IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE BY EUGENE O’NEILL DIRECTED BY CIARÁN O’REILLY REFLECTIONSA PERFORMANCE OFON SCREEN MOLLY BLOOM IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE CHARLOTTE MOORE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CIARÁN O’REILLY, PRODUCING DIRECTOR A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN A TOUCH OF THE POET BY EUGENE O'NEILL DIRECTED BY CIARÁN O'REILLY with BELLE AYKROYD, CIARAN BYRNE, ROBERT CUCCIOLI, KATE FORBES, MARY MCCANN, ANDY MURRAY, DAI OR TIM RUDDY, DAVID SITLER, and JOHN C. VENNEMA scenic design costume design lighting design sound design and mix original music CHARLIE ALEJO MICHAEL M. FLORIAN RYAN CORCORAN VIETTI GOTTLIEB STAAB RUMERY video editor casting director production coordinator hair design dialect coach SARAH DEBORAH APRIL ANN ROBERT-CHARLES AMANDA NICHOLS BROWN KLINE VALLANCE QUAID associate costume designer makeup artist press representative general manager GALE JOE MATT ROSS LISA BALDONI DELUDE P.R. FANE The creative team for the postponed on-stage production of A Touch of the Poet includes the digital creative team as well as Properties by Sven Henry Nelson, Associate Stage Manager Sarah Baughman, and Fight Direction by Rick Sordelet. 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. CAST Sara Melody Belle Aykroyd Dan Roche Ciaran Byrne Cornelious "Con" Melody Robert Cuccioli Nora Melody Kate Forbes Deborah Hartford Mary McCann Jamie Cregan Andy Murray Paddy O'Dowd David O'Hara Patch Riley David Sitler Nicholas Gadsby John C. Vennema RUNNING TIME: 2 hours 40 mins including a 15-minute intermission TIME & PLACE Boston, Massachusetts 1828 SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Emigrant Support Program of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. Produced under the 2020 SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement. WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST BELLE AYKROYD (Sara ROBERT CUCCIOLI (Cornelius Melody) can be seen this "Con" Melody) Broadway: summer on Netflix’s season Jekyll & Hyde (Tony 5 of “Workin Moms”. Her nomination, Drama Desk, film credits include Martha Outer Critics Circle, FANY in feature film “Highway and Chicago’s Joseph One” and Sam in “IRL”, a new short for Jefferson Awards), Les Miserables, and the Hooked App platform. She played The Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Off-Broadway Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas last season Robert was seen in The White Carol on San Francisco’s Geary Stage. Devil and as Caesar in Caesar & Cleopatra. Belle is a recent graduate of American Other favorite Off-Broadway credits include: Conservatory Theater’s MFA acting And The World Goes ‘Round (Outer Critics program and is very excited about making Circle Award), Rothschild and Sons her New York theater debut on the Irish (London’s Offie Award Nom.), Jacques Brel Repertory stage. Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, and Snow Orchid. Robert has performed at such CIARAN BYRNE (Dan notable Regional Theatres as The Guthrie, Roche) Theatre includes: Paper Mill Playhouse, The Shakespeare Moment (Studio Theater), Theatre of NJ, The Shakespeare Theatre of The Dead: 1904 (Irish Rep), DC (Lorenzzaccio - Helen Hayes Award The Night Alive (City Nom.), the McCarter Theatre, George Street Theater), The Freedom of Playhouse, and Ford’s Theatre (1776 - Helen the City (Irish Rep), The Mountains Look Hayes Award Nom.) Television: "The Sinner", Different (Mint Theatre Company), Juno "Elementary", "White Collar", "Sliders", and the Paycock (Irish Rep), Observe the Baywatch", "The Guiding Light". Film: Sons of Ulster marching towards The "Celebrity", "The Stranger", "The Rest of Somme (PICT Classic Theatre), Blood Us", "Impossible Monsters", "Columbus on (The Cell). Film & Television includes: Trial". robertcuccioli.com. "DieRy" (Mailer Tuchman Media) Jennifer Gelfer Dir., "Inside Me" (Mailer Tuchman KATE FORBES (Nora Melody) Media) Matthew Berkowitz Dir., "The Irish Repertory Theatre debut. Second Sun" (Michael Mailer Films) Other O’Neill: Josie in A Moon Jennifer Gelfer Dir., "Public Morals" for the Misbegotten, at (TNT) Edward Burns Dir., Produced by Theatre Royal, Waterford, Steven Spielberg. Representation: Ireland, and the Lyric Theater, Harden Curtis Kirsten Riley (HCKR Belfast. Broadway credits include The Agency). ciaranpatrickbyrne.com School for Scandal (TheaterWorld Award), WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Inherit the Wind (w/ George C. Scott), Secretary”, “Elementary”, “Jessica Jones” Macbeth, and Sight Unseen. Off-Broadway: “Law and Order Special Victims Unit” for TFANA: All’s Well That Ends Well, The (recurring), “The Blacklist”, “Boardwalk Merchant of Venice ( w/F.Murray Abraham, Empire”(recurring), “Person of Interest also at the