BAM 2013 Winter/Spring Season

#TheMasterBuilder

Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer

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Master Builder By Henrik Ibsen Translated by David Edgar Directed by Andrei Belgrader BAM Harvey Theater May 12 & 19 at 7pm; May 14—18, 21—25, 28—30; Jun 1, 4—8 at 7:30pm; May 25, Jun 1 & 8 at 2pm; May 26, Jun 2 & 9 at 3pm Approximate running time: two hours and 10 minutes including one intermission

Produced by BAM

BAM 2013 Winter/Spring Season sponsor:

BAM 2013 Theater Sponsor Major support for theater at BAM: The Corinthian Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia Donald R. Mullen, Jr. The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Barbara & David Zalaznick

Set design by Santo Loquasto Costume design by Marco Piemontese Lighting design by James F. Ingalls Sound design by Ryan Rumery Original music written and performed live by Christian Frederickson and Ryan Rumery Wig and hair design by Paul Huntley Casting by Nancy Piccione, CSA

Who’s Who

Katherine Borowitz

Julian Gamble

Ken Cheeseman

Kelly Hutchinson

Wrenn Schmidt

Max Gordon Moore

John Turturro

The Master Builder CAST, in order of appearance Knut Brovik Kaja Fosli Ragnar Brovik Halvard Solness Aline Solness Dr. Herda Hilde Wangel

Julian Gamble Kelly Hutchinson Max Gordon Moore John Turturro Katherine Borowitz Ken Cheeseman Wrenn Schmidt

MUSICIANS Piano, synthesizer, percussion Ryan Rumery Viola, guitars Christian Frederickson Production stage manager James Latus Assistant stage manager Samantha Watson This adaptation first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester on September 9, 2010 Adaptation © Goodwrite Enterprises Ltd 2010 Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd; alanbrodie.com 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 This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

UNDERSTUDIES Knut Brovik / Halvard Solness Sean Cullen Kaja Fosli / Hilde Wangel Rachel Mewbron Ragnar Brovik / Dr. Herdal Dylan Chalfy Aline Solness Kate Hampton ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant director Alicia D. House Associate scenic designer Antje Ellerman Assistant costume designer Luana Busetti Assistant lighting designer Aaron Porter Assistant scenic designer Jisun Kim Assistant scenic designer Alexander Woodward Casting assistant Felicia Rudolph PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Set constructed by Hudson Scenic Studio

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Katherine Borowitz, John Turturro, and Wrenn Schmidt in The Master Builder. Photo: Graeme Mitchell.

Who’s Who Katherine Borowitz (Aline Solness) joined Actor’s Equity by playing a tree in the forest of Arden in Andrei Belgrader’s production of As You Like It at Yale Rep. Other regional theater includes Hedda Gabler, once as Thea, once as Hedda; Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hannah in Arcadia; Leonid in The Triumph of Love; and the title role in The Mai by Marina Carr. Off-Broadway she has worked at Classic Stage Company in A Spanish Play by Yasmina Reza, in Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; and very briefly in Three Sisters. She also played Edward/Victoria in Cloud 9 and all non-Yoko Ono women as well as keyboards in Lennon at the Entermedia before it became a multiplex. On Broadway last year she played the Mother in Ethan Coen’s contribution to Relatively Speaking. Television credits include Miami Vice, various Law & Orders, teleplays, and a season of Hothouse. Among her film work: Internal Affairs, Baby Boom, Men of Respect, Mac, Illuminata, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Somewhere Tonight, and A Serious Man. Ken Cheeseman (Dr. Herdal) has performed with New York Shaksespeare Festival in Measure for Measure, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; La MaMa ETC in King Lear; and CSC in Amphitryon, Scapin, and The Cherry Orchard. Other productions: Long Wharf, The Misanthrope; Yale Rep, Scapin; Baltimore Center Stage, Travels with My Aunt and The Cherry Orchard. At Huntington Theatre: Prelude to a Kiss, All My Sons, and Civil War Christmas. At American Repertory Theatre: We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, Doctor’s Dilemma, Othello, Three Farces and a Funeral, and The Merchant of Venice. At Trinity Rep: Marvin’s Room and One for the Money. Feature film roles include Shutter Island, Mystic River, Leaves of Grass, Malice, and Next Stop Wonderland and on TV, Monk and Law & Order. Cheeseman is a senior artist in residence at Emerson College. Julian Gamble (Knut Brovnik) has appeared on Broadway in The Seagull, Democracy, The Invention of Love, The Iceman Cometh, A Month in the Country, and Dinner at Eight. Films include Blood Ties, For Ellen, Taking Chance, First Born, and Quiet Killer. Television: Guest Star and recurring roles on Law & Order, Third Watch, SVU, Rubicon, Criminal Intent, Delocated, Willy, H.I.E.R., Perry Mason, Lifestories, Dallas, One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives, and Remember Wenn. Off-Broadway: You Never Can Tell, The

