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GOOD PEOPLE
May 22 THROUGH June 28
FROM THE P LAYWRIGHT
Audiences may not know that you grew up in South
Boston. How did the idea for GOOD PEOPLE first come
about and how did you know it was time to write about
your old neighborhood ?
Like most of my plays, it came from a couple different
places. I’d been wanting for many years to write about
my old neighborhood, but felt I owed it to the people
that I knew and loved there to make sure that I wrote
respectfully and truthfully about it. It’s a complicated
place, and I felt like I needed to mature as a writer in
order to get it right. So I put it off for a long time.
What finally got me off the fence was a question that
I kept hearing over and over again – where are the
new American plays about class? Why don’t American
playwrights tackle that subject the way Brits do? I’d
argue that Americans DO in fact write about class,
though admittedly less overtly. So I started to think, well,
how would I even approach the topic? I knew that I didn’t
want to write a didactic soap-boxy kind of play. So what
then? And how?
Then I went back to the idea of the old neighborhood.
I knew that if I wrote a story set in Southie, that ideas
about class and class mobility would bubble organically
to the surface. Class disparity is woven inextricably
into the fabric of that community, and into my feelings
about it, especially as someone who “got out.” Also the
neighborhood is changing so quickly now, because of
gentrification, that I wanted to preserve a corner of it
before I forgot what it was.
GOOD PEOPLE ultimately looks at the lottery of life and
what role luck may or may not play in a person’s fate.
What do you think?
Well, there’s a strongly held belief in America that
anyone can accomplish anything if they just work hard
enough. A lot of people truly believe that if you’re in a
bad economic situation, it’s simply because you’ve made
terrible choices, and are unwilling to pull yourself up by
the bootstraps. I’ve known far too many hard-working,
driven, GOOD people, who haven’t been able to escape
their circumstances, to believe wholly in this particular
myth. Do you need to work hard, and put your nose to
the grindstone? Of course. Is this enough? Absolutely
not. You also need luck, opportunity, the life skills to
recognize an opportunity when it comes along, and the
ability to execute what needs to happen when it DOES
come along. That’s a lot of hurdles to clear, especially for
someone trying desperately to pay their rent and feed
their children. Impossible? No. But also not as simple as
good old fashioned American gumption either.
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GOOD PEOPLE
BY
D A V I D L I N D S AY - A B A I R E
D I R E CT E D B Y
ROB RUGGIERO
†
T H E C AST
(in order of appearance)
Margaret
Stevie
Do ttie
J ean
Mike
Kate
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Casting
ERIKA ROLFS RU D*
BUDDY H AARDT *
AUDRIE NEENA N *
MEGAN BYRNE*
R. WARD DUFFY*
CHANDRA TH OM AS*
LUKE HEGEL-CANTARELLA
HARRY NADAL
JOHN LASITER
MIKE MICELI
McCORKLE CASTING LTD.
Production Manager C. NIKKI MILLS
Stage Manager
KATE J. CUDWORTH*
Dialect Consultant
GILLIAN LANE-PLESCIA
Design by WondriskaRusso
Photos by Lanny Nagler and Dave Coviello
Cover: Erika Rolfsrud / R. Ward Duffy
Supported by:
GOOD PEOPLE
Originally commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club
(Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer)
with funds provided by Bank of America
and received its world premiere there on February 8, 2011.
GOOD PEOPLE is presented by special arrangement
with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
† Member of SDC, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, Union of Professional Actors
and Stage Managers in the U.S.
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WH O
M EGAN BY R NE (Jean) is making her
TheaterWorks debut. New York credits
include: The Hatmaker’s Wife (Playwrights
Realm), The Netflix Plays (ArsNova),
PTP/NYC’s Serious Money, No End of Blame
(NYIT Award, Best Featured Actress), Speak
Truth to Power (Culture Project), The Voice
of the Turtle (Keen Co.). Regional credits include: Dot (Actors
Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival), Outside Mullingar
(City Theatre), Proof (Merrimack Rep), Noises Off!, When
Tang Met Laika (Ovation Award Nomination, Best Featured
Actress), The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Denver Center),
O’Neill, Virginia Stage, Geva Theatre, Pioneer Theatre. Film:
Julie & Julia, The Rebound, Ghost Town, Before the Devil
Knows You’re Dead. TV includes: The Following, Madam
Secretary, Younger, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, Nurse
Jackie, Royal Pains, Blue Bloods, and a recurring role on Law
& Order. MFA: University of California, Irvine. BA: Middlebury
College.
R. WAR D DU F F Y (Mike) TheaterWorks:
The Other Place, RACE. In New York, Ward
has appeared at Manhattan Theater Club,
Lincoln Center, New Dramatists and the
Cherry Lane Theatre, among others. Regional
credits include: Speaking In Tongues
(2012 Acclaim Award), Othello (2007 CEA
Nomination for Best Actor) The Understudy (2010 Acclaim
Award), at the Cincinnati Playhouse in The Park; As You Like
It, The Three Musketeers, Othello (2007 Arty Award), Pioneer
Theatre Company; True West, Banyan Theater Company
(Best Actor 2008 Best of the Suncoast); productions for the
Missouri, Indiana, Asolo, Merrimack Repertory theaters, The
Denver Center Theater, Portland Center Stage and The Old
Globe, among others. Television / Film credits include: Law
& Order: Criminal Intent, The Knights of Prosperity, Ghost
Stories, Liability Crisis, You Can’t Have It All and all the NY
soaps.
BU DDY H AAR DT (Stevie) is excited to
be making his TheaterWorks debut. Credits
include: Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota,
FL (The Matchmaker and Our Betters),
Baltimore CenterStage (Twelfth Night),
Orlando Shakespeare Theater (Red), The
Acting Company at The Guthrie Theater/
Lincoln Center Theater/New Victory Theater (As You Like It),
multiple shows at the Barnstormers’ Theatre including Tom
in The Glass Menagerie, and shows at regional theaters
throughout the U.S. He’s a graduate of the Guthrie Theater/
University of Minnesota Actor Training Program, and hails
from southwest Texas. He would like to thank his family and
friends for supporting him along the way.
AUDR I E N E E N A N (Dottie) is making her
TheaterWorks debut. Broadway: Sister Act
(originated Sister Mary Lazarus); Oklahoma!
(Aunt Eller); The Odd Couple (female version
–Florence Unger)); Picnic (Roundabout);
Curse of an Aching Heart (with Faye
Dunaway, Director, Gerald Gutierrez). OffBroadway/Regional: The Public and Playwrights Horizons in
NYC. Also Seattle Rep, Alliance, McCarter, Yale Rep, Music
Theater of Wichita, Goodspeed, North Shore Music Theatre,
Sacramento Music Circus, The Alley in Houston. Chicago:
The Second City Resident Company; Shakespeare (with
Mantegna, Macy and Mamet), Goodman, Wisdom Bridge,
Body Politic and the Apollo (Jeff Award for Tintypes).
Film: Sister Raymond in Doubt, The Departed; Ghost Town;
Sudden Impact; Funny Farm; Somewhere in Time; Hear No
Evil, See No Evil. TV: Judge Lois Preston – Law & Order,
SVU; Doctor, Doctor; Not Necessarily the News; Gossip Girl;
Friends, Johnny Carson’s guest.
ER I KA R O L F S R U D (Margaret) is
excited to be back at TheaterWorks (Time
Stands Still, Rabbit Hole, The Dazzle). Her
Broadway credits include The Big Knife,
Coast of Utopia, Exit The King and Rabbit
Hole. Her Off-Broadway credits include
Electra In a One-Piece, Misalliance, The
Glory of Living, How I Learned to Drive, Love’s Fire, and
more. Regionally, she’s performed at the Old Globe Theatre
(God of Carnage, The Seagull, Cymbeline, and more), St
Louis Repertory Theatre (Little Dog Laughed—Kevin Kline
Best Actress Award), Cleveland Playhouse (The Game’s
Afoot), Pittsburgh Public Theatre (Rabbit Hole), Arizona
Theatre Company (Bad Dates) and several Shakespearean
festivals. She was featured in the film Alone, and has been
seen on TV in The Following, The Knick, Forever, Law &
Order, All My Children, Third Watch. For my sister, Kirsti.
