I Now Pronounce by Tasha Gordon-Solmon directed Stephen Brackett March 1 April 9, 2017

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1 Contact: Steve Knight, Director of Marketing and Communications (o) ext (c) Sara Durham, Communications Manager (o) ext (c) I Now Pronounce by Tasha Gordon-Solmon directed Stephen Brackett March 1 April 9, 2017 After Adam and Nicole s wedding culminates in an awkwardly timed fatality, the reception spins into an increasingly strange evening that leaves the bride and groom questioning just what it is they re celebrating. But there s no stopping the festivities: the flower girls are running amuck, the bridal party members are more preoccupied with their own flailing relationships, and everyone needs to stop ordering the blue drinks. Comedies end in marriage. Tragedies end in death. This play begins with both. ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Tasha Gordon-Solmon s plays have been developed and produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville (2016 Humana Festival Ten-Minute Plays, The Professional Training Company s The Tens), Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, Dixon Place, New Georges, INTAR Theatre, and The Flea Theater. She is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Fellowship, a lyricist in the BMI Workshop, a member of the Project Y Playwrights Group, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and an alumna of Clubbed Thumb s Early Career Writers Group and Ars Nova s Play Group. As a director, Gordon-Solmon has worked at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Tank, The Brick, Columbia University, Studio Tisch, the New York Fringe Festival, and The Fire This Time Festival. She received her M.F.A. in dramatic writing at New York University and is a proud 52 nd Street Project volunteer. Stephen Brackett: Regional Theatre: Philip Dawkins Le Switch at About Face Theatre; Joe Tracz and Joe Iconis Be More Chill at Two River Theater; and David West Read s The Great Pretender at TheatreWorks, Silicon Valley. Off-Broadway: Caroline McGraw s Ultimate Beauty Bible at Page 73 Productions; Jacob Yandura and Rebekah Greer Melocik s Wringer at New York City Children s Theater; Bixby Elliot s Sommerfugl at InViolet Theater Company; Jonathan Tolins Buyer & Cellar at Rattlestick Playwright s Theater, Barrow Street Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, national tour and London s Menier Chocolate Factory; Anton Dudley s City Of at Playwrights Realm; Lucas Kavner s Carnival Kids at Lesser America; The Lightning Thief at Theatreworks, USA; Ken Urban s The Correspondent at Rattlestick Playwright s Theater; Chad Beckim s After at Partial Comfort; Dan Fishback s The Material World at Dixon Place; Bekah Brunstetter s Be A Good Little Widow at Ars Nova; and The Tenant at Woodshed Collective.

2 CAST Clea Alsip (Michelle) is making her debut at Actors Theatre. Regional Theatre: Steel Magnolias; and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Bucks County Playhouse; The Killing of Sister George at Long Wharf Theatre; Clybourne Park at Dorset Theatre Festival and Barrington Stage; Lewis Black s One Slight Hitch at George Street Playhouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Show Off at Westport Country Playhouse; Brace Yourself at Berkshire Theatre Group; Six Degrees of Separation at Williamstown Theatre Festival; and The Motherf****r with the Hat at TheaterWorks Hartford. Off-Broadway: Neil LaBute s The Way We Get By at Second Stage; 10K, What Happens in Vegas and Wide Awake Hearts at 59e59; Ping Pong at The Public Theater; Sarah Ruhl s Stage Kiss at Playwrights Horizons; and Sex of the Baby at Access Theater. Film/TV: Billy & Billea, Boardwalk Empire, Expecto Patron, 10K, Seclusion, Hunter&Game and The Little Tin Man. Additional Credits: Alsip received her B.A. from Stanford University and her M.F.A. from New York University Graduate Acting. For more information, please visit cleaalsip.com. Satomi Blair (Eva) Regional Theatre: Gloria at The Dallas Theater Center; Seminar at WHAT; Good Men Wanted* at Arena Stage; Land O Fire* at JCTC. Off- Broadway: Kentucky* at Ensemble Studio Theatre; and She Kills Monsters* (Vampire Cowboys), These Seven Sicknesses*, and American Sexy* at the Flea Theater (former company member). Television: Rescue Me (FX), Gurland Vs. Gurland (Showtime) Additional Credits: Satomi attended Fordham University at Lincoln Center. She is a founder of 4Hawk Productions; Starring Austin Pendleton a documentary film (Executive Producer). *World/NYC Premiere Ray DeMattis (Rabbi) was at the inaugural season of Actors Theatre and is thrilled to be back. Regional Theatre: Geva Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Two Rivers Theater, Cleveland Play House and others. Broadway: Fiorello!, Little Shop Of Horrors, City Of Angels, Zoya s Apartment and the original Grease. Off-Broadway: Streets of New York, Enter Laughing-The Musical, Talk Radio, Tamara, Flora The Red Menace, among others. Television: The Sopranos, Law & Order (nine principal guest appearances), three of Bill Cosby s series and Everwood. Film: It Runs In The Family, Untitled, Family Business, Fatherhood and Brewster s Millions. Additional Credits: In 2015, the Hamden Education Foundation honored him as a distinguished alumnus in the arts and producer Chip DeFaa instituted an award in his name to be bestowed on outstanding young talents. He served as founding artistic director as the national theatre workshop of the handicapped, for which he received the Timmy Award. Ben Graney (Adam) is making his Actors Theatre debut. Regional Theatre: Disgraced at Philadelphia Theatre Company; The Heidi Chronicles and Postcards from Earth at the Guthrie Theater; Be a Good Little Widow at The Old Globe; Twelfth Night and Youth Ink! at McCarter Theatre Center; and The Cherry Orchard and Twelfth Night at Chautauqua Theatre Company. Broadway: War Horse at Lincoln Center Theater and The Heidi Chronicles. Off- Broadway: When the Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center Theater; and Game Play and The Netflix Plays at Ars Nova. Other New York Theatre: From The Miraculous (Writer, Director,

3 & Performer Studio Tisch & in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm) and Paper Dolls at Sundance Theater Lab. Film: Impossible Monsters (upcoming), Canto and Ama at Sea. TV: Billions and Unscripted. Training: Graney received his M.F.A. from New York University Graduate Acting, and his B.A. from California State University, Long Beach. He is a proud member of the The Actors Center. For more information, please visit bengraney.com. Forrest Malloy (Seth) Off-Broadway: Troilus and Cressida (Menelaus) at the Public Theater s Shakespeare in the Park. Additional Credits: Landscape of the Body (Holahan), God of Carnage (Michael), Antony and Cleopatra (Antony), Three Sisters (Andre), among others at The Juilliard School. Training: Malloy received his BFA from Pace University, his MFA from Juilliard, Group 45. He is a recipient of the 2016 Laura Pels Prize for Acting and an Alan D. Marks Career Advancement Fellowship. Alexandra Trow (Nicole) is thrilled to be making her Actors Theatre of Louisville debut. Regional Theatre: Owners at Yale Repertory Theatre and Mad Love at Northern Stage. Off-Broadway: London Wall at the Mint Theater and Straight at Theatre Row. TV/Web: CBS Blue Bloods; Twenty Five and Cooking for One with the Crying Chef. Additional Credits: Trow received her BA from Yale College and her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Her play Flamingo was the winner of Sanguine Theatre Company s Project Playwright and was produced at the IRT Theater in New York. She received the Women in Film Award at the 2016 NYTVFest for her web series Inappropriate Jane Austen. Brylee Deuser (Flower Girl) is excited to return to Actors Theatre for a second time, the first being the 2016 production of Fifth Third Bank s Dracula. Other Theatre: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Willy Wonka and Miracle on 34th Street at Clarksville Little Theatre; Aladdin at Madison High School; The Wizard of Oz at RiverStage. Additional Credits: Deuser is a third grader at Pope John Elementary School. Mary Charles Miller (Flower Girl) is blessed and honored to be a part of this wonderful cast. At Actors Theatre: Our Town, Dracula and Macbeth. Other credits include an upcoming movie entitled The Ghost Beyond. She loves animals, volunteering and living green. Carmen Tate (Flower Girl) is excited to make her debut with Actors Theatre. Regional Theatre: Beauty and the Beast and White Christmas at Derby Dinner Playhouse. Other Theatre: Christmas in Candyland, Snoopy and You re a Good Man Charlie Brown at Folsom Academy for the Arts; Annie and Lion King, Jr. at Stopher Elementary. DESIGNERS William Boles (Scenic Designer) is a Chicago-based scenic designer. Chicago: Goodman Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Second City, Lyric Opera, Victory Gardens Theater, The Hypocrites (Community Member), American Theater Company, Timeline, A Red Orchid Theater, About Face Theater (Associate Artist), Chicago Children s Theater, Sideshow (Associate Artist), Steep Theater Company, Step-Up Productions (Jeff Nominated design for Barefoot in the Park), First Floor Theater, Opera Northwestern. Regional: Children s Theater Company,

4 Wolftrap Opera, Minnesota Opera, Milwaukee Rep, Pig Iron Theater Company, Arizona Broadway Playhouse. International: Stockholm Vocal Academy and Opera Siam in Bangkok. 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). Upcoming productions include The Sneetches at Children s Theater Company in Minneapolis and King of the Yees by Lauren Yee at the Goodman Theater. MFA, Northwestern. See more of Boles work at williambolesdesign.com. Kathleen Geldard (Costume) At Actors Theatre: Circle Mirror Transformation; Residence and This Random World (2016 Humana Festival); Peter and the Starcatcher; The Roommate and I Will Be Gone (2015 Humana Festival). Regional Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors at Portland Center Stage; All the Roads Home, Mad River Rising at Cincinnati Playhouse; The Year of Magical Thinking at Arena Stage; A Raisin in the Sun, Invisible Man and Ruined at Huntington Theatre Company; Kid Victory (world premiere), Brother Russia, Really Really, The Boy Detective Fails (world premiere), Walter Cronkite Is Dead (world premiere), Chess and Les Misérables at Signature Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Center Stage; Studio Theatre; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Florida Studio Theatre; Round House Theatre; Imagination Stage; Folger Theatre; Martha s Vineyard Playhouse; and Children s Theatre of Charlotte; Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Awards: 2012 Bay Area Critics Circle Nomination for Ruined, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; 2012 IRNE Nomination for Ruined, Huntington Theatre Company; 2009 Helen Hayes Nomination for The Neverending Story, Imagination Stage; named Artistic Associate for Signature Theatre, Tyler Micoleau (Lighting Design) Regional Theatre: recent credits include Miss You Like Hell at La Jolla Playhouse; The City of Conversation at Arena Stage; A Midsummer Night s Dream at The Shakespeare Theater (in Macau, China); and The Harassment of Iris Malloy at Peoples Light. Off-Broadway: recent credits include The Band s Visit at the Atlantic Theater; Familiar at Playwrights Horizons; The Effect at Barrow Street Theatre; and First Daughters Suite at Public Theater. Additional Credits: Antlia Pneumatica at Playwrights Horizons (Drama Desk nom.); When The Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center Theater (Lucille Lortel Award); Blasted at Soho Rep. (American Theatre Wing Hewes Award); and Bug (Lucille Lortel and OBIE Awards). Micoleau received a 2010 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence. He earned his BA from Bowdoin College. Stowe Nelson (Sound Designer) is a sound designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Actors Theatre: 4000 Miles. Regional Theatre: Clarkston at Dallas Theater Center; An Iliad at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival ; The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare & Company; Blithe Spirit, Ghosts and Deathtrap at Everyman Theatre. New York: Iphigenia in Aulis at Classic Stage Company; The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek and The Wayside Motor Inn at Signature Theatre Company; Small Mouth Sounds at Ars Nova; Verite at LCT3; Buyer & Cellar at Barrow Street Theatre; 16 Words or Less and Phoebe in Winter at Clubbed Thumb; The Essential Straight & Narrow and Samuel & Alasdair with The Mad Ones. Additional Credits: Proud member

5 of USA 829 and Wingspace Theatrical Design. For more information, see wingspace.com/stowe. PRODUCTION Katie Shade (Stage Manager) At Actors Theatre: Residence, The Roommate, The Grown- Up, Our Town, Dracula, Sleep Rock Thy Brain, A Christmas Story, Romeo and Juliet, The Hour of Feeling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Sense and Sensibility, BOB, Barefoot in the Park, Heist!, Phoenix and A Christmas Carol. Other Theatre: The Tempest at Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, A Winter s Tale and Bad Dates at Shakespeare & Company; The Fabulous Lipitones and Carousel at Goodspeed Musicals. Additional Credits: Shade holds a B.F.A. in theatre management from Auburn University. She is also an alumna of the Apprentice/ Intern Company at Actors Theatre. DRAMATURG Jenni Page-White is the literary manager at Actors Theatre. Dramaturgy credits at Actors include the world premieres of Wellesley Girl and This Random World in the 2016 Humana Festival. Previously, she was the literary associate at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she helped select and develop new plays for First Look and coordinated post-show discussion programming. Her dramaturgy credits at Steppenwolf include Okay, Bye; The Fundamentals; and The Birthday Party. 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. I Now Pronounce was developed at the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, June Made possible by a generous grant from the