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“The writer's greed is appalling. He wants,<br />
or seems to want, everything and practically<br />
everybody; in another sense, and at the same time,<br />
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James Baldwin<br />
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C.S. Lewis<br />
A COLLABORATIONTOWN Project<br />
BY JORDAN SEAVEY<br />
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A COLLABORATIONTOWN PROJECT<br />
<strong>6969</strong><br />
BY JORDAN SEAVEY<br />
DIRECTED BY MATTHEW HOPKINS<br />
FEBRUARY 8 - FEBRUARY 24
A CollaborationTown Project<br />
CAST:<br />
Mark RYAN PURCELL<br />
John MAX ROSENAK*<br />
Samantha BOO KILLEBREW<br />
Timothy DANIEL WALKER STOWELL<br />
Damien PHILLIP TARATULA*<br />
Kathy JULIA LOWRIE HENDERSON<br />
PRODUCTION TEAM:<br />
Playwright JORDAN SEAVEY<br />
Director MATTHEW HOPKINS<br />
Director’s Associate CARLY CIOFFI<br />
Dramaturg JILL RAFSON<br />
Costume Designer LEON DOBKOWSKI<br />
Lighting Designer MIKE RIGGS<br />
Set Designer GEOFFREY DECAS<br />
Sound Designer BRANDON WOLCOTT<br />
Stage Manager ROBIN GANEK*<br />
Fight Choreographer NOAH STARR<br />
Choreographer BOO KILLEBREW<br />
Graphic Designer MEGHAN CAREY<br />
Photographer ANNA TUCKER<br />
CTown Producing Team JESICA AVELLONE<br />
CTown Producing Team TERRI GABRIEL<br />
CTown Producing Team TJ WITHAM<br />
Managing Director Emeritus AMANDA BERKOWITZ<br />
JULIA LOWRIE HENDERSON (Kathy)<br />
With CollaborationTown: This Is A Newspaper,<br />
<strong>6969</strong> and The Deepest Play Ever: the<br />
Catharsis of Pathos. She is also a member<br />
of the Shenanigans Comedy Collective.<br />
Julia earned her B.F.A. in theatre summa<br />
cum laude from Boston University, where<br />
she worked regionally with the Huntington<br />
Theatre Company.<br />
BOO KILLEBREW (Samantha/<br />
Choreographer) Boo is a founding member<br />
of CollaborationTown. Her play, They’re Just<br />
Like Us, was chosen for publication by<br />
The New York Theatre Experience for their<br />
anthology Plays & Playwrights 2007 and was<br />
nominated for four New York Innovative<br />
Theatre Awards. Boo is a recipient of the<br />
Boston University’s Bette Davis Award for<br />
Acting and Professional Promise and a New<br />
York Fringe Festival Award for Excellence in<br />
Performance.<br />
RYAN PURCELL (Mark) Ryan is very excited<br />
to be working with CollaborationTown on<br />
<strong>6969</strong>. Previous CTown projects include They’re<br />
Just Like Us and the workshop production of<br />
<strong>6969</strong>. He also directed The Deepest Play Ever<br />
for the Fringe Festival and was named Time<br />
Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2006. He<br />
would like to thank his family and Tom for<br />
their support.<br />
A new play created<br />
and produced by<br />
CollaborationTown<br />
BY JORDAN SEAVEY<br />
DIRECTED BY<br />
MATTHEW HOPKINS<br />
* These Actors and Stage Manager<br />
are appearing courtesy of<br />
Actor’s Equity Association.<br />
<strong>6969</strong> is an Equity Approved Showcase.<br />
MAX ROSENAK (John) Max is thrilled to be<br />
working with CollaborationTown again. Recent<br />
credits include: Dante’s Inferno<br />
(CollaborationTown), The James Wilde Project<br />
(Blessed Unrest), The Miracle Worker (Olney<br />
Theatre Center), The Rivals (Huntington Theatre<br />
Company), and Life Under Water (School At<br />
Steppenwolf). He is a graduate of Boston<br />
University (BFA 2005).<br />
DANIEL WALKER STOWELL (Timothy)<br />
Daniel is returning to the role of Timothy after<br />
making his debut with CollaborationTown in<br />
the <strong>6969</strong> workshop. He created the title<br />
character in the Michael Chekhov Theatre<br />
Company's production of The Last Temptation<br />
of Tony Christ and has performed regionally<br />
at The Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage<br />
and The Vineyard Playhouse. Daniel received<br />
his BFA from Boston University.<br />
PHILLIP TARATULA* (Damien) With<br />
CollaborationTown: The Deepest Play Ever<br />
(FringeNYC) and They’re Just Like Us (Red<br />
Room). Other New York credits include White<br />
Noise (NYMF); In Search of Stanley Hammer<br />
(FringeNYC); and A Lightening of Fireflies<br />
(AndHow!). He also writes and performs<br />
regularly with CollaborationTown's Sketch<br />
Comedy troupe, Shenanigans. Regional<br />
credits: Huntington Theatre, Williamstown<br />
Theatre Festival, Boston Center for the Arts,<br />
Theatreworks/USA, and Boothbay Harbor<br />
Opera House. BFA, Boston University School<br />
of Theatre.<br />
COLLABORATIONTOWN<br />
(Producing Company) Founded in 2003 by<br />
alumni of Boston University's Theatre Studies<br />
program, CollaborationTown's members make<br />
all artistic and operating decisions by way of<br />
a team called the Artistic Core, stepping outside<br />
individual, traditional "roles" in order to unify<br />
different styles, opinions, emotions,<br />
backgrounds and philosophies into cohesive<br />
ensemble-driven pieces of theatre. Past<br />
productions include The Deepest Play Ever:<br />
The Catharsis of Pathos (FringeNYC 2006<br />
Award Winner), <strong>6969</strong> (workshop), They're Just<br />
Like Us (nominated for four 2006 Innovative<br />
Theatre Awards including Best Original Full-<br />
Length Script and Best Production), The<br />
Astronomer's Triangle (nominated for four<br />
2005 Innovative Theatre Awards including<br />
Best Original Full-Length Script and Best<br />
Production), The Trading Floor, This is a<br />
Newspaper (FringeNYC 2003 Award Winner),<br />
and Dante's Inferno. Shenanigans Comedy<br />
Collective, CollaborationTown's rebellious<br />
middle child, performs biting sketch comedy<br />
on a monthly basis.<br />
www.collaborationtown.org<br />
JESICA AVELLONE (CTown Producing Team)<br />
Jesica is a founding member of<br />
CollaborationTown, for whom she is adapting<br />
Orestes. She is currently acting with the Striking<br />
Viking Story Pirates and in an Incubator project<br />
at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Jesica was<br />
nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award<br />
for Outstanding Original Music for The<br />
Astronomer's Triangle.<br />
CARLY CIOFFI (Director's Associate)<br />
Recent assistant directing credits include:<br />
The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels),<br />
The Real Thing (Huntington Theatre Co.),<br />
36 Views (Huntington Theatre Co.) and <strong>6969</strong><br />
the workshop production (CTown). Carly<br />
also performed with CTown in Dante's Inferno,<br />
They're Just Like Us, and The Deepest<br />
Play Ever.<br />
GEOFFREY DECAS (Set Design) Geoffrey<br />
co-founded CollaborationTown. He received<br />
his BFA from Boston University’s School<br />
of Theatre Arts in 2003, and has studied<br />
playwriting with Charles Mee. Geoffrey received<br />
a Fringe Excellence Award for Outstanding<br />
Playwriting for The Deepest Play Ever: The<br />
Catharsis of Pathos and is a co-founder of<br />
Shenanigans Comedy Collective, which<br />
produces monthly sketch comedy shows.<br />
LEON DOBKOWSKI (Costume Design)<br />
CTown: The Astronomer’s Triangle, The<br />
Trading Floor. Other: Smoking Bloomberg,<br />
And The Earth Moved (NYMF); Triumph of<br />
Love (AnyMinuteNow); The Germans In Paris<br />
(Verse Theater); Taking Control (Luna Stage);<br />
Balm in Gilead (MSU). Upcoming: assistant<br />
to costume designer Tatiana Noginova on<br />
Disney’s new Broadway musical, The Little<br />
Mermaid.<br />
TERRI GABRIEL (CTown Producing Team)<br />
Terri trained at Boston University with a<br />
concentration in Voice and Speech studying<br />
under a Linklater master. She assistant vocal<br />
coached Blood Wedding and Infinity’s House,<br />
coached Othello, and workshopped Blood<br />
Wedding at Columbia University. With<br />
CollaborationTown, Terri has acted, directed,<br />
and/or written The Trading Floor, The<br />
Astronomer’s Triangle, They’re Just Like Us,<br />
<strong>6969</strong> and The Deepest Play Ever.<br />
ROBIN GANEK (Stage Manager) Robin is<br />
elated to again be a part of CollaborationTown<br />
and <strong>6969</strong>. She is the Production Manager for<br />
Katharsis Theater Company’s production of<br />
The Polish Play. She was the Assistant Stage<br />
Manager on Dark Matters at Rattlestick<br />
Playwrights Theater and this past summer she<br />
was an Assistant Production Manager at<br />
Williamstown Theatre Festival.<br />
MATTHEW HOPKINS (Director) Acting and<br />
directing credits include The Deepest Play Ever<br />
(FringeNYC), They're Just Like Us (The Red<br />
Room), ‘Twas the Night… (PS122), The<br />
Astronomer's Triangle (Studio 5) and The<br />
Trading Floor (Access Theater). Co-founder:<br />
CollaborationTown. Member: Lincoln Center<br />
Theater Director's Lab. Education: Boston<br />
University, LAMDA.<br />
JILL RAFSON (Dramaturg)<br />
CollaborationTown: They’re Just Like Us, The<br />
Deepest Play Ever. Jill was also dramaturg for<br />
Lulu: The Musical (Fringe Festival, inaugural<br />
NYMF) and has read for Deutsch/Open City<br />
Films and the Vineyard Theater. She holds a<br />
BA from Johns Hopkins University and is<br />
currently Artistic Associate at the Roundabout<br />
Theatre Company.<br />
MIKE RIGGS (Lighting Design) Also this<br />
season: Madama Butterfly for Opera Naples;<br />
Carousel and Carmen for Shreveport Opera;<br />
A Little Night Music for River City Rep; Bed<br />
with One Year Lease; The Eaten Heart for The<br />
Debate Society. Recently in New York: Iphigenia<br />
Crash-Land Falls for OYL, Grimm at the Duke,<br />
Young Playwrights’ Festival at Playwrights<br />
Horizons. www.mikeriggsdesigns.com.<br />
JORDAN SEAVEY (Playwright) Jordan cofounded<br />
CollaborationTown. 2003 Edward F.<br />
Albee Foundation playwriting fellow. Other<br />
plays: Are You Writing From the Heart?,<br />
Children at Play, This is a Newspaper (NYC<br />
Fringe Award winner), American Child and<br />
The Long Distance; read, workshopped,<br />
and/or produced by CTown, Boston Theatre<br />
Marathon, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NY<br />
International Fringe Festival.<br />
NOAH STARR (Fight Choreographer) is from<br />
Camden, Maine. He has made appearances<br />
on “Late Night with Conan O'Brien”, “MTV”,<br />
“AMC”, “COURT TV”, “CNBC”, “E!”, “Maury<br />
Povich” and in the upcoming feature film “Nail<br />
Polish”. As a Fight Director, Noah has worked<br />
with Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin.<br />
www.noahstarr.com<br />
TJ WITHAM (CTown Producing Team)<br />
TJ is an artistic core member of<br />
CollaborationTown. He has collaborated<br />
with the group on The Astronomer’s Triangle,<br />
They’re Just Like Us, <strong>6969</strong> and The Deepest<br />
Play Ever. He spends his days supporting the<br />
non-profit theatre community of New York<br />
working for A.R.T./New York.<br />
BRANDON WOLCOTT (Sound Design)<br />
Brandon is a sound designer and actor. With<br />
CollaborationTown: The Astronomer's Triangle,<br />
They're Just Like Us, <strong>6969</strong>, and The Deepest<br />
Play Ever. Most recent: The Pillowman (Berkely<br />
Rep) and The Oresteia (Blue Coyote). He also<br />
produces techno music. He loves working<br />
with CollaborationTown.<br />
COLLABORATIONTOWN WISHES TO THANK:<br />
Elysabeth Kleinhans, Peter Tear, Karen Greco,<br />
Eric Chase, Miriam Green, Kelly Davis and<br />
the entire staff of <strong>59E59</strong> <strong>Theaters</strong>; Lee Ann<br />
Guille, Lisa Stevenson, Mary Harpster, Ginny<br />
Loulouldes and the entire staff of A.R.T./New<br />
York; Ben Kerrick, Hendrik Gerrits, Jeanne<br />
Gerritty, Alex Zachary and the entire staff of<br />
LMCC; The Bubble Lounge; Materials for the<br />
Arts; Triskelion Arts; Micki Hobson; Ellen Barker;<br />
Karin Schall; Noah Starr; Teal Fitzpatrick; Oliver<br />
Butler; Lis Henderson; Meghan Carey; Anna<br />
Tucker; 182 Meserole; Tricia Donegan; Hana<br />
Roth Seavey; Micah Bucey; John Newton; Gabe<br />
Cioffi; Gay Cioffi; Eve Muson; The Stowell<br />
Family (close and extended); Jordan Hruska;<br />
2007 SUPPORT FOR COLLABORATIONTOWN<br />
AND <strong>6969</strong> COMES FROM: (AS OF JANUARY 18, 2007)<br />
Stephanie Jarosz; Lisa Geiger; David Rosenak;<br />
Ted Rosenak; Karen Rosenak; Geoff Todebush;<br />
Chezza Zoeller; Roz Lichter.<br />
CollaborationTown has received generous<br />
support from The Nancy Quinn Fund, A Project<br />
of A.R.T./New York.<br />
CollaborationTown would also like to<br />
acknowledge: Materials for the<br />
Arts/Department of Cultural Affairs/Department<br />
of Sanitation/Department of Education and<br />
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for<br />
their support of this production.<br />
TOWN FOUNDERS ($1000 and up)<br />
Deborah Lynn and Randy Bruce Berkowitz, David & Eloise Gabriel, Dan and Sue Hopkins,<br />
Sallye Killebrew, Patty and Bill O'Donnell, Barbara Guzzo and Paul Purcell (through Beacon<br />
Development Group).<br />
MAYORAL CANDIDATE ($500 - $999)<br />
Hadar Foundation, Inc (Robert Weir),<br />
Lis Henderson, Lanette and Larry Killebrew.<br />
COMMUNITY LEADERS ($200 - $499)<br />
Missy Kennedy Allen, Janet and Frank Avellone, David Bell, Isaac Butler and Anne Love,<br />
Andrea and Timothy Byrne, John and Beverly Decas, Mark and Kat Delomba, Cindy Hopkins,<br />
William and Beverly Painter, Carol Todd Puckett, Hana Roth Seavey, Tom and Sue Witham.<br />
UPSTANDING CITIZENS ($50 - $199)<br />
Steve and Terri Avellone, Rob and Madeleine Bereuter, Susan Bernfield, Judy Braha,<br />
Carly Cioffi, Gay Cioffi, Michael Cohen, Karen Cook and LeRoy McLaughlin, Dina Decas,<br />
David Delk, Mike Doyle and Matt McGrath, Leslie Dukes, Pamela Gabriel, Marc V. Gorenstein<br />
and Marian Novick, Faye and Gene Guskin, Mary Harpster and K. Bruce Harpster,<br />
Dawn Helsing, Micki Hobson, Mik and Amy Ichiba, Larry and Brenda James, Michelle M. Keith,<br />
Elliott Kennerson, Ginny Louloudes, Barbara and Robert McKay, Ryan Purcell, The Riley Family,<br />
Ellyn Rothstein, Lee and Karen Sandlin, Rick and Geri Sue Sandor, Joseph and Maria Silva,<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Smith, Peter Staley, Lisa Stevenson, Dee Ann Stafford, John A. Newton<br />
and Aaron M. Strati, Barry and Dianne Swennumson, Target Research Group, Inc.,<br />
Jasmin Weaver and Noah Purcell, John Wernke.<br />
GOOD NEIGHBORS ($20 - $49)<br />
Edward and Pauline Antonio, Jason Bowcut, Bette and Richard Bradely, Robert and Muriel<br />
Campbell, Carol and John Carey, Ellen and Mort Charkey, Deborah L. Chong, Liz and Jay<br />
Curley, Lori Donaghy, Margherita D'Anna, David A. Damassa, Sarah Pierce Damassa, Anthony<br />
Decaneas, Duke Doyle, Sid Friedman, Robin Ganek, Audrey and Allen Golden, Sarah<br />
Guckenburg, The Heath Family, Mildred Hopkins, Joyce Kantrowitz and Linda Hanibal,<br />
Paul and Maura Kolker, Laura LaPonte, Eleanor M. Lemay, Francis E. Lemay, Joseph and Kristen<br />
Lepore, Kevin O'Mealy and Jane Canner, Ellen F. Pill, Morton and Joan Pollner, Aimee Reiss,<br />
Rabbi Seth D. Riemer and Barbara F. Cheknoff, Deanna Roth, Cara Schlesinger, Andrew Sloat,<br />
Shirley and Lester Spivack.<br />
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA)<br />
founded in 1913, represents more than<br />
45,000 actors and stage managers in the<br />
United States. Equity seeks to advance,<br />
promote and foster the art of live theatre<br />
as an essential component of our society.<br />
Equity negotiates wages and working<br />
conditions, producing a wide range of benefits, including<br />
health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-<br />
CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization<br />
of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark<br />
of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
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