Palm Beach Dramaworks presents Lobby Hero

by Kenneth Lonergan

Don & Ann Brown Theatre

Sometimes, a round of applause just isn’t enough.

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Note from the Producing Artistic Director and the Managing Director

Welcome to Kenneth Lonergan’s acclaimed Lobby Hero and the start of our 2023-24 season.

We begin the season with great anticipation and abundant gratitude. At a time when performing arts organizations around the country have been struggling – cutting back, suspending their programming, even closing –PBD has been very fortunate.

Our generous donors never wavered when the theatre was closed during the pandemic, and more people are giving now than ever before. Although ticket sales were down, as expected, when we reopened for the 2021-22 season, those numbers improved significantly last season. And they keep going up! We’re welcoming back many former subscribers this season, and we have several hundred new subscribers. Our single ticket sales are robust. We are so grateful to every one of our donors and patrons for your support.

We believe a big reason why we are the recipient of such loyalty is because even though we are always evolving, we have stayed true to the kind of theatre you expect from us: classic, contemporary, and new works that entertain, enlighten, stimulate discussion, and illuminate our shared humanity. Within those parameters, our vision is now more expansive. World premieres have become increasingly important to us because they are ever important to the future of theatre. And though we always strove for diversity onstage and behind the scenes, we have stepped up our efforts for greater inclusion. We continue to insist on the best actors, the best designers, and the best directors, which is apparent in the quality of our productions.

And so, as we begin what we believe is a very entertaining and powerful season, we are also looking to the future with great optimism. We are already making plans for 2024-25 – our twenty-fifth anniversary season! We will be giving the theatre a facelift, making some interior and exterior improvements. We want the lobby to attract people walking by the building to come in and see who we are and what we do, while simultaneously offering our patrons an invigorating space before and after a show. The new, improved lobby will include digital panels, video, and enhanced lighting.

Finally, we want to remember and pay tribute to Victor A. Becker, scenic designer for Lobby Hero, who died earlier this year. He was a consummate artist and a wonderful person, and is sorely missed.

W illiam Hayes

Artistic Director

Sue Ellen Beryl Managing Director

William Hayes

Producing Artistic Director

Sue Ellen Beryl Managing Director

Producing

Note from the President and CEO of the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a special place. I have been transfixed and transported by so many shows that I’ve had the privilege of experiencing. To be that close to such immense talent and to marvel at the beauty and the truth that unfolds with each production is truly transformative. It is what keeps bringing me back. I’m grateful to Bill Hayes, Sue Ellen Beryl, and everyone at PBD for creating magic time and time again.

As President & CEO of the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, I am grateful for all that PBD does for our community. They are an important part of our cultural tourism engine in The Palm Beaches. Their awardwinning arts education and community engagement programs truly change lives. That is the power of theatre and that is the legacy of this extraordinary arts organization here in Palm Beach County.

Dave Lawrence President & CEO Cultural Council for Palm Beach County

Marilyn Meyerhoff

March 20, 1930- May 26, 2023

Gone but not forgotten and sorely missed.

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William Hayes

Producing Artistic Director

Sue Ellen Beryl

Managing Director

by Kenneth Lonergan

Theatre To Think About

by Kenneth Lonergan Director

J. Barry Lewis^

Executive Producer

Penny Bank

Stage Manager Suzanne Clement Jones*

Scenic Designer

Victor A. Becker

Costume Designer

Brian O’Keefe

Lighting Designer

Kirk Bookman

Sound Designer

Roger Arnold

Beach Dramaworks presents

Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of Lobby Hero in 2000-2001.

The Playwrights Horizon production was presented Off-Broadway by Jenny Weiner, Jon Steingart and Hal Luftig.

Lobby Hero is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE is the union representing scenic, costume, lighting, sound and projection designers in Live Performance.

^ The Director is a Member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

Season 2022/23 Lookback

As we begin our twenty-fourth season,

we want to take a look back at 2022-23, which critic Bill Hirschman called “one of [Palm Beach Dramaworks’] finest seasons.”

