The Barnstormers Theatre Proudly Presents

The Barnstormers Theatre Proudly Presents

Far From CanterburySponsored byWonalancet Neighbors

Our 91st Season Sponsored by The Haynes Family Foundation

Far From CanterburyBook, Music, and Lyrics by Danny K. Bernstein

Directed by Katherine Carter

The Cast, in alphabetical order:

Pim Van Amerongen* Storyteller #2, James, Guard, KnightKennedy Caughell* AgnesRodrigo Ignacio Cruz* Storyteller #4, Agnes’ Father, Guard, KnightEllis Gage* JohnAlyssa Giannetti* Storyteller #1, Candita, PrincessTauren Hagans* Storyteller #3, John’s Mom, OracleHennessy* Storyteller #6, NicolasDarius Harper* Storyteller #5, Noblewoman, QueenAmber Hurst Martin Dolores, Storyteller #7Seth Tucker* Marcus

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association

Pim Van Amerongen

Kennedy Caughell Rodrigo Ignacio Cruz

Ellis Gage

Alyssa Giannetti Tauren Hagans

Hennessy

Darius Harper Amber Hurst Martin

Seth Tucker

Hollis Duggans*Reiko HuffmanSaawan TiwariKelley ShihJackson AlexanderAnessa MarieJeff CoxCharlie JohnsonJoe LongthorneLori TishfieldCaroline Duffin

Stage ManagerScenic DesignerCostume DesignerLighting DesignerSound DesignerMusic DirectorMusic SupervisorChoreographerLead Producer, Artistic DirectorAssociate ProducerAssistant Stage Manager

JACKSON ALEXANDER (Sound Designer)

KATHERINE M. CARTER (Direc-tor) (she/her) is a stage director of theatre & opera. Recently Katherine directed Misunder-stood at The Rose Theatre in Omaha, and the Hodges & Loughery new musical, Sonata 1962 at Interlochen Academy of the Arts. Previous: Rice Uni-versity Opera, Mad Cow The-atre, On Site Opera, Carnegie Mellon University, Santa Fe Opera, Parallel 45 Theatre, Ca-nadian Opera Company, Hous-ton Grand Opera. New School for Drama, Joe’s Pub, Westport Country Playhouse, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, NYMF, 3LD, NYU, and Wolf Trap. Fel-lowships: New Georges, The Drama League, and Playwrights Horizons. 2019 Honored Finalist for Women in the Arts & Media Coalition with playwright Jac-queline Goldfinger. Katherine is currently training to become a certified Intimacy Director with IDC. Upcoming: Disney’s The Descendants (The Rose The-atre), Guest Faculty at The New School Mannes Opera, L’Enfant/Cendrillon (Carnegie Mellon University, Opera) With great thanks to the incredible team behind Far From Canterbury.www.KatherineMCarter.com

JEFF COX (Music Supervisor) is a New York-based music di-rector and conductor who has performed internationally and on Broadway. He has appeared in the orchestras of The Band’s Visit (Broadway), A Letter to Harvey Milk (Off-Broadway), Wicked (National tour), Austen’s Pride (Fifth Avenue Seattle), nu-

merous regional theatres, and many others. As bandleader and pianist for Jeremy Stolle’s No More Talk of Darkness, he has directed Broadway-caliber musicians and singers in perfor-mances across the United States and throughout mainland Chi-na. Jeff is a faculty member at the American Musical and Dra-matic Academy, and he holds a Master’s Degree in conducting from Ithaca College. www.jeff-coxmusic.com

CAROLINE DUFFIN is a New York based stage manager. She is a graduate of the Pace Uni-versity Stage Management pro-gram and has worked on projects including the pre-production workshop of Evita (a collabo-ration between Pace University and New York City Center) and Whisper House with The Civil-ians. She is incredibly excited to be a part of this project!

HOLLIS DUGGINS (Stage Manager)

REIKO HUFFMAN (Scenic De-signer) is a Scenic Designer and Asst. Professor of Scenic Design at Nebraska Wesleyan Universi-ty. She seeks to change the field of design with emotionally pro-pelled choices and interweaving critical awareness into her de-sign process. Upcoming credits for Reiko Huffman include The World Goes Round at the Coro-nado Playhouse in Coronado, CA, Songs For a New World at the Onstage Playhouse in Chu-la Vista, CA, and Hello Dolly! at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

CHARLIE JOHNSON (Choreog-rapher) is a Seattle based theater artist with a focus in new musical

development. He recently di-rected and choreographed the national tour of The Queen’s Cartoonists. Other direction and/or choreography credits in-clude Urinetown! (ACT/5th Ave-nue Theatre), Pageant (Sensible Theater Co.), HeadVoice (New York Musical Festival), Swing-time Canteen! (Arrow Rock Ly-ceum), Machine Gun America (FringeNY), and You’re a...Char-lie Brown (Flat Rock Playhouse).He has developed new musicals with The Rev Theater Co, New York Theater Barn, The Drama League, Green Room 42, and Musical Theater Factory.Charlie is currently the Interim Artistic Producing Associate at The 5th Avenue Theatre. Prior to that, he served as the Director of New Works for the New York based theater company Out of the Box Theatrics.He attended Elon Uni-versity and is most often found at the theater, yoga, or Chipot-le. @chipper_charles

