THE DANCE OF DEATH Classic Stage Company JOHN DOYLE, Artistic Director TONI MARIE DAVIS, Chief Operating Officer/GM presents THE DANCE OF DEATH IN A NEW VERSION BY CONOR McPHERSON BY AUGUST STRINDBERG with CASSIE BECK, CHRISTOPHER INNVAR, RICHARD TOPOL Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design DAVID L. ARSENAULT TRICIA BARSAMIAN STACEY DEROSIER QUENTIN CHIAPPETTA Original Music Fight and Intimacy Direction JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ ALICIA RODIS CLAIRE WARDEN Casting Press Representative Production Stage Manager TELSEY + COMPANY BLAKE ZIDELL AND ASSOCIATES ROXANA KHAN ADAM CALDWELL, CSA WILLIAM CANTLER, CSA Assistant Stage Manager KARYN CASL, CSA JANELLE CASO DIRECTED BY VICTORIA CLARK Cast for THE DANCE OF DEATH in alphabetical order Cassie Beck................................................................................................Alice Christopher Innvar....................................................................................Kurt Richard Topol .........................................................................................Edgar TIME: Autumn, Turn of the 20th Century PLACE: A coastal artillery fortress off the coast of Sweden THE DANCE OF DEATH will be performed without an intermission. All performers in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers, and watches. The use of cell phones in the theater is prohibited by New York City law. Who’s Who CASSIE BECK (Alice). RICHARD TOPOL (Edgar). Theater work on Broadway Broadway: Lemml in Indecent includes: The Humans (Tony (OCC nomination), Larry Award Best Play, Drama Desk David’s Fish in the Dark, Ensemble Award), Picnic. Drama Desk Awards for The Off-Broadway theater work includes: The Normal Heart and Awake & Sing, The Humans (Roundabout), This Flat Earth, The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, Whale, The Drunken City (Theatre World Cymbeline, The Country Girl and Julius Award), A Prayer for My Enemy (Playwrights Caesar with Denzel Washington. Off- Horizons), By the Water (Manhattan Theatre Broadway: Regrets (MTC); Bronx Bombers, Club and Ars Nova), The Insurgents Opus (Primary Stages); When the Rain Stops (LAByrinth Theater), Happy Hour, Oohrah! Falling (Lincoln Center); King Lear, Twelfth (Atlantic Theater Co), and Smudge (Women’s Night, Winter’s Tale (The Public); Hamlet Project Theater). Regional theater work (TFANA); also New Group; EST; Soho Rep; includes: Elemeno Pea (South Coast Naked Angels; Playwrights Horizons. Film/ Repertory and Humana Festival), Prelude to a TV includes Lincoln, Indignation, Mickey Blue Kiss (Huntington Theatre Co), The Cherry Eyes, Great Gilly Hopkins, recurring roles on Sisters Revisited (Humana), Three Sisters “Manifest,” “Genius: Einstein,” “Billions,” (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and The “The Practice,” “Covert Affairs,” and Consultant (Long Wharf). Television “Perception,” and guest appearances on appearances include: “High Maintenance,” “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” “Person of “Chicago Med,” “Elementary,” “Almost Interest,” all of the “Law & Order” series, There,” “Shameless,” and the webseries “Ed,” “Gilmore Girls,” and “Drew Carey.” Accidental Wolf. @cassiebeckster CONOR McPHERSON (Adaptor). CHRISTOPHER INNVAR (Kurt). Conor McPherson’s plays include Rum & Broadway: Victor/Victoria, Les Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, Miserables, The Three Penny St Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier Award), Opera, 110 In The Shade, The Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Shining People In The Picture, The City (Tony Award nomination), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The Snow Geese. Seafarer (Olivier, Tony, and Evening Off-Broadway projects include Floyd Collins Standard Award nominations), The Veil, The at Playwrights Horizons (Nonesuch Records), Night Alive (New York Drama Critics’ King Lear at the Delacorte, Signature, Circle Award), and most recently, the Olivier Atlantic, Women’s Project, Vineyard, Award-winning musical, Girl from the North Transport Group, Red Bull, MTC, Lincoln Country, with Bob Dylan. Center. Directing: The Other Place, The Whipping Man, Shining City, Period Piece/ VICTORIA CLARK (Director) is inspired to tell Collyer Brothers, Camping With Henry and Tom stories as director and actor, and thrilled to – Barrington Stage (Associate Artist). Recent be directing for Classic Stage Film/TV: The Post, “The Sinner,” “Elementary,” Company under the artistic direction of “Blacklist: Redemption,” “Chicago Fire.” colleague John Doyle. Director: Newton’s Recent NY theater: Alex Lubischer’s Bobbie Cradle (NYMF- Best Director and Best Clearly at Roundabout Underground. Musical), The Trouble with