4000 Miles

by Amy Herzog

Directed by J. Barry Lewis

One of the great joys of the 2022-23 season was the performance by veteran stage actress Patricia Conolly, making her PBD debut at 89. Conolly’s distinguished career spans 60-plus years and three continents. She debuted on Broadway in 1966 and was most recently seen there last year in To Kill a Mockingbird. In 4000 Miles, she portrayed a physically frail, but feisty and sharp 91-year-old grandmother, and gave a master class in acting: we never saw her act. She inhabited the role as if she’d lived every one of those 91 years. Playing her grandson was Miami native Gabriell Salgado, also making his PBD debut. Salgado has been wowing South Florida audiences and critics since making his professional stage debut just two years ago, and was an exemplary acting partner for Conolly.

Twelve Angry Men

by Reginald Rose

Directed by J. Barry

Lewis

Okay, we admit it: We were confident that Twelve Angry Men was going to be something special. It’s a riveting piece whose popularity has swelled since it was introduced as a teleplay in 1954, and Reginald Rose’s sharp-eyed look at America’s jury system and group dynamics is as timely as ever. But our production exceeded our considerable expectations thanks to an extraordinary cast. The entire ensemble was made up of PBD veterans, all of whom gave finely etched, nuanced performances. You could sense the actors’great camaraderie: amidst all the anger being played out onstage, it was clear the cast was having a great time. And that was true of audiences as well; the run was extended by a week, and if our schedule had permitted, the play could have run even longer.

Photo Credits Alicia Donelan: 4000 Miles, Twelve Angry Men, August: Osage County, Topdog/Underdog Tim Stepien: The Science of Leaving Omaha

The Science of Leaving Omaha

by Carter W. Lewis

Directed by Bruce Linser

The Science of Leaving Omaha was PBD’s most recent world premiere, continuing our mission to bring new work to life. Originally commissioned and produced by Washington University, the play was featured in our 2022 new plays festival and further developed in The Dramaworkshop prior to its professional premiere. Inspired by an article about the disintegration of working-class communities, the play concerns two unmoored young adults: 18-year-old Iris, who feels trapped in her job at a crematory, and 21-year-old Baker, who breaks into the funeral home to say goodbye to his recently deceased wife. It’s the first time we produced a show centered on two young leads, and it was a pleasure to watch the talented, up-and-coming 20-somethings Georgi James and Nicholas Tyler-Corbin bring their characters to life.

August: Osage County

by Tracy Letts

Directed by William Hayes

Present-day theatrical wisdom suggests that contemporary audiences have short attention spans and do not have the patience to sit through lengthy plays. While it’s generally true that attention spans have waned, it’s also true that if audiences are presented with a big, Pulitzer Prize-winning American drama that makes them laugh and cringe in horrified recognition of the dysfunctional family onstage, three-plus hours will fly by. That was certainly the case with August: Osage County. Tracy Letts’ masterful and insightful writing was beautifully served by yet another superb ensemble. The cast was led by two worthy sparring partners: the esteemed stage veteran Sara Morsey, making her company debut as Violet, the monster mother of the Weston clan; and PBD veteran Kathy McCafferty as Barbara, the oldest and most “successful” daughter, who faces the appalling possibility that she may be turning into her mother.

Topdog/Underdog

by Suzan-Lori Parks

Directed by Belinda

“Be” Boyd

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of a modern day Cain and Abel, African American brothers in their 30s named Lincoln and Booth who are barely scraping by. It’s a play about the failure of the American Dream, about racism and poverty and abandonment, and requires a pair of terrific actors who are believable as brothers and have the depth and skill to mine all its riches. PBD’s production had two such artists: George Anthony Richardson as Lincoln (on the left in the photo) and Jovon Jacobs as Booth. Jacobs first appeared at PBD in Fences, is currently onstage in Lobby Hero, and it’s been a thrill to watch him grow as an actor. His performance as Booth was harrowing and enthralling. Richardson, who was making his PBD debut, had just nine days of rehearsal when he replaced an actor who had to drop out. Fortunately, he had understudied and gone on several times as Lincoln in a recent Broadway revival. But he still had to learn the intricacies of PBD’s production and create a familial rapport with Jacobs. His Lincoln was complex and multilayered, and the performances of both actors are indelible.

