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three by three in rep 

three world premieres 

three by three in rep 

three world premieres 

Sparrow Grass 

by Curt Columbus 

Sparrow Grass 

The by Curt Mourners’ Columbus Bench 

The Mourners’ by Bench GeorGe brant 

by GeorGe brant 

Love Alone 

Love Alone 

by deborah salem smith 

by deborah salem smith 

trinity repertory company

The Mourner’s Bench by George Brant 

directed by Michael Perlman 

Now - May 24, 2012 

Part of Three by Three in Rep 

TRINITY REP PHOTOS | March 7, 2012 

The Mourners’ Bench, a world premiere by George Brant, directed by Michael Perlman, is a quietly intriguing interwoven tale of a moment of terrible loss 

that reaches beyond time. Testing the limits of fate and redemption, these very human characters struggle to overcome their shared dark history. Brant’s 

plays have been called “nearly flawless” by The New York Times. 

Three by Three in Rep 

Three world premieres performed in rotating repertory on the Dowling stage running from February to May. All three plays are deeply moving dramas 

that touch on subjects close to our heart and hearth: the bonds and fissures of family, and the meaning of home. Three by Three in Rep will offer ticket 

buyers the rare chance to see three world premiere plays during the course of three months, in any order. Tickets for all three shows are available at the 

Trinity Rep box office, 201 Washington St.; by phone at (401) 351-4242; and online at www.trinityrep.com. This production is sponsored by Taco/The 

White Family Foundation. 

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Trinity Rep resident company members Anne Scurria (Sarah) and Timothy Crowe (Joe) in The Mourners’ Bench, a 

world premiere by George Brant, directed by Michael Perlman. Now playing at Trinity Repertory Company as part 

of the Three by Three in Rep. Sets by Michael McGarty, Costumes by William Lane, Lighting by Dan Scully. Photo by 

Mark Turek. 


Trinity Rep resident company members Angela Brazil (Melissa) and Mauro Hantman (Bobby) in The Mourners’ 

Bench, a world premiere by George Brant, directed by Michael Perlman. Now playing at Trinity Repertory Company 

as part of the Three by Three in Rep. Sets by Michael McGarty, Costumes by William Lane, Lighting by Dan Scully. 

Photo by Mark Turek. 


Trinity Rep resident company members Phyllis Kay (Caroline) and Janice Duclos (Wilma) in The Mourners’ Bench, a 



Mark Turek.


Trinity Rep resident company members Timothy Crowe (Joe) and Anne Scurria (Sarah) in The Mourners’ Bench, a 



Mark Turek. 


Trinity Rep resident company members Janice Duclos (Wilma) and Phyllis Kay (Caroline) in The Mourners’ Bench, a 



Mark Turek. 





Photo by Mark Turek. 


Trinity Rep resident company member Anne Scurria as Sarah in The Mourners’ Bench, a world premiere by George 

Brant, directed by Michael Perlman. Now playing at Trinity Repertory Company as part of the Three by Three in 

Rep. Sets by Michael McGarty, Costumes by William Lane, Lighting by Dan Scully. Photo by Mark Turek.


Trinity Rep resident company members Janice Duclos as Wilma in The Mourners’ Bench, a world premiere by 

George Brant, directed by Michael Perlman. Now playing at Trinity Repertory Company as part of the Three by 

Three in Rep. Sets by Michael McGarty, Costumes by William Lane, Lighting by Dan Scully. Photo by Mark Turek. 





Photo by Mark Turek.

Curt Columbus, Artistic Director Michael Gennaro, Executive Director 

201 Washington Street Providence Rhode Island 02903 www.trinityrep.com 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, January 30, 2012 

CONTACT: Jennifer Salcido, Asst. Dir of Marketing & PR (401) 521-1100 ext. 268 jsalcido@trinityrep.com 

TRINITY REP TO PRESENT THREE BY THREE IN REP 

World premieres Sparrow Grass, The Mourners’ Bench, 

Love Alone to play February-May 

PROVIDENCE, RI: Trinity Rep continues its 2011-2012 season with Three by Three in Rep – a 

theatrical event featuring three world premieres performed in rotating repertory on the Dowling 

stage running from February to May. Three by Three in Rep will open with Sparrow Grass by 

Trinity Rep Artistic Director Curt Columbus, The Mourners’ Bench by George Brant, and Love 

Alone by Trinity Rep’s resident playwright Deborah Salem Smith– all deeply moving dramas that 

touch on subjects close to our heart and hearth: the bonds and fissures of family, and the 

meaning of home. Three by Three in Rep will offer ticket buyers the rare chance to see three 

world premiere plays on their chosen night during the three months, in any order. “Few projects 

more perfectly represent the heart of our mission than the trio of world premiere plays, Sparrow 

Grass, The Mourners’ Bench, and Love Alone, which will run in true repertory and collectively 

make up Three by Three in Rep,” stated Associated Artistic Director Tyler Dobrowsky. 

“All these plays are “locally grown:” created and developed by the playwrights with our resident 

acting company over the past few years through an ensemble-based and collaborative process. 

Trinity Rep has always had a longstanding commitment to creating bold, compelling productions, 

and as we near our fiftieth anniversary here in the “creative capital” of Providence, Rhode Island, 

we are thrilled to continue and honor that tradition with these trenchant and dynamic new 

plays,” Dobrowsky said. 

Sparrow Grass, directed by Brian McEleney, is Curt Columbus’s bold new play inspired by 

Racine’s Phèdre, the classic tragedy is brought into focus within our current time. A woman’s dark 

and misdirected passion threatens to destroy a family from within. Columbus has been hailed by 

critics nationwide for “his tremendous talent in skillfully adapting classics for present-day 

audiences” (Broadway World). 

The Mourners’ Bench, directed by Michael Perlman, is a quietly intriguing interwoven 

tale of a moment of terrible loss that reaches beyond time. Testing the limits of fate and 

redemption, these very human characters struggle to overcome their shared dark history. Brant’s 

plays have been called “nearly flawless” by The New York Times.

In Love Alone, co-directed by Tyler Dobrowsky and Deborah Salem Smith, after a routine medical 

procedure goes tragically wrong, the lives of both the patient’s family and the doctor charged 

with her care are transformed. Ultimately, the play is a lovingly drawn portrait of how we grieve 

and how we heal. Love Alone is the recipient of the 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American 

Plays Award as well as honorable mention for the 2011 Jane Chambers Award. The Boston Globe 

called her Trinity Rep premiere of Some Things are Private, "luminous, intelligent, provocative, 

and deeply moving.” 

The Sparrow Grass cast includes resident acting company members Phyllis Kay and Barbara 

Meek; associate artist Richard Donelly; and Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Students Jaime Rosenstein 

and Tyler Lansing Weaks. Phyllis Kay will also be featured in The Mourners’ Bench, joined by 

company members Angela Brazil, Timothy Crowe, Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman, and Anne 

Scurria. Angela Brazil, Janice Duclos, Mauro Hantman, and Anne Scurria will also share the stage 

in Love Alone with associate artist Richard Donelly and Brown/Trinity Rep MFA student Leah 

Anderson. 

Three by Three in Rep features set designs by Michael McGarty, costume designs by William 

Lane, lighting design by Dan Scully, and sound design by Peter Sasha Hurowitz. The Dowling 

space will undergo complete transformations from play to play, while using the same set pieces. 

