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THE PLAY COMPANY presents
THE U.S. PREMIERE
RAINBOW
KISS
Sometimes two people aren’t meant
to be together. Sometimes when
two people get together something
terrible happens. Keith stakes
everything on one night with Shazza.
He doesn’t fit in to her master plan,
yet she can’t stay away. Acclaimed
Scottish playwright Simon Farquhar’s
first play paints a stark portrait
of life and love on the underside
of Aberdeen’s oil boom.
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BY ALLAN KNEE
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CHRISTOPHER McELROEN
THE LOST GENERATION
presents
AMY RUTBERG
(Zelda Sayre)
New York: Our Leading Lady (Manhattan Theatre
Club), Bat Boy (Directors Company), Company
member of Don't Quit Your Night Job at the HA!
Comedy Club. National Tours: The Civil War, Man
of La Mancha. Los Angeles: The Rocky Horror Show
at the Tiffany, Grave White Way (Hudson), Dracula
the Musical (La Jolla Playhouse). Recent TV:
"Law and Order", "Everwood", recurring "As the
World Turns", HBO's "Recount" coming out in May
2008. Graduate UCLA.
DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER McELROEN
SCENIC DESIGNER TROY HOURIE
COSTUME DESIGNER KIMBERLY GLENNON
LIGHTING DESIGNER COLIN D. YOUNG
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ANITA ROSS*
TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR VADIM MALINSKIY
MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS KELVYN BELL
CASTING DIRECTOR GEOFF JOSSELSON
GENERAL MANAGER R. ERIN CRAIG / LA VIE PRODUCTIONS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JANA ROBBINS
CAST
(In Alphabetical Order)
PJ SOSKO
(Ernest Hemingway)
Off-Broadway: Serendib, EST; Leap, Abingdon;
The End of You, The Lion. Regional: Orphans - Treat,
Penguin Rep; Much Ado About Nothing - Benedick,
The Folger; Angels In America - Joe Pitt, The
Hangar. TV: “Law & Order”, “Law & Order:
Criminal Intent”, “The Black Donnellys”. Film: Paul
Sorvino's "Looking for Cali", “EZ”, “Church and
State”, “The Standard Man”, “The Reunion”
(First Run and Avignon Film Festival winner).
ZELDA SAYRE AMY RUTBERG*
ERNEST HEMINGWAY PJ SOSKO*
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD DANA WATKINS*
MUSICIANS
GUITAR KELVYN BELL
BASS KIM DAVIS
DRUMS / VIOLA SHAYSHAHN MACPHERSON
STAFF
ASSISTANT TO THE GENERAL MANAGER ERIN ASHLAND
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT / CREW MELISSA MAE GREGUS
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR KATHLEEN MACK
ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGER MICHELE WEATHERS
MASTER ELECTRICIAN TOM DYER
LIGHTING BOARD PROGRAMMER ANJEANETTE STOKES
CARPENTERS BRUNO FONTAINE, BOBBY McGINNIS, JOHN MARTINEZ,
DANNY NAISH, JACK WALKER-PEARSE
GRAPHIC DESIGN TODD ALAN JOHNSON
SCENIC ARTIST JOSEPH GOURLEY
BANKING SIGNATURE BANK, MARY ANN FANELLI and MARGARET MONIGAN
DANA WATKINS
(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Was last seen in My First Time at New World Stages.
Other roles include Marat/Sade (Corday), Native
Son (Jan Erlone), Macbeth (Banquo) and The Cherry
Orchard (Trofimov) at CTH, Charles in The French
Lieutenant’s Woman at The Fulton (world premiere),
Kafka in Stanley Walden’s Letter to My Father
at the Kaye Playhouse (U.S. premiere) and Poe
in the one man show An Evening with Edgar Allan
Poe. TV: “OLTL”, “Guiding Light”, “The City”.
Film: “The Empath”, “Dreamgirl”, “Unbridled”.
Graduate of SUNY Purchase.
(Director)
Is the Co-Founder of the Classical Theatre of Harlem.
Selected directing credits include The Cherry
Orchard with Earle Hyman, The Blacks (4 OBIE
Awards), a post-Katrina inspired Waiting for Godot,
which he recently remounted outdoors in the Lower
9th Ward and Gentilly section of New Orleans and
the international tour of Sekou Sundiata's the 51st
(dream) state, which premiered at Brooklyn
Academy of Music in November 2006.
ALLAN KNEE
(Playwright)
Is the author of play, The Man Who Was Peter Pan,
which was the basis for the film “Finding Neverland”
(starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet). His
romantic dance drama, Syncopation, which won
an American Critics Theater Award, is scheduled
for a New York opening in the fall of 2008. He
wrote the book for the Broadway musical, Little
Women (music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi
Dickstein), starring Sutton Foster and Maureen
McGovern. Among his other works are Shmulnik's
Waltz (music by David Shire), Santa Anita '42
and A Dream Within A Dream, about the life of
Edgar Allan Poe. For PBS he wrote the four-part
adaptation of “The Scarlet Letter”. He has written
an independent film called “Forgiveness” for Bright
Shining City Productions, and is currently working
on two new films, “The Knife” and “Diamonds and
Rust”. Allan is a graduate of the Yale Drama School
and a member of the Naked Angels and the
Workshop Theater Co.
TROY HOURIE
(Scenic Designer)
Off-Broadway includes: The Dutchman, Havana is
Waiting (Cherry Lane Theatre); Esoterica (Daryl
Roth Two); Temporary Help (2003 Drama Desk
Nomination); Throw Pitchfork (NYTW); Tartuffe
(Acting Company); The Passion of Frida Kahlo
(Directors Company/Arclight) and Classical Theatre
of Harlem (Resident Set Designer, 2007 Henry
Hewes Design Award Nomination for Marat/Sade).
Other NYC credits include: BAM, TheatreworksUSA,
The Culture Project, INTAR and Juilliard Drama
School. Regional includes: The Guthrie, Syracuse
Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Bay Street Theatre,
New York Stage and Film, Westport Country
Playhouse, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre Festival,
Alabama Shakespeare and GeVa Theatre.
KIMBERLY GLENNON
(Costume Designer)
As resident costume designer for the Classical Theatre
of Harlem she has received a 2003 Obie Award,
a 2005 Audelco Award and two American Theatre
Wing nominations. Other credits include: Growing
Up A Slave (American Place Theatre), Bulrusher
(Urban Stages) and The Magic Flute (Ohio Northern
University). She also has two short films running in
the New York Divided: Slavery exhibit at the New
York Historical Society.
COLIN D. YOUNG
(Lighting Designer)
Off-Broadway: Primary Stages: In the Continuum;
CTH: The Blacks, Crazy Locomotive (2003 Audelco
Award), Native Son and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Signature: Talking Pictures and Fragments. Reverie:
Widows, Rearviewmirror, Billboard, Fatboy and
American Ma(u)l. Regional: Goodman, Guthrie,
Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Cincinnati Playhouse,
CTG-Kirk Douglas, Philadelphia Theatre Co.
International: Traverse and Assembly Theatres,
Edinburgh; Market Theatre, Johannesburg.
Upcoming at 59E59: Life in a Marital Institution
by James Braly. Colin is also the Producing Artistic
Director and co-founder of Reverie Productions.
VADIM MALINSKIY
(Technical Supervisor)
Recent credits include 1001 for Page 73
Productions, Bill W. and Dr. Bob and Burleigh
Grime$ at New World Stages and he was the
Venue Technician for NYMF at The Barrow Group
for the 2007 season. Most recently he was technical
supervisor at 59E59 for The Park Avenue Whirl.
He freelances with Primary Stages,
The New Group and Aurora Productions.
He is a recent graduate of Design Technology
at SUNY Purchase College.
KELVYN BELL
(Musical Director and
Music Arrangements / Guitar)
Studied guitar and composition at Missouri University
and Southern Illinois before moving to NYC in 1978
to record and tour internationally with top names
in jazz including Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, James
Carter and Maceo Parker. Leader of the avant-funk
ensemble KELVYNATOR, Mr. Bell served 12 years
as Director of Jazz for The Harlem School of the
Arts and is currently Resident Composer for The
Classical Theatre of Harlem.
R. ERIN CRAIG / LA VIE PRODUCTIONS
(General Manager)
Recent credits include: 1001 (NYC Premiere);
Unlock’d (NYMF 2007); Sherlock Holmes
(The Early Years) (NYMF 2007); In The Heights
(37 Arts); High Fidelity (Boston/Broadway);
Brilliant Mistake: Broadway Sings Elvis Costello
(Benefit for Friends in Deed at John Jay College
Theater); Hurlyburly starring Ethan Hawke and
Parker Posey (37 Arts); Shockheaded Peter
(The Little Shubert Theatre); De La Guarda in Seoul,
Korea; Tel Aviv, Israel; NYC and Las Vegas.
La Vie Productions is dedicated to managing,
developing and producing new shows, fostering
new talents and attracting new audiences.
JANA ROBBINS
(Executive Producer)
Is both an actress and producer. She has appeared
on Broadway in Good News, I Love My Wife,
Crimes of the Heart, Romance/Romance, Gypsy
(Standby Tyne Daly), The Tale of the Allergist's
Wife (Standby Linda Lavin and Michele Lee)
and starred opposite Valerie Harper in its National
Tour, as well as numerous regional, television and
film appearances. Ms. Robbins produced Allan
Knee's Little Women on Broadway starring Sutton
Foster and Maureen McGovern, Off-Broadway's
I Love You Because and recently produced the
new musical Unlock'd, winner "Best In The Fest"
Audience Award NYMF 2007.
ANITA ROSS
(Production Stage Manager)
Is a second generation Stage Manager. Her credits
include: Broadway: Judgment at Nuremberg,
Night Must Fall, The Sunshine Boys, The Gin Game,
State Fair, She Loves Me. Off-Broadway: Kaos,
The Persians, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,
All in the Timing, The River, Shakespeare’s Cabaret
II and various National Tours and Regional Theater
Productions. Anita is a proud member of Actors’
Equity Association.
GEOFF JOSSELSON
(Casting Director)
Current projects include Glimpses of the Moon
(Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel), The Last
Five Years (Denver Center), Nickelodeon’s
“The Backyardigans Live!” and productions for
North Shore Music Theatre and Kansas City Starlight
Theatre. Recently, Geoff cast the York Theatre
Company’s Musicals in Mufti and the premiere
productions of Sympathy Jones, Such Good Friends
and Going Down Swingin' for NYMF 2007. With
Calleri Casting: the upcoming film “Dragon Ball”
and the Ivory Joe Cole workshop. Previously, Geoff
worked on the casting of Altar Boyz, West Side
Story, Carmen, Mimi Le Duck and Fanny Hill.
Graduate of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.
MELISSA MAE GREGUS
(Production Assistant / Crew)
Is a recent transplant from New Orleans,
where she was a Stage Manager and a Lighting
Designer on many shows. Her New York credits
include Prospect Theatre Company and Page
73. She is also a Stage Managing Teaching
Artist at Roundabout.
*Member of Actors' Equity Association. 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, producing 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