The New American Theatre presents MEASURE FOR MEASURE written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE directed by JACK STEHLIN* Produced by JEANNINE WISNOSKY STEHLIN with: BRENDAN BRANDT* CHELSEA BRANDT* LEAH DALRYMPLE PETER BONOFF DANIEL KAEMON* DANA KELLY JR. MICHAEL MATTHYS* BRUNO OLIVER DAVID PURDHAM* ELAINE RIVKIN* NINA SILVER* CHARLEY STERN PATRICK VEST Scenic Design STUART CHAPIN Lighting Design KATHI O’DONOHUE Costume Design KITTY ROSE Sound Design JEANNINE WISNOSKY STEHLIN Stage Manager EVA HOLLIDAY *member of Actors Equity Association
Production Team Box Office Manager: Dennis Jackson Set Construction: Tyler Harlow Lighting Technicians: Rob Corn, Daniel Trostler Accountant: Deen and Deen Insurance: Kulchin Ross Insurance Services, LLC Ticketing and Patron Services: Patron Manager PR/Marketing: Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin
THE NEW AMERICAN THEATRE 1312 N. Wilton Pl. Hollywood, CA 90028 [email protected] NewAmericanTheatre.com
The New American Theatre This performance is supported, in (formerly Circus Theatricals) is a part, by the Los Angeles County member of the LA Stage Alliance. Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Facebook.com/NewAmericanTheatre @NewAmericanThtr MEASURE FOR MEASURE / 1 CAST (in order of appearance) Vincentio (Duke of Vienna)...... PATRICK VEST Escalus (Lord at the Viennese court)...... DAVID PURDHAM* Angelo (Vincentio’s Deputy)...... DANIEL KAEMON* Lucio (Claudio’s friend)...... BRENDAN BRANDT* Froth (Gentleman), Friar Peter (Monk,friend of Vincentio).....CHARLEY STERN Mistress Overdone(Madame of Brothel), Mariana (Angelo’s ex-fiance) ...... ELAINE RIVKIN* Pompey (Brothel pimp)...... BRUNO OLIVER Claudio (Gentleman of Vienna, Isabella’s brother)...... PETER BONOFF Provost (Prison Warden)...... NINA SILVER* Isabella (Novice Nun,Claudio’s sister)...... LEAH DALRYMPLE Francisca (Nun), Juliet (Claudio’s pregnant fiance)...... CHELSEA BRANDT* Friar Thomas (Abbot of the monastary), Abhorson (Executioner).....DANA KELLY, JR. Elbow (Officer of the law),Barnadine (Death row inmate)...... MICHAEL MATTHYS*
Vienna, sometime between then and now
Measure for Measure will be presented without an intermission. Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes.
The taking of photographs or recordings of any type is strictly prohibited. Please turn off your mobile phones and refrain from texting during the performance. *Member of Actors Equity Association This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule.
Measure for Measure Performance Schedule: November 16 - December 16 , 2018 Fri 11/16 @8pm (opening) Sat 11/17 @8pm (opening), Sun 11/18 @3pm (opening) No performances Thanksgiving weekend Fri 11/30 @8pm, Sun 12/2 @7pm Fri 12/7 @8pm, Sat 12/8 @8pm, Sun 12/9 @3pm Fri 12/14 @8pm, Sat 12/15 @8pm, Sun 12/16 @7pm
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BRENDAN BRANDT Lucio Member of the New American Studio Ensemble/Literary Coordinator. With NAT: Meanwhile, Back at the Super Lair...Macbeth: Revisited, Boy’s Life, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 5 Beauties (Green Eyes), Macbeth, Getting Out, and 9 years of One-Act Festi- vals (authored Exigence). Other theater- Godspell, Wild Geese, and Twist in So- Cal, and Macbeth, Assassins, and Equus in Minneapolis. TV: Workaholics, Crimi- nal Minds, Last Man Standing, Working Class, Close to Home. Brendan directed the documentary Victor’s Last Class, which has played in festivals in Amsterdam, Kansas City, and Pasadena, on TV in Israel and Slovenia, is coming to theaters in Poland, and is still touring colleges and festivals. www.victorslastclass.com.
CHELSEA BRANDT Francisca, Juliet Member of the New American Studio Ensemble. With New American Theatre: Measure for Measure, Meanwhile, Back at the Super Lair.. Macbeth: Revisited, Boy’s Life, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, I Never Sang for My Father, The Women, and 365 Days/365 Plays. Other Theater: Romeo & Juliet (Juliet) The Night of the Black Cat, Brigadoon, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Sound of Music, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Annie Get Your Gun, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Oklahoma!Film/TV: The Drama Club, Boytalk, The Hunted. She was also a Lead Singer/Dancer for Holland America Cruise Lines. PCPA Graduate.
LEAH DALRYMPLE Isabella Credits: The Winter’s Tale and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare by the Sea), King Lear (Rubicon Theatre Company), Julius Caesar, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Henry V (Kingsmen Shakespeare Company), Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Chamber Music (California Lutheran University), and Promises, Promises and Dracula (Moorpark College).
PETER BONOFF Claudio Peter Bonoff is from West Linn, Oregon. He attended the California Institute of the Arts (Calarts), where he got his B.F.A. in acting. While at Calarts, he played O Li Roon in a production of In the Red and Brown Water directed by Nataki Garrett, and Salerio in The Merchant of Venice directed by Mary Lou Rosato. In his final year, he wrote and performed a short one man show at the Bootleg Theater under the guidance of Roger Guenveur Smith. His feature film debut was in 2014, playing Shreve in James Franco’s adaptation of The Sound and The Fury. This is his first appearance at The New American Theatre.
Measure for Measure / 3 DANIEL KAEMON Angelo Daniel Kaemon is thrilled to be making his debut at NAT. Select theatre credits: Nicky (Pasha) Coeurage Theatre Company, Macbeth (Macbeth) The Vagrancy, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (Brick), A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley), Awake & Sing! (Moe Axlerod) The Group Rep. Moderation Pasadena Playhouse, War (Noel), Merchant of Venice (Bassanio) Theatre Banshee. Julius Caesar (Marc Antony), Othello (Cassio) A Noise Within. Television: Hawaii Five-0 (recurring) Scorpion, Henry Danger (recurring), Supernova 45, Alias, Days of Our Lives. Film: The Whisperer in Darkness, Winged Feet Do Fly, Power Poison, Zombie Holocaust and You!, Katherine (Cannes Film Festival). Much love to Amy, Harrison and August.
DANA KELLY, JR Friar Thomas, Abhorson Dana is an Assoc. Member of The New American Theatre. He has appeared in Taming of the Shrew and Devil’s Salt at The Odyssey Theatre, O’Neill’s Ghosts at The Barrow Group Theatre (NYC), The Government Inspector at Boston Court Theatre, the award-winning production Grace, Canned Peaches in Syrup and Scenes from the Big Picture, at The Carrie Hamilton/Pasadena Playhouse. SAG productions of Gun Smoke and CBS Radio Mystery Theatre at the Autry Museum, Trigger at The Blank Theatre. You have heard his distinctive tones on TV commercials, podcasts, video games, or as off-camera characters in films, such asMust Love Dogs. On-camera credits include Shoe Shine Boys, God Made Man, Breast Men, music videos and TV appearances on Comedy Central/Tosh.0, Justified, Retired at 35, Working Class, The Practice, Titus and Girlfriends.
MICHAEL MATTHYS Elbow, Barnadine Michael started his AEA career as a member of the Guthrie Theater playing Treplev in Garland Wright’s acclaimed production of The Seagull. Shakespearean roles include: Mercutio (8x!), Romeo, Jacques, Toby Belch, Orsino, Angelo, Florizel, Aufidius, Solanio and many more at such theatres as the Guthrie, Shakespeare Festival/ LA, and A Noise Within. His most recent Shakespearean role was that of Albany in King Lear at Rubicon in Ventura. He has appeared on stage with Ian McKellen in Enemy of the People at the Ahmanson, before Katherine Dunham in a dance tribute to her work at Rockwell Center, and many of the small theatres in LA. Regional credits include Old Wicked Songs at Laguna Playhouse, The Turn of the Screw at Sierra Rep, The Voice of the Prairie at the Colony, several shows at Ensemble Theatre in Santa Barbara, and five seasons at A Noise Witihin as a guest artist. Feature films include House of Deadly Secrets (Netflix), Full Blast, Nightwatch, Destiny Turns on the Radio, and the soon to be released Stan the Man. Love to my wife Riko! Thank you for letting me pursue my dreams!!
SPECIAL THANKS TO: Christopher Moscatiello, The Ed Paschke Foundation, The Odyssey Theatre, Sacred Fools Theater Company, Shakespeare by the Sea, Nate Hedrick. YOU the audience. Thanks for coming to the show!
Measure for Measure / 4 BRUNO OLIVER Pompey Bruno Oliver is making his N.A.T. debut. His artistic home in L.A. is Sacred Fools Theater where he’s acted in many shows over 20 years, has produced A Gulag Mouse; Rose and the Rime; The Art Couple and is the serving Board President. Other L.A.: Rogue Machine; LOFT; I.C.T; Whitefire; Zoo District; SCI-FEST and others. Outside L.A. he’s performed in Seattle, Chicago, Edinburgh, NYFringe, Las Vegas, S.F. and Utah and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals. Look for Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino’s in future Fringes!
DAVID PURDHAM Escalus As a professional actor and director, David Purdham has worked (and continues to work) extensively in theatre, on and off Broadway, in many of the great resident theatres inour country - including New York Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Old Globe- San Diego, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival- as well a lot of television and film during the last 40 years. He currently directs and adapts The Tempus Theatre Group’s Classical Play reading series.
ELAINE RIVKIN Mistress Overdone, Mariana Elaine Rivkin is making her first appearance at New American Theatre. A recent transplant to LA from Chicago, her regional theatre credits include One House Over at Milwaukee Rep and Geva Theatre, Marjorie Prime, The Lover and Broken Glass at North Coast Repertory Theatre; and Brighton Beach Memoirs at Cardinal Stage. Elaine’s Chicago credits include: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Libra and The Crucible at Steppenwolf Theatre; City of Conversation at Northlight Theatre, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf at Writers Theatre; Pyretown and Tree at Victory Gardens; The Cider House Rules, The Homecoming, Conquest of the South Pole, Beautiful Thing, Speaking in Tongues, and many others for Famous Door Theatre; She played a recurring character on Chicago PD and can be seen in several indie films. More info at www.elainerivkin.com.
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JOIN OUR EMAIL CLUB! • EVENT INVITATIONS! • TICKET DISCOUNTS! • INSIDER INFORMATION • SPECIAL CLASSES! • MORE! NEWAMERICANTHEATRE.COM Measure for Measure / 5 NINA SILVER Provost Off-Broadway, Pentecost and Lovesong of the Electric Bear with PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2. L.A. theatre Habitat, LATC, D is for Dog, South Coast Repertory, Songs of Bilitis Getty Villa, Wood Boy Dog Fish, Gogol Project, Mr. Punch, Rogue Artists Ensemble, The Night Before Christmas Furious Co. Pasadena Playhouse. Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, and Portia, Long Beach Shakespeare. NYC theatre include Crimes of the Heart, Othello, Hamlet, Theatre for the New City and NY Fringe. B.A. Theatre and Spanish from Middlebury College, VT. AEA, SAG-AFTRA. More www.lacasting.com/ninasilver.
CHARLEY STERN Froth/Friar Peter/Ensemble Charley Stern is thrilled to be making his New American Theatre debut. Select credits include: Angels in America, Julius Caesar, Antigone X, Uncle Vanya (USC School of Dramatic Arts), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (One Trick Circus), and Twelfth Night (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center). He wrote and performed the original one-man show, DIG! under the tutelage of Charlayne Woodard. He is about to be making his small-screen debut in the current season of Showtime’s Shameless. Charley is Originally from Chicago, Illinois and holds an MFA in Acting from the USC School of Dramatic Arts.
PATRICK VEST Vincentio Member of The New American Theatre and New American Studio Ensemble. With NAT, he has been in Macbeth Revisited, Macbeth, The Misanthrope, Seduced, The Circle, Julius Caesar, various one acts and scene nights. He received his MFA in acting from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Patrick was recently nominated for best featured actor in Broadway World for his portrayal of David Selznick in Moonlight and Magnolias at the Rubicon. Other favorite roles include Iago, Caliban, Marc Antony, Malvolio, Bottom, Mercutio, and Petruchio.
WHO’S WHO IN THE PRODUCTION
STUART CHAPIN Scenic Design Stuart Chapin is a Los Angeles based scenic artist working always to make things more interesting to look at. His previous works include UC Santa Barbara’s Cabaret, and Long Beach Playhouse’s Pride and Prejudice. He thanks Jack for this big canvas, and his parents for rooting for him.
Special thank you to the Ed Paschke Foundation, for permission to use Excusez-Moi, 24 x 36 inches, oil on linen, 1989
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Measure for Measure / 6 KATHI O’DONOHUE Lighting Design A long-time lighting designer, Kathi has designed shows for companies including: The New American Theatre, The Odyssey Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre, The Court, Road Theatre Company, The Fountain, The MET, The Colony, Playwright’s Arena, Theatre 40, and The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Project.
KITTY ROSE Costume Design Kitty Rose has been NAT’s go-to costume designer for more years that she can recall. Favorite NAT productions include whichever production she is working on at the time!
EVA HOLLIDAY Stage Manager An actor, Eva is thrilled to be making her debut with the New American Theatre Company in The Festival of New One Act Plays, 2018. She graduated from Drury University with a BA in Theatre and minors in Music and Dance. There her passion for acting was only further enriched by a passion for artistic collaboration. Previously she has appeared as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Velvet in Some Velvet Morning, and Masha in Chekhov’s The Three Sisters under the direction of her mentor Robert Westenberg. Eva is incredibly grateful to Jack and Jeannine Stehlin and the company for the opportunity to work with the New American Theatre.
JEANNINE WISNOSKY STEHLIN Sound Design / Managing Director Jeannine received an LA Weekly Award nomination for best sound design for NAT’s production of The Circle (by Shem Bitterman), a play about what happens to a community after a tragic school shooting. She has since designed sound for many productions. As a producer: 80+ plays for New American Theatre/Circus Theatricals including; Creditors, More Lies About Jerzy (dir. David Trainer), Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Bedfellows, 23 Festivals of New One Act Plays, As Is, Five Beauties by Tennessee Williams, I Never Sang for My Father, Sister Cities, Titus Redux, (w/ Not Man Apart at Kirk Douglas Theatre and RADAR-LA), LA/Off-Broadway productions of Man.gov, Harm’s Way, The Job; Many New American Theatre/Odyssey Theatre co-productions. Short film Game 7. As an actor; numerous plays in LA and Chicago. Film/TV: Watch It, Rancho Cucamonga, Chicago 8, Colette. She made her TV debut as a preschooler on the children’s program, Romper Room. Jeannine earned a B.S. in Advertising from University of Illinois and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Illinois Institute of Technology. She serves as a Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of Culver City.
Measure for Measure / 7 JACK STEHLIN (Artistic Director/Director) Jack Stehlin has directed over 50 plays for The New American Theatre. Fresh out of The Juilliard School, he founded the company (as Circus Theatricals) in 1986. Also an actor, he can regularly be seen on television. His Los Angeles stage roles include New American Theatre productions of Tempest Redux (co-production with Odyssey Theatre), 63 Trillion, More Lies About Jerzy, Julius Caesar, Harm’s Way (LA/Off Broadway), Titus Redux (Not Man Apart co-production at Kirk Douglas Theatre and RadarLA,) and Odyssey/New American Theatre co-productions of Creditors (LA Weekly Award nomination-Best Actor),Taming of the Shrew, The Misanthrope, Macbeth, Richard III, Tartuffe, and True West. On the small screen, he is perhaps best known on television as DEA captain Roy Till on the Showtime series Weeds (SAG award nomination). New York/ Regional stage credits include Salome (with Al Pacino), numerous productions at New York’s Public Theatre including Richard II (with Steven Berkoff), Henry V (with Kevin Kline), Casanova (with Ethan Hawke), Henry IV, (with Mandy Patinkin), and Julius Caesar (with Al Pacino and Martin Sheen). His many guest- starring roles on countless TV fan favorites include the recent Assassination of Gianni Versace, NCIS Los Angeles, Without a Trace, Monk, The Practice, Crossing Jordan, ER, NYPD Blue, Fox’s Hieroglyph. Films include Wilde Salome with Al Pacino.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Playwright William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He wrote over 38 plays, 154 sonnets and numerous poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Few records exist about Shakespeare’s private life, but it is known that Shakespeare spend his first twenty years in Stratford, which include his schooling, early marriage and fatherhood; the next twenty-five years as an actor and playwright in London; and the last five in retirement back in Stratford, where he enjoyed moderate wealth gained from his theatrical successes. Incredibly, there are very few original versions of Shakespeare’s plays. In many cases, they have been constructed in part from scripts written down by various members of an acting company who performed particular roles. Measure for Measure is thought to have been first performed in 1604.
New American Theatre Leadership Team Artistic Director ...... Jack Stehlin Managing Director...... Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin Associate Artist/Teacher...... Robert Cicchini Associate Artist/Teacher...... Jordan Lund Associate Producer...... Jeff Kongs Membership Coordinator...... Susan Ziegler Literary Coordinator ...... Brendan Brandt Fundraising Coordinator...... Jade Sealey Production Coordinators ...... The New American Studio Ensemble members Measure for Measure / 8 THE NEW AMERICAN THEATRE PRODUCTION HISTORY Photos and video online! NewAmericanTheatre.com
Meahnwhile, Back at the Super Lair.... 2018 Modigliani 2005 Macbeth: Revisited 2017 The Circle (world premiere) 2004 Festival of New One Acts 2017 Macbeth 2004 Tempest Redux 2016 Deconstructing the Torah (world premiere) 2004 Loose Ends 2016 Antigone 2003 Festival of New One Acts 2016 Tartuffe2003 Scene Night 2016 As You Like It 2003 63 Trillion 2015 Festival of One Act Plays ‘02 2002 Boys’ Life 2015 The Cherry Orchard 2002 Best of the Festival of New One Act Plays 2015 Loose Ends 2002 Festival of New One Act Plays 2014 Richard III 2002 The New American Theatre Project 2014 The Three Sisters 2001 Creditors (co-pro w/ Odyssey Theatre)2013 True West 2001 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2013 The SeaGull 2001 Festival of New One Act Plays 2013 Hamlet 2000 Bedfellows (world premiere) 2012 The Cheats of Scapin (world premiere Festival of New One Act Plays 2012 adaptation) 1999 As Is 2011 Tryst and Shout (world premiere) 1999 Five Beauties 2011 Festival of One Act Plays ‘98 1998 I Never Sang for My Father 2011 Peer Gynt Titus Redux RADAR LA 2011 (world premiere adaptation)1998 Best of the One Acts 2010 Twelfth Night 1998 Titus Redux (with Not Man Apart) Hippolytus Kirk Douglas Theatre 2010 (world premiere adaptation) 1998 More Lies About Jerzy 2010 (LA premiere) Tartuffe1998 Getting Out 2010 Leftovers 1998 Festival of New One Act Plays 2010 The Job (world premiere) 1998/1999 Three SistersOdyssey Theatre/Oct.2009 Hedda Gabler 1997 Festival of New One Act Plays 2009 Festival of One Act Plays ‘97 1997 Macbeth Odyssey Theatre/March 2009 The Misanthrope 1997 The Taming of the Shrew Odyssey/Feb. 2009 Rattlesnake in a Cooler 1997 Safe(world premiere) 2008 Denied (world premiere) 1996 Harm’s Way (world premiere) 2007/2008 Lysistrata (world premiere adaptation) Circus Theatricals Festival of New One Act The Job (world premiere) 1996 Plays 2007/2008 The Lower Depths (world premiere adaptation) 1996 Twelfth Night 2007 The Maids/The Stronger 1995 Seduced 2007 Gravity Shoes 1995 Weedwacker (world premiere) 2007 Antigone (world premiere adaptation)1995 The Adding Machine 2007 The Heiress 2007 NEW YORK YEARS Man.gov (world premiere) 2007 Macbeth 1993 Love & Sex Over Dinner & Drinks Danton’s Death (world premiere adaptation) 1989 (world premiere) 2007 Gravity Shoes (world premiere) 1987 Sister Cities (world premiere) 2006 Tartuffe1986 Greensward (world premiere) 2006 Delirious (world premiere) 1985 Complexity (world premiere) 2006 Hedda Gabler 1984 Iphigenia in Aulis (world premiere adaptation) 2006 Uncle Vanya 1983 The Misanthrope 2005
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The New American Studio Ensemble is the resident acting company of The New American Theatre. Members of the Studio Ensemble are part of unique and vibrant community of working actors. We support actors and theatre artists through our longtime comittment in offering a welcoming and supportive home where we work together to continue to develop our craft, in an ongoing studio, with the additional benefit of live stage performances. Simply, we offer a place for actors to act. In addition to our weekly acting Studio, our members appear in professionally produced plays for the general public.These include one act festivals, main stage performances, and scene presentations.
• Participation in a community of vibrant, working actors in theatre, TV and film • Collaboration on the production of new and classic plays. • A weekly acting studio that focuses on scene study and technique. • The benefit of a shared dialogue between motivated and experienced actors who strive for fulfilling and long-lasting acting careers.
VisitNewAmericanTheatre.com for information on how you can join! Welcome to our New Hollywood Home! We’re thrilled to celebrate our 23rd season by moving back to Hollywood, near where our award-winning company got our Los Angeles start. We officially moved in March 1st, and we hit the ground running! Our new home houses two intimate theatres: the Mainstage and the Black Box, in addition to our lobby and dressing rooms.
Our company is filled with ambitious actors and theatre-makers who’ve been clamoring to have a permanent home of our own in which to tell our stories. This opportunity presented itself and we jumped at the chance. Our members have spent their spare time making improvements and enhancements to our new space so that it’s ready and comfortable for actors and audiences alike! If you go online, you can see photos of the improvements, including our updated lobby, new seats for the audience, and fresh coats of paint inside and out. Of course there’s more to do, and we could use your help! Check out our donation page at NewAmericanTheatre.com
Our 2018-2019 season will focus on new works, including two world premiere plays, two festivals of new one act plays, and staged readings of new works. The New American Studio Ensemble will continue to meet each Saturday to study acting and work on projects. NAT’s newly formed writer’s circle will meet monthly with actor-members to share new work and receive valuable feedback.
During our downtime, NAT is available for rental. Look for Hollywood Fringe Festival events summer, 2019.
Thank you for supporting The New American Theatre and here’s to celebrating our new adventure! Measure for Measure / 12