the return of the prodigal program
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By St. John Hankin Directed by Jonathan BankTRANSCRIPT
Mint Theater Company
Jonathan Bank
Linda Calandra
Jon Clark
Eleanor Reissa
Gary Schonwald
M. Elisabeth Swerz
Jonathan Bank
Sherri Kotimsky
Colleen T. Sullivan
Artistic Director
General Manager
Box Office Manager
“When it comes to the library,” our 2001 Obie citation
states, “there’s no theater more adventurous.”
In 2002 the Mint was awarded a special Drama
Desk Award for “unearthing, presenting and pre-
serving forgotten plays of merit.”
MINT THEATER COMPANY commits to bringing
new vitality to neglected plays. We excavate buried
theatrical treasures; reclaiming them for our time
through research, dramaturgy, production, publication
and a variety of enrichment programs; and we advocate
for their ongoing life in theaters across the world. Mint
has a keen interest in timeless but timely plays that
make us feel and think about the moral quality of our
lives and the world in which we live. Our aim is to use
the engaging power of the theater to excite, provoke,
influence and inspire audiences and artists alike.
311 West 43rd St. suite 307 New York, NY 10036
www.minttheater.org
Box Office: (212) 315-0231
Staff
Board of Trustees
Staff for Return of the Prodigal
The Producers would like to thank the following:
Lighting equipment provided by the Technical Upgrade Project of
the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York
Department of Cultural Affairs.
Technical Director
Scenic Construction Master Electrician
Assistant Lighting Designer /
Programmer
Wardrobe Supervisor
Board Operator
Carpenters
Electricians
House Manager Box Office Associates
Evan Schlossberg
Carlo Adinolfi Alden Fulcomer
Natalie Robin
Hunter Kaczorowski
Kane Chiang
Adam Branson, Paul Burke Dennis Luczak,
Justin Hollinger,
Kenny Komer, Joe Rayome, John Frankenberg, Joel Garland
Mandy Hart, John Ivey Angela
Wall, Chris Wolfe
Ivana Karapandzic Janel Cooke, Nicole Rose Reu-
ther
Actors’ Equity Association was founded in 1913. It is the labor union representing over 40,000 American actors and stage managers working in the professional theatre. For 89 years,
Equity has negotiated minimum wages and working conditions, administered contracts, and enforced the provisions of its vari-ous agreements with theatrical employers across the country.
The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of this Production are represented by United Scenic Artists, local USA-829 of the IATSE
Saul & Lillian Wechter
George Weeks
Reny Weigert
Howard M. & Patricia Weiss
Zoe Caldwell Whitehead
Robert Wilkens & Walter Rummenie
Robert & Lillian Williams
Ralph M. Wynn, MD
Kenneth Zarecor
Burton & Susan Zwick
anonymous
This list represents donations made from
January 2006 through May 2007. Every
effort is made to insure its accuracy. Please contact us regarding any mistakes.
St. John Hankin
Donors
Opening night June 6, 2007
Casting
Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter & Paul Hardt
Press Representation
David Gersten & Associates
Associate Set Designer / Props
Crag Napoliello Associate Costume Designer
Hwi-Won Lee
with
Bradford Cover, Tandy Cronyn, Leah Curney
Robin Haynes, Roderick Hill, Richard Kline Kate Levy, Lee Moore, W. Alan Nebelthau
Cecelia Riddett, Margot White
Sets & Costumes
Clint Ramos Lights
Tyler Micoleau Sound
Jane Shaw
by St. John Hankin
Mint Theater Company Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director
Sherri Kotimsky, General Manager presents
Directed by
Jonathan Bank
Mint Theater gratefully acknowledges public support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State
agency. Production support provided by The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation.
Production Stage Manager
Kimothy Cruse
Assistant Stage Manager
Rebecca C. Monroe
Graphic Design
Jude Dvorak Prodigal Painting
Charlie Mackesy
by St. John Hankin
CAST
SAMUEL JACKSON
MRS. JACKSON, his wife HENRY JACKSON, their elder son
EUSTACE JACKSON, their young-er son
VIOLET JACKSON, their daughter
SIR JOHN FARINGFORD
LADY FARINGFORD, his wife STELLA FARINGFORD, their daughter
DR. GLAISHER
MRS. PRATT, the rectors wife
BAINES, butler at the Jacksons’
Richard Kline
Tandy Cronyn Bradford Cover
Roderick Hill
Leah Curney
Lee Moore
Kate Levy Margot White
W. Alan Nebelthau
Cecelia Riddett
Robin Haynes
The action of the play takes place at Chedleigh Court, the Jacksons’ house in Gloucestershire: Acts I and II in the Drawing-room, Acts III and IV on the Lawn.
Chedleigh, as everybody knows, is famous for its cloth mills.
Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
A Comedy for Fathers “Character is Fate”
Betsy McKenny
Martin & Martha Meisel
Richard Mellor, Jr. John D. Metcalfe
Ivan & Leila Metzger
Radley Metzger
Muffie Meyer
Eleanor S. Meyerhoff Susan & Ronald Michelow
Bernard & Lusia Milch
Judith K.& Allan Mohl
Elaine & Richard Montag
Elaine Montgomery Virginia & Robert Montgomery
Doreen & Larry Morales
George Morfogen
Ronald & Elaine Morris
Munsell Family Foundation Janet George & Daniel Murnick
Erick Neher
Egon & Florence Neuberger
Dorinda J. Oliver
Shelly G. Orringer Peter & Marilyn Oswald
Richard & Dorothy Oswald
Satoko Parker
Edwin Partikian & Camille Infranco
Bruce & Gwen Pasquale John & Judith Peakes
Albert & Cleo Pearl
David & Jean Plessett
Jack & Ina Polak
Irwin & Sheila Polishook Stephen W. Porter & Arnold Somers
Maria Proctor
Barbara & Joseph Psotka
David & Phyllis Quickel
Judith & Sheldon Raab Norman & Leigh Raben
Ken Raboy
Anthony & Marianne Reed
H. Anthony Reilly
Clayton S. Reynolds Jim J. Reynolds
Arleigh Richards & William Wise
Jeanne Richman
Earl S. & Phyllis Roberts
Seymour & Renee Rogoff Sylvia Rosen
Claire Rosenstein
Barbara Rosenthal
Mark Rossier Isaiah & Enid Rubin, MD
Joan & Herb Saltzman
Anita Sanford
Anne Kaufman Schneider
Irwin Schwartz Phyllis Schwartz
Sherry Schwartz
Susan Scott
William & Earlyne S Seaver
Dr. Jerome S. & Harriet Seiler Barbara Seril
Joseph & Janet Sherman
Rebecca & Philip Siekevitz
Martin Y. & Kayla J. Silberberg
Dorothy Smith Lili N. Smith
Philip Smith
Dr. Norman Solomon
Linda & Jerry Spitzer
Nicholas Stathis Erika Stadtlander
Michael Stebbins
Lee Steelman
Bob & Sherry Steinberg
Frances Sternhagen Ilene Stone
Ulrich & Elaine Strauss
Pamela Stubing
Kathrin Perutz & Michael Studdert-
Kennedy Larry E. Sullivan
Kathryn Swintek
Gerda Taranow
Leonard & Myra Tanzer
Douglas Tarr Caroline Thompson & Steve Allen
Thomson Tax & Accounting
Alice Timothy
Peter & Roberta Tomback
Ken & Linda Treitel Alan & Susan Tuck
Jan Vinokour
Edith & Gordon Wallace
John Michael Walsh
Henry & Lucille Warner Robb Webb & Pat DeRousie-Webb
Donors
Judith Eschweiler
H. Read Evans
Bruce & Adele Fader Angela T. Fiore
Eva & Norman Fleischer
Barbara Fleischman
Charles Flowers
Fred Forrest Donald Fowle
Nancy Fowler
Jessica Franken & David Korr
Mio Fredland
Monroe Freedman Robert Freedman
Sandra & Burton Freeman
Dr. H. Paul & Delores Gabriel
Mary Ann & John Garland
Ellen Gibbs James C. Giblin
Ardian Gill & Anna L. Hannon
Howard & Joann Girsh
David & Suellen Globus
Joyce Golden Charles & Jane Goldman
Caryl Goldsmith
Gordon & Mary Gould
Anna Grabarits
Richard Grayson Noel Grean
Anita & Edward Greenbaum
Greenwich House Senior Center
Pat Griffith
Marta Gross & Richard Barnes Lois & Stewart Gross
Victoria Guthrie
James C & Julia Hall
Katherine Halmi
Mimi Halpern Bob & Lynne Hanson
Carol Hekimian
Reily Hendrickson
Sigrid Hess
Anita Highton Ellen & Harvey Hirsch
Eleanor Hodges
Milton & Madelaine Horowitz
Anne Humphreys
Harriet & Elihu Inselbuch Jocelyn Jacknis
Ellie Jacob
Irwin & Ann Jacobs
Peter & Ellen Jakobson
James & Jacqueline Johnson Roberta A. Jones
Ronald & Hildegaard Jones
Gerhard Joseph
Gus Kaikkonen
Eleanor M. Kahn Jane Kapsales
Ursula & Frank Karelsen
Annette Karan
Kathleen Kelly
Regina Kelly Gerald Kiel
David H. Kirkwood & Annie Thomas
Kaori Kitao
Caral G Klein
Karl Kroeber Leonard Kreynin
Carmel Kuperman
Anne Lanigan
Richard Laster
Raymond & Lyette Lavoie Gordon & Margaret Leavitt
Ira & Gloria Leeds
Robert & Jane Lehrman
Eliot & Jane Leibowitz
Al & Sally Leizman Ronald Lemoncelli
Neil & Harriet Leonard
Harriet Levy
Barbara & Herbert Levy
Stanley & Carol Levy Sheldon & Lucille Lichtblau
Allon Lifschitz
Vincent & Beth Lima
Susan Linder
Ross Lipman Joel & Diane Lipset
Steven Lorch & Susanna Kochan-
Lorch
Ruth Lord
Mary Ellen Low Jeni Mahoney & Ben Sahl
Mary Rose Main
John & Vivian Majeski
Barry Margolius
Margaret Mastrianni Joan & Robert Matloff
George W. Mayer, Jr. Donors
DIRECTOR’S NOTE: Jonathan Bank
It is my hope and intention that all of the plays we produce at the Mint are relevant, timely and of interest to contempo-rary audiences. I’ve never chosen a play with an eye to-wards illuminating social or theatrical history; my interest lies more in the way things haven’t changed—in the time-less struggle we undertake to find meaning in our lives and in our social, political and personal relationships.
