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DAVID MIRVISHPresents

A production

By J.T. ROGERSDirected by JOEL GREENBERG

withJONAS CHERNICK, PATRICK GALLIGAN, AMITAI KEDAR

OMAR ALEX KHAN, MARK McGRINDER, MARLA McLEANSARAH ORENSTEIN, JORDAN PETTLE, ALEX POCH-GOLDIN

GEOFFREY POUNSETT, SANJAY TALWAR,BLAIR WILLIAMS, ANDERS YATES

Assistant DirectorsKERRY ANN DOHERTY

SARAH ORENSTEIN

Set & Costume Designer Lighting Designer KEN MACKENZIE KIMBERLY PURTELL

Sound Designer Projection Designer THOMAS RYDER PAYNE CAMERON DAVIS

Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager LAURA BAXTER VICTORIA WANG

OSLO is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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I N T R O D U C T I O N F R O M T H E P L A Y R I G H T

1967The Six-DayWar.

1982The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), led by Yasser Arafat moves headquarters to Tunisia.

1987First Intifada.

1991Middle East Peace Conference convened in Madrid; subsequent talks in Washington. The PLO is not included.

Inearly 2012, as my play Blood and Gifts was fi nishing its run at Lincoln Center Theater, my

director, Bartlett Sher, arranged for me to have a drink with a friend of his. Terje Rød-Larsen was then a United Nations special envoy, focused on Lebanon. Bart had invited his friend to rehearsals of Blood and Gifts to talk to the cast about his work as a diplomatic negotiator in the Middle East. ‘I’ve asked him to meet with you,’ Bart told me. ‘Ask him questions about everything he’s done. You’ll fi nd it fascinating.’

As a playwright, I look to tell stories that are framed against great political rupture. I am obsessed with putting characters onstage who struggle with, and against, cascading world events — and who are changed forever through that struggle. While journalism sharpens our minds, the theater can expand our sense of what it means to be human. It is where we can come together in a communal space to hear ideas that grip us, surprise us — even infuriate us — as we learn of things we didn’t know.

For me, that is a deeply, thrillingly, political act. I hunt perpetually for these kinds of stories. I look for them

everywhere, but sometimes the story fi nds you. In that restaurant, Mr Larsen explained that he and his wife were intimately involved with the making of the Oslo Accords. I knew of the fi rst-ever peace deal between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. I’ll never forget watching the signing ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on television, on September 13, 1993, seeing President Clinton preside over that historic handshake between the bitterest of enemies, Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yasser Arafat, the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. I already knew the joy and the rage that handshake caused around the world.

Then he told me something I did not know: that there was a clandestine diplomatic back channel that had made the Accords possible. That without a handful of men and women – Israeli, Palestinian, and Norwegian – working in secret to try to alter the political reality of two peoples, those Accords never would have happened. And when I heard that, I knew the writing of my next play had begun.

I began a years-long process of reading,



1992Norwegian academic Terje Rød-Larsen explores the idea of secret Israeli-Palestinian talks with Yossi Beilin, Labor member of the Israeli Knesset.

Larsen, Beilin and Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini meet in Jerusalem to discuss the possibility further.

The Labour Party wins the Israeli election; Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister. Shimon Peres becomes foreign minister and Yossi Beilin his deputy.

Beilin sends academic Yair Hirschfeld to London to meet

PLO finance minister Ahmed Qurie to discuss opening a secret channel in Oslo.

First round of secret talks held in Oslo between Ahmed Qurie and Israeli academics Yair Hirschfeld and Ron Pundak.

travel, and interviews with multiple participants as I sought to understand the full history of the secret channel – what came to be known as the Oslo Channel – through which the Accords were birthed. Everything that Mr Larsen and Ms Juul had told me turned out to be in the public record – but they had downplayed their own involvement. Throughout our conversations they had focused on the accomplishments of the Israelis and Palestinians who were involved, but Mr Larsen and Ms Juul were the ones who midwifed the entire process. And, like the agreements themselves, their involvement proved to be deeply controversial. There are those who saw the Oslo Channel as a necessary and bold attempt to bring peace to the Middle East; there are those who saw it as reckless, naïve meddling that only added to the anguish in this region.

The further I dug, the more gripped I became as a dramatist. It became clear that Mr Larsen and Ms Juul would be characters at the very heart of the play. These were the sort of protagonists a writer looks for: two complicated, articulate people driven to achieve something far greater than themselves –people who stumble, make mistakes, but keep pushing on.

I burrowed into this sliver of history as deeply as I could, in order to summon a specifi c moment in time and place. Then I took the who, what, when and where of journalism and threw them into a blender. I wanted to write a play, not a textbook or a re-enactment. I sought to capture the spirit of those real events – their craziness, fear, joy, and heartbreak. I wanted to tell a story about men and women risking their own lives and challenging their own beliefs as they struggle without a road map toward peace.

The historic events in Oslo are all true, but I have taken dramatic liberties. I have theatricalized and reinvented – all to focus my play on the radical act at the center of the actual Oslo Channel.

