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FRIENDS, Some of the pleasures we associate with long-form TV, dramas, novels, and sequels — the gradual way characters reveal themselves to us, plots that we enjoy over hours rather than minutes, a growing sense of familiarity with a fictional world — are rare in the theatre, but abundant in The Apple Family Cycle. Each of the plays stand alone, but accrete meaning when experienced as a suite. We produced the first two plays in the cycle in 2013, and reunite the entire acclaimed ensemble to finish the drama. These plays — each of which premiered on the day it is set — are one of the landmark achievements in the American theatre this century. Seldom is such an achievement so quiet and restrained. Richard Nelson has an ear keenly attuned to family talk — to the way that everyday conversation among people who have known each other for decades carries coded guilt, affection, resentment, and understanding. Each of the plays is set on a significant day — but that fact forms just one of the many strands of conversation among this family. Nelson’s interest here is how the political meets the personal in the modern world. And over the eight or so hours of conversation that forms these plays, seemingly insignificant talk begins to take on depth and universal significance, gradually creating a sweet and sad meditation on the act of living. The plays overtly play homage to Chekhov, drama’s great master of everyday profundity and heartache — a playwright more deeply ingrained into the history and sensibility of this theatre than any other. How appropriate, then, that these plays are once again directed by Serge Seiden, who has spent decades here, and who once again offers us a master class in blocking, business, and the craft of realism. Sit back and enjoy your time with the Apples. I hope that this family begins to feel to you like, well, family. YOURS,
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Theoretical physicist meets beekeeper, but the story branches off from there. An intimate and imaginative romance that plays out the infinite possibilities of a single relationship.
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SORRY AND REGULAR SINGING BY RICHARD NELSON DIRECTOR SERGE SEIDEN SET DESIGNER DEBRA BOOTH COSTUME DESIGNER HELEN HUANG LIGHTING DESIGNER DANIEL MACLEAN WAGNER SOUND DESIGNER PALMER HEFFERAN Sorry and Regular Singing are presented by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. Sorry was commissioned by The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Patrick Willingham, Executive Director and received its World Premiere there on November 6, 2012 Regular Singing was commissioned by The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Patrick Willingham, Executive Director and received its World Premiere there on November 22, 2013 Beginning October 28, 2015 in the Milton Theatre.
DRAMATURG ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER WILLIAM E. CRUTTENDEN III* ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER JESSICA SORIANO* PRODUCTION MANAGER JOSH ESCAJEDA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ROB SHEARIN Sorry is generously underwritten by Stanley and Rosemary Marcuss. Regular Singing is generously underwritten by Joan and David Maxwell.
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CAST Barbara | SARAH MARSHALL* Marian | ELIZABETH PIEROTTI* Jane | KIMBERLY SCHRAF* Benjamin | TED VAN GRIETHUYSEN* Richard | RICK FOUCHEUX* Tim | JEREMY WEBB*
SETTING Rhinebeck, NY. November 6, 2012, Election Night and November 22, 2013, the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination Sorry and Regular Singing will be presented without intermissions. UNDERSTUDIES Barbara | CAROL ARTHUR + Marian | PEG NICHOLS + Jane | LAURA DUNLOP + Benjamin and Richard | NICK TORRES + Tim | ZACHARY ROBERTS + * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States +Equity Membership Candidate
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NOTE A NOTE FROM THE DRAMATURG, ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL Oskar Eustis, the Artistic Director of The Public Theater in New York, was frustrated that he hadn’t read any big-cast, big-idea political plays about the current American moment. So he took Richard Nelson out to breakfast and made the pitch: If Nelson was game, Eustis would commission him to write a sprawling, idea-rich play, perhaps a documentary-style chronicle of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nelson listened, and several days later suggested something quite different: four tight-focus plays about an intimate family constellation, responding to the public issues of the time from a personal perspective. “We’ve become used to viewing our politics and our political landscape through the lens of journalists or commentators who are now comedians,” says Nelson. “What has been missing from our political forum is the individual’s voice.” Nelson’s plays set out to shift that dynamic. Each of the plays in The Apple Family Cycle unfolds around a meal in the same room, taking place in roughly real time and in naturalistic dialogue, full of the eddies, switchbacks, and contradictions of family conversation. To add to the project’s sense of immediacy, each play opened at The Public Theater on the day it is set. To add to the play’s historical resonance, each play is set on a day of political and historical significance: Election Day 2010 (That Hopey Changey Thing); September 11, 2011 (Sweet and Sad); Election Day 2012 (Sorry); and the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November 2013 (Regular Singing). Nelson initially called That Hopey Changey Thing a “disposable play,” imagining that it would be interesting to an audience in its first iteration in fall 2010, but ultimately evanescent. As he continued to explore the Apple family’s story, however, the nearhistoricity of the plays has proven compelling—The Public toured all four in rep this past spring—in part because the audience knows that time will knock the edges off the characters’ sense of despair or triumph. From the distance of two or three years, Nelson’s plays reveal themselves to be as much about time, intimacy, and family as they are about the characters’ ebb and flow of political engagement and disillusionment. Instead of the epic political gesture that Eustis first envisioned, The Apple Family Cycle provides a human-sized space to reckon with the promise, annoyance, and potential payoff of life in community with the family’s fellow Americans. “Every scene is a little psalm,” writes critic Scott Brown of Sorry. “I’ve been trying to find words to describe what it felt like to be inside that theater as the election raged noisily outside, what it’s like listening to the Apples speak to each other in inside voices. It was a near-religious feeling of shared citizenship, one of the things theater was invented to foster…. [Nelson’s plays are] more than moments in time: They’re about what comes next, how hard it will be, and how we have no choice but to go through it together.”