Often the clearest way to highlight a play’s relevance is to present it “faithfully,” allowing the audience to marvel at its resonance in spite of its vintage trappings. But sometimes those trappings can obscure a play’s message and diminish its power. I was loathe to let that happen to this play, which at its heart is as modern (and maybe as shocking) as any-thing being written today, despite having been written over 100 years ago.
My designers and I are striving to make the play look and feel as fresh as it seemed when each of us read it (without necessarily “relocating” the play to a specific time or place which presents its own distractions.) Our goal is to make Hankin’s play both familiar and accessible to our audience while remaining in harmony with the words he wrote over one-hundred years ago.
I did cut lines that rooted the play in 1905: about the recent addition of electricity and its impact on the running of the Jackson’s cloth mill, for example, as well as references to carriages and lanterns. However, I was reluctant to “update” the text by re-writing lines, so I otherwise made no changes.
For reasons of accessibility and familiarity again, we are not performing the play with a British dialect—but again I have left the text unchanged, with its references to Parlia-ment, Pounds and Pence.
More than anything, I hope we are serving our author and his remarkable, surprising play; certainly that is both my intention and my goal.
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BRADFORD COVER (Henry
Jackson) Broadway: A Thou-sand Clowns. Off Broadway:
The Gentleman Dancing Mas-ter, Arms and the Man, School for Wives, Richard II, School for Scandal, The Forest, Misalli-ance, The Beaux Strategem, When Ladies Battle, and Mrs. Warren's Profession among others (The Pearl Theatre Com-
pany. Company Member). Off-
Off Broadway: Waxing West, (The Lark) A number of staged
readings with The Actor’s Com-
pany Theatre. Regional: Spike Heels (Syracuse Stage) The Blue Room, The Importance of Being Earnest (Cleveland Play-
house) Betrayal (Vermont
Stage Co.) Learned Ladies (McCarter Theatre) Lives of the Saints (Philadelphia Theatre
Company) Sleuth, Othello (Pennsylvania Shakespeare
Festival) An Empty Plate at the Cafe de Grand Beouf (Berkshire Theatre Festival)
Measure for Measure, Com-plete Works of William Shake-speare, Love's Labor's Lost (New Jersey Shakespeare Fes-tival), Private Lives, Charley's Aunt (St. Michael's Playhouse) . Television: “Law and Order”,
“All My Children”. Directed
House of Bernarda Alba, and Summer at the American Acad-
emy of Dramatic Art. Co-
Founder and Associate Artistic Director of Bowman Ensemble
in Baltimore MD. Graduate of Denison University, and PTTP
University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee. For my fiancée Jennifer with all my love.
TANDY CRONYN (Mrs. Jack-
son) has appeared on Broad-way as Sally Bowles in the orig-
inal production of Cabaret and
Off-Broadway in A Shayna Maidel and The Killing of Sister George. She has toured in the
Sondheim musical Company, and in A. R. Gurney’s comedy
The Cocktail Hour. Over the years Tandy has performed
major roles in both classical
and modern plays in repertory theaters across America: nota-
bly Barrington Stage Company;
San Diego’s Old Globe Theater; Denver Center Theater Compa-
ny; Hartford Stage; Yale Rep; Cleveland PlayHouse; and Mis-
souri Rep, where she played
Emily Dickenson in The Belle of Amherst. She has appeared in
the greatest variety of roles at
PlayMakers Repertory Compa-ny at UNC, Chapel Hill, where
she has played Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra,
Estragon in Waiting for Godot, and Vivian Bearing in Wit, among many others. She has
also played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Strat-ford Festival of Canada, subse-
quently televised by the CBC. On television she has been
seen in the movies “Getting
Out”, “The Story Lady”, “Age-Old Friends”, and “The Guardi-
an”, as well as episodes of
“Law & Order” and “The Book of Daniel”. Tandy also serves
as Creative Consultant to Poet-ry Theatre, Inc., a developing
website of spoken poetry at
www.poetrytheatre.org
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Anna B. Iacucci
Linda Irenegreen & Martin Kesselman
Joseph Family Charitable Trust Peter Judd
Joan Kedziora, MD
Rose Klimovich
Anna Kramarsky & Jeanne Bergman
Mildred C. Kuner Eugene M. Lang Foundation
Kent Lawson & Carol Tambor
Levenstein Family Foundation
Samuel & Gabrielle Lurie
Daniel Loos Macken Robert & Marcia Marafioti
The Memorial Foundation for the
Arts
Joel & Susan Mindel
Joseph Morello Carol 7 Dick Netzer
The New York Times Company Foun-
dation
Naomi & Gerald Patlis
Pfizer Foundation Jeffrey & Judith Prussin
Susan & Peter Ralston
Joe Regan, Jr.
