ROMANIA. KISS ME! EBILL 6pp - 59E59 Theaters
ROMANIA. KISS ME! EBILL 6pp - 59E59 Theaters
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PRODUCTION STAFF FOR<br />
<strong>ROMANIA</strong>. <strong>KISS</strong> <strong>ME</strong>!<br />
Assistant Stage Manager TIFFANY TILLMAN<br />
Casting Associate KIMBERLY GRAHAM<br />
Assistant Lighting Designer ERIC SOUTHERN<br />
Technical Director ADAM SHIVE<br />
Master Electrician DANIEL MARCUS<br />
Scenic Painter BRIAN D. COTE<br />
Wardrobe Supervisor JULIE LINNARD<br />
Light Board Programmer DANIEL MARCUS<br />
Sound Board Operator BRIAN PETWAY<br />
Public Relations BILLY ZAVELSON<br />
FOR THE KARPEL GROUP<br />
Graphic Designer MUSE DESIGN<br />
CONSULTANTS<br />
Production Photographer CAROL ROSEGG<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Scenery constructed by DOWNTI<strong>ME</strong><br />
PRODUCTIONS<br />
Lighting Equipment HAYDEN<br />
provided by PRODUCTION SERVICES<br />
Sound Equipment<br />
provided by ONE DREAM SOUND<br />
The Producers wish to thank the tdf Costume Collection<br />
for its assistance in this production.<br />
This production was rehearsed at The Players Theatre.<br />
SPECIAL THANKS TO<br />
Marcy Arlin and Immigrants’ Theatre Project, Atlantic<br />
Theater Company, Oana Botez-Ban, Eric Chase,<br />
Carmen Firan, Bogdan Georgescu, Frank Hentschker<br />
and The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY,<br />
Christy “Where” Huertas, Virginia Joffe, Roberta<br />
Levitow, Nicolae Mandea, Iulia Popovici, Purchase<br />
College Props Department, Red Bull North America,<br />
The Romanian Cultural Institute (Oana Radu & Corina<br />
Suteu), Saviana Stanescu.<br />
The use of cameras and other recording devices<br />
in this Theater is prohibited by law.<br />
There is no smoking in this Theater or any part<br />
of the Theater building.<br />
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NEXT IN THEATER C DEC 5 - DEC 30<br />
JAZZ CABARET<br />
AT THE E:CAFÉ<br />
Following the outstanding success last year of Lord<br />
Buckley in the Zam Zam Room when Theater C was<br />
transformed into an intimate cabaret room, this year,<br />
in a nod to the New York tradition of café society,<br />
we are turning Theater C into the E:CAFÉ through<br />
the month of December.<br />
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8:30 and Sunday at 7:30 with additional “Guess<br />
Who’s In Town!” late shows Friday and Saturday at<br />
10pm with surprise guests. Likely guests will include<br />
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ELYSABETH KLEINHANS President & Artistic Director<br />
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PETER TEAR Executive Producer<br />
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AMY STEINHAUS Director of Sales<br />
TAISHA ARENA Usher<br />
STEPHANIE <strong>ME</strong>RCADO Theater Manager<br />
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CHARLES GARCIA Usher<br />
J. RYAN KIRK Theater Technician<br />
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SPONDEE Theater Technician<br />
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CHRISTINE HUERTAS Theater Technician<br />
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STEFENI JUNG Business Manager<br />
YESH PAVLIK Usher<br />
MIRIAM GREEN Assistant to the Executive Producer<br />
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KELLY DAVIS Press and Marketing Assistant<br />
ADAM SMITH Usher<br />
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“JUNIOR” GO<strong>ME</strong>Z Facilities<br />
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ALBERTO ROSARIO E:BAR Assistant<br />
ANDRE HANNA Housekeeping<br />
with<br />
JUNIORJAZZ<br />
11/30, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28<br />
and<br />
DAN FORTUNE<br />
11/16, 12/7<br />
BILL THEATER C<br />
The Play Company presents<br />
Romania.<br />
<strong>KISS</strong> <strong>ME</strong>!<br />
SIX SHORT PLAYS FROM<br />
<strong>ROMANIA</strong>’S NEW WAVE<br />
NOVEMBER 17 - DECEMBER 3
DEAR FRIENDS,<br />
Welcome to Romania. <strong>KISS</strong> <strong>ME</strong>! - six short plays<br />
from Romania’s New Wave. The Play Company is<br />
proud to present this evening of new work by five<br />
young writers at the forefront of the burgeoning<br />
new writing scene in Romania.<br />
Romania will join the European Union in January<br />
2007. The country continues to change rapidly and<br />
radically. Along with their peers, these five playwrights<br />
- Nicoleta Esinencu, Bogdan Georgescu, Vera Ion,<br />
Ioana Moldovan and Cristian Panaite - are forging<br />
a dynamic new body of work for the stage that<br />
reflects life as it is there now.<br />
We were introduced to new Romanian writing last<br />
summer, when the Immigrants’ Theatre Project and<br />
Roberta Levitow collaborated with Corina Suteu and<br />
the Romanian Cultural Institute to bring a group<br />
of playwrights to New York. We were struck by the<br />
vitality of their work and the explosion of artistic<br />
energy in Romania right now. We thought that our<br />
community of artists and audiences should know<br />
about this exciting pocket of activity in the world,<br />
THE PLAY COMPANY BOARD OF DIRECTORS<br />
LAWRENCE KAPLEN Chairman<br />
JEFFREY A. SINE Vice Chairman<br />
BRIAN SILVER Treasurer<br />
James V. Hart, Patricia Heaton, Ruth Hendel,<br />
David Hunt, Robert Lantz, Kate Loewald,<br />
Victoria Reese, George Sheanshang, Susan Stroman<br />
and so we planned an evening showcasing new<br />
Romanian plays. We are producing this work to<br />
spotlight not only these plays and playwrights,<br />
but also a moment of real transformation in a place<br />
we in the U.S. know very little about. We hope you<br />
enjoy the nerve and theatricality of these plays as<br />
much as we do.<br />
The Play Company is New York’s gateway to new<br />
international plays. If you like what you see tonight,<br />
please remember that not-for-profit companies can’t<br />
produce quality theatre without your help. We need<br />
your support to continue our exploration of new<br />
plays and writers from the U.S. and around the<br />
world. Your generosity is truly appreciated.<br />
Thank you for coming tonight, and enjoy the show!<br />
KATE LOEWALD<br />
Founding Producer<br />
THE PLAY COMPANY’S 2006/2007 SEASON CONTINUES:<br />
THE ATTIC<br />
By Yoji Sakate (Japan); directed by Ari Edelson<br />
Translated by Leon Ingulsrud and Keiko Tsuneda<br />
English Language premiere<br />
February 21 – March 24<br />
at <strong>59E59</strong> <strong>Theaters</strong>, Theater B<br />
NEW WORK/NEW WORLD SERIES<br />
Discussion of contemporary Japanese Theatre<br />
with guest Yoji Sakate Winter 2007<br />
THE PLAY COMPANY<br />
Kate Loewald, Founding Producer<br />
Lauren Weigel, Managing Producer<br />
presents<br />
Romania. <strong>KISS</strong> <strong>ME</strong>!<br />
Six Short Plays from Romania’s New Wave<br />
BUS<br />
By CRISTIAN PANAITE<br />
Directed by LIESL TOMMY<br />
RED BULL<br />
By VERA ION<br />
Translated by ROBERTA LEVITOW<br />
& SAVIANA STANESCU<br />
Directed by MARCY ARLIN<br />
DIAGNOSIS<br />
By IOANA MOLDOVAN<br />
Translated by ROBERTA LEVITOW<br />
& SAVIANA STANESCU<br />
Directed by THOMAS CARUSO<br />
With NADIA BOWERS, JOHN BOYD, CHRIS DE ONI,<br />
ROBERT HOGAN, JULIE JESNECK, ROSEMARY PRINZ<br />
Set Design: CLINT RAMOS<br />
Costume Design: OANA BOTEZ-BAN<br />
Lighting Design: TYLER MICOLEAU<br />
Sound Design: BART FASBENDER<br />
Properties Designer: JUDI GURALNICK<br />
Production Stage Manager: NICOLE BOUCLIER<br />
Production Manager: JEE HAN<br />
There will be one ten-minute intermission.<br />
The Play Company gratefully acknowledges the leadership<br />
support of the Kaplen Foundation for the 2006/2007 season.<br />
The Play Company gratefully acknowledges the support<br />
of The Romanian Cultural Institute.<br />
For Jack and Mike<br />
LAUREN WEIGEL<br />
Managing Producer<br />
THE PLAY COMPANY STAFF<br />
ROB MARCATO Producing Associate<br />
LESLIE CAIOLA Assistant General Manager<br />
TRIP CULLMAN Associate Artist<br />
PHILLIP GUTTMANN Special Events Consultant<br />
AI<strong>ME</strong>E DAVIS Literary Intern<br />
APOORVA KALE Literary Intern<br />
3 Events devoted to classical and contemporary<br />
writing from Iran Spring 2007<br />
CURRENTLY IN DEVELOP<strong>ME</strong>NT:<br />
JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO:<br />
A GIRLHOOD CAUGHT<br />
IN REVOLUTIONARY IRAN.<br />
A stage adaptation of Roya Hakakian’s memoir<br />
Visit www.playco.org for more information.<br />
Romania. <strong>KISS</strong> <strong>ME</strong>!<br />
By BOGDAN GEORGESCU<br />
Translated by ROBERTA LEVITOW<br />
& SAVIANA STANESCU<br />
Directed by KAIPO SCHWAB<br />
FUCK YOU. Eu.ro.Pa!<br />
By NICOLETA ESINENCU<br />
Translated by CORNELIA TALMAZAN<br />
Adapted by ALEXANDRU BERCEANU<br />
& TANIA MCBRIED<br />
Directed by JACKSON GAY<br />
OUR CHILDREN<br />
By CRISTIAN PANAITE<br />
Directed by LIESL TOMMY<br />
Production Consultant: LESTER GRANT<br />
Casting: JUDY HENDERSON, CSA<br />
Press Representation: THE KARPEL GROUP/<br />
BRIDGET KLAPINSKI<br />
Literary Associate: <strong>ME</strong>LISSA HARDY<br />
Associate Producer: LINDA BARTHOLOMAI<br />
Bus<br />
By Cristian Panaite<br />
Directed by Liesl Tommy<br />
Leo Chris De Oni<br />
Chichi Nadia Bowers<br />
Lena Rosemary Prinz<br />
Vali John Boyd<br />
Sleeping Mother Julie Jesneck<br />
Red Bull<br />
By Vera Ion<br />
Directed by Marcy Arlin<br />
She Julie Jesneck<br />
He John Boyd<br />
The Old Woman In The<br />
Candy Store Rosemary Prinz<br />
Diagnosis<br />
By Ioana Moldovan<br />
Directed by Thomas Caruso<br />
TheOld Woman Rosemary Prinz<br />
The Stranger Robert Hogan<br />
NADIA BOWERS Most recently, Nadia was the<br />
standby for Sister James in Doubt on Broadway.<br />
She will be doing Aaron Sorkin’s new play The<br />
Farnsworth Invention at the La Jolla Playhouse<br />
this winter. In adoration of Romanian director<br />
Liviu Ciuleu who promised her: “Art is not nice”.<br />
JOHN BOYD is excited to be making his New York<br />
City theatrical debut with The Play Company. Previous<br />
credits include Pinwheel Freak (Glaxa Studios), The<br />
Crusaders (Two Roads Theatre). Film: “Lady in the<br />
Water”, “The Notorious Bettie Page”, “Fields of<br />
Freedom”, “Building Girl”. TV: “Law and Order”.<br />
CHRIS DE ONI Theatre: Quira Hudes’ The<br />
Adventures of Barrio Grrrl directed by Liesl Tommy<br />
(SPF 2005), Tony Kushner’s Good Person of Sezuan<br />
(La Jolla Playhouse), Maria Irene Fornes’s Letters<br />
from CUBA (Signature Theatre). Film debut opposite<br />
Al Pacino in “Sea of Love”; “Revenge” with Kevin<br />
Costner; “Blown Away” with Jeff Bridges. Next I<br />
Believe in America directed by Michael Narvaez.<br />
ROBERT HOGAN Broadway: A Few Good Men,<br />
Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Boy, What Didn’t Happen,<br />
Further Than the Furthest Thing, Never the Sinner<br />
(Outer Critics Circle Award Best Featured Actor),<br />
Rutherford and Son, The Country Girl, On the Bum,<br />
Lighting Up the Two-Year-Old, Hope is the Thing<br />
With Feathers, Waiting for Lefty. Film: “Species II”,<br />
“Day Zero”, “Maze”, “Westworld”, “Lady in Red”,<br />
“Prince Jack” and “Hamburger, the Motion Picture”.<br />
TV: “The Wire”, “Law and Order”, “L&O Criminal<br />
Intent”, “Third Watch”, “Cosby”, “M*A*S*H” and<br />
many other shows.<br />
JULIE JESNECK Off-Broadway: Mr. Marmalade<br />
(u/s) (Roundabout). Regional: Othello, A Midsummer<br />
Night's Dream (The Old Globe), The Heart Is a<br />
Lonely Hunter (The Alliance & Acting Co. Tour), The<br />
Ruby Sunrise (Trinity Rep and ATL/Humana), Mary’s<br />
Wedding (San Jose Rep). NY: Abu Ghraib Triptych<br />
(Ensemble Studio Theatre), Mistral (Drama League),<br />
Juilliard BFA.<br />
ROSEMARY PRINZ Over 300 theatrical productions,<br />
2000 TV shows. Broadway: Tribute opposite Jack<br />
Lemmon, Prisoner of 2nd Avenue co-starring Art<br />
Carney, Three Men on a Horse (All-Star George<br />
Abbott Revival), Tonight in Samarkand, Late Love.<br />
Off-Broadway: Steel Magnolias, Grown Ups.<br />
National Tours: Driving Miss Daisy, California Suite,<br />
The Apple Tree. All Major Regional Theatres:<br />
Long Day’s Journey, Glass Menagerie, A Delicate<br />
Balance, Perfect Ganesh, A Little Night Music,<br />
and Master Class, to name a few.<br />
NICOLETA ESINENCU (FUCK YOU, Eu.ro.Pa!)<br />
Born 1978, Chisinau. Wrote: A saptea kafana,<br />
Zuckerfrei, Dromomania, Tzap-tzarap and<br />
others. FUCK YOU, Eu.ro.Pa! (Solitude, Stuttgart;<br />
dramAcum2 prize) was published in the Romanian<br />
reader at the 51st Venice Biennale, causing political<br />
controversies in the Romanian parliament. Her plays<br />
Romania. Kiss Me!<br />
By Bogdan Georgescu<br />
Directed by Kaipo Schwab<br />
Orchestra Members/Romanian<br />
National Railway Employees Nadia Bowers<br />
John Boyd<br />
Robert Hogan<br />
Miss Renata Rosemary Prinz<br />
Mr. Neagoe Chris De Oni<br />
Vasile Julie Jesneck<br />
Fuck You, Eu.ro.Pa!<br />
By Nicoleta Esinencu<br />
Directed by Jackson Gay<br />
She Nadia Bowers<br />
Our Children<br />
By Cristian Panaite<br />
Directed by Liesl Tommy<br />
Old Man Robert Hogan<br />
Young Man John Boyd<br />
Middle Aged Man Chris De Oni<br />
have been staged in Moldova, Romania, Sweden,<br />
Germany, Russia, Japan, France and Austria. 2003<br />
scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude,<br />
Stuttgart; 2006 scholarship at Recollets, Paris.<br />
BOGDAN GEORGESCU (Romania. <strong>KISS</strong> <strong>ME</strong>!) is a<br />
22-year old playwright and theatre directing student<br />
at the National University of Theatre and<br />
Cinematography in Bucharest, Romania. He studied<br />
at the University of Vermont and worked with the<br />
Immigrants’ Theatre Project in New York. He cofounded<br />
the independent project tangaproject in<br />
Romania, which focuses on the development of new<br />
drama based on social involvement. His other plays<br />
include D.W. (a “dramAcum” contest winner); Rape<br />
(Green Hours Theatre, directed by Vera Ion) and<br />
XXXcartoons (The Desant Theatre in Bucharest). He<br />
is an alumnus of the Cornerstone Summer Institute.<br />
VERA ION (Red Bull) is 25 years old and studies<br />
