Artistic Director’s Welcome
As a young man living in Romania, Eugène Ionesco experienced the rise of fascism in the 1930s. He watched as friends and family slowly joined the Iron Guard—many who claimed to be against Naziism, yet began to surrender to the mass ideology. Later, he experienced how the French intellectual left embraced Stalin. It was the conformity and infection of so many around him that inspired, in Ionesco’s own words, “the zoo my play Rhinoceros came from.”
It is Ionesco’s powerful use of metaphor that allows us to hear the play timelessly. Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros in 1959 while living in France. In rehearsal, John Turturro shared a quote from the French filmmaker Jean Renoir that really stuck with me throughout our process: “The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.” As we revisit this play over sixty years later, its provocation resonates as clearly in our contemporary world as it did in the wake of World War II: Why do people become rhinoceroses?
In partnership with the Ionesco estate, we have created our own adaptation of Rhinoceros, working from Derek Prouse’s English translation and our own translation of the original French text. An extraordinary creative company has come together to bring this production to life. We are thrilled so many of these artists are making their A.R.T. debuts, and are equally excited to welcome back many beloved collaborators.
It is an emotional milestone that Rhinoceros will be the final production I direct at the Loeb Drama Center, having staged my first show here when I was an undergraduate at Harvard in 1987. We have a transformative chapter ahead of us, as A.R.T. moves to our new home in Allston at the David E. and Stacey L. Goel Center for Creativity & Performance at Harvard University. I can’t wait to see you there beginning in May for the inaugural show which I will be directing. Life on Mars is an immersive theatrical production brought to life by the music of David Bowie. Until then, I hope you’ll join us for the rest of the season at 1972 and Mexodus.
In a 1983 interview published in the Paris weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, Ionesco said: “We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.” As we gather together for this play, I am grateful for what theater has the power to do: cultivate a space for imagination, empathy, curiosity, and the courage to remain human.
Diane Paulus
Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director
American Repertory Theater
Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director
Diane Paulus
presents
RHINOCEROS
Creative Team
By
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994) is a French playwright born in Romania. He studied in Bucharest and Paris, where he lived from 1945. His first one-act antiplay, The Bald Soprano (1950), inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd. He followed it with other one-act plays in which illogical events create an atmosphere both comic and grotesque, including The Lesson (1951), The Chairs (1952), and The New Tenant (1955).
Translation by
Derek Prouse
Translation by
Derek Prouse
Derek Prouse (1922-1996), was a writer and actor known for translating Eugène lonesco’s works, including The Future is in Eggs, The Leader, and, with Donald Watson, The Bérenger Plays-The Killer (1958), Rhinoceros (1959), Exit the King (1962), and A Stroll in the Air (1963). His film and television credits include The Champagne Murders starring Anthony Perkins (1967, writer), Mademoiselle (1966, dialogue director), and the arts series Tempo (1964). Prouse was also a deputy film critic for The Sunday Times in London, covering film festivals and writing articles.
Adapted by
American Repertory Theater
Directed by
Diane Paulus
Directed by
Diane Paulus
Diane Paulus is a Tony Award–winning director and the Terrie & Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, where she also serves as Professor of the Practice in the Department of English and the Theater, Dance & Media concentration. A visionary leader and artist, Paulus has shaped A.R.T. into an incubator for groundbreaking theatrical experiences that catalyze dialogue and transformation, always including the audience as a partner.
Scenic Design
Riccardo Hernández
Scenic Design
Riccardo Hernández
A.R.T.: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Jagged Little Pill, The White Card, Arrabal, Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Prometheus Bound, Best of Both Worlds, The Seagull, Julius Caesar, Britannicus, Marat/Sade and others. Broadway: Lempicka (Tony nomination), Jagged Little Pill (Tony nomination), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Indecent, The Thanksgiving Play, Porgy and Bess. Opera: Florencia en el Amazonas, Metropolitan Opera; Carmen, Glyndebourne Festival.
Costume Design
Anita Yavich
Costume Design
Anita Yavich
A.R.T.: Snow in June. Broadway: Floyd Collins, Yellow Face, Fool for Love, Venus in Fur, Chinglish, Anna in the Tropics. Off-Broadway: Chinese Republicans, Roundabout Theatre Company; Taylor Mac’s Prosperous Fools, TFANA; Soft Power, The Public Theater. International: The Sound of Music (Puppets and Costumes), Salzburger Marionetten Theater. Opera: The Monkey King, San Francisco Opera; Der Ring des Nibelungen, Opera Australia; Cyrano de Bergerac, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, and Royal Opera House. Film: Megalopolis (Mask Designer).
Lighting Design
Jen Schriever
Lighting Design
Jen Schriever
A.R.T.: Romeo and Juliet, 1776, Fingersmith, In the Body of the World. Broadway: The Lost Boys (Tony Award), Glengarry Glen Ross, Eureka Day, Art, Mother Play, A Strange Loop (Tony nomination), Death of a Salesman (Tony nomination), 1776, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, What the Constitution Means to Me, The Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. London: Death Note, Barbican. Regional: A Strange Loop, ACT and CTG; The Preacher’s Wife, Alliance; The Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical, ACT; A Transparent Musical, CTG.
Sound Design
Fitz Patton
Sound Design
Fitz Patton
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: I Need That, The Rose Tattoo (Tony nomination), Choir Boy (Tony, Drama Desk Awards), Bernhardt/Hamlet, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, Present Laughter, The Humans (Drama Desk Award), Blackbird, The Father, An Act of God (Drama Desk nomination), It’s Only a Play, Airline Highway, The Other Place (Lortel nomination), Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina. Off-Broadway: Dig, HEART, The Perplexed, Greater Clements, The Mother, Torch Song, Napoli, Brooklyn (Outer Critics Circle Award),
Special Effects Design
Markus Maurette
Special Effects Design
Markus Maurette
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Lost Boys, Stranger Things the First Shadow, An Enemy of the People, The Great Gatsby, & Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Illusionists- Turn of the Century. Circus: The House of Dancing Water, KÀ, Zarkana, The Han Show. Film & TV: 2006 Asian Games Ceremony, 2010 Winter Olympics Ceremony, New Years Eve Times Square, “America’s Got Talent,” “American Idol.”
Hair & Wig Design
Tom Watson
Hair & Wig Design
Tom Watson
A.R.T.: Debut. Select Broadway: Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King & I, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Misérables, Oslo, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Little Foxes, JUNK, All My Sons, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Annie, Assassins, Falsettos, My Fair Lady, King Kong, Harmony, Plaza Suite, Spamalot, Parade, Just in Time, Ragtime. Film & TV: “Schmigadoon!”
Make-up Design
Kyle Krueger
Fight Director
Thomas Schall
Fight Director
Thomas Schall
A.R.T.: Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), 1776, Romeo and Juliet. Select Broadway: The Balusters (Drama Desk nomination), Waiting for Godot, Othello, Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play (Drama Desk Award), Cost of Living, True West, To Kill a Mockingbird, War Horse, Romeo and Juliet; more than 110 Broadway productions. New York: Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Mother Courage, The Public Theater; Red Speedo and Othello (Drama Desk nomination), NYTW; The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk nomination) and Hamlet, Park Avenue Armory.
Movement Advisor
Jill Johnson
Movement Advisor
Jill Johnson
A.R.T.: The Arboretum Experience, In the Body of the World, Crossing, O.P.C. Select Productions: ANALOGUE (Top 5 UK production, 2024); A Quiet Evening of Dance; WAKE and RESONANCE, Los Angeles Dance Project, The Louvre Museum, Dries Van Noten, PBS’s Poetry in America, Rover UK, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, The Getty Museum. Other collaborators: National Ballet of Canada (Soloist), William Forsythe, Frankfurt Ballet, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mikhail Baryshnikov, V, Diane Paulus, Dr. Cornel West.
Casting Director
ARC / Jarrett Reiche, CSA
Casting Director
ARC / Jarrett Reiche, CSA
ARC (Casting) 150 plus productions across the globe & 13 Artios Awards for Casting. Broadway/NYC: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Disney’s The Lion King, Chicago the Musical, Gotta Dance, Othello, Real Women Have Curves, A Wonderful World, Life of Pi, Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, Dreamgirls, A Chorus Line, 39 Steps. Tours: Waitress, Mystic Pizza, The Music Man. Film: Dreamgirls, Chicago. Regional: Old Globe, Ogunquit Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Bay Street, Hollywood Bowl. ARC, Part of RWS Global. castingbyarc.com @castingbyarc
Associate Director
Karina Cowperthwaite
Associate Director
Karina Cowperthwaite
A.R.T.: Wonder (Assistant Director), Dear Everything (Assistant Director), Romeo and Juliet (Assistant Director), WILD: A Musical Becoming (Assistant Director). A.R.T./Radcliffe: The Chinese Lady (Director), Regional: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Assistant to Producer), Emerson Colonial. Educational: Ugly Feelings (Director and Writer), Legally Blonde (Director), Asian Student Arts Project at Harvard University. Education: BA, English and Theater, Dance & Media, Harvard University.
Dramaturgy
Ryan McKittrick
Dramaturgy
Ryan McKittrick
Ryan McKittrick is the Director of Artistic Programs & Dramaturg at the American Repertory Theater. He received a Master of Theater Arts in Dramaturgy from the A.R.T./Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard College. He is Lecturer in the Theater, Dance & Media concentration at Harvard and Associate Professor of the Practice of Theater Arts at Brandeis University. At the A.R.T., he has served as dramaturg on numerous plays, operas, and musicals, over half of which were world premieres.
Production Stage Manager
Ryan Gohsman
Production Stage Manager
Ryan Gohsman
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Here Lies Love. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Westside Theatre; Prince Faggot, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Studio Seaview; In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Staff Meal, The Light Years, Detroit, and Maple and Vine, Playwrights Horizons; Mary Jane and Hundred Days, NYTW; Chéri and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Signature Theatre; Pretty Filthy, The Civilians.
Actors’ Equity Association member
First performance at the Loeb Drama Center on August 14, 2026.
Principal Foundation Support of Rhinoceros is provided by The Roy Cockrum Foundation.
Production support of Rhinoceros is provided by Katie and Paul Buttenwieser, Alan Jones, Linda and Winfield Perry, Janet and Irv Plotkin, and Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP.
Media Support of Rhinoceros is provided by WBUR.
A.R.T. Season support is provided by Harvard University, The Barr Foundation, The Bob and Alison Murchison New Work Development Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Barton & Guestier, and Meyer Sound.
The A.R.T. 2026/27 is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Runtime: Two hours, including one fifteen-minute intermission.
This production contains heavy fog and haze, flashing lights, loud noises, and air raid sirens.
Company & Staff
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Understudy for Daisy, Housewife
Britt Faulkner
Understudy for Daisy, Housewife
Britt Faulkner
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Liberation (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: Jordans, The Public Theater; Lover I’ll Bring You Back, Ars Nova. Regional: A Lie of the Mind, Trinity Rep; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Alleyway Theatre; Snow White Dreams, Berkshire Theatre Group. Film & TV: Irrational Man, Osiris, “The Good Fight,” “FBI,” “Invasion,” “WeCrashed,” “Kaleidoscope.” Education: MFA, Brown/Trinity.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Housewife, Understudy for Grocer’s Wife/Mrs. Boeuf
Harriett D. Foy
Housewife, Understudy for Grocer’s Wife/Mrs. Boeuf
Harriett D. Foy
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Amelie, Amazing Grace, Mamma Mia. Off-Broadway: Black Odyssey (AUDELCO Award); The House That Will Not Stand (AUDELCO Award, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle nominations, The Young Man from Atlanta (AUDELCO nomination). Regional: Amen Corner, Shakespeare Theatre Company; A Wonder in My Soul, Baltimore Center Stage; Nina Simone: Four Women, Arena Stage. TV: Starz “P-Valley” (Mayor Bishop Woodbine). Education: Howard University.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Jean
Paul Giamatti
Jean
Paul Giamatti
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Three Sisters, Arcadia, Racing Demon, The Iceman Cometh. Theater: Annex Theater (Seattle), Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theater. Film & TV: Sideways, The Holdovers, American Splendor, Cinderella Man, The Debut (upcoming), A Statement (upcoming), “Black Mirror,” “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” “John Adams,” “Billions.”
Actors’ Equity Association member
Grocer/Papillon
Peter Francis James
Grocer/Papillon
Peter Francis James
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Left on Tenth, Ziegfeld, Funny Girl, Barack, Hillary and Clinton, Present Laughter, The Merchant of Venice, On Golden Pond. Off-Broadway: Stuff Happens, The Public Theater (OBIE, Lucille Lortel, and Drama Desk Awards); The Maids, Classic Stage Company (OBIE Award). West End: The Lady From Dubuque. Film & TV: The Rosa Parks Story, Thurgood Marshall: Simple Justice, “Godfather of Harlem,” “Oz.” Education: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Understudy for Botard/Waiter, Dudard, Grocer/Papillon
John Kuntz
Understudy for Botard/Waiter, Dudard, Grocer/Papillon
John Kuntz
A.R.T.: Copenhagen (Heisenberg); The Communist Dracula Pageant (Minister of Defense, etc.); The Lily’s Revenge (The Poppy); The Hotel Nepenthe (The Groom, etc.). Recent Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, CSC; Starfuckers, CST; The Antiquities, SpeakEasy Stage; Our Town, Lyric Stage. As Playwright: 15 plays, including The Hotel Nepenthe, Necessary Monsters, Jasper Lake, Starfuckers, The Salt Girl. Professor at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Lecturer in Theatre, Dance & Media at Harvard University.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Daisy
Tatiana Maslany
Daisy
Tatiana Maslany
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Network (Diana Christensen); Grey House (Max). Off-Broadway: Pre-Existing Condition (A), Connelly Theater; Mary Page Marlowe (Mary Page, ages 27 and 36), Second Stage Theater. Film & TV: The Monkey (Lois Shelborn); Keeper (Liz); The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Kelly); A Statement (upcoming); “Orphan Black” (multiple roles; Emmy Award); “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” (Paula); “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” (Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk); “Perry Mason” (Sister Alice McKeegan).
Actors’ Equity Association member
Understudy for Jean, Berenger, Botard/Waiter, Grocer/Papillon
David Mason
Understudy for Jean, Berenger, Botard/Waiter, Grocer/Papillon
David Mason
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Pictures from Home. Off-Broadway: Dig (Adam), Primary Stages; Seared (Mike), MCC; Trick or Treat, 59E59. Regional: Mother of Exiles, Berkeley Rep; The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Dorset Theatre Festival; The Great Leap, Cleveland Play House; The Velocity of Autumn, Cape Playhouse; The Nest, Denver Center; Last Gas, Geva Theatre Center. TV: “Blue Bloods,” “The Good Fight,” “The Blacklist,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “House of Cards.”
Actors’ Equity Association member
Grocer’s Wife/Mrs. Boeuf
Kristine Nielsen
Grocer’s Wife/Mrs. Boeuf
Kristine Nielsen
A.R.T.: Fingersmith. Select Broadway: Smash, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (Tony nomination), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony nomination). Regional: Infinite Life, National Theatre. Off-Broadway: Numerous productions. Film & TV: Coup!, The Suit, “The Gilded Age,” “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy.” Education: Northwestern University; Yale School of Drama.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Dudard
Alex Ross
Dudard
Alex Ross
A.R.T.: Romeo & Juliet. Broadway: The Book of Mormon. National Tour: A Soldier’s Play. Off-Broadway: Masquerade (Drama Desk nomination). Regional: Dolly: A True Original Musical; The Light in the Piazza, Huntington Theatre Company; Cabaret, Dallas Theater Center; Jersey Boys, Theatre Aspen. Film & TV: Terrifier 3, Logan Lucky, “Bull,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Queen of the South,” “The Long Road Home,” “Revolution.” Director of GSS NYC.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Botard/Waiter
Clay Singer
Botard/Waiter
Clay Singer
A.R.T.: Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio). Off-Broadway: Masquerade (The Phantom). National Tour: The Band’s Visit (Itzik). Film: Late Fame. Education: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Understudy for Housewife
Amelia Sipkin
Understudy for Housewife
Amelia Sipkin
A.R.T.: Debut. Developmental: LATE: A New Musical (Katie), Berklee. Educational: Salooney Tunes (Wyatt AintMe), Hasty Pudding Theatricals; Mean Girls (Cady Heron), Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club. Dance: Harlequinade (Petite Polichinelle), Metropolitan Opera House. TV: “Gossip Girl” (2021). Education: English BA, Harvard University (current).
Understudy for Jean, Botard/Waiter, Dudard, Grocer/Papillon
Scott Stangland
Understudy for Jean, Botard/Waiter, Dudard, Grocer/Papillon
Scott Stangland
A.R.T.: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Pierre, IRNE Award 2016). Broadway: Dead Outlaw; Shucked (Tank); Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Pierre standby for Josh Groban); Once. Off-Broadway: Three Houses (Wolf), Signature Theatre; Cyrano (understudy for Peter Dinklage), The New Group; The Butcher Boy, Irish Repertory Theatre. Regional: The Wheel, Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Eastland, Lookingglass Theatre Company.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Berenger
John Turturro
Berenger
John Turturro
A.R.T.: Debut. Emmy-winning actor, director, and writer whose acclaimed career spans film, television, and theater. Select Theater: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Endgame, The Cherry Orchard, Sabbath’s Theater. Film & TV: The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, The Batman, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Quiz Show, Do the Right Thing, Barton Fink, “Severance,” “The Night Of”. As a writer-director: Mac, Romance & Cigarettes, Fading Gigolo, The Jesus Rolls, upcoming Joe Torre documentary. Education: SUNY New Paltz, Yale School of Drama.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.
Fight Captain
Ryan Gohsman
Fight Captain
Ryan Gohsman
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Here Lies Love. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Westside Theatre; Prince Faggot, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Studio Seaview; In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot, Staff Meal, The Light Years, Detroit, and Maple and Vine, Playwrights Horizons; Mary Jane and Hundred Days, NYTW; Chéri and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Signature Theatre; Pretty Filthy, The Civilians.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Assistant Stage Manager
Melissa Gene Arnaud
Assistant Stage Manager
Melissa Gene Arnaud
A.R.T: Rhinoceros, Gatsby. Broadway: Every Brilliant Thing, Beaches, Tammy Faye, Merrily We Roll Along, Fat Ham. Off-Broadway: A Christmas Carol, PAC; Saturday Church, New York Theatre Workshop; Let’s Call Her Patty, Lincoln Center Theatre. Regional: Take The Lead, Papermill Playhouse. New York: Monochromatic Light: Afterlife, Park Avenue Armory; March to Liberation, New York Philharmonic; Roundabout Underground Reading Series; The Wedding: New York’s Biggest Day, Lincoln Center’s Summer for The City. Education: BFA, University of Arizona; Juilliard Apprentice, 2019–2020.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Assistant Stage Manager (Substitute)
Mina Claire Paz-Le Draoulec
Additional Staff
Production Manager
Ruth E. Sternberg
Consulting Producer
Karen Brooks Hopkins
Consulting Producer
Karen Brooks Hopkins
Associate Scenic Designers
Jessie Baldinger
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: JOB, Helen Hayes Theater; I Need That, Roundabout Theatre Company. Regional: Hedda Gabler, Yale Repertory Theatre; As You Like It, Nashville Shakespeare Festival. Educational: Rokovko, Playwrights Downtown; Metamorphoses, Yale School of Drama; Iolanta, Yale Opera at the Shubert Theater; Pride of Doves, Yale Cabaret. Education/Training: BFA, Northwestern University; MFA, Yale School of Drama.
Associate Costume Designer
Andrew Wehling
Associate Costume Designer
Andrew Wehling
A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Leopoldstadt, Huntington Theatre Company; RENT, Cape Playhouse; The Addams Family, Wheelock Family Theatre. Opera: La Tragédie de Carmen, Boston Opera Collaborative; If I Were You, Boston University Opera Institute. Educational: Orlando, and Once, Boston University. Education/Training: MFA, Boston University; BFA, The Boston Conservatory.
Associate Lighting Designer
Aaron Tacy
Associate Lighting Designer
Aaron Tacy
A.R.T.: 1776. Broadway: The Lost Boys, Dead Outlaw, Glengarry Glen Ross, Eureka Day, JOB, An Enemy of the People, 1776, Walking with Ghosts, A Strange Loop, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues. Off-Broadway: White Girl in Danger. Regional: Bat Boy, New York City Center. North American & International Tours: Blue Man Group. Education/Training: BFA, University of Michigan. Unions: United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829.
Associate Sound Designers
Bailey Trierweiler
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Liberation. Off-Broadway: Liberation; Twelfth Night; Merry Wives; The Blood Quilt; Becky Nurse of Salem; Flex; The Welkin; The Comeuppance; Peerless, What the End Will Be; KATE. Tour: Reconstructing. Regional: Emma; Henry 4.1; King John, OSF; Velour: A Drag Spectacular, La Jolla Playhouse; When Monica Met Hillary, Miami New Drama; Little Shop of Horrors; When Elvis Met the Beatles, Ogunquit Playhouse. Education/Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Unions: United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829.
Associate Sound Designers
Salvador Zamora
A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Indian Princesses, Atlantic Theatre; The Fires, Soho Rep. Regional: Kansas City Rep, Detroit Public Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Barrington Stage. Off-Off-Broadway: Camping, The Surgeon and Her Daughters, Colt Coeur; Bunny Bunny, The Invisible Dog. Associate Credits: Sumo, The Public; Here There Are Blueberries, Tour. Awards: 2023 Princess Grace Award. Education/Training: MFA, University of California (2023).
Associate Hair & Wig Designer
Katie Gell
Technical Director
LT Gourzong
Intimacy Consultant
Kayleigh Kane
Intimacy Consultant
Kayleigh Kane
(she/her) A.R.T.: Becoming a Man. Regional: The Band’s Visit, Huntington Theatre Company; Summer Stock, Goodspeed Musicals; Angels in America, Pt. 2: Perestroika, Central Square Theatre/BEDLAM; Network, RENT, Dracula: a feminist revenge fantasy, Umbrella Stage Company. Educational: Imogen Says Nothing, POTUS, Emerson College; Cells, Harvard University; Interrobangers!, Tufts University. Film/TV: Sorry, Baby (2025); Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (2024); Absolution (2024). Education/Training: Certification in Intimacy Direction for Theatre and Live Performance, Intimacy Directors & Coordinators, Inc.
Production Assistants
Mac Medeiros
Mina Claire Paz-Le Draoulec
Mackenzie Seewagen
Mental Health/Wellbeing Consultant
Dr. Charmain Jackman, Innopsych
Physical Therapists
Artistic Athlete Health Collective
Megan Wise PT PLLC
Harvard Production Interns
Grace Hawkins†
Riley Jackson†
Charles Kirsch†
Jacob Prager†
Amelia Sipkin†
Access Staff
Director of Artistic Sign Language
Sabrina Dennison
Performing Arts Interpreters
Christopher Robinson
Desirée Weems
Audio Description
Kwaku Darko
Dave Heard
Eddie Maisonet
Open Captions
c2
Sensory Inclusive Consultants
Korbin Johnson
Clay Martin
A.R.T. Staff
Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director
Diane Paulus
SENIOR STAFF
Director of Facilities and Capital Projects: Peter Atkinson
Public Relations Director: Rebecca Curtiss
General Manager: Connor Davis
Managing Director: Anna Fitzloff
Director of Finance: Julia Goldmacher
Senior Theater and Facilities Manager: Tracy Keene
Director of Artistic Programs & Dramaturg: Ryan McKittrick
Associate Artistic Director: Dayron J. Miles
Producer: Evan O’Brient
Chief Marketing Officer: Jennifer Weissman
STAFF
Artistic & EngagementArtistic Coordinator & Special Assistant to the Artistic Director: Karina Cowperthwaite ProducingAssociate Producer: Emma Watt Marketing & CommunicationsAssociate Director, Creative Services: Joel Zayac DevelopmentInterim Chief Development Officer: Sarah McLellan FacilitiesAssistant Project Manager: Alex Giorgetti FinanceController: Toufiq Aitelfqih Patron ServicesHead of Patron Services: Emma Putnam |
ProductionProduction Manager: Skip Curtiss PaintCharge Scenic Artist: Gerard Vogt Stage OperationsAssistant Stage Operations Manager/ CostumesCostume Manager: Muriel Mangual-Bennett WardrobeWardrobe Manager: Alycia Marucci SoundSound Manager: Camilo Atehortua LightingLighting and Projections Supervisor: Matthew Adelman PropertiesProperties Manager: Erin Kehr Production OverhireScenic Carpenters: Steven Asaro, Izzy Demarco, Al Forgione, Michael Greene, Ivan Korn, Em McGrory, Jude Riley, Jack Riter, Eric Schapero |
Special Thanks
Rehearsed at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Scenery Provided by Hudson Scenic Studio
Additional Lighting Equipment provided by PRG
Additional Sound Equipment provided by PRG
Additional Atmospheric Equipment provided by Christie Lites
Madame Marie-France Ionesco; Véronique Marty, Clemente Olchanski, and Josette Sinephro of SCAD
The Mignone Center for Career Success at Harvard University
Amy DiGiovine, Leanne Rowe, and the Harvard Summer Funding Opportunities Office
Laurent Lambert; Ciprian Ticula
Trim World Inc., Sloyer Foreman Inc., Maria Ficalora, T.O. Dey, John Kristiansen, Custom Costume Shop, Henry Johnson, Alexander Zeek Costumes and Tailoring Inc., Solelil NYC Textiles; The Charles Hotel
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