2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL BAM and Irish Arts Center present Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Howie the Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, Rookie President Joseph V. Melillo, Landmark Productions Executive Producer Written and directed by Irish Arts Center Gerry Boyle, Mark O’Rowe Board Chair Aidan Connolly, Executive Director DATES: Dec 10—13 at 7:30pm Dec 14 at 3pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) RUN TIME: 1hr 20min (no intermission) Season Sponsor: Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Major support for theater at BAM provided by: The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen Jr. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc #HOWIETHEROOKIE BAM Fisher 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Howie the Rookie HAIR AND MAKE-UP WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Val Sherlock Mark O’Rowe PUBLICIST THE HOWIE LEE / THE ROOKIE LEE Sinéad O’Doherty | Gerry Lundberg PR Tom Vaughan-Lawlor PHOTOGRAPHER SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BY Patrick Redmond Paul Wills GRAPHIC DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGN BY Gareth Jones Sinéad McKenna AMERICAN STAGE MANAGER SOUND DESIGN BY R. Michael Blanco Philip Stewart PRODUCER Anne Clarke ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Sara Cregan PRODUCTION MANAGER Eamonn Fox STAGE DIRECTOR Presented in association with Clive Welsh David Eden Productions Ltd., with the support of Culture Ireland. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Sarah Baxter The actor appears with the permis- sion of Actors’ Equity Association. The ASSISTANT DESIGNER American stage manager is a member Adrian Gee of Actors’ Equity Association. COSTUME SUPERVISOR howietherookie.com Emily Ní Bhroin 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL NOTES ON THE PLAY Howie the Rookie The Howie begins the story. The Rookie concludes it. Mark O’Rowe’s electrifying, epic tale is a wild, urban odyssey through a nightmare landscape—hilarious, grotesque, and, finally, deeply moving. Meet Ladyboy, a psychotic thug on a quest to avenge the deaths of his Siamese fighting fish. Meet malodorous adrenaline-junkies Flann Dingle and Ginger Boy. Meet Avalanche, a ski- panted monster looking for love. Meet the tragic Mouse. Meet the scabies-afflicted Peaches. Meet the Howie. Meet the Rookie. Photo: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor by Patrick Redmond 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL In 2003, O’Rowe wrote his first feature film, Intermission, which starred Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy. His other screenplays include adaptations of Who’s Jonathan Trigell’s novel, Boy A, for Cuba Pictures and Channel 4; Perrier’s Bounty; and Daniel Clay’s 2008 novel Broken, which starred Cillian Murphy Who and Tim Roth. He wrote the short films Epithet (2011) and Debris (2012), MARK O’ROWE which he also directed. Writer and Director TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR The Howie / The Rookie Mark O’Rowe’s plays include Our Few and Evil Days (Abbey Theatre 2014), From Both Hips (Fishamble, 1997), Howie the Rookie (Bush Theatre, 1999), Made in China (Abbey Theatre, 2001), and Crestfall (Gate Theatre, 2003). Tom Vaughan-Lawlor graduated with a Howie the Rookie won the George degree in Drama Studies at the Samuel Devine Award when it premiered at the Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin, by Simon Annand Bush Theatre in 1999. It also won the and continued his training at RADA. Irish Times Best New Play award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. He most recently played the role of Dennis in Mark O’Rowe’s Our Few In 2007 Rowe wrote Terminus, a series and Evil Days at the Abbey Theatre. Vaughan-Lawlor ; (right) Tom of interlocking monologues, which Other theater credits include The Quare opened at the Abbey Theatre and won Fellow, directed by Kathy Burke (Oxford a Fringe First when it transferred to Stage Company); Translations, directed Kavanagh Ros the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. It by Sean Holmes (National Theatre, undertook a major world tour in 2011, London); The Field, directed by Róisín touring for five months to the US, UK, McBrinn (Tricycle Theatre); and This and Australia. Photos: (left) Mark O’Rowe by Photos: (left) Mark O’Rowe 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Lime Tree Bower, directed by Yael performance in Howie the Rookie. Shavit (Young Vic). His other recent theater roles include Vaughan-Lawlor appeared at the Abbey Frank Lubey in All My Sons with David Theatre, Dublin, as Christy Mahon in Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker, directed The Playboy of the Western World, by Howard Davies in the West End; which also toured North America. His and Jerry Devine in Juno and the other performances include Lyngstrand Paycock, directed by Howard Davies in Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, with Ciarán Hinds and Sinéad Cusack directed by Lucy Bailey at Birmingham for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and Repertory Theatre; Joseph Surface in the National Theatre, London. He also The School for Scandal, directed by appeared in Howard Brenton’s 55 Days Jimmy Fay at the Abbey Theatre; Len at the Hampstead Theatre, directed by in Edward Bond’s Saved, directed by Howard Davies. Jimmy Fay at the Peacock Theatre; and the Dauphin in Henry V, directed Vaughan-Lawlor plays the leading role by Jonathan Munby at the Manchester of Nidge in the award-winning RTÉ Royal Exchange, for which he was TV drama series Love/Hate written nominated for an Ian Charleson Award. by Stuart Carolan, for which he won Best Actor at the 2013 Irish Film and His film appearances include The Television Awards. Next year, he will be Tiger’s Tail opposite Brendan Gleeson, seen in the role of PJ Mara in the RTÉ directed by John Boorman; and with drama Citizen Charlie, produced by Maggie Smith, Anne Hathaway, and Touchpaper TV / Element Films. Julie Walters in Becoming Jane, directed by Julian Jarrold for Miramax Films. For the BBC, he played the PAUL WILLS eye-catching cameo of IRA man Byrne Set and Costume Designer in Peaky Blinders, opposite Cillian Murphy. Radio credits include The Theater designs include: The Two Leopard, directed by Lucy Bailey (BBC Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Anna Radio 3). Christie, Making Noise Quietly, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Cut Other theater appearances include (Donmar Warehouse); Di and Viv and Solyony in David Leveaux’s acclaimed Rose (West End); A Human Being production of Brian Friel’s adaptation of Died that Night (BAM Spring 2015 Three Sisters and Bob Acres in Patrick and international tour); Routes, Acid Mason’s production of Sheridan’s The Test, Breathing Corpses (Royal Court); Rivals, both at the Abbey Theatre. Our Few and Evil Days, Drum Belly Also at the Abbey, he played the title (Abbey Theatre Dublin); The Lightning role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Child, Doctor Faustus, Frontline, We Ui, directed by Jimmy Fay, for which the People (Shakespeare’s Globe he won the Best Actor award at the Theatre); Barnum (UK tour); The Irish Times Theatre Awards. He won Hypochondriac, A Steady Rain, a second Best Actor award at the Home (Bath Theatre Royal); Saved, Irish Times Theatre Awards for his Blasted, Punk Rock, Secret Theatre, 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL The Chair Plays (Lyric Hammersmith); Ladies and Gents, which has toured My Fair Lady, A Number, Blue/ cities throughout the world and, more Orange, Gladiator Games, Sisters recently, for her work on Howie the (Sheffield Crucible); Once a Catholic, Rookie. She was also nominated for a The Field (Tricycle Theatre); Buried Drama Desk Award for her design of Child (Leicester Curve); Ben Rough Magic’s Improbable Frequency Hur, Little Voice (Watermill); The in 2009. Stock Da’wa (Hampstead Studio); Novecento (Donmar Warehouse Recent designs include Macbeth at season at Trafalgar Studios); Orpheus the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Quietly at Descending, 1984, Macbeth, See the Peacock Theatre; The Titanic Boys How They Run (Royal Exchange); for Martin Lynch; The Plough and the Waiting for Godot, Yerma (West Stars for the Abbey Theatre; Greener Yorkshire Playhouse); The Second Mrs. for Landmark Productions; and Dublin- Tanqueray, Treasure Island (set design, ers for the Corn Exchange at the 2012 Rose Theatre, Kingston); Dandy in Dublin Theatre Festival. Other recent the Underworld, Overspill (Soho); theater designs include The Magic Serious Money (Birmingham Rep); Flute for Opera Theatre Company; 16 The Indian Wants the Bronx (Young Possible Glimpses (Abbey); Alice In Vic); Prometheus Bound (Classic Funderland (Abbey); and Faith Healer Stage Company, New York/ Sound (Town Hall, Galway). London); Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse/Tricycle/Bath); A Kind Previous designs include The New of Alaska, A Slight Ache (Gate Electric Ballroom (Druid); The Impor- Theatre); Mammals (Bush Theatre); tance of Being Earnest, Improbable The Changeling, Mother Courage (set Frequency, The Parker Project, Life is design, ETT); Crestfall (Theatre 503); a Dream, Attempts on Her Life, and and Sleeping Beauty (Helix Theatre, Dream of Autumn (Rough Magic); Dublin). October, The Last Days of the Celtic Ti- ger, and Blackbird (Landmark); God’s Opera includes: Intermezzo (Buxton Grace and Adrenalin (Semper Fi); The Festival); Rusalka (English Touring Burial at Thebes, Howie the Rookie, Opera); Sweetness and Badness and Finders Keepers (Peacock); Circus (Welsh National Opera); and The (Barabbas); Private Lives (Gate The- Magic Flute (National Theatre of atre); and Honor (b*spoke). Palestine). She has also designed Macbeth, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Othello, SINÉAD MCKENNA and How Many Miles to Babylon Lighting Designer (Second Age); All Over Town and Wunderkind (Calipo); and Hencefor- Sinéad McKenna is one of Ireland’s ward (Derby Playhouse). For Gúna Nua most in-demand lighting designers. she designed Skindeep, Scenes from a She has won the prestigious Irish Watercooler, The Real Thing, and Din- Times Theatre Award for Best Light- ner with Friends. For The Performance ing Design twice: for Semper Fi’s 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Corporation she designed Candide and original music for the Abbey Theatre’s The Butterfly Ranch.