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PLAYWRIGHT RICHARD NELSON Over his nearly 40-year career, Richard Nelson has written or adapted over 35 plays and seven screenplays, including his Tony Award-winning musical James Joyce’s The Dead. His plays have been produced on Broadway, Off Broadway, in the West End, by numerous national theatres across Europe, and at major theatres in Japan, Israel, and Russia. Ten of his plays have been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he is an Honorary Associate Artist. The Public Theater commissioned a four-play cycle about the Apple family, which includes That Hopey Changey Thing (Studio, 2013), Sweet and Sad (Studio, 2013), Sorry, and Regular Singing. The plays were nominated for Outstanding Play in Drama Desk Awards, 2014, toured Europe, and were recorded and broadcast on Theater Close-Up on the PBS-affiliate WNET Thirteen. Mr. Nelson’s other plays include Tynan (Studio Theatre, 2011), Principia Scriptoriae (winner of Time Out Award; Studio Theatre, 1989), Farewell to the Theatre, Nikolai and the Others, Frank’s Home, Goodnight Children Everywhere (Olivier Award, Best Play), The General From America, New England, Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination, Best Play), and Some Americans Abroad (Olivier nomination, Best Comedy). He has written the musicals Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, James Joyce’s The Dead (Tony, Best Book of a Musical), and My Life with Albertine. Mr. Nelson has translated numerous plays and co-translated a series of Russian classical plays with the eminent translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. His screenplays include an adaptation of Ethan Frome, starring Liam Neeson and Patricia Arquette, and Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney. His honors include two Obie Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Writers Award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award.
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CAST BIOS SARAH MARSHALL (Barbara) returns to Studio Theatre after last appearing in That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad. Her other Studio credits include Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Prometheus, Betty’s Summer Vacation, Three Sisters, Miss Margarida’s Way, Sylvia, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, The Baltimore Waltz, When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, My Sister in This House, Playing For Time, A Taste Of Honey, The Visit, and Medea. Recently, Ms. Marshall performed in Robert O’Hara’s Zombie: The American at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, where she is a company member. Ms. Marshall has performed at many Washington theaters including Ford’s Theater, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Folger Theatre, The Stage Guild, Signature Theater, and The Kennedy Center. Ms. Marshall has been teaching acting for 30 years and currently teaches at Georgetown University. ELIZABETH PIEROTTI (Marian) previously appeared at Studio Theatre in Sweet and Sad, That Hopey Changey Thing, The Steward of Christendom, and Silence, Cunning, Exile. Other credits include The Women and The Time of Your Life at Arena Stage; The Grapes of Wrath and Inherit the Wind at Ford’s Theatre; The Glass Menagerie and The How and the Why at 1st Stage; Never Swim Alone at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; The Well of Horniness, Shaker Heights, The Art of Dining, Little Criminals, and Beyond the Pale at Source Theatre; After the Orgy, The Supper, and Come and Go at Scena Theatre; The Taming of the Shrew at Washington Shakespeare Company; Marathon 33 at Horizons Theatre; Etta Jenks at Fourth Wall Productions; Under a Mantle of Stars at Contemporary Arts Theatre; and Hubris at New Playwrights Theatre. Ms. Pierotti trained at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory.
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By Karen Zacarías Directed by José Luis Valenzuela September 11 – October 18, 2015 Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright Karen Zacarías (The Book Club Play) infuses the Latin American telenovela genre with music, high drama and burning passion to make for a fast-paced modern comedy. Part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Gold-Standard Musical
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Music, Lyrics and Book by Lionel Bart Directed by Molly Smith October 30, 2015 – January 3, 2016 Bursting with jubilant songs, including “You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two,” “Consider Yourself” and the scrumptious “Food, Glorious Food,” director Molly Smith (Fiddler on the Roof) serves up a musical feast that will have you calling out for “More!” Children’s Theatre Company’s World Premiere of
AKEELAH AND THE BEE
Adapted by Cheryl L. West Based on the Original Screenplay by Doug Atchison Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright November 13 – December 27, 2015 Based on the beloved film, Akeelah and the Bee tells the story of an independent 11-year-old from the Chicago projects taking on the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s World Premiere of
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By Lynn Nottage Directed by Kate Whoriskey January 15 – February 21, 2016 This gripping world premiere by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined) explores America’s industrial decline at the turn of the millennium.
