stage kiss program

GIL CATES THEATER AT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

SARAH RUHL HAS ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCT voices in contemporary American theater. Wry, funny, understated,

often blurring the lines between the real and the surreal, she has aptly

described her plays as “three-dimensional poems.” I have long looked

forward to introducing Geffen audiences to her work. I am delighted to

welcome Sarah for the first time with Stage Kiss and to have longtime

Geffen collaborator Bart DeLorenzo helming the production. Bart last

directed for us in 2014 with Steven Drukman’s Death of the Author.

Frothy and contemplative by turns, Stage Kiss follows two long-

estranged former lovers who are cast in a revival of a 1930s melodrama

to play — what else? — long-estranged former lovers starting a heady

affair. Through an uncomfortable reunion turned reignited flame, the

play delves into questions of artifice versus reality and asks what it

means to enact intimacy onstage. Is life imitating art here, or is it the

other way around? And is a kiss ever really “just” a kiss?

Bart has brought together a team of designers who masterfully transport

us backstage, onstage, offstage, and back again, and an incredibly

talented cast of actors who have gamely tackled not one but two plays-

within-the-play. At once a delicious, wickedly clever send-up of theatrical

tropes and a love letter to the strange, ephemeral art form to which

theater artists dedicate their lives, Stage Kiss seeks both to charm and to

hold the mirror up to our fascination with playing pretend.

As always, I am thrilled to welcome you to the Gil Cates Theater — whether

it be for the first time or the fiftieth.

Enjoy the show!

Randall Arney ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P1

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WELCOME TO THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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WELCOME TO STAGE KISS IN THE GIL CATES THEATER! I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for being a part of the

Geffen Playhouse family this year — our 20th anniversary season —

whether you’re a long-time subscriber, donor or new to the theater. As

we reflect on the past 20 years and look toward a bright and expanding

future, it is with much enthusiasm and pride that I share with you an

important update on the future of the organization. This year, we are

launching the public phase of our Legacy Fund campaign, which will

ensure the stability and longevity of this theater. The Legacy Fund has

been made possible by extraordinary leadership gifts pledged during

the initial phase of the campaign this past year, along with a significant

challenge grant generously provided by David Geffen. Still, this is just

the beginning. To learn more about the Legacy Fund, please contact

Regina Miller, our Chief Development Officer, at 310.208.6500 ext. 112 or

[email protected].

Our dreams for the theater continue to grow, as does the critical need in

our community for the type of bold artistic work, innovative education

programming and long-term cultural impact we are committed to

providing. We look forward to expanding our artistic initiatives, building

new partnerships, deepening our community engagement and continuing

to develop new audiences for generations to come.

With sincere gratitude to all of you who have been, and continue to be,

an integral part of the Geffen Playhouse.

Gil Cates, Jr. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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WORLD PREMIERE EVENT BEGINS MAY 3 AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER AT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

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Amy Levinson: Stage Kiss is such a beautiful

examination of life/art/artifice and love. What

inspired you to 1) take on these ideas and 2) use the

theater as a backdrop for the story?

Sarah Ruhl: The idea was very simple. Over the

last decade or so of rehearsing I thought, “What a

strange job, for actors to have to walk into a room

and kiss each other.” And a lot of actors can’t do it

and they fall in love with whoever they’re working

with, and a lot of actors are complete professionals

about it. This all made me curious. I used theater as

a backdrop because it’s my life, but also because

it’s a very available metaphor about the world as a

dream, the world as illusion. It’s an old archetype,

looking at the theater as a microcosm for life.

Shakespeare said it much better: “We are such stuff

as dreams are made on” or “All the world’s a stage.”

I’m always interested in love and whether or not

love is an illusion, and whether or not our lives are

a dream.

When you are mulling over ideas for a play, is there a

certain impulse that moves you to lock in on one and

wait on another? And how do you begin?

I try to mull an idea very quietly and not directly for at

least a year to see if it stays with me. If it has staying

power, I figure it’s worth spending the next couple

years of my life on. How do I begin? With a cup of tea,

and clearing my desk. The hope is that the voice of a

character emerges, and you follow it.

KISSING & TELLINGBY AMY LEVINSON

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SARAH RUHL’S STAGE KISS IS A PLAY WITHIN A PLAY WITHIN A PLAY. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF SPEAKING TO SARAH AND DIRECTOR BART DeLORENZO ABOUT THAT WHICH DREW THEM TO THE IDEAS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS LOVE LETTER TO THE THEATER, AND HOW EACH LAYER OF MAKE-BELIEVE CULMINATED IN SOMETHING SO TRULY PROFOUND. HERE’S WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY.


In your description of the settings for each scene in

the play, you are very specific about what is “real”

and what is “of the stage.” Can you talk a bit about

this idea and how it manifests in a design?

Because the play is about the nature of illusion, there

are some subtle jokes in the set about how we create

illusions in the theater. My hope is that the beginning

and the end are in the empty space of the theater

itself — one of my favorite places to be — a place of

possibility and transformation.

Do you think of this play as romantic?

Absolutely! In a way I suppose you could argue that

it’s anti-romantic — that it debunks certain illusions

about memory and love — but I think ultimately it’s

about the romance of marriage, how to maintain the

romance of marriage, and also the romance of the

theater itself.

When a play has been produced multiple times, as

this one has, do you feel you still have things to learn

from each new incarnation/production?

Always. Every new group of actors brings a new

chemistry and inflection. It’s one thing I love about

writing plays — there’s an elasticity in the form that

allows stretch and give for every new incarnation,

and the play becomes a new play every time if

you’re lucky.

A NOTE FROM DIRECTOR BART DeLORENZO

THERE ARE SO MANY TRADITIONS IN THE THEATER — AND MANY OF THEM I LOVE — BUT WHEN THE CURTAIN RISES IN A SARAH RUHL PLAY, I THINK IRONICALLY THERE ARE NO RULES.Absolutely anything can happen. Her plays always

feel like she’s making them up on the spot and I need

to let go and become a child again watching my first

play. She paints the world as this crazy, mysterious

place filled with strange people where everything

is always changing. Her characters never seem to

know what they’re doing or why they’re doing it and

are often the most astonished by their own behavior.

That’s something I really recognize.

And like life, these plays keep veering from

comedy to poetry to farce and then to some weird

mix that you’ve never quite felt before. I think Sarah

uses all the tools in the box when she writes —

different styles and forms, whatever draws her — to

try to capture this strange experience of living, and

I think this freedom makes her plays especially fresh

and rich.

So Stage Kiss is set in my favorite place: the

theater. That weird temple where reality and illusion

meet. Where we all pretend an empty rehearsal

room is a Manhattan penthouse and a paper cup

is a glass of champagne. This story is fun because

it shows the audience a play’s entire journey from

auditions to opening night, and we watch as the

homely stand-in objects and clothes gradually

become their dazzling, “real” performance versions.

It’s a wildly optimistic evocation of progress.

But of course even then, the theatrical walls are

only painted on the side the audience sees and

the champagne glass is only molded plastic and

not the cut crystal it’s pretending to be. I love the

crazy juxtapositions of the theater and with this

production we’ve tried to celebrate this embrace of

reality and illusion. Like a stage kiss itself.

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THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF


Opening Night: Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Directed by Bart DeLorenzo

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS

Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Jason & Yvonne Lee • Gail & Andrew Roth

Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin • Miranda & Brett Tollman

Scenic Designer Keith Mitchell

Costume Designer David Kay Mickelsen

Composer & Sound Designer John Ballinger

Lighting Designer Lap Chi Chu

Written by Sarah Ruhl

Production Stage Manager Jennifer Brienen

Casting Director Phyllis Schuringa, CSA

Assistant Stage Manager Cate Cundiff

Fight Director Peter Katona

OPENING N IGHT SPONSORS

Stage Kiss is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Originally produced by the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois on May 9, 2011

Robert Falls, Artistic Director, Roche Schulter, Executive Director

Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the New York City premiere of Stage Kiss Off-Broadway in 2014

MED IA SPONSOR


CAST OF CHARACTERS(In alphabetical order)

The Director ......................................................................................................................................... Tim Bagley

Millicent / Laurie ........................................................................................................................... Melody Butiu

The Husband ............................................................................................................................ Stephen Caffrey

He ............................................................................................................................................. Barry Del Sherman

She .................................................................................................................................................... Glenne Headly

Angela / Millie / Maid .................................................................................................................. Emily James

Kevin / Butler / Doctor / Pimp ............................................................. Matthew Scott Montgomery

SETTING The Theater

RUNNING TIME Approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes There will one 15 minute intermission.

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TIM BAGLEY (The Director)Tim Bagley makes his Geffen Playhouse debut with Stage Kiss. Theater highlights: Under My Skin (Pasadena Playhouse), Underneath The Lintel (Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara), Four Places (Ovation, LA Drama Critics Circle and Garland awards, Rogue Machine Theatre), The Receptionist (Odyssey Theatre), Beverly Winwood Presents… (Groundlings Theatre), The Groundlings main company (two LA Weekly awards). Tim wrote and performed three one person shows, No Actors Allowed (Groundlings Theatre), Clean Boy Dirty Stories (U.S. Comedy Arts Festival), Happy Hour (Jury award, best one person show, U.S. Comedy Arts Festival). Currently recurs on Teachers and Grace and Frankie. Other television highlights: Transparent, Mr. Robinson, The Comeback, Web Therapy, Shameless, Southland, Grimm, Monk and Will & Grace. Film highlights: Imperfect Sky, Blind Malice, This Is 40, Knocked Up, Finding Bliss, Employee of the Month, The Day After Tomorrow, Happy Texas and The Mask. Twitter: @iamtimbagley. Website: timbagley.com.

MELODY BUTIU (Millicent/Laurie)Melody is delighted to return to the Geffen, after a few years in New York and time recently in San Francisco. Geffen Playhouse: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment — The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) (also at South Coast Repertory/Actors Theatre of Louisville), Nightmare Alley. She made her Broadway debut in Doctor Zhivago, and earned critical acclaim for her role as Estrella Cumpas in David Byrne’s Here Lies Love at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical). Regional Theater includes: Monstress (American Conservatory Theater), Land of Smiles (Thailand), Helen and Hippolytos (Getty Villa), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (South Coast Repertory/Actors Theatre of Phoenix), A Perfect Wedding (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Long Story Short (San Diego Repertory), A Little Night Music, Theory of Everything and Golden Child (East West Players), Calligraphy (Playwrights’ Arena), 36 Views (Laguna Playhouse/Portland Center Stage), Dogeaters and Boy (La Jolla Playhouse). Film/Television includes: Rizzoli & Isles, Major Crimes, Modern Family, Gotham, NCIS, Untold and Blood Ransom, to name a few. Thanks to SLJ and Ellis Talent Group. As always, for Alan. More at www.melodybutiu.com.

STEPHEN CAFFREY (The Husband)Last seen at the Geffen in Yes, Prime Minister. Some others include: Red (Geva Theatre and PlayMakers Repertory); Galileo (Cleveland Playhouse); One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (Portland Centre Stage); Victoria Musica (Cincinnati Playhouse); The Constant Wife (Pasadena Playhouse); Bach at Leipzig (South Coast Repertory); Heartbreak House (Berkeley Rep); The Voysey Inheritance, The Real Thing, A Doll’s House (American Conservatory Theater); Thirty Six Views (Laguna Playhouse); The Body Of Bourne (Mark Taper Forum); All’s Well That Ends Well (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Bargains (The Old Globe); The Miser (Hartford Stage); I Hate Hamlet (The Royal George); What You Get & Expect (New York Theatre Workshop); King Lear, Henry IV, Autumn Garden (Anteaus); Scarlet Letter (Classic Stage Company); The Cost Of Doing Business (Met Theatre); and Restoration Comedy (Seattle Repertory Theatre), among others. Film & Television: American Odyssey (NBC, recurring); Cinema Verite (HBO); CSI: Miami, Columbo, Tour Of Duty (CBS, series regular); Longtime Companion; Chicago Hope; All My Children (series regular); Buried Alive; The Profiler; The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles; Nothing Lasts Forever; Blowback; Showtime; Murder of Innocence; Seinfeld (yada, yada).

BARRY DEL SHERMAN (He)Barry is just really great. Last at the Geffen with Merton of the Movies and last with Bart at the Odyssey as Trivlan in The False Servant where he also played “Ivanov.” Appeared Off-Broadway at theaters such as Circle Rep, Second Stage Theatre, the Public Theater, Naked Angels, as well as Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons and Women’s Project Theater. Won an Obie for Marlane Meyer’s The Mystery of Attraction at the Tribeca Playhouse. He has also appeared at Portland Center Stage for The Imaginary Invalid; Magic Theatre in San Francisco for Why Things Burn, Light Up The Sky at the La Jolla Playhouse, The Projectionist by Michael Sargent at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, directed by Bart Delorenzo, as well as The Old Globe, The Met, Actor’s Gang, and let’s not forget “Nestor” in Wilfredo by Wes Walker for Padua Playwrights. Television credits: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, CSI: NY, 10-8: Officers on Duty, Cracker and The Bridge. Film credits include American Beauty, There Will Be Blood, On The Road, Night Moves and Yosemite. Born in Fontana, though knows no one there.


GLENNE HEADLY (She)Glenne Headly was raised in NYC but began her professional theatrical career as an ensemble member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she received four Joseph Jefferson awards. Her theater work elsewhere includes (Off-Broadway): Balm in Gilead, The Philanthropist, The Jacksonian, Arms & The Man; Fish in The Dark (Broadway); Aunt Dan & Lemon (London); Detachments (L.A.); and My Brilliant Divorce (Galway). Her film work includes Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dick Tracy, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Mortal Thoughts, Breakfast of Champions, What’s The Worst That Could Happen, Comeback Season, The Amateurs, ‘The Joneses and Don Jon, among others. Television credits include Pronto, And The Band Played On, On Golden Pond, Lonesome Dove (Emmy Nomination) and Bastard Out of Carolina (Emmy Nomination). She will next be seen in the HBO’s Criminal Justice and the film The Circle. She is delighted to return to the Geffen, where she last appeared in The Jacksonian.

EMILY JAMES(Angela/Mille/Maid)Emily is overjoyed to be making her debut at the Geffen Playhouse. A Kentucky native, Emily studied at the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville and then moved on to get a BFA in Acting from California State University, Fullerton. Since graduation in 2015, she has had the privilege to perform on a few amazing L.A. stages. Last spring she was seen at South Coast Repertory in the world premiere of Mr. Wolf (directed by David Emmes). Her most recent endeavors include the title role in Antigone at A Noise Within (directed by Robertson Dean) and the world premiere of Colony Collapse by Stefanie Zadravec (directed by Jessica Kubzansky).

MATTHEW SCOTT MONTGOMERY(Kevin/Butler/Doctor/Pimp)Theater: L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Performance by an Actor, Back Stage West Garland Award for Best Actor, and Ovation Nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Kendall Parker in Yellow (LA Weekly Awards’ Best Ensemble, Back Stage Garland Awards’ Best Production/Ensemble) written and directed by Del Shores (Coast Playhouse),

The Young Playwrights Festival (The Blank Theatre, 2014 & 2015), Spring Awakening (The Production Company), Revolver (Celebration Theatre) and Friends Like These (Theatre Unleashed). Film/Television: Del Shores’s Southern Baptist Sissies opposite Dale Dickey and Leslie Jordan; Sonny With a Chance/So Random, Austin & Ally and Shake It Up! (Disney Channel); Night of the Living Fred (Nickelodeon); and Expecting a Miracle (Hallmark Movie Channel). Web: AwesomenessTV, Go90’s Betch and the upcoming second season of the critically-acclaimed webseries Nasty Habits. Also cohost of the iTunes podcast Welcome to DeadCast: The Goosebumps Podcast with over 29K subscribers. IG: matthew_scott_montgomery. Twitter: @irobotyoujane.

SARAH RUHL (Playwright)Sarah Ruhl’s plays include For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday; The Oldest Boy; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; The Clean House; Passion Play; Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Melancholy Play; Eurydice; Orlando; Late: a cowboy song; Dear Elizabeth and Stage Kiss. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee. Her plays have been produced on Broadway at the Lyceum, by Lincoln Center Theater, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre and at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country, often with premieres at Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman Theatre and the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago. In 2014 she was the second most produced playwright in the country. Her plays have also been produced internationally and have been translated into over twelve languages. Originally from

Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. She has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Whiting Award, the Lily Award, a PEN award for mid-career playwrights and the MacArthur “genius” award. You can read more about her work on www.SarahRuhlplaywright.com. Her book of essays 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was published by Faber and Faber last fall. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her family.

BART DeLORENZO(Director)Founding Artistic Director of the Evidence Room Theater in Los Angeles. At the Geffen, he directed the premieres of Death of the Author, Coney Island Christmas, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment — The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself), and Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. His recent productions with Evidence Room include Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, The False Servant, Annapurna, Ivanov, Margo Veil and The Receptionist, produced with the Odyssey Theater. Other recent directing includes Annapurna with The New Group (Off-Broadway); tokyo fish story, Fast Company, Doctor Cerberus, and Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone at South Coast Repertory; Women in Jeopardy at the Ensemble Theater of Santa Barbara; Need to Know at Rogue Machine; Cymbeline at A Noise Within; and The Night Watcher at Washington’s Studio Theatre. He is on the faculty at CalArts. For his work, he has received LA Drama Critics Circle Awards including the Milton Katselas Award for career achievement, LA Weekly awards, Back Stage Garlands and TCG’s Alan Schneider Director Award.

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KEITH MITCHELL(Scenic Designer)Recent projects include Women Laughing Alone With Salad at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; I Am My Own Wife with Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre; and Venus in Fur and Fast Company at South Coast Repertory. Keith has designed LA Philharmonic’s SummerSounds at The Hollywood Bowl for over 10 years. Other local design credits include productions for Disney Hall, CTG, A Noise Within, the Getty Villa, 24th Street Theatre and Falcon Theatre, including The Value of Names, with the late Jack Klugman, an Ovation Award winner for Scenic Design. Keith is an Emmy Award and Broadcast Design Award winning Art Director. His work includes national advertising and promotional campaigns for Nissan, Kohl’s, Got Milk, the television shows American Horry Story, The Voice and The Tonight Show and the upcoming 2016 Olympics. He is a graduate of USC, Annenberg.

DAVID KAY MICKELSEN(Costume Designer)Mr. Mickelsen returns to the Geffen Playhouse having previously designed Outside Mullingar, The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty, The Female of the Species, All My Sons and Paint Your Wagon. He has designed over 300 productions at many regional theaters across the country. Companies include South Coast Repertory; Pasadena Playhouse; The Old Globe; Laguna Playhouse; The Guthrie Theater; Ford’s Theatre; Berkeley Rep; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Northlight Theatre Company; The Oregon, Colorado, Illinois and Utah Shakespeare Festivals; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Arizona, Pioneer, and Geva Theatre Companies; Tennessee, San Diego, New

Mexico, Missouri, and St. Louis Repertory Theatres; Williamstown and Sundance Theatre Festivals; and the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis. Originally from Canby, Oregon, Mr. Mickelsen now makes his home in Long Beach, California.

LAP CHI CHU(Lighting Designer)Regional designs include Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, and Portland Center Stage. New York design credits include the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Performance Space 122 and Kitchen Theatre Company. He is the lighting/video designer for ChameckiLerner Dance Company (Costumes by God, Visible Content, Hidden Forms, I Mutantes Seras, Por Favor and Não Me Deixe), which has performed in the United States and Brazil. Awards have included the LA Drama Critic’s Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a “Drammy” for best lighting, as well as a Lucille Lortel nomination for The Good Negro at the Public Theater. Mr. Chu is on the lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts.

JOHN BALLINGER (Composer/Sound Designer)John is an award-winning composer/sound designer based in Los Angeles. Notable collaborations include Fast Company, The Borrowers and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at South Coast Repertory; Annapurna at the The New Group; Joan Rivers: A Work in

Progress by a Life in Progress, Coney Island Christmas, Death of the Author and Switzerland at the Geffen Playhouse; Cymbeline at A Noise Within; Justin Love at Celebration Theater; Songs & Dances of Imaginary Lands, The Woman Who Forgot Her Sweater and Celebration of the Lizard for O-lan Jones’ Overtone Industries; Echo’s Hammer, 1001, The Government Inspector and Missing Pages at Theatre @ Boston Court; The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King at Ensemble Studio Theatre - Los Angeles; Ken Roht’s 99 cent Only Holiday spectacles at The Evidence Room and Bootleg Theater; The Breakup Notebook at ReVision Theater New Jersey; F***ing Hipsters: the Musical at Signature Theatre (NYMF).

PETER KATONA(Fight Director)Peter is honored to make his return to the Geffen Playhouse after his recent work as Fight Director for Barcelona, directed by Trip Cullman. Primarily an actor, Peter received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He has worked as a professional fight director since 2001 and was a long-time assistant to Rick Sordelet. He was substitute stage combat instructor at Yale Drama and Neighborhood Playhouse for four years and worked fights on numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway and many major regional productions. Peter is a Fox Foundation Fellow: Ancient Italian Rapier Fencing (Italy), Peking Opera Sword Dancing/Acrobatics (China) and Ancient Spanish Rapier (NYC).

JENNIFER BRIENEN (Production Stage Manager)Geffen Playhouse: Next Fall, The Escort, The Break of Noon, Ruined, Thurgood, Nightmare Alley, Female of the Species, Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas, Farragut North, The Seafarer, Joan Rivers: A Work in

Progress by a Life in Progress, Atlanta, Third. Jennifer has also stage managed at Center Theatre Group (Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre), Ojai Playwrights Conference and the Disneyland Resort. Recently, she worked at Thinkwell Group as a Design Manager and taught Stage Management I for the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Jennifer is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and IATSE 504. She graduated with a B.F.A. in Stage Management from the University of Southern California.

CATE CUNDIFF (Assistant Stage Manager)Cate is thrilled to be back at the Geffen! Select Los Angeles stage management credits include Murder for Two, Switzerland, Death of the Author, The Break of Noon (Geffen Playhouse); This, Venice (Center Theatre Group); Memphis (Cabrillo Music Theatre); When You’re in Love the Whole World is Jewish, Salam Shalom, Good Bobby (Greenway Court Theatre); When You Wish (Pat Boone/Dean McClure/The Freud Theatre); ModRock (El Portal); Man of La Mancha, Godspell, Jesus Chris Superstar (GPC/The Brehm Center); Dissonance (The Falcon). Cate has stage managed workshops, festivals, award shows, and events in Los Angeles. In addition to working as a stage manager, Cate has experience in company management, arts admin, and producing for theaters in L.A. and New York. A New Orleans native, Cate attended the University of Louisiana. Proud Equity member. Love to family and friends.

PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting Director) Phyllis has been the casting director at Geffen Playhouse for 12 years and now is also the Artistic Associate. Recent plays at the Geffen include Outside Mullingar, These Paper

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Bullets!, Bad Jews, The Night Alive, Switzerland, The Country House, Wait Until Dark and American Buffalo. Before joining the team at the Geffen, she was the casting director for Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago where her favorites include Frank Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath (also La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre in London, and Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Play), the original production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (and subsequent productions including Westwood Playhouse and Briar Street Theater in Chicago), Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow and Charles L. Mee’s Time to Burn. Broadway transfers include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award for Best Revival) and The Song of Jacob Zulu. She teaches auditioning at Steppenwolf West and is a member of the Casting Society of America.

RANDALL ARNEY (Artistic Director)Randall Arney has been a theater professional for over 30 years and has served as Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse since 1999. In addition to his artistic programming and oversight at the Geffen, Arney has helmed many productions for the theater, most recently Outside Mullingar, The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty, Slowgirl, American Buffalo, Superior Donuts, The Female of the Species, The Seafarer, Speed-the-Plow and All My Sons. Arney is an ensemble member and former Artistic Director of

Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre where his directing credits include: Slowgirl, The Seafarer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death and the Maiden, Curse of the Starving Class, Killers and The Geography of Luck, among others. Arney also directed Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, as well as the subsequent national and international acclaimed productions. Mr. Arney’s acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday, Ghost in the Machine, The Homecoming, Frank’s Wild Years, You Can’t Take it with You, Fool for Love, True West, Balm in Gilead and Coyote Ugly. As the Artistic Director for Steppenwolf from 1987 to 1995, he oversaw the creation of a new state-of-the-art theater which is Steppenwolf’s current home. Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations) and The Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney has an M.F.A. degree in Acting from Illinois State University and has taught master classes and workshops at UCLA, Steppenwolf, around the U.S. and in Tokyo.

GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director)Gil Cates, Jr. has proudly served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012 and has years of producing and directing experience in theater, film and television. Gil’s theater credits include the award-winning Names (Matrix Theatre) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey,

The Night I Knocked Out Joe Frazer and Lost 90 Pounds (Gardner Stage Theater), as well as Three Sisters and David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor). In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which won best documentary at the Phoenix Film Festival and later had its premiere Christmas Eve on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning), The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris), and the critically acclaimed independent film Order of Chaos. Gil also made his television directorial debut with an episode of the NBC comedy, Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University in 1991.

REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer)Regina has been a development professional for over 18 years, working

with non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has worked for Simon Wiesenthal Center, The Clinton Foundation, Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative, Hank Azaria’s Determined to Succeed, Charlize Theron's Africa Outreach Project, Water.org, Codenow.org among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Regina also has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York. From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program which incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as wrote and produced a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad.


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Wig Designer April Metcalf

Assistant Scenic Designers Pete Hickok and Juliana de Abreu

Assistant Costume Designer Maggie McFarland

Assistant Lighting Designer Rose Malone

Wardrobe Supervisor Jennifer Foldenauer

Wig Supervisor Danielle Richter

Dresser Bekah Frient

Automations Operator/Stage Crew Kirsten Monson

Stage Crew Tiffany Baker

Production Assistant Mercedes Aponte

Properties Artisan Devin Lennon Davey

Properties Artisan Cami Viand

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Set provided by Scenic Highlights

Lighting Equipment provided by 4Wall Entertainment Lighting

Sound Equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc.

Production Photographer Michael Lamont

Media Filming Four Leaf Media

Key Art Stockholm Design

SPECIAL THANKS

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops; London Cleaners

UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION

Geffen Playhouse is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles,

specifically the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Geffen Playhouse

values its role as an important educational resource by providing students

with master classes, workshops and internships. Students are also able to work

and learn from distinguished visiting Geffen artists such as Alan Ayckbourn,

Jon Robin Baitz, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, David Ives, Neil LaBute, David

Mamet, Donald Margulies, Terrence McNally, John Rando and Kathleen Turner

in areas of directing, playwriting, acting, design, dramaturgy, management and

production. Geffen Playhouse also draws upon the distinguished experts in the

university to enhance the theater’s programs and research.

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or vacate your seat during the

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in the United States.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.



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Barcelona cast member Betty Gilpin with Director Trip Cullman, Playwright Bess Wohl and cast member Carlos Leal

Board member Arthur Greenberg and Chief Development Officer Regina Miller with donors Steve Sauer and Jan Daley

Board member Sam Gores with Board Co-Chair Martha Henderson and guestsCarlos Leal with Susan Fleischer, guest, Board member Mark Fleischer and Executive Director Gil Cates, Jr.

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REKA LENA’S WEARABLE ARTBY KRISTINA LEACH

When Elena Avanesova moved to Los Angeles with her family in 2009, she describes the Geffen Playhouse as her “first cultural discovery.” An artist for over 25 years, her traditional medium was oil painting, but her work has now come to include a unique collection of scarves, wraps and shawls, known as Reka Lena. “Finding new people to introduce your art to can be challenging,” says Avanesova. “However, by turning my art into silk scarves, it gives new life to the work.” Elena’s pieces have been showcased at the Geffen Playhouse during the 2015/2016 season Girls Night Out Signature Series after-party events.

“I appreciate the beauty of human nature. When I create, I create from life.” Elena says, “The theater is like that. The playwrights, actors and designers also work from the same passion of life — the connection is felt through the work.”

This year, you might be seeing some of Elena’s wearable art adorning men’s suits, as she hopes to create a line of uniquely handsome pocket squares. When asked if there was anyone in particular on whom she would love to see one of her scarves, she responded: “My favorite singer, Regina Spektor. I picture her in my ‘Romance in Blue’ scarf with red tulips on blue background.” We can say, with a fair amount of certainty: it’s only a matter of time.

For more information about Elena Avanesova and Reka Lena, visit her website: www.rekalena.com

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JOAN RIVERS:A WORK IN PROGRESS BY A LIFE IN PROGRESSTruth is stranger than fiction: in February of

2008, Joan Rivers brought her life story to the

stage with her singular delivery and signature

skewers. Directed by Bart DeLorenzo (who returns

now for Stage Kiss), the world premiere of this

autobiographical comedy also starred Emily

Kosloski, Adam Kulbersh and Tara Joyce.

FEBRUARY 2008 – MARCH 2008

Randall Arney Artistic Director

Gil Cates, Jr. Executive Director

ARTISTIC

Amy Levinson Artistic Associate / Literary DirectorPhyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting DirectorYoung Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company ManagerRachel Wiegardt-Egel Literary AssociateRebecca Birstock Artistic InternIsabel Espy Artistic InternDJ Woullard Artistic Intern

DEVELOPMENT

Regina Miller Chief Development OfficerEllen Catania Senior Vice President, DevelopmentJessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor RelationsJamie Mikelich Associate Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight ManagerKristen Smith Eshaya Development & Education Programs CoordinatorScott Kriloff Development Concierge ManagerClay Dzygun Development AssociateTaylor Dearden Development AssistantJessie Sherman Development AssistantJustin Baer Development InternAustin Merrill Development InternSophia Jane Wilkof Development Intern

EDUCATION

Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community EngagementCarolyn Marie Wright Manager of Education & Community EngagementMariel Higuera Education AssistantCorky Dominguez, David Guerra, McKenna Kerrigan, Kristina Leach, Connor White Teaching ArtistsRichard Tucker, Jr. Education Intern

ADMINISTRATION

Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial OfficerFrankie Ocasio Executive AssistantPeter Banachowski Accounting and Payroll ManagerSamone Watts Accounts PayableMarguerite Harris Receptionist

PRODUCTION

Daniel Ionazzi Production ManagerJill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company ManagerSam Craven-Griffiths Technical Director Evan Friedman Assistant Technical Director Rich Gilles Properties MasterJames Grabowski House Sound SupervisorDarren Rezowalli Lighting & Video SupervisorRamine Ameli Production Electrician

MARKETING & SALES

Jessica Buzzard Director of Marketing

Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Sponsorships

Brian Dunning Graphic Design Manager

Kevin O’Brien Marketing & Graphics Coordinator

Mark San Filippo Ticket Services Director & Database Administrator

Stephanie Strand Audience Services Manager

Janice Bernal Box Office Manager

Bryan Martin Box Office Manager

Zack Hamra Box Office Assistant Manager

Kaitlin Huwe, Richard Martinez, Cameron Reck, Celia Rivera, Celeste Russi, Alyssa Tyson Box Office Staff

COMMUNICATIONS

Katy Sweet, Pam Giangregorio, Anna Yan Katy Sweet & Associates Public Relations

Sue Fleishman Consultant, September Media

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Karim Bouzzit System Administrator

FRONT OF HOUSE

Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events

David Gerhardt Supervising House Manager

Jane Phillips Harper Deputy Supervising House Manager

Josiah Davis, Brett Donaldson, Amy Farkas, Caroline Harrison Kohler, Nathaniel Meek, Roxana Meyers, Jonathan Schwartz House Managers

Ally Aberrotman, Rebecca Birstock, Kailey Bray, Christopher Caron, Taylor Cerny, Vianney Cossyleon, Taylor Dearden, Ida Herndon, Mariel Higuera, Netta Lee Joseph, Keith Mitchell, Aaron Newman, JoJo Nwoko, Shannon O’Hara, James Porter, Madison Shamoun, Oliver Vaughn, Cody Williams, Dennis Woullard Ushers

Rob Mersola Bar Manager and Mixologist

Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager

Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, David Gregory, Mariel Higuera, Lyndsi LaRose, Kimberly Legg, Ryan Turner Bartenders

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager

Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial

Juan Carlos Umaña Cleaning Custodial


Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

Geffen Playhouse, a not-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.

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