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C HERRY L ANE THEATRE AUGUST - OCTOBER | 2019
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to American Moor, actor and playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb’s provocative look at race,
Shakespeare, the character of Othello, life as a black actor in the American theatre, and more.
American Moor is a vital addition to Red Bull Theater’s ongoing work: offering great plays in
conversation with the classics. This conversation truly happens with you here in the audience.
We hope you find new insights in Keith’s play and enjoy great, healthy debates and dicussions
following the experience.
At Red Bull, we believe in the limitless capacity of classical theater to illuminate the events of
our times. The unique work we do comes to life with the imagination and support of patrons like
you. Please visit RedBullTheater.com to learn more about all of our programs.
We’re thrilled to share American Moor with you.
Thank you for joining us.
Jesse Berger
Founder and Artistic Director
OUR WORK IS MADE POSSIBLE, IN PART, BY SUPPORT FROM
CHERRY LANE THEATRE
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ANGELINA FIORDELLISI
RED BULL THEATER
JESSE BERGER | FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
JIM BREDESON | MANAGING DIRECTOR
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
EVANGELINE MORPHOS
ELIZABETH IRELAND MCCANN | TOM SHEA | FREDERICK M. ZOLLO
MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY
MARY MOSS GREENEBAUM AND SENOVVA
PRESENTS
AMERICAN MOOR
A PLAY BY KEITH HAMILTON COBB
KEITH HAMILTON COBB
STARRING
AND JOSH TYSON
SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN
WILSON CHIN DEDE AYITE ALAN C. EDWARDS
SOUND DESIGN PRODUCTION STAGE GENERAL MANAGER
MANAGER
CHRISTIAN FREDERICKSON SHERRI KOTIMSKY
CALEB SPIVEY
PRODUCTION PRODUCTION PRODUCTION
MANAGER PRESS REPRESENTATIVE ADVERTISING & MARKETING
GARY LEVINSON DKC/O&M DR ADVERTISING
DIRECTED BY KIM WEILD
THE PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS GRANT FROM
THE FIORDELLISI WILLIAMS FAMILY FOUNDATION.
THIS PRODUCTION RECEIVED SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENTAL SUPPORT FROM ARTS EMERSON | BOSTON, MA.
THIS PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE HOWARD AND MARCIA OWENS CHARITABLE TRUST.
THIS PRODUCTION IS SUPPORTED, IN PART, BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL; THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, WITH THE SUPPORT OF GOVERNOR ANDREW M.
CUOMO AND THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE; AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.
ADDITIONAL MAJOR FUNDING HAS BEEN GENEROUSLY PROVIDED BY AIG, THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING, AXE-HOUGHTON
FOUNDATION, THE JAMES AND JUDITH K. DIMON FOUNDATION, FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK, HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION,
THE MARTA HEFLIN FOUNDATION, THE KAM FOUNDATION, HARRIS LIRTZMAN, NOAH MILLMAN AND CAROLYN SCHIFF, BETTY AND
MICHAEL RAUCH, PETER N. RIGBY, THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION, THE MICHAEL TUCH FOUNDATION, AND STEVEN AND JOAN YOUNG.
AMERICAN MOOR is not a production of Cherry Lane Alternative. Cherry Lane Alternative is a not-for-profit corporation. Revenue derived from
the rental of the theatre is used to further the work of the Cherry Lane Alternative.
OPENING NIGHT: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
SPEAK OF ME AS I AM; NOTHING EXTENUATE,
NOR SET DOWN AUGHT IN MALICE...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
OTHELLO
THEY ARE STRANGERS TO OUR CHARACTER, IGNORANT
OF OUR CAPACITY, OBLIVIOUS TO OUR HISTORY AND
PROGRESS, AND ARE MISINFORMED AS TO THE
PRINCIPLES AND IDEAS THAT CONTROL AND GUIDE US,
AS PEOPLE.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
TO THE NATIONAL COLORED CONVENTION, ROCHESTER, NY, JULY, 1853
BUT YOU ARE A BLACK BOY, AND YOU MUST BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR BODY IN A WAY THAT
OTHER BOYS CANNOT KNOW. INDEED, YOU MUST BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WORST ACTIONS OF OTHER
BLACK BODIES, WHICH, SOMEHOW, WILL ALWAYS BE
ASSIGNED TO YOU.
