Artistic Director’s Welcome
Welcome to the 45th Season at the A.R.T.!
I have always wanted to direct a production of Romeo and Juliet. For years, the hate between the warring Capulets and Montagues felt dominant to me, and as a director, I found myself searching for the difference between these families that has resulted in their “ancient grudge.” But Shakespeare does not give us any details about this—in fact, all he tells us is that these two families are “both alike in dignity.” Re-reading the play in preparation for this process, a line Romeo says to Benvolio jumped out at me: “Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.” It made me think: what if we didn’t look at Romeo and Juliet as a story about hate, but rather as a story about love?
One of the most inspiring collaborations I have ever had was with my colleague, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, when we worked together on Jagged Little Pill. I am thrilled to be partnering with him again as our choreographer and movement director for Romeo and Juliet. Together, we are collaborating with a creative team that includes a number of artists who are returning to the A.R.T.: Scenic Designer Amy Rubin (Gloria: A Life), Costume Designer Emilio Sosa (1776, ExtraOrdinary, The White Card, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), O.P.C., Witness Uganda, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Best of Both Worlds), Lighting Designer Jen Schriever (1776, Fingersmith, In the Body of the World), Sound Designer Daniel Lundberg (1776), and Hair, Wig, & Make-up designer J. Jared Janas (Jagged Little Pill, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). We are excited to welcome Composer Alexandre Dai Castaing, who is making his A.R.T. debut.
In collaboration with our creative and Engagement teams, the A.R.T. develops an Essential Question for every production that we stage, which we share with our audiences, our students, our staff, and our community. For Romeo and Juliet, we invite you to engage with this question: In what ways do we define our lives through hatred? In what ways do we define our lives through love?
The act of coming to the theater is a chance to be together with others, and to listen with your heart.
Thank you for joining us, and for experiencing this story.
Diane Paulus
Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director
American Repertory Theater
Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director:
Diane Paulus
Executive Director:
Kelvin Dinkins, Jr.
presents
ROMEO AND JULIET
Creative Team
By
William Shakespeare
Directed by
Diane Paulus
Directed by
Diane Paulus
(she/her) Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. A.R.T.: 1776, WILD: A Musical Becoming, Gloria: A Life, Jagged Little Pill, ExtraOrdinary, The White Card, In the Body of the World, Waitress (film available online, French-language production in Quebec summer 2024), Crossing, Finding Neverland, Witness Uganda, Pippin (Tony Award, Best Revival and Best Director), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award, Best Revival; NAACP Award, Best Direction), Prometheus Bound, Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, Best of Both Worlds, The Donkey Show. Other work includes Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna, Invisible Thread at Second Stage, and the Public Theater’s Tony Award-winning revival of HAIR on Broadway and London’s West End. As an opera director, her credits include The Magic Flute, the complete Monteverdi cycle, and the trio of Mozart-Da Ponte operas, as well as the upcoming Carmen (2024 Glydenbourne Festival). Paulus is Professor of the Practice of Theater in Harvard University’s English Department and Department of Theater, Dance & Media. She was selected for Boston magazine’s 2023, 2022, 2020, and 2018 lists of Boston’s most influential people, the 2014 Time 100, Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and as one of Variety’s “Trailblazing Women in Entertainment for 2014.”
Movement Director and Choreographer
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Movement Director and Choreographer
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
A.R.T.: Jagged Little Pill. Broadway: Jagged Little Pill (Tony Award Nomination for Best Choreography). Other: Beyoncé (Grammy Awards 2017, “Spirit”), Madonna (The Celebration Tour), Cirque du Soleil (Michael Jackson ONE, Kurios), Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Cyrano), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (Orbo Novo), Pilobolus (Automaton), Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project (Harbor Me) and Martha Graham Dance Company (Mosaic). Commissions: Paris Opera Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and The Royal Ballet in London. Awards: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, two Olivier Awards, and a Fred & Adele Astaire Award. Cherkaoui is Artistic Director of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and his own company, Eastman.
Scenic Design
Amy Rubin
Scenic Design
Amy Rubin
A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Off-Broadway: Orpheus Descending, Theater for a New Audience; Lucy, Audible Theatre; Cyrano, The New Group; Octet (Drama Desk nomination), Signature Theatre, Berkeley Rep; Gloria: A Life, Daryl Roth Theatre; Miles for Mary (Lucille Lortel nomination), Playwrights Horizons; Thom Pain, based on nothing, Signature Theatre; Aging Magician, New Victory Theater; Ike at Night, Public Theater. Regional: Most Happy, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Opera: Highway 1, LA Opera; Omar, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, BLO, Spoleto Festival USA; Snowy Day, Houston Grand Opera; Blue, Michigan Opera Theatre.
Costume Design
Emilio Sosa
Costume Design
Emilio Sosa
A.R.T.: 1776, ExtraOrdinary, The White Card, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), O.P.C., Witness Uganda, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Best of Both Worlds. Chair, American Theatre Wing. Broadway credits include: Purlie Victorious (Tony nomination), Good Night Oscar (Tony nomination), Ain’t No Mo’ (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Trouble in Mind (Tony nomination), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination), Sweeney Todd, 1776, A Beautiful Noise, Skeleton Crew, On Your Feet, Motown the Musical, Topdog/Underdog. TV/Film: Descendants: The Rise of Red, Disney+; The Great Lillian Hall, HBO; Annie Live!, NBC.
Lighting Design
Jen Schriever
Lighting Design
Jen Schriever
A.R.T: 1776, Fingersmith, In the Body of the World. Broadway: Mother Play, A Strange Loop (Tony Award nomination), Death of a Salesman (Tony Award nomination), 1776, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, What the Constitution Means to Me, Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Regional: A Strange Loop, ACT and CTG; The Preacher’s Wife, Alliance; The Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical, ACT; A Transparent Musical, CTG. Opera: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Seattle Opera; Die Fledermaus, Pearl Fishers, Metropolitan; Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Traviata, Mariinsky. Obie Award for sustained excellence in design. Teaching: Adjunct Professor, Purchase College.
Sound Design
Daniel Lundberg
Sound Design
Daniel Lundberg
A.R.T.: 1776 (Associate Sound Designer). Broadway: The Notebook (Associate Sound Designer), 1776 (Associate Sound Designer), Jagged Little Pill (Associate Production Sound); 15 other productions as associate sound designer, assistant sound designer, or sound engineer. Tour: The Cher Show. Regional: His Story, Dallas; Roundabout Theatre Company; The Public Theater; New York Stage and Film; Ogunquit Playhouse; ZACH Theatre; A Contemporary Theatre of Connecticut. Education: B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon.
Original Music Composed by
Alexandre Dai Castaing
Original Music Composed by
Alexandre Dai Castaing
A.R.T.: Debut. Music and performances with: Peter Pan, National Taichung Theater; Greenpeace, Japan; Evangelion Beyond, Tokyo; The Loubishow IV, Christian Louboutin, Paris Fashion Week; Tokyo Lights, Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery; Ukiyo-e, Grand Théâtre de Genève; François Hollande’s 2012 Presidential Campaign. Film/TV: “Lullaby for Pi,” National Campaign on Autism, Ministry of Health, France; National Campaign Against Bullying, Ministry of Education, France; La Migration Bigoudenn. Album: A tear is dancing. Education: Piano, diplôme, Conservatoire de Musique Classique de Paris; Jazz and drums, diplôme, Conservatoire de Musique de Genève.
Hair, Wig, & Make-up Design
J. Jared Janas
Hair, Wig, & Make-up Design
J. Jared Janas
A.R.T.: Jagged Little Pill, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, and 3), The Tempest, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Recent Broadway: Once Upon a Mattress; Mary Jane; Prayer for the French Republic; Purlie Victorious; Good Night, Oscar; Sweeney Todd; & Juliet; Kimberly Akimbo; How I Learned to Drive; American Buffalo; Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune; Indecent; Sunset Boulevard; Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; Peter and the Starcatcher.
Fight Consultant
Thomas Schall
Fight Consultant
Thomas Schall
A.R.T.: 1776, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, and 3). Broadway: Over 100 shows including An Enemy of the People, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Hell’s Kitchen, Purlie Victorious, The Cost of Living, Company, A Soldier’s Play (Drama Desk Award, Fight Choreography), War Horse, Romeo and Juliet. Off-Broadway: Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Public Theater; Red Speedo, Othello (Drama Desk nomination), NYTW; Judgement Day, The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk Nomination), Park Ave Armory. Opera: Le Nozze de Figaro, Il Trovatore, Tosca, The Met.
Intimacy Coordinator
Lauren Kiele DeLeon
Intimacy Coordinator
Lauren Kiele DeLeon
A.R.T.: Real Women Have Curves. Broadway: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. Off-Broadway: The Cause, WP Theater; Las Borinqueñas, EST; This Land Was Made, Vineyard Theatre; Eva Luna, Repertorio Español; Bloom Bloom Pow, ART/NY Gural Theatre. Regional: Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard, Miami New Drama and Tectonic Theater; Queen of Basel, TheaterWorks Hartford; Hair, The Mountaintop, Weston Playhouse. Education/
Casting Director
ARC / Duncan Stewart, CSA & Jarrett Reiche
Associate Choreographer
Marc Kimelman
Associate Choreographer
Marc Kimelman
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Jagged Little Pill, A Bronx Tale, Jesus Christ Superstar. Off-Broadway: Play It Cool, The Apple Boys. Regional: Billy Elliot, Goodspeed; Rent, Man of La Mancha, Stratford Shakespeare Festival; Come from Away; Once on This Island (Dora Award for Outstanding Choreography); The Seven Deadly Sins, NYC Ballet. National Tour: Saturday Night Fever, We Will Rock You. Film/
Production Stage Manager
Melissa Chacón
Production Stage Manager
Melissa Chacón
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Frozen, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. National Tours: Frozen, The Color Purple, The Bodyguard, The Bridges of Madison County, We Will Rock You, Billy Elliot, Contact, Rent. Off-Broadway: The Coast Starlight, Lincoln Center Theater; Harmony, Avenue Q. Regional: The Iceman Cometh, BAM; Joy, George Street Playhouse; Fiddler on the Roof, The Color Purple, The Bodyguard, Paper Mill Playhouse.
Actors’ Equity Association member
First performance at the Loeb Drama Center on August 31, 2024.
Production Support of Romeo and Juliet is provided by Janet and Irv Plotkin.
Media Support of Romeo and Juliet 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, National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Barton & Guestier, and Meyer Sound.
The A.R.T. 2024/25 Season 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 and thirty minutes, including one intermission
This production depicts violence, stabbing, murder, and suicide, and contains haze.
Company & Staff
Cast (in Alphabetical Order)
Lord Capulet
Terence Archie
Lord Capulet
Terence Archie
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Company; Kiss Me, Kate; Rocky; Ragtime. Off-Broadway: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire, The Public Theater; 1776, Encores!; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Second Stage; Romeo and Juliet, Classical Theatre of Harlem; Fredrick Douglass Free, GWC Peanut Price, Urban Stages. International: Rocky: Das Musical, Operettenhaus Hamburg. TV: “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” “For Life,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods.” Education: BFA, Drama, North Carolina School of the Arts.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Prince
Jason Bowen
Prince
Jason Bowen
(he/him) A.R.T.: The Half-God of Rainfall. Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway: The Half-God of Rainfall, NYTW/A.R.T.; Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Keen Company; Long Day’s Journey into Night, Audible Theater; Native Son, The Acting Co.; If Pretty Hurts…, Playwrights Horizons. Regional: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (IRNE Award for Best Actor, Drama), Huntington Theatre. TV/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Nurse
Sharon Catherine Brown
Nurse
Sharon Catherine Brown
(she/her) A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Days of Wine and Roses; Caroline, or Change; Head Over Heels; Dreamgirls. National Tour: A Night with Janis Joplin, Jekyll & Hyde, Rent, Dreamgirls (Effie; Helen Hayes Award). World Tour: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Workshops: Spunk, Yale Rep; Frank Wildhorn’s The Song of Bernadette. TV/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Lord Montague, Friar John
Bradley Dean
Lord Montague, Friar John
Bradley Dean
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: A Little Night Music, Company, Spamalot, The Last Ship, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Man of La Mancha, Doctor Zhivago, Jane Eyre, Dear Evan Hansen. Off Broadway/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Benvolio
Brandon Dial
Benvolio
Brandon Dial
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun, The Public Theater. Regional: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Photograph 51, Berkshire Theatre Group; Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing, Into the Woods, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Education: MFA: NYU Grad Acting.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Paris
Adi Dixit
Paris
Adi Dixit
(he/him) A.R.T: Life of Pi. Broadway: Life of Pi. TV: “Young Sheldon.” Film: Sweethearts. Education: BFA, Acting, University of Southern California.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Understudy for Nurse, Lady Montague, Lady Capulet
Kristian Espiritu
Understudy for Nurse, Lady Montague, Lady Capulet
Kristian Espiritu
Actors’ Equity Association member
Friar Laurence
Terrence Mann
Friar Laurence
Terrence Mann
(he/him) A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Pippin. Broadway: Tuck Everlasting (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Pippin (Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Beauty and The Beast (Tony Award nomination), Les Misérables (Tony Award nomination), Finding Neverland, Cats, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Addams Family, The Rocky Horror Show, A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway: Only Gold, Jerry Springer – The Opera (Lucille Lortel nomination), Assassins. TV/Film: “Foundation,” “Sense8,” “The Dresden Files,” Mrs. Santa Claus, “As The World Turns” (Emmy Award nomination), A Chorus Line, Critters.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Lady Montague
Abiola Obatolu
Lady Montague
Abiola Obatolu
(she/her) A.R.T.: Debut. National Tour: Odyssey, The Acting Company. Regional: The Color Purple, Broadway at Music Circus Sacramento; This is How You Capture the Light, The Kennedy Center. Education: BFA, Carnegie Mellon. Awards: The Helen Wayne Rauh Award for Excellence in Acting.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Romeo
Rudy Pankow
Romeo
Rudy Pankow
Actors’ Equity Association member
Tybalt
Alex Ross
Tybalt
Alex Ross
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Book of Mormon (Standby Elder Price). National Tour: A Soldier’s Play (Standby Taylor/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Abraham, Peter
Will Savarese
Abraham, Peter
Will Savarese
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. National Tour: Frozen (Hans), Hairspray (Link). Educational: Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (Troilus). Education: BFA, Acting, Baldwin Wallace University.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Understudy for Abraham, Peter
Bernardo Sequeira†
Understudy for Abraham, Peter
Bernardo Sequeira†
A.R.T.: Debut. Educational: Heist, Heist, Baby!, Cosmic Relief, The Hasty Pudding Theatricals; In the Heights, Under Control/
Sampson, Apothecary
Adam Shaukat
Sampson, Apothecary
Adam Shaukat
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Chautauqua Theater Company. TV/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Mercutio
Clay Singer
Mercutio
Clay Singer
(he/they) A.R.T.: Debut. First National Tour: The Band’s Visit (Itzik). New York: The Last Five Years, Core Theatre Group, AEA LAB. Regional: Fiddler on the Roof (Perchik), The MUNY; Into the Woods (Jack), Barrington Stage; 4000 Miles (Leo), Westport Country Playhouse. Education: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Juliet
Emilia Suárez
Juliet
Emilia Suárez
(she/her) A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Destiny of Desire, The Old Globe; Zero, Ashland New Plays Festival; The Decameron, Quantum Theatre. Workshops/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Understudy for Sampson
Michael Torto†
Understudy for Sampson
Michael Torto†
A.R.T.: Debut. Educational: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Rodney King, Jessye Norman), Pipeline (Omari), The Brothers Size (Ogun Size), Lincoln Park Theater.
Lady Capulet
Nicole Villamil
Lady Capulet
Nicole Villamil
(she/her) A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Network (Sheila). Off-Broadway: Merry Me (Sapph), NYTW; Wolf Play (Robin), Soho Rep; Wolf Play (Robin), MCC Theater; How to Load a Musket (Javier/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Understudies
Lord Capulet, Friar Laurence, Prince
Bradley Dean
Lord Capulet, Friar Laurence, Prince
Bradley Dean
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: A Little Night Music, Company, Spamalot, The Last Ship, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Man of La Mancha, Doctor Zhivago, Jane Eyre, Dear Evan Hansen. Off Broadway/
Actors’ Equity Association member
Nurse, Lady Montague, Lady Capulet
Kristian Espiritu
Nurse, Lady Montague, Lady Capulet
Kristian Espiritu
Actors’ Equity Association member
Juliet, Lady Capulet
Abiola Obatolu
Juliet, Lady Capulet
Abiola Obatolu
(she/her) A.R.T.: Debut. National Tour: Odyssey, The Acting Company. Regional: The Color Purple, Broadway at Music Circus Sacramento; This is How You Capture the Light, The Kennedy Center. Education: BFA, Carnegie Mellon. Awards: The Helen Wayne Rauh Award for Excellence in Acting.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Romeo, Benvolio, Paris, Apothecary
Will Savarese
Romeo, Benvolio, Paris, Apothecary
Will Savarese
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. National Tour: Frozen (Hans), Hairspray (Link). Educational: Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (Troilus). Education: BFA, Acting, Baldwin Wallace University.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Abraham, Peter
Bernardo Sequeira†
Abraham, Peter
Bernardo Sequeira†
A.R.T.: Debut. Educational: Heist, Heist, Baby!, Cosmic Relief, The Hasty Pudding Theatricals; In the Heights, Under Control/
Mercutio, Tybalt, Lord Montague, Friar John
Adam Shaukat
Mercutio, Tybalt, Lord Montague, Friar John
Adam Shaukat
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Chautauqua Theater Company. TV/
Sampson
Michael Torto†
Sampson
Michael Torto†
A.R.T.: Debut. Educational: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Rodney King, Jessye Norman), Pipeline (Omari), The Brothers Size (Ogun Size), Lincoln Park Theater.
Fight Captain
Adam Shaukat
Fight Captain
Adam Shaukat
(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Chautauqua Theater Company. TV/
Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.
Additional Staff
Assistant Stage Manager
Dack Justiz
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Girl From The North Country. Off-Broadway: Titanic, The Light in the Piazza, Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, Dear World, New York City Center Encores!; Dead Outlaw, Audible Theater; The Unbelieving, The Civilians. Tour: Fiddler on the Roof, NETworks. Regional: Fiddler on the Roof, Paper Mill Playhouse; Most Happy in Concert, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Education: BA, Theatre, University of Texas at Austin.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Assistant Stage Manager
Emma Nafz
A.R.T: Real Women Have Curves, Evita. Off-Broadway: Sunset Baby, Signature Theatre. Regional: David Byrne’s American Utopia, Emerson Colonial Theatre; The Sound of Music, Tenor Overboard, The Jungle Book, Glimmerglass Opera Festival; Boca, Eleanor, Barrington Stage Company; Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Assistant Stage Manager (Substitute)
Cate Agis
Assistant Stage Manager (Substitute)
Cate Agis
A.R.T.: Real Women Have Curves, The Donkey Show, The Shape She Makes. Broadway: Miss Saigon; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. National Tours: What the Constitution Means to Me, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hello, Dolly!, Disney’s Aladdin. New York: Sleep No More. Regional: ArtsEmerson, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, C.A.T.F. Education: Emerson College.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Assistant Director
Karina Cowperthwaite
Assistant Director
Karina Cowperthwaite
A.R.T.: WILD: A Musical Becoming (Assistant 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.
Voice and Text Coach
Erika Bailey
Voice and Text Coach
Erika Bailey
A.R.T.: Romeo and Juliet; Gatsby; Becoming a Man; Life of Pi; 1776; WILD: A Musical Becoming; Jack and the Beanstalk; Gloria: A Life; Moby-Dick; We Live in Cairo; Endlings; Othello; ExtraOrdinary; The Black Clown; Jagged Little Pill; WARHOLCAPOTE; Burn All Night; The Night of the Iguana; Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; In the Body of the World; Waitress; O.P.C. Broadway: Mary Stuart. Regional: Vanity Fair, Central Square Theater; New Electric Ballroom, Gloucester Stage Company; Arms and the Man, Guthrie Theatre; The Foreigner, Cabaret, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. As Head of Voice and Speech at A.R.T., Erika also teaches in the Theater, Dance & Media concentration at Harvard as well as coaching public speaking skills across the university. Education: M.A., Voice Studies, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; M.F.A., Acting, Brandeis University.
Dramaturg
Ryan McKittrick
Dramaturg
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./
Assistant Scenic Designer
James Rotondo
Associate Costume Designer
Benjamin Weigel
Associate Lighting Designer
A. Brevetti
Associate Lighting Designer
A. Brevetti
A.R.T.: Gatsby, Evita, 1776. Broadway: 1776, Back to the Future, DMC. Regional Theater: Evita, Shakespeare Theatre Company; Joy, George Street Playhouse. Dance: Season ALD, Boston Ballet; Nutcracker, RI Ballet; Harbor, ICA. Education: BFA, Boston University.
Associate Sound Designer
Tauheedah “Tate” Abdullah
Associate Hair, Wig, & Make-up Designer
Tony Lauro
Associate Hair, Wig, & Make-up Designer
Tony Lauro
A.R.T.: Debut. Tours: Hundred Days. Broadway (Associate Wig & Make-up Design): Once Upon A Mattress; &Juliet; Sweeney Todd; Kimberly Akimbo; Good Night, Oscar; Jagged Little Pill; Getting the Band Back Together. Off-Broadway: Gun & Powder (Co-Designer), Clue, BLKS, Alice by Heart, The Other Josh Cohen.
Music Consultant
Ryan Cantwell
Technical Direction Consultant
Christ Swetcky
Physical Therapists
Artistic Athletes Health Collective
Megan Wise PT PLLC
Directing/Dramaturgy Intern
Dree Palimore†
Directing/Dramaturgy Intern
Dree Palimore†
A.R.T.: Debut. Education: Joint Concentration in African American Studies and Government, with a Secondary in Theater, Dance & Media. Currently writing and composing an original musical titled Abolitionists for senior thesis.
Stage Management Intern
Elizabeth Resner†
Stage Management Intern
Elizabeth Resner†
A.R.T.: Debut. Local: Hear Her Sing, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Educational: Spring Awakening, Jekyll & Hyde, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, White House Princess, Iolanthe; or, the Peer and the Peri, 7 Sacrilege Street, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club. Film: Commencement Eve (First Assistant Director). Education: pursuing a BA in History and Human Developmental & Regenerative Biology at Harvard University.
Sound/Stage Management Intern
Teddy Tsui-Rosen†
Sound/Stage Management Intern
Teddy Tsui-Rosen†
A.R.T.: Debut. Educational: Spring Awakening, Jekyll & Hyde, Footloose, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Ugly Feelings, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club. Education: pursuing a BA in Psychology at Harvard University.
Casting
Duncan Stewart, CSA
Mark Brandon, CSA
Patrick Maravilla
Jarrett Reiche
Casting
Kendra Lucas, Kyle Coker, Devi Peot, Jaron Cole, Ryan Stana, CEO RWS Global, Ryan Saab, SVP RWS Global
Access Staff
Director of ASL
Shana Gibbs
ASL Interpreters
Leo Kelly Beaulieu
Adrianna Neefus
Brent Tracy
Audio Description
Eddie Maisonet
Mel Watkins
Open Caption
c2
Relaxed Performance Consultants
Spectrum Theatre Ensemble
A.R.T. Staff
Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director:
Diane Paulus
Executive Director:
Kelvin Dinkins, Jr.
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
Producer: Mark Lunsford
Director of Production: Krystin Matsumoto
Director of Artistic Programs & Dramaturg: Ryan McKittrick
Interim Director of Development: Sarah McLellan
Associate Artistic Director: Dayron J. Miles
Chief Marketing Officer: Jennifer Weissman
STAFF
Artistic & EngagementArtistic Coordinator & Special Assistant to the Artistic Director: Karina Cowperthwaite ProducingAssociate Producer: Emma Watt Marketing & CommunicationsAssociate Director, Marketing and Communications: Susanna Jackson DevelopmentAssociate Director, Institutional Giving: Anna Cline FacilitiesAssistant Project Manager: Alex Giorgetti FinanceController: Toufiq Aitelfqih Patron ServicesHead of Patron Services: Emma Putnam |
ProductionProduction Manager: Skip Curtiss ScenicTechnical Director: Jim Bernhardt PaintCharge Scenic Artist: Gerard Vogt Stage OperationsStage Operations Manager: Kevin Belcher 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 Overhire: Steven Asaro, Dean Covert, Thomas Eckenfels, Joseph Fanning, Em McGrory, Matthew Kadam, Marty Keslar, Courtney Licata, Aiden Marshall, Ricky Ortiz, Kalika Reece, Eric Schapero, Brian Vlasak, Xavier Vogt, Michelle Walker |
Special Thanks
RoAnn Costin, Ann and Graham Gund, Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff
Vincent Gerardi, Marlie Kass
Mignone Center for Career Success at Harvard University
Rehearsed at The Public Theater’s Rehearsal Studios, Playwrights Horizons Downtown Rehearsal Studios, and The Huntington Theatre.
Custom set pieces and rental space provided by Arel Studios, NYC.
Automation Equipment provided by Creative Connors.
Additional Lights provided by Christie Lites.
Additional Sound Equipment provided by Sound Associates.
Theatrical Weapons provided by Thomas Schall.
The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
† Supported by the Paul M. and Harriet L. Weissman Fellows Fund, administered by Harvard University’s Mignone Center for Career Success.
The director, choreographer, and fight consultant of this production are members of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.
United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.
Related Events
Member Night
SEP 12 6PM
Preceding the performance
Supporters of $500+ are invited to an exclusive reception with Scenic Designer Amy Rubin (Gloria: A Life) and other theater-lovers.
SEP 12 6PM
Preceding the performance
Supporters of $500+ are invited to an exclusive reception with Scenic Designer Amy Rubin (Gloria: A Life) and other theater-lovers.
