SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF WRITTEN BY WENDY KOUT DIRECTED BY TONY ABATEMARCO AND CELIA MANDELA RIVERA STARRING: EVIE ABAT, ADAM FOSTER BALLARD, ELIZA BLAIR, MICHAEL KACZKOWSKI, JOEY MILLIN, SARAH TUBERT SCENIC AND LIGHTING DESIGNER: CAROLINE ANDREW SOUND DESIGNER: CHRISTOPHER MOSCATELIO COSTUME DESIGNER: MYLETTE NORA VIDEO DESIGNER: LILY BARTENSTEIN PUBLICIST: JUDITH BORNE GRAPHIC DESIGNER: GUILLERMO PEREZ PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERS: CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN, GARRETT CROUCH ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: WENDY HAMMERS, AMY PELCH PRODUCERS: GARY GROSSMAN, MICHAEL KEARNS OPENING NIGHT: SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 Adapted from Survivors by Wendy Kout commissioned, developed and produced by the Center Stage Theatre at the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester, Ralph Meranto, Artistic Director. Welcome... “Collaboration, which in circumstances associated with hate-generating leadership, has often and rightfully been given a bad name. In the theatre, it is our lifeblood; the essential component that allows for creativity to thrive. In light of recent events in our world that may equate collaboration with complacency or worse, we have made an intensive effort to accentuate the positive definition of that word. Using the testimonies of Survivors of Hitler’s death camps and the gift of hope they continue to share with succeeding generations, they have become our lodestar, guiding us toward light, reframing our present dread into action. That action makes use of our skills as artists. We hope that by sharing Never Is Now with you, we may help you reframe what seems daunting into something life-affirming. For those of us collaborating on the making of this event, we’re stronger than we were when we began. Thank you.” - Co-Directors Tony Abatemarco & Celia Mandela Rivera CAST (In Order of Appearance) WOMAN #1.............................EVIE ABAT WOMAN #2.........................ELIZA BLAIR WOMAN #3....................SARAH TUBERT MAN #1.............................JOEY MILLIN MAN #2..........ADAM FOSTER BALLARD MAN #3............MICHAEL KACZKOWSKI SETTING Time: Now and Then Place: An Intimate Theatre Never is Now will be performed without intermission WHO’S WHO CAST EVIE ABAT (Woman #1) Evie Abat is thrilled to be returning to her Skylight Theatre home, where she enjoyed a successful run earlier this year as Janelle Mae in the all-Filipina cast of America Adjacent. She was most recently seen on the Broadwater Main Stage during the Fringe Festival, playing the musical-loving Dr. Krupke in Come Back, and in front of the camera in the upcoming, Sag-Aftra web series, Crazy. She thanks Tony, Celia, Gary, Raul, and Wendy for having her on this wonderful stage again, and sends much love to Greg and Sissy for putting up with her frequent requests for line runs. Representation: Luxe Talent Agency. ADAM FOSTER BALLARD (Man #2) Adam Foster Ballard is a Sag- Aftra actor based in Los Angeles. Select theatre credits include: La Jolla Playhouse: Accomplice; Theater Asylum’s Bard Fiction (Pulp Shakespeare), Color and Light Theatre Company’s: The Bully Project. Select regional/national commercials include: Men’s Warehouse, HBO, McDonalds, and IHOP. He will also be recurring in the web-series I Would Have Kissed You. He is represented by Aqua Talent. More info available at adamfosterballard.com ELIZA BLAIR (Woman #2) Eliza Blair’s selected credits include: Doctor Faustus (Robin the Clown/Lucifer - Long Beach Shakespeare), Proof (Catherine), Measure For Measure (Isabella), Into The Woods (Baker’s Wife), Vinegar Tom (Betty - Powerhouse Theater). Upcoming: Family Affair (Lead - feature film). Training: LAMDA, Atlantic Acting School. Education: B.A. Theater Dance & Media, Harvard College. Unendingly grateful to artists and activists everywhere. eliza-blair.com. MICHAEL KACZKOWSKI (Man #3) Michael Kaczkowski is excited to make his debut at the Skylight. Originally from Seattle, Michael is a recent graduate of the USC School of Dramatic Arts where he acted in many stage productions and short films. He would like to dedicate this performance to his family who were some of the millions of Polish people whose lives were changed forever by the Holocaust. JOEY MILLIN (Man #1) Joey Millin is proud to be part of such an important piece of theatre, which is also his first full production with Skylight Theatre. Other theatre credits include: The Cripple Of Inishmaan (Antaeus), Stupid F**King Bird (The Garage Theatre), All New People (The Actor’s Workout Theatre), and various readings at Skylight. Web Series: Parker And The Crew (Disney), Catching A Break. Upcoming Films: Misdirection and Threshold. Training: Studied Theatre at USC and BADA. SARAH TUBERT (Woman #3) Sarah Tubert performed with Anteaus Theatre Company, Deaf West at the Pasadena