TA–NEHISI COATES
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
THE CAST
An Actor...................................................................................... KEITH HAMILTON COBB
A Director............................................................................................................. JOSH TYSON
Assistant Stage Manager..............................................................R. CHRISTOPHER MAXWELL
AMERICAN MOOR will be performed with no intermisson
Running time is approximately 90 minutes.
KEITH HAMILTON COBB JOSH TYSON
The Actors and Stage Managers
employed in this production
are members of Actors’ Equity
Association, the Union of
Professional Actors and Stage
Managers in the United States.
POST Select Sunday matinee performances will be
followed by a post-performance discussion with
PERFORMANCE Keith Hamiltion Cobb and special guests.
DISCUSSIONS Guest panelists include Carl Cofield, Miles Parks
Grier, Kim F. Hall, Erika Lin, and more.
These discussions are free and open to the
public and begin at 4:45 PM on the following
Sundays: September 1, 15, 22 and 29.
Visit REDBULLTHEATER.COM for more information.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
“Commune with me in contemplation of the magnitude of moment before us.”
–Keith Hamilton Cobb
Now, more than ever, in reaction to political upheavals, rampant divisiveness, xenophobia, and
the push for new immigration policies, much is being written and argued about the absent role of
empathy in our contemporary society.
Researching the word, one discovers that the formal concept of empathy is but 100 years young. A
translation of the German word “einfühling” meaning “feeling-in”, the word empathy has its roots in
the Latin “em” meaning to “lean in” and “pathos” meaning to “feel”. Its original definition not only
meant a “means to feel another person’s emotion…” but also to “enliven an object, or to project one’s
imagined feelings onto the world.”
One defining value of theatre is its power to induce empathy in the viewer. Since the Ancient Greeks,
to this moment, today in this very theater, people have been gathering, sitting side by side, sharing
time and space, while collectively listening to stories. It is a widely held belief that the deeper an
audience can relate to the plights of others, mentally and emotionally place itself in another person’s
shoes, the more potential there is for understanding just how much of our human experience is
commonly shared. From this exposure, empathy, profound insight, and respect grow, contributing
to the cultivation of compassion. Constructive values are reinforced and can eventually become
accepted, even appreciated reciprocally beneficial norms.
To respond with empathy is no small task. It requires vulnerability, mental exertion, honesty, and a
generosity of spirit; empathy asks us to engage ethically, morally and respectfully with the “other”.
It forces us up against ourselves and can be quite painful as it cracks us open in order to better see.
American Moor asks us to do the great work of empathy, to put fears aside, to lean in, to talk with rather
than to each other, to listen respectfully, to see – really see an other – it acknowledges that although
we may not look exactly like one another nor react like one another we nonetheless are much more
similar than different and in the very act of acknowledging our shared humanity, we can begin to take
the actions necessary that lead to a better society for us all.
KIM WEILD | DIRECTOR
AMERICAN MOOR has been developed with the creative support of the following:
Brent Buell, Producer, Director, President at Doing Life Productions, L.L.C.