“While it has the same pieces, they are going to be very different,” explained Dobrowsky. “Part of 

the fun of attending these shows is going to be seeing each show and recognizing those pieces in 

each different set, and knowing how they’ve been transformed.” 

Curt Columbus (playwright, Sparrow Grass) joined Trinity Rep as artistic director in January 2006. 

His directing credits for Trinity include The Merchant of Venice, His Girl Friday, Camelot, Cabaret, 

The Odd Couple, The Secret Rapture, The Receptionist, A Christmas Carol, Memory House, Blithe 

Spirit, Cherry Orchard and the world premiere of Stephen Thorne's The Completely Fictional – 

Utterly True – Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe. His plays Paris by Night and The Dreams of 

Antigone premiered at Trinity Rep. His adaptation of Crime and Punishment (with Marilyn 

Campbell) is published by Dramatists Play Service. Curt’s translations of Chekhov’s plays are 

published by Ivan R. Dee, Chekhov: The Four Major Plays. The Dreams of Antigone is published by 

Broadway Play Publishing, which will publish Sparrow Grass after its 2012 premiere. Curt lives in 

Pawtucket with his partner, Nathan Watson. 

Deborah Salem Smith (playwright, Love Alone) is Trinity’s playwright-in-residence. Love Alone 

received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award and also was recognized with an 

Honorable Mention by the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. Ms. Smith's plays Boots on the 

Ground and Some Things Are Private received their world premiere productions at Trinity. The 

Boston Globe named Some Things Are Private a “Critic’s Pick,” calling it, "luminous, intelligent, 

provocative, and deeply moving.” Her writing has been recognized by an Emerging American 

Artist Fulbright for playwriting in Dublin, Ireland; a National Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities; 

a Colby Fellowship; a Major Hopwood Award; and a MacDowell Fellowship.

George Brant’s (playwright, The Mourners’ Bench) plays have been described as “nearly flawless” 

by the New York Times and “striking” by the Times of London. His scripts, which 

include Elephant’s Graveyard and Any Other Name, have been produced and developed by the 

Kennedy Center, Cleveland Play House, the Playwrights Foundation, among others. Brant’s plays 

have been awarded the Keene Prize for Literature and the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting 

Award from the Kennedy Center, as well as fellowships from the Michener Center, the MacDowell 

Colony, the Djerassi Program and the Blue Mountain Center. He is published by Samuel French 

and Smith & Kraus. 

Evening performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30 pm with selected Wednesday, 

Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 2pm. Unlike the run of a regular Trinity Repertory show run, 

these plays are performed in rotating repertory throughout the three month runs, allowing 

audiences to experience the three world premiere events at their pace! Theatergoers can even 

tackle all three in one weekend of innovative theater. For a complete, visual calendar of 

performances, please visit http://www.trinityrep.com/DownloadDocs/3by3_calendar.pdf 

Trinity Rep will be continuing its tradition of offering Pay What You Can (PWYC) performances for 

the first preview of every play. Sparrow Grass will have its PWYC night on February 16 at 7:30pm; 

The Mourners’ Bench has a PWYC night on March 7 at 7:30PM; Love Alone has its PWYC night on 

February 28 at 7:30pm. PWYC tickets go on sale at 6:30 pm, limit one per person. Additional 

discounted and rush tickets are also available, call box office for details. For information on group 

rates (parties of 10 or more) contact Group Sales at (401) 351-4242. 

Talkbacks will be held after every performance of Sparrow Grass, The Mourners’ Bench, and Love 

Alone. Audiences are invited to share their response to the play’s production and themes for 

approximately twenty minutes. Visit www.trinityrep.com to view a full performance calendar. 

Trinity Rep’s 48th season is sponsored by NBC 10, with supporting sponsors Cox Media, Rhode 

Island Monthly and RISCA. Trinity Rep gratefully acknowledges the support of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 

D. Sharpe, Jr. and the Sharpe Family Foundation for their ongoing support of Trinity Rep’s new 

play development process. 

AT A GLANCE 

Sparrow Grass by Curt Columbus 

February 16 – May 13, 2012 

Director Brian McEleney 

Set Design Michael McGarty 

Costume Design William Lane 

Lighting Design Dan Scully 

Sound Design Peter Sasha Hurowitz 

Production Stage Manager Kristen Gibbs 

Cast Trinity Rep resident company members Phyllis Kay, Barbara 

Meek; associate artist Richard Donelly; and Brown/Trinity Rep 

MFA actors Jaime Rosenstein, Tyler Lansing Weaks. 

Opening Press Night Tuesday February 21, 2012 at 7:30pm

Previews Thursday February 16 at 7:30pm, Friday February 17 at 

7:30pm, Saturday February 18 at 7:30pm, and Sunday 

February 19 at 7:30pm 

Pay- What- You- Can Thursday February 16 at 7:30pm; tickets on sale 6:30pm; 

limit 1 per person. 

Food For Thought discussion Sunday February 19 after 7:30pm performance 

Web site www.trinityrep.com, buy online 

Box Office 201 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903 (401) 351-4242 

Group Sales (401) 351-4242 for groups of 20 or more. 

Regular Ticket Prices: $26-66 Adult 

Sponsored by Taco/The White Family Foundation 

Trinity Rep gratefully acknowledges the support of Mr. and Mrs. 

Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. and the Sharpe Family Foundation for their 

ongoing support of Trinity Rep’s new play development process. 

Season Sponsor NBC 10 

Season Supporting Sponsors Cox Media, Rhode Island Monthly and RISCA 

Sparrow Grass 

Thursday February 16, 2012 7:30pm Pay-What-You-Can Preview 

Friday February 17, 2012 7:30pm Preview 

Saturday February 18, 2012 7:30pm Preview 

Sunday February 19, 2012 7:30pm Preview, Food for Thought 

Tuesday February 21, 2012 7:30pm Press Opening 

Wednesday February 22, 2012 7:30pm 

Thursday February 23, 2012 7:30pm 

Friday February 24, 2012 7:30pm 

Saturday February 25, 2012 7:30pm 

Sunday February 26, 2012 2:00pm 

Saturday March 3, 2012 7:30pm 

Tuesday March 13, 2012 7:30pm 

Wednesday March 14, 2012 7:30pm 

Sunday March 18, 2012 7:30pm 




Thursday March 29, 2012 7:30pm 

Friday March 30, 2012 7:30pm 


Saturday April 7, 2012 7:30pm 

Sunday April 8, 2012 2:00pm 

Thursday April 12, 2012 7:30pm 

Friday April 13, 2012 7:30pm 

Sunday April 14, 2012 2:00 pm 

Tuesday April 17, 2012 7:30pm 

Wednesday April 18, 2012 2:00pm 





Tuesday May 1, 2012 7:30pm

Wednesday May 2, 2012 7:30pm 

Sunday May 6, 2012 2:00pm 



DETAILS AT A GLANCE 

The Mourner’s Bench by George Brant 

March 7 – May 24, 2012 

Director Michael Perlman 





Production Stage Manager Michael D. Domue 

Cast Trinity Rep resident company members Angela Brazil, Tim 

Crowe, Janice Duclose, Mauro Hantman, Phyllis Kay, and 

Anne Scurria. 

Opening Press Night Friday March 9, 2012 at 7:30pm 

Previews Wednesday March 7, at 7:30pm, Thursday March 8 at 

7:30pm. 

Pay- What- You- Can Wednesday March 7 at 7:30pm; tickets on sale 6:30pm; 











Season Supporting Sponsors Cox Media, Rhode Island Monthly and RISCA 

The Mourner’s Bench 

Wednesday March 7, 2012 7:30pm Pay-What-You-Can Preview 

Thursday March 8, 2012 7:30pm Preview 

Friday March 9, 2012 7:30pm Press Opening 







Friday March 23, 2012 7:30pm 






Friday April 6, 2012 7:30pm








Wednesday April 25, 2012 7:30 pm 

Thursday May 3, 2012 7:30pm 

Friday May 4, 2012 7:30pm 

Tuesday May 8, 2012 7:30pm 





Saturday May 19, 2012 2:00pm 






Details At A Glance 

Love Alone by Deborah Salem Smith 

February 28 – May 27, 2012 

Co-Directors Tyler Dobrowsky and Deborah Salem Smith 





Production Stage Manager Robin Grady 

Cast Trinity Rep resident company members Angela Brazil, Janice 

Dulos, Mauro Hantman, Anne Scurria; associate artist 

Richard Donelly; and Brown/Trinity Rep MFA actor Leah 

Anderson. 

Opening Press Night Friday March 16, 2012 at 7:30pm 

Previews Tuesday February 28 7:30pm, Wednesday February 29 at 

7:30pm, Thursday March 1 at 7:30pm, and Friday March 

2 at 7:30pm, 

Pay- What- You- Can Tuesday February 28 at 7:30pm; tickets on sale 6:30pm; 










Love Alone is a recipient of the Theatre Communications Group 

2011 Edgerton Foundation Mew American play Awards. 


Season Supporting Sponsors Cox Media, Rhode Island Monthly and RISCA

Love Alone 

Tuesday February 28, 2012 7:30pm Pay-What-You-Can Preview 

Wednesday February 29, 2012 7:30pm Preview 

Thursday March 1, 2012 7:30pm Preview 

Friday March 2, 2012 7:30pm Preview 



Friday March 16, 2012 7:30pm Press Opening 

































TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY 

Since its founding in 1963, Trinity Repertory Company has been one of the most respected 

regional theaters in the country. Featuring the last permanent resident acting company in 

America, Trinity Rep presents a balance of world premiere, contemporary, and classic works for

an estimated annual audience of approximately 120,000. In its 47-year history, the theater has 

produced 58 world premieres, mounted national and international tours, and, through its MFA 

program, trained hundreds of new actors and directors. This season marks the 45th year of 

Project Discovery, Trinity Rep's pioneering educational outreach program. Last season, Trinity 

Rep’s educational programs reached nearly 15,000 Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut 

students through matinees as well as in-school residencies and workshops. Brown 

University/Trinity Rep offers professional training for actors and directors in a three-year MFA 

program. The 2011-2012 Season continues with The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare; 

the world premieres of Sparrow Grass by Curt Columbus, Love Alone by Deborah Salem Smith, 

and The Mourners’ Bench by George Brant and closes with Marc Camoletti’s Boeing-Boeing, 

translated by Beverley Cross and Francis Evans. For more information or to subscribe, call the box 

office at (401) 351-4242 or visit Trinity Rep's website at www.trinityrep.com. 

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The Mourners’ Bench playwright George Brant talks to Emily 

Atkinson, Literary Manager, about the play. 

What was your first inspiration for this play? Why did you want to tell this story? 

Yes, well, the seed for the play came out of the discovery that both my wife and I share an 

odd coincidence in our family backgrounds: both of us have older cousins – one boy, one 

older girl – who were orphaned at a young age and taken in and raised by our 

grandparents. This had always been a part of my family history that intrigued me, and 

finding out that my wife shared this history only made me more interested in exploring it. 

What effect does such an event have on young children? How does the extended family 

decide who will end up raising the kids? How does a family heal itself? These questions 

floated around in the back of my head for some time and finally, a few years ago when I 

was at a place where I wanted to tackle a more personal, emotional play, they came to the 

forefront, and now here we are. 

What does your play say about family? 

Oh, boy. Perhaps it says that you carry your family and your family’s history with you 

wherever you go – that that can be a comfort or a burden. Perhaps that we all carry a 

different piece of our family’s mystery, that we all are a different piece of that mystery 

ourselves. 

What’s the role of the past, of memory, in your play? Do objects carry memory? 

The idea of memory is pretty huge in the play – its duality, how it can haunt you or be 

something you cherish, something that can destroy or heal. And objects very much 

contain memory in the play – the piano, the sheet music, the walls, the living room itself 

– and even when the characters in the play don’t know the history of an object, the 

audience carries that memory for them. 

Is time the greatest healer? Can people truly change? Can we ever escape our past? 

Hmm…I’m afraid time hasn’t healed much in this play. I think some of the characters 

have tried to allow that process to happen, and others haven’t, but both sets have 

unfortunately ended up in the same place. 

I think the possibility of change is there in the play, however bleak it gets at times… the 

hope for change. But I think the possibility for change in the play doesn’t come so much 

from time, but more from the other characters, from the love they share for each other, the 

desire to help each other reach a better place. 

“Truth and justice” is the theme of our season. Who tells the truth in your play? 

Can there be different versions of the truth? 

I don’t think anyone in the play holds the truth per se – each of them has a story that they

think is the truth, that they call the truth. But even the most confident of them is aware 

that they don’t have the full story. As the play goes on, with each new set of characters, 

we in the audience discover information that contradicts or illuminates previous 

assumptions - so I guess, by the end, we in the seats possess the most truth, but even for 

us, there are a few questions left unanswered. I sometimes wish that all the characters in 

the play could sit down and share their stories over a good dinner – I think they’d be 

better off. 

Is there justice or accountability in your play? 

I guess not particularly – this is sounding increasingly grim! [laughter] The event that 

sparks the play is one that defies justice, unfortunately – though Wilma and Caroline 

fantasize about how they could enact their revenge despite that. And illness is never 

“fair.” But if there isn’t Justice in the play, there is certainly Love. There is Love and 

perhaps that is stronger, more resilient than justice. 

How did working with our resident acting company help your play to develop, over 

time? 

The reading with the acting company was extremely helpful – I have had the privilege of 

having the company read a number of my plays and it’s always an emotional and 

instructive experience. It was funny – we had the reading of The Mourners’ Bench on the 

day I was leaving for Cleveland – I literally had my car packed with boxes at a meter 

downstairs as we read. And when it was over, I grabbed a muffin for the road and was 

off! I was on such a high from the reading, I just kind of floated through the first few 

hours of driving – no radio, no nothing. 

These plays will be rehearsed together and will play together, in an integrated 

schedule lasting from February till May. The in-rep production adds both pressure, 

and excitement? 

I’m thrilled about the in-rep aspect of the production. A company in Chicago produced a 

mini-festival of my more comic plays toward the end of my stay there. We staged four of 

my plays in rep, with most of the actors in two of the shows. It was absolutely insane, but 

a fond, fond memory. The trickiest aspect to staging plays in rep is the behind-the-scenes 

work – the scheduling of rehearsals, of performance times – which I plan on staying 

blissfully uninvolved with! [laughter] 

Do you enjoy seeing plays in rep? 

As an audience member – the Henriad here at Trinity and on trips to the Stratford 

Festival – I think it adds an extra layer of excitement. Seeing an actor pop up in a 

completely different role than her previous one, or feeling how the plays reverberate with 

each other thematically – I love it.

trinity repertory company 

2011-2012 Season at the Lederer Theater Center 

under the direction of 

Curt Columbus and Michael Gennaro 

Artistic Director Executive Director 

THREE BY THREE IN REP 

Three World Premieres • February 16 – May 27, 2012 

in the Sarah and Joseph Dowling, Jr. Theater 

Sparrow Grass by Curt Columbus 

Directed by Brian McEleney • February 16 – May 13, 2012 

Love Alone by Deborah Salem Smith 

Directed by Tyler Dobrowsky and Deborah Salem Smith • February 28 – May 27, 2012 

The Mourners’ Bench by George Brant 

Directed by Michael Perlman • March 7 – May 24, 2012 

Set design by Michael McGarty 

Costume design by William Lane 

Lighting design by Dan Scully 

Sound design by Peter Sasha Hurowitz 

Speech and voice direction by Thom Jones 

Production stage managed by Michael Domue* 

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Mr. & Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. 

and the Sharpe Family Foundation for their ongoing support of 

Trinity Rep’s new play development process. 

Trinity Rep’s 48th season is sponsored by 

This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, 

through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and 

a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Trinity Rep gratefully acknowledges the support of the B.B. Lederer Sons Foundation. 

201 Washington Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903

THE CaST OF ThE MOuRNERS’ BENch 

Melissa ...........................................................................................angela Brazil* 

Bobby ....................................................................................... Mauro Hantman* 

Wilma ........................................................................................... Janice Duclos* 

Caroline ............................................................................................. Phyllis Kay* 

Sarah .............................................................................................. anne Scurria* 

Joe .............................................................................................. Timothy Crowe* 

The Mourners’ Bench will be performed without an intermission. 

Production Director ........................................................................Laura E. Smith 

Fight Supervisor ............................................................................... Craig Handel 

Production Stage Manager ......................................................... Michael Domue* 

*Denotes member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. 

Please join us after the show for a 20-minute talkback. 

The Civic Center Parking Garage at 165 Washington Street will stay open until the discussion ends. 

Talkback leaders include: Caroline Azano, Jordan Butterfield, Rhoda Flaxman, 

Sophie Gandler, Jean Marrapodi, Mike Marrapodi, Mike Miele, Francesca Montanile, 

Paul Musarra, Laura Neubauer, Janice Okoomian, Kathryn Palen, Peter Quesnel, 

Pam Steager, Linda Sutherland, Charlie Sweigart, Lauren Ustaszewski, Michael Williams 

PLEaSE NOTE: audience members are requested to turn off all cell phones, 

beepers, pagers, and watch alarms during the performance. Texting and other cell 

phone use is limited to intermission, outside the theater. 

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Three by Three 9

Dear Friends, 

I take special pleasure in welcoming you here today, to Trinity 

Rep’s Three By Three in Rep. I’m very proud of this unique 

theatrical event, because it is something that could only happen 

here. What we are doing here, with one company of actors 

in three world premieres on the same stage, is revolutionary 

within contemporary American theater; yet its roots lie in the 

greatest theater traditions. 

Perhaps you have heard of an English playwright named William 

Shakespeare? Well, Shakespeare premiered all of his plays with 

one company of actors on one stage, in a small city on a river 

with a population of around 200,000 people (sound similar, 

Providence?). His plays were tailored for his actors, and contemporary scholars delight in 

constructing which roles were written for which of the members of his company. 

Imagine seeing Shakespeare’s greatest interpreter, Richard Burbage, walking the wooden 

planks of the stage, playing Hamlet one night, then Othello the next, then Richard III, then 

Lear! Or showing up at the same theater day after day to laugh at Will Kempe as he worked 

his way through Shakespeare’s great comic roles: Dogberry, Bottom, Costard, and Falstaff. It 

was possible to see all of these characters on different days in the same theater because these 

shows were all played in “repertory” by one company of actors on the same stage. 

Indeed, all Elizabethan playhouses worked this way: one company of actors, one stage, and 

a repertoire of plays. This remained the prevailing producing model throughout Europe for 

the next several hundred years – Molière worked this way, as did Stanislavski and Chekhov 

– and repertory companies are still the prevailing model of major European theaters today. 

Pick any day to go to the Comedie Francaise in Paris, and you can see one show by Racine 

at the matinee and another by Molière in the evening, all performed by their venerable 

company. 

The chief reason I chose to come to Trinity Rep six years ago was because of the resident 

acting company. I have always known that we could develop plays specifically for and with 

these actors, and that the plays would be transformed by their presence. You may have 

seen the plays we’ve developed recently: Some Things Are Private, Shapeshifter, The Dreams of 

Antigone, The Completely Fictional – Utterly True – Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe, among 

others. A wide range of challenging work, all uniquely Trinity Rep. 

Three by Three in Rep takes us one step further, by allowing three world premiere plays to 

be in conversation with each other, in dialogue, in performance. All three of these plays are 

responses to the current American moment, and all three deal with how we construct our 

identities and our relationships in a post-nuclear-family reality. They all deal with loss, with 

survival, and with hope. And I believe they are enriched by this repertory conversation, and 

by the virtuosity of our wonderful acting company. 

Ultimately, I hope you will be as excited about our artistic experiment as we are. Sit back 

and enjoy being among the first people to experience these Trinity Rep plays. I look forward 

to seeing you at the theater! 

—Curt Columbus 

FROM aRTISTIC DIRECTOR CURT COLUMBUS 


THE ARTISTIC TEAM 

Resident director and designer bios may be found on subsequent pages. 

George Brant 

Playwright, The Mourners’ Bench 

George Brant’s scripts have been produced 

and developed internationally by Trinity 

Repertory Company, Cleveland Play 

House, the Playwrights Foundation, the 

Playwrights’ Center, the Drama League, 

and Premiere Stages, among others. His 

script Elephant’s Graveyard was awarded 

the Kennedy Center’s David Cohen National 

Playwriting Award and the Keene Prize 

for Literature. He has received writing 

fellowships from the MacDowell Colony 

and the Michener Center for Writers, as 

well as commissions from Dobama Theatre 

and Theatre 4. His work is published 

by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, and 

Broadway Play Publishing. Mr. Brant 

wishes to acknowledge that The Mourners’ 

Bench was developed with the generous 

support of WordBRIDGE Playwright’s 

Lab, Blue Mountain Center, Laura Kepley, 

Naomi Wallace, Florida Studio Theatre, 

HRC Showcase Theatre, Djerassi Resident 

Artists Program, the Hangar Theatre, and 

Trinity Rep. 

Deborah Salem Smith 

Playwright, Love Alone 

Deborah Salem Smith is Trinity Rep’s playwright-in-residence. 

Love Alone received an 

Honorable Mention by the Jane Chambers 

Playwriting Award. Her previous honors 

include an Emerging American Artist 

Fulbright for playwriting, where she 

worked with the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s 

national theater. Her work has been recognized 

by a National Mellon Fellowship in 

the Humanities, a MacDowell Fellowship, 

a Colby Fellowship, a Major Hopwood 

Award, as well as writing and visual arts 

prizes from the University of Michigan 

and Princeton University. Her other plays 

include Boots on the Ground, Some Things 

Are Private, Good Business, and Caviar. 