RSC), The Jew of Malta, OThello “and “A Gifted Man” directed by Jonathan (Calloway Award);Janis Joplin in Love, Janis Demme. Film: "The Frat Haze" (upcoming) at The Village Theater: Desdemona in "Can you Ever Forgive Me", "Caught" Othello ( w/Liev Schrieber) for the Public; (Lifetime), "Choke", "Little Children", The Entertainer , CSC. Recent regional: "Phil Spector", "It Must Be Love", "Door to Steel Magnolias (Heritage Theater), Hamlet, Door", and more. Broadway: The Old Macbeth, Henry V, La Dispute, The Crucible Neighborhood, Our Town with Spalding ( Hartford Stage). Many others. Two tours Gray and Search and Destroy. Other Off- with The Acting Company. Film/TV credits: Broadway Credits include: Oleanna "The Sacrament", "The Longest Ride", "Term (Orpheum Theatre), Second Stage, Lincoln Life", "Steel Country", "Hot Summer Nights / Center and Naked Angels. Mercy Street", "Law and Order", "Soaps", upcoming untitled "Marvel Project". This ANDY MURRAY (Jamie summer Ms Forbes will be at The White Cregan) Andy appeared Heron Theater in Nantucket, appearing in A previously at the Irish Rep in Glass Menagerie. For my father, Walter The Emperor Jones and The Forbes, who has a touch of the poet himself, Seafarer, both directed by may he rest in peace. Ciarán O'Reilly. BROADWAY: War Horse at Lincoln Center. OFF- MARY MCCANN (Deborah BROADWAY: Judgment Day at the Park Ave Harford) is thrilled to return Armory. Regionally he's worked at the to Irish Rep where she McCarter, Yale Rep, The Shakespeare performed The Weir by Theater in DC, Centerstage in Baltimore, Connor McPherson. Mary is American Conservatory Theater in San a founding member of the Francisco, Berkeley Rep, The Magic Atlantic Theater Company where she has Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, done may plays including: On the Shore of Seattle Rep, San Jose Rep, among others. the Wide World, Harper Regan (title role), Film and TV includes "Daredevil", "House and Bluebird by Simon Stephens, Ghost of Cards", "The Knick", "Run All Night", Stories, Our New Girl, Offices and Almost "Aloft", "Wormwood", "Chicago PD", and Evening by Ethan Coen and Night "Shades of Blue", "Bull", "The Blacklist", Heron by Jez Butterworth. Recent TV: "Person of Interest", "Elementary", "Law “Dirty John” (upcoming), “Madame and Order CI" and "Forever". He has taught WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST acting at the Berkeley Repertory School of Collins, Shay (Abbey Theatre) DIRECTOR: Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, The Cure at Arlene’s Grocery, After Luke/ Alameda County Juvenile Hall, and San When I was God, For Love by Laoisa Sexton Quentin State Prison. at Irish Rep. Beauty Queen of Leenane (Actors Studio). Last Days of Cleopatra by DAVID O'HARA (Paddy Laoisa Sexton (Urban Stages). Never In My O'Dowd) Juno and the Lifetime by Shirley Gee (Access Theater). TV/ Paycock, Three Small Irish FILM Actor: I Know This Much Is True (HBO), Masterpieces (Irish Rep), Blacklist (NBC), 79 Parts (Amazon), Glenroe Imperfect Love (The Left (RTE 5 Seasons), Courier Opps (RTE), Wing LTD), Alone it Stands Ballykissangel (BBC), Gettysburg (TNT), (59E59 & First Irish Theatre Fest), Python Gods and Generals (WARNER BROS), Making (Poor Mouth Theatre & First Irish), Within the Cut (RTE), WC (INDIE) FILM Director: the Law (Metropolitan Playhouse), Richard "Apocalypse 150", "Mikey’s Lookin’ For Ya", III (Boomerang), Henry IV Part 1 (Extant "The Robber." PLAYWRIGHT. The International Arts), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Poor Playwrights Theater/ Cell Space Theater Mouth), Who is Dan Schiller? (LookingGlass), (best play Origins1st Irish New York theatre Court Play (Atlantic), The Importance of festival in 2013). Being Earnest (Aisling Arts). TV: "The Tonight Show" (NBC), "Monarchs" (FX). DAVID SITLER (Patch Riley) David also works as an actor in film, David is thrilled to be back at commercials and voiceover. Irish Rep working with this great Company for his hat TIM RUDDY (Mickey Maloy) trick having been in Beyond The Naturalists by Jaki the Horizon and Donnybrook McCarrick (Soho Rep), The in the past. He has been on Broadway (An Seafarer, The Weir, Prisoner Inspector Calls with Rosemary Harris), of the Crown, The National Tour (Frost Nixon with Stacy Keach), Shaughraun, The Yeats worked with over 16 Theatre Companies in Project, (Irish Rep) Stones in his Pockets, NYC and Regionally from Maine to California (Broadway Tour) Philadelphia Here I Come!, in roles from Atticus to Scrooge. Recent The Field, Defender of the Faith, Swansong, Film credits include “Girl Boxer,” “The True (IRNE best actor) Pumpgirl, (Manhattan Ones,” “Bugs And Slugs.” TV Credits “Little Theatre Club) The Seagull, directed by Max America,” “Hunters,” and the game “Red Stafford Clark (The Lynne Redgrave Theatre) Dead Redemption