IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST CHARLOTTE MOORE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CIARÁN O’REILLY, PRODUCING DIRECTOR CAST A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN Jack Dan Butler Finbar Sean Gormley Jim John Keating Brendan Tim Ruddy THE WEIR Valerie Amanda Quaid WRITTEN BY CONOR MCPHERSON DIRECTED BY CIARÁN O’REILLY WITH TIME & PLACE DAN BUTLER, SEAN GORMLEY, JOHN KEATING, 1997, A COUNTRY PUB, IRELAND. TIM RUDDY, AND AMANDA QUAID scenic design lighting design video editor RUNNING TIME CHARLIE M. FLORIAN SARAH CORCORAN STAAB NICHOLS 1 HOUR 50 MINUTES, NO INTERMISSION assistant director production assistant press representative general manager JEFF SIMON MATT ROSS LISA AUTHOR’S NOTE DAVOLT GEANEY PUBLIC RELATIONS FANE This play was probably inspired by my visits to Leitrim to see my grandad. He lived on his own, down a country road, in a small house beside the Shannon. SPECIAL THANKS I remember him telling me once that it was very important to have the radio on because it gave him the illusion of company. We’d have a drink and sit at the fire. We would like Conor McPherson and his agent Nick Marston at Curtis Brown Agency, as well as the And he’d tell me stories. Howard Gilman Foundation for their support of this special event. Thanks to Laura Knight Keating, Richard Waterhouse, and Janice Gormley for their invaluable contribution to the filming of The Weir. And then, when you’re lying in bed in the pitch black silence of the Irish countryside, The Weir is produced under the SAG -AFTRA New Media Agreement. it’s easy for the imagination to run riot. I always felt different there. I can still see him, standing on the platform at the station. He always waved for much too long. Irish Repertory Theatre’s 2013 and 2015 productions of The Weir were designed by Charlie Corocan (sets), Leon Dobkwoski (costumes), Michael Gottlieb (lighting), Drew Levy (sound), and Deirdre Brennan (properites). Much longer than a person who was glad to have their privacy back. THIS PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, THE NEW YORK CITY C MP, J 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 WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST DAN BUTLER (Jack) His Jonah and Otto (US premiere), A Day by Never In My Lifetime by Shirley Gee Naturalists), The Coop (Terra Firma). many acting credits the Sea (dir. Austin Pendleton), (Access Theater). TV/FILM Actor: I Most leading Regional, including include Broadway: Shadowlands (Theatre Row). The Good Know This Much Is True (HBO), McCarter, A.C.T, Old Globe, Hartford Travesties (Roundabout); Thief (Solo performance/Players Blacklist (NBC), 79 Parts (Amazon), Stage, Wilma (Barrymore nom - Best Twentieth Century Theatre). Nora, Shadow of the Glen Glenroe (RTE 5 Seasons), Courier Opps Actor) Television: “Boardwalk Empire,” (Roundabout); The (Marvell Rep). Regional work includes (RTE), Ballykissangel (BBC), “John Adams,” “Ray Donovan,” “The Hothouse (Broadway); the US premiere of Sucker Punch at Gettysburg (TNT), Gods and Generals Following,” “Nurse Jackie,” “SVU,” Off-Broadway/Regional: WarholCapote Studio Theatre DC. TV: The Blacklist (WARNER BROS), Making the Cut “Alpha House,” “High Maintenance” (A.R.T.), Toast (Public), The Weir (Irish (NBC), Person Of Interest (CBS), Z:The (RTE), WC (INDIE) FILM Director: (March, 2020), “Lipstick Jungle,” “On Rep), Irish Curse (Soho Playhouse); Old Beginning of Everything (Amazon), “Apocalypse 150”, “Mikey’s Lookin’ The Lig.” Film: First Cow (Kelly Money (Lincoln Ctr.), The Only Thing Treme (HBO). Film: What Maisie Knew, For Ya”, “The Robber.” Reichardt, 2020), The Lone Ranger, Worse You Could’ve Told Me …(Actor’s Falling Apples. Numerous voiceover Emerald City, Freedom, Misty Button Playhouse, Drama Desk/Outer Critics credits. seangormley.com JOHN KEATING (Wilfred (2020). 180 Audiobook narrations nominations. Author.), Beast, Emerald Blunt, Edward Martyn, (Audie winner). City (both at NYTW), Lisbon Traviata TIM RUDDY (Brendan) Michael Miskell, John (MTC/Mark Taper Forum), The Widow The Naturalists by Jaki Quinn, George Bernard AMANDA QUAID Claire (Circle in the Square downtown). McCarrick (Soho Rep), Shaw, Sean O’Casey, (Valerie) Irish Rep: The Film: Crazy Stupid Love; Karl Rove, I Love The Seafarer, The Weir, McDonough) Proud Weir, Banished Children You (co-writer/director); Pearl (adaptor/ Prisoner of the Crown, company member of Irish Rep, where of Eve, The Yeats director); Chronic Town; Enemy of the The Shaughraun, The he has performed in many shows: 2019 Project. Broadway: State; Fixing Frank; Long Walk Home; Yeats Project, (Irish Rep) Stones in his Callaway Award for performance in The Equus. Off-Broadway Silence of the Lambs. TV: The Mist; Pockets, (Broadway Tour) Philadelphia