OUR TOWN Off-Broadway at Barrow Street Theatre

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ELIZABETH AUDLEY (Mrs. Soames) Off Broadway debut. Regional: Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, New Jersey Repertory Company, Hedgerow Theatre, New England Shakespeare Festival, Monomoy Theatre, Next Act Theatre and others. Training: Brown University, Ohio University PATP.   JEREMY BEILER (Simon Stimson). At Barrow Street Theatre: Orson’s Shadow, 365/365 (also the Public), other Off B'way: Foggy Bottom, War in Paramus (Abingdon). Chicago/Regional: Steppenwolf, Madison Rep. TV/film: “Law & Order, "Mercy, "Conviction,” “The Black Donnellys,” “New Amsterdam” and Morning Glory. Jeremy recurs on the Onion News Network. Thank you David and Mastro.
         
ROBERT BEITZEL (Howie Newsome). Off Broadway: Finer Noble Gases (Rattlestick), Light Raise the Roof (NYTW), Faster (Rattlestick). Other Theater: Finer Noble Gases (The Bush - London, Edinburgh Fringe, Actor’s Theater Louisville, O’Neil) Bulrusher (Urban Stages), Until We Find Each Other, Parts Unknown (O’Neill). Film and T.V.: Winter Passing, Blackbird, “ER”, “Law and Order”. BFA, The Juilliard School.   KATI BRAZDA (Mrs. Webb). Broadway: A Moon For The Misbegotten (u/s Josie). Off-Broadway: Trying, Promenade Theater. Regional: Twelfth Night, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Fest; A Moon For The Misbegotten, Palm Beach Drama Works. Others include Wilma, Alliance and Dallas Theater Center. Some Chicago credits include Goodman, Victory Gardens, Next, About Face, Court, Remy Bumppo, Lookingglass and Steppenwolf.
         
WILL BRILL (Joe Crowell, Jr.) is very thankful to be working on such a great production. Regional: Winnemucca (Shelby Company & FringeNYC), Lieutenant of Inishmore (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical), Goat Song for Asa Jacobs (Stanford Summer Theatre), Arcadia (TheatreWorks Palo Alto). Shelby Company founding member. Love and thanks to his parents, bros, Dan and Emma.   NATHAN DAME (Sam Craig). New York: Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Gerda's Lieutenant (workshop--Tectonic Theatre Project), The Hand That Feeds You (Horse TRADE). Regional: Mercutio--Romeo and Juliet (Arts Lanes, Chicago), BASH: the latter-day plays (AAT, Utah state premiere). TV: “Nurse Jackie.” BA from Weber State University. Member of The New Ensemble. Thanks, Liz!
         
ROGER E. DeWITT (Joe Stoddard).  Adding Machine: A Musical directed by David Cromer.  Broadway/Regional Favs… Woman in White;  Phantom of the Opera; Jekyll and Hyde; 3HREE; Ragtime; Music Man.  TV: “L&O”; “Rescue Me”; “Jetsons”; “Snorks”. Roger's mother was the original voice of Wilma on The Flintstones. Love to Brad and Buddy.   ANN DOWD (Mrs. Gibbs). Broadway: The Seagull, Taking Sides, Candida (Clarence Derwent) Other Theater: Happy Journey, Woolgatherer, Different Moon (Jeff) The Lark, Doubt, Major Barbara, The Crucible, Uncle Vanya, Normal Heart (Jeff), Heartbreak House, The Philanthropist. Film: Marley & Me, The Informant, Garden State, Taking Chance, Lorenzo’s Oil, Philadelphia, Shiloh TV: “Nothing Sacred” (Series Regular), “Freaks and Geeks,” “Law & Order(s),” “House,” “NYPD Blue.”
         
EMMA GALVIN (Rebecca Gibbs) is honored to be a part of this wonderful production. Recent credits: Power of Birds, and Mike and Morgan Show with Shelby Company which she is a member of. Film: My Suicidal Sweetheart, A Perfect Fit, and The Big Bad Swim. Training: CMU Drama. Thanks to my family, and Will.   NOAH E. GALVIN (Wally Webb) is a proud member of Equity and Our Town. Off Broadway: The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons); Esther Demsack (Public Theater); Cirque Du Soleil’s Wintuk. Regional: Norman’s Ark (Ford Amphitheater); Tommy (Bay Street Theatre). Tours: Les Miserables; Ace: The Musical (Kevin Kline Award; Cincinnati Entertainment Award; Acclaim Award). Love to my family, Emma and Gabe.
         