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THE CITY OF CONVERSATION By Anthony Giardina Directed by Doug Hughes January 29 – March 6, 2016
Politics and family make for polarizing bedfellows in this “smart, literate and funny” (New York Times) new play where a Georgetown hostess plays king-maker, opening her home for political foes to lay down arms and raise a glass.
A Personal Musical Journey
THE LION
Written and Performed by Benjamin Scheuer Directed by Sean Daniels In Association with Eva Price February 26 – April 10, 2016
Some stories have to be sung. Writer/performer Benjamin Scheuer has created a wholly original musical experience that tells a coming-of-age story that “lifts the spirit” (Time Out New York). Much like its hero, The Lion roars. Tony-Winning Drama
ALL THE WAY
By Robert Schenkkan Directed by Kyle Donnelly April 1 – May 8, 2016 It’s not personal, it’s politics. Go All the Way with LBJ, Martin Luther King Jr., J. Edgar Hoover and more in this “sure-fire, action-packed hit” (Huffington Post). Winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play. Pulitzer-Winning Drama
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By Ayad Akhtar Directed by Timothy Douglas April 22 – May 29, 2016 Don’t miss this “breathtaking, raw and blistering” (AP) Pulitzer winner about the clash between modern culture and ancient faiths, filled “with fresh currents of dramatic electricity” (New York Times). ADD-ON EVENT World-Premiere Play
ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT’S END
By Allison Engel and Margaret Engel Directed by David Esbjornson October 9 – November 8, 2015
From the creators of Red Hot Patriot comes a delightful look at one of America’s most beloved voices, who captured the frustrations of a generation by asking, “If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?” Part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival.
KIMBERLY SCHRAF (Jane) has appeared in a number of Studio Theatre productions in her 30 years as a Washington actor, including the first two Apple Family plays (That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad), The Women, Skylight, The Bacchae, Frozen, and Crestfall. Other area productions include The Laramie Project, Our Town, Sabrina Fair, and The Carpetbagger’s Children at Ford’s Theater; Ah, Wilderness!, The Women, and Molly Sweeney at Arena Stage; Measure for Pleasure (Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Gigli Concert, Freedomland, and Watbanaland at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Show Boat (Helen Hayes Award nomination) and Angels in America, Parts I and II at Signature Theatre; After the Fall, Mikveh, and Hannah and Martin at Theater J; The Misanthrope, Better Living, and A Prayer for Owen Meany at Round House Theatre; and Proof, You Can’t Take It With You, Going to Saint Ives, and Light Up the Sky at Everyman Theatre. Her television credits include Homicide: Life on the Street. Ms. Schraf will appear next in The Sisters Rosensweig at Theater J. TED van GRIETHUYSEN (Benjamin) has appeared at Studio Theatre in That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad (Helen Hayes Award), The Habit of Art, The Walworth Farce, Moonlight, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Invention of Love, A Number, The Steward of Christendom, and The Life of Galileo, a role he also played in London, both productions directed by David Salter. He was recently seen in the West End in three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams. A member of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s permanent acting company since 1987, he has appeared in more than 50 productions, including as Philip II in Don Carlos, John of Gaunt in Richard II, the title role in King Lear, Prospero in The Tempest, Andrew Undershaft in Major Barbara, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night, also at the McCarter Theatre. He spent twenty-five years in New York, appearing on Broadway in Gore Vidal’s Romulus, The Moon Besieged, and Inadmissible Evidence (Drama Desk Award). In 1968, he and his wife Rebecca Thompson founded the Opposites Company, an acting company based on the Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel. He has taught acting privately in New York and at Columbia University, the University of South Carolina, and Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the recipient of seven Helen Hayes Awards, the Will Award, and the Richard Bauer Award for Outstanding Contribution to Washington Theatre.
