Palm Beach Dramaworks presents Topdog/Underdog

by Suzan-Lori Parks

Don & Ann Brown Theatre

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Note from the Producing Artistic Director and the Managing Director

Welcome to Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, our final production of the 2022-23 season. We want to thank everyone – actors, directors, staff, designers, stage managers, tech crew, volunteers, and our wonderful patrons – for making the season such a great success.

Now, we want you to meet the newest member of our staff and our first chief financial & operating officer, Rudina Toro. We have known the immensely talented Rudina for years, and we’re confident that her business acumen will be a game-changer for PBD. Rudina, the floor is yours.

Working at PBD is such a special opportunity. I grew up in theatre; my mom was a producing artistic director in Albania, where I was born, and my favorite uncle was an actor and director with the national theatre. He also read plays on the radio and acted in movies. Both were exceedingly caring, nurturing, and generous, and always happy to take me to work. I took them up on every offer, which means I was at the theatre more than anywhere else during my entire childhood. So, theatre is really in my blood.

When I was a young teenager, my family moved to South Florida and considered our plans for the future. In his infinite wisdom, my dad steered me toward a business career. He knew I was good with numbers and believed an accounting degree would perpetually provide opportunities and security. As always, he was right. Even now, I know that if I can access an organization’s financials, I can understand most everything about the operation; numbers always tell the real story.

Prior to joining the PBD team, I was CFO at two nonprofits. But I spent the first 14 years of my career with a CPA firm and met Sue Ellen while working there. We collaborated on the very first PBD audit when the nonprofit was newly established, and we connected instantly. I started coming to shows at the Banyan theatre and never left.

As an accounting professional, I feel I must be entirely invested in an organization’s mission so I can help support it and contribute to its success. And PBD is such a good fit: I respect and admire Bill and Sue Ellen and the incredible work they do. I cannot think of another local company that creates such enriching and impactful work, and I am beyond grateful for the opportunity and the trust they place in me daily.

Contributing to life-changing work is the privilege of a lifetime, as I have witnessed first-hand the transformative power of PBD. When my husband and I first started dating, he was unfamiliar with theatre. I said, “I love PBD, and you have to go with me.” He wanted to make me happy, so he said he would do whatever I wanted. From his first show, The Dresser, he was completely won over and now attends all productions eagerly. We hope our two girls, Logan and Remi, will grow up to feel the same!

William Hayes Producing Artistic Director

Rudina Toro Chief Financial & Operating Officer

Sue Ellen Beryl Managing Director

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If I had the financial resources, I would give enormous sums to Dramaworks, because Dramaworks has given so much to me. But I have to be realistic. So, when they started the monthly giving campaign, I was the first person to sign up. It’s easy to pay a fixed amount each month, and by the end of the year, the money adds up. I know how much it’s appreciated, and it’s very gratifying to help out. And I still volunteer!

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My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic.

When those guys get out of a spaceship –the idea that black people are from outer space, there’s a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

― Suzan-Lori Parks

Palm Beach Dramaworks presents

William Hayes

Producing Artistic Director

Sue Ellen Beryl

Managing Director

by Suzan-Lori Parks

Topdog/Underdog is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Produced on Broadway by Carole Shorenstein Hays, Waxman/Williams

Entertainment, Bob Boyett, Freddy De Mann, Susan Dietz, Ina Meibach, Scott Nederlander, Ira Pittelman Hits Magazine, Kelpine Arts, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.

Original New York production by The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, George C. Wolfe, Producer.

Theatre To Think About

by Suzan-Lori Parks

Director

Belinda "Be" Boyd

Executive Producer

Penny Bank

Stage Manager

Suzanne Clement Jones*

Scenic Design

Seth Howard

Costume Design

Brian O’Keefe

Lighting Design

Kirk Bookman

Sound Design

Roger Arnold

Fight Choreographer

David A. Hyland

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

Topdog/Underdog: A Conversation with Director

Belinda “Be” Boyd

by Sheryl Flatow

In Suzan-Lori Parks’ funny and tragic Pulitzer Prize winning Topdog/Underdog, African American brothers Lincoln (Link) and Booth are ensnared in an endless loop of poverty, hustling, and violence. They’ve been fending for themselves since their parents abandoned them when they were teenagers, and live together in Booth’s seedy boarding house room. Lincoln, a master of the con game three-card monte, threw in his cards for a “legitimate” job as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator in whiteface and stovepipe hat, making $314 a week at an arcade where customers pretend to shoot the president. Booth, who has an aversion to work and desires only to learn how to become the best three-card monte hustler on the street, wants his brother to teach him the art of the con. Meanwhile, he spends his time shoplifting. The brothers alternately support and disparage each other – often quite hilariously – as they look back at their troubled past and look ahead to an uncertain future.

