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The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 'night, Mother. Other plays include: Getting Out (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Playwright 1977), Circus Valentine (1979), Traveller In the Dark (1984), Third & Oak (1978), The Holdup, Sarah and Abraham, Loving WHTC’s 10th Anniversary Club Daniel Boone, Trudy Blue, and The Master Butcher’s Singing Club (2010). She wrote the book and lyrics Hope W. Asrelsky, Gregory S. Bendelius, for Broadway musicals The Secret Garden, for which Patrick Blake, Lilian Davis, she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Susan G. Goodwin in Memory of Donald E. Harding, Outstanding Book of a Musical, and The Red Shoes, Sandra Kilsby, Loretta Hunt Marion, William G. as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Nevins, Mark D. Ransom & Dr. Jennifer-Scott Purple. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Mobley, Marjorie C. L. Stewart Ticketing Services Provided By 2 11 In celebration of our 10th Anniversary White Horse Theater Company Presents: ‘night, Mother By Marsha Norman Directed by Cyndy A. Marion** Featuring in order of appearance: Thelma……………………………………………………Joy Franz* Jessie……………………………………………………Laura Siner* Set Design……………………………………………………Randall Parsons Lighting……………………………………………………Debra Leigh Siegel Costumes……………………………………………………Derek Nye Lockwood Incidental Music/Composer/Arranger……………………………………Joe Gianono Sound Designer……………………………………………………Andy Evan Cohen Dramaturg……………………………………………………Vanessa R. Bombardieri Assistant Director……………………………………………………Brooke Harbaugh Production Stage Manager……………………………………………………Elliot Lanes Assistant Stage Manager……………………………………………………Katie W. Chew Fight Choreographer……………………………………………………Michael G. Chin** Dialect Coach……………………………………………………Julie Foh Understudy for Thelma……………………………………………………Nancy Wolfe* Cover Photo……………………………………………………Ron Bowman Cover Design……………………………………………………Melissa Lin Playbill Production……………………………………………………Right Side of NY Wig Designer……………………………………………………Gerard James Kelly Marketing & Promotions……………………………………………………The Pekoe Group Press Representative……………………………………………………Sam Morris PR The play will be performed without an Intermission * Please turn off all cell phones and other electronic devices. ‘night, Mother is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York Originally produced on Broadway by Dann Byck, Wendell Cherry, The Schubert Organization, and Frederick Zollo. Original Production directed by Tom Moore. Originally produced by The American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA. This is not a production of the Hudson Guild Theatre. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association/Equity Approved Showcase 10 ** Member of Stage Directors & Choreographers Society 3 WHITE HORSE THEATER COMPANY MISSION STATEMENT: Founded in 2003, WHITE HORSE THEATER COMPANY is a not-for- profit organization dedicated to producing and developing American plays. We seek to investigate and celebrate American culture by re-examining American classics and CAST & CREW nurturing new American voices. We aim to shed new light on seldom-produced works or revitalize masterworks making our productions accessible to both the general public and a Joy Franz (Thelma) is thrilled to be a part of this INCREDIBLE Play! Currently she can be seen in Horrible scholarly audience. People Webisode on Youtube. She is a Board and Company member of Marvell Rep: Drama Desk Award nomination for The WHTC BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Three Penny Opera as Mrs. Peachum. Broadway: Into The Woods Cyndy A. Marion ~ Producing Artistic Director (original & revival), A Little Night Music, Pippin, Company, Musical Chairs, Open Admissions, Sweet Charity, Loretta Hunt Marion ~ Director of Marketing & Development Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant. Off-Broadway: Mrs. Warren’s Vanessa R. Bombardieri ~ Managing Director Profession, God of Vengeance, Blood Wedding, The Dybuuk, Rod Sweitzer ~ Founding Artistic Director Avow, Fair Game, Assassins, All My Sons, Brutality of Fact, Tom Foolery, Jacques Brel, I Can’t Keep Running in Place, Don’t Leave it All to Your Children. Many National Tours: ASSOCIATE ARTISTS: Favorite-Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis (US and London) Michael G. Chin ~ Resident Fight Choreographer Favorite Regional roles: The Glass Menagerie, Grey Gardens Leslie Feffer ~ Program Designer and Othello as Emilia & Desdemona’s Father-Brabantio! TV/ Joe Gianono ~ Resident Composer/Arranger Film: Law & Order, Central Park West, Conan O’Brian, One Life To Live, As The World Turns, Under Red Lantern, No Elliot Lanes ~ Resident Stage Manager Picnic for Penny. She’s an avid dog lover and is very Melissa Lin ~ Resident Graphic Designer grateful. Jennifer-Scott Mobley ~ Resident Curator, Actor, Dramaturg Mark D. Ransom ~ Resident Actor Laura Siner (Jessie) last appeared with White Horse Theater as Miriam in In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. More recently, John C. Scheffler ~ Resident Set Designer (In Memoriam) she played Ramona in Hadrian’s Wall (New York International Debra Leigh Siegel ~ Resident Lighting Designer Fringe Festival). Other stage credits include Lawyer/Amanda David B. Thompson ~ Resident Costume Designer in American Rapture, Goneril in King Lear, Masha in The Jen Wiener ~ Resident ASM/Graphic Artist Three Sisters, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, the title character in Phaedre (all with Oberon Theatre Ensemble),and Kirsten in Days of Wine and Roses (Boomerang Theatre). Special Thanks on this production: Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA. Graduate: Yale University. ❖ Michael G. Chin www.laurasiner.com ❖ Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Nancy Wolfe (Understudy for Thelma) A student of Sanford Meisner, Nancy Wolfe is best known for her star turn as the psychotic Education Susan Atkins in Tom Gries’s 1976 TV special Helter Skelter. This ❖ Sarah Levine is, however, merely one of her accolades: she’s guest-starred in, ❖ Brittany Crowell among other things, two Hallmark Hall of Fame specials, The ❖ Julia Ramirez Incorvaia Ordeal of Patty Hearst and 70s TV series Baretta and Barnaby ❖ Ron Bowman Jones. Her stage career includes leading roles in Come Back ❖ Blythe Colombo Little Sheba and The Gin Game, which won the ADA Award for Best ❖ Gerard James Kelly Revival, and she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination ❖ Estate of Ruth A. Hunt for 4318 Clarendon Road. Nancy’s thrilled to be part of Cyndy Marion’s production of ‘night, Mother. 4 9 Gerard James Kelly (Theatrical Wig & Hair Design) Broadway Cyndy A. Marion (Director/Producing Artistic Director) A native production of HAIR which won the Tony Award for best revival of a New Yorker, Cyndy was named one of nytheatre.com's “People of musical. The Mint Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights the Year” for 2007. Her directing credits with WHTC include: Horizons, The York Theater and Classic Stage Company. Regionally, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, SMALL CRAFT Gerard has designed extensively throughout America, including WARNINGS, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL, BURIED CHILD, THE LATE over 35 productions for Westchester Broadway Theater, over 40 HENRY MOSS, STATES OF SHOCK, A LIE OF THE MIND, TRUE WEST and productions for North Shore Music Theater, 30 productions for the Workshop/Lab productions of HALF & FREEZER DREAMS. Other Walnut Street Theater, 14 productions for Maltz Jupiter Theater, directing credits include: the world premieres of The Book of 12 productions for Dallas Theater Center, 6 productions for Maine Lambert and MINA by Obie-winner Leslie Lee (La MaMa E.T.C.), State Music Theater, and 21 productions for Carousel Dinner PB&J (NYC International Fringe Festival, La Turista and Red Theater. His Shakespeare festivals include The New York Cross (Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.), Twister with an Octopus and Shakespeare Festival (14 productions), The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry (The Puerto Rican Festival (8 seasons), The New Jersey and Idaho Shakespeare Traveling Theatre), Fool for Love and MUD (Brooklyn College), Festivals, and The San Francisco Shakespeare festival. Gerard Last Train to Nibroc (American Theatre of Actors), 12 Angry Men has designed many premiers including Tom Jones, Memphis, Fanny and Fighting The Gorilla (Riant Theatre) and The Mandala (The Hill, The Three Musketeers, The Internationalist, Tale Of Two White Heron Inc.). She has directed readings of new plays for Cities and Slug Bearers Of Kayrol Island. Gerard has also