Flame Keeper, and Call the Children Home. He was on the national tour of 12 Angry Men. Gamble has also appeared in over 120 productions at regional theaters across the country. Kelly Hutchinson (Kaja Fosli) has performed on Broadway in Desire Under the Elms, Major Barbara, and Macbeth; off-Broadway in Or (The Women’s Project), The Voyage of the Carcass (Soho Playhouse), Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul at New York Theater Workshop, and Romola and Nijinsky at Primary Stages. Regional theater includes The Heir Apparent (Shakespeare Theatre), Emma (The Old Globe), How Shakespeare Won the West (Huntington Theatre), The Unmentionables (Yale Rep, directed by Anna D. Shapiro), Rocket to the Moon (Bard), The Understudy (Cincinnati Playhouse), Penelope of Ithaca (Hangar), and shows at the Pioneer Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage, Indiana Rep, and more. On television Hutchinson has been seen on The Good Wife, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Hack, and The Jury, as well as in a recurring role on Strangers with Candy. Films include Catch Me If You Can, Slippery Slope, Hysterical Psycho, Don Peyote, and The Sea is All I Know with Melissa Leo. Max Gordon Moore (Ragnar Brovik) has performed on Broadway in Relatively Speaking and off-Broadway in Man & Superman and It’s A Wonderful Life (Irish Rep) and The American Song Project (The Flea). Regional theater includes Tragedy: A Tragedy (Berkeley Rep); The Seagull (Cleveland Playhouse); Richard III, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Merchant of Venice (California Shakespeare Theatre); Bach at Leipzig (ACT); John Bull’s Other Island (Geva Theatre); Pleasure and Pain (Magic Theatre); Private Jokes, Public Places (Aurora Theatre); Learned Ladies and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Texas Shakespeare Festival); and Family Alchemy (Traveling Jewish Theatre). Film: Gods Behaving Badly and Terrors of Basketweaving. Television: The Good Wife. He received an MFA at the Yale School of Drama. Wrenn Schmidt (Hilde Wangel) has appeared on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba (MTC) and on national tour in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner. Off-Broadway shows include Be a Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), Beyond the Horizon,

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Katherine Borowitz. Photo: Graeme Mitchell.

Who’s Who Sive (Irish Repertory Theatre), Jailbait (Cherry Lane Theater), Katie Roche, Temporal Powers (Mint Theater Co.), Phantom Killer (Abingdon Theatre Co.), Caesar & Cleopatra (Resonance Ensemble), and Crazy for the Dog (Jean Cocteau Repertory). Regional: Proof (Cape May Stage) and Heaven (Kitchen Dog Theater). Film: Our Idiot Brother, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (“The Projectionist’s Best Performances of 2010,” New York magazine), The Necklace, and Javelina. Upcoming: How to Follow Strangers and Mary & Louise. TV: Julia Sagorsky on Boardwalk Empire, Blue Bloods, Body of Proof, Mercy, Law & Order, and 3 LBS. Training: SCGSAH and Meadows School of the Arts, SMU (BFA). Special thanks to MA and love to JR.

Wilderness (Vivian Beaumont Theater) and The Rose Tattoo (Circle in the Square) and off-Broadway in The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Urban Stages); Big Potato (Duke Theater); Home of the Brave (91st St Playhouse); and Blood Guilty (Ensemble Studio Theater). Regional productions include Emma (Book-It Rep); Secret Order (Alley Theatre); Rabbit Hole (Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Hartford Theaterworks); Doubt (George St Playhouse); and Misalliance and Cymbeline (Old Globe Theatre). Film and television appearances: The Carrie Diaries, The Americans, Box, Blue Bloods, Delocated, Guiding Light, Rescue Me, One Life to Live, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Conviction, Oz, and The Handmaid’s Tale and on BBC Radio.

John Turturro (Halvard Solness) studied at the Yale School of Drama. For his theatrical debut he created the title role of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, for which he won an Obie Award and a Theater World Award. Since then, he has performed on stage in Waiting for Godot; the title role of Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Eduardo De Filippo’s Souls of Naples, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award; and Endgame at BAM. On Broadway he appeared in Yasmina Reza’s Life x3 and directed an evening of one-acts called Relatively Speaking. He most recently appeared as Lopakhin in the highly acclaimed CSC production of The Cherry Orchard. Turturro was nominated for a SAG Award for his portrayal of Howard Cosell in Monday Night Mayhem, and again for The Bronx is Burning, as notorious Yankee skipper Billy Martin. He won an Emmy Award for his guest appearance on Monk. Turturro has performed in more than 60 films, including Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, and Jungle Fever; Robert Redford’s Quiz Show; Francesco Rosi’s La Tregua; and Joel and Ethan Coen’s Miller’s Crossing, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother Where Art Thou. For his lead role in the Coen brothers’ Barton Fink, Turturro won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. He received Cannes’ Camera d’Or Award for his directorial debut, Mac. Other films as director include Illuminata, Romance & Cigarettes, Passione: a Musical Adventure, and the upcoming Fading Gigolo, which he also wrote and stars in, alongside Woody Allen.

Sean Cullen (understudy: Knut Brovik, Halvard Solness) appeared earlier this year in Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed production of Clifford Odet’s Golden Boy, directed by Bartlett Sher. He also guest starred in a recurring role on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and completed filming Lou Howe’s Gabriel, starring Rory Culkin. In 2012, Cullen appeared at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in David Hyde Pierce’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest and Richard Nelson’s adaptation/production of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Broadway credits also include South Pacific; Coram Boy; and James Joyce’s The Dead. He has also appeared in productions at 20 of the country’s leading regional theaters. Cullen’s feature film credits include Cop Out, Revolutionary Road, and Michael Clayton, among others. His most recent television credits include roles in Body of Proof, N.C.I.S., and Blue Bloods, among others. He is a native of Buffalo, NY and a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and the Yale School of Drama.

Dylan Chalfy (understudy: Ragnar Brovik, Dr. Herdal) has been seen on Broadway in Ah,

Kate Hampton (understudy, Aline Solness) has had roles on Broadway in The Best Man and The Deep Blue Sea and in the first national tour of Spring Awakening. Additional productions in New York include All My Sons (Roundabout), Have You Seen Steve Steven? (13P), The Typographer’s Dream (Clubbed Thumb), and Over the River and Through the Woods. Regional productions include Lend Me a Tenor (Florida Rep), Fallen Angels, God of Carnage, Once in a Lifetime, The Innocents, Las Meninas, Boeing Boeing, La Bête, Pride and Prejudice, Expecting Isabel (Asolo Rep), Absurd Person Singular (Bristol Rep), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom

Who’s Who (Humana Festival), Loot (The Arden), The Real Thing (Olney), and All My Sons (Williamstown). TV credits include the Law & Order trifecta, The Education of Max Bickford, and Sex and the City. She is married to actor David Breitbarth.
 Rachel Mewbron (understudy: Hilde Wangel, Kaja Fosli) is thrilled to be a part of this company. A Georgian turned New Yorker, her recent stage credits include Abigail in The Crucible (Hartford Stage, Connecticut Broadway World Award: Best Supporting Actress); Clarissa in In the Summer Pavilion (59E59); Alice in You Can’t Take It With You (Chautauqua Theatre Company); Miranda in The Tempest (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); and appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe, Samuel French Festival, and NYC International Fringe. Credits from New York University include Erika in HmatrixH (directed by Mark Wing-Davey and Jim Calder), Jo in boom (directed by Hal Brooks), and April in Acquainted with the Night (directed by Rachel Chavkin). She received an MFA from the New York University graduate acting program. David Edgar’s (translation) plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company include Destiny, Maydays, and Pentecost; his plays for the National Theatre include Albert Speer and Playing with Fire. His stage adaptations include The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (revived at the Manhattan Theatre Club) and his Tony award-winning adaptation of Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby, again for the RSC. His two-play cycle about a west coast governor’s election, Continental Divide, was jointly produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Berkeley Rep. He founded Britain’s first graduate playwriting program, at the University of Birmingham, and is president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. Andrei Belgrader (director) is a theater and television director. The last shows he directed in New York were Beckett’s Endgame at BAM and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at CSC (Lucille Lortel Awards, Best Revival). He has directed at the American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory, the Goodman, Seattle Rep, ACT, and off-Broadway, as well as in Europe, including plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Gogol, Büchner, Nicolai Erdman, Joe Orton, Dario Fo, Beckett, Ionesco, Tom Eyen, John Guare, Charles Mee, and others. He has adapted work for the stage with Shelley Berc, music by Rusty Magee, several plays in-

cluding Scapin, Rameau’s Nephew, The Servant of Two Masters, The Imaginary Invalid, and the musical Ubu Rock based on Jarry’s Ubu Roi. Belgrader directed these adaptations at theaters across the country. For television, he directed several episodes of the sitcom Coach, an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and many episodes of Monk. He is originally from Romania and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Caroline Hall, and daughter Grace. Belgrader teaches at the University of Southern California. Santo Loquasto (scenic design) designs for theater, film, dance, and opera. He has received three Tony Awards and has been nominated 15 times. Recent New York theater designs include Waiting for Godot, Fences, and Wit. He has collaborated with Woody Allen on over 24 films, receiving Academy Award nominations for production designs for Radio Days and Bullets Over Broadway and for the costume design of Zelig. He received the Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004, received the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2006, and the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007. Marco Piemontese (costume design) has designed for Classic Stage Company productions of The Forest (2010), Three Sisters (2010), The Cherry Orchard (2011), and Ivanov (2012). Piemontese began working at Tirelli Costumes in Rome where he assisted some of the greatest international costume designers, among them Maestro Piero Tosi and Milena Canonero. He has worked on films including Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine (2012) and Whatever Works (2008), Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (2011), and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (2013). Operas include Zeffirelli’s La Bohème at La Scala (2006), La Traviata at La Fenice (2004), and other productions including Franco Dragone’s The House of Dancing Waters, Macau (2010), and Le Rêve, Las Vegas (2010). Piemontese received his master’s degree in art history at University of Florence. JAMES F. INGALLS (lighting design) returns to BAM where his previous collaborations include John Adams’ El Niño, The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China; Bach/Mahagony and Zangezi, all directed by Peter Sellars. For the Mark Morris Dance Group he has designed

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John Turturro and Wrenn Schmidt. Photo: Graeme Mitchell.

Who’s Who Mozart Dances; Romeo and Juliet - On Motifs of Shakespeare; The Hard Nut; Dido and Aeneas; and L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed ll Moderato. Recent theater projects include The Big Knife (Roundabout Theatre Company), Sense and Sensibility (Denver Center Theatre Company), My Name is Asher Lev (Westside/Upstairs), and Glengarry Glen Ross (Broadway). Recent dance projects include Perpetual Dawn and To Make Crops Grow (Paul Taylor Dance Company), Onegin (American Ballet Theatre and National Ballet of Canada), and Don Quixote (San Francisco Ballet). Recent opera projects include Tristan and Isolde (Canadian Opera Company/Toronto), Les Troyens (Metropolitan Opera), and Ainadamar (Teatro Real/Madrid). He frequently collaborates with Melanie Rios Glaser and the Wooden Floor dancers in Santa Ana, CA.

NANCY PICCIONE (casting) is the director of casting at Manhattan Theatre Club. Broadway credits include Venus in Fur, Wit, Time Stands Still, Topgirls, Shining City, and currently, The Assembled Parties. She also cast Proof and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and their national tours. Off-Broadway credits include The Whipping Man, Ruined, Equivocation, and Regrets Only. Prior to working at Manhattan Theatre Club, she was a member of the casting staff at the New York Shakespeare Festival for 10 years, where she worked on Shakespeare in the Park and numerous productions at the Public Theatre. She served as American casting director for the 2009 and 2010 seasons of The Bridge Project, produced by BAM and the Old Vic London. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and a member of the Casting Society of America.

Ryan Rumery (original music, performer, and sound design) is a musician and composer living in Brooklyn. His work has been heard in theaters across the US, including the Broadway production of Thurgood starring Laurence Fishburne. His recent off-Broadway works include All in the Timing (Primary Stages); What Rhymes with America (Atlantic); The Submission (MCC); 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center/LCT3); Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Orlando, Uncle Vanya (Classic Stage Company); The Emperor Jones (Irish Rep., Lortel nomination); and We Live Here (MTC). Regionally Rumery has worked on more than 175 shows. His film credits include Gatewood and SyncroNYCity. He plays drums in the Colorado band the Joy of Harm, which is finishing an EP produced by Craig Schumacher, and in New York City-based Palissimo’s The Painted Bird.

Christian Frederickson (original music, performer) is a violist, composer, and sound designer living in Brooklyn. He is a founding member of the Louisville bands Rachel’s and the Young Scamels, and is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School. Recent credits include Trojan Women (BAM Next Wave Festival 2012, with Anne Bogart and SITI Co.); The Painted Bird Trilogy (Wexner Center); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Unnatural Acts, Three Sisters (Classic Stage Company); The Emperor Jones (Irish Repertory Theater, 2010 Lortel Nomination); Through the Yellow Hour (Rattlestick); and Romeo and Juliet and The Edge of Our Bodies (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville).

PAUL HUNTLEY (wig design), from London, has worked on hundreds of Broadway shows since his arrival in New York in 1972, most memorably the original productions of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, and Hairspray. A recipient of Drama Desk and Tony awards, he has also worked with the some of the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, and Vivien Leigh to Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Glenn Close, and Jessica Lange. Current shows include Big Fish, Cinderella, and Nice Work if You Can Get It.

ALICIA DHYANA HOUSE (assistant director) is an international director, educator, and acting coach based in New York City. Her work has been seen at such venues as Jermyn Street Theatre (London), Edinburgh Fringe, Atlantic Stage 2, HERE, Martin Segal Theatre, and Culture Project. Directing credits include: Medea (Official Selection Prague Quadrennial 2011); The Seagull; Marivaux’s The Game of Love and Chance, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls; Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and In the Next Room, Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, and Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing. She has led theater workshops at New York University, Barnard, Whittier College, and in Hong Kong and Thailand. Since 2010 House has been a guest director at Atlantic Theater Acting School and a directing mentor at Fordham University. For several years she was

Who’s Who the Humanities Manager at BAM. She received an MFA in directing from Columbia University where she was awarded the Richard Rodgers and Kennedy Center Directing Fellowships. James Latus’ (production stage manager) theater experience includes Endgame at BAM. On Broadway: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Clybourne Park, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Stones in His Pockets, and Bells Are Ringing. As assistant director: Paul Simon’s The Capeman. Off-Broadway: The Great American Trailer Park Musical; They Wrote That?, and The Persians at National Actor’s Theatre. At the Public Theater, 21 productions including Stephen Sondheim’s Roadshow, King Lear with Sam Waterston, King Lear with Kevin Kline, The Skriker, WASP by Steve Martin, Stuff Happens by David Hare, and Antony and Cleopatra starring and directed by Vanessa Redgrave. At Playwrights Horizons: Chinese Friends and Memory House directed by David Esbjornson. Additionally, 12 productions for the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park and shows at Young Playwrights Festival and Theatre for a New Audience. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, most recently Two Gentlemen of Verona, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and McCarter Theatre. International: Oedipus at the Athens Festival. Training: professional theater training program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906), the eldest of five children, was born in the coastal town of Skien, Norway into a family that fell into poverty when he was eight. He worked in an apothecary, writing and painting in his spare time, and wrote his first play, Catilina, in 1850. He was employed in theaters in Christiania (now Oslo) and Bergen, counting among his jobs poet and director, and began fully focusing on writing in 1862, moving to Italy shortly thereafter. He spent the next decades there and in Germany, completing Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and Hedda Gabler, among other works. The Master Builder, regarded as Ibsen’s most autobiographical play and his first work written

Samantha Watson (assistant stage manager) has worked on productions for BAM including Shuffle Culture, Mic Check, The Bridge Project’s Richard III starring Kevin Spacey (Old Vic, International Tour). Off-Broadway: The Jammer, Harper Regan, Jackie and Me (Atlantic Theater Company). New York: Arnie the Doughnut (NYMF), Love Lab (Lee Strasberg). International: Lear Dreaming (Singapore Arts Festival), The Continuum: Beyond the Killing Fields (The Arts Centre, Melbourne). Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Notes from Underground, Restoration (La Jolla Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing; and The Mock-Tempest (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Music: A Few for Friends (Galapagos Art Space), Tower Sounds (installation by Ann Hamilton and Shahrokh Yadegari), and SummerFest (La Jolla Music Society). Watson received her MFA from UC San Diego. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the US. Equity seeks to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing 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. actorsequity.org

after his eventual return to Norway, was published in December of 1892. The first performance was on January 19, 1893 at the Lessing Theatre in Berlin. It was presented in London later that year in a highly praised production at the Trafalgar Square Theatre, followed by productions in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Paris, and other cities. The American premiere took place on January 16, 1900 at the Carnegie Lyceum in New York, with subsequent shows soon after in Washington and Boston. His oeuvre remains among the most widely performed.