Playhouse, and The Group Rep. On TV: Switched At Birth opposite Katie Leclerc and Marlee Matlin. Most recently Guest Star on Claws. Additional credits include Sand Angels. On YouTube, her ASL version of Hamilton and This Is Me have over one million hits. Sarah has Film and TV projects in development and enjoys a career as a Motivational Speaker, Emcee and ASL Consultant. Sarah is currently the Setter and Captain of the US National Deaf Women’s Volleyball Team. WHO’S WHO PRODUCTION WENDY KOUT (Writer) is an award-winning writer/producer. Stage credits include Survivors, commissioned by CenterStage Theatre in Rochester, NY, We Are the Levinsons, which world premiered at Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, and won BroadwayWorld Regional awards for Best Play and Best Ensemble Performance In A Play and Naked in Encino, which world premiered at CenterStage Theatre in Rochester, NY. Film credits include Dorfman in Love, produced by Leonard Hill Films and starring Elliott Gould, Sara Rue and Haaz Sleiman. Television credits include Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the hit ABC series, Anything But Love, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis. TONY ABATEMARCO (Director) Co-Artistic Director, Skylight. Directing credits: Julie Harris in Lucifer’s Child - Broadway and A & E, Robyn Peterson’s Catwalk Confidential, West End. Recipient two NEA Fellowships, Founder two performance venues - Accident Theatre, Night House. first Ted Schmitt Innovation In Theatre Award - first DGA/ SDC George Stevens Observership. Director, LA Live! at the Natural History Museum, Artistic Director, Jacques D’Amboise’ National Dance Institute at the Taper. Producer, eight corporate fundraisers - CTG, Guest Director, USC School of Drama.. Author - Forever House and Beautified, premiered at Skylight. His play collection, Action/Items available at amazon.com, published by F-Stop Books. CELIA MANDELA RIVERA (Co-Director) Never is Now marks Celia’s professional debut as a director. Directing credits: Fresh Brews 10 minute plays, That Long Damn Dark at Atwater Village Theatre (assist. Director). Acting credits: Time Out LA recommended, Love Is Another Country (NeNe) at VS Theatre, Project Nongenue’s Trojan Women (Andromache) and Julius Caesar (Mark Antony), Chase What Flies’ Richard II (Bolingbroke), Illyrian Players’ Fucking A (Canary Mary). Some of her training includes USC (B.A.) British American Drama Academy and Antaeus. National finalist in the Acting Category at KCACTF. Thanks to God & familia. IG: CeliaMandela CAROLINE ANDREW (Scenic and Lighting Designer) is a local Southern California theatrical designer, working mainly in lighting, but also scenic and projections design. She works in live entertainment designing for theatre, concerts, dance, as well as assisting on large- scale commercial events. She additionally works in themed entertainment and architecture, specializing in design and theatrical lighting controls. Caroline also designs and lights art installations and special art exhibitions around San Diego. Check out www.candrewlighting. com for more information! MYLETTE NORA (Costume Designer) has won the NAACP Theatre Award for best costumes and is listed in the honors edition of the Cambridge Registry of Who’s Who Among Executive and Professional Women. Her work, which consists of television, film, and stage, was seen nightly on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The famed artist Synthia St. James noted Mylette as being the inspiration for her world renowned painting “Ensemble” which graced the cover of the best selling novel Waiting To Exhale by Terry McMillan. Mylette’s talents continue with her creative line of heirloom dolls called My Mind’s Eye and a line of designer doggie wear called From the Heart Doggie Wear. www.FromTheHeartDoggieWear.com WHO’S WHO CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO (Sound Designer) is a sound designer, composer and music director. 2018 LADCC and 2015 Stage Raw Awards for Sound Design. Theater highlights: The Kennedy Center, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Antaeus, Odyssey Theatre, Rogue Machine, Skylight Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, assistant conductor for the national tour of Phantom of the Opera. TV highlights: The Walking Dead, Psych, Eureka, Human Target, The Cape, Caprica, Trauma. He has scored series, specials and promos for NBC, HBO, BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and others. LILY BARTENSTEIN (Video Designer) is a scenic, projection and lighting designer for theatre and live performance based in Los Angeles. Recent work includes: The 100% (production design for VR experience, Springbok Entertainment), In the Penal Colony (video design, Cal Rep and Long Beach Opera), I Go Somewhere Else (video design, Playwrights’ Arena), and Bloodletting (lighting design, Center Theatre Group and Playwrights’