On Golden Pond

BY Ernest Thompson

Starring

(in order of appearance)

Norman Thayer.................................Martin LaPlatney*†

Ethel Thayer............................................Susan Greenhill*†

Charlie Martin........................................Patrick Noonan*†

Chelsea Thayer Wayne........................Anne Bowles*†

Billy Ray..........................................................Braden Odum*†

Bill Ray....................................................Christopher Kelly*†

About The Playwright

Understudies

Ethel Thayer.......................................................Gerrie Benzing^†

Chelsea Thayer Wayne...............................Arielle Conad^†

Charlie Martin......................................................Sam Crabtree^†

Billy Ray.............................................................................Gabe Cruz^†

Bill Ray.................................................Seth Robert Patterson^†

Time And Place

The living room of a summer home on Golden Pond, Maine.

Any taping, filming, recording or broadcast of this play is strictly prohibited.

ON GOLDEN POND is performed with one 15-minute intermission.

ERNEST THOMPSON is a writer, actor, director, songwriter, and teacher. He has won an Oscar, two Golden Globes, a Writers Guild Award, and a Broadway Drama Guild Award for Best Play. His work has been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy, and a British Academy Award. His more than 35 plays have been seen in theatres around the world. The most enduring, On Golden Pond, has been translated into 30 languages, Arabic the newest, and played in more than 40 countries on six continents including three runs on Broadway, the most recent starring James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams.

Among other plays are The West Side Waltz (starring Katharine Hepburn and Dorothy Loudon), A Sense of Humor (Jack Lemmon and Estelle Parsons), Ax of Love, Amazons in August, Murdering Mother, White People Christmas, The Elixir, and Human Beings. His anthology of 25 short plays will contain the collections Political Suicide, The Penis Responds, Answers, and Valentines for Two, as well as The One About the Guy in the Bar, The Kindness of Strangers, and American Terrorist.

Run Crew

Light Board Operator: Matthew Hakesley

Wardrobe Supervisor: Anthony Toney

Stage Management Intern: DJ Kelly

See page 23 for the entire ensemble.

His films include On Golden Pond (Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Jane Fonda), Sweet Hearts Dance (Susan Sarandon and Jeff Daniels), The Lies Boys Tell (Kirk Douglas), 1969 (Robert Downey Jr. and Bruce Dern), The West Side Waltz (Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli), Out of Time, and the live On Golden Pond (Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer), the last four of which Ernest also directed, as he has his latest films, Time and Charges and Heavenly Angle. Both were produced by his company, Whitebridge Farm Productions, and offered as On Location Training to anyone of any background, experience, or age interested in any aspect of filmmaking.

ANNE BOWLES*

(Chelsea Thayer

Wayne) is making her Florida Rep debut. Broadway: Collected Stories, reasons to be pretty, Inherit the Wind Off-Broadway: Make Believe (Second Stage). Regional: Eureka Day (Asolo Rep), Shear Madness (Kennedy Center), Love Factually and Twist Your Dickens (Second City/Kennedy Center), Steel Magnolias, The Heiress (Pioneer Theatre), Picnic (Centerstage), Of Mice and Men (Cincinnati Playhouse/St. Louis Rep), The Wolves, Fat Pig, This is How It Goes (Studio Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), The Matchmaker (Ford’s Theatre), Elizabeth the Queen (Folger Theatre), columbinus (Roundhouse Theatre), Hero’s Welcome, The Phlebotomist (1st Stage), The Last Schwartz (Theatre J). TV: The Good Wife, House of Cards, Turn, Law & Order: SVU, FBI: Most Wanted.

SUSAN GREENHILL*

(Ethel Thayer) is delighted to be returning to Florida Repertory Theatre after first appearing here in Becoming Dr. Ruth. In New York, she was in Crimes of the Heart on Broadway and many new plays at Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Actors Studio Theatre, and Urban Stages among others. Regionally, she has played leading roles at numerous theatres from The Long Wharf to The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in such plays as The Glass Menagerie, Noises off, The Clean House (Acclaim Award), Dinner with Friends (SRQ Award), Sideman (Barrymore Award), Private Lives, 4000 Miles, and Shirley Valentine. On TV and film, she has been seen on The Good Wife, Law & Order, The Chappelle Show, Clarissa Explains It All, Guiding Light, Italian Movie, Pecker (Jon Waters, director), Bargain by Hail Street, and New World Order (Sundance Festival). During the pandemic she spent a lot of time doing readings and performances of new plays online. She has been very happily married to actor Martin LaPlatney for many years. www.susangreenhill.com

CHRISTOPHER KELLY*

(Bill Ray) is making his Florida Rep debut. He has performed in awardwinning theatres across the U.S., including the Public Theatre in New York City, Denver Center Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company (D.C.), Actors Theatre of Louisville, California Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare, Syracuse Stage, Pioneer Theatre, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Fulton Opera House, and Asolo Repertory. Productions include T he Cripple of Inishmaan, Amadeus, Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Pericles, Arcadia, Noises Off, In the Next Room, All My Sons, and Born Yesterday. He has originated roles in multiple world premieres, including Herman Melville’s Pierre (adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher), Lauren Feldman’s Grace, or The Art of Climbing, and Lyle Kessler’s House on Fire. Film/Television includes The Blacklist (NBC), Succession (HBO), The Path (Hulu), Damages (FX), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (CBS) and the upcoming feature film, Jules. MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program.

MARTIN

LaPLATNEY*

(Norman Thayer) is very happy to be returning to Florida Rep having done Morning After Grace and One Slight Hitch. Broadway: Amadeus, The Crucifer of Blood, Hedda Gabbler, Major Barbara, The Road To Mecca. Off-Broadway: Tartuffe, The Passion of Dracula, The Waverly Gallery, Give Me Your Answer Do (Roundabout Theater), The Paris Letter, Pretty Hunger (The Public Theater). Regional: leading roles ranging from Jack Tanner in Man and Superman to Macbeth at: The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Hartford Stage Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, The Ahmanson Theatre, Olney Theater Center, GeVa Theater, Delaware Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, The Empty Space, ACT, (Seattle), Pennsylvania Center Stage, Florida Studio Theater, and many others. TV: Law and Order, Cosby Mysteries, Alien Nation, Royal Pains, The Good Wife, Boardwalk Empire, Elementary, Blue Bloods, and a bunch of commercials. Martin has been happily married to Susan Greenhill for many years.

www.martinlaplatney.com