Eleanor Reissa & Roman Dworecki
Richard Frankel Productions Irven Rinard
George Robb
Susan & Jon Rotenstreich
Rubin Foundation
Judy & Sirgay Sanger The Martin E Segal Revocable Trust
Carole M. Shaffer-Koros & Robert M.
Koros
Stephen Siderow
Rob Sinacore David Stenn
Suzanne & Jon Stout
Dennis & Katherine Swanson
The Ellen M. Violett & Mary P. R.
Thomas Foundation, Inc Jill Tran
Litsa Tsitsera
anonymous
First Priority Club Marilyn & Meyer Ackerman
Actors Equity Foundation Judith Aisen & Kenneth Vittor
Eleanor Aitken
Laura Altschuler
Stephen Anderson & Amy Cohn
Carmen Anthony Earl Bailey
Judith Barlow
Larry Beers
Robert & Ellie Berlin
Nidia Besso Mary & Jeffrey Bijur
Evelyn Bishop
David M. Blank
Steven Blier
Barbara & Ronald Blumenthal Constance Boardman
Rose-Marie Boller & Webb Turner
Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Borer
Lori & Rick Borman
Len & Barbara Bornstein Lynn Brenner
Patricia Broderick
June Barbi Brogan
Leslie Bryant
Ann Butera Elaine B. Bye
Richard Carroll
Andrew H. Chapman
Robert Chlebowski
Stephen & Elena Chopek Herbert & Phyllis Cohen
Kathleen H. Corcoran
Samuel & June Costello
Penelope & Peter Costigan
Bruce Deal Patricia & Charles Debrovner
Anthony & Ruth Demarco
Gennaro A. DeVito
Bernard & Katherine Dick
M. Burton Drexler Martin & Mina Ellenberg
Monte Engler
Jeanne Epstein
Rachel & Mel Epstein
Don & Grace Eremin Sharon Esakoff
Donors
Patrons Robert Brenner
Lucille Lortel Foundation National Endowment for the Arts
New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs
New York State Council on the Arts
The James B. Oswald Co. The Tony Randall Theatrical Fund
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
Michael Tuch Foundation
anonymous
Artistic Directors Circle Geoffrey & Carol Chinn
Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Mary Rodgers Guettel
Edgar & Renee Jackson
DJ McManus Foundation
Newman’s Own Foundation The Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels
Foundation
The Ted Snowden Foundation
Mary Elisabeth Swerz
First Priority Platinum Circle American Theater Wing
Axe-Houghton Foundation Malvin & Lea Bank
Linda Calandra
Adam D. & Linda Chinn
Edward & Lori Forstein
The Heidtke Foundation Kendal at Oberlin
Karl Lunde
Edith Meiser Foundation
The New York Times Company
Foundation Fund for Mid-size Theaters, a project of
A.R.T./New York
Tina & Howard Rieger
Gary A. Schonwald
Wallace Schroeder Stephen D & Elsa A Solender
The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation
Sukenik Family Foundation
First Priority Gold Club Lisa Ackerman
American Friends of Theatre Inc Sari Anthony
Jonathan Bank
Bank of America
Ezra Barnes
Andre Bishop Bernice & Frederick Block
Allan & Joan Blumenthal
Virginia Brody
Jon Clark
Jeffrey Compton & Norma Ellen Foote
Grover Connell
Robert & Ruth Diefenbach
Cory & Bob Donnally Charitable
Fund ExxonMobil Foundation
Fine Family Foundation
Nicholas & Edmee Firth
Barbara Fleischman
Charles Flowers Holly Fogler & Michael Solender
Edward & Lori Forstein
Phyllis Fox & George Sternlieb
Foundation
Edward & Joan Franklin Burry Fredrik
Ruth Friendly
Mr & Mrs Ciro Gamboni
The Gordon Foundation
The Gramercy Park Foundation Inc Virginia Gray
Kristin Griffith
Antonia & George Grumbach
Guilford Publications
Guild Family Foundation Ron Guttman
Toehl Harding
George B. Hatch
Hickrill Foundation
Barbara Hill Edward & Dorothy Hoffner
The following generous Individuals, Foundations and Corporations
support Mint Theater, and we honor their contributions:
Donors
LEAH CURNEY (Violet Jack-
son) is a recent transplant and thrilled to be making her NY
debut with the Mint. She is a
proud graduate of the Guthrie Theater/University of Minneso-
ta Actor Training Program, and
has performed in several shows at the Guthrie including,
Hamlet (Ophelia), Pericles (Marina/Ensemble), and Six De-grees Of Separation (Tess).
Regionally, she has worked with The Chautauqua Theater
Company, American Players
Theatre, Pittsburgh Public The-ater, The Children's Theatre
Company of Minneapolis, and most recently The Milwaukee
Rep where she played Maire in
Translations. Thanks to Jona-than and Jack for the leap of
faith and the family for their
steadfast support.
ROBIN HAYNES (Baines) has
appeared on Broadway, in the original cast of Blood Brothers
and in The Best Little Whore-house in Texas; in the National Tours of Buddy: The Buddy Hol-ly Story and Jekyll & Hyde; and Off-Broadway, in Perfect Crime, Twelfth Night, Minor De-mons, She Loves Me, Romeo and Juliet, Billy Bishop Goes To War, and others. His work in
feature films includes Mel Brooks’s “To Be Or Not To Be”,
the classic “Hot Dog! The Mov-ie” and the recent independent
features “Homecoming” and
“Soldier’s Heart”; and he has made guest appearances on
television, in such shows as
“Law and Order: Criminal In-tent”, “Third Watch”, “Cosby”,
“M*A*S*H”, “Dallas”, “House
Calls”, “Quincy, M.E.”, and “Guiding Light”. Robin has
worked regionally at Actors
Theatre of Louisville, The Cin-cinnati Playhouse In The Park,
The Hartford Stage Company,
and the Seattle Repertory The-atre, among others; and at
stock theatres across the country.
RODERICK HILL (Eustace
Jackson) was most recently
seen on Broadway as Mr. Gard-ner in Butley starring Nathan
Lane, and as Nicolas in Lestat. His other credits include: Cym-beline (The Royal Shakespeare
Company/Theatre For A New Audience), Singing Forest (Long Wharf Theatre), The Irish Curse (The New York Interna-tional Fringe Festival) Nerds: The Musical (New York Stage
and Film), What The Butler Saw (Huntington Theater Company),
Diosa (Hartford Stage), Rock Shore (Eugene O’Neill Theater
Center), Much Ado About Noth-ing (Great Lakes Theater Festi-val), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (The
Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Harold... and the boys (Playmakers Rep.), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare &
Co.) Film/Television: “Kinsey”,
“Cosa Bella”, “Oxygen”, “ R e a d y F o r A c t i o n ” ,
“ C h a p p e l l e ’ s S h o w ” ,
“Stranger’s With Candy”. Ro-derick is a graduate of The Juil-
liard School and The Interloch-en Arts Academy. For Caitlin
and Webster.
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RICHARD KLINE (Mr. Jackson)
recently returned from Seat-tle’s Intiman Theater where he
played Boris Max in Richard
Wright’s Native Son. He co-starred with Annie Potts in Diva
at the Pasadena Playhouse and
with Judith Light in Stephen Sondheim’s Company. He
made his Broadway debut in City of Angels, in film with Bar-
ry Levinson’s “Liberty Heights”
and in television with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. His solo
show, Boychik has been per-
formed at Theater Four and many venues throughout the
U.S. Other stage credits in-clude: Death Of A Salesman,
Chemin de Fer, Henry V, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Titanic, They’re Playing Our Song, Do I Hear A Waltz?, The Rothschilds, and
Hello Again. In the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd We-
ber’s By Jeeves, he played Jeeves both at the Goodspeed
Opera and the Kennedy Cen-
ter. Over 70 television credits include “Three’s Company”,
“Maude”, “ER”, “NYPD Blue,
“Gilmore Girls”, “Judging Amy”, “LA Law”, “St. Else-
where”. As a director, Richard won the LA Drama Critics
Award for his direction of Noel
Coward’s Present Laughter. For television, he has directed
Bruce Davison, Burt Reynolds
and Billy Connolly. As always, for Beverley.
KATE LEVY (Lady Faringford)
Most recently appeared in the
Broadway national tour of On Golden Pond with Michael
Learned and Tom Bosley. Her
other national tour was The Graduate. New York Theatre:
Soldier’s Wife, The Mint; Half-Way Home, The New Group; An Empty Plate In The Cafe Du Grand Boeuf, Access Theatre;
The Normal Heart, Alchemy Theatre. Regional: The Goat, Arena Stage, D.C.; Itamar Mo-ses' Outrage, Portland Center
Stage; On Golden Pond, Cleve-
land Play House; Uncle Vanya, Denver Center Theatre Co.;
Present Laughter, Pioneer The-
atre Co,; Heaven, Yale Rep; Dinner With Friends, Alliance;
The Hand Of God, O'Neill Thea-tre Center; The Real Thing, Al-
ley Theatre. Also: Florida
Stage, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Rep, Clarence Brown, Philadel-
phia Festival for New Plays,
BoarsHead. Numerous Shake-speare roles at festivals in Ida-
ho, Santa Cruz and Pittsburgh. Television: “Law And Order”,
assorted soaps and movies of
the week. Film: “The Origins Of War”. BA, Tufts University;
MFA, American Conservatory
Theatre. Twenty year some-times militant member of Ac-
tors Equity.
LEE MOORE (Sir John Faring-
ford). Mr. Moore is delighted to be back home at the Mint where
he appeared in Alison’s House, The Charity that Began at Home and Welcome to our City.
A veteran of Stock, Regional and Off-Broadway theatre, he
has garnered critical acclaim
for his recent performances in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at The
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1996 where he has unearthed
and produced dozens of lost or neglected plays. Bank adapted
and directed Arthur Schnitz-
ler's Far and Wide and The Lonely Way which he also co-
translated (with Margaret
Schaefer). These two plays were published in a volume en-
titled Arthur Schnitzler Re-claimed which Bank edited. He
is also the editor of Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company which in-
cludes his adaptations of
Thomas Wolfe's Welcome to Our City and Edith Wharton's
The House of Mirth, both of which he directed, along with
five other Mint rediscoveries.
Bank also directed The Truth about Blayds and Mr. Pim Pass-es By both by A.A. Milne, as
well as Susan and God. Other directing credits include criti-
cally acclaimed productions of Ivanov and Othello for the Na-
tional Asian American Theater
Companyand Hobson’s Choice, Candida and Mr. Pim Passes By for the Peterborough Players.
He earned his M.F.A. from Case Western Reserve University in
his hometown of Cleveland, OH.
ST. JOHN HANKIN (Playwright) began to contribute humorous
essays and dramatic parodies
including new “last-acts” for well-known plays to Punch
magazine 1898. In 1901 some of his contributions were an-
thologized as “Mr. Punch’s Dra-
matic Sequels”. Hankin also contributed about seventy dra-
ma reviews to “The London
Times” before beginning his
career as a playwright in 1903 with The Two Mr. Wetherby’s.
Hankin was actively involved in running the Stage Society, a
London theater group that sup-
ported plays of literary merit, founded in part, to avoid the
Lord Chamberlain’s censor-ship. Hankin was the only liv-
ing dramatist other than Shaw
to have more than one full-length play produced at the
Royal Court during the im-
portant Vedrenne-Barker years from 1904 to 1907. Granville
Barker produced the premi-eres of both The Return of the Prodigal and The Charity That Began at Home.
During Hankin’s youth his fa-ther suffered a nervous break-
down, which left him an invalid.
Hankin himself began to suffer from increasing ill health in
1907 and he was plagued with the fear that he would suffer
the same fate as his father. On
a “dull, sultry, wet” day in June of 1909, St John Hankin tied
two seven-pound dumbbells
around his neck and drowned himself in the river Ithon. He
left his wife a letter expressing his fear that he would “slip into
invalidism,” which he could not
bear and ended by telling her, “I have found a lovely pool in a
river and at the bottom I hope
to find rest.” George Bernard Shaw described his death as “a
public calamity.”
Sadie Thompson with June
Havoc (PSM), Colette with Leslie Caron (PSM), Come Back, Little Sheba with Donna
McKechnie (PSM) , Mary Todd…A Woman Apart, The Tillie Project, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard ,The Poetry Of Pizza, Footloose, Jekyll & Hyde, 42nd. Street, Cabaret, South Pacific, Beauty & the Beast, Aida, and The Full Monty (PSM). Mr. Cruse has directed over 60 productions
in his career and is a proud
member of Actors Equity Asso-ciation.
REBECCA C. MONROE:
(Assistant Stage Manager): Ms. Monroe has multiple credits on
and off-Broadway, in regional theatre and opera, industrials,
television and film.
STUART HOWARD, AMY SCHECTER & PAUL HARDT
(Casting) have cast hundreds of shows over the past 25
years. Among their favorites
are: Broadway: Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Chicago (Bebe Neu-
wirth, Ann Reinking), Sly Fox (Richard Dreyfuss), Fortune's Fool (Alan Bates, Frank Langel-
la) & the original La Cage Aux Folles. Off Broadway: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change & The Normal Heart. Happily casting for The Mint for
the past 2 seasons
DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCI-ATES (Press Representatives)
is proud to continue our rela-tionship with Mint. DGA cur-
rently represents the Off-
Broadway hits Altar Boyz (3rd
year), Naked Boys Singing! (8th full frontal year), The Awe-some 80s Prom (4th year) and
the new play Elvis People. Oth-er current clients include York
Theatre, Ensemble Studio The-
atre, New World Stages, Stage Entertainment US, The Lucille
Lortel Foundation, and The League of Off-Broadway Thea-
tres & Producers' annual Lortel
Awards, which David also writes and co-produces. Also a
producer, David presented Tea At Five starring Kate Mulgrew as Katharine Hepburn, as well
as the musicals Dr. Sex and E l e a n o r a n d H i c k . www.davidgersten.com
SHERRI KOTIMSKY (General
Manager) Produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape, Shy-ster, Omnium Gatherum, Fear: The Issues Project and several seasons of workshops and
readings. As Naked Angels Managing Director, Hesh and
Snakebit. Produced Only the End of the World and Blood Orange. For two years Theatre
Manager for the Michael
Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, home to
National Actors Theatre, Tribeca Film and Theatre Festi-
vals, River to River Festival and
the Carol Tambor Awards 2005 productions, amongst many
others. Currently working with
several theater companies as business consultant.
JONATHAN BANK (Artistic Di-rector) Bank has been the ar-
tistic director of Mint since
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Cleveland Playhouse, City of Light at Buffalo Arena Theater, Permanent Collection at The
Arizona Theater Company and
Steve Martin’s Underpants at Rochester’s Geva Theater. TV
and film credits include Mr.
Bing on “Hope and Faith”, roles on every daytime drama includ-
ing seven years as Glenn Tag-gart on “Guiding Light” and nu-
merous independent films. He
has written a screenplay, which is in pre-production. He and
his wife, Mezzo-Soprano Leslie
Middlebrook wrote and perform in A Victorian Evening. Opera
aficionados, they share love and life with two indispensable
cats, Mario Cavaradossi and
Romeo Montecchi.
W. ALAN NEBELTHAU (Dr. Glaisher) This is Alan's first ap-
pearance at the Mint. he has
appeared on Broadway. in Os-car Wilde's Salomé and in nu-
merous Off and Off-off Broad-way. productions including
premieres by Mac Wellman
(The Lesser Magoo), Israel Ho-rovitz (Dr. Hero), Irene Fornes,
(Mud). His evening of Beckett
(Krapps's Last Tape and Other Short Works) was produced by
Lincoln Center Institute. Re-gional credits include: Guthrie,
Shakespeare Theatre, Balti-
more Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, others. On an I.T.I
grant he worked with Peter
Brook & Co. in Paris. TV: “One Life to Live”, “Guiding Light”,
“Loving”, “Remember WENN”. He studied with Sanford Me-
siner. Alan made his stage de-
but in Kabul, Afghanistan at the
Kabul Amateur Dramatic Socie-ty.
CECELIA RIDDETT (Mrs. Pratt) is happy to be back at the Mint
where she was last seen as
Miss Smithers in Diana Of Dob-sons. N.Y. credits: Manhattan
Theater Club, Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Axis Thea-
ter, Harold Clurman, St. Clem-
ent's, Vital Theater, Trinity, et al. Regional: Arena Stage, Cen-
ter Stage, Mark Taper Forum,
South Coast Rep, A Contempo-rary Theater, Studio Arena,
GEVA, Arden, Va. Stage, Mill Mt. Playhouse, Olney, Folger,
Wayside, Cincinnati Playhouse,
Kansas City Rep, et al. Film: "Where Are My Children?",
"Pride and Glory". T.V: "Law
and Order", "Empty Nest", "F.B.I.: the Untold Stories",
"The Adams Chronicles", "As the World Turns", "The Young
and the Restless", et al. Edu-
cation: B.A. Barnard College, M.A. Catholic University of
America. Celebrating thirty-
five years in Actors' Equity As-sociation.
MARGOT WHITE (Stella Faring-
ford) Margot is thrilled to be making her Mint debut. Favor-
ite credits include: Broadway: Bobbi Boland (u/s); Off Broad-
way: Georgette: The Traveling Lady (E.S.T – Drama Desk Nomination); Marina: Pericles
(The Culture Project, NYC); the
world premiere of When They Speak of Rita, directed by Hor-
ton Foote (Primary Stages,
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NYC); Nina: The Seagull (The
Pearl Theatre); and the lead in the premiere of India Awaiting at the Samuel Beckett. Region-
al theatres include: A.C.T., The Studio Theatre, STNJ, PTC,
and Great Lakes Theatre Festi-
val. She has been featured on “Guiding Light”, and “All My
Children”, and has done com-mercials for both Turner Clas-
sic Movies and Asahi Beer
(Japan). She most recently played the lead in the Indie
Short “Good Night Kiss”. Mar-
got has studied with both the NYSF Shakespeare Lab and the
London Academy of Perform-ing Arts. For always, for Paul.
CLINT RAMOS (Sets & Cos-
tumes) Mint : Madras House,
Soldiers Wife, Susan and God . NY : Ensemble Studio Theater,
The Play Company, Rude Me-
chanicals, Foundry Theatre, La Mama, Here Arts Center, PS
122, Dance Theater Workshop, Dancespace, Duke, Ohio , SPF,
MCC, Red Bull Theater and oth-
ers. Regional : Asolo Reperto-ry, American Repertory Thea-
ter, Merrimack Repertory Thea-
ter, Commonwealth Shake-speare Co., Baltimore Center
Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Theater, Speakeasy
Stage, East West Players,
Opera Boston, Opera Theater of St.Louis and others. Interna-
tional: Barbican (London),
N o o r l a a n d O p e r a n (Stockholm), Kanon Dance ( St.
Petersburg), Teatro Pilipino (Manila), Ballet Stuttgarter
(Stuttgart), DeNederlandse
Opera (Amsterdam). Recently
featured in Live Design maga-
zine as one of 2007’s Designers to Watch. MFA from NYU.
TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting
Designer) This is Tyler’s first
collaboration with Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theater. Re-
cent Off-Broadway credits:
God’s Ear (New Georges); Gu-tenberg! The Musical! (Actors
Playhouse); A Very Common Procedure (MCC); Anon
(Atlantic Theater); The Attic, Romania Kiss Me! (Play Com-pany); At Least It’s Pink (Ars
Nova); Widowers Houses (Epic
Theater Center); Hell House (St. Ann’s Warehouse/Les
Freres Corbusier). Regional: Wilma, Delaware, NJ Shake-
speare, Prince Music Theater,
Hangar, Syracuse Stage, Port-land Center Stage, Shake-
speare Theater, Long Wharf.
Faculty: Sarah Lawrence Col-lege Dept. Of Dance. Awards:
Lucille Lortel, OBIE (for BUG,
Barrow Street Theater).
JANE SHAW (Sound Design) At
the Mint: Lonely Way, Ivanov, Susan and God (Jonathan
Bank), Walking Down Broad-way (Stephen Williford), No Time for Comedy (Kent Paul).
Designs include: Theater for a
New Audience’s Merchant of Venice and Jew of Malta, Susan
Marshall's Cloudless; Big Dance Theater's The Other Here, Plan B, Antigone, A Sim-ple Heart, Another Telepathic Thing, The Pearl Theatre's Bi-ography, Gentleman Dancing Master and Mary Stuart; Studio 42’s Giants at HERE, and The B
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Underpants and Syncopation at
Capital Rep in Albany. Her de-signs have toured from Shang-
hai to Muenster, Charleston to
Los Angeles. Ms. Shaw held positions at NYU Tisch and
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival,
and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. She received
a Meet the Composer Grant, 2006 for Hecuba at the Pearl
Theater, and is a recipient of
the NEA/TCG Career Develop-ment Program, 2005 – 2007. .
C R A I G N A P O L l E L L O
(Associate Set Designer) New
York Credits include: Associate Scenic Designer on Return of the Prodigal, I-Land, Purity un-der Clint Ramos. Some of his
past shows include The Ger-mans In Paris, Verse Theater Manhattan, Savage in Limbo, SameVein Productions, Torch Song Trilogy, Gallery Players, True West, Lily Lodge’s Actors
Conservatory, Intellectuals, WorkShop Theatre Company,
Solicitation, New York Fringe
Festival, Fallen, New York The-atre Experiment, Heartbreak,
Edge of Insanity and Porn and Happiness. Other credits: Moon Over Buffalo, Iowa Sum-
mer Rep, Betty's Summer Va-cation, Dollhouse, Shadows of the Reef. He received his MFA
from the University of Iowa.
HWI-WON LEE (Associate Cos-
tume Designer) is a third year Graduate student at Carnegie
Mellon Drama school. Costume
designs include As You Like It directed by Di Trevis at CMU,
Ana 311 and A River Apart at
the Kraine Theatre, directed by
Anjali Vashi. The Tempest di-rected by Neal Freeman at the
45th Street Theatre. Dust cho-
reographed by Camille Brown Stream and Holding Time by
Christen Von Howard with Alvin
Ailey, Ssoot and Darkwood by Youn Soon Kim with White
Wave Co She has been cos-tume assistant to Robert Perd-
iziola for Anna Karenina at Flor-
ida Grand Opera and with Clint Ramos for The Taming of the Shrew at Dallas Theatre Cen-
ter.
KIMOTHY CRUSE (Production Stage Manager) has been a
professional actor, director,
producer and writer on Broad-way, Off-Broadway, and in film
and television. His credits in-
clude: Broadway: The Little Foxes with Elizabeth Taylor &
Maureen Stapleton (Assoc. Di-rector), All Over Town with
Dustin Hoffman (Ass’t. Direc-
tor). Off-Broadway:The Three-penny Opera with Bea Arthur,
Charlotte Rae, Bob Cuccioli &
Donna McKechnie (PSM), Weird Romance with Karen
Ziemba & Deven May (PSM), Portraits with Roberta Maxwell,
Victor Slezak and Dana Reeve
(PSM), My Deah with Nancy Opel & Maxwell Caulfield
(PSM), A Servant Of Two Mas-ters, Fanny, Best Foot Forward, Perfect Crime and Mary
Todd…A Woman Apart (PSM). Regional: On A Clear
Day…with Robert Goulet and
Joanna Gleason (Ass’t. Dir.), Pal Joey with Dixie Carter and
Elaine Stritch (Ass’t. Dir.),
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