three by three in rep - Trinity Repertory Company

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.