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RICK FOUCHEUX (Richard) previously appeared at Studio Theatre in That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Far East, and Take Me Out. He was recently featured in Signature Theatre’s acclaimed revival of Cabaret, and last year in Freud’s Last Session at Theater J and Awake and Sing at the Olney Theatre Center, both directed by Serge Seiden. Mr. Foucheux is a company member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and also appears regularly at Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Round House Theatre, where he will appear next spring with Sarah Marshall in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. He is a Helen Hayes Award recipient, a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow of the Ten Chimneys Foundation, and teaches acting at George Washington University. JEREMY WEBB (Tim) returns to Studio Theatre, after appearing in That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad. His previous DC credits include The Visit at Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes Award nomination) and both the title role in Don Juan and Victor in Private Lives at Shakespeare Theatre Company. New York credits include The Visit on Broadway/Actor’s Fund, The Glorious Ones at Lincoln Center Theater (Original Cast Recording), Tabletop for The Working Theatre (Drama Desk Award), The Baltimore Waltz at Signature Theatre, Photograph 51 at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Reading Under The Influence at DR2 Theater, and BFF for Women’s Expressive Theatre. His regional credits include productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, LA Theatre Works, and Hangar Theatre. His film and television credits include Law and Order (guest star, twice), Law and Order: Criminal Intent (twice), Law and Order: SVU, Guiding Light, and Love Walked In. Mr. Webb is a graduate of The Drama School, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Early morning of November 6, 2012 “Cash Advantage for Romney as Campaigns Enter Final Weeks” October 20, 2012
“Challenge to Wiretaps is Heard by Justices” October 30, 2012
“Judge in Trayvon Martin Case Denies Request for Silence” October 30, 2012
“Imprisoned Pussy Riot Members in Harsh Conditions” October 30, 2012
“Hurricane Sandy Barrels Region, Leaving Battered Path” October 31, 2012
“Iranian Hard-Liners Reject Any Talks With U.S.” November 3, 2012
“Obama, on a Weekend March, Tries to Recapture His Mantle” November 4, 2012
“Dozens Are Killed in a Fierce Outburst of Syrian Violence” November 6, 2012
“Telescope Detects Light From the Earliest Stars” November 6, 2012
HEADLINES lead-up to the 50th anniversary of john f. kennedy’s assassination
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Evening of November 22, 2013 “Murder Charge in Detroit Doorstep Shooting of Renisha Marie McBride” November 16, 2013
“Scores of Tornadoes Slam Midwest States” November 18, 2013
“Health Insurance Marketplace Is Still About 40 Percent Incomplete, Official Says” November 20, 2013
“Justices Reject Bid to Block Texas Law on Abortions” November 20, 2013
“United States Can Spy on Britons Despite Pact, N.S.A. Memo Says” November 21, 2013
“Illinois: Same-Sex Marriage Is Legalized” November 21, 2013
“African Rebel Leader Joseph Kony Said to Be Considering Surrender” November 22, 2013
“Facing Russian Threat, Ukraine Halts Plans for Deals with E.U.” November 22, 2013
“In Kennedy’s Death, a Turning Point for a Nation Already Torn” November 22, 2013
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ARTIST BIOS SERGE SEIDEN (Director) directed last season’s hit production of Bad Jews, which broke Studio box office records and will be remounted this winter. Bad Jews received four 2015 Helen Hayes Award nominations including Outstanding Director. Mr. Seiden also directed the first two plays in The Apple Family Cycle (That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad). Mr. Seiden is now the Managing Director/Producer of Mosaic Theater Company of DC, the area’s only theater devoted to social justice. In the spring, Mr. Seiden will direct When January Feels Like Summer for Mosaic, which is a key arts partner at The Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street NE. Recently, Mr. Seiden directed Everett Quinton’s A Tale of Two Cities at Synetic Theater, Freud’s Last Session at Theater J, and Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! at Olney Theatre Center. From 1990 to 2015, Mr. Seiden held many positions at Studio Theatre including Stage Manager, Literary Manager, and Producing Director. In 2013, he received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director/ Resident Musical for Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris… at MetroStage. Other Studio Theatre credits include The Motherfucker with the Hat, The Golden Dragon, Superior Donuts, In the Red and Brown Water, Grey Gardens, and My Children! My Africa!. He also directed Souvenir, which received three Helen Hayes Awards and five Helen Hayes Award nominations including Outstanding Director and Outstanding Resident Play; A New Brain, which received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Resident Musical; and Old Wicked Songs, which received seven Helen Hayes nominations, including Outstanding Director. Additional Studio credits include The Long Christmas Ride Home, Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, Black Milk, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The York Realist, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue Heart, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and A Class Act. For Studio 2ndStage, Mr. Seiden directed Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, All That I Will Ever Be, This Is Our Youth, Ecstasy, Mad Forest, Hot Fudge, Sincerity Forever, and Durang/ Durang. His theatre for young audiences productions at Adventure Theatre MTC — A Little House Christmas and Charlotte’s Web — received Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Production/Theatre for Young Audiences. He has directed several readings for the annual Zeitgeist Festival at the Goethe-Institut and Moth for the National New Play Network. For 20 years, Mr. Seiden has been a member of the faculty of the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, where he trained as an actor and director. Mr. Seiden is a graduate of Swarthmore College. DEBRA BOOTH (Set Designer) is Director of Design at Studio Theatre, where she has designed Jumpers for Goalposts; Belleville; Cock; The Apple Family Plays; Edgar & Annabel; Bachelorette; Moonlight; Blackbird; My Children! My Africa!; The Pillowman; Caroline, or Change; Fat Pig; A Number; Afterplay; The Russian National Postal Service; Far Away; Privates on Parade; and many others. Her international work includes premiere operas Marco Polo (Tan Dun/Martha Clarke) in Munich, Hong Kong, and New York and The Hindenburg (Steve Reich/Roman Paska), which toured Europe. Regionally, Ms. Booth’s credits include the premiere of Lost Boys of the Sudan at Minneapolis Children’s Theatre; Marisol at Hartford Stage and the New York Shakespeare Festival; Trying, The Illusion, and Happy Days at Portland Stage Company; the New York premiere of Angels in America at The Juilliard School; The Game of Love and Chance at the Berkshire Theatre Festival; Broken Glass at Philadelphia Theatre Company (Barrymore Award nomination); and Moon for the Misbegotten at Yale Repertory Theatre. She has also collaborated on projects with Estelle Parsons and Al Pacino for the Actors Studio. Ms. Booth is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
