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JANICE C. BENNETT
PRODUCTION OPERATORS
(Associate Producer)
Janice C. Bennett is a graduate of New York
University, Stern School of Business, a financial
professional and an enthusiastic fan of the theater.
She is very pleased to have the opportunity to
contribute to this production through her role as
an Associate Producer.
Gretchen Engle: Light Board
Steven Brown: Sound Board
ARIA ARTS CONSULTING
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Aria Arts Consulting provides theatrical
marketing, fundraising services and business
management solutions for performing arts
companies and non-profit entities, specializing
in organizations that serve children and families.
Off Broadway credits: Love Child, Groovaloo,
Perdita, Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz,
[title of show], Dog Sees God, Naked Boys
Singing!, The Musical of Musical, The Musical!
Kids: Dear Edwina, Gustafer Yellowgold’s Mellow
Sensation, Odgen Nash’s Tales of Custard the
Dragon, Moey Live: P is for Party, A Dolphin
Up a Tree, Funkey Monkeys, Seussical, Anne
of Green Gables, Henry and Mudge, Great
Expectations, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
and Captain Louie.
(Legal Counsel)
Peter is an entertainment attorney and theatrical
general manager and producer who has
represented theatrical producers, independent
film producers, investors, commercial and nonprofit theatres, writers, directors, performers,
talent agents and managers for over twenty-five
years. He is a Tony-Nominated producer of
Broadway, Off-Broadway and Regional Theatre.
He owned and operated The Actors’ Playhouse
in Greenwich Village, New York for 12 years.
He is the Chairman of the Off-Broadway Theatre
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Off-Broadway producers, general managers,
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FEBRUARY 16 - MARCH 21
In Franco’s Spain, an Israeli scholar
is caught stealing a confidential
Inquisition file. An interrogation
follows, reviving the 15th Century
story of a Catholic priest whose faith
is tested when he finds himself in
love with a Jewish woman. Conviction
is an award-winning play based on a
true story of the Spanish Inquisition.
VICTORY GARDENS THEATER in association with
MAYA PRODUCTIONS and STEVE KLEIN presents
Ezra T. Lowrey - Bennington College
Michelle Foster - Marymount Manhattan College
Gretchen E. Engle - Marymount Manhattan College
Amanda Rosen - Marymount Manhattan College
VOLUNTEERS
“306 FOOT SOLDIERS”
Sami Khan, Tim Middleton, Chen-chih Chan,
Johnny Matos, Christopher Khan, Evelyn Tineo,
Jennifer Snowdon, Gerad Desir.
PATRONS AND SUPPORTERS
“306 MOVEMENT LEADERS”
Martha Pinson, Evelyn Tineo, Janice C. Bennett,
Darrell Lee, William Edward Covington III, Geralyn
Covington, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, Bobby
Beall, Mona Hennessy, Kia Coleman, Ryan
Jefferies, From the Go Films, Terry and Rita
Woodard, Gary and Faith Taylor, Laura Pegram
Walter Beach and Gail Boyd, Edith Oblige, Joyce
Tyson, Barbara Love, William and Jackie,
McMickens, Patrick Morrissey, Mr. and Mrs.
Jonathon Cobb, Gloria Mayfield Banks and Mary
Kay, Inc., The Rev. Jay H. Gordon, Lisa Miles and
Jeff Boyce, The Rev. L. Kathleen Liles, The National
Civil Rights Museum.
SPECIAL THANKS
PRODUCTION PHOTOS: PIER BACCARO COVER PHOTO: PETER SCHWEITZER
Cheryl Katz (The muse!), 59E59 Theaters
leadership and staff, Janice C. Bennett, Peter
Breger, Jules Zalon, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts,
Josh Kalish, Maureen Linch, Steven Bloom, Carolyn
Owerka, Rashaad Ernesto Green and Mi Alma
Films, Elizabeth Rankin-Fulcher, Zoila Perez,
Maurice Danielson, Jane Mandel, Frankie Faison,
Pier Baccaro, Mona Hennessy, Keith Hamilton
Cobb, Kwame Johnson, David Mold and
Marymount-Manhattan College, Bennington
College, Fredi Walker-Browne, Dewey Moss,
Byron Utley, Chris Clark, Gwen Edwards and
“OUR LIVES”, Beverly Robertson and National
Civil Rights Museum staff, Candice AbernathyGrimes, Ray Gaspard, Brad Learmouth, Ivy Julease
Newman and Harlem Stage, Valley Theatre
League, John Pietrowski and the Playwright’s
Theatre of NJ, Michel Marriott, Manuel Uzhca
and the staff of Bistro 60, WDIA, Memphis,
TN, The Mississippi River Collection, our 306
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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, producing a wide range
of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA
is a member of the AFL-CIO, and isaffiliated with
FIA, an international organization of performing arts
unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.
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LUNA STAGE PRESENTS
THE MAN IN
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PRESENTS
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY
CRAIG ALAN EDWARDS
DIRECTED BY CHERYL KATZ
DR. KING
ADDITIONAL VOICES
CRAIG ALAN EDWARDS*
CALVIN GRANT, WILLIAM J. WARD,
FREDI WALKER-BROWNE
BCOG PRODUCTIONS, JANICE C. BENNETT,
JEFFREY D. CARIBOU, FROM THE GO FILM
GENERAL MANAGER
JESSIMEG PRODUCTIONS, EDMUND GAYNES
AND JULIA BEARDSLEY
STAGE MANAGER
PAUL WHELIHAN*
SET DESIGNER
CHARLIE CORCORAN
LIGHTING DESIGNER
JILL NAGLE
SOUND DESIGNER
ANDY COHEN
COSTUME DESIGNER
ARTHUR OLIVER
ASST. COSTUME DESIGNER CHRISTOPHER METZGER
PROPS MASTER
JESSICA PARKS
MAKE UP DESIGNER
JENNIFER SNOWDON
PRODUCTION MANAGER
JOSH IACOVELLI
PRESS REPRESENTATION
SPRINGER ASSOCIATES, PR /JOE TRENTACOSTA
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
DEWEY MOSS
MARKETING
ARIA ARTS CONSULTING/ERIN PAUAHI AUERBACH
LEGAL COUNSEL
PETER BREGER, ESQ. AND JULES ZALON, ESQ.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1968. 6:30PM
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. THE LORRAINE MOTEL, ROOM 306,
AND LATER AT MASON TEMPLE
The production runs for one hour and forty minutes with no intermission.
TIME:
PLACE:
The Man in Room 306 was originally produced by Luna Stage Company, Montclair, New Jersey.
THE NATIONAL
CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
Proudly support this production.
By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them
and to ourselves. By exalting the accomplishments of Martin Luther
King, Jr. into a legendary tale that is annually told, we fail to recognize
his humanity-his personal and public struggles-that are similar to yours and
mine. By idolizing those whom we honor, we fail to realize that we could go
and do likewise.
Charles Willie, King's Morehouse classmate, from Bearing The Cross by David J. Garrow
CRAIG ALAN
EDWARDS
(Playwright/Dr. King)
Craig is a New York actor,
writer and producer. He is
a native of Philadelphia, PA.
Theatre credits include:
Regional: Merchant Of
Venice, King Lear (with Earle
Hyman), Taming Of The
Shrew, Dinner With Friends, Fences, Les Blanc,
Taste Of Honey, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth
Night, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Tracers, My Three
Angels, The Arch Bishop’s Ceiling and others. New
York: Waiting For My Man, Box, A Last Dance for
Sybil (with Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis), Love’s
Labor’s Lost, Oroonoko, workshop projects with
The New York Theatre Workshop. Television: FRINGE
(Fox), Law and Order, Law and Order: Special
Victims Unit, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law
and Order: Trial by Jury, All My Children, As the
World Turns, Luther’s Choice (TV Movie). Film:
Sweet and Lowdown (with Sean Penn, directed by
Woody Allen), Lip Service (directed by William H.
Macy), The Opposite Sex (with Courtney Cox and
Kevin Pollack), Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop (with
Danny Hoch), Recent: Under New Management.
Shorts: Don’t Nobody Love the Game, The Workout.
Training: Kristin Linklater (Voice), Maggie Flannigan
(William Esper Studios), Lloyd Richards (The Actors
Center) and Vernon F. Blackmon (Teacher/Director:
Boston, MA). Dedicated to Helen T. Edwards, Vernon
Blackmon and Debbie Silva.
CHERYL KATZ
(Director/Dramaturg)
Cheryl has been the director of play development
for Luna Stage in Montclair, New Jersey for the past
six seasons. She has developed and directed over
thirty new plays in the New York area and has
collaborated with Craig Alan Edwards as director
and dramaturg of The Man in Room 306 since its
inception. She has worked as a producer,
administrator and special projects manager for
LaMama E.T.C., Under One Roof, Electronic Arts
Intermix, Arts International and The School of Hard
Knocks, and has worked in script development for
The Young Playwrights Festival, The O’Neill Theatre
Conference and The Playwrights Theatre of New
Jersey. She is a graduate of New York University’s
Tisch School of the Arts.
PAUL WHELIHAN
(Stage Manager)
Paul stage managed the most recent production of
The Man in Room 306 at Luna Stage. He was also
the Stage Manager at Luna for The Whipping Man
and Honor and the River. He directed Luna’s
production of A Beautiful Home for the Incurables
and as an actor, performed the role of John in The
Normals, the Mayor in Dragons, (Best Supporting
Actor in a Musical: Star Ledger) and Gruber in The
Flame Keeper (Off Broadway, 47th Street Theatre)
As an actor, he has performed extensively Off
Broadway, regionally and in locally produced TV
and Film projects. Paul stage-managed The Last
Night of Ballyhoo at Forum Theatre and numerous
productions at the Ironbound Theatre, which he cofounded in Newark. He is also the co-founder of
Running Rabbit Family Theatre, an award winning
company for young audiences in residence in
Montclair, at Kean University and at Monmouth
University, where he works as a director, actor,
playwright and producer.
CHARLIE CORCORAN
(Set Designer)
Designs include: The Man In Room 306, (Luna
Stage 2008), Sophistry, The Black Monk, The Bully
Pulpit (Theatre Row, Beckett Theatre), The Emperor
Jones, The Yeats Project, Sive, Prisoner of the
Crown, Defender Of The Faith, The Field (Irish
Repertory Theatre), The Metal Children (Vineyard
Theatre), Without Walls (Mark Taper Forum), The
Molly Maguire’s (Kirby Center), The Night Watcher,
Exits and Entrances (Primary Stages), Rock Doves
(Irish Arts Center), The Last Smoker In America,
Bernice Bobs Her Mullet (NYMF Festival), Shogun
Macbeth, Tea, Yohen (Pan Asian Rep). Recent
Designs: The Dishwashers (59E59) Mercy of a
Storm, Gravity Of Honey, Dear Liar, Mr. Dooley’s
America (Chester Theatre Company) Associate
Designs include: Edward Albee’s Me, Myself and
I (Upcoming), Raisin In the Sun, The Boys From
Syracuse (Broadway), Happiness, Third (Lincoln
Center), Iphigenie En Tauride, Rodelinda
(Metropolitan Opera), The Ring Cycle, Amelia
(Seattle Opera). Other venues include: Arena Stage,
The McCarter Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The
Goodman Theatre, The Seattle Rep, The Guthrie,
Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, New York
Stage and Film, NY Theatre Workshop, The Play
company, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theatre
and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
www.charlescorcorandesign.com
JILL NAGLE
(Lighting Designer)
Jill recently designed Do Not Go Gentle at The
Clurman, The Dishwashers at 59E59 and The Bully
Pulpit at The Samuel Beckett Theatre. Other designs
include: Count Down (The Bank Street Theatre), In
the Parlance (The Pulse Theatre), Carrera (La Mama
E.T.C.), Cowboy Mouth (The Westside Theatre),
Dov & Ali, Love Song, Tilted House (Chester Theatre
Company). Jill has been the Resident Lighting
Designer at NJ Repertory Company for over 4 years.
Some of her favorite NJ Rep shows include: Two
Jews Walk into War, Dead Ringer, Evie’s Waltz,
Sick, Apple, Minstrel Show, Bookends, Engaging
Shaw, October 1962, Exits and Entrances, The
Women of Lockerbie, Tilt Angel, Klonsky and
Schwartz, Old Clown Wanted and The Good
Daughter. Luna Stage productions include: The
Whipping Man, TopDog/Underdog, Kreutzer
Sonata, Little Beasts, Ghosts and Fastest Women
Alive. Other venues include: Playwrights of NJ,
Dreamcatcher Repertory, The Theater Project,
Montclair State University, New Jersey City University
and Penguin Repertory. Jill is proud to be able to
design The Man in Room 306 once again. “Our
lives begin to end the day we become silent about
things that matter.” MLK. www.jillnagle.net
ANDY COHEN
(Sound Designer)
Andy has written music or designed sound for many
theatrical and musical performances in and around
NYC. Including shows at Lincoln Center, Fordham
University, HERE, LaMama, the Ohio Theatre and
the NYC International Fringe Festival, where he was
a 2000 “Excellence” Award Winner. Recent sound
design and composing projects have included the
musicals Ripcords (FringeNYC, 2008), Charlie
Chang and the Mysterious Salami, the plays
Kabbalah and Mountain Jews with the Jewish
Theater of New York at the Triad Theatre, The Man
in the Newspaper Hat at the 45th St. Theatre, Jane
Ho at Theatre Row, several productions at Luna
Stage in Montclair, NJ (including The Man in Room
306 in 2008), compositions for the Drama League’s
Directors Fest, the Chekhov Now! Festival, and the
dance score Taro for the Mariana Bekerman Dance
Company at the Joyce Theatre in SOHO. Upcoming
projects include the song cycle Love Stinks (which
recently premiered at the Public Theatre as part of
the 2009 Summer Play Festival) and the musical
The Green Manifesto. He currently resides in
Brooklyn (Cobble Hill) and is working on several
original projects, including musicals about the
science of herpetology and the Principality of
Monaco. Andy holds degrees in music composition
from Oberlin and the Manhattan School of Music.
www.andycomusic.com
ARTHUR OLIVER
(Costume Designer)
Arthur Oliver has been designing costumes
professionally since 1991. Opera, Theatre, Film,
Television and Academia have employed his talent
at such notable institutions as The Atlanta Opera,
The Connecticut Opera, Berkshire Theatre Festival,
The Charles Playhouse, The Colonial Theatre,
Shakespeare and Company, Mixed Company, The
Stratford Shakespearean Festival (Ontario), The
Yard, NYU/Tisch, LSU, Swine Palace, Trinity College,
Gordon College, Simon's Rock College of Bard
and The Boston Conservatory. Mr. Oliver has
worked with popular entertainers such as Raquel
Welch, Liza Minnelli, Alicia Silverstone, Keanu
Reeves, Maureen Stapleton, Marge Champion,
Harvey Fierstein, David Hyde-Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth,
Carly Simon and Olympia Dukakis. In 2005 he
collaborated with Grammy Award recipient Carly
Simon and Artistic Director Wendy Taucher (The
Yard) on Created by Carly Simon: Dances at the
Yard. His Broadway debut was in 2007: Broadway
Bares XVII-Myth Behavior. www.arthuroliver.net
CHRISTOPHER METZGER
(Assistant Costume Designer)
Christopher a senior theatre arts major at Drew
University is thrilled to be a part of The Man in
Room 306. Christopher has interned at The
Williamstown Theatre Festival (Costume) where he
costumed two workshop productions, The EggLayers and Bully to You. Previous Assistant Costume
design credits: Extraordinary Circumstances (Shetler
Studios) and As Far As We Know (NYC Fringe).
Costume Design credits include: The Tempest, The
Stonewater Rapture, Sittin' (Drew University),
Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Urinetown,
The Actor's Nightmare, 'dentity Crisis, Dark of the
Moon (The New Players Company) and numerous
productions for Acting Manitou in Oakland, Maine.
JESSICA PARKS
(Props Master)
Jessica has been the resident prop master for the
New Jersey Repertory Company since 2003. Credits
there include: The Housewives on Mannheim, Sick,
The Little Hours, Engaging Shaw, Minstrel Show,
Women of Lockerbie, Tilt Angel, Whores, Old
Clown Wanted, Lemonade, The Adjustment, Spain,
Emil, and The Good Daughter as well as scenic
design for Dead Ringer, The Rant, Poetic License,
Apple and Evie’s Waltz among others. Other
properties credits include: Macbeth, All My Sons
and You Can’t Take It With You at Two River Theater,
Pentecost at the Barrow Group and Foreign
Exchange at Playwright’s Theater of NJ.
JENNIFER SNOWDON
(Make Up Designer)
Prompted by her mentor, Dr. Kenneth G. Mills,
Jennifer sought out and found her life's passion in
make up design. She studied at the Berger Institute
of Production Technology in Florida. She has been
Key Make up Artist on many feature films and
worked with Melissa Leo, David Straithorn and
most recently, Ellen Burstyn. She also has worked
on varied commercial, corporate and theater projects,
and an Internet Soap Opera. With early exposure
to High Def she understood the importance of
extreme attention to detail and simplicity to capture
the essence of a character. Jennifer was the Make
Up Designer for the 2008 Luna Stage production
of The Man in Room 306 and has worked with Mr.
Edwards to develop the "King" character for many
years. She is proud to be a part of this project and
to help bring this American icon "to life" again for
the Off Broadway production.
JOSH IACOVELLI
(Production Manager)
Josh is an actor and has also been designing sets
and stage managing Off Broadway productions for
the past ten years. He is the in-house Technical
Director for the Players Theatre, St. Luke’s Theatre
and the Actors Temple Theatres in NYC. Recent
design credits include: Zero Hour, A Christmas
Carol, Danny and Sylvia, Lansky, Don’t Leave
It All to Your Children, The Rise of Dorothy Hale,
Treasure Island, Eightballs, The Selfish Giant,
At War, Give‘Em Hell, Harry! and Annulla. Josh
has a B.A. from Stockton College and an MFA
from The Actors Studio Drama School at The
New School University.
JESSIMEG PRODUCTIONS
(General Manager)
Edmund Gaynes and Julia Beardsley operate
Jessimeg Productions, a producing and general
management company that represents St. Luke’s
Theatre and Actors Temple Theatre, as well as the
current Off Broadway hits Zero Hour, Danny
and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical and The
Boychick Affair. Other recent productions include
The Rise of Dorothy Hale, The Big Voice: God
or Merman?, Lansky, A Brush With Georgia
O’Keeffe, Emily Mann’s Annulla and Don’t
Leave It All to Your Children!
LUNA STAGE
(Producer)
Artistic Director, JANE MANDEL
Managing Director, MONA HENNESSY
Luna Stage Company was founded in 1992 by
Artistic Director, Jane Mandel, as she developed In
The Name of the Woman - an original theatre piece
on women through history. Located for 16 years in
Montclair, NJ, the company has produced premiere
and classic works, receiving critical acclaim for its
dynamic and innovative vision and masterful
productions. Luna Stage is an adventurous theatre
company that seeks to advance the American theatre
while it fosters the creativity of performing artists in
all disciplines. The organization supports cultural
and racial diversity through creating and sustaining
an environment inclusive of the many voices in our
society. Luna Stage first produced The Man in Room
306 in 1995 and decided to bring it back in 2008
to honor Dr. King on the 40th anniversary of his
assassination. A 501(c) (3) not-for-profit corporation
and a full member of the New Jersey Theatre
Alliance, Luna Stage is a recipient of grants from
such organizations as the Geraldine R. Dodge
Foundation, The Shubert Foundation and the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts. The company is
moving to a new home this spring in West Orange,
NJ, as part of the exciting, new Valley Arts District
of Orange and West Orange. For information on
Luna Stage and all its programming please visit:
www.lunastage.org.
Special thanks to Jules Zalon.