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IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE Little Gem BY ELAINE MURPHY DIRECTED BY MARC ATKINSON BORRULL A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE CHARLOTTE MOORE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CIARÁN O’REILLY, PRODUCING DIRECTOR A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN LITTLE GEM BY ELAINE MURPHY DIRECTED BY MARC ATKINSON BORRULL STARRING BRENDA MEANEY, LAUREN O'LEARY AND MARSHA MASON scenic design costume design lighting design sound design & original music sound mix MEREDITH CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL RYAN M.FLORIAN RIES METZGER O'CONNOR RUMERY STAAB edited by production coordinator production coordinator SARAH ARTHUR REBECCA NICHOLS ATKINSON MONROE casting press representatives general manager DEBORAH BROWN MATT ROSS LISA CASTING PUBLIC RELATIONS FANE TIME & PLACE North Dublin, 2008 Running Time: 90 minutes, no intermission. SPECIAL THANKS Irish Repertory Theatre wishes to thank Henry Clarke, Olivia Marcus, Melanie Spath, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. Little Gem is produced under the SAG-AFTRA New Media Contract. THE ORIGINAL 2019 PRODUCTION OF LITTLE GEM ALSO FEATURED PROPS BY SVEN HENRY NELSON AND SHANNA ALISON AS ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER. THIS PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, 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 MARSHA MASON (Kay) has summer 2019, Marsha starred in Irish received an Outer Critics Rep’s acclaimed production of Little Gem Circle Award and 4 Academy and directed a reading of The Man Who Awards nominations for her Came to Dinner with Brooke Shields and roles in the films “The Goodbye Walter Bobbie at the Bucks County Girl,” “Cinderella Liberty,” Playhouse and WP Theater in NYC. Most “Only When I Laugh,” and “Chapter Two.” recently, she directed Jericho for New She has been the recipient of 2 Golden Normal Rep, and is thrilled to be working Globe Awards for her film roles and an with the Irish Rep again! Emmy Award nomination for her role on “Frasier”. Her credits include “The BRENDA MEANEY (Lorraine) Middle”, “The Good Wife”, “Madam Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink Secretary”, and “Grace & Frankie”. (Roundabout); Incognito Broadway roles include Impressionism (Manhattan Theatre Club); with Jeremy Irons, Steel Magnolias, The Party Face (New York City Night of the Iguana, The Good Doctor, Center), The Neil Labute King Richard III, and Cactus Flower. Off- Short Play Festival (The Davenport), The Broadway she co-starred in the world Mountains Look Different and The New premiere of Terrence McNally’s Fire and Morality (The Mint Theatre). Regional: The Air at Classic Stage. Regionally she has Hard Problem, Indian Ink, Venus in Fur starred in All’s Well That Ends Well at (American Conservatory Theatre); Pulitzer Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, prize-winner Martyna Mayok’s Queens (La A Doll’s House at ACT in San Francisco, Jolla Playhouse); Caucasian Chalk Circle Arms and The Man at Old Globe Theatre and Caryl Churchill's Owners (Yale Repertory in San Diego, and Watch on the Rhine at Theatre); And a Nightingale Sang… Arena Stage in Washington, DC. She has (Westport Country Playhouse); Lewis Black’s directed Chapter Two and Steel Magnolias One Slight Hitch (Wellfleet Harbor Actors at the Bucks County Playhouse, the first Theatre). Foreign credits include Basin female An Act of God with Paige Davis at (Abbey Theatre Studio/Anu Productions); The the Arizona Theatre Company, and the Way of the Language: Voices from the War world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ on Terror (Project Arts Centre, Dublin); and Talisman Roses starring Amanda Biography of Bernie Ward (Samuel Beckett Plummer at the Tennessee Williams Theatre, Dublin). Television/Film: “For Life” Festival in Provincetown, Mass. Marsha (ABC), “Hell on Wheels” (AMC), “Love/Hate” was Associate Director with Jack O’Brien (Radio Teilifís Éireann), “Under the Waves” for the Roundabout Theater’s production and the forthcoming “There’s Always Hope.” of All My Sons recently on Broadway. In Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST LAUREN O'LEARY (Amber) also an Abbey Theatre commission Little Gem at Irish Rep in which premiered on the mainstage in the Summer of 2019 was 2013 for a six-week run. She has Lauren’s Off-Broadway worked with Painsplough and Draiocht Debut. Foreign theatre Theatre for The Dublin Theatre Festival includes The Awkward and her radio play Ma won the PJ Years (The Other Room Theatre) for which O’Connor Award on RTE, Radio 1 and a she won the Stage Debut Award for Best Zebbie from the Irish Writers Guild. Actress in a Play. Charlotte in Meatballs She is currently adapting the Maeve (Hampstead Theatre), Pegeen Mike in Binchy novel Circle of Friends for the Playboy of the Western World (Richard stage which will premiere at The Gaiety Burton Company/Theatr Clwyd), Pip in Theatre, Dublin in 2022. Albatross (Richard Burton Company/ Paines Plough), Portia in The Merchant of MARC ATKINSON BORRULL (Director) is Venice (Royal Welsh College of Music and a director from Ireland and Catalonia, Drama), Natalya