THE WHOLEHEARTED is made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. March 15 - April 1, 2018 15 - March STEIN | HOLUM PROJECTS THE WHOLEHEARTED STEIN | HOLUM PROJECTS WHO’S THE WHOLEHEARTED WHO Conceived and Created by THE WHOLEHEARTED was commissioned STEIN | HOLUM PROJECTS (SHP) is the Stein | Holum Projects and first presented by ArtsEmerson: ongoing creative partnership of Suli Written and Directed by Deborah Stein The World On Stage in April 2014. A Holum and Deborah Stein. Drawing on late-stage completion residency and over a decade of experience in both Performed and Directed by Suli Holum * performances was provided by Z Space experimental and regional theatre, SHP Onstage Camera and Video Engineer in San Francisco in September 2016. works with a core group of designers Stivo Arnoczy Additional workshop residencies have to create a unique hybrid of the been provided by HERE, the Lower highly visual and dexterously verbal; Sound Design Manhattan Cultural Council (Swing interdisciplinary physical theater with Matt Hubbs and James Sugg Space), the Orchard Project, Kelly complex and nuanced characters. Our Original Music Strayhorn, Philadelphia FringeArts, first play, CHIMERA, was developed James Sugg and Heather Christian Swarthmore College Project in Theatre, with a HARP residency and premiered Set Design Amy Rubin New Dramatists Creativity Fund (with in 2012 at HERE as part of Under the the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Radar, where it was a NY Times Critics’ Video Design Foundation), and JACK (with the support Pick and nominated for a Drama Desk Katherine Freer and Dave Tennent of the Brooklyn Arts Council). Award. It received its UK premiere Lighting Design Stephen Arnold at the Gate Theatre in London in November, 2014. Our next play, THE Costume Design Angela Harner WHOLEHEARTED, was commissioned by Dramaturg P. Carl ArtsEmerson in 2014 and received the Production Stage Manager Lisa McGinn * prestigious National Theatre Project and Touring Grant from NEFA. It was Associate Director and Producer further developed by Philadelphia Kate Hopkins Fringe Arts, the Orchard Project, Kelly Technical Director and Sound Engineer Strayhorn, and Z Space, and received Matthew Weinhoffer its world premiere in 2016 at Center Theatre Group and La Jolla Playhouse. Lighting Supervisor Lauren Parrish Our musical MOVERS + SHAKERS (songs Audio/Visual Supervisor Lucas Fendlay by James Sugg and Daniel Kluger) was developed at UCSD after workshops at Wardrobe Supervisor Sarah Knight Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb, On Camera Performers New Dramatists, and Berkeley Rep’s Soomi Kim and Maren Bush Ground Floor. Our work together has also Voiceover Performers been developed at Actors Theatre of Trey Lyford, Joe Canuso, Bill Zielinski, Louisville/Perry Mansfield, Swarthmore Brian Anthony Wilson, James Sugg College, the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts at UPenn, and Georgia Fight Consultants Tech. Valentine Lyashenko and Zach Roberts Production Manager Lauren Parrish Show Producer Amanda Cooper * The performer and production stage manager appear through the Press Representation Karen Greco PR courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, Marketing Consultant the Union of Professional Actors and Amanda Szeglowski Stage Managers in the United States. WHO’S WHO continued SULI HOLUM Repertory Theatre), BONE PORTRAITS STEPHEN ARNOLD PERFORMER/CO-DIRECTOR (Stillpoint Productions, Live Girls!), LIGHTING DESIGN As Co-Artistic Director of Stein | Holum and HEIST! (ATL Humana Festival). In Stephen’s lighting style reflects a Projects (SHP), Suli Holum co-created addition to her long-term collaboration provocative movement in sculptural Drama Desk nominated solo show with Suli Holum, Deborah has worked lighting. His work strives to build a CHIMERA (co-director/performer), as a writer on devised pieces with cohesive visual environment, amplifying MOVERS + SHAKERS (director), and Joseph Chaikin, Dominique Serrand, the overt, and subtle intentions THE WHOLEHEARTED (performer/co- Lear deBessonet, and most often the associated with each collaboration’s director)Holum was a co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company, with whom unique arc and vision. With a degree in Pig Iron Theatre Company, and wrote she has collaborated on six plays. Theatre Lighting Design from Columbia GENTLEMEN VOLUNTEERS published in Deborah currently teaches playwriting College Chicago, his work spans the Pig Iron: 3 Plays (53rd Street Press). at UCSD, where she developed and genres of live performing arts. Stephen Her work as a devising writer of new directed Keith Wallace’s THE BITTER has worked on collaborations with performance also includes ONE BEACH GAME for the La Jolla Playhouse Without a diversity of artists and companies ROAD with RedCape Theatre, UK, and A