Mainstage Playbill Richard Hopkins, Producing Artistic Director by John Patrick Shanley Gil Brady and Claire Warden. Photo by Matthew Holler. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. OUTSIDE MULLINGAR by John Patrick Shanley CAST (in alphabetical order) Anthony Reilly.......................... Gil Brady* Tony Reilly................................ George Tynan Crowley* Aoife Muldoon.......................... Louisa Flaningam* Rosemary Muldoon................... Claire Warden* Scenic Designers Costume Designer Lighting Designer Moriah & Isabel Curley-Clay Gregory A. Poplyk Richard T. Chamblin III Sound Designer Dialect Coach Joe Goepfrich Ginny Kopf Stage Manager Roy Johns* Directed by Kate Alexander Season Underwriters Gerri Aaron, Georgia Court, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Bob & Bonny Israeloff, Ernie Kretzmer in loving memory of Alisa Kretzmer, Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Anne Nethercott, Dorothy Waldron Show Co-Producers David & Ellen Flatow, Alfred & Jean Goldstein, Ruth Gorton, Barbara Lupoff, Jim Roque - SunTrust Private Wealth Management, Lois Stulberg, Thomas B. Wilson & Patrick J. Crimmings, SCENE MAGAZINE Originally commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) with funds provided by U.S. Trust, and received its world premiere there on January 3, 2014. Outside Mullingar is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. * Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTIST PROFILES GIL BRADY (Anthony Reil- LOUISA FLANINGAM (Ao- ly) Just finished his second ife Muldoon) A career span- run of Shear Madness at The ning 48 years including Kennedy Center in D.C. Six Broadway, National Tours, shows at F.S.T. including: Off-Broadway and Regional Inspired Lunacy, Spamalot, Theatres... roles ranging The Underpants, and I Love from Fastrada in Bob You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Off-Broadway: Fosse’s original Pippin to multiple productions National Pastime. National Tour: Annie. Re- of Driving Miss Daisy; Cleo in the 1979 Broad- gional: Boeing, Boeing (Seven Angels Theatre), way revival of The Most Happy Fella to Mattie Around The World in 80 Days and Three Days of Fae in the Alley’s production of August Osage Rain (Oldcastle Theatre), Rabbit Hole (Human County and highlights: Pal Joey with Lena Race), Grease (Fulton Theatre), The Crucible Horne and Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy. (Gallery Players), North Carolina Shakespeare Married to actor PJ Benjamin, their favorite Festival. TV: Law and Order: SVU, All My Children. production is the restoration of The Captain Upcoming: Baskerville at Syracuse Stage. www. Timothy Hill House, Chincoteague Island, VA, a Gil-Brady.com historic log house museum. GEORGE TYNAN CROW- CLAIRE WARDEN (Rose- LEY (Tony Reilly) FST: Gabe mary Muldoon) Off-Broad- in Dinner with Friends, the way: Engaging Shaw, The Father in Proof, Rafelson Libertine, A Persistent Mem- the Painter in Ten Un- ory (May 2016). New York knowns, Oscar Wilde in and Regional: One Man, Gross Indecency, One of the Two Guvnors (Berkeley Two Jews Walk into a War, and Freud in Freud’s Rep), Edward IV (American Shakespeare Center) Last Session. New York and Regional: Nikolai and Other Desert Cities, Moon for the Misbegotten, the Others at Lincoln Center, Sounding at HERE Mary Stuart, Lost In Yonkers, Henry V (as Henry Arts Center, The Invention of Love at the Wilma, V), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Romeo also American Shakespeare Theatre, Capital Rep and Juliet, Humble Boy. Film/TV: I Can, I Will, in Albany (Superior Donuts), DC’s Studio Theatre, I Did, Freedom Fighter, The Factory, When The etc. MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama. Night Falls, Departure, Jack the Ripper – An Cleopatra Backstage, a feature film about Ongoing Mystery. www.clairewarden.com regional theatre romance, which he wrote, KATE ALEXANDER (Director) is the Associate directed, and stars in, is making the festival Director of FST and the Founder of the FST rounds. Happy to be back here. Website:www. Theatre School. Ms. Alexander has directed georgetynancrowley.com numerous productions and premieres on the FST stages including Over The River And Through The Woods; Chapatti; Dancing Lessons; ARTIST PROFILES Becoming Dr. Ruth; Freud’s ple-award-winning scenic designers whose Last Session; Thurgood; theatrical work can be seen on regional stages South Beach Babylon; all over the U.S. They have also done industrial The Columnist; Talley’s design work with groups including The World Folly; Jericho; Next Fall; of Coke, and West Quoddy Head National Park The Savannah Disputation; Visitors Center. They were recently featured Ghost- Writer; Two Jews in American Theater Magazine’s Roll Call, 7 Walk into a War...; I Love You, You’re Perfect, theatrical people to watch. Past designs at FST Now Change; Sylvia; Shotgun; The Miamians; include Butler, Taking Shakespeare, Chapatti, Brooklyn Boy; The Exonerated; Wit; Proof; Lobby