by Kenneth Lonergan

Palm Beach Dramaworks presents CAST

Jeff ............................................................ Britt Michael Gordon*

William .................................................................. Jovon Jacobs*

Bill .......................................................................... Tim Altmeyer*

Dawn ............................................................... Elisabeth Yancey*

SETTING

The spacious lobby of a middle-income high-rise apartment building in Manhattan, and the street outside.

TIME November, 2000

Act 1, Scene 1: Very late at night

Act 1, Scene 2: Late the next night

Act 2, Scene 1: Late the next night

Act 2, Scene 2: The next night

Production Crew

Stage Manager................................................................................................... Suzanne Clement Jones*

Assistant Stage Manager Tyler B. Osgood

Backstage Supervisor ................................................................................................. Caroline Castleman

Wardrobe Supervisor ............................................................................................................ John Santillan

Head Electrician ......................................................................................................................Addie Pawlick

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

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In loving memory of Victor A. Becker

BRITT MICHAEL

GORDON (Jeff) - he/ him/his - is excited to return to PBD. Regional credits include Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Virginia Repertory Theatre); The Legend of Georgia McBride (Florida Studio Theatre); Camelot (Actors’ Playhouse); Around the World in 80 Days (Savannah Repertory Theatre); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Good People, and The Pitmen Painters (American Stage); Assassins (freeFall Theatre); Tribes, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Cabaret (Florida Repertory Theatre); and Arcadia (PBD). Indie feature film: What She Said. brittmichaelgordon.com

JOVON JACOBS to be returning again to PBD, where he was most recently seen in last season’s production of  Topdog/Underdog. He is a Silver Palm Award  recipient (2019) for his performances in  Fences (PBD), A Raisin in the Sun (New City Players), and Skeleton Crew (GableStage). Other regional credits include Intimate Apparel (PBD), Last Night in Inwood and The Glass Piano (Theatre Lab), The Royale and It’s a Wonderful Life (Barter Theatre),  Sweat and  Ain’t Misbehavin’ (CCT Theatre), Summer Shorts (City Theatre/Adrienne Arsht Center, 2019 and 2022), Boesman and Lena (Mad Cow Theatre), All The Way (Actors’ Playhouse),  Informed Consent (GableStage), and Five Guys Named Moe (M Ensemble Company). Film credits include No Vacancy (Prime Video), Love on the Reef, and Rap Sh!t (HBO). Jovon holds a BFA in acting and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. @singaboi_jj

JOVON JACOBS

(William) is elated to be returning again to PBD, where he was most recently seen in last season’s production of Topdog /Underdog. He is a Silver Palm Award recipient (2019) for his performances in Fences (PBD), A Raisin in the Sun (New City Players), and Skeleton Crew (GableStage). Other regional credits include Intimate Apparel (PBD), Last Night in Inwood and The Glass Piano (Theatre Lab), The Royale and It’s a Wonderful Life (Barter Theatre), Sweat and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (CCT Theatre), Summer Shorts (City Theatre/Adrienne Arsht Center, 2019 and 2022), Boesman and Lena (Mad Cow Theatre), All The Way (Actors’ Playhouse), Informed Consent (GableStage), and Five Guys Named Moe (M Ensemble Company). Film credits include No Vacancy (Prime Video), Love on the Reef, and Rap Sh!t (HBO). Jovon holds a BFA in acting and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. @singaboi_jj

TIM ALTMEYER (Bill) made his PBD debut opposite Estelle Parsons in Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady, and returned as Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon in Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana and Juror 1 in Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men. He was seen on Broadway in High with Kathleen Turner; Looped with Valerie Harper; and Oscar Wilde’s Salome with Al Pacino, directed by Parsons. He also appeared in the national tour of High with Turner. His Off-Broadway credits include the New York premieres of Edward Albee’s Occupant and Horton Foote’s The Last of the Thorntons (with Parsons), both at Signature Theatre, and the original Off-Broadway company of Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women. Regional highlights include the premieres of Naomi Iizuka’s Strike-Slip (Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville), and The Notebook of Trigorin by Tennessee Williams (starring Lynn Redgrave) at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Tim teaches acting at the University of Florida.

