she transferred to Queen College in Spring 2017 and declared as a Dance major. While at Queens College, she choreographed and performed at the Spring 2018 Queens College Arts Festival in May. Jasmine plans to teach free creative dance workshop once a month after she graduates.

JENNY BETH SNYDER (Production Manager) is a director/PM & co-founder FGP NYC. Recent: Recent ​ ​ Alien Abductions (PlayCo, PM); Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, PM); FGP Festival! ​ ​ ​ ​ (New Ohio, Creative Director); Folk Wandering (Art NY, PM); PORTO (WP Theater, PM); Oh My Sweet ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Land (PlayCo, PM); 12 Angry Men & Mother Fucker With The Hat (Lee Strasberg Institute, Dir.); ​ ​ ​ Summerworks 2017 & 2018 (Clubbed Thumb, PM); You Do Not Look, (Signature Theater, Dir.); BEARDO ​ ​ ​ ​ (Pipeline Theatre Co, PM); The Red Room, (The Shelter, Dir.); It’s Later Than I Think (United Solo ​ ​ ​ ​ Festival, Dir); Ideal (59 E 59th, Dir). BFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Member of the Lincoln Center ​ ​ Theater Director’s Lab 2013.

AARON GONZALEZ (Technical Director) is a Director, Actor, Designer, Stage Manager and graduate of ​ UNCSA. Projection Design: Ghetto Klown (Lyceum), Resident Director/ASM: Billy Elliot National Tour. ​ ​ ​ ​ Associate Director/Ensemble Billy Elliot (MUNY, Music Theatre Wichita, Gateway Playhouse) SM: The ​ ​ ​ Lion King (Minskoff), Time Stands Still (MTC & The Cort), Latin History for Morons (Studio 54 & Public ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Theatre). PM: Brian Cox’s Universal, an Evening with Noel Fielding (US Tour). TD: Lewiston/Clarkston, ​ ​ ​ Lockdown (Rattlestick), Recent Alien Abductions (Play Co), Plano, Summerworks (Clubbed Thumb), ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Rrred/Neurosis (DR2). Video Sup: KPOP (Ars Nova). ACTOR: Bull on CBS. aarongonzalez.info ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

LANNYL STEPHENS (Creative Partner) is the Director of Development and Special Events for Village ​ Preservation (GVSHP). As a consultant and producer, she has produced concerts at Carnegie Hall, at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco, events and conferences around the country, as as projects for radio and television. She is the founder and owner of Shake It Out, a performance-based Shakespeare program for kids 8-18. Prior to her career as a producer, Lannyl was a Broadway, television, and film actress, originating numerous roles on Broadway, off-Broadway, and at San Francisco's venerable American Conservatory Theatre.

TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting Director) Selected Broadway and National Tours: Ain’t Too Proud, King ​ ​ Kong, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, , A Bronx Tale, , , Disaster!, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, , Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A ​ ​ Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Here Lies Love, Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Selected Regional: Westport ​ Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre, , The Old Globe, Asolo Rep. www.tararubincasting.com

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the .

Music in Prologue is Based on: “Priye Guinen” Artist: Wawa & Rasin Kanga Original Album Recording -The Best of Rasin Kanga de WaWa, Vol. 1- Chancy Records 2004

This production was made possible with support from:

Novenas for a Lost Hospital was developed at Space at Ryder Farm. Production support is provided by ​ ​ ​ Small Farm Productions, The Still Point Fund. ​ ​

SPECIAL THANKS: Peter Hirsch, Kate Mailer, Natasha Lancaster, Cheri Magid, Terry Curtis Fox and NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing, James Scruggs, Scott Johnson, Irving Amigon, Craig muMs Grant, Mahira Kakkar, Oscar Cabrera, Lucas Steele, Tim Murphy, Neil Goldberg, Dana Whitco, Rosco & Chad Tiller ​

ABOUT RATTLESTICK Founded in 1994 by Gary Bonasorte and David van Asselt, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is an Obie-Award winning theater that has developed and produced over 100 World Premieres in the past 23 seasons. Our mission is to present diverse, challenging and provocative plays that might not otherwise be produced and to foster the future voices of the American theater. We have produced the first plays and unique works of some of today’s leading voices, including (The Aliens), Sheila Callaghan (That Pretty, Pretty), Jesse Eisenberg (The Revisionist), Samuel D. Hunter (The Few), Craig Lucas (Ode to Joy), (Ironbound), Diana Oh's (mylingerieplay), Dael Orlandersmith (Until the Flood), Adam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy), Daniel Talbott (Slipping), Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays), Jonathan Tolins (Buyer and Cellar) and Craig Wright (The Pavilion). We produce theater to inspire empathy and provoke conversations in response to the complexities of our culture. Visit www.rattlestick.org for more information.

We acknowledge our theater is on the traditional land of the Lenape Nation People in Manahatta (Island of Many Hills) or . RATTLESTICK BOARD Jeff Thamkittikasem, Chair Vincent Alfieri, Vice Chair Robert Lomison, Vice Chair Rosalee Lovett, Treasurer Ray Brunt, Secretary Vincent Alfieri, Horace Barker, Daryl Boren, Ray Brunt, Nina Darnton, Vered Hankin, Geoffrey, Jackson Scott, Robert Lomison, Rosalee Lovett, Zachary Quinto, Susan Strickler, Jeff, Thamkittikasem (Chair), Zohar Tirosh-Polk, Daniella Topol (Artistic Director), Alana Weiss

RATTLESTICK ADVISORY BOARD Nadia Alia, Anastasia Barzee, Kathleen Chalfant , Robert Clauser, Sandra Coudert-Graham, Trip Cullman, Ty Defoe, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Hirschhorn, Willy Holtzman, Barbara Janowitz, , Brian MacDevitt, Dan Markley, Dael Orlandersmith, Lourdes Perez-Berkeley, Andrew Polk, Adam Rapp, Laura Rebell Gross, Alysia Reiner, Amy Ryan, Jolie Schwab, Kyra Sedgwick, Adam Sheer, , Mike Skipper, Molly Smith, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Peter Wilderotter, Orin Wolf, Anna Ziegler

RATTLESTICK STAFF Artistic Director: Daniella Topol Interim General Manager: Nick Mayo Development Manager: Kaz Ghochani Producing Associate: Kevin Hourigan Community Partners Liaison: Shadi Ghaheri Grant Writer: Jolene Noelle Directing Fellow: Em Weinstein Tow Playwright-in-Residence: Ren Dara Santiago Literary Manager Jessi D. Hill Literary Fellow, Shank Resident Playwright: Ava Geyer Literary Team Ngozi Anyanwu, Shadi Ghaheri, Vered Hankin, Jessi D. Hill, David Mendizábal, Daniel Talbott, Cori Thomas Social Media Manager Patrick Foley New Works/New Voices Partner Rosalind Productions, Inc (Abigail Rose Solomon, Executive Producer; Jennifer Kranz, Director of Creative Development) Management Services Foundation Development Consultant Jennie Greer Organization Consultant Nello McDaniel, Arts Action Research

RATTLESTICK CAPITAL SUPPORT Rattlestick is grateful for the support of the following donors for the first phase of our capital renovation, which provided flexible seating, staging, and lighting arrangements to fully realize every script's needs and every writer's vision: The Howard Gilman Foundation The JKW Foundation Ted Snowdon & Duffy Violante

RATTLESTICK DONORS $50,000 and up The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Frederic R. Coudert Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation

$25,000-49,999 Sonja Berggren & Patrick Seaver, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, John MacBean Revocable Trust, The Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Family Foundation, Rosalee & Bruce Lovett, Small Farm Productions, Still Point Fund, Ted Snowdon Productions, The Venturous Theater Fund of Tides Foundation

Rattlers ( $10,000-24,999) Vincent Alfieri & Kerstin Larsen, Daryl and Joe Boren, Raymond and Pam Brunt, Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman Foundation, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, David Rockefeller Fund, Robert Lomison, Doug Nevin & Michael Finkle, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Abigail Rose Solomon, The SHS Foundation, The Tow Foundation, Jeff Thamkittikasem, Trust For Mutual Understanding, Wendy Vanden Heuvel

Drummers ($5,000-9,999) Peter Emch, Vered Hankin and Jeremy Kaufman, Zachary Quinto

Clappers ($2,500-4,999) Axe-Houghton Foundation, Horace Barker and Christine Govan, Maureen Burgess and Lucian Chalfen, Daryl & Steven Roth Foundation, Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, The John Golden Fund, The Lucille Lortel Foundation, Morgan Stanley, Zohar Tirosh-Polk & Andrew Polk, Susan A. Strickler & Richard P. Kaye, Dan T. Shaheen

