Palm Beach Dramaworks The Science of Leaving Omaha program

WORLD PREMIERE

Theatre To Think About

Don & Ann Brown Theatre

by Carter W. Lewis

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Tracy Letts Executive Producers Toni & Martin Sosnoff

Producer Nancy Goodes

Directed by William Hayes

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Sue Ellen Beryl, Managing Director

Note from the Producing Artistic Director

Welcome to the world premiere of Carter W. Lewis’ The Science of Leaving Omaha, a play about the consequences of the disintegration of workingclass communities, embodied by two young Nebraskans, Iris and Baker, and told with compassion, humor, and hope.

The Science of Leaving Omaha speaks to an important problem that is plaguing the country, and is a good example of why PBD is so committed to developing and producing new plays: the best of them tend to address the moment we are living in, yet their stories are timeless and universal.

Which brings me to our 2023-24 season. I am excited to announce that two of the five plays will be world premieres, both of them commissions that reflect these fraught times. More on these works in a moment. I’m equally enthusiastic about the three acclaimed plays that round out the season. Each work has an immediacy and exemplifies “theatre to think about,” including one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Additionally, we are staging Kenneth Lonergan’s stimulating comic drama Lobby Hero, which deals with two subjects that remain front and center in our national conversation: racial and sexual intimidation. The third play is Lynn Nottage’s wonderful Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a coming-ofage tale about loss and grieving, and bridging cultural divisions.

Our two world premieres are similarly provocative and, by coincidence, feature teachers as their central characters and cover some similar territory – racism, the impact of social media, how information is used and distorted – in very different ways. Jenny Connell Davis’ The Messenger, which opened the 2023 New Year/New Plays Festival, is inspired by Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor but is not a play about the Holocaust. When I learned about the remarkable Georgia, I approached Jenny to see if she would have any interest in writing a play about her. Before saying yes, she did a lot of research and gave considerable thought about what the play would be. Ultimately, she was not only interested in but passionate about her subject matter, and found an ingenious way to interweave Georgia’s story with that of a young American woman facing racial discrimination in this country in 2020.

Our second world premiere is The Cancellation of Lauren Fein by Christopher Demos-Brown. He’s a playwright whose work I’ve long admired, and over the years the two of us have talked about collaborating. He contacted me not too long ago and said he had an idea for a play that he very much wanted to write. It’s about a liberal, lesbian professor, who runs afoul of her school’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies, putting her family and her career in jeopardy. These kinds of stories seem to be in the news every week, and I was immediately intrigued. I gave Chris a commission to bring his idea to fruition.

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Note from the Director

For 23 seasons, PBD’s mission has been to produce classic plays. So, when introducing new works, it can be a challenge to identify scripts that fit the model valued by our patrons and at the same time appeal to and hopefully attract new audience demographics. As manager of The Dramaworkshop, my goal is to find new plays that bridge that artistic gap: contemporary in voice, characters, and story but universal enough to still be “theatre to think about.”

The Science of Leaving Omaha by Carter W. Lewis is just such a play. Its two main characters are today’s young “working poor”; good kids who are the product of a failing education system and a shrinking job market. And while society tells them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, it hasn’t given them a clear or accessible path to better themselves. As they face the dead ends of a “rich get richer” economy that favors generational wealth and offers opportunities to those who already have class or privilege on their side, they struggle to break free from the broken dreams of their past and nurture their fragile hopes for the future.

Why should we care? Because it’s a world that we have left them to navigate on their own. Iris and Baker aren’t asking for special treatment. They’re asking us to see, hear, and acknowledge the challenges they’re facing. As Linda Loman says of her forgotten, working-class husband in Death of a Salesman, “Attention must be paid.” And isn’t that what theatre is about – finding empathy and understanding for people who are different from ourselves? Maybe, if we’re willing to spend a little time with these kids in Omaha, we’ll start to see the flaws in the system we’ve created for those who come after us, and we might even find the compassion to help them fix it before it’s too late.

