Stage III Playbill Richard Hopkins, Producing Artistic Director by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen This project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida. THE EXONERATED by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen CAST (in alphabetical order) David............................ Kenajuan Bentley* Ensemble...................... Kevin Cristaldi* Delbert......................... Lawrence Evans* Sunny........................... Susan Greenhill* Robert.......................... Warren Jackson* Ensemble...................... Robert D. Mowry Kerry............................ Jeffrey Plunkett* Gary............................. David Sitler* Georgia, Judge, Darla, State Prosecutor............ Karen Stephens* Sue, Sandra................... Katherine Michelle Tanner* Scenic Designer Costume Designer Bruce Price Susan Angermann Lighting Designer Sound Designer Sarah McGrath Jon Baker (under the direction of Bruce Price) (under the direction of Thom Korp) Stage Manager Marian Wallace* Directed by Kate Alexander Season Underwriters Georgia Court , The Herald-Tribune Media Group Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Anne H.S. Nethercott Originally produced in New York by The Culture Project, Dede Harris, Morton Swinsky, Bob Balaban, Harit Allan Buchman, Patrick Blake, David Elliot, Jane Bergere, Ruth Hendel and Cheryl Wiesenfeld. Poetry from Song Singing Songs by Delbert Tibbs. Used by permission. The Exonerated is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. * Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTIST PROFILES KENAJUAN BENTLEY Repertory Theatre, freeFall Theatre, Caldwell (David) is pleased to be Theatre Company, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, returning to FST. Last seen North Carolina Black Repertory Company, Short as Brandon in Next Fall and North Stage. Television: All My Children, As the Jackson - The Miamians. World Turns, One Life to Live, Law & Order. Film: Other Theatres: New York; State Property II, The Devil Wears Prada. He Edward the Second (Red studied theatre at Jackson State University and Bull Theater); The Merchant of Venice, The Jew of the University of Michigan. Malta (Theatre for a New Audience); Well (The SUSAN GREENHILL Public Theater); Macbeth (The Classical Theatre (Sunny) FST: Becoming of Harlem). Oregon Shakesphere Festival (5 Dr. Ruth, Chapatti, Shirley seasons): Ruined, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Valentine, Dinner With All The Way, The Great Society. Film/TV: Law Friends(SRQ Award), … and Order, Scandal, Doll&EM, Grimm, The Young and LA is Burning, Molly and the Restless, XO, Vital Signs, Famous in Love. Sweeney, Don’t Dress For Training: MFA, University of Connecticut; BA, Dinner. Broadway: Crimes of the Heart. Off- Western Michigan University. Broadway: Primary Stages, Culture Project, KEVIN CRISTALDI Playwrights Horizon, Actors’ Studio Theatre (Ensemble) is pleased to Regional: Clean House (Acclaim Award), return to FST, where he Sideman (Barrymore Award), The Glass has appeared in The God of Menagerie, 4000 Miles. TV/Film: The Good Wife, Isaac, Next Fall, and Texas Law & Order, Chappelle Show, Guiding Light, Romance. Off-Broadway: Clarrissa Explains It All, Pecker (John Waters Midsummer Night’s Dream director), Italian Movie, Noon Blue Apples (Masterworks), Dish for the Gods (Lion Theatre), (Sundance Festival), Bargain on Hale Street. Dirty Talk (Center Stage), and Message to WARREN JACKSON Michael (Rattlestick Theatre). Regional: To Kill (Robert) Recently a Mockingbird (Cincinnati Playhouse), When I appeared as Junior in FST’s Come to Die (Kansas City Rep), The Last Station brownsville song. Warren is (Vermont Stage). Television: Criminal Minds, excited to return to the FST Gilmore Girls, Numbers. Film: Can You Ever stage in another important Forgive Me? (coming in 2018). piece. NY credits include: LAWRENCE EVANS Midsummer Night’s Dream, Masterworks; (Delbert) Florida Studio Titus Andronicus, NYSX; Talking to Westfield, Theatre: One Man, Two Premiere Stages. Some regional: Tempest, NC Guvnors, Ruined, Triad Shakespeare Festival; Fences, Clarence Brown Stage, Martha’s Vineyard Theater & Gloucester Stage; In Darfur, WAM Playhouse, Arkansas Theater; NEA national tours: Macbeth, AL ARTIST PROFILES Shakespeare Festival, Romeo & Juliet, Chicago Millennium Crisis, FireFly, Solar Vengeance, Alien Shakespeare. Nominated:Black Theatre Alliance Uprising, and Clonehunters. of Chicago for Best Featured Actor, Victory DAVID SITLER (Gary) Garden’s Shoes, and Midwest Emmy board for David is thrilled to be Best Ensemble with Chicago’s Green Screen revisiting this amazing Adventures. MFA: University of Arizona. play and return to FST for ROBERT D. MOWRY his hat trick having last (Ensemble) Bob is happy performed here as Jack to be returning to the Abbott in In the Belly of boards at FST, where he the Beast (Sarasota Magazine Award) and The has appeared numerous Exonerated. He was last seen in Yours, Anne at times over the last twenty the Half Moon Theatre in NY as Otto Frank and years. Most recently Bob has worked on Broadway, National tours and was seen in the first two installments of The regionally from Maine to Utah in roles from People’s Project - Old Enough to Know Better Atticus to Scrooge. You can catch him in the and Last Rights. He is looking forward to hilarious web series Plant: The Second Coming. installment number three. More info at www.davidsitler.com. JEFFREY PLUNKETT KAREN STEPHENS (Kerry) FST: Freud’s Last (Georgia, Judge, Darla, Session, The Columnist, State Prosecutor) is Race, Sylvia, Opus, thrilled to be back at FST Permanent Collection after appearing in the (Best Actor Nominee - Southeastern premiere of Sarasota Magazine), Pure Sarah Jones’ Tony Award- Confidence, The Gambol of Love. NEW YORK: winning, one-woman show, Bridge & Tunnel. Cherry Lane Theatre (with Mia Dillon and She was recently seen in the developmental Joyce Van Patten), Manhattan Theatre Source production of Allison Gregory’s, Motherland, (NY Innovative Theatre Award Nominee), at FAU’s Theatre Lab, and as GOD in MTC’s Algonquin Theatre, Broad Horizons. Jeffrey Everyman. A multiple Carbonell nominee, played Greg in over 350 performances of Karen was awarded Best Actress for Zoetic The Sum of Us. REGIONAL: Syracuse Stage, Stage’s Fear Up Harsh. TV appearances include Cincinnati Playhouse, Capitol Rep, Pennsylvania Bloodline, Burn Notice, The Glades. For more info Stage Company, Three Rivers’ Shakespeare www.karenstephensonline.com Festival, Chicago’s Body Politic, Pennsylvania KATHERINE MICHELLE TANNER (Sue, Centre Stage, GeVA, Fairfield Theatre Company, Sandra) Off Broadway and US Tour of her award South Jersey Regional Theatre, and The Metro winning performance in the one woman play Lyric Opera. TV: All My Children, Deadline. FILM: The Amish Project. Regional Favorite Roles ARTIST PROFILES Include: Nora - A Doll’s were in the plays: Edward Albee’s The Goat; House, Margaret in Charm, Filumena; Master Class; Edward Albee’s Three Catherine - Proof, Ivy - Tall Women, The Occupant, The Play About the August: Osage County, Baby; Golda’s Balcony; and Taking Shakespeare. Catharine - Suddenly, Ms. Alexander is the recipient of numerous Last Summer, Myrrah - acting, directing, and public service awards, Metamorphoses, Ophelia including FAER, She Knows Where She’s - Hamlet, Heather – Gidion’s Knot, Molly/Carole Going Award (Girls, Inc.), The Woman of Light Stalking the Bogeyman and Laura - The Glass Award, National Council of Jewish Women, The Menagerie. Current Film she plays Mary in Woman of Power Award, the Sarasota County Waiting on Mary. Katherine has written three Arts Leadership Award, Education Award, new musicals and her acclaimed new play Sarasota Manatee Jewish Federation, and Shakespeare’s Lovers. BA-St. Olaf College, MFA most recently The Unity Award. Ms. Alexander Acting - Asolo Theatre Conservatory. She is leads the FST Forums Series and developed Artistic Director of Tree Fort Productions. the Blue Butterfly Theatre Program, a program www.katherinemichelletanner.com for teens suffering from grief through loss. KATE ALEXANDER She created the Art of The Gesture program (Director) is the Associate at Ringling College of Animation and is the Director of FST and the co-author of The Animated Short, with Karen Founder of the FST Theatre Sullivan, now in its 2nd edition.Ms. Alexander School. Ms. Alexander most recently performed a reading from Elie has directed numerous Wiesels’ book, Night, in conjunction with the productions and premieres Jewish Federation, the Violins of Hope, and the on the FST stages including Grounded; Sarasota Orchestra. brownsville song (b-side for tray); Clever Little MARIAN WALLACE (Stage Manager) Lies; Alabama Story; Outside Mullingar; Over Former Production Stage Manager for FST. the River and Through the Woods; Chapatti; In 2010 Marian retired from Asolo Repertory Dancing Lessons; Becoming Dr. Ruth; Freud’s Theatre after a 43 year run. In 2014-15 Last Session; Thurgood; South Beach Babylon; Marian stage managed Dancing Lessons for The Columnist; Talley’s Folly; Jericho; Next Fall; Florida Studio Theatre from staged reading The Savannah Disputation; Ghost- Writer; though production and run. In 2015, Marian Two Jews Walk into a War...; I Love You, You’re and retired company member Brad Wallace Perfect, Now Change; Sylvia; Shotgun;