PAINS OF YOUTHNEW YORK PREMIERE

FEBRUARY 13 - MARCH 2

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PAINS *{YOUTH

The Cake Shop Theater CompanyCasey Hayes-Deats and Katie Lupica, Producing Artistic Directors

CAST1rene............ ..Emily Batsford*A1t............... ....................marcus d. harveyxMarie........... ................Casey Hayes-DeatsDesiree....... Rachel McKeonxLucy............. ............Li2i MyersPetrell......... .....Danny RiveraxFreder......... ....Jacob Trussell*Production Stage Manater............... ....................LaShawn Keyserx

Pains of Youth will be performed with one l5-minute intermission.*These Actors and Stage Manager are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.

SETTINGMarie's room. A boarding house. Vienna, 1923.

Presents

Danny Rivera

Costume DesignMartin Schnellinger

Jacob Trussell

Props DesignerMarissa Bergman

Emily Batsford (lrene) received a BFAin Acting from Syracuse University. Sherecently finished working on the webseries Zombie and Me, which can be foundon blio.com. Previous theatrical rolesinclude: Masha (Ihree Sisters), Alice (A/icetAdventures in Wonderland), and others atAbingdon Theater (NYC), Miami TheaterCenter, PlayGround Theater (Miami),Edinburgh Fringe, Red House (Syracuse),and Neofuturarium (Chicago). Proudmember of AEA. www.emilybatsford.com

marcus d. harvey (Alt) is originallyfroma town of 251 people known as Halifax,North Carolina but now resides in Harlem.Obtained a BA in Dramatic Arts and BA inPerformance Studies from UNC-Chapel

Hill, MA in Dramatic Writing for SocialChange from NYU and a MFA in Actingfrom Brooklyn College. Some favoritecredits include: Father in Eurydice, Huszin A Bright Room Colled Doy, Julius Caesarin Julius Coesor, Fes in An Americon Dreom,Cory in Fences, Roman in The Foiy Gorden.Would like to thank Katie for guidance,The Cake Shop Theater Company for thisopportunity and this banana of a cast andcrew for such a fun-filled journey. To myagent Albert of Emerging Talent, manaterNaomi of Bohemia Group, family, friendsand apple of my eye Krystle for love andsupport. This performance is dedicatedto my granny Selma Freeman. Proudmember of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. www.themarcusd harvev.com

PAINS OF YOUTHby Ferdinand Bruckner

in a new version by Martin CrimpFeaturing

Emily Batsford marcus d. harvey Casey Hayes-Deats Rachel McKeonLizi Myers

Scenic DesignRyan Howell

Lighting Design Original Music & Sound Design Fight ChoreographerGary Slootskiy Mark Van Hare Alexander Reed

Dramaturg Production Stage Manager General ManagementKatie Craddock LaShawn Keyser Diana Levy

Press Representative Director of Marketing AdvertisingJonathan Slaff & Associates Jacob Marx Rice Adina Rose Levin

Associate ProducerRendina Brothers Production

Directed byKatie Lupica

Casey Hayes-Deats (Marie) hailsfrom West Virginia, and is a graduate ofColumbia University and the Stella AdlerStudio of Acting. She is the co-founder ofThe Cake Shop Theater Company and aproud company member of Theatre East.Favorite roles include Myrtle in The (Love)Story of Myrtle Willoughby ond WilloughMyrtleby (ondtheNeighbors) and theAngel inAngels in Americo: Perestroiko. She recentlycompleted filming the independent featureLeoving Virginville, in which she stars. Thisperformance is dedicated to Caleb, Momand Gatti.

Rachel McKeon (Desiree) hails fromWestern Pennsylvania and trained atNYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Shecan be seen starrint as the unruly lrenein the upcoming independent featurefilm Homemokers (2013 IFP NarrativeLabs), and the spirited Annie in IheStory of Milo & Annie, opposite AcademyAward-nominee Cathy Moriarty. Favoriterecent roles: Catherine in A View FromThe Bridge (Secret Theater) Susan Parksin Ihe Pitmen Pointers (Pittsburgh lrish& Classical Theatre), Anna in SpringAwokening (Pittsburgh Musical Theater),and Darla in Welcome to Nowhere (bullethole road) (P.S. 122). Other theater: TheShakespeare Theatre of NJ, PittsburghCLO, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,The Debate Society. Proud member AEA/SAG -AFTRA. www.rachelmckeon.com

Lizi Myers (Lucy) grew up inBrooklyn and has trained at BarnardCollege, the British American DramaAcademy, HB Studios, and Shakespeare& Company. Recent New York creditsinclude Marianne in Sense ond Sensibility

Workshop (BEDLAM), Girl in Hello fromBertho (Pook's Hill), Mama Ubu in Ubuthe King (Barnard College), Anya in IheCherry Orchord (Columbia University), andthe Jesus Girl in fhe Pillowmon (ColumbiaUniversity). Favorite educational andsummer stock roles include: Lucianain Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare &Company), and Grace Poole / HelenBurns in Jone Eyre (British AmericanDrama Academy), U/S for Bianca in Othetto(Commonwealth Shakespeare Company).

Danny Rivera (Petrell) graduated fromGeorgetown University with degreesin English and Theater & PerformanceStudies in the spring of 201 l, where he wasalso an active member of the Washington,DC theater community. Upon returningto his native New York City, Dannyloined The Flea Theater as a member oftheir resident acting company, the Bats,where he appeared in A. R. Gurney'sHeresy (Pedro) and a workshop of ThomasBradshaw's Jab (Job and others). Otheractint credits include Columbia UniversitySchool of the Arts, New PerspectivesTheater, The New York ShakespeareExchange, and others. He joined Actors'Equity in the fall of 2012.

facob Trussell (Freder) Born and raisedin the Texas countryside, he called Austinhome for seven years before relocatingto Brooklyn. A recent NYC transplant,Jacob's regional credits include: t14odBeot, Hip, ond Gone, ond Horvey (ZACHTheater); Other Desert Gtieq Chess, IheFontosticks, and Mon Of Lo lvlancho (AustinPlayhouse); Boal ond Hill Country lJnderbelly(Paper Chairs); and orhers. Educationaland summer stock credits include: Parode,

Cloud 9 (HarrylCathy), Mocbeth, Cyronode Bergerac, Ring'Round the Moon (Hugo/Frederic); and the title roles in peer Gynt,Bot Boy, and Sweeney Todd. proud memberof AEA.

Ferdinand Bruckner (Author) (bornTheodor Tagger on 26 August l89l inSofia, Bulgaria) was an Austro-Germanwriter and theatre manater. His fatherwas an Austrian businessman and hismother a French translator. After theseparation of his parents, he spent timein Vienna and Paris, and in Berlin wherehe began to study music. However,impressed by the Expressionist literaryscene in Berlin, in 1916 he moved awayfrom music and devoted himself to poetry.ln the following years, he publishedseveral poetry collections and in l9l7 hebegan the literary magazine Morsyos withtexts from authors like Alfred Dciblin andHermanne Hesse. ln 1922, he founded,in his real name, the Berlin RenaissanceTheater, whose leadership he gave toGustav Hartung in 1928. ln 1929 and1930 he released the pieces Kronkheit der

Jugend (Poins of Youth) and Elisobeth vonEngland (Elizobeth of Englond) using thepseudonym Ferdinand Bruckner. Afterthe success of these works, he revealedtheir authorship, although he changed hisname permanently to Bruckner in 1946.ln1933 he emigrated to Paris and worked onthe anti-fascist play Dre Rossen. ln 1936, hemoved to the USA, although he achievedlittle success there. Twenty years after hisflight from Germany in 1953 he returnedto Berlin where he worked as an advisorto the Schiller Theater. He died in Berlinon 5 December 1958.

Martin Crimp (Adaptor) was bornin 1956 and began writing for theatrein the 1980's. His plays include /n theRepublic of Hoppiness (Z0lZ), ploy House(2012), The City (2008), Fewer Emergencies(2005), Cruel ond Tender (2004--writtenfor director Luc Bondy), Foce to the Woll(2002), The Country (2000), Attempts OnHer Life (1997), The Treotmenr (1993),Getting Attention (1992), No One Sees theVideo (1991), Ploy with Repeots (t999),Deoling with Cloir (1988), and Definitely theBohomos (1987). His work is translatedinto many languages and produced all overthe world. His translations include Grossund Klein (2012), Rhinoceros (2OOt), TheFolse Seryonr (2004), The Triumph of Love(1999), The Moids (1999),The Choirs (1991),Roberto Zucco (1997), a new version ofThe Seogull (2006) for London's NationalTheatre, and a contemporary adaptationof The Misonthrope (1996). He has writrentwo opera texts for George Benjamin: /ntothe Little Hill and Written on Skin.

Katie Lupica (Director) is a co-founding producing artistic director ofThe Cake Shop Theater Company. Shehas directed short plays by Julia Jordan,Bekah Brunstetter, and Josh Koenigsberg(Williamstown Theatre Festival);Portroit ond o Dreom by Jacob Marx Rice(FringeNYC at La MaMa ETC); Ihe SointPlays by Erik Ehn (Barnard College, AustinE. Quigley Prize); The (Love) Story of MyrtleW ill oughby... by CassandraAdai r (N O MADSTheater); The Yellow Boot by David Saar(touring, Community lmpact); and otherworks with UglyRhino (Brooklyn), SlTlCompany, NYU Steinhardt, and New yorkStage & Film. Recent assisting includes theBroadway revival of Godspett (dir. DanielGoldsrein) and Williamstown,s pygmolion

(dir. Nicholas Martin). She holds a BAfrom Columbia (summa cum laude) and isan associate member of SDC.

Mark Van Hare (Sound Designer/Composer) is a composer and sounddesigner working in New York City. Hedesigned the sound for Daniel Fish'sEternal at lncubator Arts Project, Marisolat the Dorothy Strelsin Theatere withNYCDA, Look Upon Our Lowliness atHarlem School of the Arts Theatre, IorBoby at DR2 Theatre, and Domoscus at4th St. Theatre. He also designed thesound for Elizabeth Rex at the StoningtonOpera House and composed the musicfor Los Meninos at Asolo RepertoryTheatre. markvanhare.com

Ryan Howell (Scenic Designer) is aset designer and scenic artist workint inNew York City. While in the city, Ryan hasdesigned and collaborated on lnto theWoods at the Bergdorf Cultural Centerand lhe Laromie Project and Joseph ondthe... Dreomcoot for the AfterWorkTheatre Project. Ryan received hisMFA from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music. Whilethere he designed The Mogic Flute, AMidsummer Nrghtt Dreom, Arcadio, lnto theWoods (2012, LCT Award- OutstandlngProduction), Giulio Cesore ln Egitto, andA Little Night Music. Ryan received hisB.F.A from Penn State University, wherehe designed She Loves t14e and Tole of ...Morsupial Girl (2009, oliver Smith Award).Ryan has also been associated with TheSignature Theatre, The Atlantic TheatreCompany, Royal Caribbean lnternational,River City Scenic, Pennsylvania CentreStage, and Pittsburgh CLO. To check outmore of his work so to rvanmhowell.com.

Martin Schnellinger (CostumeDesigner) is a designer living in New YorkCity. Recent credits include Mommy at ArtPond Studio, Crossing Swords at New YorkMusic Theatre Festival and Americon Night:The Bollod of Juon./osi at Yale RepertoryTheatre and California ShakespeareTheatre. Other Yale credits includeTwo Gentlemen of Verono, The Bochelors,and Angels in America: Perestroika. lnWashington, D.C., Martin has designedproductions of Eodos de Songre, Mummyin the C/oset: fhe Return of Evo Peron, andThe Aging of the Plum at GALA HispanicTheatre, After luliet at lmatination Stage,and Abstoct Nude for the Capitol FringeFestival. He has also designed Suor AngelicolGionni Schicci for the Opera Theatre andMusic Festival of Lucca, ltaly. Martin has anMFA in Design from Yale School of Drama.www.martinschnelli nger.com

Marissa Bergman (Props Designer)is a Brooklyn based props master,artisan, shopper, assistant, and setdresser originally from Las Vegas, NV.Her recent credits include work withKathy Fabian and Propstar on theBroadway shows Rocky: The Musicol, lflThen, Betroyol, Bridges of Modison County,Kinky Boots, Choplin, Nice Work if You ConGet lt, and A Steetcor Nomed Desire. Shehas worked with Roundabout TheatreCompany (Bod Jews), Signature TheatreCompany (Open House, Hurt Villoge),New York Shakespeare Exchange (lslond:Or, To Be or Not to Be), West Side YMCAKids Company (Resident Prop Master),Fullstop Collective (Various), Tale ToldProductions (Various), and Den Studios( Piooin. SNI). www. MarissaBersman.com

Gary Slootskiy (Lighting Designer)The lndependents, Very Bod Words (NYFringe), The Animols (Ars Nova), Very Very(Gibson Showroom, Hamilton Stage),Words Rozors and the Wounded Heort, DIVA(Less Than Rent), Forever Ploid (OlneyTheatre), Comedy of Errors, The Odyssey,Mocbeth, Romeo ond Juliet, Animol Farm(National Players Tour), Mory's Wedding, ToKill o Mockingbird (Bristol Valley Theatre),Orpheus in the Underworld (Boston OperaCollaborative). Associate designer forMocbeth on Broadway. Assistant designsinclude projects with the Vineyard,Playwrights Horizons, the Public, LincolnCenter, NYTW and Second Stage. Web:htto://www.earvs loots kiv.co m

Alexander Reed (FightChoreographer)grew up in New Zealand for most of hislife where he went to school right up untilcollege. He started actint in his teens andcontinued all the way through his collegeyears. Before moving to New York tofurther his acting training, he appearedin classical plays, commercials and shortsall done in Auckland, New Zealand. He isalso a graduate of the Stella Adler Studioof Acting where he is an assistant statecombat teacher to his teacher SteveWhite. Alexander is thrilled to be part ofthis charming production of Poins of Youth.

Katie Craddock (Assistant Director/Dramaturg) grew up in Ras Tanura,Saudi Arabia. She graduated in May fromBarnard, where she double majored inEnglish and Theatre. For her thesis, shewrote a play about a Sri Lankan domesticworker living in the Arabian Gulf. AtBarnard and Columbia, she also acted,sang, and dramaturg-ed with the Barnard

theatre department and various studentorganizations. She stage-managed JacobMarx Rice's Portoit ond o Dreom (dir. KatieLupica) for FringeNYC.

LaShawn Keyser (Production StageManager) served as the ProductionStage Manager for the Kitchen TheatreCompany for over 3 seasons in lthaca,NY. Following that, she has stage manageddance competitions and weddings! Shewas most recently the ASM for her firstOff-Broadway productlon, Every Doy AVisitor.

Diana Levy (General Manager) Projectsinclude: Portroit ond o Dreom (FringeNYC,Producer), All the Roge (CompanyManager), Divorce Party the &lusicol (Asst.Company Manager), Forevermon (NYMF,Company Manager), Murder for Two, EveEnsler's Emotionol Creoture, 3C and theSeason of Cambodia Arts Festival. Dianais the Assistant to the General Managersat Snug Harbor Productions, a boutiquegeneral management company. Thanks toKatie and Casey for the opportunity andthe support.

The Cake Shop Theater Companywas founded in March 20 I 3 by Casey Hayes-Deats and Katie Lupica. We produce newworks, forgotten texts, and reimaginedclassics that gve an uncensored voice tocharacters and creators coming of age -particularly women. ln pursuit of resonantstories, we choose each project for itspotential to feed, delight, and stlmulateaudience and artists alike.

A note on I92Os Yienno...Upheaval and uncertainty reignedin Vienna between the First andSecond World Wars. Before WorldWar l, Emperor FranzJoseph I ruledAustria-Hungary and its world-envied political and cultural capital.During his rule, immigrants fromall over Europe flocked to the cityfor its cultural, architectural, andacademic prominence. Vienna wasthe absolute center of Westernmusic, hosting composers likeBrahms, Mahler, and Bruckner(Ferdinand Bruckner, born TheodorTagger in Bulgaria, adopted hisnew surname in honor of AntonBruckner). The University of ViennaMedical Schoolwas the preeminentresearch institution in the regionand the site of critical discoverieslike the polio virus and blood types.Secessionist artists Gustav Klimt,Egon Schiele, and others producedsome of today's most famousartwork in their exploration ofthe mythic, twisted territories ofhuman desire for connection.

The Great War changed everything.Massive inflation obliterated thesavings of many middle-classViennese. An economic embargo leftcitizens struggling to procure basicsupplies. Death and uncertaintyovershadowed university life as

student demographics shifted,professors left groundbreakingresearch unfinished to fight, andthe main university building wasco-opted as a military hospitalwith lecture halls for operatingtheaters. By 1919, military casualtiescompounded by a colossal civilianoutbreak of Spanish Flu droppedcity's population 16% from apre-war 2,199,000 to less than1,850,000. ln the following inrerwarperiod, tuberculosis reemergedas the familiar killer sometimeseven referred to as "the Viennesedisease" and accounted for aquarter of all deaths in the city -closer to half of all deaths in theworking class. And promiscuity andan increase in prostitution broughton by drastically imbalancedgender distribution and economicdesperation made syphilis almostunavoidable for young people ofmost any class.

ln this bleak post-war Vienna,opportunities nevertheless increasedfor one important troup. Women- includingJewish women relocatedfrom the outskirts of the formerempire - surged into the hallsof academia in unprecedentednumbers. As never before, it becamecommonplace for young women

to leave their parents' homes andlive independently in boarding-houses while they studied, andmany were awarded the Universityof Vienna's highest degrees alongwith academic accolades. Womenwere, incidentally, also becomingobjects of medical and academicfascination - most famously inthe work of University of Viennaprofessor, Sigmund Freud. Freudhad been lecturing at the medicalschool since 1886, but he gainedprominence as one of the fewworld-famous scholars still livingand working after the war andopened a psychoanalytic clinic inVienna in 1924.

Eugenics projects also gained steamin the face of post-war poverty.Public health officials sought newmethods of rejuvenating the localpopulation, and the debate overeuthanasia grew loud and vehementin both Germany and Austria. Manyargued against the government'ssupport of physically or mentallydisabled citizens and turned tonationalism and cultural dividesto find fault for society's apparentcollapse. These ideas later fusedwith enraged nostalgia to form thepolitical ideologies and ultimatelygenocidal terror of Adolf Hitler and

the Nazi Party of Germany. ln 1923,encouraged by regular audiences athis beer hall speeches in Munich,Hitler attempted to seize powerat the Beer Hall Putsch. He failed,but his supporters formed youthtroups, assembling what becamethe Hitler Youth in 1926.

Bruckner wrote Poins of Youth thatsame year to touch the suffering ofa teneration on the brink - to usethe the intimate, domestic travailsof one circle of friends to peer intoan epochal struggle to stay awakein the "City of Dreams." Thoughdependent on the particularupheavals of a distant time andplace, these characters' journeysfeel almost contemporary in freshtranslation by Martin Crimpmaking it all the more difficult fortheir disillusionment to be casuallydismissed. We invite you tonightto slip away to this foreign worldwhere the familiar may yet lurk atany turn. We hope you enjoy. Thankyou for joining us here.

Kotie Croddock, Dromaturg

Staff for Poins of YouthGeneral Management

Diana Levy

Press RepresentativeJonathan Slaff & Associates

wwwjsnyc.com

Production Stage Manager.................. ...................LaShawn Keyser

Assistant Director..... .....Katie Craddock

Associate Lighting Designer..... .................Megan Lang

Props Designer..... .........Marissa Bergman

Wardrobe Supervisor. .................Timothy Thompson

Hair and Makeup Consultant .........Alexander RiveraChoreographer............... ....Tracy Einstein

Director of Marketing................... ....Jacob Marx RiceAdvertising Adina Rose LevinArtwork....

....Simon Winheld

PAINS OF YOUTH @ Estate of Ferdinand Bruckner 1926this version @ Martin Crimp 2009

Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltdwww.alan brod ie.com

The cake shop Theater company is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, anon-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of The Cake ShopTheater Company must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible tothe extent permitted by law.

Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000actors and state managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote andfoster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiateswages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including healthand pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-clo, and is affiliated with FlA, aninternational organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark ofexcellence. www.actorsequity.org rw

SPECIAL THANKSto the following for donations of

materials, time, and generous spirit:John Bambery, Barnard College, Christy Borg, Suzanna Bornn, Max Cantor, RyanChittaphong, Kieron Cindric, Eric Cooper, culturefix bar, Katy DiSavino, Rose DuPont,Morgan Everitt, Annie Fox, Cristina Gatti, Danny Goldstein, Michael Goldstein, MichaelGuarino, Cat Hayes, Caleb Hayes-Deats, Yasmeen Jawhar, Cary Kung, Frannie Laughner,Rose Levenson-Palmer, Liberated Movement, Brad Lohrenz, Dylan Luke, Anne & JoeLupica, Charlie Lupica, Amy Rose Marsh, Annie Minoff, Tyler Mitchell, The MidnightHollow, NYU Law Library, Phebe's Bar, Joe Raik, Gerard Ramm, Nico Rocha, SamuelFrench lnc., Alex Seife, Serino/Coyne, Signature Theatre Company, Sathya Sridharan,Allison Sundstrom, Gene Sweeney, AII| Trussell, Ron Tsur, Fidel Vazquez, Emily Wallen,Sandy Weiss, Simon Winheld, Xoomba Brooklyn

This production would not be possible withoutthe financial support of the following donors:

Vladimir Baranov, Simone Berkower, Molly Braverman, Barry & Beth Buckalew, RyanChittaphong, James Cusack, Craig & Lydia Deats, Jessica Durdock Moreno, Karen Ely,Julie Freireich, Puka Gamiz, Anita & Dean Hakanson, Courtney Hakanson, Cat Hayes,Charles & Phyllis Hayes, Tom & Chris Hinkley, Joan Hoffman, Yasmeen Jawhar, NickJehlen, Chiristine Kwon, Emily Kaplan, Kauffman & Kahn LLP, Alexandra Keegan, LarryKrantz & Margie Berman, Asher Landay, Pat & Mark Landay, Becky Leifman, Tom Levy& Deborah Sheppard, KC Lewis, James Lundeen, Anne & Joe Lupica, Charles & GailLupica, Greg & Amy Lupica, Marg & Joe Mauer, Elizabeth McCoy, Mary & Dale McCoy,James McNeel, Gordon Mehler, Ray & Kim Meier, Amy Menkowitz, Daniel Mitura,Melissa Monteleone, John & Mary Myers, Frank Nestor, Akua Nketia, Karen & MichaelPerry, Elizabeth Poleski, Richard Rendina, Emily Rast, Ben & Peggy Rast, Paul Sasseville,Matthew Savins, Aaron Scherzer & Jen Keighley, Tracy & Marc Schwimmer, Ben Stadler,Mary Starmann-Harrison, Alice Sturm, Alli Trussell, Janet, Rick & Sandy Weiss, MelissaWhitely, Frank Wilson, Mary Carmel & Bill Wolf, Anonymous

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