ST. GERMAIN STAGEJUNE 14–30, 2019

BY

Stacey Rose

FEATURING

Ansa Akyea Jordan Barrow Kalyne Coleman

Peterson Townsend Peggy Pharr Wilson

DRAMATURG PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CASTING

Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe Geoff Boronda Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski, CSA

BERKSHIRE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE DIGITAL ADVERTISING

Charlie Siedenburg Matt Ross Public Relations The Pekoe Group

SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER

Jack Magaw Ntokozo Fuzunina Kunene Cha See Luqman Brown

AND

Bonnie and Terry BurmanPRESENT

SPONSORED IN PART BY

Audrey and Ralph Friedner & Claudia PerlesCommunity Outreach Tickets and Talk Backs Underwritten by Greylock Federal Credit Union

America v. 2.1 was developed in the 2015 The Dramatist Guild Fellows program and the

2018 Sundance Theatre Lab. It had its first public reading in 2017 at The Fire This Time Festival.

CHOREOGRAPHED BY

Kevin Boseman

DIRECTED BY

Logan Vaughn

GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF BSC'S BONNIE & TERRY BURMAN NEW PLAY AWARD

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PLACEIn a secured theatrical venue near you and its backstage area.

TIMEThe not too distant future.

CASTDonavan ..................................................................................................... Ansa Akyea*

Grant .....................................................................................................Jordan Barrow*

Leigh .................................................................................................. Kalyne Coleman*

Jeffery ........................................................................................... Peterson Townsend*

The Voice ....................................................................................... Peggy Pharr Wilson*

STAFFProduction Stage Manager ......................................................................Geoff Boronda*

Stage Management Interns ............................................Ashton Pickering, Lindsey Walko

Master Electrician/Light Board Operator ................................................. Joey Rainone IV

Sound Engineer ..............................................................................................TJ O’Leary

Wardrobe Supervisor .............................................................................Gwendolyn Kunz

SPECIAL THANKSDouglas Seldin, Alyssa Anderson Kunz, Ken Cerniglia, Natasha Sinha, Mark St. Germain

CASTANSA AKYEA (Donavan) BSC Debut. Regional Credits include: Guthrie Theater: Cyrano De Bergerac (Rageneau), Clybourne Park (Albert/Kevin), To Kill a Mockingbird (Tom Robinson), A Christmas Carol (Christmas Present), Harvey (EJ Lofgren); Ten Thousand Things: Othello (Othello), Pericles (Pericles); Children's Theater Company: Shrek (Donkey); Old Globe/CTC: The Lorax (Daddy Onceler); Park Square: Cardboard Piano (Soldier/Paul); Mixed Blood: Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Chad Deity), How to Use a Knife (Steve), Take Me Out (David Battle). Film/TV Credits: House of

Tomorrow, Into Temptation, Memorial Day, Kid West, In an Instant (ABC). Merci Dieu, Seena, mes enfants, famille Akyea. @ansaakyea

JORDAN BARROW (Grant) BSC debut. Jordan was last seen as Ronny in the west coast premiere of Witness Uganda. Prior to that, he created the role of Themba in the world premiere Maltby & Shire musical, Sousatzka, in Toronto. TV: Pose (FX) and Broad City (Comedy Central). Off Broadway: The Tempest (Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park) and Held Momentarily (NY Fringe Encore Series). Regional: Peter Pan and The Miracle Worker (Paper Mill Playhouse), Finian's Rainbow (Music Theatre of Wichita), and Hairspray (Charleston Stage). Training: BFA in Musical Theatre from the

University of Michigan, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Thanks to family, friends, and the Abrams team. @JordanT_B

*Actors and Stage Manager are

members of Actors’ Equity Association.

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KALYNE COLEMAN (Leigh) BSC debut. Kalyne is from Richmond, Virginia and is a proud member of the Brown/Trinity MFA in Acting program’s Class of 2020 and University of Pennsylvania alum. Credits include — Trinity Rep: Nella Pea, Black Odyssey. Rites and Reason: Young Fannie Lou/Myrlie Evers, A Seat at the Table. Shakespeare Academy at Stratford: Lady Anne, Richard III & Rosaline, Love’s Labour’s Lost. 4A, UPenn: Beneatha, Raisin in the Sun & Latisha, The Story. Brown Trinity: Brutus, Julius Caesar; Selector, How We Got On; Henrietta, Last Days of Judas Iscariot; and upcoming, Gabriela

in References to Salvador Dali: Make Me Hot. She sends gratitude and joy to her family and friends for their love and support. @kalynecoleman

PETERSON TOWNSEND (Jeffery) BSC debut. Past credits include: Antigone (Haemon) at Baltimore Center Stage; Ms. Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Charles Bingley) at St. Louis Rep; Satchel Paige & the KC Swing (Art Young) at Cincinnati Playhouse/St. Louis Rep; A Raisin in the Sun (George Murchison), Cinderella (Prince Sebastian), History Boys (Crowther), Our Town (George Gibbs) at the Arden Theatre; Twelfth Night (Sebastian) at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Romeo et Juliet, Samson et Dalila, Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met Opera. TV/Film credits: Twelve, Law & Order SVU/CI/

Prime, The Code, The Good Fight, Elementary, Madame Secretary, FBI, Gossip Girl.

