The Pianist Playbill

GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE

From the Artistic Director

Dear Theatregoers,

What an auspicious beginning for our 50th Anniversary Season at George Street Playhouse! We have just welcomed our exciting new Managing Director, Edgar Herrera. After a thorough National search we were lucky enough to find this new dynamic leader with extraordinary experience with whom I am so anxious to collaborate!

And how noteworthy that we start our 50th year in our beautiful new home in the Arthur Laurents theatre in the NBPAC!

And how fitting that we welcome a world premiere, written and directed by another renowned fighter for social justice, the remarkable Emily Mann! The Pianist based on the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman is an earth shattering story of the power of Art even in the face of the world’s worst atrocities. It also is an important cautionary tale as our society once again is threatened by strong forces of bigotry and prejudice coming back into power.

Using evocative music by Iris Hond and collaborating with an incredible design team, Emily has created a striking metaphor for the world of this play.

And of course the cast!

After an international casting process, we were thrilled to find a rising European star, Daniel Donskoy (of The Crown ) to make his American stage debut as our leading character. He is surrounded by an expert team of New York actors, including the wonderful Austin Pendleton to create a powerful, moving experience you will not soon forget!

We are so proud to join with Michael Wolk, Kumiko Yoshii and Robin de Levita in producing this major new work.

David Saint Artistic Director

David Saint, Artistic Director

Board of Trustees

Chairman: James N. Heston*

President: Penelope Lattimer, Ph.D.*

Vice President: Philip L. Kirstein*

Secretary: Sharon Karmazin*

Treasurer: Kimberlee S. P. Murphy CPA*

Wanda J. Blanchett, Ph.D.

Ronald L. Bleich, CPA*

Edgar Herrera*

Lucy Hughes

Adele T. Macula, Ed.D.

Dina M. Mastellone, Esq.

Norman Politziner

David Saint*

Jocelyn Schwartzman

Nonny Stahlin

Janice G. Stolar

Lora Tremayne

*Denotes Members of the Executive Committee

Al D’Augusta

Cody P. Eckert

Kenneth M. Fisher

Trustees Emeritus

Peter Goldberg

William Hagaman

Clarence E. Lockett

Honorary Board of Trustees

Anthony L. Marchetta

Alan W. Voorhees

George Wolansky

James Cahill Thomas H. Kean Eric Krebs, Founder

Honorary Memoriam

Maurice Aaron∆

Dr. Edward Bloustein∆

Robert L. Bramson∆∆

Dora Center∆∆

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.∆

Milton Goldman∆

John Hila

Betty Wold Johnson∆

Arthur Laurents∆

Richard Sellars∆

Barbara Voorhees∆∆

Edward K. Zuckerman∆

Adelaide M. Zagoren

∆∆ – Denotes Trustee Emeritus

∆ – Denotes Honorary Trustee

GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION VALUES STATEMENT

The values of George Street Playhouse embody and celebrate the identities, backgrounds and diverse experiences of our communities.

We are an organization fully committed to:

• Being open to and receptive of new ideas

• Being an advocate of diverse populations within our communities

• Being collaborative within our organization by giving everyone a voice

• Being authentic in our curiosity and seeking opportunities to develop our own lives through learning and celebrating others

Welcome to The Pianist, our first production of the year! The GSP team has been working hard all summer and we couldn’t be more excited to have you here. And I couldn’t be happier to be the new Managing Director of this wonderful theatre, working along with titans of industry such as Emily Mann and our own David Saint, it just doesn’t get better than that.

As we celebrate 50 years and we envision a new future for us and for our field, let me share with you some of the most significant artistic accomplishments of George Street Playhouse:

Over 50 new plays and musicals for the American Theater under David’s leadership for 25 years. Originated and developed the play Proof by David Auburn. Originated and developed the musical The Spitfire Grill, directed by David Saint, which has had more than 100 + productions around the world.

Many other plays and musicals that transferred from GSP to NYC, including The Toxic Avenger, It Shoulda Been You with Tyne Daly, directed by David Hyde Pierce and Clever Little Lies by Joe DiPietro with Marlo Thomas, directed by David Saint.

And as we look into a new future for our theatre and for the field, we want to make sure that you are part of it. Thank you for being here tonight, you are our most important guest.

¡Bienvenidos!

Edgar Herrera Managing Director of George Street Playhouse

@ GSP

“Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater” is the story of a remarkable American playwright, director, and artistic director. It is the story of a woman who defied the American Theater's sexism, a traumatic assault, and illness to create unique documentary plays and to lead the McCarter Theatre Center, for thirty seasons, to a place of national recognition.

"Riveting and richly documented biography."

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"Lively and fascinating book about an important theater artist."

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"The book gives full attention to Mann’s triple roles in theater... addressing complex topics and infusing plays, especially in the documentary vein, with a new energy and sensibility."

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The biography of Emily Mann is available from Amazon

Photo Credit: Charles Chessler

GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE

David Saint, Artistic Director

Edgar Herrera, Managing Director

Present

The Pianist

Adapted for the Stage by Emily Mann

Based on the memoir “The Pianist” by Wladyslaw Szpilman

Original Score by Iris Hond

Set Design Beowulf Boritt

Costume Design Linda Cho

Lighting Design Japhy Weideman

Co-Sound Design Mark Bennett and Charles Coes

Projection Design S. Katy Tucker

Hair Design Charles G. LaPointe

Fight Director Rick Sordelet

Production Stage Manager Cheryl Mintz

General Manager Scott Goldman

Production Manager Christopher J. Bailey

Casting by The Telsey Office/Will Cantler, CSA, Destiny Lilly, CSA

Choreographer and Associate Director Terry Berliner

Directed by Emily Mann

Presented by Special Arrangement with Michael Wolk, Kumiko Yoshii, and Robin de Levita

Produced in association with Andreas Szpilman

“Mazurka” composed by Wladyslaw Szpilman used by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.

National Press Representative Keith Sherman & Associates Public Relations

This production is sponsored by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation

This production was made possible in part by a gift from an anonymous donor

Special Thanks to Alchemy Production Group for their assistance with this production. Special Thanks to Felix Penny for music consultation. In accordance with Actors’ Equity Association regulations, we remind you that all electronic devices, including cellular phones, watches, and anything else that lights up or makes noise must be turned off during the performance.

Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.

Made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, A Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

George Street Playhouse is a constituent of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and a member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. The theatre operates under an agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States, and is a member of the New Brunswick Cultural Center.

Wladyslaw Szpilman ....................................... ....................... Daniel Donskoy*

Father............ .......................................................................... Austin Pendleton*

Mother..................... .................................................................. Claire Beckman*

Henryk............ ................................................................................... Paul Spera*

Regina ....................................... ............................................... Arielle Goldman*

Halina ....................................................................................... Georgia Warner*

Magda/Boy ............................................................................... Charlotte Ewing

Jaworski and others ....................................................................... Jordan Lage*

Majorek and others... ........................................................ Robert David Grant*

Janina and others... ......................................................................... Tina Benko*

The Pianist is performed without an intermission

Understudies never substitute for performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of performance:

For Father, Henryk, Majorek, Joworski, and others: Ian Lowe*

For Mother, Regina, Halina, Janina, and others: Rachel Felstein*

Production Stage Manager .......................................................... Cheryl Mintz *

Stage Manager ............................................................................... Alison Cote*

Assistant Stage Manager............................................................ Nicole Nilsson*

*- denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association

The director and choreographer are members of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union.

The stage technicians of George Street Playhouse are proud members of IATSE Local 21.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Projection and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

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

Daniel Donskoy (Wladek Szpilman) His career began in London’s theatres, where he appeared in The Glass Menagerie at the Nottingham Playhouse and Bad Jews at the Arts Theatre West-End. Television roles followed in BBC’s The Detectorists and ITV’s Victoria, before conquering the German television market in 2018 with the RTL series Sankt Maik. He became internationally known with the HBO series Strike Back in 2019, the Netflix series The Crown in 2020, the Netflix series Barbarians in 2021, and the Disney+ series A Small Light in 2023. As host and creative producer of the late-night talk show Freitagnacht Jews (Friday Night Jews), he was awarded the German Television Prize in 2021 and the Grimme Prize in 2022. Parallel to his work in film and television, he began his career as a musician and was the winner of Season 7 of The Masked Singer in Germany. The Pianist marks his American stage debut.

Claire Beckman (Mother) Claire Beckman recently produced and directed the acclaimed site-specific American premiere of Arthur Miller’s The Hook based on his neverproduced screenplay, for BNW Rep, the Brooklyn-based company she co-founded, now in its 20th season. bravenewworldrep.org. Numerous offBroadway credits include the title role in Bella Belle of Byelorussia directed by Christopher Ashley. Film includes The Door in the Floor with Jeff Bridges and The Thing About My Folks with Peter Falk. TV includes Law & Order. Grateful to Emily Mann for including me in this work of art, and by extension my great grandmother Anna Frankova Pickova, murdered in Terezin in 1943.

Tina Benko (Janina and others) Ms. Benko recently performed in Sarah

Ruhl’s play Becky Nurse Of Salem at Lincoln Center and Claudia Rankine’s play HELP at The Shed.

Broadway includes: The Rose Tattoo, The Crucible, Macbeth,The Cherry Orchard, and Not About Nightingales. Select Off-Broadway: SpindleShuttleNeedle at Clubbed Thumb, Scenes From a Marriage and The Little Foxes both directed by Ivo Van Hove, John Guare’s Nantucket Sleighride, Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day, Rajiv Joseph’s Describe The Night, Julius Caesar for Shakespeare in the Park/Public, Elfriede Jellinek’s Jackie, Toni Morrison’s Desdemona. and Daniel Fish’s Who Left This Fork Here. Film and TV credits include: The Rehearsal ( EmmyAward/ best supporting actress/ digital series), Mapplethorpe, Mother May I Have a Kidney, Life After You,The Sound of Silence, Can You Ever Forgive Me, The Scottish Play, Fair Market Value, Monsterland, The Other Two, Turn: Washington Spies, Flesh and Bone, Dr. Death, Kaleidoscope, The Adults.

Charlotte Ewing (Magda/Boy) is honored to help tell this important story at George Street Playhouse! Regional theater: The Secret Garden (Mary Lennox, ACT of Connecticut), Sound of Music (Brigitta/Marta, Paper Mill Playhouse).

TV: Law and Order SVU, Sesame Street. Film: Fish out of Water (Broken Mind Productions). Beyond thankful to Nancy Carson, Ashley Acarino, and Allen Fawcett. Love always to Mom, Dad, Ava, Mary, and Teddy.

Instagram: @charlotteewing_official

Rachel Felstein

(U/s Mother, Regina, Halina, Janina, and others) regional credits include Right to be Forgotten and Holiday (Arena Stage), Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Summerland (Washington Stage Guild), Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World (Mosaic Theater Company), Fun Home (Virginia Stage Company), Antigonick (Taffety Punk), The Merry Wives of Windsor (New Jersey Shakespeare), and the national tour of Man of La Mancha. New York credits: This American Life - As Seen on Radio (BAM), productions with Ensemble Studio Theatre, and wRETCH - the final concert (Fresh Fruit Festival). MFA: Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy at GWU. Next up, Lend me a Soprano at Olney

Arielle Goldman (Regina/ Woman) was recently seen on stage in Lincoln Center’s world premier play Let’s Call Her Patty alongside Rhea Perlman and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer. She wrote, directed and performs in the short film Kiss , a pro abortion inter-generational Yiddishy ghost story, which won the 2023 Team Choice Award at Through Women’s Eyes International Film Festival, and will be featured at the 2023 Bushwick Film Festival and the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival. Her first short film Day One was featured in The Future of Film is Female, Nitehawk Shorts Festival and was a finalist at JellyFEST 2021. She voices the character of Rose Winslow/Irene Adler in Audible’s podcast series, Moriarty: The Silent Order alongside Helen Mirren, Anya Cholotra and Dominic Monaghan, and leads the upcoming film Consider the Lilies directed by Cristina Spina. Previous television credits include: Genevieve Everidge in The Knick directed by Steven Soderbergh, Fishkill directed by Bob Balaban, recurring as Eliana on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Arielle received her MFA from the

NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program and her BFA from The University of Michigan. She is a proud volunteer at The 52nd Street Project. May the memories of this play honor the souls we lost, and hold a mirror up to the ongoing brutalities of our world today.

Robert David Grant (Majorek and others) has appeared on stage at The Guthrie, The Pearl, The Mint Theater Company, Yale Repertory Theater, Westside Theater, Northern Stage, Geva Theater, Barrington Stage Company, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Yale Cabaret and others. TV credits include recurring roles on Succession and The Orville. Robert is a lecturer in the Theater Department at Dartmouth and the Director of Education at Northern Stage, and holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife Izzie and son Baz, who are ridiculously awesome, and his dog Mac, who has his moments.

Jordan Lage (Jaworski and others) is pleased to be making his George Street debut. Collaborations with Emily Mann date back to 2000 when he performed in her production of Arthur Kopit’s BECAUSE HE CAN, her play Hoodwinked (McCarter Theatre), & Execution of Justice (Playhouse Creatures Theatre Co.). He is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, and has performed in more than two dozen plays of co-founder David Mamet’s including American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, Race, Oleanna, and The Old Neighborhood. Drama Desk Award, SAGAFTRA Award, CT. Critics Circle noms, Broadway World Regional Theatre nom, AUDELCO Award nom. jordanlage.com

Ian Lowe (U/s Father, Henryk, Majorek, Jaworski, and others) last appeared at the George Street Playhouse in 2015 with Murder for Two. New York credits include Cradle Will Rock (Classic Stage), Murder for Two (New World), Nikolai & the Others (Lincoln Center Theatre), Day Before Spring (York), among others. Many regional theatres including Old Globe, Geva Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Bay Street, Capital Rep, Houston TUTS, Dorset Theatre Festival, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Bucks County Playhouse, etc. Film/TV: Pose (FX), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), Succession (HBO), Girls on the Bus (HBO Max, upcoming), Sugar Plum Twist (Hallmark), lots of commercials. BA, Yale. Proud member of AEA and SAGAFTRA. For Rachel and Sadie.

Austin Pendleton (Father) is an actor, a director, a playwright, and, at HB Studio in New York City, a teacher of acting. He has acted on Broadway many times, beginning with the original cast of Fiddler on the Roof, and has directed on Broadway almost as many times, most recently Spoils of War, by Michael Weller and starring Kate Nelligan. He has appeared in about 400 movies, notably What’s Up, Doc, My Cousin Vinny, Skidoo, Starting Over, and Billy Wilder’s The Front Page. His plays are Booth, Uncle Bob, and Orson’s Shadow, all in print and all having been produced all across the country and in Europe. .

Paul Spera (Henryk) is a French-American actor based in Paris and New York. Theater: Merchant of Venice (Peak Performances, Arts & Ideas, Hopkins Center); Oreste Will Be Back (Paris

& Naples), Sibylsessions (Naples); Les Yeux Ouverts (Avignon); The Gentleman Caller (Alexandria, Egypt); L’histoire du Soldat (Nice); On Ne Badine Pas Avec L’amour (Paris). Film & TV: On the Line; The Nun II; On the Basis of Sex; Marie-Antoinette seasons 1 & 2; Ovni(s) season 1; Après Mai (Something in the Air); Rêves de jeunesse (As Happy As Possible). Music: Oreste Will be Back the album, with Phil St George. Training: Yale (Theater Studies BA), Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, Paris. New work: www.kultursciok.com

Georgia Warner (Halina/Woman) is honored to be a conduit for such crucial storytelling.

Broadway: All My Sons.

Off-Broadway: Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout), Lighthouse (SoHo Playhouse; director). Regional highlights include Of Mice Men at Pioneer Theatre Company and Bay Street Theatre, where she also did The Diary of Anne Frank; Equus (w. Alec Baldwin), The Cripple of Inishmaan, and Moby Dick, Rehearsed (dir. Tony Walton) at Guild Hall; Lyle Kessler’s House on Fire at PBD (world premiere); Northern Stage’s The Crucible, Baltimore Center Stage’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and CTG’s Vanya and Sonia... and Spike (dir. David Hyde Pierce). TV: Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, The Deuce, Younger, Madam Secretary, and others. www.GeorgiaWarner.com IG: @VeryGeorgia

Emily Mann (Director) has previously brought two impactful and influential documentary dramas to Broadway –Execution of Justice, and Having Our Say (Tonynominated Best Play and Best Director). Also on Broadway, Emily directed A Streetcar Named Desire and Anna in the Tropics. Plays written by Mann include: Still Life; Annulla: An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); and Mrs. Packard. In 2020, her play Gloria: A Life was presented by Great Performances

on PBS. From 1990-2020, Emily was the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, which was honored with the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater under her leadership. The new biography by Alexis Greene, Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater, celebrates her many contributions and innovations, highlighting her groundbreaking work in “the theater of testimony:” constructing a play based on the verbatim speech surrounding real life events. Awards include: Tony, Drama Desk, 8 Obies, Peabody, Hull Warriner, NAACP, Guggenheim, two Tony nominations, Outer Critics Circle nominations; a Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts, a Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award, Margo Jones Award, TCG Visionary Leadership Award, Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award, and The Gordon Davidson Award. In 2019, Mann was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame

Iris Hond (Composer-Original Score) is an acclaimed classical pianist and contemporary composer who has played to sold-out concert halls worldwide, headlined the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam and opened for superstar Diana Ross. Hond recorded an album of classical music for Decca (Iris) an album of original music composed in collaboration with legendary musician/producer Patrick Leonard (Dear World). Her personal journey from living on the streets to packing concert halls has inspired thousands in the Netherlands, where she graduated summa cum laude from the Royal Conservatory. In her bare essence, Iris is music. A musician who doesn’t fit within any traditional category, she created her own. She performs on concert stages all over the world and, as important, she chooses to share her music in places where people don’t have access to live music– prisons, hospitals, and homeless shelters. With her authentic style, both in her performances as her work as a composer, she leaves deep and lasting impressions on her audiences. Composing the score for The Pianist has been a personal, emotional and fulfilling journey. irishond.nl

Beowulf Boritt (Set Design) has designed Murder On The Orient Express, Turning Off The Morning News, Skylight, and 20th Century Blues for Emily Mann, and The Last Days of Summer, The Last Five Years, Falsettos, and The Toxic Avenger for George Street Playhouse. 30 Broadway designs include the Tony Award winning sets for New York, New York and Act One, the Tony nominated sets for The Scottsboro Boys, Therese Raquin, Potus, and Flying Over Sunset. His book about Broadway set design, Transforming Space Over Time, is available wherever books are sold.

Linda Cho (Costume Design) is a Tony award-winning costume designer based in New York City. Broadway shows include Summer, 1976, POTUS, Take Me Out, Grand Horizons, Harmony and Doubt, and The Great Society. In 2014 she won the Antoinette Perry and Henry Hewes Design Award for the musical A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder. In 2022 she was nominated for a Drama Desk for Outstanding Costume Design of The Chinese Lady. In 2017 she was nominated for a Tony, Outer Critics’ Circle and Drama Desk for Best Costume Design of Anastasia. Additionally, she has been awarded the TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, the Henry Hewes Design Award, and the Ruth Morley Design Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Japhy Weideman (Lighting Design)

Broadway: Shucked!, Summer 1976, The Piano Lesson, Dear Evan Hansen, The Visit, The Nance, Of Mice and Men, Airline Highway, Lobby Hero, Bright Star, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sylvia, The Snow Geese, Old Times, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Significant Other, and Marvin’s Room. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theatre, The Public-NYSF, NYTW, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, MTC, MCC, LAByrinth, The Vineyard, Ma-Yi, and others. West End: Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward), A Nice Fish (Harold Pinter Theatre), and Blackbird (Albery Theatre). Japhy has received 5 Tony nominations for Lighting Design.

Mark Bennett (Co-Sound Design) is a composer and sound designer whose work has been performed both On and Off Broadway, regionally, and internationally. His work with director Emily Mann spans over 30 years and his original scores and/ or sound designs for Broadway include: The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk Award - Original Score), JUNK, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Driving Miss Daisy, The Goat, Golda’s Balcony, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Streetcar Named Desire (directed by Emily Mann), Henry IV, Macbeth, and A View From The Bridge. He has composed and sound designed many Off and Off-Off Broadway productions including music for eight Public Theatre Shakespeare in the Park productions and five original scores for Sam Mendes’ The Bridge Project (BAM and The Old Vic). Other recognition includes fourteen Drama Desk nominations, two Obie Awards (including Sustained Excellence in Sound Design) a Henry Hughes Design Award, a New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award and an Ovation Award.

Charles Coes (Co-Sound Design) is a sound designer whose credits include: Off Broadway: Golden Shield (MTC); Sing St (NYTW); Letters of Suresh (Second Stage); Small World Stories (Phantom Limb). Regional: Confederacy of Dunces (Huntington Theatre). Jitney, (Mark Taper Forum); Into the Woods (Ahmanson); Little Black Shadows, The Tempest, All the Way (South Coast Rep); Miss You Like Hell, Fun Home, The Christians, Soul, Animal Farm (Baltimore Center Stage); Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice, Murder on the Orient Express (Repertory Theater of St Louis); Sense and Sensibility, The Way the Mountain Moved (OSF); Bad Dates, Sabina (Portland Stage); Homer’s Coat’s production of An Iliad on 6 continents. He also works frequently as an Associate Designer on Broadway including Almost Famous, Girl from the North Country, To Kill a Mockingbird, Junk, and Peter and the Starcatcher.

S. Katy Tucker (Projection Design)

Off-Broadway: Letters from Max, a Ritual (Signature), Confidence & the Speech (Theater Row), underneath the bed (Rattlestick);

Regional: Love All (La Jolla Playhouse) ; Opera: Medeá, Eurydice, Verdi’s Requiem, Peter Grimes, Prince Igor (Metropolitan Opera), Florencia en el Amazonas (Chicago Lyric Opera, LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera), The Ring Cycle, Heart of a Soldier, The Flying Dutchman, Two Women (San Francisco Opera), The Ring Cycle, Elektra, il Trovatore, Written in Stone, Cosi Fan Tutti, Don Giovanni, Samson and Delilah (Washington National Opera), Orpheus and Eurydice (Seattle Opera), International: Rebecca Das Musical (Vereingte Bühnen Wien), Artus Excalibur (Theater St Gallen), En Hunds Hartja (Uppsala Stadsteater)

Charles G. LaPointe (Hair Design) is an award winning designer who maintains a highly successful career on stages throughout the United States and abroad. Numerous Broadway; Touring; Regional Theatre; West End and International productions include Hamilton (Make-Up Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Award); Ain’t Too Proud; Beetlejuice; The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award); The Band’s Visit; Anastasia; Spongebob Squarepants (Drama Desk Award); Jersey Boys; A Gentleman’s Guide...; In The Heights. Television: The Wiz Live! (Emmy Award Nomination); Jesus Christ Superstar Live! (Emmy Award Nomination and Make-Up Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Award).

Terry Berliner (Choreographer/Associate Director) is a New York City based director, choreographer, writer and educator. Her work has been seen on and Off Broadway and in regional theaters across the country. Broadway: The Lion King, The Sound of Music and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. Recent and upcoming productions include On Cedar Street with book by Emily Mann, music by Lucy Simon and Carmel Dean and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, Suddenly Supernatural by Joel Adlen and Leonard Moors, and New World Comin’ by Dayle Ann Hunt. She is a member of SDC Society, the Dramatists Guild, and a core faculty member at Peridance Center. Terryberliner.me

Rick Sordelet (Fight Director) Rick and his sons, Christian Kelly-Sordelet and Collin Kelly-Sordelet created www.SordeletInc. com, a Native-owned action movement

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company with 35 years experience. They have done 80 Broadway productions, including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Wolf Hall, Waiting for Godot and Tina and Jesus Christ Superstar National Tours with 52 first-class productions worldwide including Beauty and the Beast UK Tour and West End production, soon to Broadway, as well as many National Tours. Opera, resident fight/intimacy directors for Santa Fe Opera since 2015, with many productions at The MET, La Scala, The Royal Opera House and many more. Films, including, The Game Plan starring Dwayne Johnson, Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell, Ben is Back starring Julia Roberts, Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson, One True Loves starring Simu Lim and Blue Light, also loads of television productions. They teach at William Esper Studio, New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, HB Studio, CUNY Harlem, Montclair State and 22 years at Yale School of Drama. Rick is a board member for Red Bull Theater and runs a publishing company for the first time writer called www.Sordeletink.com.

The Telsey Office (Casting) With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theater, film, television, and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable, and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability, and advocacy. www. thetelseyoffice.com

Cheryl Mintz (Production Stage Manager) has had a 33 year/38 production collaboration with director/playwright Emily Mann, spanning from Broadway to the Kennedy Center to 30 seasons at McCarter Theatre Center, 25 as the Resident Production Stage Manager, where she has led 111 productions. With 70+ operas, dance and music events to her credit, most recently as Production Stage Manager for American Repertory Ballet, Cheryl has enjoyed thirteen collaborations with Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti and Spoleto Festival USA and Italy. She spent five seasons at Lincoln Center with New York City Opera where she Stage Managed 40 operas and musicals, three tours and three PBS telecasts. Cheryl is a

recipient of the 2010 Applause Award and the Award of Excellence at the 2020 New Jersey Theatre Alliance Curtain Call. Broadway: Six productions. Co-Founder, Partner and Creative Director of princetonVIRTUAL.com. Adjunct Professor: Montclair State University. Stage Managers’ Association: Executive Board 19 years. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Christopher J. Bailey (GSP Production Manager)

This season marks Mr. Bailey’s 25th at George Street Playhouse and 18th as its Production Manager, having previously served the Playhouse as Technical Coordinator and Sound and Lighting Manager. Recently for GSP he was Lighting Designer for The Immigrant. Also Lighting Designer for GSP’s production of Clever Little Lies, which moved to the Guild Hall Theatre in East Hampton and then off-Broadway to the Westside Theatre. His other designs for GSP includes 6 scenic designs and 9 sound designs for GSP’s Educational Touring productions, 28 lighting designs and 40 sound designs for GSP’s mainstage productions. Also, has designed for: Pearl Theatre, Barrington Stage, Premiere Stages, Bickford Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Strand Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Two River Theater, Ashlawn Highland Opera, LKB Dance, Randy James Dance, Rand Theater, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Long Wharf, Delaware Theatre Company, Jacob’s Pillow, and more. Mr. Bailey also teaches Stagecraft and Play Production at Middlesex County College.

Alison Cote (Stage Manager) is thrilled to continue work on The Pianist and her longtime collaboration with Emily Mann. She has been a freelance stage manager with McCarter for 25 seasons, including over 20 world premieres productions. Other regional credits include Arena Stage, Old Globe, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Berkeley Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf, Paper Mill, Center Theatre Group, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Pittsburgh Public, and over 20 productions at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. New York credits include Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, and The Public Theater. She was PSM on An Iliad at the Sibiu International Theater Festival in Romania and SpoletoUSA.

Nicole Nilsson (Assistant Stage Manager) is delighted to return to NBPAC, and continue her work on The Pianist. She had the pleasure of working on the Broadway Developmental Workshop of this show in June of 2022. Over the past year, she has worked with American Repertory Ballet for Kaleidoscope, Giselle, Movin’ + Groovin’, and Premiere 3. Nicole has also worked with Center Theatre Group, Transport Group, and The Norris Theatre. She is a graduate of Rider University with collegiate credits including: Working, Cosi fan tutte, Rider Dances, Hair, Assassins, Oklahoma, and Heathers: The Musical.