ELISABETH YANCEY

(Dawn) is delighted to be making her PBD debut. Regional: Barefoot in the Park, Steel

Magnolias (Gulfshore Playhouse); Clue, Into the Breeches! (Cleveland Play House); Tame

That B!#@H (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival); Romeo and Juliet, Little Women (Oberlin Summer Theater Festival); Hay Fever, Orlando, The Clearing, Dancing at Lughnasa (Wellesley Repertory Theatre).

Education: Chautauqua Institute Conservatory 2020, MFA in acting (Case Western Reserve University/Cleaveland Play House), BA in theatre studies (Wellesley College), certificate in classical acting (London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts), certificate of literature (Cambridge University). @elisabeth.yancey elisabethyancey.com

J. BARRY LEWIS (Director)

For PBD: 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.”

KENNETH LONERGAN

(Playwright) is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. When he was 18, his play The Rennings Children was selected for the Young Playwrights Festival, founded by Stephen Sondheim to encourage and nurture new American playwrights. Plays include This Is Our Youth (The New Group, 1996); The Waverly Gallery (2000) and Lobby Hero (2001) at Playwrights Horizons; The Starry Messenger (The New Group, 2009) and Medieval Play (Signature Theatre, 2012), both of which he also directed; and Hold On To Me Darling (Atlantic Theater Company, 2016). Films: Wrote and directed You Can Count on Me (2000); Margaret (2011); and Manchester by the Sea (2016), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also cowrote the movies Analyze This (1999) and Gangs of New York (2002). For TV, Lonergan wrote a four-part adaptation of E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End, which aired on the BBC in 2017 and was broadcast in the United States a year later

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on Starz. He has a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. A native of the Bronx, Lonergan lives in New York City with his wife and frequent collaborator, actress J. Smith-Cameron, and their daughter, Nellie.

SUZANNE CLEMENT JONES (Stage Manager)

has been stage managing at PBD since All My Sons in 2011, the company’s first production at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre. Recent shows for PBD include Topdog/Underdog, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The People Downstairs, Ordinary Americans, The House of Blue Leaves, and House on Fire. At Maltz Jupiter Theatre: Oliver!, Sweet Charity, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, An Inspector Calls, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and I Hate Hamlet. As a lighting designer, productions include The Subject was Roses, The Price, and That Championship Season at PBD; Cane and The ChaCha of a Camel Spider at Florida Stage; Death and the Maiden and The Birds at Mosaic Theatre; and Ring of Fire at Arts Garage. She earned a Carbonell Award for her lighting design of Dark Rapture in 1995. Suzanne has an MFA in design from Northwestern University, is proud to be a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and is presently leading the South Florida Equity Community. She dedicates her work on this production to the memory of Victor Becker, an amazing designer and a dear friend.

VICTOR A. BECKER (Scenic Designer) PBD:

Twelve Angry Men, The House of Blue Leaves, Billy and Me, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The History Boys, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Old Times. Maltz Jupiter Theatre: An Inspector Calls. Florida Stage: The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider, Dirty Business, and Black Sheep. He designed at the Guthrie Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the National Theatre of the Deaf, Syracuse Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Atlanta’s Alliance Theater, Buffalo’s Studio Arena, Indiana Rep, Missouri Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, and many others. Victor also served as chair of the board for two major community projects in Sanbornville, NH: the rejuvenation of the 1895 Wakefield Town Hall and Opera House, and the Greater Wakefield Resource Center’s efforts to continue renovation of its facility, the 1855 Union Hotel. Victor began working on Lobby Hero when the play was scheduled to close out what proved to be the

pandemic shortened 2019-20 season. He died earlier this year, on February 1. PBD honors his artistry in mounting his final design.

BRIAN O’KEEFE (Costume Designer) 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, MichaelJon 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 Designer) For PBD, he has designed 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 Designer) 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 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.

TYLER B. OSGOOD (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be entering his third season with PBD. He has worked on various educational and community engagement programs here (theAcademy@pbd’s Songs for a New World, production stage manager; The Legacy Project, stage manager; the One Humanity Tour, both sixth and seventh grade, assistant stage manager), while also assisting on all productions since the 2021-22 season, beginning with The People Downstairs. Other regional credits include A Wrinkle in Time, A Christmas Carol 2018, Detroit ’67, and The Age of Innocence at McCarter Theatre; Matilda The Musical at Mill Mountain Theatre; and 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. Tyler is a proud graduate of Texas State University, where he earned his BFA in theatre technology and production.

Special Thanks

Thank you to Danny Lishansky, a retired Nassau County police officer, for sharing his expertise with the director, cast, and crew.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards.

Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and state managers employed in this production.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more Information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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Costume Shop Manager/Resident Costume Designer

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William Hayes

Sue Ellen Beryl

Rudina Toro

Lara Garcia

Linda Berman

Gary Cadwallader

Kenzie Frysztak

Pierre Tannous

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Anne Mundell

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January 3-7, 2024

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Formerly known as the New Year/New Plays Festival, this popular annual event features professional readings of five developing plays.

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SPECIAL GUEST: MARK ST. GERMAIN, PLAYWRIGHT/SCREENWRITER In Conversation: From Page to Stage to Screen Freud’s Last Session, opening in theatres in December 2023

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Ed Ricci

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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

Daryn M. Kirchfeld

Lew Kramer

Sidney Lesowitz

J. Barry Lewis

Sherron Long

Pamela McIver

Charles Muoio

Sally Nathanson

Robert Nederlander

Shari Santell

William N. Shepherd

Marlene Silver

Mimi Walsh

Beth Walton

CORNELIA T. BAILEY FOUNDATION

Palm Beach Dramaworks

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Sponsored in 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.

Lee Wolf

Theatre To Think About 2023/24 SEASON THE MESSENGER

By Jenny Connell Davis

December 8 - 24, 2023

WORLD PREMIERE

Executive Producer

Mrs. Roberta Golub

A meditation on the connections between past, present, and future, and on the choice between speaking up and speaking out regardless of the consequences or remaining silent for the sake of self-preservation. Inspired by the life of Hungarian Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor, the play interweaves her story with that of a young American woman facing racial discrimination in this country in 2020.

THE CANCELLATION OF LAUREN FEIN

By Christopher Demos-Brown

February 2 - 18, 2024

WORLD PREMIERE

Executive Producers

Marsha and Stephen Rabb

Lauren Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a prestigious American university. They live with Dylan, their 16-year-old African American foster son whom they’ve cared for since he was a baby. When Professor Fein’s actions run afoul of the university’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies, her groundbreaking research, her career, and her family are all put in jeopardy.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

By Arthur Miller

March 29 - April 14, 2024

Executive Producers

Toni and Martin Sosnoff

Producers

Ruth Baum, Nancy Goodes, Sandra and Bernie Meyer

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, groundbreaking play changed American theatre in the person of its everyman tragic hero, Willy Loman, a dime a dozen, disappointed, disillusioned, and delusional traveling salesman with a skewed vision of the American Dream. All he wanted, the playwright wrote in his memoir, was “to count.” Or as Willy’s wife, Linda, implores, “Attention must be paid.”

TRYING

By Joanna McClelland Glass

May 24 - June 9, 2024

Executive Producers

Stephen Brown and Jamie Stern

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.