Show Program - Transport Group

About Transport Group Theatre Company
Transport Group is a non-profit, off-Broadway theatre company in
New York City that stages new works and re-imagines revivals by
American writers. Our visually progressive productions of
emotionally classic stories explore the challenges of relationships
and identity in modern America. In 2007 Transport Group
received a Drama Desk Award recognizing our “breadth of vision
and presentation of challenging productions,” as well as a Village
Voice OBIE award for excellence in the theatre. Visit our website,
www.transportgroup.org, and find us on Facebook and Twitter.
Jack Cummings III, Artistic Director
Lori Fineman, Executive Director
UP NEXT AT TRANSPORT GROUP
Queen of the Mist
A World Premiere Musical
Words and Music by Michael John LaChiusa
Directed by Jack Cummings III
Starring Mary Testa
Performances begin October, 2011
at The Gym at Judson
For more information, please visit us at
www.transportgroup.org
Directed by
Jack Cummings III
PRODUCTION STAFF
The Patsy
A Play from 1925 by Barry Conners
Performed by David Greenspan
Set & Costume Design
Dane Laffery
Sound Design
Michael Rasbury
Lighting Design
Mark Barton
Dramaturgy
Kristina Corcoran
Williams
Stage Manager
Theresa Flanagan
Directed by Jack Cummings III
and
Jonas
Written and Performed by David Greenspan
Stage Manager..............................................................Theresa Flanagan
Production Manager........................................................Charles Hubbard
Company Manager..............................................................Wendy Patten
Press Representative……..Don Summa, Richard Kornberg & Associates
Assistant Sound Design………………..……………………....Max Krembs
Associate Set Designer……………………….……….Scott Tedmon-Jones
Assistant Set Designer…………………………….……….Jessica Emerson
Production Assistant..............................................................Julia Berman
TG Executive Director............................................................Lori Fineman
TG Artistic Director........................................................Jack Cummings III
TG Dramaturg/Literary Manager.......................Kristina Corcoran Williams
Grant Writer............................................................................Ivan Helfand
Arts Admin & Marketing Intern..........................................Lianne DiFabbio
Assistant to the Artistic Director......................................Joshua W. Kelley
Literary Intern…………………………………………………...…Gabe Miner
Artwork by.........................................................................Drew Dernavich
Graphic Designer................................................................Christiaan Rule
CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Gala Night
Wednesday July 20th at 7:30PM
Enjoy a post-show reception with David Greenspan and the
creative team of The Patsy and Jonas. Proceeds benefit
Transport Group Theatre Company. Catering by DISH Food
and Events. Tickets are $95.
TG Talks
Meet the Artists: David Greenspan and Jack Cummings III
July 17th, July 29th, and August 3rd, after the performance.
The actor and stage manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union
of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
Moderated by TG Literary Manager and Dramaturg,
Kristina Corcoran Williams, actor David Greenspan and
director Jack Cummings III share an insider’s perspective of
the creative process. Free with The Patsy and Jonas ticket
purchase.
THE COMPANY
DAVID GREENSPAN has directed and/or performed in his plays Jack,
Principia, The Home Show Pieces and 2 Samuel 11, Etc. at Home,
Dead Mother at the Public, She Stoops to Comedy (Obie) and Go
Back to Where You Are at Playwrights Horizons, The Argument (Obie)
with Target Margin, The Myopia with the Foundry, and with songwriter
Stephin Merritt Coraline with MCC. He has received two
performance Obies; one for Terrence McNally's Some Men and
Goethe’s Faust, one for Mark Crowley’s The Boys in the Band. Other
credits include Orlando, The Metal Children, The Royal Family,
Cornbury, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, The Wax and Lipstick Traces.
Alumnus New Dramatists, Guggenheim and Lortel fellowships, Alpert
Award and an Obie for Sustained Achievement.
JACK CUMMINGS III (Director of The Patsy/TG Artistic Director) is the
co-founder and Artistic Director of Transport Group. For Transport
Group, he has directed Our Town, Requiem for William, First Lady Suite
(Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revival), The Audience
(Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Director and Outstanding
Musical), Normal, cul-de-sac, All The Way Home, The Dark at the Top
of the Stairs, Crossing Brooklyn, Marcy in the Galaxy, Being Audrey,
See Rock City & Other Destinations (Drama Desk nominations for
Outstanding Director and Outstanding Musical), Mart Crowley’s The
Boys in the Band (Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Director
and Outstanding Revival of a Play) and Hello Again (Drama Desk
nominations for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Revival of a
Musical). Other favorite New York credits include Down The Road
(Piccolo-Sood Productions) and 1,000 Words Come to Mind
(Premieres, Inc.). Regional credits include Violet, Carousel, The Young
Man From Atlanta, She Loves Me, The Illusion, and A Streetcar Named
Desire (starring his wife, Barbara Walsh, as Blanche). For television, he
directed the Broadway musical A Tale of Two Cities, broadcast on
PBS starring Michael York and James Barbour. Jack received his MFA
in Directing from the University of Virginia and his Bachelor of Arts in
International Relations from The College of William and Mary.
DANE LAFFREY (Set & Costume Designer) With Transport Group: See
Rock City And Other Destinations, The Boys in the Band (Drama Desk,
Hewes Award noms.). Other recent NYC credits include Tigers Be Still
(Roundabout), The Other Place (MCC), Benefactors (Keen
Company), Exit (Keigwin + Company; The Joyce Theater), Inner
Voices: Solo Musicals (Primary Stages/Premieres), Sixty Miles to Silver
Lake (SoHo Rep/P73), Rag and Bone (Rattlestick) and others.
International credits include The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Parco
Theatre, Tokyo & Osaka), The Colour of Panic (Sydney Opera House &
Det Apne Theatre, Oslo), Some Explicit Polaroids (Darlinghurst Theatre
Company; Sydney Theatre Awards nom.) and many others. Recent
US regional credits include Fly By Night (Theatreworks, CA), Nilo Cruz’s
Hurricane (Ringling International Festival), Giant (Signature), Reckless
(Chautauqua Theatre Company) and others. www.danelaffrey.com
MARK BARTON (Lighting Design) Recent Off Broadway: NOTES FROM
UNDERGROUND; GATZ; CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION; CHAIR;
THE SOUND & THE FURY (APRIL 7TH, 1928); THE SHIPMENT; PARADISE
PARK. Many productions with many New York companies, including
Elevator Repair Service; Young Jean Lee's Theater Company;
Clubbed Thumb; New Georges; PS122; Target Margin; Public Theater;
Theater for a New Audience; Playwrights Horizons; New York Theater
Workshop; Signature Theater, among many others. Regional: La Jolla
Playhouse; Yale Rep; A.R.T.; Long Wharf Theater; South Coast Rep;
Berkeley Rep; Syracuse Stage; Perseverance Theater, among others.
Numerous productions with Curtis Opera Theater, Philadelphia.
MICHAEL RASBURY (Sound Designer) Since 2007, Michael Rasbury has
provided sound design for Transport Group for the productions of
Being Audrey, Bury The Dead, Dark at the Top of the Stairs and the
two new musicals Crossing Brooklyn and Marcy in the Galaxy. In 2009,
his original musical script titled Max Understood (co-written by Nancy
Carlin) was produced Off-Broadway for the New York Musical Theatre
Festival. Max Understood has received three staged readings
including readings at the American Conservatory Theatre in San
Francisco during 2010, and at the Eugene O’Neill National Music
Theatre Conference in 2008. Before that, he composed music and
sound for Macbeth, presented by the Colorado Shakespeare
Festival. Between 2004 and 2007 he composed music and sound for
six productions presented by the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
He has served as sound designer for The Lost Colony Outdoor Drama
since 2006. In 2001, he toured Europe and the United States with the
production of An Alphabet, a John Cage piece produced by the
John Cage Trust. Also in 2001, he wrote an orchestral score for
Louisiana Tech University’s theatrical adaptation of The Leafmen and
the Brave Good Bugs, written by award winning children’s
author/illustrator, William Joyce. Michael composed music/sound for
the 1998 and 1996 Humana Festivals for New American Playwrights at
Actors Theatre of Louisville and for The Public in New York City. In
2003, he was recognized as the Louisiana State Funded Theatre Artist
by receiving the Artist Fellowship Grant in Theatre presented by the
Louisiana Division of the Arts. He is an Associate Professor in Sound
Design at the University of Virginia.
MAX KREMBS (Asst. Sound Designer) is back for his second show with
the Transport Group after Hello Again. He is also currently working as
Head Sound Engineer and Associate Sound Designer for the Heritage
Theatre Festival in Charlottesville, VA. He has worked as a both a
sound designer and sound engineer for The Lost Colony in Manteo,
NC; the University of Virginia Dept. of Drama in Charlottesville, VA;
and The Theatre Lab in Washington, DC. Max is a rising senior at the
University of Virginia where he is studying sound design and
engineering.
THERESA FLANAGAN (Production Stage Manager) has been a
resident stage manager for Transport Group since 2006. Other credits
include work with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Urban Stages, Bay
Street Theatre, Boomerang Theatre Co, Clubbed Thumb, NYMF,
Fringe, a national tour, and Rosie O'Donnell's Broadway Extravaganza
at The Palace. Proud AEA member.
LORI FINEMAN (TG Executive Director) Prior to Transport Group Lori
worked in management consulting for Andersen Consulting and
Capco, a financial services consulting firm where she was the Global
Director of Knowledge Management. As a producer, Lori was a
founding member of a New York-based theatre company, Muse of
Fire Productions, and the Executive Director of the Philadelphiabased National Women’s Theatre Festival. Lori has worked
professionally as an actor, choreographer, and yoga instructor. Lori is
also the President of the board of directors of the Jewish Community
Project in Tribeca. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Lori
holds a BA in English & Theatre Arts and a BSE from the Wharton
School in Management. Lori’s favorite roles: mom to Dylan, Spencer,
and Nathan and wife to Steve.
KRISTINA CORCORAN WILLIAMS (TG Dramaturg/Literary Manager) is
the resident Dramaturg and Literary Manager for Transport Group.
Recent dramaturgy credits include TG's Boys in the Band, See Rock
City, and Hello Again. Regional credits include the world premieres of
Boleros for the Disenchanted and The Unmentionables at Yale
Repertory Theatre where she also served as Literary Associate. She
has worked with playwrights Paula Vogel, Bruce Norris, Jose Rivera
and Lloyd Suh, and directors Anna Shapiro, John Clinton Eisner, Henry
Godinez and Kent Thompson. She has worked with the LARK Play
Development Center, Denver Center Theatre's New Play Summit,
Madison Repertory Theatre's Fall Festival of the Future (world
premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice), Dixon Place, Page 73, TCG
and Primary Stages. She has served on the summer theatre faculty at
Interlochen Center for the Arts, is a founding member of Parallel
45, and holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama.
WENDY PATTEN (TG Company Manager) This is Wendy’s tenth show
with Transport Group having previously stage managed Hello Again,
The Boys in the Band, Bury the Dead, Marcy in the Galaxy, Crossing
Brooklyn, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Audience, and First
Lady Suite. She has stage managed over 30 productions
including Something Cloudy, Something Clear, The Last Starfighter,
Spokesong and The Ninth Circle. Wendy is a proud member of AEA.