In the middle of endless bloodshed and hatred, members of the Israeli Government and the PLO chose to sit across from their enemies and see them as human beings. Each side listened to the other and was permanently changed by that listening. I am awed by the personal and political courage that took. It is a moment of history that I do not want forgotten.

J.T. ROGERSHastings-on-Hudson, NY

January 2017


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F R O M P A L E S T I N I A N N E G O T I AT O R A H M E D Q U R I E ’ S F R O M O S L O T O J E R U S A L E M

Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry Uri Savir joins the fourth round of talks.

Lawyer Joel Singer joins Savir in Oslo as negotiations become more detailed. Rabin authorises Singer to redraft the DOP.

Savir and Singer lead on the Israeli side for a seventh round of negotiations.

Israeli, Palestinians and Norwegians initial de DOP at a secret ceremony in Norway in the middle of the night.

The Israeli cabinet approves the DOP with no amendments.

On 13 September the agreement is signed with a ceremony on the White House lawn; Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands.

1993Second and third rounds of talks in Oslo, which focus on drafting a Declaration of Principles (DOP) for an interim Israeli-Palestinian agreement.

Public peace talks reconvene in Washington.

Rabin authorises the upgrading of the secret Oslo talks to official level.

MY FIRST REACTION TO THE IDEAof the Oslo channel was one of scepticism. Why should we go to Norway? What could Norway achieve? However, this was a moment when the Palestinian movement was confronted by mounting diffi culties, and when its weaknesses were becoming increasingly more obvious.

The Palestinian problem as a whole had dropped out of view, leading to the marginalisation of the PLO and the isolation of its leadership. Indeed, for many Arab governments, the Palestinian issue had become little more than an undesirable security issue.

A further consideration was the heartbreaking plight of the Palestinian people. The Intifada, the uprising in the occupied Palestinian territories, had already outlived its purpose. Reprisals had instead made it a heavy burden on the shoulders of the Palestinian people.

At the same time, on the

international scene, our erstwhile principal international ally, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist as such. The United States of America, which had never been sympathetic to our cause, became the sole great power, with undisputed mastery over international decision-making. Because of the new international political realities, the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference, a purely American initiative, had excluded the PLO from taking part directly in its own capacity. In due course, the subsequent bilateral negotiations in Washington, which followed the Madrid Conference, became a dialogue of the deaf, grinding to a virtual halt amid a welter of mutual accusations.

Under these circumstances, we had no alternative but to go to Oslo when the idea presented itself, however unlikely or unpromising it might seem. Such a meeting seemed a last hope to keep our cause alive.


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F R O M A N I N T E R V I E W W I T H N O R W E G I A N N E G O T I AT O R M O N A J U U L

Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.

1994An Israeli settler kills 29 Palestinians as they pray at a mosque in Hebron. The PLO suspends participation in the Oslo agreement.

The PLO becomes the Palestinian National Authority.

1995Rabinassassinatedby an Israelisettler.

2000SecondIntifada.

2004Arafat dies.

OUR ROLE AS THE NORWEGIANteam was mainly to facilitate the talks. The fi rst time the representatives came to Oslo we sat with them and we told them that we were there only to facilitate – that they were the ones who were going to make an agreement, or see if it was possible to make an agreement. Norway was accepted in that role because we didn’t have any interests of our own at stake. We said, ‘We know that you can go on quarelling about the past. You will never agree on the past. So what we think would be the best thing for you now is to agree to disagree about the past but try to look into the future and see what you can do in order to fi nd a solution to your confl ict.’

The most important thing is that it was the fi rst-ever agreement between the State of Israel and the PLO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, then headed

by Yasser Arafat. The Oslo Agreement, as such, is not a full-fl edged peace agreement; it was called a Declaration of Principles on how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. It was the fi rst such agreement between the two countries.

Another key thing is that attached to the Oslo Agreement was a Mutual Recognition Agreement between Israel and the PLO, which was also negotiated as part of the Declaration of Principles. That agreement is very historic, because it was the fi rst time that the PLO was recognised as the sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. In order to make this happen, the Palestinians had to renounce the use of violence, which is something the two sides had been negotiating for years.


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T H E C H A R A C T E R S

THE NORWEGIANS

Johan Jorgen HolstForeign Minister;

married to Marianne Heiberg

Jan EgelandDeputy Foreign Minister

Mona JuulOfficial in the Foreign Ministry;

reports to Jan Egeland; married to Terje Larsen

Terje Rød-LarsenDirector of the Fafo Institute for Applied Social Sciences;

married to Mona Juul

Marianne HeibergExecutive with the Fafo

Institute; works for Terje Larsen; married to Johan Jorgen Holst

Toril GrandalHousekeeper and cook at the

Borregaard Manor outside Oslo, married to Finn

Finn GrandalGroundsman at the

Borregaard Manor outside Oslo; married to Toril

Thor BjornevogSenior officer with the Police

Intelligence Service

Trond GundersenOfficer with the Police

Intelligence Service

THE PALESTINIANS

Ahmed Qurie (also known as “Abu Ala”)

Finance Minister for the Palestine Liberation

Organization

Hassan AsfourOfficial PLO liaison with Palestinian Delegation

at multilateral US-sponsored talks

THE ISRAELIS

Shimon PeresForeign Minister

Yossi BeilinDeputy Foreign Minister

Uri SavirDirector-General of the

Foreign Ministry

Joel SingerLegal advisor to the Foreign Ministry; senior law partner for a Washington, DC, firm

Yair HirschfeldSenior professor of Economics

at the University of Haifa

Ron PundakJunior professor of Economics

at the University of Haifa


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T H E C A S T

(in alphabetical order)

Uri Savir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JONAS CHERNICK

Johan Jorgen Holst/Finn Grandal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PATRICK GALLIGAN

Yair Hirschfeld/Shimon Peres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMITAI KEDAR

Hassan Asfour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OMAR ALEX KHAN

Yossi Beilin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARK McGRINDER

Mona Juul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARLA McLEAN

Marianne Heiberg/Toril Grandal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH ORENSTEIN

Ron Pundak/Jan Egeland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JORDAN PETTLE

Joel Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALEX POCH-GOLDIN

Thor Bjornevog/US Diplomat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEOFFREY POUNSETT

Ahmed Qurie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SANJAY TALWAR

Terje Rød-Larsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BLAIR WILLIAMS

Trond Gundersen/German Husband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANDERS YATES

Oslo has a running time of 2 hours and 45 minutes, including intermission.

Contains strong language. This production employs haze.

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IN AUGUST 2012 DAVID MIRVISH SAW a wonderful production of an Irish play called Terminus at the annual SummerWorks Theatre Festival. The production was playing for only a few performances in a venue that held no more than 30 people. He thought it was a shame that more people could not have a chance to see it, so he did something quite unusual and extraordinary. He found a way to make the stage of the Royal Alexandra Theatre a black-box theatre seating 200 people with the playing area located in front of the empty historic auditorium of 1,500 seats.

As well, for many years David was searching for a way to showcase the wealth and breadth of Toronto’s theatre community and to bring its work to a larger audience. He also wanted to bring acclaimed and important international shows that share a commitment to artistic excellence, and an exploration of language, action and ideas that are challenging, innovative and provocative. These shows often would not be appropriate to play 1,500 or 2,000 seats; but at 700 seats, the CAA Theatre (formerly the Panasonic) is an ideal size for this kind of work.

This is how the Off-Mirvish season began.

The inaugural season in 2012-13 included Terminus from Outside the March company, Anthony Rapp in Without You, Studio 180’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park and Mary Walsh in Dancing With Rage.

Subsequent seasons included the Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage, The Two Worlds of Charlie F., George F. Walker’s Dead Metaphor, Buyer & Cellar, Rick Miller’s Boom, the Tony Award-winning Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, Seminar starring Tom McCamus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced, the Factory Theatre classic, Salt-Water Moon, Studio 180 Theatre’s King Charles III and The Musical Stage Company’s production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Fun Home.

This season’s lineup begins with the multi-award-winning drama Oslo, from Studio 180 Theatre; the Canadian premiere production of the provocative A Doll’s House, Part 2; and a new production from The Musical Stage Company of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal.

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T H E C O M P A N Y

JONAS CHERNICK

Uri Savir

For Studio 180: Asher Lev in My Name is Asher Lev. Theatre credits include Biff in Death of

a Salesman, Speed-The-Plow, The Chosen (WJT); Cote Saint Joe (Persephone / WJT); Film & TV credits include Fargo, The Best Laid Plans (Canadian Screen Award), The Border (Gemini Award, ACTRA Award nomination), My Awkward Sexual Adventure (TIFF Top Ten, ACTRA Award & Canadian Comedy Award nominations), Borealis (Vancouver International Film Festival Special Jury Award), A Swingers Weekend (Canadian Film Festival Best Ensemble Cast Award), How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town (Canadian Film Festival Best Ensemble Cast Award), Private Eyes, Saving Hope, Covert Affairs and the upcoming films James vs His Future Self and The Prague Orgy based on the novel by Philip Roth.

PATRICK GALLIGAN

Johan Jorgen Holst/

Finn Grandal

For Studio 180: King Charles III, NSFW. Shaw Festival (15 seasons) highlights:

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Henry V (2018), Androcles and the Lion, Dancing at Lughnasa (2017), Our Town, Dance of Death (2016), Peter and the Starcatcher (2015), The Sea, When We Are Married (2014), My Fair Lady (2011), Doctor’s Dilemma, An Ideal Husband (2010), Born Yesterday (2009), After the Dance (2008), Hotel Peccadillo (2007), Rosmersholm (2006), Journey’s End (2005), Man and Superman (2004), Widower’s Houses, Plough and the Stars

(2003). Other theatre: Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale (Groundling Theatre); War Horse (Mirvish/National Theatre of Great Britain); The Misanthrope, Courageous, Elisa’s Skin, One-Eyed Kings, The Four Lives of Marie, The Glass Menagerie (Tarragon Theatre); Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (Stratford Festival).

