Playbill: Death of a Salesman & A Raisin in the Sun

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death of a salesman arthur miller

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Ari Cohen, Biff in Death of a Salesman

I couldn’t believe my good fortune when I was asked to play Biff in this production of Death of A Salesman. Four weeks into rehearsal, and I still can’t. Working with Joe, Nancy, Tim and the entire cast has served as a daily reminder of why I love actors and acting. Albert has been guiding us all with a steady hand and a huge open heart. As you are about to see, Death of A Salesman is not only structurally daring and brilliantly complex but also an intensely impassioned work of art. Joe summed it up best the other day when he said, after rehearsal, “I can’t believe I get to be in this play.” I think, that for all of us, the real superstar in the room is the great Arthur Miller.

Miller initially titled Salesman ‘The Inside of His Head’. This is exactly where we attempt to delve throughout the rehearsal process. We are constantly searching the text for clues to his intentions for any given moment in a scene. We continue to be in awe of Miller’s artistry and of the extraordinary heart of this play, on a daily basis.

I had lunch with Miller once. Ok, not really: As a boy, my parents would make the occasional pilgrimage from Winnipeg to the Stratford and Shaw festivals. For some reason this memory has endured. As we were leaving a restaurant in Stratford, my dad, pointing to an elderly gentleman at a nearby table, said, “That’s Arthur Miller. He’s a very famous playwright who was once married to Marilyn Monroe.” It is remarkable to me that I recall an event that would have held absolutely no interest to me as a young boy. I now consider it somewhat prescient and am beyond thrilled that my own father will once again make the pilgrimage to Ontario, for this production of Miller’s master work. Enjoy the show, pop. Thanks for coming.

As both a son and a father, this play holds a special place in my heart. I hope your experience of this production is as thrilling for you, as exploring it these weeks has been for us. And perhaps, if you are moved to, you’ll go home and hug your kids a little tighter, or tell your parents that you love them. They’re doing their best.

Enjoy the show.

Dear Friends,

What a joy it has been to witness Ari Cohen’s journey to his Biff Loman. With humour, passion and a great big heart, Ari has found the sweet and broken soul of this part. In Biff we see the struggle to come home… home to Mom and Pop, but ever more importantly home to self.

Ari you kill me… every single time.

welcome to death of a salesman

artist note: ari cohen

Albert Schultz, Artistic Director

Dear Friends,

It is so wonderful to have this great play come back home to Soulpepper. So wonderful to welcome back this gifted group of storytellers who, under the careful guidance of Weyni Mengesha, breathe heart and soul into every beat.

I almost said no when my agent called to ask if I wanted to audition for the Soulpepper production of A Raisin in the Sun. My unthinking initial response was, “really, that old chestnut?” followed quickly by, “you’re kidding – me? Mama?”

I almost missed out on one of the most intensely enriching experiences of my professional career.

I had always believed in the potency of Story; had even assisted in the creation of a company dedicated to telling our stories as African Diasporic people, but in that unthinking moment almost lost sight of my own deeply held beliefs.

This production of A Raisin in the Sun, this experience of being in the grip of a truly great story, carried along by a fresh young vision, sweeping away stereotypes and overly familiar ways of seeing, has re-ignited my passionate respect for the griots, the storytellers who capture and reveal the soul of their people.

It has made me hungry and it has sent me home, literally and figuratively.

All in all I’m pretty glad I didn’t say no.

welcome to a raisin in the sun

artist note: alison sealy-smith

Albert Schultz, Artistic Director

Leslie Lester, Executive Director

soulpepperassociateartists

Derek BoyesDiego MatamorosKelly McEvenue Weyni Mengesha

Nancy PalkMike RossLorenzo SavoiniGuillermo Verdecchia

William WebsterPaula WingDaniel Brooks, Baillie Artistic Fellow

soulpepperfoundingmembers

Martha BurnsSusan CoyneTed Dykstra

Michael HanrahanStuart HughesDiana Leblanc

Diego MatamorosNancy PalkAlbert Schultz

Robyn StevanWilliam WebsterJoseph Ziegler

Alison Sealy-Smith, Lena Younger in A Raisin in the Sun

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There will be one 20 minute intermission. Approximate running time 2 hours and 55 minutes.

Death of a Salesman is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York.

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production

Albert Schultz director

Lorenzo Savoini set designer

Ken MacKenzie costume designer

Bonnie Beecher lighting designer

Mike Ross composer & sound designer

Ins Choi assistant director

Toby Malone dramaturge

Nancy Dryden stage manager

Janet Gregor assistant stage manager

Simon Fon fight director

Diane Pitblado dialect coach

cast

Tim Campbellhappy

Ins Choi stanley

Ari Cohen biff

Tatjana Cornij letta

Raquel Duffy Woman

Michael Hanrahan charley

Nancy Palk linda

Gregory Prest bernard

Karen Rae Jenny/miss forsythe

Brendan Wall hoWard

William Webster uncle ben

Joseph Ziegler Willy

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“A small man can be as exhausted as a great man.”

This past summer I ran into Joseph Ziegler and his wife Nancy Palk on their way into the Young Centre, engrossed in conversation. When I asked what they were debating, Nancy said, “Death of a Salesman. It’s all we talk about these days.” Not yet in rehearsal, they were already immersed in the play’s rich and allusive world, preparing to inhabit Arthur Miller’s most memorable characters: Willy and Linda Loman. Joking, I asked if Joe could sum up his role. “Bottomless,” he replied with an avid grin.

This inexhaustible, timeless play was written in six blazing weeks. It had its origins in a short story Miller wrote at seventeen. Miller poured his own memories into the play, as well as his passionate feelings about the promises and deceptions of American life. The Loman household is, by Miller’s own admission, animated by the same spirit he recalled at the home of his Uncle Manny Newman, also a salesman. Miller did not spend a great deal of time with his uncle, but Manny’s personality, his bullying drive, possessed his imagination. Newman, he says, was “a competitor at all times, in all things and at every moment. My brother and I saw him running neck and neck with his two sons in some race that never stopped in his mind.”

Willy Loman, like Manny Newman, is not a great man but he is obsessed with greatness, with leaving a shining legacy for his two sons. Greatness, Willy believes, is being liked and admired. It’s not about how hard you work or the content of your character, but what other people think of you. “Be liked,” Willy says,

“and you will never want.” Biff and Happy, the sons he raised under this banner, are in their different ways lost. When Biff, desperate to cut through the web of lies and reach his father cries out, “Pop, I’m a dime a dozen and so are you!” Willy will not, cannot hear it.

Arthur Miller’s landmark play has enthralled audiences from New York to Beijing. Now we are all invited into the conversation that real-life husband and wife Nancy Palk and Joseph Ziegler continue to have through the characters of this great and heartbreaking work of art.

background notes

Background Notes by Associate Artist Paula Wing.

playWright biographyThe second of three children, Arthur Asher Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem, New York, to Isadore and Augusta Miller. Due to the success of his father’s clothing business, the family’s wealth afforded them a chauffeur and summer house in Far Rockaway. This wealth lasted only until the Wall Street Crash of 1929 after which the family moved to a modest home in Brooklyn, which some believe later serves as the model for the Loman home in Death of a Salesman.

It was after reading Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov that Miller decided to become a writer and later graduated in English from the University of Michigan. During Miller’s career, which spanned seven decades, his work garnered him accolades and awards including The Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Spain’s Asturias Prize naming him as “the undisputed master of drama.”

Arthur Miller died on February 10, 2005 on the 56th anniversary of Death of a Salesman’s premiere.

selected Works:• The Man Who Had All the Luck (1940) • All My Sons (1947) • Death of a Salesman (1949)• An Enemy of the People (1950)• The Crucible (1953)

• A View from the Bridge (1955)• After the Fall (1964)• Incident at Vichy (1964)• The Price (1968)• The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1994)

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There will be one 20 minute intermission. Approximate running time 2 hours and 40 minutes.

A Raisin in the Sun was originally produced in 2008 as a co-production between Soulpepper Theatre Company and

a raisin in the sun usa 1959 lorraine hansberry

production

Weyni Mengesha director

Scott Reid set designer

Lorenzo Savoini costume designer

Kevin Lamotte lighting designer

Richard Feren sound designer

Alison Peddie stage manager

Giselle Clarke-Trenaman asisstant stage manager

Simon Fon fight director

Andrew Smith assistant lighting designer

Lynette Blanchard chaperone

cast

Awaovieyi Agie Joseph asagai

Barbara Barnes-Hopkins mrs. Johnson

Dion Johnstone george murchison

Matthew Kabwe bobo

Abena Malika ruth younger

Diego Matamoros karl lindner

Charles Officer Walter lee younger

Kofi Payton traVis younger

Alison Sealy-Smith lena younger

Bahia Watson beneatha younger

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Harlem (1951)

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

background notes

Background Notes by Michael Murphy.

Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930 and died of cancer January 12, 1965. In her tragically brief 34 years, she left an indelible mark on American theatre.

Growing up in Chicago, Hansberry watched her father wage a legal battle that ascended all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to be allowed to purchase a home for his family in an all-white neighbourhood. Upon moving in, their home was attacked by a racist mob hurling bricks at the windows. In a speech years later she recalled, “I was born on the South Side of Chicago. I was born black and a female. I was born in a depression after one world war, and came into my adolescence during another.” It was this politically charged upbringing that led Hansberry to leave her studies at the University of Wisconsin to take a job in New York City working for the black newspaper freedom. Here she befriended many influential members of the civil rights movement including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes – whose poem Harlem inspired the title.

The play tells the story of a family struggling to uphold their values and integrity when seduced by the inherent materialism that accompanies the American dream. In his 1959 New York Times review, Brooks Atkinson speaks to the work’s universal themes, “A Raisin in the Sun is a play about human beings who want, on the one hand, to preserve their family pride and, on the other hand, to break out of the poverty that seems to be their fate.”

When A Raisin in the Sun opened at New York’s Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959, Hansberry became Broadway’s first female black playwright and Lloyd Richards became Broadway’s first black director. The opening night cast included Sidney Poitier, Louis Gossett Jr. and Ruby Dee, who all reprised their roles for the 1961 film. The production went on to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play and was nominated for four Tony Awards. It ran for 530 performances, was translated into over thirty languages and at the height of its popularity spawned over 200 regional and amateur productions across the United States in a single year.

A Raisin in the Sun remains Hansberry’s best-known and most widely produced work, despite having written five other plays before her untimely passing in 1965. Noted scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson writes of Hansberry’s legacy: “In play after play she sensed the mood of her times. The theatre was a working laboratory for this brilliant woman whose sighted eyes and feeling heart caused her to reach out to a world at once cruel and beautiful.”

collected Works:• A Raisin in the Sun (screenplay, 1961) • The Drinking Gourd (teleplay, 1960) • What Use Are Flowers? (teleplay, 1961)• The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle

for Equality (1964)

• The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1965) • To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine

Hansberry in Her Own Words (1969)• Les Blancs (unfinished work, completed

posthumously by Robert Nemiroff 1970)

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artists’ biographies

aWaoVieyi agie — soulpepper 2010: A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: A Raisin in the Sun (2008). other theatre: A Common Man’s Guide To Loving Women (Firehall Arts Centre); Blue/Orange (Belfry Theatre/Praire Theatre Exchange); Recent Experiences (Melbourne Festival). film & teleVision: Four Brothers, Tears of The Sun, Hotel Babylon, Red Deer. other: Graduate of Gastown Actors Studio (Vancouver), founding member of The Obsidian Theatre Company (Toronto).

barbara barnes-hopkins — soulpepper 2010: A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: A Raisin in the Sun (2008). other theatre: The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harlem Duet (Stratford Festival); Harlem Duet (Blue Hero nyc/Canadian Stage/Nightwood); Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Mirvish/Obsidian/Canadian Stage); Belle (Factory); Fences (nac/Theatre Calgary); Zora the Dark Town Strutter, Sty of the Blind Pig (Theatre Fountainhead); Satin Thigh (Theatre Passe Muraille); Death in New Orleans (One Yellow Rabbit/Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Theatre Calgary). film & teleVision: Vacationing With Derek; Soul Food, White Lies (Showtime); A Killing Spring (Shaftsberry Films); Curtis’ Charm (cbs). other: Fringe First award to One Yellow Rabbit for Death in New Orleans.

bonnie beecher — soulpepper 2010: Lighting Designer: Jitters, What the Butler Saw, Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Lighting Designer: Loot, Awake and Sing!, Parfumerie, Black Comedy/The Real Inspector Hound, The Lesson, The Bald Soprano, No Man’s Land, Happy Days, The Threepenny Opera, Blithe Spirit. other theatre: Designs for National Ballet of Canada, Canadian Opera Company, Canadian Stage, Stratford, Shaw, Tarragon, Opera New Zealand, Mannheim Opera, Kevin O’Day Ballett (Mannheim, Germany); National Arts Centre, Tarragon Theatre, Dutch National Ballet. Recent Productions: Frida Kahlo (Kevin O’Day Ballett - Mannheim); Who Knew Grannie (Obsidian); Big Blur, Letters of Others & Nite light (Stuttgart Ballet); The Marraige of Figaro (Opera Atelier); One Touch of Venus (Shaw Festival); The Africa Trilogy (Volcano and Luminato), Cenerentola (Pacific Opera Victoria) other: 11 Dora nominations, 2 Dora awards.

tim campbell — soulpepper 2010: Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? other theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire (Blue Bridge); Private Lives (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Ed’s Garage (Theatre Orangeville); Molière (Tarragon); Salt-Water Moon, Glory Days, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Resurgence); Glory Days (Theatre Aquarius); Stones in his Pockets (Globe); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland); Romeo and Juliet (s.t.c.); Stratford Shakespeare Festival (six seasons). other: Recent film and TV credits include The Summit, Killshot, Murdoch Mysteries, Anne: A New Beginning and Hollywoodland.

ins choi — academy artist, soulpepper 2010: Oh What a Lovely War, Death of a Salesman, The Cherry Orchard (Lab Series), Window on Toronto (Lab Series). other theatre: (re)birth: ee cummings in song (Canwest Cabaret Festival); Lady in the Red Dress (fu-gen, Dora nomination); Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Odyssey, All’s Well That Ends Well (Stratford); Banana Boys (fu-gen, Dora nomination); 2000 Candles (2000Candles collective); The Comedy of Errors (CanStage); Hongbu and Nolbu and the Magic Pumpkins (lktyp). other: Ins is currently writing a play called Kim’s Convenience.

giselle clarke-trenaman — soulpepper 2010: Assistant Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun. other theatre: The Africa Trilog y (Volcano Theatre); El Numero Uno (lktyp); The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh (Roseneath Theatre); Anne of Green Gables – A Musical (The Grand Theatre); Le Nozze di Figaro, Macbeth (Opera Lyra Ottawa); La Traviata, Tosca, Die Fledermaus, La Bohème (Opera Hamilton); Die Fledermaus (Highlands Opera Studio).

ari cohen — soulpepper 2010: Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Awake and Sing! other theatre: Canadian Stage, Tarragon, Factory, National Arts Centre, Mirvish Productions, The Citadel Theatre, m.t.c., p.t.e, Vancouver Playhouse, Neptune Theatre, Blyth Festival. Canadian premieres of Frost/Nixon, Proof, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and The Sisters Rosensweig, and world premieres of Generous, Rune Arlidge and Sunday Father. film and teleVision: Small Town Murder Songs, Rookie Blue, Living in your Car, The Border, The Tracey Fragments, The Man Who Saved Christmas, The Gilda Radner Story, Defying Gravity,

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Supernatural, Stargate: Atlantis, The Evidence and leading roles in numerous movies for television. Series regular on My Babysitter is a Vampire, The Tournament and recurring roles on Smallville, The L Word, and Saved. other: Nominated for Dora, Jessie and Gemini awards.

tatJana corniJ — academy artist, soulpepper 2010: Oh What a Lovely War, Death of a Salesman, The Cherry Orchard (Lab Series), Window on Toronto (Lab Series). other theatre: Night of the Assassins (Pulse); Waiting For My Man (cap 21, nyc); Silver Nitrate (Juggernaut Theatre, nyc); Sweeney Todd, The Crucible (New Repertory Theatre); In the Blood, The Trojan Women, The Human Voice, The Diviners (Brandeis); Actor/Composer: (re)birth: ee cummings in song (Canwest Cabaret Festival); Agamemnon Daughters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Brandeis); Dangerous Liaisons (Serbian National Theatre); Decameron (National Theatre Sombor, Serbia). film &teleVision: ZOS (Whizbang Films). other: mfa Brandeis University; Academy of Fine Arts Acting Program (Serbia); Professional Accordionist.

nancy dryden — soulpepper 2010: Stage Manager: A Month in the Country, Death of a Salesman. Rehearsal Stage Manager: Faith Healer. for soulpepper: Over thirty productions including Travesties, Leaving Home, The Three Sisters, Blithe Spirit, Our Town, The Government Inspector, The Real Thing, King Lear, The Wild Duck, Translations, No Man’s Land, A Chorus of Disapproval, Present Laughter, Uncle Vanya, Krapp’s Last Tape, Platonov, and The Play’s the Thing. other theatre: Production Stage Manager for the Stratford Festival; productions with Canadian Stage, Grand Theatre, Citadel, Mirvish, nac, Livent, mtc, Atlantic Theatre Festival, Théâtre français de Toronto, Necessary Angel, ypt, National Hockey League, and Major League Baseball. other: Nancy teaches stage management at Ryerson University. Upcoming: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (Canadian Stage).

raquel duffy — academy artist, soulpepper 2010: Oh What a Lovely War, Death of a Salesman, The Cherry Orchard (Lab Series), Window on Toronto (Lab Series). other theatre: (re)birth: ee cummings in song (Canwest Cabaret Festival); Merchant of Venice, Comedy of Errors, An Ideal Husband (Stratford); Love’s Labours Lost (Stratford Conservatory); Three Sisters, Into the Woods (atf); Frozen, Annie, Rocky Horror Show, Blood Brothers (Neptune); Miss Julie, I Do! I Do! (Festival Antigonish); Emily, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival). other: Robert Merritt award for Mary’s Wedding (Theatre New Brunswick/Eastern Front Theatre), nominations for Miss Julie, I Do! I Do!, Tyrone Guthrie award (Stratford).

richard feren — soulpepper 2010: Music & Sound Designer: A Month in the Country. Sound Designer: What the Butler Saw, A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: Music & Sound Designer: Antigone, Betrayal, Black Comedy/The Real Inspector Hound, The Chairs, Endgame, The Guardsman, King Lear, Loot, Mirandolina, Phèdre, Platonov, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya. other theatre: Cul-de-sac, In on It, You Are Here, Monster, Here Lies Henry (da da kamera); This Is What Happens Next, Half-Life, Insomnia, The Eco Show (Necessary Angel); Russell Hill, The Good Life, Faust (Tarragon); Revisited (2B theatre); Silicone Diaries (Buddies In Bad Times); The Mill (Theatrefront). film and teleVision: Past Perfect (dir. Daniel MacIvor); Possible Worlds (dir. Robert Lepage). other: Winner of six Dora Awards; recipient of the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award.

simon fon — soulpepper 2010: Fight Director: Jitters, A Month in the Country, A Raisin in the Sun, Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Fight Director: Leaving Home, As You Like It, Three Sisters and Raisin In The Sun (2008), Mill on the Floss (World Stage 2000). other theatre: Simon has worked at Canadian Stage, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, ypt/Lorraine Kimsa, The Grand Theatre (London), Theatre By The Bay (Barrie). Simon has also worked on the Dora Nominated Romeo & Juliet Remixed with Expect theatre/Spark productions. other: Founder and Executive Director of riot a.c.t. Multi-award winning action creation team. Simon is currently working his second season at the Stratford Festival.

Janet gregor — soulpepper 2010: Assistant Stage Manager: A Month in the Country, Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Assistant Stage Manager for over twenty productions including: Travesties, Leaving Home, Waiting for Godot, Uncle Vanya. other theatre: Canadian Stage; Canadian Opera Company; Tapestry New Opera; Opera Atelier; nac; Ship’s Company Theatre; Magnus Theatre. Most Recently: ‘Art’ (Canadian Stage), A Moliere Celebration (Toronto Masque Theatre).

michael hanrahan — founding member, soulpepper 2010: Oh What a Lovely War, Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Loot, Awake and Sing!, As You Like It, The Odd Couple, American Buffalo, The Dumb Waiter/ The Zoo Story (2004 & 2005 tour), No Man’s Land, Present Laughter, The Bald Soprano, Platonov, Twelfth Night (with Festival of Classics), Our Town, The Play’s the Thing. other theatre: Last Romantics, As You Like It, The Importance of Being Earnest, Three Sisters, Great Expectations, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, The Tempest, The Miser, The Wooden Hill, A Chorus Line, Having Hope at Home, The Sisters Rosensweig, Fashion, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Juno and the Paycock, Charley’s Aunt, Tiger at the Gates, The Magistrate, The Swan, Othello, Celebration, Dumbwaiter, Hothouse and four seasons with the Stratford Festival.

dion Johnstone — soulpepper 2010: A Raisin in the Sun. other theatre: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, To Kill a Mockingbird, King Lear, As You Like It, Cymbeline (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish Productions); Take Me Out (CanStage); Romeo and Juliet (Vancouver Playhouse). film & teleVision: Guest-star and principal roles include The Guard, Sea Wolf (miniseries), Ice Twisters (TV movie), Twilight Zone, Stargate SG-1. other: bfa (acting), University of Alberta; Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre.

mattheW kabWe — soulpepper 2010: A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: A Raisin in the Sun (2008); (re)birth: e.e. cummings in song (Canwest Cabaret Festival). other theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); Blacks Don’t Bowl, Mella Mella (Black Theatre Workshop); Shakespeare’s R+J (Elysian River); Hourglass (Other People’s Pancakes); Snowsuits, Birthdays & Giants (Geordie); Lies My Father Told Me (Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre). film & teleVision: The Factory, The Watch, The Dead Zone, Too Young To Marry, St. Urbain’s Horseman. other: mecca Nomination for Best Ensemble in Blacks Don’t Bowl.

keVin lamotte — soulpepper 2010: Lighting Designer: A Month in the Country, Doc, A Raisin in the Sun, The Aleph (Lab Series). for soulpepper: Lighting Designer: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Guardsman, Uncle Vanya, Top Girls, Three Sisters, King Lear, The Wild Duck, Fool for Love, Translations, A Raisin in the Sun (2008), Platonov, Endgame, The Play’s The Thing, A Flea in Her Ear. other: Recipient of the Province of Ontario’s Pauline McGibbon Award and also awarded and nominated many times nationally for outstanding lighting design. Currently the Director of Lighting Design for the Shaw Festival and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Let your creativity shine!

National Bank is proud to support the performing arts and local artists so they can dazzle us again and again. Proud to be associated with Soulpepper Theatre Company.

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ken mackenzie — academy artist, soulpepper 2010: Set & Video Designer: Oh What A Lovely War. Set & Lighting design (collaborator): The Cherry Orchard (Lab Series), Window on Toronto (Lab Series). Costume Designer: Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Performer & Designer: (re)birth: ee cummings in song (Canwest Cabaret Festival); Assistant Set Designer: Parfumerie, Faith Healer, Blithe Spirit, Glengarry Glen Ross, ’Night Mother. other theatre: Set Designer: Tartuffe (Boston Court Theatre). Set & Lighting Designer: Greenland (Summerworks). Designer & Performer: Fewer Emergencies (Summerworks). Set Designer: Miss Julie (Sledgehammer Theatre); Book of Tink (Walt Disney Modular Theatre); Invisible Glass (redcat theatre). Ken’s work has also been displayed at the Prague Quadrennial.

abena malika — soulpepper 2010: Jitters, A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: A Raisin in the Sun (2008). other theatre: Obeah Opera (b.current/rock.paper.sistahz Festival); Noah’s Great Rainbow (Great Rainbow); ’Da Kink In My Hair (Mirvish/San Diego Repertory Theatre/Hackney Empire, London uk); Consecrated Ground, The Money Tree (Obsidian); The Adventures of a Black Girl In Search of God (Mirvish/Marquis); Mamma Mia! (Mirvish). film & teleVision: Lost Girl (Showcase). other: 2007 naacp Theatre Award for ’Da Kink In My Hair (San Diego Repertory Theatre). Dora nomination for A Raisin in the Sun (2008). Toured as a singer with Toronto band Jacksoul, opening for the legendary James Brown on his last Canadian tour.

toby malone — soulpepper 2010: Dramaturge: Oh What a Lovely War, Waiting for the Parade, Death of a Salesman. other theatre: Dramaturge: Romeo + Juliet, King Lear, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night (Driftwood). Assistant Dramaturge: As You Like It (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage Dream in High Park). Research Associate: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Actor: Juliet (and Romeo), Old Enough to Kill [workshop] (lktyp); Savage Brown [workshop] (Canadian Stage); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night (Australian Shakespeare Company); Wet Dogs (Barking Gecko); Rusty Bugles, Death of a Salesman (Hole in the Wall). other: PhD from the University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama.

diego matamoros — founding member, associate artist, soulpepper 2010: Faith Healer, A Month in the Country, A Raisin in the Sun, The Aleph (Lab Series). for soulpepper: (Selected list) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Travesties, The Odd Couple, As You Like It, Three Sisters, The Government Inspector, King Lear, The Caretaker, The Wild Duck, Mirandolina, Phèdre, The Play’s the Thing (1999 & 2003), Absolutely Chekhov, Uncle Vanya (2001 & 2002, 2008), A Flea in Her Ear, Platonov (1999 & 2000), Betrayal, Endgame, Don Carlos. other theatre: (Selected list) Tarragon Theatre; Theatre Columbus; Jewish Repertory Theatre (off-Broadway); Court Theatre (Chicago). other: Dora Awards for Platonov, Endgame, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Soulpepper), and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre). Gemini Award for The Sleep Room (cbc mini-series).

Weyni mengesha — associate artist, soulpepper 2010: Director: A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: Director: A Raisin in the Sun (2008), BLiNK. Assistant Director: As You Like It, The Threepenny Opera, The Time of Your Life, Three Sisters. other theatre: Director: Yellowman (Nightwood Theatre/Obsidian Theatre Company); blood.claat (Theatre Passe Muraille/Great Canadian Theatre Company); ’Da Kink In My Hair (Theatre Passe Muraille/Mirvish/Hackney Empire London); The Taxi Project (Pen Canada). Dramaturge: The Africa Trilogy (Volcano Theatre/Luminato). Associate Artistic Director for Theatre Passe Muraille (2004 – 2006). film & teleVision: Assistant Director/Floor director: Lord Have Mercy (VisionTV); Story Editor: Bo ke Bophelo series (Leda Serene South Africa). other: Toronto Arts Council Foundation Emerging Artist of the Year 2008; Harry Jerome Award; Harold Award. Dora nomination for ’Da Dink In My Hair, blood.claat and A Raisin in the Sun.

charles officer — soulpepper 2010: A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: A Raisin in the Sun (2008). other theatre: Recent Experiences (sto Union 2002 – 2005). film and teleVision: Kojak, Riding the Bus with My Sister, The Eleventh Hour. other: Director/Writer: feature film Nurse.Fighter.Boy (Canadian Film Centre); Director/Writer: feature documentary film Mighty Jerome (National Film Board).

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nancy palk — founding member, associate artist, soulpepper 2010: Waiting for the Parade, A Month in the Country, Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Nancy has performed every season with Soulpepper since 1998, including roles in Awake and Sing!, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Way of the World, Ring Round the Moon, Blithe Spirit, Mary Stuart, Our Town, The Threepenny Opera, King Lear, Hamlet, The Maids, Phèdre, Platonov, and Don Carlos. other theatre: Tarragon, Canadian Stage, Mirvish Productions, Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival, Theatre Calgary, mtc, and many theatres across Canada and the United States. film & teleVision: The Lois Wilson Story, H2O, For Love Of Olivia, A Woman’s Place, The Loretta Clayborne Story.

kofi payton — soulpepper 2010: A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: A Raisin in the Sun (2008). film & teleVision: I Am An Apartment Building, Take The Lead, Rebirth, King of Sorrow, Saw II, Four Brothers and Kojak, in addition to many television commercials. Kofi will appear on a new tV Series on hbo Canada called the The Yard in January 2011.

alison peddie — soulpepper 2010: Stage Manager: Waiting for the Parade, What the Butler Saw, A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: Stage Manager: Top Girls (2008). other theatre: Six seasons at the Shaw Festival, including A Little Night Music, Tristan, Mack and Mabel, Rosmersholm, Arms and the Man, Pal Joey, Floyd Collins, The Plough and the Stars. Other credits include: Wild Mouth, Chimera, Hello...Hello, Anything that Moves, Little Mercy’s First Murder, Music for Contortionist (Tarragon Theatre); Rice Boy, The Shape of Things, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie (Canadian Stage); Cloud Nine (Mirvish).

gregory prest — academy artist, soulpepper 2010: Oh What a Lovely War, Death of a Salesman, The Cherry Orchard (Lab Series), Window on Toronto (Lab Series). for soulpepper: (re)birth: ee cummings in song (Canwest Cabaret Festival). other theatre: Molière (Tarragon); Humans Anonymous (Next Stage); From the House of the Dead (Canadian Opera Company); Antony and Cleopatra (sitr); The Tin Drum (UnSpun); The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate (lktyp Dora Nomination); Glorious!, Maddy Heisler, Tales from Ovid (Centaur); Intimate Exchanges, Star Quality, Buoyant Billions (Theatre Lac Brome); Woodswalker (Path Productions); Twelfth Night (ctp). Director: Fish Eyes (Theatre Passe Muraille, The Other Festival). Composer: nts, UnSpun, Shakespeare in the Rough. other: Graduate of the National Theatre School.

karen rae — academy artist, soulpepper 2010: Oh What A Lovely War, Death of a Salesman, The Cherry Orchard (Lab Series), Window on Toronto (Lab Series). other theatre: Nanay - A Testimonial Play (Urban Crawl/Neworld Theatre); John and Beatrice (Pi Theatre); Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, Pericles (Bard on the Beach); Halo (Pacific Theatre); Tearing Down The Periwinkle, Sharky and Boots (The Polliwog Factory); Delvecki’s Closet (Section 8 Theatre); CNIC Radio, Foole’s Gold Rush Inn (Eureka Theatre Company); South Pacific (tuts). Writer & Performer: Mrs. Spiderlady (Windowsill Promises). other: Jessie nomination for Best Actress ( John and Beatrice); Graduate of Studio 58.

scott reid — soulpepper 2010: Set & Properties Designer: A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: Set & Properties Designer: A Raisin in the Sun (2008). other theatre: The Clockmaker, Another Home Invasion (Tarragon); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Sherlock Holmes, Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Calgary); East of Berlin, Half Life, December Man, The Shape of A Girl, Mary’s Wedding (atp); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dido & Aeneas (The Banff Centre – Opera Program); Losing Ground (The Banff Centre – Dance Program); Little Women, Faust, Dead Man Walking (Calgary Opera); Songs of the Wayfarer, Requiem (Alberta Ballet/Edmonton Opera).

mike ross — associate artist, soulpepper 2010: Actor: Oh What a Lovely War, Jitters. Composer & Sound Designer: Waiting for the Parade, Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Actor: The Threepenny Opera, BLiNK, The Time of Your Life, Three Sisters, As You Like It, Civil Elegies. Composer & Sound Designer: Travesties, Ring Round the Moon, As You Like It, Under Milk Wood. Co-Creator: Civil Elegies, (re)birth: ee cummings in song. other theatre: Assassins (Talk is Free/Birdland); Dream Within a Dream: A Poe Cabaret (Luminato); Fire, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre Calgary); No Great Mischief, Molière (Tarragon); Rock n’ Roll (Grand Theatre). other: Dora Award for Sound Design & Composition (Under Milk Wood), Merritt Award (No Great Mischief), two East Coast Music Awards. Recently completed a five week international fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England.

lorenzo saVoini — associate artist, soulpepper 2010: Lighting Designer: Billy Bishop Goes to War. Costume & Lighting Designer: Oh What A Lovely War. Set Designer: Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Set & Lighting Designer: Antigone. Co-Creator& Designer: Civil Elegies. Set Designer: Of the Fields, Lately, The Time of Your Life, Three Sisters, The Odd Couple, The Caretaker. Set & Costume Designer: The Threepenny Opera, As You Like It. Production Designer: Under Milk Wood. Costume Designer: A Raisin in the Sun. Lighting Designer: Billy Bishop Goes to War (2009), John Gabriel Borkman. Graduate of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy. other theatre: Stratford Featival, Neptune Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Canadian Opera Company, Luminato, Theatre Aquarius, gctc, The Globe Theatre, Theatre Calgary and Belfry Theatre. Upcoming: Wide Awake Hearts (Tarragon); Cryptogram (Belfey Theatre).

albert schultz — founding artistic director, soulpepper 2010: Actor: Glengarry Glen Ross. Director: Oh What a Lovely War, Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Actor: Glengarry Glen Ross, The Guardsman, The Odd Couple, Uncle Vanya, The Threepenny Opera, Our Town (Dora nomination), Three Sisters, The Real Thing, Hamlet, Platonov, Betrayal, Don Carlos, The Misanthrope. Director: Civil Elegies, As You Like It, The Time of Your Life, The Caretaker, Olympia, Waiting for Godot, No Man’s Land, She Stoops to Conquer, A Chorus of Disapproval (Dora nomination), Absolutely Chekhov (co-director), Twelfth Night. other theatre: Actor: Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Oedipus/Critic, Journey’s End (Stratford); Two-Headed Roommate (Tarragon). Director: Kingfisher Days (Tarragon); As You Like It (Festival of Classics). film and teleVision: Shades of Black, Street Legal, Side Effects (Gemini nomination), Young at Heart, Under My Skin, Going Home (Gemini nomination). other: Gemini Award; Joan Chalmers National Award for Artistic Direction; Queen’s Jubilee Medal; Arts and Letters Award; Salute to the City Award; Leo Award; Barbara Hamilton Award; William Kilbourn Award; Toronto Life Toronto Award; DareArts Cultural Award. Honorary Degrees from Queen’s and Bishop’s Universities. General Director of the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

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alison sealy-smith — soulpepper 2010: A Raisin in the Sun. for soulpepper: A Raisin in the Sun (2008). other theatre: Stratford Festival (1992 – 1994); Tartuffe, Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); Harlem Duet (Nightwood Theatre); Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Nightwood/Obsidian Theatre); Coups & Calypsos (Cahoots Theatre); Cast Iron (Nightwood Theatre); The Polished Hoe (Obsidian Theatre). Director: lktyp, Neptune Theatre, Saiyde Bronfman Centre, nts, Black Theatre Workshop, Obsidian Theatre. film & teleVision: This is Wonderland, Naturally Sadie, ’Da Kink In My Hair, Kevin Hill, Blue Murder, Due South, Traders, Honey, Dark Water, Take the Lead, Talk to Me, You Kill Me. other: Four Dora nominations, one Dora Award, Harry Jerome Award, George Luscombe Award, Harold Award, Salute to the City Award, Founding Member of Obsidian Theatre and Artistic Director from 2000 – 2006.

brendan Wall — academy artist, soulpepper 2010: Oh What a Lovely War (Dora Nomination: Ensemble), Death of a Salesman,The Cherry Orchard (Lab Series), Window on Toronto (Lab Series). other theatre: (re)birth: ee cummings in song (Canwest Cabaret Festival); Real Estate (Grand Theatre); Death of a Salesman, Rainmaker (Theatre Aquarius); Unidentified Human Remains (Crow’s Theatre); The Outdoor Donnellys, Corner Green (Blyth Festival); Tequila Vampire Matinee, Poochwater, Jump (Theatre Passe Muraille); Kilt (Tarragon); Amadeus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Magnus Theatre). film & teleVision: Orphan; Boondock Saints II; Mayday; Hairspray; The Jane Show; Hollywoodland, Chicago. other: Musician and Singer in the Band Li’l Jimmy’s Chicken Pickers.

bahia Watson — soulpepper 2010: A Raisin In The Sun. other theatre: 3 Plays about Toronto Theatre (Bobby Del Rio). film & teleVision: Left Hook (CFC), Everybody’s Doing It (mtV).other: Playwright-In-Residence (AnitAFRIKA! dub theatre) developing a one-woman show currently titled In Search Of Shanequa Jenkins.

William Webster — founding member, associate artist, soulpepper 2010: Glengarry Glen Ross, A Month in the Country, Death of a Salesman. for soulpepper: Selected credits include: Awake and Sing!, Parfumerie, As You Like It, The Way of the World, Uncle Vanya, King Lear, Nathan the Wise, Mary Stuart, The Threepenny Opera, Hamlet, The Government Inspector, Phèdre, Swan Song, Don Carlos. other theatre: Selected credits include: Journey’s End, King Lear, King John (Stratford Festival); Camille, Waste, Too True to be Good (Shaw Festival); The Golden Thug (Buddies in Bad Times); The Heiress (Vancouver Playhouse); American Buffalo (Phoenix Theatre/Toronto); The Crucible, The Cherry Orchard (Citadel Theatre); Tartuffe (Theatre Calgary); Béatrice et Bénédict, The Handmaid’s Tale (coc); Bach in Leipzig (Tafelmusik); Brief Lives (Toronto Masque Theatre). other: Has taught at Soulpepper, nts, nac, Equity Showcase and Abelard School. Recipient of the Inaugural Soulpepper Artistic Director’s Award.

Joseph ziegler — founding member, soulpepper 2010: Director: Waiting for the Parade. Actor: A Month in the Country, Death of a Salesman, A Christmas Carol. for soulpepper: Director: Travesties, Ring Round the Moon, Mary Stuart, Our Town, King Lear, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale. Actor: Parfumerie, A Christmas Carol, Uncle Vanya, The Time of Your Life, The Wild Duck, Hamlet, Waiting for Godot, The School for Wives. other theatre: Director: Shaw Festival; Stratford Festival; Canadian Stage; Grand Theatre in London; Citadel in Edmonton; Theatre New Brunswick; Neptune Theatre in Halifax. Actor in theatres across the country, on television, film and radio. other: Graduate of the National Theatre School. Most Recently: Director: Harvey (Shaw); Actor: The Trespassers (Stratford).

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2010 soulpepper supportersSoulpepper Theatre Company is very grateful to all the individuals, corporations, foundations and government agencies who contributed to our continued growth and success.* The generosity of our many supporters makes everything we do at Soulpepper possible.

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IllustratIons by: brIan staufferphotos by: sandy nIcholson (a chrIstmas carol), trudIe lee (a raIsIn In the sun), cylla von tIedemann (bIlly bIshop Goes to War & GlenGarry Glen ross)

faith healerBrian Friel

a month in the countryIvan Turgenev adapted by Susan Coyne & László Marton

oh what a lovely warJoan Littlewood, Theatre Workshop and Charles Chilton

what the butler sawJoe Orton

death of a salesmanArthur Miller

waiting for the paradeJohn Murrell

a raisin in the sunLorraine Hansberry

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glengarry glen rossDavid Mamet

jittersDavid French

a christmas carolCharles Dickens adapted by Michael Shamata

billy bishop goes to war John Gray with Eric Peterson

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Directors Albert Schultzartistic director

Leslie Lesterexecutive director

Claire Sakakiproducer

T.J. Taskerdirector of communications

Mary Koutsoubosdirector of development

Tracy Stewartdirector of finance

Vladimir Vukovicdirector of production

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Shannon Lintottproduction assitant

Brian Stauffer2010 illustrator

Sandy Nicholson Sian Richards Cylla Von Tiedemann Bruce Zingerseason photographers

Anthony Swanevelddesign director (sandwich creative)

soulpepper production

Kareen Lalicon manager of patron & operations services

Fernando Arriolai.t. manager

Jeffrey Daypatron services coordinator

Kim Ingram, Lisa Li, Adam Orr, Ali Wyliefloor captains

Katie Ericksonoperations services coordinator

Noora Sagarwalaprogram coordinator

Mike Soulierebuilding operations manager

Qasim Khanpatron services assistant

Jason BrowningSean JP PedersonPascale Thibodeauhouse technicians

Kevin Sheasenior patron services representative

Oscar Pessolebuilding operator

Solomon Whitmanconcierge

Kelly Barnes, Dustin Churchill, Vanya Garraway, Douglas Kwan, Lisa Li, Erin Vandenberg, Ali Wyliepatron services representatives

Kelly Barnes, Hayley Carr, Adam Cole, Susan Bond, Megan Brady, Ian Brodland, Vanya Garraway, Leslie McBay, Robert Rainville, Adrian Rebucas, Tanya Rintoul, Andrea Tomonkosenior ushers

young centre for the performing arts

soulpepper thanks: Andrea Lundy, Necessary Angel.

young centre thanks: Our wonderful legion of volunteers for their continued support.

soulpepper board of directorsCharles BaillieDeborah BarrettCathal O’ConnorAjay ChadhaShawn CooperGail Drummond

David FleckRoger Garland (founding chair)

Crawford GordonBarbara MacDonald Sheena MacdonaldBob Mansbridge

Daniel McCarthyJoe NataleSusan PigottSarah PowellDonald RossSandy Sanderson

David Sculthorpe (v. chair)

Donna SlaightEli TaylorBrian Toda Paul R. Weiss (chair)

Robin Young

Phil Atfield, Joanne Lamberton cutters

Kathleen Johnstonwardrobe coordinator

Greg Chambers, Vanesa Janiszewski, Jane Kline props

Stefan Lenziacting associate technical director

Janet Pym, Natalie Swiercz dressers

Susan Dicks & Company additional costumes

David Rayfield head scenic artist

Jacqueline Robertson-Cullhead of hair & makeup

Janet Pymsewer

Steve Hudak, Daniela Mazic scenic artists

Laura Boltonwig mistress

Ryan Wilsoncarpenter

Danielle Demenypainter

Young Centre Board of Directors:

Roger Garland, Eugene Harrigan, Maureen Loweth, John D. McKellar (Chair), Jan Rush, Albert Schultz, Paul R. Weiss (President).

Young Centre for the Performing Arts55 Mill Street, Building 49 Toronto ON M5A 3C4

Box Office Hours Tuesday to Saturday 1pm–8pm 416.866.8666 youngcentre.ca

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Soulpepper Theatre Company acknowledges the support of:

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $22.2 million in theatre throughout Canada.

Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada, qui a investi 22,2 millions de dollars l’an dernier dans le théâtre à travers le Canada.

The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

Financially assisted by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Culture, administered by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund Corporation.

government support

Starring Brian Linehan: A Life Behind the Scenes is a behind-the-curtain look at the life and times of Canadian celebrity interviewer Brian Linehan.

Brian was a superb and unique journalist who exercised his craft in the entertainment industry and, unusual for his times, treated talented Canadians — on stage, on screen, in front or behind the camera — with the respect and deference generally shown only to international ‘stars’.

Brian has left his entire estate to The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation to support the creation of a Canadian star system through financial support of advanced training programs, such as the Soulpepper Academy, and an aggressive promotion of talent.

Starring Brian Linehan: A Life Behind the Scenes by George Anthony is available at bookstores across Canada, or visit www.mcclelland.com.

curtain up sponsor

production sponsors

foundation supporters

soulpepper gratefully acknowledges the support of2010 lead sponsors

in kind sponsors

in the schools esl program sponsorstageplay program sponsor

in the schools elementary program & school matinees sponsor

a raisin in the sun lorraine hansberry

additional support

generously supported by

kofi payton alison sealy-smithabena malika

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