Palm Beach Dramaworks presents Death of Salesman

Theatre To Think About

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by Arthur Miller

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Note from the Producing Artistic Director

Welcome to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, a play that revolutionized American theatre both in its structure and in its elevation of an ordinary man to the status of hero. But the story itself is the reason the play continues to speak to and move and astonish audiences 75 years after its Broadway premiere. Miller wanted his work to reflect and reveal America in the hope of affecting change, and “that meant grabbing people and shaking them by the back of the neck.” Audiences all over the world continue to be grabbed and shaken.

That’s what we mean by Theatre to Think About. It’s hard to believe that next season marks our twenty-fifth anniversary, that we’ve been providing stimulating and sometimes edgy material to Palm Beach County for a quarter of a century. It seems like only yesterday that we conceived of starting a theatre company that would produce classic, contemporary, and overlooked plays that were provocative, thought-provoking, and moving. We believed that there were local audiences hungry for challenging work, plays that illuminate the human condition and resonate in deeply personal ways. We were naive enough to think, "If you build it, they will come." It turned out that we were correct.

Since PBD opened its doors in 2000 through the end of the 2024-25 season, we will have produced some 120 shows and several concert versions of classic musicals. I think the community truly began to understand what we were trying to achieve when we performed a pair of plays by Edward Albee in our third season, and a piece by Jean-Paul Sartre the following season.

From the beginning, there was an ambitious agenda lurking; we needed to establish the company in order to fulfill our goals. Today we have a robust education department and appealing community engagement programs. The Dramaworkshop and the Perlberg Festival of New Plays nurture and develop new work. And as our reputation has grown, our repertory has evolved. I always believed that regional theatres must encourage new work and new voices, and world premieres are now a significant part of our profile.

Our twenty-fifth anniversary season reflects where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Two plays, Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser and Mark St. Germain’s Camping with Henry and Tom, were performed by PBD early in our history, and this special season provides the perfect opportunity to introduce new audiences to these estimable works. At the same time, we continue our commitment to new plays with the world premiere of Gina Montet’s Dangerous Instruments. Rounding out the season are two critically acclaimed and much honored works: Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers and Stephen Karam’s Tony Award-winning The Humans.

We are so grateful to all of you for joining us on this remarkable journey, and for your steadfast support of PBD.

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WHY I GIVE

I was excited to become involved with Palm Beach Dramaworks in 2011, when it moved into its home – this home – at the corner of Clematis and Narcissus. Local theatre has a pull like no other.

PBD is significant to me because of its commitment to producing high-quality theatrical productions that challenge and inspire audiences. The company’s dedication to excellence in both storytelling and performance creates a profound impact on the cultural landscape of the community.

The diverse selection of plays, ranging from classic to contemporary, fosters a deeper appreciation for the art form and encourages dialogue about relevant social themes. Additionally, PBD’s education and outreach programs further enrich the community by nurturing future generations of theatre enthusiasts.

I encourage everyone to think about Theatre to Think About – and to give what you can.

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Sue Ellen Beryl Managing Director

by Arthur Miller

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Executive Producers

Toni and Martin Sosnoff Director

J. Barry Lewis^

Stage Manager

Kent James Collins*

Scenic Design

Anne Mundell

Video Design

Adam J. Thompson

Costume Design

Brian O’Keefe

Lighting Design

Kirk Bookman

Sound Design

Roger Arnold

Scenic Artist

Kristen Myrick Hill

Casting Director

Judy Bowman, CSA

Original Music Composition

Joshua Lubben

Palm Beach Dramaworks presents

Death of a Salesman is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York.

DID YOU KNOW

Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman

(When no source is cited, the quote is from Miller’s memoir, Timebends.)

“I had begun a play in college about a salesman and his family but had abandoned it. I would only discover the notebook in which I had written . . . long after the first production of Death of a Salesman.”

While working on “preliminary sketches of scenes and ideas” for Death of a Salesman, and trying to convince himself “that I could find a structural arch for the story of the Lomans,” Miller took an afternoon off to revisit a film that fascinated him, Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. In one scene, a frightened detective tries phoning his boss, Inspector Karl Lohmann. “I realized where I had gotten the name that had lodged so deep in me. . . .In later years I found it discouraging to observe the confidence with which some commentators on Death of a Salesman smirked at the heavy-handed symbolism of ‘Low-man.’ What the name really meant to me was a terror-stricken man calling into the void for help that will never come.”