JENNIFER GRACE (Emily Webb). Off Broadway: The 4th Graders Present An Unnamed Love-Suicide (59E59). Chicago: The Seagull (Raven Theatre), Chemin de Fer (Theatre Wit), Time & The Conways, Stardust, Dead End (Griffin Theatre), Our Town, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Angels In America, 4.48 Psychosis, Balm in Gilead (The Hypocrites). Jennifer is an ensemble member of The Hypocrites.   MARK HATTAN (Constable Warren) has performed Off-Broadway and at such theaters as Westside Playhouse, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwright’s Horizons, Soho Rep, TheaterVirginia, Bristol-Riverside and Indiana Rep. Dramalogue Award and Critic’s Circle Nomination. NY TV/Movies: “Love Monkey”, “Cashmere Mafia” and “The Superagent”. Currently on Onion News Network extolling the drug busting capabilities of Lil’ Wayne.
         
DANA ELIZABETH JACKS (Irma) Off Broadway debut. Other credits include productions at Mile Square Theatre, B Street Theatre, New York and New Orleans Fringe Festivals. Training: Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. More information at www.danajacks.com. Thank you Forrest and never-ending thanks to the cast, crew, management and producing teams of Our Town.   LYNN LAURENCE (Citizen). New York/Regional theater: Cripple of Inishmaan (Shadowland); The Rainmaker, Love’s Labour’s Lost , How I Learned to Drive (American Stage), Bus Stop, Cocktail Hour, Broadway Bound, (Bristol Valley), Picnic, The Hot L Baltimore, Midsummer’s Night Dream, (AGT), Honour (Barrow Group). Film: Door in the Floor, Two Weeks Notice. AEA, SAG & AFTRA.
         
DAVID MANIS (Mr. Webb). Most recently: title role in The Alchemist, Shakespeare Theatre, D.C. Broadway: Exit The King, The Coast Of Utopia, The Rivals, Henry IV, Morning's At Seven, Arcadia, Abe Lincoln In Illinois. Extensive regional credits. TV includes Monk, Frasier, King Of Queens, and a telekinetic weatherman on The X-Files.   JAMES McMENAMIN (George Gibbs). Off Broadway: BFE (Playwrights Horizons), The Naked Angels Issues Project & Mag-7 (Naked Angels) Regional: Prayer for My Enemy (Intiman Theatre & Long Wharf Theatres), Loves Labor’s Lost, The Sisters Rosensweig (Huntington Theatre), BFE (Long Wharf Theatre), Chekhov Cycle, Three Penny Opera (Williamstown Theatre Festival) TV: “Law and Order SVU,” “Law and Order,” “Guiding Light”
         
SCOTT PARKINSON (Professor Willard, Stage Manager) returns to Our Town after appearing last year as the Stage Manager. B’way: Coast of Utopia. Tour: 39 Steps. Off-Broadway: Orson’s Shadow; Rose Rage; The Third Story; Crime & Punishment. Regional: Chicago Shakespeare; Goodman; Shakespeare Theatre; Old Globe; La Jolla Playhouse; Mark Taper; Seattle Rep. Roles include: Hamlet, Richard II & III, Iago, Cassius, Mercutio, Puck, Treplev, Marchbanks, Prior Walter.   KATHLEEN PEIRCE (Citizen) Recent NY stage credits include Something Unspoken, Summerfolk, The American Clock, The Habitation of Dragons (HB Playwrights); Birthday Party in Madagascar (Wings); The Laramie Project (Small Pond); Wonderland (HERE/Immediate Theatre Co.), Cycling Past the Matterhorn (NY Fringe). Film: Finding Graceland, Nine Lives, Black Mail, The Green Belt.
         
KEITH PERRY (Farmer McCarty) is honored to celebrate his 47th year as a professional actor by appearing in Our Town. During those years, he has worked from Broadway to Off-Off Broadway, in national tours, regional and stock theatres, film, TV and commercials. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1963.   MARK SHOCK (Citizen) is very happy to be a part of Our Town. Originally from Michigan, Mark has been seen here in NYC at The Apollo Theater in the show If This Hat Could Talk, as well as in Emerging Artists Theatre’s NYMF country musical, Heaven in Your Pocket. Regional shows include Shear Madness, Romeo and Juliet and Almost Heaven. Break Legs!
         
