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BILL THEATER B
REVERIE PRODUCTIONS presents
REARVIEWMIRROR
BY ERIC WINICK
DIRECTED BY CARL FORSMAN
MARCH 31 - APRIL 22

REVERIE PRODUCTIONS
presents
BY ERIC WINICK
DIRECTED BY CARL FORSMAN
CAST
PENN MARK ALHADEFF*
INEZ SARAH NINA HAYON
AGATHA AUDREY LYNN WESTON
CREW
Assoc. Producers: GENEROUS COMPANY
Sets by RACHEL HAUCK
Costumes by REBECCA EASTMAN
Lights by COLIN D. YOUNG
Sound by RYAN RUMERY
Casting by JUDY BOWMAN CASTING
Publicity by KAREN GRECO PUBLIC RELATIONS
Postcard Design and styling BRADFORD LOURYK
Dramaturg DAVID M. WHITE
Asst. Director ALEXIS PREGOSIN
Asst. Stage Manager MARIANA CARBONELL
Production Stage Manager DENISE BLACKER*
Development of Rearviewmirror was supported by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
during a residency at the Playwrights Conference of 2005. The play was also developed
through a series of readings and workshops by Reverie Productions in 2001 and 2002.
*Member of Actors' Equity Association ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) founded in 1913, represents
more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and
foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working
conditions, producing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of
the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity
emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
CAST
MARK ALHADEFF (Penn)
New York: Sam Mark's play The Bigger Man
for Partial Comfort Productions, Pagans at
Abingdon Theatre, and Conor McPherson's
one man show Rum and Vodka. Regional:
plays by Mary Zimmerman at the McCarter,
Berkeley Rep, and Seattle Rep; Cincinnati
Playhouse; Pittsburgh Public; east coast
premiere of Tom Stoppard's The Invention
of Love at the Wilma (Barrymore Award
nomination). In TV and film: TNT's “Monday
Night Mayhem”, and roles in “Law & Order”
(surprise), as well as award winning director
Joe Maggio's “Paper Covers Rock”.
SARAH NINA HAYON (Inez)
New York: The Rattlestick, HERE, LAByrinth,
EST, The Flea, The Women's Project, La Mama,
The Lark, CSC and New Dramatists. Partial
Comfort: Edith Freni's Baby Girl and Chad
Beckim's A Matter of Choice. As a founding
member of The Fire Dept. Theater Company,
Sarah performed in the launch event SpeakEasy
in Anton Dudley's Drowned People. Sarah is
a co-creator of the playwriting development
series The 24Seven Lab (www.24sevenlab.com).
She is thrilled to be working with Carl and Eric
Winick and Reverie Productions.
AUDREY LYNN WESTON (Agatha) was
nominated for a 2006 New York Innovative
Theatre Award for her performance in Bloody
Mary at CSV. Most recently, she played Sula
in The Field of Mars (dir. Michael Counts,
Counts Media). Other New York: The Flea
Theater, Culture Project, INTAR, HERE, GAle
GAtes, et al. and EST. Regional: Williamstown
Theatre Festival, Guild Hall, Bay Street Theatre.
Film: Hal Hartley’s “The Girl From Monday”,
Evan Cabnet’s “Fools’ Errand”. Thank you to
Kevin Thompson, Judy Boals, and Peter Stadlen.
CREW
DENISE BLACKER (Production Stage
Manager) This is Denise’s first production with
Reverie Productions and she is very excited to
be a part of the team. Denise graduated from
Wilkes University with a BA in Theater Arts in
May 2006 and would like to send her thanks
to everyone there and also to her friends
and family for all of their love and support.
Be excellent everyone! Proud member of AEA
since Halloween 2006.
JUDY BOWMAN CASTING (Casting)
Reverie: Ping Pong Diplomacy and Havana
Bourgeois. NY Theatre includes: Scituate,
Points of Departure, A Matter of Choice, David
Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood (Broadway,
co-cast) and several musicals. Regional:
Strike/Slip and dark play or stories for boys
(Humana Fest), and casting 3 seasons for
A.R.T. Film: “Body/Antibody”, “508 Nelson”,
“Duane Incarnate” and several shorts. NY
Casting Associate for “Something’s Gotta
Give”, “Mean Girls” and “Shortbus”. TV:
“Nate the Great” (PBS animated series).
Judy is the NY Casting Director for the American
Repertory Theatre at Harvard, INTAR and
Partial Comfort.
REBECCA EASTMAN (Costume Designer)
Rebecca’s work as a Costume Designer has
been seen in such nationally recognizable
theaters as the Kansas City Repertory Theatre,
the Unicorn Theatre and the Coterie Theatre.
Ms. Eastman’s work on Rearviewmirror began
in 2005 as the Resident Costume Designer
for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s
Playwrights Festival. Rebecca currently works
as the costume design assistant at the Long
Wharf Theatre and is a founding member
of Generous Company.
P.J. ESCOBIO (Producing Associate for
Generous Company) P.J., a founding member
of Generous Company, received his MFA in
Acting and Directing at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City. His producing credits
include TRASH at the NYFringe festival in 2005
and Shakespeare Anyone?, a recurring evening
of soliloquies, sonnets and scenes currently
performed at The Cornelia St. Cafe. Some of
his regional credits are Einstein in Pablo Picasso
at the Lapine Agile, Father Matteo in Zorro,
Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, and
Agamemnon in The Orestia. Thanks and Love
to Susann and Isabelle.
CARL FORSMAN (Director) is the founder
and Artistic Director of Keen Company.
He received a Drama Desk Nomination as
Best Director for Voice of the Turtle. Other
Keen highlights include Theophilus North,
In The Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer,
and The Breadwinner. Also Sin: A Cardinal
Deposed and Everythings Turning Into
Beautiful for The New Group, and Tina Howe's
new translations of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano
and The Lesson for the Atlantic. Carl is
also the Artistic Director of the Dorset
Theatre Festival.
RYAN RUMERY (Sound Designer) New
York: Based on a Totally True Story (Manhattan
Theatre Club); Getting Home (Second Stage);
The Seagull (Blue Heron); Mayhem (SPF at
Theatre Row); Macbeth (Theatre of the Riverside
Church); Edward II, Much Ado About Nothing
(Queen’s Company); Twelfth Night, Fortinbras
(Juilliard School of Drama). Regional: Center
Stage, Hartford Stage, Virginia Stage, Westport
Country Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre
Company, Ford’s Theatre, Florida Stage, Alley
Theatre, Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre,
Syracuse Stage, Trinity Repertory Theatre,
Adirondack Theatre Festival, Hangar Theatre,
Theatre Alliance, Alliance Theatre, Woolly
Mammoth, Theatre J, and Penguin Rep.
DAVID M. WHITE (Dramaturg) works
as a dramaturg, playwright and director. He
is the former literary manager of the Eugene
O'Neill Theater Center where he had the
pleasure of developing many new works for
the stage. He has worked in New York and
regional theaters around the country,
responding to plays and leading workshops
at theaters, universities and conferences.
Currently he is the Artistic Director of
WordBRIDGE (www.wordbridge.org) and is
a founding member of Generous Company.
ERIC WINICK (Playwright) hails from
Marblehead, Massachusetts, birthplace of
the American Navy. His plays include
Rearviewmirror (O’Neill Conference); The
Vocal Lords (Theatre at St. Clements); and
Lay Me Down (Reverie Productions at the
Present Company Theatorium). Readings and
workshops at/by BIMA-NY @ Makor, Theater
Masters (Aspen), Manhattan Theatre Club,
MCC Theatre, and Reverie. Current projects
include a new play, Zizmor, and the screenplay
of Rearviewmirror, optioned by Firefly Films.
A graduate of Middlebury College, Eric is
on the advisory boards of several local and
national theater organizations, and serves as
Playwrights Horizons’ Director of Marketing.
He is a resident of Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
COLIN D. YOUNG (Lighting Designer/
Reverie Artistic Director) Off Broadway:
In the Continuum (Primary Stages/Perry St.
Theatre), Classical Theatre of Harlem: The
Blacks, Crazy Locomotive (2003 Audelco
Award), Native Son and Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom; Signature Theatre: Talking Pictures
and Albee’s Fragments. Reverie: Billboard,
Havana Bourgeois, Ping Pong Diplomacy,
Ariane Mnouchkine’s Mephisto, Carson
Kreitzer’s Valerie Shoots Andy, John Clancy’s
Fatboy (2004 Edinburgh Fringe First), and
Robert O’Hara’s Brave Brood and American
Ma(u)l. Regional: Woolly Mammoth, Cincinnati
Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Yale Rep,
Philadelphia Theatre Co. Colin was the
founding Festival technical director for the
New York International Fringe Festival,
and is a co-founder and Artistic director
of Reverie Productions.
Reverie Productions
is an NYC based not-for-profit theatre company
dedicated to supporting and developing
new work by established playwrights and
emerging artists. Our mission is to promote
a collaborative environment in which artists
can learn from each other, explore new
artistic ground, and produce theatre of
uncompromising quality through some
combination of bloodshed and eloquence.
Now in our ninth season, we have produced
16 NYC, U.S. or World Premieres of new plays,
including the U.S. Premiere of Ariane
Mnouchkine's Mephisto, Carson Kreitzer's
Valerie Shoots Andy and Self Defense or,
death of some salesmen, Robert O’Hara’s
Brave Brood and American Ma(u)l, and John
Clancy’s Fatboy starring Mike McShane, which
won a coveted Fringe First Award at the 2004
Edinburgh Festival Fringe. At 59E59 Theaters:
Havana Bourgeois, Ping Pong Diplomacy
and Billboard. Rearviewmirror is Reverie’s
20th full production.
www.ReverieProductions.org
Generous Company
(Associate Producer) was founded in 2004
and is dedicated to developing and producing
works for stage, film and online media in
a supportive, collaborative, generous
environment. In addition to readings and
developmental work, Generous Company
has produced Trash by David White (2005),
The Rambling Nut by Eric Love (2007),
and is currently collaborating with Clemson
University on WordBRIDGE Playwrights
Laboratory, a two-week long developmental
workshop bringing collegiate playwrights
together with professional artists. Learn
more at www.generouscompany.org
This production made possible in part
by grants from: