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Artistic Director’s Welcome

Welcome to the 45th Season at the A.R.T.!

I am thrilled to welcome you to the final production of our 2024/25 Season: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), the hit musical comedy by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan that comes to the A.R.T. after a triumphant run in London.

Before captivating audiences at the Criterion Theatre in the West End, Two Strangers had an acclaimed run at the Kiln Theatre—the same theater we partnered with to bring The Wife of Willesden to the A.R.T. in 2023. I had the opportunity to see Two Strangers in London and knew our audiences would fall in love with it.

I am excited for director and choreographer Tim Jackson to make his A.R.T. debut alongside scenic and costume designer Soutra Gilmour, sound designer Cody Spencer, orchestrator Lux Pyramid, music supervisor Nick Finlow and music director Jeffrey Campos, who are all working on our stage for the first time. Returning to the A.R.T. are lighting designer Jack Knowles (Barber Shop Chronicles), sound designer Tony Gayle (Gatsby), and hair, wig and make-up designer Earon Chew Nealey (Diary of a Tap Dancer).

In collaboration with our creative and engagement teams, we develop an Essential Question for every production that we stage, which we share with our audiences, our students, our staff, and our community. For Two Strangers, we invite you to consider the following: We all tell ourselves stories about our own lives. Why do we need these stories? Which ones help us, and which ones hold us back?

Two Strangers encourages us to believe in the power of connection, even among strangers—an experience which is at the heart of coming together as an audience in the theater.

Thank you for taking the journey with us, and joining us at the A.R.T.!

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

TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK)

Creative Team

By

Jim Barne and Kit Buchan

A.R.T.: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), American Repertory Theater. West End: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), Criterion Theatre. London: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), Kiln Theatre. Regional (UK): The Season, New Wolsey Theatre, Royal & Derngate. Other: Catastrophe Bay, Bristol Old Vic; Catastrophe Bay, Southwark Playhouse with National Youth Music Theatre. Film: The Ghost Trap (Jim); Living (Jim). Awards: London Chamber Orchestra Young Composer Competition (Jim); Best New Score, Horrorhaus Film Festival (Jim); Stiles & Drewe Award; Stage Debut Award. Publications: Poetry ReviewThe White ReviewMagmaFive DialsClinicPERVERSEThe Best British Poetry anthology (Kit). Competitions: National Poetry Competition (Kit, Shortlisted, 2025); Poetry London and Ware Poets competitions (Kit, Commended).

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Directed and Choreographed by

Tim Jackson

Directed and Choreographed by

Tim Jackson

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway and Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (Choreographer, Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical). West End: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), A Christmas Carol, Something Rotten! in Concert (WhatsOnStage Award), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Merrily We Roll Along (Olivier Award Best Revival), Stepping Out, High Society, Mouthful, Saturday Night. Opera: La Périchole, La bohème, Figaro. TV: “Doctor Who: The Giggle;” 40th, 41st, and 43rd Laurence Olivier Awards (Choreographer). Education: Music B.A., Oxford University; Theatre M.A., Mountview Academy.

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Scenic and Costume Design

Soutra Gilmour

Scenic and Costume Design

Soutra Gilmour

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: & Juliet, Sunset Boulevard, Betrayal. West End: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), Cyrano de Bergerac, Dreamgirls, The Book of Mormon, & Juliet, Sunset Boulevard, Betrayal. Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along, NYTW; The Effect, National Theatre/Shed. Regional: Timon of Athens, RSC/TFANA. London: Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Seagull, Apologia, Richard III, The Maids, The Homecoming, Macbeth, Jamie Lloyd Company; Running With Lions, Out West, Lyric; Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Les Blancs, My Brilliant Friend, National Theatre. Awards: Two Tony Award nominations; five Olivier Award nominations.

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Lighting Design

Jack Knowles

Lighting Design

Jack Knowles

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Sunset Blvd, Patriots, Caroline, or Change. UK: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Wyndham’s Theatre; Best of Enemies, Noel Coward Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Venice Preserved, Royal Shakespeare Company; London Tide, Top Girls, Barber Shop Chronicles, Cleansed, National Theatre; Spring Awakening, Three Sisters, Carmen Disruption, Almeida Theatre. International: Julie, ITA; Salt of the Earth, Venice Biennale; La bohème, Gothenburg Opera. Awards: Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design; Knight of Illumination Award.

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Sound Design

Tony Gayle

Cody Spencer

Sound Design

Tony Gayle

A.R.T.: Debut. West End: My Neighbour Totoro (Olivier Award, Best Sound Design), Next to Normal, Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical. Off-West End: Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), Newsies, Spring Awakening, Lazarus. UK Tour: Greatest Days, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. International: Disney’s Aida. Awards: WhatsOnStage Award for Best Sound Design (My Neighbour Totoro); 2019 and 2021 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTA) Light and Sound Recognition Award.

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Sound Design

Cody Spencer

A.R.T.: Debut. Co-Design Broadway: Romeo + Juliet, Job, The Outsiders (Tony Award). Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Here Lies Love, The Pee-Wee Herman Show. Co-Design Off-Broadway: Energy Music Curfew Hour, Broadway Bounty Hunter, Joan of Arc: Into the Fire. Off-Broadway: Trevor, Here Lies Love (Lortel Award). Regional: David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind, May We All.

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Hair, Wig & Make-up Design

Earon Chew Nealey

Hair, Wig & Make-up Design

Earon Chew Nealey

A.R.T.: Diary of a Tap Dancer. Broadway: Fat Ham (Designer); Macbeth, Chicken and Biscuits, Sweat (Associate Designer). Off-Broadway: Bad Kreyól; Three Houses, Signature; Table 17 (Make-up Design), MCC; Hamlet, The Harder They Come, Fat Ham, cullad Wattah, Shadow/Land, Mojada, Public Theater; Midsummer Night’s Dream, Malvolio, Twelfth Night, Classical Theater of Harlem; On Sugarland, The Refuge Plays, NYTW; On Killing, Soho Rep. Regional: Sojourners, The Grove, Toni Stone, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Huntington; The Seasons, Carousel, Boston Lyric Opera; POTUS, Berkeley Rep; Dreamgirls, McCarter/Goodspeed; Little Women, Old Globe; and others.

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Orchestrations

Lux Pyramid

Orchestrations

Lux Pyramid

A.R.T.: Debut. Theatre: The Lorax, Cover My Tracks, Old Vic. Songwriting collaborations: Yungblud, Mimi Webb, Plan B, Miranda Cooper, Vintage Culture, Emily Burns and Catherine McGrath, Suki Waterhous, Rita Ora, Marshmello, Tiesto, and Zara Larsson, Charlie Fink of Noah And The Whale. Multiple classical No.1s for Universal Records, fashion film soundtracks for Mario Testino and Victoria’s Secret, and Hollywood movies at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions in LA.

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Music Supervisor

Nick Finlow

Music Supervisor

Nick Finlow

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Back to the Future. West End/UK: The Time Traveller’s Wife; Dreamgirls (Additional Music/Arranger/Musical Supervisor); The Book of Mormon (Musical Supervisor); Dreamgirls (Musical Supervisor/Conductor); Memphis; Avenue Q; Les Misérables (Musical Supervisor); Jersey Boys (Associate Musical Supervisor); Mamma Mia! (Associate Musical Supervisor).

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Associate Music Supervisor

Benedict Braxton-Smith

Associate Music Supervisor

Benedict Braxton-Smith

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Water for Elephants (Co-Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator), For the Girls (Assoc. Music Director, Orchestrator). Off-Broadway: Cyrano. Touring: Mean Girls Second National (Assoc. Music Supervisor), Mean Girls First National (Music Director). West End: Mean Girls (Assoc. Music Supervisor). Concerts: Jessica Vosk’s My Golden Age, Carnegie Hall; Kristin Chenoweth’s Christmas at the MET. TV/Streaming: “Homeschool Musical”, HBOMax; “Stars on Stage: Gavin Creel”, PBS; “Take Me To The World: Sondheim’s 90th Birthday Celebration.” Education/Training: NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

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Music Director

Jeffrey Campos

Music Director

Jeffrey Campos

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: La Llamada. Int’l Tour: Cats (Korea, Taiwan). National Tours: Jekyll & Hyde; A Chorus Line; The Wizard of Oz; Oklahoma; Annie; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Regional: Jekyll & Hyde, Barrington Stage; Ogunquit Playhouse; Bucks County Playhouse; Riverside Theatre; Arvada Center; Virginia Musical Theatre; Florida Studio Theatre; Cortland Rep; Gateway Playhouse; Meadow Brook Theatre; ACT of CT. NYC: NYC Mayor’s Awards for Arts and Culture; Broadway Backwards; NYMF; NYC Fringe; numerous shows at Astoria Performing Arts Center (Resident Musical Supervisor). Additional: Royal Caribbean International and Norwegian Cruise Lines (Musical Staff).

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Casting Director

C12 Casting / Stephen Kopel

Casting Director

C12 Casting / Stephen Kopel

A.R.T.: Jagged Little Pill, We Live in Cairo, The White Card, Witness Uganda, O.P.C., The Glass Menagerie, Ajax, The Blue Flower, Once, Johnny Baseball. Broadway: English, The Great Gatsby, The Roommate, & Juliet, Gutenberg, Shucked, Moulin Rouge, A Christmas Carol, Good Night Oscar, The Play That Goes Wrong, Jagged Little Pill, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Trouble in Mind, Caroline or Change, The Glass Menagerie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, She Loves Me, The Winslow Boy, On the Twentieth Century, Sunday in the Park with George, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, On a Clear Day, Once, The Scottsboro Boys, Hedda Gabler.

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Original UK Casting

Julia Horan CDG

Original UK Casting

Julia Horan CDG

A.R.T.: Wild Swans. For Kiln/Tricycle: Girl on an Altar; Pass Over; Red Velvet, St. Ann’s Warehouse. Recent theater: A Little Life, West End; A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi, The Doctor, Three Sisters, The Wild Duck, Machinal, The Writer, The Treatment, Oil, Uncle Vanya, Medea, Game, Mr Burns, Before the Party, Almeida Theatre; Sons of the Prophet, Hampstead Theatre; The Jungle, Young Vic/West End/Curran, San Francisco/St Ann’s Warehouse; Blood Wedding, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Fun Home, Yellowman, Wings, Life of Galileo, Once in a Lifetime, Blue/Orange, The Trial, Ah, Wilderness!, Man, Happy Days, Public Enemy, The Shawl, Young Vic; Appropriate, Donmar Warehouse; Summer and Smoke, The Twilight Zone, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, Chimerica, Almeida Theatre/West End; All About Eve, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, West End;

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Associate Director and Choreographer

Asmeret Ghebremichael

Associate Director and Choreographer

Asmeret Ghebremichael

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway (Directing): SIX, The Notebook. Broadway (Actor): The Book of Mormon, Elf, Legally Blonde, Spamalot, Wicked, Footloose. West End: Dream Girls, The Book of Mormon. Off-Broadway: Table 17 (Associate Director), MCC; Sweet Charity (Lucille Lortel, AUDELCO, Chita Rivera nominations), The New Group; In the Heights (Drama Desk Award). Regional: The Notebook (Associate Director), Chicago Shakespeare Company. TV: “South Park: Pandemic Special” (Consultant), “The Blacklist,” “And Just Like That,” “The Other Two,” “WeCrashed,” “Bonding.”

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Production Stage Manager

Judith Schoenfeld

Production Stage Manager

Judith Schoenfeld

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Days of Wine and Roses, Dear Evan Hansen, If/Then, Next to Normal, Grey Gardens. Off-Broadway: Second Stage Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Classic Stage Company. UK: Royal Shakespeare Company. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Goodspeed Opera House, Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Great Lakes Theater Festival. Education: B.F.A., University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Actors’ Equity Association member

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A Kiln Theatre Production

First performance at the Loeb Drama Center on May 20, 2025.

Production support of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is provided by The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust and Katie and Paul Buttenwieser.

Media Support of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) 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 ten minutes, including one fifteen-minute intermission

This production contains haze, fog, and flashing lights.

Company & Staff

Cast (in Alphabetical Order)

Christiani Pitts Headshot
Christiani Pitts Headshot

Robin

Christiani Pitts

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: King Kong (Ann Darrow), Broadway Theatre; A Bronx Tale (Jane), Longacre Theatre. Developmental Lab: Aida (Aida); Clueless the Musical (Dionne). Film/TV: Resort to Love, “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” “Dead Ringers,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Good Fight,” “Evil,” “Elementary.” Education: Music Theatre B.F.A., Florida State University.

Actors’ Equity Association member

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Sam Tutty Headshot

Dougal

Sam Tutty

Sam Tutty Headshot

Dougal

Sam Tutty

A.R.T.: Debut. West End: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Dougal), Criterion Theatre; Dear Evan Hansen (Evan; Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Noël Coward Theatre. Off-West End: Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Dougal), The Kiln Theatre; Once On This Island (Daniel), Southwark Playhouse. Workshops: Bliss (Prince Devin), Lillian Bayliss Studio, Sadler’s Wells. Film: Four Minute Warning, Romeo & Juliet.

Actors’ Equity Association member

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Understudy for Robin

Phoenix Best

Phoenix Best Headshot

Understudy for Robin

Phoenix Best

A.R.T.: Macbeth In Stride (Witch). Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen (Alana Beck), Music Box Theatre; Les Misérables (Eponine); The Color Purple (Swing). Off-Broadway: Teeth (Promise Keeper Girl Fiona), The Judy Theater. Regional: Dreamgirls (Deena Jones), TUTS; Oklahoma! (Ellen), King Henry VIII (Patience), Cinderella (Cinderella), Beauty and the Beast (Penelope), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck/Philostrate), The Comedy of Errors (Luciana), PA Shakespeare Festival. Film/TV: “The Best Man: The Final Chapters,” “Love Life,” From Sea to Rising Sea. Education: Musical Theatre B.A., DeSales University.

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Vincent Michael Headshot

Understudy for Dougal

Vincent Michael

Vincent Michael Headshot

Understudy for Dougal

Vincent Michael

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Safety Not Guaranteed, BAM. Regional: RENT, The MUNY; Mystic Pizza, Paper Mill Playhouse; Private Jones, Goodspeed Musicals; Private Jones, Into the Woods, RENT, Assassins (Helen Hayes nomination), A Chorus Line, Gypsy, Grand Hotel, Billy Elliot, Jesus Christ Superstar, Miss Saigon, Signature Theatre (DC); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Ford’s Theatre; The Nutcracker, Round House Theatre; Kinky Boots, Grease, Joseph…Dreamcoat, OTC; Spring Awakening, Keegan Theatre; The Greenwood Tree, Latino Inaugural Awards, The Kennedy Center; Horatio Alger Awards, DAR Constitution Hall; Gilded, Capital Fringe Festival. TV: “A Capitol Fourth.” Education: B.M., CUA.

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Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

Musicians

Conductor/Keyboard

Jeffrey Campos

Conductor/Keyboard

Jeffrey Campos

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: La Llamada. Int’l Tour: Cats (Korea, Taiwan). National Tours: Jekyll & Hyde; A Chorus Line; The Wizard of Oz; Oklahoma; Annie; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Regional: Jekyll & Hyde, Barrington Stage; Ogunquit Playhouse; Bucks County Playhouse; Riverside Theatre; Arvada Center; Virginia Musical Theatre; Florida Studio Theatre; Cortland Rep; Gateway Playhouse; Meadow Brook Theatre; ACT of CT. NYC: NYC Mayor’s Awards for Arts and Culture; Broadway Backwards; NYMF; NYC Fringe; numerous shows at Astoria Performing Arts Center (Resident Musical Supervisor). Additional: Royal Caribbean International and Norwegian Cruise Lines (Musical Staff).

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Guitar

David Kornfeld

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway Tour: Shucked (Guitar/Keys), Jagged Little Pill (Guitar/Assoc. Conductor). Regional: Freaky Friday, Summer, Beautiful, Red Mountain Theatre. Indecent (MD), Cape Rep Theatre; Assassins (MD, Ostrander Award nominee), Playhouse on the Square. Composer: Haymarket (Jeff Award winner), Underscore Theatre; 57th National Mathlete Sum-It, NYMF, Theatrical Rights Worldwide; Microcosmos, The Civilians R&D Group. Film score: Sweet Meats. Education: Musical Theatre Writing M.F.A., NYU Tisch; Composition B.A., Carleton. 

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Bass

Sahil Warsi

A.R.T.: Gatsby, Real Women Have Curves, Miss You Like Hell. Boston Musicians Union. Performances with Orchestras at Ogunquit Playhouse, Company One, Boston Lyric Stage, Umbrella Arts Company, Speakeasy Stage. Education/Training: Berklee College of Music, Delhi University, St. Stephen’s College.

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Percussion

Michael Weinfield-Zell

A.R.T.: Evita, Real Women Have Curves. Member of Cape Symphony and Boston Festival Orchestra. Performances with Florida Grand Opera, Hawaii Symphony. Education/Training: Doctor of Musical Arts, Boston University; Master of Music, Yale University; Bachelor of Music, Peabody Conservatory.

 

 

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Drums

Adam Nazro

Drums

Adam Nazro

A.R.T.: Debut. Regional: Waitress, Cape Playhouse; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, North Shore Music Theatre; Lucky Stiff, Emerson Paramount; Titanic, Emerson Majestic; Parade, SpeakEasy Stage Company; See What I Wanna See, Lyric Stage. Concerts: Performances with Finale Fantasy Distant Worlds, Symphony Hall; NieR Orchestra, Wang Theater; Symphonic Anime, Symphony Hall.

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Keyboard Programmer

Randy Cohen Keyboards

Randy Cohen Headshot

Keyboard Programmer

Randy Cohen Keyboards

A.R.T.: Real Women Have Curves, Moby-Dick, We Live in Cairo, Jagged Little Pill, Pippin, Johnny Baseball. Broadway: Over 100 shows including Hamilton, The Book of Mormon, Kinky Boots, Dear Evan Hansen, In the Heights, Spamalot, How to Dance in Ohio, Harmony, Merrily We Roll Along, Gutenberg, Sweeney Todd, Some Like It Hot, A Beautiful Noise, Ain’t Too Proud, Into the Woods, Elf, Grey Gardens, 9 to 5, American Idiot, Rock of Ages, SpongeBob SquarePants, Anastasia, Almost Famous, Girl from the North County, Summer, Frozen. TV: Keyboardist for “Sesame Street,” “The Electric Company.” Education: Oberlin Conservatory.

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Music Copying

Utsav Bhargava

Music Copying

Utsav Bhargava

(he/him) A.R.T.: Real Women Have Curves. Broadway: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Copyist/Music Assistant), Broadhurst Theatre. Regional: Macbeth In Stride (Associate Music Director), Shakespeare Theatre Company/Philadelphia Theatre Company; The Wanderer (Music Assistant), Paper Mill Playhouse; Theatre Now’s Sound Bites X, Brooklyn Children’s Theatre. He is a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

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Music Assistants

AJ Yi

Fahim Ahmed

Additional Staff

Assistant Stage Manager

Fatimah Amill

Assistant Stage Manager

Fatimah Amill

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Tammy Faye, Merrily We Roll Along, Fat Ham, Trouble in Mind, The Rose Tattoo. Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along, New York Theatre Workshop; Confederates, Signature Theatre; Fires in the Mirror, Signature Theatre; Something Clean, Roundabout Theatre. National Tour: Hamilton (And Peggy Company). Education: University of Arizona.

Actors’ Equity Association member

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Substitute Assistant Stage Manager

Ross Gray

Associate Scenic Designer

Brian Webb

Associate Scenic Designer

Brian Webb

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird, Death of a Salesman, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, The Full Monty, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, Man of La Mancha, Meet Me in Saint Louis, Minnelli on Minnelli, Tru. National Tours: Parade, & Juliet.

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Associate Costume Designer

Ricky Lurie

Associate Costume Designer

Ricky Lurie

A.R.T.: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Broadway: Harmony, Oh, Mary!, Sunset Boulevard, Anastasia, Is This a Room, Dana H, A Doll’s House, Ain’t No Mo. Regional: American Dance Machine 21, City Center Encores!, Paper Mill Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, The Old Globe, Courtland Rep, Tuacahn, The Hartford Stage Company, The Court, The Alliance, Kansas City Ballet, Colorado Ballet, American Ballet Theatre.

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Associate Lighting Designer

Kirk Fitzgerald

Assistant Lighting Designer

Hope Debelius

Technical Direction Consultant

Chris Swetcky

Voice and Text Coach

Erika Bailey

Voice and Text Coach

Erika Bailey

A.R.T.: The Odyssey; Diary of a Tap Dancer; 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.

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Production Assistants

Ross Gray

Production Assistants

Kendyl Trott

Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant

Dr. Charmain Jackman, Innopsych 

Physical Therapists

Artistic Athlete Health Collective

Access Staff

Director of ASL

Kristin Johnson

ASL Interpreters

Jessenia Kolaco

Jess Meyer

Audio Description

Mel Watkins

Eddie Maisonet

Open Caption

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Sensory Inclusive

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
Executive Administrator: Kathleen Fowkes
Director of Finance: Julia Goldmacher
Senior Theater and Facilities Manager: Tracy Keene
Chief Development Officer: Eileen Kennedy
Director of Production: Krystin Matsumoto
Director of Artistic Programs & Dramaturg: Ryan McKittrick
Associate Artistic Director: Dayron J. Miles
Producer: Evan O’Brient
Chief Marketing Officer: Jennifer Weissman

STAFF

Artistic & Engagement

Artistic Coordinator & Special Assistant to the Artistic Director: Karina Cowperthwaite
Head of Voice & Speech: Erika Bailey
Associate Director, Pedagogical Programs: Marcus Stern
Associate Director, Pedagogical Programs: Julia Smeliansky
Production Manager, Pedagogical Programs: Jeremie Lozier
Assistant Production Supervisor, Pedagogical Programs: Evey Connerty-Marin
Artistic Engagement Associate: Leah Harris
Assistant to the Associate Artistic Director: Madison Baker
Learning Lab Assistant: Ariella Kasmer-Jacobs
Learning Leads: Alex Smith, Vahdat Yeganeh

Producing

Associate Producer: Emma Watt
Associate Production Manager: Taylor Brennan
Company Manager: Shannon Kelley
Assistant Company Manager: Michael Mathey

Marketing & Communications

Associate Director, Creative Services: Joel Zayac
Subscriptions and Group Sales Manager: Kirstin Beal
Web and Digital Communications Manager: David Libbey
Social Media Coordinator: Madison Wolters
Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator: Madeleine Wright
Graphic Design Assistants: Dana Balletta, Lance Shook
Program Coordinator: Lianna Rada-Hung

Development

Associate Director, Institutional Giving: Anna Cline
Associate Director, Stewardship & Major Gifts: Lisa Field-Coleman
Assistant Director, Institutional Events & Partnerships: Alicia Hartz
Assistant Director, Development Operations: Blair Laurie
Senior Coordinator, Advancement & Development Engagement: Julia Wolfe
Development Coordinator: Nate Sheehan

Facilities

Assistant Project Manager: Alex Giorgetti
Loeb Receptionists: Barbara Lindstrom, Maria Medeiros
Custodial Supervisor: Ana Osorioportillo
Custodial Team: Felipe Barahona, Santos Ruiz Lopez, Marvin Ventura
Facilities Maintenance Service Team: Anthony Radosta, Michael Shaw, Jeremiah Sullivan

Finance

Controller: Toufiq Aitelfqih
Accountant: Nathan Pratt
Senior Payroll Coordinator: Alessandra Panares
Financial Assistant: Tori Loubert

Patron Services

Head of Patron Services: Emma Putnam
Ticket Services Manager: Heather Conroe
Ticket Services Representatives: Rachael Cohen, Jessica Golden, Emma Hunt
Ticket Services Staff: Emma Getz, Michelle Hong, Elliot Lazar, Leila Meglio, Alexia Rowe, Lizzie Schwarze, Amanda Tafeen
Front of House Manager: Matt Spano
Tessitura Database Administrator: Ana Costagliola

Production

Production Manager: Skip Curtiss

Scenic

Assistant Technical Director: Victor Gutierrez
Term Assistant Technical Director: Emily Listner
Scenery Assistant/Purchaser: Brian Melcher
Head Scenic Carpenter: Peter Doucette
Lead Scenic Carpenter: York-Andreas Paris
Scenic Carpenters: Bill Hawkins, Dawn Morningstar, Ray Reyes
Term Scenic Carpenters: Diego Farrell, Sam Kisthardt, Luke Van Cleve

Paint

Charge Scenic Artist: Gerard Vogt
Assistant Charge Scenic Artist: Heather Morris
Scenic Artist: India Lee

Stage Operations

Stage Operations Manager: Kevin Belcher
Assistant Stage Operations Manager/Lead Rigger: Jonathan Strong
Deck Lead: Kate Treadwell
Staff Props Runner: Christina Donovan
Staff Stage Hand & Automation Operator: Errick Jersey
Swing Stage Hand: Rosemary Grace Hartunian Alumbaugh
Flyperson: Preston Treadwell

Costumes

Costume Manager: Muriel Mangual-Bennett
Assistant Costume Manager: Madisyn Craig
Crafts Artisan: Jeffrey Scott Burrows
Draper: Bridget Austin-Weiss
Stitcher: Becca Cottrell

Wardrobe

Wardrobe Manager: Alycia Marucci
Assistant Wardrobe Manager: Brian Choinski
Wig and Wardrobe Dresser: Emily Damron
Dresser: Michelle Villada

Sound

Sound Manager: Camilo Atehortua
Assistant Sound Manager: Bryan Atterberry
Front of House Sound Engineer (A1): Abe Joyner-Meyers
Sound Technicians (A2): Kai Bohlman, Em Bonnici
Production and Event Sound Engineer (A1/A2 sub): Michael Policare

Lighting

Lighting and Projections Supervisor: Matthew Adelman
Assistant Lighting Supervisor: Joseph Lorenzen
Lighting and Projections Programmer and Operator: Sumner Ellsworth
Staff Electricians: Ryan Lemay, Callie Moos
Swing Followspot Operator/Swing Stage Hand: Hannah Jope

Properties

Properties Manager: Erin Kehr
Assistant Properties Manager: Mariya Sudarska
Properties Carpenter: Patrick Parker
Properties Artisan: Elektra T. Newman

Production Overhire

Scenic Carpenters: Thomas Eckenfels
Design Assistant: Kyle J Artone
Costume Coordinator: Vienna Volinsky
First Hands: Vyannie Saldana, Duncan Michael
Stitchers: Rebecca Shannon Butler, Joice Caldeira Simao, Aldi Heggar, Sara Mathew
Dresser: Marciann Shapiro
Electricians: Anna Brevetti, Toni Carton, Olivia Grasso, James Hoang, Dante Houghton, Olive Nixdorf, Mel Patten, Phantom Rosenberg, Billie Smith, Oakley Walker
Sound Technicians: Eliezer Meraz, Wesley Pang, Ian Sonnabend, Mary White
Propertis Artisan: Dylan Reid
Stage Hands: Cidalia Santos, Kaitlin Smith, Ren Squier

Special Thanks

Rehearsed at The Huntington Theatre and the Boston Center for the Arts
Lighting and Additional Sound Equipment provided by PRG
Star Drop provided by Rose Brand
Rehearsal automation provided by Creative Conners

This musical was first produced by the Royal & Derngate Northampton and New Wolsey Ipswich when it was called “The Season”. This musical was developed through the Stiles and Drewe MTI Mentorship Award Excerpts from an earlier version of this musical were presented at BEAM2018, supported by Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network

Actors’ Equity Association 1913The 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.
SDCThe director and choreographer of this production are members of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.
IATSE IA United Scenic Artists Local USA 829United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.
AFM American Federation of Musicians United States CanadaThe musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians.