CRY It by Molly Smith MEtzler OUT directed by Lindsay ALlbaugh The Echo Theater Company PRESENTS THE WEST COAST PREMIERE OF Molly Smith Metzler’s CRY It OUT Directed by Lindsay Allbaugh WITH (in alphabetical order) Jackie Chung Brian Henderson Megan Ketch Emily Swallow SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN Francois-Pierre Couture Ann Closs-Farley Rose Malone SOUND DESIGN PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Jeff Gardner Venice Yue Yang PRODUCED BY ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Chris Fields and Rachael Zambias Clarissa Thibeaux CASTING DIRECTOR PUBLICIST Meg Fister Lucy Pollak Atwater Village Theater July 14–August 19, 2018 The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. CAST (in order of appearance) Lina Megan Ketch Jessie Jackie Chung Mitchell Brian Henderson Adrienne Emily Swallow TIME: Almost spring, but not yet. This year. PLACE: We are in suburban Long Island, in the city of Port Washington. UNDERSTUDY FOR LINA Nicole DuPort STAFF LITERARY MANAGER CONCESSIONS Alana Dietze Nick Barnes BOX OFFICE MANAGER DIRECTORIAL INTERN Kevin Johnson Molly Kauffman ASSOCIATE LITERARY MANAGER ELECTRICIAN Michael Sturgis Adam Roy ASSOCIATE LITERARY MANAGER ELECTRICIAN Christian Prentice Kari Swanson AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER SCENIC CONSTRUCTION Anthony DiGregorio Efrain Corona DEVELOPMENT MANAGER PROP MASTER Rachael Olsem Clarissa Thibeaux HEAD USHER GRAPHIC DESIGN Will Jorge Christopher Komuro BIO’S LINDSAY ALLBAUGH (Director) As a (Broadway), Disney’s Toy Story The Musical, director Lindsay is most passionate about Eric Idle’s What About Dick?, Pride and directing and developing new work. A Prejudice: The Musical, Billy Elliot, Cunning member of Center Theatre Group’s artistic Little Vixens, Carnage, Around The World in 80 staff for the past 14 years, co-artistic Days and many more. Closs-Farley is also a director of the Elephant Theatre Company in long-time member of The Actors’ Gang and Hollywood for 10 years (until 2014). Selected evidEnce Room theater. Directing Credits include: Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops by Jen Silverman at Boston FRANCOIS-PIERRE COUTURE Court, Out of Orbit by Jennifer Maisel at (Scenic Design) Originally from Montreal, has Cal Rep, Gray City by Keith Huff (Harvard/ had the privilege of working in Los Angeles ART); Revelation by Samuel Brett Williams and the United States for the last decade as a (Elephant), west coast premiere of 100 Saints scenic, lighting and projection designer. Some You Should Know by Kate Fodor (Elephant); of his designs include; Bars and Measures and world premiere of Supernova by Tim McNeil Everything you Touch, Boston Court Theatre; (Elephant); Kate Crackernuts by Sheila Destiny of Desire, Oregon Shakespeare Callaghan (Harvard/ART). Proud mother of Festival, Arena Stage Theatre, SCR and the 8-month-old Miles DelRosario and lucky wife Goodman Theatre; James and the Giant of Nelson DelRosario. Peach, Pinocchio and Amos & Boris at South Coast Repertory; The Mexican Trilogy, an JACKIE CHUNG American History, Los Angeles Theatre (Jessie) Off-Broadway Center; Metamorphoses and Woyzeck, and regional credits Ensemble Theatre Company; Médée and include Office Hour Teseo, Chicago Opera Theatre; A Picasso, (Berkeley Repertory Geffen Playhouse. www.fpcouture.com Theatre/Long Wharf Theatre), Caught NICOLE DUPORT (Firefly Theater & (U/S Lina) is thrilled to Films), Tiger Style! (La be making her Jolla Playhouse), different words for the same first appearance thing (Center Theatre Group), Brownsville at The Echo. She song (b-side for Tray) (Actor’s Theatre of studied theater at UC Louisville’s Humana Festival), Fast Company Berkeley and trained (South Coast Repertory), Macbeth 1969 at Circle in the Square (Long Wharf), microcrisis (Ma-Yi Theater in New York. She can Company), The Children of Vonderly (Ma-Yi) most recently be seen playing musician Amy and After. (Partial Comfort Productions). Grant in LionsGate’s box office hitI Can Only Her film and television credits includeGrey’s Imagine. Television credits include The Last Anatomy, Deadbeat, and Someone Else. She Tycoon, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Rizzoli & Isles, is a member of Partial Comfort Productions and more. Nicole has performed on stage at and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Greenway Court Theatre, The Elephant Theater, The Egyptian Arena Theatre, ANN CLOSS-FARLEY (Costume Design) Highways Performance Space and more. has been designing in LA for over 25 years. She would like to thank everyone at The She currently is designing for Universal Echo, as well as her friends and family. Studios, Carnival Cruise Lines, and Kaiser Permanente Theatricals. Credits include; CHRIS FIELDS (Producer) is a director, Deaf West’s recent production of Our actor, and teacher. He founded and is Town, Peleas Et Melisande: Opera: Zoot Suit, currently Artistic Director of The Echo Shanghai Disneyland Park, Hopscotch: A Theater Company. He also founded and was Mobile Opera, The Pee-wee Herman Show Artistic Director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Most recently, he directed BRIAN Yusuf Toropov’s An Undivided Heart and HENDERSON Erik Patterson’s One of the Nice Ones for (Mitchell) is thrilled The Echo. He won an LADCC Award for to be making his Direction for Firemen and the LA Weekly Echo debut. He was Award for Comedy Direction for A Family seen on Broadway Thing. As an actor, he has appeared on and and the Kirk Douglas off Broadway, regionally, in film and on TV. in The Little Dog He was adjunct professor of drama at Laughed, SAGE award SUNY Purchase and maintains a private winner for The House In Scarsdale at Boston workshop in Los Angeles. Court, Ovation Nominee for Equivocation at the Geffen Playhouse. Notable Theatre: MEG FISTER (Casting Director) Previous Naked Angels, 2nd Stage, The Public Echo Theater casting credits include Theater, Ojai Playwrights Conference. TV/ Blueberry Toast by Mary Laws, One of the Nice Film: The Newsroom (HBO), The Guiding Ones by Erik Patterson, Dry Land by Ruby Light (CBS), Cooties, This Isn’t Funny, Rae Spiegel and Bed by Sheila Callaghan; The Frankenstein Theory. Training: MFA, Ripe Frenzy by Jennifer Barclay at Greenway NYU Graduate Acting Program. Big Court Alliance; Vicuna by Jon Robin Baitz, thanks to Chris Fields. And bigger thanks Women Laughing Alone With Salad by Shelia to my amazing wife, who’s watching our Callaghan at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Father two kids while I get to play dress up. Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2, and 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks, The Mystery of Love MEGAN KETCH & Sex by Bathsheba Doran, Appropriate by (Lina) is a screen Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and The Price by and stage actress, Arthur Miller at the Mark Taper Forum; writer and producer Collective Rage at Boston Court Theater; The based in Los Angeles. Christians by Lucas Hnath, brownsville song Her screen credits (b side for tray) by Kimber Lee, The Grown Ups include Remind Me by Jordan Harrison and Partners by Dorothy (Rachel Chavkin), The Fortenberry at the Humana Festival of New Incredible Jessica James American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville. (Jim Strouse), Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier), The Big Wedding (Justin Zackham), JEFF GARDNER (Sound Design) is an The Affair, Tremors, Jane the Virgin, American Ovation Award winner for his design on Dry Gothic, Night Shift, Reckless, Under the Dome, Land at Center Theatre Group’s Block Party. The Good Wife, Blue Blood, Gotham, Forever, His designs include Echo Theater (The Cake, Law & Order: SVU, A Gifted Man. Select Bed, One Of The Nice Ones), A Noise Within stage credits: Continuity (CCTP), Hatful of (The Madwoman Of Chaillot, Raisin In The Rain (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Double Sun, Noises Off), The Antaeus Company Indemnity (The Old Globe), One Slight Hitch (Native Son, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Picnic), (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Drive-In Circle X Theatre (Trevor, ICU), Rogue Dreams and Clap Your Hands (59E59), Machine (Les Blancs, Honky), IAMA Theatre Macbeth (Chautauqua Theatre Co.) and The Company (The Recommendation, A Dog’s Cherry Orchard (CSC). Megan is a graduate House) and Her Portmanteau at Boston Court of the NYU Graduate Acting Program and Pasadena. Jeff can also be seen performing a founding partner of Attagirl Pictures LLC. live sound effects for L.A. Theatre Works and Follow her blog: www.luckisapenny.com is resident sound designer for the Westridge School in Pasadena. jeffthomasgardner.net ROSE MALONE (Lighting Design) received Lear (Old Globe). Television: The Mentalist, an MFA in Lighting Design from CalArts. How to Get Away With Murder, Man With a Some recent productions include Amos and Plan, Supernatural, Timeless, The Good Wife, Boris at South Coast Rep, An Undivided Heart Flight of the Conchords, Monday Mornings, at Echo Theatre, With Love and a Major Organ The Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, and others. at Boston Court and Rachel Calof at the Pico Voiceover: Castlevania (Netflix),The Last of Union Project. Additionally she has designed Us Part 2. MFA from NYU/Tisch. at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and assisted with Deaf West Theatre’s production of CLARISSA THIBEAUX (Associate Producer) Spring Awakening on Broadway. is an LA based actor/writer/producer working in television, film, theater, and new media. MOLLY SMITH METZLER (Playwright) This is her first time producing for The Echo is a Los Angeles-based playwright and and could not be happier to be part of the screenwriter. Her plays—which include process. Acting-wise, you can catch her in Cry it Out, Elemeno Pea, The May Queen, the recent horror feature Flight 666 on the Carve, Close Up Space, and Training Syfy Channel, last year’s Echo production Wisteria—have been produced across the of The Found Dog Ribbon Dance, the Syfy country and Off-Broadway. Awards: two movie Ice Sharks, or in a Rover.com national Lecomte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln dog commercial. She graduated with a Center, The National Student Playwriting BA in Theatre Arts from San Diego State Award from The Kennedy Center, The Mark University.