O’Casey Cycle, 2019 Sustained includes The (curious case of the) Prayers for Bobby; Hey, Arnold; Frasier Here I Come!, The Field, Defender of Excellence Award from Irish Rep, most Watson Intelligence (Playwrights (Bulldog). He’ll be seen in the upcoming the Faith, Swansong, (IRNE best actor) recently Lady G: Plays and Whisperings Horizons, world premiere), Cock (Duke, Netflix feature “Blonde” and Universal Pumpgirl, (Manhattan Theatre Club) of Lady Gregory, The O’Casey Cycle, US premiere), Luck of the Irish (LCT3, release “All My Love.” The Seagull, directed by Max Stafford Pigeon in the Taj Mahal, Rebel in the Lortel nomination), Pericles (Public Clark (The Lynne Redgrave Theatre) Soul, The Weir, Da), John has also Theater, AEA Bayfield Award), A Public SEAN GORMLEY (Finbar) The Blowin of Baile Gall, Rockdoves performed in 6 shows with Theatre For Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay Sean most recently (Irish Arts Center) MacBeth, Good A New Audience (recently, Arin Arbus‘ About the Death of Walt Disney (Soho appeared at the Rep in Evening Mr Collins, Shay (Abbey The Winter’s Tale and Sir Trevor Nunn’s Rep, world premiere), They Promised the world premiere of Theatre) DIRECTOR: The Cure at Pericles), Pearl (Public Enemy), Atlantic Her the Moon (Miranda, world Kingfishers Catch Fire. Arlene’s Grocery, After Luke/When I (The New York Idea), Mint (Is Life Worth premiere), Galileo (CSC), The Illusion NY Theatre: The Weir, was God, For Love by Laoisa Sexton at Living, John Ferguson), Roundabout (Signature), The Witch of Edmonton Rebel in the Soul, Aristocrats, Da, Irish Rep. Beauty Queen of Leenane (Juno and the Paycock), Irish Arts (5 (Red Bull), The Seagull (Culture Transport, Yeats Project, Shaughraun, (Actors Studio). Last Days of Cleopatra shows, including Ladies and Gents), Project). Regional: La Jolla, Old Globe, Devil’s Disciple (Irish Rep Theatre). by Laoisa Sexton (Urban Stages). Pond Theatre Company (The Shakespeare Theatre, Barrington WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Stage Company, Folger Shakespeare Eve, The Emperor Jones, (Callaway Award, Craving for Travel (Peter J. sharp Theatre), Theatre Company); Nomad Motel Theatre. TV: Bull, I’m Dying Up Here, O’Neill Credo Award, Drama Desk, Drama The Last Smoker In America (Westside (Pittsburgh City Theatre); Into the Masters of Sex, Chicago Med, Blue League, and Lucille Lortel Nom.), The Hairy Theatre), A Perfect Future (Cherry Lane), Breeches! (Trinity Rep); Winners Bloods, Law & Order: SVU. Film: Ape (Drama Desk Drama League and The Bully Pulpit (Beckett Theatre), Exits (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Death of the English (actor/director), Toys Callaway Nom.), Philadelphia, Here I And Entrances (Primary Stages). Regional Liberal Class (New Ohio); Crackskull (animator/director). Come! (Drama Desk Nom). Irish Rep theatre designs include: A Comedy of Row (The Cell and Irish Rep); On Beckett acting roles include Da, Juno and the Tenors, (Outer Critics Circle Award) with Bill Irwin (Irish Rep); Minor CONOR MCPHERSON Paycock, Dancing at Lughnasa, Molly (Cleveland Playhouse / McCarter Theatre), Character (New Saloon); A Hunger Artist (Playwright) Conor Sweeney, Candida, Aristocrats, A Whistle Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (The (Tank/Sinking Ship); This Lingering Life McPherson was born in in the Dark, The Shaughraun, and The Goodman Theatre), The Barber Of Seville, (Here Arts); Mad Libs Live! (New World Dublin in 1971. He Irish and How They Got That Way. He The Marriage Of Figaro (The McCarter Stages); The Bonapartes (Ars Nova); A attended University appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Theatre), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Bright New Boise (Partial Comfort) and College Dublin where he Company’s production of A Touch of the Absurd Person Singular, Noises Off (Two The Suitcase Opera (Chicago Opera began to write and direct. His plays Poet with Gabriel Byrne. He has appeared River Theatre), Without Walls (Center Vanguard). Staab was born and raised include Girl from the North Country at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and made his Theatre Group), The 25th Annual Putnam in Germany and received his BA from (Olivier nomination for Best Musical, Broadway debut in The Corn is Green. County Spelling Bee (Buck’s County Oberlin College and MFA from Krannert New York Outer Critics Circle Award for Films include The Devil’s Own (starring Playhouse) Bad Jews (Ensemble Theatre Center. He is an associate artist with Best Off Broadway Musical – opening Harrison Ford), “Law & Order,” “The Irish... Company/English Theatre of Frankfurt) Sinking Ship Productions and the soon on Broadway), The Night Alive and How They Got That Way,” “Third Opera designs include: