IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE CHARLOTTE MOORE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CIARÁN O’REILLY, PRODUCING DIRECTOR A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN MOLLY SWEENEY BY BRIAN FRIEL DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE WITH GERALDINE HUGHES, PAUL O’BRIEN AND CIARÁN O’REILLY video editor sound designer post-production sound mix SARAH ZACHARY M. FLORIAN NICHOLS WILLIAMSON STAAB press representative general manager MATT ROSS LISA PUBLIC RELATIONS FANE TIME & PLACE Ballybeg, County Donegal, Ireland Running Time: 2 hours and 15 minutes including an intermission SPECIAL THANKS Irish Repertory Theatre would like to thank Geraldine Hughes, Paul O’Brien, the family of Brian Friel, Leah Schmidt of The Agency UK, The Keen Company, The Howard Gilman Foundation, Ciarán Madden - Consul General Of Ireland, and the Irish Abroad Unit of the Department of Foreign Affairs. THIS PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, AXE-HOUGHTON FOUNDATION, AND OTHER PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS, AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE MANY GENEROUS MEMBERS OF IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE’S PATRON’S CIRCLE. WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST GERALDINE HUGHES (Molly of Being Ernest, Equus, Cymbeline, Sweeney) received the Los Democracy, King Lear (with Christopher Angeles Ovation, Garland Plummer), The Crucible (with Liam Neeson), and Drama Critics Circle Twelfth Night. Off-Broadway: Molly Sweeney Awards and a Drama League (Keen Company), The Mountains Look Award Nomination for Different, Is Life Worth Living? (Mint Theater), Outstanding Performance for her solo play Hamlet (NYSF), Death Defying Acts (Variety Belfast Blues, which she also wrote. Arts), Three Birds Alighting on a Field (MTC), Geraldine’s stage credits include: Harry Potter Widow’s Blind Date (Circle in the Square), And The Cursed Child, as Professor Moon for the Misbegotten (Pearl Theater). McGonagall, Jerusalem, opposite Mark Regional: Playmakers Rep, Guthrie, Rylance (Broadway and West End). Other Williamstown, Geffen, Actors Theater of theatre: Particle Of Dread (opposite Stephen Louisville, Long Wharf, Trinity Rep, Rea), Cyrano De Bergerac (Broadway), Huntington, Gloucester Stage. Film: Translations (Broadway), Molly Sweeney (Irish “Shirley,” “Hail Caesar,” “The Boy Repertory Theatre), Pumpgirl (MTC), Orson’s Downstairs,” “Manhattan Romance,” Shadow, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Weir, “Fairhaven,” “Henry’s Crime,” and The Architect. Television credits include: “Redacted”,“Devil’s Own”, “What’s The “Kevin Can Wait”, “Law and Order SVU”, “The Worst That Could Happen?” TV: “Search Blacklist”, “Blue Bloods”, “Nurse Jackie”, Party”, “Dangerous Book for Boys”, “Mercy”, “The Good Wife”, “Law and Order “Elementary”, “Forever”, “House of Cards”, CI”, “Law & Order”, “Murder, She Wrote: The “Person of Interest”, “Sopranos”, “The Celtic Riddle”, “ER”. She has starred in Practice”, “Providence”, “ER”, “Star Trek several features including “The Book Of Voyager”, “Law and Order, SVU”, “A Case of Henry”, “Time Out Of Mind”, “Gran Torino”, Deadly Force.” “Rocky Balboa”, “Killing Lincoln”, and most recently “Nine Days”, with Winston Duke and CIARÁN O’REILLY (Frank Benedict Wong. Geraldine received an Sweeney) Irish Rep acting honorary doctorate from Queens University, roles include: Da, Juno and Belfast, for her contribution to the arts. She is the Paycock, Dancing at currently filming the new Showtime TV series Lughnasa, Molly Sweeney, “Your Honor”, opposite Bryan Cranston. Candida, Aristocrats, A Whistle in the Dark, The PAUL O’BRIEN (Mr. Rice) Shaughraun, and The Irish and How They Irish Rep: The Weir, DA, Got That Way. He appeared in the Burial at Thebes, Man and Roundabout Theatre Company’s production Superman. Broadway: Six of A Touch of the Poet with Gabriel Byrne. Degrees of Separation, On a He has appeared at the Abbey Theatre, Clear Day, The Importance Dublin and made his Broadway debut in WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST The Corn is Green. Films include The the ringing bell which reverberates quietly Devil’s Own (starring Harrison Ford), “Law and persistently in the head long after the & Order,” “The Irish and How They Got That curtain has come down and the audience Way,” “Third Watch,” “Bored to Death” has gone home.” and “The Knick.” Favorite directing credits include: Lady G: Plays and Whisperings of CHARLOTTE MOORE (Director) Recent Lady Gregory, Dublin Carol, The Shadow of directing assignments include: London a Gunman, The Seafarer, The Dead, 1904, Assurance, Love Noël, The Plough and the Shining City, Off the Meter, on the Record, Stars, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Weir (Calloway Nom.), Banished Three Small Irish Masterpieces by William Children of Eve, The Emperor Jones, Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and J.M. Synge. (Callaway Award, O’Neill Credo Award, New York premiere of Brian Friel’s The Home Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Place, World premiere of Larry Kirwan’s Lortel