Inspired Lunacy, Dancing Lessons, Hairspray and Hero; and Ten Unknowns. Ms. Alexander has One Man, Two Guvnors. Isabel and Moriah are also been a resident actress for the past 20 resident scenic designers at Horizon Theatre, years. Some of her leading roles were seen in Artistic Associates at Theatrical Outfit and the plays: Edward Albee’s The Goat; Filumena; members of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Master Class; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; GREGORY A. POPLYK (Costume Designer) an Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby; Golda’s Emmy® nominated costume designer, is happy Balcony; and Taking Shakespeare. Ms. Alexander to return to FST as part of the creative team is the recipient of numerous acting, directing, for Outside Mullingar. His theatrical designs and public service awards, including FAER, She have been seen at regional theaters across the Knows Where She’s Going Award (Girls, Inc.), country, internationally, and on Broadway. The Woman of Light Award, National Council of Other venues he has designed for include New Jewish Women, The Woman of Power Award, York City Ballet, various opera companies, the the Sarasota County Arts Leadership Award, Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey and Disney Education Award, Sarasota Manatee Jewish on Ice. He is a member of the TDF Costume Federation, and most recently The Unity Award. Collection Advisory Committee, which presents She is also the co-author of The Animated Short, the Irene Sharaff Awards recognizing out- co-authored by Karen Sullivan, with a second standing contributions to the field of costume edition now available. design. ROY JOHNS (Stage Manager) is pleased to be RICHARD T. CHAMBLIN III (Lighting back for another season at FST. He has had an Designer) is a proud member of the United exciting and varied career both on stage and Scenic Artists Local IATSE 829. His New York and behind the scenes from Tokyo Disneyland to the Off Broadway credits include Forever Cunard: White House. Past credits at FST include One Queen Mary 2 Light Show in New York Harbor, Man, Two Guvnors, The Hound of the Basker- The Inn at Lake Devine, Story Pirates: Summer villes, Chapatti, Hairspray, and Taking Shake- Gala, Intimacy Idiot, Under the Radar Festival, speare. Henry VI, The Other Guy, This is NOT the Play, The MORIAH & ISABEL CURLEY-CLAY (Scenic Only Child, and All the Way from China. Richard Designers) Moriah and Isabel are multi- also works with several regional theaters which ARTIST PROFILES include: The Goodspeed, The Pittsburgh Public properties and Universal Studios Wizard- Theatre, Two Rivers Theatre Company, Asolo ing World of Harry Potter, and play and film Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, and productions across Central Florida, from high Long Wharf Theatre. Richard is also the Senior school to community theaters, to professional Lighting Designer at Luce Group, an architectur- companies. Author of The Dialect Handbook. al, museum, and themed entertainment light- JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright) is from ing design firm. Luce Group’s clients include the Bronx. He was thrown out of St. Helena’s The Smithsonian Institute, Sea World Parks and kindergarten. He was banned from St. Antho- Entertainment, and Universal Studios Orlando. ny’s hot lunch program for life. He was expelled JOE GOEPFRICH (Sound Designer) is the from Cardinal Spellman High School. He was Production Office Manager at Florida Studio placed on academic probation by New York Theatre. He is entering his third year with University and instructed to appear before a tri- the company and pleased to be working on bunal if he wished to return. When asked why this project. Other recent sound design work he had been treated in this way by all these includes Becoming Dr. Ruth; Hound of the Bask- institutions, he burst into tears and said he had ervilles; Chapatti; and Butler. no idea. Then he went into the United States Marine Corps. He did fine. He’s still doing okay. GINNY KOPF (Dialect Coach) professor of theatre at Valencia College in Orlando, teaching voice and dialects. Also dialect coach for Disney LIFE’S A BEACH - FRIDAYS OUT OF BOUNDS - SATURDAYS TICKETS ONLY $15 OR GET 4 SHOWS FOR $40 full menu & bar, doors open at 6:30pm (941) 366-9000 | floridastudiotheatre.org SEASON UNDERWRITERS GERRI AARON To me, FST is a great theater intimate theater, well-articulated and succinct. experience in the respect that I’ve seen plays in FST is important to me because I can usually New York City and then seen the very same plays follow the dialog despite a hearing problem - here; they are just as good if not better. Richard almost invariably with great enjoyment. It’s the Hopkins is amazing; he continues to select plays perfect window to take in the contemporary that both confirm and challenge one’s beliefs. FST is scene. Favorites have been Kate Alexander in a Sarasota treasure that keeps getting better.