“I was going to call [the play] The Inside of His Head . . . the original set as I saw it would be a gigantic interior of a skull, and the whole thing would be played in there. But it didn’t take long to see that was not really what I should be doing.” 1999 interview with Charlie Rose

Miller initially believed that the actor who would play Willy “had to be small,” but discovered that the men he and director Elia Kazan were interested in “seemed to lack the size of the character even if they fit the body.” The script had been sent to Lee J. Cobb, 5’11” and solidly built. Cobb flew in from California, met with Miller in the producer’s office, and said, “‘This is my part. Nobody else can play this part. I know this man.’”

A week before rehearsals were to begin, Miller recalled Cobb saying to him, “‘You know – or do you? – that this play is a watershed. The American theatre will never be the same.’”

Both the play’s form and its leading character were fresh and unexpected. Miller started writing plays while attending the University of Michigan, and estimated that he had written about eight of them prior to Death of a Salesman. He told Charlie Rose, “I had been preparing for [Death of a Salesman] for all those years. The play, formally speaking, is a kind of invention. The idea was to make everything happen at the same time: that is, the past and the present working together, instead of stopping and going back. There are no flashbacks in the play, and yet the past is always with us, just as it is in life, when you’re talking to somebody and you think of something from 35 years ago. . . . It took a lot of writing over the years, working through straight realism, through poetic theatre, even some verse plays that I was writing, until I came upon that form.”

Throughout theatre history, tragic heroes had been members of the nobility. But Miller had a novel idea: a common man as tragic hero. A few weeks after the play opened, he wrote an essay in The New York Times explaining why Willy Loman, a 63-year-old traveling salesman who had failed as a husband, a father, and a wage earner, deserved to be recognized in such lofty terms. “I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing – his sense of personal dignity.” He concluded the essay with these words: “It is time, I think, that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time – the heart and spirit of the average man.”

Asked by Charlie Rose, in that 1999 interview, what the play is about, he said, “It’s hard to encapsulate that play. It’s about the United States, it’s about a man, it’s about an economic situation, it’s about a family, it’s about a life. To boil it down to a sentence is beyond me. . . . It’s a love story between a father and a son. In fact, it just occurred to me a couple of weeks ago . . . that everyone in this play loves Willy. Everybody. Except Willy. I think basically its appeal is probably that it is that kind of a story: it’s about the loss of love and the finding of love again.”

The play previewed in Philadelphia, and in his memoir, Miller recalled what happened after the curtain came down on the first performance. “Some people stood to put their coats on and then sat again, some, especially men, were bent forward covering their faces, and others were openly weeping. . . . It seemed forever before someone remembered to applaud, and then there was no end to it.” That reception would continue during the show’s Broadway run.

On his Pulitzer Prize

“They announced the award in the paper, but I never received anything. Somebody must have realized that they’d forgotten so they sent me a telegram a month later, signed Dwight Eisenhower, President of Columbia.” [Eisenhower was then president of Columbia University.] About five years later, someone asked Miller what he had done with his $500 prize and where he kept his citation. “What $500? And I never got a citation. It took about 25 years for me to get the $500 and the citation.” Interview with Mike Wallace for the Kennedy Center

On Playwriting

“All the plays that I was trying to write, all the plays that playwrights like [Eugene] O’Neill were trying to write, that Tennessee [Williams] was writing, these were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.” New York Times interview, February 9, 1986

Miller wrote in Timebends that when he was young, he "imagined that with the possible exception of a doctor saving a life, writing a worthy play was the most important thing a human being could do."

by Arthur Miller

Palm Beach Dramaworks presents CAST (In Order of Appearance)

Willy Loman ......................................................... Rob Donohoe*

Linda ....................................................................... Helena Ruoti*

Biff .................................................................. Michael Shenefelt*

Happy ........................................................................ Ty Fanning*

Bernard............................................................... Harrison Bryan*

The Woman ................................................... Gracie Winchester*

Charley .................................................................. William Hayes

Uncle Ben .................................................................... Tom Wahl*

Howard Wagner ....................................... Matthew W. Korinko*

Jenny/Letta .................................................... Nathalie Andrade

Stanley ......................................................... John Campagnuolo

Ms. Forsythe ........................................................ Hannah Hayley

Production Crew

Stage Manager............................................................................................................. Kent James Collins*

Assistant Stage Manager ......................................................................................... Caroline Castleman*

Wardrobe Supervisor John Santillan

Audio Engineer/Technical Assistant .................................................................................. Keshin Martin

Head Electrician ........................................................................................................................ Dylan Carter

Wig Designer/Wardrobe Supervisor ....................................................................................... Jane Lynch

Stage Crew Lead ..........................................................................................................................

Julia Howe

Stitcher Allyson Daley

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ROB DONOHOE (Willy Loman) This show marks Rob’s twelfth production at PBD since 2012. He has received Carbonell Award nominations for his performance in Buried Child at PBD and Glengarry Glen Ross at Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Broadway credits include 1776 and A Christmas Carol. National tours (all of which played South Florida): My Fair Lady (Alfred P. Doolittle), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Melvin P. Thorpe) starring AnnMargret, Titanic: The Musical (John Jacob Astor), and Gigi starring Louis Jourdan. A resident of Brooklyn Heights, Rob has performed in regional theatres across the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, and San Croix. He received a Drama-Logue Award in Los Angeles for his performance in Spoon River, and was nominated for a Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of Otto Kringelein in Grand Hotel. TV and film include Third Watch, As the World Turns, General Hospital, and the mini-series Masada.

HELENA RUOTI

(Linda) is making her PBD debut. Regional productions include Steel Magnolias (Ouiser), Murder on the Orient Express (Princess Dragomiroff), Twelfth Night (Maria), The Royal Family (Julie), The Little Foxes (Regina), Hedda Gabler (Hedda), The Night of the Iguana (Hannah), Noises Off (Dotty), Other Desert Cities (Polly), The Comedy of Errors, The Three Sisters (Masha), and The Lady With All the Answers with Pittsburgh Public Theater; Master Class (Maria Callas) with City Theatre Company; Rock ’n’ Roll, The Seagull (Arkadina), Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Heartbreak House (Hesione), A Woman of No Importance, and House and

Garden with Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre; The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure at Three Rivers Shakespeare; The Dance of Death at Kinetic Theatre Company; Chatterton and Madagascar at Quantum Theatre; Getting Out at Philadelphia Theatre Company. Film/TV: Passed Away, Lorenzo’s Oil, Wanted Dead and Alive, and Silent Witness

MICHAEL SHENEFELT (Biff) is delighted to make his PDB debut alongside his wife (and PBD veteran) Gracie Winchester. Select regional credits include Thomas in The Girl on the Train, Stephen Foster in The Stephen Foster Story, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Ethan in Sex with Strangers, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard, Gussy Fink-Nottle in By Jeeves! and Guiderius in Cymbeline. Michael is most frequently seen on Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias as Ryan Wingate, and has guest-starred on HBO’s Doom Patrol, Paramount’s The Game, Showtime’s The First Lady, and AMC’s The Walking Dead. Films include Disney’s LifeSize 2 and its live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp.  If you are craving some low budget laughs, please check out Michael’s award-winning film Postal wherever you stream your movies. Thanks to his parents for encouraging an artistic life.

TY FANNING (Happy) is delighted to make his PBD debut. OffBroadway: Spain at Second Stage and Boswell at 59E59. His work in Chicago includes the world premiere of Lindiwe at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Chicago premiere of Teenage Dick at Theater Wit, and multiple productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Last year, he performed regionally in Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) at

the Utah Shakespeare Festival and in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein) at Indiana Repertory Theatre. He spent five seasons at American Players Theatre where some of his credits include An Iliad (The Poet), She Stoops to Conquer (Hastings), and Sense and Sensibility (Willoughby). Television includes Chicago Med, Search Party, and Hot Mess Holiday. Ty has a BFA from Oklahoma City University. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

HARRISON BRYAN (Bernard) is a Brooklyn-born actor, playwright, and puppeteer, previously seen in PBD’s Skylight. A recipient of the NY Innovative Theatre Award, Harrison is a Helen Hayes Award-nominated actor, and an honoree of the American Playwrighting Foundation. Off-Broadway: A Patron of the Arts (Cherry Lane Theatre), Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Sheen Center), Rescue Rue (Daryl Roth Theatre), Brecht on Brecht (Atlantic Stage 2), Spring Awakening (Gallery Players). Select regional: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Round House Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company), Hand to God (Florida Studio Theatre), Ragtime (Bay Street Theatre), Peter Pan and Wendy (KCRep), Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q (Farmers Alley Theatre). As a playwright, Harrison has several new plays and musicals currently in development, including A Hanukkah Carol, or GELT TRIP! The Musical, premiering this November in Washington D.C. BFA: Boston University. HarrisonBryan.com / @hahaharrisonbryan

GRACIE WINCHESTER (The Woman) is grateful to return to PBD and share the stage with her incredible husband, Michael, after portraying 1969 in the rolling world premiere of The Messenger and Mrs. Van Buren in Intimate Apparel. Broadway: 16 palmbeachdramaworks.org