Michael Perlman 

Director, The Mourners’ Bench 

Trinity Rep: A Christmas Carol (2010); 

Cabaret and The Importance of Being Earnest, 

assistant director. Brown/Trinity Rep: 

The Time of Your Life, Uncle Vanya, Hamlet, 

A Doll’s House, We Are Proud to Present a 

Presentation..., Exquisite Corpse. Other 

Theaters: Director: Brown/Trinity Playwrights 

Rep, Boise Contemporary Theater, 

Magic Theater, Maples Repertory Theater, 

Temporary Theatre Company, Hangar 

Theatre. Assistant director: Roundabout 

Theater, Public Theater, Fiasco Theater. 

FringeNYC: Flying on the Wing (Outstanding 

Solo Show 2006). Other: Drama League 

Directing Fellow; BA, Brown University; 

MFA, Brown/Trinity Rep. Member of SDC. 


Michael McGarty 

Set Designer 

Trinity Rep: 27 years, including Steel 

Magnolias, It’s a Wonderful Life, Absurd Person 

Singular, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Cabaret, 

A Christmas Carol, A Raisin in the Sun and 

The Importance of Being Earnest. Broadway: 

Master Class, Wait Until Dark, and God Said 

“Ha.” Other Theaters: NY Shakespeare Festival, 

Old Globe Theatre, Pittsburgh Public 

Theater, NY City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, 

Opera Pacific, Wilma Theater, Dallas Theater 

Center, Seattle Rep, Geffen Playhouse, Mark 

Taper Forum, Philadelphia Theater Company, 

Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theater 

Festival, Bay Street Theater and the Kennedy 

Center. He teaches design at Brown University 

and RISD. 

Dan Scully 

Lighting Designer 

Dan is a New York-based lighting and projection 

designer. Trinity Rep: Clybourne Park, 

Steel Magnolias, A Christmas Carol. New York: 

1969, Alarm Will Sound/Carnegie Hall; The 

Witch of Edmonton, Red Bull Theater; The 

Orchestra Rocks!, Carnegie Hall; Seven Last 

Words, Lincoln Center Chamber Orchestra 

Society; The Wii Plays, Ars Nova; Christmas Is 

Miles Away, Babel Theater; others. Regional: 

A Christmas Carol, Geva; The Life of Galileo, 

Cleveland Playhouse; The Blonde, Brunette, 

and Vengeful Redhead, Las Meninas, Searching 

for Eden, Asolo Rep. Other: Resident lighting 

designer for Hudson Valley Shakespeare 

Festival and Abraham in Motion (Bessie 

Award); MFA from Tisch/NYU. 

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Assistant to the director for Sparrow Grass: 

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Assistant to the director for Love Alone: 

Heidi Handelsman 

Musical Assistance on Love Alone: 

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Trinity Rep’s resident acting company, whose bios follow these pages, and these guest artists: 

Leah Anderson* Brown/Trinity Rep: 

Lady Macbeth, 

Macbeth; Carol 

Cutrere, Orpheus 

Descending; Duke 

of York, Richard 

III; Raine, She’s 

Not There; Jargon, 

Meronymy. Leah is a 

second-year student in the Brown/Trinity 

Rep MFA Acting Program. She received 

her BA in Political Science from Yale 

University. 

Richard Donelly* Trinity Rep: An 

American Cocktail; 

Come Back, Little 

Sheba; A Christmas 

Carol; Boots on the 

Ground; Some Things 

Are Private; Dead 

Man’s Cell Phone; His 

Girl Friday. Other 

Theaters: Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, 

Playwrights Horizons, RI Shakespeare 

Theatre, 2nd Story Theatre, Charles Street 

Playhouse. Film: Urban Relics, By a Thread, 

Say You’ll Be Mine. Television: Empire 

State, Law & Order, Providence, Brotherhood, 

Body of Proof. 

Jaime Rosenstein Brown/Trinity Rep: 

Laura Wingfield, The 

Glass Menagerie; 

Lady MacDuff, 

Macbeth; Iola Stover, 

Parade. Regional: 

Justine, The Audience, 

Transport Group (Off 

Broadway); Johanna, 

Sweeney Todd, Barrington Stage Co. Other: 

THE CaST 

Claudia, Nine, Manhattan School of Music; 

Beth, Merrily We Roll Along, Squeaky 

Fromme, Assassins, Brown University; 

Ruby, Dames at Sea; Cinderella, Into the 

Woods; Clare de Loon, On the Town. 

Training: Jaime is a second-year student in 

the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program; BA 

in Theater from Brown University. 

Interlochen Arts Academy, Circle in the 

Square Theater School, International Vocal 

Arts Institute (Tel Aviv). Voice training: 

Maria Spacagna, Mignon Dunn, David 

Romano, Joan Dornemann. 

Tyler Lansing Weaks* 

Brown/Trinity Rep: 

Demetrius, A 

Midsummer Night’s 

Dream; Frankie Epps, 

Parade; Slim, Cowboy 

Mouth; Tyson, The 

Boy Who Lived Forever 

(world premiere); 

Solyony, Three Sisters. 

Other Theaters: Christy Mahon, The 

Playboy of the Western World; Horatio, 

Hamlet; Mr. Horner, The Country Wife; Ken 

Talley, The Fifth of July; Peter Patrone, The 

Heidi Chronicles; Joey Percival, Misalliance. 

Other: Tyler is a third-year student in the 

Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Acting Program; 

BA in Economics with concentrations in 

English and Theatre at Vanderbilt University. 

Michael D. Domue* 

Production Stage Manager 

Trinity Rep: Camelot, Cabaret, A Christmas 

Carol (2008 & 2006), The Ruby Sunrise, 

Ain’t Misbehavin’. NYC: The Radio City 

Christmas Spectacular. Off-Broadway: 

Mike Daisey’s The Last Cargo Cult, The Ruby 

Sunrise, Public Theater; Urge for Going, 

Knives & Other Sharp Objects, PublicLAB. 

Other Theaters: Dracula, Actors The- 


atre of Louisville; Becky Shaw, The As If 

Body Loop, Natural Selection, The Shaker 

Chair, Pure Confidence, The Ruby Sunrise, 

The Lively Lad, Humana Festival of New 

American Plays. Assistant Stage Manager, 

Master Class, A Streetcar Named Desire and 

Company at the Kennedy Center. Sixteen 

seasons at Totem Pole Playhouse. 

Kristen Gibbs* 

Stage Manager 

Trinity Rep: Clybourne Park, It’s a Wonderful 

Life, Camelot, The Odd Couple, Twelfth 

Night, A Christmas Carol (2008 and 2009), 

Cabaret, The Importance of Being Earnest, A 

Raisin in the Sun, The Dreams of Antigone, 

Paris by Night, Some Things Are Private, and 

Memory House. Off-Broadway: The Public 

Theater, Kicking a Dead Horse, Measure 

for Measure (Shakespeare in the Park). 

Other Theaters: Brown/Trinity Rep MFA 

Program, Brown/ Trinity Playwrights Rep, 

New Lyric Theatre, Heritage Repertory 

Theatre. Other: Kristen is a Rhode Island 

native, thrilled to be working at the theater 

where she saw her first play many years 

ago! 

