Mint Theater Company

Jonathan Bank

Linda Calandra

Jon Clark

Eleanor Reissa

Gary Schonwald

M. Elisabeth Swerz

Jonathan Bank

Sherri Kotimsky

Colleen T. Sullivan

Artistic Director

General Manager

Box Office Manager

“When it comes to the library,” our 2001 Obie citation

states, “there’s no theater more adventurous.”

In 2002 the Mint was awarded a special Drama

Desk Award for “unearthing, presenting and pre-

serving forgotten plays of merit.”

MINT THEATER COMPANY commits to bringing

new vitality to neglected plays. We excavate buried

theatrical treasures; reclaiming them for our time

through research, dramaturgy, production, publication

and a variety of enrichment programs; and we advocate

for their ongoing life in theaters across the world. Mint

has a keen interest in timeless but timely plays that

make us feel and think about the moral quality of our

lives and the world in which we live. Our aim is to use

the engaging power of the theater to excite, provoke,

influence and inspire audiences and artists alike.

311 West 43rd St. suite 307 New York, NY 10036

www.minttheater.org

Box Office: (212) 315-0231

Staff

Board of Trustees

Staff for Return of the Prodigal

The Producers would like to thank the following:

Lighting equipment provided by the Technical Upgrade Project of

the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York

Department of Cultural Affairs.

Technical Director

Scenic Construction Master Electrician

Assistant Lighting Designer /

Programmer

Wardrobe Supervisor

Board Operator

Carpenters

Electricians

House Manager Box Office Associates

Evan Schlossberg

Carlo Adinolfi Alden Fulcomer

Natalie Robin

Hunter Kaczorowski

Kane Chiang

Adam Branson, Paul Burke Dennis Luczak,

Justin Hollinger,

Kenny Komer, Joe Rayome, John Frankenberg, Joel Garland

Mandy Hart, John Ivey Angela

Wall, Chris Wolfe

Ivana Karapandzic Janel Cooke, Nicole Rose Reu-

ther

Actors’ Equity Association was founded in 1913. It is the labor union representing over 40,000 American actors and stage managers working in the professional theatre. For 89 years,

Equity has negotiated minimum wages and working conditions, administered contracts, and enforced the provisions of its vari-ous agreements with theatrical employers across the country.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of this Production are represented by United Scenic Artists, local USA-829 of the IATSE

Saul & Lillian Wechter

George Weeks

Reny Weigert

Howard M. & Patricia Weiss

Zoe Caldwell Whitehead

Robert Wilkens & Walter Rummenie

Robert & Lillian Williams

Ralph M. Wynn, MD

Kenneth Zarecor

Burton & Susan Zwick

anonymous

This list represents donations made from

January 2006 through May 2007. Every

effort is made to insure its accuracy. Please contact us regarding any mistakes.

St. John Hankin

Donors

Opening night June 6, 2007

Casting

Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter & Paul Hardt

Press Representation

David Gersten & Associates

Associate Set Designer / Props

Crag Napoliello Associate Costume Designer

Hwi-Won Lee

with

Bradford Cover, Tandy Cronyn, Leah Curney

Robin Haynes, Roderick Hill, Richard Kline Kate Levy, Lee Moore, W. Alan Nebelthau

Cecelia Riddett, Margot White

Sets & Costumes

Clint Ramos Lights

Tyler Micoleau Sound

Jane Shaw

by St. John Hankin

Mint Theater Company Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director

Sherri Kotimsky, General Manager presents

Directed by

Jonathan Bank

Mint Theater gratefully acknowledges public support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State

agency. Production support provided by The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation.

Production Stage Manager

Kimothy Cruse

Assistant Stage Manager

Rebecca C. Monroe

Graphic Design

Jude Dvorak Prodigal Painting

Charlie Mackesy

by St. John Hankin

CAST

SAMUEL JACKSON

MRS. JACKSON, his wife HENRY JACKSON, their elder son

EUSTACE JACKSON, their young-er son

VIOLET JACKSON, their daughter

SIR JOHN FARINGFORD

LADY FARINGFORD, his wife STELLA FARINGFORD, their daughter

DR. GLAISHER

MRS. PRATT, the rectors wife

BAINES, butler at the Jacksons’

Richard Kline

Tandy Cronyn Bradford Cover

Roderick Hill

Leah Curney

Lee Moore

Kate Levy Margot White

W. Alan Nebelthau

Cecelia Riddett

Robin Haynes

The action of the play takes place at Chedleigh Court, the Jacksons’ house in Gloucestershire: Acts I and II in the Drawing-room, Acts III and IV on the Lawn.

Chedleigh, as everybody knows, is famous for its cloth mills.

Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

A Comedy for Fathers “Character is Fate”

Betsy McKenny

Martin & Martha Meisel

Richard Mellor, Jr. John D. Metcalfe

Ivan & Leila Metzger

Radley Metzger

Muffie Meyer

Eleanor S. Meyerhoff Susan & Ronald Michelow

Bernard & Lusia Milch

Judith K.& Allan Mohl

Elaine & Richard Montag

Elaine Montgomery Virginia & Robert Montgomery

Doreen & Larry Morales

George Morfogen

Ronald & Elaine Morris

Munsell Family Foundation Janet George & Daniel Murnick

Erick Neher

Egon & Florence Neuberger

Dorinda J. Oliver

Shelly G. Orringer Peter & Marilyn Oswald

Richard & Dorothy Oswald

Satoko Parker

Edwin Partikian & Camille Infranco

Bruce & Gwen Pasquale John & Judith Peakes

Albert & Cleo Pearl

David & Jean Plessett

Jack & Ina Polak

Irwin & Sheila Polishook Stephen W. Porter & Arnold Somers

Maria Proctor

Barbara & Joseph Psotka

David & Phyllis Quickel

Judith & Sheldon Raab Norman & Leigh Raben

Ken Raboy

Anthony & Marianne Reed

H. Anthony Reilly

Clayton S. Reynolds Jim J. Reynolds

Arleigh Richards & William Wise

Jeanne Richman

Earl S. & Phyllis Roberts

Seymour & Renee Rogoff Sylvia Rosen

Claire Rosenstein

Barbara Rosenthal

Mark Rossier Isaiah & Enid Rubin, MD

Joan & Herb Saltzman

Anita Sanford

Anne Kaufman Schneider

Irwin Schwartz Phyllis Schwartz

Sherry Schwartz

Susan Scott

William & Earlyne S Seaver

Dr. Jerome S. & Harriet Seiler Barbara Seril

Joseph & Janet Sherman

Rebecca & Philip Siekevitz

Martin Y. & Kayla J. Silberberg

Dorothy Smith Lili N. Smith

Philip Smith

Dr. Norman Solomon

Linda & Jerry Spitzer

Nicholas Stathis Erika Stadtlander

Michael Stebbins

Lee Steelman

Bob & Sherry Steinberg

Frances Sternhagen Ilene Stone

Ulrich & Elaine Strauss

Pamela Stubing

Kathrin Perutz & Michael Studdert-

Kennedy Larry E. Sullivan

Kathryn Swintek

Gerda Taranow

Leonard & Myra Tanzer

Douglas Tarr Caroline Thompson & Steve Allen

Thomson Tax & Accounting

Alice Timothy

Peter & Roberta Tomback

Ken & Linda Treitel Alan & Susan Tuck

Jan Vinokour

Edith & Gordon Wallace

John Michael Walsh

Henry & Lucille Warner Robb Webb & Pat DeRousie-Webb

Donors

Judith Eschweiler

H. Read Evans

Bruce & Adele Fader Angela T. Fiore

Eva & Norman Fleischer

Barbara Fleischman

Charles Flowers

Fred Forrest Donald Fowle

Nancy Fowler

Jessica Franken & David Korr

Mio Fredland

Monroe Freedman Robert Freedman

Sandra & Burton Freeman

Dr. H. Paul & Delores Gabriel

Mary Ann & John Garland

Ellen Gibbs James C. Giblin

Ardian Gill & Anna L. Hannon

Howard & Joann Girsh

David & Suellen Globus

Joyce Golden Charles & Jane Goldman

Caryl Goldsmith

Gordon & Mary Gould

Anna Grabarits

Richard Grayson Noel Grean

Anita & Edward Greenbaum

Greenwich House Senior Center

Pat Griffith

Marta Gross & Richard Barnes Lois & Stewart Gross

Victoria Guthrie

James C & Julia Hall

Katherine Halmi

Mimi Halpern Bob & Lynne Hanson

Carol Hekimian

Reily Hendrickson

Sigrid Hess

Anita Highton Ellen & Harvey Hirsch

Eleanor Hodges

Milton & Madelaine Horowitz

Anne Humphreys

Harriet & Elihu Inselbuch Jocelyn Jacknis

Ellie Jacob

Irwin & Ann Jacobs

Peter & Ellen Jakobson

James & Jacqueline Johnson Roberta A. Jones

Ronald & Hildegaard Jones

Gerhard Joseph

Gus Kaikkonen

Eleanor M. Kahn Jane Kapsales

Ursula & Frank Karelsen

Annette Karan

Kathleen Kelly

Regina Kelly Gerald Kiel

David H. Kirkwood & Annie Thomas

Kaori Kitao

Caral G Klein

Karl Kroeber Leonard Kreynin

Carmel Kuperman

Anne Lanigan

Richard Laster

Raymond & Lyette Lavoie Gordon & Margaret Leavitt

Ira & Gloria Leeds

Robert & Jane Lehrman

Eliot & Jane Leibowitz

Al & Sally Leizman Ronald Lemoncelli

Neil & Harriet Leonard

Harriet Levy

Barbara & Herbert Levy

Stanley & Carol Levy Sheldon & Lucille Lichtblau

Allon Lifschitz

Vincent & Beth Lima

Susan Linder

Ross Lipman Joel & Diane Lipset

Steven Lorch & Susanna Kochan-

Lorch

Ruth Lord

Mary Ellen Low Jeni Mahoney & Ben Sahl

Mary Rose Main

John & Vivian Majeski

Barry Margolius

Margaret Mastrianni Joan & Robert Matloff

George W. Mayer, Jr. Donors

DIRECTOR’S NOTE: Jonathan Bank

It is my hope and intention that all of the plays we produce at the Mint are relevant, timely and of interest to contempo-rary audiences. I’ve never chosen a play with an eye to-wards illuminating social or theatrical history; my interest lies more in the way things haven’t changed—in the time-less struggle we undertake to find meaning in our lives and in our social, political and personal relationships.

Often the clearest way to highlight a play’s relevance is to present it “faithfully,” allowing the audience to marvel at its resonance in spite of its vintage trappings. But sometimes those trappings can obscure a play’s message and diminish its power. I was loathe to let that happen to this play, which at its heart is as modern (and maybe as shocking) as any-thing being written today, despite having been written over 100 years ago.

My designers and I are striving to make the play look and feel as fresh as it seemed when each of us read it (without necessarily “relocating” the play to a specific time or place which presents its own distractions.) Our goal is to make Hankin’s play both familiar and accessible to our audience while remaining in harmony with the words he wrote over one-hundred years ago.

I did cut lines that rooted the play in 1905: about the recent addition of electricity and its impact on the running of the Jackson’s cloth mill, for example, as well as references to carriages and lanterns. However, I was reluctant to “update” the text by re-writing lines, so I otherwise made no changes.

For reasons of accessibility and familiarity again, we are not performing the play with a British dialect—but again I have left the text unchanged, with its references to Parlia-ment, Pounds and Pence.

More than anything, I hope we are serving our author and his remarkable, surprising play; certainly that is both my intention and my goal.

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BRADFORD COVER (Henry

Jackson) Broadway: A Thou-sand Clowns. Off Broadway:

The Gentleman Dancing Mas-ter, Arms and the Man, School for Wives, Richard II, School for Scandal, The Forest, Misalli-ance, The Beaux Strategem, When Ladies Battle, and Mrs. Warren's Profession among others (The Pearl Theatre Com-

pany. Company Member). Off-

Off Broadway: Waxing West, (The Lark) A number of staged

readings with The Actor’s Com-

pany Theatre. Regional: Spike Heels (Syracuse Stage) The Blue Room, The Importance of Being Earnest (Cleveland Play-

house) Betrayal (Vermont

Stage Co.) Learned Ladies (McCarter Theatre) Lives of the Saints (Philadelphia Theatre

Company) Sleuth, Othello (Pennsylvania Shakespeare

Festival) An Empty Plate at the Cafe de Grand Beouf (Berkshire Theatre Festival)

Measure for Measure, Com-plete Works of William Shake-speare, Love's Labor's Lost (New Jersey Shakespeare Fes-tival), Private Lives, Charley's Aunt (St. Michael's Playhouse) . Television: “Law and Order”,

“All My Children”. Directed

House of Bernarda Alba, and Summer at the American Acad-

emy of Dramatic Art. Co-

Founder and Associate Artistic Director of Bowman Ensemble

in Baltimore MD. Graduate of Denison University, and PTTP

University of Wisconsin-

Milwaukee. For my fiancée Jennifer with all my love.

TANDY CRONYN (Mrs. Jack-

son) has appeared on Broad-way as Sally Bowles in the orig-

inal production of Cabaret and

Off-Broadway in A Shayna Maidel and The Killing of Sister George. She has toured in the

Sondheim musical Company, and in A. R. Gurney’s comedy

The Cocktail Hour. Over the years Tandy has performed

major roles in both classical

and modern plays in repertory theaters across America: nota-

bly Barrington Stage Company;

San Diego’s Old Globe Theater; Denver Center Theater Compa-

ny; Hartford Stage; Yale Rep; Cleveland PlayHouse; and Mis-

souri Rep, where she played

Emily Dickenson in The Belle of Amherst. She has appeared in

the greatest variety of roles at

PlayMakers Repertory Compa-ny at UNC, Chapel Hill, where

she has played Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra,

Estragon in Waiting for Godot, and Vivian Bearing in Wit, among many others. She has

also played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Strat-ford Festival of Canada, subse-

quently televised by the CBC. On television she has been

seen in the movies “Getting

Out”, “The Story Lady”, “Age-Old Friends”, and “The Guardi-

an”, as well as episodes of

“Law & Order” and “The Book of Daniel”. Tandy also serves

as Creative Consultant to Poet-ry Theatre, Inc., a developing

website of spoken poetry at

www.poetrytheatre.org

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Anna B. Iacucci

Linda Irenegreen & Martin Kesselman

Joseph Family Charitable Trust Peter Judd

Joan Kedziora, MD

Rose Klimovich

Anna Kramarsky & Jeanne Bergman

Mildred C. Kuner Eugene M. Lang Foundation

Kent Lawson & Carol Tambor

Levenstein Family Foundation

Samuel & Gabrielle Lurie

Daniel Loos Macken Robert & Marcia Marafioti

The Memorial Foundation for the

Arts

Joel & Susan Mindel

Joseph Morello Carol 7 Dick Netzer

The New York Times Company Foun-

dation

Naomi & Gerald Patlis

Pfizer Foundation Jeffrey & Judith Prussin

Susan & Peter Ralston

Joe Regan, Jr.

Eleanor Reissa & Roman Dworecki

Richard Frankel Productions Irven Rinard

George Robb

Susan & Jon Rotenstreich

Rubin Foundation

Judy & Sirgay Sanger The Martin E Segal Revocable Trust

Carole M. Shaffer-Koros & Robert M.

Koros

Stephen Siderow

Rob Sinacore David Stenn

Suzanne & Jon Stout

Dennis & Katherine Swanson

The Ellen M. Violett & Mary P. R.

Thomas Foundation, Inc Jill Tran

Litsa Tsitsera

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First Priority Club Marilyn & Meyer Ackerman

Actors Equity Foundation Judith Aisen & Kenneth Vittor

Eleanor Aitken

Laura Altschuler

Stephen Anderson & Amy Cohn

Carmen Anthony Earl Bailey

Judith Barlow

Larry Beers

Robert & Ellie Berlin

Nidia Besso Mary & Jeffrey Bijur

Evelyn Bishop

David M. Blank

Steven Blier

Barbara & Ronald Blumenthal Constance Boardman

Rose-Marie Boller & Webb Turner

Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Borer

Lori & Rick Borman

Len & Barbara Bornstein Lynn Brenner

Patricia Broderick

June Barbi Brogan

Leslie Bryant

Ann Butera Elaine B. Bye

Richard Carroll

Andrew H. Chapman

Robert Chlebowski

Stephen & Elena Chopek Herbert & Phyllis Cohen

Kathleen H. Corcoran

Samuel & June Costello

Penelope & Peter Costigan

Bruce Deal Patricia & Charles Debrovner

Anthony & Ruth Demarco

Gennaro A. DeVito

Bernard & Katherine Dick

M. Burton Drexler Martin & Mina Ellenberg

Monte Engler

Jeanne Epstein

Rachel & Mel Epstein

Don & Grace Eremin Sharon Esakoff

Donors

Patrons Robert Brenner

Lucille Lortel Foundation National Endowment for the Arts

New York City Department of

Cultural Affairs

New York State Council on the Arts

The James B. Oswald Co. The Tony Randall Theatrical Fund

The Shubert Foundation, Inc.

Michael Tuch Foundation

anonymous

Artistic Directors Circle Geoffrey & Carol Chinn

Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Mary Rodgers Guettel

Edgar & Renee Jackson

DJ McManus Foundation

Newman’s Own Foundation The Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels

Foundation

The Ted Snowden Foundation

Mary Elisabeth Swerz

First Priority Platinum Circle American Theater Wing

Axe-Houghton Foundation Malvin & Lea Bank

Linda Calandra

Adam D. & Linda Chinn

Edward & Lori Forstein

The Heidtke Foundation Kendal at Oberlin

Karl Lunde

Edith Meiser Foundation

The New York Times Company

Foundation Fund for Mid-size Theaters, a project of

A.R.T./New York

Tina & Howard Rieger

Gary A. Schonwald

Wallace Schroeder Stephen D & Elsa A Solender

The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation

Sukenik Family Foundation

First Priority Gold Club Lisa Ackerman

American Friends of Theatre Inc Sari Anthony

Jonathan Bank

Bank of America

Ezra Barnes

Andre Bishop Bernice & Frederick Block

Allan & Joan Blumenthal

Virginia Brody

Jon Clark

Jeffrey Compton & Norma Ellen Foote

Grover Connell

Robert & Ruth Diefenbach

Cory & Bob Donnally Charitable

Fund ExxonMobil Foundation

Fine Family Foundation

Nicholas & Edmee Firth

Barbara Fleischman

Charles Flowers Holly Fogler & Michael Solender

Edward & Lori Forstein

Phyllis Fox & George Sternlieb

Foundation

Edward & Joan Franklin Burry Fredrik

Ruth Friendly

Mr & Mrs Ciro Gamboni

The Gordon Foundation

The Gramercy Park Foundation Inc Virginia Gray

Kristin Griffith

Antonia & George Grumbach

Guilford Publications

Guild Family Foundation Ron Guttman

Toehl Harding

George B. Hatch

Hickrill Foundation

Barbara Hill Edward & Dorothy Hoffner

The following generous Individuals, Foundations and Corporations

support Mint Theater, and we honor their contributions:

Donors

LEAH CURNEY (Violet Jack-

son) is a recent transplant and thrilled to be making her NY

debut with the Mint. She is a

proud graduate of the Guthrie Theater/University of Minneso-

ta Actor Training Program, and

has performed in several shows at the Guthrie including,

Hamlet (Ophelia), Pericles (Marina/Ensemble), and Six De-grees Of Separation (Tess).

