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Columbia University School of the Arts
Theatre Arts Program
presents
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Adriana Baer
The Riverside Theatre
April 21 - April 24, 2010
On This Directing Thesis Production:
Tonight you are seeing the thesis production of a director from
the Theatre Arts Program of the School of the Arts. This director
has been working at Columbia for three years toward a better
understanding of the theatre event, a deeper notion of action for
the stage and of the potential riches in collaboration. And yet this
pursuit is a lifetime endeavor and the doors that may open during
these three years of training are only a premonition of what is to
come.
A director’s job is a tightrope walk. Ultimately the audience should
not be aware of the director and yet you are in his or her hands.
Directors provide the keys for the journey of actors and audiences.
They coordinate the medium through which a playwright might
speak to us through time. They are party givers; they create events.
I hope that the three years at Columbia have provoked far more
questions than answers. I dream that they will go forth into the
theatre community with a love of the art, and enough courage to
give it legs and feet.
- Anne Bogart, Head of Directing
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Adriana Baer
Scenic Designer
Stephen Dobay
Lighting Designer
Paul Toben
Costume Designer
Kevin Thacker
Sound and Music Designers
Brandon Wolcott
Matt Walsh
Hair and Makeup Designer
Adrienne Giffen
Fight Choreographer
Casey Robinson
Dramaturg
Emily Madison
Assistant Director
Phil Gates
General Manager / Producer
Jill Bernard
Production Stage Manager
D. Westerholm
Please silence your cell phones.
The use of photography or recording devices of any
kind is strictly prohibited.
There is no food or drink allowed in the theatre.
Cast List
(in alphabetical order)
Asher Bailey.........................Sampson, Apothecary,
Watchman
Patrick Barrett..........................................Abraham
Philip Callen*.............................................Capulet
Marty Brown*.................................Friar Laurence
Eileen DeSandre*..........................................Nurse
Jonathan Horvath*..................Gregory, Friar John,
Musician, Officer
Michael Markham.........................................Prince
Philip Mutz*.............................................Benvolio
Ian McNeely................................................ Romeo
Ben Newman*...............................................Tybalt
Dennis J. Paton*......................................Montague
Elizabeth Romanski.......................Lady Montague
Laurie Schroeder*.............................Lady Capulet
Moses Villarama*............................................Paris
Ben Williams*................................................Peter
Linnea Wilson................................................Juliet
Max Woertendyke*..................................Mercutio
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
About the Cast:
Asher Bailey (Sampson, Apothecary, Watchman). New York stage credits
include The Hairy Ape (Columbia Stages), Faust, Avalanche, Comedy of
Errors. Off-Broadway: Picking Up (DR2). Asher can be seen in upcoming
productions of Happily After Tonight (Pinnochio), Bent (Horst) and will be
featured next fall on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire." BFA: New York University,
Tisch.
Patrick Barrett (Abraham) is a graduate of Columbia University. Past roles
include Garcin in No Exit (Cherry Lane Studio Theater), Henry in The Real
Thing (Columbia), Hal in Proof (Barnard Stages) Brutus in Julius Caesar
(Columbia) and Jonah in The Disappearance of Jonah (DC Fringe).
Marty Brown* (Friar Laurence) has recently appeared in Rocky Philly
(Van Cougar/Bushwick Starr), The less we talk (Hoi Polloi), The Hairy Ape
(Adriana Baer/Columbia Stages), The Legend of Sunshine (NYTE), The Site
(WalkerSpace), Down the Shore (HERE Arts Center), Blood Knot (The Red
Room), No Exit (Fehomj Group), The Adding Machine (Riverside Church),
The Weir (Atlantic 453), and Nights/Fights, Dreams/Schemes with the Public
Theater’s Shakespeare Lab.
Philip Callen* (Capulet) has appeared at the Guthrie Theater in 1776 and
Pen. Recent work in NY includes Dinner and Delusions at the Cell Theatre,
Troilus and Cressida with the Shakespeare Society, Runway 69 with New
Dramatists, Behind The Eye at The Lark and The Secret Life of the Office
Worker (Columbia Stages). Philip recently moved here from Minneapolis,
where his credits include Bill W and Dr Bob (Illusion Theater), Falsettos
(Outward Spiral), Never The Sinner and The Substance of Fire (Minnesota
Jewish Theatre), and It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. He is also one
of the organizing members of Thirst Theater, which has produced more than
100 new plays performed by Equity actors in a bar setting in Minneapolis. Past playwrights have included Jeffrey Hatcher, Melanie Marnich, Bill
Corbett, Dominic Orlando, and Tom Poole, and this year will include Craig
Wright and Marion McClinton. www.philcallen.com
Eileen DeSandre* (Nurse). In 16 seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival:
Bertha Kate in Paradise Lost, Brighella in Servant of Two Masters, Francis
Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Madaniḱā and Ensemble in The
Clay Cart, Gertrud in On the Razzle, Mme. Pernelle in Tartuffe, Emilia in
The Winter’s Tale, Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Sasha Smirnoff
in Room Service, Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Dr. Pinch in The
Comedy of Errors, Della in The Royal Family, Monica Reed in Present
Laughter, Juliana Tesman in Hedda Gabler, Popilius Lena and Clitus in
Julius Caesar, Aunt Meme in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Heidi in Fuddy
Meers, Andromache in Troilus and Cressida, Nurse Preen in The Man Who
Came to Dinner, Go-to-Hell Kitty in Chicago, Mrs. Helseth in Rosmersholm,
Maddalena Guarneri in The Magic Fire, (OSF and The Kennedy Center),
Mrs. Candour in The School for Scandal, Maria Vasilyevna in Uncle Vanya,
Amira in Pentecost, Bessie Berger in Awake and Sing!, Maria in Twelfth
Night, The Maid in Blood Wedding, Rhea in You Can’t Take It with You. Other theatres: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble,
Theatre of East Carolina, Fulton Opera House, St. Vincent Theatre, Theatre
for the New City, ATA, Promenade, INTAR. Education: MFA, Pennsylvania
State University.
Jonathan Horvath* (Gregory, Friar John, Musician, Officer). New York
credits include: New The Cats with Jewelled Claws (Target Margin), The
Human Capacity (Beyond the Wall), Jump Jim Crow (Subjective Theatre
Co.), A Christmas Carol (TheatreWorks USA). Regional: Richard III
(Trinity Repertory Company), The Taming of the Shrew (Brown/Trinity Rep
Consortium), House of Gold (Brown University). Jonathan holds an MFA in
Acting from the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. Michael Markham (Prince). New York credits: Mother Courage and Her
Children and Macbeth at the Delacorte Theatre, Platonov at The Schapiro
Theater, The Corn Maiden at the NY Fringe Festival, Giants and We Declare
You a Terrorist at HERE, and Model at PS 122. Regional Credits: A Little
Night Music at The White Plains Performing Arts Center. Film and TV: “Law
and Order,” Unearthed, Game Theory. He is a graduate of The Juilliard
School Drama Division where his favorite roles were Chief in One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest, Alex in Black Russian, and The Kite in The Kite and the
Silly Monkey. You can find him online at www.michaelmarkhamonline.com
Ian McNeely (Romeo). Regional: Music Man, Paradise Lost, Don
Quixote (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Alexander and the Terrible... (Idaho
Repertory Theatre), Les Misérables, Camelot (Coeur d’Alene Summer
Theatre), Henry V (Animal Fire Theatre Group). Education: BFA University
of Idaho. Awards: Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 Rex Rabold Fellow.
Philip Mutz* (Benvolio) most recently performed his original comedy
Kidnapping Laura Linney as part of the Midtown International Theatre
Festival. He has also spent four seasons with the Shakespeare Theatre of
New Jersey, last appearing in Comedy of Errors. Other recent acting credits
include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Accidental Death of an Anarchist
with Burning Coal Theatre Company, Taming of the Shrew and Lysistrata
with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Peacemaker with the Provincetown
Theatre. Philip holds a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Ben Newman* (Tybalt). New York: McMurphy in One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest, Aegeus in The Medea, Ben in First Base Coach, all with Wide
Eyed Productions (2009 NYTheatre.com Person of the Year); Prince Escalus
in Romeo and Juliet (TheatreWorks USA); Jack in In The Zone (Columbia
Stages). Regional: Burgundy in King Lear at Kansas City Rep., Pickpocket
in Cyrano de Bergerac at Denver Center Theatre Company, Biondello in The
Taming Of The Shrew and Fleurant in The Imaginary Invalid at Riverside
Shakespeare Festival, and Wes Hurley in Fifth Of July, Emmit Young
in Talley and Son, at Actors Theatre Kansas City. Other favorite roles: Vince
in Tape, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and Andrey in Three Sisters. Film:
The Only Good Indian. Creator and director of the 2009 NY Fringe hit A
World Elsewhere! Arias in the Key of Clown. Upcoming: Richard in Henry
VI, Part III. Ben is a native of Colorado and received his MFA from the
University of Missouri - Kansas City. Dennis J. Paton* (Montague). Once played Paris while completing his MFA
at Penn State Univ and while an Equity Apprentice at the Alley Theatre of
Houston performed Romeo. Now years and miles later he is blessed with the
challege of Lord M. Thank you everyone, I'll give it my best.
Elizabeth Romanski (Lady Montague). NY credits include GreenMan (Frigid
NY), Hazel In Descent (Breedingground Productions), Big People, Little
People (Flea Theater), At the Ballet (Manhattan Rep), Simultaneity,
Soapbox and To Darfur (Quo Vadimus’ ID America Festival).
International: As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe, London) Crime and
Punishment (Vakhtangov Institute, Moscow). Training: MA in Classical
Acting from Drama Centre London. Laurie Schroeder* (Lady Capulet). New York: Title role in Miss Lulu Bett
(Workshop Theatre); Oedipus at Colonus, Alcestis (Handcart Ensemble);
The Seagull, As You Like It (Columbia Stages). Various readings and oneacts with NYTW, MCC, The Lark and Manhattan Theatre Source. Regional: The Magic Theatre, Theatreworks, Word for Word (San Francisco); The
Lost Colony (NC, Dir: Terrence Mann), Death of a Salesman (European
Tour). Film/Television: Leaving Ashland (LA Int’l Festival), Slipaway
(Broken Frame), Hurlyburly (Columbia Film), “The Investigators” (Court
TV). Training : MA Classical Acting, Central School of Speech & Drama,
London. www.laurieschroeder.com
Moses Villarama* (Paris) received his MFA in Acting from the National
Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Regional
credits include Arabian Nights (Kansas City Rep); Elephant Man, Working,
King Lear, A Christmas Carol, Amadeus, Season’s Greetings, 1001, and
The Ladies of the Camellias (Denver Center). Other Columbia productions
include Lifetime Fairytale (Dir. Marios Theacharous), One Fat Day In
Babylon (Dir. Kathryn Hamilton) and In The Zone (Dir. Adam Marple).
Ben Williams* (Peter) is a graduate of Cornell University with a degree
in Philosophy & Performance Studies. He also received actor training at
the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, the University of Wisconsin
- Milwaukee, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and HB Studios. Performance venues include Utah Shakespearean Festival, Illusion Theatre
and Milwaukee’s famed Theatre X. Ben is a singer/songwriter with over 14
years of writing/performing experience and a dedicated fundraiser and web
strategist for the arts and social services. Favorite professional New York
roles include Roy (Lone Star), Hamlet (Hamlet), Billy Bibbit (One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest) and Mozart (Amadeus). www.benwilliams.info
Linnea Wilson (Juliet). Recent stage credits include As You Like It; A
Streetcar Named Desire; The Seagull (Columbia Stages); Up, Down,
Strange, Charmed, Beauty, and Truth (Manhattan Rep Winterfest2008 and
FRINGENYC 2007); Bloomsday on Broadway (Symphony Space); The
Maids (The Cutting Ball Theater). Training: Sarah Lawrence College, Atlantic
Theatre Company Acting School.
Max Woertendyke* (Mercutio). Stage: Beautiful (The Public - with LAB),
Girl (Cherry Lane), Momma? (P.S. 122), Blackouts and Crazy Little Thing
(Center Stage, NY), No Man Can Serve Two Masters (Times Sq. Arts Center),
Henry V (Inwood Shakespeare Fest). Film and Television: Sisterhood of
the Traveling Pants 2, The Understudy, Marshall Winchester’s Big Stand,
“Guiding Light,” “One Life to Live.” Max is also one of the founders of
Backyart (backyartbrooklyn.com) a multi-disciplinary arts event held monthly
in Williamsburg.
About the Creative Team:
Adriana Baer (Director). Directing credits include Woyzeck (Bay Area
Critics Circle Award for Best Direction), The Maids, and No Exit (SF Bay
Guardian Top Ten) at The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco where she
was the Associate Artistic Director from 2004-2007. New York directing
credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seagull, The Hairy Ape, Miss
Julie, and Girls in Uniform and a number of new play premieres. Adriana has
worked with The Public Theater, Theater Communications Group, Berkeley
Repertory Theatre, SF Circus Center/Pickle Circus, and Bay Area Playwrights
Foundation. Assistant directing work includes American Conservatory
Theater (with Mark Lamos), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (with Libby Appel),
California Shakespeare Theater (with Sharon Ott), and Opera Boston (with
Robert Woodruff). BA: Sarah Lawrence College. MFA: Columbia 2010.
www.adrianabaer.com
Stephen Dobay (Scenic Designer). At Columbia: A Streetcar Named
Desire and The Seagull. Off B’way: The Affair in 22B (3STC)
and Square Bubbles (Marble Productions). Other New York credits: The
Pillowman (APAC), The Mushroom Pickers (Alloy Theater), The
Underpants (The Gallery Players), and The Meaning of Life (Ropeswing
Entertainment). Regional: Bus Stop (Olney Theatre Center), Dublin by
Camplight (McCarter Theatre), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (3STC). Opera
work includes: The Play of Daniel (The Met/Cloisters), L’Incoronazione
di Poppea, and L’Heure Espagnole (OperaHub, Boston). Stephen is a
faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he has designed
Sweet Charity, Boeing Boeing, Gemini, and Pride and Prejudice. Last
summer he was the Scenic Design Supervisor for the Williamstown Theater
Festival. Stephen received his MFA from the University of Washington and his
BA from Williams College. For more information please visit
www.stephendobay.com .
Paul Toben (Lighting Designer). Recent New York credits include: The Story
of My Life (Broadway), The Realm (The Wild Project), Futurity and Too
Little, Too Late (HERE Arts Center), When in Disgrace (Examined Man), The
Redheaded Man (Fringe Encores). Regional credits include: Daddy Long Legs
for the Rubicon Theatre Company, TheatreWorks and Cincinnati Playhouse
in the Park, Shining City (Shadow Lawn Stage), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
(Theatre by the Sea), three seasons at Williamstown including designs of
Caravan Man and Demon Dreams. Associate designer for: Everyday Rapture,
Bye Bye Birdie, Sunday in the Park with George and Pal Joey (Broadway),
National tours of A Bronx Tale and Annie, Regional productions of White
Christmas, Broadway: Three Generations at the Kennedy Center, and Shamu
Rocks! at SeaWorld Orlando.
Kevin Thacker (Costume Designer). For Columbia Stages: A Streetcar
Named Desire, The Seagull. Connecticut Repertory Theatre: Loves Labour’s
Lost, Restoration Comedy, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Marat/Sade. Dorset
Theatre Festival: Nobody Don’t Like Yogi. He is the 2008 recipient of the
USITT Weisfeld Award and was also awarded a full fellowship to the John F.
Kennedy Center Master Design Intensives. He has recently attended World
Stage Design in Seoul, South Korea (awarded World's Best Design Team) to
create a new mask and puppet production of The Selfish Giant. His work can
be seen at www.KThackerDesign.com
Matt Walsh (Sound and Music Designer). How I Won the Cambell Prize
(Triskilion Arts), Stuff Happens (BU Theatre), The Magic Flute (Opera
Institute). Assistant Design: Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons), The
Orphans Home Cycle (Signautre Theatre/Hartford Stage), The Singing Forest
(Public Theatre).
Brandon Wolcott (Sound and Music Designer) is a sound designer and music
producer. He is the resident sound designer for Collaboration Town. He
is a graduate of The Colorado College where he also teaches. Recently, he
produced and designed And Everyone Laughed at the S.L.A.M. Warehouse,
a circus extravaganza in the pursuit of liminality. Also, sound design for The
Confidence Man by the Woodshed Collective aboard the U.S.S. Lilac. Recent
album of thoughtful dance music released on Archipel Music. Adrienne Giffen (Hair and Makeup Designer) is originally from Colorado,
but moved to Connecticut in 2000 where she worked as a professional
Cosmetologist for 8 years. In 2008 she moved to New York City to attend
Columbia University where she is getting her BA in Theater Studies. Since
moving to the city she has also been a freelance stylist. Theater credits include
Life Under Water and A Streetcar Named Desire (Columbia Stages). Film:
Capture the Flag (a short directed by Lisanne Skyler). Music: personal hair
and makeup artist for Shiragirl, an all-girl punk rock band hailing from
Brooklyn, NY.
Casey Robinson (Fight Choreographer). Recent credits include Age of
Iron (Classic Stage Company), Coney Island Avenue (New York Theatre
Workshop), The Canterbury Tales (Theatre of the Riverside Church), and Big
Love (Setkani Festival, Czech Republic). Casey is an MFA recipient from
Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
Phil Gates (Assistant Director). Recent directing credits include grunge is
dead (NYC 15-Minute Play Festival), like the night (The Tank), Savage/Love
(Islesford Theater Project, Maine). Assistant director and co-adaptor for ITP's
original staging of the Sinclair Lewis novel Babbitt. Phil received his BA from
Bowdoin College, where he directed Cloud Nine and Six Characters in Search
of an Author. He is currently developing a stage adaptation of selected works
by the poet James Tate.
Emily Madison (Dramaturg). Dramaturgy credits include Polis, The Private
Life of Inga Snyder, The Seagull, and Big Love (Columbia), Coney Island
Avenue (sixdollarsinmypocket productions), and The Constant Wife, His Girl
Friday, and The Suspects (Guthrie Theater.) With her company Bohemian
Archaeology Productions, she co-directed Holidays Uncorked and performed
in Time Flies and Others by Ives. She has also worked at the Goodman
Theater, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and City Theatre in
Miami, and Playwrights Horizons. She is in her second year of Columbia’s
MFA dramaturgy program and is a graduate of Washington University in St.
Louis.
Brian Bené (Assistant Scenic and Props Designer) is an undergraduate
student at Columbia University. Design credits include Endgame (CU
Players), A Streetcar Named Desire (Assistant Scenic Design, Columbia
Stages) and The Duchess of Malfi. Directing credits include Elektra (CU
Players), Neil LaBute’s bash and Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis.
D. Westerholm (Production Stage Manager) graduated with a BA in Theatre
Management from Western Washington University and is currently pursuing
an MFA in Stage Management at Columbia University. Columbia productions
include: The Canterbury Tales, 2011 Playwrights’ Introduction, Big Love
(2009), The Threepenny Opera, A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Adriana Baer),
Looking for Love or The Centaur Play and Black Snow. Michelle Cote (Assistant Stage Manager) is a first year Columbia School of
the Arts graduate student pursuing her MFA in Stage Management. Stage
Managing credits include: The Private Life of Inga Snyder by James Ryan
Caldwell; Reefer Madness: the Musical; The Cook; 1000 Homosexuals, a
new play by Michael Yawney; As Bees in Honey Drown; and Proof.
Steven Rowe (Assistant Stage Manager) is a first year stage manager at
Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He received his Bachelors degree
from Pepperdine University in Theatre and Psychology. Columbia stage
management credits include Pretend That You Owe Me and The Cherry
Orchard.
Jill Bernard (General Manager) is pursuing her Masters Degree in Theatre
Management and Producing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts
and graduated from Northwestern University’s School of Communications
in 2005 with a Major in Theatre. She most recently worked at the boutique
theatrical general management firm Snug Harbor Productions, for which she
company managed SLIPPING, by Daniel Talbott, (produced by Piece by Piece
Productions) and THE 49 PROJECT (produced by Bulldog Theatricals). Jill
has directed and produced Off-Off-Broadway plays and worked with Second
Stage Theater as the assistant to the Director of Patron Services, focusing on
customer service and fundraising. Alona Fogel (Company Manager). Prior credits include Production Assisting:
HAIR: the American Tribal Love Rock Musical (Theory Store), and The Field
(Irish Repertory Theatre). Producing: Coney Island Avenue (New York Theatre
Workshop), La Femme est Morte or Why I Should Not F*!# my Son (PS122),
Barbarians (Schapiro Theatre), Camino Real (Columbia Stages), Waiting for
Lefty (Schapiro Theatre), The Harvard Project (13th St. Theatre). Company
Manager: Romeo & Juliet and Taming of the Shrew (CSC).
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more
than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to
advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component
of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a
wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member
of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of
performing arts unions.
The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
SPECIAL THANKS
Anne Bogart, Brian Kulick, Brian Reiser, Virginia Hubbell, Joe
Lauinger, Mikhael Garver, Kathryn Hamilton, Onur Karaoglu,
Adam Marple, Marios Theocharous, Lauren Bloom, Rob Arena,
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Jeffrey Andrew Bernard, Sarah
Jakubasz, MFA classes of 2011 and 2012, Louisa Levy, first-year
crew: Shannon Fillion, Simon Hanukai, Julia May Jonas, David
Klasko, Ian Klein, Mariaelena Morales, Coco Schneider
Vocal Music by Columbia University's "Notes and Keys"
The School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program
would like to thank Materials for the Arts,
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger
and the Leadership and Staff of the Riverside Church.
School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program Staff:
Director of Academic Administration: Julie Rossi
Program Assistant: Jamie Hardy
Director of Production: Ruth Kreshka
Production Manager: Camille Davis
Technical Director: Tom Gilmore
Asst. TD/Shop Foreman: Anthony Cerrato
Shop DRAs: Erik Grathwohl and Rebecca Poccia
Carpenters: Billy Burns, Jeb Burt, David Carter, Michelle Cote,
Kate Croasdale, Sarah Eismann, Mariaelena Morales, Luis Moreno,
Christina Najera, James Mainard O’Connell, Jensen Olaya, Kendale
Winbush, Shiva Yahaghi
Painters: Paul Peers
Electricians: Nick Hung, Tsubasa Kamei, Chuck Lander, Luis Moreno,
Becca Poccia, Nancy Valladares
Romeo and Juliet Production Staff:
Production Stage Manager: D. Westerholm
Assistant Stage Managers: Michelle Cote and Steven Rowe
General Manager: Jill Bernard
Company Manager: Alona Fogel
Light Board Operator: Shannon Fillion
Sound Board Operator: Simón Hanukai
Running Crew: Julia May Jonas, David Klasko, Ian Klein,
Mariaelena Morales, Coco Schneider
Marketing: Erica Ruff, Linda Borregales, Corey Bright, Jesse Longman
Operations Manager: Regina Vorria
Staff of The Riverside Theatre:
Executive Director of the Theatre: Jewel Kinch
Assistant Director of the Theatre: Russ Jennings
Technical Coordinator: Nancy Valladares
Box Office Manager: Johnn Demarzio
The Riverside Theatre does not condone any nudity or sexually explicit material in the
productions presented by the Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program.
Carol Becker, Dean
The Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies
Andrei Serban, Director
Theatre Arts Program 2009-2010 Faculty
Arnold Aronson, Chair, Ph.D. Advisor, Head of Acting Concentration
Steven Chaikelson, Head of Theatre Management & Producing Concentration
Anne Bogart, Head of Directing Concentration
Christian Parker, Head of Dramaturgy Concentration
Charles Mee, Head of Playwriting Concentration
Ruth Kreshka, Head of Stage Management Concentration
Daniel Adamian, David Auster, Leslie Ayvazian, Victoria Bailey,
Gigi Bolt, Chris Boneau, Deborah Brevoort, Christopher Burney,
Sheila Callaghan, Carrie Casselman, Tom Connell, Nancy Coyne,
John Dias, Olympia Dukakis, Peter Entin, John Erman, Robert Fried,
Bernard Gersten, Barry Grove, Andrea Haring, Roy Harris, Hugh Hysell,
Jessica Jenen, Amy Kaissar, Tom Kelly, Brian Kulick, Peter Lawrence,
Gideon Lester, James Leverett, Paul Libin, Kristin Linklater, Ira Mont,
Gregory Mosher, Michael Naumann, Qui Nguyen, Gene O’Donovan,
Barney O’Hanlon, Frank Pugliese, Carol Rocamora,
William Russo, Thomas Schumacher, Larry Singer,
Kelly Stuart, Lucy Thurber, Livia Vanaver, Donna Walker-Kuhne,
Linda Winer, Niky Wolcz, Ursula Wolcz, W. B. Worthen
Please join us for these Playwrights’ Thesis Play Presentations:
Neither Here Nor There
by Rebecca Sue Haber
Mentored by Neil LaBute
Directed by Stephen Brackett
April 28 at 3:00pm and
April 29 at 8:00pm
At The Cherry Pit
A Frontier, As Told By The Frontier
By Jason Gray Platt
Mentored by Naomi Wallace
Directed by Luke Harlan
April 28 at 8:00pm and
April 30 at 3:00pm
At The Cherry Pit
Adam’s Dream
by Steven Gaultney
Mentored by Edward Bond
Directed by Matt Torney
April 29 at 2:30pm and
May 1 at 7:30pm
At The Cherry Pit
They Call Him Young Lou
by Daniella Shoshan
Mentored by Kia Corthron
Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh
April 30 at 8:00pm and
May 1 at 3:30pm
At The Cherry Pit
Play America
(Life Is Short, Wear
Your Party Pants)
by Matt Wilson
Mentored by Kelly Copper
Directed by Kathryn Hamilton
May 3 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
At The 4th Street Theatre of NYTW
The Blue Balloon
by Libby Leonard
Mentored by Mac Wellman
Directed by Mia Rovegno
May 4 at 3:00pm and
May 6 at 8:00pm
At The 4th Street Theatre of NYTW
The End Of Days
by Jeffrey James Keyes
Mentored by
David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Scott Ebersold
May 6 at 3:00pm and
May 7 at 8:00pm
At The 4th Street Theatre of NYTW
Beautiful Province
(Belle Province)
by Clarence Coo
Mentored by David Henry Hwang
Directed by Stephen Fried
May 7 at 3:00pm and
May 8 at 8:00pm
At The 4th Street Theatre of NYTW
Separation
by Aren Haun
Mentored by Craig Lucas
Date TBD, Venue TBD
The Cherry Pit, 155 Bank Street
The 4th Street Theatre of NYTW, 83 East 4th Street, First Floor
Also, Coming this Summer....
Henry VI, Part 3
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Adam Marple
East 13th Street Theater
July 1-24, 2010
co-produced by Wide-Eyed Productions