AMITAI KEDAR

Yair Hirschfeld/

Shimon Peres

Studio 180: debut. Amitai is thrilled to make his Canadian debut in Oslo.

Born in Toronto and raised in Israel, he is a graduate of Tel Aviv University’s School of Performing Arts and has appeared in numerous film, television and live theatre productions in Israel, Europe and the United States. His film credits include the Oscar-winning Son of Saul (2016). Theatre roles include Habima’s (Israeli National theatre) production of The Dybbuk and a North American national tour of the Gershwin musical My One and Only. For Yiddishpiel, he starred in Oedipus Schmoedipus, a stage adaptation of New York Stories, in which he played the role of Woody Allen.

OMAR ALEX KHAN

Hassan Asfour

For Studio 180: Debut. Theatre credits (selected): Timon of Athens, The School For Scandal, The Komagata

Maru Incident (Stratford); A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Wars (The Grand); The New Canadian Curling Club, 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt (Blyth); As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare in High Park/



Canadian Stage); The Kite Runner (Theatre Calgary/Citadel); Glengarry Glen Ross, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer (RMTC); Acha Bacha (Passe Muraille/Buddies). Film and TV Credits (Selected): Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Less Than Kind, Killjoys, The Strain. Other: omaralexkhan.com

MARK McGRINDER

Yossi Beilin

For Studio 180: The Laramie Project, Stuff Happens, Our Class, Parade, Clybourne Park, You Will Remember

Me and, most recently, The Nether. Mark is a member of Studio 180’s Core Artistic Team and coordinates the Studio 180 IN DEVELOPMENT program. He also adapted and directed Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish for the company and has assistant directed productions of Blackbird, God of Carnage and The Laramie Project 10th Anniversary reading. Mark was a member of the Shaw Festival’s acting ensemble for five seasons and performed in several revues with The Second City’s National Touring Company. Film and television credits include: Spotlight, Remedy, Murdoch Mysteries and Mayday.

MARLA McLEAN

Mona Juul

For Studio 180: debut. Selected credits: Grand Hotel (assistant director), Oh What a Lovely War,

Dracula, Uncle Vanya, Juno and the Peacock, The Philanderer, Enchanted April, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Serious Money, Albertine in Five Times, An Ideal Husband, After the Dance, The Stepmother, A Month in the Country, St. Joan (The Shaw Festival). Blithe Spirit, Miracle on 34th Street, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Government

Inspector (Neptune Theatre), The 39 Steps (LyndesFarn Theatre), Mamma Mia! (Mirvish Productions), The Miracle Worker, Three Sisters (Atlantic Theatre Festival), Evita (MTC/Theatre Calgary). Film/TV: Suits (USA Network), Beefcake (Thom Fitzgerald), Homeless to Harvard (Hard Rock Pictures). Teacher with The National Theatre School.

SARAH ORENSTEIN

Marianne Heiberg/

Toril Grandal/

Assistant Director

Marianne Heiberg/Toril Grandal/Assistant Director

For Studio 180: as actor – Stuff Happens, The Normal Heart, God of Carnage, My Name is Asher Lev; as Assistant Director – King Charles III. Selected theatre credits: ATP – The Virgin Trial. The Grand – Glass Menagerie. Tarragon – The Message, Scorched, Mrs. Klein, Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Stratford Festival – Shakespeare in Love, Possible Worlds, Zastrozzi. TPM – The Stillborn Lover. Shaw Festival – (Company member 13 seasons) Councillor at Law, Millionairess, Heartbreak House, Playboy of the Western World. Sarah is a multi award-winning actress with a career long commitment to developing new Canadian pieces. She is thrilled to be expanding her relationship with Studio 180 into directing.

JORDAN PETTLE

Ron Pundak/

Jan Egeland

For Studio 180: debut. Toronto acting credits include: Soulpepper – A

Christmas Carol, Picture This, The Heidi Chronicles, The Dybbuk, Twelve Angry Men (Dora Award for Best Ensemble), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Dora award for Best Ensemble), Speed-the-Plow, The Sunshine Boys, Jitters, Glengarry Glen



Ross, Travesties, Antigone, Ring Round the Moon, Waiting for Godot; Tarragon – The Waiting Room, Sextet, Generous, Goodness, The Whirlpool; Canadian Stage – Sunday Father, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Written on Water, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew; Factory Theatre – Zadie’s Shoes, Tiger of Malaya; Theatre Passe Muraille – Yichud, Three Squares, Small Returns; YPT – Danny, King of the Basement. He has performed leading roles in Ottawa (GCTC, NAC); Halifax (Neptune); Winnipeg (PTE; WJT) and Edmonton (Citadel). He spent four seasons at the Stratford Festival. TV and film credits include: American Woman; Titans; The Strain; Designated Survivor; Saving Hope; Rookie Blue; Lost Girl; Murdoch Mysteries; Fugitive Pieces; Lost in Wonderland. Jordan was a regular on the CBC radio drama Afghanada (ACTRA nomination for voice performance).

ALEX POCH-GOLDIN

Joel Singer

For Studio 180: Our Class (Dora Nomination). An actor and playwright, Alex has worked on

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GEOFFREY POUNSETT

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For Studio 180: Debut. Selected Theatre (Acting): War Horse (Mirvish); If We

Were Birds, No Great Mischief, Alias Godot (Tarragon); Leisure Society, Zadie’s Shoes (Factory); Fire (Charlottetown Festival, Theatre Calgary – Betty nomination); Doubt (Theatre Northwest); Tuesdays With Morrie (TIP); You Will Remember Me, Games, How Do I Love Thee? (ATP); A Few Good Men, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Neptune); Moon For The Misbegotten (Watermark); The Miser, The Game of Love & Chance, Three Days of Rain (STC); Romeo & Juliet, Juno & The Paycock, Cyrano (Stratford). Selected Theatre (Directing): As You Like It (GBTS); Brown Bull of Cúailnge, Red Machine (The Room); Western (NSTF); A Quiet Place (NSTF – Dora nomination); The Swearing Jar (Best of Fringe); The Seagull (LabCab). Recent Film & TV: It (New Line), Impulse (YouTube), Private Eyes (Global), The Girlfriend Experience (Starz) and Suits (USA).

SANJAY TALWAR

Ahmed Qurie

For Studio 180: reading of The Effect (180 READS); debut production. Shaw Festival: Stage Kiss, The

Orchard (After Chekhov), Wilde Tales, 1979, Arcadia, Peace in Our Time, Helen’s Necklace, Come Back, Little Sheba. Other theatre: The Invisible Hand, Theatre Aquarius; The Men in White, Arts Club; As You Like It, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Peter Pan, Macbeth, Stratford; The Road to Paradise, Human Cargo; Around the World in 80 Days, ATP; The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, director for The Merchant of Venice, 5 seasons as artistic director, Shakespeare in the Rough; The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Dream in High Park; Helen’s Necklace (Jessie award), Tarragon, Pi Theatre. Film/TV: Orphan Black, Puck Hogs, The Border, Flashpoint, Supernatural, Murder Unveiled/A Love Story. Training: Dalhousie University.

BLAIR WILLIAMS

Terje Rød-Larsen

For Studio 180: debut. Most recently, Blair toured Australia with the internationally renowned

chamber orchestra Tafelmusik in the narrative concert Circle of Creation. Selected credits: as director - Here On The Flight Path (Foster Festival); Light Up The Sky. A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur, Peace In Our Time, The Millionairess, Ways Of The Heart, The President (Shaw Festival); The Play’s The Thing (Segal Centre); Rope (Vertigo Theatre). Acting credits include appearances with Nightwood, Vertigo, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Tarragon, Segal Centre, Soulpepper, Theatre Calgary, The Citadel, Canadian Stage, Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia), The Everyman (Liverpool, England) and over thirty productions with the Shaw Festival. He is the voice of Mr. Porter on Nickelodeon’s hit series Paw Patrol and Uncle Phil on Teletoon’s Wishfart. TV credits include Suits, Murdoch Mysteries, The Romanoffs, Reign, Dark Matter, and



Designated Survivor. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

ANDERS YATES

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Studio 180: debut. Recent theatre credits include Slip with Circlesnake

Productions, Toronto, I Love You and La Grande Jatte, both with the Bad Dog Theatre Company. Feature film credits include Indian Horse, Through Black Spruce and Stockholm, along with television roles on Titans, Condor, Taken, Murdoch Mysteries and Helix. Anders spends most of his time on stage doing improv, sketch or standup comedy and has toured North America and Europe with his award-winning comedy troupe Uncalled For. More recently he helped create the queer improv troupe Kinsey Fail. He has performed with the Second City Touring Company and can be seen regularly at the Bad Dog Comedy Theatre. He is also a frequent contributor to the satirical news site The Beaverton.

LAURA BAXTER

Stage Manager

For Studio 180: My Name is Asher Lev, My Night With Reg, You Will Remember Me, NSFW, God of Carnage,

Clybourne Park. Other theatre credits: I Call myself Princess (Cahoots/ Paper Canoe/ Native Earth), Black Boys, The 20th of November, Arigato Tokyo, Obaaberima, The Maids, The Silicone Diaries, Breakfast, Neon Nightz (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), The Story, Tails From the City, The Public Servant, Happy Days (Common Boots Theatre), Little Pretty and The Exceptional, Age of Arousal (Factory Theatre), Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille), Love and Information,

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J.T. ROGERS (Playwright) J.T. Rogers’s plays include Blood and Gifts (National Theater, London; Lincoln Center Theater), The Overwhelming (National Theatre, followed by UK tour with Out of Joint and BBC Radio; Roundabout Theatre); Madagascar (Theatre 503, London; Melbourne Theatre Company), and White People (Off Broadway with Starry Night Productions). As one of the original playwrights for the Tricycle Theatre of London’s Great Game: Afghanistan, he was nominated for a 2009 Olivier Award. His works have been staged throughout the United States and in Germany, Canada, and Israel, and are published by Faber and Faber and Dramatists Play Service. Recent awards include NEA/TCG and NYFA fellowships, the Pinter Review Prize for Drama, the American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborne Award, and the William Inge Center for the Arts’ New Voices Award. Rogers’s essays have

appeared in American Theatre and in London’s Independent and The New Statesman. He is a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. www.jtrogerswriter.com

JOEL GREENBERG (Director) For Studio 180: King Charles III, My Name is Asher Lev, My Night with Reg, You Will Remember Me, NSFW, Cock, God of Carnage, Clybourne Park, The Normal Heart, Our Class, Parade (director and choreographer), The Overwhelming, Stuff Happens, Blackbird, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, The Laramie Project, The Passion of the Chris. As performer – Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish. Co-founder and Artistic Director. Other theatre credits include: As director – The Underdogs, What the Butler Saw (Just For Laughs, Montreal); Taking Sides (Centaur

Venus in Fur, Shakespeare in High Park: 6 seasons (Canadian Stage), Soliciting Temptation, More Fine Girls (Tarragon Theatre), The Berlin Blues, Ipperwash (Blyth Festival) Speaking in Tongues, Festen (The Company Theatre), Music Music Life Death Music (One Little Goat), A Sleigh Ride Christmas Carol, Everyone, The Story, Macbeth (Caravan Farm Theatre).

VICTORIA WANG

Assistant Stage Manager

For Studio 180: debut. Selected credits: Once, The Hockey Sweater: A Musical (Segal Centre);

Murder at the Howard Johnson’s (Orillia

Opera House); Pigeon King (Blyth Festival); speaking of sneaking (RISER Project); Love and Information, Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Julius Caesar, Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage), The Story (Common Boots); Othello (Driftwood Theatre), Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct), HROSES (It Could Still Happen), Like There’s No Tomorrow (Architect Theatre), The Misanthrope and The Importance of Being Earnest (Guild Festival Theatre). Outside of theatre, Victoria runs an ongoing community installation project called memory palace which had its first showing at the Toronto Fringe Postcript Patio in 2018. Victoria is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the National Theatre School of Canada.


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Theatre); The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me a Tenor, You Can’t Take It with You, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Theatre Aquarius); Vanities (The Grand Theatre). As director and choreographer – Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Dora Award); Forbidden Broadway (Dora Nomination); Bells Are Ringing (Grand); The Golden Land, The Rothschilds (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre). As choreographer – seven productions with Second City in Toronto and Chicago; She Loves Me (Grand). As playwright and director – Drink the Mercury (Dora Award) and The Nuclear Power Show (Chalmers Playwriting Award) for YPT.

KERRY ANN DOHERTY (Assistant

Director) For Studio 180: debut. Kerry Ann is thrilled to be joining Studio 180 as the RBC Emerging Director this season. A Toronto-based theatre artist, Kerry Ann has spent the last two years creating and studying in London, England. Her dedication to Canadian theatre inspired her to launch the Little Lion Theatre Company, where she directed a production of Tuesdays and Sundays and a staged reading of The Drowning Girls. Other directing credits include the UK premiere of Asking For It (Corbett Theatre); Little One (East 15); the world premiere of the musical One More Time (Tristan Bates); and The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh (Carousel Players). Assistant Directing credits include Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); Tenderloin (East 15); and Like A Memory Lost (East 15). Kerry Ann holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary and recently completed her Masters in Fine Arts with the University of Essex.

Kerry Ann’s position is made possible through the support of the RBC Foundation.

THOMAS RYDER PAYNE (Sound

Designer) For Studio 180: King Charles III, My Name is Asher Lev. Elsewhere: Designs for Stratford, Shaw, Mirvish, Soulpepper, CanStage, Crow’s, Tarragon, Factory, TPM, YPT, Modern Times, Aluna, BIBT, Nightwood, Toronto Dance Theatre, NAC, Theatre Calgary, GCTC, RMTC and many others. Thomas has received 2 Dora awards and 17 nominations.

KIMBERLY PURTELL (Lighting

Designer) For Studio 180: (selected) My Name is Asher Lev, My Night With Reg, You Will Remember Me, God of Carnage, Stuff Happens. Kimberly is a Toronto based lighting designer for theatre, opera and dance. Her designs have been critically acclaimed across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Prague, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Moscow and Mongolia. She has designed for the Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage Company, Soulpepper Theatre, Mirvish Productions, National Arts Centre, among many others. Kimberly has been nominated for numerous awards and has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline McGibbon Award and a Montreal English Theatre Award.

KEN MACKENZIE (Set/Costume

Designer) For Studio 180: debut. Ken’s most recent design credits include the set and costumes for The Royale at Soulpepper and the set for Once at the Segal Centre. Ken recently won Dora awards for his costume design for Animal Farm (dir. Ravi Jain) at Soulpepper and his lighting design for Flashing Lights (dir. Adam Paolozza) at The Theatre Centre. Ken was also recently the set designer for Angels in America at the Arts Club in Vancouver. Ken is


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a resident Artist at Soulpepper Theatre Company and is the Board President of the Associated Designer of Canada. Ken Holds an MFA from California Institute for the Arts.

CAMERON DAVIS (Projection Designer)

For Studio 180: debut. Selected credits include: projection designer: Wizard of Oz, Christmas Carol (Ross Petty Productions); Secret Life of a Mother (Theatre Centre); Theory (Tarragon Theatre); The Magician’s Nephew, Dracula, Sweet Charity, You Never Can Tell (Shaw Festival); You Are Mine Own, Feng Yi Ting (Spoleto Festival USA); Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pacific Opera Victoria); Up The Garden Path (Obsidian Theatre); Domesticated (Company Theatre); Life, Death, and the Blues, CRASH (Theatre Passe Muraille); Watching Glory Die (Canadian Rep Theatre); The Gay Heritage Project (Buddies in Bad Times/Canadian Tour); Yukonstyle, Cruel and Tender (Canadian Stage); Dance Marathon (bluemouth inc). Cameron teaches and mentors projection design at the National Theatre School of Canada.

CLAIRE HILL (Costume Design

Assistant) For Studio 180: debut. Recent Work: Selfie (YPT), Wounds to the Face (Randolph) House Guests (Corpus), King Lear/Twelfth Night (Canadian Stage), The Smile Off Your Face (Re:Current, Best of SummerWorks, 2017), Hogtown, Dancock’s Dance (The Hogtown Collective), 4 ½ (ig)noble truths (zeitpunk/WhyNot). Past collaborators include: Theatre Brouhaha, safeword, Single Thread Theatre, Red One Collective, SoupCan, and many more.

HOLLY MEYER-DYMNY (Assistant

Projection Designer*) For Studio 180: OSLO. Selected Credits: Set Design Into The Woods, The Sound of Music, Set and Projection Design Tosca, Dead Man Walking (Opera On The Avalon); Set Design Titus Andronicus, The Penelopiad (Hart House Theatre); Production Design Anne of Green Gables, Sunshine Sketches, Gift of the Magi (SMILE Theatre); Set Design Assistant The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, The Tempest, To Kill A Mockingbird (Stratford Festival); Set Design L’Homme et le Ciel (FAWN Chamber Creative); Set and Lighting Design Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot (FAWN/Opera Lyra Ottawa). Upcoming: La Traviata (Toronto City Opera), Pandora (FAWN Chamber Creative).

The services of Holly Meyer-Dymny were made possible through Theatre Ontario’s Professional Theatre Training Program, funded by the Ontario Arts Council.

MONICA LEE (Head of Props) For Studio 180: King Charles III, My Night With Reg (As a props assistant). Monica is Toronto based props builder, buyer and coordinator. She is a recipient of a 2017 Metcalf Grant as a props intern at Canadian Stage. Monica’s credits include The Children, Shakespeare in High Park (2017-2018), The Overcoat, Love and Information, Heisenberg, Liv Stein (Canadian Stage); Hamlet Workshop (Festival Des Arts De Saint-Sauveur); A Little Night Music, 9 to 5 (Randolph Academy); Next to Normal (upcoming), Fun Home, Life After (The Musical Stage Company); Secret Garden (Young People’s Theatre); Musik für das Ende (Crow’s Theatre/Soundstreams); Acquiesce (Factory Theatre). Monica is excited to be working with Studio 180 as a head of props this year!


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FOR OSLOAssistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KERRY ANN DOHERTY

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Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SARAH ORENSTEIN

Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THOMAS RYDER PAYNE

Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KIMBERLY PURTELL

Set & Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KEN MACKENZIE

Assistant Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CLAIRE HILL

Projection Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CAMERON DAVIS

Assistant Projection Designer . . . . . . . . . . .HOLLY MEYER-DYMNY

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Training Program, funded by the Ontario Arts Council)

Head of Props . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MONICA LEE

Dialect Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIANE PITBLADO

Scenic Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MCWOOD STUDIOS

FOR STUDIO 180 THEATRECore Artistic Team . . . . . . . . .JOEL GREENBERG (Artistic Director),

DERRICK CHUA, JESSICA GREENBERG, MARK McGRINDER

General Manager (on maternity leave) . . . . . . . LAURA POMEROY

Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAURA McCALLUM

Director of Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BYRON ABALOS

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Associate Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JENNA HARRIS

Head of Education & Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . JESSICA GREENBERG

New Play Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK McGRINDER

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NADA RISTICH, DAVID STAINES, NOREEN TAYLOR,

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27th Annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival

May 2 – 12, 2019

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STUDIO 180 THEATRE THANK YOUSStudio 180 Theatre is grateful to the following

individuals and organizations for their generous

contributions to this production:

Canadian Stage, Soulpepper Props Department, Canadian

Opera Company Props Department, Professor Howard Adelman,

Emanuel Adler, Frank Al, Ron Allen, Guy Bannerman, Sylvia

Bashevkin, Hubert Brard, Tara Burt, Annie Clarke, Ina Fichman,

Dorian Foley, Rabbi Jordan Helfman, Kaliou Kadri, Saul Korman,

Aleksander Krogevoll, Mor Loushy, Janet O’Neill, Cambra

Overend, JT Rogers, Sari Shrayteh, Daniel Sivan, Mary Spyrakis,

Janice Stein, Lorraine Sutherns, Robert Vaughan.

FOR MIRVISH PRODUCTIONSProducer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DAVID MIRVISH

Executive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN SEWELL

Managing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MUCCI

Director of Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAMILLO CASCIATO

Director of Sales & Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . JOHN KARASTAMATIS

U.K. Consultant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL ELLIOTT

Director of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCOT WHITHAM

Director of Labour Relations &

Business Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK LAVAWAY

Director of Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KELLY ROBINSON

Associate Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDA INTASCHI

Associate General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES CHU

Assistant Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANIKA NATER

General Management Associate. . . . . . . . . . . . HANNAH MIRVISH

Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHRIS PRIDEAUX

Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATHAN GILES

Assistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIANNE GWARTZ

Production Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANN HASCALOVITZ

Communications Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SUE TOTH

Press & Public Relations Manager . . . . . . . . . J. RANDY ALLDREAD

Marketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ANTONIO TAN

Graphic Design Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OTTO PIERRE

Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRANCA LONGOBARDI

Web Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER JENKINS

Videographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TRISTAN GOUGH

Program Director, CRM,

Data Insights & Ecommerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUBREY STORK

CRM & Reporting Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIANNE WU

Assistant Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROSIE DRISCOLL

Company Management Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEN COOPER

Labour Relations & HR Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . EMILY KNIGHT

Senior IT Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSIE DI LUZIO

System Administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHARLES BARTHMANN,

PHILLIP DREW, KATHARINE POSAVAD

Analyst/Accounting Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REG DUNCAN

Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON YIP

Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TINA MARSHALL

Show Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACQUEL FROST

Accounting Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE LOGAN, KIM SITU

Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LILIAN SIU

Assistant to David Mirvish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAUREL PURVIS

Receptionists . . . . . . . . . . . . HELDER BRUM, AMY CUNNINGHAM,

AARON EVES, DAN GALEA, FREDDIE RIVAS

FOR ED MIRVISH ENTERPRISESGeneral Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUSSELL LAZAR

FOR TICKETKINGGeneral Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES ALDRIDGE

Phone Operations Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ALAN FORSYTH

Phone Operations Asst. Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSIE MARCON

Phone Operations Supervisors . . . . . . . . . JANET KOMPARE-FRITZ,

SCOTT RICHARDSON

Administrative Services Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAGGIE BUSKI

Sales & Ticketing Analyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VICTORIA MAGINNIS

Ticketing Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KARYN KING

Administrative and Ticketing

Software Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVE PELLEY

Ticketing Software Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARA RIVARD

Ticketing Software Co-ordinator . . . . . .FRANCO MARCANTONIO

Database Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APARNA ALIMINETI

FOR MIRVISH GROUP SALES & SUBSCRIPTIONSSales Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS DORSCHT

Group Sales Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATASHA SPRINGETT

Associate Manager, Subscription Operations . . .BLAIR LEIGHTON

Associate Manager, Subscription Services . . . . DANIEL McLARTY

Subscriber Relations Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . ARIKA UMME GUL

Subscriber Relations Representative . . . . . . . . . . . PAULYN RAMAN

Student Outreach & Education Co-ordinator . . . DENISE ANDERSON

Group Sales Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NELIA BAIRD

Corporate Group Sales & Event Co-ordinator . . . TIFFANY TOBIAS

Group Sales Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRANDON BARNSWELL

Subscriber Administration

Representatives . . . . DANIELLA FRUSTAGLIO, MUNIRA SARUAT

Subscription Service Representatives . . . . . . . . .MARY ASKWITH,

ERNEST AVSEEV, ERNEST CAYEMEN, MATTHEW KENNEDY,

CLARA KIM, ALEXANDRA LEAN, RICHARD McDONALD,

RYAN REEVE, MIKE RICHARDSON

FOR THE CAA THEATREGeneral Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RON JACOBSON

Front of House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIE HOLOWATY

Assistant House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COREY PALMER

FOH Supervisor/Operations Assistant . . . . . . . . . HALEY WATSON

Box Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GERARD RAJU

Assistant Box Office Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DENNIS WONG

Maintenance Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEVIN McCARTHY

House Head Technician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON BROWNING

Assistant House Head Technician . . . . . . . . . G. STUART BAULCH

Head of Wardrobe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ELENA RAKITSKAYA

For Mirvish Programme and Mirvish Partnership

Opportunities, please contact:

The Exclusive Sales Agency of Mirvish Productions

[email protected]

[email protected]

Backstage Employees are represented by the

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage

Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

Mirvish Productions is a member of the

Professional Association of Canadian Theatres

(PACT) and engages, under the terms of the

Canadian Theatre Agreement, actors and stage

managers who are members of the Canadian

Actors’ Equity Association.

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