Topdog/Underdog is a play about sibling rivalry, about a modern-day Cain and Abel, about one more dysfunctional family. But it is about so much more: Parks didn’t name her characters Lincoln and Booth for nothing. “The play is about the failure of the American Dream,” says director Belinda “Be” Boyd, “and specifically how the failure of the American Dream affects this African American family. The parents gave their sons $500 apiece when they left, which indicates to me that they weren’t poverty stricken. So, I think that at one time the parents were building something and bought into the American Dream. And then whatever they were building fell through, and the family fractured. Imagine that abandonment. What do you do with your pain? How do you navigate what life has to offer you?”

Lincoln and Booth had no safety net and fell through the cracks. Lacking adult guidance when they were coming of age, they never had the opportunity to nurture the

skills they needed to make something of themselves. Lincoln is smart, and under different circumstances might very well have led the successful life he craves. But he can’t get there. Booth has an outsized personality but is insecure, impulsive, aggressive, and angry, and has no tools to help him get out of his own way.

“At the very beginning of the play, Parks tells us who Link and Booth are,” Boyd says. “She doesn’t apologize for their challenges and flaws, the things that keep them from functioning in the world in a way that is healthy. We think we know them right off the bat, but we find out so much more about them as she continues to peel back the layers. What she does so beautifully is she lets us see their hearts, what they think, how they feel, and what could be. They have this familial relationship that is both incredibly tight and incredibly fragile, and she makes us love them and bond with them, while making us angry and frustrated and at times disgusted with them. She takes us on this incredible journey with these two young men, and we see them and treat them as human beings.”

Boyd directed Topdog/Underdog once before, in 2010, and her view of the play has shifted over time. “When I first directed it, I thought we were on the cusp of understanding the plight of the young, urban African American man,” she says. “I thought this play was educational, and would help enlighten audiences. Today, I still think of it is an educational piece, but I also think of it as historical. I thought things would be very different by now for African American men. And in many ways, they are. But then again, in many ways they aren’t. One example: the Black teenager in Kansas City who went to pick up his brother, went to the wrong house, rang the doorbell, and was shot by a White man. Too many people still don’t get it. I think that the people who come to see this play really want to educate themselves and try to have more insight into how to navigate humanity.”

Boyd is delighted to be back at PBD following her debut last season with Intimate Apparel. “That was such a beautiful experience,” she says. “I was blessed with an incredible cast. I laughed a lot and enjoyed crafting the piece. I loved the energy of the theatre and the people and the audience – I was so impressed by the audience. They’re so engaged, so hungry, and so appreciative. I feel like I’ve found kindred spirits here, a theatrical family.”

Topdog/Underdog: A Conversation with Director Belinda “Be” Boyd continued

by Suzan-Lori Parks

Palm Beach Dramaworks presents CAST

Lincoln...........................George Anthony Richardson*

Booth......................................................Jovon Jacobs*

SETTING Here TIME Now

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

Assistant Stage Manager.................................................................... Tyler B. Osgood

Head Stagehand........................................................................... Caroline Castleman

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

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

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GEORGE ANTHONY RICHARDSON

(Lincoln) is an artist based in NYC. A 2021 graduate of Juilliard, his recent acting credits include Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door and Hansol Jung’s Cardboard Piano. He made his Broadway debut earlier this season in the acclaimed revival of Topdog/Underdog, and is honored to revisit this enthralling story of two brothers working desperately to transcend the tragic phenomenon of domination. He sends a huge Thank You to God, his family, his team (Dan, Colin, John), and the entire cast and crew of Topdog/Underdog at PBD.

JOVON JACOBS (Booth) is elated to be returning to PBD, where he was most recently seen in last season’s production of Intimate Apparel. 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 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), One Night In Miami (Miami New Drama), 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.

BELINDA

"BE"

BOYD (Director) is excited to return to PBD after directing Intimate Apparel last season. As a show director for the Walt Disney Company, she directed theme park shows as well as productions for Disney Event Group and the Disney Institute. Additional professional directing includes productions in New York, Texas, Toronto, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Vermont, and Florida. A member of Actors’ Equity, Be has performed for several Shakespeare companies. Her voice-over and commercial credits include KFC, Wycliffe, Disney, Thrifty Car Rental, Belk, Zora’s Roots (Zora Neale Hurston documentary), Food Lion, and The Gallery series. A member of the Dramatists Guild, she was commissioned by Orlando Repertory Theatre to create a script about the Ocoee massacre. She will also be seen in the title role in an upcoming documentary about Mary McLeod Bethune. Be has been a consultant for corporations/ companies including Tourism for South Africa, FARO (3D technology, engineering, and computer simulation), and Mursion (virtual training).

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SUZAN-LORI PARKS (Playwright) is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other awards include a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and the prestigious Gish Prize. Theatre includes Topdog/Underdog (Pulitzer), adaptation of Porgy and Bess (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), 365 Days/365 Plays, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 1, 2 and 3), The Book of Grace, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Venus, Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical, The America Play,

Watch Me Work, In the Blood, White Noise, Sally & Tom, Plays for the Plague Years, and The Harder They Come. Film: Girl 6, The United States vs. Billie Holiday. TV: Genius: Aretha (creator/writer/showrunner). Novel: Getting Mother’s Body. Parks writes songs and fronts her band Sula & The Noise. She credits James Baldwin, her writing teacher and mentor, for starting her on the path of playwriting.

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 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 Cha-Cha 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.

SETH HOWARD (Scenic Designer) is a freelance scenic designer based out of Orlando. He has designed many regional productions and themed experiences across the country, and is excited to be joining PBD for this production of Topdog/Underdog. Some of his recent design credits include The Mountaintop and Deathtrap (Constellation Stage & Screen), Jersey Boys (Theatre Aspen), Once on This Island (Charleston Stage), and Princess & Frog and The Wiz Jr. (The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati). He received his BFA in stage design, props, and scenic art from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).

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BRIAN O’KEEFE (Costume Design) began designing for PBD in 2009, became costume shop manager and resident designer in 2015, and has designed over 60 shows here. He has received 11 Carbonell Award nominations, winning for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Lion in Winter, and A Doll's House, and was a Silver Palm Award recipient in 2022. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, he spent his earlier career as a patternmaker for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC and major costume houses in New York, including Barbara Matera, Ltd., Parsons-Meares, Michael-Jon Costumes, and Eaves-Brooks. He was later resident designer, principal patternmaker, and shop manager for Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, spending 16 years designing over 75 productions and supervising 90 more. Other regional design credits: Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Winter Park Playhouse, St. Augustine's Limelight Theatre, University of Central Florida. Other regional patterning credits: Alabama and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, and Stages St. Louis.

KIRK BOOKMAN (Lighting Design) For PBD, he has designed 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) 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 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. BA in music and sound recording, University of New Haven. MA in music technology, University of Newcastle.

DAVID A. HYLAND (Fight Choreographer) is the Chair of the Theatre Department at Palm Beach State College. He was previously seen at PBD as Sheriff Deon Gilbeau in August: Osage County (he was also the fight choreographer), The Visitor in The Spitfire Grill, Herr Fahrenkopf in The Night of the Iguana, Sam Craig in Our Town, Karl Lindner in A Raisin in the Sun, and Frank in All My Sons. Additionally, David was recently the fight choreographer for Twelve Angry Men and Almost, Maine, understudying the male roles in the latter. He has also been seen in South Florida at Theatre Lab, playing Roger in Tar Beach. Other notable credits include Edward in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Eddie in Fool for Love, and Benedick and Dogberry in a six-actor version of Much Ado About Nothing. David also performs regularly with an improv theatre group called Mod 27 and holds an MFA in acting from The Ohio State University.

TYLER B. OSGOOD (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be spending his second season with PBD. Regional credits include the Young Playwrights 10-Minute and 1-Minute Play Contests (2023), the One Humanity Tour (2022), August: Osage County, The Science of Leaving Omaha, Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, and The People Downstairs at PBD; The Sound of Music, Songs Under the Stars, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Holiday Heroes 2019, A Christmas Carol 2019, and Sunday in the Park with George at ZACH Theatre; A Wrinkle in Time, A Christmas Carol 2018, Detroit ’67, and The Age of Innocence at McCarter Theatre. Tyler is a proud graduate of Texas State University, where he earned his BFA in theatre technology and production.

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Topdog/Underdog is a story of urban, African American brotherhood/manhood and the perpetual game of survival, shaped by family, loss, love, myth, mystery, and violence.

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BECOME A CORPORATE SPONSOR

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

• 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 call Linda Berman (561) 514-4042 ext 106 or email lberman@palmbeachdramaworks.org

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You for Supporting Our Annual

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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

Penny Bank Ruth and Ted Baum

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$15,000

$10,000

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$5,000

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Anonymous

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If you’d like to contribute to the campaign, visit our new website, www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/donate.

Joan G. Smith and William Karatz

and Arlene Reid

The Chastain Foundation Christina Dennis Susan and Larry Goldfein

Palm Beach Dramaworks

2022-2023 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

10% off (excludes tax, gratuity, and happy hour items)

207 Clematis St

(561) 899-3117

3-Course Prix Fixe Dinner ($52-offer valid show days only))

101 N Clematis St (561) 833-5090

Complimentary order of guacamole w/ purchase of (2) entrees

224 Clematis St (561) 650-1001

palmbeachdramaworks.org

2023-2024 Compass LGBTQ+ Community Center

E v e n t s & P r o g r a m s

Our mission is to engage, empower and enrich the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people and those impacted by HIV and AIDS.

Opportu Internships

Sponsorships

Volunteering & Service Work

Business Alliance Membership

Diversity and Inclusion Training

SAVE THE DATES!

Puertas Abiertas - Oct. 14, 2023

SMART Ride - Nov. 17 to 18, 2023

World AIDS Day - Dec. 1, 2023

Cocktails for Compass - Dec. 11, 2023

AIDS Memorial Quilt - Dec. 1 to 31, 2023

Miss. Palm Beach Pride - Feb. 2024

Palm Beach Pride - Mar. 23 to 24, 2024

Stonewall Ball - Jun. 29, 2024

Center Programs

HIV Testing & Education

Health Services

Social & Support Groups

Mental Health Services

Business Alliance

Youth & Family Services

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OUR MISSION

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

OUR VISION

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

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Ruth Baum

Nancy Beard

Ravi Chaturvedi

Esther Dinerstein

Roe Green

Daryn M. Kirchfeld

Sidney Lesowitz

J. Barry Lewis

Sherron Long

Pamela McIver

Marilyn Meyerhoff

Charles Muoio

Sally Nathanson

Robert Nederlander

Shari Santell

William N. Shepherd

Louise Snyder

Mimi Draper Walsh

Beth Walton

Lee Wolf

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a proud member of...

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.

Theatre To Think About 2023/24 SEASON

LOBBY HERO

By Kenneth Lonergan

October 13 - 29, 2023

Four New Yorkers involved in a murder investigation – a slacker security guard in a Manhattan apartment building, his by-the-book boss, a rookie cop and her macho partner – face moral and ethical dilemmas in this comic drama by the Academy Awardwinning screenwriter of Manchester by the Sea. The play explores issues of racism and sexism, and whether it’s ever honorable to do the wrong thing for the right reason.

THE MESSENGER

By Jenny Connell Davis

December 8 - 24, 2023

WORLD PREMIERE

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 & 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 SALEMAN

By Arthur Miller

March 29 - April 14, 2024

Executive Producers

Toni & Martin Sosnoff

Producers

Nancy Goodes

Ruth Baum

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

Joanna McClelland Glass

May 24 - June 9, 2024

Executive Producers

Stephen Brown & 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.

Executive Producer Mrs. Roberta Golub