THE FLEA THEATER JIM SIMP S ON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CAROL OS TROW PRODUCING DIRECTOR BETH DEM B ROW MANAGING DIRECTOR PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF A LETTER FROM OMDURMAN WRITTEN BY JEFFREY M. JONE S DIRECTED BY PAGE BURKHOL D ER FEATURING HE AT S T B KATE SIN C LAIR FO S TER SET DESIGN JONATHAN COTTLE LIGHTING DESIGN WHITNEY LO C HER COSTUME DESIGN COLIN WHITELY SOUND DESIGN DAN DURKIN PROJECTION DESIGN JULON D RE BROWN STAGE MANAGMENT A LETTER FROM OMDURMAN CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE ) Dave...............................................................................................................Matt Barbot Charlie..........................................................................................................Wilton Yeung Wyatt................................................................................................................Will Turner Josie........................................................................................................Veracity Butcher Understudies: Eric Folks (Wyatt), Danny Rivera (Charlie & Dave) CREATIVE TEAM Playwright.............................................................................................................Jeffrey M. Jones Director................................................................................................................Page Burkholder Set Design......................................................................................................Kate Sinclair Foster Lighting Design......................................................................................................Jonathan Cottle Costume Design....................................................................................................Whitney Locher Sound Design............................................................................................................Colin Whitely Projection Design..........................................................................................................Dan Durkin Graphic Design........................................................................................................... David Prittie Associate Lighting Design....................................................................................Ryan Hauenstein Stage Manager......................................................................................................JuLondre Brown Marketing Assistant................................................................................................Crystal Arnette Photography...........................................................................................................Hunter Canning FLEA STAFF Artistic Director...........................................................................................................Jim Simpson Producing Director......................................................................................................Carol Ostrow Managing Director...................................................................................................Beth Dembrow Technical Director........................................................................................................Liz Blessing Development Manager.............................................................................................Penn Genthner Marketing & Membership Manager...........................................................Christopher Massimine Company Manager..................................................................................................Sarah Wansley Graphic Designer.........................................................................................................David Prittie Costume Manager..........................................................................................................Holly Chou Theater, Technical & Production Consultant.............................................................Kyle Chepulis Accountant...........................................................................................Joel Faden & Company, Inc. Attorney............................................Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LP/Carol Kaplan Development Consultant........................................................................................Rachel Colbert Press Representative...................................................................................Ron Lasko/Spin Cycle THE CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER ) Matt Barbot (Dave) is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College’s theater program. He last appeared as Haemon in These Seven Sicknesses, his first show as a member of the Bats. Before becoming a Bat, Matt recently appeared as the Porter in Red Shark/White Rabbit’s Macbeth, and the Kid in The Management’s Songs for a Future Generation. He will be appearing in the upcoming webseries Scout & Maggie. He is also a playwright: recently, his short Boldly Go was featured at Brooklyn’s Brick Theater. Veracity Butcher (Josie) is a native New Yorker. Recent credits include Karen O’s Stop the Virgins (St. Ann’s Warehouse), William S. Yellowrobe’s Thieves (The Public), and Tommy Smith’s Demon Dreams (The Gene Frankel Theater). In addition to performing on The Flea stage, she has performed at Dixon Place, 45 Bleecker, La Mama, and The Atlantic Theater. She is seeking representation for legit Theater and Film work. veracitybutcher.com. Eric Folks (Wyatt U/S) has previously been seen at the Flea in Just Cause, The Flying Latke, and #serials@theflea. Other credits include A Man of No Importance (Gallery Players), Almost Maine (New London Barn) and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Otterbein). He is a graduate of Otterbein University. Danny Rivera (Charlie U/S, Dave U/S) is one of the newest recruits to the Flea Theater, and is very excited to be a Bat! Will Turner (Wyatt) NY credits: Friends Don’t Let Friends (LTR Theater) and These Seven Sicknesses (Flea Theater). He is a recent graduate of Yale University, where he served as Artistic Director of the undergraduate experimental theater group and developed and performed in a one-man version of Henry V. Email: [email protected] Wilton Yeung (Charlie) is proud to be back on stage with the Flea. Other Flea credits include Unum by Will Eno, Office Hours by A.R. Gurney, Just Cause, and being part of the #serials@theflea. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University where he studied theater. THE CREATIVE TEAM Jeffrey M. Jones (Playwright) works include 70 Scenes of Halloween, Nightcoil, Der Inka Von Peru, Tomorrowland, a series of crazy plays, Write If You Get Work, J.P. Morgan Saves The Nation, a musical with a score by the late Jonathan Larson, directed by Jean Randich, Stone Monkey Banished, commissioned by the Mettawee River Theater Company, and A Man’s Best Friend, produced by the Undermain Theatre in New York and Dallas. His essays have appeared in The American Theatre Reader, Performing Arts Journal, and as introductions to the anthologies Plays by Young Jean Lee and New Downtown Now. He has been manager of The Wooster Group, Richard Foreman and John Jesurun; taught playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and a series of Pataphysics workshops at the Flea Theater; and is currently co-curator of the OBIE-winning Little Theatre Series at Dixon Place. Page Burkholder (Director) is honored to be working at the Flea and with the Bats. In New York, she has directed plays by Mac Wellman, Mary Gallagher, Sherry Kramer, Athol Fugard, Joan Shenkar, Jeffrey Jones and Camila Jones and also worked for the Public Theater, the Women’s Project, Theater for the New City, Julliard, Clubbed Thumb, White Bird Productions, the Ohio Theater and New Dramatists. She was a long time member of the Invisible Theater in Tucson, Arizona, and started their Shakespeare Under the Stars festival. Jonathan Cottle (Lighting Designer) is a theater artist. He has worked with companies such as the Foundry theatre, Half Straddle, Object Collection and at Incubator Arts Project, the Bushwick Starr, Abrons Arts Center, LaMama, and Here Arts Center. Whitney Locher (Costume Designer) Recent credits include Fiasco Theater’s Cymbeline (TFANA/Barrow Street); A Bright New Boise, After. (Partial Comfort Productions); Jubilee, The Merry Widow, The Fortune Teller (Ohio Light Opera); Boeing-Boeing (Sierra Rep.). Other companies: The Drama League, Kansas City Rep., The Hangar Theatre, Northern Stage. Up next: Nymph Errant (Prospect Theatre Company). Whitney is the Resident Costume Designer for Partial Comfort Productions and Fiasco Theater. Member of USA 829. www.whitneylocher.com Colin Whitely (Sound Designer) credits include As Wide As I Can See by Mark Snyder (HERE Arts Center) Love Song by John Kolvenbach (59E59) First Prize by Israela Margalit (KEF Productions) Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman (Atlantic Theater Company) Beirut by Alan Browne (Athena Theater Company), Factory Girls by Frank McGuinness (Atlantic Theater Company), Breakfast with Mugabe by Fraser Grace (Centenary Stage Company), Henry VI: Part III by William Shakespeare (Wide Eyed Productions), Paternity by Winter Miller (Cherry Lane Theater) Letters to the End of the World by Anton Dudley (At Hand Theater Co.), True West by Sam Shepard (The Athena Theater Company) and much more. Daniel Durkin (Projection Designer) is a New York-based director, multimedia artist and digital media enthusiast. Directing credits: The Tank, 45 Bleecker St, various readings. Video/ Projection Design Assistantships: Bonnie & Clyde (Gerald Schoenfeld), The Blue Flower (2ST), All New People