Annie Get Your Gun (Swing). National tour: Annie Get Your Gun (Nellie Oakley). OffBroadway: Hamlet (Ophelia), Macbeth (Third Witch). Recent theatre credits include the regional premiere of The Girl on the Train (Flat Rock Playhouse); Nicola in Kinky Boots (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre); Daisy in The Lodger (Northern Stage); Sally in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Out of the Box Theatrics); Celia in As You Like It (Gateway Playhouse); Shelby in Steel Magnolias and June in Into the Breeches (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Marina in Pericles and Miranda in The Tempest (Orlando Shakespeare). When not in a play, you can catch Gracie singing as Dory in Finding Nemo: The Big Blue... and Beyond!. AEA member since age six. BFA in musical theatre from UCF. Love for JAGS. Michael Shenefelt, I adore you.

WILLIAM HAYES (Charley) is the producing artistic director and a founding member of PBD. He has directed some 50 productions for the company: his credits run the gamut of playwrights from A (Edward Albee) to Z (Paul Zindel), and include William Inge, Eugène Ionesco, David Mamet, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson. Bill is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Florida Professional Theatre Association’s Richard G. Fallon Award for Excellence in Professional Theatre (2017), a Silver Palm Award presented by the South Florida Theatre League “for his outstanding work as Producing Artistic Director” of PBD (2014), and, with Sue Ellen Beryl, the REMY Pioneer Award presented by the South Florida Theatre League (2015). Bill served two terms as president of the Florida Professional Theatres Association, and is a national ambassador for the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund). He began his career as an actor, and returned to the stage last season in PBD’s acclaimed production of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry

Men. He is delighted to be back onstage again and working with these wonderful actors.

TOM WAHL (Uncle Ben) is thrilled to be back at PBD after appearing here in Twelve Angry Men, The People Downstairs, Ordinary Americans, and Billy and Me. Tom has performed at the Kennedy Center, Geva Theatre Center, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Flat Rock Playhouse and Blowing Rock Stage Company.  In Florida he has appeared at Zoetic Stage, Actors’ Playhouse, GableStage, City Theatre, Miami New Drama, The Foundry, The Vanguard, Red Barn Theatre, Waterfront Playhouse, Caldwell Theatre Company, Florida Stage, and Mosaic Theatre. Film and TV credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, New in Town with Renee Zellweger, Ace Ventura, Plato’s Run, Big City Blues, and a recurring guest star as Hunt Pelham on ABC’s Moon over Miami Tom is a recipient of Carbonell, Silver Palm and Curtain Up Awards, and is a proud union member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.

MATTHEW W. KORINKO (Howard Wagner) was most recently seen at PBD in Twelve Angry Men and The People Downstairs, and Slow Burn Theatre Company in Sister Act (Monsignor O’Hara), Into the Woods (Narrator/Mysterious Man), and Mary Poppins (Mr. Banks). Other credits include Newsies (Joseph Pulitzer), A Christmas Story: The Musical (Jean Shepherd), Man of La Mancha (The Duke) at MNM Theatre, Jekyll & Hyde (John Utterson), Legally Blonde (Callahan), Rock of Ages (Hertz), Memphis (Mr. Simmons), The Secret Garden (Dr. Craven), Titanic (Andrews), The Hunchback of Notre

Dame (Frollo), Romance, Romance (Alfred/ Sam), Big Fish (Amos), Parade (Hugh Dorsey), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney), and Side Show (Terry). He holds a BFA in performance from UW–Stevens Point and is the co-founder of Slow Burn Theatre Company. matthewkorinko.com

NATHALIE ANDRADE (Jenny/Letta) is making her PBD debut on this stage. Previously, she provided the offstage voice of Lily in 4000 Miles, and performed in the One Humanity Tour’s Live to Tell She also appeared in Refuge (Girl) at FAU Theatre Lab, and Money Heist: The Experience (Simone/Chicago). BA from Tufts University.

JOHN CAMPAGNUOLO (Stanley) is thrilled to be back on the Dramaworks stage, where he was last seen as Lem in The People Downstairs. Other PBD credits include A Streetcar Named Desire and Ordinary Americans. He is a Wellington native, and was most recently seen in Plaza Suite at Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival: Romeo (Romeo & Juliet), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Palm Beach State College: Giles Ralston (The Mousetrap).

