When It`s Hot It`s COLE! A Cole Porter Cabaret

American Repertory Theatre
in association with the Loeb Drama Center
presents
When It’s Hot It’s
COLE!
A Cole Porter Cabaret
music and lyrics by Cole Porter
conceived by Scott Zigler and Peter Bayne
musical arrangements by Peter Bayne
director
musical direction
movement
costume design
lighting design
sound design
stage manager
Scott Zigler
Miranda Loud
Kelli Edwards
Hilary Hacker
Margo Caddell
David Remedios
Katherine Shea
First performance June 26, 2008
Zero Arrow Theatre
Cast
Remo Airaldi
Thomas Derrah
Will LeBow
Karen MacDonald
Angela Nahigian
There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.
Additional Staff: Allison Kline, Assistant to the Director; Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, Stage
Management Intern; Sandra Venegas, Patrick Landreman, Audio Interns.
Photo Compilation: Sean Bartley & Allison Kline
The American Repertory Theatre’s 2007–08 Season is dedicated to the
loving memory of Jean Rudnick for her inspiration, wit, and generosity.
Natural Herb Cough Drops – Courtesy of Ricola
Season Sponsors:
Songs
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
Begin the beguine
Night and day
From this moment on
You do something to me
Easy to love
Ridin’ high
Do I love you
Let’s not talk about love
Down in the depths (on the ninetieth floor)
So in love
Just one of those things/
Ev’ry time we say goodbye
What is this thing called love
All
Thomas Derrah
Karen MacDonald
Thomas Derrah/Karen MacDonald
Will LeBow
Angela Nahigian
Karen MacDonald/Angela Nahigian
Remo Airaldi
All
Karen MacDonald
Remo Airaldi
Angela Nahigian/Karen MacDonald
All
INTERMISSION
Anything goes/Brush up your Shakespeare
I’ve a shooting box in Scotland
Tale of the oyster
Miss Otis regrets
It’s all right with me
Love for sale
I’ve got you under my skin
All of you
I am in love
Too darn hot
Why can’t you behave
Always true to you in my fashion
I get a kick out of you
Let’s misbehave
You’re the top
….
All
Will LeBow
Remo Airaldi
Karen MacDonald
Thomas Derrah
Angela Nahigian
Thomas Derrah/Angela Nahigian
Will LeBow
Remo Airaldi
Men
Karen MacDonald
Angela Nahigian
Karen MacDonald
All
All
Cole Porter
Born in Peru, Indiana, in 1891 to a wealthy family, Cole
Porter studied music from an early age, and began
composing as a teenager. After high school he attended
Yale University and went on to law school at Harvard
University, though his main interest remained in music.
While at Harvard he continued to write and a number of
his pieces were used in Broadway musicals. In 1916, his
first musical, See America First, was a flop and closed
after only fifteen performances. Porter joined the French
Foreign Legion and served in North Africa, carrying a
portable piano on his back and entertaining friends with
improvised songs. He received the Croix de Guerre
decoration from the French Government for keeping high
the morale of his regiment, and when America entered
World War I, he taught French gunnery to American troops.
After the war, Porter married Linda Lee Thomas of the
Social Register and settled in Paris, entertaining lavishly in
their palatial home. This was the beginning of his life long
affection for the city, which he would return to in songs
such as “You Don’t Know Paree” and “I Love Paris.” During his time abroad Porter contributed to many
musicals including Hitchy-Koo and The Greenwich Village Follies. It wasn’t, however, until his song
“Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love” appeared in the 1928 musical Paris, that he had his first big hit.
A contemporary of George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Jerome Kern, Porter’s urbane wit and
musical complexity won him the affection of the nation. Songs such as “What Is This Thing Called
Love,” “I Get A Kick Out of You,” and “Too Darn Hot,” became instant hits and have remained classics.
While his name was associated with many of these upbeat songs, a more melancholy side could be
seen in the wonderful “Miss Otis Regrets” and “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye.”
Despite a horseback riding accident in 1937 that crippled him for life, Porter produced much of his
best work in the 1940s and 50s. He wrote hundreds of songs for dozens of Broadway shows, movie
musicals, and television specials. His most successful musical, Kiss Me Kate, opened in 1948 and ran
for over a thousand performances. A recluse in his later years, Porter died in California in 1964. Today
his legacy lives on in productions of his musicals and in recordings of artists such as Ella Fitzgerald,
Frank Sinatra, and Lena Horne.
Company
REMO AIRALDI
A.R.T.: Fifty-five productions, including Cardenio (Rudi), Julius
Caesar (Casca), Donnie Darko (Principal Cole), A Marvelous Party!,
Oliver Twist (Mr. Bumble; also at Theatre for A New Audience and
Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Onion Cellar, Island of Slaves
(Arlequin), Romeo and Juliet (Peter), No Exit (Valet), Amerika
(Captain, Green, Head Porter), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Nurse), The
Provok’d Wife (Constable), The Miser (Master Jacques), The
Birthday Party (McCann), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Francis
Flute), Pericles (Fisherman), La Dispute (Mesrou), Uncle Vanya
(Telegin), Marat/Sade (Cucurucu), Enrico IV (Bertoldo), The Winter’s
Tale (Clown), The Wild Duck (Molvik), Buried Child (Father Dewis),
Tartuffe (Monsieur Loyal), Henry IV and V (Mistress Quickly), Waiting for Godot (Pozzo), Shlemiel the
First (Mottel/Moishe Pippik/Chaim Rascal), The King Stag (Cigolotti), Six Characters in Search of an
Author (Emilio Paz). Other: Camino Real and Eight by Tenn (Hartford Stage), productions at La Jolla
Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Walnut St. Theatre, Prince Music Theater,
Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Serious Fun Festival, Moscow Art Theatre, Taipei International Arts Festival,
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. He is a graduate of Harvard College.
THOMAS DERRAH
A.R.T.: Julius Caesar (title role), Donnie Darko (Jim Cunningham), A
Marvelous Party!, Oliver Twist (also at Theatre for A New Audience
and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Onion Cellar, Olly’s Prison
(Barry), The Birthday Party (Stanley), A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Nick Bottom), Highway Ulysses (Ulysses), Uncle Vanya (Vanya),
Marat/Sade (Marquis de Sade), Richard II (Richard), Mother
Courage (Chaplain). Broadway: Jackie: An American Life (twentythree roles). Off-Broadway: Johan Padan and the Discovery of the
Americas (Johan), Big Time (Ted). Tours with the Company across
the U.S., with residencies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and
Los Angeles, and throughout Europe, Canada, Israel, Taiwan, Japan,
and Moscow. Other: I Am My Own Wife, Boston TheatreWorks; Approaching Moomtaj, New Repertory
Theatre; Twelfth Night and The Tempest, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.; London’s Battersea Arts
Center; five productions at Houston’s Alley Theatre, including Our Town (Dr. Gibbs, directed by José
Quintero); and many theatres throughout the U.S. Awards: 1994 Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained
Excellence, 2000 and 2004 IRNE Awards for Best Actor, 1997 Los Angeles DramaLogue Award (for title
role of Shlemiel the First). Television: Julie Taymor’s film Fool’s Fire (PBS American Playhouse),
Unsolved Mysteries, Del and Alex (Alex, A&E Network). Film: Mystic River (directed by Clint Eastwood).
He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Company
WILL LeBOW
A.R.T.: fifty-three productions, including Cardenio (Alfred), Julius
Caesar (Lepidus), Copenhagen (Niels Bohr), Donnie Darko (Eddie
Darko), A Marvelous Party!, Oliver Twist (Mr. Brownlow, also at
Theatre for A New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Romeo
and Juliet (Capulet), Three Sisters (Kulygin), No Exit (Garcin),
Amerika (Uncle Jacob, Innkeeperess, Head Waiter), Dido, Queen of
Carthage (Jupiter), The Miser (Valére), The Birthday Party
(Goldberg), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Egeus/Peter Quince),
Pericles (Cleon/Pandar), Highway Ulysses (ensemble), Uncle Vanya
(Serebriakov), Lysistrata (Magistrate), Marat/Sade (Marat), The
Doctor’s Dilemma (Sir Ralph), Nocturne (Father – Drama Desk nomination), Full Circle (Heiner Müller –
Elliot Norton Award for best actor), The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), The Marriage of Bette and Boo
(Karl), The Imaginary Invalid (title role), Shlemiel the First (Shlemiel/Zalman Tippish – also on tours of
the West Coast), The Wild Duck (Hjalmar Ekdal), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Sagot), The King Stag
(Brighella – a role he also performed in Taiwan), Six Characters in Search of an Author (The Father).