PEGGY PHARR WILSON (The Voice) BSC: Gaslight, His Girl Friday, Guys and Dolls, The Crucible, To Kill A Mockingbird, Carousel, Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, 10x10 Festival (all 8 years!); BAT: Doubt; Shakes & Co: Leap Year; New York: Six Women with Brain Death (co-author, and performed it also in Chicago, Dallas & Kansas City). Regional: 10 seasons with Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado performing over 50 roles, including Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Best Actress, Ovation Award Denver Post), Shirley Valentine, Moon for the Misbegotten and 3 Viewings. Many regional

including: Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre 3, Kansas City Rep, Unicorn, KC Lyric Opera, White River in Vermont and Rose Theatre in Chicago.

CREATIVESSTACEY ROSE (Playwright) is a proud Black woman, daughter, sibling and mom. Her work celebrates and explores Blackness, Black identity, Black history, body politics and the dilemma of life as "other." Stacey's work has been presented at: The Fire This Time Festival, The Lark, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, National Black Theatre and Pillsbury House Theatre. Stacey has held fellowships/residencies with The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights' Center, Sundance Theatre Lab and The Goodman Theatre. Stacey's play Legacy Land, developed at The Playwrights' Center, will have a world premiere at KC Rep in February 2020.

OTIS CORTEZ RAMSEY-ZÖE (Dramaturg) recently served as Dramaturg for Klytemnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (Theater Alliance), Song For the Genius Child — Young Basquiat (John F. Kennedy Center), Legacy Land (The Playwrights’ Center), In the Southern Breeze (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), America v. 2.1 and All the Natalie Portmans (Sundance Institute Theatre Lab) and

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Hooded or Being Black for Dummies (Mosaic Theater Company). He is a Series Editor for NoPassport Press’ Dreaming the Americas Series and was a Lecturer of Theatre Arts at Howard University, Associate Artistic Director at banished? productions, and Future Classics Program Coordinator at The Classical Theatre of Harlem.

KEVIN BOSEMAN (Choreographer) is a former principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and member of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Theatrical credits include Broadway: Equus; Broadway National Tours: The Lion King, The Color Purple and Shrek the Musical; Off Broadway: Accidentally, Like a Martyr; Regional: Ragtime (Kennedy Center) and A Chorus Line (Paper Mill Playhouse); Concerts: Once On This Island and The Music Man. He most recently choreographed a concert presentation of Tony Award winner Jason Michael Webb and Lelund Durond Thompson’s new musical WiLDFLOWER, a co-production between National Black Theatre and The Apollo, directed by Logan Vaughn.

LOGAN VAUGHN† (Director) is a New York-based Artist and Director. Logan was Playwrights Horizon's Director in Residence 2012–2013. In 2012 Logan was also named a Member of the Director's Lab, Lincoln Center. As a Director, she has worked with The Public Theater, MCC Theater, Kansas City Rep Theatre, Geva Theatre, Playwright's Center, Playwrights Realm, Mosaic Theatre, 59E59, National Black Theatre and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her work in film includes assisting the Academy Award-winning producing team behind Precious and Monster's Ball as well as serving as head of casting for several award-winning independents. Logan most recently directed the New York premiere of Loy Webb's The Light at MCC Theater, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Direction of a Play. This production is dedicated to all the black and brown bodies throughout American history that have been misplaced, silenced or forgotten. "This was a war for the possession of his body and that would be the war of his whole life." Ta-Nehisi Coates

LUQMAN BROWN (Sound Designer) designed What Are You (Globe Theater), The Corpse Washer, How to Defend Yourself and We’ve Come to Believe and created original music for Everybody Black, all for the 2019 Humana Festival. His regional theatre credits include: Detroit ’67 (The Juilliard School), Skeleton Crew (TheatreSquared), The Three Musketeers (Classical Theatre of Harlem), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Sense & Sensibility (Cape Fear Regional Theatre), The Parchman Hour (Guthrie Theater) and Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR Theatre). His Off Broadway credits include Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (The Duke on 42nd Street) and Hurt Village (Signature Theatre Company). Mr. Brown won both the 2017 and 2018 AUDELCO Awards for Sound Design. As a professional musician, he has performed in numerous bands and produced many others. luqmanbrown.nyc.

NTOKOZO FUZUNINA KUNENE (Costume Designer) is a South African costume and production designer based in New York. Recent credits include — The Public: The Winter’s Tale (Lee Sunday Evans, director), On the Grounds of Belonging (David Mendizábal, director), Wild Goose Dreams (Leigh Silverman, director). Off Broadway: Dutch Masters (André Holland), The Homecoming Queen (Awoye Timpo, director). Regional: Familiar (Danya Taymor, director), Master Harold and the Boys (Ryan Rillet, director). Film: Brave music video (Spike Lee, director), Forever Tree (Alrick Brown, director). She holds an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. fuzunina.com

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JACK MAGAW (Scenic Designer) Recent Chicago and regional design credits include Indecent (Arena Stage), The Scarlet Ibis (Chicago Opera Theater), Approval Junkie (Alliance Theatre), Support Group for Men (Goodman Theatre), The Agitators and Other Than Honorable (Geva Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Kansas City Rep), The Realistic Joneses (Theatre Wit and Shattered Globe Theatre), Buried Child (Writers’ Theatre), The Bridges of Madison County and Miss Holmes (Peninsula Players Theatre), Radio Golf (Court Theatre), Man of La Mancha (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Eleven Joseph Jefferson Award nominations include designs for East Texas Hot Links (Writers’ Theatre) and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Court Theatre). Upcoming projects include Silent Sky (Peninsula Players Theatre) and the world premiere of Stacey Rose’s Legacy Land (Kansas City Rep). Jack lives in Chicago and teaches design at The Theatre School at DePaul University. jackmagaw.com

CHA SEE (Lighting Designer) is from Manila, Philippines. Credits include: Cute Activist (Bushwick Starr); Macbeth In Stride (Joe’s Pub); The Triumphant (Target Margin Theatre); Nora (The Juilliard School); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement); Mondo Tragic (National Black Theatre); Plural Love (Soho Rep Lab); Anna May Wong (Mabou Mines); The Maturation of an Inconvenient Negro (Cherry Lane); SKINNAMARINK (NYTW Next Door); Marisol (Trinity Rep). Upcoming: On the Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf Theatre); In the Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T., The Public); EVERYBODY (PlayMakers Rep). Cha is exhibiting her works at the Prague Quadrennial 2019. Training: MFA NYU Tisch. For more: seelightingdesign.com

GEOFF BORONDA (Production Stage Manager) BSC: The Chinese Lady, Typhoid Mary. New York: Ain’t No Mo’, Mobile Unit—Romeo & Juliet, Mobile Unit—The Comedy of Errors, Buzzer, Ping Pong, Under the Radar Festival, The Urban Retreat, The Great Immensity, Fortress of Solitude (The Public Theater); The Undertaking (The Civilians); generations (Soho Rep). Regional: Shakespeare in Love, Jazz (Baltimore Center Stage); A View from the Bridge (Center Theatre Group); Hamlet, A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Yale Repertory Theatre); Appropriate (Westport Country Playhouse). Education: MFA Stage Management from the Yale School of Drama.

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE, KATJA ZAROLINSKI (Casting) (C.S.A.) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 17 years. Pat McCorkle is pleased to be an Associate Artist at BSC. Broadway: Over 50 productions including On the Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights — Clever Little Lies; Sheer Madness; Tribes; Our Town (Barrow Street); Freud’s Last Session; Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; Driving Miss Daisy. Feature film: Premium Rush, Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: Twisted, St. George, Sesame Street, Hack, Californication, Max Bickford, Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, etc. mccorklecasting.com

CHARLIE SIEDENBURG (Berkshire Press Representative) joined the Barrington Stage family in 2005 and has represented over 80 BSC productions. His work has led to features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today and American Theatre Magazine. He began working as a publicist in 1990 at the Barn Theatre in August, MI, working with folks like Marin Mazzie and Tom Wopat. His many PR credits include

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the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), Paper Mill Playhouse (1999-2004), George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre and Two River Theatre Company. Charlie is personal publicist to Broadway’s Leslie Kritzer and Patrick Page. Charlie serves as National Press Rep for Chautauqua Theater Company, Project Shaw, Surflight Theatre and Wagner College Theatre. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING UPDATES TO THE SEASON PROGRAMHead of Maintenance................................................................................... Joe Gunn

Maintenance ............................................................................... William Parmelee IV

Casting Assistant ................................................................................ Nathan Francis

Community Engagement Coordinator ......................................Sharron Frazier-McClain

Artistic/Literary Intern ..........................................................................Gabriel Walker

Production Assistants ............................................... Christina Briggs, Jared Whitman

ANNUAL FUND AND GALASOur Season Playbill went to print on May 1st. We gratefully acknowledge the

support of the following donors who have supported BSC since that date.

Producing Partner Circle $50,000+Arnold Kotlen and Stephanie Fleckner

Artistic Circle $25,000–$49,000Greylock Federal Credit Union

Director $5,000–$9,999Jody and John Arnhold

Founder $2,500–$4,999Berkshire Bank FoundationNational Alliance for Musical TheatreJane and Martin SchwartzArlene and Donald ShapiroAnne and William Tatlock

Leader $1,000–$2,499Helene BergerJudy Bergman and Dr. Richard BudsonMr. and Mrs. Donald I. BiermanHinda and Bill BodingerSusan and Duncan Brown in honor of Julianne BoydJill and Harold GaffinNaomi and Roger GordonWendy and Peter Gordon

Leslie and Roy KozupskyAlan and Nancy MilbauerBurt D. MillerAnn M. and Don MorrisonDiane and Arthur ProvenzBarbara and Michael RosenbaumCarol and Marvin SchwartzbardBetsey and Mark SelkowitzMarion SimonBarbara and Edward Sirkin

Benefactor $500–$999Toshi Abe and Dr. Nancy HallHelen and Michael AptonMark and Elaine CancillaKarin and Elliot CattarullaLynn and Stephen CohenRoberta and Michael CohnPaula Consolini and James MahonJeff DavisThe GE Foundation Matching Gifts ProgramRenee GrossMarianne and Richard JaffeLinda and Ken KeyesMaxene Kupperman-GuiñalsRaquel and Lear Levin

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Irving Marks and Alice NathanJacqueline and Jaan MetsmaDiana Hitt PotterFrances and Donald PutnoiPaula and Steven SchimmelRochelle and George StassaAlexandra WarshawJudy and Irwin Wrubel

Angel $250–$499AnonymousMichel and Abby AratenElaine and Michael ChristopherElizabeth and Richard Colten in honor of Marita GlodtAmy Dean and Allan KlugerLinda and Dan DillonPeggy Herzog and Brian RohmanHelga KaiserWilma and Norman MichaelsFern Portnoy c/o The Roger O. Goldman and Fern Portnoy Family FoundationQualprint, Inc. Joanne SolomonDrs. Jonathan Weisbuch and Mary Ellen Bradshaw-Weisbuch

Friend $100–$249AnonymousLouis BernsteinBarbara and Irving BrownEllen and Jon ChanningDebora S. Cole-DuffySusan and Edmund DanaJoe-Tom Easley and Peter FreibergJudith Ferber

Ruth FriendlyMarianne and Jim GambaroSylvia GingrasDr. Jacob and Mrs. Myrna GoldenMartin and Joann GormanLouise KaminowAlice and Norman KleinMark and Ellen Levy in honor of Sheila RichmanJoan and Edward MahlerJudith NeidenbergMary K. and Robert O'BrienStephen and Constance PajeskiAdele RodbellSandi and Alan RubinJane K. RyanSybil and Marshall SigelDebbie and Ashley SmithJanis and Jeff SperberEleanore VelezBarry Waldorf and Stanley GotlinBarbara Winslow

EDUCATION

Artistic Circle $25,000–$49,000Greylock Federal Credit Union

Founder $2,500–$4,999The Estate of Ruth I Krauss

JUNE M. GUERTIN ARCHIVES

Sarah Boyd and Jennifer RothmanDr. J. Ryan Gunsalus

AMERICA V. 2.1 — BEYOND THE STAGE SERIES

SPECIAL POST-SHOW CONVERSATIONS

Join community leaders to continue an important dialogue about race and the issues this explosive play raises.Following all evening performances except June 20.

Go to BarringtonStageCo.org for more details and to view the schedule of speakers.

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The 5-Time Tony Winning Musical!

Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIMBook by JAMES LAPINE

Originally Directed on Broadway by JAMES LAPINEOrchestrations by JONATHAN TUNICK

Musical Direction by DARREN R. COHENDirected by JOE CALARCO

JUNE 19–JULY 13BOYD-QUINSON MAINSTAGE

Sponsored by Carole and Dan Burack

Sponsored in part by The Feigenbaum Foundation & Marvin Seline