JOSHUA W. KELLEY (Assistant to the Artistic Director) is honored to be a
part the TG team! He also interns with The Stage Directors and
Choreographers Society (SDC) and Harriet Newman Leve
Productions. SELECT NYC/COLLEGIATE CREDITS: David Mamet’s
School (Director), Exit Row: An Original Musical (Director), The Who’s
Tommy (Assistant Director, dir. Bob Cline), Vote for Me: A Musical
Debate at NYMF (Associate Producer), Factory Girls (Production
Manager), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Production
Stage Manager, dir. John Carrafa), and WEST20EAST (Stage
Manager, dir. Darren Katz). Josh is currently finishing up his BA in
Theatre Arts with a Directing Concentration at Pace University in
lower Manhattan. He has been selected to participate in the
National Theatre Institute’s Advanced Directing Program at the
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center next fall. www.joshuawkelley.com
LIANNE DIFABBIO (Arts Administration and Marketing Intern): Lianne is
absolutely thrilled to be working with Transport Group and on this
exciting new piece! . A life long lover of the arts, Lianne’s favorite
theatre credits include The Full Monty (Susan), The Great American
Trailer Park Musical (Pickles), Company (Amy), and Into the Woods
(Florinda). Lianne graduated from Central Connecticut State
University with degrees in Sociology and Theatre, and is currently
pursuing her MFA in Performing Arts Management at Brooklyn
College, where she will be graduating in the spring of 2012
2010-2011 SEASON CONTRIBUTORS
Transport Group gratefully acknowledges the contributions of all of our supporters.
DIRECTOR LEVEL ($5,000-$9,999) Sarah Ackerman, Anne Bernstein, Joanne & Ron Falcon, Barbara & Buddy Freitag, Robert Greenblatt, Kevin
McCollum, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Richard Page, Ted Snowdon, Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
PRINCIPAL LEVEL ($2,000-$4,999) Irene Carney & Fred Orelove, Tamar Copeland, Creative Artists Agency – George Lane & Joe Machota,
Thomas Cunningham, Jeff Davis, The Dorothy Loudon Foundation, The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, Lori & Steve Fineman, Shawn & Rob Flowers,
Frederick Loewe Foundation, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Francesca James, Yael & Nick Jekogian, JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Theatres, Tom
Koltis, Louis Kunsch, Claire Labine, Gregory Maguire & Andy Newman, Scott & Karen Manville, Annette Niemtzow & Eve Ellis, Dolly Parton, Rory
Stanton, Ellen & Ron Weiss
CHAMPION LEVEL ($1,000-$1,999) Barbara & Andy Andres, William David Brohn, Javier Bustillos, Mary Mohler Carlson, Stockard Channing,
Samara & Adam Cohen, Alexander Dodge, Christina & Jim Donnell, Sanford Dumain, Steven Ernst, Victoria & Ben Feder, Jacki Florin, Robert
Fried, Alan Garfield, Jean Garner & Daniel Chiplock, Nancy Gibbs, Winnie Holzman, Jackie & Philip Horowitz, Anthony Kiser, Jana & Gerold
Klauer, Sandra Kozlowski, Angela Lansbury, Robert G Liggett, Joanna & Josh Lipman, Joe Mantello, W Edward Massey, Hawley & John
McAuliffe, James L. Nederlander, Gilbert Parker, Adam Perlman, Lee Perlman, Hal Prince, Janet B Rosen, Jordan Roth, Marc Shaiman, The
Shubert Organization, Brande & David Stellings, Ariana J Tadler, Frederic Weiner, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
STAR LEVEL ($500-$999) Michelle Ackerman, Emmy Altman, Lisa & Avi Berg, Scott Berrie, Loriane Boyle, Holly Peterson Breeden, Tamar Copeland,
Suzanne Day, Rita Denerstein, Dramatists Guild Fund, Inc., Tracie Golding Gerson & Brian Gerson, Jane Griffin, Todd Haimes, Jonathan Herzog,
Melissa Hilfers, The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, John Kander, Rima Khalil, Denise Koltis-Dushas, Monica Blaze Leavitt, Margo