theatre directing in Bucharest. Other staged plays:<br />
Vitamins. Published books: Acetona, Copilul cafea<br />
(poetry), Vitamins (theatre). She is member of<br />
tangaproject, a young group of directors and<br />
playwrights from Romania. In summer 2006 she<br />
was a member of the Royal Court International<br />
Residency for Playwrights.<br />
IOANA MOLDOVAN (Diagnosis) is 29 years old.<br />
Theatre was for me a sanctuary, after I witnessed<br />
the suicide of a friend, then 29 years old, a prosecutor<br />
for the High Court of Justice and former assistant<br />
at the Romanian American University, where I<br />
graduated in 2000 from the Law Department. I<br />
graduated from Theatre Theory at the I. L. Caragiale<br />
National University of Theatre and Cinema Arts in<br />
Bucharest in September, 2006, and since then I have<br />
been the Cultural Manager of ACT Theater, the first<br />
independent theatre in Romania.<br />
CRISTIAN PANAITE (Bus & Our Children) started<br />
writing plays while studying at Bennington College<br />
with dramaturg Roberta Levitow and playwright,<br />
Gladden Schrock. Since then several of his plays,<br />
dealing with the American dream or the historical/<br />
contemporary Romanian environment, received<br />
readings and productions in the U.S. and Romania.<br />
Currently he is a Graduate Student at Miami<br />
University of Ohio and has little idea where the<br />
American dream will take him next.<br />
MARCY ARLIN (Director - Red Bull) LCT Directors<br />
Lab, Theatre W/o Borders, Fulbright Senior Specialist.<br />
Artistic Director of Immigrants' Theatre Project (2003<br />
OBIE). Directing venues: Soho Rep, LaMama,<br />
HERE, The Public, Barrow Group Theatre, Ellis Island<br />
Museum, QTIP, Tenement Theatre, Dublin Fringe,<br />
NY Int'l Fringe, Yiddish Book Center, Univ. of Chicago,<br />
Nat'l Theatre of Romania, CUNY/<strong>ME</strong>STC; Other:<br />
Reality & New Romanian Theatre, Prague<br />
Quadrenniale. She teaches Theatre at CUNY. 2006-<br />
07: HERESY by Sabina Berman (HERE), Tropic of X<br />
by Caridad Svich (Artheater/Cologne).<br />
THOMAS CARUSO (Director - Diagnosis) Most<br />
recently, Thomas directed the Off-Broadway musical<br />
Mimi Le Duck starring Eartha Kitt at New World<br />
Stages. Other credits include: The Butcherhouse<br />
Chronicles by Michael Hidalgo for SPF 2006, Earth<br />
to Bucky (Bay Street Theatre), and the premiere of<br />
Terrence McNally and Israel Horovitz’s Off Season—<br />
A Duet (Gloucester Stage). Thomas has also directed<br />
at EST, Rattlestick, FringeNYC, HB Playwrights and<br />
others. www.ThomasCaruso.com.<br />
JACKSON GAY (Director - FUCK YOU, Eu.ro.Pa!)<br />
Kia Corthron’s Master Disaster and Rolin Jones’<br />
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow for Atlantic<br />
Theater Company. Best Production Connecticut<br />
Critic’s Award Jenny Chow (Yale Repertory Theater).<br />
Upcoming: Lucy Thurber’s Stay for Rattlestick, a new<br />
musical Tock Tick for Prospect Theater Company<br />
and The Underpants for Two River Theater. MFA<br />
Directing Yale School of Drama.<br />
KAIPO SCHWAB (Director - Romania. <strong>KISS</strong> <strong>ME</strong>!)<br />
is the Artistic Director of The Imua! Theatre Company<br />
where he has directed Balm in Gilead, Julius Caesar<br />
and The Greeks. He has also directed ABC<br />
Television’s Diversity Showcase, and for NYTW and<br />
Immigrants Theatre Project. He is a Graduate of<br />
Boston University School for the Arts and a NYTW<br />
Usual Suspect.<br />
LIESL TOMMY (Director - Bus & Our Children)<br />
Brand: NEW Festival at Hartford Stage; Hydriotaphia<br />
by Tony Kushner at Trinity Rep/Brown Consortium;<br />
Misterioso 119 by Koffi Kwahule at Berkshire Theatre<br />
Festival; Adventures of Barrio Grrrl by Quiara Hudes<br />
at SPF. She was awarded the NEA/TCG Directors<br />
Grant and the New York Theatre Workshop Twoyear<br />
Casting/Directing Fellowship.<br />
CLINT RAMOS (Set Design) New York: Public<br />
Theater NYSF, Culture Project, Ma-Yi Theatre, MCC,<br />
Vineyard Theatre, Red Bull Theater, Ensemble Studio<br />
Theatre, SPF, Foundry Theatre, Rude Mechanicals,<br />
Talking Band and others. Regional : American<br />
Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Repertory, Baltimore<br />
Centerstage, East West Players, Speakeasy Stage,<br />
Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Opera Boston,<br />
Opera Theatre of St. Louis and others.<br />
OANA BOTEZ-BAN (Costume Design), a native<br />
of Romania, has designed for theater and dance<br />
companies including The National Theater of<br />
Bucharest and was involved in the Quadrennial<br />
Scenography Prague. Oana is part of the first<br />
Romanian theater design catalogue, Scenografica.<br />
Since 1999, in New York: Richard Foreman, Richard<br />
Schechner, Brian Kulick, Zelda Fichlander, Karin<br />
Coonrod, Eduardo Machado, Paradigm, Jay Scheib,<br />
Loy Arcenas, Erin Mee, Saviana Stanescu, Zishan<br />
Ugurlu, Michael Sexton.<br />
TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting Design) Recent credits<br />
include: Turn of the Screw (Delaware Theatre<br />
Company), Hell House (Les Freres Corbusier @ St.<br />
Ann’s Warehouse), The Timekeepers (Barrow Group),<br />
Smoking Bloomberg (NYMF), The Rivals (NJ Shakes),<br />
The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels).<br />
Faculty: Sarah Lawrence College Dept. of Dance.<br />
Awards: Lucille Lortel, OBIE (Bug).<br />
BART FASBENDER (Sound Design) recently: Hell<br />
House (Les Freres Corbusier @ St. Ann’s Warehouse),<br />
Bhutan (Cherry Lane/NYSAF), Bloody, Bloody<br />
Andrew Jackson (Williamstown) underground<br />
(BAM/David Dorfman Dance), All This Intimacy<br />
(Second Stage), Hitting the Wall (SPF 2006), Huck<br />
and Holden (Cherry Lane). Previous Play Company<br />
productions: Arabian Night, Terrorism, Sakharam<br />
Binder, Trust.<br />
NICOLE BOUCLIER (Production Stage Manager)<br />
Off-Broadway: Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (Page 73<br />
Productions), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow<br />
(Atlantic Theater Company) Regional: Enchanted<br />
April, Martha Mitchell Calling (Shakespeare &<br />
Company), The Front Page, The Model Apartment,<br />
Modern Orthodox (Long Wharf Theatre), Streets<br />
of New York, Nicollette and Aucassin (Westport<br />
Country Playhouse), Ain’t Misbehavin’, Sylvia<br />
(Polkadot Playhouse).<br />
JUDY HENDERSON (C.S.A.) Broadway: Barefoot<br />
In the Park, Circle In The Square. Off Broadway:<br />
The New Group and The Play Company. Hurlyburly,<br />
Guantanamo, Gross Indecency, Ecstasy, Other<br />
People's Money, Forever Plaid. TV: “Sins of The<br />
City” (USA), “The Mia Farrow Story” (Fox). Films:<br />
“12 and Holding”, “L.I.E.”, “subUrbia”, “Before<br />
Sunrise”. ARTIOS nomination for Independent Film<br />
Feature Casting, 2 ARTIOS nominations for the<br />
Casting of an Off Broadway Play, Ross Reports<br />
selection as one of the top 20 US Film Casting<br />
Directors and appears in the National Register’s<br />
WHO’S WHO in Executives and Professionals.<br />
JEE HAN (Production Manager) has worked on<br />
numerous Off-Broadway productions. Romania.<br />
<strong>KISS</strong> <strong>ME</strong>! is her fourth show with The Play Company.<br />
LESTER GRANT (Production Consultant) a native<br />
of St. Kitts where he first got involved in entertainment.<br />
He later went to film school where he stumbled into<br />
technical theatre. In theatre, he has worn many<br />
different hats over the years. He now provides<br />
production management/consulting services for<br />
Off-Broadway theatres in New York, video production<br />
and corporate special events. Lester is always<br />
delighted to work with The Play Company.<br />
JUDI GURALNICK (Properties Designer) is the Prop<br />
Shop Supervisor for the Design/Technology Program<br />
at Purchase College. She has designed props for<br />
theaters from Philadelphia to Brunswick, <strong>ME</strong>. In New<br />
York, she has worked at Mint, Perry Street and Pearl<br />
theaters. Favorites props: carousel animals<br />
(Joseph…), Ezra Pound’s head (Treason). Judi was<br />
artist in residence at the Arad Arts Project in Israel.<br />
SAHEEM ALI (Assistant Director) is a native of<br />
Kenya. Directing: Spring Awakening (Northeastern<br />
University), One Hundred Years of Soledad, In the<br />
Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, Seagull (Columbia University),<br />
Romeo & Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare),<br />
Hairy Ape (Northeastern). Assistant directing: Miser<br />
(ART), Ballroom (Jeune Lune), Wintertime (Guthrie),<br />
Henry V, Macbeth (CSC).<br />
TIFFANY TILLMAN (Assistant Stage Manager)<br />
Off-Broadway: Defiance (MTC), 10x20 (Atlantic<br />
Theater Company), Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue (P73).<br />
New York: Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (Second<br />
Stage), Curtains, Gutenberg! The Musical!, You<br />
Might as Well Live, The Wedding Plays. Regional:<br />
Forever Plaid (NCBPAC), Bad Dates, Moving Picture,<br />
(Williamstown Theatre Festival). Over a dozen<br />
productions with The Charlotte Rep.<br />
<strong>ME</strong>LISSA HARDY (Literary Associate/Company<br />
Manager) has worked with The Play Company<br />
as Literary Associate, Producing Associate, and<br />
Company Manager. Dramaturgy credits include,<br />
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Keen<br />
Company), Bronx Express (New York International<br />
Fringe Festival), The Sleeping Girl (Relentless Theatre<br />
Company, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s<br />
Southern Writer’s Project) and Three Sisters<br />
(La MaMa etc).<br />
LINDA BARTHOLOMAI (Associate Producer)<br />
previously worked with The Play Company on<br />
Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Lovely<br />
Day by Leslie Ayvazian, Terrorism by the Presnyakov<br />
Brothers and Sakharam Binder by Vijay Tendulkar<br />
in the various capacities of Associate Producer,<br />
Dramaturg and Company Manager. She is, as<br />
always, delighted to work with The Play Company.<br />
THE <strong>ROMANIA</strong>N CULTURAL INSTITUTE in<br />
New York aims to promote Romanian culture for an<br />
American and international public and to build<br />
sustainable connections and collaborations between<br />
American and Romanian cultural organizations.<br />
Its NEW DRAMA Support Program, under the artistic<br />
coordination of Saviana Stanescu, aims to provide<br />
an open and flexible framework for Romanian-<br />
American theatre exchanges. For more information<br />
visit www.icmy.org