HELEN HUANG (Costume Designer) has designed costumes for Studio Theatre for more than 20 years. Other design credits include Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Washington Ballet, Ford’s Theatre, Folger Theatre, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Signature Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Classic Stage Company (New York), Guthrie Theater, The Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis), George Street Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Disney Entertainment, Syracuse Stage, PlayMakers Repertory, and Boston Lyric Opera. International credits include set and costume design at National Opera House of China and the Central Television of China. Ms. Huang is a Helen Hayes and Ivey Award recipient. Other credits include costume design works in the international exhibition Costume Design at the Turn of the Century held at the A. A. Bakhrushin Museum in Moscow, Russia in June-September 2015 and the exhibition Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance at The New York Public Library, Lincoln Center, and the Prague Quadrennial. She is a professor at the MFA Costume Design Program, University of Maryland, College Park. DANIEL MACLEAN WAGNER (Lighting Designer) served as Resident Lighting Designer at Studio Theatre from 1984-1997, designing more than 50 productions. He recently designed Bad Jews in the Mead Theatre, The Apple Family Plays in the Milton Theatre, and 4000 Miles in the Mead Theatre. He has designed more than 400 productions at many other theatres, including Arden Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, New Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Portland Stage Company, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment, Horizons Theatre, Potomac Theatre Project, Rep Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Olney Theatre Center. He is an eight-time recipient of the Helen Hayes Award, for which he has received 28 nominations. Recent designs include Awake and Sing! at Olney Theatre; Fool for Love, Seminar, and This at Round House Theatre; and Freud’s Last Session at Theater J. Upcoming productions include Freud’s Last Session at New Repertory Theatre. Mr. Wagner holds the rank of Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he served as Professor of Lighting Design from 1990-2014 and Director of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies from 2001-2012. PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer) is a composer and sound designer working in regional theatre and New York. In 2014, she was named by Live Design Magazine as their “2014 Young Designer to Watch.” This season in DC, Ms. Hefferan is also designing Bad Jews and Moment at Studio Theatre, Equus at Constellation Theatre, and Women Laughing Alone With Salad and Guards At The Taj at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Her New York credits include the Broadway production of Mothers and Sons (assistant), Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), A Delicate Ship (Playwrights Realm), HIR (Playwrights Horizons, associate), The Film Society (Keen Company), The Surrender (Clurman Theatre), I Am The Wind (59E59), Sex with Strangers and Boys’ Life (Second Stage, assistant), This American Life with Ira Glass (BAM, assistant), and Salome (JACK). Her regional credits include Tiger Style! (Alliance), Twelfth Night (Center Stage), Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill (Signature Theatre), American Night (Yale Rep), Heroes (American Players), and Somewhere, Dying City, and Hedda Gabler (Hartford Stage, assistant). She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama.
ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL (Dramaturg) is Studio Theatre’s Literary Director. At Studio, she has dramaturged the world premieres of Animal, Laugh, Red Speedo, Dirt, Lungs, and The History of Kisses as well as productions of Jumpers for Goalposts, Bad Jews, Cock, Moth, Edgar & Annabel, The Apple Family Plays, An Iliad, Invisible Man, Sucker Punch, The Golden Dragon, and The New Electric Ballroom, among others. Prior to joining Studio, she spent eight seasons at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she headed the literary department and coordinated project scouting, selection, and development for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She also served as production dramaturg on roughly 50 new, contemporary, and classic plays there, including premieres by Naomi Wallace, Gina Gionfriddo, Kirk Lynn and Rude Mechs, Rinne Groff, The Civilians, Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and SITI Company, Jordan Harrison, and John Belluso. She is the co-editor of eight anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre and editor of six editions of plays through Studio. Ms. Hansel holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. WILLIAM E. CRUTTENDEN III (Stage Manager) has been stage managing in DC and across the country for ten years. This is his first production at Studio. He recently stage managed Little Bee at Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle, WA. DC credits include King Hedley II, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (starring Malcolm-Jamal Warner) and The Mountaintop at Arena Stage; The Totalitarians, Detroit, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Mr. Burns, a Post- Electric Play, A Bright New Boise, Bootycandy, Clybourne Park, Full Circle, BOOM!, Maria/Stuart, Measure for Pleasure, and No Child... at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Knuffle Bunny at the Kennedy Center; And the Curtain Rises, Sunset Boulevard, Chess, and I Am My Own Wife at Signature Theatre; Is He Dead?, Bad Dates, and Of Mice and Men at Olney Theatre Center; and Twice Upon a Time at Imagination Stage. Off Broadway credits include Perfect Harmony. Regional credits include The Will Rogers Follies (starring Tom Wopat) at Merry Go Round Playhouse; The Mountaintop at Alley Theatre, and Wild with Happy (workshop) at The Public Theater. JESSICA SORIANO (Assistant Stage Manager) returns to Studio Theatre, having assistant stage managed Choir Boy last season. A long-time DC resident, Ms. Soriano is a freelance stage manager in the area. Previous stage management credits include In the Red and Brown Water at Georgetown University and REALS at Theatre Alliance. Previous assistant stage management credits include Freud’s Last Session, Yellow Face, and After the Revolution at Theater J and 36 Views at Constellation Theatre. Ms. Soriano is an alumna of Pennsylvania State University. SIVAN BATTAT (Assistant Director) is Studio Theatre’s Artistic Apprentice. She has worked with a number of artists including Kim Weild, Leila Buck, Lily Whitsitt, Yuri Kordonsky, and Rinde Eckert. As a student, she directed an adaptation of Jean Claude van Itallie’s The Serpent as her capstone project, exploring devised ensemble processes. She has worked at New Haven-based Elm Shakespeare Company and Collective Consciousness Theatre, as well as with the Cape Cod Theatre Project, a developmental playwrights’ workshop in Massachusetts. She has also spent time working with various peace-based groups abroad including the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa in Southern Tel Aviv and a young artists festival in Sderot, Israel. Ms. Battat spent a semester training at the Moscow Art Theatre School and is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University where she received her BA in Theater and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory.
