Gloria: A Life

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Emily Mann is a multi-award winning playwright and director in her thirtieth and final season as Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ. Plays: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth; Execution of Justice; Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard; and Hoodwinked (a Primer on Radical Islamism). Adaptations: Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Antigone. Currently in development: The Pianist. Gloria: A Life opened McCarter’s season this year after a successful run in New York at The Daryl Roth Theatre. Awards: Peabody, Hull Warriner, NAACP, seven Obies, Guggenheim; Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations; a Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts, a Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award, and the Margo Jones Award, given to a “citizen-of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.” This past June, she was awarded the TCG Visionary Leadership Award. In November 2019, Ms. Mann was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

(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.”

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.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. New York: Gloria: A Life, Daryl Roth Theatre; Love, Loss and What I Wore, Westside Theatre; One Night… (world premiere), Cherry Lane; Die Mommie Die! (Lucille Lortel Award), New World Stages; Monodramas, Mosè in Egitto, New York City Opera. Regional: Once On This Island, Paper Mill Playhouse; Dead Man Walking, Washington National Opera; Norma (Dora Mavor Moore Award), Canadian Opera Company, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Life Is a Dream (world premiere), Santa Fe Opera; Carousel, Siege of Calais, Glimmerglass Festival; Anna Bolena, Lyric Opera of Chicago; The Manchurian Candidate (world premiere), Maria Stuarda, Seattle Opera; Moby Dick, Utah Opera; West Side Story, Houston Grand Opera. International: Norma, Gran Teatre del Liceu; Don Bucefalo, Wexford Opera Festival. Upcoming: Rigoletto, La Favorite, Houston Grand Opera; Blue, Lyric Opera of Chicago. Ms. Jahn is an Adjunct Costume Design Professor with Brandeis University’s Theater Arts Department.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Broadway: Hand to God, On the Town, Bronx Bombers, Let It Be, Bring It On, Rock of Ages, The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, Good Vibrations. Off-Broadway: Kings, Dry Powder, Barbecue, Public Theater; Sugar in Our Wounds, MTC. Regional: Austen’s Pride, 5th Avenue Theatre; Skylight, Gloria: A Life, McCarter Theatre Center; Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Junk, Arena Stage; Familiar, Robin Hood!, Red Velvet, Old Globe. TV: “Fosse/​Verdon” (final two episodes). Honors: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Robert has spent the last twenty-five years designing sound and composing music for theater, and has been honored with an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design and a Tony for Fela! His musical Minors premiered at the Lantern Theater in Philadelphia; he also creates installation art, runs Nine Hostage Arts in Philly, teaches at Princeton, is an ambassador for the Prague Quadrennial, and loves his family more than anything else.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Andrea is a Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life. Tours: Something Rotten (Assistant Audio), First National. Regional: Twelfth Night, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Associate Sound Designer), The Book Club Play (Associate Sound Designer), Dallas Theater Center; As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Public Works Dallas, Dallas Theater Center; Once (Associate Sound Designer), The Velveteen Rabbit (Assistant Designer), South Coast Rep; Ann (Associate Designer), Arena Stage; Famous, The 11:11 in West Hollywood. Education/Training: MFA, Sound Design, University of California Irvine.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life, Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education. Ms. McCarthy’s background in photography, film, and architecture has led to a twenty-five-year, worldwide career as an award-winning projection designer for live performance, including theater, dance, concerts, and opera. Career highlights include: Broadway: Wicked, Spamalot, Assassins, Into the Woods, Thurgood. Off-Broadway: Notes from the Field, Frequency Hopping (Scenic and Projection Design), Distracted (Scenic and Projection Design), Embedded. Opera: Iolanta, Everest, Tristan und Isolde, Moby Dick, Cold Mountain, Mazeppa, Dead Man Walking, War and Peace. The 2018-19 theater season had her working on three new Off-Broadway collaborations, all focusing on the lives of women.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Carissa is a New Jersey- based wig and makeup designer. Off-Broadway: Grand Hotel, Little Rock. Regional: A Christmas Carol (2013-2019), Simpatico, The Mousetrap, All the Days, The Gods of Comedy, McCarter Theatre Center (six seasons); Old Globe; Temple University; Olney Theatre Center; University of Delaware Resident Ensemble Players; The American Repertory Ballet; NewArts group, Newtown, CT; Santa Fe Opera (wig and makeup artist); Sarasota Opera; Kennedy Center; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Signature Theatre; Round House Theatre. Carissa also creates custom medical wigs, cosplay wigs, and teaches classes in wigs and makeup.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Broadway: Oklahoma!, The Nap, Frozen, A Bronx Tale, On Your Feet!, Disaster!, It Shoulda Been You, On the Twentieth Century. Off-Broadway: The Wolves, Playwrights Realm, Lincoln Center; Mary Page Marlowe, Second Stage. Opera: Fellow Travelers, Prototype Festival; Silent Night, The Atlanta Opera; Guilty Mother, On Site Opera; Lost in the Stars, Candide, Glimmerglass Festival; Dead Man Walking, Appomattox, Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Washington National Opera.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life, SIX, The Shape She Makes, Marie Antoinette. Broadway/​National Tours: Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life; Smokey Joe’s Café; Here Lies Love; Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional: Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Westport Country Playhouse, Asolo Rep.

A.R.T: thirty productions in fifteen years at A.R.T. as Artistic Coordinator/​​Resident Stage Manager. Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Misery, It’s Only a Play, The Glass Menagerie. Off-Broadway: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven; The Hard Problem, Pride’s Crossing, Lincoln Center; Much Ado About Nothing, NYSF/​Delacorte; The Total Bent, Public Theater; Parable of the Sower, Public Theater Under the Radar Festival; Oliver Twist, TFNA. For Esch, Tommy, Jeremy, and Jan.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life. Broadway: Side Show, The Addams Family, On the 20th Century. National Tour: Flashdance. Off-Broadway: Kings, Desperate Measures, Clueless The Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, Curvy Widow, Nevermore, The Fantasticks, The Woodsman, Himself And Nora, Stalking The Bogeyman, Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Ring Twice For Miranda, Laugh it Up, Stare it Down, Three on a Couch, Phallacy, Building the Wall.

(she/ella) A.R.T.: Jack and The Beanstalk (Director), Gloria: A Life (Assistant Director), Endlings (Assistant Director). Rebecca Aparicio is a New York-based bilingual director and writer. Recent: Karen Zacarias’ Jardin Salvaje, GALA Hispanic Theatre (world premiere adaptation, Helen Hayes recommended), Beastgirl (based on the chapbook by Elizabeth Acevedo, book by C. Quintana and music by Janelle Lawrence), Kennedy Center (world premiere, Helen Hayes nominated); Caridad Svich’s The House on the Lagoon, GALA Hispanic Theatre (world premiere; Best Direction, DC Broadway World), Maria Irene Fornes’ Sarita, Roundabout Refocus Series. Rebecca is a member of the Latinx Playwrights Circle, Latinx Theatre Commons, Board Member of The Flea Theatre, and a founding member of Magic Forest Theatre, dedicated to creating new musicals for young audiences. RebeccaAparicio.com.

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.

Harvard University Arts and Museum Fellow, supported by the Harvard University Office of Career Services

Harvard University Arts and Museum Fellow, supported by the Harvard University Office of Career Services