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AUGUST 21–SEPTEMBER 7 AUGUST WILSON’S FENCES 1987 WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE IN DRAMA CELEBRATING OUR PAST. EYES ON OUR FUTURE. GLOUCESTERSTAGE.COM FROM OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The Hamilton Group sends best wishes for a successful season at Gloucester Stage I can’t think of a more appropriate way to begin our 35th anniversary season than by revisiting the haunting tunes and lyrics of Jacques Brel which strike us in a different and deeper way with each engagement. For the past decade I have been talking to GSC patrons—some attending their first production and some who have been attending the theater since its inception— about what draws them to the theater. Some like comedies because “it is the summer after all.” Some like new works since it was the original GSC Eric C. Engel mission. Some like musicals while some like plays. The common ingredients to our most admired productions? Good stories told by good actors in an intimate setting. Those are the things I love most about theater, and about our theater in particular. In Gloucester, you are not just witnessing the action, you are a part of it! Our deepest gratitude goes out to everyone who is or has played a role in keeping us in forward motion—audiences, artists, board and staff members, donors, and members of the press. Here’s looking forward to another 35 years! FROM OUR MANAGING DIRECTOR I believe that going to the theatre is indeed a special occasion. The uniqueness of the medium is that the audience and actors share a moment in time that cannot be recaptured, a shared experience to be treasured for years to come. What makes each performance different and unique, though, is that it’s shaped by a new audience, every time. Wealth Counseling InVEStments InSURANCE Primary Office: 900 Cummings Center, Suite 201U Beverly, MA 01915 978-279-9100 www.thehamiltongroup.com Securities and advisory services offered through representatives of Lincoln Financial Securities. Member SIPC, which is not affiliated with The Hamilton Group. LFS-879094-031314 Coming through our doors today, you will have noticed some changes to our lobby, new seats in the auditorium, Costin Manu and other improvements. We are constantly working towards enhancing your experience. None of these improvements would have been possible without you and your contributions, our supporters, donors and sponsors. We thank you and we appreciate your faith in us and in our future—a strong validation of the work we do. Whether it’s to relive great old memories or discover the latest, we want you to experience unforgettable moments with us. I am looking forward to meeting all of you and to making new friends. Enjoy! 1 STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Managing Director Costin Manu Geoffrey Richon Vice President Founding Artistic Director, Emeritus Israel Horovitz Elizabeth Neumeier Treasurer Media Relations Manager/ Youth Acting Workshops Director Heidi J. Dallin Mary Lou Crane Secretary Artistic Director Eric C. Engel Box Office and Communications Manager Rachel Arias Grant Writer Candace Wheeler Production Manager Joe Short Resident Lighting Designer Russ Swift Robert Boulrice President and Chair Mary John Boylan Jean Cooney, Emerita Robert Ellis Richard P. Mills Curt Siebert Bea Waring BOARD OF ADVISORS Assistant Box Office Manager Tom Martin Lori Cianculli Kevin J. Clancy, Ph.D. Beth & Linzee Coolidge Mark Gottesman Thomas S. Grilk, Esq. Judith Hoglander Israel Horovitz Jerry Maguire Steve McCarthy Carolyn Stewart Barry Y. Weiner, Esq. Dr. Kenneth Weiss Regina Villa Box Office Associate Jordan Westling GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY 2014 Company Dramaturg Joe Stallone Technical Director Ray Jenness House and Company Manager Elsa McLaughlin Assistant House and Company Managers Tina Cersosimo, Denise Gallo Assistant Production Manager Brendan Marr Production Photographer Gary Ng Youth Acting Workshops Assistant Talia DeWolfe Graphic Designer Melissa Wagner O’Malley Program Designer Derk Smid/DFS Creative Program, Brochures, and Poster Printing Noble Ford Productions, Inc. 2 267 East Main Street Gloucester, MA 01930 www.gloucesterstage.com Administrative Office: 978-281-4099 Box Office: 978-281-4433 Fax: 978-281-0550 Katharine Lane Weems (1899–1989), Grey Fox, 1971, bronze. Gift of the artist, 1984. [2407] GSC STAFF & BOARD REOPENING AUGUST 2014 DISCOVER the Cape Ann Museum and the many stories it has to tell, all relating to a singularly remarkable place: Cape Ann. The Museum’s rich collections represent the history of the region—its people, its industries, and especially its arts and culture. We invite you to discover and explore the newly renovated Museum when we reopen our doors this summer. STAY INFORMED AT capeannmuseum.org Gloucester Stage Summer 2014.indd 1 4/29/14 2:01 PM Best Margaritas in Town Authentic Mexican Mexico’s Best Chiles Rellenos • Enchiladas • Seafood Steak • Vegetarian • Gluten Free Items Take Out Available Open Year Round 7 Days a Week Sunday – Thursday Open 4:30 pm for Dinner Friday – Saturday Open 3:30 pm for Dinner Tuesday Live Music 7:00 – 9:00pm 978-283-8228 • Jalapenosgloucester.com • 86 Main Street, Gloucester, MA Follow us on Facebook 3 FROM OUR BOARD PRESIDENT Experience New England charm at its best. Dear Patron of the Gloucester Stage, I am honored as president of the board of directors to offer these words of thanks to you. Delicious Breakfast. Spectacular View. Oceanfront Breakfast Café open to the public 7:30AM - 11:00AM, 7 days a week. Following in the impressive footsteps of my predecessor, Bea Waring, I have the job of leading our board in assuring that we have the resources to light our stage for another season so that our actors, directors and technicians can do their incredible work for you. Without an audience to respond to their work, actors, directors and technicians are not a happy lot. Robert Boulrice For 35 glorious years you have come to our theater to help make magic happen, often with tears, often with laughter but always with your support. And your support is vital. Take a moment and look at the list of friends and patrons below. If your name appears, Bravo! If it does not, know you are missed and that we need you. Please speak to us and we will show you how easily your name can be listed among us. Very few theaters can claim a tradition of excellence as longstanding as that of the Gloucester Stage Company. You are part of something special and you are appreciated. Thank you for being with us tonight. 125 Atlantic Road Gloucester, MA 01930 978.283.0014 ✦ 800.732.6313 AtlantisOceanfrontInn.com Accountants For Achievers. For over 30 years, individuals and small business owners have counted on our team for tax and business advice. So can you. HOWARD M. FRISCH, CPA, CFP TM Brian N. Wall, CPA, EA Josephine Scuderi Mary Lou Balbo Sharon Cody 978.281.2639 128 Main Street, Gloucester [email protected] OUR SUPPORTERS Gloucester Stage Company thanks all of our 2014 donors! Ticket revenue covers less than 50% of each show’s budget. Donations and grants make up the rest. Please talk to a member of GSC about donor benefits. If we have inadvertently overlooked your name or you would like your listing changed, please contact the office at 978-281-4099. Donations received between June 6, 2013 and June 24, 2014 are listed below. CHAMPION $100,000+ Anonymous SUSTAINER $2,000–$2,999 Kevin J. and Kathleen A. Clancy Anna Crouse UNDERWRITER $10,000–$99,999 Kanter Kallman Foundation John and Mollie Byrnes Stone Soup Fund Kathe and Allan Cohen and The Geoffrey Richon Selma and Bayness Andrews Barry and Susan Weiner Fund of the Boston Foundation Phillip and Eve Cutter SPONSOR $1,000–$1,999 Applied Materials Foundation Cape Ann Savings Bank Willard C. Tilson Foundation Robert Boulrice Mark and Janet Gottesman Thomas Burger and Andree Robert Richard and Anne Rosenfeld Bayard and John Cobb Bob and Barbara Ellis BENEFACTOR $5,000–$9,999 Catherine England J. Linzee and Elizabeth Coolidge The Bruce J. Anderson Foundation Susan and George Evans Alexander Dingee and Susan Gray Thomas S. Grilk Harry and Judith Hoglander Bayard and Bea Waring Sigrid Lindo John and Mary Ann McCormick PATRON $3,000–$4,999 Curt Siebert Stephen and Jill Bell Peter and Kathleen Van Demark Lindsay and Garth Greimann Thomas and Kristin Zarrella Richard Mills 4 DONOR $500–$999 John and Mary Antes John and Jan Bell Mary Curtis Michael & Linda Frieze Margaretta Hausman Thomas Janis and Joseph