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THE APPLE FAMILY CYCLE STAFF Assistant Director SIVAN BATTAT Music Consultant CHRIS YOUSTRA Production Assistant DIANE SCHRAMKE Assistants to the Costume Designer KELSEY HUNT & HEATHER JACKSON Light & Sound Board Operator CHARLES PATRICK DERRICKSON Assistant to the Lighting Designer JEDIDIAH ROE Assistant to the Sound Designer BRYCE SULECKI For additional members of the production staff, please see the full staff listing.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Studio Theatre is grateful to John Horman and Toni Ritzenberg for their support of Regular Singing. Studio Theatre is grateful to Victor Shargai and Craig Pascal for hosting The Apple Family dinner. Special thanks to Nat Chandler, Steven Sabol, John delRe, Kelly Macklin, Graham DeZarn, John D. delRe, Denver Walker, and Brenda Dunlap. The Apple Family Cycle is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
ABOUT STUDIO THEATRE Now in its sixth season under the leadership of Artistic Director David Muse, Studio Theatre is dedicated to the best in contemporary theatre, producing an uncommonly rich and wide-ranging repertoire of provocative new writing from around the world alongside unique special events and inventive stagings of contemporary classics, performed by acclaimed actors in intimate spaces. Devoted to artistic excellence, Studio Theatre strives to present audiences with extraordinary writing, sophisticated design, and stunning performance. Our commitment to connecting actors and audience is built into our architecture, where none of our four performance spaces seats more than 225 patrons. No theatre of comparable budget size operates such exclusively intimate spaces. Throughout the Theatre’s 37-year history, the quality of its work has been recognized by sustained community support as well as with 329 nominations and 63 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in professional theatre.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Bobbi Terkowitz, Chair Teresa Schwartz, Vice-Chair Jean Heilman Grier, Secretary Jon Danforth, Treasurer Fred Boyle Susan Butler Liz Cullen Mark Foster Susan Gordon Albert Lauber Wendy Luke Stan Marcuss Ginny McArthur Herb Milstein Fenner Milton
Larry Naake James Nozar Jonathan Pitt Gerry Rosberg Steve Skalet Jerome Sowalsky Robert Tracy Jonathan Tycko Janet Wittes EX-OFFICIO Meridith Burkus David Muse HONORARY BOARD Jan Carol Berris Irene Harriet Blum Vincent Brown Morris J. Chalick, M.D. Barbara Smith Coleman*
Virginia R. Crawford John G. Guffey Warren Graves S. Ross Hechinger E. C. Michael Higgins Jaylee M. Mead, Chair Emeritus* Russell Metheny Harold F. Nelson Nancy Linn Patton Marshall E. Purnell Joan Searby Victor Shargai Henry F. von Eichel* Joy Zinoman, Founding Artistic Director * In memoriam
LEADERSHIP DAVID MUSE (Artistic Director) is in his sixth season as Artistic Director of Studio Theatre. For Studio and 2ndStage, he has directed Chimerica, Murder Ballad, Belleville, Cock, Tribes, The Real Thing, An Iliad, Dirt, Bachelorette, The Habit of Art, Venus in Fur, Circle Mirror Transformation, reasons to be pretty, Blackbird, Frozen, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Previously, he was Associate Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he directed seven productions, including Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Coriolanus. Other directing projects include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Arena Stage, The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, PHOTO: TEDDY WOLFF. and Swansong for New York Summer Play Festival. He has helped to develop new work at numerous theatres, including New York Theatre Workshop, Geva Theatre Center, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. Mr. Muse has taught acting and directing at Georgetown, Yale, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of Classical Acting. A six-time Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Direction, he is a recipient of the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and the National Theatre Conference Emerging Artist Award. Mr. Muse is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama. MERIDITH BURKUS (Managing Director) joined Studio Theatre in May 2014. She brings ten years of arts management experience to the position—encompassing theatre, music, film, and public media. Most recently, Ms. Burkus held the position of Director of External Relations at StoryCorps, the Peabody Award-winning radio program and national oral history project, working to optimize StoryCorps’ impact on a national scale. Under her leadership, StoryCorps increased its operating budget by 25% and launched several new initiatives and recording locations across the country. She previously held positions in marketing, public relations, and development with several New York City organizations, including five seasons at The Public Theater as Director of Individual Giving. At The Public, she significantly increased annual contributions to various programs and initiatives such as Shakespeare in the Park, Public Lab, Joe’s Pub, and the Under the Radar Festival, in addition to being a key player in the successful completion of the recent $40 million capital campaign to renovate The Public’s historic home on Lafayette Street. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music.
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT JOHN HORMAN John is a musician, freelance composer, writer, and music director at First Congregational Church in DC. When did you first become involved with Studio Theatre? I have been involved with Studio Theatre for over six years as a patron and donor. I have attended shows with my friend Trevor Brown and enjoyed being part of Studio’s rich seasonal offerings. I have underwritten several productions and value the opportunity to see a theatrical work as it transitions through the stages of development to fruition. What is your favorite production you’ve seen here? Why? If I’m pressed to choose one, I’d say that The Apple Family Plays in repertory was one of my favorites — I was amazed by the extent to which I was endeared to that family in just the short time it took place on the stage. I also would mention Torch Song Trilogy and Choir Boy which had substantial emotional impact on my thinking and memories of growing up. What are some other organizations you support? I support the Pallas Theatre Collective, an organization dedicated to bringing new works to the attention of regional theatres. I also support The National Hymn Society and National Choristers’ Guild, two organizations focused on promoting community singing in the US and beyond. Other than going to the theatre, what are your favorite hobbies? Travel is paramount right now — with recent trips to Nicaragua, France, and Mexico. Future trips to Greece and Italy are on the horizon. What would you say to a friend who is considering supporting Studio? I speak to friends all the time about becoming a patron and a donor. I also organize and bring groups of friends and acquaintances to see productions then have dinner together afterwards to discuss and revisit what we’ve seen. I tell people that Studio Theatre is cutting edge, and the kind of issue-grabbing theatre that we need right now to “lay bare” national issues in need of thought and discussion.
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Studio Theatre is proud to bring the Apple Family back to our stage, a dream we were only able to realize thanks to your support as an audience member. Like you, we crave the compelling performances, stunning design, and excellent writing we have come to expect from Studio and its artists. The Apple Family Cycle actors, designers, and director, as well as all of the artists we work with throughout the year, inspire us with their imagination, drive, and determination to bring singular, unique theatre experiences to our stages. Studio can sometimes seem like a playground for these artists, where we challenge them to dream without limits. These challenges are not without risk, but the investment is definitely something we all can be proud of. Support Studio Theatre today by making a gift to support the best contemporary theatre in Washington DC. Come together, just like the Apples, to join the Studio family and help us continue to change the artistic and cultural landscape of our community, our city, and beyond. We couldn’t get the family together again without you.
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ANNOUNCING THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Over the past five seasons, Studio has been unstinting in its ambitions and pursuit of artistic excellence in many forms: From the epic scope of Invisible Man and Chimerica; the indelible performances in The Apple Family Plays, Torch Song Trilogy, and Bad Jews; the sophisticated writing of Lungs, Venus in Fur, and Cock; the complex reflection of the contemporary world found in Tribes, The Motherfucker with the Hat, and Grounded; the new perspectives offered by US premieres Sucker Punch (UK), The Golden Dragon (Germany), and The Animals and Children Took to the Streets (UK). As a part of its commitment to the artists and artistry on our stages, Studio has expanded and upgraded its company housing and has begun to invest more in artist compensation to attract the finest talent around the world to work in Studio’s intimate spaces. Over the past few seasons, Studio has also laid the groundwork to expand the range of our work. Through Studio Lab, we’ve built the infrastructure and audience support for a robust new plays program. Through our commissioning program, we’ve funded work created for DC and our intimate spaces, launching new plays into the international repertoire. We’ve piloted immersive stagings of Murder Ballad and Silence! The Musical!, which drew younger audiences to our spaces. This season, Artistic Director David Muse has begun Studio X, which represents Studio Theatre’s commitment to supporting work that is groundbreaking in form or content, produced at the same high standards of all of Studio Theatre’s work. To enable us to make these investments in artistic innovation, a group of Studio enthusiasts have created the Artistic Director’s Circle, a membership program that supports the creative vision of Studio Theatre and allows Studio to invest in the art and artists that make our work so distinctive. By joining the Artistic Director’s Circle, your direct support helps Studio accomplish our ambitious artistic goals, including: uu Building a more robust new project development infrastructure that will allow Studio to commission a greater number and variety of artists and support them more richly with time, space, and experienced collaborators. uu Providing more compensation to our most important personnel — the artists who create the work on our stages. uu Making our off-subscription programming even more exciting by: –– producing out-of-the-box immersive productions –– presenting innovative work by artists and troupes from around the world –– developing bold new projects with emerging writers and directors Studio pushes the limit of our artistic imagination so that we can continue to provide you with thrilling, provocative, and unstintingly excellent theater experiences — and we cannot do it alone. You can ensure the future of these artistic endeavors by pledging to be a member of the Artistic Director’s Circle today. For more information on how to become a member of the Artistic Director’s Circle, please contact Zack Lynch, Manager of Major Gifts at zlynch@studiotheatre.org or by calling 202.232.7267 x370.