Other: The Cherry Orchard, Love’s Labors Lost, The Rivals and Melinda Lopez’s Sonia Flew (Huntington
Theatre), Twelfth Night (Feste, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Brian Friel’s Faith Healer
(Gloucester Stage Company), Shear Madness (all male roles), the Boston Pops premiere of “How the
Grinch Stole Christmas”(narrator). Film: Next Stop Wonderland, Real Men Cry. Television: the Cable Ace
Award-winning animated series Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (voice of Stanley).
KAREN MacDONALD
A.R.T.: founding member, sixty-four productions, including Cardenio
(Luisa), Copenhagen (Margrethe Bohr), Donnie Darko (Kitty Farmer),
A Marvelous Party!, Oliver Twist (Mrs. Bumble, also at Theatre for A
New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Onion Cellar,
Island of Slaves (Euphrosine), Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), No Exit
(Estelle, Elliot Norton Award), Olly’s Prison (Ellen, Elliot Norton
Award), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Anna), The Provok’d Wife
(Madamoiselle, IRNE award), The Miser (Frosine, IRNE award), The
Birthday Party (IRNE Award), A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Hypolita/Titania, IRNE award), Pericles (Dionyza), Highway Ulysses
(Circe), Uncle Vanya (Marina), Lysistrata (Kalonika), Mother Courage
and Her Children (Mother Courage), Marat/Sade (Simone), Othello (Emilia, IRNE award). Director of
Dressed Up! Wigged Out!, Boston Playwrights Theatre. New York: Roundabout Theatre, Second Stage,
Playwright’s Horizons, and Actors’ Playhouse. Regional: The Misanthrope (Arsinöe), Berkshire Theatre
Festival; Infestation (Mother), Boston Playwrights Theatre; Hamlet (Gertrude) and Twelfth Night (Maria),
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Maureen) and The Last Night of
Ballyhoo (Boo) Vineyard Playhouse; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Martha, Elliot Norton Award) and
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Frankie), Merrimack Repertory Theatre; As You Like It (Rosalind), Shakespeare & Co; Shirley Valentine (Shirley), Charles Playhouse. Other: Alley Theatre (Company
member), the Goodman Theatre, the Wilma Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Geva Theatre, Syracuse Stage,
Buffalo Studio Arena, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Philadelphia Festival of New Plays.
Company
ANGELA NAHIGIAN
A.R.T.: Cardenio (Simonetta u/s performed), Donnie Darko (Elizabeth Darko). Graduate of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced
Theatre Training. Credits: The Celebration, The Lacy Project, The
Phoenician Women. New York: The Blue Room (Au Pair, Model).
Berkeley: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Player), The Taming of the
Shrew (Gremio), John Fisher’s Cleopatra! The Musical (Iris), Crime
of the Twenty First Century (Hoxton), Escape from Happiness
(Elizabeth). BACH Opera: The Magic Flute (1st Lady). Featured
soloist: PBS Music in Our Schools Concerts, UC Berkeley Symphony
& Chorus. Ms. Nahigian is a founding member of Close to Six
Company in New York. Graduated with honors from University of California at Berkeley.
MIRANDA LOUD – Music Director and Pianist
Performs as a mezzo-soprano with several orchestras and choruses
in New England, New York and Baltimore, including Emmanuel
Music in Boston. Recent performances include the premiere of the
song cycle The Wild Iris, dedicated to Ms. Loud by composer
Forrest Pierce and The Heart Poems, a song cycle by John
Morrison. She was awarded an “artist-in-residence” grant in 2006
at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada for her development of a
multi-media concert Matins: Reconnecting to Nature, and has been
a participant in the prestigious Songfest program in Malibu, CA for
two seasons (where she worked with composers Jake Heggie and
Ricky Ian Gordon). Ms. Loud has performed extensively as an
organist, harpsichordist, producer, and choral conductor. In 2005 she founded the Rialto Arts series in
Boston (“where nature takes center stage”), which combines environmental awareness with multi-media
concert production. She is currently developing a documentary called Buccaneers of Buzz about
honeybees and beekeepers for Rialto Arts. She received her Masters in Music from Eastman School of
Music in Organ Performance and Literature.
Artistic Staff
PETER BAYNE – Musical Arranger
A.R.T. Institute: The Room/Celebration, Trigger, The Discreet Charm of Monsieur Jourdain, Expats, and
Gray City. Other Boston productions: Three Tall Women, Lyric Stage; The Bluest Eye, Company One;
Marisol, Orfeo Group; A Winter’s Tale, Hamlet (performer), Actor’s Shakespeare Project. Founding
member of the new music group the East Coast Composers Ensemble (ECCE). His scores have been
performed by numerous ensembles around the country and he is active as a Hip-Hop/Dance music
producer. He holds a B.A. with honors in Music from Vassar College, and an M.F.A. in Composition and
Theory from Brandeis University; is a teaching fellow in Music Theory and Musicology at Harvard.
Artistic Staff
SCOTT ZIGLER – Director
A.R.T.: Copenhagen, Animals and Plants, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Absolution, The Old Neighborhood
(also Broadway); Other Regional and Off-Broadway: The Cherry Orchard, Atlantic Theatre Co.; Glengarry
Glen Ross, McCarter Theatre; Spinning Into Butter, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Cryptogram,
Alley Theatre and Steppenwolf Theatre Co; A Fair Country, Steppenwolf Theatre Co; Oleanna, National
Tour. Mr. Zigler served as Artistic Director of the Atlantic Theater Company in New York and as Executive
Director of that company’s professional training program, the Practical Aesthetics Workshop. He was
also Director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice/Intern Company from 1992–94. At Actors
Theatre, Mr. Zigler directed Oleanna and Jose Rivera’s Tape for the 1993 Humana Festival. Mr. Zigler is
Director of the A.R.T. Institute and Artistic Coordinator for new play development.
HILARY HACKER – Costume Designer
ART: A Marvelous Party, The Island of Anyplace (2008). A.R.T. Institute: Kate Crackernuts, Betty’s
Summer Vacation, Killing Game, Grey City, Trigger, The Celebration, and The Room. Assistant Costume
Design Credit: Phoenician Women, Moscow Art Theatre. Earned a Costume Design degree with the
College of Charleston, SC in 1998. Assistant Costume Shop Manager at the A.R.T. since 2003.
MARGO CADDELL – Lighting Designer
A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training: The Room & Celebration, Grey City, Kate Crackernuts.
Other: Big Love, Company, Rain.Some Fish. No Elephants, The Seagull, Tufts University; House of
Desires, Angels in America part 1, Big Love, Trojan Women, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Dance: The ThisThat Show, Daniel McCusker Dance Project (Jupiter), John Stronks and Dancers.
Currently on the faculty in the drama/dance department at Tufts University. MFA from University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
DAVID REMEDIOS – Sound Designer
A.R.T.: Forty-three productions, including Cardenio, Julius Caesar, Copenhagen, Donnie Darko, No
Man’s Land, Oliver Twist, The Onion Cellar, Orpheus X, The Provok’d Wife (original music), Absolution,
Enrico IV, Man and Superman. He has also toured regionally and internationally for the A.R.T. Other
regional: CenterStage Baltimore, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Boston
Playwrights Theatre, Emerson Stage, 92nd St. Y, Boston Theatre Works, Vineyard Playhouse. Dance
soundscapes include works for Concord Academy, Snappy Dance Theater Company, and Lorraine
Chapman. Awards: 2007 Connecticut Critics Circle Award (No Exit, Hartford Stage), 2001 Elliot Norton
Award (Mother Courage and Her Children, A.R.T.), IRNE Award nominations for A.R.T.’s Britannicus,
Island of Slaves, Olly’s Prison, Oedipus, Snow in June, and Highway Ulysses.
KATHERINE SHEA – Stage Manager
A.R.T.: Stage Manager Donnie Darko. Assistant Stage Manager Oliver Twist, The Onion Cellar.
