JULIANNE BOYD, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TRISTAN WILSON, MANAGING DIRECTOR

ST. GERMAIN STAGE | SEPT 22—OCT 2, 2016@ Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center

BY

A.R. GurneySTARRING

Mark H. Dold AND Debra Jo Rupp

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER LIGHTING & SOUND DESIGNER Lisa Klages Lucas Pawelski

BERKSHIRE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE Charlie Siedenburg Matt Ross Public Relations

DIRECTED BYJulianne Boyd

BLATT CENTER PRODUCERBranden Huldeen

Love Letters was presented at The Long Wharf Theatre, M. Edgar Rosenblum, Executive Director; Arvin Brown, Artistic Director.

SPONSORED BYAudrey and Ralph Friedner

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*Actors and Stage Manager aremembers of Actors’ Equity Association.

CASTIN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Andrew Makepeace Ladd III ................................................................. Mark H. Dold*Melissa Gardner ................................................................................ Debra Jo Rupp*

STAFFProduction Stage Manager .................................................................. Lisa Klages*Assistant to the Director ........................................................... Samantha CostanzaWardrobe .................................................................................. Kelsey Vonderhaar

CASTMARK H. DOLD (Andrew Makepeace Ladd III) is a BSC Associate Artist and has numerous credits spanning twelve seasons including Breaking the Code; His Girl Friday; Shining City; as well as creating the role of C.S. Lewis in Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session. Mark continued this role in Chicago and for two years in New York City. He has appeared On and Off Broadway and in regional theatres from coast to coast. Most recent TV credits include guest starring roles on Person of Interest; Law and Order: SVU; and Chicago PD. Mark studied at Boston

University; The Yale School of Drama and is a member of The Actors Center. Next up: Prime Minister John Major in Peter Morgan’s The Audience at The Jupiter Maltz Theatre in Jupiter, Florida. www.markhdold.com

DEBRA JO RUPP (Melissa Gardner) BSC: Kimberly Akimbo; Dr. Ruth, All the Way; To Kill a Mockingbird; Ring Round the Moon and Project Laramie. Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Kathleen Turner. Off Broadway: Becoming Dr. Ruth (Nom: Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Conn Critics Cir); A Girl’s Guide to Chaos; Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune; The Butcher of Baraboo (Judith Ivey, Second Stage). Recent regional: Deathtrap (Berkshire Theater Group), Madagascar (Chester), Annapurna (Rob Ruggiero, TheaterWorks Hartford), True West, A Flea

in Her Ear (John Rando, Williamstown). Film credits include Big, Clockwatchers, Sgt Bilko, She’s Out of My League and over 200 television appearances, most notably That ‘70s Show, Seinfeld, Friends, Hart of Dixie, Better With You. Debra most recently shot a tv pilot with Candace Bergen and reunited with Ashton and Danny on The Ranch last week.

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CREATIVE TEAMJULIANNE BOYD (Director) see page 12 in season Playbill.

A.R. GURNEY (Playwright) Plays: Scenes From American Life, Children, The Dining Room, The Middle Ages, Richard Cory, The Golden Age, What I Did Last Summer, The Wayside Motor Inn, Sweet Sue, The Perfect Party, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, The Snow Ball (adapted from his novel), The Old Boy, The Fourth Wall, Later Life, A Cheever Evening, Sylvia, Overtime, Let’s Do It (a Cole Porter musical), Labor Day, Far East, Darlene And The Guest Lecturer, Ancestral Voices. Opera: wrote libretto for Strawberry Fields, with music by Michael Torke, part of the Central Park Opera trilogy presented by the New York City Opera in the Fall of 1999. Novels: The Gospel According to Joe, Entertaining Strangers and The Snow Ball. Awards: Drama Desk, N.E.A., Rockefeller Foundation, New England Theatre Conference, Lucille Lortel, American Association of Community Theatres, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Honorary degrees: Williams College and Buffalo State University. Gurney was on the faculty of M.I.T. until 1996. He is the husband of one, father of four, and grandfather of six.

LUCAS PAWELSKI (Lighting & Sound Designer) is a local Lighting and Sound Designer who also acts as Barrington Stage’s Lighting Supervisor. Recent design credits include the Sound Design for Barrington Stage’s 2016 10x10 Festival, as well as acting as the Production Designer for Shakespeare & Company’s 2015 Fall Festival. Other credits include the Lighting and Scenic Design of HVMTS’ production of Chicago, the Lighting Design of Monument Mountain’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone, and the Lighting Design of SPASH’s production of Showtime 2015. Lucas would like to thank his wife Lila who always knows why.

LISA KLAGES (Production Stage Manager) BSC Credits: Assistant Director for the 2013 and 2014 play seasons, including Breaking the Code, An Enemy of the People, Much Ado and Dancing Lessons. Lisa was also on the SM team for Becoming Dr. Ruth Off Broadway. She is currently the Resident Director of the long running Off Broadway Improv Comedy, Drunk Shakespeare. Other credits include: Elf National Tour, Wing-Man at Ars Nova, Broadway Sings touring cabaret. She trained at Broadway’s Wicked and Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More and graduated from Pace University with degrees in Psychology and Directing.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING UPDATES TO THE SEASON PROGRAM

Assistant to the Managing Director Katherine (Kate) McCombs Technical Director David Nelson

Associate Technical Director Tom RindgeDevelopment Associate Rebecca Barrow

Assistant to the Artistic Director/Literary Associate Rebecca Weiss

Camping with Henryand TomBY Mark St. GermainDIRECTED BY Christopher Innvar

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In 1921, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and President Warren G. Harding took a camping trip together into the Maryland woods to escape civilization; what they couldn’t escape was each other. Inspired by an actual event, Camping with Henry and Tom is an exploration of friendship, politics and leadership—a comedic and dramatic clash of two great minds and one great heart of the twentieth century.

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