JEFF STILL (Doc Gibbs) returns to Our Town after a year of August: Osage County (Broadway/National Tour). Off-Broadway: Orson’s Shadow, Adding Machine. London: Bug. Regional: Steppenwolf Theatre; Salieri in Amadeus; Vince in Lombardi. Film: Public Enemies, The Express, The Hudsucker Proxy. Jeff saves the best credit for last: he is Luke’s dad.   JASON YACHANIN (Si Crowell) is thrilled to be a part of Our Town! Other acting credits include: The Buddy Holly Story, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, True TVs “Forensic Files” and spots for Turkey Hill Iced Tea, Time Warner Cable and Trojan Condoms. Thanks to my family and Katy. Go CAVS!
         
CREATIVE/PRODUCTION CREDITS
         
THORNTON WILDER (Playwright, 1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience.  He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, the second of his seven novels, and received the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). His hit play The Matchmaker (1954) was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! and he enjoyed enormous success  as a teacher, lecturer, translator and adaptor, actor and  librettist.  His screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day. Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.
         
DAVID CROMER (Director, Stage Manager). Streetcar Named Desire (Writer’s Theatre), When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theatre – 2010 Lortel Award for Direction), the (brief) Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. He received the 2009 OBIE and Lortel Awards for his direction of Our Town. Other New York credits: Adding Machine: a Musical (Minetta Lane Theatre - 2008 OBIE and Lortel Awards for Direction) and Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre). Chicago: Picnic (Writers),Come Back, Little Sheba (Shattered Globe), Cider House Rules (Famous Door), Angels in America (Journeymen) among others. Regional: Glass Menagerie (Kansas City Rep); Farnsworth Invention, SantaLand Diaries, Orson’s Shadow (Alley Theatre).
         
MICHELE SPADARO (Set Design).  Chekhov's Rifle, Uncle Bob, Eggnog Talking, Sweet Eros. Properties:  Adding Machine, Orson's Shadow, The Third Story, Fifty Words. Set Decoration (Television): “The Secret Lives of Men,” “The Jenny McCarthy Show,” “The Ben Stiller Show,” “Cousin Skeeter,” “Turn Ben Stein On.” Film, The Prophecy, Lipstick Camera, Killer Instinct, Rubin and Ed.
         
ALISON SIPLE (Costume Design) is based out of Chicago where recent work includes The Mystery of Irma Vep (Court Theatre), Fedra: Queen of Haiti (Lookingglass), Oedipus (Hypocrites), The Hairy Ape (Hypocrites at the Goodman O'Neill Festival), Edward II (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Wonka: The Musical (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), The Marriage of Figaro (Remy Bummpo) and Celebrity Row (American Theatre Company). Off Broadway credits: Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre) and The 4th Graders Present an Unnammed Love Suicide (Hypocrite at 59e59). Look for Alison's upcoming work on No Exit (Hypocrites), A Separate Peace (Steppenwolf Theatre for Young Audiences) and Cabaret (Hypocrites). Alison won Jeff Citations for Time and the Conways (Griffin) in 2006 and for Leonce und Lena (Hypocrites) in 2005. She is an Associate company member of The Hypocrites and an Artistic Associate with Lookingglass. Check out her other work at alisonsiple.com.
         
HEATHER GILBERT (Lighting Design). Heather previously designed Our Town for David Cromer in Chicago for the Hypocrites. Her designs have been seen on many Chicago stages including the Court Theatre, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Timeline, and Remy Bumppo. She participated in the NEA/TCG Career Development Program. Heather serves as the head of lighting design at Columbia College Chicago.
         
JONATHAN MASTRO (Original Music and Music Direction). King Lear, Frank's Home (Goodman), A Year With..., Go, Dog. Go! (Chicago Children's Theatre); Barrel of Monkeys; Second City; Neo-Futurists; Lookingglass, etc. 2009-10 Irving D. Suss Fellow (Colby College, Waterville, ME). Thanks to David, Jeremy, and this wonderful team.
         
KATE McDONIEL (Production Stage Manager) is proud to be living in Our Town. Recent Off-Broadway credits include Adding Machine: a Musical and The Black Monk. Regionally: North Shore Music Theatre, Trinity Rep, True Colors Theatre Company, and over forty productions for the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Thanks Hodge, Mom and Dad!
         
SARAH BUTKE (Assistant Stage Manager) Off Broadway SM credits: Blind Lemon Blues, Enter Laughing, The Musical!, My Vaudeville Man, 13 shows in the Musicals In Mufti Series, That Time of the Year, Asylum (York Theatre), None of the Above (Lion Theatre), and Mother Load (Sage Theatre and National Tour). Graduate of Miami University of Ohio.
         
MICHAEL PADDEN (Assistant Director) has assisted David Cromer on numerous projects including: When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theatre), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Broadway), and The Farnsworth Invention (Alley Theatre). Other assisting credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival) and Ah, Wilderness! (Theatre Northwest). Other Directing Credits include: The Yellow Boat, Mr. Raccoon and His Friends, and Like a Metaphor (Mary Linn Performing Arts Center).
         
MICHAEL PAGE (Rehearsal AD). is the Managing Director of the Barrow Street Theatre. At BST he’s managed the venue for Mike Daisey’s How Theatre Failed America, TJ & Dave, Baby Wants Candy, Two Men Talking, both BST Fortnight Series, among others and worked as the assistant director on Gone Missing by The Civilians. Many special thanks to Norbert. MFA: Ohio University.
         
B.D. WHITE (Production Manager). Reasons to be Pretty, 50 Words, Third Story, Spain, Grace, Some Girl(s), Frozen, Fat Pig, Runt of the Litter, A Letter from Ethel Kennedy, The Mysteries, The False Servant, Richard III, New Jerusalem, The Mercy Seat, Scattergood, Intrigue With Faye, Bright Ideas, Sessions the musical, The Distance From Here, What of the Night, Colder Than Here, Nixon’s Nixon, The Wooden Breeks. Temporary Help, Cheat, Hard Feelings, The Strange Case of Mary Todd Lincoln, Nuyorican Stories, St. Lucy's Eyes, Leaving Queens, Underneath the Lintel, Sophie Tottie and Bell, Songs of Paradise, Buicks, and Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran.
         
RAPSCALLION PRODUCTIONS – BRIAN DUEA (Theatre Renovation). As a project manager, Brian supervises renovations and restorations of commercial and residential properties. Recent projects include the Cherry Lane Theatre, the Veronica Lally Kehoe Studio at Fordham College and a brownstone on King Street in Manhattan. At The Barrow Street Theatre, he was the Production Manager for BUG.
         
McCORKLE CASTING, LTD. Pat McCorkle, C.S.A. / Joe Lopick (Casting). Broadway: Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Glass Menagerie, Amadeus, A Doll’s House, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers. Off-Broadway: The Toxic Avenger, Adding Machine, Almost Maine, Killer Joe, Mrs. Klein. Film: Ghost Town, Secret Window, Thomas Crown Affair, School Ties. Television: “Electric Company”, “3lbs.”, “Barbershop”, “Chappelle’s Show.”
         
TWO STEP PRODUCTIONS (General Management). Garden Of Earthly Delights, Adding Machine: a Musical (Minetta Lane Theatre). Basic Training, The Strangerer, How Theatre Failed America, Gone Missing, The/King/Operetta, No Child…, Orson’s Shadow, Eat the Taste, BUG (Barrow Street Theatre). The London Globe’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University). The Irish Curse, Made In Heaven (SoHo Playhouse). Loaded, Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse, Sophistry, The Black Monk (Theatre Row). Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University MFA Showcase (Dance New Amsterdam). The Globesity Festival (Theater for the New City). Finer Noble Gases, Girl Blog From Iraq, (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch, The Acrobat, Two Men Talking (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). www.2StepNYC.com
         
SCOTT MORFEE (Producer). Summer Solo Series (Soho Playhouse); Adding Machine: a Musical by Josh Schmidt and Jason Loewith (Minetta Lane Theatre); Gone Missing by the Civilians, No Child... by Nilaja Sun, Orson's Shadow by Austin Pendleton, BUG by Tracy Letts, TJ & Dave, Eat the Taste by Greg Kotis (all at Barrow Street Theatre); Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger (SoHo Playhouse); Killer Joe by Tracy Letts (SoHo Playhouse and at Theatre 2851 Chicago) and Shout & Twist (Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles). At Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2006: Two Men Talking by Murray Nossel & Paul Browde at Assembly Rooms, Finer Noble Gases by Adam Rapp at the Bongo Club and Girl Blog from Iraq: Baghdad Burning, adapted for the stage by Kimberly I. Kefgen & Loren Ingrid Noveck from the blog by Riverbend at Pleasance Courtyard.
         
JEAN DOUMANIAN (Producer). Based in New York City, Jean Doumanian Productions produces works for film, theatre and television. Jean Doumanian Productions is a lead producer on Broadway's August: Osage County, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and five Tony Awards including Best Play, and Mary Stuart, nominated in 2009 for seven Tony Awards, including Best Revival. JDP's upcoming Broadway shows include Tracy Lett’s Superior Donuts and Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, now playing in London's West End. Off Broadway, Jean Doumanian Productions is a lead producer of Our Town, winner of two Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Revival. Under the leadership of Ms. Doumanian, the company has produced over 20 films by directors such as David Mamet, David Gordon Green, Woody Allen, and Barbara Kopple, earning Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. In partnership with The Weinstein Company, Jean Doumanian Productions is now adapting August: Osage County for the screen. Other adaptations include David Harrower’s Olivier Award-winning stage play Blackbird.
         
TOM WIRTSHAFTER (Producer). Past productions include Adding Machine a Musical (Minetta Lane Theatre) Gone Missing, No Child..., TJ & Dave, Orson’s Shadow, BUG, Eat the Taste (Barrow Street Theatre) Sarah Jones Bridge and Tunnel (Culture Project and on Broadway, Tony Winner 2005), White Chocolate (Century Center for Performing Arts), Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse), Stars in Your Eyes (Cherry Lane Theatre).
         
TED SNOWDON (Producer )was represented this past spring with Neil LaBute's acclaimed Reasons to Be Pretty on Broadway and Tina Howe's Chasing Manet at Primary Stages. He was a producing partner on the 2007 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Spring Awakening, as well as on David Mamet's November starring Nathan Lane, The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane (Tony-nominated Best Play), and LoveMusik at Manhattan Theatre Club. He was sole producer of Judy Kaye in Souvenir three seasons ago. His credits extend back to the 1979 Tony winner The Elephant Man and include many plays on Broadway and off. He first wept at Our Town at an all-girl's school 50 years ago and is humbled to be back Off-Broadway with this classic play.
         
EAGLE PRODUCTIONS LLC (Producer) is a company that produces plays in New York and other cities as well as provides enhancement funds for non-commercial productions. Its managing member is Michael B. Rothfeld.
         
DENA HAMMERSTEIN / PAM PARISEAU for JAMES HAMMERSTEIN PRODUCTIONS Broadway: Superior Donuts, The Seagull. West End: Dealer’s Choice, Sunday in the Park With George, Dirty Blonde. Off-Broadway: My Name Is Rachel Corrie, I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Perfect Now Change, Slut. Projects in development include the West End production of Simon Gray’s The Late Middle Classes, Butley and the new musical Lucky Break based on the movie “The Front”. Dena is also the founder of Only Make Believe, a not for profit charity she created to bring theatre to children confined to hospitals because of serious illness and disability. www.onlymakebelieve.org
         
THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY (Producer). Bob and Harvey Weinstein are co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company. They previously founded and ran Miramax Films which, during their tenure, was nominated for 249 Oscars and won 60. The Weinsteins have produced several award winning shows on Broadway and in the West End, including: The Real Thing, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Producers, Frost/Nixon, Young Frankenstein, August: Osage County, Boeing Boeing, The Seagull, Billy Elliot, You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush, West Side Story, God of Carnage, Exit The King, Hair, A Little Night Music, A View from the Bridge and Race.
         
BURNT UMBER PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Judi Krupp and Bill Gerber are committed to producing quality projects for the theatre. We are pleased to be a part of David Cromer’s Our Town. Broadway: American Idiot.
         
PATRICK DALY (Associate Producer) is VP of Production and Development for Jean Doumanian Productions, a NY based film/theatre and TV productions company. Theatre credits include August:Osage County, The Great American Trailer Park Musical and Our Town. Film credits include Neal Cassady and the upcoming film adaptations of August:Osage County, Blackbird and Womens World.
         
BARROW STREET THEATRE is operated by producers Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter. Since 2003 Barrow Street Theatre has been home to the following productions:  Roadhouse: The Stage Play by Timothy Haskell, BUG by Tracy Letts, Eat the Taste by Greg Kotis, Orson’s Shadow by Austin Pendleton, TJ & Dave, Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp, Nilaja Sun’s No Child, an oak tree by Tim Crouch, Floating by Hoi Polloi, Gone Missing created by The Civilians. In 2008: BST Fortnight, What’s My Line?-Live on Stage, Two Men Talking, Mike Daisy’s How Theater Failed America, Theater Oobleck’s The Strangerer, Baby Wants Candy. BST was a host venue for the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival and the FringeNYC Encore Series. www.BarrowStreetTheatre.com
         
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