Production Associate Island of Slaves, Desire Under the Elms. A.R.T. Institute Stage Manager The Front
Page, Arabian Night, Zoya, Mayhem, A Bright Room Called Day, Island of Anyplace, The Bacchae,
Spring Awakening, Donnie Darko. Lyric Stage Company of Boston: Production Stage Manager Three Tall
Women, Adrift in Macao. Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Stage Manager King John.
Artistic Staff
GIDEON LESTER – Acting Artistic Director
Recent translations: Marivaux’s Island of Slaves and La Dispute
(published by Ivan Dee, directed by Anne Bogart at the A.R.T.),
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage (directed by János Szász), Georg
Büchner’s Woyzeck (directed by Marcus Stern), and two texts by the
French playwright Michel Vinaver, King and Overboard (published by
Methuen and staged at the Orange Tree Theatre in London).
Adaptations: Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, and
Richard Reitinger, directed by Ola Mafaalani; Kafka’s Amerika, or the
Disappearance (directed at the A.R.T. by Dominique Serrand), Anne
Frank for the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard, and Enter
the Actress, a one-woman show that he devised for Claire Bloom. Born in London in 1972, Mr. Lester
studied English Literature at Oxford University. In 1995 he came to the U.S. on a Fulbright grant and
Frank Knox Memorial Scholarship to study dramaturgy at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre
Training at Harvard. When he graduated from the Institute, Mr. Lester was appointed Resident
Dramaturg. He became the A.R.T.’s Associate Artistic Director in 2002, and Acting Artistic Director in
2007. He teaches dramaturgy at the A.R.T./MXAT Institute and playwriting at Harvard.
ROBERT J. ORCHARD – Executive Director
Mr. Orchard served as the A.R.T’s founding Managing Director for
twenty-one years. He currently serves as Executive Director of the
A.R.T. and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and Director
of the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University. Prior to 1979, he
was Managing Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and School of
Drama where he also served as Associate Professor and CoChairman of the Theatre Administration Program. For over twenty
years, Mr. Orchard has been active facilitating exchanges, leading
seminars, and advising on public policy with theatre professionals
and government officials in Russia. At the A.R.T. he has produced
one hundred and ninety-five productions over half of which were new
works. In addition, he has overseen tours of A.R.T. productions to major festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon,
Belgrade, Paris, Madrid, Jerusalem, Venice, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, and Moscow, among
others. Under his leadership, A.R.T. has performed in eighty-three cities in twenty-two states and
worldwide in twenty-two cities in sixteen countries on four continents. Mr. Orchard has served as
Chairman of both the Theatre and the Opera/Musical Theatre Panels at the National Endowment for the
Arts, on the Board and Executive Committee of the American Arts Alliance, the national advocacy
association for the performing and visual arts, and as a trustee of Theatre Communications Group (TCG),
the national service organization for the American professional theatre and publisher of American Theatre
magazine. In addition he has served on the Board of the Cambridge Multi-Cultural Arts Center and as
President of the Massachusetts Cultural Education Collaborative. In 2000, Mr. Orchard received the Elliot
Norton Award for Sustained Excellence.
Zero Arrow Theatre
Our exciting second
performance space!
“Boston’s Best New Theatre”
– Improper Bostonian 2005
The A.R.T.’s flexible and intimate
second performance space at the
intersection of Arrow Street and
Mass. Avenue in Cambridge is now
three years old! This three hundredseat theatre serves as an incubator
for new work in addition to hosting
performances by the A.R.T./MXAT
Institute for Advanced Theatre
Training. Performance times and
dates are always listed on the
A.R.T.’s website (www.amrep.org).
Don’t miss the adventure of new
work, young artists, and multiple
disciplines all at affordable
prices—the signature mission of
ZERO ARROW THEATRE.
The American Repertory Theatre and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard are supported
in part by major grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The
Shubert Foundation, and the Carr Foundation. The A.R.T. also gratefully acknowledges the support of
Harvard University, including president Drew Gilpin Faust, Provost Steven E. Hyman, Faculty of Arts and
Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, the Committee on Dramatics, Dean Michael Shinagel, and the School of
Continuing Education. We also wish to give special thanks to our audience and to the many A.R.T. Annual
Fund donors for helping us make this season possible.
American Repertory Theatre
Advisory Board
Philip Burling (Co-Chair)
Ted Wendell (Co-Chair)
Joseph Auerbach, emeritus
Page Bingham
William H. Boardman, Jr.
Robert Brustein
Paul Buttenwieser
Greg Carr
Caroline Chang
Antonia Handler Chayes
Clarke Coggeshall
Kathleen Connor
Robert Davoli
Michael Feinstein
Charles Gottesman
Barbara W. Grossman
Ann Gund
Joseph W. Hammer
Sarah Hancock
Horace H. Irvine II
Michael E. Jacobson
Glenn KnicKrehm
Myra H. Kraft
Barbara Lemperly Grant
Carl J. Martignetti
Dan Mathieu
Fumi Matsumoto
Eileen McDonagh
Rebecca Gold Milikowsky
Ward Mooney
Anthony Pangaro
Jeffrey Rayport
Michael Roitman
Henry Rosovsky
Linda U. Sanger
John A. Shane
Michael Shinagel
Lisbeth Tarlow
Donald Ware
Sam Weisman
The A.R.T./Harvard
Board of Directors
Philip Burling
Jonathan Hurlbert (Clerk)
Judith Kidd
Robert James Kiely
Jacqueline A. O’Neill (Chair)
Robert J. Orchard
Jesse Souweine
Let Me Down Easy
by Anna Deavere Smith
September 12 – October 11
Aurelia’s Oratorio
Aurélia’s Oratorio
written and directed by
Victoria Thierrée Chaplin
starring Aurélia Thierrée
November 28 – December 28
Endgame
by Samuel Beckett
directed by Marcus Stern
February 14 – March 15
“When you step into the A.R.T.,
you know you’re in for a flight
of imagination that you can’t
get anywhere else.”
Season Tickets start
at $32 per play!
– Boston Globe
08/09
World
Premiere
The Communist
Dracula Pageant
the
communist
dracula
pageant
by Anne Washburn
directed by Anne Kauffman
October 18 – November 9
The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov
directed by János Szász
January 10 – February 1
World
Premiere
Trojan Barbie
by Christine Evans
directed by Carmel O’Reilly
March 28 – April 22
TROJAN BARBIE
Romance
by David Mamet
directed by Scott Zigler
May 9 – 31
About the A.R.T.
A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE
Robert J. Orchard
Executive Director
Gideon Lester
Acting Artistic Director
Robert Brustein
Founding Director/Creative Consultant
The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) occupies a unique place in the American theatre. It is the only
professional not-for-profit theatre in the country that maintains a resident acting company and an
international training conservatory, and that operates in association with a major university. Over its
twenty-eight year history the A.R.T. has welcomed American and international theatre artists who have
enriched the theatrical life of the nation. The theatre has garnered many of the nation’s most distin
guished awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, and a Jujamcyn Award. In December 2002,
the A.R.T. was the recipient of the National Theatre Conference’s Outstanding Achievement Award, and
in May of 2003 it was named one of the top three theatres in the country by Time magazine.
Since 1980 the A.R.T. has performed in eighty-three cities in twenty-two states around the country,
and worldwide in twenty-two cities in sixteen countries on four continents. It has presented one hundred
and ninety-five productions, over half of which were premieres of new plays, translations, and adaptations.
The A.R.T. was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein and has been resident for twenty-seven years at
Harvard University’s Loeb Drama Center. In August 2002 Robert Woodruff became the A.R.T.’s Artistic
Director, the second in the theatre’s history. Gideon Lester became Acting Artistic Director in July 2007,
joining Executive Director Robert J. Orchard as the theatre’s management team. Diane Paulus, a critically
acclaimed director of theatre and opera, was recently appointed A.R.T.’s new Artistic Director. She will
begin her responsibilities in the fall with the planning of the 2009-2010 season. Mr. Brustein remains
with the A.R.T. as Founding Director and Creative Consultant.
The A.R.T. is known for its commitment to new American plays and music/theatre explorations; to
neglected works of the past; and to established classical texts reinterpreted in refreshing new ways. It
attempts to establish historical continuity as contemporary artists reinterpret the past, and classical work
helps to inform the present. The Company prides itself on being an artistic home for top-level playwrights, actors, directors, designers, technicians and administrators.
The A.R.T. is also a training ground for young artists. The theatre’s artistic staff teaches undergraduate
classes in acting, directing, dramatic literature, design, and playwriting at Harvard, and in 1987 the
A.R.T. founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. In conjunction with the Moscow Art Theatre
School, the Institute provides world-class graduate level training in acting, dramaturgy, and special
studies.
NEW WORKS
The A.R.T.’s American and world premieres include among others, works by Robert Auletta, Edward
Bond, Robert Brustein, Don DeLillo, Keith Dewhurst, Humberto Dorado, Christopher Durang, Rinde
Eckert, Elizabeth Egloff, Jules Feiffer, Dario Fo, Carlos Fuentes, Larry Gelbart, Philip Glass, Stuart
Greenman, William Hauptman, David Henry Hwang, Milan Kundera, Mark Leib, David Lodge, Carol K.
Mack, David Mamet, Charles L. Mee, Roger Miller, John Moran, Robert Moran, Heiner Müller, Marsha
Norman, Han Ong, David Rabe, Franca Rame, Adam Rapp, Keith Reddin, Ronald Ribman, Paula Vogel,
Derek Walcott, Naomi Wallace, and Robert Wilson.
About the A.R.T.
DIRECTORS
Many of the world’s most gifted directors have staged productions at the A.R.T., including JoAnne
Akalaitis, Neil Bartlett, Andrei Belgrader, Anne Bogart, Lee Breuer, Robert Brustein, Chen Shi-Zheng,
Liviu Ciulei, Martha Clarke, Ron Daniels, Liz Diamond, Joe Dowling, Michael Engler, Alvin Epstein, Dario
Fo, Richard Foreman, Kama Ginkas, David Gordon, Adrian Hall, Richard Jones, Michael Kahn, Jerome
Kilty, Krystian Lupa, John Madden, Ola Mafaalani, David Mamet, Des McAnuff, Jonathan Miller, Nicolas
Montero, Jerry Mouawad, Tom Moore, Arthur Nauzyciel, François Rochaix, Adelheid Roosen, Robert
Scanlan, Dominque Serrand, János Szász, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Susan Sontag, Marcus Stern,
Slobodan Unkovski,Les Waters, David Wheeler, Frederick Wiseman, Robert Wilson, Mark Wing-Davey,
Robert Woodruff,Yuri Yeremin, Francesca Zambello, and Scott Zigler.
TOURING
A.R.T. productions were included in the First New York International Festival of the Arts, the 1984
Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, the Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the
Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the International Fortnight of Theatre in Quebec;
the international festivals in Asti, Avignon, Belgrade, Edinburgh, Haifa, Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Singapore,
Taipei, Tel Aviv, and Venice; and at theatres in Amsterdam, Perugia, Rotterdam, and London (where its
presentation of Sganarelle was filmed and broadcast by Britain’s Channel 4). In 1986 the A.R.T.
presented Robert Wilson’s adaptation of Alcestis at the Festival d’Automne in Paris, where it won the
award for Best Foreign Production of the Year, and in 1991 Robert Wilson’s production of When We
Dead Awaken was presented at the 21st International Biennale of São Paulo, Brazil. In March 1998, the
A.R.T. opened the Chekhov International Theatre Festival in Moscow the first American company to
perform at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre with The King Stag, Six Characters in Search of an Author,
and Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard’s When The World Was Green (A Chef’s Fable). In October 2000
the A.R.T. embarked on a year-long national and international tour of The King Stag, with stops in
twenty-seven American cities in fifteen states, ending with a three-week residency at London’s Barbican
Centre in the summer of 2001. Most recently, productions of Lysistrata, The Sound of a Voice, The
Miser, Lady with a Lapdog, Amerika, No Exit, and Oliver Twist have been presented at theatres throughout the U.S.; the A.R.T. returned to the Edinburgh International Festival two years in a row, with Krystian
Lupa’s Three Sisters in 2006, and Robert Woodruff’s Orpheus X in 2007. Orpheus X was also presented
at the 2008 Hong Kong International Festival of the Arts this February.
FROM THE PRESS
“…the nation’s most prestigious resident theatre. One of the top three theatres in the country.”
