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By Cori Thomas Directed by Kent Gash
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in association with
ShadowCatcher Entertainment presents
LOCKDOWN
BY CORI THOMAS
DIRECTED BY KENT GASH
CAST
Eric Berryman
Curtis Morlaye-Williams
Keith Randolph Smith
Zenzi Williams
Reynaldo Piniella
Voice of Charlie: Michael McElroy
PRODUCTION TEAM
Set Design by Jason Sherwood Associate Scenic Designer: Justin West
Costume Design by Kara Harmon Assistant Costume Designer: Amy Sutton
Lighting Design by Dawn Chiang Assistant Lighting Designer: L uther Frank
Sound Design by Justin Ellington Assistant Sound Designer: John McKenna
Properties Designer: Natalie Carney Assistant Fight Choreographer: Sean Griffin
Fight Choreography by Uncle Dave’s Master Electrician: Joe D'Emilio
Fight-House Sound Supervisor: Kimberly S. O’Loughlin
Casting by Tara Rubin Casting Lighting Programmer: Mo Epps
Production Stage Manager: Genevieve Ortiz Sound Board Operator: Dylan Vaughan Skorish
Dramaturg: Ignacia Delgado Wardrobe Supervisor: Asia McCallum
Assistant Stage Manager: P. Tyler Britt Press Representative: Matt Ross Public
Production Manager: Jenny Beth Snyder Relations
Technical Director: Aaron Gonzalez Videographer: Zanni Productions / Jonathan
Associate Production Manager/Technical Burklund
Director: Mac Whiting Costume Intern: Shivanna Sooknanan
Lockdown was commissioned by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater with support from The Virginia B.
Toulmin Foundation. Lockdown i s supported by The David Rockefeller Fund, The Tow Foundation, and
The SHS Foundation. Lockdown w as developed during a residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theater
Center’s National Playwrights Conference in 2018.
CAST ERIC BERRYMAN (C.O.) Off-Broadway: The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, A Record Album Interpretation (St. Ann’s Warehouse/The Wooster Group), Steel Hammer, The Bacchae, Glory of the World ( BAM), pool, no water (Barrow Street Theater). Selected Regional: The Amen Corner (The Guthrie Theater), I Wish You Love (Penumbra Theatre/The Kennedy Center/ Hartford Stage) Fly (Ford’s Theatre); Red, Topdog/Underdog, Noises Off, A Raisin in the Sun (Everyman Theatre). Selected Film/TV: Barry (NETFLIX), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Untitled Noah Baumbach Project and After Louie. Education: Carnegie Mellon University. CURTIS MORLAYE-WILLIAMS (Clue) Curtis’s credits include roles in the final season of Fox’s GOTHAM and CBS’ BLUE BLOODS. Othello (Rodrigo), Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Pontius Pilate), Escape From Happiness (Junior), Sweat (Chris) [Yale School of Drama]. Curtis received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. KEITH RANDOLPH SMITH (Wise) Broadway: Jitney; Fences; Come Back Little Sheba; King Hedley II; Salome; Piano Lesson; American Psycho. Off-Broadway: Paradise Blue; First Breeze of Summer; Holiday Heart; The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Intimacy. Regional: How To Catch Creation; The Absolute Brightness Of Leonard Pelkey; Our Town; Water By The Spoonful; In Walk’s Ed. Film/TV: The Good Fight; Anesthesia; Malcolm X; The Warrior Class; Path To Paradise; Backstreet Justice; Journeymen; Dead Dogs Lie; Law and Order; NY Undercover; I’ll Fly Away; Cosby. Fox Fellow in Acting. Lunt-Fontanne Fellow in Acting. Member of Actor’s Center. Grad of AADA Conservatory. ZENZI WILLIAMS (Ernie) Broadway: The Crucible. Off-Broadway: School Girls (MCC Theater), Mobile Unit of Henry V (The Public), The Crucible ( Broadway), The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company), Mother Courage and Her Children ( Classic Stage Company). Regional: Imogen Says Nothing (Yale Repertory Theatre). Television credits include Chicago Fire, Blue Bloods, The Good Fight, The Defenders, Daredevil. Film: Black Panther, The Mess He Made. Williams studied at the British American Dramatic Academy and has a BA from Temple University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. REYNALDO PINIELLA (Understudy, C.O.) was previously seen in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Venus (Signature Theater Company), The Skin of Our Teeth (Theatre for A New Audience), The Space Between the Letters (The Public Theater/Under the Radar), Terminus (NYTW Next Door), Romeo & Juliet (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis), The Tempest, The Three Musketeers ( Classical Theatre of Harlem), I & You (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). Film credits include “Madeline’s Madeline”, “Broken City”, “One Percent More Humid” and “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”. TV credits include “Sneaky Pete”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “Flesh & Bone”, “NYC 22” and “The Carrie Diaries”. This year, he received the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship from TCG. His play Black Doves won the Thomas Barbour Playwriting award. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter @ReynaldoRey. www.reynaldopiniella.com Reynaldo will be on for C.O. on the following dates: May 5th @ 2PM, May 6th @ 11AM, May 10th @ 2PM, May 12th @ 2PM, May 16 @11AM, May 17th @ 2PM, May 17th @ 7PM, May 18th @ 7PM, and May 19th @ 2PM.