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GEORGI JAMES (Iris) PBD debut. Broadway: Annie (Pepper), 2012 revival; Billy Elliot (Debbie); A Tale of Two Cities (Swing). Other favorite theatre credits include the musical Little Miss Sunshine at La Jolla Playhouse (Olive Hoover), Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Hartford Stage and Signature Theatre (Lily Dale/Molly/Irma Sue), and originating the role of Small Alison in the pre-Broadway workshops of Fun Home. She most recently appeared in the third season of The Equalizer on CBS (Sienna Melvin). Proud graduate of the William Esper Studio (NYC).

NICHOLAS-TYLER

CORBIN (Baker) is grateful to be making his PBD debut. OffBroadway: Lili Marlene (Josef) at St. Luke’s Theatre. European tour: Shooter (Gavin Stewart). NYC: The Watchers (Access Theatre), Shooter (Gavin Stewart) at Theatrelab, Ruffles (Ruffles) at The Tank, Bergen (Hans) and Long Lost John: The Lennon Story (John Lennon) at Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. Select regional and conservatory: Hand to God (Jason), Hair (Claude), Bent (Max), The Three Sisters (Tuzenbach). Proud alumnus of the American Theatre Wing’s SpringboardNYC program and SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts. @nicholastylercorbin

MERRINA MILLSAPP

(Sally) is thrilled to make her PBD debut. A native Chicagoan, Merrina began her acting adventure in Dublin, Ireland. Regional: Cullud Wattah (Victory Gardens Theatre), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Her Honor Jane Byrne (Lookingglass Theatre Company), 2 X 2 (Haven Theatre Company), Landladies (Northlight Theatre). Ireland: The Bacchae of Baghdad (Abbey Theatre), ONE (Pan Pan Theatre), It Just Came Out (Druid Theatre Company), Romeo and Juliet (Second Age Theatre Company), Mystery 2000 (SFX City Theatre). Television/ Film: Chicago Med (NBC);

Trouble in Paradise, Killinaskully, Fair City (RTE); Ella Enchanted, In America, Incognitus, Speed Dating, Bad Karma, and White. Merrina trained professionally in Dublin at Liberties College, the Abbey Theatre, and Focus Theatre, and in Chicago at The Second City. She is a member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

CASEY SACCO (Understudy / Iris and Sally) is a Fort Lauderdale-based actor, most recently seen in PBD's reading of The Messenger at the New Year/New Plays Festival. She's had the pleasure of working for theatre companies across South Florida, where her credits include Red Speedo (Plays of Wilton); Hand to God (GableStage); A Wonderful World (Miami New Drama); Twelfth Night (Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival); Titanic, Tarzan, Shrek, Matilda, A Christmas Story, The Secret Garden (Slow Burn Theatre Company); Curtains (The Wick Theatre); Zanna, Don't ! (Island City Stage); Sweet Charity (Stage Door Theatre); and Little Montgomery, a scripted podcast series with New City Players. Casey is the resident costume designer and a proud ensemble member of New City Players. BFA graduate of New World School of the Arts. caseysacco.com.

ELIJAH MOSELEY

(Understudy / Baker) is excited to be back at PBD. As a graduate of Florida Atlantic University’s BFA performance program, he has attained a specialized skill set focused on acting and playwriting. Elijah’s South Florida acting credits include the world premiere productions of Dorothy’s Dictionary and Harlowe at Theatre Lab, and the New Year/ New Plays Festival and Young Playwrights Contest at PBD. Although his primary academic focus was within the school of theatre, Elijah was also a student of FAU’s school of philosophy, where he studied art theory and existentialism. Catch him on the big screen next summer in Puffing Iron, produced by Kevin Bright and R&R Film Studios.