THANK YOU
TO OUR INCREDIBLE FAMILY OF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE MEMBERS: THE STAGE 4 CIRCLE Esthy and James Adler Don and Nancy Bliss Bruce Cohen Rick Kasten Joan and David Maxwell Daniel and Theresa Schwartz Irene and Alan Wurtzel
THE METHENY CIRCLE Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber Stanley and Rosemary Marcuss Gerald and Laura Rosberg Steve and Linda Skalet Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz
THE MILTON CIRCLE Susan and Dixon L. Butler David and Jean Heilman Grier Albert Lauber and Craig Hoffman
THE MEAD CIRCLE Anonymous
Sarah Marshall, Rick Foucheux, Ted van Griethuysen, Elizabeth Pierotti, Kimberly Schraf, and Jeremy Webb in Studio Theatre’s 2013 production of Sweet and Sad. Photo: Teddy Wolff.
THANK YOU Thank you to all of our generous sponsors who, in addition to their support, have shown their commitment to our mission to promote new play development and artistic innovation in the nation’s capital.
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS Susan L. and M. Dixon Butler Carl and Rise Cole Liz and Tim Cullen Lizbeth J. Dobbins Mona and Mark Elliot Wendy and William Garner
Susan L. Gordon Andrea Hatfield and Buck O’Leary John and Meg Hauge Carl and Undine Nash Carol Rabenhorst Toni Ritzenberg
Gerald and Laura Rosberg Sidney Stolz and David Hatfield Mark Tushnet and Elizabeth Alexander Marvin F. Weissberg Susan P. WIllens
STUDIO STAFF LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID MUSE MANAGING DIRECTOR MERIDITH BURKUS LITERARY DIRECTOR ADRIENALICE HANSEL PRODUCTION MANAGER JOSH ESCAJEDA GENERAL MANAGER ELISABETH BAYER DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT RODNEY TRAPP DIRECTOR OF MARKETING DANIEL RECH
MANAGER OF MAJOR GIFTS ZACK LYNCH MANAGER OF PARTNERSHIPS AND EVENTS NIKKI GRIZZLE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE TOBIAS FRANZÉN INSTITUTIONAL GIVING CONSULTANT LISA BUCHS DEVELOPMENT APPRENTICE TASMIN SWANSON
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MATT TORNEY ASSOCIATE LITERARY DIRECTOR LAUREN HALVORSEN ARTISTIC APPRENTICE SIVAN BATTAT COMMISSIONED WRITERS MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON, IKE HOLTER, CLARE LIZZIMORE, AARON POSNER DIRECTOR OF DESIGN DEBRA BOOTH
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER CHELSEA CRANSHAW COMPANY MANAGEMENT APPRENTICE KAT ZERINGUE RESIDENT STAGE MANAGER ANTHONY O. BULLOCK STAGE MANAGEMENT APPRENTICE AMANDA LANDIS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ROBERT SHEARIN SCENIC ARTIST ERICH STARKE STAFF CARPENTER BIANCA HAMP STAFF CARPENTER MASON HURLEY CARPENTRY APPRENTICE ALEX MATHIS PROPERTIES DIRECTOR DEBORAH THOMAS COSTUME SHOP MANAGER BRANDEE MATHIES MASTER ELECTRICIAN/SOUND TECHNICIAN ADRIAN ROONEY ELECTRICS APPRENTICE SEAN FORSYTHE SOUND/PROJECTIONS APPRENTICE JESS HOOVER
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MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER RACHAEL WILKINSON COMMUNICATIONS APPRENTICE KENDALL HELBLIG GRAPHIC DESIGN APPRENTICE ALLIE DEARIE GRAPHIC DESIGNER SHAWN HELM PHOTOGRAPHERS TEDDY WOLFF, IGOR DMITRY WEBSITE DESIGN L2 INTERACTIVE DIRECT MARKETING SMART STRATEGIC MARKETING FOR THE ARTS
AUDIENCE SERVICES DIRECTOR OF TICKET SALES AND AUDIENCE SERVICES BENJAMIN DUGOFF BOX OFFICE MANAGER STEPHEN NOTES SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER ADRIA GUNTER ASSOCIATE MANAGER OF TICKET SALES AND SERVICES AMY HORAN AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER LYNN COUGHLIN AUDIENCE SERVICES ASSOCIATE MANAGERS RIC BIRCH, VICTORIA BOUTIN, RACHEL GARMON, NICK HOUHOULIS, MARLEY KABIN, EMILY KESTER, JEFF KIRKMAN III, QUILL NEBEKER, HAYLEY TRAVERS, BRIDGET WOODBURY AUDIENCE SERVICES ASSOCIATES ANDRA BELKNAP, JOSEPH GRAF, ORION JONES, EMMA SAFFORD
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