Paul Kwame Johnson, Founding Artistic Director of Youth Theatre Interactions, Yonkers, NY
Dr. Frank Madden, Professor of English, Westchester Community College
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, NYC, Craig Smith and Elise Stone, co-Artistic Directors
Craig Wallace, Actor/Director
Craig Alan Edwards, Actor/Playwright
Kim F. Hall, Professor of Africana Studies, Lucyle Hook Professor of English, Barnard
College, NYC
Dr. Michael Witmore, Director, and Peggy O’Brien, Director of Education, Folger Shakespeare
Library, Washington, DC
Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English, Director Arizona Center for Medieval &
Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University
SenovvA, Inc. and Arianna Knapp, Executive Vice President
Gary Sloan, Actor, Professor of MFA Acting, Catholic University of America
Luna Stage Theatre Company, West Orange, NJ
Cheryl Katz, Dramaturg
Pamela Daniels, President at The Brickerati Group
Kevin E. Taylor, Pastor, Unity Fellowship Church NewArk
OWI (Bureau of Theatre), Boston, MA
Anacostia Playhouse, Washington, DC, and Adele Robey, Executive Director
PRODUCTION STAFF
Production Advertising and Marketing......................................................................DR ADVERTISING
Scott Lupi, Doug Murphy, Brenna Kilpatrick, and Madison Kaminski
Production Press Representative...................................................................................................DKC/O&M
Rick Miramontez, Kendall Edwards, Michael Jorgensen
Advisors.................................................................................. OSH GHANIMAH, NOAH HAROUCHE
Master Electrician........................................................................................REBECCA MCCOY-FISCHER
Lighting Programmer.........................................................................................................JAMES KOLDITZ
Production Photographer ..................................................................................................CAROL ROSEGG
Company Representative.....................................................................................TIMOTHY THOMPSON
Special thanks to the TDF Costume Collection.
Much appreciation to the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
This production was rehearsed at the Cherry Lane Studio.
ABOUT THE COMPANY KEITH HAMILTION COBB (Playwright/“An Actor”) is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in acting, and most widely known for the roles he has created for television, among those Noah Keefer for ABC’s “All My Children”; the galactic mercenary, Tyr Anasazi, for Gene Rodenberry’s “Andromeda”; Damon Porter for CBS’s “The Young and the Restless”; and Quincy Abrams for the Logo network series “Noah’s Arc.” He has also appeared at Red Bull Theater, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Denver Theatre Center, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Orlando Shakespeare Festival, The Geva Theatre Center, The Pioneer Theatre, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and on many other regional stages performing both classical and contemporary roles. His life-long love of Shakespeare has seen him cast as Laertes, Tybalt, Tullus Aufidius, Theseus, Oberon, Julius Caesar and other staples of the Poet’s canon. The span of his career includes twelve years in Los Angeles where he has guest-starred on multiple television half-hours and dramas including “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, “Boston Common”, “Suddenly Susan”, “One on One”, “The Twilight Zone”, and “CSI Miami”. JOSH TYSON (“A Director”) is pleased to be continuing this journey with the American Moor team, having been involved in the play’s development since 2015. Off-Broadeay: Modotti (The Acorn @ Theatre Row), Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Off-Off Broadway: Wolves (59E59 Theatre), An Octopus Love Story (Center Stage), The Blue Martini (The Lion @ Theatre Row) Conference Room A (The Red Room). He is also a long time player with New York’s Phoenix Theatre Ensemble where favorite roles include Judas in Judas, Tartuffe in Tartuffe, Adolph in Creditors, Orestes in Electra, Achilles in Iphigenia at Aulis, Napoleon in The Man of Destiny and Haemon in Jean Anouilh’s Antigone. Film/ Television: No Retreat (Nominated Best Feature Austin Film Fest/Amazon Prime), Laura Gets A Cat (Amazon Prime), The First Day (Available on Amazon Prime), Stoop Sale, Whales, Alabaster, and Law & Order (NBC). Thank you, Lara. KIM WEILD (Director) is a Drama Desk Award nominee and recipient of the 2018 NYIT Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production for the world premiere of NY Times Critic’s Pick Soot and Spit. Weild’s work has been seen at: Shakespeare’s Globe Theater London, Lincoln Center Theater, Carnegie Hall, Teatro alla Scala, The New York Theater Workshop, Cherry Lane Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, ArtsEmerson, Primary Stages, New York Live Arts, The Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theater Festival, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Boston Center for the Art, among others. In 2018 she directed Charles Mee’s First Love at Cherry Lane Theatre starring Academy Award nominee, Michael O’Keefe and Angelina Fiordellisi. Associate