BRUCE LINSER (Director) directed PBD’s productions of Woody Guthrie’s American Song and The Spitfire Grill. He is also the manager of PBD’s The Dramaworkshop, dedicated to the development of new plays, and regularly directs readings for the Drama(in the)works series and the New Year/ New Plays Festival. In addition to directing, Bruce is an actor and was most recently seen at PBD as Juror 12 in Twelve Angry Men, Henk in the world premiere of The People Downstairs, and Artie in The House of Blue Leaves. Other favorite projects include directing Avenue Q and Man of La Mancha at MNM Theatre Company, playing Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone at The Wick Theatre, and Cliff in Cabaret at Maltz Jupiter Theatre. He is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a member of Actors’ Equity Association. brucelinser.com

CARTER W. LEWIS (Playwright) served as playwright-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis from 19992021. Prior to that, he was literary manager and playwright-inresidence for the Geva Theatre Center in New York. Carter was also co-founder and resident playwright for Upstart Stage in Berkeley, CA. He is the winner of several national playwriting awards, including the Julie Harris Playwright Award, State Theatre of Austin Best New Play, the Cincinnati Playhouse Rosenthal New Play Prize (1996 and 2001), New Dramatists Arnold Weissberger Play Award, Playwrights’ Center Jerome Residency, and the Kevin Kline Award for Best New Play of 2009. He is also a two-time nominee for the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award (now the American Theatre Critics/ Steinberg New Play Award and Citations). His published works include Art Control, NoPreying, A Geometric Digression of the Species, Soft Click of a Switch, An Asian Jockey in Our Midst, and The One-Eyed Man is King. Among his other works are Golf with Alan Shepard, Picasso Does My Maps, Women Who Steal, Men on the Take, American Storm by Integrity Out of Molly Brown, Kid Peculiar, Ordinary Nation, Evie’s Waltz, The Storytelling Ability of a Boy, The

Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider, The Hummingbird Wars, and With. His plays have been produced from coast to coast. Carter lives in St. Louis with his dog, Vivian.”

KENT JAMES COLLINS (Stage Manager) is grateful to be back for his second season at PBD, where he previously stage managed Twelve Angry Men, The Duration, and Almost, Maine. Other credits include Norwegian Cruise Line, Universal Orlando Resort, The REV Theatre Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Delaware Theatre Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Florida Repertory Theatre. BFA in musical theatre, University of Central Florida. Creator of Half Hour Call on YouTube. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. Thanks to Bill, Sue Ellen, Lara, Tyler, and the entire PBD team. kentjamescollins.com

MICHAEL AMICO (Scenic Design) most recently designed the sets for The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel (Carbonell nomination), The Duration, Almost, Maine, The People Downstairs, Ordinary Americans, Fences, Indecent, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Edgar & Emily, The Little Foxes, Sweeney Todd, and The Night of the Iguana (Carbonell nomination) for PBD. Previous seasons here include 1776, Picnic (Carbonell nomination), The Lion in Winter, Of Mice and Men, Talley's Folly (Carbonell Award), The Pitmen Painters, All My Sons (Carbonell nomination), The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Gin Game, American Buffalo, Copenhagen, Private Lives, The Weir, The Chairs (Carbonell nomination), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Carbonell nomination), and Seascape. He has designed scenery for theatres throughout Florida, including Aida at Actors’ Playhouse, Dial M for Murder, and Deathtrap at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Fully Committed at the Broward Center, As Thousands Cheer at the Kravis Center, Benedict Arnold at Florida Stage, Ten Unknowns at Florida Studio Theatre, and Beguiled Again at Riverside Theater.

BRIAN O’KEEFE (Costume Design) began designing for PBD in 2009, became costume shop manager and resident designer in 2015, and has designed over 60 shows here. He has received 11 Carbonell Award nominations, winning for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Lion in Winter, and A Doll's House, and was a Silver

Palm Award recipient in 2022. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, he spent his earlier career as a patternmaker for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC and major costume houses in New York, including Barbara Matera, Ltd., Parsons-Meares, Michael-Jon Costumes, and Eaves-Brooks. He was later resident designer, principal patternmaker, and shop manager for Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, spending 16 years designing over 75 productions and supervising 90 more. Other regional design credits: Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Winter Park Playhouse, St. Augustine's Limelight Theatre, University of Central Florida. Other regional patterning credits: Alabama and Utah Shakespeare festivals, and Stages St. Louis.

KIRK BOOKMAN (Lighting Design) For PBD, he has designed Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, The People Downstairs, A Streetcar Named Desire, The House of Blue Leaves, Equus, Satchmo at the Waldorf, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, and Buried Child. Maltz Jupiter Theatre: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Glengarry Glen Ross. NYC: American Dance Machine at the Joyce Theater; Closer Than Ever at The York Theatre Company; Company with the New York Philharmonic starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patti LuPone (subsequently broadcast in movie theatres nationwide); Charles Busch’s The Divine Sister, Shanghai Moon, and The Tribute Artist. Broadway: The Sunshine Boys (with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall), The Gin Game (with Julie Harris and Charles Durning), and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. San Francisco Symphony and PBS: The Thomashefskys with Michael Tilson Thomas. Many productions for Pittsburgh Public Theater and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

ROGER ARNOLD (Sound Design) has been a freelance sound engineer and designer for over 35 years. He is a voting member of both NARAS (the Grammys) and the Audio

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Engineering Society (AES.org). Roger became an educator of music technology in 2006 and was the senior music technology professor at the University of New Haven. During his tenure there, he designed and provided sound for The Rocky Horror Show, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Spring Awakening. In 2018, he relocated to South Florida, and in 2019 he became sound engineer and resident sound designer for PBD, where his credits include Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, The People Downstairs, and Skylight. BA in music and sound recording, University of New Haven. MA in music technology, University of Newcastle.

TYLER B. OSGOOD (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be spending his second season with PBD. Regional credits include the One Humanity Tour (2022), Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, and The People Downstairs at PBD; The Sound of Music, Songs Under the Stars, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Holiday Heroes 2019, A Christmas Carol 2019, and Sunday in the Park with George at ZACH Theatre; A Wrinkle in Time, A Christmas Carol 2018, Detroit ’67, and The Age of Innocence at McCarter Theatre. Tyler is a proud graduate of Texas State University, where he earned his BFA in theatre technology and production.

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WHITNEY GRACE is an entertainer with the heart of Doris Day and the bazazz of Liza Minnelli. Recent credits include Cinderella (Gabrielle) at The Wick Theatre, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The White Guy on the Bus (Molly) at GableStage, and The Secret Garden (Martha) at TheatreZone. A special thank you to Bruce and Bill; also to Mom, Dad, Daniel, and Mark for their love and support! Prov 3:5-6. To learn more about Whitney’s one-woman musical comedies and to book your show, visit bazazz.co

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Contact House Manager Pierre Tannous at ptannous@palmbeachdramaworks.org

OUR MISSION

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit theatre company that engages and entertains audiences with provocative and timeless productions that personally impact each individual.

OUR VISION

To enhance the quality of life through the transformative power of live theatre.

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Ruth Baum

Nancy Beard

Ravi Chaturvedi

Esther Dinerstein

Roe Green

Daryn M. Kirchfeld Sidney Lesowitz

J. Barry Lewis Sherron Long Pamela McIver

Marilyn Meyerhoff

Charles Muoio

Sally Nathanson

Robert Nederlander

Shari Santell

William N. Shepherd Louise Snyder

Mimi Draper Walsh Beth Walton Lee Wolf

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THEATRE TO THINK ABOUT

2022/2023 SEASON

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

By Tracy Letts Directed by William Hayes

March 31-April 16, 2023

A tumultuous family reunion leads to revelations, resentments, and recriminations in this Pulitzer Prize-winning comic drama, in which the taunts and stings are both over-the-top and all too real.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Toni & Martin Sosno

PRODUCER Nancy Goodes

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG

By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Be Boyd

May 26-June 11, 2023

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, two brothers alternately support and disparage each other as they look back at their troubled past and look ahead to an uncertain future. A darkly comic trash-talking tale of simmering sibling rivalry.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Penny Bank