PRODUCTION TEAM CORI THOMAS (Playwright) Plays include: LOCKDOWN; WHEN JANUARY FEELS LIKE SUMMER; CITIZENS MARKET; THE LIBERIAN LEGACY TRILOGY. Produced and Developed at includes: Rattlestick, EST, Playwrights Horizons, Page 73, Women’s Project; The Goodman Theater; Pillsbury House Theater; Mixed Blood; Going To The River and more. Residencies, Fellowships, Honors include: New Dramatists Resident; O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; Sundance Theater Lab; MacDowell; Bogliasco; Baryshnikov Arts Center; ATCA Osborn Award; Finalist The Horton Foote Prize; Theodore Ward Prize; and more. TV and Series include: JuVee Productions, and AUDIBLE. Screen: She is presently writing an original Screenplay about Nelson Mandela for HBO Films. Other: Co-Founder of The Pa’s Hat Foundation a 501c(3) organization focused on helping former child soldiers marginalized citizens of Liberia with educational and work related assistance. For the last 3 years, Cori has been working with Lonnie Morris who is in his 42nd year of Incarceration at San Quentin State Prison, they are writing a play together to be presented at the prison by No More Tears a Non Profit Lonnie co-founded geared towards preventing recidivism and helping with re-entry. Cori sits on the board of No More Tears. KENT GASH (Director) directed the acclaimed World Premiere of Robert O’Hara’s BARBECUE at the Public Theatre and is the co-author and director of LANGSTON IN HARLEM (2010 Audelco Award-BEST MUSICAL.). New York: New York premiere of MISS EVER’S BOYS and the revival of HOME both for Melting Pot Theatre Co., and Duke Ellington’s BEGGARS HOLIDAY: York. Recent regional: Public Works WINTERS TALE: Dallas Theatre Center, THE WIZ at Ford’s Theatre (10 Best of 2018- Washington Post,13 Helen Hayes nominations), August Wilson’s THE GEM OF THE OCEAN: South Coast Rep, (LA TIMES TEN BEST OF 2017). GOODNIGHT TYLER: Alliance, THE MOUNTAINTOP: Trinity Rep, WIG OUT and CHOIR BOY for Studio Theatre,DC. Classical productions include: TROILIUS and CRESSIDA and TWELFTH NIGHT at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, CORIOLANUS and PRIVATE LIVES at Shakespeare Santa Cruz and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Future productions 2019: GUYS AND DOLLS at the Guthrie. Mr. Gash is the former Associate Artistic Director of both Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Alliance Theatre; former Artist in Residence Studio Theatre DC and is Founding Director of The New Studio on Broadway at Tisch, NYU. BFA: CMU, MFA: UCLA. For Darius Smith. JASON SHERWOOD (Set Design) is a Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. He recently designed RENT Live on Fox!, Sam Smith's Arena World Tour and campaign TV appearances (including Grammy's, SNL, Ellen), the People's Choice Awards on E!, and The View UpStairs Off-Broadway. Upcoming: the Spice Girls World Tour, and the Broadway revival of The Secret Garden. More designs at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwright's Realm, Rattlestick, the Old Globe, American Repertory Theatre, Guthrie, among many others. Online: @JasonSherwoodDesign KARA HARMON (Costume Design) Select regional credits: Gem of the Ocean at Roundhouse, The Color Purple at Portland Center Stage, The Wiz! At Ford’s, Nina Simone: Four Women at Arena Stage, Native Gardens at The Guthrie, Black Odyssey at Trinity Rep, A Guide for the Homesick at Huntington, In the Heights at Geva, Barbecue at Geffen Playhouse (NAACP Best Costume Design Award), Much Ado and The Comedy of Errors at OSF. Off Broadway credits: The Niceties at Manhattan Theatre Club and Dot at The Vineyard Theatre. Assistant Costume Design for Television: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Daredevil” and “Boardwalk Empire.” Training: NYU Tisch. www.KaraHarmonDesign.com
DAWN CHIANG (Lighting Design) THEATER: Broadway: Zoot Suit, Tango Pasion; Associate lighting designer – Show Boat, La Cage Aux Folles, Busker Alley. Off Broadway: Roundabout Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club. Regional theater includes: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, Trinity Repertory Company, Dallas Theater Center, Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, South Coast Repertory. OPERA: New York City Opera, Resident Lighting Designer. BALLET: Sleeping Beauty/American Ballet Theater. AWARDS: Two Lighting Designer of the Year/Syracuse Area Live Theater, two Dramalogue Critics’ Awards; Nominations: Hewes Design Award/American Theatre Wing, Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, two Bay Area Critics Circle Awards. JUSTIN ELLINGTON (Sound Design) Rattlestick Theatre credits include: Until the Flood. Additional credits: Other Desert Cities, Pass Over, Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); The House That Will Not Stand, Fetch Clay Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop); He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, The Winter’s Tale (Theatre for a New Audience,); Kill, Move, Paradise (Wilma Theater); Father Comes Home from the Wars, How to Catch Creation (Goodman Theater); Familiar (Steppenwolf Theatre); Until the Flood (Goodman Theater); Ink (Kennedy Center, Washington): The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Awards include: Grammy Award, ASACP Award, Obie Award. NATALIE CARNEY (Properties Designer) is a North Carolina-bred props person based out of New York City. She is proud to be making her Rattlestick debut with Lockdown. Her work has been seen on stages at Flat Rock Playhouse, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Bucks County Playhouse. Recent roles include Assistant Prop Master for Clueless: The Musical (The New Group) and Prop Supervisor for Recent Alien Abductions (The Play Company). GERRY RODRIGUEZ (Fight Direction) of UnkleDave’s Fight-House - David Anzuelo is the founder of Unkle- Dave’s Fight-House: a Drama Desk nominated company of fight/intimacy directors. Core team members are Gerry Rodriguez; Jesse Geguzis; Sean Fletcher; Rocio Mendez; and Aldo Uribe. Rattlestick credits: Seven Spots On The Sun; Ironbound; The Hill Town Plays; The Yellow Hour; Post No Bills; Yosemite. B roadway credits: Escape to Margari- taville (Marquis); Tuck Everlasting ( Broadhurst); An American In Paris (Palace); Dis- graced ( Lyceum). Off-Broadway: The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic). The Girl From The North Country; Oedipus El Rey (Public Theater). Boesman & Lena (Signature). Nantuck- et Sleighride (Lincoln Center). TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting Director) Selected Broadway and National Tours: Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. O ff-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Here Lies Love, Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Selected Regional: Westport Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Asolo Rep. www.tararubincasting.com GENEVIEVE ORTIZ (Production Stage Manager) Recent credits include RECENT ALIEN ABDUCTIONS (Play Co); WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN (The Movement Theatre Co); IS GOD IS (Soho Rep); THE CHRISTIANS (Baltimore Center Stage). NYC credits include: SEVEN SPOTS ON THE SUN (Rattlestick / The SOL Project); ALLIGATOR (New Georges / The SOL Project); THE BLOCK (The Working Theater); PRETTY HUNGER (The Public Theater); THE SUN SHINES EAST (The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater); THE GOLDEN YEAR (WorkShop Theater Company); THE WINTER’S TALE (Actors Shakespeare Company at NJCU); OLEANNA starring Austin Pendleton (The Players Club); GHOST DANCER (Mint Theater); LOST ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE’ HOW I FELL IN LOVE; PHANTOM KILLER; BEACHWOOD DRIVE; GREEK HOLIDAY;
RUM & COKE; MY DEAH (Abingdon Theater). Additional NYC credits include: SONGS OF LOVE: A
MIXTAPE NY Fringe Festival 2012; NYMTF's THIS ONE GIRLS' STORY; BRIC Arts New Black Fest MORGAN
STREET directed by Anika Noni Rose.
IGNACIA DELGADO (Dramaturgy) is a dramaturg who works specifically in new play development. She
has worked at The O’Neill, MCC Theater, The Playwrights Realm, The Lark and MIT Music and Theater
Arts. She is also returning for a second year to SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Greenhouse Residency as a
mentor to emerging playwrights. She has worked in new play development for over 15 years on staff at
Sundance Institute and Center Theatre Group.
P. TYLER BRITT (Assistant Stage Manager) Brooklyn based theater practitioner and teaching artist.
Graduate from Hunter College where they were the recipient of a Robert LoBianco Scholarship for
Theater and Tyrone Guthrie Award for directing. Thanks to friends, family, cast and crew.
JENNY BETH SNYDER (Production Manager) is a director/PM & co-founder FGP NYC. Recent: RECENT
ALIEN ABDUCTIONS (PlayCo, PM); LEWISTON/CLARKSTON (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, PM); FGP
FESTIVAL! (New Ohio, Creative Director); FOLK WANDERING (Art NY, PM); PORTO (WP Theater, PM); OH
MY SWEET LAND (PlayCo, PM); 12 ANGRY MEN & MOTHER FUCKER WITH THE HAT (Lee Strasberg
Institute, Dir.); SUMMERWORKS 2017 & 2018 (Clubbed Thumb, PM); YOU DO NOT LOOK, (Signature
Theater, Dir.); BEARDO (Pipeline Theatre Co, PM); THE RED ROOM, (The Shelter, Dir.); IT’S LATER THAN I
THINK (United Solo Festival, Dir); IDEAL (59 E 59th, Dir). BFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Member of
the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab 2013.
AARON GONZALEZ (Technical Director) is a Director, Actor, Designer, Stage Manager and graduate of
UNCSA. Projection Design: GHETTO KLOWN (Lyceum), Resident Director/ASM: BILLY ELLIOT National
Tour. Associate Director/Ensemble BILLY ELLIOT (MUNY, Music Theatre Wichita, Gateway Playhouse)
SM: THE LION KING (Minskoff), TIME STANDS STILL (MTC & The Cort), LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS
(Studio 54 & Public Theatre). PM: GHETTO KLOWN (International Tour), AN EVENING WITH NOEL
FIELDING (US Tour). TD: SUMMERWORKS (Clubbed Thumb) Rrred/Neurosis (DR2). Winner of Innovative
Lighting Design (2016 I.T. Awards) ACTOR: “Bull” on CBS. aarongonzalez.info
JUSTIN WEST (Associate Scenic Design) is a New York based scenic and projection designer. He is an
assistant on Beetlejuice: The Musical and for the upcoming Hamilton Exhibition. His work has been seen
at Classic Stage Company, the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Keen Company, Walkerspace, The York Theatre,
New Ohio Theater, La MaMa ETC, Clarion Opera, Pace University, the Actors Studio Drama School,
Pan-Asian Rep, Symphony Space, The Abingdon Theatre, the Alchemical Theater Laboratory, the
American Bard; and regionally at the Gateway Playhouse, the Argyle, Cas Di Cultura (Aruba), Park
Playhouse in Albany, The Byham Theater, and others. www.justinwestdesign.com
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of
Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
ABOUT RATTLESTICK
Founded in 1994, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is an Obie-Award winning theater that has developed
and produced over 100 World Premieres in the past 23 seasons. Our mission is to present diverse,
challenging and provocative plays that might not otherwise be produced and to foster the future voices
of the American theater. We have produced the first plays and unique works of some of today’s leading
voices, including Annie Baker (The Aliens), Sheila Callaghan (That Pretty, Pretty), Jesse Eisenberg (The
Revisionist), Samuel D. Hunter (The Few), C raig Lucas (Ode to Joy), M
artyna Majok (Ironbound) , Diana
Oh's (mylingerieplay), Dael Orlandersmith (Until the Flood), A dam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy) , Daniel
Talbott (Slipping), Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays), Jonathan Tolins (Buyer and Cellar) and Craig Wright
(The Pavilion). We produce theater to inspire empathy and provoke conversations in response to the
complexities of our culture. Visit www.rattlestick.org for more information.
We acknowledge our theater is on the traditional land of the Lenape Nation People in Manahatta (Island
of Many Hills) or Manhattan.
SHADOWCATCHER ENTERTAINMENT (Associate Producer) Led by David Skinner, ShadowCatcher
Entertainment has been developing, producing and investing in Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring
productions since 2002. Broadway credits include this season's The Ferryman, The Cher Show, Ain't Too
Proud, and Moulin Rouge!, as well as Tony-winners Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Memphis,
Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, and Gentleman’s Guide. Off-Broadway: Satchmo at the Waldorf, Buyer
and Cellar, Asher Lev, and Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Film: Smoke Signals (Producer),
Outsourced (Producer). Television: The Hive (Co-Creator).
ShadowCatcher's proud support of LOCKDOWN reflects three vital components of our mission: to
support new plays for the American stage and singular playwriting voices like Cori Thomas; to uplift
stories that resonate with our times and illuminate the human condition with an empathetic and
redemptive spirit; and to enhance the scope and impact of our work through partnership with similarly
aligned institutions and organizations like Rattlestick, The Fortune Society, and all our valued community
partners on this project. www.shadowcatcherent.com.COMMUNITY PARTNERS
DRAMA CLUB. Founded in 2013, in New York City, Drama Club is an organization that provides theatre
programming to young people who are incarcerated, court-involved and systems-involved. We are a
mobile drama club, bringing our classes into juvenile detention centers, jails and community centers
throughout the city. Drama Club’s mission is to provide theater training and positive mentor
relationships to New York City youth throughout each step of their journey through the criminal justice
system: detention, placement and aftercare. We are committed to providing New York City’s most
vulnerable youth the opportunity to laugh, play, and cultivate life skills through improvisational theatre.
THE FORTUNE SOCIETY’s mission is to support successful reentry from incarceration and promote
alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities.
We do this by:
● Believing in the power of individuals to change;
● Building lives through service programs shaped by the needs and experiences of our
participants; and
● Changing minds through education and advocacy to promote the creation of a fair, humane,
and truly rehabilitative correctional system.
Founded in 1967, The Fortune Society’s vision is to foster a world where all who are incarcerated or
formerly incarcerated will thrive as positive, contributing members of society. We do this through a
holistic, one-stop model of service provision. Our continuum of care, informed and implemented by
professionals with cultural backgrounds and life experiences similar to those of our participants, helps
ensure their success. We serve over 7,000 individuals annually via three New York City locations: our
service center in Long Island City, Queens, and both The Fortune Academy (“the Castle”) and Castle
Gardens in West Harlem. Our program models are recognized both nationally and internationally for
their quality and innovation.NYC TOGETHER interrupts the school to prison pipeline by shifting mindsets from what is to what could be. By pushing past the punishment paradigm in practice, we are supporting the new DOE and NYPD policies that are often challenging to implement because of traditional culture and norms. NYC Together is focused on challenging ingrained mindsets that suggest punishment is the only tool for modifying behavior. We believe that cultivating the strengths of our police officers and student members leads to significant, positive results. In officers weekly meaningful collaborations with local youth who are most impacted by system involvement, our officers create powerful alternatives to conventional, adversarial responses to crime and disorder, leading to increased public safety and improved academic outcomes for our youth. PEN AMERICA PRISON AND JUSTICE WRITING PROGRAM. PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. For more than four decades, PEN America’s Prison Writing Program has amplified the writing of thousands of imprisoned writers by providing free resources, skilled mentors, and audiences for their writing. We are proud to share our deepening commitment to confronting our era of mass incarceration with the launch of the PEN America Writing For Justice Fellowship.
PROJECT LIBERATION provides a paradigm-shifting personal development platform for women across all stages of criminal justice involvement, while simultaneously using national advocacy and engagement to raise awareness and political will around the issues and needs that specifically face and affect demographically and culturally diverse women. REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS’ mission is to use the transformative power of the arts to develop social and cognitive skills that prisoners need for successful reintegration into the community. RTA also seeks to raise public awareness of the humanity behind prison walls. That mission has evolved since 1996, when Katherine Vockins attended a graduation of the New York Theological Seminary at Sing Sing Correctional Facility and casually asked an inmate if there was any theatre in the prison. The answer was no, but there was plenty of interest and plenty of talent. One year later, the Theatre Group K atherine formed presented an original piece to the prison population. The play was about their own lives - drugs, gangs, crime and bad decisions - but also about the possibility of change and redemption. In time, participants, observing changes in their own attitudes and behavior, changed the organization's name to Rehabilitation Through The Arts. The mission continues to evolve, as RTA alumni seek to sustain the creative experience they found so meaningful inside. Our first project in the community was to develop a play about the challenges of reentry; we plan to launch an ongoing alumni program in 2018.
PARTNERSHIPS
Rattlestick is proud to partner with St John’s in the Village. For complete listings see St John’s website
(stjvny.org) under Arts at St John’s.
We are proud to partner with for rehearsal space.
Rattlestick gratefully acknowledges for its support of this production.
This production was made possible with support from:SPECIAL THANKS Pre-show music provided by the San Quentin Mix Tape, which was recorded entirely at San Quentin State Prison. It is composed and produced by David Jassy with the YOP (Youth Offender Program, ages 18-23). Special thanks to Raphaele Casale in the San Quentin Warden’s Office for allowing us this sneak preview. The album is the brainchild of producer David Jassy and is about to be released, with proceeds going towards the Education Program at San Quentin State Prison and the Victims Fund. For more info, please contact Raphaele Casale Raphaele.Casale@cdcr.ca.gov. Follow on Instagram @san.quentin.mixtapes. Additional Dramaturgy by Lonnie Morris. “Freedom” music and lyrics by David Jassy used with special permission. “If It’s Magic” music and lyrics by Stevie Wonder. Rap tutoring: David Jassy, Eric “Maserati-E” Abercrombie, Antwan Williams “Banks”, Joshua Burton “JB.” “Prisonics” Vocabulary Assistance: Earlonne Woods Artwork by Antwan Williams. This play could not have been written without the help of: Adnan Khan, Antwan Williams “Banks,” Brian Acey, Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll, David Jassy, Earlonne Woods “E,” Emile DeWeaver, Eric “Maserati-E” Abercrombie, Eric Phillips “Phil,” Joshua Burton “JB,” Jason Jones “Alias,” Lonnie Morris, Rahsaan Thomas “New York,” Shadeed Wallace-Stepter “Sha,” and Curtis Roberts. For Lonnie Morris.
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT Lieutenant Sam Robinson Raphaele Casale Donald Pino Mick Gardner Christina Galanakis Tony Gannon Larry Schneider Emily Harris Alex Mallick Caramad Conley Anna Pons Nigel Poor Ernie Pulliam C.O. Stewart C.O. Sanford The San Quentin Prison Front Gate C.O.s, who kindly hold my phone. Carey and Liff Thomas Natasha and Matthew Diaz Ellen Horne Todd Whitney Rattlestick Theater Daniella Topol Lippman Family Prize O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference Wendy Goldberg Jeff Thamkittikasem Toulmin Foundation New Dramatists Leah Hamos Vern Co Ignacia Delgado Kent Gash Ruben Santiago Hudson James McDaniel Leon Addison Brown Michelle Wilson Karen Pittman Francesca Choy-Kee Kaliswa Brewster Craig “Mums” Grant James T. Alfred Andy Lucien
POST SHOW SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES RAYANIKA DUTTA (Ray-AH-nay-CAH Duh-tah) ● Upper Sophomore, Honors Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice ● MOTI's Intern for Spring 2019 ● Academic Advisor for Peers at John Jay College ● Law & Society Major and Interdisciplinary Studies Minor ● Aims to become a lawyer ● An advocate for Criminal Justice Reform and the Rehabilitative Power of Music LAUREN JONES is a Senior Planner with the Vera Institute of Justice’s Greater Justice New York Project, where she works to end mass incarceration in New York State and create a fairer system. Lauren’s work spans all areas of criminal justice reform, from ending cash bail to reforming parole. She designed the Manhattan Criminal Court Resource Center, a new community-based response to misdemeanors that seeks to connect people to housing, employment, medical care and other resources that promote stability in their lives, instead of sentencing people to jail. Before joining Vera in 2017, Lauren was the Civil Rights National Counsel at the Anti-Defamation League. There, she led the League’s advocacy and developed its policies on a wide range of civil rights issues, including ending mass incarceration and dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline. Lauren began her legal career as a family defense lawyer, representing parents accused of abuse and neglect, and she worked to restore the right to vote to people with felony convictions while at the Brennan Center for Justice. A lawyer by training, Lauren is a graduate of NYU and NYU School of Law. KATE KENNEY has been a volunteer teaching artist for the last decade with Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a non-profit program working to teach life skills through theatrical models in five NY State prisons. Outside the walls Kate is an actress, aerialist, and puppeteer. Learn more about RTA's work at rta-arts.org. JONATHAN McCRORY is an Obie Award-winning, Harlem-based artist who has served as Artistic Director at National Black Theatre since 2012. He has directed numerous productions, including Dead and Breathing, HandsUp, Hope Speaks, Blacken The Bubble. He is a founding member of the collaborative producing organizations Harlem9, Black Theatre Commons, The Jubilee, Next Generation National Network and The Movement Theatre Company. To learn more, please visit www.jonathanmccrory.com. CAITS MEISSNER is a New York City-based poet, artist and cultural worker, and the author of the illustrated hybrid poetry book Let It Die Hungry (The Operating System, 2016). She currently serves as the Prison and Justice Writing Program Director at PEN America.
CHARLES MOORE is the first Rehabilitation Through The Arts (RTA) participant to be employed by RTA on the outside. His involvement with RTA started in 2004, serving on the Prisoner Steering Committee, as “Chief of Staff” to RTA’s Executive Director, as production manager for theatrical events at Sing Sing and, occasionally, as an actor. Stepping into a full-time role at RTA after release was a natural fit, and his insight and experience have made an essential contribution to the growth of the program. Charles holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services from Mercy College and a Master’s in Professional Studies from New York Theological Seminary. KENESHIA PRYCE was born and raised in the district of White River, near the Buff Bay township, in rural Portland, Jamaica, and moved to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA, at the age of 11 years old. Growing up in a culturally diverse environment, she was exposed to high fashion at an early age and soon developed a passion for modeling and acting. In 2001, after taking some time to making the adjustment, she decided it was time to follow her dream and pursue her passion in both acting and modeling. In 2005, Keneshia was the 2nd Runner-up in the Miss Jamaica/USA Beauty Pageant, a milestone moment that would later land her several movie roles and community appearances. Impacted by a family tragedy and sensing the need for greater awareness about public safety, she formed a nonprofit organization, PryceLess Leaders Foundation (PLF), in the Summer of 2018, with a mission to focus on community safety and non (gun) violence. As she continues to pursue her passion, this ‘art’-ical sister balances her time with that of a community leader, being the First Vice President of the NAACP, central New Jersey Chapter, since 2016. With confidence, poise and a captivating smile, Keneshia will tell you that, ‘balancing my time between the two is what completes me’, as steps into the New Year with renewed focus. Indeed! INSHA RAHMAN is a program director at the Vera Institute of Justice, a criminal justice nonprofit organization that works closely with community and government leaders to drive concrete change and produce new insights to radically transform the justice system. Before coming to Vera, Insha was a public defender in the Bronx. Please contact her at irahman@vera.org for ways to get involved in ending mass incarceration. JOSE HAMZA SALDANA was formerly incarcerated. He was released from Green Haven Correctional Facility on January 11th, 2018, after 38-years of incarceration and repeated parole denials. Jose is now Director of the Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign. RAPP is a grassroots campaign that works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release of older and aging people in prison. SARASHIVA SPITZER is an Arts educator and visual artist. Over the past twenty years she has worked with a diverse populations in rural and urban settings throughout the American midwest. Ms. Spitzer currently teaches art, at a secure residential treatment facility, detention center, and shelter for adolescents in Pennsylvania.
JECOINA VINSON is currently serving as the Youth Engagement Specialist for Drama Club; an innovative
non-profit organization providing theatre programming and mentorship to incarcerated and court
involved youth in New York City. He is a founding Board member and served as the Chair of the Board.
Jecoina served as a subject matter expert for the Department of Criminal Justice Services of New York
State where he trained employees in the Public Health Model approach to violence reductions. Jecoina
worked as a Supervisor for the Department of Family Services of Westchester County; SNUG Program
Initiative. Jecoina is a Bard College alumnus and he has facilitated across multiple theatrical workshops,
peer groups, and programs. He has been a student of theatre for over ten years and firmly believes in
its power to transform, heal and empower individually and communally.
STANLEY WASHINGTON creates music in the creative arts department at the Fortune Society. This actor,
model and songwriter also contributes to cracking down on systematic oppression, appearing at rallies
and venues with Forum Theatre by way of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (TONYC).
RATTLESTICK SUPPORTERS
PARTNERS ($10,000+)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Vincent Alfieri & Kerstin Larsen, Sonja Berggren & Patrick Seaver,
Daryl & Joe Boren, Raymond & Pamela Brunt, The David Rockefeller Fund, Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman
Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., Frederic R. Coudert Foundation, The
Howard Gilman Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Kyra Sedgwick and
Kevin Bacon Family Foundation, The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, Robert Lomison & Drew Cross,
Rosalee & Bruce Lovett, John P. MacBean, Douglas Nevin, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
New York State Council on the Arts, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Abigail Rose
Solomon, The Still Point Fund, Ted Snowdon Productions, Jeff Thamkittikasem, The Tow Foundation, The
Time Warner Corporation, Wendy vanden Heuvel, The Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation
CHAMPIONS ($5,000 - $9,999)
Peter Emch, Vered Hankin & Jeremy Kaufman, Zachary Quinto, Susan A. Strickler & Richard P. Kaye,
Zohar Tirosh-Polk & Andrew Polk, Theater Communications Group, Trust for Mutual Understanding,
Alana Weiss & Nicholas Boos
LEADERS ($1,000 - $4,999)
Nora Abousteit & Joshua Cooper Ramo, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Horace Barker & Christine Govan,
Jason & Melissa Burnett, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Daryl & Steven Roth Foundation, Jill
Dolan & Stacy Wolf, The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman, Angelina Fiordellisi
& Matt Williams, Keith Fox, Philip Gelston, Google LLC, Laura Rebell Gross, Michael Hirschhorn & Jimena
Martinez, Willy Holtzman & Sylvia Shepard, The John Golden Fund, Inc., Martha W. King, Bernard &
Wendy Kroll, Kathleen & Richard Levin, Lucille Lortel Foundation, Trudi McCanna, Tom & Louise
Middleton, Ronit Muskatbilt, The Perakis Family, Jolie Schwab & David Hodes, Richard Seeger, Dan
Shaheen, Michael Skipper & Amber Womack, Lisa Van Curen, White Mountains Capital, Inc., Pia & James
ZankelSPONSORS ($500 - $999) Actors’ Equity Foundation, Kathleen Chalfant, Nina & John Darnton, John C. Eisner & Jennifer Dorr White, Richard Frankel, Allen & Susan Funk, Phyllis & Alvin Goldman, Tom & Libby Hollahan, Barbara Janowitz & Peter Entin, Scott Johnson, Jill Matichak, Stephen Nathan, Bill Pfeiffer, Ron Rafay, Geoffrey Jackson Scott, Sloan & Wick Simmons, Margo Somma & John Hamilton, Morgan Stanley, Nela Wagman ENTHUSIASTS ($150 - $499) Nina Adams & Moreson H. Kaplan, Anita Sibony de Adelsberg, Katryn Barefield, Marc Baron, Dan Barton, Ms. Sara Brandston, Sarah & Bryan Colley, Cusi Cram & Peter Hirsch, Elizabeth Diamond, Kathy Evans, Sandi Farkas, George S. Forbes, John J. Gilberg, John & Diana Gilbert, Robyn Goodman, Jennie Greer & Simon Kendall, Heather & Jose Guardado, Ted Hampton & Lisa Kassenaar, Erik Kahn, Susan & Richard Kaye, Joan Kedziora, Noel Kirnon, Robert Klein & Eduardo Quintana, Dr. Mitchell Kline, David Lerner & Lorren Erstad, Lincoln Center Theater, Robin Lynn & Larry Blumberg, Matthew Mager, Carolyn K. McCandless, Victoria Myers, Estelle Parsons, Aron Pasternack, Greg & Kristina Phelan, Steven Phillips & Isabelle Swift, Esther & Harvey Rein, Diana Salter, Mark Schwarz, Leigh Silverman, Rachel Simmons, James Suskin, Kathryn Quinn & Steven Thaler, Jonathan Tolins & Robert Cary, Colleen Tompkins, Rebecca Topol, Warren & Diana Traiger, Susan & Charles Tribbitt, Don Troise, Amy Trommer, Ken & Jeanine Womack, Anna Ziegler & Will Miller, Richard & Carolyn Ziegler FRIENDS ($1 - $149) Marc Anello, Jenny Altshuler, Arlene Avakian, Sophia Bannister, Marla & Lawrence Berg, Alan Blum, Paula Boren, Maggie Cammer, Robert Caron, Kristian Charbonier, Jennifer Chauhan, Marj & Bill Coleman, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Cathy Culp, John Cunningham, Wendy Dale, Susan & Andrew Dalsimer, Leslie Danoff, Geraldine Delprete, Stephen Donofrio, Eileen & Pat Dunn-Dierking, Ellen Epstein, Marianne Faivre, Kathleen Feely, Lisa Feldman, Shiloh Fernandez, Sylvia Flescher, Francis Flinn, Ruth Fosuaa, Michele Frettoli, Jennifer Friedlin, Michelle Friedman, Donald Friedman, Madeleine George & Lisa Kron, Carol Geu, Andrea Geyer, Jonathan & Karen Goldstick, Judy Goodman, Elisabeth Golison, Stuart Green, Sherri Greenbach & David Goldstein, Greenpoint Innovations, Greenwich Village Block Association, Jennifer Halper, Mary Havey, Nancy Hechinger, Warren Hoge, Dave & Sharon Hourigan, Christina Jackson, Kathy Jaget, Erik Johnsen, Tatjana Kalinin, Melissa Kievman & Brian Mertes, Gilbert Kirsch, Katherine Kitchen, Christopher K Koerner, Sarah Krasnow, Bridget Krowe, Isabelle Krugman, George & Mary Ann LaFountain, Patricia Lager, Bill Latza, Kate Liebho, Jane & Bill Macan, Elizabeth Maley, Beatrice Maloney, Dan Markley & Alison Sheehy, Molly McEneny, Clare McMorris, Victoria Meyer, Millie Harmon Meyers, Tyler Micoleau, Charles Migliaccio, Winter Miller, Joseph T. Moldovan & Susan A. Moldovan, Emily Morse, Maria Muentes, Thomas Murphy, Kenneth Nelson, Jeremy O'Brien, John Olsen, Arthur Orduna, Amy Oshinsky, Will Packard, Frances Pantaleo, Kristie Pellecchia, Lourdes Perez-Berkeley, Julie Peterson, Colton Pometta, Richard Price, Grace Rapkin, Ariel Reid, Alysia Reiner, Norman Reisman, Sarah Rhoads, Michael Robertson, JT Rogers, Elizabeth & Richard Rubin, Karen Rusch, Zeni Saife-Selassie, Roberto Sanabria, Chad Schiro, Ryan Shuler, Brian Sloan, Dave & Kim Smittle, Teresa Snider-Stein, Martha Solinger, Gilbert Strickler, R Lee Stump, Randy Stuzin, Robert Taylor, Cori Thomas, Randall Tosh, Daniele Valensi, Joyce Wallace, Kathleen Warnock, Susan Werner, Lauren Winckler, John Wolfson, Casimir Yanish, Carol Yost *This listing is current as of April 12, 2019. If you would prefer to be listed in a different way, or if you notice an error in our donor listing, please contact Zsazsa at k pandji@rattlestick.org.
RATTLESTICK BOARD Vincent Alfieri, Horace Barker, Daryl Boren, Ray Brunt, Nina Darnton, Vered Hankin, Robert Lomison, Rosalee Lovett, Zachary Quinto, Geoffrey Jackson Scott, Mike Skipper, Susan Strickler, Jeff Thamkittikasem, Zohar Tirosh-Polk, Daniella Topol, Alana Weiss, Peter T. Wilderotter ADVISORY BOARD Nadia Alia, Anastasia Barzee, Kathleen Chalfant, Robert Clauser, Trip Cullman, Ty Defoe, Kathryn Erbe, Adrienne Feiger, Phyllis Goldman, Sandra Coudert Graham, Laura Rebell Gross, Michael Hirschhorn, Willy Holtzman, Barbara Janowitz, Lisa Kron, Brian MacDevitt, Dan Markley, Dael Orlandersmith, Lourdes Perez-Berkeley, Andrew Polk, Adam Rapp, Alysia Reiner, Amy Ryan, Jolie Schwab, Kyra Sedgwick, Adam Sheer, Leigh Silverman, Molly Smith, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Orin Wolf, Anna Ziegler RATTLESTICK TEAM Artistic Director: Daniella Topol Managing Director: Annie Middleton General Manager: Kathalizsa Pandji Associate Producer: Kevin Hourigan Directing Fellow: Shadi Ghaheri Associate Producer for LOCKDOWN: Imani Champion Management Services: Lucille Lortel Foundation Development Consultant: Jennie Greer Development Associate: Toby Singer House Managers: Ria Alexander, Gineiris Garcia, Rachel Shuey Box Office Managers: Odette Chalandon, Jose Morales, Chello Solaperto Lit Team: Ngozi Anyanwu, Jessi D. Hill (Manager), Kevin Hourigan, Vered Hankin, David Mendizábal, Daniel Talbott, Cori Thomas New Voices/New Works Partner: Rosalind Productions, Inc. Accountants: Richard E. Cohen, CPA; Blitzer Gelfand & Cohen, PC Organization Consultant: Nello McDaniel, Arts Action Research Press Representative: Matt Ross Public Relations Website Designer: Tara O’Con Marketing Assistant: Donel Davis Management Interns: Natalie Evans, Lauren Mann, Amy Nicefaro, Sarah Loucks
UP NEXT AT RATTLESTICK:
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Presents
NEW SONGS NOW
June 4-12
NEW SONGS NOW is an unplugged concert series that gives inventive songwriters the
opportunity to test out new material in a low-key, fun environment. We believe in creating a
space for innovative artists to try out risky new material, and New Songs Now does just that.
Each night, composers share selections of their work, followed by a conversation with the
artists to demystify the songwriting process.
June 4 - Andrew R. Butler and Angela Scalfani
June 5 - Masi Asare and the Bengsons
June 6 - Preston Max Allen and T roy Anthony
June 10 - Rona Siddiqui and Jillian Walker
June 12 - Michelle Rodriguez and Lila Blue
Doug Nevin and Michael Urie
attlestick Theater Present
In partnership with R
PRIDE PLAYS
June 20 - 24
Festival Producers: Doug Nevin & Michael Urie
Festival Director: Nick Mayo
PRIDE PLAYS is an upcoming festival of play readings at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater to
commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. We will be presenting a series of
play readings from June 20-24 that capture the prideful spirit of the LGBTQ community,
celebrating 50 years of theatrical voices since that turning point.Village Presentation, NYC AIDS Memorial Board and S t. John’s in the Village, in
attlestick Playwrights Theater present the World Premiere of:
association with R
NOVENAS FOR A LOST HOSPITAL
FALL 2019
Written By CUSI CRAM
With Dramaturgy by GUY LANCASTER
Directed by DANIELLA TOPOL
Starring KATHLEEN CHALFANT
With Novenas for a Lost Hospital, Cusi Cram is making a memorial worthy of the immense
importance of St. Vincent's Hospital to generations of New Yorkers," said Kathleen Chalfant. "St.
Vincent's was a place to be healed in both body and spirit, and for those of us who were
touched personally by it, the loss of the hospital is a great tragedy. I hope our work on the
project will make the place alive again.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater a nd piece by piece productions
ising Phoenix Repertory
In Association with R
orld Premiere o f:
Present the W
THE SIBLINGS PLAY
SPRING 2020
Written by REN DARA SANTIAGO
Directed by JENNA WORSHAM
According to Siblings Play writer Santiago, "I like subverting familiar narratives; focusing on
heroes adjacent to the ones we know. The Siblings Play is a coming-of-age tale most don't see,"
said playwright Santiago. "I grew up with kids who did the parenting in their families. We
cooked the meals for our siblings. We innovated ways to generate income. We did so at the
expense of our education. We rose earlier and fell to bed last so we were often tired in class. I
know those kids. And for them, I want to be a resource. With this production of The Siblings
Play, I want them to hear: you are visible and your value can never be wasted.
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