Lion, William Ivey Long, Stacey Mindich, Gwendolyn Marx, Jenny Needelman & Jonathan Selbin, Stephen Oremus, Scott Pask, Philadelphia
Theatre Company, Marc Platt, J Rodney Pleasants, Laura Popper, Daryl Roth, Nathalie Rubens & Saul Goodman, Stanley Schulman, Stephen
Schwartz, Michael Sherman, David Stone, Michael Thomas, Stuart Thompson, Jennifer Urquhart, Viertel/Frankel/Baruch/Routh Group, Robert
Weintraub
HEADLINER LEVEL ($250-$499) Rati Bahadur, Jon Robin Baitz, Nancy H Biddle, Mary S Bleiberg, Larry Burnett, Scott M. Delman, Kelly Dermody,
Jamie deRoy, Rosalind Devon, Paul Dobie, Tal Fagin, Wendy Federman, Ed & Barbara Fineman, J Ryan Fitzpatrick, Christie Ford, Marla Franzese,
David Greenspan, Julia Hansen, Ivan Helfand, Megan Hilty, Lawrence Hirschhorn, Nancy Horowitz, Tracy Hutt & David Becker, Stacey A.
Kinnamon, Morgan LaVere, Lisa Leguillou, Nicki Locker, Jennifer London, Nicole & Mike Marra, Wendy Patten, Kenneth Posner, Casey Ribicoff,
Carole Sadler, James Sansum, Molly & Andy Snyder
PATRON LEVEL (up to $250) Shana Albery, Nicole Alifante, Courtney Allison & David Horowitz, Hope Washton August, Stanley Bahorek, Dylan
Baker, Hunter Bell, Joyce Bodenstein, Patrick Boll, Julie Boyd, Broadway League, Walter Burr, David Byrd, John Cariani, Mark Campbell, Virginia
Clark, Jeremy Cooke, Jack Cummings III, James Dahlinger, John Eisner, Michelle Ellis, Alexander Firestone, Flynn Household, Teresa Lee Fowler,
Elliot Fox, Dennis Gallagher, Carol & Jerold Gertz, Aliette Goldmark, Pamela Grayson, John Green, Sheldon Harnick, Jim Hindman, Dianne &
Steven Horowitz, Molly Jones, Robert Karp, Ginger Komar, Michael Koslow, Robert LaMont, Susan Lehman, Jane Levinson, Michele Lowe, Nazira
Lyrio, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Scott McDuffie, Rick McKay, Terrence McNally & Thomas Kirdahy, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kerry O’Malley,
Caitlyn Phillips, Alexa & Terry Ragsdale, Vanessa Rector, L. Paul Robertson, Rock of Ages Broadway LLC, Robert Sandefur, Ed Sandler, David
Schneider, Megan Schwarz, Kathleen Duffy Smith, John Sola, Jeffrey Steinman, Charles Stewart, The Swig Foundation, Rica Tarnoff, Thomas
Viola, Duffy Violante, Thomas Max Von Essen, Richard Warner, Allison Wiener, Kenneth Winter
Transport Group is honored to have received funding from the
following organizations:
American Theater Wing
Dramatists Guild Fund, Inc.
The Friars Foundation
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
The Lucille Lortel Foundation
The Dorothy Loudon Foundation
The Frederick Lowe Foundation
The Geraldine Stutz Family Trust
JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Theatres
The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund
The National Endowment for the Arts
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York State Council on the Arts
Jerome Robbins Foundation
The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation
The Shen Family Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Ted Snowdon Foundation
The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
The Geraldine Stutz Family Trust
The Village Voice OBIE Awards
Tax-deductible contributions can be mailed to:
Transport Group Theatre Company
520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 305
New York, NY 10018
The First One Hundred
Our culture will be defined by the depth of its patronage
Dear Friend,
Transport Group is asking its most ardent supporters to join likeminded patrons and become a member of The First One
Hundred. This is a five-year gift to Transport Group that will be
given once a year for the next five years, enabling us to plan our
budgets more efficiently. Your contribution will be listed in all of
our published materials as a member of The First One Hundred.
Barbara & Buddy Freitag generously gave us our fist gift of
$25,000. Your gift is important to us, as long as you repeat the gift
for five years. It represents faith in our future, a future I hope you
will share with us.
Sincere thanks,
Jack Cummings III
Artistic Director
Lori Fineman
Executive Director
The First One Hundred represents a gift to Transport
Group for five consecutive years
The First One Hundred ($25,000+)
Sarah Ackerman, Anne L. Bernstein,
Hope Byer, Barbara & Buddy Freitag
The First One Hundred ($12,500)
Joanne & Ron Falcon
The First One Hundred ($1,000)
Barbara & Andy Andres
TRANSPORT GROUP
Transport Group is represented by
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jack Cummings III
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Lori Fineman
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Annette Niemtzow (Co-Chair)
Ellen Weiss (Co-Chair)
Sarah Ackerman
Anne L. Bernstein
Irene Carney
Marcia Cohen
Jack Cummings III
Tom Cunningham
Jeff Davis
Lori Fineman
Shawn Flowers
Barbara Freitag
Benjamin D. Goldberg
Francesca James
Yael Jekogian
Tom Koltis
Claire W. Labine
Scott Manville
Richard Page
Rory Stanton
Richard Winkler
ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
Yvonne Adrian, Nicole Alifante,
Barbara Andres, Adam Bock,
Mark Campbell, John Cariani,
Donna Lynne Champlin,
Jack Donahue,
Jennifer Gibbs, Jenny Giering,
Chris Harcum, Michael Klimzak,
Tom Kochan, Mark Ledbetter,
Tom Lignon, Joanna Lipman,
Richard Martin,
Matthew Nowosielski,
Christine O’Grady,
Joanna Parson, Shannon Polly,
Monica Russell, Julie Siefkes,
Cheryl Stern,
Jonathan Uffelman,
James Weber, Ellen Weiss,
John Wellmann,
Gregg Wiggans, Matt Yeager
LITERARY MANAGER
& DRAMATURG
Kristina Corcoran Williams
ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARD
Brian Crawley
John Dossett
John Clinton Eisner
Shawn Elliot
Paulette Haupt
David Hirson
Michael John LaChiusa
Donna Murphy
Gilbert Parker
Michele Pawk
Christopher Shinn
ARTS ADMIN/ MARKETING
INTERN
Lianne DiFabbio
ASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR
Joshua W. Kelley
GRANT WRITER
Ivan Helfand
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
Drew Dernavich
Christiaan Rule
The public relations firm of
Richard Kornberg & Associates
Don Summa, representative
The accounting firm of
Eisenkraft CPA & Assoc
Gary Eisenkraft, CPA
Entertainment Legal Counsel for Transport Group
provided by
The Herzog Law Group
Jonathan Herzog, Esq.
Sebastian M. Hoskins, Esq.
Tom J. Koltis, Esq.
Transport Group extends special thanks to:
Alma Malabanan-McGrath, Isaac Oliver, Jim
Foster, Nikki Vera, Jessica Tores, Robin Leeds
and everyone at The Duke on 42nd Street, Ryan
Corvaia of DISH Food & Events, Scott Harmon.
Transport Group
520 Eighth Ave, Ste 305
New York, NY 10018
P 212.564.0333
F 212-564-0331
[email protected]
www.transportgroup.org
For more information about Transport Group’s staff, history, awards and previous
productions, please visit our website:
http://www.transportgroup.org
This production is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs, in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Transport Group is a member of A.R.T./NY, the service organization for New York City’s not-for-profit Off
Broadway theatres.