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A note from the Director: Any writer who has earnestly pursued the craft of writing will tell you that they have been told, at least once, to write what they know. Presumably, writing what you know will lend an air of authenticity to the writing. So, the writer puts pen to page (or fingers to keyboard) and attempts to use words to tell a story that simply must be told. Sounds simple enough, right? As Ernest Hemingway said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Now imagine yourself a writer. You’ve just dredged up your most personal story and committed it to paper. With manuscript in hand, you find yourself in a master class led by a prestigious, unorthodox and ornery teacher. As you sit beside other aspiring writers, you subject yourself to an honest assessment of not only your writing but of you. Such is the world of Seminar. Artists, regardless of their discipline, take huge risks when they share their art. They open their product up to criticism, yes, but even more so they expose themselves to criticism. And that is where the rubber hits the road – when art becomes a business. Some people have the talent but don’t have the skin for such criticism. Some have the resilience but not the talent. In this performance you will see five very different writers with varying degrees of talent and fortitude as they try to figure out the formula for success. Welcome to Leonard’s seminar, where humor, cynicism and a little bit of luck collide to explore just what it takes to become a writer.
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Matthew Travis, Music Director MUSIC FOR HOLY WEEK Classical Works with String Quartet and Organ Sunday, March 20th, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, New Milford, CT DURUFLĒ REQUIEM With Madalyn McHugh, Mezzo-Soprano and David Baranowski, organist Sunday, June 12th, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. Kent School Chapel, Kent, CT
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SEMINAR by Theresa Rebeck
directed by Alicia Dempster
The Cast Izzy Martin Kate Douglas Leonard
Reesa Roccapriore Chris Luongo Anya Caravella Jim Dietter Kevin Sosbe
Setting An apartment, New York City Present day There will be NO intermission
Running time approximately 90 minutes SEMINAR opened on Broadway on November 20, 2011 and was presented by Jeffrey Finn, Jill Furman, John N. Hart Jr. and Patrick Milling Smith, Roy Furman, David Ian, David Mirvish, Amy Nauiokas, and James Spry, with associate producers Matthew Schneider, Wake Up Marconi, Jamie Kaye-Phillips, and Charles Stone/Ben Limberg. The exectuive producer/general manager was 1010 Productions, Ltd. The production played the John Golden Theatre. Sam Gold directed the play. Scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design was by Ben Stanton, original music and sound design was by John Gromada; the casting was by MelCap Casting, the production manager was Peter Fullbright, and the production stage manager was Charles Means.
“Seminar� is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
Production Staff
Director................................................................................Alicia Dempster Stage Manager.........................................................................Kathy Bolster Set Design........................................................................... Scott Wyshynski Builders..........................Richard Pettibone, Scott Wyshynski, Jay Novicky, .....................Frank Russo, Sonnie Osborne, John Bolster, Nick Del Mastro Set Dressing & Painting.....................................................Glenn R. Couture Lighting Design....................................Richard Pettibone, Scott Wyshynski Sound Design.......................................................................... Tom Libonate Costume Coordination................................................Alicia Dempster, Cast Running Crew.......................... Alicia Dempster, John Bolster, Beth Plotkin House Managers............................ Mary Kimball, Christine Daley, Jill Pace Publicist...................................................................................Tom Libonate Photography............................................................ Ghostlight Photography Web Site.....................................................................printplusdesignllc.com Producer........................................................................... Richard Pettibone Special Thanks • FM97.3 WZBG Backstage with Johnny O • Suzi Pettibone • • Russ Posthauer, Jr. •
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST REESA ROCCAPRIORE (Izzy) was last seen on the TheatreWorks stage in The Game’s Afoot, as Aggie, and in Boeing Boeing, as Gabriella. She played Veronica in God of Carnage at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts, where she is also a member of the 17 Debacles improv troupe. She is very happy to have had the chance to work with this wonderful group of people and would like to thank Alicia for this wonderful opportunity. CHRIS LUONGO (Martin) is happy to be making his TheatreWorks debut. Other roles include the parts of both Tom and The Gentleman Caller in two different productions of The Glass Menagerie; George in All My Sons; Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice; Williamson in Glengarry Glen Ross; and the title role in The Elephant Man.
