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Florida Weekly

SET DESIGNERRICHARD CROWELL

RED is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.RED premiered at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London on December 3, 2009, Michael Grandage, Artistic Director.

Original Broadway Production Produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, Stephanie P. McClelland, Matthew Byam Shaw, Neal Street productions, Fox Theatricals, Ruth Hendel/Barbara Whitman, Philip Hagemann/Murray Rosenthal and The Donmar Warehouse.

Likenesses of the Rothko Seagram Mural Panels used with permission. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

2011-12 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS

This entire season sponsored in part by in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists.

The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Bruce & Janet Bunch • Cheryl & David CophamGholi & Georgia Darehshori • John & Marjorie Madden • Arthur Zupko

HISTORIC ARCADE theatre • fort myers river districtROBERT CACIOPPO, producing artistic director

PRESENTS

by JOHN LOGAN

STARRINGWILLIAM McNULTY* • DAVID McELWEE*

DIRECTED BYROBERT CACIOPPO**

COSTUME DESIGNERROBERTA MALCOLM

LIGHTING DESIGNERTODD O. WREN***

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERJANINE WOCHNA*

ASST. STAGE MANAGERTRACY MARIE HOIDA

SOUND DESIGNERKATE SMITH

[in order of appearance]

Mark Rothko..............................................................................WILLIAM McNULTY*Ken....................................................................................................DAVID McELWEE*

TIME & PLACE1958-1959. Rothko’s studio at 222 Bowery. New York City.

RED will be performed without an intermission.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

*The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT & ARTISTJOHN LOGAN (Playwright) received the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic Circle and Drama League awards for his play Red. This play premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London and at the Golden Theatre on Broadway. He is the author of more than a dozen other plays including Never The Sinner and Hauptmann. His adaptation of Ibsen’s The Master Builder premiered on the West End in 2003. As a screenwriter, Logan had three movies released in 2011: Hugo, Coriolanus and Rango. Previous film work includes Sweeney Todd (Golden Globe award); The Aviator (Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and WGA nominations); Gladiator (Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and WGA nominations); The Last Samurai; Any Given Sunday, and RKO 281 (WGA award, Emmy nomination).

MARK ROTHKO (Artist) Born Marcus Rotkovitch in the town of Dvinsk, Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire, Mark Rothko immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of ten, settling in Portland, Oregon. A gifted student, Rothko attended Yale University on scholarship from 1921-23, but disillusioned by the social milieu and financial hardship, he dropped out and moved to New York to “bum around and starve a bit.” A chance invitation from a friend brought him to a drawing class at the Art Students League where he discovered his love of art. He took two classes there but was otherwise self-taught. Rothko painted in a figurative style for nearly twenty years, his portraits and depictions of urban life baring the soul of those living through The Great Depression in New York. The painter Milton Avery offered Rothko both artistic and nutritional nourishment during these lean years. In the 1930s, Rothko exhibited with The Ten, a close-knit group of nine (!) American painters, which included fellow Avery acolyte, Adolph Gottlieb. Success was moderate at best but the group provided important incubation for the Abstract Expressionist school to come. The war years brought with it an influx of European surrealists, influencing most of the New York painters, among them Rothko, to take on a neo-surrealist style. Rothko experimented with mythic and symbolic painting for five years before moving to pure abstraction in the mid 1940s and ultimately to his signature style of two or three rectangles floating in fields of saturated color in 1949. Beginning in the early 1950s Rothko was heralded, along with Jackson Pollock, Willem deKooning, Franz Kline and others, as the standard bearers of the New American Painting--a truly American art that was not simply a derivative of European styles. By the late 1950s, Rothko was a celebrated (if not wealthy) artist, winning him three mural commissions that would dominate the latter part of his career. Only in the last of these, The Rothko Chapel in Houston was he able to realize his dream of a truly contemplative environment in which to interact deeply with his artwork. Red presents a fictionalized account of Rothko’s frustrated first attempt to create such a space in New York’s Four Season’s restaurant. Rothko sought to create art that was timeless; paintings that expressed basic human concerns and emotions that remain constant not merely across decades but across generations and epochs. He looked to communicate with his viewer at the most elemental level and through his artwork, have a conversation that was intense, personal and, above all, honest. A viewer’s tears in front of one of his paintings told him he had succeeded. While creating a deeply expressive body of work and garnering critical acclaim, Rothko battled depression and his brilliant career ended in suicide in 1970.

CAST LIST

WILLIAM McNULTY* (Mark Rothko) has been a resident actor/director at Actors Theatre ofLouisville since 1976. In that time he has played over 150 roles. Among them are: Jamie (Moon for the

Misbegotten), Johnny (Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune), Roy Cohn (Angels in America), Charlie (The Foreigner), Enobarbus (Antony and Cleopatra), Norman (The Norman Conquests), Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), and Nixon (Nixon’s Nixon). His directing credits include Educating Rita, Full Gallop, Seascape, The Lover, A Slight Ache, Dracula, Skylight and The Beauty Queen of Lenanne. Other theatres with which he has worked are Washington’s Arena Stage, The Public Theater in New York City, Alliance, Cleveland Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ensemble Studio Theatre, B Street Theatre, Florida Stage, and Moscow Art Theatre. He studied acting at Rollins College and in the MFA program at Penn State. Mr. McNulty is a 2007 recipient of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, one of three grants awarded annually in the Distinguished Artist category.

DAVID McELWEE* (Ken) is making his Florida Rep debut with Red. David lives in NYC where he has worked off-Broadway with the New York Classical Theatre, the Calliope Theatre Company, and as

a Guest Artist with Manhattan Theatre Club. Other professional work includes workshops of the new plays Returns: A Meditation In Post Traumatic Stress at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Pilgrimage at the Blank Theater in Los Angeles. Regionally he has worked on outdoor Shakespeare in Virginia with Endstation Theatre Company, and Fuddy Meers at Seaside Repertory Theatre. David can also be seen online in the web series “Gary’s Garden” at RottingSoil.com, with Rachel Ray on FunnyorDie.com, or his own website www.DavidMcElwee.com. Graduate of Florida State University.

RICHARD CROWELL (Set Designer) is thrilled to return to Florida Repertory Theatre, to be a part of this wonderful production, and to work once again with the extraordinary staff at Florida Rep. Richard has been a part of various Florida Repertory productions since the inaugural season in the Historic Arcade Theatre, and has been designing scenery and lighting for the stage for over 30 years. He received his MFA from the Stage Design Training Program at Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, and a BFA from Memphis State University.

ROBERTA MALCOLM (Costume Designer) After 25 years traveling the country as a costumer/designer for everyone from community theatre performers to Florence Henderson, John Ritter, LeVar Burton, Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Margaret O’Brien, Dean Jones, and Cloris Leachman, Roberta is pleased to be returning for her eighth season at the Florida Rep. Favorite productions include: Gaslight, Boeing.Boeing, You Can’t Take it With You, My Three Angels, Lucky Stiff, Florida Follies starring Florence Henderson, Too Big to be a Waitress, Show Boat (Dean Jones and Cloris Leachman national tour), Little Shop of Horrors, Curly McDimple starring Margaret O’Brien, Blithe Spirit, Annie Get Your Gun, A Funny Thing…Forum, Death of a Salesman, and Cinderelle – a Rock Fairy Tale. Thanks to Sean, Becca, Jon, Bob – family always; and to the Florida Rep and its board for the opportunity to showcase the best theatre around.

KATE SMITH (Sound Designer) is happy to return for her third season at Florida Rep. She is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Kate has worked in many aspects of theater. She most recently served as the Sound and Lighting Designer for FL Rep’s production of Tru. Sound Design credits include Bedroom Farce, God of Carnage, Rumors, Sylvia, August: Osage County, Trying, and You Can’t Take It With You. Lighting design credits include Picnic (2009 KC/ACTF Region II Barbizon Award in Lighting Design for IUP), Wonderful Life, and The Year of Magical Thinking, The Santaland Diaries and The Lady with All the Answers for

CREATIVE TEAM

Florida Rep’s Studio Theatre. Kate has also worked for Brevard Music Center, NC as Master Electrician, and as the light board operator at Flat Rock Playhouse, NC. This past summer she worked as the Lighting Designer for IUP’s Keystone Rep and part of the staff for the Footlight Players.

JANINE WOCHNA* (Stage Manager) is delighted to return to the Florida Rep having previously stage managed King o’ the Moon, The Lady With All the Answers, The Rainmaker, Rounding Third, Tuesdays with Morrie, Broadway Bound, Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Middle Ages, My Three Angels, and A Dash of Rosemary. Janine served as a resident stage manager at the Geva Theatre in Rochester, NY where her credits include: Two Trains Running, Almost Maine, The Clean House, Evie’s Waltz, ROOMS: a rock romance, The Piano Lesson, Bad Dates, Doubt, The Underpants, and The Festival of New Plays and as assistant stage manager for Five Course Love, Ella, Souvenir, Fences, Sweeney Todd, A Christmas Story, Menopause the Musical,The House in Hydesville, Pride and Prejudice, Cabaret and A Christmas Carol. Regional theatre credits include: Tea at Five with Kate Mulgrew, Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies, Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Kiss for Cinderella, and Two Trains Running (Cleveland Play House); Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Indiana Rep); All the King’s Men (Arkansas Rep); Annie (Carousel Dinner Theatre); Always...Patsy Cline and Forbidden Broadway (Hanna Cabaret). She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and she is a proud member of Actors Equity Association since 1994.

TODD O. WREN*** (Lighting Designer) is delighted to participate in Florida Rep’s continued growth. A special thanks goes to Robert for his commitment to the arts and to you, the audience, for your support. Todd’s theatrical credits include: Good Speed Musicals,

Arkansas Repertory, Barter Theatre, Tennessee Repertory, John F. Kennedy Center, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Charlotte Repertory, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Downtown Cabaret Theatre, Town and Gown Theatre, Casa Manana and Flatrock Playhouse. Todd is a member of United Scenic Artists, New York Local #829.

TRACY MARIE HOIDA (Assistant Stage Manager) is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a focus in stage managment. She hails from Manitowoc, WI. She worked on numerous shows during her academic stay at UW- Parkside as both an assistant stage manager and stage manager. She served as Fine Arts Office Assistant and House Manager as well. Professionally, she has worked for numerous theaters over the summers, including the Santa Fe Opera and Cortland Repertory Theatre in central New York.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American Actor unions. Equity’s

mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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