in Three Days in The based between NYC and Dublin. Recent Country (RWCMD), Animal Farm (Samuel work includes the critically-acclaimed Beckett Theatre). Training: B.A Drama & Beginning by David Eldridge (Gate Theatre Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Theatre, Dublin), Hamlet starring Ruth M.A Acting, The Royal Welsh College of Negga (St. Ann’s Warehouse - Music & Drama. Associate), Wall (Druid Theatre), Outlying Islands by David Greig ELAINE MURPHY (Playwright) Elaine (Connelly Theater, NYC & Intl tour), Last Night in Inwood by Alix Sobler Murphy's debut play, Little Gem, premiered (Signature Theater Ford Studio, NYC), at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2008, All Hell Lay Beneath (Irish Times playing to packed audiences during its Cultural Highlight of the Year) and sellout run and picking up the Ethica: Four Shorts by Samuel Beckett Fishamble New Writing Award and a which was presented in the Residence nomination for Best New Play at the of the Irish President for International Irish Times Theatre Awards before Human Rights Day as well as in Sofia, transferring to Edinburgh's Traverse Bulgaria & the Happy Days Festival, Theatre, where it won the 2009 Carol Enniskillen. Marc is Artist-in- Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award. Her Residence at The Gate Theatre Dublin, second play, Ribbons, was commissioned where he is developing a new adaptation by the Abbey Theatre for The Fairer Sex, of Children of the Sun by Matthew a series of short plays from leading Minnicino. Marc's Associate Director female playwrights, followed by Shush, credits include working with Anne WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Bogart; The Old Vic & Lincoln Center; Wanda June, Enemy of the People BAM; and Ivo van Hove at Toneelgroep (Wheelhouse Theater), La Traviata Amsterdam. MFA: Columbia University. (Philharmonia of New York), West Side SDC Member. marcatkinsonborrull.com Story (Sioux City Symphony), Tosca (Opera Roanoke), Sehnsucht (Jack). His MEREDITH RIES (Scenic Design) Where work with the Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance the Mountain Meets the Sea (Humana Company has been seen regionally and Festival) Love in Hate Nation (Two River internationally including Beijing Theater) House Plant (NYTW Next Door), International Contemporary Dance No One Is Forgotten (Rattlestick Festival, Indianapolis City Ballet, Playwrights Theatre), Bonnie's Last Flight Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, (NYTW Next Door), Cute Activist (The American Dance Guild. Associate credits Bushwick Starr), Sweeney Todd (Curtis include Sweat (Broadway), Falsettos Opera), Heartland (Geva Theater Center), (First National Tour), The Public Theatre, Lost Laughs (Merrimack Repertory Santa Fe Opera, Theatre for a New Theater), Once the Musical (Weston Audience, Glimmerglass Opera. MFA, Playhouse), The Temple Bombing (The NYU. Proud member Local USA 829. Alliance Theater), Peer Gynt and the christophermetzgerdesign.com. Norwegian Hapa Band (Ma-Yi Theater Company/ ARTNY), Hamlet (Yale Repertory MICHAEL O'CONNOR (Lighting Design) Theater). Associate design: Hadestown Irish Rep: Lady G, Pump Girl, Yes! (Rachel Hauck, Broadway), with David Reflections of Molly Bloom, Little Gem, Two Zinn: The SpongeBob Musical (Broadway), by Friel, Off the Meter, On the Record, The The Waverly Gallery (Broadway, 2018), Pigeon in the Taj Mahal, It’s a Wonderful Amelie the Musical (Broadway, 2014- Life, A Celebration of Harold Pinter, My 2017). Meredith is a graduate of the Yale Scandalous Life. NYC: #CRWN (The Apollo School of Drama and the University of Theater,) Imagining Madoff (Theatre Row), Chicago. Meredithries.com Long Run (Skirball Center), Star Spangled (AADA), Hal and Bee (59e59), Ibsanity (The CHRISTOPHER METZGER (Costume Pope Theater), Loveless Texas (Sheen Design) Christopher Metzger is a Center), Gregorian (Soho Rep), Monte Brooklyn-based designer working in Cristo (Urban Stages), This is Mary Brown theatre, opera, and dance. Recent (La Mamma). Regional: The Fulton Theater, designs include Sweat (Mobile National Kennedy Center, Penguin Rep, Fringe Arts Tour, Public Theater), Harlequin & Philadelphia, 7 Angels Theater. Dance: Pantalone (Dorrance Dance / NY City BAM, NY City Center, The Joyce, Abbey Center), LIFE SUCKS., Happy Birthday, Theatre Dublin, The Kitchen, NYLA. Michael WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST is the resident lighting designer for New On Beckett with Bill Irwin (Irish Rep); Light Theater Project, AADA NYC, and Tere Minor Character (New Saloon); A Hunger O’Connor Dance. Artist (Tank/ Sinking Ship); This Lingering Life (Here Arts); Mad Libs Live! (New RYAN RUMERY (Original Music and Sound World Stages); The Bonapartes (Ars Design) is a musician, composer, and Nova); A Bright New Boise (Partial producer. He is currently scoring a Comfort) and The Suitcase Opera documentary about Yotam Ottolenghi. His (Chicago Opera Vanguard). Staab was music is in the films “The Spectacular born and raised in Germany and received Rise and Fall of Paul Manafort” his BA from Oberlin College and MFA (Washington Post), “Afghan Cycles” from Krannert Center.

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