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ANYA CARAVELLA (Kate) is very happy to be making her TheatreWorks debut! She has been performing since she was 3 years old. Anya studied Music Education and Communications in college. She was the Music Director for the Children’s Theater Workshop in her native New Mexico for several years. She recently got back into acting 15 months ago after a decade-long hiatus. Since then she has been very busy, playing Meredith in Five Women Wearing The Same Dress (Ridgefield Theater Barn), Juanita in Dearly Departed (Powerhouse Theater of New Canaan), Delores in Olympus On My Mind, (also at the Powerhouse) April in Company (Brookfield Theater For The Arts) and Jenny in Going Down (Newtown Arts Festival). Anya would like to thank her wonderful husband George, for his support and her amazing parents Ron and Voncille, who live in the Southwest. JIM DIETTER (Douglas) is an admirer of theater and a contumacious supporter of work, naturally he is thrilled to debut his “talents” at TheatreWorks. His most recent appearances on stage were as the Nutcracker in Danbury Music Center’s The Nutcracker and as Rocky in Sherman’s Rocky Horror Show. He thought so highly of Theresa Rebeck’s script that he was willing to sacrifice his streak of playing titular characters to take on the role of Douglas. When Jim isn’t acting he’s flipping houses in Fairfield County, playing guitar, line dancing, yelling at television news coverage of the presidential election and generally spreading cheer and merriment throughout the countryside. Jim would like to thank his long-haired chihuahua, Riff Raff, for over a decade of companionship and support. KEVIN SOSBE (Leonard) was recently seen on this stage as Orson Welles in a staged reading of Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles. Other credits at TW include Victor Velasco in Barefoot In The Park, and Howie in Rabbit Hole. Last spring Kevin directed a critically acclaimed version of 1984 at The Sherman Playhouse. Kevin has been the head carpenter the Westport Country Playhouse for the last ten seasons and works for ABC Television as the properties supervisor on Who theatreworks.us
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Wants To Be A Millionaire, along with various other production work in the metro region. He makes his home in New Milford with wife Vicki and their three children. KATHY BOLSTER (Stage Manager) Kathy is happy to be working with such a great cast and crew, especially with the talented director, Alicia Dempster. She is blessed to have her hours in the dark filled with laughter and good cheer. As always, she thanks her family - John, Ian, Chris, and Kimberly - for all their support. ALICIA DEMPSTER (Director) is a lifelong theatre enthusiast with over 30 years of experience onstage, backstage and in the director’s chair. She has helmed several productions in the area including Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening, Parade, Circle Mirror Transformation, My First Time, Doubt, Little Shop of Horrors, Little Women, Peter Pan, The Diviners, When Pigs Fly, A Few Good Men and How I Learned To Drive. She also co-directed and co-produced Chad Beckim’s play, A Matter of Choice, at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2010. Alicia has produced several events locally, including the Connecticut concert premiere of Joe Iconis as well as [title of show] co-creator Susan Blackwell’s Die, Vampire, Die! writing seminar. Her play A Gift of Undetermined Value, was part of TheatreWorks’ inaugural season of Page2Stage: Plays In Progress and was honored with a BroadwayWorld.com nomination for Best Play. She received her B.A. in Theatre/Musical Theatre from Ohio Northern University and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. She resides in Danbury with her husband Bill and their three children, Sabine, Isabelle and Delaney. THERESA REBECK (Playwright) is a widely produced playwright throughout the United States and abroad. New York productions of her work include Dead Accounts at the Music Box Theatre; Seminar at the Golden Theatre; Mauritius at the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Club Production; The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels at Second Stage; Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection and Our House at Playwrights Horizons; The Understudy at the Laura Pels Theater in a Roundabout Theatre Company production; and View of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop. Omnium Gatherum (cowritten, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003) was featured at the Humana theatreworks.us
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Festival, and had a commercial run at the Variety Arts Theatre. Her newest work, Poor Behavior premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2011. Dead Accounts, commissioned by the Cincinnati Playhouse, premiered January 2012. In television, Ms. Rebeck has written for Dream On, Brooklyn Bridge, L.A. Law, American Dreamer, Maximum Bob, First Wave, and Third Watch. She was the creator of the NBC drama Smash. She has been a writer/producer for Canterbury’s Law, Smith, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue. Her produced feature films include Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker, an adaptation of her play, The Scene. Ms. Rebeck is originally from Cincinnati and holds an MFA in Playwrighting and a PhD. in Victorian Melodrama, both from Brandeis University. She is a proud board member of the Dramatists Guild, a Contributing Editor to the Harvard Review, an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company, a Playwright Adviser and Board Member of the LARK and and has taught at Brandeis University and Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. (Source: http://theresarebeck.com/) The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information, please visit: www. samuelfrench.com/whitepaper
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