Doug (Fredericia Theater/Denmark), Hansel and Gretl and Who’s Who Heidi and Günther (Village Theater Festival Stage, Virginia Stage Company, of New Musicals), Mary Jo Shen’s Piano John W. Engeman Theatre, Resident Paper (Joe’s Pub), Goodspeed Opera House, Ensemble Players, TheaterWorks. Select Philadelphia Opera, Texas Opera associate/asst costume design: Mean Theater, NAMT, and the short film, For Me Girls, Madonna Rebel Heart Tour, American & My Gal (Niko Frank Productions.) Fall Psycho, Something Rotten!, The Queen of the 2018: Scaffolding, a one-act musical by Night, Annie, Hands on a Hardbody, Taylor Jeff Blumenkrantz starring Rebecca Luker Swift Speak Now Tour. Tricia holds an MFA for “Inner Voices” at the Barrow Group from NYU and a BFA in design from North Theater. Artist-In-Residence: Duke Carolina School of the Arts. University and Pace University. Visiting faculty: Yale University. Actor: 12 Broadway STACEY DEROSIER (Lighting Designer) shows, many off-Broadway plays and is a NYC based lighting designer. Her musicals. Films include The Cradle Will credits include: Lewiston/Clarkston Rock, The Happening, Harvest, Wanderland, (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), tick, tick... and Main Street, directed by John Doyle. BOOM! (Brown/Trinity MFA), Detroit ’67 (The Upcoming: The Truth about the Harry Que- Julliard School), The Revolving Cycles Truly bert Affair mini-series for EPIX. 4 Tony nom- & Steadily Roll’d (Playwright’s Realm), 1969: inations, 1 Tony: The Light in the Piazza. The Second Man (3rd Place Projects) as co-lighting designer, Came Tumbling After DAVID L. ARSENAULT (Scenic Designer). (The National Theater of Uptown), Don CSC: Peer Gynt, Julius Caesar. CSC as Juan Comes Back from the War (Columbia associate: Arturo Ui, Fire and Air, Twelfth University), Thyestes (NYU Graduate Night, As You Like It, Pacific Overtures, Acting). She also has worked as production Allegro, and Passion. Broadway designer on short films Baggage (dir. (Associate): The Color Purple (also London Stacey Maitlin) and Will You Be My Twin? (dir. and National Tour), Les Liaisons Anna Alekhina). staceyderosier.com Dangereuses, King Charles III, and Constellations. Regional: Kennedy Center, QUENTIN CHIAPPETTA (Sound Designer). Bay Street Theatre, George Street Quentin Chiappetta’s collaborations span Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Hangar Theatre, from original music and sound design for Kitchen Theatre Company, Gulfshore on and Off-Broadway productions (Irena’s Playhouse, Northern Stage, Dorset Theatre Vow, Murder in the First, Martin Luther on Festival, and Weston Playhouse among Trial, Terms of Endearment, The Snow Orchid, others. International: English Theatre Catching the Butcher, Road to Damascus, A Berlin. Member: USA 829. Education: Ithaca Wilder Christmas, The Navigator) to television College. DavidArsenaultDesign.com (“The First 48,” “Dallas,” “SWAT”) music and sound design for film and documentaries TRICIA BARSAMIAN (Costume Designer) (Daughters of Destiny, 3 Backyards, Film NY: KPOP (Lucille Lortel nomination), Hawk) and collaborations with artists Sweetee, Paradiso, Empire Travel Agency 1.0, including Christian Marclay (The Clock). Does it Hurt When I Do This? (Woodshed He has received Drama Desk and Lucille Collective), Yank! A WWII Love Story, Sistas: Lortel Award nominations and has won two The Musical. Regional: The Alley Theatre, Innovative Theatre Awards. Medianoise.com Barrington Stage Company, Hartford Who’s Who JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ (Composer) (Vineyard/New Group), BLKS (MCC Theatre) is thrilled to be collaborating once and others both in New York and regionally. again with Victoria Clark. Composer: Claire trains faculty and students in acting Scaffolding (“Inner Voices” 2018, dir. training institutions across the country, Victoria Clark), Urban Cowboy (Tony including Yale, NYU, Juliard, Columbia, nomination), Month Upon a Time, I’ve the O’Neill Theatre Center, Cambridge Been Played: Alysha Umphress Swings University (UK), and Northeastern Jeff Blumenkrantz, The Jeff Blumenkrantz University. She is also part of the teaching Songbook Podcast (on iTunes). Songs team of Intimacy Directors International, recorded by Victoria Clark, Audra training the next generation of Intimacy McDonald, Sutton Foster, Rebecca Directors. teamidi.org. clairewarden.com Luker, and Megan Mullally, among others. 2011 Fred Ebb Award recipient. ALEXANDER WYLIE (Properties Designer) Commissions from Lincoln Center, is thrilled to be working on The Dance of Carnegie Hall, and Guggenheim Works and Death at Classic Stage Company. His most Process. Actor: Bright Star, Murder for Two, recent credits include: (Properties Master) The Big Sick, “The Detour,” “Will