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Juilliard’s Drama Division Announces Complete Schedule of Plays
Juilliard’s Drama Division announces the complete schedule
for its 2012-2013 season of fully-staged productions featuring
students in their fourth and final year of acting training in the
drama program at Juilliard. This season’s plays include
Juilliard’s Lila Wallace Acheson Playwrights Program alumnus
Stephen Belber’s McReele, directed by Sam Buntrock,
October 17-21, 2012; Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House, directed
by
Marcela Lorca, November 8-12, 2012; and Martin McDonagh’s
The Cripple of Inishmaan, which won four Tony Awards and
one Academy Award for original screenplay and will be
directed by Pam Berlin, December 6-10, 2012. All
performances take place in the Stephanie P. McClelland
Drama Theater at Juilliard (155 West 65th Street, 4th Floor).
Juilliard’s Drama Division also presents 4th year repertory in February 2013, which includes Williams in Transit, short plays by Tennessee Williams, 1943-1973, directed by Jonathan Rosenberg; Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, which won the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005 after the play premiered at Lincoln Center Theater, directed by Erica Schmidt; and William Shakespeare’s Pericles, directed by Orlando Pabotoy. (The complete schedule with synopses follows at the end of this press release.)
Juilliard fourth-year actors (Group 42) appearing in these productions are: Helen Cespedes, Fiona Cheung, Tom Datnow, Phoebe Dunn, Adam Farabee, Danny Hernandez, Jenny Leona, Katharine Luray, Michael James Shaw, Ali Sohaili, Andrea Syglowski, Jeremy Tardy, Natasha Warner, Kerry Warren, Noah Witke, and Katherine Ella Wood. While Juilliard Drama Division performances aren’t open for review, we invite you to enjoy these productions featuring the next generation of American actors. FREE tickets will be available to the public for each production, two weeks prior to the opening date of each show, and a wait list for each performance will begin one hour prior to the start of the show. For more information, call the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard at (212) 769-7406 or visit the Web site at www.juilliard.edu.
Juilliard’s Drama Division, co-founded in 1968 by John Houseman and Michel St. Denis, offers a four-year BFA in Drama, an undergraduate Diploma, and beginning this fall, a new MFA in Drama program. In its 40-plus year history, the Drama Division has developed the talents of some of our most distinguished artists of stage and screen; they work across the country and internationally, acting, directing, writing, and teaching. Under the current leadership of Richard Rodgers Director of the Drama Division, James Houghton, the Juilliard Drama Division continues to uphold the best traditions of classical training and repertory while making the creation of new work one of the cornerstones of the program.
The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, created in 1993, has been led by Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang since 1994. Other esteemed playwrights who have led Juilliard’s up-and-coming writers include John Guare and Terrence McNally, who co-created the program with Drama Division Director Michael Kahn, as well as Jon Robin Baitz and Romulus Linney. The program is now in its 19th season and offers one- year, tuition-free, graduate level fellowships to four to five new writers each year. Alumni of the program include: David Lindsay-Abaire, who received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Rabbit Hole in 2007 and David Auburn, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Proof in 2001. Other notable alumni recognition includes Guggenheim Fellow, Steinberg Playwright and Whiting Writers’ Award winner, Bathsheba Doran; Olivier Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Award recipient, Katori Hall; Obie Award winner Sam Hunter; Helen Merrill and Lilly Awards winner, Deborah Zoe Laufer; and Pulitzer Prize finalist and recipient of the Benjamin H. Danks Award in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Adam Rapp.