HANNAH HAYLEY (Ms. Forsythe) is a South Florida-based actress who is excited to make her PBD debut. She is currently studying at Lynn University and will be graduating with a BFA in theatre this spring. She has a passion for film, television, and the stage. Her most notable credits include Sandy (Grease), Dorothy Brock (42nd Street), Cosette (Les Misérables), Charlotte

Hay (Moon Over Buffalo), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), and Liane d’Exelmans (Gigi), and she has also been working as a professional character and princess performer with The Happy Princess Club. Hannah is very grateful to her friends and family for their endless love and support as she pursues her dreams.

ARTHUR MILLER (Playwright) was one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century. Born in New York City (1915), he worked several jobs after high school to earn enough money to attend college. He studied at the University of Michigan, where he began writing plays. Miller made it to Broadway in 1944 with The Man Who Had All the Luck – which closed after four performances. But he returned in 1947 with All My Sons, which launched his career and earned him a Tony Award. Death of a Salesman followed in 1949, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. The Crucible (1953), his response to McCarthyism, also received the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall (a thinly veiled account of his marriage to Marilyn Monroe), Incident at Vichy, The Price, The American Clock, Broken Glass, The Last Yankee, and The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. His films include Let’s Make Love and The Misfits, both of which starred Monroe. Other work includes Focus, a novel; the memoir Timebends; and, with his wife, photographer Inge Morath, the books In the Country, In Russia, Chinese Encounters, and Salesman in Beijing. Miller was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979 and was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor in 1984. He died in Roxbury, Connecticut in 2005.

J. BARRY LEWIS

(Director) For PBD: Lobby Hero, Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Duration, Almost, Maine, A Streetcar

Named Desire, The House of Blue Leaves, Indecent, Equus, The Little Foxes, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Arcadia, Outside Mullingar, The History

Boys, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Buried Child, Our Town, Tryst, Old Times, Of Mice and Men, Dancing at Lughnasa, Talley’s Folly, The Fantasticks, The Pitmen Painters, All My Sons, Dinner With Friends, Candida, The Gin Game, Three Tall Women, Copenhagen, Private Lives, The Weir, The Chairs, Souvenir, Benefactors, The Fourth Wall, Side by Side by Sondheim, Betrayal, The Smell of the Kill, That Championship Season, Berlin to Broadway, The Boys Next Door, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and No Exit. He is honored to be a recipient of the Richard Fallow Award for Excellence in Professional Theatre presented annually by the Florida Professional Theatres Association. He is also the recipient of five Carbonell Best Director awards. J. Barry was honored by PBD in 2018 with the Shelly Award, given “In recognition of exceptional commitment, support and advocacy on behalf of the Theatre.”

KENT JAMES COLLINS (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be in his third season at PBD. For PBD: The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, August: Osage County, The Science of Leaving Omaha, 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, Rudina, Lara, Roger, Pierre, and the entire PBD team. kentjamescollins.com

ANNE MUNDELL (Scenic Design)

Appointed resident scenic designer at PBD prior to the start of the season, Anne has previously designed The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, A Streetcar Named Desire (Carbonell Award), Equus, and Arcadia for the company. Her design work includes scenery, projection, costume, and lighting design. Genres include theatre, museum exhibitions, parade floats, industrial design, opera, symphony, and dance. She has worked for such organizations as Pittsburgh Public Theater, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Utah Musical Theatre, Carnegie Museum of Art, Quantum Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, St. Michael’s Playhouse, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Black Hills Playhouse, and Players Theatre Columbus. Anne recently retired from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, where she was a professor of scenic design for 33 years. She is the recipient of the Robert M. Frankel Award for Contribution to the Arts, the Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching, The Hornbostel Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Fine Arts, and was named one of Pittsburgh’s best professors by Pittsburgh Magazine. Anne is director and founder of Growing Theater, an outreach program, and one of the founders of the internationally recognized Roboceptionist Project, a social robotics collaboration between the CMU Robotics Institute and the School of Drama. mundellacademic.com

ADAM J. THOMPSON (Video Design)

was named PBD’s resident projection designer last month. He 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. Adam is a creative director, creative producer, and multimedia designer working in theatre, opera, cinema, television,

installation, events, and digital narratives, and is the founding artistic director of The Deconstructive Theatre Project, a nonprofit multimedia storytelling and arts education studio, which he created and led from 2006 - 2016. He made his PBD debut with The Messenger, and followed that with The Cancellation of Lauren Fein. Adam has worked Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and across the US. His work has been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Adam holds a BA in directing and dramaturgy from Emerson College and an MFA in video & media design from Carnegie Mellon University. adamjacobthompson.com

BRIAN O’KEEFE (Costume Design) began designing for PBD in 2009, became costume shop manager and resident designer in 2015, and has designed over 65 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 UNCChapel 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 The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, Lobby Hero, Topdog/Underdog, August: Osage County, The Science of Leaving Omaha, 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) was named PBD’s production manager prior to the start of the season. He 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 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 The

Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, Lobby Hero, Topdog/Underdog, August: Osage County, The Science of Leaving Omaha, Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, The People Downstairs, and Skylight. Other sound design credits include Empire Stage’s production of Tru. BA in music and sound recording, University of New Haven. MA in music technology, University of Newcastle.

CAROLINE CASTLEMAN (Assistant Stage Manager) is in her third season at PBD. Credits here include The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, the Perlberg Festival of New Plays (2024), theAcademy@pbd’s Songs for a New World (2023), the Young Playwrights 10-Minute (2024 and 2023) and 1-Minute Play Contests (2023), and the One Humanity Tour (2022). For Creede Repertory Theatre: Ripcord, Pride and Prejudice, and Hazardous Materials. BFA in stage management from the University of Cincinnati (CollegeConservatory of Music).

JUDY BOWMAN (Casting Director)

Theatre: Casting collaborations with Woolly Mammoth, McCarter Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, the Kitchen Theatre Company, Children’s Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville, Luna Stage, Adirondack Theatre Festival, and numerous productions in New York. For PBD: The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, Lobby Hero. Artios Award nominee for Best Web Series Casting, PT Barnum Award recipient. Her film and television credits include Big Dogs (Amazon), Hurricane Bianca, Separation, and Redemption in Cherry Springs (Hallmark). Judy is a member of the Casting Society of America. judybowmancasting.com

Executive

Palm Beach Dramaworks Staff

Producing Artistic Director

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William Hayes

Sue Ellen Beryl

Rudina Toro

Lara Garcia

Gary Cadwallader

Alessandra Lasanta

Pierre Tannous

Mark Sullivan

Lauren Bell

Alexa Rosenberger

Desmond Lewis

Roger Arnold

Doug Wilkinson

Kira Barnes

Saylor Novonglosky

Keshin Martin

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Caroline Castleman

Dylan Carter

Julia Howe

J. Barry Lewis

Anne Mundell

Kirk Bookman

Adam J. Thompson

Jenny Connell Davis

Sheryl Flatow

Jennifer Sardone-Shiner

Paul Gaschler

Jackie D’Onofrio

Brittani Millington

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The S USTAINER S OCIETY Step Into the Future

$50,000

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$25,000 Penny Bank

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$15,000

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The S USTAINER S OCIETY

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2023/24 Restaurant Club

The PBD Restaurant Club provides our patrons with special offers and discounts throughout the season at these restaurants that support our theatre.

Complimentary scoop of gelato with the purchase of an entrée 185 Banyan Blvd | (561) 342-6699

Complimentary order of fries with the purchase of a burger 213 Clematis St | (561) 651-1075

3-Course Prix Fixe Dinner ($34.99) 120 S Dixie Hwy | (561) 659-7373

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207 Clematis St | (561) 899-3117

3-Course Prix Fixe Dinner ($52-offer valid show days only) 101 N Clematis St | (561) 833-5090

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2024/25 SEASON

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LOST IN YONKERS

By Neil Simon

November 1-17, 2024

When their widowed father heads south to try and earn a living, two teenage boys, Jay and Arty, are left in the care of their autocratic Grandma Kurnitz, whose four adult children have been damaged by her cruelty. Set during World War II, this funny and heartbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning memory play is both an exploration of the wounds inflicted by family, and a testament to the power of familial love and resiliency.

THE DRESSER

By Ronald Harwood

December 20-January 5, 2025

It’s 1942, bombs are dropping over England, and a renowned but fading actor is bringing Shakespeare to the provinces with a ragtag troupe. Sir, scheduled to give his 227th performance of King Lear, is in no condition to go on, but his devoted, self-sacrificing dresser, Norman, is determined to get him onstage. Sir and Norman’s co-dependent – if unequal – relationship is the heartbeat of this warts-and-all, tragicomic valentine to the transcendent magic of theatre.

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THE HUMANS

By Stephen Karam

February 14-March 2, 2025

There’s a sense of disquiet in the air when the loving, if dysfunctional, Blake clan gathers for Thanksgiving dinner in daughter Brigid’s dingy Chinatown apartment. “A family play that is sort of infected by my love of the thriller genre,” is how the playwright once described this Tony Award-winning comedy drama, in which the foibles, fears, and fragilities of an American family play out with great insight, humor, and compassion.

CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM

By Mark St. Germain

April 11-April 27, 2025

Warren G. Harding, eager to get away from the press, prying eyes, and the presidency, accepts an invitation to join Henry Ford and Thomas Edison on their annual camping trip. Stranded in the woods, they converse about politics, ambition, family, and fame, revealing three starkly different personalities and world views. A work of fiction inspired by an actual 1921 excursion, the play deals with issues and ideas that remain as relevant today as they were 100 years ago.

DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTS

By Gina Montet

May 23-June 8, 2025

Laura, a determined single mother, faces the ultimate test of love for her exceptionally bright son, Daniel. When Daniel’s brilliance spirals into darkness, Laura finds herself thrust into a gripping battle against a broken system. In a race against time, she must confront a parent’s deepest fears and sacrifice everything to rescue her son from the brink of becoming America’s next tragic headline.

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Officers

2023/24 Board of Directors

Tina Bolton

Sue Ellen Beryl Founding Member

Beth Alcalde

Stephen M. Rabb Vice Chair

Stephen Brown Vice Chair

Carlton Moody Chair

Mark Perlberg Treasurer

Penny Bank Secretary

Hon. Ann Brown Vice Chair

2023/24 Board of Directors continued

Cynthia Nalley

Jim Fuld

Susan Goldfein

Hermine Drezner

Lisa Koza

Susan Ellerin

Edith Hall Friedheim

William Hayes Founding Member

Louise Snyder

Bernard Perry

Ed Ricci

Education

We’re committed to providing strong, vibrant educational opportunities for students in order to nurture creativity, inspire artistic potential, build confidence, and cultivate self-expression.

Sponsored in part by:

theAcademy@pbd: Quality training for aspiring actors and stage managers in grades 9-12, culminating in a production on our stage.

One Humanity Tour: A middle school touring program that uses storytelling with serious social themes to develop informed, thoughtful, and compassionate citizens.

Young Playwrights

10-Minute & 1-Minute Play Contests: Giving teens a creative voice in expressing their thoughts and ideas.

Free Student Matinees: School-day performances of PBD’s productions.

For more information about PBD’s education programs, and to support the education department, please contact Gary Cadwallader: gcadwallader@palmbeachdramaworks.org or 561.514.4042 x123. 32 palmbeachdramaworks.org

theAcademy@pbd Songs for a New World, 2023

JUNE 28 AT 2PM

JUNE 29 AT 7PM

JUNE 30 AT 2PM

TICKETS GO ON SALE APRIL 29

Details and Audition Appointments: palmbeachdramaworks.org/education/academy Academy@palmbeachdramaworks.org

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The Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation

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PARKING WITHOUT THE DRAMA

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Banyan Garage:

200 Banyan Blvd. bet ween Oliv e Ave. and Nar cissus Ave. = 3 minutes

Datura Garage: 205 Datura S t. bet ween Narcissus Ave. and Oli ve Ave. = 3 minutes

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199 N. Dixie H wy. on Southwe st corner of Dixie and Banyan Blvd. = 5 minutes

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Centre Garage: 215 N. Olive Ave. be tw een Dixie H wy. and Oliv e Ave. = 5 minutes

Governmental Center 4th Street Parking Lot: 315 3rd St. bet ween Dixie H wy. and Olive Ave. = 6 minutes

Evernia Garage: 333 Ever nia St. bet ween Oliv e Ave. and Dixie H wy. = 6 minutes

Waterf ront Clematis Garage: 101 Clematis St. with entranc e on Southeast corner of Ban yan Blvd. and Narcissus A ve. = 3 minutes

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FREE RIDE CIRCUIT: ridecircuit.com/palmbeach

Palm Beach Dramaworks does not own or run any of the parking lots, garages, or valets in the area. All parking is privately or city operated and monitored. Rates posted may change without notice. Parking anywhere downtown without payment will result in cars being booted or towed at the owner’s expense.

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Nancy Goodes

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Become a volunteer usher for the 2024/25 Season

Volunteer ushers are essential to PBD and to our patrons – and we need more of you. Becoming an usher is a great way to get involved in PBD, meet fellow theatre lovers, and support the company in a unique way. Plus, you’ll be providing an invaluable service.

To Register for Usher Orientation contact Pierre Tannous at ptannous@palmbeachdramaworks.org or visit palmbeachdramaworks.org/work-with-us/volunteer

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BECOME A CORPORATE SPONSOR FOR THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

As a corporate partner of PBD, you will enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition including opportunities to entertain clients and employees, networking events with diverse groups of theatre supporters, and co-branding opportunities with one of the most highly regarded professional theatres in South Florida.

Benefits may include:

• Complimentary tickets to a sponsored performance/event with opportunity to purchase additional tickets

• Logo inclusion in the playbill

• Stage mention at sponsored performance/event

• Invitation as a sponsor to exclusive events, programs, and performances

• Recognition as a sponsor on PBD’s website, in the playbill, and on signage at sponsored event

• An opportunity to host a pre-show reception at the theatre on night of your choice (expenses to be paid by corporate partner)

• An ad in all season playbills

For more information contact Sue Ellen Beryl (561) 514-4042 ext 102 or email

sberyl@palmbeachdramaworks.org

A great big thanks to all of you who contributed to our Take a Deep Breath Campaign, helping us to achieve our stringent safety protocols and breathe easy in our beautiful theatre.

$100,000

Honorable Ann Brown

Louise and Barry Snyder

Toni and Martin Sosnoff

$50,000

Nancy and Gene Beard

$25,000

Sue Ellen Beryl and William Hayes

$15,000

Penny Bank

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Tina and Jeff Bolton

Leah and Ed Frankel Foundation

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The Chastain Foundation

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Anonymous

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Linda L. and Keith Beaty

Karen and Alfred Blum

Joan and Lyle Brundage

Paula Kaminsky Davis

Dinah Fulton

Rochelle and David A. Hirsch

Michael Hoagland and Joseph Kolb

Stephen Brown and Jamie Stern

Phyllis and Herbert J. Siegel $10,000

Joan G. Smith and William Karatz

Sally Nathanson

Aarne and Arlene Reid

Mimi and Frank Walsh

Christina Dennis Susan and Larry Goldfein

Pam and Bob Goergen

Alice Gross

Byron Gross and Ricky Tovim

Ann and Bob Hagelstein

Anonymous

Priscilla Heublein

Sherry and Stephen Jacobs

Marjorie and Sheldon Konigsberg

Judy and Lew Kramer

Laura Brooks

Randi and Norman Pecan

Stephanie and John Pew

Joanne Polozker

Barbara N. Prine

Patricia and William Jordan

Terry Liddell

Zelda Mason

Arlene and Richard Siudek

Nicki van Vonno

Diana and John Weir

Lois and Barry Weiss

Ann Marie and Peter Rezzonico

Naomi Rosenberg

Carol and Joseph Rosetti

Francine and Art Siegel

Lois Steinberg

Zee Jay and Jerry Greenspan

Marcy and Jack Zeltzer

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OUR MISSION

Palm Beach Dramaworks believes in the transformative power of live theatre and is committed to producing classic, contemporary, and world premiere plays that entertain, enlighten, stimulate discussion, and illuminate our shared humanity. We are equally dedicated to creating new works and cultivating new audiences, upholding the original objectives of the regional theatre movement. We recognize and value the power of education, offering inspiring, life-changing programs for students, and thought-provoking initiatives for adults.

OUR VALUES

We steadfastly strive to maintain a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive environment for our staff, for our artists, and for our patrons.

OUR VISION

To enrich the lives of those in our community, and to be recognized nationally as a vigorous and vital company that produces meaningful theatre and transforms lives.

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Ruth Baum

Nancy Beard

Ravi Chaturvedi

Esther Dinerstein

Larry Goldfein

Roe Green

Robert Hagelstein

Daryn M. Kirchfeld

Lew Kramer

Sidney Lesowitz

J. Barry Lewis

Sponsored in

Sherron Long

Pamela McIver

Charles Muoio

Sally Nathanson

Robert Nederlander

Shari Santell

William N. Shepherd

Marlene Silver

Mimi Walsh

Beth Walton

Lee Wolf

CORNELIA T. BAILEY FOUNDATION

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part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the Board of County Commissioners, the Tourist Development Council, and the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County.

Theatre To Think About 2023/24 SEASON

May 24 - June 9, 2024

TRYING

By Joanna McClelland Glass

In 1967, feisty Sarah Schorr, a 25-year-old from rural Canada, goes to work as secretary for 81-year-old Francis Biddle, the patrician former US attorney general. The brilliant Biddle is now frail, sometimes befuddled, and always irascible. Inspired by the playwright’s experiences as Biddle’s secretary, the piece is a tender yet unsentimental portrait of two disparate people navigating their vast differences to form a bond of mutual admiration, consideration, and respect.

Executive Producers

Stephen Brown and Jamie Stern