Walls Festival and subsequent NYC including Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Robert FIERCE KIND OF LOVE with the Institute on production at the Public/Under the Ashely, Maya Beiser, Rennie Harris, Disabilities at Temple University. She is a Radar and international tour. Deborah Ralph Lemon, Ibrahim Quarishi, Norscq, recipient of an Independence Foundation has received the NYSCA, the Bush Artist Mike Ladd, Vijay Iyer, Pamela Z, Atalee Individual Artist Fellowship, a TCG Fox Fellowship, two Jerome Fellowships and Judy, Alvin Ailey American Dance Resident Actor Fellowship, a Drama Desk a McKnight Advancement Grant from the Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Award, and a Barrymore for Outstanding Playwrights’ Center. She is an alumna Playwrights Horizons, Mabou Mines, Choreography. Holum is directing YOU of New Dramatists and the CTG LA Gilded Balloon, and Theatreworks CAN NEVER GO DOWN THE DRAIN, an Writers Workshop, and a member of the USA. His work has been presented in original cabaplay by The Bearded Ladies, Playwrights’ Union. festivals including Under The Radar, The and creating THE BAKKEN, a new solo Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, work exploring women’s lives in the oil STIVO ARNOCZY Springdance, Kontracom, Venice Bienalle, fields of North Dakota. ONSTAGE CAMERA and VIDEO ENGINEER BAM’s Next Wave, Dance Chicago, and Stivo Arnoczy is a hungarian-american Festival Internacional Música y Escena, DEBORAH STEIN projections designer from NYC with roots and in 28 countries around the world. WRITER/CO-DIRECTOR in Otsego County, NY. TSOA ‘08. He is a Deborah Stein is a playwright, director, member of harunalee theater company P. CARL and co-Artistic Director of Stein | Holum and is company video designer for The DRAMATURG Projects (SHP), with whom she has Dance Cartel. Recent work includes: P. Carl is a nonfiction writer and a written and co-directed CHIMERA and CUTE ACTIVIST (The Bushwick Starr), Distinguished Artist in Residence at THE WHOLEHEARTED, as well as writing MEMORY RETROGRADE (harunalee|Under Emerson College in Boston. He is also a the book and lyrics for their musical the Radar ‘18), PRIMER FOR A FAILED writer and lecturer on theater, gender, MOVERS + SHAKERS. Deborah’s play SUPERPOWER (The TEAM|Roulette), inclusive practices, and innovative MARGINAL LOSS recently premiered WET CLUTCH (Seaport Music Festival), models for building community and at the 2018 Humana Festival of New The Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir organizations. He is an accomplished American Plays at Actors Theatre of International Tour (as Video Engineer), theater artist, most recently the Louisville. Other plays include GOD SAVE and THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD dramaturg and producer on a range GERTRUDE (Workhaus Collective, Theatre DEITY (as Associate | Miami New Drama). of diverse projects including Claudia @ Boston Court),WALLFLOWER (Stages www.stivo.video Rankine’s new play, THE WHITE CARD, WHO’S WHO continued Melinda Lopez’s, MALA (2017 Elliot (West Yorkshire Playhouse) as well as Theater Award nominee. For more info, Norton Award Winner for Outstanding numerous compositions for plays with portfolio, and full production history New Script), Jessica Blank and Erik music and dance. Film scores include please visit: katherinefreer.com Jensen’s HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC, and MAN ROTS FROM HEAD, EAT, PAULINE Deborah Stein and Suli Holum’s, THE ALONE, WOMAN IN DEEP, and GREGORY ANGELA HARNER WHOLEHEARTED. Carl is the founder GO BOOM, which took a 2014 Sundance COSTUME & MAKEUP DESIGN of the online journal HOWLROUND Grand Jury Prize. She is a long time Angela is thrilled to continue to and co-founder of the subsequent musical and perfomative collaborator collaborate on THE WHOLEHEARTED online platform HowlRound Theatre in devised theater with the TEAM, Jane with Stein|Holum projects. Recent Commons. In 2018, Carl was awarded Comfort Company, Mac Wellman, Big theater designs: SOLSTICE PARTY (Live the Berlin Prize for his memoir in process, Dance Theater, Taylor Mac, and Witness Source Theater Group), A PERIOD OF BECOMING A WHITE MAN. In 2017, he Relocation. She was recently named one ANIMATE EXISTENCE Assistant Designer was given a prestigious Art of Change of TimeOut NY’s Downtown Innovators To (Pig Iron), OKAY by Taylor Mac (Ugly Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, Watch. She has released 6 records and Rhino), JUPITER (LaMama), UTILITY (The named Theater Person of the Year in can be seen all over the world as Heather Ammoralists), BLUE STOCKINGS (NYU 2015 (National Theater Conference), as Christian & the Arbornauts in concert Drama), and KILL ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT well as an Alumni of Notable Distinction halls and dive bars avant-torching. (Stolen