Robin Grady* 

Stage Manager 

Trinity Rep: The Crucible, A Christmas 

Carol; Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Shooting 

Star, Shapeshifter, Blithe Spirit (ASM), The 

Glass Menagerie (Brown/Trinity Rep thesis 

production); Some Things Are Private, The 

Clean House, A Delicate Balance, Dublin 

Carol (production assistant); The Henriad 

(stage management intern). Other Theaters: 

South Pacific, Pennsylvania Shakespeare 

Festival; Big River, Follies, The 25th 

Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lyric 

Stage Company of Boston; Much Ado About 

Nothing, To Kill a Mockingbird, Colorado 

Shakespeare Festival; Slasher, Actors Theatre 

of Louisville (33rd Humana Festival); 

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Much Ado About Nothing, The Elephant Man, 

Julius Caesar, Gamm Theatre; Playwrights 

Rep, The Shifting Company, Fiddlehead 

Theatre Company. 

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professional actors and stage managers. 

Jaime Rosenstein appears courtesy of Actors Equity 

Association. 

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Stephen Berenson* 

Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: 22 seasons including 

Sydney, Absurd 

Person Singular; Feste, 

Twelfth Night; Schultz, 

Cabaret; Harry, Paris 

by Night; Frederick, 

Noises Off; Puck, A 

Midsummer Night’s 

Dream; Lucio, Measure 

for Measure; Jack, Into the Woods, Scrooge 

(2001, ‘02, ‘04). Other Theaters: NYC’s 

Town Hall; BAM; Kennedy Center; 15 

summers with Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble; 

on tour in the United States and Canada. 

Other: Chair of Brown/Trinity MFA Programs 

and member of the Acting faculty; 

appearances at The White House and on 

a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day 

Parade. New England Theatre Conference 

Award, Providence Mayor Citation, 

Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. 

Angela Brazil* Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: This is Ms. 

Brazil’s 12th season 

with the company. 

Favorite roles: Elizabeth 

Proctor, The 

Crucible; Jane, Absurd 

Person Singular; Matilde, 

The Clean House; 

Samantha, Indoor/ 

Outdoor; Lorraine, The Receptionist; Julia, 

A Delicate Balance; Ruth, Blithe Spirit; 

Claire, The Long Christmas Ride Home; 

Edward and Victoria, Cloud Nine; Priscilla, 

Homebody/Kabul... and Mom to Dash and 

Vivien. Other favorites: Cherry Orchard, The 

Henriad, and The Cider House Rules. Other 

Theaters: Long Wharf Theatre, Berkeley 

Rep, The Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, 

Riverside Theatre. Other: Ms. Brazil 

teaches at Clark University and is a proud 

member of Actors’ Equity Association. 

RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY 

Timothy Crowe* Previous Trinity 

Rep roles: Over 90 

productions including 

Macbeth, The School for 

Wives, The Miser, The 

Seagull, Angels in America, 

A Christmas Carol, 

My Fair Lady. Broadway: 

The Shadow Box. 

Off Broadway: The 

Servant. Other Theaters: Annenberg 

Center, Speakeasy Stage, Actors Theatre of 

Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Virginia 

Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Kennedy 

Center, Berkeley Rep, The Walnut Street 

Theatre, The Cutler Majestic Theatre. 

Film/TV: Outside Providence, Underdog, 

Hachiko, The Silent Eye, Easy Listening, The 

Brotherhood. Other: Mr. Crowe received 

his MA from St. Louis University; London 

Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. 

Janice Duclos* Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: In 27 seasons 

with the company, 

favorites include: 

Rose, Dancing at 

Lughnasa; Sister Mary, 

Sister Mary Ignatius 

Explains It All for You; 

Miss Hannigan, Annie; 

Polonius, Hamlet; 

Melony, The Cider House Rules; Josie, A 

Moon for the Misbegotten; Wanda, The 

Waiting Room; Virginia, The Clean House; 

Henriette, Paris by Night; Beverly, The 

Receptionist; Lady Bracknell, The Importance 

of Being Earnest; Fraulein Kost, Cabaret; 

Jean, Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Morgan Le 

Fay, Camelot; M’Lynn, Steel Magnolias; and 

One for the Money, which she wrote and 

directed. Other Theaters: American 

Repertory Theater, Arena Stage. Other: 

Director, Trinity Rep Radio Theater. 

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Mauro Hantman* Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: A company 

member since 1999, 

highlights include: 

Jack Burden, All the 

King’s Men; Cyrano, 

Cyrano de Bergerac; 

Hotspur, Henry IV; 

Peter Pan, Peter Pan; 

Stefan, Ambition Facing 

West; Hal, Proof; Rooster Hannigan, Annie; 

Wally, Young Dr. Larch, The Cider House 

Rules, Parts 1 and 2; Frank, Mrs. Warren’s 

Profession; Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s 

Dream; Mr. Webb, Our Town; Yasha, Cherry 

Orchard; Shuman, Indoor/Outdoor. Other: 

Mr. Hantman is a founding member of 

local improv troupe Improv Jones, artistic 

director of the Providence Improv Fest, 

and director of the teen improv troupe The 

Trinity Zoo. 

Phyllis Kay* 


roles: A company 

member since 1991, 

favorites include 

Macbeth, Lend Me a 

Tenor, One for the Money, 

Angels in America, 

We Won’t Pay! We Won’t 

Pay!, The Beauty Queen 

of Leenane, The Cider 

House Rules, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 

Cherry Orchard, All the King’s Men and 

Cabaret. Other Theaters: She has worked 

at several regional theaters. Film: Smithereens, 

By a Thread, Federal Hill, Brooklyn 

Rules, Meet Dave, The Proposal. TV: Miller’s 

Court, Law & Order, The Sopranos, Body of 

Proof. Other: Ms. Kay attended Emerson 

College, L’Université de Lausanne and 

Brown University. She is a graduate of The 

Neighborhood Playhouse. 

Brian McEleney* Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: Over 75 plays, 

including Richard II, 

Richard III, ...Edgar 

Allan Poe, The Odd 

Couple, Who’s Afraid 

of Virginia Woolf?, The 

Cider House Rules, 

Angels in America, A 

Long Day’s Journey 

Into Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 

The Threepenny Opera, Cherry Orchard, 

Amadeus. Director (Trinity Rep Associate 

Director): Over 15 productions, including 

Absurd Person Singular, The Crucible, Twelfth 

Night, The Dreams of Antigone, A Raisin in 

the Sun, All the King’s Men, Our Town, Hamlet, 

Measure for Measure. Other: Brown/Trinity 

Rep Head of MFA Acting Program. 

Barbara Meek* Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: 41 years and 

over 100 productions, 

including: Boesman 

and Lena, The Visit, Ma 

Rainey’s Black Bottom, 

Fires in the Mirror (16 

roles), Having Our 

Say, Master Class, Our 

Town, The Threepenny 

Opera, Blithe Spirit, A Raisin in the Sun, The 

Syringa Tree, Steel Magnolias. Other 

Theaters: Vienna’s English Theatre, 

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hilberry 

Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, 

Cleveland Play House, O’Neill Theater 

Center. TV: Archie Bunker’s Place, See How 

She Runs, Big Brother Jake. Other: Elliot 

Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, R.I. 

Pell Award, Honorary Doctor of Arts from 

URI. Proudest production: Leslie Molson. 

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Anne Scurria* Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: Highlights from 

over 100 productions: 

Marion, Absurd Person 

Singular; Elizabeth, 

The Syringa Tree; 

Homebody, Homebody/ 

Kabul; Vivian Bearing, 

Wit; Martha, Who’s 

Afraid of Virginia 

Woolf?; Lady Macbeth, Macbeth; Lil 

Bit, How I Learned to Drive; Scrooge, A 

Christmas Carol; Mary Tyrone, Long Day’s 

Journey Into Night. Other Theaters: New 

York Public Theater, Circle Rep, Intiman 

Theatre, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of 

Louisville, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Long 

Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre 

Festival, Circle Rep, Lyric Stage, SpeakEasy 

Stage, and Perseverance Theatre. Other: 

Anne was a Kaplan Fellow and a graduate 

of the Trinity Rep Conservatory, where she 

teaches acting. 

Fred Sullivan, Jr.* 


roles: Over 100 productions, 

28 seasons: 

Falstaff; Charles, Blithe 

Spirit (Norton Award); 

Oscar, The Odd Couple; 

Jamie Tyrone, A Moon 

for the Misbegotten; 

Edmund, Long Day’s 

Journey Into Night; 

Harold Hill; Joe, Angels in America; Charlie, 

Stones in His Pockets; Alfie Doolittle, Toby 

Belch, Creon, George Bailey, Captain Hook. 

Other Theaters: Commonwealth Shakespeare 

(Bottom, Jaques, Parolles), A.T.L., 

Berkeley Rep, NJ Shakespeare. Directing: 

Trinity Rep: Shooting Star, A Christmas Carol 

(2007). Gamm Theatre: 20 productions: 

Hamlet, Doll’s House, Much Ado About Nothing, 

Glass Menagerie, Glengarry Glen Ross, 

Awake and Sing! (Norton Award). Other: Mr. 

Sullivan teaches acting at RISD, Gamm 

Theatre, and Trinity Rep.

Stephen Thorne* Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: This is Mr. 

Thorne’s 12th season. 

Favorite roles: Homer 

Wells, The Cider House 

Rules; John Proctor, 

The Crucible; Arthur, 

Camelot; Hamlet; 

Stephen, The Long 

Christmas Ride Home; 

Hal/Henry V, The Henriad; Matt, The Fantasticks; 

Heisenberg, Copenhagen; Quango, 

Homebody/Kabul; Garry, Noises Off. Other 

Theaters: Stephen has appeared at Actor’s 

Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre 

and Riverside Shakespeare Festival. He has 

been a member of the Bread Loaf School 

of English Acting Ensemble since 1999. 

Other: Stephen also wrote The Completely 

Fictional – Utterly True – Final Strange Tale 

of Edgar Allan Poe, produced at Trinity Rep 

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Rachael Warren* Previous Trinity Rep 

roles: Since 2000, 

highlights include: 

Sally, Cabaret; Eliza, 

My Fair Lady; 

Antigone, Dreams of 

Antigone; Songs of 

Innocence, Songs of 

Experience; Ophelia, 

Hamlet; Wendy, Peter 

Pan; Isobel, The Secret Rapture; Rebecca, 

The Long Christmas Ride Home; Sabina, The 

Skin Of Our Teeth; Lady Percy/Katherine, 

The Henriad; Mary, Dublin Carol; Mary 

Warren, The Crucible; Shapeshifter; Truvy, 

Steel Magnolias; Mrs. Webb, Our Town. 

National Tours: Tommy, Chess, Company. 

Other Theaters: A.R.T., Actors Theatre of 

Louisville, Cleveland Play House (Aldonza, 

Man of La Mancha), Williamstown, Hartford 

Stage Company, Virginia Stage. Training: 

A.R.T. Institute at Harvard, Illinois- 

Wesleyan University. 

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Joe Wilson, Jr.* Previous Trinity 

Rep roles: In seven 

seasons, roles include: 

Lancelot, Camelot; 

Eugene, Yellowman; 

Emcee, Cabaret; Orsino, 

Twelfth Night; Vinnie, 

The Odd Couple; 

Walter Lee, A Raisin 

in the Sun; Scrooge, 

A Christmas Carol; Sam, Paris by Night; 

Willie Stark, All The King’s Men; El Gallo, 

The Fantasticks; Lopakin, Cherry Orchard; 

Topdog/Underdog; Andre, Ain’t Misbehavin’; 

Horatio, Hamlet. Broadway: Jesus Christ 

Superstar. Off Broadway: Little Ham and 

Josephine’s Song. Other Theaters: North 

Shore Music Theatre, Alliance, McCarter, 

Syracuse Stage, Guthrie, Ordway Music 

Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, and 

New Rep. 

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Peter Sasha Hurowitz 

Resident Sound Designer 

Peter Hurowitz 

has designed the 

sound for over 75 

productions at Trinity 

Rep. Last season’s 

designs include 

Camelot, Absurd 

Person Singular, A 

Christmas Carol, It’s 

a Wonderful Life, The 

Crucible, Yellowman and The Completely 

Fictional – Utterly True – Final Strange 

Tale of Edgar Allan Poe. This is his 16th 

season with the company, where he 

serves as sound engineer. Mr. Hurowitz 

also designed sound for the East Coast 

premiere of A Long Bridge Over Deep 

Waters at Emerson College and the world 

premiere of On the Line at the Cherry 

Lane Theatre, as well as for Perishable 

Theatre and the Brown New Play Festival. 

Thom Jones 

Voice and Speech Director 

Eleven seasons with 

Trinity Rep. Regional 

credits: Dallas 

Theater Center, Yale 

Rep, Huntington 

Theatre, Long Wharf 

Theatre, Alabama 

Shakespeare, Hangar 

Theatre, Actors 

Theatre of Louisville, 

McCarter Theatre, and the Public Theater. 

Film/TV: Brotherhood, Showtime; Black 

Irish (Brendan Gleeson, Melissa Leo); 

Edge of Darkness (Mel Gibson); Rabbit 

Hole (Nicole Kidman, Academy Award 

nomination, Best Actress); Just Go With It, 

The Paperboy (Nicole Kidman); Trespass 

(Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelson); and 

The Place Beyond the Pines (Ben Mendelson). 

He is Head of Voice and Speech for the 

Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs. 

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Curt Columbus 

Artistic Director 

Curt Columbus 

joined Trinity Rep 

as artistic director 

in January 2006. 

His directing credits 

for Trinity include 

Camelot, Cabaret, 

The Odd Couple, 

The Secret Rapture, 

The Receptionist, A 

Christmas Carol, 

Memory House, 

Blithe Spirit, Cherry 

Orchard and the 

world premiere of 

Stephen Thorne’s 

The Completely 

Fictional – Utterly 

True – Final Strange 

Tale of Edgar Allan Poe. His plays Paris 

by Night and The Dreams of Antigone 

premiered at Trinity Rep. His adaptation 

of Crime and Punishment (with Marilyn 

Campbell) is published by Dramatists Play 

Service. Curt’s translations of Chekhov’s 

plays are published by Ivan R. Dee, 

Chekhov: The Four Major Plays. The Dreams 

of Antigone is published by Broadway Play 

Publishing. Curt lives in Pawtucket with 

his partner, Nathan Watson. 

Michael Gennaro 

Executive Director 

Michael Gennaro joined Trinity Rep 

as executive director in 2007. He was 

executive director of Steppenwolf Theatre 

for eight years, where Curt Columbus 

was associate artistic director. During his 

tenure, Steppenwolf won the National 

Medal of Arts and received a Tony Award 

for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. 

Michael was also an actor, entertainment 

attorney and theatrical producer. He is the 

vice president of the National Corporate 

Theatre Fund. He is grateful to his acting 

teacher, Sandy Meisner, and his Tony 

Award-winning father, Peter Gennaro. 

He is a referee with the Providence Roller 

Derby and his wife, Donna Lee, is a skater. 

They live in Providence and have a son, 

Brendan, who lives in Chicago. 

STAFF 

Curt Columbus and Michael Gennaro 

Tyler Dobrowsky 

Associate Artistic Director 

As education director 

from 2004-2009, 

Tyler Dobrowsky 

oversaw the expansion 

of the Young 

Actors Studio afterschool 

and summer 

programs, as well 

as Trinity Rep’s 

landmark Project 

Discovery program, which has enabled 

over one million students throughout New 

England to discover live theater since its 

inception in 1966. He co-directed It’s A 

Wonderful Life in 2010, and will direct it in 

2011. Tyler received his MA in Education 

Policy from Brown University, and studied 

history, theater and Russian at Holy Cross. 

He teaches for the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA 

Program, and Trinity Rep’s educational 

programs for children and adults. 

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Production Director 

Ms. Smith is in her 

14th season with 

Trinity Rep. She 

was the associate 

production manager 

at Trinity for six 

years and the capital 

projects manager 

for two years, 

overseeing the construction of the Pell 

Chafee Performance Center. In the past, 

she has been the production manager 

for the Department of Theatre, Speech 

and Dance at Brown University and the 

Berkshire Opera Company. She has also 

stage managed for institutions such as 

the Metropolitan Opera, the New York 

Philharmonic, and the Juilliard School. 

Building Coalition to Advance Rhode Island’s Creative Communities

Since its founding in 1963, Trinity 

Repertory Company has been one 

of the most respected regional 

theaters in the country. Featuring 

the last permanent resident acting 

company in America, Trinity Rep 

presents a balance of world premiere, 

contemporary, and classic works for 

an estimated annual audience of 

120,000. The theater has produced 

58 world premieres, mounted 

national and international tours, 

and, through its MFA program, 

trained hundreds of new actors 

and directors. 

Trinity Rep received the Tony 

Award for Outstanding Regional 

Theater Company in 1981, produced 

four television productions for PBS, 

toured to India and Syria, and was the first 

American theater company to perform at the 

Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland. 

Arts education at all levels is central to Trinity 

Rep’s mission. This season marks the 45th year 

of Project Discovery, Trinity Rep’s pioneering 

educational outreach program. Last season, 

Trinity Rep’s educational programs reached 

nearly 15,000 Rhode Island, Massachusetts and 

Connecticut students through daytime matinees, 

post-show discussions, in-school visits, and 

backstage workshops. Overall, Trinity Rep’s 

education programs serve students in 60% of 

Rhode Island’s schools. 

Brown University/Trinity Rep offers professional 

training for actors and directors in a threeyear 

MFA program. The Brown/Trinity Rep 

MFA program combines in-depth classroom 

work and an ongoing relationship to a working 

professional theater. 

Lifelong learning thrives in talkbacks after every 

performance, theater arts classes for adults and 

public forums. In ongoing community outreach, 

Trinity Rep cultivates new audiences throughout 

southeastern New England with open captioning 

and Pay-What-You-Can performances along 

with a variety of rush and targeted discounts 

for every production. 

From its roots in Providence’s Trinity United 

ABOUT TRINITY REP 

Photo by Anne L. Harrigan 

Methodist Church, Trinity Repertory Company 

moved in 1973 to its present home, the Lederer 

Theater Center in downtown Providence. Formerly 

known as the Majestic Theatre, the historic 

building houses two performance spaces: the 500plus 

seat Chace Theater and the 300-seat Dowling 

Theater, as well as offices, production shops, 

and rehearsal halls. The theater is wheelchair 

accessible and offers an Assistive Listening 

System for the hearing-impaired. 

The Pell Chafee Performance Center is home 

to Brown/Trinity Rep’s MFA program and Trinity 

Rep’s educational activities for grades K–12, 

with classrooms and a flexible theater space. 

As Rhode Island’s largest arts organization, 

Trinity Rep has a significant impact on the 

community, and is a linchpin of Providence’s 

arts and entertainment district. With an annual 

budget of $8 million, the theater employs over 

100 artistic and administrative staff, and generates 

more than $12 million in economic activity 

each year. 

Curt Columbus became artistic director in 

January 2006, following Amanda Dehnert, Oskar 

Eustis, Richard Jenkins, Anne Bogart and Adrian 

Hall. Curt leads the company in partnership 

with executive director Michael Gennaro. 

For more information, please visit 

www.trinityrep.com.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION 

Trinity Repertory Company 

201 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903 

www.trinityrep.com • info@trinityrep.com 

Box Office (401) 351-4242 

Noon–8:00 p.m. Tuesday–Sunday 

Monday: phone service only noon–8:00 p.m. 

Subscriber Services: 

(401) 351-4243 • subscriptions@trinityrep.com 

Noon–8:00 p.m. daily 

• Our performances begin on time. 

Latecomers will be seated at the discretion 

of house management, and until then will be 

able to view video monitors in the lobby. 

• Emergency Safety: The theater is 

protected by emergency lighting and 

sprinklers. Our house staff and security staff 

are experienced in first aid. In an emergency, 

please contact an usher or house manager. 

• Assistive Listening Devices are 

available at the box office and reception desk 

at street level. 

• Smoking is not permitted inside the 

building. 

• Cameras (including cell phone cameras) 

and recording devices are not permitted. 

Please turn all cell phones and pagers to 

silent mode. 

Administrative Offices 

(401) 521-1100 

9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Monday–Friday 

• Group Sales: For information on 

discounts and special services, call (401) 

351-4242. 

• Physicians and others who may need to 

be reached during a performance are asked 

to register their names and seat locations 

with a house manager. Emergency contact 

numbers are (401) 521-1100 x241 (Dowling 

lobby) and (401) 521-1100 x282 (Chace 

lobby). 

• Children age four and over are 

welcome at performances — age two and 

over for A Christmas Carol. Younger children 

will not be admitted. 

• Gift Cards: The perfect gift! 

Available in any amount, at the box office, at 

www.trinityrep.com, or (401) 351-4242. 

TriniTy rep’s 2011–2012 season 

His Girl Friday adapted by John Guare from The Front Page by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur 

& the Columbia Pictures film, Sept. 9 – Oct. 9, 2011 

Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, Oct. 14 – Nov. 13, 2011 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Hall & Cumming, Nov. 18 – Dec. 30, 2011 

It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry, Dec. 9–31, 2011 

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Feb.3 – March 11, 2012 

Sparrow Grass by Curt Columbus, Feb. 16 – May 13, 2012, part of Three by Three in Rep 

Love Alone by Deborah Salem Smith, Feb. 28 – May 27, 2012, part of Three by Three in Rep 

The Mourners’ Bench by George Brant, March 7 – May 24, 2012, part of Three by Three in Rep 

Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans, April 13 – May 13, 2012

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