JUILLIARD DRAMA DIVISION 2012-2013 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
McReele By Stephen Belber Directed by Sam Buntrock Wednesday, October 17 (8 PM), Thursday, October 18 (8 PM), Friday, October 19 (8 PM), Saturday, October 20 (2 PM and 8 PM), and Sunday, October 21 (7 PM) Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright Program alumnus Stephen Belber’s McReele has a lot on its mind: truth and honesty in public and private life, faith in the judicial system, redemption from past disgrace, and the place of journalism in politics. When Delaware journalist Rick Dayne meets “bright as hell” death row inmate Darius McReele he is charmed by the confidence of his innocence, as well as his manifesto of hope. Compelled to uncover the truth, Rick writes articles that lead to Darius' exoneration from a sixteen-year murder conviction. Darius' sympathetic past, magnetic personality, and innovative ideas make him a darling of the lecture circuit, leading to national attention and political viability. With his past and future in the balance Darius walks the line, as Rick seeks to determine which way he'll ultimately fall, and the question is raised: what ultimately moves us about politics? Sam Buntrock directed the first West End revival of the musical Sunday In The Park With George. The production ran at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, before transferring to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre. Mr. Buntrock received critical acclaim, and an Olivier Award nomination for this production. He made his Broadway debut directing the first revival of the show, for which he received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations. The production made its West Coast debut in 2009 at 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington. Other directing credits include Daniel Goldfarb's Cradle and All (Off- Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club), Lenny Henry's Cradle to Grave (UK tour), Take Flight at the Menier Chocolate Factory and McCarter Theater, Marcus Brigstocke's God Collar (Edinburgh, UK Tour and West End), the European tour of The Rocky Horror Show, the first London revival of Assassins and Marcus Brigstocke's one-man shows Get a Life and Help Yourself (both in Edinburgh and UK tours). Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Rob Handel's A Maze (New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season), Much Ado About Nothing at Two River Theater, Tom Stoppard's Travesties and the world premiere of John Guare's Are You There, McPhee? both at McCarter Theater.
The Clean House By Sarah Ruhl Directed by Marcela Lorca Thursday, November 8 (8 PM), Friday, November 9 (8 PM), Saturday, November 10 (2 PM and 8 PM), Sunday, November 11 (7 PM), and Monday, November 12 (8 PM) The Clean House is a tale about a grief-stricken Brazilian housekeeper that dreams of finding the funniest joke in the world. Whimsical, philosophical and theatrical, the play “takes place in a metaphysical Connecticut,” where dusting furniture, bereavement, and the pursuit of romantic love are alternately melancholic and hilarious. As the story spirals out to trace the romantic problems and passions of a doctor and his terminally ill patient, the characters are challenged to find joy in the face of death and Matilde the maid wonders if finding the perfect joke will cause her to “die laughing.” The Clean House won the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005 after premiering at Lincoln Center Theater. Marcela Lorca became movement director for the Guthrie Theater in 1991 and has since coached more than 70 plays. She is also head of movement for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training program. At the Guthrie, she has choreographed more than 20 plays including Merrily We Roll Along, Blood Wedding, Sweeney Todd, Much Ado About Nothing, You Can’t Take It With You, Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Lysistrata, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and A Christmas Carol. She was associate director for A Christmas Carol on two occasions. Her directing work includes Burial at Thebes at Guthrie Theater; Blood Wedding at the Guthrie Lab and Missouri Repertory Theater; In Darkness by Kevin Kling, If You Could Only Touch My Heart, Raw and Walking Around at the Southern Theater; and co-direction of The Long Walk and I Keep Walking on Sinking Sand with Thomas Prattki at the Guthrie Lab. She has worked at the National Actor’s Theater and Signature Theater in New York City, Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, National Opera of the Dominican Republic, Grupo del Centro-Chilean Dance Company, U.S. and European tours with Jonathan Stone’s Dinner, and at various venues in Minnesota. She has also taught at New York University, U.S. theater conferences, the London International School of Performing Arts, and the Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training. She is a recipient of a McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists and a McKnight Choreographic Fellowship.
The Cripple of Inishmaan By Martin McDonagh Directed by Pam Berlin Thursday, December 6 (8 PM, Friday, December 7 (8 PM), Saturday, December 8 (2 PM and 8 PM), Sunday, December 9 (7 PM), and Monday, December 10 (8 PM) Set in Ireland in 1934, The Cripple of Inishmaan is an unusual and bleakly comic tale filled with an array of eccentric characters. They inhabit the isolated West Coast island of Inishmaan, which is defined chiefly by its tight-knit community’s cruelty, gossip-mill, and financial hardship. As word spreads that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty will soon arrive at the neighboring island of Inishmore to film Man of Aran, no one yearns to break away from the bitter tedium of his impoverished existence more than the ostracized Cripple Billy. The young orphan has spent most of his time gazing at cows and pining away after a young woman who reciprocates his heart-ache with insults. As Billy seeks to find himself in escape, he wrestles with his lot in life and the place he calls home. The recipient of four Tony Awards for Best Play and one Academy Award for Original Screenplay, Martin McDonagh is considered one of Ireland’s most important living playwrights. Pam Berlin returns to Juilliard having directed Hedda Gabler in 2012. New York credits include Steel Magnolias, which ran Off-Broadway for three years, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Circle in the Square downtown), Crossing Delancey (Jewish Rep), The Cemetery Club (Broadway), Joined at the Head (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Family of Mann and The Red Address (Second Stage), Three in the Back, Two in the Head (MCC), Black Ink and Elm Circle (Playwrights Horizons), Snowing at Delphi, Club Soda, 'til the Rapture Comes (WPA), Wallflowering and Play by Ear at the HB Playwrights Foundation, and numerous one-acts at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regionally, she has directed at the Seattle Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Huntington, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Stage, and Virginia Stage, to name a few. She has workshopped new plays at the Sundance Playwrights Lab, Cape Cod Theatre Project, New York Theatre Workshop at Dartmouth, and Theatreworks Palo Alto. Opera credits include Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, Hansel and Gretel, Of Mice and Men, and Cold Sassy Tree. Pamela served as President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Juilliard Drama Division - 4th Year Repertory - February 13– 24, 2013 Williams in Transit: Short Plays by Tennessee Williams, 1943- 1973 Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg Williams in Transit, is an evening of five short plays by Tennessee Williams that span almost thirty years, from The Pretty Trap (1941), an early version of The Glass Menagerie, through Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen… (1953), one of his most beautifully elegiac pieces, to I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark On Sundays (1970) - an experiment in form that became Vieux Carre. “In Transit” refers both to the characters in the five plays who lead transient and provisional lives, inhabiting temporary digs in hotels and boarding houses, and to the author’s progress itself. The plays -- some of which are drafts of larger works containing first sketches of some of his most iconic characters -- trace the artistic trajectory of one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. Director Jonathan Rosenberg is currently artist-in-residence at Bard College and is returning to Juilliard after directing Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! in 2011. Mr. Rosenberg’s work has been produced at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Dance Theater Workshop, Home for Contemporary Theater and Art, Theater for the New City, Public Theater, Flynn Theater (Burlington), Berkshire Theatre Festival, A Contemporary Theater (Seattle), Institut International de la Marionnette (Charleville-Mézières, France), Bedlam Theatre (Edinburgh), Wits Theater (Johannesburg), NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory, among others. He served as associate artistic director for DearKnows Theater Company (1989–91) and is a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts Director Fellowship Award and Fox Foundation Fellowship Award.
Topdog/Underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Erica Schmidt Topdog/Underdog is Suzan-Lori Parks’ highly-charged African- American contemporary reinterpretation of the story of Cain and Abel. In Parks’ version, the brothers, Lincoln and Booth, are Three-Card Monte con artists whose one-upmanship sparks with biting humor, intellectual sparring, and brutal rage. This darkly comic fable of brotherly love is infused with age-old themes, gritty poetry, and percussive vernacular. The two hustlers, haunted by the past of an abandoned childhood, hurtle towards an uncertain future. The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, and her avant-garde dramas are considered seminal works in the contemporary theatrical landscape. Erica Schmidt returns to Juilliard after directing R&J and Buried Child. Her directing credits include: Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer, and Copland’s The Tender Land (all at Bard SummerScape); Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Obie Award–winning Invasion! (The Play Company); Honey Brown Eyes (The Working Theater); and The Burnt Part Boys (The Vineyard and New York Stage and Film). She was the co-creator and writer (with performer Lorenzo Pisoni) of Humor Abuse, performed at Manhattan Theatre Club—where it won Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk, and Obie awards— and Philadelphia Theatre Company, ACT, and Seattle Rep. She also directed Rent (Tokyo); Carnival (The Paper Mill Playhouse); People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); Trust (The Play Company, Callaway Award nominee); As You Like It (The Public Theater/NYSF, chashama, and New York International Fringe Festival 2000, where it won the award for Best Direction); Debbie Does Dallas (wrote the adaptation and directed Off-Broadway at Jane Street Theatre); Spanish Girl (Second Stage Uptown). She was a Princess Grace Award recipient in 2001.
Pericles By William Shakespeare Directed by Orlando Pabotoy
Pericles begins in the court of King Antiochus, where Prince Pericles must unravel a riddle to win the hand of his daughter. If he fails to answer correctly, the consequence is death. Pericles immediately understands the riddle’s meaning but it reveals a dreadful secret. Fleeing for his life he sets sail, roaming the known world until he falls in love with the beautiful Princess Thaisa and they conceive a child, Marina. When a great storm strikes their ship, father, mother and daughter are separated. The play spans two generations as the family spends over a decade apart. On three separate journeys, each struggle with keeping faith in the face of hardship and loss before finally reuniting in a joyous ‘recognition scene’. Characterized by plot twists and turns, this fantastical story of betrayal and redemption comes late in Shakespeare’s career. It is part of a group of plays often referred to as “The Romances,” which include A Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Cymbeline. Director Orlando Pabotoy has served on the faculty at Tisch School for the Arts at NYU and has taught at The Juilliard School, University of Texas in Austin, Bard College, Ramapo College, The Old Globe, UCSD, Cal Arts, Cal State Long Beach, and at The Actors Center in New York. He was a recipi¬ent of the 1997 John Houseman Award, a 1998 Fox Fellowship and a 2003 OBIE Award. In addition to teaching, Mr. Pabotoy is a successful director and actor. As a director, he has created, assisted, and staged/co-staged shows for the Juilliard Drama Division (most recently his adaptation of The World in the Moon in 2011), NYU, Actors Center Conservatory, and Ma-Yi Theater Company. As an actor, Orlando has performed at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, New York Theater Workshops, The Metropolitan Opera House, The Old Globe, and Yale Repertory Company. He has done shows for the Division 13 Theater Company (where he is an artistic associate), The Flying Machine Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company, IMUA Theater Company, among other New York projects. In March 2011 he conceived and directed That Beautiful Laugh at LAMAMA. His television/film credits include being a series regular on Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central) and guest starring on JAG (CBS), In the Weeds (Independent Feature), Blue Hour, The Beat (WB), and Whoopi (NBC).
4th Year Repertory - February 13-24, 2013 – Schedule Williams in Transit: Short Plays by Tennessee Williams, 1943- 1973 Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 8 PM Saturday, February 16, 2013, 8 PM Sunday, February 17, 2013, 2 PM Thursday, February 21, 2013, 8 PM Sunday, February 24, 2013, 8 PM
Topdog/Underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Erica Schmidt Thursday, February 14, 2013, 8 PM Sunday, February 17, 2013, 8 PM Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 8 PM Friday, February 22, 2013, 8 PM Saturday, February 23, 2013, 2 PM
Pericles By William Shakespeare Directed by Orlando Pabotoy Friday, February 15, 2013, 8 PM Saturday, February 16, 2013, 2 PM Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 8 PM Saturday, February 23, 2013, 8 PM Sunday, February 24, 2013, 2 PM
All performances take place in the Stephanie P. McClelland Drama Theater, The Juilliard School, 155 West 65th Street, 4th Floor, NYC
TICKET AND BOX OFFICE INFORMATION: FREE tickets will be available to the public for each production, two weeks prior to the opening date of each show and a wait list for each performance will begin one hour prior to the start of the show. For more information, call the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard at (212) 769-7406 or visit the Web site at www.juilliard.edu.
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Juilliard’s Drama Division also presents 4th year repertory in February 2013, which includes Williams in Transit, short plays by Tennessee Williams, 1943-1973, directed by Jonathan Rosenberg; Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, which won the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005 after the play premiered at Lincoln Center Theater, directed by Erica Schmidt; and William Shakespeare’s Pericles, directed by Orlando Pabotoy. (The complete schedule with synopses follows at the end of this press release.)
Juilliard fourth-year actors (Group 42) appearing in these productions are: Helen Cespedes, Fiona Cheung, Tom Datnow, Phoebe Dunn, Adam Farabee, Danny Hernandez, Jenny Leona, Katharine Luray, Michael James Shaw, Ali Sohaili, Andrea Syglowski, Jeremy Tardy, Natasha Warner, Kerry Warren, Noah Witke, and Katherine Ella Wood. While Juilliard Drama Division performances aren’t open for review, we invite you to enjoy these productions featuring the next generation of American actors. FREE tickets will be available to the public for each production, two weeks prior to the opening date of each show, and a wait list for each performance will begin one hour prior to the start of the show. For more information, call the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard at (212) 769-7406 or visit the Web site at www.juilliard.edu.
Juilliard’s Drama Division, co-founded in 1968 by John Houseman and Michel St. Denis, offers a four-year BFA in Drama, an undergraduate Diploma, and beginning this fall, a new MFA in Drama program. In its 40-plus year history, the Drama Division has developed the talents of some of our most distinguished artists of stage and screen; they work across the country and internationally, acting, directing, writing, and teaching. Under the current leadership of Richard Rodgers Director of the Drama Division, James Houghton, the Juilliard Drama Division continues to uphold the best traditions of classical training and repertory while making the creation of new work one of the cornerstones of the program.
The Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, created in 1993, has been led by Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang since 1994. Other esteemed playwrights who have led Juilliard’s up-and-coming writers include John Guare and Terrence McNally, who co-created the program with Drama Division Director Michael Kahn, as well as Jon Robin Baitz and Romulus Linney. The program is now in its 19th season and offers one- year, tuition-free, graduate level fellowships to four to five new writers each year. Alumni of the program include: David Lindsay-Abaire, who received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Rabbit Hole in 2007 and David Auburn, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Proof in 2001. Other notable alumni recognition includes Guggenheim Fellow, Steinberg Playwright and Whiting Writers’ Award winner, Bathsheba Doran; Olivier Award and Susan Smith Blackburn Award recipient, Katori Hall; Obie Award winner Sam Hunter; Helen Merrill and Lilly Awards winner, Deborah Zoe Laufer; and Pulitzer Prize finalist and recipient of the Benjamin H. Danks Award in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Adam Rapp.
JUILLIARD DRAMA DIVISION 2012-2013 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
McReele By Stephen Belber Directed by Sam Buntrock Wednesday, October 17 (8 PM), Thursday, October 18 (8 PM), Friday, October 19 (8 PM), Saturday, October 20 (2 PM and 8 PM), and Sunday, October 21 (7 PM) Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwright Program alumnus Stephen Belber’s McReele has a lot on its mind: truth and honesty in public and private life, faith in the judicial system, redemption from past disgrace, and the place of journalism in politics. When Delaware journalist Rick Dayne meets “bright as hell” death row inmate Darius McReele he is charmed by the confidence of his innocence, as well as his manifesto of hope. Compelled to uncover the truth, Rick writes articles that lead to Darius' exoneration from a sixteen-year murder conviction. Darius' sympathetic past, magnetic personality, and innovative ideas make him a darling of the lecture circuit, leading to national attention and political viability. With his past and future in the balance Darius walks the line, as Rick seeks to determine which way he'll ultimately fall, and the question is raised: what ultimately moves us about politics? Sam Buntrock directed the first West End revival of the musical Sunday In The Park With George. The production ran at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, before transferring to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre. Mr. Buntrock received critical acclaim, and an Olivier Award nomination for this production. He made his Broadway debut directing the first revival of the show, for which he received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations. The production made its West Coast debut in 2009 at 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington. Other directing credits include Daniel Goldfarb's Cradle and All (Off- Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club), Lenny Henry's Cradle to Grave (UK tour), Take Flight at the Menier Chocolate Factory and McCarter Theater, Marcus Brigstocke's God Collar (Edinburgh, UK Tour and West End), the European tour of The Rocky Horror Show, the first London revival of Assassins and Marcus Brigstocke's one-man shows Get a Life and Help Yourself (both in Edinburgh and UK tours). Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Rob Handel's A Maze (New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season), Much Ado About Nothing at Two River Theater, Tom Stoppard's Travesties and the world premiere of John Guare's Are You There, McPhee? both at McCarter Theater.
The Clean House By Sarah Ruhl Directed by Marcela Lorca Thursday, November 8 (8 PM), Friday, November 9 (8 PM), Saturday, November 10 (2 PM and 8 PM), Sunday, November 11 (7 PM), and Monday, November 12 (8 PM) The Clean House is a tale about a grief-stricken Brazilian housekeeper that dreams of finding the funniest joke in the world. Whimsical, philosophical and theatrical, the play “takes place in a metaphysical Connecticut,” where dusting furniture, bereavement, and the pursuit of romantic love are alternately melancholic and hilarious. As the story spirals out to trace the romantic problems and passions of a doctor and his terminally ill patient, the characters are challenged to find joy in the face of death and Matilde the maid wonders if finding the perfect joke will cause her to “die laughing.” The Clean House won the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005 after premiering at Lincoln Center Theater. Marcela Lorca became movement director for the Guthrie Theater in 1991 and has since coached more than 70 plays. She is also head of movement for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training program. At the Guthrie, she has choreographed more than 20 plays including Merrily We Roll Along, Blood Wedding, Sweeney Todd, Much Ado About Nothing, You Can’t Take It With You, Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Lysistrata, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and A Christmas Carol. She was associate director for A Christmas Carol on two occasions. Her directing work includes Burial at Thebes at Guthrie Theater; Blood Wedding at the Guthrie Lab and Missouri Repertory Theater; In Darkness by Kevin Kling, If You Could Only Touch My Heart, Raw and Walking Around at the Southern Theater; and co-direction of The Long Walk and I Keep Walking on Sinking Sand with Thomas Prattki at the Guthrie Lab. She has worked at the National Actor’s Theater and Signature Theater in New York City, Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, National Opera of the Dominican Republic, Grupo del Centro-Chilean Dance Company, U.S. and European tours with Jonathan Stone’s Dinner, and at various venues in Minnesota. She has also taught at New York University, U.S. theater conferences, the London International School of Performing Arts, and the Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training. She is a recipient of a McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists and a McKnight Choreographic Fellowship.
The Cripple of Inishmaan By Martin McDonagh Directed by Pam Berlin Thursday, December 6 (8 PM, Friday, December 7 (8 PM), Saturday, December 8 (2 PM and 8 PM), Sunday, December 9 (7 PM), and Monday, December 10 (8 PM) Set in Ireland in 1934, The Cripple of Inishmaan is an unusual and bleakly comic tale filled with an array of eccentric characters. They inhabit the isolated West Coast island of Inishmaan, which is defined chiefly by its tight-knit community’s cruelty, gossip-mill, and financial hardship. As word spreads that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty will soon arrive at the neighboring island of Inishmore to film Man of Aran, no one yearns to break away from the bitter tedium of his impoverished existence more than the ostracized Cripple Billy. The young orphan has spent most of his time gazing at cows and pining away after a young woman who reciprocates his heart-ache with insults. As Billy seeks to find himself in escape, he wrestles with his lot in life and the place he calls home. The recipient of four Tony Awards for Best Play and one Academy Award for Original Screenplay, Martin McDonagh is considered one of Ireland’s most important living playwrights. Pam Berlin returns to Juilliard having directed Hedda Gabler in 2012. New York credits include Steel Magnolias, which ran Off-Broadway for three years, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Circle in the Square downtown), Crossing Delancey (Jewish Rep), The Cemetery Club (Broadway), Joined at the Head (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Family of Mann and The Red Address (Second Stage), Three in the Back, Two in the Head (MCC), Black Ink and Elm Circle (Playwrights Horizons), Snowing at Delphi, Club Soda, 'til the Rapture Comes (WPA), Wallflowering and Play by Ear at the HB Playwrights Foundation, and numerous one-acts at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regionally, she has directed at the Seattle Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Huntington, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Stage, and Virginia Stage, to name a few. She has workshopped new plays at the Sundance Playwrights Lab, Cape Cod Theatre Project, New York Theatre Workshop at Dartmouth, and Theatreworks Palo Alto. Opera credits include Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, Hansel and Gretel, Of Mice and Men, and Cold Sassy Tree. Pamela served as President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Juilliard Drama Division - 4th Year Repertory - February 13– 24, 2013 Williams in Transit: Short Plays by Tennessee Williams, 1943- 1973 Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg Williams in Transit, is an evening of five short plays by Tennessee Williams that span almost thirty years, from The Pretty Trap (1941), an early version of The Glass Menagerie, through Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen… (1953), one of his most beautifully elegiac pieces, to I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark On Sundays (1970) - an experiment in form that became Vieux Carre. “In Transit” refers both to the characters in the five plays who lead transient and provisional lives, inhabiting temporary digs in hotels and boarding houses, and to the author’s progress itself. The plays -- some of which are drafts of larger works containing first sketches of some of his most iconic characters -- trace the artistic trajectory of one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. Director Jonathan Rosenberg is currently artist-in-residence at Bard College and is returning to Juilliard after directing Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! in 2011. Mr. Rosenberg’s work has been produced at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Dance Theater Workshop, Home for Contemporary Theater and Art, Theater for the New City, Public Theater, Flynn Theater (Burlington), Berkshire Theatre Festival, A Contemporary Theater (Seattle), Institut International de la Marionnette (Charleville-Mézières, France), Bedlam Theatre (Edinburgh), Wits Theater (Johannesburg), NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory, among others. He served as associate artistic director for DearKnows Theater Company (1989–91) and is a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts Director Fellowship Award and Fox Foundation Fellowship Award.
Topdog/Underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Erica Schmidt Topdog/Underdog is Suzan-Lori Parks’ highly-charged African- American contemporary reinterpretation of the story of Cain and Abel. In Parks’ version, the brothers, Lincoln and Booth, are Three-Card Monte con artists whose one-upmanship sparks with biting humor, intellectual sparring, and brutal rage. This darkly comic fable of brotherly love is infused with age-old themes, gritty poetry, and percussive vernacular. The two hustlers, haunted by the past of an abandoned childhood, hurtle towards an uncertain future. The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, and her avant-garde dramas are considered seminal works in the contemporary theatrical landscape. Erica Schmidt returns to Juilliard after directing R&J and Buried Child. Her directing credits include: Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer, and Copland’s The Tender Land (all at Bard SummerScape); Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Obie Award–winning Invasion! (The Play Company); Honey Brown Eyes (The Working Theater); and The Burnt Part Boys (The Vineyard and New York Stage and Film). She was the co-creator and writer (with performer Lorenzo Pisoni) of Humor Abuse, performed at Manhattan Theatre Club—where it won Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk, and Obie awards— and Philadelphia Theatre Company, ACT, and Seattle Rep. She also directed Rent (Tokyo); Carnival (The Paper Mill Playhouse); People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); Trust (The Play Company, Callaway Award nominee); As You Like It (The Public Theater/NYSF, chashama, and New York International Fringe Festival 2000, where it won the award for Best Direction); Debbie Does Dallas (wrote the adaptation and directed Off-Broadway at Jane Street Theatre); Spanish Girl (Second Stage Uptown). She was a Princess Grace Award recipient in 2001.
Pericles By William Shakespeare Directed by Orlando Pabotoy
Pericles begins in the court of King Antiochus, where Prince Pericles must unravel a riddle to win the hand of his daughter. If he fails to answer correctly, the consequence is death. Pericles immediately understands the riddle’s meaning but it reveals a dreadful secret. Fleeing for his life he sets sail, roaming the known world until he falls in love with the beautiful Princess Thaisa and they conceive a child, Marina. When a great storm strikes their ship, father, mother and daughter are separated. The play spans two generations as the family spends over a decade apart. On three separate journeys, each struggle with keeping faith in the face of hardship and loss before finally reuniting in a joyous ‘recognition scene’. Characterized by plot twists and turns, this fantastical story of betrayal and redemption comes late in Shakespeare’s career. It is part of a group of plays often referred to as “The Romances,” which include A Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Cymbeline. Director Orlando Pabotoy has served on the faculty at Tisch School for the Arts at NYU and has taught at The Juilliard School, University of Texas in Austin, Bard College, Ramapo College, The Old Globe, UCSD, Cal Arts, Cal State Long Beach, and at The Actors Center in New York. He was a recipi¬ent of the 1997 John Houseman Award, a 1998 Fox Fellowship and a 2003 OBIE Award. In addition to teaching, Mr. Pabotoy is a successful director and actor. As a director, he has created, assisted, and staged/co-staged shows for the Juilliard Drama Division (most recently his adaptation of The World in the Moon in 2011), NYU, Actors Center Conservatory, and Ma-Yi Theater Company. As an actor, Orlando has performed at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, New York Theater Workshops, The Metropolitan Opera House, The Old Globe, and Yale Repertory Company. He has done shows for the Division 13 Theater Company (where he is an artistic associate), The Flying Machine Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company, IMUA Theater Company, among other New York projects. In March 2011 he conceived and directed That Beautiful Laugh at LAMAMA. His television/film credits include being a series regular on Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central) and guest starring on JAG (CBS), In the Weeds (Independent Feature), Blue Hour, The Beat (WB), and Whoopi (NBC).
4th Year Repertory - February 13-24, 2013 – Schedule Williams in Transit: Short Plays by Tennessee Williams, 1943- 1973 Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 8 PM Saturday, February 16, 2013, 8 PM Sunday, February 17, 2013, 2 PM Thursday, February 21, 2013, 8 PM Sunday, February 24, 2013, 8 PM
Topdog/Underdog By Suzan-Lori Parks Directed by Erica Schmidt Thursday, February 14, 2013, 8 PM Sunday, February 17, 2013, 8 PM Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 8 PM Friday, February 22, 2013, 8 PM Saturday, February 23, 2013, 2 PM
Pericles By William Shakespeare Directed by Orlando Pabotoy Friday, February 15, 2013, 8 PM Saturday, February 16, 2013, 2 PM Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 8 PM Saturday, February 23, 2013, 8 PM Sunday, February 24, 2013, 2 PM
All performances take place in the Stephanie P. McClelland Drama Theater, The Juilliard School, 155 West 65th Street, 4th Floor, NYC
TICKET AND BOX OFFICE INFORMATION: FREE tickets will be available to the public for each production, two weeks prior to the opening date of each show and a wait list for each performance will begin one hour prior to the start of the show. For more information, call the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard at (212) 769-7406 or visit the Web site at www.juilliard.edu.
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