Regionally, she has worked with The Chautauqua Theater

Company, American Players

Theatre, Pittsburgh Public The-ater, The Children's Theatre

Company of Minneapolis, and most recently The Milwaukee

Rep where she played Maire in

Translations. Thanks to Jona-than and Jack for the leap of

faith and the family for their

steadfast support.

ROBIN HAYNES (Baines) has

appeared on Broadway, in the original cast of Blood Brothers

and in The Best Little Whore-house in Texas; in the National Tours of Buddy: The Buddy Hol-ly Story and Jekyll & Hyde; and Off-Broadway, in Perfect Crime, Twelfth Night, Minor De-mons, She Loves Me, Romeo and Juliet, Billy Bishop Goes To War, and others. His work in

feature films includes Mel Brooks’s “To Be Or Not To Be”,

the classic “Hot Dog! The Mov-ie” and the recent independent

features “Homecoming” and

“Soldier’s Heart”; and he has made guest appearances on

television, in such shows as

“Law and Order: Criminal In-tent”, “Third Watch”, “Cosby”,

“M*A*S*H”, “Dallas”, “House

Calls”, “Quincy, M.E.”, and “Guiding Light”. Robin has

worked regionally at Actors

Theatre of Louisville, The Cin-cinnati Playhouse In The Park,

The Hartford Stage Company,

and the Seattle Repertory The-atre, among others; and at

stock theatres across the country.

RODERICK HILL (Eustace

Jackson) was most recently

seen on Broadway as Mr. Gard-ner in Butley starring Nathan

Lane, and as Nicolas in Lestat. His other credits include: Cym-beline (The Royal Shakespeare

Company/Theatre For A New Audience), Singing Forest (Long Wharf Theatre), The Irish Curse (The New York Interna-tional Fringe Festival) Nerds: The Musical (New York Stage

and Film), What The Butler Saw (Huntington Theater Company),

Diosa (Hartford Stage), Rock Shore (Eugene O’Neill Theater

Center), Much Ado About Noth-ing (Great Lakes Theater Festi-val), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (The

Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Harold... and the boys (Playmakers Rep.), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare &

Co.) Film/Television: “Kinsey”,

“Cosa Bella”, “Oxygen”, “ R e a d y F o r A c t i o n ” ,

“ C h a p p e l l e ’ s S h o w ” ,

“Stranger’s With Candy”. Ro-derick is a graduate of The Juil-

liard School and The Interloch-en Arts Academy. For Caitlin

and Webster.

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RICHARD KLINE (Mr. Jackson)

recently returned from Seat-tle’s Intiman Theater where he

played Boris Max in Richard

Wright’s Native Son. He co-starred with Annie Potts in Diva

at the Pasadena Playhouse and

with Judith Light in Stephen Sondheim’s Company. He

made his Broadway debut in City of Angels, in film with Bar-

ry Levinson’s “Liberty Heights”

and in television with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. His solo

show, Boychik has been per-

formed at Theater Four and many venues throughout the

U.S. Other stage credits in-clude: Death Of A Salesman,

Chemin de Fer, Henry V, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Titanic, They’re Playing Our Song, Do I Hear A Waltz?, The Rothschilds, and

Hello Again. In the American premiere of Andrew Lloyd We-

ber’s By Jeeves, he played Jeeves both at the Goodspeed

Opera and the Kennedy Cen-

ter. Over 70 television credits include “Three’s Company”,

“Maude”, “ER”, “NYPD Blue,

“Gilmore Girls”, “Judging Amy”, “LA Law”, “St. Else-

where”. As a director, Richard won the LA Drama Critics

Award for his direction of Noel

Coward’s Present Laughter. For television, he has directed

Bruce Davison, Burt Reynolds

and Billy Connolly. As always, for Beverley.

KATE LEVY (Lady Faringford)

Most recently appeared in the

Broadway national tour of On Golden Pond with Michael

Learned and Tom Bosley. Her

other national tour was The Graduate. New York Theatre:

Soldier’s Wife, The Mint; Half-Way Home, The New Group; An Empty Plate In The Cafe Du Grand Boeuf, Access Theatre;

The Normal Heart, Alchemy Theatre. Regional: The Goat, Arena Stage, D.C.; Itamar Mo-ses' Outrage, Portland Center

Stage; On Golden Pond, Cleve-

land Play House; Uncle Vanya, Denver Center Theatre Co.;

Present Laughter, Pioneer The-

atre Co,; Heaven, Yale Rep; Dinner With Friends, Alliance;

The Hand Of God, O'Neill Thea-tre Center; The Real Thing, Al-

ley Theatre. Also: Florida

Stage, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Rep, Clarence Brown, Philadel-

phia Festival for New Plays,

BoarsHead. Numerous Shake-speare roles at festivals in Ida-

ho, Santa Cruz and Pittsburgh. Television: “Law And Order”,

assorted soaps and movies of

the week. Film: “The Origins Of War”. BA, Tufts University;

MFA, American Conservatory

Theatre. Twenty year some-times militant member of Ac-

tors Equity.

LEE MOORE (Sir John Faring-

ford). Mr. Moore is delighted to be back home at the Mint where

he appeared in Alison’s House, The Charity that Began at Home and Welcome to our City.

A veteran of Stock, Regional and Off-Broadway theatre, he

has garnered critical acclaim

for his recent performances in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at The

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1996 where he has unearthed

and produced dozens of lost or neglected plays. Bank adapted

and directed Arthur Schnitz-

ler's Far and Wide and The Lonely Way which he also co-

translated (with Margaret

Schaefer). These two plays were published in a volume en-

titled Arthur Schnitzler Re-claimed which Bank edited. He

is also the editor of Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company which in-

cludes his adaptations of

Thomas Wolfe's Welcome to Our City and Edith Wharton's

The House of Mirth, both of which he directed, along with

five other Mint rediscoveries.

Bank also directed The Truth about Blayds and Mr. Pim Pass-es By both by A.A. Milne, as

well as Susan and God. Other directing credits include criti-

cally acclaimed productions of Ivanov and Othello for the Na-

tional Asian American Theater

Companyand Hobson’s Choice, Candida and Mr. Pim Passes By for the Peterborough Players.

He earned his M.F.A. from Case Western Reserve University in

his hometown of Cleveland, OH.

ST. JOHN HANKIN (Playwright) began to contribute humorous

essays and dramatic parodies

including new “last-acts” for well-known plays to Punch

magazine 1898. In 1901 some of his contributions were an-

thologized as “Mr. Punch’s Dra-

matic Sequels”. Hankin also contributed about seventy dra-

ma reviews to “The London

Times” before beginning his

career as a playwright in 1903 with The Two Mr. Wetherby’s.

Hankin was actively involved in running the Stage Society, a

London theater group that sup-

ported plays of literary merit, founded in part, to avoid the

Lord Chamberlain’s censor-ship. Hankin was the only liv-

ing dramatist other than Shaw

to have more than one full-length play produced at the

Royal Court during the im-

portant Vedrenne-Barker years from 1904 to 1907. Granville

Barker produced the premi-eres of both The Return of the Prodigal and The Charity That Began at Home.

During Hankin’s youth his fa-ther suffered a nervous break-

down, which left him an invalid.

Hankin himself began to suffer from increasing ill health in

1907 and he was plagued with the fear that he would suffer

the same fate as his father. On

a “dull, sultry, wet” day in June of 1909, St John Hankin tied

two seven-pound dumbbells

around his neck and drowned himself in the river Ithon. He

left his wife a letter expressing his fear that he would “slip into

invalidism,” which he could not

bear and ended by telling her, “I have found a lovely pool in a

river and at the bottom I hope

to find rest.” George Bernard Shaw described his death as “a

public calamity.”

Sadie Thompson with June

Havoc (PSM), Colette with Leslie Caron (PSM), Come Back, Little Sheba with Donna

McKechnie (PSM) , Mary Todd…A Woman Apart, The Tillie Project, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard ,The Poetry Of Pizza, Footloose, Jekyll & Hyde, 42nd. Street, Cabaret, South Pacific, Beauty & the Beast, Aida, and The Full Monty (PSM). Mr. Cruse has directed over 60 productions

in his career and is a proud

member of Actors Equity Asso-ciation.

REBECCA C. MONROE:

(Assistant Stage Manager): Ms. Monroe has multiple credits on

and off-Broadway, in regional theatre and opera, industrials,

television and film.

STUART HOWARD, AMY SCHECTER & PAUL HARDT

(Casting) have cast hundreds of shows over the past 25

years. Among their favorites

are: Broadway: Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Chicago (Bebe Neu-

wirth, Ann Reinking), Sly Fox (Richard Dreyfuss), Fortune's Fool (Alan Bates, Frank Langel-

la) & the original La Cage Aux Folles. Off Broadway: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change & The Normal Heart. Happily casting for The Mint for

the past 2 seasons

DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCI-ATES (Press Representatives)

is proud to continue our rela-tionship with Mint. DGA cur-

rently represents the Off-

Broadway hits Altar Boyz (3rd

year), Naked Boys Singing! (8th full frontal year), The Awe-some 80s Prom (4th year) and

the new play Elvis People. Oth-er current clients include York

Theatre, Ensemble Studio The-

atre, New World Stages, Stage Entertainment US, The Lucille

Lortel Foundation, and The League of Off-Broadway Thea-

tres & Producers' annual Lortel

Awards, which David also writes and co-produces. Also a

producer, David presented Tea At Five starring Kate Mulgrew as Katharine Hepburn, as well

as the musicals Dr. Sex and E l e a n o r a n d H i c k . www.davidgersten.com

SHERRI KOTIMSKY (General

Manager) Produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape, Shy-ster, Omnium Gatherum, Fear: The Issues Project and several seasons of workshops and

readings. As Naked Angels Managing Director, Hesh and

Snakebit. Produced Only the End of the World and Blood Orange. For two years Theatre

Manager for the Michael

Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, home to

National Actors Theatre, Tribeca Film and Theatre Festi-

vals, River to River Festival and

the Carol Tambor Awards 2005 productions, amongst many

others. Currently working with

several theater companies as business consultant.