Weglarz Sheila Lummis Joe and Eileen Mueller Kenneth and Judith Revis Richard and Jean Roberts Bonnie and Joel Shelkrot Arnold and Rachel Oberai- Soltz Robin Tattersall William Taylor Dolores M. Laughlin and Robert K. Whitmarsh Buying homeowners insurance means buying protection for your home, both inside and out. With offices in Salem and Rockport, we are the insurance agency with the highest standard of excellence and mutual trust with each of our clients. In addition to protecting your home, we offer you complete insurance programs for boats, automobile, commercial property, and more. Representing fine companies such as: continued… 87 Margin Street, Salem, MA 01970 | 978-745-3300 | www.WalshInsurance.com 5 OUR SUPPORTERS (CONTINUED) CONTRIBUTOR $250–$499 James & Anne Barker MJ Boylan Walter Hess and Janice Cane Eric Engel Stefan Abramo and Barbara Ennis-Abramo Frank & Mitzi Ferguson Deborah Freeman Susan Frey Rose and Bill Hausman Robert & Pamela Irwin Sally Jackson Alan Joslin and Deborah Epstein Lorraine Law Paul and Jackie Littlefield William and Anastasia Lyman Barbara McLaughlin Elizabeth Neumeier David and Marie Louise Scudder Kathleen & Eugene Skrabut John and Betty Smallwood Catherine and Paul Stanley Gabriel Tkacik Dawn C. Tucker Verisk Analytics Employees Susannah Wolfe Charles and Margaret Ziering SUPPORTER up to $249 Robert Ackerman Marie Alfieri Cynthia Allen Anna Andella Melvin Arsenault Paula and Joseph Axelrod Nancy Baker Melvin and Carol Barron Linda Berard Hank and Wendy Betts Bernice and Diana Blitz David and Maureen W. Bovet Barbara Boyle Gerard Boyle John and Jane Bradley Linda Braun Barbara Brewer Barbara Bridges-Elliot Chester and Anthea Brigham Martha Brown Betty Brudnick Karen Budrow Arthur Carakatsane and Judy Miller Frederick Carnevale Bettie Cartwright Derek Cavanaugh Joseph & Josephine Ciardiello Kathe and Allen Cohen Dorothy and Richard Cole Kelly Cook Donna Cotter Frederick Cowan Beryl Cox Mary Lou Crane Stephen & Carole Davis Diane Debono Schafer Craig and Laurel Deery Charlotte Dewitt [for Nona Porter] Joseph-Rocque Dion [for Rocque’s Mom and David’s Mom] Joseph Donohue Mary Kay Dyer 6 Alice and Kenneth Erickson Roberta Erwin Diane Faissler Helen and Joseph Featherstone Sharon and William Fermon Peter and Myrna Finn Frances and John Fleming Jane Forsyth Richard Thomas & Adel Fougnies Karl and Joan Frank Harris Freeman Marion Frost Margaret Gardner Deborah Geurtze Robert Gillis John Gintell Linda Girard Paul Cary Goldberg Linda Goldstein Curtis Gollrad Nathaniel Gorton Beth Graham Cheryl and Kenneth Grey Carl and Judith Gustin Susanne Guyer and Thad Carpen Susan Hand Edward and Margaret Handy Jan Hansen Fred and Terri Hansen Kenneth and Anne Herman Arthur and Eloise Hodges Peter Hornbeck Charlie Hovey Deborah Hughes Lois Jacobs Annette Jacobs Edith Jacobs [and for Ron Hunter and Nona Porter] Katherine Janis Murray and Linda Janower Cheryl and Harold Jones Herbert and Elinore Kagan Meredith & David Kantor George and Linda Kauss Thomas Keating Martine Kellett Robert Kent Lynne and Abdullah Khambaty Tom and Maryanne Kiely Jerome Klein Dan Klein Patricia Knaggs Richard and Anita Korzeniewski Edward and Hollis Kowaloff Jacob and Melody Kriteman Jacqueline Kronenberg Joan and Miles Kulukundis Ann Lane Elizabeth Lanigan James Latham Philip Leahy Gary and Stephanie LeDuc Reuel & Malvina Liebert Mike & Sandra Lombardo David and Janet Loring Peter J. and Elaine M Lucas Frank Masse and Gail Magenis Donald Maier Barbara Main Maureen Malloy Mary Malone Costin (Konstantin) Manu Anna Matturro Joyce McCarthy Paul and Catherine McGeary Kimberly McGovern Jay McLauchlan Catherine & John Meany Irwin and Patricia Miller Loretta Mineo Nancy Morgan Gretchen and Ned Morse Paula Mullendore John and Marie Murray John Newhall James Newhall Robert Nolan Thomas O’Neill Monica Osterman Nancy Peace Russell D. and R. David Porper Christopher Pullman Rosemary Pye Charmaine Quinby-Stickney Robert Read Ann Reilly David Rhinelander Warren Rhodes Karen Ristuben Patricia Roach Town of Rockport Ronald Rosen Dr. Bruce & Jane Rosenberg Melvin and Martha Rosenblatt Wallace Rowe James Rusche and Patricia Epperly Henry and Susan Sacks Judith Salkovitz Elizabeth Sampson Jean Sawicki Charlotte Sciola Nanda & Albert Scott Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe Larry and Miriam Shutzer Arthur Siciliano Steve and Barbara Sienkiewicz Trina Smith Rosamond and Russel Smith Miriam Sommer Judith and Newton Spurr Danuta Stachiewicz M.D. [and for Nona Porter] Suzanne Stacy Joseph Stiliano Eugene Sullivan Paulett Taggart Richard Talkov & Susan Davies Anthony A. Tappe Jolinda & William Taylor Dan Thal John G. Thatcher Sharon Tomasulo Claire Tomlinson Sylvia Topp Steve Vavak and Beate BeckerVavak Alan & Donna Vilian Regina Villa David & Sue Wahr Edward Walker Allison Warren Stephen and Lee Whitfield William & Debbie Whiting Pat & Robert Whynott Dorothy Winer Emily Winterson David and Enid Wise Kim & Bill Wright Joe Wrinn Janice and Elliot Wyner BETTER SEATS CAMPAIGN [AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENT] Anna Andella John and Mary Antes Melvin Arsenault Stephen Bell Linda Berard Hank and Wendy Betts Bernice Blitz Robert Boulrice Gerard Boyle MJ Boylan Linda Braun Chester and Anthea Brigham Karen Budrow Janice Cane Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe Donna Cotter Frederick Cowan Mary Lou Crane Mary Curtis Philip and Eve Cutter Stephen Davis Mary Kay Dyer Bob and Barbara Ellis Helen and Joseph Featherstone Frances and John Fleming Jane Forsyth Deborah Freeman Harris Freeman Dr. Susan Frey Michael and Linda Frieze Marion Frost Richard Glantz Curtis Gollrad Mark and Janet Gottesman Beth Graham Garth and Lindsay Greimann Fred and Terry Hansen William and Rosalyn Hausman Eloise Hodges Harry and Judith Hoglander Charles Hovey Robert and Pamela Irwin Todd Kates [for Richard Carey] Jerome Klein Dan Klein Dr. Jacob and Melody Kriteman Diane Allenberg and James Latham Sigrid Lindo Donald Maier Costin Manu Joyce McCarthy Irwin and Patricia Miller Nancy Morgan Paula Mullendore Liz Neumeier John Newhall James Newhall R. David Porper Brian Price Christopher Pullman Patricia Roach Richard and Jean Roberts Ronald Rosen Melvin and Martha Rosenblatt Susan and Henry Sacks David and Marie Louise Scudder Curt Siebert Suzanne Stacy Beate Becker-Vavak and Stephen Vavak Joseph Stiliano Eugene Sullivan Richard Talkov Donna Vilian Regina Villa Bayard and Bea Waring Barry and Susan Weiner Stephen Whitfield Susannah Wolfe Joe Wrinn Elliot and Janice Wyner Thomas and Kristin Zarrella DONORS TO “A NEW PHONE SYSTEM FOR GSC” Robert Boulrice Catherine England Costin Manu Richard Mills Curt Siebert Bayard and Bea Waring 7 Anna Crouse Murch treated Broadway, local stages equally By Gail McCarthy The Gloucester Daily Times / January 8, 2014 GLOUCESTER’S ANNA CROUSE MURCH WAS AS COMFORTABLE SELLING TICKETS at the annual Annisquam Sea Fair here as she was shaking up the Broadway establishment to create discount tickets to make live theater accessible to a broader audience. Her life was divided between the bustling metropolis of Manhattan and the picturesque natural beauty of a seaside village that dates to Colonial times. She and her husband Russel Crouse (1893-1966)—a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright— traveled in diverse circles. While in New York City, they were privy to the Who’s Who of actors and directors of Broadway theater; and in the summer, they played in the social circles of the Annisquam, where— among their many activities—Russel would watch his two children through binoculars as they sailed on their boats “Anything Goes” and the “TimLin” and Anna organized activities for the children at the yacht club. Both the New York and Gloucester worlds will miss Anna’s presence. She died December 29, just a month shy of turning 98 years old, after a life of holding down numerous roles in the theater and music worlds. Born Anna Erskine, she was the daughter of a Columbia English professor and writer, John Erskine, who also helped to establish the Julliard School of Music. Her father served at its first president. One of his students at Columbia was Oscar Hammerstein. She is survived by her two children with Crouse. Her daughter Lindsay Crouse, who resides part time here, is a stage, television and film actress who earned an Academy Award nomination for her supporting role alongside Sally Field in “Places in the Heart” and has performed regularly at Gloucester Stage Company. Anna’s son, Timothy, is an Anna Crouse with Mayor John V. Lindsay on the day the TKTS booth opened in 1973. author whose works include “The Boys on Photo courtesy of the Theatre Development Fund the Bus,” about the media coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign. He also co-wrote a revival of “Anything Goes” with John Weidman, which won them a Tony Award for best revival in 1987. Both children remain familiar faces in Annisquam where they ran around in their youth and where they made lifelong friends. Anna, who was raised in Manhattan, would grow up to be involved in a number of cultural efforts. Her obituary in The New York Times noted her efforts in the creation of the discount TKTS booth in Times Square and her part in the “resuscitation of Lincoln Center Theater.” “…She had long believed that the theater industry itself should get behind a reducedprice outlet to make unused tickets available at the last minute to people who could not afford the ever-escalating admission price of Broadway shows,” the obituary noted. 