CH ANDR A T H O MAS (Kate) is making
her TheaterWorks debut. Originally from
New York, chandra works in theatre,
film, television and new media. Theatre
performances include contemporary
and classic works Off-Broadway, in New
York and regionally at New York Theatre
Workshop, Public Theater, Tectonic Theater Project, Barrow
Group Theatre, PS 122, Guthrie Theater, CenterStage, Denver
Theater Center, Alliance Theatre, and others. Film, television
and new media credits include Labor Day, Sweet Lorraine,
The Good Wife, Too Big to Fail, Complete Sentences?,
among others. Also a writer and arts educator, including
co-founding viBe Theater Experience, an award-winning,
arts non-profit empowering teenage girls. More at
www.chandrathomas.com and @truechandra on Twitter.
DAV I D L I N DSAY-ABAI R E (Playwright) is a playwright,
screenwriter, lyricist, and librettist whose play Rabbit Hole
premiered on Broadway and went on to receive the 2007
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Spirit of America Award,
and five Tony nominations. He was also nominated for a
Grammy Award (Best Musical Show Album) and two Tony
Awards (Best Book of a Musical and Best Score) for his
work on Shrek the Musical. Prior to that, David was awarded
the 2008 Ed Kleban Award as America’s most promising
musical theater lyricist. David’s other plays include Fuddy
Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and A
Devil Inside, among others. GOOD PEOPLE premiered
on Broadway, starring Frances McDormand, and was
nominated for a 2011 Tony Award. In addition to his work in
theatre, David’s screen credits include his screen adaptation
of Rabbit Hole (starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckart, and
Dianne Wiest, and directed by John Cameron Mitchell),
WHO
as well as the upcoming features Guardians of Childhood
(Dreamworks), and Oz: The Great and Powerful (Disney,
directed by Sam Raimi). David is a proud New Dramatists
alum, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard
School, as well as a member of the WGA and the Dramatists
Guild Council.
R O B R U GGI E R O (Director/Producing
Artistic Director) has been a part of
TheaterWorks artistic leadership for
22 years. He has directed over 50
productions including Christmas on
the Rocks, Annapurna, The Other Place
and Time Stands Still. Rob has earned
national recognition for his work on plays and musicals. His
Broadway credits include Looped (starring Valerie Harper
in a Tony-nominated performance) and High (starring
Kathleen Turner) which began here at TheaterWorks. OffBroadway, he conceived and directed the original musical
revue entitled Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn
(Nominated for the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics
Circle Awards). Rob conceived and directed the world
premiere musical portrait of Ella Fitzgerald entitled Ella,
which was seen on more than 24 regional theater stages
from 2005-2010 before beginning a National Tour. His
work has received multiple awards and recognition here
in Connecticut, as well as in other cities around the United
States. Last summer, Rob returned to Goodspeed Musicals
to direct a critically acclaimed 50th Anniversary revival
of Fiddler on the Roof. He recently directed another
production of Fiddler in Athens, Greece with a Greek
cast. Fiddler on the Roof was his eighth collaboration
with Goodspeed where he also directed highly successful
productions of The Most Happy Fella (Connecticut Critic’s
Circle Award for Best Direction), Carousel (Broadway World
Award), Annie Get Your Gun, Camelot, Big River, 1776
and a new adaptation of Show Boat (Connecticut Critic’s
Circle Award for Best Direction). This new version of Show
Boat is now being licensed by the Rogers & Hammerstein
Organization. He is currently directing La Cage Aux Folles at
Goodspeed. www.robruggiero.com
LU KE HEG EL- C A NTAR E L L A (Scenic Design)
TheaterWorks: Woody Sez, Time Stands Still, The Other
Place, The Understudy, This, Broke-o-logy, Speech & Debate,
Blackbird, Driving Miss Daisy, Chesapeake, Lobby Hero,
Spinning into Butter, Ten Unknowns, Blue/Orange, The Last
Five Years, The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole and Dinner with
Friends. NYC: Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man,
Berenstain Bears Live, Atlantic Theater Company, Make Me a
Song, Lucille Lortel, Synapse Productions, Here, The Lambs,
Sens Productions/Whitney Biennial. Regional: American
Repertory Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Milwaukee
Repertory Theater, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Yale Rep,
Pittsburgh Public, Northlight, Prince Music Theater, RedCAT,
Berkshire Theater Festival, Barrington Stage, People’s Light
& Theater, Prince Music Theater. Opera: Curtis, Peabody/
Baltimore Lyric Opera, Wolftrap. Dance: Wooden Floor,
Dance Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut Ballet. Film/TV:
Damages (Art Director). International: Arts Theater (West
End), Rozentheater (Amsterdam), AUC (Cairo). Associate
Professor: Pace University.
H ARRY N A DA L (Costume Design) TheaterWorks: Over
ten productions including most recently, Love/Sick and Time
Stands Still. New York: The Atlantic Theater, Lincoln Center
Institute, Pregones Theater, LAByrinth Theater, Intar Theater,
Theater for the New City, Spectrum Stage, HOME for
Contemporary Theater and Arts, HERE Arts Center, Hostos
Center for the Arts & Culture, Miranda Theater, The Puerto
Rican Traveling Theater, and Ensemble International Theater,
among many. Regional/International: Danza Del Alma
(Cuba), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Boise Contemporary
Theater, Urbanarias (Arlington, VA.), Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble, and Open Stage (Harrisburg, PA), among others.
Broadway: Paul Simon’s The Capeman (Assistant Designer);
A Class Act (Assistant Designer). Education: MFA, NYUTisch. www.harrynadal.com
JOHN L ASI T ER (Lighting Design) GOOD PEOPLE marks
John’s 36th show at TheaterWorks and his 22nd year of
association with the theater. Broadway: HIGH starring
Kathleen Turner. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville,
Arena Stage, Arizona Repertory Theatre, Asolo Repertory
Theatre, Centerstage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland
PlayHouse, Dallas Theater Center, Florida Stage, George
Street Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, The
Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Long Wharf
Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Muny in St. Louis,
New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theater Company,
Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, South Coast
Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Virginia Stage Company and
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Off-Broadway: Alarm Dog
Repertory Company, Blue Light Theater Company, Music
Theater. www.johnlasiter.com.
M IK E M I C EL I (Sound Design) TheaterWorks credits
include: Annapura, Freud’s Last Session, Christmas on the
Rocks, The Mountaintop, The SantaLand Diaries 2012, and
Speech & Debate. South Pacific at Asolo Rep; Private Lives,
Resurrection, Mahalia: A Gospel Musical, The Devil’s Music,
Crowns, Ain’t Misbehavin’, and Floyd & Clea Under the
Western Sky at Hartford Stage; Resurrection at Philadelphia
Theatre Company; Daddy Long Legs and Emma at Cincinnati
Playhouse; Emma at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; and
As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, and
Macbeth at ArtFarm. He designed sound for Ellla which
ran at numerous regional theaters and as a national tour.
Michael is partner at Miceli Productions, a photo and video
production boutique. www.MiceliProductions.com
M CCORKL E C AST I NG, LT D (Casting) Pat McCorkle
C.S.A., (Katja Zarolinski) Broadway: Amazing Grace, End
of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, The Glass
Menagerie, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over The
Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A
Few Good Men, etc. Off-Broadway: Stalking the Bogeyman,
Becoming Dr. Ruth, Lady Day, Tribes, Our Town, Falling,
Toxic Avenger, Freud’s Last Session, Almost, Maine,
Driving Miss Daisy. Feature film: Girl in the Lake, Premium
Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Basic, Tony and Tina’s
Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior,
Madeline, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc.
Television: St. George (George Lopez Show) Twisted (ABC
Family), humans for Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy
nomination), Hack (CBS), Strangers with Candy, Chapelle’s
Show (Comedy Central), Barbershop, Remember Wenn
(AMC), etc. www.mccorklecasting.com
30
Thirty years of great theater.
THIRD
by Wendy Wasserstein
October 2 through November 8, 2015
College professor Laurie Jameson’s well-ordered life is
thrown into disarray when she accuses a student of
plagiarism. In the wake of her accusation, she is forced to
question her aggressively feminist ideology and family
relations. A witty and wry cautionary tale about the danger
of becoming the very thing you fear most.
ROB SAYS: “Ms. Wasserstein has a gift for dissecting the
emotional and intellectual struggles of women. Funny and
biting, this is her last, and perhaps best, play.”
BUYER & CELLAR
by
Jonathan Tolins
January 8 through February 14, 2016
An outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost
of things and the oddest of odd jobs. An under-employed
Los Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu
basement. Hilarity ensues as we puzzle over the solitude of
celebrity and the melancholy that lurks beneath it.
ROB SAYS: “One of the most original and entertaining one
person shows I’ve seen in years. Lots of fun and laughs with
an unexpected twist... It’s completely irresistible.”
SEX WITH STRANGERS
by
Laura Eason
March 11 through April 17, 2016
Olivia is an attractive 30-something with a writing
career that never took off. Ethan is a young writer
whose online journals of "sexcapades" are the buzz of
the blogosphere. As their attraction heats up, both
confront the dark side of ambition and the trouble of
reinventing yourself when the past is only a click away.
Paige Davis and Andrew Benator in
DANCING LESSONS, 2015
ROB SAYS: “This is a provocative and playful look at
the complex nature of relationship, sex and identity in
the digital age. It’s engaging and relevant.”
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Annie and Peter have decided to adopt a baby from
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exposed and they are left with an unexpected choice. A
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ROB SAYS: “THE CALL offers our audience a politically
charged, funny and tack-sharp play that sheds light on
issues that touch so many American families.”
MIDSUMMER
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July 15 through August 21, 2016
Midsummer in Edinburgh turns into a weekend of wild
abandon when divorce lawyer Helena meets small-time
crook Bob in a basement wine bar. With a wad of
ill-gotten cash in hand and a local gangster on their
heels, the unlikely pair goes on an adventurous
romp—complete with songs—only to discover there are
second chances at life—and love.
ROB SAYS: “I wanted to bring music into this season.
MIDSUMMER is unexpected fun, creatively performed by
two talented actor musicians. Pure summer magic.”
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November 27 through December 23, 2015
Hartford’s holiday favorite returns to TheaterWorks. The
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to Connecticut to pursue her MFA in Technical Design and
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United States Institute of Theatre Technology and recipient
of their 2014 KM Fabrics Technical Production award. After
hopping around the country working on productions at La
Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Saint
Louis Opera, Wolf Trap Foundation, Chautauqua Theater
Company and others in between, she is excited to be putting
down roots in the Nutmeg State with her husband, Mikey.
When she is not managing schedules and budgets, you will
find Nikki creating chotskies for her mother’s craft store.
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TheaterWorks: Playing the Assassin, Dancing Lessons,
Christmas on the Rocks ’14, Annapurna, Woody Sez,
LOVE/SICK, The Other Place, Freud’s Last Session,
Christmas on the Rocks, Mrs. Mannerly, Time Stands Still,
Becoming Dr. Ruth. Off-Broadway: Freud’s Last Session,
[title of show]. NY/Regional: Barrington Stage Company
(8 seasons including Freud’s Last Session; Dr. Ruth, All The
Way; Joe Iconis’ The Black Suits), Atlantic Stage Company,
Hartford Stage, Manhattan School of Music (4 seasons
including Cosi fan tutte; Thais; Mahagonny), Yale Opera,
York Theatre Company, Bronx Opera Company, Fringe NYC,
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F ROM THE PLAYWRIGHT
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What does the phrase “good people” mean to you?
Well, in Southie it means a salt-of-the-earth, good-humored,
trust-worthy sort who would give you the shirt off their
back. In the play, it starts there but then goes in all sorts
of directions. I think everyone in the play initially defines
themselves as a good person, but they all have to reconsider
whether that’s true or not. The concept of what makes a
good person is ultimately a malleable and personal one, for
the characters as well as each person in the audience.
The ideas and themes of GOOD PEOPLE wouldn’t
immediately strike one as being inherently comic, but it’s a
very funny exploration of serious subjects. Was this always
the intention? How important is humor to your stories?
Incredibly important and, I suspect, inevitable. I happen
to have a personal world view that often sees things, no
matter how serious, in a funny way. I can’t help it. It’s just
who I am. My sensibility, both as a writer and as a person,
has been shaped by that very dark working class sense of
humor that everyone in Southie seemed to possess. It’s often
inappropriate, brutally honest and painfully funny.
My family, like most families in the neighborhood, is
populated with very funny people, who often use humor as
a coping mechanism. When something horrible and painful
happens, or when struggles become almost too much to
bear, humor is often the only thing to lighten the load. So
that dark, caustic, sometimes absurd, vein that runs through
all of my work, can be traced back to the Lower End. If it
wasn’t in GOOD PEOPLE, then I wouldn’t be telling the truth.
And in a world of so many hardships, it’s also a lovely coping
mechanism. I take no credit for it. I was born into it, and I’ve
simply put it on stage in the mouths of the people I love. It
wasn’t until I saw the play in front of an audience, however,
that I realized just HOW funny it could be. I thought I was
just telling the truth. So yes, that was a surprise for me, but a
happy one.
(From various interviews with David Lindsay-Abaire)
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