JONATHAN BANK (Artistic Di-rector) Bank has been the ar-

tistic director of Mint since

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Cleveland Playhouse, City of Light at Buffalo Arena Theater, Permanent Collection at The

Arizona Theater Company and

Steve Martin’s Underpants at Rochester’s Geva Theater. TV

and film credits include Mr.

Bing on “Hope and Faith”, roles on every daytime drama includ-

ing seven years as Glenn Tag-gart on “Guiding Light” and nu-

merous independent films. He

has written a screenplay, which is in pre-production. He and

his wife, Mezzo-Soprano Leslie

Middlebrook wrote and perform in A Victorian Evening. Opera

aficionados, they share love and life with two indispensable

cats, Mario Cavaradossi and

Romeo Montecchi.

W. ALAN NEBELTHAU (Dr. Glaisher) This is Alan's first ap-

pearance at the Mint. he has

appeared on Broadway. in Os-car Wilde's Salomé and in nu-

merous Off and Off-off Broad-way. productions including

premieres by Mac Wellman

(The Lesser Magoo), Israel Ho-rovitz (Dr. Hero), Irene Fornes,

(Mud). His evening of Beckett

(Krapps's Last Tape and Other Short Works) was produced by

Lincoln Center Institute. Re-gional credits include: Guthrie,

Shakespeare Theatre, Balti-

more Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, others. On an I.T.I

grant he worked with Peter

Brook & Co. in Paris. TV: “One Life to Live”, “Guiding Light”,

“Loving”, “Remember WENN”. He studied with Sanford Me-

siner. Alan made his stage de-

but in Kabul, Afghanistan at the

Kabul Amateur Dramatic Socie-ty.

CECELIA RIDDETT (Mrs. Pratt) is happy to be back at the Mint

where she was last seen as

Miss Smithers in Diana Of Dob-sons. N.Y. credits: Manhattan

Theater Club, Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Axis Thea-

ter, Harold Clurman, St. Clem-

ent's, Vital Theater, Trinity, et al. Regional: Arena Stage, Cen-

ter Stage, Mark Taper Forum,

South Coast Rep, A Contempo-rary Theater, Studio Arena,

GEVA, Arden, Va. Stage, Mill Mt. Playhouse, Olney, Folger,

Wayside, Cincinnati Playhouse,

Kansas City Rep, et al. Film: "Where Are My Children?",

"Pride and Glory". T.V: "Law

and Order", "Empty Nest", "F.B.I.: the Untold Stories",

"The Adams Chronicles", "As the World Turns", "The Young

and the Restless", et al. Edu-

cation: B.A. Barnard College, M.A. Catholic University of

America. Celebrating thirty-

five years in Actors' Equity As-sociation.

MARGOT WHITE (Stella Faring-

ford) Margot is thrilled to be making her Mint debut. Favor-

ite credits include: Broadway: Bobbi Boland (u/s); Off Broad-

way: Georgette: The Traveling Lady (E.S.T – Drama Desk Nomination); Marina: Pericles

(The Culture Project, NYC); the

world premiere of When They Speak of Rita, directed by Hor-

ton Foote (Primary Stages,

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NYC); Nina: The Seagull (The

Pearl Theatre); and the lead in the premiere of India Awaiting at the Samuel Beckett. Region-

al theatres include: A.C.T., The Studio Theatre, STNJ, PTC,

and Great Lakes Theatre Festi-

val. She has been featured on “Guiding Light”, and “All My

Children”, and has done com-mercials for both Turner Clas-

sic Movies and Asahi Beer

(Japan). She most recently played the lead in the Indie

Short “Good Night Kiss”. Mar-

got has studied with both the NYSF Shakespeare Lab and the

London Academy of Perform-ing Arts. For always, for Paul.

CLINT RAMOS (Sets & Cos-

tumes) Mint : Madras House,

Soldiers Wife, Susan and God . NY : Ensemble Studio Theater,

The Play Company, Rude Me-

chanicals, Foundry Theatre, La Mama, Here Arts Center, PS

122, Dance Theater Workshop, Dancespace, Duke, Ohio , SPF,

MCC, Red Bull Theater and oth-

ers. Regional : Asolo Reperto-ry, American Repertory Thea-

ter, Merrimack Repertory Thea-

ter, Commonwealth Shake-speare Co., Baltimore Center

Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Theater, Speakeasy

Stage, East West Players,

Opera Boston, Opera Theater of St.Louis and others. Interna-

tional: Barbican (London),

N o o r l a a n d O p e r a n (Stockholm), Kanon Dance ( St.

Petersburg), Teatro Pilipino (Manila), Ballet Stuttgarter

(Stuttgart), DeNederlandse

Opera (Amsterdam). Recently

featured in Live Design maga-

zine as one of 2007’s Designers to Watch. MFA from NYU.

TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting

Designer) This is Tyler’s first

collaboration with Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theater. Re-

cent Off-Broadway credits:

God’s Ear (New Georges); Gu-tenberg! The Musical! (Actors

Playhouse); A Very Common Procedure (MCC); Anon

(Atlantic Theater); The Attic, Romania Kiss Me! (Play Com-pany); At Least It’s Pink (Ars

Nova); Widowers Houses (Epic

Theater Center); Hell House (St. Ann’s Warehouse/Les

Freres Corbusier). Regional: Wilma, Delaware, NJ Shake-

speare, Prince Music Theater,

Hangar, Syracuse Stage, Port-land Center Stage, Shake-

speare Theater, Long Wharf.

Faculty: Sarah Lawrence Col-lege Dept. Of Dance. Awards:

Lucille Lortel, OBIE (for BUG,

Barrow Street Theater).

JANE SHAW (Sound Design) At

the Mint: Lonely Way, Ivanov, Susan and God (Jonathan

Bank), Walking Down Broad-way (Stephen Williford), No Time for Comedy (Kent Paul).

Designs include: Theater for a

New Audience’s Merchant of Venice and Jew of Malta, Susan

Marshall's Cloudless; Big Dance Theater's The Other Here, Plan B, Antigone, A Sim-ple Heart, Another Telepathic Thing, The Pearl Theatre's Bi-ography, Gentleman Dancing Master and Mary Stuart; Studio 42’s Giants at HERE, and The B

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Underpants and Syncopation at

Capital Rep in Albany. Her de-signs have toured from Shang-

hai to Muenster, Charleston to

Los Angeles. Ms. Shaw held positions at NYU Tisch and

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival,

and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. She received

a Meet the Composer Grant, 2006 for Hecuba at the Pearl

Theater, and is a recipient of

the NEA/TCG Career Develop-ment Program, 2005 – 2007. .

C R A I G N A P O L l E L L O

(Associate Set Designer) New

York Credits include: Associate Scenic Designer on Return of the Prodigal, I-Land, Purity un-der Clint Ramos. Some of his

past shows include The Ger-mans In Paris, Verse Theater Manhattan, Savage in Limbo, SameVein Productions, Torch Song Trilogy, Gallery Players, True West, Lily Lodge’s Actors

Conservatory, Intellectuals, WorkShop Theatre Company,

Solicitation, New York Fringe

Festival, Fallen, New York The-atre Experiment, Heartbreak,

Edge of Insanity and Porn and Happiness. Other credits: Moon Over Buffalo, Iowa Sum-

mer Rep, Betty's Summer Va-cation, Dollhouse, Shadows of the Reef. He received his MFA

from the University of Iowa.

HWI-WON LEE (Associate Cos-

tume Designer) is a third year Graduate student at Carnegie

Mellon Drama school. Costume

designs include As You Like It directed by Di Trevis at CMU,

Ana 311 and A River Apart at

the Kraine Theatre, directed by

Anjali Vashi. The Tempest di-rected by Neal Freeman at the

45th Street Theatre. Dust cho-

reographed by Camille Brown Stream and Holding Time by

Christen Von Howard with Alvin

Ailey, Ssoot and Darkwood by Youn Soon Kim with White

Wave Co She has been cos-tume assistant to Robert Perd-

iziola for Anna Karenina at Flor-

ida Grand Opera and with Clint Ramos for The Taming of the Shrew at Dallas Theatre Cen-

ter.

KIMOTHY CRUSE (Production Stage Manager) has been a

professional actor, director,

producer and writer on Broad-way, Off-Broadway, and in film

and television. His credits in-

clude: Broadway: The Little Foxes with Elizabeth Taylor &

Maureen Stapleton (Assoc. Di-rector), All Over Town with

Dustin Hoffman (Ass’t. Direc-

tor). Off-Broadway:The Three-penny Opera with Bea Arthur,

Charlotte Rae, Bob Cuccioli &

Donna McKechnie (PSM), Weird Romance with Karen

Ziemba & Deven May (PSM), Portraits with Roberta Maxwell,

Victor Slezak and Dana Reeve

(PSM), My Deah with Nancy Opel & Maxwell Caulfield

(PSM), A Servant Of Two Mas-ters, Fanny, Best Foot Forward, Perfect Crime and Mary

Todd…A Woman Apart (PSM). Regional: On A Clear

Day…with Robert Goulet and

Joanna Gleason (Ass’t. Dir.), Pal Joey with Dixie Carter and

Elaine Stritch (Ass’t. Dir.),

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