Shakers ($1,000-2,499) Jackie Andrews, Jason and Melissa Burnett, Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf, Angelina Fiordellisi, Philip Gelston, Google LLC, Michael Hirschhorn, William Holtzman and Sylvia Shepard, Martha W. King, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Mr. Bernard A. Kroll and Mrs. Wendie H. Kroll, Kathleen and Richard Levin, Trudi McCanna, Ronit Muszkatblit, Jacob Padron, Perakis Family, Nora Abousteit and Joshua Cooper Ramo, Laura Rebell Gross, Jolie Schwab and David Hodes, Richard P. Seeger, Michael Skipper and Amber Womack, Jeffrey Steinman and Jody Falco, Ms. Lisa Van Curen, Richard Warren, Alana Weiss & Nicholas Boos, Pia and Jimmy Zankel, Anonymous

Noisemakers ($500-999) Actors' Equity Foundation, Ms. Kathleen Chalfant, John C. Eisner and Jennifer Dorr White, Richard Frankel, Allen and Susan Funk, Phyllis and Alvin Goldman, Richard Bryan Hodos, Tom and Libby Hollahan, Barbara Janowitz, Scott Johnson, Jill Hunter Matichak, NYU Community Fund, Ron Rafay, Michael Robertson and Jim Mulkin, Sloan & Wick Simmons,Nela Wagman, Anonymous, Anonymous 2

Enthusiasts ( $150-499) Nina Adams and Moreson H. Kaplan, Madeleine and David Arnow, Marc Baron, Dan Barton, Andre Bishop, Ms. Sara Brandston, Cusi Cram and Peter Hirsch, Sandra Coudert Graham, The Cory & Bob ​ Donnalley Charitable Foundation, Nina & John Darnton, Elizabeth Diamond, Alan Entine, ExxonMobil ​ Foundation, Robyn Goodman, Jennie Greer and Simon Kendall, Jose and Heather Guardado, Ted Hampton and Lisa Kassenaar, Erik and Katherine Kahn, Noel Kirnon, Robert Klein and Eduardo Quintana, Dr. Mitchell Kline, Sharon and Daniel Kuebbing, David Lerner and Lorren Erstad, Robin Lynn & Larry Blumberg, Carolyn K. McCandless,Merrell Middleton, Victoria Myers, Naka Nathaniel, Lisa Nicotra, Ms. , Ms. Lourdes Perez-Berkeley, Greg and Kristina Phelan, Steven Phillips and Isabel Swift, Rachel Purcell, Kathryn Quinn and Steven Thaler, Esther & Harvey Rein, Norman Reisman, Jacob Salinas, Ms. Diana Salter, George S. Forbes, Anita Sibony de Adelsberg, Leigh Silverman, Rachel Simmons, Keith Randolph Smith, James Suskin, Jonathan Tolins & Robert Cary, Rebecca Topol, Warren and Diane Traiger, Susan and Charles Tribbitt, Donald Troise, Amy Trommer, Lynne Whitman & Dan Solender, Ken & Jeanine Womack, Carolyn and Richard Ziegler, and Anna Ziegler and Will Miller, Anonymous

Friends ($1-149) Kathleen Adamick-Diaz, Kathryn Allen, Jenny Altshuler, Mr. Anello, Chinyere Anyanwu, David Badler, David Basche, Tita Beal, Agapi Bell, Alan Blum, Paula Boren, John Buldo, Maggie Cammer, Patrice Cassedy, David Chalfin and Joy Brownstein, Jennifer Chauhan, Edward Chin-Lyn, Dorie Clark, Laura Clinton, Marj and Bill Coleman, Susan and Andrew Dalsimer, Leslie Danoff, Mrs. Geraldine Delprete, Jesse Eisenberg, Kathy Evans, Amanda Feldman, Shiloh Fernandez, Gavin Fonseca, Kermit Frazier, Jennifer Friedlin, Donald Friedman, Mary Gearing, and Lisa Kron, Carol Geu, Andrea Geyer, Kazem Ghouchani, Miranda Gohh, Judith Goldman, Alvin Goldman, Emma Goldman-Sherman, Judy Goodman, Lawrence Grant, Stuart Green, Rosemary Green, Sherri Greenbach and David Goldstein, Greenpoint Innovations, Catherine Guiher, John Haschak lll, Warren Hoge, Ward Horton, Dave and Sharon Hourigan, Anthony Iuso, Petronia Johnson, Tatjana Kalinin, Annie Kauffman, Joan Kedziora M D, Melissa Kievman, Gilbert Kirsch, Katherine Kitchen, Sarah Krasnow, Elizabeth Lagana, Maggie Lally, Bill Latza, Patricia Leroy, Bruce A. Levitt, Kate Liebho, Chyntia Lief, Fidelindo Lim, Reynaldo Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Bill and Jane Macan, Kevin Mahan, Dan Markley and Alison Sheehy, Ms. Beth Martin, Clare McMorris, Svend Mejdal, Victoria Meyer, Tyler Micoleau, Ms. Winter Miller, Joseph T. Moldovan and Susan A. Moldovan, Emily Morse, Maria Muentes, Veer Nanavatty, Kenneth Nelson, Amy Oshinsky, Eric Ostrow, Will Packard, Johnathan Padilla, Janhvi Patel, Kristie Pellecchia, Julie Peterson, Colton Pometta, Richard Price, Sam Ratelle, Ariel Reid, Katy Rice, Joanna Ronan, Elizabeth and Richard Rubin, Karen Rusch, Andrew Saitow, Lene Sillesen, David and Ellen Smittle, Teresa Snider-Stein, Martha Solinger, Randy Stuzin, Robert Taylor, Christina Taylor, Cori Thomas, Robert Tipp, Olga Tomasello, David Tornabene, Randall Tosh, Saul Wakerman, Ms. Warnock Marcia Wernick, John Wolfson, Eli Wood, and Block Association, Anonymous

