ANGELS by tony kushner
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by Craig Pike “You’ll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you’d go.” — Roy Cohn, Angels in America: Perestroika When I first read this script many, many years ago in theatre school I became absorbed with its words, its ideas, and its queerness. Its immense humanity coupled with its navigation of ‘otherness’ really does make for an exciting evening (or day on the weekends in our case), a theatrical event like no other I’ve experienced. Revisiting this work so many years after it was first performed in the early 1990s, demands of our ensemble of actors, designers, and entire team to weave themselves into the rich tapestry of Mr. Kushner’s work. It is quite humbling to kneel at the feet of this masterpiece; to offer ourselves over to this story and these people with all of their grief, love, confusion and desire. In the western world, we are living in a very different time than at the height of the AIDS crisis in the mid 1980s… and in many ways not much has changed. The direct impact of the Reagan era on today’s world, not only in America but internationally, is one that is not only terrifying but seemingly inevitable. And the desire for change. Reflecting on these times since Covid began, I witness so much fear in our world and with that a deep desire for a shift in the way we are living. I fully appreciate that it’s safer sometimes to stay still, to stop moving, to remain silent. My biggest question going into this process and even more so coming through, inviting you into our world is: What if we follow our desire for change…to NOT STOP MOVING…to welcome with bravery and courage a new world rooted in love. What is on the other side of fear? I could go on for days, and I feel already have, so for now, that’s all. I truly invite you to open yourself up to this world, this work, these words and to see for yourself what YOU are capable of. MORE LIFE! — Craig Pike
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MILLENNIUM APPROACHES was first performed in a workshop production presented by Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, May 1990 The world premiere was presented by The Eureka Theatre Company, May 1991 Opened in London at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, January 1992 Opened in New York at the Walter Kerr Theatre in April 1993 The first production of ANGELS IN AMERICA, Parts One and Two was presented at the Mark Taper Forum PERESTROIKA was first performed as a staged reading by the Eureka Theatre Company in May 1991 The world premiere was presented by the Mark Taper Forum in November 1992 The play was presented by New York University/Tisch School of the Arts in April 1993 The play opened in London at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain in November 1993 Opened in New York at the Walter Kerr Theatre in November 1993 ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES and ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART TWO: PERESTROIKA are produced by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC www.broadwayplaypub.com
ANGELS IN AMERICA written by Tony Kushner directed by Craig Pike Kaleb Alexander // Belize Brenda Bazinet // Hannah Wade Bogert-O’Brien // Joe Soo Garay // The Angel Christine Horne // Harper Allister MacDonald // Prior Jim Mezon // Roy Cohn Ben Sanders // Louis Michael Hart // stage manager Sam Hale // assistant stage manager Emma Jo Conlin // apprentice stage manager Brian Dudkiewicz // set designer Bonnie Beecher // lighting designer Louise Bourret // costume designer John Gzowski // sound designer Jeff Pybus // associate lighting designer Victoria Horvat // costume assistant Alison Deon // dialect coach Anita Nittoly // intimacy/fight director Kate Counsel // production manager (That Arts Group) Cassie Prosper // publicist Janice Peters Gibson // producer Rebecca Vandevelde // production manager (Buddies) Conrad McLaren // technical director Kit Norman, Darren Shaen, Amber Pattison, Van Ward + El Patey // head technicians Antel Kollenberg, Matt Armour, Mike Dowdall, Lindsay McDonald, Byron “Mojo” Noble, Nate Gurarie // crew Special thanks Awl Or Nothing Creative Inc., Desree Gray, Rick Jacobson, Brooklyn Johnson, Cheryl Landy, Marianne McIsaac, Moss LED, North of Brooklyn, The Segal Centre, Sharon Ryman, ShopDogs, David Smukler, St. Anne’s Anglican Church, Sarah Tremblay, Moishe Volf-Dolman
Tony Kushner
CRAIG PIKE
KALEB ALEXANDER
BRENDA BAZINET
Wade Bogert-O’Brien
SOO GARAY
CHRISTINE HORNE
ALLISTER MACDONALD
Ben Sanders
JIM mezon
Michael hart
sam hale
emma jo conlin
Brian Dudkiewicz
bonnie beecher
louise bourret
JOHN GZOWSKI
alison deon
anita nitTOly
jeff pybus
victoria horvat
kate counsel
janice peters gibson
Tony Kushner (he/him) // playwright Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Tony Kushner is best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs!, Hydrotaphia, Homebody/Kabul, and Caroline, or Change, the musical for which he wrote book and lyrics, with music by Jeanine Tesori. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’ film of Angels in America and Steven Spielberg’s Munich. In 2012 he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s movie Lincoln. His screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Boston Society of Film Critics Award, Chicago Film Critics Award, and several others. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, a Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement, and the 2012 National Medal of Arts, among many others. In September 2008, Tony Kushner became the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the largest theatre award in the US. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris. Craig Pike (he/him) // director Selected credits include A Number (That Theatre Company), Missalliance, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Cherry Orchard, John Bulls Other Island, Drama at Inish, Born Yesterday, The Devils Disciple, Bedtime Story (The Shaw Festival), Lulu*, Body Politic* (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), A Grand Time in the Rapids, Third Floor (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Fishskin Trouser, A Number* (Cart/Horse Theatre), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Lyndesfarne Theatre), Stag and Doe (Lighthouse Festive/ Festival Players), Habibs Unforgettable House Party (Resource Centre for Arts/ Western Canada Theatre) Birthday Balloon (Next Stage Festival), Mamma Mia, Mary Poppins ( Theatre St.John’s), The CrackWalker (Staged and Confused), The Paperbag Princess (The Grand Theatre London), Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night (The Classical Theatre Project) *DORA NOMINATED. Craig is the Artistic Director of That Arts Group, conducts That Choir, a 20 member professional choral ensemble in downtown Toronto, and is the owner of Craig’s Cookies. Kaleb Alexander (he/him) // Belize Kaleb is an artist of mixed Caribbean and Canadian descent, he has grown up in Scarborough and Northern Ontario. He studied theatre at York University and has since been involved in many new and classical works with companies across Ontario and Quebec. Some notable productions that helped shape the artist he is today have been Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish), Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (NAC, Black theatre Workshop, Centaur), Pass Over (Obsidian Theatre), Trouble in Mind (Shaw Festival), Alphonse (Theaturtle), All’s Well that Ends Well/Hamlet (Canadian Stage) to name a few. Working on and creating work that broadens the landscape of diverse voices in this country is the goal and the mission. Brenda Bazinet (she/her) // Hannah THEATRE: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman, Equus, The Goat (Citadel Theatre); Hamlet (Resurgence Theatre); Ring Round the Moon, The Wild
Duck (Soulpepper); The Price (Sudbury Theatre Centre); End of Civilization (Factory Theatre); Leaving Home (Blyth Festival); This Hotel (Theatre Passe Muraille); Patience (Canadian Stage, Grand Theatre); So Many Words, Creditors (ARC); Pterodactyls, Baal (Mercury Theatre). FILM/TV: Desire of the Prey, Dangerous, SurrealEstate, Swing Into Romance, Utopia Falls, Anne With An E, Shoot The Messenger, The Strain, Haven. Much thanks to Aron Gonshor for serving as my dialect coach for the Mourners Kaddish and the Yiddish text. Wade Bogert-O’Brien (he/him) // Joe Selected Theatre Credits: American Son (Drayton Entertainment); Controlled Damage, Chariots of Fire (Grand Theatre); It’s a Wonderful Life (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Charles III (Studio 180/ Mirvish Productions); Saint Joan, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Divine, Pygmalion, The Sea, Major Barbara, Our Betters, Misalliance, When the Rain Stops Falling, Candida (Shaw Festival); The Prince of Homburg (Talk is Free Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice (Citadel Theatre). Selected Film and TV Credits : Beacon 23, Frontier, Workin’ Moms, Anne with an E, Locke and Key, Fellow Travelers. Soo Garay (she/her) // The Angel Soo Garay’s accomplished career has taken her across Canada, the U.S. and Europe, touring on stage and shooting in some unforgettable locations. She has been called “mesmerizing” by Jon Kaplan, “magical” by Chris Dupuis,“magnetic” by Richard Ouzounian, and “graceful” by H.J. Kirchhoff. Soo is proud to be part of this production and thankful as always to be given the chance to play. www.soogaray.net Christine Horne (she/her) // Harper Christine’s stage credits include Things I Know To Be True (Company Theatre/ Mirvish), Three Sisters (Howland Co.), Light (Tarragon), Prince Hamlet, Iceland (Why Not Theatre), Richard Three, Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Asking For It (Crow’s/Nightwood), Tom At The Farm (Buddies), The Seagull (Crow’s), Belleville (Company Theatre), Vimy, Farther West (Soulpepper), Between the Sheets (Nightwood), The Great Gatsby (The Grand), Andromache (Necessary Angel), Romeo and Juliet (Canadian Stage), The Turn of the Screw (DVxT), and Miss Julie: Sheh’mah (KICK Theatre). Christine also works extensively in film and television and can currently be seen as Jean Kerr McCarthy on Fellow Travelers for Showtime. She has received a Dora Award, a Canadian Screen Award, and the Birks Diamond Tribute to Women in Film. Christine is a member of the Collective Artistic Leadership of Shakespeare in the Ruff. Allister MacDonald (they/he) // Prior Allister (aka Allie) MacDonald is a Queer Cape Breton-born actor based in Toronto. Two time ACTRA Award Winner for Outstanding Lead Performance, for both their portrayal of Drag Queen JOAN of Arkansas in the Feature Film Stage Mother (eOne/ Momentum), starring alongside Lucy Liu & 2x Academy Award Nominee Jacki Weaver, and for their work in LIAR on CBC. Select theatre credits: Frank’n Furter in
The Rocky Horror Show (Neptune/**2023 Merritt Award Nominee); The Mad Hatter in Alice in Pantoland (Neptune/**2022 Merritt Award Winner); The Cowboy Tempest workshop (Musical Stage Co.); The Last Show On Earth workshop (Nightwood); In Lieu of Flowers (Neptune/HAT); Whale Riding Weather (TheatreOutre); This London Life (The Grand/Morris Panych); Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare In Love (NEPTUNE); Foreign Tongue the Musical (Factory/NSTF); Rope Running Out (lemonTree Creations); Kitsault (Price/Pucl). In honour of the lives affected by HIV/AIDS. For Lucas, the queers, and to more life. Jim Mezon (he/him) // Roy Cohn Jim has been an actor/director/teacher for almost 50 years in Canada and the United States, including 33 years at the Shaw Festival. He has taught and directed students at The University of Alberta, The National Theatre School, The University of Toronto and the University of Northern Colorado and The Shaw Festival among others. At the Shaw Festival he directed and acted in over 60 productions. Ben Sanders (he/him) // Louis Ben Sanders is an actor based in Toronto. Recent and upcoming television credits include Fellow Travelers (Showtime). Malory Towers (BBC), Cross (Amazon Studios), Transplant (CTV/NBC), Five Days at Memorial (AppleTV), Locke and Key (Netflix), Queen Tut (Fae Pictures), The Ugly Chickens (produced by George R.R. Martin), Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount+), Swept Up in Christmas, Pairs Well With Love, Kiss The Cook (Reel One Entertainment), and recurring roles on Murdoch Mysteries and Frankie Drake Mysteries. For 10 years, Ben performed at the Shaw Festival, where favourite productions include the Canadian Premiere of Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, world premieres by Michel Marc Bouchard, Peter Hinton-Davis, Lisa Codrington, and Michael Healey, and seven plays by George Bernard Shaw. He recently co-directed his first short film, Age of Consent, with his partner, Katherine Gauthier. Michael Hart (he/him) // stage manager 27 seasons at the Stratford Festival including Casey and Diana, Why We Tell the Story, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show, Timon of Athens, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Adventures of Pericles, Blithe Spirit, The Tempest starring Christopher Plummer, The Importance of Being Earnest, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, The Duchess of Malfi, The Swanne Trilogy amongst others; Fall On Your Knees (Canadian Stage/Neptune/NAC/Grand), Heisenberg, Liv Stein (Canadian Stage); Constellations (Centaur/Canadian Stage); Body Politic (Buddies); The Death Of The King (Modern Times); The Winter’s Tale (Groundling); Bombay Black (Factory); Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary (Pleiades); Saint Carmen of The Main (NAC/Canadian Stage); Romeo and Juliet (NAC); Mother Courage and Her Children (NAC/RMTC); Real Live Girl (RMTC); Fully Committed, Silence, Einstein’s Gift (Grand); Wit (Centaur); Hamlet (Neptune). Sam Hale (he/him) // assistant stage manager Casey and Diana, Death and the King’s Horseman, All’s Well That Ends Well, Little Shop of Horrors (Stratford Festival); Prodigal, The Home Project, Casimir & Caroline, The Wolves, Lemons . . ., 52 Pick Up, The Glass Menagerie (The Howland Company);
