Scott Carter - Geffen Playhouse

From the artistic Director
Welcome to The Gospel According to
Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord. Reflect for
a moment on the title of the play you are about to see. What could possibly
bring Jefferson (a Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration
of Independence, and third President of the United States) into a room with
Dickens (perhaps the greatest English novelist of the Victorian Era, prolific
and famous in his time and creator of some of the world’s most endearing
and enduring fictional characters) and Tolstoy (the 19th-century Russian realist,
generally regarded as one of the greatest novelists in history)?
The answer is revealed through the imagination of playwright Scott Carter, who
has spent many years researching and honing this unique tale of an encounter
between three historical giants of different eras. As they struggle to learn
the identities of their companions, the purpose behind their gathering and
how to escape it, these characters ignite philosophical, political and religious
fireworks — making for a bracing and revealing ride.
As a collaborator on the piece, director Matt August has taken this debate
and helped to raise the stakes exponentially. With a deft hand, he, along
with an ensemble of astonishing actors, has created an intellectual cat-andmouse wherein the cats and mice are forever changing places. In addition,
Matt’s talented designers have created an environment that must be at once
claustrophobic and yet expansive enough to contain three huge personalities.
With Discord, we are happy to launch our first 2014/2015 season production
in our beautiful and versatile Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater. From play to play
and season to season, we strive to entertain and enlighten with a broad range
of theatrical storytelling. As always, we are grateful to you for joining us.
Enjoy the show.
Randall Arney
Artistic Director
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Welcome to our first production of
the 2014/2015 season in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater. Written by Scott
Carter and directed by Matt August, this comedy is a hilarious and wonderful
way to begin the season in the Audrey.
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Now we invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy The Gospel According to
Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord.
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Discordant &
Harmonious
Notes
by scott carter
the writing of this play began,
really, in June 1986 as I awoke choking on a Sunday
morning. As a lifelong asthmatic, this was not unexpected,
but the attack was to be the most severe of my life and I
spent nearly a week in the hospital.
At that time, I was a struggling standup comic and, like
many colleagues, I was either indifferent or hostile to God;
Jesus was the ghost who came into my bedroom when I was
a child and tried to choke me to death on a nightly basis.
I was released from Bellevue that Saturday afternoon.
At the intersection of 26th and First Avenue, I had an
epiphany like Saul on the road to Damascus when a
thunderbolt knocked him to the ground, scales fell from
his eyes and he knew that Jesus Christ was his Lord
and Savior. My metanoia was less-specific and more
non-denominational; I went from cynical comic to nonaffiliated deist. I received the unshakable realization of
God’s existence and that of grace — for which I thought
myself unworthy but grateful. I guess that’s why it’s called
grace. I entered into a bliss state — loving all whom I met
and forgiving previous transgressions done to me.
It lasted about a week. Then it faded and I felt a return
to the petty life I’d always led. I didn’t want this to happen.
I wanted to make this event into the B.C. / A.D. of my
existence. But I had no strong religious affiliation to which
to turn. My parents were devout believers in whatever
Protestant community was closest and nicest. I grew up
Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian and Lutheran. Postservice coffee and donuts were sacraments as sacred as
any wafers or wine.
So I made a pact with the universe in the summer of
1986: I would remain open to signs and direction from
anyone offering religious literature, conversation or ritual.
On October 5, 1988, I watched an episode of A World of
Ideas on PBS. Host Bill Moyers was interviewing Reverend
Forrester Church of All Souls Unitarian in New York. And
it was here that I learned about the Jefferson Bible.
In 1804 President Jefferson bought two identical
The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and
Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord playwright Scott Carter.
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Discordant & Harmonious Notes
Intersecting Lives By Merl Reagle
ACROSS
1
“Let the heart swell into
what ___ it will” (Dickens,
“Little Dorrit”)
5
Guitar’s five-string cousin
7
Add to one’s territory, as
Russia did to Crimea in the
1700s
9
Jefferson used one to edit
the gospels
14Acquaintance of Dickens
and literary rival of Tolstoy,
Fyodor ___
16Having an unexpected twist
18Adams and Jefferson
declared a ___ late in their
lives after years of bickering
19More greasy
20Nonviolent Indian to whom
Tolstoy wrote his last letter
21Character that Tolstoy threw
under a train, Anna ___
23Jefferson once received a
1,234-pound wheel of this
as a gift
26Jefferson political foe who
was shot by his former
vice-president, Aaron Burr
28Dickens’ pen name
29Jefferson purchase that
doubled the size of the U.S.
30Mountains that Dickens
and Tolstoy once visited in
the mid-1800s
32Figure out, as a mystery
33The Declaration of ___
35Crucifixion site, “the place
of the skull”
38While writing “Bleak
House,” Dickens would
often plunge his head into
a ___ of cold water
39Subject of a “head on
a platter” painting
owned by Jefferson, John
the ___
40Name of Jefferson’s pet
mockingbird, which was
often on his shoulder when
he answered the door
(also, the nickname of a
future president)
41Jefferson’s wise nickname,
“the ___ of (11 Down)”
42“No nation is ___ where
wine is cheap” (Jefferson)
23Least popular Dickens
DOWN
novel, “Martin ___”
1
“There is something ...
burning in the heart of
24Tolstoy’s early “___
man that will not go out no
Sketches,” about military
matter how ___ the world
life in Crimea’s capital
becomes” (Tolstoy)
during a siege in the 1850s
2
Dickens’ last completed
25Jefferson was the first
novel, “___ Mutual Friend”
president to live in it full
time (2 words)
3
Tolstoy’s “___ and Peace”
4
Dickens novel, “Great ___” 27One more time
6
Day of Jefferson’s
Declaration and death
(2 words)
29“Anything is better than
___ and deceit!” (Tolstoy)
31Dickens novel, “The ___
Papers”
8
French leader from whom
Jefferson bought 29 Across 34Evil One who tempted
Jesus thrice
10The Promised Land (also,
a national park in Utah)
11
Jefferson’s house, which
means “little mountain” in
Italian
12Tolstoy’s last novel, about
the Christlike redemption
of a nobleman
13String instrument played by
Jefferson
15Jefferson didn’t like to do it
in public
17Jefferson often powdered his
hair to avoid wearing them
22“Art ___ life”
35Name of Dickens’ pet
raven
36___ Lucerne (Dickens
visited it in 1844)
37“No crib for ___” (line from
“Away in a Manger”)
MERL REAGLE is the Sunday
crossword creator for the Los
Angeles Times, Washington
Post, and 50 other major
papers. His “100th Anniversary
Crossword Book,” the 17th in a
series, was published in
November 2013.
Find the crossword solution online at geffenplayhouse.com/discordcrossword.
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copies of the King James Bible.
Needing both sides of each page
for his project, he then, over three
consecutive nights, used a razor to
cut out only the verses he liked from
all four gospels. Jefferson then pasted
his chosen scraps of scripture into
the pages of a blank book. He named
his volume “The Philosophy of Jesus
of Nazareth.” I became fascinated
with the details of this history. What
modern president would hatch such
an idea and then spend his White
House evenings executing it?
For the next eight years, my
fascination stopped short of creativity.
I was getting jobs writing and later
producing television. In 1993, HBO
teamed me with Bill Maher to develop
Politically Incorrect for Comedy
Central. As that show took off,
Jefferson gathered dust.
In 1996 my wife and I moved
from New York to Los Angeles. We
rented a house near Larchmont
Village where, one Saturday at the
independent bookstore, Chevalier’s,
I discovered The Life of Our Lord by
Charles Dickens.
I subsequently learned that Dickens,
between 1846 and 1849, condensed
the gospels for the first five of his ten
children. He read it to them so often
that they had it memorized before
they learned to read. Dickens’ favorite
word in the English language was
“fancy.” And, as you will soon hear,
Dickens embraced most of the gospel
verses that Jefferson jettisoned.
I now had a play to write: two great
men debating whose version of the
gospels is better. The first pages of
these men’s fictive theological spat
multiplied madly during the ensuing
months. One day, while allegedly
doing more research (procrastinating),
I happened on this note in Stephen
Mitchell’s
superb
The Gospel
According To Jesus: “ … Tolstoy, too,
compiled a gospel harmony, which he
called The Gospel in Brief.”
on HBO and scheduled in a way that
allowed me to develop other projects.
In December 2008, I found myself
with three open months and re-read
my play’s 151-page first draft. Every bit
of Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy trivia
had been thrown in; using the passage
of time as perspective for this editing, I
promptly removed most of it, focused
on the Christ narrative, and distilled
the page count from 151 down to 47 and
increased the font size. But did I really
have anything? I wanted someone to
hear it who both had killer story chops
and a spiritual simpatico.
“But I had no
strong religious
affiliation to
which to turn ...
Post-service
coffee and
donuts were
sacraments as
sacred as any
wafers or wine.”
— Scott carter
I called my friend, the brilliant
writer, actor and comedian Garry
Shandling. We were fellow Tucsonans
who went to the same high school.
He’d enjoyed my monologues and
appeared on Politically Incorrect. We
made dinner and reading plans for
his house and I brought three little
sticks with the heads of Jefferson,
Dickens and Tolstoy to keep clear
which character was talking. Garry
interrupted me halfway through the
stick puppet reading and gave me 23
pages of notes. We finished the play
the following night with another round.
I hosted reading after reading with
friends and rewrote time and time
again. Notes came from annotated
scripts and post-reading discussions.
Norman Lear, Stephen Mitchell (the
translator who’d introduced me to
Tolstoy’s gospel), Byron Katie (the
author and Stephen’s wife), my wife,
Bebe, Elaine Pagels, the Princeton
Religious Studies professor who
wrote The Gnostic Gospels (which
you might know under its alternate
title, Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code)
and many others participated and I
am grateful for it. After one reading,
Arianna Huffington said: “We must
have a performance at my house.”
That December, the play was read
in front of a 20-foot-high Christmas
tree and 60 guests including Shirley
MacLaine who, afterwards, gave me
her phone number to discuss the play.
We met in a dark corner of a
Malibu restaurant. She ordered a
bottle of red wine and, after a sip,
asked, “Do you know why the star
of Bethlehem hovered over the
manger?” I responded that I did not.
“It’s because,” she continued, “it was
not a star. It was a spaceship. Let’s
start there.” Then, with the world
weariness of a Cassandra used to
having her truth doubted, she told me
that she had slept in Jefferson’s bed
(in this lifetime, through a connection
at Monticello). She said workers
there report that his ghost roams the
halls, whistling. Then she got to the
purpose of our meeting: “You need
a fourth character in your play … My
friend Stephen Hawking believes that
he is Sir Isaac Newton reincarnated.
I really feel that Newton would have
a lot to add to what those other
three are saying.” I said, “Shirley, I
appreciate you caring so much. But
I’ve been working on this for 21 years.
And I have to stop adding people or
it will never get done.” My Cassandra
looked at me, as through eyes of Fran
Kubelick, of Irma La Douce, with an
expression that said: Brother, you are
making a big mistake.
And maybe I am. But you’ll have to
be the judge of that. Enjoy.
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My excited first thought — adding
Tolstoy to this debate — instantly
gave way to an easily imaginable five
more years of research to turn this
duet into a trio.
After the global success of War
and Peace and Anna Karenina,
Tolstoy suffered a Russian epic of a
depression so severe that his family
hid his hunting guns to avoid his
suicide. He embarked on a 30-year
spiritual quest, learning Greek and
Hebrew to freshly translate scripture.
The Gospels in Brief, unlike the
work of Jefferson and Dickens, was
published during Tolstoy’s lifetime —
though not in Russia. His increasingly
controversial works were smuggled
into Switzerland and would later
result in Tolstoy’s excommunication
from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Harmonizing this latest Tolstoy
research with the other two was
proving unwieldy and was going to
require much more work. The Jesus
narrative is hardly, “the greatest story
ever told.” Yes, there’s a beginning and
end but the middle is a structural mess.
At the end of 1999, after producing
the first 1,100 episodes of Politically
Incorrect, I left to develop my play and
knew I needed help.
Michael Bruner, a graduate of
Princeton Seminary and the University
of Hamburg began to meet with me
regularly over the next three years.
We organized the messy muddle of
Christ’s ministry into a 315 page multicolored volume. My literary agent
shopped it around; no publisher was
interested (at least not yet).
Still, in 2005, this source material
gave rise to the first draft of the play!
It was universally hated. My wife hated
it. My agent hated it. My lawyer hated
it. And I felt guilty for wasting their
time reading and so much of my time
writing. I shelved it.
But, please, no pity: I’ve had a long
and lucrative career in televison. By
then, Real Time with Bill Maher was
THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
Production of
Written by
Scott Carter
Scenic Designer
Takeshi Kata
Sound Designer
Cricket S. Myers
Production Stage Manager
Maggie Swing
Costume Designer
Ann Closs-Farley
Projection Designer
Jeffrey Elias Teeter
Dramaturg
Amy Levinson
Lighting Designer
Luke Moyer
Music
Michael Nyman
Casting Director
Michael Donovan, CSA
Directed by
Matt August
Opening Night: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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(In order of appearance)
Thomas Jefferson ..................................................................................................................... Larry Cedar
Charles Dickens .................................................................................................................... David Melville
Count Leo Tolstoy ....................................................................................................... Armin Shimerman
understudies
(In alphabetical order)
Charles Dickens/ Count Leo Tolstoy �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Greg Bryan
Thomas Jefferson ................................................................................................................... Steve Marvel
Setting
A room.
time
Yes.
running time
Approximately 85 minutes
There will be no intermission.
Special gratitude to
Kevin J. Bailey, Producing Director, and James J. Mellon, Artistic Director,
of the NoHo Arts Center.
Author’s Dedication:
To my friends, Stephen Mitchell (with whom nothing is lost in translation)
and his wife, Byron Katie (sanity’s siren).
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cast of characters
production biographies
Larry Cedar
(Thomas Jefferson)
Larry Cedar recently debuted
his original one-man play,
Orwellian, based on the works of
renowned author George Orwell,
at The Hollywood Fringe Festival
followed by an extended run at
The Odyssey Theatre. Other plays:
American Misfit (Boston Court),
Lear in King Lear (produced by The
Porters of Hellsgate), American
Fiesta, Celadine, Billy Bishop Goes
to War and Around the World
in 80 Days (Colony Theatre).
Musicals: Nightmare Alley (Geffen
Playhouse), She Loves Me (Ovation
Award — Best Featured Actor
in a Musical), 1776 (Reprise!) and
as Hoagy Carmichael in Hoagy,
Bix and Wolfgang Beethoven
Bunkhaus (Mark Taper Forum).
Larry played opium addict “Leon”
for three seasons on the critically
acclaimed Deadwood (HBO) and
starred for six seasons on PBS’s
Square One TV. Other television:
Community, House, Terminator,
NCIS, Enterprise, Alias, The
Closer, Gilmore Girls and Boston
Legal. Film work includes The
Crazies, Midnight Son, Towelhead,
Hollywoodland, Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas and a starring role
in the upcoming independent
feature She Sings to the Stars.
Please visit Larry on Facebook or
go to larrycedar.com.
David Melville
(Charles Dickens)
David Melville is co-founder
of Independent Shakespeare
Co. and the Griffith Park Free
Shakespeare Festival. Roles for
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ISC include Hamlet, Richard
II, Iago, Macbeth, Henry V,
Benedick, Dr. Pinch, Feste, 8
seasons as Charles Dickens
performing A Christmas Carol,
a one-person Nicholas Nickleby,
Charles Dickens in Discord, WH
Ireland in the one man show
Solemn Mockeries and Beauty
Smith in the original musical Red
Barn. As a composer David has
written the music for most of
ISC’s Shakespeare productions,
Red Barn and many of the songs
for Dr Pinch’s vaudeville show.
London appearances include the
Almeida Theatre productions
of Hamlet (also Broadway) and
Ivanov (both of which featured
Ralph Fiennes), Mother Courage
(with Glenda Jackson) and Henry
VI in The Wax King (The Man in
the Moon). TV and film includes:
Lawrence of America; Ironclad;
The Understudy and Perfection.
Earlier in his career, David was
a private detective and then
brand ambassador for Bombay
Sapphire — traveling the United
States preaching the virtues
of gin and discussing golf with
liquor executives. David trained
at the Webber-Douglas Academy
of Dramatic Art in London.
Armin Shimerman
(Count Leo Tolstoy)
Armin Shimerman is well
known as Quark, on Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine. Broadway:
Three Penny Opera, St. Joan, I
Remember Mama and Broadway.
Selected Regional Theater:
San Diego Repertory Theater:
Lear’s Fool, Marius in Fugard’s
Road to Mecca, Richard in
Seafarer (San Diego Critics
Circle Award for best actor);
American Shakespeare Festival:
Henry V; Indiana Repertory
Theatre: Hoagy, Bix, Wolfgang
Beethoven Bunkhouse; Guthrie
Theatre: Three Penny Opera,
Camille, Wild Oats. Selected
Los Angeles Theater: Matrix
Theatre: The Birthday Party (LA
Drama Critics Circle Nom. Lead
Performance); Odyssey Theatre:
Misalliance, Juno and the Paycock
(with wife, Kitty Swink), Standup
Shakespeare; Mark Taper: Richard
II. Associate Artistic Director
at Antaeus Theater where he
teaches Shakespeare, co-directed
Crucible, and performed Seagull,
Macbeth, many classic fests.
TV: 80 different guest star roles,
including Stargate, Principal
Snyder on Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, Judge Hooper on Boston
Legal, and recently CSI, Castle,
Franklin and Bash. Voiceover:
General Skarr, for three animated
shows, many game voices,
acclaimed for Dr. Nefarious in
Ratchet and Clank franchise and
Andrew Ryan in Bioshock.
Scott Carter
(Playwright)
Scott Carter has served as
Executive Producer for Real Time
with Bill Maher since it debuted
on HBO in 2003. He produced the
first 1,100 episodes of Politically
Incorrect with Bill Maher from
its 1993 Comedy Central debut
to its 1997 move to ABC. While
at P.I., Carter received eight
Emmy nominations and three
consecutive CableAce Awards
for Best Talk Series. He has
served as creator, producer and/
or writer for, among others, Curb
The Discussion with Susie Essman
(TV Guide, 2010), Root Of All
Evil With Lewis Black (Comedy
Central, 2008), Earth To America
(TBS, 2005), The Conspiracy
Zone with Kevin Nealon (Spike,
2002-3) and Exhale with Candice
Bergen (Oxygen, 2000-1). In
1997, Variety named him one of
the “50 Creatives to Watch.”
In 2007, he was a corecipient
of the Producer’s Guild of
America’s Johnny Carson Award
for Real Time. A former stand
up comedian, Carter has written
and performed two full-length
monologues, “Heavy Breathing”
and “Suspension Bridge,” at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The
Aspen Comedy Arts Festival, The
Kilkenny (Ireland) Murphy’s Cats
Laugh Festival, the Cleveland
Performance Festival, Dixon
Place, Primary Stages, Manhattan
Punchline, etc. He is former
Producing Director and a founding
member of The Invisible Theatre,
now in its 44th season in Tucson,
Arizona. Scott is represented by
Joe Cohen and George Lane
at Creative Artists Agency and
by Nancy Rose at the firm of
Schreck Rose Dapello & Adams
LLP. He lives in Los Angeles with
his wife, interior designer Bebe
Johnson, and their two daughters,
Calla and Colette.
Matt August
(Director)
Broadway: Dr. Suess’ How the
Grinch Stole Christmas (also
all national tours, Madison
Square Garden and Pantages);
Broadway as Associate Director:
Henry IV, Invention of Love,
Imaginary Friends, Full Monty.
Regional: Old Globe: Two
Gentlemen of Verona, Time Flies
(by David Ives) Pig Farm (coworld premiere by Greg Kotis),
Food Chain; Pioneer Theatre:
In the Heights, Much Ado About
Nothing; Ford’s Theatre: Liberty
Smith, A Christmas Carol;
TheatreWorks: Baby Taj; The
Acting Company (NYC): Two
Gentlemen…, Merry Wives…,
Staff Repertory Director;
Hanger Theatre: Complete
History of America Abridged,
All in the Timing, Tempest;
NoHo Arts Center: …Discord,
Fourth Messenger (upcoming);
Long Wharf: Sixteen Wounded
(starring Martin Landau); LA
Theatre Works: The Real Dr.
Strangelove, Speech and Debate,
Intelligence Slave (upcoming).
He’s received fellowships and
residencies from the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, Old
Globe Theatre, Drama League,
Robert Wilson’s Watermill
Center, the Juilliard School,
San Francisco’s Zen Center,
received the Panavision New
Filmmaker’s Grant and mentored
upcoming directors through the
SDC Observership Program
and Drama League Fellowship.
His productions have been
recognized by the Helen Hayes,
Bay Area Critics and Australia’s
Helpmann Awards and appeared
on year end top-ten lists in
the Los Angeles Times, San
Francisco Chronicle, Oakland
Tribune, SJ Mercury News and
NPR/KQED. His award winning
short family film How to Get to
Candybar has played at festivals
around the world. MFA from
California Institute of the Arts.
production biographies
LUKE MOYER
(Lighting Designer)
Luke is the resident lighting
designer for the NoHo Arts
Center and Open at the Top,
and his recent credits include
Discord, One November Yankee,
Red Room, Having it All Dracula
(Ovation Award), Yo Ho Ho!
A Pirates Christmas, East of
Berlin, Departures, Pirates of
Penzance, Feed, Jerusalem,
Barnum, Elizabeth Rex (Ovation
Award), Lizard, Bush is Bad, Bush
is Bad 2, and the full staging of
Angels In America. He is also
the resident lighting designer
for the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts. Luke began his
career at the Main Street Stage
in Massachusetts where he
designed PMS, Apartment 3A,
Irma Vepp and Collected Stories.
He has designed many shows
for The Company Rep including
Six Degrees of Separation,
Camino Real, Split, The Comedy
of Errors, The Fantasticks, The
Pension Grillparzer, Season’s
Greetings, Twelfth Night,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead and Play Strindberg.
More west coast credits include
Deathtrap (Ovation Award),
Shooting Star, Year Zero, Grace
and Glory, All Night Strut,
Celadine, A Long Christmas
Ride Home, Recent Tragic
Events, The Intern, The Last
Pitch, Generator Girl and Why’s
The Dog Howlin’ Mama?
Ann Closs-Farley
(Costume Designer)
Ann is honored to be back at
the Geffen since Coney Island
Christmas. Recent credits include
Broadus, AnnaPurna, Stinky
Cheeseman, Cunning Little
Vixens, Last Act of Lilka Kadison,
Carnage, Rabbit Hole, Broadway
Bound, American Misfits, Eric
Idle’s What About Dick?, The
Pee-wee Herman Show, Disney’s
Toy Story The Musical for Disney
Cruise lines, Eric Idle’s An
Evening Without Monty Python
and Around The World in 80
Days at the lovely Cleveland
Playhouse. Closs-Farley also
styles and designs for The World
Poker Tour, Kaiser Permanente
Theatricals and Disneyland Parks
and resorts. annclossfarley.com
CRICKET S. MYERS
(Sound Designer)
Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the
Baghdad Zoo (Drama Desk
Award, Tony Nomination).
Off-Broadway: Marvelous
Wonderettes. Regional: Play
Dead, Wrecks, Some Girl(s),
Emergency (Ovation, NAACP
nomination) (Geffen Playhouse);
Steward of Christendom, Joe
Turner’s Come and Gone
(Ovation nomination), Vigil, Burn
This, The Lieutenant of Inishmore
(Ovation nomination), Bengal
Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The
Subject Was Roses (Mark Taper
Forum); Twist Your Dickens
(Ovation nomination), The Wake,
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad
Zoo (Ovation nomination), The
Little Dog Laughed (Ovation
nomination) (Kirk Douglas
Theatre); Sideways, The
Nightingale (La Jolla Playhouse);
Book Club Play (Arena Stage); In
the Wake (Berkeley Rep); 4000
Miles, The Fantasticks, Parisian
Woman, Elemeno Pea, Three
Days of Rain, Trip to Bountiful
(South Coast Rep); Stoneface,
Above the Fold, Crowns, Orson’s
Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse);
Marvelous Wonderettes (Laguna
Playhouse). Other selected L.A.
theaters include The NoHo Arts
Center, Ghost Road Theater
Company, The Celebration
Theater, The Colony Theatre, and
Circle X. cricketsmyers.com
JEFFREY ELIAS TEETER
(Projection Designer)
Jeffrey graduated from
California Institute of the Arts
and has worked on numerous
world, West Coast, and New
York premieres. He has designed
and worked on: The Tallest
Tree in the Forest and Tribes
at the Mark Taper. On the
Spectrum and Cyrano at the
Fountain Theatre. A Guide to
an Exhibitionist and Cleopatra,
C.E.O. for Heidi Duckler Dance
Theatre. Baby It’s You, written
and directed by Floyd Mutrux
at the Broadhurst Theatre on
Broadway. Lighting Director for
Halloween Horror Nights, NBC
Universal Studios Hollywood
and several premieres for
AMC. Brewsie & Willie, a
collaboration with Center for
New Performance and Poor
Dog Group. All That Skate, an
international ice skating show at
the Staples Center. Piedra de
Sol, directed by Maria Morett
and presented at the Getty Villa.
The Jesus Ride, Performed and
written by Michael Schlitt for
the New York Fringe Festival
and Portland Center Stage.
Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget,
directed by Jeff Kanew at the
Kirk Douglas Theatre. Apollo,
directed by Nancy Keystone and
presented at Portland Center
Stage. Norman’s Ark, directed
by Peter Schneider at the Ford
Amphitheater. Mycenaean,
written and directed for Carl
Hancock Rux and premiered at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Festival. 11 Septembre 2001,
directed by Robert Canterella
at the National Theatre of
Paris. The Mask and Can-Can
at Pasadena Playhouse. A
Hip Hopera, directed by Mary
Lou Rossato at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival. Other projects
include The Leading Matters and
Stanford Challenge national tour.
MAGGIE SWING
(Production Stage Manager)
Geffen Playhouse: The Country
House, The Judy Show, American
Buffalo. Off Broadway:
Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s
Labors Lost, Sweet and Sad,
Knickerbocker, Compulsion,
That Hopey Changey Thing (The
Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln
Center), Blood Knot, The
Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature
Theatre Company). Regional:
Bell, Book and Candle (CoProduction with Long Wharf),
The Orphans’ Home Cycle,
Dividing the Estate, To Kill a
Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol,
A Midsummer Nights Dream, The
Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here
Anymore, The Bluest Eye, Our
Town (Hartford Stage Company).
AMY LEVINSON
(Dramaturg)
Amy is the Artistic Associate and
Literary Director at the Geffen
Playhouse. Dramaturgy credits
include the commissions and world
premieres of Donald Margulies’
Time Stands Still and Coney Island
Christmas, Jane Anderson’s The
Quality of Life and The Escort and
Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation
of Wait Until Dark. Other credits
include The Weir, Extraordinary
Chambers, Build, Equivocation and
Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress.
At the Geffen she has helped to
build programs for the purpose of
fostering new work including the
commissioning and development
of plays. Also a translator of
Yiddish drama, she holds an MFA
in Dramaturgy from the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Michael Donovan, CSA
(Casting Director)
Michael is the recipient of six
Artios awards, given by the
Casting Society of America
for Outstanding Achievement
in Casting. Theater credits
include shows produced at the
Hollywood Bowl, Pasadena
Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse,
International City Theatre,
Ebony Repertory Theatre,
Laguna Playhouse, the Falcon
Theatre, the Colony Theatre,
The Theatre @ Boston Court,
Ensemble Theatre of Santa
Barbara, Arizona Theatre
Company, Cleveland Playhouse,
the Kentucky Shakespeare
Festival and more. Michael has
cast numerous independent films,
over 1,200 commercials, and his
TV credits include the series
Blood Relatives.
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Takeshi Kata
(Scenic Designer)
Geffen Playhouse: The Seafarer,
Boston Marriage, Ruth Draper
Monologues, Slowgirl and
Reasons to Be Pretty. LA:
November, Other Desert Cities
(Taper), 2 Unrelated Plays by
David Mamet, Forever (Kirk
Douglas), Happy Days (Boston
Court). NY: Through a Glass
Darkly, Storefront Church, The
Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
(Atlantic Theatre Company),
Adding Machine (Minetta
Lane), Barrow Street Theatre,
Playwright’s Horizons, Vineyard
Theatre and Rattlestick. Regional:
Alley, American Players Theatre,
Dallas Theater Center, Ford’s
Theatre, Goodman, Hartford
Stage, Long Wharf, Nashville
Opera, Old Globe, Steppenwolf,
Yale Rep. Kata has won an Obie
award and has been nominated
for Drama Desk, Ovation and
Barrymore awards. He is an
Assistant Professor at University
of Southern California, School of
Dramatic Arts.
production biographies
RANDALL ARNEY
(Artistic Director)
Randall Arney has been a
theater professional for over
30 years and has served
as Artistic Director of the
Geffen Playhouse since 1999.
In addition to his artistic
programming and oversight at
the Geffen, Arney has helmed
more than 10 productions for
the theater, most recently
Reasons to Be Pretty, Slowgirl,
American Buffalo, Superior
Donuts, The Female of the
Species, The Seafarer, Speedthe-Plow and All My Sons.
Arney is an ensemble member
and former Artistic Director
of Chicago’s Steppenwolf
Theatre where his directing
credits include: Slowgirl,
The Seafarer, The Beauty
Queen of Leenane, Death
and the Maiden, Curse of
the Starving Class, Killers
and The Geography of Luck,
among others. Arney also
directed Steppenwolf’s world
premiere of Steve Martin’s
Picasso at the Lapin Agile,
as well as the subsequent
national and international
acclaimed productions. Mr.
Arney’s acting credits with
Steppenwolf include Born
Yesterday, Ghost in the
Machine, The Homecoming,
Frank’s Wild Years, You Can’t
Take it with You, Fool for Love,
True West, Balm in Gilead and
Coyote Ugly. As the Artistic
Director for Steppenwolf
from 1987 to 1995, he oversaw
the creation of a new stateof-the-art theater which is
Steppenwolf’s current home.
Broadway transfers under his
leadership include The Rise
and Fall of Little Voice, The
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Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony
Award nominations) and The
Grapes of Wrath (1990 Tony
Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney
has an MFA degree in Acting
from Illinois State University
and has taught master classes
and workshops at UCLA,
Steppenwolf, around the U.S.
and in Tokyo.
KEN NOVICE
(Managing Director)
Ken Novice’s career in the
professional theater spans
over 30 years and 300
productions. Prior to joining
Geffen Playhouse, he served
as Managing Director and
Director of External Affairs
at Pasadena Playhouse where
his credits include the revival
of Fences starring Laurence
Fishburne and Angela Bassett
and the world premieres
of Sister Act the Musical,
Ray Charles Live, Stormy
Weather starring Lesley
Uggams and many others. He
was Director of Marketing
and Public Relations for San
Diego’s Tony Award-winning
Old Globe Theatre where his
credits include Jack O’Brien’s
acclaimed revival of Damn
Yankees, the Tony Awardnominated musical The Full
Monty, Henry IV starring John
Goodman and Sheldon Epp’s
Tony-nominated hit Play
On! among many others. His
credits also include marketing
and public relations for the
Tony Award-winning Denver
Center Theater Company and
New York’s Circle Repertory
Company. As Director of
Programming for YouthStream
Media Networks he developed
national marketing and public
relations programs for most
of Hollywood’s major motion
picture studios. Novice also
served as Head of the Theatre
Management MFA/MBA
program at California State
University, Long Beach and
has been a guest lecturer at
San Diego State University and
the University of California,
San Diego. He holds a BA
from Pennsylvania State
University and an MBA from
San Diego State University.
Novice was recently named
the Secretary of the League
of Resident Theatres (LORT)
after previously serving as a
member of LORT’s Executive
Committee.
BEHNAZ ATAEE
(General Manager)
Behnaz Ataee is a financial
professional with more than
27 years of experience in forprofit and nonprofit financial
management and auditing.
Behnaz joined the Geffen
Playhouse in 1999 and this
marks her ninth season as the
theater’s General Manager.
She began her career in the
Bay Area as a partner in a
small family start-up before
joining FBS Management
where she acted as Director
of Accounting, overseeing
the finances of more than
25 non-profit organizations.
Behnaz continued her work
with non-profits as an auditor
for Trump and Van Sloten
CPA and then returned to the
for-profit sector at Ultratech,
before ultimately landing at
the Geffen Playhouse. Behnaz
has a Master’s degree from
Pepperdine University.
REGINA MILLER
(Chief Development Officer)
Regina has been a development
professional for over 18
years, working with non-profit
institutions, foundations and
corporations on strategy,
analysis and fundraising.
She has worked for Simon
Wiesenthal Center, William J.
Jefferson Clinton Foundation,
Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo
Initiative, Hank Azaria’s
Determined to Succeed,
National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children, Kind
Campaign, Jewish Museum of
Prague, among others. Prior to
the Geffen, Regina served as the
Director of Partnerships for Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Greater
Los Angeles and the Inland
Empire where she led strategic
planning and development while
executing policies that advanced
the organization’s visibility and
growth. Regina also has a strong
passion for teaching. After
graduating from University of
North Carolina School of the
Arts, she taught in preschools
and kindergartens in New York.
From the age of 13, Regina
worked as a professional dancer
on Broadway as well as with a
number of prominent modern
dance ensembles. Fusing two
of her interests, she created a
highly successful program which
incorporated dance therapy
and creative movement into
an early childhood curriculum
as well as wrote and produced
a television show based on
this concept. In addition to
being a published author and
photographer with Tallfellow
Press and Prometheus Books,
Regina has taught and lectured
at numerous schools in New
York, Los Angeles and abroad.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Stage Crew Alexandre Norkus
Dialect Coach Paul Wagar
Violence Designer Ned Mochel
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Production Photographer Michael Lamont
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Los Angeles, specifically the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
The Geffen Playhouse values its role as an important educational resource
by providing students with master classes, workshops and internships.
Students are also able to work and learn from distinguished visiting Geffen
artists such as Alan Ayckbourn, Jon Robin Baitz, Annette Bening, Ed Harris,
David Ives, Neil LaBute, David Mamet, Donald Margulies, Terrence McNally,
John Rando and Kathleen Turner in areas of directing, playwriting, acting,
design, dramaturgy, management and production. The Geffen Playhouse
also draws upon the distinguished experts in the university to enhance the
theater’s programs and research.
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and stage managers in the United States.
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fully committed to ensuring a
satisfying theater experience
for our patrons with special
needs or disabilities. Please
contact the box office or an
usher to discuss your needs.
AT THE THEATER
Late Seating
Should you arrive late to the theater or
vacate your seat during the performance,
please expect to be held in the lobby until
an appropriate pause in the action on-stage.
To minimize disturbance to other patrons,
you may be sat into the first available
location by the house staff even if different
from your assigned seat. Be advised that
some productions or circumstances may not
allow for late or return seating.
This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident
Theaters and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent
national labor union.
The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT theaters are
represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
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The Geffen Playhouse recognizes the following individuals and organizations for their generous support of our Annual Fund and
Backstage at the Geffen. Donors are listed at the Associate level and higher for gifts made between July 1, 2013 and August 31, 2014.
In appreciation, donors enjoy a host of special benefits including house seats, complimentary drinks, receptions and much more.
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ASSOCIATE
geffen playhouse staff
Randall Arney
Artistic Director
Ken Novice
Managing Director
ARTISTIC
Behnaz Ataee
General Manager
Regina Miller
Chief Development Officer
MARKETING & SALES
Mary Garrett
Amy Levinson
Phyllis Schuringa
Shannon Noel
Nick Johnson
Artistic Manager
Artistic Associate / Literary Director
Artistic Associate / Casting Director
Artistic Coordinator
Literary Associate
DEVELOPMENT
Ellen Catania Director of Major Gifts &
Corporate/Foundation Partnerships
Jessica Brusilow Rollins
Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations
Jamie Mikelich
Associate Director of Individual Giving
Kristen Smith Eshaya
Grants Manager &
Major Gifts Executive Assistant
Scott Kriloff
Development Associate &
Donor Database Administrator
Jessie Sherman
Development Assistant
Ava Bogle
Development Assistant
Joseph Yoshitomi
Director of Marketing & Communications
Karen Gutierrez
Director of Advertising &
Sponsorships
Mark San Filippo
Ticket Services Director &
Database Administrator
Stephanie Strand
Audience Services Manager
Brian Dunning
Graphics / Production Artist
Jodi Feigenbaum
Advertising & Promotions Assistant
Janice Bernal
Associate Box Office Manager
Bryan Martin
Associate Box Office Manager
Korie Benavidez, Audrey Cain, Clay Dzygun,
Zack Hamra, Richard Martinez, Lilach Mendelovich,
Alyssa Tyson
Box Office Staff
COMMUNICATIONS
Tim Choy, Peter Goldman,
David Barber, Niki Blumberg Davidson & Choy Publicity
EDUCATION
FRONT OF HOUSE
Jennifer Zakkai
Director of Education &
Community Outreach
Connor White
Resident Teaching Artist &
Education Associate
Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events
David Gerhardt Supervising House Manager
Michelle Cantrell, Kevin Cernansky, Amy Farkas, Matt Jones,
Roxana Meyers, Erik Odom House Managers
Sevana Baghdasarian, Taylor Cerny, Vianney Cossyleon,
Josiah Davis, Brett Donaldson, Dan Foote, Kari Hall,
Sean Jones, Netta Lee Joseph, Brennan Kelleher,
Erica Keller, Caroline Harrison Kohler, Nathaniel Meek,
Keith Mitchell, Lindsay Nyman, Chase O’Donnell,
Cassandra Orrantia, Luis Ruis, Jonathan Schwartz,
Chelsea Smachetti Ushers
Rob Mersola
Bar Manager
Manuel Mayorga
Weekend Bar Manager
Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, Jared White,
Lyndsi LaRose
Bartenders
ADMINISTRATION
Frankie Ocasio
Executive Assistant to
the Managing Director
Maryam Meehan
Accounting and Payroll Manager
Marguerite Harris
Receptionist
PRODUCTION
Daniel Ionazzi
Jill Barnes
Matthew Carleton Thomas Watson Rich Gilles James Grabowski
Darren Rezowalli
Production Manager
Associate Production Manager
Technical Director
Assistant Technical Director
Properties Master
Sound Master
Master Electrician
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Miguel del Castillo
Mario Santillan-Perez
Juan Carlos Umaña
Facility Manager
Custodial
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The Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.
The Geffen Playhouse, a non-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
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