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Michael Wolk (Producer) is the CEO of Wolk Transfer Company, which is currently also developing The Karate Kid for Broadway. As CEO of Gorgeous Entertainment, he produced the Tony-nominated revival of Pacific Overtures and Prince of Broadway; as founding Artistic Director of the All For One Theater, he has produced over 50 solo plays off-Broadway since 2011. His own writing credits include screenplays (Innocent Blood, Warner Bros., directed by John Landis), plays (Femme Fatal, Broadway Play Publishing), mystery novels (The Beast on Broadway, New American Library) the electronic novel DevilsGame.com, and the book, music and lyrics for the musicals Ghostlight 9 and Deep Cover. He has also directed plays and film, including the awardwinning documentary You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story Staff: Benjamin Branfman (Assoc. Producer & Business Affairs Manager); Seth Nadler (Assoc. Producer); Denise Ganjou (Project Manager); Cayla Einstein (Production & Marketing Associate); Megan Murphy (Literary Manager).

Gorgeous Entertainment:

Kumiko Yoshii  (Producer) Selected credits include MJ, The Museum of Broadway, Be More Chill, Prince of Broadway, Pacific Overtures (Tony nom), The True (The New Group), The Fantasticks (West End) and West Side Story in StageAround directed by David Saint (Japan). Her upcoming projects include Working Girl with Aged in Wood Productions and The Karate Kid – The Musical.

Brendan Walsh  (Producer) began his career in theater as an actor at The George Street Playhouse and is honored to have the opportunity to be on the producing team bringing The Pianist to his home. Producing credits include: Be More Chill (Japan), A Number (Off-Broadway) and A Long Walk To Forever. A very special thank you to David Saint.

Robin de Levita Productions: Robin de Levita (Producer) is an Awardwinning producer known for creating the internationally acclaimed innovations SceneAround and StageAround, both groundbreaking staging concepts that provide a unique and unprecedented theatrical experience. He has also produced 7 feature movies, over 100 prime time TV shows, and more than 90 theater productions in 7 different countries--including 4 on London’s West End and 17 on Broadway. Robin produced Anne, the longest-running play in the history of the Netherlands, as well as Soldier of Orange, the longest-running musical, now in its 13th year. De Levita is a recipient of numerous prestigious international nominations and awards including 3 Tonys and a Laurence Olivier Award. His debut feature film, Lost Cos, which he wrote and directed, received over 60 IMDb listed awards.

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The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation (Production Sponsor) was established in 1983 by New Brunswick philanthropist Irving Laurie. The Foundation supports a variety of projects across broad issue areas. The 2022/2023 program of cultural support currently includes the Lincoln Center Theatre presentation of Camelot; the public television series American Masters; NJPAC’s 2022/2023 American Song series; the Manhattan Theatre Club presentation of Summer, 1976 ; the

Roundabout Theatre Company’s presentation of The Wanderers and the Kennedy Center’s 2022/2023 Broadway Center Stage series. The Foundation was gratified to have been selected as the Outstanding Foundation of 2016 by the New Jersey Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. It is proud to report that the Foundation has provided approximately $100,000,000 in grants to philanthropic endeavors, addressing the Foundation’s interest in the arts, education, health care and social services.

David Saint (Director/Artistic Director) is in his 25th season as Artistic Director of George Street Playhouse. He has directed nearly 50 mainstage productions at GSP, having most recently helmed Tales from the Guttenberg Bible. Additional productions include Fully Committed and Tiny Beautiful Things for the GSP virtual season, Midwives, and Conscience, in addition to The Trial of Donna Caine, American Hero, American Son, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and An Act of God starring the legendary Kathleen Turner in the 2017-18 season. His time here has been marked by collaborations with such artists as Keith Carradine, Tyne Daly, Rachel Dratch, Sandy Duncan, Boyd Gaines, A.R. Gurney, Uta Hagen, Harriet Harris, Jack Klugman, Dan Lauria, Kathleen Marshall, Elaine May, Anne Meara, David Hyde Pierce, Chita Rivera, Paul Rudd, Stephen Sondheim, Marlo Thomas, Eli Wallach, and many others including a remarkable partnership with Arthur Laurents. In addition, many new award-winning works have begun their life here during his tenure such as The Toxic Avenger, Proof, The Spitfire Grill, Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies, and It Shoulda Been You. He has directed Final Follies at Primary Stages, Clever Little Lies at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY and off-Broadway at West Side Theatre, as well as the National tour of West Side Story. In July 2016, he directed West Side Story at the legendary Hollywood Bowl starring Jeremy Jordan and Solea Pfeiffer. In Summer 2019, he directed a revolutionary new production of West Side Story for IHI Stage Around in Tokyo and served as Associate Producer for the Academy Award-nominated film version of West Side Story directed by Steven

Spielberg. He also has directed on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, McCarter, Williamstown, Seattle Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Pittsburg Public, Long Wharf and many others by such writers as Aaron Sorkin, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter Parnell, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Joe DiPietro and Jonathan Larson. He is the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award, Helen Hayes Award, L.A., Drama Critics Award, several DramaLogue Awards and is the President of The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation.

Edgar Herrera (Managing Director) Born and raised in Mexico, Mr. Herrera received the prestigious 2004-2005 Management Fellowship of the League of American Orchestras, taking on special projects with senior leadership at The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Atlanta Symphony, The Aspen Music Festival & School and The Elgin Symphony (IL). In 2005 he was appointed the Executive Director of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra; after two years leading the PSO, he was nominated for the League´s Executive Director of the year under 40. In 2007 he was recruited by the Syracuse Symphony to lead the Marketing and Patron Development department. Mr. Herrera moved to Mexico City in 2009 to become the Executive Director of a private foundation formed by partners of the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. In 2013 the Clinton Global Initiative extended an invitation to Mr. Herrera and his foundation to become a member. In 2014, with an entrepreneurial mindset and smart investments, Mr. Herrera successfully developed a multitude of business ventures, including a digital accounting firm, an international trade enterprise, a consulting firm and a mining business, which he sold in 2019 to go back to his real passion, the performing arts. Mr. Herrera joined the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra in early 2020, where he successfully used his experience, both in the Arts and in the private sector, to completely transform the institution.

A Timeline of Oppression & Key Events of World War II

Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party comes to power in Germany. The Nazis declare a national boycott of Jewish businesses on April 1 and expel Jews from all official posts and cultural enterprises (music, film, journalism, etc.).

Nuremberg Laws deprive Jews of German citizenship and forbid marriage or any sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews.

August – Nazis sign a nonaggression pact with Soviet Russia.

September 1 – Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland marks the beginning of World War II.

September 21 – Nazis draft a step by-step plan for the destruction of Polish Jews.

November – Nazis concentrate Jews from towns across Poland in the large cities.

December – Polish Jews ordered to wear a Star of David, prohibited use of public transportation, parks, and sidewalks, and required to provide two years of forced labor.

April – Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

May – Nazis invade Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.

August – Nazis attack Great Britain.

October – Warsaw’s Jews forced into a Ghetto, eventually walled in with bricks, which houses nearly 500,000 in an area of approximately 200 city blocks. Hunger, disease, and Nazi raids begin killing thousands each week.

June – Nazis break nonaggression pact and invade Soviet Russia. Killing squads, called Einsatzgruppen, follow the advance, executing Jews in all areas that come under Nazi control. By the end of October, 250,000 have been murdered.

October – Nazis construct death camps in Poland at Auschwitz, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, and Treblinka for the mass execution of Jews, Gypsies, and other “undesirables.”

December – Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor draws U.S. into the war.

January – Wannsee Conference launches the Nazis “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” – a secret plan to systematically exterminate all European Jews. Nazis begin transporting Jews from all occupied territories to the death camps in Poland.

July – Warsaw’s Jews are transported by cattle car to the Treblinka death camp. By September more than 300,000 are gassed. Only those considered still fit for forced labor or able to find a safe hiding place avoid extermination.

April – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins when Nazis arrive to deport the Jews still living there. Jewish fighters hold out against shelling and fire bombs until late May, when all but a handful are finally captured and executed.

September – the Ghetto is demolished. Similar uprisings occur in other Polish Ghettos and even in some death camps, but all such armed resistance is quickly crushed and followed by severe reprisals

January – Soviets force a Nazi retreat at Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and begin advancing on Nazi territory.

May – Nazi’s begin deporting Hungarian Jews to Poland’s death camps, the last national group slated for destruction.

June – D-Day invasion at Normandy; U.S. and British forces prepare to advance on Nazi territory.

July – Soviet troops liberate Majdanek death camp.

August – Warsaw Uprising: Polish fighters, Jewish and non-Jewish, hoping for support from nearby Soviet troops, fail to drive Nazis from Warsaw when the Soviets hold their positions.

January – Soviets occupy Warsaw, where it is estimated that only 20 Jews still survive. Forced to retreat from Poland, Nazis organize death marches to evacuate Jews still held in death and work camps.

April – Adolf Hitler commits suicide after issuing a final directive: “Above all I charge the leaders of the nation...to merciless opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry.”

May – Germany surrenders.

August – U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

September – Japan surrenders.

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• Patron Services: 732-246-7717

FIRE NOTICE

The exit indicated by the red light and sign nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of a fire or other emergency, please do not run, WALK TO THE EXIT.

INCLEMENT WEATHER

George Street Playhouse maintains a policy of not canceling performances due to inclement weather. Please call Patron Services, 732-246-7717, if you have any questions.

LATE SEATING POLICY

The theatre is open to the public one halfhour prior to the performance. In consideration of all patrons, latecomers will be seated at the discretion of House Management.

RECORDING EQUIPMENT

Due to copyright and union regulations and restrictions, still cameras, video cameras or any type of recording equipment is not permitted at any time in the theatre and will be confiscated.

SMOKING

The NBPAC is a smoke-free environment. There is no smoking or vaping in the building.