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BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS helps men, women and children across the country and across the ​ street receive lifesaving medications, health care, nutritious meals, counseling and emergency financial assistance. We are one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington DC.

THE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: Since 1983 New York City’s ​ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center has been supporting, fostering and celebrating the LGBT community of New York City. The Center fosters a welcoming environment where everyone is celebrated for who they are. We offer the LGBTQ communities of NYC advocacy, health and wellness programs; arts, entertainment and cultural events; recovery, parenthood and family support services.

NEW YORK CITY AIDS MEMORIAL BOARD honors more than 100,000 New Yorkers who have died of AIDS. It ​ also acknowledges the contributions of caregivers and activists. The Memorial aims to inspire and empower current and future activists, health professionals and people living with HIV in the continuing mission to eradicate the disease. Founded as a grass-roots advocacy effort in early 2011 by Christopher Tepper and Paul Kelterborn, the NYC AIDS Memorial organization is now a 501(c)3 corporation, with a 16 person Board of Directors, chaired by Keith Fox.

NYU RORY MEYERS COLLEGE OF NURSING: Founded in 1932, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing is the ​ second-largest private university college of nursing in the US. Our world-class BS, MS, DNP, and PhD programs provide the educational foundation to prepare the next generation of nursing leaders. The College's graduates and its faculty are forerunners in a new era of nursing, where playing a leadership role in achieving excellent patient outcomes and a healthier global society are priorities. NYU Meyers provides innovative and exemplary healthcare, offers access to a diverse group of entrants to the profession, and shapes the future of nursing through leadership in policy.

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ST. JOHN'S IN THE VILLAGE has been a notable and distinct (Episcopal) Christian presence in Greenwich Village ​ since the 1850s. We are a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of faith known for hospitality, dignified liturgy, beautiful music, intelligent preaching, care for the needy, and engagement with the arts and our local community.

VILLAGE PRESERVATION (The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation) was founded in 1980 to ​ preserve the architectural heritage and cultural history of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Village Preservation (GVSHP) has successfully advocated for the landmark designation of more than 1,250 buildings in our neighborhoods, and has helped secure zoning protections for nearly 100 blocks. Each day GVSHP monitors more than 6,500 building lots in our neighborhood and the more than 3,000 landmarked properties in our neighborhood.

VISUAL AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy, ​ because AIDS is not over. Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications - while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. We embrace diversity and difference in our staff, leadership, artists and audiences.

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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and piece by piece productions ​ ​ In Association with Rising Phoenix Repertory ​ Present the World Premiere of:

THE SIBLINGS PLAY MARCH 4 - APRIL 5, 2020

Written by Ren Dara Santiago ​ Directed by Jenna Worsham ​

According to Siblings Play writer Santiago, "I like subverting familiar narratives; focusing on heroes adjacent to the ones we know. The Siblings Play is a coming-of-age tale most don't see," said playwright Santiago. "I grew up with kids who did the parenting in their families. We cooked the meals for our siblings. We innovated ways to generate income. We did so at the expense of our education. We rose earlier and fell to bed last so we were often tired in class. I know those kids. And for them, I want to be a resource. With this production of The Siblings Play, I want them to hear: you are visible and your value can never be wasted.

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