IT’S FINE, I’M FINE BY STEPHANIE EVERETT* Directed by Carol Dunne†† Choreographer Line Producer/Production Stage Manager Film Designer/Editor Beatrice Capote Brian R. Sekinger* Alek Deva Lighting Designer Sound Designer Costume Designer Jennifer Reiser† Jane Shaw† Celeste Jennings Scenic Consultant Assistant Director Assistant Sound Designer James Roeder Jelinda Metelus Will Maresco Assistant Stage Manager Dialect Coach Narissa Agustin Thom Miller Special thanks to our Season Underwriter Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, who has partnered with Northern Stage to provide weekly COVID-19 testing for Northern Stage artists and is consulting with the company on best health and safety practices. Show Sponsor Season Underwriter * Member of Actor’s Equity Association, † Member of United Scenic Artists. †† The Director is a member of the the Union of Professional Actors and Designers in LORT Theatres are STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS Stage Managers in the United States. represented by United Scenic Artists, SOCIETY,a national theatrical labor union. Local USA-829 of the IATSE. CAST The Girl ............................................................................Stephanie Everett*^ ^Thanks to Ray Barrette for supporting Stephanie Everett’s residency. ABOUT THE COMPANY STEPHANIE EVERETT (The Girl/Playwright) is a New York-based theater artist who is grateful to be back in the Upper Valley this fall. Her autobiographical play, It’s Fine, I’m Fine was last seen in New York’s United Solo Festival, where it was awarded Best Festival Debut. Favorite credits include Citrus (Northern Stage) and Catch Me If You Can (New London Barn Playhouse). She’d like to dedicate this run of the show to the light and joy of her friend, Micah Porter. NARISSA AGUSTIN (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be making her Northern Stage debut, remotely! Previous credits include The School for Lies, The Wild Party, The Dining Room, Pippin, Spring Awakening, and Cuddles. Recently Narissa served as a Producer on The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, virtually, with 40+ young artists from around the world. Narissa received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in stage management from the University of Miami. Go Canes! BEATRICE CAPOTE (Choreographer) is a Cuban-American Dancer/Choreographer/Teacher, studied at PPAS & The Alvin Ailey School and received degrees: AA at University of North Carolina School of the Arts and her BA/MFA in Dance at Montclair State University. Her choreography has been presented at ASHA Dance Company, the Eric Dolphy Jazz Festival, WestFest Dance Festival, (BAAD), Pepatian, Amherst College, Pregones Theater, Brooklyn Museum, Summer Stage 2018, Bronx Arts Space, Battery Dance Festival, Dance/NYC Patrons Event and Lincoln Center. She is faculty at the Ailey School, Joffrey Ballet, City College of New York, Montclair State University and is a member of Tony nominated Camille A. Brown and Dancers. ALEK DEVA (Film Designer/Editor) creates music, sound, and video for stories and storytelling, with a particular interest in live performance. Recent work: Jordan (world premiere, Northern Stage), Dear Elizabeth (Northern Stage), Macbeth (Northern Stage). Alek is also Co-Founder of Black Ink Presents, a live events design & production company. Black Ink highlights: Rocketman in Concert (world premiere featuring Elton John); La La Land in Concert at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul (featuring composer Justin Hurwitz); and Coco in Concert (filmed and released as a Disney+ special). Alek lives in White River Junction with his wife Jess and their son Leander. alekdeva.com & blackinkpresents.com CAROL DUNNE (Director) is thrilled to lead Northern Stage for her eighth season as Producing Artistic Director. Dunne was formerly Producing Artistic Director of the New London Barn Playhouse and a company member of the Cleveland Play House. Northern Stage directing credits: Once, Dear Elizabeth, Disgraced, Only Yesterday, Mamma Mia!, Trick or Treat, Our Town, The Mountaintop, Into the Woods, Good People, White Christmas, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Songs for a New World. Carol is the Director of the BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle and recently received the Leadership Upper Valley’s Heroes and Leaders: Mentors Award (2016). She lives in Etna with husband Peter Hackett and children Ellie and Jamie. ABOUT THE COMPANY CELESTE JENNINGS (Costume Designer) is a playwright and costume designer who is passionate about creating art that challenges social norms and accurately represents minority characters and their stories. She considers her work to be a form of activism and aims to deconstruct barriers between performers and actors. Plawright and Costume Designer for Citrus (Northern Stage). Assistant design credits include Mlima’s Tale (Public Theatre) as well as Cardinal (2nd Stage Theatre). Recent design credits include Jonkonnu (Howard University), Twelfth Night (National Black Theatre Festival), It’s Fine, I’m Fine (Dartmouth College), The Ties that Bind (Catholic University). WILL MARESCO (Assistant Sound Designer) is a lighting and sound designer currently based in New York. He is a recent graduate of Dartmouth College, as a part of the class of 2019. His recent design work includes: A Harlemettes Holiday (Harlem School of the Arts/Kaye Playhouse), Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Harlem School of the Arts), Into the Woods (Dartmouth), and Tragedy: A Tragedy (Dartmouth). His recent A1/Audio Engineer work includes: A Dark Start from Harlem (La Mama) and The Living (Dartmouth). He has previously worked at Northern Stage as the Assistant Lighting Designer for Matilda The Musical and King Lear. Additional work listed at www.willmaresco.com. THOM MILLER (Dialect Coach) Favorite regional credits: Company (Writer’s Theatre), Reasons to be Pretty (Studio Theatre), The Last Five Years (Denver Center), Hair (Prince Music Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Richard II (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), My Fair Lady (Arkansas Shakespeare Theater), Macbeth and Cymbeline (Texas Shakespeare Festival), Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Music Man, and A Legendary Romance (New London Barn Playhouse). Off-Broadway: Camp Wanatachi (La Mama), Mental: The Musical (Cherry Lane). Love and thanks to Carol, Marty, Fet, his parents, and his amazingly patient and supportive wife, Kate. JELINDA METELUS (Assistant Director) is absolutely ecstatic to be working at Northern Stage this fall. She is a Dartmouth College ‘22 who is minoring in Theater and African and African-American Studies while majoring in Sociology modified with Education. Theater has always brought Jelinda so much joy whether she is on the stage or not, and she is ready to learn more about the professional world of theater. She acted throughout high school performing in Legally Blonde (2015), The Sound of Music (2016), Shrek the Musical (2017), and The Marriage of Bette and Boo (2017). In 2018, she was awarded Best Featured Actress at the MET Musical Theatre Awards for her role as Dupree in Cry-Baby at the Noble and Greenough School. At Dartmouth, so far, she has performed in Into the Woods (2019), as well as many student works, and is excited for more opportunities to act! Jelinda is excited for this opportunity to work at Northern Stage and cannot wait to get to know everyone as well as all the important roles that go into making a theater run! JENNIFER REISER (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be back at Northern Stage where she last designed Oslo and Dear Elizabeth. Recent credits include: world premieres of MASC and GAY GUERRILLA with MADBOOTS DANCE (The Joyce Theater), Wild Honey; The Hairy Ape; Girl of the Golden West (THEATREWORKS), Baskerville (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), West Side Story; The 39 Steps; Gypsy (New London Barn Playhouse), The Late Wedding; 1001 (Columbia University), Reread Another (Target Margin Theater), Karaoke Bacchae (Ice Factory at the New Ohio). She was the assistant lighting designer on the Broadway productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Waitress, and Side Show. B.A. Dartmouth College, M.F.A. NYU-Tisch. ABOUT THE COMPANY JAMES ROEDER (Scenic Consultant) has been working at Northern Stage since mid-August 2015. He has an undergraduate degree in Theatre Design and Technology from the University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana. He has worked in the Upper Valley as both a Properties Artisan and a Scenic Designer. His previous design work includes Vinegar Tom, Anatomy of Gray, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Young Frankenstein, Anne of Green Gables, Red White and Tuna, Jane Eyre, The Triangle Factory Fire Project, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, The Secret Garden, and School of Rock. He is excited to continue his Design work and Props work in the Upper Valley and looks forward to many more projects to come. BRIAN R. SEKINGER (Line Producer/Production Stage Manager) Regional: Citrus, The Sound of Music, A Doll’s House Part 2, Once, Venus Rising, Matilda, Dear Elizabeth, Oslo, Noises Off, Disgraced, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Christmas Carol (Northern Stage), Catch Me If You Can, Peter and the Starcatcher, Disney’s Newsies, Little Women, On Golden Pond, West Side Story, Godspell, How to Succeed, Crazy For You (New London Barn Playhouse), Mary Stuart, Othello (Folger Shakespeare), Stoop Stories (Studio Theatre), August Wilson’s 20th Century (Kennedy Center). NYC: Cleopatra: The New Pop Experience (Theater for the New City), Daddy Long Legs (Davenport Theatricals), Claudio Quest (NYMF), Zombies on Broadway (RKO Stage), Sheila’s Day (Lincoln Center Education), Jasper in Deadland (Prospect Theater). MFA: Carnegie Mellon University. briansekinger.com JANE SHAW (Sound Designer) Northern Stage: Oslo, Dear Elizabeth, Disgraced, Living Together. New York: Designs include Actually (MTC), Measure for Measure (Theatre for a New Audience), Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons), Days to Come (Mint), Ironbound (Rattlestick, Women’s Project), Food and Fadwa (New York Theater Workshop), LCT 3 (Repertorio Español). Regional: The Royale (Cleveland Play House), The Wanderers (Old Globe), Dorset Theatre Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Two River Theater, Triad, Capital Rep, Tantrum Theater and Williamstown Theater Festival.