8 Local Sea Fair But Anna’s cultural efforts grew to include her beloved summer home in the granite-strewn village in Gloucester. She was part of the committee to buy a new organ for the Annisquam Village Church, and she worked tirelessly to organize the toy table at the annual summer Sea Fair, which included a yearly pilgrimage to a Boston toy broker, where she would pore over the best choices. Anna worked in the world of Broadway theater even before she married Crouse. She was a budding actress who later worked with Broadway writers and producers. Anna was also a writer, and she wrote articles for major magazines and co-wrote two children’s books with her husband. Russel Crouse, along with his writing partner Howard Lindsay, co-wrote the book for “Sound of Music” in the late 1950s. The writing team earlier won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1946 for “State of the Union.” The pair first teamed up when the two revised P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton’s book for the Cole Porter musical that would eventually be titled “Anything Goes,” starring Ethel Merman. They produced 15 shows together in 30 years, Anna said in a 2008 interview with the Gloucester Times. She ran their office for four years, before she had children. She and Crouse first came to Cape Ann in the 1930s at the invitation of their friends, actress Jean Dixon and Ted Ely. The Crouses fell in love with the area’s beauty and tranquility and later bought a home. In the 2008 interview, Anna said a great deal of “The Sound of Music” was written in Annisquam. Role model Lindsay Crouse, in a telephone interview from New York City Tuesday, remembered her mother as an amazing role model, before and after the death of her father. (Anna would remarry in 1978.) “When she was in the middle of her life, I watched her recreate herself and really ally herself with the next generation,” she said of her mother’s work on cultural efforts in Manhattan. “The extraordinary thing about her is that she was very involved at all levels of theater,” Lindsay said. “I’d go up Lindsay Crouse to some theater in Harlem or way downtown to some little place and I’d look at the program and see my mother as a benefactor. “The quality I adored is that it didn’t matter if she was running the toy table at the Annisquam Sea Fair, or whether it was an opening on Broadway,” Lindsay added. “She was just as involved in (the fair) as with any opening night of my father.” “She taught me, perhaps, the most profound lesson as a woman operating in the world,” Lindsay said. “It didn’t matter what stage you were on—it didn’t matter whether it was Gloucester Stage or Broadway. It’s one of the things that has allowed me to be happy in my life, because life in the arts is up and down all the time, and if you define yourself by where your greatest success lays, you will be in trouble as you get older.” Letters of support Lindsay said she has opened many letters this week from members of boards her mother had served on, and so often the writers commented on her mother’s ability to continued… 9 Anna Crouse Murch… (continued) keep a discussion focused with just a few words. “She was someone who simply got involved,” said Lindsay. “I remember there was a social program for the kids at the Annisquam Yacht Club with shuffle board nights and the writing of plays. She was always encouraging us to be imaginative. She organized typing lessons for all of us, and those of us who took them are so grateful to her. I’m one of the fastest typists I know.” Kathleen Adams, the music director at Annisquam Village Church, recalled when Anna was the key fundraising person for a new organ at the historic church in the mid-1980s. “She spearheaded the campaign and remained a staunch supporter. She is a person who knows how to go to the heart of something and not get distracted with little side discussions,” Adams said. “We started a concert series, and she was always there to support that. She really believed in it. Annisquam tickets “One of the interesting things for me is that even though she had her life back in New York with an elite Broadway crowd, she treated everything in Annisquam with the same weight,” Adams recalled. “She was just as interested and just as present.” When Adams read of Anna’s work to establish a discount Broadway ticket booth, she quickly recalled another vision of her. “At the Annisquam Sea Fair, she inhabited a ticket booth, which is an indication of what a democratic person she was and how she valued community over status,” said Adams. Michael Wheeler, a friend of the family and Annisquam resident, is also among the many who mourn the loss of the Cape Ann cultural matriarch. “She is a very important person in the community and well beyond that,” he said. “They had their New York life with all the celebrities, but in Annisquam they were another pair of parents who had sunburned kids at the beach. They also had actors and directors come up to visit. This Gloucester house was an important part of her life.” Wheeler said Anna was extremely warm and much loved. “At the same time, she was very honest and forthright,” he said. “She was the furthest thing from a superficial person. “She was clear about her ideas, both politically and in the arts—and in a good way. She was not afraid of disagreeing with other people,” Wheeler said. “She was generous both in spirit and materially with people. It’s a real loss for her kids, and she also was an enormous figure in our lives. And there are scores of people in Gloucester who can say the same thing. “ Reprinted courtesy of The Gloucester Daily Times Mill River consulting C i v i l E n g i n e e r i n g ◆ E n v i r o n m e n t a l Pe r m i t t i n g ◆ Municipal Environmental Health Consulting www.millriverconsulting.com 10 New England’s Best Seafood Now Has Three Historic Locations. Our new, authentic seafood house, Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall in Salem, joins our Melrose Grill & Market & GloucesterSeafood Market, in serving our guests the freshest, best tasting, locally sourced seafood. We know it’s important to get to the docks early, as good fish goes fast but the very best go to us… then to you… same day. Visit us today for great New England seafood…times three! 1 GLOUCESTER | 4 smith st. 978.291.7172 2 SALEM | 43 church st. 978.745.7665 3 MELROSE | 506 main st. 781.662.0700 for menus: turners-seafood.com 11 WHO’S WHO AT GSC ERIC C. ENGEL (Artistic Director; Director: Jacques Brel…, 4000 Miles, Fences) is in his eighth season as GSC’s artistic director following two years serving as producing and associate artistic director and three years as a guest director. Jacques Brel… marks the 25th production he has directed at Gloucester Stage. Recent GSC directing credits include Spring Awakening (recipient of Independent Reviewers of New England Awards for Best Director and Best Production of a Musical), Dueling Divas, The Norman Conquests trilogy of plays, and Nine Circles (originally directed for the Publick Theatre Boston). He has been a director and arts administrator in the Boston area for more than twenty-five years and is currently director of Memorial Hall/Sanders Theatre and College Theater Venues in the Office for the Arts at Harvard. He has directed for numerous companies including the Nora Theater Company (of which he was a founding member), the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theater, The Súgán Theatre Company, and as an artist in residence at Harvard University, Emerson College, the Boston Conservatory and