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Francis Benhamou
(The Wife)
presents
Sylvia Plath’s
ThreeWomen
Directed by
Robert Shaw
Designer
LUCY READ
Lighting Designer
MARUTI EVANS
The Wife
FRANCIS BENHAMOU
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Donors
The Student
KINA BERMUDEZ
The Secretary
ANGELA CHURCH
Kathy Bell, John Dean, Eleni Delopoulos, Tim Goble,
Martin Pickard, Joan Winterkorn
Extravagant thanks
for essential help go to
Roderick Orr-Ewing; Vanessa Lindsay Smith; Bob
Jackson; Min Chung and Kate Guinness for assisting
Lucy; Rory and Mark at Travis Perkins, Hackney;
Becky Thomas, Lizzie Jones, Toby Faber, Jason
Cooper and Ray Goodey at Faber and Faber; Frieda
Hughes and the Plath Estate; Ros Edwards at Edwards
Fuglewicz; the receptionists of the Dubrovnik Hilton;
Ali at Stroud Green Windows; HSS Hire in Hackney;
Graham Crowley, Maeve McKeown and Jon
Bradfield at Out of Joint; Elysabeth, Peter, Charlie,
Jim, Zach, Ginger, Miriam, Alan and all at 59E59
Theaters; 36th Street Studio; Abby and all at Triskelion
Arts; the Assembly Rooms; Jermyn Street Thea.
Francis was born in Uruguay
and raised in Miami. She
starred in the independent film
Arranged, which has garnered
many awards including Best
Narrative Film at the 2007
Brooklyn Film Festival and the
2007 Audience Award at the
Berkshire International Film
Festival. Her other film credits include I'm Not Me
(currently in post production); Noah Buschel's Neal
Cassady; Breaking Upwards and the title character
in Lucia which won Best Short Film at the 2006
Charlotte Film Festival. TV: The ESPN mini-series
Bronx Is Burning. Education: New York University,
BA with a Minor in Acting and Maggie Flanigan's
Two Year Meisner Acting program. Ms. Benhamou
is a member of New York based Inviolet Repertory
Theatre. She is excited to be a part of Sylvia Plath's
Three Women.
Kina Bermudez
(The Student)
Regional: Almost, Maine
(Shadowland Theatre, directed
by John Cariani; Williamstown
Theatre Festival), Hot ‘n’
Throbbing (Williamstown
Theatre Festival). New York: IE
In Other Words (Flea Theater,
Kip Fagan director),
Brandywine Distillery Fire
(Incubator Arts Project, Michael Gardner director),
Hell House (St Ann’s Warehouse, Alex Timbers
director), Exposition and Denouement (The Brick),
The Death of King Arthur (Gorilla Rep, Matthew
Freeman director). Film/TV: upcoming film The
Greatest Movie Ever Made (Worldwide Pants), All
Good Things, Flight of the Conchords, Onion News
Network (web), commercials and voiceovers.
www.kinabermudez.com
Angela Church
(The Secretary)
Angela studied at the Central
School of Speech and Drama
in London and has worked in
London, Pontelvoy and
Avignon, France before
returning home to New York.
Favorite roles (which include
regional, New York and
international productions)
include Lady Macduff (Macbeth), Mother (The
Child Dreams), Chloe (Arcadia), Puck (A
Midsummer Night's Dream), Alex (On The Verge)
and Ariel (The Tempest). She is very excited to be
part of this wonderful play by Sylvia Plath. Many
thanks to Robert, Kina and Francis. This is dedicated
to the three most amazing women in her life: Mother,
Aunt Karen and Pam. www.angelachurch.com
Maruti Evans
(Lighting Designer)
Maruti has worked as a set designer in opera,
theater and dance for the last 12 years. His work
includes An Oresteia (Classic Stage Co), Alice vs.
Wonderland (American Repertory Theatre), Exit
Stage Left (Parallel Exits at Lincoln Center), The
Traveling Lady (Ensemble Studio Theater, OBIE
Award for Best Revival), In Paradise (Cherry Lane
Theater/INTAR Theater), Mother Gun (Lincoln
Center), Excelsior (Lincoln Center), Tumor (Lincoln
Center ), Siddhartha (New World Stages), Turn of
the Screw (Stony Brook Opera), Le Nozze Di Figaro
(Stony Brook Opera), L' Orfeo (Stony Brook Opera),
Greek (Stony Brook Opera), The Boor and The
Scarf (Stony Brook Opera) and others. He has
been nominated for Drama Desk Awards in
Outstanding Lighting Design in 2007, 2008 and
2009 for the 59E59 Theaters productions:
Blindness, Slaughterhouse-Five and In the Heat of
the Night. He has also been nominated for Audelco
Awards for Best Lighting and Set Design Relativity
with Ensemble Studio Theater, and Noon Day Sun
with Diverse City Theater, and is a nominee for
Bessie Awards Best Lighting and Set Design
(Relativity with Ensemble Studio Theater).
www.marutievansdesigns.com
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
(Writer)
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went
to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship,
where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She
published one collection of poems in her lifetime,
The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar
(1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her
poetry written from 1956 until her death, was
published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for poetry.
Lucy Read
(Designer)
Lucy trained in Theatre Design under Alison Chitty
on the Motley Theatre Design Course in London,
finishing in July 2008. Three Women was her first
job. Since then she has designed Stage Fright for
The Canal Café Theatre; Princess Lola and The
Leopard Man for The Oval House Theatre; Island
Of The Lost for the Watford Palace Youth Theatre
and the UK premieres of: A Model For Mankind
for The Cock Tavern Theatre; The Next Curve for
The Old Red Lion Theatre and Dante for The Arcola
Theatre, as part of the Grimeborn Opera Festival.
Last year Lucy was shortlisted for both the Linbury
Prize and the Jocelyn Herbert Award for exceptional
stage design. Most recently Lucy designed the
critically acclaimed production of La Bohème for
The Soho Theatre, London.
Robert Shaw
(Director)
Robert graduated from Cambridge University in
1979. In May 1995 he founded inside intelligence.
Theatre: The Woods by David Mamet (UK premiere);
¡shoot! by Fermín Cabal, translated by Robert Shaw;
One God, One Farinelli! with Richard O'Brien;
Some Gorgeous Accident by James Kennaway,
adapted by Robert Shaw (Assembly Rooms,
Edinburgh, 2010); Up To Now, the autobiography
of his grandfather, the English composer Martin
Shaw, adapted by Robert Shaw; Teddy and Topsy,
Robert’s adaptation of the love letters of Isadora
Duncan to Gordon Craig; the first ever staging of
Anna Akhmatova’s Poem Without a Hero, translated
by DM Thomas; Ana in Love by Paloma Pedrero,
translated by Robert Shaw - originally commissioned
to mark the first anniversary of the Madrid terrorist
bombings in 2004 and premiered in London to
mark the first anniversary of the 2005 London attack;
As You Like It (music by Robert) and The
Investigation by Peter Weiss. Opera: The Medium
(London premiere), performed by Jane Manning,
and The Lighthouse, both by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. He translated Fermín Cabal's Tejas Verdes
- UK premiere at the Gate Theatre London in 2005
directed by Thea Sharrock. Productions before
1995: The Prince by David Drane (UK premiere);
Dutchman by Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka; Waiting
for Lefty by Clifford Odets; Statements after an
Arrest under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard;
Fear by Mark Brennan; Inferno XXXIII by Michele
Celeste; Reunion by David Mamet; Tell Me That
I'm Dreaming by Mark Brennan; The Poker Session
by Hugh Leonard; Measure for Measure; The Ruling
Class by Peter Barnes; A Little Night Music by
Stephen Sondheim and The Hostage (An Giall) by
Brendan Behan - one of the hits of the 1981
Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Robert is a jazz
pianist/composer and speaks six languages, used
in volunteer work for Amnesty International, including
the 1990s crises in former Yugoslavia and Central
Africa. Until recently, he was International
Representative of the Chekhov Memorial Theatre
in Taganrog, Chekhov's birthplace. Robert’s
grandfather, Martin Shaw, was a lifelong friend and
collaborator of Gordon Craig. He produced and
conducted Craig’s first productions – Dido and
Aeneas, The Masque of Love, Acis and Galatea.
In 1902, he joined Ellen Terry’s company at the
Imperial Theatre, where he composed and
conducted the music for Craig’s productions of The
Vikings and Much Ado about Nothing, starring
Ellen Terry. In 1906 and 1907, he toured Europe
as conductor for Isadora Duncan.