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*
Ronald L. Bleich, CPA
Edgar Herrera*
Lucy Hughes
Adele T. Macula, Ed.D.
Dina M. Mastellone, Esq.
Al D’Augusta
Cody P. Eckert
Kenneth M. Fisher
Norman Politziner
David Saint*
Jocelyn Schwartzman
Janice G. Stolar
Lora Tremayne
*Denotes Members of the Executive Committee
Trustees Emeritus
Peter Goldberg
William Hagaman
Clarence E. Lockett
Honorary Board of Trustees
James Cahill
Anthony L. Marchetta
Alan W. Voorhees
George Wolansky
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
CAST in order of appearance
Roy Scheider........................................................................Jason Babinsky
Robert Shaw......................................................................Jeffrey M. Bender
Richard Dreyfuss..................................................................Max Wolkowitz
The Shark Is Broken will be performed with no intermission.
Setting:
On board the Orca, on the open ocean east of Martha’s Vineyard, between East Chop and Oak Bluffs.
Voiceovers:
Zawadi Anglin, Christopher J. Bailey, Ronald DeSciora, Hudson Flynn, Billy Goheen, Charles Hudson III, Kim Quick, Andrew Wolf
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.
The director is a member 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.
Jason Babinsky (Roy Scheider) Broadway: Network, Billy Elliot (also first national tour), Ghost. Off-Broadway: Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater), Caucasian Chalk Circle (CSC), A Man’s a Man (CSC). Regional: City Theatre, Alley Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter Theater, Huntington Theater, St. Louis Rep, CATF, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Syracuse Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, NSMT, PCLO, Hangar Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival. Film: “Sweethearts,” “She Said,” “ou Were Never Really Here,” “A Cure for Wellness,” “The Wizard of Lies (HBO),” “Contagion,” “You Don’t Know Jack (HBO),” “Law Abiding Citizen.” Television: “Succession,” “Elsbeth,” “Law and Order,” “Law and Order SVU,” “FBI,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “The Equalizer,” “New Amsterdam,” “The Good Wife,” “Billions,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Bull,” “The Blacklist,” “House of Cards,” “Madam Secretary,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Knick,” “Person of Interest.”
Jeffrey M. Bender (Robert Shaw / Fight Director) is making his George Street Playhouse debut. Jeff teaches Theater Appreciation at Rutgers University and has taught over 10,000 students in the last 6 years. He’s been a company member of the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ for over 26 years, performed in 28 plays, and will be directing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) there later this summer. Broadway: A Time to Kill (The Golden Theatre) and Cymbeline (Lincoln Center). Regional: Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Center Theatre, Old Globe in San Diego, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and numerous NYC theatre companies. TV credits: “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Detour.”
Max Wolkowitz (Richard Dreyfuss) is a Brooklyn-based storyteller by way of Chicago. Off Broadway: The Public Theater. Regional: The Huntington Theater, The Studio Theater (DC), The National Black Theater, The Kennedy Center, Two River Theater, Long Wharf Theater, Mill Mountain Theater, The Kelly Strayhorn Theater.
TV: “POSE,” “Jessica Jones,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago PD,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Good Fight,” “FBI,” “Blue Bloods.” MFA in Acting from UC Irvine.
Ian Shaw (Co-Writer) trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, having obtained a BA in American Studies at Sussex University. He premiered The Shark is Broken for a 3-day run in Brighton, which, followed by a run at the Edinburgh Fringe and transferred to The Ambassadors Theatre in the West End in 2021. The show received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play and ran at Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, before transferring to Broadway’s John Golden Theatre in 2023. Other theatre includes: War Horse and Common (National Theatre); Widowers’ Houses, The Importance of Being Earnest, Nude with Violin, The Philadelphia Story, and The Brothers Karamazov(Manchester Royal Exchange); Three Sisters (Nuffield and Theatre Royal Bath); Private Lives and Closer (Birmingham Rep); The Rivals (Derby Playhouse and Philadelphia Walnut St); The Tempest(SRT) and Much Ado About Nothing in London’s West End. Television includes: Sharpe; Soldier, Soldier; Medics; Wuthering Heights; The Queen; Ghost Hour;Silent Witness; Cambridge Spies and the Emmy award-winning Hiroshima. Film includes: Century;Moondance; The Boys and Girl from County Clare; The Contract and Johnny English Reborn.
Joseph Nixon (Co-Writer) is the author (with Brian Mitchell) of the plays Those Magnificent Men (New Perspectives, 2010); Big Daddy vs. Giant Haystacks (The Foundry Group, 2011); Seven Studies in Salesmanship (The Foundry Group, 2013); and the musical The Opinion Makers (Mercury Theatre/Derby Theatre 2013.) He has written material for Joanna Neary, Jo Caulfield, Jerry Sadowitz, and Basil Brush.
Peter Flynn (Director) Peter is delighted to return to the George Street Playhouse where he directed the world premiere of Curvy Widow by Bobby Goldman and Drew Brody, and Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck which was the first virtual performance GSP offered during the pandemic. Recent credits include the southeast regional premiere of The Lehman Trilogy for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Fiddler on the Roof for the Olney Theatre Center; the multimedia performances of November 1918: The Great War & The Great Gatsby for Carnegie Hall and Eyes of The World for the Boston Pops, which is available on pbs. org. Peter is returning to South Africa this summer
to direct the African tour of Calling Us Home by Alice Gillham for which he directed the world premiere in 2023. Other credits include: Smart Blonde by Willy Holtzman starring Andréa Burns; Rhapsody in Seth starring Seth Rudetsky; On the Twentieth Century with Douglas Sills & Marin Mazzie; Chess with Josh Groban & Julia Murney; and Andrea Martin’s one-woman show, Andrea Martin: Final Days Everything Must Go Peter is an Associate Professor of Musical Theatre at Montclair State University, and an Associate Artist at Ford’s Theatre. He is also the Board Chair for Live And In Color, a not-for-profit theatre development company creating plays and musicals by and for Artists-Of-Color. peterflynndirector.com
Anne Mundell (Scenic Designer) is pleased to join George Street Playhouse for her first production. Mundell’s design work includes theater in venues across the US, museum exhibition, installation and fine arts, parade floats, industrial design, opera, symphony, and dance. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Scenic Design at Carnegie Mellon University and Resident Set Designer at Palm Beach Dramaworks. Cofounder of the Roboceptionist project a decade-long collaboration with the Robotics Institute at CMU, Founder of Growing Theater Outreach. AB from Kenyon College, MFA from Brandeis University, Certificates include Inquiry Driven Leadership from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Strategic Change Management from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Siena Zoë Allen ( Costume Designer) is a New York based costume designer for theater and opera. Recent credits include The Eyes of the World (Carnegie Hall), November 1918: The Great War & The Great Gatsby (Boston Symphony Hall, PBS), The Lehman Trilogy (Maltz Jupiter), someone spectacular (Signature Theatre), Maybe Tomorrow (ART Theatres), See What I Wanna See (Theatre 154), Cracksull Row (Irish Repertory Theatre), Bastard Jones (the cell), The Last 5 Years (Streaming, Out of the Box Theatrics). Zoë holds an MFA from NYU Tisch, and is a Princess Grace Award Winner. She is represented by United Talent Agency. More at www.sienazoeallen.com.
Alan C. Edwards (Lighting Designer) West End: Harry Clarke. Off-B’way: Sally & Tom (Public); Sunset Baby, The Hot Wing King, Fires in The Mirror [Lortel Nom.], Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Signature); Harry Clarke [Lortel Award] (Vineyard); Kill Move Paradise [Drama Desk nom] (NBT); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night (CTH); Dakar 2000 (Manhattan Theatre
Club). Regional: Appropriate (Old Globe); Beautiful (Asolo Rep); Gatsby: An American Myth, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (A.R.T.). Dance: In The Same Tongue (Dianne McIntyre); Chasing Magic, NYCC Artists at The Center ‘23 (Ayodele Casel); Rhythm Is Life (Dormeshia); Lifted, by Christopher Rudd for American Ballet Theatre. Broadway: Assoc. to Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary. Teaching: Lighting Design faculty at Yale School of Drama. Training: M.F.A from the Yale School of Drama. www.alancedwards.com
Joanna Lynne Staub (Sound Designer) is a NYCbased Sound Designer and Audio Engineer making her GSP debut. Her design credits include Alliance Theatre, American Players Theatre, Bay Street, Berkshire Theatre Group, Bucks County Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, 5th Avenue Theatre, Geva Theatre, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, Seattle Rep, Trinity Rep, and WP Theatre. She has worked extensively associate designing and engineering Broadway shows and national touring companies. TV credits include PBS Great Performances, The View, and the NBC-Live! Productions of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz. She is a Drama Desk Nominated Sound Designer, Jeff Award (Chicago) Nominated Composer, and a GRAMMY Nominated Recording Engineer, along with having won regional design awards in Nashville and San Diego. She holds music, audio engineering, and technical theatre degrees from Ithaca College and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Proud member of USA-829. jlssound.com
Adam J. Thompson (Projection Director) is the recipient of the 2023 USITT and Live Design Rising Star Award, recognizing early career excellence, innovation, and artistic achievement in the field of design. He is the Founding Artistic Director of The Deconstructive Theatre Project and the Resident Projection Designer at both Palm Beach Dramaworks and Teatro Nuovo. Adam’s national work as a producer, director, and designer has been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and The Jerome Robbins Foundation. He holds a BA in directing and dramaturgy from Emerson College and an MFA in video & media design from Carnegie Mellon University. www.adamjacobthompson.com
Jennifer-Reneé Mullins (Hair, Wig and Makeup Designer)has been doing hair for over a decade for mediums such as Film, Television, and theatre. Television Productions such as: “The Last of Us,” “Fallout,” “American Crime, American Sports Story,” “American Horror Story,” NBC’s “Saturday Night Live “and more. Having worked on films such as, “Dungeons and Dragons,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and a myriad of others as well as theatrically, The San Francisco Opera, Hadestown Broadway, Hadestown North American Tour, Hadestown West End.
Christopher J. Bailey (GSP Production Manager)
This season marks Mr. Bailey’s 26th at George Street Playhouse and 19th as its Production Manager, having previously served the Playhouse as Technical Coordinator and Sound and Lighting Manager. Most recent for designing for GSP was Sound Designer for King James, Lighting Designer for What the Constitution Means to Me and 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.
Christina M. Woolard (Production Stage Manager) stage manages for theatre, circus and live events. Previous credits include Clyde’s, American Hero, and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (George Street Playhouse), Laughs In Spanish (Hartford Stage), Stalker (off-Broadway), A Good Day To Me Not To You (Waterwell), Space Dogs (MCC), Summer Stock and Passing Through (Goodspeed Musicals), Kinky Boots (Bucks County Playhouse), Preparedness (The Bushwick Starr), Will You Come With Me? and Notes on My Mother’s Decline (The Play Company), Dead + Alive (One Year Lease), Sunset Circus (Parallel Exit). Proud AEA member and alumna of Rutgers University. For Mom — your song is in my heart.
Caitlyn Ostrowski (Assistant Stage Manager)is thrilled to be celebrating her 10th show at George Street Playhouse! Originally from East Brunswick, New Jersey, her credits include: Assistant Stage Manager for What the Constitution Means to Me, Gene & Gilda, Small, Tick…Tick…BOOM!, The Club, Having Our Say, …Spelling Bee, and Production Assistant for Clyde’s and Her Portmanteau (George Street Playhouse). Assistant Stage Manager for Tales from the Guttenberg Bible (Bay Street Theatre). Production Assistant for The Last Supper (Inclusion Media), The Gorgeous Nothings (Lifejacket Theatre Co), 2ST Sapphire Anniversary Gala (Second Stage Theater), and “An Evening with Justin Paul & Friends” (Westport Country Playhouse). Production Stage Manager for Field Station: Dinosaurs (2021 Season).
Caitlyn graduatexd with a BFA in Stage Management from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts. She would like to thank her partner Emily, her family, and her friends here at GSP for always supporting and believing in her.
McCorkle Casting Ltd, Pat McCorkle, CSA
Rebecca Weiss, CSA (Casting) McCorkle Casting continues to strive for inclusivity and social awareness during its 35-year history in casting and is pleased to be associated with this George Street Playhouse production. Broadway: Over 50 productions including On The Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, A Few Good Men. etc. Off-Broadway: Over 60 productions: Highlights; Tribes, Our Town, Driving Miss Daisy. Regional Theatre: Guthrie, Barrington Stage, CATF, City Theatre-Pittsburgh, Olney Theatre and hundreds of regional theatres throughout the country. Feature films: Currently casting six films for theatrical release. Previous project highlights: “Premium Rush”, “Ghost Town”, “The Thomas Crown Affair”, “Die Hard with a Vengeance”, etc. Television: 3 new films for Hallmark, “Twisted”, Humans for “Sesame Street”, “Californication” (Emmy Nomination), “Chappelle’s Show”, “Strangers with Candy” etc. (mccorklecasting.com)
David Saint (Artistic Director) is in his 27th season as Artistic Director of George Street Playhouse. He has directed nearly 50 mainstage productions at GSP, having most recently helmed tick, tick...BOOM! and Chris Bohjalian’s The Club. Additional productions include Tales from the Guttenberg Bible, 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 Drama-Logue Awards and is the President of The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation.
Edgar Herrera (Executive 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.
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