Brandeis University where he earned his MFA. He has staged four Elliot Norton award-winning productions: Death of a Salesman (The Nora), Sing Me to Sleep (Coyote Theatre), Collected Stories (GSC), and Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Publick Theatre). COSTIN MANU (Managing Director) was executive director of the Sandusky State Theatre in Ohio and the theatre manager, the manager of programming, marketing and development, and the city’s manager of arts, culture and theatres, at the awardwinning Rose Theatre in Brampton in Ontario, Canada. He was an associate producer for the hit comedy Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks on Broadway. Over the last 35 years, he has produced more than 50 professional plays and musicals and directed almost just as many. He has also worked extensively as a theater director, as well as an actor in film, television and theater in Europe, Canada and the United States. With a background in directing, programming, marketing, publicity, fundraising and sponsorship, he has also produced or booked numerous touring Broadway shows, concerts, theatrical events, fundraisers and arts presentations with many top names in the entertainment business. Costin was the founding managing and artistic director of Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, another award-winning regional professional theatre, and the general manager at the Waterloo Entertainment Centre and Theatre Athena. In 2005 Costin was contracted to consult on the future development of Theatre Cambridge in Ontario. He was appointed its producing artistic director and immediately launched a drive to build a brand new venue. That project became a reality with the opening of the state-of-the-art, 500-seat Dunfield Theatre in 2011. She: “Books.” He: “Used...{thoughtful pause}... and unusual!” Now At 132 Main St. • Downtown Gloucester collections purchased ~ 978.281.5599 Whitmarsh Lock & Safe ISRAEL HOROVITZ’s (Founding Artistic Director) plays have been translated and performed in as many as 30 languages, worldwide. His 70+ plays include Line (now in its 41st year of continuous performance, off-Broadway, at 13th St. Repertory Theatre), The Indian Wants The Bronx (introduced Al Pacino), Rats, Morning, The Primary English Class (starred Diane Keaton, offBroadway), The Wakefield Plays, The Widow’s Blind Date, Today I Am A Fountain Pen, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard (starred Jason Robards on Broadway), North Shore Fish, Fighting Over Beverley, Lebensraum, My Old Lady (in the repertory of the Moscow Art Theatre), Free Gift, Cat-Lady, Stations of the Cross, One 12 13 Under, 50 Years of Caddieing, Speaking Well of the Dead, Unexpected Tenderness, Fast Hands, Security, A Mother’s Love, Sins of the Mother (IRNE Best New Play 2009, optioned for 2014 Broadway premiere), 6 Hotels (including The Audition Play, Fiddleheads and Lovers, Speaking of Tushy, 2nd Violin, Beirut Rocks, and The Hotel Play), Compromise, The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath,The Vote in Orange, The P Word, Virtual Alex, The Bump, Finally!, and his newest full-length play Gloucester Blue, which is playing in regional theatres around the country. Screenplays include Author! Author!, The Strawberry Statement (Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival), Sunshine (European Academy Award – Best Screenplay), New York, I Love You, and EMMY-nominated James Dean. Horovitz wrote, directed and performed the award-winning documentary 3 Weeks After Paradise, shown in the USA on Bravo. He wrote and directed a feature film based upon his play My Old Lady, starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline and Kristin Scott Thomas, which opens in cinemas world-wide in October. A collection of his poetry, Heaven and Other Poems, will be published in October by Three Rooms Press. Awards include the OBIE (twice), the Prix de Plaisir du Théâtre, The Prix Italia (for radio plays), The Sony Radio Academy Award (for Man In Snow), The European Academy Award – Best Screenplay (for Sunshine), The Christopher Award, The Drama Desk Award, an Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Elliot Norton Prize, a Lifetime Achievement Award from B’Nai Brith, The Literature Prize of Washington College, an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Salem (Massachusetts) State College, Boston Public Library’s Literary Lights Award, The Walker Hancock Prize, and many others. Horovitz was artistic director of Gloucester Stage’s first 28 years, and is founder and active artistic director of the New York Playwrights Lab. He teaches a master class in screenwriting at Columbia University and La Fèmis, France’s national film school, and a playwriting master class at University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Horovitz visits France, frequently, where he often directs French-language productions of his plays. He is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history, and was recently decorated as Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France’s highest honor for foreign artists. His memoires, Un New-Yorkais a Paris, were published in France by Grasset. He also works frequently in Italy where he is co-director of Compagnia Horovitz-Paciotto. The 70/70 Horovitz Project, created by NYC’s Barefoot Theatre, began on Horovitz’s 70th birthday. During the following year 70 of Horovitz’s plays were given productions and/or readings by theatres in more than 20 countries around the globe. Horovitz is married to Gillian AdamsHorovitz and is the father of five children. (May, 2014.) skincare • haircare • nailcare massage • body treatments deborah coull salon Concept Salon 116 Main Street Gloucester, MA 978.282.1778 Lifestyle Salon 116 Rantoul Street Beverly, MA 978.922.0322 Discover • BETH WILLIAMS STUDIO your local source for unique custom beads unusual pearls contemporary art glass jewelry • • Hand-made Glass Beads & Jewelry 17 Pleasant Street, Gloucester 978.283.5566 www.bethwilliams.com HEIDI J. DALLIN (Media Relations; Director, Youth Acting Workshops) — Heidi J. Dallin has been associated with the Gloucester Stage since her high school years. Publicist: clients include the Cape Ann Symphony, Chockstone Pictures, North Shore Music Theatre, Jim’s Bagel & Bake Shoppe, Duckworth’s Bistrot, Annisquam Arts & Crafts, Skin Cancer Awareness, Healthy Gloucester Collaborative, and Suzuki Method. Actress: originated the role of Hillary Clinton in Hillary and Monica: The Winter of Her Discontent (2001 Off Broadway; 2003 National Black Theatre Festival; Winner 2008 Midtown International Theatre Festival Award: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play). Panelist & Presenter: 2010 Association of Writers Conference. Television: CNN, Inside Edition, Fox 25 News, South Korea’s National News, and Cape Ann TV (host); featured in “Hillary’s People Problem” and “Hillary’s Campaign Videos,” produced by Mo Rocca and Dallin. Narrator: Katy and The Big Snow (Cape Ann Symphony), Peter and The Wolf (CAS and Quincy Symphony). Director: Castaways, Doo-Wop Wed Widing Hood, Wizard of Oz, Oliver, and Grease (Beeman School, Gloucester); Youth Acting Workshops’ Holiday Delights; GSC, The Little Match Girl; 2012 HGC Public Service Announcement. Teacher: Youth Acting Workshops since 14 15 NEC BW AD 4.5 x 3.625 5/21/14 10:30 AM Page 1 2003 inception, Eastern Point Day School, Glen Urquhart, and Swampscott Schools. Member, HGC Youth Substance Use Prevention Steering Committee; advisor to Gloucester Youth Council; and creative consultant for HGC PSA Series. Education: magna cum laude graduate with special concentration in dramatic expression: literary and artistic, Harvard University. RACHEL ARIAS (Box Office and Communications Manager) is in her third season with GSC. She has previously worked in the box office for Blue Man Group in Boston and as a marketing/communications intern with the Celebrity Series of Boston. Rachel graduated from Bridgewater State University with a BA in media and communications studies. CANDACE WHEELER (Grant Writer) has been a consulting grant writer for Gloucester Stage since March 2013. A long-time fan of Gloucester Stage, Candace had plenty of exercise in grant-writing in her 30 years in municipal government. She graduated from Harvard College in 1972 and Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1974. She is active in the Gloucester arts community through the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (seARTS) and as member of the Ten Pound Studio silk painters group. JOE SHORT (Production Manager) — This is Joe’s first season with GSC. Other production management/technical direction work includes Bridge Rep of Boston, The Gamm Theate, The Boston Conservatory, and The Wilbury Group. Acting credits include NY/Off-Broadway: The Merchant of Venice, (Public Theatre/NYSF); Regional: Strange Interlude, (Shakespeare Theatre of DC); New England: The Big Meal, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Anne Boleyn, Hamlet, and Festen (The Gamm Theatre), Rich Girl (Lyric Stage), The Lover (Bridge Rep of Boston), These Shining Lives (Stoneham Theatre), All’s Well That Ends Well (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co) and A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep). He is a founding artistic associate of Bridge Rep of Boston, and serves on the board of Providence’s Wilbury Group Theatre. Joe teaches acting at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College. He holds an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep. BRENDAN MARR (Assistant Production Manager) — GSC: Spring Awakening, North Shore Fish, This is Our Youth, Dueling Divas, and Driving Miss Daisy; Regional: 9 to 5, Guys & Dolls (North Shore Music Theatre); Next Fall, The Divine Sister (Speakeasy Stage Company). Other: lighting and sound design, Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative, Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe, and Fishtown Players. JOE STALLONE (Company Dramaturg 2014; Resident Properties/Set Dressing Designer, 4000 Miles, Fences) — GSC: Spring Awakening, North Shore Fish, This Is Our Youth, Driving Miss Daisy, Round and Round the Garden, Carnival, Master Harold and the Boys, 9 Circles, Crimes of the Heart. Boston area (select): props/set dressing design: Distant Music, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Miracle on 34th Street (Stoneham Theatre); Distracted, Absurd Person Singular, The Other Place, Brundibar/But the Giraffe, Sila (Central Square Theatre); The World Goes ’Round, Rent, Collected Stories, Marry Me a Little (New Repertory Theatre); Blood Rose Rising (Honest Ghost Productions); Moonlight & Magnolias, Bat Boy, Last Night of Ballyhoo (AFD Theatre); Little Dog Laughed (Hovey Players). 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RUSS SWIFT (Resident Lighting Designer, Jacques Brel…, Auld Lang Syne, 4000 Miles, Fences) — GSC, ninth season as resident designer: Spring Awakening; North Shore Fish; Round and Round the Garden; Carnival; “Master Harold”...and the Boys; 9 Circles; Crimes of the Heart; Living Together; The Most Happy Fella; Fighting Over Beverley; Table Manners; Tender; Trying; You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Breath of Life; The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?; Sins of the Mother; Billy Bishop Goes to War; Enigma Variations; Going to St. Ives; Doubt: A Parable; Dear Liar; The Belle of Amherst; Ponies; The Widow’s Blind Date; Calvin Berger, The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath; The Price; The Heidi Chronicles; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; My Old Lady; Dinner with Friends; A Grand Night for Singing; Marry Me a Little; Compromise; Spinning into Butter; The Loman Family Picnic. Boston area (select): Snow White (Wheelock Family Theatre); Scarlet Letter, Sunshine Boys (Worcester Foothills); It’s All True (Lyric Stage); Cosi fan Tutte, Lysistrata, Rags (The Boston Conservatory); The Odd Couple, Giants Have Us in Their Stories, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 12th Night, Wedding Band, 2010 and 2012 Gala (Boston Arts Academy). Other: Mr. Swift has also designed for Tri-Cities Opera, the Summer Theatre in Meredith Village, Gordon College, Endicott College, the Jewish Theatre of New England, the Publick Theatre, Chamber Theatre Productions, Boston Lyric Opera, the Worcester Forum Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and the Theatre of Newburyport. Regional: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Bristol Riverside Theatre, American Ensemble Theatre, Stephan Petronio Dance Company, the Caldwell Theatre, KewPee Corporation, and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Mr. Swift has been on the faculty or staff at Northeastern University, Emerson College, Endicott College, Westfield State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Salem State University, Community College of Rhode Island, and Groton School. He is currently the production manager for the theatre department at Boston College. Russ resides in Wilbraham with his wife, Mayre, and daughter, Michaela. RAY JENNESS (Technical Director) has been a theatre professional for more than fifty-five years. He has an advanced degree in theater arts from the University of Connecticut and has studied at Wesleyan University and the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theater Foundation. Ray was a founding member of the Worcester Children’s Theater and Vermont Theater Company. He has created stages in numerous ski lodges, warehouses, grange halls, and public parks and has designed performance spaces in several schools. As an actor he has performed with The Market Theater, The Green Mountain Guild and Theater Ludicrum. He has taught theater at numerous secondary schools and colleges throughout New England, most recently at The Waring School, Manchester-Essex High School, and Gloucester Stage Company’s school for teenagers. He is currently president of The Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe. TOM MARTIN (Assistant Box Office Manager) is excited to return to Gloucester Stage after previously working the Summer 2012 season. He has previously worked with the Suffolk University Theatre Department and Central Square Theater. Tom has previously studied at Regent’s College of London and is currently a senior theatre major with concentrations in directing and performance at Suffolk University in Boston. JORDAN WESTLING (Box Office Associate) is a 2014 graduate from Gloucester High School and will be attending UMass Amherst in the fall. 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Trainer† Props Master, Joe Stallone Lighting Designer, Russ Swift† Fight Choreographer, Angie Jepson Stage Manager, Marsha Smith* † *Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) Represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE Originally produced by YALE REPERTORY THEATRE, Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director Sponsored by John and Mollie Byrnes Fences is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Member FDIC Member DIF THE VIDEOTAPING OR MAKING OF ELECTRONIC OR OTHER AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL RECORDINGS OF THIS PRODUCTION IS A VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT LAW AND AN ACTIONABLE FEDERAL OFFENSE. Director’s Note To my mind, Fences — along with Death of a Salesman, Our Town, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Angels in America — is one of the five greatest American plays. It is the last with which I have taken a personal stage journey. While the story is deeply planted in the black American experience of a particular time and place, its themes — like those of all great pieces of literature — are and, for better and worse, will remain profoundly universal. Eric Engel Cast of Characters Troy Maxson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daver Morrison* Jim Bono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gregory Marlow* Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacqui Parker* Lyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warren Jackson* Gabriel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jermel Nakia* Cory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jared Michael Brown Raynell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bezawit Strong Setting The Maxson household, front porch and yard, in Pittsburgh. Time It is 1957. ADDITIONAL STAFF Set Construction: Ray Jenness, Joseph Short Production Assistants: Joe Fanning, Brendan Marr SPECIAL THANKS Carol Antos Joy Cochran Leslie Held Richard Itczak Ashley Preston Troy Siegfreid David Warnock Patriot Fence Company Sullivan Tire Gloucester YMCA *Gloucester Stage Company operates under the NEAT Rider to the Small Professional Theatre contract with Actors’ Equity Association and is a member of NEAT (The Producer’s Association of New England Area Theaters), and StageSource. † Represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. August Wilson: Creating a Cultural Mythology by Joe Stallone, Gloucester Stage Company Dramaturg One of America’s most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the 20th century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community.* Considered to be his crowning achievement, August Wilson is best known for ten plays known as The Pittsburgh Cycle. Each play is set in a different decade, and all, except one, are set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, Wilson’s childhood home. Fences is one of the most beloved of the cycle, winning both the Pulitzer Price and Tony Award. These ten plays chronicle the African-American experience, telling the story of a people decade by decade in 20th century America. Wilson did not set out to write a ten-play series. It was after writing his third play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, that he realized he had written three plays in three different decades and so decided to continue until each decade was represented. Wilson told the story of a people with a distinct history in America, but also aware of their roots in another land and another time; he wrote to assist in the search for and creation of a black identity in America. Wilson said, “The one thing we did not have as black Americans was a mythology.” Dr. Michael Downing, professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and Wilson scholar, writes, “To date, much of my personal research has involved Wilson’s development of a new mythology for people of African-American descent living in America.” Downing quotes Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard, “It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.” Professor Downing tells us that “Wilson’s emerging mythology re-inscribes the cultural symbolic landscape, providing a new sign system where blacks can flourish and grow in their own way, according to their own values, their own rhythms, their own beliefs, and their own language. It’s part music, part history, part politics, and part fable. It’s a sociology lesson and a celebration. It’s the creation of cultural myth.” In Wilson’s plays, his dramatic technique follows a pattern, taking “pejorative, racist stereotypes and turns them into holy archetypes — sacred symbols which are imbued with new meaning and power — and, most importantly, are direct products of the African-American experience. Instead of attempting to hide or ignore the role of such stereotypes within the African-American experience, Wilson celebrates them and gives them value as part of the social fabric and history.” While his goal may have been specifically targeted toward and about black Americans and their cultural history, the beauty, artistry, and depth of August Wilson’s dramas, that which makes them endure and impact audiences worldwide, is that they are at the same time specific and universal *from The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson by C.W.E. Bigsby 24 25 in nature and truth. Who of us has not at some time felt unfulfilled and helpless about changing our circumstances? Or have had the damaged dreams of one generation visited upon us in the next generation, feeling trapped inside family patterns? Growing into adulthood and wrestling with what it means to be a man or woman, defining value in your life — and the value of your life is never a simple thing. Betrayal, whether by a spouse, parent, sibling or friend, hurts deeply regardless of race or culture. The difference for most cultures is that there is a cultural and social mythology to show us a way to explain, understand, and deal with these things in a context that we know innately and viscerally — a cultural mythology. Imagine having nowhere to turn or to look to for a bigger picture, a higher perspective of understanding which felt right and correct and true. August Wilson helped quell that distress by providing a context and perspective, a lens through which to look and find, if not answers or truths, at least a place where the questions can reside. ABOUT THE COMPANY DAVER MORRISON* (Troy Maxson) — GSC: debut. Daver has performed all across the country from New York to Los Angeles in television, film, voice overs, commercials, and with theatre companies such as the Guthrie Theater, Portland Center Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Clarence Brown Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre, Roxbury Repertory Theatre, Charlotte Rep, Capital Rep. Some favorite roles: Davenport in A Soldier’s Play (IRNE Award), the title role in Othello, Simon in The Whipping Man, MacDuff in MacBeth, Lincoln in TopDog UnderDog, Willum in The Nerd, and The Man in Woody Guthrie’s American Song (Ovation Award Nomination). Television (select): ‘24,’ ‘All My Children,’ ‘The Young and the Restless.’ JACQUI PARKER* (Rose) — GSC: Ponies, Going to St. Ives. Boston (select): Marilla in Anne of Green Gables (Wheelock Family Theatre); Coriolanus, Hamlet, and Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare Productions), Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Elizabeth in Old Settler, Jesus in Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage Company), Mrs. Keckley and Mrs. Thomas in A Civil War Christmas, and Mother in Breath Boom (Huntington Theatre Company), Caroline in Caroline or Change and Inez in Our Lady of 121st Street (Speakeasy Stage), Banquo in Macbeth (Actor’s Shakespeare Project), and numerous other regional theatre companies. As a stage director some of Parker’s favorites were Stop and Frisk, Xernona and The Grand Drago X, 12 Angry Jurors, Once on This Island, The Miracle Worker, The Life, and The Trial of One Short Sighted Black Woman vs Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae. Ms. Parker completed a Playwright Fellow at the Huntington Theatre Company. Her play Jeanie Don’t Sing No Mo received a staged reading at the Calderwood Pavilion, produced by the Huntington theatre Company. Other plays include Dark as a Thousand Midnights (IRNE Award). Jacqui received the 2004 Boston Theatre Hero Award from StageSource and the 2009 Drylongso Award for consistent and courageous contributions in the struggle against racism. Ms. Parker is an Elliot Norton award winning actress and seven-time winner of the IRNE Award (Independent Reviewers of New England). 26 WARREN JACKSON* (Lyons) — GSC: debut. National Tour: Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet (Benvolio). Chicago: Shoes (World Premiere, BTA Nominee Featured Actor); Cymbeline/Pericles, The Return of the King, others. Regional: Tempest (Ariel); Fences (Cory); Railroad Bill, Clandestine Marriage, others. Off-Off Broadway: Rainman, Coriolanus, Henry V (Fluellen), King Lear (Edmund), Romeo & Juliet (Romeo), others. Television: Green Screen Adventures Chicago, Midwest regional Emmy Ensemble Nominee). Education: MFA, University of Arizona. A company member with Brave New World Rep: The Long Christmas Dinner (Charles), Merry Wives of Windsor. He is based in Brooklyn, New York. GREGORY MARLOW* (Bono) — GSC: debut. Broadway: Linda Eder, A Holiday Concert. National/International Tour: Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Hair–40th Anniversary European and Italian. Off-Broadway: Sawbones (Here Arts Center), Absolution of W.M. (Negro Ensemble Company), Spring! Peace! (Cherry Lane Theatre). Chicago: Escape (American Theatre Company), In the Red and Brown Water. Regional/Stock: Pippin (Leading Player), Jacquel Brel (Man 2), Violet (Flick, NJ premiere), Dreamgirls (CC White), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Adrian). Film: Far From Heaven (Reginald Carter). Television: HBO’s Addiction. Education: MFA (acting); The Theatre School at DePaul University, AMDA. Chicago native currently residing in a concrete jungle called New York City. JERMEL NAKIA* (Gabriel) — GSC: debut. Off-Broadway: A Gilbert and Sullivan Christmas Carol. Regional: A Lesson Before Dying (Grant), A Raisin in the Sun, Once On This Island, Richard II, Show Boat, Disney’s Aladdin Live, Tin Pan Alley Rag, Stone Heart: Everyone Loves A Journey West, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, Into the Woods, The Heart of Biddy Mason, Biloxi Blues. International: La Cage Aux Folles (English Theatre Frankfurt, Germany) Film: After the Wizard, The One Who Wears Red. Television: Mighty Times: The Children’s March (Academy Award Winner best documentary) ‘24,’ ‘Mind of Mencia,’ HBO project. Education: Pepperdine University. He resides in Los Angeles. JARED MICHAEL BROWN (Cory) — GSC: debut. Regional: As You Like It (Actors Shakespeare Project), Whipping Man (Understudy, New Repertory Theatre), How We Got On (Company One), MLK: A Monumental Life (Constitution Hall). Education: Emerson College. BEZAWIT STRONG (Raynell) — Bezzie is a second-grader who loves soccer, books, and theatre. She was born in Ethiopia and came to the United States when she was six months old. Her first role on stage was as Little Coalhouse in a Chelsea High School production of Ragtime. Most recently, she appeared in the 2013 Youth Acting Workshop production of Holiday Delights at the Gloucester Stage Company. Bezzie is thrilled to be a part of the cast of Fences. ERIC C. ENGEL (Artistic Director; Director: Jacques Brel…, 4000 Miles, Fences) is in his eighth season as GSC’s artistic director following two years serving as producing and associate artistic director and three years as a guest director. Jacques Brel… marks the 25th production he has directed at Gloucester Stage. Recent GSC directing credits include Spring Awakening (recipient of Independent Reviewers of New England Awards for Best Director and Best Production of a Musical), Dueling Divas, The Norman Conquests trilogy of plays, and Nine Circles (originally directed for the Publick Theatre Boston). He has been a director and arts administrator in the Boston area 27 for more than twenty-five years and is currently director of Memorial Hall/Sanders Theatre and College Theater Venues in the Office for the Arts at Harvard. He has directed for numerous companies including the Nora Theater Company (of which he was a founding member), the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theater, The Súgán Theatre Company, and as an artist in residence at Harvard University, Emerson College, the Boston Conservatory and Brandeis University where he earned his MFA. He has staged four Elliot Norton award-winning productions: Death of a Salesman (The Nora), Sing Me to Sleep (Coyote Theatre), Collected Stories (GSC), and Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Publick Theatre). J. MICHAEL GRIGGS† (Set Designer) — GSC: Auld Lang Syne, Trad. Off Broadway: Lost Lake this fall at Manhattan Theatre Club. Boston area: Romance, No Man’s Land, No Child, Nobody Dies on Friday, Animals and Plants, Boston Marriage, How I learned to Drive, and others at The American Repertory Theatre. The Sanctuary Lamp, Well of the Saints, The Lonesome West, St. Nicholas, and others for the Súgán Theatre Company. Also, productions for Speakeasy Stage Company, New Repertory, Lyric Stage Company, The Publick Theatre, Tir Na Theatre, Harvard University, and Opera Providence. Television: Mystery, Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, many others for WGBH and PBS. Education: MFA, University of California, San Diego. Other: Michael is the chair of the scene design program at the University of Illinois. MOLLY TRAINER† (Costume Designer) member USA 829 — GSC (select): Master Harold and the Boys, Tender, Trying, An Ideal Husband, The Breath of Life, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Doubt, A Parable, Billy Bishop Goes to War, The Laramie Project, The Subject Was Roses; Boston area (select): The Whipping Man, The Elephant Man, Indulgences, Mr. Roberts, A House With No Walls, Ragtime (New Repertory Theatre); Deported / a dream play, (Boston Playwrights Theatre); The Real Inspector Hound, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Publick Theatre of Boston); Pericles, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Golden Age (Emerson Stage); A View From the Bridge (New College Theatre); Some Men (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Three Tall Women, Arms and the Man, (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Macbeth, The Laramie Project (Boston Theatre Works); The Sanctuary Lamp, The Well of the Saints (Súgán Theatre Company); Regional (select): A Streetcar Named Desire, Falsettos (Foothills Theatre); The Fantasticks, Bat Boy, The Cherry Orchard (Salem State Theatre). Education: BS, Northeastern University; University of the South (photography); The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The School of Fashion Design, Boston. For more, including upcoming productions, log on to www.mollytrainer.com. JOE STALLONE (Company Dramaturg 2014; Resident Properties/Set Dressing Designer, 4000 Miles, Fences) — GSC: Spring Awakening, North Shore Fish, This Is Our Youth, Driving Miss Daisy, Round and Round the Garden, Carnival, Master Harold and the Boys, 9 Circles, Crimes of the Heart. Boston area (select): props/set dressing design: Distant Music, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Miracle on 34th Street (Stoneham Theatre); Distracted, Absurd Person Singular, The Other Place, Brundibar/But the Giraffe, Sila (Central Square Theatre); The World Goes ’Round, Rent, Collected Stories, Marry Me a Little (New Repertory Theatre); Blood Rose Rising (Honest Ghost Productions); Moonlight & Magnolias, Bat Boy, Last Night of Ballyhoo (AFD Theatre); Little Dog Laughed (Hovey Players). Directing: A Little Night Music, Side By Side By Sondheim, Our Town (asst. dir.), Table Manners (AFD Theatre); Plaza Suite (Quannapowitt Expert IT Support for Small and Growing Companies WWW.BALSAMTECH.COM • 978.281.3339 • 12 BLACKBURN CENTER, GLOUCESTER, MA 01930 28 Players); Lost in Yonkers (TCAN Players); The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Wellesley Players); On Golden Pond (Winchester Players); Trial by Jury (Sudbury Savoyards). Mr. Stallone holds BA degrees from Boston College in theatre and dramatic literature. He maintains his regional real estate brokerage practice, supporting local and regional arts organizations through its Arts Contribution Program. RUSS SWIFT (Resident Lighting Designer, Jacques Brel…, Auld Lang Syne, 4000 Miles, Fences) — GSC, ninth season as resident designer: Spring Awakening; North Shore Fish; Round and Round the Garden; Carnival; “Master Harold”...and the Boys; 9 Circles; Crimes of the Heart; Living Together; The Most Happy Fella; Fighting Over Beverley; Table Manners; Tender; Trying; You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Breath of Life; The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?; Sins of the Mother; Billy Bishop Goes to War; Enigma Variations; Going to St. Ives; Doubt: A Parable; Dear Liar; The Belle of Amherst; Ponies; The Widow’s Blind Date; Calvin Berger, The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath; The Price; The Heidi Chronicles; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; My Old Lady; Dinner with Friends; A Grand Night for Singing; Marry Me a Little; Compromise; Spinning into Butter; The Loman Family Picnic. Boston area (select): Snow White (Wheelock Family Theatre); Scarlet Letter, Sunshine Boys (Worcester Foothills); It’s All True (Lyric Stage); Cosi fan Tutte, Lysistrata, Rags (The Boston Conservatory); The Odd Couple, Giants Have Us in Their Stories, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 12th Night, Wedding Band, 2010 and 2012 Gala (Boston Arts Academy). Other: Mr. Swift has also designed for Tri-Cities Opera, the Summer Theatre in Meredith Village, Gordon College, Endicott College, the Jewish Theatre of New England, the Publick Theatre, Chamber Theatre Productions, Boston Lyric Opera, the Worcester Forum Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and the Theatre of Newburyport. Regional: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Bristol Riverside Theatre, American Ensemble Theatre, Stephan Petronio Dance Company, the Caldwell Theatre, KewPee Corporation, and the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Mr. Swift has been on the faculty or staff at Northeastern University, Emerson College, Endicott College, Westfield State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Salem State University, Community College of Rhode Island, and Groton School. He is currently the production manager for the theatre department at Boston College. Russ resides in Wilbraham with his wife, Mayre, and daughter, Michaela. ANGIE JEPSON (Fight Choreographer) — Ms. Jepson is an actress, fight choreogra- pher, and professor in the greater Boston area. As a choreographer, she has worked with the Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, the Lyric Stage Company and New Repertory Theatre, among many others. She is thrilled to be working with Gloucester Stage. MARSHA SMITH* (Stage Manager) — GSC: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, This Is Our Youth, Spring Awakening, Round and Round the Garden, Fighting Over Beverly, Living Together, An Ideal Husband,Tender, Sins of the Mother, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Doubt, Widow’s Blind Date, Ponies, The Price. Regional: On The Town (Lyric Stage Company); Burning, The Company We Keep, The Farm, 5 Down 1 Across, Little Black Dress (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); 9 Circles, Entertaining Mr Sloane (The Publick Theatre); Einstien’s Dreams (Underground Railway Theatre). Education: BFA in stage management Emerson College. Marsha Lives on her family’s farm in Hudson, New Hampshire, and is glad to be back at GSC. JOE FANNING (Production Assistant) — GSC: debut. Regional: Rooms: A Rock Romance (Bad Habit Productions). Other: The Servant of Two Masters, Steel Magnolias, The Homecoming, and The Dresser (Salem State University). Joe has also worked as an ASM on Kafka In Tel Aviv, and The Hot L Baltimore (Salem State University). Education: studying stage management at Salem State University. 29 ANDREW ANDREWS (Master Electrician) — Regional: Secret Garden, Unbleached American, Something’s Afoot (Stoneham Theatre); 39 Steps, 3 Sisters, Drowsy Chaperone (Boston College); Hairspray, Into the Woods (Reagle Players of Greater Boston) Education: BS in industrial and theatre technology, Fitchburg State College, 2005. AUGUST WILSON (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experience of African-Americans, decade-bydecade, over the course of the twentieth century. His plays have been produced at regional theaters across the country and all over the world, as well as on Broadway. In 2003 Mr. Wilson made his professional stage debut in his one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. Mr. Wilson’s works garnered many awards, including Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1987) and for The Piano Lesson (1990), a Tony Award for Fences, Great Britain’s Olivier Award for Jitney, as well as seven New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, and Jitney. Additionally, the cast recording of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom received a 1985 Grammy Award, and Mr. Wilson received a 1995 Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of The Piano Lesson. Mr. Wilson’s early works included the one-act plays The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecoming and the musical satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Mr. Wilson received many fellowships and awards, including Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwrighting, the Whiting Writers Award, 2003 Heinz Award, was awarded a 1999 National Humanities Medal by the President of the United States, and received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, as well as the only high school diploma ever issued by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He was an alumnus of New Dramatists, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 1995 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and on October 16, 2005, Broadway renamed the theater located at 245 West 52nd Street: The August Wilson Theatre. Mr. Wilson was born and raised in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and lived in Seattle, Washington, at the time of his death. He is immediately survived by his two daughters, Sakina Ansari and Azula Carmen Wilson, and his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero. *ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org. UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS (USA-LOCAL 829) is a labor union representing designers and artists in the entertainment industry. Benefits of membership include the security of working under a collective bargaining agreement, better working conditions and ages, and access to health insurance, a pension plan, an annuity plan, and a 401(K). Its members are artists and craftspeople working in film, theater, opera, ballet, television, industrial shows, commercials, and exhibitions. usa829.org † 30 Featuring bagels, donuts, muffins, pastries, decorated & dessert cakes, pies, gourmet coffees, plus bagel sandwiches and daily specials. All products baked daily on premises! Wireless internet available. Drive-Thru Open! 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(978) 281-3680 passportsrestaurant.wordpress.com Make your evening complete with dinner at The Rudder! photo by Charles de Gaspe Beaubien Learn the basics of professional theatre: Theatre games, improvisation, vocal and physical expression, character preparation, scene study, storytelling, writing, public speaking and confidence building training. TAUGHT BY HEIDI DALLIN Plus special guest teaching collaborations with: • Willie Loco Alexander, musician, singer & songwriter • Paula Plum, award winning actress • Derek Geary, composer and pianist • Israel Horovitz, playwright and Gloucester Stage artistic director emeritus • Gloucester Stage seasoned theatre professionals The Rudder Restaurant is located across Smith Cove, just a short walk from the Gloucester Stage Company. We offer a complete dinner menu as well as a lighter fare starting at 5pm every night. Come and enjoy our food and water view before and after curtain time. 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Sponsored by Richard Rosenfeld of Rocky Neck in honor and memory of his father, Jerome Rosenfeld, who first produced and introduced Jacques Brel... for Boston audiences in the 1970s JULY 10 – 27 AULD LANG SYNE By Jack Neary Directed by Doug Lockwood PLUM SNEE Part mystery, part drama, part comedy, Auld Lang Syne will make you laugh, laugh, laugh! And you may even shed a few tears. This South Boston tale of a New Year’s Eve “business” encounter between a neighborhood low life from South Boston and a retired school teacher will be around for a long time—but see it here, now! Some strong language. Sponsored by Eve and Phil Cutter; additional support by Bayard and Bea Waring JULY 31 – AUGUST 17 4000 MILES By Amy Herzog Directed by Eric C. Engel CARROLL MA MUIRHEAD RASH The play looks at how two outsiders find their way in today’s world. After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21-yearold Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91-year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment in New York City. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. Sponsored by Kathe and Allan Cohen and The Selma and Bayness Andrews Fund of the Boston Foundation 36 Celebrating 1 Year in Our New Location at 274 Main Street! Open 9–5 Tuesday–Friday and 9–3 Saturday Daily Deliveries • Weddings • Funerals • Giftware 274 Main Street • Gloucester • 978.282.9582 37 OUR 2014 SEASON (CONTINUED) AUGUST 21 – SEPTEMBER 7 FENCES By August Wilson Directed by Eric C. Engel BROWN JACKSON MARLOW MORRISON This sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in NAKIA PARKER STRONG 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded from the major leagues during his prime, Troy’s bitterness takes its toll on his relationships with his wife and his son, who now wants his own chance to play ball. Sponsored by John and Mollie Byrnes HOLIDAY DELIGHTS Directed by Heidi Dallin Photos by Gary Ng DECEMBER 19 – 21 A holiday season event for all ages! Atlantic Vacation Homes A festive evening of stories, songs and dance celebrating family and traditions during the holiday season featuring students from Gloucester Stage Youth Acting Workshops. Your Best Choice in Rentals on Cape Ann and North of Boston. www.atlanticvacationhomes.com 1-855-434-4087 NEW MENU. NEW WINE LIST. NEW EXPERIENCE. One family since 1957. 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WARREN’S PROFESSION SHIPLEY O’BRIEN MONDAY, AUGUST 25 PITCHED by Jon Busch featuring Elliot Norton Award winners Anne Gottlieb and Robert Pemberton GOTTLIEB PEMBERTON These two dramas, one over a century old and the other a brand new work by Marblehead playwright Jon Busch, present riveting tales about women confronted with the discovery that their livelihood is dependent upon industries they abhor. 40 On The 35th Anniversary Season MONDAY, AUGUST 11 by George Bernard Shaw featuring Broadway veterans and GSC favorites Sandra Shipley and Paul O’Brien Helping Raise The Curtain JON R. MORSE, CPA, PC 38 Pleasant Street Gloucester, MA 01930 Phone (978) 283-2224 Fax (978) 283-0113 [email protected] 41 SUPPORT GSC click here to support online! Join our growing family of friends who help bring professional theater to Cape Ann. Call us at 978-281-4099. There are many ways you can help. Here are just a few: BECOME A FINANCIAL BENEFACTOR: All donations are tax-deductible. 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