Director: Broadway: Deuce, Is He Dead, Blithe Spirit. Writer: Dusty - London’s West End and the children’s book: How the I Becomes the We. Fellowships/residencies include: Park Avenue Armory, Williamstown Foeller Fellow, Kennedy Center, Shubert Fellowship, Archive Residency, two commissions for The High Line. WP Theater alumna. Founding Artistic Director, Our Voices. Head of Directing, John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University. Member SDC. WILSON CHIN (Scenic Designer) Designs for new plays include Next Fall (Broadway), the Pulitzer Prize winning Cost of Living (Manhattan Theatre Club and Williamstown Theatre Festival), Pass Over (Steppenwolf and LCT3, Lortel Award nomination), Wild Goose Dreams (La Jolla Playhouse and The Public), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi Theater and The Public), Mothers and My Mañana Comes (The Playwrights Realm), Aubergine (Berkeley Rep), Lewiston (Long Wharf), Mothers and Sons (Bucks County Playhouse), Tiger Style! (Huntington Theatre and Alliance Theatre) and The Great Leap (Seattle Rep). Opera designs include Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera
of Chicago) and Eine Florentinische Tragodie / Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company, Dora Award winner). Mr. Chin recently designed Spike Lee’s film Pass Over. DEDE AYITE (Costume Designer) Broadway: Slave Play, American Son, Children of a Lesser God. Select Off-Broadway: Secret Life of Bees, FireFlies, Marie and Rosetta, Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, JHAT (Signature); BLKS, Collective Rage…, School Girls… (MCC); Slave Play (NYTW); Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); If Pretty Hurts…, Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); brownsville song [b-side for tray](LCT3). Regionally: Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Steppenwolf; American Repertory Theater; Denver Center; California Shakespeare; La Jolla Playhouse; Berkeley Repertory; Baltimore Center Stage; Arena Stage; Cleveland Playhouse; Signature Theatre; McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage. Television: Comedy Central; FOX Shortcoms. Awards: Recipient of an Obie, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, and Jeff Awards; four Drama Desk Nominations. Education: MFA Yale School of Drama. ALAN C. EDWARDS (Lighting Designer) Off-Broadway credits include Harry Clarke (The Vineyard), for which he received the Lucille Lortel Award; Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre) [Drama Desk Award nominee]; Native Son / Measure For Measure (The Acting Company). Regional: Lights Out: Nat King Cole (Geffen, People’s Light); American Moor (Arts Emerson); Dutchman, The Bacchae, Antigone, Macbeth, The Tempest (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Twisted Melodies (Centerstage Baltimore, Apollo, Mosaic); Henry IV Part 2, Fingersmith (OSF); Penny Candy, Stagger Lee (Dallas Theatre Center); We Are Proud To Present (The Guthrie); Man of La Mancha (Westport Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Connecticut Rep); Jeremy McQueen’s Madiba (The Kennedy Center). Broadway: The Testament of Mary (Assoc. to Jennifer Tipton). His work has been seen at The Guthrie, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Center Stage Baltimore, Asolo Rep, Yale Rep, Cleveland Play House, KC Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Geffen Playhouse, Miami New Drama, Berkshire Theatre Group, Chautauqua Theatre Company, People’s Light, Madison Opera, Mill City Opera and the Kennedy Center. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. CHRISTIAN FREDERICKSON (Sound Designer) is a violist, composer, and sound designer who specializes in live music performance for theater and dance. He was a founding member and one of the principal songwriters of the Louisville, KY-based instrumental band Rachel’s, who released 6 albums on Quarterstick Records between 1995 and 2003. As a solo artist, Frederickson has released five albums since 2011 and has played concerts of his own music in New York City, Seattle, Louisville, Nashville, and Zilina, Slovakia. Since moving to New York in 2004, Frederickson has worked primarily in theater and dance at a long list of theaters, notably the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Classic Stage Company, The Public Theater, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, La MaMa, Abingdon, Atlantic Stage 2, as well as regional theaters, primarily Actor’s Theatre of Louisville where he has worked on 17 productions and is a regular designer at the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Frederickson was trained as a classical musician, and holds degrees from The Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School. CALEB SPIVEY (Production Stage Manager) Caleb is thrilled to be joining the AM team once more after having worked with them in Boston back in 2017. Caleb comes to us having just finished the national tour of Finding Neverland and a short run with Menopause the Musical as well. This is his New York premiere and he couldn’t be more excited to be doing it here at the Cherry Lane Theatre! He thanks Kim and Keith for continuing to bring him along on this show’s journey as well as his husband for his unending love and support.
R. CHRISTOPHER MAXWELL (Assistant Stage Manager) hails from the bustling metropolis of Little Rock, Arkansas. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts, he spent 6 years working extensively in the Chicago not-for-profit theatre scene. Recently, he received a Masters of Fine Arts in Stage Management from Columbia University. NYC Credits: Last Days of Judas Iscariot, 9000 Paper Balloons; The Escape. Off-Broadway Credits: Eco Village; Safeword. Christopher is thrilled to be working for everyone at Red Bull Theater and is grateful for the love & support from his friends, family, and partner. GARY LEVINSON (Production Manager) Red Bull Theater: Mac Beth, The White Devil, The Metromaniacs, The Government Inspector, The School for Scandal, The Changeling. Others: Pipeline Festival 2018, What We’re Up Against (WP Theater); The Pearl Theatre Company (10 seasons), Shakespeare on the Sound (8 seasons); Post Mortem, Mercy on the Doorstep (Flea); Glass House, Master Builder (Resonance); Betrothed (Ohio); Lebensraum (Kirk); Moominvalley (Scandinavia House); Other highlights: Matchmaker (Ford’s Theater), Waverly Gallery, Collected Stories, Mrs. Klein; as well as numerous feature films, television, commercials and music videos. He also teaches at Marymount Manhattan College. SHERRI KOTIMSKY (General Manager) Four years with Red Bull Theater, ten years as Finance & Production Manager for the Mint Theater. Previously, for Naked Angels; Producer: Tape, Meshugah, Omnium Gatherum; General Manager: Snakebit and Hesh. Production Manager for Theater Breaking Through Barriers. Producer of the musical Flak House fall 2014, Associate Producer Knots for FringeNYC 2015. Previously bookkeeper for MCC, The Pearl, Eating Their Words, TBTB, Persian Heritage Foundation. Financial Controller, Netherlands Board of Tourism. NATHAN WINKELSTEIN (Associate Producer) Red Bull Theater: The White Devil, The Metromaniacs, The Government Inspector, The Changeling. Nathan is the Associate Producer of Red Bull Theater with responsibility for the company’s Revelation Readings, Master Classes, and Shakespeare in Schools. Nathan has directed or acted for numerous companies around the country and in the UK, including Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Shakespeare Theater Company, The Folger, Lincoln Center Theater Education, W.H.A.T., Lincoln Center Theater, The Tobacco Factory and many others. He received his BA in Theater from the University at Buffalo and his MFA in Classical Acting from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK. JIM BREDESON (Managing Director) A non-profit arts professional with twenty years experience as an administrator, marketer and fundraiser, Jim joined the Red Bull Theater team in 2014, from ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore to today. He served as General Manager of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As a marketer and fundraiser, he has accomplished objectives for a number of organizations including Carnegie Hall’s Spring for Music Festival, Ecstatic Music Festival, KEF Theatrical Productions, Kaufman Music Center, and The Shakespeare Society. MA Theatre History, CUNY. JESSE BERGER (Founder and Artistic Director) For Red Bull Theater, Jesse has directed productions of Pericles, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Edward the Second, Women Beware Women, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton, The Maids, Loot, Volpone, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Changeling, and The Government Inspector (Obie Award for directing). Under Jesse’s leadership, Red Bull Theater produces a variety of classical and contemporary work, including the Obie Award-Winning Revelation Reading Series, free Bull Session discussions, Shakespeare in Schools education outreach, Master Classes in classical acting, developmental Workshops, and the annual Short New Play Festival. As a director, Jesse has also directed contemporary and classic plays and musicals for the Old Globe, Denver Center,
JESSE BERGER | FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
JIM BREDESON | MANAGING DIRECTOR
Red Bull Theater brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary
audiences. Our work unites a respect for tradition with a modern sensibility.
Red Bull Theater is named for the rowdy Jacobean playhouse that illegally performed
plays in England during the years of Puritan rule, and was the first London theater to
reopen after the Restoration. This bold spirit is central to our identity. With the Jacobean
plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as our cornerstone, Red Bull Theater is
New York City’s home for dynamic performances of great plays that stand the test of
time. The company also produces new works that are in conversation with the classics.
Red Bull Theater delights and engages the intellect and imagination of audiences. A
home for artists, scholars and students, we strive to make our work accessible, diverse,
and welcoming to all theatergoers. Educational as well as entertaining, our work keeps a
rich and vital tradition thriving.
Red Bull Theater believes in the power of great classic stories and plays of heightened
language to deepen our understanding of the human condition. We believe in the
special ability of live theater to create unique, collective experiences. And we believe in
the timeless capacity of classical theater to illuminate the events of our times.
Founded in 2003 with a production of Shakespeare’s Pericles, Red Bull Theater has been
acclaimed by The New York Times as “a dynamic producer of classic plays” and by Time
Out New York as “the most exciting classical theater in New York.”
Red Bull Theater serves adventurous theatergoers with OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTIONS,
REVELATION READINGS, and the annual SHORT NEW PLAY FESTIVAL. The company also
offers outreach programs including SHAKESPEARE IN SCHOOLS, bringing professional
actors and teaching artists into public school classrooms, BULL SESSIONS, free post-play
discussions with top scholars, and MASTER CLASSES in classical actor training led by
veteran theater professionals.
In our 16-year history, Red Bull Theater has produced 20 Off-Broadway Productions
and over 150 Revelation Readings of rarely seen classics, serving 5,000 artists and
providing quality artistic programming to an audience of 65,000. The company’s
unique programming has received ongoing critical acclaim, and has been recognized
with Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League, Calloway, Off Broadway Alliance, and Obie
nominations and Awards.
Visit REDBULLTHEATER.COM for more information.Pittsburgh Public, PlayMakers Rep, Barrington Stage, the O’Neill, and elsewhere including the
Great Lakes, Idaho, St. Louis, Arizona, Hamptons, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. Jesse’s work
has been recognized with Helen Hayes and Obie Awards, as well as nominations for Lucille Lortel,
Drama League, and multiple Callaway Awards (The Witch of Edmonton, The Maids, The Government
Inspector). Jesse has taught and directed at Juilliard, NYU Grad, UNCSA, and other universities
and training programs. Jesse was raised in Oregon by NYC expat-parents, grew up attending the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and received undergraduate training at Central College in London and
Southern Utah University, home of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Jesse was assistant director
of Michael Kahn’s Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC for three seasons, was the
1999 US Directing Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe in London under Mark Rylance, and began his
professional career as an assistant director to Garland Wright at The Guthrie Theater. A member of
the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, New York Theater Workshop’s Usual Suspects,
Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab, and an NEA/TCG Director, Jesse also sits on the National
Advisory Board of SUU’s College of Performing and Visual Arts, and the Drama League Directors
Project’s National Advisory Council.
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union
that represents more than 51,000 actors and stage managers. Equity fosters the art of live
theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by
negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits,
including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is
affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.
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RED BULL THEATER’S
ONGOING EDUCATION PROGRAMS
SHAKESPEARE IN SCHOOLS is based on the belief that practical
experience with the plays of William Shakespeare and the art of
dramatic storytelling are critical components of any education. The
inclusion of theatrical exercises and heightened poetic text in the
classroom increases literacy, improves public speaking skills, broadens
understanding of social issues, encourages imaginative growth, teaches
collaborative problem-solving, builds emotional intelligence, and
promotes self-confidence in young people. Most residencies culminate
with an open sharing for student peers, faculty and parents, depending
on the partner’s goals. Our program aligns with the New York City
Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts. To learn how to bring this
program to a school near you, contact NATHAN@REDBULLTHEATER.COM.
CLASSICAL ACTING INTENSIVES are taught by top working professionals.
Open to adults at all levels of training or experience, these classes cover a
variety of disciplines, including auditioning, text, voice, movement, clowning,
and acting Shakespeare. Visit REDBULLTHEATER.COM for more information.EVANGELINE MORPHOS (Producer) works in theater, film, television and new media. She has
produced over 25 plays Off-Broadway including new works by David Rabe, Sam Shepard, David
Mamet, Frank Pugliese, and Anne Meara. Her production of Blown Sideways through Life by Claudia
Shear ran for over a year at the Cherry Lane Theater; and she was involved in the first years of The
Cherry Lane Mentor Project founded by Angelina Fiordelisi. She was Chair of the Undergraduate
Theater program at NYU and then taught for over 25 years at Columbia University. She writes about
new media, television, entertainment, and politics for such publications as The Wall Street Journal,
Politico, Reuters, Bomb, and NBC.com.
ELIZABETH IRELAND McCANN (Producer) has produced plays by Edward Albee, Peter
Shaffer, Eric Bentley, Chekhov, Shakespeare, Samm-Art Williams, Bernard Pomerance, Lisa Kron,
Michael Frayn, Simon Gray, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Paula Vogel. And now, Keith
Hamilton Cobb.
TOM SHEA (Producer) This is Tom’s first adventure as a producer. He developed a love for
theater as an undergraduate at Harvard when he acted in plays directed by Evangeline Morphos–
his inspiration. Today he is a serial entrepreneur and Director of the Entrepreneurial Institute at
Fairfield Prep in Connecticut. His wife, Jana Shea, is a partner in Seaview Productions currently
staging Seawall/A Life, Slave Play and What the Constitution Means to Me.
FREDERICK M. ZOLLO (Producer) has produced a number of plays and films.
MARY MOSS GREENEBAUM (Producer) is founder and producer of the Kentucky Author Forum,
a public programming interview series made available to PBS affiliates nationally, where it is retitled
“Great Conversations”. Her career began at the United Nations. She moved to Kentucky in the late
60’s, where she began as a TV journalist covering environmental issues, thereafter serving as Special
Assistant to the Mayor, founding the Summerscene Foundation creating programs in public parks;
thereafter, a free public SAT preparatory program for juniors and seniors, available both to public
and private school students. The Forum, which has won national awards, was founded in 1996. She is
active in Democratic politics in the State of Kentucky.
SENOVVA (Developmental Producer) is built on the vast experience and personal relationships of
its producers, managers, designers and technical specialists. SenovvA focuses on solution driven
services in Theater, Broadcast, and Architecture throughout the world. They are proud of their
early support of American Moor and thrilled to see Keith and Kim’s work on stage at the Cherry
Lane. Theatrical Production Supervision Team: Arianna Knapp, James Cleveland, Lindsay Child,
Sean Gorski, Pamela McCaddin, and Anna Engelsman. Current Theatrical projects include: Freestyle
Love Supreme, The Sound Inside, Cirque du Soliel–Twas the Night Before…, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jersey Boys, Only
Human, Jitney (National Tour).
“LET’S GIVE A LUSTY CHEER TO THE
RED-BLOODED RED BULL THEATER!”CHERRY LANE THEATRE (History) The site of a silo on the Gomez farm in 1817, the building that now stands at 38 Commerce Street was a brewery, built in 1836 that later served as a tobacco warehouse, then box factory. In 1924, a group of theater artists, colleagues of Edna St. Vincent Millay, commissioned famed scenic designer Cleon Throckmorton to convert the box factory into Cherry Lane Playhouse. It fueled some of the most ground-breaking experiments in the chronicles of the American Stage. The Downtown Theater movement, The Living Theatre, and Theatre of the Absurd all took root at the lively Playhouse, and it proved fertile ground for 20th century dramaturgy’s seminal voices. From this village jewel streamed a large succession of plays by nascent writers whose names have lent distinction to the American and international literary and dramatic treasuries from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Elmer Rice in the ’20s to O’Neill, O’Casey, Odets, Auden, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot and William Saroyan in the ’40s and ’50s to Beckett, Albee, Pinter, Ionesco and LeRoi Jones in the ’60s to Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Joe Orton and David Mamet in the ’70s and ’80s. The Playhouse productions featured an equally illustrious group of actors and directors including Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Beatrice Arthur, James Earl Jones, Colleen Dewhurst, Cicely Tyson, Alan Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Judd Hirsch, Tony Curtis, Gary Sinise, Jerry Stiller, Rue McClanahan, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Roy Scheider, Frances Sternhagen, F. Murray Abraham, Joan Micklin Silver, Peter Falk, Tom Bosley, Frank Langella, Kim Stanley, Tyne Daly, Estelle Parsons, Geraldine Page, Kevin Bacon, Lee Strasberg, Roscoe Lee Browne, Tony Musante, Adolf Green and Betty Comden, Alvin Epstein, Dennis Quaid and Joseph Chaikin. It is currently the home of Cherry Lane Alternative and the Obie award-winning Mentor Project. Visit our website for the entire history: cherrylanetheatre.org ANGELINA FIORDELLISI (Founder): Proprietor of Cherry Lane Theatre since 1996, serving over 3,500 artists and countless non-profit theater companies. Fiordellisi co-founded and established Cherry Lane Alternative as the company in residence in 1997, creating a number of new play development programs including Obie Award-winning Mentor Project, entering its 20th season. Garnering numerous awards and nominations, she has produced over 100 plays. As Co-Producer on Broadway, she won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a Drama Desk Award for The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno. Acting credits include Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours, Regional Theatres, Film and Television. BFA University of Detroit, MFA Scholarship Asolo Conservatory of Theatre. She is married 31 years to Matt Williams and has three children, Emily Farr, Matisse and Fred Williams. Founding Artistic Director................................................................................................. Angelina Fiordellisi Financial Director......................................................................................................Joyce DeNicola-Friedman Managing Agent..........................................................................................Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation Artistic Director................................................................................................................................Seri Lawrence Administrative Assistant ....................................................................................................Alexandra Scordato Facility Managers............................................................................................................................Verreth Wilson House Managers.................................................................................... Mary Geerlof, Shannon McDermott Architect............................................................................................................................................ Mitchell Kurtz Accounting...............................................................................................Friedman & LaRosa Business Mgmt Insurance......................................................................................................................Mike Karl, Key Insurance Legal...................................................................................................................................................Robert LaRosa Press Representative................................................................................................Sam Rudy Media Relations For theater bookings please contact Nancy Hurvitz, Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation at nhurvitz@lortel.org.
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James Killerlane III
ADVISORY BOARD
Peter Avery, Jonathan Bank, Tim Carroll, Roger Danforth, Jack Doulin, Anne Dunning,
Elizabeth Egloff, Carl Forsman, Joseph A. Hardy, Amy Harris, Stuart Howard, Michael Kahn,
David Leong, Jason Loewith, Cynthia Mayeda, Jessica Niebanck, Jack O’Brien, Ted Pappas,
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Sir Patrick Stewart, Honorary Chair
J. Smith-Cameron, Bill Camp, Michael Cerveris,
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Laila Robins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Urie, Marc Vietor, Charlayne Woodard
RED BULL THEATER TEAM
Founder and Artistic Director..................................................................................................JESSE BERGER
Managing Director ....................................................................................................................JIM BREDESON
General Manager..............................................................................................................SHERRI KOTIMSKY
Associate Producer...............................................................................................NATHAN WINKELSTEIN
Dramaturg....................................................................................................................KATHLEEN DIMMICK
Short New Play Festival Producer..................................................................................... CRAIG BALDWIN
Casting Director....................................................................................................................STUART HOWARD
Press Representative.......................................................................... DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES
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GODS HEROES Elaine Goldhill*
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PLEASE JOIN OUR FAMILY OF SUPPORTERS TODAY.PAST RED BULL THEATER PRODUCTIONS Sharlene Cruz, AnnaSophia Robb, and Sophie Kelly-Hedrick in MAC BETH (2019) adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt. Michael McGrath, Mary Testa, Michael Urie and Christopher Innvar, Clifton Duncan, and Talene Monahon in THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR Amelia Pedlow in ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE (2017) directed by Jesse Berger. (2015) directed by Jesse Berger. Lisa Birnbaum, Tommy Schrider, and Edward Derek Smith and Charlayne Woodard O’Blenis in THE WHITE DEVIL(2019) directed by in THE WITCH OF EDMONTON (2011) Louisa Proske. directed by Jesse Berger.
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