Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner directed by Meredith McDonough

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1 Contact: Melissa Hines, Marketing Manager (o) ext (c) Laurel C. Henning, Communications Apprentice (o) ext (c) Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner directed by Meredith McDonough August 29 October 10, 2017 One of the most celebrated plays of the 20 th century, Tony Kushner s two-part masterpiece carries the audience through an astonishing theatrical landscape, both intimate and epic. In the chaos of the mid-1980s, a web of friends, lovers, and strangers struggle to make sense of the world. The AIDS crisis is escalating. The ozone layer is disappearing. And then a celestial messenger comes crashing through the ceiling literally. Told with thrilling wit and unflinching honesty, this searing examination of American politics, religion, power, sexuality, and justice is as powerful as ever. ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Tony Kushner s other plays include A Bright Room Called Day; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; The Intelligent Homosexual s Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures; the musical Caroline, or Change and the opera A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, both with composer Jeanine Tesori. He has adapted and translated Pierre Corneille s The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky s The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht s The Good Person of Szechwan and Mother Courage and Her Children; and the English-language libretto for the opera Brundibár by Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols s film of Angels In America, and for Steven Spielberg s Munich and Lincoln. His books include Brundibar, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, two Oscar nominations, a Spirit of Justice Award from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Cultural Achievement Award from The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, among other honors. In 2012, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his husband, Mark Harris.

2 Meredith McDonough is the associate artistic director at Actors Theatre, where she s directed Airness, Circle Mirror Transformation, Peter and the Starcatcher, This Random World, Dot, The Last Five Years, Noises Off, The Whipping Man, brownsville song (b-side for tray) and The Delling Shore. Previously, McDonough was the director of new works at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, California, where she directed the world premiere musical Triangle, as well as Upright Grand, Auctioning the Ainsleys, Silent Sky, Now Circa Then, [title of show] and Opus (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards: Best Director and Best Production). Other San Francisco credits include the premiere of Miss Bennett Christmas at Pemberley and A Steady Rain at Marin Theatre Company, and The Lily s Revenge and Another Way Home at Magic Theatre. Regionally, favorites include the U.S. premiere of NSFW, Fair Use (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Eurydice (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Book Club Play (Dallas Theater Center) and the Washington, D.C. premiere of the musical Summer of 42. In New York City, McDonough has developed work with Roundabout Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Keen Company and Ars Nova. She was the associate artistic director of The Orchard Project, was the new works director for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and currently serves on the board of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. McDonough received her B.S. from Northwestern University and her M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego. CAST Therese Barbato (Harper Pitt, Martin Heller) At Actors Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher. Regional Theatre Credits: Twelfth Night at Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles; Equivocation at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; The Hopper Collection at Huntington Theatre Company; In the Mood at Olney Theatre Center; and God s Ear at Boise Contemporary Theater. Off-Broadway: Prometheus Bound with David Oyelowo at Classic Stage Company; Mourning Becomes Electra at The New Group; Wonder at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; as well as numerous productions with Slant Theatre Project. Film: Prom King, 2010, Juilliard Group 44. Richard Gallagher (Louis Ironson) Selected Regional Theatre: Agatha Christie s The Mousetrap at McCarter Theatre Center; Tribes at Studio Theatre; Baltimore Center Stage; Yale Repertory Theatre; and The Norman Conquests at Northern Stage, Dorset Theatre Festival and Weston Playhouse. Broadway: 1984, The Front Page, The Lyons and The Importance of Being Earnest. Off-Broadway: Major Barbara at The Pearl Theatre Company, Women s Project Theater and 59E59 Theaters. Film: El Camino (with Elisabeth Moss). Television: Orange Is the New Black, Turn: Washington s Spies, Blacklist, Quantico, Chicago P.D., Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, As the World Turns, Looking for Kathleen and Wallflowers. Additional Credits: Gallagher received his M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. Mark Junek (Prior Walter, Man in the Park) is making his Actors Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: American Son at George Street Playhouse, Frankenstein at the Denver Center for the

3 Performing Arts, The Forgotten Woman at Bay Street Theater, after all the terrible things I do at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) at Syracuse Stage, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Imaginary Invalid at Bard SummerScape. Broadway: The Performers. Off-Broadway: The Hairy Ape at Park Avenue Armory; Family Play at New Ohio Theatre; and Galileo and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Classic Stage Company. Television: The Outs, Blindspot, Forever, Smash and Law and Order: SVU. Additional Credits: Junek is a graduate of Columbia University and The Juilliard Drama Division, Group 40. Lou Liberatore (Roy Cohn, Prior 2) is making his Actors Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: The Intelligent Homosexual s Guide at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Theatre J; The Diary of Anne Frank and That Championship Season at Westport Country Playhouse; A Thousand Clowns at Two River Theater; and others. Broadway: Burn This (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Award Nominations) and As Is. London: Burn This. Off-Broadway: Daniel s Husband at Primary Stages and Penguin Rep Theatre; A Class Act at New World Stages; Orpheus Descending (with Bartley/Glezos Productions); A Midsummer Night s Dream at Masterworks Theater Company; Rocket to the Moon at The Peccadillo Theater Company; Turnabout at The Ensemble Studio Theatre; Sight Unseen at Manhattan Theatre Club; and others. Film: Barrio Boy, Blood from a Stoner, Box, Mary and Louise and It s My Party. Television: The Affair, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Sex and the City and Law & Order. Additional Credits: Liberatore is a graduate of Fordham University (Lincoln Center) and The William Esper Studio. He is a member artist of The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Actors Center and The Circle Repertory Company ( ). Rami Margron (Emily, Ella Chapter, The Woman in the South Bronx, The Angel) Regional Theatre: Pericles and Macbeth at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Twelfth Night, Lady Windermere s Fan, Much Ado About Nothing and Restoration Comedy at California Shakespeare Theater; The Lily s Revenge at Magic Theatre; Jacob Marley s Christmas Carol at Marin Theatre Company; and Comedy of Errors and Aladdin at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Off-Broadway: Angry Young Man at Urban Stages Theater. Other Theatre: Dog Act, Antigonick and Precious Little at Shotgun Players; Moll Flanders and The Clean House at Pacific Repertory Theatre; Drip and The Listener at Crowded Fire Theater. Other Credits: Margron has studied over 20 styles of dance and movement in the U.S. and abroad. She performs with several African-Diaspora dance companies. Richard Prioleau (Mr. Lies, Belize) appeared at Actors Theatre in Love s Labour s Lost and Peter and the Startcatcher. Regional Theatre: Huntington Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Williams Project at Intiman Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Clarence Brown Theatre, American Conservatory Theater and Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Off-Broadway: Tom in The Glass Menagerie at Masterworks Theater Company and Elijah in A Persistent Memory at The Beckett Theatre on Theatre

4 Row. New York City: Access Theater, The Gallery Players, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and New Ohio Theatre. Film and Television: Madam Secretary and Instinct (CBS), The Normal Heart (HBO) and 30 Rock (NBC). Additional Credits: Prioleau received his B.A. from Fordham University at Lincoln Center and his M.F.A. from American Conservatory Theater. Brian Slaten (Joe Pitt) is honored to be making his Actors Theatre debut. Some Theatre Credits Include: Straight White Men at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Bent at Mark Taper Forum, Hayfever at The Old Globe, Paris Commune at La Jolla Playhouse and the world premiere of Rachel Bonds' Five Mile Lake at South Coast Repertory. Film Credits: Happy 40th, Uggs for Gaza and Deception. Television Credits: Masters of Sex, Rizzoli & Isles, Criminal Minds, Law & Order: SVU and Army Wives. Additional Credits: Slaten is a member of Chalk Repertory Theatre in Los Angeles. Barabara Walsh (Rabbi Chemelwitz, Henry, Hannah Pitt, Ethel Rosenberg) At Actors Theatre: Tomfoolery. Regional Theatre: Master Class at Paper Mill Playhouse; First Wives Club and Dinner with Friends at The Old Globe; Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and CenterStage; Carrie at Studio Theatre (Helen Hayes Award); 33 Variations at Capital Repertory Theatre; Creating Claire and Sisters Rosensweig at George Street Playhouse; A Little Night Music at CenterStage; and The New Prince, a Premiere Opera for Dutch National Opera. Broadway: Falsettos (Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations; and L.A. Ovation Award), Company (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations), Hairspray, Big, Ragtime (Chicago company), Blood Brothers, Nine, Rock n' Roll and The First Years. Off-Broadway: First Daughter Suite at The Public Theater; Three Days to See and Normal with Transport Group; Birds of Paradise; and Forbidden Broadway. Film & Television: Life with Mikey, Company (PBS), Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, All My Children and One Life to Live. DESIGNERS William Boles (Scenic Designer) is a Chicago-based scenic designer. Chicago: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Second City, Lyric Opera, Victory Gardens Theater, The Hypocrites (Community Member), American Theater Company, Timeline, A Red Orchid Theatre, About Face Theatre (Associate Artist), Chicago Children s Theatre, Sideshow Theatre Company (Associate Artist), Steep Theatre Company, Step Up Productions (Jeff-nominated design for Barefoot in the Park), First Floor Theater and Opera Northwestern. Regional Theatre: Children s Theatre Company, Wolf Trap Opera, Minnesota Opera, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company and Arizona Broadway Theatre. International: Stockholm Vocal Academy and Opera Siam in Bangkok. Additional Credits: Boles has assisted on Broadway productions including: Scandalous (Designer Walt Spangler) and Of Mice and Men, This Is Our Youth and Fish in the Dark (Designer Todd Rosenthal). He received his M.F.A. from Northwestern University. See more of Boles work at williambolesdesign.com.

5 Alison Siple (Costume Designer) At Actors Theatre: Airness, The 39 Steps, The Hypocrites HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance. Recent Projects: Earthquakes in London at Steep Theatre, Cinderella at the Theater of Potatoes with The Hypocrites, The Magic Play at Goodman Theatre, The Royale at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Sign in Sidney Brustein s Window at Goodman Theatre, The Yeomen of the Guard at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Flick at Steppenwolf, The Jungle Book at Children s Theatre Company; All Our Tragic with The Hypocrites, Angels in America at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; Our Town at Almeida Theatre London, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Broad Stage, Barrow Street Theatre and The Hypocrites. Upcoming Projects: The Magic Play at Olney Theatre Center. Additional Credits: Siple is a community member with The Hypocrites, an artistic associate with Lookingglass Theatre Company and an artistic associate with Steep Theatre. She is a graduate of Northwestern University. For more information, please visit alisonsiple.com. Isabella Byrd (Lighting Designer) At Actors Theatre: For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday (2016 Humana Festival and Berkeley Repertory Theatre) and Remix 38 (2014 Humana Festival). Regional Theatre: The Old Man and the Old Moon by PigPen Theatre Co. at The Old Globe (Associate). Off-Broadway: Sundown Yellow Moon at Ars Nova and WP Theater; associate design for The Hairy Ape at Park Avenue Armory; Othello at New York Theatre Workshop; Everybody and Antipodes at Signature Theatre; A Life at Playwrights Horizons; and The Flick at Playwrights Horizons (world premiere), Barrow Street Theatre and The National Theatre, London. Additional Credits: Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Lincoln Center, Spoleto Festival USA and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Byrd is a Chance Magazine contributor and 13P company member. Paul Toben (Lighting Designer) At Actors Theatre: Airness, Circle Mirror Transformation, Lady Day at Emerson s Bar and Grill, This Random World, Residence, Wondrous Strange, Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, The Roommate, I Will Be Gone, That High Lonesome Sound, The Last Five Years, The Grown- Up, Partners and Noises Off. Regional Theatre: Electra at Court Theatre; The Book of Will at Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Silent Sky, Upright Grand, Auctioning the Ainsleys and others for TheatreWorks; Medea, School for Wives, The Book Club Play, Fly by Night at Dallas Theater Center; Caravan Man and Demon Dreams for Williamstown Theatre Festival; Daddy Long Legs at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company and more; designs for Magic Theatre, Walker Arts Center and Flat Rock Playhouse, among others. Broadway: The Story of My Life. Off-Broadway: Side Street at Theaterlab; Saturn Nights at Incubator Arts Project; Electra in a One-Piece and The Realm at The Wild Project; Romeo and Juliet at Columbia Stages; Futurity at HERE; When in Disgrace at Examined Man; and The Redheaded Man at Fringe Encores. London: Daddy Long Legs at St. James Theatre. Additional Credits: For more information, see paultoben.com.

6 Christian Frederickson (Sound Designer) is a violist, composer and sound designer living in New York City. At Actors Theatre: Recent Alien Abductions, We're Gonna Be Okay, Macbeth, Wondrous Strange, This Random World, Residence, Seven Guitars, The Glory of the World, Dot, At the Vanishing Point, Steel Hammer, True West, Romeo and Juliet, The Edge of Our Bodies and The Tempest. Off-Broadway: Custodians of Beauty at New York Live Arts; The Glory of the World, Steel Hammer, Trojan Women and The Master Builder at BAM; The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois at Atlantic Stage 2. Additional Credits: Frederickson is a founding member of the Louisville bands Rachel s and The Young Scamels and is a graduate of The Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School. CREATIVE TEAM Philip Allgeier (Media Designer) is a Louisville native who has performed multiple mediarelated duties for television networks and live events across the country. Since starting with Actors in 2008, he has designed media for over 40 productions, including At the Vanishing Point, The Last Five Years, The Mountaintop, Gnit, Romeo and Juliet, The Hour of Feeling and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Additional Credits Include: Three Decembers at Kentucky Opera, The Christians at the Mark Taper Forum and The Glory of the World at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Allgeier is a graduate of Western Kentucky University. Dale Anthony Girard (Fight Director). Regional Theatre: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theater, Arden Theatre Company, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Folger Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Studio Arena Theater, Two River Theater and Yale Repertory Theatre. Film: Eyeborgs (Stunt Coordinator), Fall Down Dead, Junebug, One & Two, Shifting Gears and The Key Man. Opera: Anchorage Opera, Opera Connecticut, Florida Grand Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Kentucky Opera, Metropolitan Opera, New Orleans Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Colorado, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, Tulsa Opera and the Vancouver Opera. Other Theatres: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and the Ravinia Festival. PRODUCTION Paul Mills Holmes (Production Stage Manager) is in his twenty-sixth season at Actors Theatre. At Actors Theatre: Holmes has stage managed over 125 productions in the regular season, including every production of A Christmas Carol since 1993 and 24 Humana Festivals. Regional Theatre: Girlfriend at Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles; The Glass Menagerie, Betsey Brown, Indians and Three Sisters at McCarter Theatre Center. Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Smile and Oh! Calcutta! Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Steel Magnolias and Oil City Symphony. Additional Credits: Directed Little Shop of Horrors in Tel Aviv and Tokyo. Thirty-eight seasons at Pennsylvania s Totem Pole Playhouse.

7 Jessica Kay Potter (Stage Manager) At Actors Theatre: We're Gonna Be Okay, Circle Mirror Transformation, The 39 Steps, For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, The Ten- Minute Plays, Peter and the Starcatcher, Seven Guitars, Luna Gale, The Glory of the World, At the Vanishing Point, The Last Five Years, Love s Labour s Lost, The Christians, Noises Off, Appropriate, The Whipping Man, True West, Romeo and Juliet, The Veri**on Play, ReEntry, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The End, Fissures (lost and found), Heist!, A Christmas Carol, Dracula and Absalom. Other Theatre: Uncharted Realms at the Louisville Ballet; Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Additional Credits: Potter holds a B.S. in theatre arts from the University of Louisville, where she graduated cum laude. DRAMATURG Jenni Page-White is the literary manager at Actors Theatre. Dramaturgy credits at Actors include the Humana Festival premieres of We re Gonna Be Okay, I Now Pronounce, Wellesley Girl, and This Random World. Previously, she was the literary associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she helped select and develop new plays for First Look and coordinated postshow discussion programming. In Chicago, she has developed plays with American Theater Company, Sideshow Theatre Company and LiveWire Chicago Theatre. She holds a B.F.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. CASTING Kelly Gillespie's credits include Residence, Eat Your Heart Out, The Roommate, Dot and Seven Guitars at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Out of the City at Merrimack Repertory Theatre; Stuffed, Ironbound, Bright Half Life and Dear Elizabeth at Women's Project Theater; Good Person of Szechwan at The Foundry Theatre and The Public Theater; Melancholy Play, A Map of Virtue, The Zero Hour and Monstrosity at 13P; and Photograph 51 at Ensemble Studio Theatre. She is a casting director at Manhattan Theatre Club, where recent projects include the Tony Award-winning productions of The Little Foxes and Jitney. She is also the resident casting director for TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) and cast the 2007 season for the Dorset Theatre Festival and six seasons for Off-Broadway's Keen Company. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan