WILLIAM F. SNYDER
Producer, CPI A student at the Neighborhood Playhouse and a SUNY/Albany theater graduate, William embarked upon a career in broadcast before joining New York Governor Hugh L. Carey’s press office, serving as his director of communications. He was director of the New York Network until his retirement. He is Chairman and CEO of The Creative Place International, Inc.
AND THEATRE COMPANY AND Theatre Company (Artistic New Directions) is a not-for-profit organization founded to develop and present new theatrical works in fully staged productions that ignite the theatergoer’s mind, heart, and imagination – productions that strike out in artistic new directions. www.andtheatrecompany.org
Non-profit CPI was founded in 2010 to enhance the cultural life of Saratoga Springs and beyond, presenting new works for the theater and unique musical events to a growing audience, now extending to New York’s Off Broadway and the summer theater scene in Massachusetts’s Berkshires. www.thecreativeplaceinternational.org
JULI REED
Assistant Scenic Designer Juli Reed is proud to be making her theatrical debut. Over the past several years, she has served in the scenic departments on television series including Girls, Power, and Gotham. Classically trained in fine art, Juli is originally from California and graduated from San Francisco State. She plans to pursue her graduate training in set design next year.
MARIA DI DIA
Management Consultant Maria Di Dia of Productions Too, LLC brings a robust passion for the creative process and over 40 years of upper-level management. Maria has served in a managing role for more than 300 theatrical ventures. She continues to work on new projects from concept to completion and all the steps along the way. Brooks and Distler, Legal Counsel to the Company. Olga A. Delorey, Administrative Liaison.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
MARCH 15 - APRIL 9
Anonymous in memory of Philip and Daniel Berrigan Bob and Andy Dodds Mr. and Mrs. Tom Secunda
Bated Breath Theatre Company presents
APPELLANT
BENEATH THE GAVEL
Dr. Elisabeth Ruthman Carol Sher Jane A. Wait Richard and Linda Warren
THE CREATIVE PLACE INTERNATIONAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH
ON SALE NOW
AND THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS
Devised by Bated Breath Theatre Company and written by Mara Lieberman Directed by Mara Lieberman
JEFF McCARTHY IN
“A CREATIVE WHIRLWIND”
KUNSTLER
Bonnie Goldberg, The Middletown Press
A PLAY BY JEFFREY SWEET WITH NAMBI E. KELLEY AS KERRY DIRECTED BY MEAGEN FAY
AMICUS Janet and Jeffrey Altamari Olga A. Delorey Nancy Emerich Sharon Gamble Richard Gervase and Stuart Delray Ms. Mary Jane Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Snyder Mr. George F. Snyder and Gia Snyder Mr. William S. Snyder Dr. and Mrs. John Streit
FEBRUARY 17 - MARCH 12, 2017
ADVOCATE Helene Goldfarb MacDonald A. Niven Mary Ellen O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. Santino Pavone Mr. and Mrs. James Rossi Sara Senger Charles Shafer Mel Skinner Stacey Logan
ACTIVIST Michael Beahm Katherine Gleason Lorraine Hansen Beth Links Robert Lowe Quince Productions B. Turvett
ACCESSORY Avery Bargar Bob Bohrer Robert Epstein Christy George Michelle T. Johnson Tim Kazurinsky Robert Lowe Andrea Pepper Bella Poyton Carol F. Prescott David Razowsky Aretha Sills Jeffrey Sweet Lea Worcaster
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59E59 THEATERS STAFF ELYSABETH KLEINHANS President and Artistic Director PETER TEAR Executive Producer BRIAN BEIRNE Managing Director JAMES SPARNON Production/Facility Manager GINGER DZERK Director of Ticketing Services CHAYA COPPERSMITH Finance Associate SPONDEE House Guy JOHN D. IVY Theater Technician KIRSTY GAUKEL Director of Marketing KAREN GRECO Press Representative JEN GUSHUE Marketing Manager JESSICA SCHMIDT Membership and Marketing Associate JORDAN JAFFE Press and Marketing Assistant ARIANNE HUTCH Marketing Intern BARBARA IAMS KOREIN Archivist KELVIN VERAS Box Office Manager PETER CARRIER Box Office Supervisor LEAH GABRIEL Box Office Supervisor NATHANIEL CLARIDAD Box Office Associate MARK COOPER Box Office Associate CURT JAMES Box Office Associate CORINN MORENO Box Office Associate MARTAVIUS PARRISH Box Office Associate KATIE SIEGMUND Box Office Associate LLOYD MULVEY Box Office Associate/Front Desk
DARIELLE SHANDLER Box Office Associate/Front Desk ADAM SMITH E:BAR Manager MOLLY GROOME E:BAR Staff JOSE JAIME E:BAR Staff ALICE JOHNSON E:BAR Staff LINDSAY FRAZIER Theater Manager ERIK DE JESUS House Manager JASMIN MORALES Front of House Assistant MARLYN ALMANZAR Usher NATASHA ALMANZAR Usher DEVON AUSTIN Usher DONAVIN DEJESUS Usher JACOB GOLDSTEIN Usher DANIELA GONZALEZ Y PEREZ Usher JAVONNE JENKINS Usher JOHN KARCHER Usher KAILAH KING Usher CHRISTOPHER LANTIGUA Usher MEGAN MILKO Usher EDWIN POLANCO Usher GIRAULT SEGER Usher EDGARD TORO Usher JESUS RIVERA Facilities Manager CARLOS CONILL Facilities EDGAR MORALES Jr. Facilities
Illustration: Dahl Taylor
design: musemanhattan.nyc
KUNSTLER was given a reading at Barrington Stage Co. in 2011, the premiere regional theater production was staged at Hudson Stage Company in 2013. KUNSTER was produced by AND Theatre Company at New York Fringe in 2014 and was work-shopped by The Creative Place International, Inc. in Saratoga Springs in 2015.
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THE CREATIVE PLACE INTERNATIONAL
OUR ANGELS
The Creative Place International in association with
AND Theater Company presents
Jeff McCarthy in
A Play by Jeffrey Sweet With Nambi E. Kelley as Kerry Directed by Meagen Fay ** * CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Kerry...................................................................................Nambi E. Kelley * William Kunstler...............................................................Jeff McCarthy * CREATIVE TEAM Scenic Designer............................................................... James J. Fenton ** Costume Designer............................................................. Elivia Bovenzi Lighting Designer..................................................................Betsy Adams ** Original Music and Sound Designer................................. Will Severin Production Stage Manager.................................... Mary Jane Hansen * Assistant Stage Manager................................................ Anny DeGange * Assistant Scenic Designer......................................................... Juli Reed PRODUCTION TEAM Producers.................................................................... Patricia B. Snyder ............................................................................................... Kristine Niven ......................................................................................... William F. Snyder The running time of Kunstler is 90 minutes with no intermission.
* These Actors and Stage Managers are members of Actors Equity Association ** These Designers are members of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 ***The Director is a member of SDC, the Society of Directors and Choreographers
JEFF McCARTHY
William Kunstler New York: Southern Comfort, Chicago, Urine town, Side Show, Zorba, Sympathetic Magic, Dream True, Smile, The Grinch, Beauty and the Beast, and several others. Regional: Long Wharf, Barrington Stage, Arena Stage, The Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Denver Center, ACT, and others including The Front Page, All My Sons, Sweeney Todd, Kunstler, The Price, The Misanthrope, The Underpants, Spamalot, My Fair Lady, A Lie of the Mind. TV: Elementary, The Good Wife, Schweitzer (title role), Star Trek(s), Designing Women, Law and Order(s), Cheers, In the Heat of the Night, and many others. Film: Starting Out in the Evening, Robocop 2, Consent, Rapid Fire, Eve of Destruction, Cliffhanger, and others.
NAMBI E. KELLEY
Kerry Nambi has performed nationally and internationally, including at the Goodman and Steppenwolf Theatres, Off Broadway in Jeffrey Sweet’s award winning play Court Martial at Fort Devens. TV: Elementary, Person of Interest, Madam Secretary, Chicago PD, guest starring on NBC’s Chicago Justice. An accomplished playwright, Nambi penned plays for Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, and American Blues Theatre (select list) in Chicago, Lincoln Center in New York, and internationally. Nambi is currently playwright in residence at the National Black Theatre in New York and is working on an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Jazz to be produced at Baltimore’s Center Stage in May 2017. Her adaptation of Native Son and short play Dead of Night: The Execution Of have been published by Samuel French. www.nambikelley.com
MEAGEN FAY
Director Meagen Fay is a multiple Jeff Award winning Best Actress at Chicago’s Second City, as well as for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Court Theater). She has appeared on and off Broadway, and been a regular on numerous TV series, and films. Meagen can currently be seen as regular, and recurring regular on Transparent (Amazon), Good Girls Revolt (Amazon), and Shrink (Seeso). Meagen is an LA Critics Award winning director of Private Stories Public Schools and Future Boy Friend (Los Angeles Sci-Fest.) She has also directed Loot at the Mark Taper Forum, The Downside at the Pasadena Playhouse,
Merton of the Movies at The Geffen Playhouse, and Moonlight and Magnolias at The Old Globe. Meagen first directed Kunstler for the New York Fringe Festival in 2014.
San Diego Opera, Seattle Opera, and The Juilliard School. Corporate clients include Pfizer, Gillette, Marriott, Samsung, IBM, and the James Beard Foundation Awards.
JEFFREY SWEET
ELIVIA BOVENZI
Playwright Jeffrey Sweet’s plays including The Value of Names, The Action Against Sol Schumann, Bluff, Flyovers, American Enterprise, and Court- Martial at Fort Devens – have been presented in Chicago, New York, and around the country. Awards include prizes from the American Theatre Critics Association, the Jeff Award, the Audelco Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Books include Something Wonderful Right Away (about Second City), The O’Neill (about the O’Neill Center), The Dramatist’s Toolkit, and What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and EST. He is also an alumnus of New Dramatists.
JAMES J. FENTON
Scenic Designer Off Broadway: Southern Comfort (The Public Theater), Promising (Becket, Theatre Row), Drop Dead Perfect (St. Clement’s), Fall to Earth (59E59 Theaters), When We Met (CAP21), Academia Nuts (NYMF 2015), God Steeling, Maiden’s Prayer, Sight Unseen (Theatre 54), Navy Pier (Studio Theatre Row), Salome of the Moon (Waterwell Productions). Regional: Abigail/1702, The Outgoing Tide, Mrs. Mannerly (Merrimack Rep), The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith (Royal Manitoba Theatre), Dancing Lessons, Southern Comfort (Barrington Stage), Peter and the Starcatcher (Arkansas Rep), The How and the Why, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Greetings! (Penguin Rep), Kunstler (Hudson Stage Co.), Spunk (Lorraine Hansberry Theatre), Cider House Rules (ACT-SF). www.jamesjfenton.com
BETSY ADAMS
Lighting Designer Betsy Adams’s work has been seen from Alaska to London. Recent productions: the world premiere of Quiara Hudes’s Daphne’s Dive at Signature Theatre, directed by Thomas Kail, and Spill at TimeLine Theatre (Chicago), written & directed by Leigh Fondakowski. Other notable premieres: The Laramie Project and TLP: 10 Years Later, When I Come to Die, A.R. Gurney’s Family Furniture, The People’s Temple, and Gross Indecency. She has designed for Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Denver Center, Gielgud Theatre (London), Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, LCT3, Mark Taper Forum, Paper Mill Playhouse, Perseverance Theater,
Costume Designer Elivia recently designed costumes for the world premiere adaptation of The Rape of Lucrece by Kevin Brewer, produced by New York Shakespeare Exchange. Also for NYSX, costume designs for Hamlet and Titus Andronicus. She was an assistant costume designer for the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, and for MTC’s The Father and Incognito. Other assistant credits: Plenty (Public Theater), War Paint (Goodman Theatre), and Kiss Me Kate (Hartford Stage). MFA: Yale, where her credits include An Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Yale Rep/Berkeley Rep), Cloud Nine, and Richard II. www.eliviabovenzi.com
WILL SEVERIN
Original Music and Sound Designer Will’s theatrical works are published by Samuel French, including PBS special A Tale of Cinderella with Songwriter Hall of Famer George David Weiss. Film scores: Dorian Blues, Nate Dogg, and The Thing On The Doorstep. Producer and composer for awardwinning audiobooks including Sherlock’s Secret Life and Hollowville: A Ghost Story, featuring Academy Award Nominee Bruce Dern. Will’s music can be heard in commercials for Delta Sky Media, RJ Reynolds, and Coca-Cola, among others. Lead singer of the progressive rock group Infinite Spectrum, whose latest release is Haunter of the Dark. Lead guitarist for the jazz fusion group Crazy Swedes. Partner in The Creatives/Handsome Spyder, a film production company, which released the H.P. Lovecraftbased feature film, The Thing on the Doorstep. A co-founder of The Creative Place International.
MARY JANE HANSEN
Production Stage Manager Playwright-actor-stage manager-director whose plays were produced regionally and internationally, including American Soup, Saratoga Chips, Letters from a Window in the Sky, Pinocchio, and most recently Hollowville: An American Ghost Story. Hansen’s play, A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, was produced with funding from the Frederick Loewe Foundation and The Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission. She wrote the screenplay for The Thing on the Doorstep, an award-winning psychological horror film. Her poetry was featured in Zephyrs, a publication of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Estate. She is a co-founder of CPI, co-owner of Handsome Spyder, Inc., a member of AEA, NY Women in Film & Television, The League of Professional Theatre Women, and the Dramatists Guild of America. She earned her Masters in Dramatic Arts at Harvard University.
ANNY DEGANGE
Assistant Stage Manager A charter member of The Creative Place International (CPI), Anny recently reprised Maria Callas in Master Class and performed many roles in CPI’s last 5 seasons. At the New York State Theatre Institute, she was the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, 1st Witch in Macbeth, the Abolitionist in Reunion, and Martha Adams in 1776. On Broadway she was in Evita, Raggedy Ann, Rosa, and Les Miserables. She has sung roles with the New York City Opera, Cleveland Opera, and opera concerts in Europe, and danced with The Martha Graham Dance Company. She teaches for CPI and The National Museum of Dance. Married to Ron Holgate and proud Mom to Chloe and Lily.
PATRICIA B. SNYDER
Producer, CPI Artistic Director As founding director of New York State Theatre Institute for 36 years, Patricia’s productions employed her 1968 concept of theater as catalyst for interdisciplinary learning. She has toured every county in New York state and participated in cultural exchanges with the Soviet Union, Israel, Italy, France, Canada, Jordan, and England. Favorites: William Gibson’s Handy Dandy with James Whitmore at Fords Theatre, Paul Shyre’s Hizzoner! with Tony LoBianco, Broadway: William Gibson and Joe Raposo’s Rag Dolly (dir. Pat Birch), Moscow, Kennedy Center, Jeffrey Sweet’s American Enterprise. Off Broadway: William Frankonis, George David Weiss, Will Severin’s A Tale of Cinderella, Warner Home Video, PBS, Mary Jane Hansen’s American Soup, Sweden, Queens Theatre in the Park. Patricia won an Emmy for Hizzoner!, member of SDC, The League of Professional Theatre Women, The Lambs, and trustee of the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America.
KRISTINE NIVEN
Producer, AND Theatre Company Co-Artistic Director Kristine Niven is an actor/improvisor, writer, producer living in New York City. For Public Access TV, she produced and co-wrote a season of sketch comedy with Briggs and Large. She was the administrative director of the Second City Training Center in New York. She produced and performed in a 12-week run of political, satirical improv headlined by Second City alum Monteith and Rand, Garry Goodrow, and Audrie Neenan. Line Producer at The Workhouse Theatre (NYC), Blueberry Pond Ensemble (Croton, NY), Associate Producer of the Peekaboo Festival of New Music & Theatre (NYC), Company and General Manager of several Off Broadway productions.