ANESSA MARIE (Music Direc-tor) is a composer/lyricist, mu-sic director, orchestrator, and performer in New York City. In 2019, Anessa debuted Finding Beautiful as part of NYMF’s fi-nal season, where she was also named the 2019 NYMF Artist Fellow. Other NYC credits as composer include Queering the Canon (Joe’s Pub), Beautiful: the Music and Lyrics of Anes-sa Marie (April 2018), and A Glimpse of the Rainbow (June 2018). Her original work for symphony orchestra and piano, A New York Renaissance, writ-ten in response to COVID-19 will premiere in 2022. Anessa is also in development for Reign, a new contemporary steampunk

rock opera inspired by Christo-pher Marlowe’s Edward II. She will also serve as music super-visor and music director for The Regulars, to premiere in the UK. Love and light. www.anessama-rie.com. IG: @anessamarieam

KELLEY SHIH is a lighting de-signer, programmer and light-ing director for live performance and film/TV. Recent designs: Slow Down SuperBlue Miami VIP Opening, Le Comte Noir (MSM), The Internet’s Hive Mind World Tour (including Sydney Opera House, London Brix-ton O2 Academy performanc-es), Kyle at Madison Sq. Gar-den, Syd’s Always Never Home Tour, Hive Rise (Ashley Fure/Berghain/CTM Music Festival), Together Games (Ensemble Modern/Ashley Fure), and Chris Fleming’s Bobba Everyday Tour. Lighting Programming: Merry Wives (The Public/Shakespeare in the Park), Kesha Raising Hell on The Late Show with Stephen

Colbert, Savage x Fenty Show 2019 (Amazon Streaming), An-derson .Paak Summer Tour 2019, and VFiles Spring 2020 Show (Barclays Center). kelley-shih.com

SAAWAN TIWARI (Costume Designer) is a Manhattan-based costume designer and gradu-ate of the University of Michi-gan. Credits - Piper Theatre: Prospect Hill (CD) Superhero Clubhouse: The Jungle and Luminescence City (CD) Black and Brown Theatre: Mirror on the Wall (CD) U-M: La Boheme (ACD), Alcina (ACD), Rude Me-chanicals: A Streetcar Named Desire (CD), Wolves (CD) MUS-KET: Bare: A Pop Opera (CD), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (ACD) Runyonland Productions: Shel: The Historically Fiction-alized Musical (CD) Bayview Music Festival: West Side Story (ACD), An Opera Lover’s Guide to Love and Murder (CD)

About the Author

DANNY K. BERNSTEIN (Book, Music, Lyrics) is an award-win-ning composer/lyricist, direc-tor, music director and pianist. His music and lyrics have been heard off-broadway, Feinstein’s 54 Below, Green Room 42, Club Cumming, Prohibition, and all over New York City. NYC: Wings (Book, Music, Lyrics), Far From Canterbury (Book, Music, Lyrics) - Outstanding Overall Musical, 2015 New York International Fringe Festival. 2020 Fred Ebb Award finalist, 2019 Kleban Fi-nalist, 2019 and 2017 Jonathan Larson Award Finalist, 2014 Winner, New Voices Project, New Musical Inc., through Walt Disney Imagineering, Los Ange-les. Proud member of ASCAP and the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop. Instagram: @dannykbernstein

Next Show:

POPCORN FALLSBy James HindmanAugust 31-September 4Doug Shapiro and Amanda Huxtable in multiple roles.Welcome to Popcorn Falls, a small American town whose only claim to fame – their namesake waterfall – has dried up. Now bankrupt, their last chance is a large grant that can only be used if the town produc-es a play in a week. One big problem: no playhouse. Another problem: no play.

Led by the Mayor and the local handyman, the en-terprising townsfolk try to rise to the challenge and prove that art can save the world.

Sponsored by The New Woodshed

CASTPIM VAN AMERONGEN is thrilled to be back on stage, and back at The Barnstormers. Some of his favorite Tamworth appearances in-clude A Funny Thing…, Our Town, The Full Monty, The Producers, and Damn Yankees. He has performed all over the world, in national tours, regional theaters, and recent-ly created a tapping and singing trio called Manhattan Shuffle. He proudly holds a BFA in Musical The-atre from The Boston Conservatory, and currently lives in Amsterdam. @pimvanam

KENNEDY CAUGHELL is excited to bring this story to life! Kenne-dy was seen most recently on the road playing Carole King across the Country in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Broadway: Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 & