2015|2016 SEASON
Issue 1
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
1 Title page
3 Cast
5 About STC
5 About ACA
6 The Stories Not Told
by Drew Lichtenberg
10 Director’s Word
by Yaël Farber
14 Salomé as History
and Fetish
by Gail P. Streete
20 Creating Salomé
21 Cast Biographies
27 Play in Process
28 Artistic Biographies
36 For STC
38 Support
46 Up Next: Kiss Me, Kate
48 STC Staff
49 Audience Services
Dear Friend,
A few years ago in New York, I
had an unforgettable theatrical
experience. It was Mies Julie,
Yäel Farber’s adaptation of
Strindberg’s play, transferring
from its acclaimed run at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Setting the text in postApartheid South Africa, Yaël managed to miraculously
re-create the visceral shock of the original play while
daringly mapping its exploration of gender and social
class inequalities onto an unmistakably contemporary
landscape. I was captivated and excited. Most
importantly, I admired Yaël’s ability to transform
classical texts to speak to some of the most pressing
issues of our time. I was not surprised to see Yaël
quickly become one of the most sought-after directors
in international theatre. Her recent production of The
Crucible at the Old Vic in London was nominated for
an Olivier Award, the highest honor in British theatre,
and her documentary piece, Nirbhaya, on the subject of
a brutal sexual assault in India, has toured the world to
critical acclaim.
We presented Mies Julie to Washington audiences in our
2013–2014 season, where it was nominated for a Helen
Hayes Award for Outstanding Visiting Production.
It was obvious to me that more people needed to
see her work, and shortly after, we began to discuss
Salomé. I am deeply proud to share this work with
you. It features an outstanding cast of theatre artists
and designers from all over the globe, and it addresses
an ancient story that remains both controversial and
utterly contemporary. The questions that it raises
concerning the competing and overlapping claims of
religious freedom, political agency, and gender equality
remain those of our modern world.
This production also marks the Shakespeare Theatre
Company’s participation in the Women’s Voices
Theater Festival, a historic event in which more than
50 of the Washington area’s professional companies
are collaborating to fully produce more than 50 world
premiere productions of plays by female writers. I
encourage you to see other productions in the festival at
our fellow participating theatres.
Recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award®
Artistic Director Michael Kahn
Executive Director Chris Jennings
adapted and directed by Yaël Farber
Performances begin October 6, 2015
Opening Night October 13, 2015
Lansburgh Theatre
Adaptor/Director
Yaël Farber
Casting by
Laura Stanczyk Casting, CSA
Movement Director
Ami Shulman
Resident Casting Director
Carter C. Wooddell
Scenic/Costume Designer
Susan Hilferty
Literary Manager/Dramaturg
Drew Lichtenberg
Lighting Designer
Donald Holder
Head of Voice and Text
Ellen O’Brien
Composer/Sound Designer
Mark Bennett
Assistant Director
Rob Jansen
Fight Consultant
Robb Hunter
Production Stage Manager
Laura Smith*
Assistant Stage Manager
Elizabeth Clewley*
I hope to see you in our theatres again soon.
Warm regards,
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Cover photo:
Olwen Fouéré and Nadine Malouf by Scott Suchman.
Michael Kahn
Artistic Director
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Salomé was commissioned through a grant from the Beech Street Foundation.
Salomé is sponsored by the Share Fund.
Restaurant Partner: Asia Nine
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CAST
SALOMÉ
THE COURT
Caiaphas....................................................................................................................................... Yuval Boim*
Iokanaan (John the Baptist)......................................................................................Ramzi Choukair*
Nameless Woman.............................................................................................................. Olwen Fouéré*
Annas........................................................................................................................................ Jeff Hayenga*
Bar Giora................................................................................................................................... Shahar Isaac*
Herod..................................................................................................................................... Ismael Kanater*
Salomé................................................................................................................................... Nadine Malouf*
Yeshua the Madman......................................................................................................Richard Saudek*
Pontius Pilate...................................................................................................................... T. Ryder Smith*
Abaddon..........................................................................................................................................Elan Zafir*
Singers...................................................................................................Lubana Al Quntar*, Tamar Ilana
UNDERSTUDIES
Ryan Alvarado (Abaddon/Bar Giora), Jim Epstein (Annas), Shahar Isaac* (Iokanaan),
Vanita Kalra (Salomé), Peter Pereyra (Caiaphas/Yeshua the Madman),
Sarah Pretz (Nameless Woman), Sana (Singer), Elan Zafir* (Herod/Pontius Pilate)
FOR THIS PRODUCTION
Costume Design Assistant: Kara Tesch
Lighting Assistant: Jennifer Reiser
Assistant to the Composer: Amanda Bono
Production Assistant: Rebecca Shipman
Fight Captain: Shahar Isaac
Overhire Carpenter: Danny Benzinger
Overhire Stitcher: Stephanie Goad
Overhire Wigs/Makeup/Hair: Melissa Thiede
Overhire Run Crew/Followspot Operator: Sarah Walsh
SALOMÉ WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION.
THERE WILL BE A POST-SHOW DISCUSSION AFTER EVERY EVENING
PERFORMANCE, AFTER OPENING NIGHT.
The Shakespeare Theatre Company operates under an agreement between the League of Resident
Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in
the United States, and employs members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and
United Scenic Artists. The Company is also a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG),
the national organization for not-for-profit professional theatre, and is a member of the Performing
Arts Alliance, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP),
American Alliance for Theatre and Education and D.C. Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative.
Copyright laws prohibit the use of cameras and recording equipment in the theatre.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
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STC BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Michael R. Klein, Chair
Robert E. Falb, Vice Chair
John Hill, Treasurer
Pauline A. Schneider, Secretary
Michael Kahn, Artistic Director
Trustees
Nicholas W. Allard
Ashley M. Allen
Stephen E. Allis
Anita M. Antenucci
Jeffrey D. Bauman
Afsaneh Beschloss
William C. Bodie
Landon Butler
Dr. Paul Carter
Peter Cherukuri
Gloria Dittus
Debbie Driesman
Dr. Mark Epstein
Stefanie Erkiletian
Dr. Natwar Gandhi
Miles Gilburne
Barbara Harman
John R. Hauge
Stephen A. Hopkins
Lawrence A. Hough
W. Mike House
Jerry J. Jasinowski
Norman D. Jemal
Scott Kaufmann
Sudhakar Kesavan
Kevin Kolevar
Abbe David Lowell
Gail MacKinnon
ABOUT STC
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Theatre Tony Award® as well as 84 Helen
Hayes Awards and 342 nominations.
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and accessible American style that honors
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STC is a leader in arts education, with a
myriad of user-friendly pathways that
teach, stimulate and encourage learners
of all ages. Meaningful school programs
are available for middle and high school
students and educators, and adult classes
are held throughout the year. Michael Kahn
leads the Academy for Classical Acting,
a one-year master’s program at The
George Washington University. Beyond the
classroom, educational opportunities like
Creative Conversations are available to all in
the community.
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STC has helped to revitalize both the Penn
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to drive an artistic renaissance in Washington,
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The Academy for Classical Acting (ACA),
the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s
premier MFA training program run
jointly with The George Washington
University, is starting its 16th year!
Fourteen professional actors from all
over the United States and abroad join
the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s
remarkable faculty to immerse themselves
in a rigorous, one-year, conservatory-style
training program especially dedicated to
mastering the complexities of heightened
text and classical acting. In the past 16
years, the ACA has trained 224 actors
of all ages. Some go on to NYC and to
Broadway, some return to their places
of origin, such as San Francisco, Seattle,
or Toronto, and many make new homes
for themselves right here in Washington,
D.C. On any given night, dozens of
ACA graduates can be seen on stages
throughout the D.C. metro area, and the
ACA can boast several recipients of the
coveted Helen Hayes Award. Already, at
the beginning of STC’s 2015–2016 season,
four ACA grads can be seen on our own
stages. More are sure to return.
In January and February, the audition
team of ACA faculty will conduct auditions
in New York, Washington, Chicago, and
Seattle, looking for actors who already
have professional experience and are
looking to advance their skills when it
comes to Shakespeare and classical
theatre. The training is deep and it’s
broad, with classes in Acting, Alexander
Technique, Movement, Voice & Speech,
Stage Combat, Masks, Clown, and Text,
to name a few. If you’re interested, or
know someone who might interested
in receiving training from some of the
top professionals in the field, including
Michael Kahn, please visit our site:
ShakespeareTheatre.org/Academy.
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The
Stories Not
Told
By Drew Lichtenberg,
Literary Manager
T
he world of Salomé, Yaël
Farber ’s reimagining of
the biblical tale, is one
shrouded in mystery. It is a place
where many stories coexist, where
everything has more than one
name. Jerusalem and Machaerus.
The Wailing Wall and the Holy of
Holies. John the Baptist. Salomé.
The Wall in Jerusalem. For
centuries, its Hebrew name was
the West Wing, or Ha-Kotel HaMa’aravi. In the 19th century,
the British started calling it
“The Wailing Wall,” from the
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Arabic El-Mabka, “the Place of
Weeping.” Inside the Wall is the
Temple Mount. It has been used
as a religious site for thousands
of years, by all who have lived
there, of every religion. A series of
concentric rooms, at the center of
it lies the Holy of Holies, a place
so sacred that nothing is allowed
inside. A Hole, and also a Whole.
Nowadays, the area surrounding
Machaerus (“The Black Fortress”)
looks much as it did thousands of
years ago, when Herod Antipas,
Tetrarch of Judaea, ruled. Towering
sandy cliffs look out over the Dead
Sea. The Sea of Salt. Yam Hamawet.
Nothing grows there, nothing can
live there; one can’t swim there,
only float. In Arabic it is al-Bahr
al-Mayyit, “The Sea of Death.” The
Sea of Death is a very different
thing than the Dead Sea,
and yet the same.
It was here, in
Machaerus, that
a man known
to the Romans
as Iokanaan,
known today
in Syria as
Jokanaan,
known in the
New Testament
as John the
Baptist,
was imprisoned.
A deeply
spiritual man,
Iokanaan was
also a political
animal. He had
been living in the desert, eating a
diet of locusts and honey, hungerstriking. He wore a loincloth of
camel’s hair, which rubbed his
skin raw. Punishing his own body,
he asserted dominion over it.
Much like his people, residents of
an occupied holy land, their own
and not their own. But Pontius
Pilate, Herod’s Roman overseer,
refused to let the Baptist die. That
would only empower him further.
Iokanaan had been baptizing,
leading hundreds of Hebrews
across the River Jordan and into the
promised land, promising exodus.
He prophesied the end of times, the
end of occupation, a new Jewish
nation. He fashioned himself as
a prophet, much troubling the
Sanhedrin, the priests inside the
Temple Mount. He threatened
to turn the sea of death
into a place of life, of
baptismal waters.
So he was locked
up in a cistern,
underground,
where waters
bled through
the surrounding
rocks. All one
could see from
above was the
salt, and hear a
man’s prayers
rising up in a
strange tongue.
Into this
society, teetering
on the edge,
walked a
woman. What she did next changed
the course of world history.
But we don’t know who she
was, a servant girl or a high-born
aristocrat playing a sadistic game.
We don’t even know her name. A
Roman-Jewish historian named
Flavius Josephus (another case
of multiple names, he was born
Yosef ben Matityahu) was the
first to identify her as the princess
Salomé, Herod’s stepdaughter. The
name is Greek, but again suggests
other, overlapping ones: Solomon.
Suleiman. Shulamith. Shalom. In
Salomé. Solomon.
Suleiman. Shulamith.
Shalom. In Hebrew or
Arabic, it always means
the same thing. Peace.
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The “real” Salomé remains
beyond our ken. Like the desert,
she is figureless, undefinable, a
landscape beyond our pale of
settlement. In the thousands of years
since Flavius, countless Western
men have looked at this figure from
the Middle East and tried to give
her a local habitation and a name.
Like a land under occupation, she
has been harvested for images, sold
for profit, fashioned into a grotesque
that tells us much about our own
transgressive desires, but little about
her. Gaining a name, this nameless
woman has lost her voice. Her story,
even the language of her body,
has been told by others, her own
and not her own. As she has been
written into history, she has also
been written out.
Standing on the Machaerus cliffs,
the Nameless Woman looks out
over the Sea of Death. She hears a
voice, chanting prayers in a strange
language. She recognizes a kinship
with this man, a prisoner like her,
without a voice, without a name,
without a body. But how can she
take action without speaking a
word? What power does a woman’s
voice have, when it has been written
in man’s name?
She smiles as she dances. She has
no words. In this place of many
names and stories, there is only one
truth: there is no God but God. The
Mother Goddess, the Hebrew God,
the Child of the Revolution. She is
the holiest of holies, the presence
who is also an absence, the one
without name.
Judith Beheading Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileshi. c. 1614–20.
Hebrew or Arabic, it always means
the same thing. Peace.
From Flavius’ identification arose
the myth of the femme fatale, the
death-obsessed seductress, Oscar
Wilde’s apocalyptic whore of
Babylon with the fatalistic desire to
kiss the mouth of John the Baptist.
There are few stories that have
more of a vexed relationship to the
Western canon than that of Salomé,
the woman who danced before Herod
and asked for John’s head on a platter.
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It stands both inside the canon,
in cryptic passages from the New
Testament, and outside it, attracting
apocryphal retellings and rescriptings.
Most of all, we dream about her
dance. We have to squint to see her,
standing in this room of powerful
men with names and titles, this world
where the political and the religious
are inextricable, this world where
only death can give one a name and
immortal life. Who was this woman?
We will never know.
Salomé with the Head of John the Baptist, Caravaggio. c. 1607.
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DIRECTOR’S WORD
WALKING
IN THE
WORLD OF
SALOMÉ
Q&A: YAËL FARBER ON ADAPTING
A STORY LOST TO HISTORY
What drew you to the story
of Salomé?
I am drawn to silence. Silence is
inevitably political, and this silent yet
overrepresented figure fascinated me.
She struck me as a symbol upon whom
all our fears and longings have been
imposed.
What were the materials you started
reading at the beginning of the process?
What discoveries did you make?
I was very interested in Edward Said’s
Orientalism, in the ways our Western
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culture looks at the Middle East as exotic,
effeminate. It goes all the way back to
Roman occupation in ancient times. If
Rome was anything, it was about the
veneration of the steel-bodied man of
war. The colonist always sees the other as
primitive, emotionally underdeveloped
creatures, much as Freud understood and
treated women as neurotics.
I also started reading historical works
on the period by John Dominic Crossan,
Simon Schama and Reza Aslan. We
know that revolution came out of ancient
Judea, this strip of land under constant
occupation. And all these occupying
Adapted from her remarks to the company on the first day of rehearsal.
Photo by Vinna Laudico.
forces were fascinated by the pride of
the Hebrews. Their whole society was
one large monument dedicated to the
spiritual realm. The land was an ancient
ancestral birthright to them, beyond
reason. To occupy the Hebrews was to
deny them their God. Much like Salomé’s
body—we continue to impose our fears
and longings onto the history of the
Middle East and its current realities.
We have attempted to capture and
preserve these experiences with words.
And in the act of capturing events, we
inevitably impose our political filter
onto them. He (it is almost always a
“he”) who holds the pen captures and
inevitably kills the live transmission. I
thought it vital to make that dynamic
a part of our piece. The written word
cannot be trusted.
There’s a Nameless Woman in your
adaptation.
What is this story about, to you?
Salomé is not named in the New
Testament accounts; she was designated
as such by Flavius, a Roman historian,
decades later. The real girl in the story is
literally nameless. It’s hard to think of a
better metaphor for the ways in which
women were erased from the ancient
scriptures.
What’s your take on Wilde and
his Salomé?
I have innate respect for the Oscar
Wilde’s genius—and his tragedy as
a homosexual man within a brutally
intolerant society. There is an ambiguity
to Wilde’s version of Salomé. Was he
exposing misogyny or unconsciously an
agent of it? It’s very much up for debate,
with Wilde saying either “We must kill
this dangerously sexual woman,” or
“We are complicit in killing dangerously
sexual women.” It is yet another fiction
about a woman silenced.
There’s a lot in this piece about Pilate, the
Sanhedrin, Herod, the men who end up
writing the history.
Some things cannot be written about.
They must be witnessed. Something
happened that night in Machaerus that
was transcendent.
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Wilde tells us it had to do with sex,
that Salomé desired to kiss John the
Baptist’s mouth. The scriptures tell us
it was vengeance, which her mother
Herodias sought against Herod. Women
are still playing the vengeful harpy, in
Hollywood, in everyday life. I could not
be less interested in telling that story.
What if the real story was far more
complex? What if John and Jesus
were deeply political figures in an
occupied country? I am trying to
create a narrative that tells this untold
story—and places this young woman
at the center. This person had a deep
and conscious reason for asking for the
head of John the Baptist.
Who is John the Baptist?
John’s prophecies have been interpreted
in a Christian, messianic sense. He is seen
as a forerunner to Jesus. But if you do
some reading you realize he was saying
we must bring an end to Roman times,
to colonization. He was a zealot, leading
people back across the River Jordan
toward the promised land, just like the
Jews did thousands of years before. That
is why he was threatening. He was a
Hebrew prophet, trying to build a new
and united Hebrew nation. We also know
from the Testaments that Iokanaan (his
been put at war with our own bodies,
real name) was a hunger striker, living
that sensuality is somehow anathema
in the desert on a diet of locusts and
to holiness. Sensuality is a portal to the
honey. Much like Nelson Mandela from
divine. In other words, where Wilde
my home country, he was imprisoned
engages with a Dance of Death, I’m
rather than killed. Keeping beloved
interested in creating a Dance of Life.
revolutionaries alive is a strategic
decision. It
Why tell this
was perhaps
untold story?
politically
I don’t want to shy away
disastrous for
I’m interested
John to die
in telling a story
from the great danger
that night in
that awakens
Machaerus—
the feminine
of the feminine, from
with Salomé
narrative,
as the
that asks the
the notion of powerful
revolutionary
question: at
agent.
what point
sensuality attendant
do we own
We all associate
the possibility
in this story. Of course
this story with
of political
women are dangerous.
the Dance
action? I want
of the Seven
to create the
That’s the beautiful
Veils, which
possibility that
was Wilde’s
this woman,
thing about us.
invention. Are
living under
you going to
an occupying
keep it?
regime, came to
a deep understanding of her selfhood,
I don’t want to shy away from the great
one that allowed her to drive forward
danger of the feminine, from the notion
a political agenda. I hope this speaks to
of powerful sensuality attendant in this
contemporary situations where people
story. Of course women are dangerous.
are made to feel powerless, without
That’s the beautiful thing about us.
control over their own bodies, lacking
political power. Is this yet another
But in my understanding, Salome’s
fantasy of this girl we will never
encounter with Iokanaan is the opposite
know? Inevitably. This is also an act
of the Wilde. In the Wilde, she desires
of invention that counters the myriad
him sexually and he tears her down,
fantasies imposed upon her. As Elie
calling her the whore of Babylon,
Wiesel says: “Some stories are true that
invoking the Book of Revelation.We’re
never happened.”
using the Song of Solomon. He speaks to
her in a way that allows her to reinvest in
the power of her own body and spiritual
life. She isn’t some object to be sexually
used. It is tragic to me that we have
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T
BY GAIL P. STREETE
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The Apparition, Gustave Moreau. 1876. Google Art Project.
he modern history of the
character known as Salomé,
together with her dance,
really begins in 1891, when Oscar
Wilde wrote a drama in French
called “Salomé: A Tragedy in
One Act,” the title role allegedly
intended for Sarah Bernhardt.
Because, since the time of Elizabeth
I, the Lord Chamberlain refused
to license plays containing biblical
characters, the play was not
produced in England. Although an
English translation, with the famous
black-and-white illustrations of
Aubrey Beardsley, came out in
1894, it was not until 1896 that the
play was performed, in its original
French, in Paris. The Salomé of
Wilde’s play is cold and virginal,
but with an unaccountable lust for
the ascetic prophet Jokanaan (John
the Baptist), who rebuffs her as the
“daughter of Babylon, daughter of
Sodom,” because of the adulterous
marriage of her mother, Herodias,
and her stepfather, Herod. Because
his rejection thwarts Salomé’s
desire to touch Jokanaan and
to kiss him on the mouth, she
plots to kill him by fulfilling the
lecherous Herod’s request for a
dance—the infamous “Dance of the
Seven Veils”—which exists only
as a brief stage direction. Having
gotten Herod to agree to give her
whatever she asks, she performs
her dance. At the dance’s end, she
demands the head of the prophet
Jokanaan “on a silver charger.”
Over Herod’s protests and growing
revulsion (“She is monstrous, thy
daughter!” he tells Herodias), her
request is granted. Presented with
the head, she gloats that now she
can kiss the Baptist’s mouth—even
bite it. Horrified, Herod cries, “Kill
that woman!” His soldiers crush
her beneath their shields.
Wilde’s portrayal of Salomé has
been so influential that we must
remember that he himself was
heavily influenced by previous
portrayals of the character. The 19th
century was thick with Decadent
and Symbolist representations
of Salomé, sometimes known by
the alternate name of Herodias.
Heinrich Heine’s Atta Troll portrays
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Herodias in a ghostly cavalcade,
tossing the head of John the Baptist
into the air and kissing his lips.
Gustave Flaubert’s novel Hérodiade
may have provided the outline story
of Wilde’s play; his novel Salammbô
provides the image of a virginal
priestess performing a provocative
dance. J.-K. Huysmans’ novel,
À Rebours (Against the Grain),
portrays a decadent hero who
obsessively contemplates a painting
of Salomé by Gustave Moreau,
whose own fascination with the
character resulted in several
paintings of a bejeweled figure
dancing partially nude or clad in
filmy draperies—the most striking
of which, “L’Apparition” (“The
Apparition”), depicts Salomé in
mid-dance, pointing to the bloody
head of John the Baptist appearing
in the air.
Moreau stands in a long and
continuing line of painters and
sculptors who portrayed Salomé,
beginning with the first known
representation of her in a Greek
manuscript of the Gospel of
Matthew from Sinope, dating from
the 6th century. The illustration
portrays the passage from Matthew
(14:1-12) in which the dance
and the beheading occur. But
Salomé is not dancing here.
Her static figure is smaller
than that of the reclining
Herod, perhaps to indicate
her lower status or her young
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age. Expressionless, she receives the head of
John from a servant. It is with the Romanesque
period (1000-1200), that sculptors in particular
start portraying the dancer, sometimes swaying
sinuously, and in one case, on a column in a
Benedictine cloister, with Herod chucking her
under the chin. A mosaic from the Basilica of San
Marco in Venice (14th century) shows a richly clad
Salomé dancing while holding the platter with
John’s head, poised on her own head with one
hand, like a woman carrying a market basket.
These are some of Moreau’s many predecessors;
his successors continue to portray Salomé
and her dance almost uniformly as a sexually
provocative catalyst for the death of the righteous
John, over whose head she exults. In the late 19th
and early 20th centuries, thanks largely to Moreau
and Wilde, Salomé becomes enshrined in artistic
representation as the quintessential femme fatale.
Gail P. Streete is professor emerita of religious studies, Rhodes College,
Memphis, Tennessee. She is a frequent writer on biblical and early
Christian women, including three books—Her Image of Salvation (1992), The Strange Woman (1998), and Redeemed Bodies
(2009)—and is currently at work on a book, The Salomé Project.
Excerpted from full article published in the e-book Guide to the
Season’s Plays 2015–16, available for purchase for the
Kindle or Nook.
Salomé, Paul Manship.
1915. Smithsonian
American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.
Detail of the Sinope Gospel of Matthew illustration. c. 6th century.
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CAST BIOGRAPHIES
LUBANA AL QUNTAR*
Yaël Farber on the
Primary Sources of
Her New Adaptation
Oscar Wilde, Salomé
How chaste and cold is the moon.
How black it is, down there.
It must be beautiful—to be so alone.
YF: I’ve always thought Wilde’s version
of the piece was purely decadent, a kind
of symbolist dirge, almost purposefully
unconcerned with dramatic tension, as was
very avant-garde at the time. But there is
no denying its extraordinary lyric power, the
beauty and the yearning of the language.
Numbers, Chapter 5
(“The Trial of the Adulteress”)
If thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness,
be thou free from this water of bitterness
that causeth the curse; but if thou hast
gone aside: The LORD make thee a curse
and an oath among thy people, when the
LORD doth make thy thigh to fall away,
and thy belly to swell and this water that
causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels,
and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh
to fall away;
YF: This text from the Old Testament is an
extraordinary depiction of punishments
devised for adulterous women. Gender is
an incredibly important and invisible part
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of the ancient scriptures. It is evident that
women were written out as anything more
than peripheral characters. We do the same in
times of revolution.
Song of Solomon
Who is she that looks forth as the morning,
Fair as the moon,
Clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with
banners?
[…]
He is in the clefts of the rock, in the secret
places of the stairs.
YF: Instead of Wilde, she who seemed to be
invoking the Book of Revelation, we’re using
the Song of Solomon, spoken in Arabic and in
English. Iokanaan speaks to Salomé through
this incredibly beautiful and mysterious
ancient text. She realizes that her godliness
lies in her form: her body, her spiritual and
political drive. Sex and God are deeply a part
of the same currency.
“Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into
the Lower World”
Gatekeeper, ho, open thy gate!
Open thy gate that I may enter!
If thou openest not the gate to let me enter,
I will break the door, I will wrench the lock,
I will smash the door-posts, I will force the
doors.
I will bring up the dead to eat the living.
And the dead will outnumber the living.
YF: At certain moments, we make use of this
beautiful ancient Babylonian poem in which a
woman descends into the Underworld to cut
a deal. She went through seven gates, and
each one she went through she had to give
away a piece of her clothing until she entered
the underworld completely naked. This is
what theatre should be: a kind of exfoliation
until we can meet ourselves in a truer and
more raw, vulnerable, more powerful form.
Adaptor-director Yaël Farber, Olwen Fouéré and Nadine Malouf in rehearsal for Salomé. Photo by Ruthie Rado.
To create the “polyglot” world of Salomé,
Yaël Farber drew on ancient texts as well as
contemporary historical materials. To Farber,
there is something unique about ancient
Judaea. “In Rome, they built coliseums; in
Egypt, they had the pyramids; in Greece,
as we all know, they had theatre. Things
were enacted there. But things were lived
in ancient Judaea, and they continue to
be lived there. This part of the world has
become a place of metaphor for us from a
distance.” Farber’s guiding principle was this
quote by John Dominic Crossan: “There is a
difference between history remembered and
prophecy historicized.”
Singer
OPERA: Theater Bremen:
The Magic Flute, La
Traviata; La Monnaie;
Symfonisch Orkest
van de Vlaamse Opera. AWARDS: 1st
Audience Prize and 4th Place Prize at
the International Jeunesses Musicales
Competition; 5th Place Prize in the
Queen Elisabeth International Music
Competition of Belgium. OTHER:
National Symphony Orchestra: First
Gala Concert; Orchestre Philharmonique
Royal de Liège; Flemish Radio Orchestra;
Al Bustan International Festival; Barts
Academic Festival Chorus & Orchestra.
TRAINING: Conservatorium Maastricht;
High Institute of Music, Damascus; Royal
College of Music, London.
YUVAL BOIM*
Caiaphas
NEW YORK: OffBroadway: The New
Group: Mike Leigh’s Two
Thousand Years; The Public
Theater: Paper Dolls (workshop); Marvel
Rep: Professor Bernhardi; HERE: Velocity;
NYTW: Listening for Our Murderer
(workshop). REGIONAL: George Street
Playhouse: The Pillowman, Wilderness
of Mirrors, And Then They Came for Me;
Huntington Theatre Company, Premiere
Stages, Forestburgh Playhouse, EXIT
Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: WaxFactory;
Bebersee Festival. FILM: Oppenheimer
Strategies, That Awkward Moment, Abbie
Cancelled (Sundance). TELEVISION:
Blue Bloods, Red Oaks, Believe, Law &
Order: SVU, Hunting Season. OTHER:
Fire Island Opera: L’arbre enchanté
(movement director); The Actors Center:
company member. SeXcurity (writer,
upcoming at Cleveland Public Theatre).
INSTRUCTOR: Pace University, SUNY
Purchase: adjunct professor of theatre
and performance. TRAINING: London
International School of Performing Arts:
MFA; Boston University: BFA.
RAMZI CHOUKAIR*
Iokanaan
INTERNATIONAL:
France: Théâtre Jean
Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine,
Avignon, Montpellier: The
Book of Damas, Hiroshima My Love,
Hamlet and Alzir Salem, The Assembly of
Women (2004–2010); Morocco, Toronto,
Edinburgh: A Thousand and One Nights
(2011); Damas, Avignon: Gilgamesh (2000);
Opera of Damas: Diplomats (2004);
National Theatre, Damas: The Possibilities
(1998); Avignon: Roberto Zuco (1996);
ISAD: Servant of Two Masters, The Seagull,
The Thorns (1994–1995); Alep, Damas:
Romeo and Juliet (1993). FILM: Arwad
(Canada, 2013), The King’s Daughter’s Bed.
TELEVISION: Faces and Places (Turkey,
2015), Napoléon Bonaparte (Egypt, 2012);
Stairway of the Wind, Sea Air, Spotslithe,
Cléopatre (1995–2007). TRAINING:
Diploma: Higher Institute of Dramatic
Art, Syria (1995); Master 2 (Paris, 2003).
OTHER: Writer-director: Hamlet and
Alzir Salem, Shitra the King’s Daughter,
The Assembly of Women; Opera of Damas
(artistic director, 2003–2004); Arab
Capital of Culture (technical director,
2008). WEB: ramzichoukair.com. OLWEN FOUÉRÉ*
Nameless Woman
INTERNATIONAL: GIAF,
RNT London, Traverse
Edinburgh, BAM Next
Wave, Sydney Theatre
Company: riverrun (adaptor-performerdirector, voice of the river in James
Joyce’s Finnegans Wake; Irish Times
Special Tribute Award 2013, Herald
Archangel Award 2014); Barbican
International Beckett Festival, Galway
International Arts Festival: Lessness
(performer-director);
TheEmergencyRoom/Rough Magic:
Sodome, My Love (performer-translator);
Barbican: The Bull; ENO, Sadler’s Wells,
Movimento Festival Berlin: The Rite of
Spring/Petrushka with Fabulous Beast
Dance Theatre; Siren Productions: This
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Tender Thing, Titus Andronicus; Abbey
Theatre: The Tempest, By the Bog of Cats,
The Mai; Gate Theatre: Salomé, Peer Gynt,
Uncle Vanya; Edinburgh International
Festival, Barbican, BAM Next Wave: Life
Is a Dream (dir. Calixto Bieito); Projet
Tandem France/Ireland at Bouffes du
Nord, Paris: Paula Spencer. OPERA: NI
Opera/Wide Open Opera: The Importance
of Being Earnest; Cork Opera House:
Maria de Buenos Aires. FILM: The
Survivalist (dir. Stephen Fingleton),
Camillo’s Idea (Venice Biennale 2013), This
Must Be the Place (dir. Paolo Sorrentino).
WEB: www.olwenfouere.com.
JEFF HAYENGA*
Annas
NEW YORK: Broadway:
The Elephant Man, Jeffrey,
The Man Who Came to
Dinner, The Importance
of Being Earnest, Harvey. Off-Broadway:
As Bees in Honey Drown, Sister Mary,
Burkie, Hamlet, Mother Courage, King
Lear; Signature Theatre: Two Rooms;
Lincoln Center: Hapgood. NATIONAL
TOUR: Twelve Angry Men. REGIONAL:
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: The
Winslow Boy; Malibu Playhouse: The
Dream of the Burning Boy; ACT Seattle:
Good Boys; Missouri Rep: Nicholas
Nickleby; Pioneer Theatre: Emma; Intiman:
Love! Valour! Compassion!, A Question
of Mercy; Old Globe: Pride’s Crossing,
Breaking Up. FILM: Other People’s Money,
And the Band Played On, Memron, The
Unborn, The Prince of Pennsylvania,
Center Stage. TELEVISION: Bones, Law
& Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent,
Star Trek (Next Generation and Enterprise),
Jag, Trinity, Bodies of Evidence, New York
Undercover, Jack and Bobby, In the Heat of
the Night, Matlock.
TAMAR ILANA
Singer
NEW YORK: OffBroadway: La MaMa:
Midwinter Night, Fire.Water.
Night, Drink With Death.
INTERNATIONAL TOURS: Ventanas
(Canada); Judith Cohen (Europe).
AWARDS: 2014 Canadian Folk Music
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Awards Nominee for Best Ensemble
and Best Traditional Singer. OTHER:
Recordings: Ventanas (2013), Arrelumbre
(2015). INSTRUCTOR: Academy of
Spanish Dance. TRAINING: Fundación de
Arte Flamenco Cristina Heeren (Seville),
Elaine Overholt (Toronto); University of
Toronto: BSc (Honors) in biology. WEB:
www.tamarilana.com.
SHAHAR ISAAC*
Bar Giora
NEW YORK: Dancing
Turtle (Winner of the
Samuel French Off Off
Broadway Festival); The
Play Company: The Djinns of Eidgah
(workshop); AlphaNYC: Oy!; Roy Arias:
Glee Club; Players Theatre: A Story
Conference in Pilot Season, The More Things
Change; Workshop Theatre Company: The
Medicine Show (workshop). REGIONAL:
George Street Playhouse: Our Town.
INTERNATIONAL: Shakespeare’s Globe
(London): Two Gentlemen of Verona. FILM:
Price for Freedom. TELEVISION: Person of
Interest, Deadly Sins. TRAINING: Rutgers
University: BFA in acting; Shakespeare’s
Globe in London.
ISMAEL KANATER*
Herod
NEW YORK: OffBroadway: La MaMa:
The Diary of a Madman,
The Night Before Thinking,
The Book and the Stranger; Pan Asian
Repertory Theatre: Ghashiram Kotwal,
Medea. REGIONAL: Newport Playhouse:
Caligula; Bright Light Theatre Company:
Arthur Rimbaud in Town; Corner
Stone Theater: Twelfth Night, Ghurba.
INTERNATIONAL: Tayeb Saddiki
Theater Company: Maqamat Badiaa
Ezzamane el Hamadani, Sidi Abderrahman
al Majdub, Essefoud. FILM: Queen of the
Desert (dir. Werner Herzog), Les Larmes
de Satan, Frontieras, Femme Ecrite, The
End, Terminus des Anges, Memoir d’Argile.
TELEVISION: Tut, The Honorable Woman,
Tyrant, Les Loups Ne Dorment Jamais,
Had Asadaka, Hjar Aloued, 24, Over
There, Sleeper Cell, Alias. TRAINING:
Rhode Island School of Design: BFA;
Conservatory Municipal de Casablanca:
Premier prix Drama.
NADINE MALOUF*
Salomé
NEW YORK: OffBroadway: Lincoln Center
(LCT3): The Who & The
What; Cherry Lane: Exile.
NATIONAL TOUR: Les Misérables (25th
anniversary tour). REGIONAL: Syracuse
Stage: Scorched. INTERNATIONAL: Rada:
Macbeth. FILM: May in the Summer
(Sundance 2013 opening film).
TELEVISION: Odd Mom Out. OTHER:
New works and workshops: Sundance
Theatre Lab, Lincoln Center Theater, The
Public Theater. TRAINING: Syracuse
University Drama Department: BFA; Royal
Academy of Dramatic Arts: Certificate
from The Shakespeare Intensive.
RICHARD SAUDEK*
Yeshua the Madman
NEW YORK: OffBroadway: 59E59:
Stockholm, Wolves; Barrow Street Theatre: pool (no water); Ars Nova: Eager to Lose;
The Bushwick Starr: Evelyn; HERE Arts
Center: Oedipus After Colonus; La MaMa: Breath on the Mirror, Teatro
Circulo: What We Know, The Killing
Room; The Player’s Theatre: Dream
of Me; IRT: Regarding Hot Air Balloons;
The Pearl Theatre Company: The
Mandrake. REGIONAL: Williamstown
Theater Festival: Trouble Tales for Boys
and Girls, The Way to Wealth; American
Repertory Theater: pool (no water). FILM:
Broke, Red Chief. TV: Boardwalk Empire.
TRAINING: Bard College: BA in acting.
premieres by Charles Mee, Doug Wright,
Barbara Hammond, Jeffrey Hatcher,
Tonya Barfield. AWARDS: Drama Desk
Award for Israel Horovitz’s Lebensraum
(Off-Broadway); Craig Noel Award for
John Strand’s Lincolnesque (Old Globe).
FILM: El Cielo es Azul, Happy Tears,
Brainscan, experimental films by Marie
Losier, Daniel Fish, Lawrence Krauser.
TELEVISION: The Blacklist, Elementary,
Damages, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie,
Blue Bloods, White Collar, Law & Order:
SVU, The Abolitionists (PBS), The Venture
Brothers. OTHER: many audiobooks, the
Bioshock videogames, Radio Bloomsday
recordings of James Joyce’s Ulyssses.
ELAN ZAFIR*
Abaddon
NEW YORK: FringeNYC:
Leaf in the Mailbox (Best
Ensemble Award); Riant
Theatre: This Is Your
Life; Wings Theatre: Raft of the Medusa;
Greenwich Street Theatre: Romeo &
Juliet; Looking Glass Theatre: Cardboard
Moon. REGIONAL: The Welders/Atlas
Performing Arts Center: Happiness &
Other Reasons to Die; Rep Stage: Venus in
Fur; Signature Theatre: Tender Napalm;
Atlas: Ben&Lucille. TELEVISION: Mr.
Roof (national), Deadline: Crime with
Tamron Hall (Investigation Discovery),
The Making of the Mob (AMC), House
of Cards (Netflix). OTHER: Directing/
playwriting: Ben&Lucille, Super Earth.
T. RYDER SMITH*
Pontius Pilate
NEW YORK: Broadway:
War Horse, Equus; OffBroadway: Our Lady of
Kibeho, Social Security,
Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Passion Play,
The Gods Are Pounding My Head, She
Stoops to Comedy, Underneath the Lintel
(Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding
Solo Performance). REGIONAL: world
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ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHIES
Yaël Farber
Adaptor and Director
INTERNATIONAL: The Crucible (director,
London’s Old Vic, BroadwayWorld U.K./
West End Best Director), Nirbhaya (writerdirector, Asian Media Award, Amnesty
International Freedom of Expression Award,
Scotsman Fringe First Award, Angel Herald
Award), Mies Julie (adaptor-director, The
New York Times Top 10 Productions of 2012,
The Guardian Top 5, Dora Mavor Moore
Award, Elliot Norton Award, Naledi Award,
Best of Edinburgh Award, Scotsman Fringe
First Award, Angel Herald Award, Fleur du
Cap Best Director Award), Molora (adaptordirector, two Naledi Awards), Sezar (adaptordirector, FNB Vita Best Director and Best
Production), Amajuba (writer-director, Drama
Desk Award nomination, Angel Herald
Award), He Left Quietly (writer-director),
Woman in Waiting (writer-director, BBC Gold
Sony Award, Scotsman Fringe First Award).
AWARDS: South Africa Artist of the Year
(2003). INSTRUCTOR: Head of the Directing
Program at the National Theatre School of
Canada (2009-2012). TRAINING: University
of Witwatersrand: BA in dramatic arts. WEB:
www.yfarber.com.
Ami Shulman
Movement Director
INTERNATIONAL: Cirque du Soleil:
One; Göteborg Opera Danskompani:
Varoffer and Body Remix; National Ballet
of Canada: Watershed; Ballet British
Columbia: Giselle; Brussels Philharmonic
Orchestra: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring;
Czech Radio Symphonic Orchestra: Sacre
du Printemps (performer); Repercussion
Theatre (Montreal): Macbeth. TOURS:
Compagnie Marie Chouinard: 24 Preludes of
Chopin, Body Remix, Orpheus and Eurydice,
Sacre du Printemps, Chorale (performer
and acting artistic director); Compagnie
Flak: Adela Mi Amor, Portable Dances,
Anatomies; ‘S,’ Diptych, Miniatures, Personae,
Rite (performer and rehearsal director).
OPERA: State Theatre Opera (South Africa):
Turandot. FILM: Movement Perpetuel:
1001 Lights (installation); Shulman/
Rovan Project: Let us imagine a straight line
(interactive installation). INSTRUCTOR:
Juilliard School, Jacob’s Pillow, Alvin
Ailey School, Boston Conservatory, Hollins
University, Brown University, National
Theatre School of Canada, CODARTS,
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Concordia University, Springboard Project
(artistic associate), UQAM. TRAINING:
University of the Witwatersrand: BA in
dramatic arts; University of South Africa:
BA in psychology .
Susan Hilferty
Scenic and Costume Designer
STC: The Tempest. NEW YORK: Broadway:
Wicked (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
awards), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination),
Lestat (Tony nomination), Annie, Hands on a
Hardbody, Wonderland, August Wilson’s Radio
Golf and Jitney, Assassins, Into the Woods (Tony
and Drama Desk nominations and Hewes
Award), Laurie Anderson’s Moby Dick, How
to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying;
Off-Broadway: New York Shakespeare
Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second
Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, BAM
Theatre Company, Lincoln Center, Playwrights
Horizons, CSC, Roundabout, Circle in the
Square. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla
Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep,
Yale Rep, McCarter Theatre, Alliance Theatre,
Indiana Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Kennedy
Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, ACT
Seattle, Center Stage, ACT San Francisco.
OPERA: Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto; Berlin
Staatsoper and L.A. Opera: Manon; Washington
National Opera: La Finta Giaridiniera. BALLET:
Eliot Feld, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre,
Jennifer Muller. INTERNATIONAL: London,
South Africa, Canada, Mexico, Singapore,
Germany, Australia, Austria, Korea, Japan. OTHER: Taylor Swift Speak Now World Tour,
Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus.
AWARDS: Obie for Sustained Excellence in
Design, Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in
Design and Collaboration, Ruth Morley Design
Award. INSTRUCTOR: Chair: Department of
Design for Stage and Film at NYU’s Tisch School
of the Arts. TRAINING: Syracuse University:
BFA; Yale University: MFA.
Donald Holder
Lighting Designer
NEW YORK: Broadway: The Lion King (Tony
Award), South Pacific (Tony Award), The King
and I (Tony nominated), The Bridges of Madison
County (Tony nominated), Golden Boy (Tony
nominated), Ragtime (Tony nominated), Movin’
Out (Tony nominated), Gem of the Ocean (Tony
nominated), A Streetcar Named Desire (Tony
nominated), Les Liasons Dangereuses (Tony
nominated), Juan Darien (Tony nominated),
On the Twentieth Century, You Can’t Take It With
You, Bullets Over Broadway, Cyrano De Bergerac,
Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Boy From Oz.
REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse, South
Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum,
Goodman, Steppenwolf, Denver Center,
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Baltimore
Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival,
Long Wharf, Huntington, Alley Theatre.
OPERA: Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute,
Two Boys, Otello; Houston Grand: Carmen;
Dallas Opera: Moby Dick, Death and the Powers.
TELEVISION: Smash (NBC).
Mark Bennett
Composer/Sound Designer
STC: Coriolanus. NEW YORK: Broadway:
Macbeth, The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk
Award), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,
Dead Accounts, Driving Miss Daisy, A Steady
Rain, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat,
Henry IV, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life
in the Universe, Golda’s Balcony, A View From
the Bridge; Off-Broadway: BAM/Old Vic:
Composer for all productions of The Bridge
Project; The Public Theater: Why Torture Is
Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Dogeaters,
The Seagull, eight Shakespeare productions;
Lincoln Center Theater: Chaucer in Rome,
The New Century, Saturn Returns; New York
Theatre Workshop: An Illiad (Obie Award),
Valhalla, My Children! My Africa!, Mad Forest.
REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol;
Arena Stage: Rainmaker; The Old Globe: Arms
and the Man, Pygmalion; La Jolla Playhouse: A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Craig Noel Award),
Most Wanted; Huntington Theatre Company:
The Seagull, Dead End, Rose Tattoo. AWARDS:
1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence
in Sound Design, Ovation Award, two
Garland Awards, two Lucille Lortel Award
nominations, 14 Drama Desk nominations.
OTHER: Feature articles in The New York Times,
The Daily News, American Theatre Magazine.
INSTRUCTOR: New York University: adjunct
faculty. TRAINING: Vassar College: BFA in
composition/orchestration; New England
Conservatory.
Robb Hunter
Fight Consultant
STC: Fight director: Othello (2016), As You
Like It, Measure for Measure, The Alchemist,
The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet (asst. FD). NEW
YORK: Theatre Harlem: Love Child; Black
Spectrum Theatre: A Soldier’s Play; Chekhov
Theatre Ensemble: Cyrano. REGIONAL:
Arena Stage: King Hedley II, Ruined, Stick Fly,
Noises Off, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire du
Lune, The Heidi Chronicles; Studio Theatre:
Bad Jews, Belleville, Red Speedo (Helen Hayes
choreography nomination),The Motherf**ker
with the Hat, Invisible Man, The Walworth Farce
(HH choreography nomination), Superior
Donuts, American Buffalo, Reasons to Be Pretty,
Legends; Olney Theatre: The Piano Lesson, Bus
Stop, Oliver!, The Millionairess, Carousel; Rep
Stage, Washington Shakespeare, Baltimore
Shakespeare. OPERA: Washington National
Opera: Carmen, Moby Dick, Hamlet, Don
Giovanni; Regina Opera: Otello, Carmen, I
Pagliacci. TELEVISION: Spin City (stunt
double, Michael J. Fox); Panic 911 (firearms
coordinator). AWARDS: ACTF Certificate of
Merit in Fight Direction for Ubu Roi (American
University), Likhachev Foundation Cultural
Fellowship to Russia. OTHER: Founder/CEO
of Preferred Arms, Inc., Theatrical Weapons.
INSTRUCTOR: American University:
artist in residence. TRAINING: Virginia
Commonwealth University: MFA in theatre
pedagogy; certified fight director and teacher
for the Society of American Fight Directors.
Carter C. Wooddell
Resident Casting Director
See page 37
Drew Lichtenberg
Literary Manager
See page 37
Ellen O’Brien
Voice and Text Coach
See page 37
Rob Jansen
Assistant Director
INTERNATIONAL: Yaël Farber ’s Nirbhaya.
REGIONAL: Mead Theatre Lab: The Tramp’s
New World (Adapter/Performer); Arena
Stage: Ah, Eugene O’Neill! (Adapter/
Performer) (Eugene O’Neill Festival);
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company: The
Women of Troy, Troilus and Cressida, Long
Day’s Journey Into Night, As You Like It,
Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar,
Twelfth Night; First Stage: Doubt; Synetic
Theater: Three Men in a Boat; Know Theatre:
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches/
Perestroika; New Stage Collective;
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Seattle
Shakespeare Company. TRAINING:
University of Maryland: MFA.
Laura Smith*
Production Stage Manager
REGIONAL: Center Stage: 4000 Miles,
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After the Revolution, It’s a Wonderful Life:
A Live Radio Play, Amadeus, Wild with
Happy, Twelfth Night, Stones in His Pockets,
dance of the holy ghosts, Clybourne Park,
Beneatha’s Place, The Mountaintop, Bus
Stop, An Enemy of the People, The Whipping
Man, Gleam, The Rivals, Snow Falling on
Cedars, Cyrano, Working It Out, Fabulation
or, The Re-Education of Undine, Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?, Joe Turner’s Come and
Gone; Contemporary American Theater
Festival: World Builders; Folger Theatre:
Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors;
Woolly Mammoth Theater Company:
Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold,
The Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley;
Everyman Theatre: Pygmalion, Shipwrecked,
The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem
of the Ocean, And a Nightingale Sang, The
School for Scandal, A Number, Someone
Who’ll Watch Over Me, Yellowman; Olney
Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater Alliance:
Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea.
Elizabeth Clewley*
Assistant Stage Manager
STC: The Metromaniacs, The Importance of
Being Earnest (stage manager); Tartuffe, As
You Like It, The Winter’s Tale (Free For All
and Mainstage), Private Lives, Wallenstein,
The Government Inspector, The Servant of
Two Masters, The Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar
(Free For All), Old Times, Cymbeline,
Twelfth Night (Free For All), The Liar
(assistant stage manager). REGIONAL:
Hartford Stage: Macbeth, La Dispute
(assistant stage manager), Hartford Stage
50th Anniversary Gala (stage manager);
Theater of the American South: Driving
Miss Daisy (stage manager); Cape Fear
Regional Theatre: Thoroughly Modern Millie,
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella,
Tuesdays with Morrie (stage manager).
INTERNATIONAL: International Festival
of Arts and Ideas; International VSA
Festival. TRAINING: East Carolina
University: BFA in stage management.
Performance Calendar
SALOMÉ
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adapted and directed by Yaël Farber
October 6–November 8
Lansburgh Theatre
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REFLECTIONS
SIGN-INTERPRETED
YOUNG PROSE NIGHT
CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS
POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS
FREE
There will be a post-show discussion after
every evening performance of Salomé, after
opening night.
FREE
Sunday, October 11, 5 p.m.
Lansburgh Theatre Lobby
Explore the production with STC’s artistic staff and
local scholars.
BOOKENDS
ASIDESLIVE SYMPOSIUM:
WHERE ARE WOMEN’S VOICES? FREE
Saturday, October 24, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
The Forum in Sidney Harman Hall
This three-hour event will give audiences and artists
an opportunity to look at this issue from a variety
of perspectives. The conversation will range from
historical looks at the consequences of missing
voices, to whether there is a unique quality to
female language and female dramaturgy.
Reservations required.
FREE
Wednesday, October 14, pre-show (5:30 p.m.) and
post-show
Lansburgh Theatre Lobby
Immerse yourself in the world of the play with preand post-show discussions.
Free with performance ticket.
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AUDIO-DESCRIBED
BOOKENDS
OPEN CAPTION
ASIDESLIVE
OPENING NIGHT
Open Caption performances
made by possible by a grant from
PAGE AND STAGE
The designers at this theatre are represented by
United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, of the
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
Calendar Key
REFLECTIONS
FREE
Saturday, October 31, 5 p.m.
Lansburgh Theatre Lobby
Discuss the production from multiple perspectives.
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BARD Monday, December 7
ASSOCIATION
7 p.m.
Lansburgh Theatre
For trial and reception
tickets ($125), please call
Eric Bailey, 202.547.3230
ext. 2312.
For trial-only tickets
($75), please call the
Box Office, 202.547.1122,
option 4.
Photo of Nadine Malouf and Olwen Fouéré by Scott Suchman.
New York Botanical Garden. Photo by Sally Gall, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
Opens October 17 at the National Building Museum
This exhibition showcases the revolutionary modern landscape architecture of
Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden, whose self-sustaining, meadowlike landscapes exemplified what came to be known as the New American
Garden. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with The Cultural
Landscape Foundation. Learn more at go.nbm.org/ovs.
401 F Street NW
FOR SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY
Michael Kahn
Artistic Director
STC: The Metromaniacs. Henry IV,
Part 1 and 2, Wallenstein, The
Government Inspector, Strange
Interlude, The Heir Apparent, Old
Times, All’s Well That Ends Well,
The Liar, Richard II, The Alchemist, Design for Living,
The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra (2008),
Tamburlaine, Hamlet (2007), Richard III (2007), The
Beaux’ Stratagem, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Othello,
Lorenzaccio, Macbeth (2004), Cyrano, Five by Tenn (at
the Kennedy Center), The Silent Woman, The
Winter’s Tale (2002), The Duchess of Malfi, The
Oedipus Plays, Hedda Gabler, Don Carlos, Timon of
Athens, Camino Real, Coriolanus, King Lear (1999),
The Merchant of Venice, King John, A Woman of No
Importance, Sweet Bird of Youth, Peer Gynt, Mourning
Becomes Electra, Henry VI, Volpone, Henry V, Henry
IV, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Richard II, Much Ado
About Nothing (also at McCarter Theatre Center),
Mother Courage and Her Children, Hamlet, Measure
for Measure, King Lear (1991), Richard III (1990), The
Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, As You Like
It, Antony and Cleopatra (1988), Macbeth (1988), All’s
Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale (1987), Romeo
and Juliet. NEW YORK: Broadway: Show Boat
(Tony nomination), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Whodunnit, Night of the Tribades, Death of Bessie
Smith, Here’s Where I Belong, Othello, Henry V;
Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Five by
Tenn, Sleep Deprivation Chamber, Funnyhouse of a
Negro, The Rimers of Eldritch, Three by Thornton
Wilder, A Month in the Country, Hedda Gabler, The
Señorita from Tacna, Ten by Tennessee; New York
Shakespeare Festival: Measure for Measure
(Saturday Review Award). Artistic Director: The
Acting Company, 1978–1988. TEACHING: Richard
Rodgers Director of Juilliard Drama Division July
1992–May 2006, faculty member 1967–;
Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy for
Classical Acting at The George Washington
University. Previously: New York University;
Circle in the Square Theatre School; Princeton
University; British American Drama Academy;
founder of Chautauqua Theatre Conservatory.
REGIONAL: Arena Stage: A Touch of the Poet;
Signature Theatre: Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill,
Otabenga; Guthrie Theater: The Duchess of Malfi;
American Repertory Theatre: ‘Tis Pity She’s a
Whore; American Shakespeare Theatre: Artistic
Director for 10 years, more than 20 productions;
McCarter Theatre Center: Artistic Director for five
seasons, including Beyond the Horizon, filmed for
PBS; Chautauqua Theatre: Artistic Director,
including The Glass Menagerie with Tom Hulce;
Goodman Theatre: Old Times (MacArthur Award),
The Tooth of Crime (Jefferson nomination); Ford’s
Theatre: Eleanor. OPERA: Roméo et Juliette for Dallas
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Opera; Vanessa for the New York City Opera
(2007); Lysistrata or The Nude Goddess for Houston
Grand Opera and New York City Opera; Vanessa
for Washington Opera and Dallas Opera; Show
Boat for Houston Grand Opera; Carmen for
Houston and Washington Operas; Carousel for
Miami Opera; Julius Caesar for San Francisco Spring
Opera. INTERNATIONAL: Love’s Labor’s Lost at
the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete
Works Festival; The Oedipus Plays at the Athens
Festival; Five by Tenn for The Acting Company’s
tour of Eastern Europe; Show Boat for the National
Cultural Center Opera House in Cairo; The White
Devil for the Adelaide Festival. BOARD
MEMBERSHIPS: Theatre Communications Group;
New York State Council on the Arts; D.C.
Commission on the Arts and Humanities; National
Endowment for the Arts; Opera America’s 80s and
Beyond. AWARDS: Commander of the British
Empire (C.B.E.); Theater Hall of Fame; seven Helen
Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director; 2011
CAGLCC Excellence in Business Award; 2010
WAPAVA Richard Bauer Award; 2007 Mayor’s
Arts Award Special Recognition for Shakespeare in
Washington; 2007 Stephen and Christine
Schwarzman Award for Excellence in Theatre;
2007 Sir John Gielgud Award for Excellence in the
Dramatic Arts; 2005 Person of the Year from the
National Theatre Conference; 2004 Shakespeare
Society Medal; 2002 William Shakespeare Award
for Classical Theatre; 2002 Distinguished
Washingtonian Award from The University Club;
2002 GLAAD Capitol Award; 1997 Mayor’s Arts
Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline; 1996
Opera Music Theater International’s Bravo Award;
1990 First Annual Shakespeare’s Globe Award;
1989 Washingtonian Magazine Washingtonian of the
Year; 1989 Washington Post Award for
Distinguished Community Service; 1988 John
Houseman Award. HONORARY DOCTORATES:
University of South Carolina; Kean College; The
Juilliard School; The American University.
Chris Jennings
Executive Director
STC: Joined the Company in
2004. ADMINISTRATION:
General Manager: Trinity
Repertory Company (1999–
2004), Theatre for a New
Audience (1997–1999); Associate Managing
Director: Yale Repertory Theatre; Assistant to the
Executive Producer: Manhattan Theater Club;
Founder/Producing Director: Texas Young
Playwrights Festival; Manager: Dougherty Arts
Center. MEMBERSHIPS: Currently serves on the
Board of the Theatre Communications Group,
D.C. Downtown BID, THE ARC, D.C. Arts
Collaborative, the Penn Quarter Neighborhood
Association, Theatre Washington, and is a member
of the League of Resident Theatres (served on
AEA and SSDC Negotiating Committees); has
served as a panelist for the NEA, D.C. Commission
on the Arts and Humanities, Mid Atlantic Arts
Foundation and Pew Theatre Initiative. AWARDS:
Arts Administration Fellowship: National
Endowment for the Arts. TRAINING: University
of Miami: BFA in Theatre/Music; Yale School of
Drama: MFA in Theatre Management.
Alan Paul
Associate Artistic Director
STC: Man of La Mancha, A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum (2014 Helen Hayes Award for
Best Director of a Musical), The Boys from Syracuse,
The Winter’s Tale (Free For All), Twelfth Night (Free
For All), As You Like It (Associate Director), Henry
IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Associate Director), numerous
galas, readings, and special events; Assistant
Director: 13 shows. THEATRE DIRECTING:
Signature Theatre: I Am My Own Wife; Studio
Theatre 2ndStage: Silence! The Musical, The Rocky
Horror Show (co-director); Catholic University:
Man of La Mancha; University of Maryland: The
Matchmaker; Apex Theatre Company: Richard II;
Northwestern University: Six Degrees of Separation;
readings for Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly
Mammoth Theatre Company, The National
Academy of Sciences, The Phillips Collection, The
Goethe Institut, Georgetown University. OPERA
DIRECTING: Washington National Opera: Penny;
Urban Arias: Blind Dates, Before Breakfast, The Filthy
Habit, Photo-Op; The In Series: Dido and Aeneas, El
Amor Brujo; Strathmore Concert Hall: Butterfly/
Saigon, Blind Dates. Finalist for the 2013 European
Opera Directing Prize (Vienna, Austria). Acting
Instructor for the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists
Program at WNO.
Drew Lichtenberg
Literary Manager
STC: Tartuffe, Man of La Mancha, The Metromaniacs,
The Tempest, As You Like It, Private Lives, Henry
IV, Part 1 and 2, The Importance of Being Earnest,
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,
Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, Wallenstein, Hughie,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Government
Inspector, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Servant of
Two Masters, Strange Interlude, The Two Gentlemen of
Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, The Heir Apparent.
REGIONAL: STC/McCarter Theatre Center: The
Winter’s Tale; Center Stage: Caroline, or Change,
Cyrano, Around the World in 80 Days; Yale Repertory
Theatre: Lulu (dir. Mark Lamos); Williamstown
Theatre Festival: The Front Page, The Physicists, The
Corn Is Green; New York Shakespeare Festival:
Macbeth (dir. Moisés Kaufman); OTHER: Yale
School of Drama: Tarell McCraney’s In the Red and
Brown Water (U.S. premiere); TEACHING: Catholic
University of America; Eugene Lang College at the
New School. TRAINING: Yale School of Drama:
MFA in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism.
Ellen O’Brien
Head of Voice and Text
STC: More than 50 productions over 11 seasons.
ACADEMY FOR CLASSICAL ACTING: 22
productions of Shakespeare and Jacobean plays.
REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre, Arena Stage,
Charlotte Repertory Company, Aurora/Magic
Theaters; People’s Light and Theatre Company;
Shakespeare Santa Cruz; North Carolina
Shakespeare Festival. PUBLICATIONS: Articles
in The Voice and Speech Review, Shakespeare in the
Twentieth Century, Shakespearean Illuminations,
Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare
and the Arts, The Voice and Speech Review: Associate
Editor for Heightened Text, Verse and Scansion.
TRAINING: Yale University: MA, MPhil, PhD
(English); Central School of Speech and Drama/
The Open University (London): Advanced
and Post-Graduate Diplomas in Voice Studies.
TEACHING: Academy for Classical Acting;
University of California, Santa Cruz; Guilford
College; Kirkland College.
Carter C. Wooddell
Resident Casting Director
STC: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Free For All),
Tartuffe, Man of La Mancha, The Metromaniacs,
The Tempest, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale,
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of
Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of
Venice. Other Casting Experience: NEW YORK:
Broadway: Belasco Theatre: End of the Rainbow
(dir: Terry Johnson), Booth Theatre: High (dir: Rob
Ruggiero); Off-Broadway (partial): Barrow Street
Theatre: Tribes (dir: David Cromer), Our Town (dir:
David Cromer), The Acting Company, Marjorie
S. Deane Little Theater: Freud’s Last Session (dir:
Tyler Marchant), Cherry Lane Theatre: A Perfect
Future (dir: Wilson Milam), SoHo Playhouse: The
Irish Curse (dir: Matt Lenz), Beckett Theatre: An
Error of the Moon (dir: Kim Weild); NYC Other:
Lincoln Center Institute: Hamlet, Fly, Sheila’s Day.
NATIONAL TOURS: The Acting Company,
Riverdance. REGIONAL: Alley Theatre, Center
Stage, Barrington Stage Company, The Broad
Stage, Contemporary American Theater Festival,
Crossroads Theatre Company, George Street
Playhouse, The Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh
Public Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford. RADIO:
BBC Radio: The Piano Lesson (dir: Claire Grove).
TELEVISION: Sesame Workshop: The Electric
Company, Pilot: 27 East. FILM: Columbia Pictures:
Premium Rush (dir: David Koepp), Choice Films:
Junction (dir: Tony Glazer). OTHER CASTING
EXPERIENCE: McCorkle Casting, Ltd.
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SUPPORT
We gratefully acknowledge the following donors who currently
support the work of the 2015–2016 season.
This list is current as of September 11, 2015.
$100,000 and above
Beech Street Foundation T
D.C. Commission on the
Arts & Humanities
The Erkiletian Family
Foundation T
The Harman Family Foundation T
The Honorable Jane Harman
John and Meg Hauge T
HRH Foundation
Michael R. Klein and
Joan I. Fabry T BA
The Robert P. and Arlene R.
Kogod Family Foundation
Share Fund
Robert H. Smith Family
Foundation
Suzanne and Glenn Youngkin
$50,000 to $99,999
Paul M. Angell Family
Foundation
Anita M. Antenucci T
Afsaneh Beschloss T
The Morris & Gwendolyn
Cafritz Foundation
Dr. Mark Epstein and
Amoretta Hoeber T
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Falb T
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Florance
The Philip L. Graham Fund
Pamela and Richard Hanlon
Mr. Jerry Knoll
National Capital Arts & Cultural
Affairs Program/US Comm.
of Fine Arts
The Shubert Foundation
$25,000 to $49,999
Anonymous
William S. Abell Foundation
Anne and Ronald Abramson
Nick and Marla Allard T BA
Stephen E. Allis T
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
James A. Feldman and Natalie
Wexler
Nina Zolt and Miles Gilburne T
Catherine Held
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A.
Hopkins T
Jerry and Isabel Jasinowski T
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Kolevar T
Abbe David Lowell and Molly A.
Meegan T BA
Jacqueline B. Mars
Ann K. Morales
Alan and Marsha Paller
Toni A. Ritzenberg
Stephen and Lisa Ryan T BA
Shakespeare for a
New Generation
Fredda Sparks and
Kent Montavon
Tom and Cathie Woteki T AMB
The Dallas Morse Coors
Foundation for the
Performing Arts
The Max and Victoria
Dreyfus Foundation
Helen Clay Frick Foundation
Sue and Leslie Goldman
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Mike and Gina House T BA
Humana Inc.
Ms. Elaine Economides Joost 1616
Helen Kenney
The Jacob and Charlotte
Lehrman Foundation
James J. Lynch
Michelle Newberry
Pauline A. Schneider T BA
Judi Seiden AMB
Solon E. Summerfield
Foundation
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Lynn and Jonathan Yarowsky
Turner & Goss
$15,000 to $24,999
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Altria Group, Inc.
The Theodore H. Barth
Foundation
Brown-Forman Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Landon Butler T
The Carmen Group
Computer and Communications
Industry Association
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$10,000
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Esthy and Jim Adler
Aflac
Sheila and Kenneth Berman BA
Peter A. Bieger
Bill Bodie T
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Mr. Peter Cherukuri T
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The Clark-Winchcole Foundation
CLS Strategies
Douglas Development Corporation
Nina Laserson Dunn and
Eric C. Rose BA
E. and B. Family Trust
Patricia and Miguel Estrada
Arthur and Shirley Fergenson ACA
Gould Property Group
Grossberg, Yochelson,
Fox & Beyda LLP
Scott Kaufmann T
Margot Kelly
Roger W. Langsdorf
David Lawson
Eleanor Merrill
Morgan Stanley
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Melissa Moss
Tom Mounteer and Bobby Zeliger
Clarke Murphy and
Heather Hammond
Nissan North America, Inc.
Theodore B. Olson and
Lady Booth Olson BA
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and Dr. Phoebe Sharkey AMB
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Foundation
$5,000
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Alston & Bird LLP
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British Council
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The Honorable Joan Churchill and
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Richard H. Cleva and
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Mary Cole AMB
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DAVIS Construction
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Bricklayers and Allied
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Daniel F. Katz BA
Irene and Lou Katz
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Barry Kropf
Marcel C. LaFollette and Jeffrey K.
Stine ACA
Bill Lands and Norberta Schoene
Richard Levi and Susan Perry
Wm. Gary and Phoebe Mallard ACA
Kathleen Matthews
Hilary B. Miller and
Dr. Katherine N. Bent BA
Hazel C. Moore
Kristine Morris
Rita Mullin
National Cable &
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Madeline Nelson
The Nora Roberts Foundation
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Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer
William Pugh and Lisa Orange
Reset Public Affairs
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Alexander
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Bob, Kathy and Lauren
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Capitol Counsel LLC
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Association
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International Brotherhood
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Gift Fund
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Frank D. Kistler
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In memory of
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In memory of Michael E. Patten
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UP NEXT: KISS ME, KATE
AN
INTERVIEW
WITH STC
ASSOCIATE
ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR
ALAN
PAUL,
DIRECTOR
OF KISS
ME, KATE
Great couples have always had
enormous appeal, and the fire
between Kate and Petruchio has
been the main attraction for most
productions of Shrew or Kate.
We have two fabulous leading
performers, Douglas Sills and
Christine Sherrill, who will bring
tremendous depth and vibrancy to
these roles.
Photo of Director Alan Paul at Meet the Cast for last season’s Man of La Mancha, by S. Christian Taylor-Low
Kiss Me, Kate is such a
Shakespearean musical. Has STC
been eager to do it?
Is it important for Kiss Me, Kate to
share a season with The Taming of
the Shrew?
It has always been at the top of
our list, and a dream show of mine.
It combines my two passions—
Shakespeare and musical theatre.
The show is a fabulous challenge for
any director, because it’s really two
shows: it’s about a group of actors
in the 1940s who are putting on a
musical version of The Taming of the
Shrew. There is the gritty world of
backstage, as well as the onstage
sections of Shrew. Kiss Me, Kate is a
big endeavor, and I finally felt I was
ready to do it. When you’re directing
a musical, you’re the ringleader of a
very big circus.
Absolutely. It will be very interesting
for audiences to see two versions
of the same story. Shakespeare and
Cole Porter riffed so differently on
themes of gender and love, and the
two works talk to each other in a
unique way. And, ultimately, both
works have very different things
to say about relationships and the
eternal battle of the sexes.
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We are really going to explore the
relationship between Fred and Lilli,
which is as deep and complicated
as any onstage pairing I can think of.
Kiss Me, Kate is a love story about a
couple with a lot of baggage. Fred
and Lilli are clearly meant to be
with each other, but it takes them
the entire evening to really come
together. They have to overcome
their own egos, and they have to
learn how to be vulnerable.
What’s different for audiences
watching the show in 2015, and
what drives its appeal?
Modern audiences want a different
level of psychological complexity
than would have been in the
performance style of the 1940s.
How are you approaching the
dance elements?
that are very unusual to see in one
person: he’s an extraordinary singer,
he’s a deeply gifted comic actor,
and he’s also a Shakespearean
actor. I can’t think of anyone else
in the world who can do what he
can do with this part. And Christine
Sherrill is a very exciting performer
to watch. She just gave a wonderful
performance in The Fix at Signature
Theatre, so Washington audiences
will get to see more of her. Like
Doug, she’s an incredible singer and
actress, and very funny. I’m full of
nail-biting anticipation imagining
what these two are going to do
together onstage.
We also have a real-life husband
and wife playing Bill and Lois: Clyde
Alves and Robyn Hurder. Clyde
just wrapped up On the Town on
Broadway, and Robyn is a great
Broadway performer. To have a
couple playing a couple, it’s just
another level of fun and possibility.
We have a fantastic choreographer,
Michele Lynch, who’s familiar to
Washington audiences for her work
on Show Boat at the Washington
National Opera. Michele has a
tremendous knowledge of period
dance, and we have an extraordinary
opportunity to showcase many
styles. We’re also going to do a lot
of tap dancing, which is not normally
done in the show. It was done in the
movie, to show off the talents of
tapper Ann Miller, who played Lois.
It’s going to be dance, dance, dance.
Tell us more about the stars of
the show.
I’ve admired Douglas Sills since I
saw him in The Scarlet Pimpernel
on Broadway. He has three qualities
KISS ME, KATE begins November 17
at Sidney Harman Hall.
Tickets at ShakespeareTheatre.org or
202.547.1122.
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SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY
STAFF
Artistic Director
Executive Director
Michael Kahn
Chris Jennings
Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director
and Executive Director David Lloyd Olson
ARTISTIC
Associate Artistic Director
Alan Paul
Head of Voice and Text
Ellen O’Brien
Resident Casting Director
Carter C. Wooddell
Literary Manager
Drew Lichtenberg
Artistic Associate
Craig Baldwin
Artistic Fellow
Ryan-Patrick McLaughlin
Affiliated Artists
Keith Baxter, Avery Brooks,
Helen Carey, Veanne Cox, Aubrey Deeker,
Colleen Delany, Franchelle Stewart Dorn,
Cameron Folmar, Adam Green, Edward Gero,
Philip Goodwin, Jane Greenwood, Michael Hayden,
Simon Higlett, Christopher Innvar, Naomi Jacobson,
Stacy Keach, Floyd King, Andrew Long,
Ethan McSweeny, Jennifer Moeller, David Muse, Hugh Nees,
James Noone, Patrick Page, Robert Perdziola,
Nancy Robinette, David Sabin, Miriam Silverman,
Derek Smith, Walt Spangler, Tom Story,
Rebecca Taichman, Ted van Griethuysen,
Craig Wallace, Adam Wernick, Gregory Wooddell
ADMINISTRATION
Director of Administration
James Roemer
Associate Managing Director
Anne S. Kohn
Human Resources Manager Lindsey Morris
Human Resources Coordinator
Ryn Weil
Accounting Manager
Mary Margaret Finneran
Staff Accountant
Marco Dimuzio
Company Manager
Mackenzie Douglas
Receptionist
Ursula David
General Management Fellow
Kathryn Atkinson
Company Management Fellow
Averill Corkin
Director of Operations
Timothy Fowler
Operations/IT Assistant
Sloane A.L. Spencer
Theatre Building Engineer
Dave F. Henderson
Theatre Monitors
Milton Garcia, Jeff Whitlow
Facilities Custodian
Jorge Ramos Lima
Harman Custodians
Dennis Fuller, Mirna Guzman,
Roderick Proctor
Lansburgh Custodians
Zulma I. Bonilla,
Izilma Membreno, David Guzman
Director of Information Technology Brian McCloskey
Systems Administrator
Patrick Hayes
Database Administrator
Brian Grundstrom
Operations IT Assistant
Sloane Spencer
DEVELOPMENT
Chief Development Officer
Ed Zakreski
Senior Associate Director of Development Amy Gardner
Major Gifts Officers
Eric Bailey
Betsy Purves
Special Events Manager
Moriah Lemming
Gala Assistant
Freddy Mancilla
Development Operations and
Membership Manager
Kristina Williams
Development Operations Coordinator
Sara Seidler
Membership Coordinator Arielle Katz
Associate Director of Development
Noreen Major
Corporate Giving Manager
Katie Burns-Yocum
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Government Relations
Meghann Babo-Shroyer
Institutional Fundraising Coordinator
Michael Trottier
Development Fellow
Elena Robertson
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Chief Marketing Officer
Michael Porto
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Communications Assistant Alison Ehrenreich
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and Promotions
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Joy Johnson
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Gary McKain
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Jill McAfee, Joanna Morgan, Cynthia Perdue,
Amy Sloane, Chris Soto, Robert Vierick
Theatre Services Manager
Dora Hoyt
House Manager
Robert Montenegro
Lead House Managers
Stephanie Atkinson,
Erica Brown, Addie Gayoso, Marie Riley
Assistant House Managers Melissa Adler, Kathryn Atkinson,
Jeremy Blunt, Ron Hoekstra, Chris Hunt,
Donald Jones, Susan Koenig, Jamel Levine,
Molly Nevola, Carmelitta Riley, Shaun Russell,
Bridget Sheaff, Christopher Schoen, Alex Zeese
Retail and Concessions Manager
Kristra Forney
Concessions Associates Joy Falzarano, Adrianne Glover,
Amelia Brookins, Justin Lane, Aaron Lewis,
Chris Pearson, Elena Robertson, Petrice Roman,
Robert Russell, Christopher Schoen,
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Kara Tesch, Eric Woods
Retail Associates
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Tiara Copeland, Kara Tesch
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Communications and PR
Jonathan Padget
Web and Media Programmer
Brien Patterson
PR/Marketing Fellow
Catherine Shook
Visual Communications
Manager
S. Christian Taylor-Low
Junior Graphic Designer
Taylor Henry
Graphics Fellow
Ruthie Rado
Photographers
Kevin Allen, Margot Schulman,
Scott Suchman
EDUCATION
Director of Education
Samantha K. Wyer
Associate Director of Education
Dat Ngo
Audience Enrichment Manager Hannah Hessel Ratner
Community Engagement Manager Laura Henry Buda
School Programs Manager
Vanessa Hope
Training Programs Manager
Brent Stansell
Education Coordinator
Emily Marcello
Education Fellow
Thanh Nguyen
Resident Teaching Artist
Renea Brown
Affiliated Teaching Artists
Elizabeth Alman,
Tonya Beckman, Kevin Brown, Dan Crane, Katie deBuys,
Jim Gagne, Brit Herring, Paul Hope, Naomi Jacobson,
Joy Jones, Manu Kumasi, Alina Collins Maldonado,
Chelsea Mayo, Brenna McDonough,
Victoria Reinsel, Paul Reisman, Melissa Richardson,
Robert Bowen Smith, Stephen Spotswood, Latia Stokes,
Khaleshia Thorpe-Price, Katie Tkel,
Michele Vicino, Eva Wilhelm, Gregory Wooddell
THE ACADEMY FOR CLASSICAL ACTING
The Academy for Classical
Acting Director Gary Logan
ACA Program Coordinator
Bekah Eichelberger
Faculty Members
Isabelle Anderson,
Christopher Cherry, Dody DiSanto, Edward Gero,
Leslie Jacobson, Lisae Jordan, Michael Kahn, Floyd King,
Gary Logan, Ellen O’Brien, Roberta Stiehm, Brad Waller
PRODUCTION
Director of Production
Tom Haygood
Associate Directors of Production
Tim Bailey,
Kimberly Lewis
Production Administrator
Emmy Landskroener
Resident Production Stage Manager Joseph Smelser
Stage Managers
James FitzSimmons, Laura Smith
Assistant Stage Managers
Elizabeth Clewley,
Maria Tejada, Robyn M. Zalewski
Production Assistant
Rebecca Shipman
Stage Management Fellows
Eric Michael Batts,
Micaela Cirimeli
Costume Director
Wendy Stark Prey
Floor Manager
Julie Rose
Resident Design Assistant
Lynda Myers
Drapers
Denise Aitchison, Randall Exton,
Tonja Petersen
First Hands
Jennifer Rankin, Sandra Thomas,
Sara Cardwell
Stitchers
Kathryn Hansen, Michele Ordway,
Donna Sachs
Lead Crafts Artisan
Joshua Kelley
Design Assistant/Crafts Artisan
Kara Tesch
Wardrobe Supervisors
Jeanette Lee Porter,
Monica Speaker
Wig Master
Dori Beau Seigneur
Costume Design Fellow
Amelia Brookins
Costume Production Fellows
Natalie Flango
Mackenzie Malone
Technical Director
Mark Prey
Assistant Technical Director
Kelly Dunnavant
Scene Shop Administrator
Jessica Noones
Carpenters
John Cincioni, Jr., Justin Carnes,
Carrie Cox, Christian Sullivan
Charge Scenic Artist
Sally Glass
Scenic Artist
Jose Ortiz
Scenic Painter
Kelly Rice
Prop Shop Director
Elaine Sabal
Assistant Prop Shop Director
Guy Palace
Lead Props Artisan
Chris Young
Props Painter/Sculptor
Eric Hammesfahr
Soft Goods Artisan
Rebecca Williams
Master Electrician
Sean R. McCarthy
Assistant Master Electrician Lauren A. Hill
Harman Electrician
Brian Flory
Lansburgh Electrician Jacob Moriarty-Stone
Lighting Assistant
Elizabeth A. Coco
Audio/Video Supervisor
Brian Burchett
Assistant Audio/Video Supervisor Roc Lee
Live Mix Engineer
Ryan Gravett
Lansburgh Board Operator
Kurt Davis
Stage Operations Supervisor
Louie Baxter
Assistant Stage Operations SupervisorFran Hopkins-Maxwell
Stage Carpenters
Derek Antoine, Nick Custer
Run Crew
Marc Wasserman, Rachel Wolf
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Please request special seating at time of ticket
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Open-captioned performance of Salomé:
Thursday, October 22 at 8 p.m.
Audio-described performance of Salomé:
Saturday, October 31 at 2 p.m.
Sign-interpreted performance of Salomé:
Tuesday, November 3 at 7:30 p.m.
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performances. Both headset receivers and neck loops
(to use with hearing aids outfitted with a “T” switch)
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courtesy, turn off pagers, telephones, watch alarms and
all other electronic devices during the performance.
Audience members may be reached during a
performance by calling house management at
202.547.3230 ext. 2517. Specify seat location.
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Artistic Director, STC