Presents the World Premiere of: Written by Cusi Cram ​ With Dramaturgy by Guy Lancaster ​ Directed by Daniella Topol Sept 5-Oct 13, 2019 ​ NOVENAS FOR A LOST HOSPITAL Written by: Cusi Cram ​ With Dramaturgy by: Guy Lancaster ​ Directed by: Daniella Topol ​ CAST Elizabeth Seton: Kathleen Chalfant ​ Lazarus/Dr. Mott: Ken Barnett ​ Dr. Potter/Antonio/Patient: Leland Fowler ​ JB: Justin Genna ​ Pierre Toussaint/Dr. T: Alvin Keith ​ Sr. Mary Xavier, Sr. Angela, Nurse #1, Flora: Kelly McAndrew ​ Sr. Ulrica, Nurse #2: Natalie Woolams-Torres ​ Ensemble: Goussy Célestin, Steven Jeltsch, Shayne Lebron-Acevedo, Noriko Omichi, Rafael ​ ​ ​ Sánchez, and Laura Vogels ​ ​ Choreographer: Edisa Weeks Associate Director: Em Weinstein ​ ​ Set Designer: Carolyn Mraz Stage Manager: P. Tyler Britt ​ ​ ​ Costume Designer: Ari Fulton Production Manager: Jenny Snyder ​ ​ Lighting Designer: Stacey Derosier Technical Director: Aaron Gonzalez ​ ​ Co-Sound Designers: Brian Hickey & Sinan Zafar Creative Partner: Lannyl Stephens ​ ​ ​ ​ Composer: Serge Ossorguine Casting: Tara Rubin ​ ​ Props Designer: Rhys Alexander Publicity: John Wyszniewski/Everyman Agency ​ ​ Dialect Coach: Amanda Quaid Graphic Design: Naomi Usher/Studio Usher ​ ​ Nurse Dramaturg: Fidel Lim ​ Presented in partnership with: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and ​ Transgender Community Center, NYC AIDS Memorial Board, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, PrEP4All, St. John's in the Village, Village Preservation, and Visual AIDS. ​ ​ Assistant Choreographer: Jasmine Oton Asst. Stage Manager: Carolina Arboleda ​ ​ Movement Assistant: Steven Jeltsch Asst. Prod. Manager: Guillermo Contreras ​ ​ Asst. Set Designer: Pricilla Alpizar Singing Coach: Robin Freeman ​ ​ Asst. Costume Designer: Illana Breitnan Wardrobe Supervisor: Sarah Gallegos ​ ​ Asst. Lighting Designer: Tyler Dubuc Master Electrician: Joe D’Emilio ​ ​ Assistant to Composer: Noah Penkrat Production Assistant: Sydney Haas ​ ​ ​ Enjoy Happy Hour rates for drinks at Fiddlesticks Pub & Grill before and ​ ​ after our shows! Just present your ticket or program. Fiddlesticks is just two blocks away at 56 Greenwich Ave. ​ ​ ARTIST BIOS CUSI CRAM (Playwright) Cram’s plays have been produced by LAByrinth Theater Company, Primary ​ Stages, The Denver Center, South Coast Repertory, The Williamstown Theater Festival, New Georges, and on stages large and petite all over the country. She has written on numerous television programs for both kids and adults and been nominated for three Emmy Awards. She is currently an Assistant Arts Professor in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU. She has lived on West 11th street for over 25 years. GUY LANCASTER (Dramaturg) learned a lot about New York as a proofreader for The New York ​ Observer. He has written for the WGBH children’s series, Arthur, and the NBC/Time Life series, Lost ​ ​ ​ Civilizations. Other recent NY obsessions include the NYC telephone booth and the Flatiron district (for ​ Sage Coombe architects); NY State politics and the MTA (for different activist groups); and Hart Island (upcoming performance, Hudson River Park AIDS Memorial). But it has been through the prism of St Vincent’s that he has understood the history of the Village and NYC most intimately in the past two years. He has lived here on one street or another for almost 30 years. DANIELLA TOPOL (Director) World-premiere productions include: Martyna ​ Majok’sIronbound(Rattlestick; Roundhouse; Steppenwolf’s First Look, NY Times Critics’ Pick), ​ ​ (Not)Water, co-created with Sheila Callaghan (New Georges/3LD), Jessica Dickey’s Charles Ives Take ​ ​ Me Home(Rattlestick) and Row After Row(Women’s Project), Cori Thomas’s When January Feels Like ​ ​ ​ ​ Summer(Ensemble Studio Theatre/P73/Women’s Proj; NY Times Critics’ Pick), Sheila Callaghan’s Dead ​ ​ City(New Georges) and Lascivious Something(Women’s Project), Catherine Treischmann’s How the ​ ​ ​ ​ World Began(South Coast Rep and Women’s Project), Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India(MaYi and Magic). ​ ​ ​ Daniella has been the Artistic Director of Rattlestick since April 2016. CAST BIOS KATHLEEN CHALFANT (Elizabeth Seton) BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk ​ ​ ​ nominations), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. OFF-BROADWAY: Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer ​ ​ ​ ​ Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Obie Awards), For Peter Pan on Her 70th ​ Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nomination), Talking Heads (Obie Award), Nine Armenians ​ ​ ​ ​ (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award). LONDON & LOS ANGELES: Ovation Awards for ​ ​ Wit and Red Dog Howls. FILM: Isn’t it Delicious?, MURDER and murder, Five Corners, Duplicity, Kinsey, ​ ​ ​ ​ and Bob Roberts. SELECT TELEVISION “High Maintainance,” “The Affair,” “The Strain,” “The ​ ​ Americans,” “House of Cards,” “The Book of Daniel,” “One Life to Live”; “Madam Secretary,” “Elementary. AWARDS: 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, 2004 Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the League of Professional Women, and the 2018 Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement. She received the Drama League and Sidney Kingsley Awards and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Cooper Union. KEN BARNETT (Lazarus/Dr. Mott) Fun Home, Wonderful Town, The Green Bird. Off-Broadway: Cradle ​ ​ ​ ​ Will Rock (Classic Stage), America Is Hard To See (HERE), The Light Years (Playwrights’ Horizons); ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Plenty, Fortress of Solitude, February House (Public Theater); Too Much Sun (Vineyard); La Ronde ​ ​ ​ ​ (HERE--Best Actor, Fringe Award); Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street); The Whore of Sheridan Square (La ​ ​ ​ ​ Mama—NYIT Award nomination). Regional favorites: The Waves, Private Lives, True West, Gentleman’s ​ Guide to Love & Murder (CT Critic’s Circle Award/San Diego Critics Circle Nomination), Next Fall, Burn ​ ​ This, Merrily We Roll Along. TV roles include "Godfather of Harlem”, “The Good Fight”,“American Crime ​ Story: Versace”, Christophe on “Mozart in the Jungle”, “House of Cards”, “High Maintenance”, “The Knick”, “Mad Men”. Films include Lavender (Sundance & SXSW 2019, acquired by Fox Searchlight), ​ ​ Friends With Kids, People Like Us, Puccini for Beginners. www.kenbarnett.net & @kbnyc ​ GOUSSY CÉLESTIN (Ensemble) Haitian-American artist Goussy Célestin interchanges the roles of ​ ​ ​ pianist, composer, vocalist, dancer, and arranger with ease. She is a faculty member at Jazz at Lincoln Center, a mother of two sons - her "greatest creative compositions,” and is honored to reprise her role in Novenas for a Lost Hospital. LELAND FOWLER (Dr. Potter/Antonio/Patient) Off-Broadway: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka ​ ​ (Playwrights Horizons); Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public); Measure for Measure ​ ​ ​ (TFANA). Regional: Skeleton Crew (Westport Country Playhouse, Dorset Theatre Festival); Protect the ​ ​ ​ Beautiful Place (McCarter Theatre Center); Seven Guitars (Yale Rep); The Taming of the Shrew, Tiny ​ ​ ​ ​ Houses (Chautauqua Theatre Company); Songs to Grow On and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Alliance ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Theatre). TV: “City On A Hill.” BA: Morehouse College. MFA: Yale School of Drama JUSTIN GENNA (JB) This is Justin Genna’s Rattlestick and Off Broadway Debut. Genna holds an MFA in ​ Acting from the American Conservatory Theater. Regional Credits: Marie, Dancing Still (5th Avenue ​ ​ Theatre), The Little Dog Laughed, Rock of Ages (Summer Repertory Theatre), On The Town (San ​ ​ ​ ​ Francisco Symphony Broadway Cast), The Boy From Oz (Theatre Rhinoceros), A Christmas Carol ​ ​ ​ (American Conservatory Theater). TV/Film: Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019). He has worked with ​ ​ Milwaukee Ballet Company and Oakland Ballet. Genna is part of the local film collective Bad Guru Productions. @jgenna13 justingenna.com ALVIN KEITH (Pierre Toussaint/Dr. T) BROADWAY: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. NEW YORK: Apollo Theater, ​ ​ ​ New Worlds Theater, New Federal Theater, Primary Stages. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company - The Orestia (dir. Michael Khan), Arkansas Rep - Windfall (dir. Jason Alexander), Cincinnati ​ ​ ​ ​ Playhouse, Wooly Mammoth, St. Louis Rep, Swine Palace, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, Guthrie Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Crossroads Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. FILM: Last Fair Deal, Ambition’s Debt, If You Could Say It In Words, Kinsey. TELEVISION: ​ ​ Fosse/Verdon, The Blacklist, Mr. Robot, Trial By Jury. TRAINING: Alabama Shakespeare Festival/UA - ​ MFA Classical Acting; Morehouse College; Public Theater - Shakespeare Lab (dir. Barry Edelstein). STEVEN JELTSCH (Ensemble) is a NYC based artist with a strong foundation in dance/movement and ​ performance art. Along their journey, they've created and performed for international choreographers from Times Square to the ADF stage. As a budding artist, they hope to investigate, dissect, and patchwork an essence of performance, often citing its enigmatic relationship to the present-day interactions of the world. SHAYNE LEBRON-ACEVEDO (Ensemble) was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and is a Brooklyn-based ​ cellist and teaching artist. After partnering with the Department of Education for his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2016, he has taught and performed as a teaching artist in various public schools throughout NYC. Shayne went on to earn a B.M. from CUNY Brooklyn (2012), where he studied with Dr. Frederick Zlotkin. He was then awarded a full-tuition Graduate Assistantship for his M.M. at Ball State University