YOUNG AMERICANS | April 26 - May 14, 2023 | Pittsburgh Public Theater

WRITTEN BY LAUREN

DIRECTED BY DESDEMONA

YEE

CHIANG

PRESENTS

LIGHTING DESIGN BY SOLOMON WEISBARD

COSTUME DESIGN BY SUSAN TSU

SOUND DESIGN BY ANDRE PLUESS

ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER ZACH MOORE

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER TAYLOR K. MESZAROS*

APRIL 26—MAY 14

O’REILLY THEATER

MARYA SEA KAMINSKI Artistic Director

SHAUNDA McDILL Managing Director

written by LAUREN YEE directed by DESDEMONA CHIANG with DANNY BERNARDO* SAMMY RAT RIOS MARIELLE YOUNG*

SCENIC DESIGN BY JUNGHYUN GEORGIA LEE

Local talent shines

YOUNG AMERICANS features Pittsburgh costume designer

by LYRA LAURELEI for The Public

Look down on stage when the lights come up on Young Americans and you’ll see a contraption that will take a family across the country twice, 20 years apart. Just as important to the story are the costumes that bring Joe, Jenny, and Lucy to life on stage, clothing that communicates incredible amounts of information in just a glance about each of their characters. Costume Designer Susan Tsu, who grew up in Pittsburgh and is a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, made sure there’s more than meets the eye in Young American’s costuming.

“There are psychological things inside each of the characters that I’ve tried to make little touches of in the costumes,” Tsu said. “I want people to take in the character the way they would any new person they meet.”

Tsu is a top talent and well-known professional in the costume design industry, who grew up in an immigrant family that pushed her to pursue her interest in the arts and took road trips much like one in Young Americans. From one of her very first productions as an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, her work was noticed – as a sophomore in college, just 18 years old, she designed the costumes for Godspell, a musical that left the university

Susan Tsu pictured at Carnegie Mellon University. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University)

a year later and went on to have incredibly successful national tours, including a 2011 revival on Broadway.

Her work went on to bring her and her designs around the world, including a firsttime collaboration between Chinese and American companies in The Joy Luck Club and The Balcony at the Bolshoi Theatre for a U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange program. As a Chinese-American theater designer and artist, Susan feels a deep connection to Asian-American road trip stories like Young Americans.

“The play we’re doing is a wonderful metaphor for what it means to be an immigrant, or an American version of one’s parents who are immigrants, and what they do in order to understand their newly adopted country and how they want to expose their children to it,” she said. “The road trip is a beautiful story of caring from one generation to the other, of teaching, and of learning for both generations. It’s a deeply touching kind of journey, and it’s not a journey that just Asian people would experience.”

Tsu’s costuming reflects that, and many children of immigrants may see certain familiar idiosyncrasies on stage, including in Joe’s costumes. But the costuming process for Young Americans had to also consider the technical challenges of dressing a three-person play with stories 20 years apart. All the while, Tsu designs for the characters’ cultural backgrounds and accounts for how their lived experiences would impact things as seemingly simple as their casual attire.

“When (director) Desdemona Chiang and I started talking about it, we saw our fathers in our imaginations,” Tsu said.

In addition to continually working in the field, Tsu is a passionate educator. She previously headed the costume programs at Boston University and the University of Texas at Austin before returning to CMU, her alma mater, in 2003. She has been a strong advocate for access to theater and helped push the Free Night of Theatre initiative across the U.S., which now is active in hundreds of cities. She has been a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recommender, helping bring the top minds resources to support their work.

Nowadays, you can often find her driving over to Oakland and taking her place in front of the class, ready to teach the next generations of designer who might put on the next Godspell to launch their own careers.

“Teaching is one of the best ways to learn that there is,” Tsu said, “because you have to figure out why you do certain things the way you do, be able to articulate them, and keep a student’s own sense of their process and their inspiration clear and achievable.”

Tsu’s work has taken her around the world and earned her a position at the top of the field. She now teaches the next generation of designers and artists at Carnegie Mellon University. (Photo courtesy of Joshua Franzos)

THE CAST (in order of appearance)

RAT RIOS

LAUREN YEE (writer) Lauren’s Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep, subsequent productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Victory Gardens, City Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, and Jungle Theatre/Theater Mu, with an upcoming national tour. Her play The Great Leap has been produced at Denver Center, Steppenwolf, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, Pasadena Playhouse/ East West Players, InterAct Theatre, and Asolo Rep. Honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She’s a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, a New Dramatists member, a Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, and a Playwrights Realm playwright. TV credits: Pachinko (Apple), Soundtrack (Netflix). Upcoming TV credits: Interior Chinatown (Hulu), Billions (Showtime), The Sterling Affairs (FX). She is developing pilots for Apple and Netflix. Current commissions include Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. She has a B.A. from Yale and an M.F.A. from UCSD. laurenyee.com

This performance of Young Americans runs approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and The National Theatrical Labor Union.

Young Americans was commissioned by Portland Center Stage, Portland, Oregon, and received its World Premiere at Portland Center Stage and at Pittsburgh Public Theater in 2023.

Cover photo by Jingzi Zhao for Portland Center Stage.

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DANNY BERNARDO ( Joe ) - Danny Bernardo makes his Pittsburgh Public Theater debut with this production! He has worked regionally with Steppenwolf, Goodman, About Face, Portland Center Stage, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, and East West Players. His favorite roles include “Harry” ( Mamma Mia ), “Jed” ( Fifth of July ), “Bill” (Kiss Me Kate). Proud papa to Padfoot, Tejada, and Stascio. For Dad and Joe Foronda. @thatdannyb

SAMMY RAT RIOS ( Lucy ) - Sammy Rat Rios is an interdisciplinary performing artist currently residing in Portland, Oregon. Rios received a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies from Southern Methodist University and received additional training from BADA’s conservatory Acting Program in London. Rios is thrilled to be making their debut at Pittsburgh Public Theater!

MARIELLE YOUNG ( Jenny ) - Marielle Young is thrilled to be back at The Public after A Doll’s House, Part 2 . Television credits include Blue Bloods (CBS), Major Crimes (TNT), The Blacklist (NBC), Bonding (Netflix). Theater credits include The Acting Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Kitchen Theatre, Chester Theatre, Capital Rep, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theater, Ars Nova, and more. Find out more at www. marielleyoung.org and on social media @101marielle.

JUNGHYUN GEORGIA LEE (Set Designer) - Junghyun is a Korean-born NYC-based designer. She has worked for Audible Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Ma-Yi, Public, Soho Rep., The Play Co., Alley Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theater Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in The Park, Alliance, and Syracuse Stage. She was nominated for Outstanding Set Design for Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. junghyungeorgialeedesign.com @jgldesigncompany

SUSAN TSU (Costume Designer) - Susan Tsu is a renowned designer who has worked coast-to-coast at 44 theaters and opera

companies, returning frequently to companies including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Quantum Theatre and City Theatre. Memorable international productions include the award-winning hit musical Godspell , The Joy Luck Club , a benchmark collaboration between Chinese and American companies, and The Balcony at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Tsu is well-known as an international curator and her own designs have been exhibited at the Lincoln Center Library and McNay Art Museum. She has garnered some of the industry’s highest awards, and her work is represented in over a dozen books and countless publications.

SOLOMON WEISBARD (Lighting Designer) - Solomon has created original works in drama, opera, dance, installation, and music across the U.S., Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia. Highlights include Otello (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany); Il Trovatore (Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Regio di Parma, Italy); Oedipus (Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Greece; Ancient Theatre of Pompeii, Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, and Teatro Mercadante di Napoli, Italy) all with Robert Wilson; Macbeth (directed by John Doyle at Classic Stage Company, NYC); The Shape of Things (created by Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC); Duat (Soho Rep, NYC); and Men on Boats (World Premiere: Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb, NYC). Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Scenic/Lighting Design at Portland State University and earned his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

ANDRE PLEUSS (Sound Designer) - Previous collaborations with Desdemona Chiang include The Winter’s Tale (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Pride and Prejudice (Pittsburgh Public Theater), and M. Butterfly (South Coast Rep.). Broadway: Goodnight Oscar (upcoming, Belasco Theatre), The Minutes (Cort/Studio 54), 33 Variations (Eugene O’Neill Theatre), and Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: The Clean House (Lincoln Center), Milk Like Sugar, and BFE (Playwrights Horizon). Regional credits include multiple productions with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, Yale Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Court Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and La Jolla Playhouse. Based in Chicago. Andre is an ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre Company.

ZACH MOORE (Associate Sound Designer) - Zach most recently designed sound and projections for Pittsburgh Public Theater’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Harlem and sound for Newsies at The Pittsburgh Playhouse. His 100+ sound designs at The Public include the world premiere of The

Chief , original music for Marjorie Prime , Hamlet , and Equus , and designs for Sweat , The Humans , and The Diary of Anne Frank . Other collaborations include Asolo Rep, City Theatre, PICT, NBA Ballet in Tokyo, TheaterWorks Hartford, The Huntington, Long Wharf Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, and Reduced Shakespeare Company.

TAYLOR K. MESZAROS (Production Stage Manager) - Taylor is thrilled to be back at The Public! She is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and is based in Pittsburgh. She spends her time as an AEA Stage Manager and as a standardized patient for the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Love to friends and family for their unwavering support.

DESDEMONA CHIANG (Director) - Desdemona Chiang’s credits include The 5th Avenue Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Studio Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and ACT Theatre. Desdemona is affiliated with AFI DWW+, Sundance Institute, and the Drama League. She is a member of the SDC Executive Board, and she is a winner of the Princess Grace Award and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise. She earned her MFA in Directing from the University of Washington.

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