Detroit: Music of the Motor City, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Picture This, Parfumerie, Riverboat (Soulpepper); Jerusalem, Mr. Burns (Outside the March); Disgraced (Mirvish/Citadel/Hope & Hell); Fall for Dance North (FFDN/TO Live); The Realistic Joneses, An Enemy of the People (Tarragon); Body Politic (Buddies in Bad Times/ lemonTree Creations); The Other Place, The Judas Kiss, Into the Woods, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Talk Is Free). Sam has also worked for dance: made in canada, University of Toronto, TIFF, Hot Docs and serves as a stage management mentor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Emma Jo Conlin (she/her) // apprentice stage manager Emma Jo Conlin is a stage manager and director with a love of the supernatural and absurd. Recently, she was the production assistant at the Stratford Festival’s Studio Theatre. She completed her BFA in Theatre Production Management at the University of Victoria working on a variety of productions including Othello, Death by Horoscope, and The Drowsy Chaperone. Select credits include director of Genieology (Alumnae Theatre New Ideas Festival), and apprentice stage manager for Post Democracy (Tarragon Theatre). Enjoy the show! Brian Dudkiewicz (he/him) // set designer Brian is an award-winning designer whose work has been seen across Canada, the United States, and in Asia. Select recent credits include: Dixon Road (Musical Stage Company) Billy Elliot, The Last Five Years (Neptune), Never Not Once (Theatre Aquarius), Controlled Damage, Titanic (The Grand), Jukebox Hero (Mirvish/Jubilee Theatre), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Theatre Calgary), The Jungle Book (ATP), April Fools, Prayer for the French Republic, Indecent, Million Dollar Quartet (Segal Center), Dear Jack, Dear Louise, The Great Divide, Bad Jews (Harold Green), Jersey Boys (1000 Island Playhouse), Kinky Boots, The Sound of Music, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Disney’s Newsies, Rocky: The Musical (Drayton Entertainment), Orphans (Coal Mine), and many shows Off-Broadway in NYC. Brian holds an M.F.A. in Set Design from Yale University, and a Bachelor in Architecture from McGill. @briandud1 Bonnie Beecher (she/her) // lighting designer Bonnie has designed the lighting for over 400 productions for theatre, opera and dance. Her work has been seen in most theatres in Canada including The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, The Canadian Opera, Opera Atelier, Soulpepper Theatre, The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet of Canada, Tarragon Theatre, The Segal, The Citadel and Ballet British Columbia. International work includes lighting designs for The Dutch National Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Glimmerglass Opera, The Versailles Royal Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The New Zealand Opera, The Dortmund Ballet, The Royal Flanders Ballet, Ballet du Rhin in Mulhouse, The State ballet of Georgia, and Ballet Im Reveir in Germany, Bonnie also designed the lights for 7 world premieres for The Stuttgart Ballet, and collaborated with the Kevin O’Day Ballet in Mannheim, Germany for 14 seasons from 2002 to 2016 where she designed the lighting for more than 25 world premieres for the company. Bonnie has received 15 Dora award nominations and has won the award twice.
Louise Bourret (she/her) // costume designer Segal costume designer for Prayer for the French Republic; Dracula; SuperDogs; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Tribes; My Name Is Asher Lev; Noises Off; Million Dollar Quartet; Marjorie Prime; The Angel and the Sparrow (now titled Piaf/ Dietrich); A Doll’s House, Part 2; Indecent; Mythic; The Times They Are A Changin’; April Fools; Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock Star Rabbi (DWYT); The Dybbuk (DWYT); The Producers (DWYT); It Shoulda Been You (DWYT); A Century Songbook (DWYT); Cocostume designer for The Hockey Sweater: A Musical. Elsewhere: Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, Festival des FrancoFolies de Montréal, the Montreal Jazz Festival, Légendes Fantastiques, Cavalia, Era: Intersection of Time (Shanghai), Daughters of Mile End, Infinity Ball (Lune Rouge Entertainment), Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish), Vroom (Moment Factory). Awards: META winner for Outstanding Costume Design for Travesties. John Gzowski (he/him) // sound designer Composer, sound designer, musician, and instrument maker John Gzowski worked on over 250 theatre, dance and film productions for which he has done composition, sound design, live foley, live music, and as musical director. He has played banjo for opera in Banff, studied Carnatic classical music in India and played oud and guitar in jazz and folk festivals across Canada and Europe. His theatre work has won him 6 Doras, from 18 nominations for companies like Ex Machina, Stratford, Shaw Festival, Luminato, National Arts Centre, the Mirvishes, MTC, the Arts Club, Canstage, Soulpepper, Dancemakers, Red Sky, Tarragon, Factory Theatre and