Nom.), The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk Rebel in the Soul, Finian’s Rainbow, The Drama League and Callaway Nom.), Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Drama Desk gala, Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, Nom) Ciarán has been inducted in to the and Juno and the Paycock and Dancing at Irish America Hall of Fame and was Lughnasa. New York stage appearances awarded the Presidential Distinguished include A Perfect Ganesh, Meet Me in St. Service Award for the Irish Abroad, 2019 by Louis, The Perfect Party, Morning’s at Seven, President Michael D. Higgins. Private Lives (with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton), and many performances BRIAN FRIEL (Playwright) (1929-2015) is with the New York Shakespeare Festival. Ms. widely recognized as one of the greatest Moore has received two Tony Award contemporary dramatists of the English nominations, the Outer Critics Circle Award, language. A prolific writer, who produced the Drama Desk Award, the Drama League more than 30 plays in a career spanning Award, the Irish America Top 100 Irish six decades, his best-known works are: Award, The Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964), The Achievement Award, and the 2008 Irish Freedom of the City (1973), Aristocrats Women Of The Year Award. She is the (1979), Faith Healer (1979), Translations recipient of the St. Patrick’s Committee in (1980), Dancing at Lughnasa (1990), Holyoke’s John F. Kennedy National Award, Molly Sweeney (1993), Give Me Your and has thrice been listed as one of the “Top Answer Do (1997), and The Home Place 50 Power Women” in Irish America Magazine. (2005). In these and other plays he Charlotte was named “Director of the Year” showed a fascination with pushing the by The Wall Street Journal in 2011. Charlotte boundaries of theatrical possibility. Friel has been inducted in to the Irish America once wrote: “For me the true gift of Hall of Fame and was awarded the theatre, the real benediction of all art, is Presidential Distinguished Service Award WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST for the Irish Abroad, 2019 by President Murphy, dir), Crestfall, Communion and Michael D. Higgins. Misterman (Origin/59E59). On Broadway, he has designed A Little Night Music SARAH NICHOLS (Video Editor) Sarah serves benefit concert (Roundabout) and was as the Audience Services Manager at Irish assistant designer on Pal Joey and The Ritz Rep, and when live theater fell victim to the (Roundabout). Regionally, he has designed Covid lockdown, she deftly pivoted to for Dallas Theater Center, 5th Avenue become the theatre’s in-house video editor. Seattle, Ordway St. Paul, Baltimore Center Beginning with interviews for the Meet the Stage, Asolo Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Makers series, Sarah took on the increasingly Virginia Stage, St. Louis Rep, TheaterWorks complex Performances on Screen, The Weir Hartford, Vermont Stage, Roundhouse, and A Touch of the Poet, working with Syracuse Stage, Two River and Celebrate individual footage from each actor and Brooklyn. Zach is a member of United Charlie Corcoran’s virtual backdrops to Scenic Artists. Love to Kim. create cohesive productions. Sarah edits The Long and The Short Of It, Jen Waldman IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE Founded by and Peter Shepherd’s weekly podcast “for Ciarán O’Reilly and Charlotte Moore, Irish curious people”. She previously worked as a Repertory Theatre opened its doors in 1988 stage manager for Sleep No More, and as a with Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the casting associate for Blue Man Group. Stars and is now in its 31st Season. Irish Rep During university, Sarah wrote and directed is currently the only year-round theatre the immersive production Life Is But A company in North America devoted to Dream, staged on Governors Island with a bringing Irish and Irish-American works to grant awarded by NYU/Tisch, from which the stage. Recognized with the Jujamcyn she holds a BFA. Sarah is proud to be part of Theatres Award, a special Drama Desk Irish Rep’s unique effort to continue to bring Award for “Excellence in Presenting the joy of theater to its audiences during Distinguished Irish Drama,” the Lucille these strange times. Many thanks to Ciarán, Lortel Award for “Outstanding Body of Jason, Frank, and Joe for their incredible Work,” and a 2013 Outer Critics Circle support throughout this project. Special Achievement Award in recognition of 25 years of producing outstanding theatre. ZACHARY WILLIAMSON (Sound Design) Irish Rep presents the very best in Irish Irish Rep: White Women Street, Candida, theatre, from the masters to the new Aristocrats, The Master Builder, Sive, generation of Irish and Irish-American Gaslight, Defender of the Faith, The Hairy writers who are transforming the stage. Ape and Beowulf. Other New York designs Located in the heart of New York’s Off- include ReEntry (Urban Stages), Vanities Broadway community, Irish Rep offers an (Second Stage), Make Me A Song (New engaging perspective on the Irish and their World Stages), The Shape of Metal (Brian unique contributions to the world of drama.