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THE FLEA THEATER NIEGEL SMITH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CAROL OSTROW PRODUCING DIRECTOR PRESENTS THE THEATRE @ BOSTON COURT’S PRODUCTION OF HAPPY DAYS BY SAMUEL BECKETT STARRING BROOKE ADAMS AND TONY SHALHOUB DIRECTED BY ANDREI BELGRADER TAKESHI KATA SCENIC DESIGN TOM ONTIVEROS LIGHTING DESIGN MELANIE WATNICK COSTUME DESIGN ROBERT ORIOL SOUND DESIGN MADISON RHOADES PROP DESIGN MICHAL V. MENDELSON STAGE MANAGER ALYssA EscALANTE PRODUCTION CONSULTANT REECE ARTHUR TECHNICAL DIRECTOR RON LASKO/SPIN CYCLE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE CAST Winnie ..................................................................Brooke Adams Willie .................................................................... Tony Shalhoub CREATIVE TEAM Playwright ......................................................... Samuel Beckett Director ........................................................... Andrei Belgrader Scenic Designer ......................................................Takeshi Kata Lighting Designer .................................................Tom Ontiveros Happy Days Costume Designer ............................................ Melanie Watnick Sound Designer ....................................................... Robert Oriol ER Prop Designer ..................................................Madison Rhoades T Stage Manager ...........................................Michal V. Mendelson HEA Technical Director ..................................................Reece Arthur T Production Consultant .....................................Alyssa Escalante Assistant Stage Manager ......................................Ben Andersen LEA Wardrobe ................................................................Laura Archer F Wardrobe Assistant ................................. Gabrielle D’Entremont HE T Sound Board Operator ................................................D.R. Baker SPECIAL THANKS: Pepperdine University All actors and stage managers appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. 23 FLEA STAFF Artistic Director .......................................................Niegel Smith Producing Director ................................................. Carol Ostrow General Manager ................................................... Joshua Cohen Company Manager ......................................................Erin Daley Audience Development Manager ..............................Ellen Mullen Development Associate .........................................Alvin C. Taylor Marketing Associate ................................................. Ellie Philips Assistant Technical Director .........................................Ivey Long Assistant to Ms. Adams ................................... Mariette Strauss Key Art .....................................................................Mila Sterling Videographer .......................................................Crystal Arnette Happy Days Photographer........................................................... Joan Marcus Costume Manager ...................................................Holly Chayes ER Theater, Technical & Production Consultant ........... T Kyle Chepulis Accountant ......................................Joel Faden & Company, Inc. HEA Attorney ..................................... Carol M. Kaplan/Loeb and Loeb T Development Consultant ..................................... Rachel Colbert Press Representative ............................... Ron Lasko/Spin Cycle LEA F HE T BOSTON COURT STAFF Artistic Directors ...............Jessica Kubzansky, Michael Michetti Executive Director ...................................................Michael Seel Managing Director ..................................Hillary Metcalf Schenk Production Manager ................................................ Cheryl Rizzo Marketing Manager .................................................. Brian Polak Technical Director ...................................................... Jesse Soto 33 CAST BRookE AdAMS Film/TV credits include: Days of Heaven, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Dead Zone, Almost You, Monk, Family, Lace, and Moonlighting. Theater credits include: The Old Neighborhood (American Repertory Theatre), Lost in Yonkers (Ahmanson Theatre), The Heidi Chronicles (Plymouth Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Atlantic Theatre Company), Lend Me a Tenor (Music Box Theatre), Key Exchange (Orpheum), and If Memory Serves (The Pasadena Playhouse). She also produced and Happy Days performed in the film,Made-Up , written by her sister Lynne Adams, and directed by Tony Shalhoub. Keep an eye out for the web series ER T sequel to the movie. HEA TONY SHALHoub Five-time Tony-nominated T play Act One at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre LEA on Broadway. Film/TV credits include: Big Night, F Cars, Too Big to Fail, and Wings. Theater credits HE include: The Odd Couple, Conversations with my T Father (Royale Theatre), The Scene (Second Stage Theatre), Golden Boy (Belasco Theatre), and Waiting for Godot (Classic Stage Company Theatre). He has been nominated for 3 Tonys for his work on Broadway and won 3 Emmys, 2 Screen Actors Guild awards, and a Golden Globe for the title role in the television series, Monk. 43 CREATIVE TEAM SAMUEL BECKETT (1906-1989, Playwright) is widely recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Mr. Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot, which launched his career in theater. He then went on to write numerous successful full-length plays, including Endgame in 1957, Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958, and Happy Days in 1960. Mr. Beckett received his first commission for radio from the BBC in 1956 for All That Fall. This was followed by a further five plays for radio includingEmbers, Words and Music, and Cascando. Like no other dramatist before him, Mr. Beckett’s works capture the pathos and ironies of modern life yet still maintain his faith in man’s capacity for compassion and survival no matter how absurd his environment may have become. Happy Days ANDREI BELGRADER (Director) is a theater and television director. He has also been a master teacher at the Yale School of Drama, a ER T professor at UCSD, Head of the Directing Department at Juilliard, and he currently teaches at USC School of Dramatic Arts. On television, HEA he has directed numerous episodes of Monk as well as Law & Order: T Criminal Intent and the sitcom Coach. He has directed extensively at major regional theatres such as the American Repertory Theatre, LEA Yale Repertory, the Goodman and Seattle Repertory, as well as in F New York City. His recent projects in New York: Beckett’s Endgame at HE BAM with John Turturro and Elaine Stritch, and The Cherry Orchard T at CSC, with Dianne Wiest, John Turturro and Michael Urie, and the 2013 production of Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder also with John Turturro. All three productions were named among the 10 best productions of the year in major publications such as The New York Times and New York magazine and The Cherry Orchard was awarded the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival in 2012. TAKESHI KATA (Scenic Designer) NY: Gloria, Outside People (Vineyard); Forever (NYTW); 3 Kinds of Exile, Through a Glass Darkly, The Intelligent 3 5 Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theater Co.); Doris to Darlene…, B.F.E. (Playwrights Horizon); Adding Machine (Minetta Lane); Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre); Last Sunday in June, Pavilion, Where We’re Born (Rattlestick); Gone Missing (Civilians). Regional: Alley Theatre, American Players Theatre, Boston Court, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe, Steppenwolf Theatre Co., Williamstown, Yale Rep. Awards: Obie recipient; Drama Desk, Ovation and Barrymore nom. He is an Assistant Professor at University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts. TOM ONTIVEROS (Lighting Designer) designs with light and projection for live performance. Credits include: The Exonerated (NYC premiere), The Tune In Festival (Park Avenue Armory), Schick Machine (Hong Kong Cultural Centre), Garden of Deadly Sound (Hungarian National Theatre Festival), Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Cond. Marin Alsop), Full Circle with Allyson Green Dance (Danspace, NYC), Slide (Ojai Music Festival), Enemy Slayer (Phoenix Symphony), Long Happy Days Road Today, Fast Company, Motherfucker with the Hat (South Coast Rep), Summertime, Wintertime, and First Love (The Magic Theatre), ER Most Wanted (The La Jolla Playhouse), Seed, Café Vida, Making T Paradise (Cornerstone). Tom is an Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at USC. HEA T MELANIE WATNICK (Costume Designer) designs for theatre have included work with companies such as: The Juilliard School, South LEA Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory F Theatre, The Barter Theatre, Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Open HE Fist Theatre Company and Rogue Machine. Her costume designs T for dance include works for Ballet West, ABTII (part of American Ballet Theatre), Ballet X, Company C, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Backhaus Dance, Malashock Dance and Singapore Dance Theater. Ms. Watnick also has served as lecturer at University of California, Irvine; UC San Diego and Hartnell College, and is currently serving as a faculty member in costume design at Pepperdine University. She earned her MFA from UC San Diego. 3 ROBERT ORIOL (Sound Designer) Recent shows include: Stupid 6 Fucking Bird (Boston Court), Riddance