The Fatal Weakness Program

P R O D U C I N G a r t i s t ic dir e c t or

j on a t h a n b a n k

By George Kelly Directed

by Jesse Marchese

MINT Theater Company

production history For pictures, videos, flyers, programs and EnrichMINT materials visit the production archives on our website at www.minttheater.org Donogoo

by Jules Romains June- July 2014

DOCTOR KNOCK

By Jules Romains April- June 2010

london Wall

by John Van Druten Feb- April 2014

SO HELP ME GOD!

By Maurine Dallas Watkins Nov-Dec 2009

PHILIP GOES FORTH

by George Kelly Aug- Oct 2013 A Picture of Autumn

By N.C. Hunter May- July 2013 KATIE ROCHE

By Teresa Deevy Jan- March 2013 mary broome

By Allan Monkhouse Aug- Oct 2012 Love goes to press

By Martha Gellhorn & Virginia Cowles May-July 2012 Rutherford & son

By Githa Sowerby Feb- April 2012 Temporal Powers

By Teresa Deevy Aug- Oct 2011 A little journey

By Rachel Crothers May- July 2011 What the public wants

By Arnold Bennett Jan- March 2011 Wife to James Whelan

By Teresa Deevy July- Oct 2010

IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?

By Lennox Robinson Aug- Oct 2009 WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD

By D.H. Lawrence Feb- April 2009 THE GLASS CAGE

By J.B. Priestley Sept- Nov 2008 THE FIFTH COLUMN

By Ernest Hemingway Feb - May 2008 THE POWER OF DARKNESS

By Leo Tolstoy Sept- Oct 2007 RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL

By St. John Hankin May-July 2007 THE MADRAS HOUSE

By Harley Granville Barker Jan-March 2007 JOHN FERGUSON

By St. John Ervine Sept- Oct 2006 SUSAN AND GOD

By Rachel Crothers June- July 2006 SOLDIER’S WIFE

By Rose Franken Feb- April 2006

WALKING DOWN BROADWAY

By Dawn Powell Sept- Nov 2005 THE SKIN GAME

By John Galsworthy June- July 2005 THE LONELY WAY

By Arthur Schnitzler Feb- May 2005 ECHOES OF THE WAR

By J.M. Barrie July- Aug 2004 MILNE AT THE MINT Two Plays by A.A. Milne March-May 2004 FAR AND WIDE

By Arthur Schnitzler Sept- Nov 2003 THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

By D.H. Lawrence June- Oct 2003 THE CHARITY THAT BEGAN AT HOME

By St. John Hankin Sept- Oct 2002 NO TIME FOR COMEDY

By S.N. Behrman March- April 2002 RUTHERFORD & SON

By Githa Sowerby Sept-Oct 2001 DIANA OF DOBSON’S

By Cecily Hamilton May- June 2001

THE FLATTERING WORD & A FAREWELL TO THE THEATRE

By George Kelly & Harley Granville Barker Nov- Dec 2000 WELCOME TO OUR CITY

By Thomas Wolfe Sept-Oct 2000 MISS LULU BETT

By Zona Gale March- April 2000 THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE

By Harley Granville Barker Jan- March 2000 June-July 1999 ALISON’S HOUSE

By Susan Glaspell Sept- Oct 1999 THE HOUSE OF MIRTH

By Edith Wharton & Clyde Fitch May- June 1998 MR. PIM PASSES BY

By A.A. Milne Dec 1997- Jan 1998 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

By George Aiken Sept 1997 QUALITY STREET

By J.M. Barrie April 1996

mint theater company Jonathan Bank, Producing Artistic Director presents

by G e o rge K e l l y with Cliff Bemis, Cynthia Darlow, Kristin Griffith, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Patricia Kilgarriff, Victoria Mack

S e ts VIc ki R . Davis

Cost u mes An dr e a Va rg a

Lig hts Christian DeAngelis

S o und J ane S haw

Prop s Jo sh u a Yo co m

Wig s Gary Arave

P r o duc t i o n M a na g e r S h e rri K ot i m sk y

Prod u c t i on S t age Man ager R h o n da Pico u

Assista nt Sta g e Ma na g e r Arthur At kinson

G r a phi c s Hey Jude Gr ap hi c s In c .

Adv er t i si n g & Market i n g Th e Pe k o e Gr o up

Pre ss Rep David Gersten & Assoc iat es

C a s ti ng J u dy Bow m an

directed by jE SSE m A RC H ES E

I llustra tion St efano I m bert

tHE fATAL wEAKNESS is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. THE FATAL WEAKNESS is supported in part an award by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

cast in order of appearance Mrs. Ollie Espenshade............................................................ Kristin Griffith Anna........................................................................................Patricia Kilgarriff Mrs. Mabel Wentz..................................................................Cynthia Darlow Penny Hassett............................................................................Victoria Mack Mr. Paul Espenshade ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Cliff Bemis Vernon Hassett............................................................ Sean Patrick Hopkins SETTING: The entire action of the play takes place in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Espenshade.

ACT ONE A Saturday afternoon in June, about one o’clock.

ACT TWO Scene One: The same day, about six-thirty.

Scene Two: Two hours later.

ACT THREE Scene One: A Sunday evening in early August.

Scene Two: A Saturday afternoon, some weeks later.

Cliff Bemis

Sean Patrick Hopkins

Cynthia Darlow

Kristin Griffith

Patricia Kilgarriff

Victoria Mack

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Acclaimed as an “apparently omniscient observer of American life” (as described by Robert Benchley), with “a gift for quick, true and varied characterization unsurpassed by any of his contemporaries” (Theatre Arts Monthly), Pulitzer Prize-winner George Kelly stood out among the most distinctive of interwar Broadway dramatists. In his ten full-length works—from early classics such as The Show-Off to his theatrical swan song, The Fatal Weakness— the playwright crafted a signature style that critics came to regard as “the Kelly play:” trenchantly honest “serious comedies” examining middle-class morals and manners.

George Edward Kelly was born on January 16, 1887 in Schuykill Falls, Pennsylvania, as the seventh of ten children born to the remarkable “Philadelphia Kellys.” An industrious Irish-Catholic family, the Kellys rose from humble origins to enact an American rags-to-riches saga. George’s siblings included Olympic sculling champion and construction mogul John Kelly (also the father of Grace Kelly), and Walter C. Kelly, who became world-famous as a vaudeville headliner. After early apprenticeship as a draftsman, the shy but stage-struck George followed his older brother into the theatre.

Beginning in 1911, Kelly acted in touring companies and, from 1915, in vaudeville sketches: a staple of the form alongside songand-dance variety.

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Vaudeville proved a formative training ground for Kelly, who honed his “remarkable instinct for the theatre” on the precision and stage business of the “two-a-day.” Beginning with 1916’s Finders Keepers, Kelly found great success as a playwright of sketches on the Keith-Orpheum circuit.

After serving in France during WWI, Kelly continued to write such comedies as The Flattering Word (1918; Mint Theater Company, 2000), the first of numerous plays with theatrical subjects. In contrast to his academy-trained peers, Kelly was described in 1927 by Theater Arts Monthly as “more than other young American playwright of his generation, distinctly of the theatre.”

The early 1920s lifted Kelly to the height of popular and critical acclaim, with plays that he both wrote and directed. While 1922’s The Torch Bearers convulsed audiences with its “travesty on the amateur actor,” 1924’s The Show-Off was hailed as a masterwork by many critics, including Heywood Broun, who called it “the best comedy which has yet been written by an American.” Although Kelly decried the Twenties as “The Vulgar Age,” the era’s go-getting business spirit satirically fueled The Show-Off, whose title character Aubrey Piper became a synonym for a blustering braggart. Kelly created another American archetype in the obsessive, destructive housewife of his next play, the 1925 psychological drama Craig’s Wife, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. By this time, a new Kelly play excited comparable anticipation to a new work by Eugene O’Neill.

After Craig’s Wife, Kelly’s plays declined in favor, as he followed his hits with a number of stringent problem plays that strayed away “from the satire upon which his reputation is founded,” according to John Mason Brown. Behold the Bridegroom (1927, about a promiscuous upper-class flapper) and Maggie the Magnificent (1929), evoked the playwright’s puritan upbringing and placed CONTINUED

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him out of step with the uninhibited Twenties.

Nevertheless, critics continued to admire the playwright’s “keen insight,” craftsmanship, and artistic conviction. Joseph Wood Krutch observed in 1929, “A George Kelly play that is a failure is often more memorable than the successes of other playwrights.”

While only two new Kelly plays opened in the 1930s, the playwright continued to expand his range on Broadway and in Hollywood.

Philip Goes Forth (1931; Mint Theater Company 2013) mixed a poignant comingof-age drama with barbed theatrical satire.

The play affirmed Kelly’s sense of the theatre “as a disciplined craft and as an art but also something of a divine calling,” as Foster Hirsch describes. Disappointed by the mixed reception of Philip, Kelly ventured to Hollywood, where he worked for five years as a script consultant and screenwriter. The artistic constraints of the “Dream Factory” proved no less frustrating to the perfectionist Kelly, and in 1936, he returned to Broadway with Reflected Glory, a star vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead.

With his last Broadway plays, The Deep Mrs. Sykes (1945) and The Fatal Weakness (1946), Kelly created two of his most mature and unconventional works— leading Mary McCarthy to observe, in 1947,

that a Kelly play “is not like anything else while on the surface it resembles every play one has ever been to.” Both character studies of married suburban women, with plots of suspected infidelity, The Deep Mrs. Sykes and The Fatal Weakness critiqued the values of the postwar era, when the “primacy and validity of the nuclear family…was not to be questioned,” as John M. Clum writes. Produced by the Theatre Guild, and starring the comedienne Ina Claire, The Fatal Weakness earned some of Kelly’s most admiring reviews. However, settling neither into expected grooves of “capricious comedy or psychological drama” (The New York Times), The Fatal Weakness failed to find an audience, and did not revive Kelly’s Broadway career.

After a 1947 Broadway revival of Craig’s Wife directed by the playwright, Kelly shifted into semi-retirement. The comedy When All Else Fails (1951; to be presented as part of the Mint’s “Further Readings” series on October 20) counted among four unpublished plays that never materialized on stage, although “Playhouse 90” produced Kelly’s 1956 teleplay starring Shirley Booth as Washington party hostess Perle Mesta. The same year, Kelly’s niece became one of the most famous women in the world, as the movie star Princess of Monaco.

Bernardo Cubría and Natalie Kuhn in the Mint’s 2013 production of PHILIP GOES FORTH. Photo by Rahav Segev

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Rachel Moulton, Christine Toy Johnson, Carole Healey, Natalie Kuhn and Bernardo Cubría PHILIP GOES FORTH at the Mint, 2013. Photo by Rahav Segev

As a young girl dreaming of an acting career, Grace Kelly was fondly encouraged by her Uncle George, who applauded Grace’s turn in one of her first theatrical appearances: a 1949 summer stock production of The Torch Bearers at the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania.

Throughout the decades of his own celebrity, Kelly was deeply reticent about his private life. A 1930 profile in Times Square Tintypes claimed, “(Kelly) honestly dislikes publicity and actually goes out of his way to avoid it.” While the press noted him as a lifelong bachelor, Kelly was actually involved, for over fifty years, with his companion William E. Weagly (a union that Kelly kept closely guarded from his conservative family, to whom Weagly was always presented as his valet and private secretary). With Weagly by his side, Kelly moved in 1957 to a retirement village in Sun City, California. He died at the age of 87 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on June 18, 1974, his plays long out of theatrical fashion.

In the twenty-first century, it is increasingly unlikely that George Kelly will “pass

unremarked” (to quote Mary McCarthy) as a significant twentieth century American playwright. In recent years, revivals of The Torch Bearers (Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2009), The Show-Off (Westport Country Playhouse, 2013) and the Mint’s Philip Goes Forth have revitalized interest in Kelly. Foster Hirsch writes, in summarizing the playwright’s singular body of work: “His dialogue, his theater business, and his controlled rhythm are unfailingly graceful. Kelly is a miniature portraitist of American manners; and within its own selfimposed limits, his vision is shrewd and rigorous. He is a moralist who mixes his homely sermons with droll, ironic laughter, and his manners plays...are among the most distinctively stylized works in the American repertory. Kelly’s position in American drama is unique and it is high.”

Dr. Maya Cantu is a theater historian, scholar and Dramaturgical Advisor for the Mint, where she most recently worked on John Van Druten’s London Wall. This year, Maya received her DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama.

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CLIFF BEMIS (Paul Espenshade): returns to the Mint Theater after appearing as Mr. Eldridge in last season’s Philip Goes Forth. He originated the role of Ezekiel Foster in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas on Broadway, and first national tour. Other favorite roles and shows include Chris Christopherson in the first NY revival of New Girl In Town at Irish Rep, Feldzieg in The Drowsy Chaperone, Pool Boy at Barrington Stages, Twist, at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Wonderful Town for Reprise! In his hometown of Cleveland, he starred in Jacques Brel... which ran for over two years, and is credited as the show that saved the historic Playhouse Square theatres, and spent seven seasons as a guest artist at the Cleveland Play House.

Film work includes Billy, Nancy Drew, World Trade Center, Au Pair II, and Straight Outta Tompkins. Over 75 TV appearances include White Collar, Law and Order SVU, One Life To Live, Coach, and Cheers. He established the Cliff Bemis Music Theatre Scholarship at his alma mater, Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio. Proud member of Actor’s Equity since 1968, visit www.cliffbemis.com.

Cynthia DARLOW (Mrs. Mabel Wentz): Broadway: Billy Elliot, Accent on Youth, Old Acquaintance, Rabbit Hole, Taller Than a Dwarf, Present Laughter, Sex and Longing, Prelude to a Kiss, Rumors, and the original production of Grease! Off - Broadway: Beyond Therapy, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Home, The Runner Stumbles, Sin: A Cardinal Deposed, Juno and the Paycock, Cider House Rules, June Moon, Death Defying Acts, Mere Mortals, Sister Mary Ignatius….

Regional: American Repertory Theatre (founding member), Mark Taper, Balt.

Center Stage, etc. Television: Elementary, Sopranos, Six Degrees, Soul Man, Law and Order, Criminal Intent, Special Victims Unit, and Square One T.V.(Children’s Television Workshop), five seasons as a series regular.

Film: I Smile Back, The Savages, 25th Hour, The Thomas Crown Affair, Garden State. Narrator of many audio books, most

notably the “Murder She Wrote” series for the BBC Member: The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) , Actor’s Center. AEA, SAG/ AFTRA, CAEA. KRISTIN GRIFFITH (Mrs. Ollie Espenshade): At the Mint: The Charity That Begins At Home, Mr. Pim Passes By, All About Blayds and Mary Broome. Recent work includes The Most Deserving for The Women’s Project, It’s A wonderful Life for Irish Rep and the films Cold in July, and I Smile Back with Sarah Silverman and Drawing Home to be released this year. Ms. Griffith has played extensively off Broadway and in regional theatres across the U.S. and in Canada, has been a guest star on all franchises of Law & Order as well as Blue Bloods and other series. Earlier films include Woody Allen’s Interiors, Stephen Soderbergh’s King of the Hill and Merchant/Ivory’s The Europeans.

Ms. Griffith is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Irish Repertory Theatre.

Sean Patrick Hopkins (Vernon Hassett) is happy to be making his Mint stage debut after appearing in readings of PROFESSOR BERNHARDI, THE KING OF SPAIN’S DAUGHTER, and THE FATAL WEAKNESS. Other recent Off-Broadway/ NYC appearances include FOREVER DUSTY at New World Stages, and Symphony Space’s WALL TO WALL CABARET celebration.

Regional favorites include FOREVER PLAID (California Musical Theatre; North Shore Music Theatre); ANGELS IN AMERICA (Boston Theatre Works); THE 39 STEPS, BOEING BOEING (Mountain Playhouse); IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Beef & Boards); THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (Peterborough Players); AS YOU LIKE IT (Colonial Theatre); BAREFOOT IN THE PARK (Ivoryton Playhouse). Television: Alpha House (Amazon), Brotherhood (Showtime), The Gilded Lilys (ABC pilot).

Audiobook work available on Audible & Amazon. Proud member of Actors’ Equity and summa cum laude graduate of Northeastern University. www.seanpatrickhopkins.com

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PATRICIA KILGARRIFF (Anna): At the Mint: MARY BROOME. Broadway credits are Steel Magnolias, Tartuffe, Night Must Fall, A Delicate Balance, A Small Family Business, La Bete, Lettice and Lovage, Shirley Valentine, Noises Off! and The Man Who Had Three Arms. At the Manhattan Theater Club, Kilgarriff was featured in Time And Again, Kindertransport and The Art of Success. Other offBroadway work includes Beckett/ Albee, Spread Eagle, London Suite, All’s Well That Ends Well, Counting the Ways and Footfalls.

Selected regional theatre credits are Bell, Book and Candle and The Game’s Afoot at Cleveland Playhouse. A Woman of No Importance as Lady Hunstanton, Yale Repertory Theatre (Connecticut Critics award, Outstanding Actress); Glorious!, Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Talking Heads, City Theatre Pittsburgh; My Fair Lady, McCarter Theatre Center and Hartford Stage; and Shirley Valentine, Portland Repertory Theatre (Drammy Award).

Film television includes The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Real Blonde, and Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, All My Children, Second Honeymoon, Loving and Ryan’s Hope.

Victoria Mack (Penny Hassett): For the Mint: A Little Journey (Drama Desk nomination, Best Revival), The Truth About Blayds, Mr. Pim Passes By, and Far and Wide. Broadway: Venus In Fur. Off-Broadway includes Natural Affection and Happy Birthday at The Actors’ Company Theatre, The Silver Cord at Peccadillo. Regional includes: Dead Accounts (by Theresa Rebeck, world premiere) at Cincinnati Playhouse; Sense and Sensibility (Marianne) at Milwaukee Rep; Private Lives (Amanda) at Pittsburgh Public; 39 Steps (Denver Center); The Turn of the Screw (Fulton Theater); and at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ: Othello (Desdemona), Taming of the Shrew (Kate), Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth), As You Like It (Rosalind), Pygmalion (Eliza), and more. Film includes The Letter (with

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Wynona Ryder and James Franco), Atlantis, A Song in the Shell. TV: Boardwalk Empire, Black Box, Unforgettable, The Good Wife, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and MTV. MFA: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Victoria is a proud member of TACT. www.victoriamack.info Jesse Marchese (Director) is the Associate Director of Mint Theater Company.

For the Mint, Jesse has acted as assistant director on Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby, Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse, and Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy; and has directed “Further Readings” of The Fatal Weakness by George Kelly and I Am a Camera by John Van Druten. He also conceived and directed John Van Druten: A Writer’s Writer—a theatrical presentation of the playwright’s personal papers—in a co-production between Mint Theater and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Other directing credits include L’Chayim and 50 Things I Love about Frank at Theater for the New City, Ghosts of Provincetown at New World Stages, and Falsettoland and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Marymount Manhattan College.

Vicki R. Davis (Sets) Previously for the Mint: Katie Roche, Rutherford and Son, Temporal Powers, Wife to James Whelan, The Fifth Column, The Skin Game, The Lonely Way, Echoes of the War, Far and Wide, The Voysey Inheritance, Miss Lulu Bett, Welcome to our City, August Snow & Night Dance, The House of Mirth, and The Time of Your Life. Off Broadway credits include projects for Adobe, AMAS, Blue Heron, HB Studio, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, The Ontological, LaMaMa, Folksbiene, Henry Street Settlement, Kings County Shakespeare, Bronx Opera, Bel Canto Opera, Wings, WPA, Playhouse 91. Regional theater and opera companies include Laguna Playhouse, Arena Stage, The Alliance, Milwaukee Rep., Dallas Theater Center, Spooky Action, Starlight Kansas City, Madison Rep., The Barter, Capital Rep., Passages, Georgia Shakespeare, CONTINUED

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Utah Shakespearean Festival, Utah Opera, Kansas City Opera, Omaha Opera, Theater of the Stars, Boston Lyric Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Chester Theater, and Music Theater North. The recipient of a TCG/ NEA Design Fellowship, she is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

Andrea Varga (Costumes) Andrea’s most recent work at the Mint was Love Goes To Press in 2012. Andrea works as both a freelance costume designer in NYC and a faculty member in the Theatre Design program at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is a proud alumna of Florida State University. Her greatest achievement is her two-year old son Finnian.

Much love and thanks to husband, Nathan Heverin. www.andreavarga.com Christian DeAngelis (Lighting) is very excited to be designing for Mint Theater Company. Previous Mint Philip Goes Forth, and Love Goes To Press.

Other design credits: The Game’s Afoot (Gulfshore Playhouse); Spamalot (5th Avenue Theatre); Through the Night (City Theatre, PA. & Cincinatti Playhouse in the Park, OH.); Don Giovanni (Ash Lawn Opera); Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (City Theatre, PA.); Lizzie Borden (Living Theatre. Drama Desk Nomination).

Associate/Assistant Credits: The Pirates of Penzance, ELF The Musical, RENT, Saving Aimee (5th Avenue); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Bonnie and Clyde, 33 Variations (La Jolla Playhouse); Bonnie and Clyde (Schoenfeld Theatre); Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center); Grease (Troika Entertainment); Guys and Dolls (Nederlander Theatre).

Jane Shaw (Sound) Ms Shaw has designed twenty productions at the Mint including Donogoo, A Picture of Autumn, London Wall, Katie Roche, Love Goes To Press, A Little Journey, Wife to James Whelan, Return of the Prodigal, Fifth Column, and Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (Lortel Nomination). New York: The Killer (Theater for a New Audience), Grounded

(Page 73), Jackie (Women’s Project, Lortel nomination), The Rivals (Pearl), En el tiempo de las Mariposas (Repertorio Español/Premios ACE award), The World is Round (Ripe Time, BAM Fisher). Regional work includes productions at Asolo Rep, Denver Center Theatre Company (Henry Award for The Catch), Dorset Theatre Festival, City Theater (Pittsburgh), Williamstown Theater Festival, Two River Theater, Capital Rep (Albany), Yale Repertory, and Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. Upcoming shows include Little Foxes (Cleveland Play House), Hamlet (Hartford Stage).

Recipient: NEA-TCG Career Development Grant, Meet the Composer. Graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Drama..

JOSHUA YOCOM (Props) collaborates with the Mint yet again on the fatal weakness. This is his 11th production with the Mint, most recently propping DONOGOO, London Wall, Philip Goes Forth, and A Picture of Autumn. Joshua has worked as a properties master and freelance artisan with a number of New York companies, including Keen Company, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Red Bull Theatre, Pearl Theatre Company, Second Stage, Primary Stages, Theatre for a New Audience, Gotham Chamber Opera, NYC Ballet, Lincoln Center, Queens Theatre, Summerworks, Across the Aisle Productions, Snug Harbor, the Atlantic Theater Co., The New School of Drama, and the York Theatre Company. Joshua also props and styles bedding and rooms for print through collaboration with the Mayo photography studios.

RHONDA PICOU (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to make her Mint Theater Company debut with this production of The Fatal Weakness. Credits include Middle of the Night (Keen Company); 4000 Miles (Hudson Stage Company); Body Awareness; Running; pride@prejudice (Chester Theatre Company); Into The Woods (Manhattan Summer Voice Festival); The Pirates of Penzance; Deathtrap; What

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A Glorious Feeling; Oleanna; A Raw Space (Bristol Riverside Theatre); and multiple benefit productions for the Weathervane Theatre Alumni Association.

MFA, Stage Management; Columbia University School of the Arts. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Special thanks to Arthur and Emily.

Arthur Atkinson (Assistant Stage Manager) Happy to be joining the Mint team! Off Broadway: York TheatreStoryville; Love, Linda; Irish Repertory Theatre- New Girl in Town, Man & Superman, Around the World in 80 Days, Take Me Along; Keen Company- Middle of the Night; Red Bull Theater- The Aeneid; The Kaye Playhouse- The Great Divorce; National tour- Fiddler on the Roof, many others. Love to Lisa, as always. Thanks Rhonda! Proud member of Actors Equity Association.

JUDY BOWMAN (Casting) For the Mint: DONOGOO, London Wall, A Picture of Autumn & Philip Goes Forth. Recent productions include: And Miles to Go (PCP/Hal Brooks), Master & Margarita (Bard Summerscape/Janos Szasz), Luft Gangster (Abingdon/ Austin Pendleton), & Lee Blessing’s User’s Guide to Hell: Featuring Bernard MadofF (Project Y/Michole Biancosino). Regional Theater: Woolly Mammoth, Actors Theater of Louisville/ Humana Festivals, Dorset Theater Festival, SF Playhouse, Kitchen Theatre & American Repertory Theatre (2003-08).

Film: Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale, Copenhagen, Drawing Home, The Word, Tiger Lilly Road, and many short films/webseries. Adjunct Asst. Professor at Columbia University’s MFA film program.

THE PEKOE GROUP (Marketing) is a full-service advertising and marketing company for theatrical events and attractions, specializing in niche marketing and tailormade strategic campaigns based on each event’s target demographic. Clients include Second Stage Theatre, TACT, Potomac Theatre Project, Brooklyn Botanic Garden,

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50 Shades! The Musical, Piece Of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story, Atomic, and more. www.thepekoegroup.com DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Publicist) has served as press representatives and marketing consultants on Broadway and off for over twenty-five years. In addition to the Mint, current clients include several not-for profit theater companies including INTAR, Keen Company, the National AsianAmerican Theater Company, New Federal Theater, Red Bull Theater, and Summer Shorts at 59E59 Theater. David serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers and is a member of the Off-Broadway League and a founder of the Off-Broadway Alliance.

SHERRI KOTIMSKY (Production Manager) has worked at the Mint since 2005. Previously produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape, Shyster, Omnium Gatherum, Fear: The Issues Project and several seasons of workshops and readings. As Naked Angels Managing Director, Hesh and Snakebit. Produced: Only the End of the World, and Blood Orange. For two years Theatre Manager for the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University. Currently working with the Pearl Theatre, MCC and Theater Breaking Through Barriers as their bookkeeper, and La Muse Venale as Line Producer for Flak House.

JONATHAN BANK (Producing Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint since 1996. Most recently at the Mint, he directed Katie Roche, Temporal Powers and Wife to James Whelan

by Teresa Deevy. Other Mint credits include: Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse; Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me God! at the Lucille Lortel, which received four Drama Desk nominations, including Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director. He is the editor of five volumes in the “Reclaimed” series (Teresa Deevy, Volumes One and Two, Harley Granville Barker, and St. John Hankin) as well as Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company.

The following generous Individuals, Foundations, & Corporations support the Mint Theater, and we honor their contributions: $10,000 and above Lea & Malvin Bank Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation The Bodman Foundation Cory & Bob Donnalley

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Foundation Inc. The Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Ciro A. Gamboni Little Family Foundation /

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m i n t t h e at e r c o m pa n y

staff

Assistant Production Manager...... Wayne Yeager

Producing Artistic Director.......... Jonathan Bank

Assistant Costume Designer/ Wardrobe Supervisor............... Jena Goldberg

Associate Director.................... Jesse Marchese

Assistant Lighting Designer/ Light Board Programmer............Chris D’Angelo

Marketing & Audience Relations................ Christina Roussos

Board Operator............... Adam Schofield-Bodt

Box Office Manager............... Andrew Hendrick

Production Assistant............Emily Schwerdtfeger

Development Consultant........... Ellen Mittenthal

Box Office Manager............... Andrew Hendrick

Videographer �������������������Joshua Paul Johnson

House Manager.............................Jose Ramos

Casting �������������������������������������Judy Bowman

Videographer....................Joshua Paul Johnson

Auditor...........................Kristin Krauskopf, CPA

Program Desgin/ Graphics..... Christina Roussos

Press Representation ������������������David Gersten & Associates

Advertising, Marketing & Web Site Design................. The Pekoe Group Amanda Pekoe, Jessica Ferreira Christopher Lueck, Jason Murray Lisa Richardson, Erin Wilson Alexis Wilcock, Mara Szabo Alex Barnard, Ryan Meitzler Leigh Whiting, Briana Lynch Alex Cavander, Colleen Scriven Jenny Dorso, Abby Buckler Press Rep..................... David Gersten & Assoc.

David J. Gersten Daniel DeMello, Jason Marshall

Lighting installed by the Lighting Syndicate.

Set constructed by Carlo Adinolfi.

Costumes constructed by Eleanor Wolfe Lighting equipment provided in part by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs.

Opening Night September 15th, 2014

Finance & Production ����������������Sherri Kotimsky

Marketing & Advertising �������� The Pekoe Group Actor’s Equity Association was founded in 1913.

It is the labor union representing over 40,000 American actors and stage managers working in the professional theatre. For 89 years, Equity has negotiated minimum wages and working conditions, administered contracts, and enforced provisions of its various agreements with theatrical employers across the country.

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