YPT. Gzowski has played on numerous CDs, with releases with Patricia O’Callghan, Tasa, and Autorickshaw as well as a Juno nomination with Maza Meze. He has run Canada’s first microtonal group, touring Canada playing the works of Harry Partch, composed and performed with several new music groups and worked as co-artistic director of the Music Gallery. Alison Deon (she/her) // dialect coach Alison is a Toronto-based dialect coach and actor. As a coach she has worked with actors and at theatres across Canada. Most recently she coached dialects for Miss Caledonia, Blithe Spirit, Educating Rita (Thousand Islands Playhouse), and on the television series The Next Step (YTV). Upcoming: Rockabye (ARC). She coaches and teaches in George Brown’s Theatre School and Acting for Media program, and directs and narrates audiobooks for Penguin Random House and ECW Press. Selected performance credits include Mirvish, Stratford, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Magnus, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Gateway, Western Canada Theatre and appearances on The Boys (Amazon), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Fellow Travelers (Showtime), What We Do in the Shadows (FX) and Racewalkers (levelFILM). Alison is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School. Anita Nittoly (she/her) // intimacy/fight director Selected credits: Wildwoman (SoulPepper), Hamlet (The Rose); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (TIP), Fall on Your Knees (CanStage/NAC); Counter Offence (Segal Centre); Fairview (CanStage); Prodigal (Crow’s Theatre); Trojan Girls and The Outhouse of Atreus (Outside The March/Factory Theatre); Our Place (Cahoots/TPM); The Last Wife, The 39 Steps, Successions (Centaur Theatre).
Stage Combat Instructor, Fight Director, and Sexual Choreographer (National Theatre School). Selected stunt performer/stunt actor credits: Law & Order Toronto, SEE, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases, Titans, The Boys, Rabbit Hole, What We Do in the Shadows, various Ubisoft motion capture productions. Upcoming: Bad Roads (Crow’s), Jesus Christ Superstar (Here for Now), Truth (YPT), The Retreat, The Flood (Imago), Stratford 2024. Jeff Pybus (he/him) // associate lighting designer Jeff (he/him) is a Lighting & Video designer and Technical Director for live performance across Ontario. He is also a hobbyist astrophotographer and cat dad. www.jeffpybus.ca Select Credits: La Bête, The Judas Kiss, Herringbone, The Yalta Game, Hedwig & The Angry Inch (Talk is Free Theatre), Beautiful Renegades (Peggy Baker Dance Projects), Seagulls, The Killing, The Madness of Lady Bright (Shaw Festival Director’s Projects), Tales of an Urban Indian (TiFT, Tour Manager), Prince Caspian, The Shadow of a Doubt, Gaslight, Chitra, Desire Under the Elms, Victory (Shaw Festival; assistant lighting design), The Runner (Human Cargo; associate lighting design), Musik für das Ende (Soundstreams, touring lighting director), Mahabharata (Why Not; assistant lighting design) Victoria Horvat (she/her) // costume assistant Victoria Horvat is very excited to be working with the Angels in America cast and crew. Victoria studied costuming at York University where she focused on costume construction, while also exploring the world of lighting, sound, and costume design. Most of Victoria’s work has been as a dresser for live experiences so Victoria is very excited to come home to the world of theatre, and especially to this play. Kate Counsel (she/her) // production manager Kate Counsel is an artist and professional theatre worker from Ottawa, Ontario. A writer and a performer as well as a passionate problem solver, Kate has been super excited to take this great leap into Angels in America. Past projects include production manager at Scenes By Design (2023), carpenter at StarVox Entertainment (2022-2023), lead venue technician at SummerWorks (2023), and technical director at The Devised Theatre Festival (2023). Janice Peters Gibson (she/her) // producer Janice is an arts manager, producer, performer, and award-winning stage manager who has been a theatre maker for as long as she can remember. Originally from PEI/ Epekwitk, Janice has worked as managing producer for The Company Theatre in Toronto where she started as communications manager in 2011, bringing audiences The Test, Speaking in Tongues, Belleville, Domesticated, The Seagull, John, Jerusalem, and most recently Things I Know to be True in partnership with Mirvish Productions. Sharing her skills as a producer across the city, Janice has collaborated independently with companies such as Theatrefront (The Orange Dot, Mules) and Shakespeare in the Ruff (Otîhêw, Richard Three). Janice is also a founder of and digital manager for Intermission Magazine.
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