– Time Magazine
“Theatre that cries out to be seen.” – Boston Globe
“Stretching the limits of artistic possibility with an imaginative daring that has few parallels on the
contemporary scene.” – Washington Post
“One of the most vital influences on the U.S. stage in the last twenty years.”
– International Herald Tribune
“more concentrated, provocative quality than New York City has delivered all year.” – USA Today
Staff
Robert J. Orchard Executive Director
Gideon Lester Acting Artistic Director
Robert Brustein Founding Director/Creative Consultant
Artistic
Scott Zigler Director, A.R.T. Institute
Jeremy Geidt Senior Actor
Marcus Stern Associate Director
Christopher De Camillis Artistic Coordinator
Arthur Holmberg Literary Director
Nancy Houfek Voice and Speech Coach
Ryan McKittrick Associate Dramaturg
David Wheeler Associate Artist
Administration and Finance
Jonathan Seth Miller General Manager
Nancy M. Simons Comptroller
Angela Paquin Assistant Comptroller
Julia Smeliansky Administrative Director, Institute
Steven Leon Assistant General Manager
Tracy Keene Company/Front of House Manager
Stacie Hurst Financial Administrator
Ari Barbanelli Artistic Associate/Executive Assistant
Alexander Popov Moscow Program Consultant
Development
Sharyn Bahn Director of Development
Sue Beebee Assistant Director of Development
Jan Graham Geidt Coordinator of Special Projects
Joan Moynagh Director of Institutional Giving and
Strategic Partnerships
Jessica Obara Development Officer
Publicity, Marketing, Publications
Ruth Davidson Director of Communications and Marketing
Katalin Mitchell Director of Press and Public Relations
Nicholas Peterson Assistant Director of Marketing
Kerry Israel Audience Development Associate
Douglas F. Kirshen Web Manager
Burt Sun Director of Graphic/Media Design
Kelly Mastracchio Lewis Graphic Designer
Stevens Advertising Associates Advertising Consultant
Box Office
Derek Mueller Box Office Manager
Ryan Walsh Box Office Manager
Lilian Belknap Box Office Representative
Public Services
Erin Wood Theatre Operations Coordinator
Maria Medeiros Receptionist
Sarah Leon Receptionist
Killian Clarke House Manager
Michael Haviland House Manager
Heather Quick House Manager
Matthew Spano House Manager
Production
Patricia Quinlan Production Manager
Christopher Viklund Associate Production Manager
Skip Curtiss Associate Production Manager
Katherine Shea Assistant Stage Manager
Amanda Robbins Institute Stage Manager
J. Michael Griggs Loeb Technical Director
Lauren Audette Zero Arrow House Technician
Scenery
Stephen Setterlun Technical Director
Emily W. Leue Assistant Technical Director
Alexia Muhlsteff Assistant Technical Director
Gerard P. Vogt Scenic Charge Artist
Evan Wilkinson Scene Shop Supervisor
Peter Doucette Master Carpenter
Chris Tedford Scenic Carpenter
York-Andreas Paris Scenic Carpenter
Jason Bryant Scenic Carpenter
Properties
Cynthia Lee Properties Manager
Tricia Green Assistant Properties Manager
Stacey Horne Properties Carpenter
Costumes
Jeannette Hawley Costume Shop Manager
Hilary Hacker Assistant Costume Shop Manager
Karen Eister Head Draper
Carmel Dundon Draper
David Israel Reynoso Crafts Artisan
Stephen Drueke Wardrobe Supervisor
Suzanne Kadiff Costume Stock Manager
Lights
Derek L. Wiles Master Electrician
Kenneth Helvig Lighting Assistant
David Oppenheimer Light Board Operator
Sound
David Remedios Resident Sound Designer/Engineer
Darby Smotherman Production Sound Engineer
Stage
Joe Stoltman Stage Supervisor
Jeremie Lozier Assistant Stage Supervisor
Christopher Eschenbach Production Assistant
Kevin Klein Production Assistant
Elizabeth Bouchard Production Assistant
Internships
Julia Renaud Administration
Norah Schneier Marketing
Jane Jung Marketing
Brittney King Marketing
Sandra Venegas Sound
Program
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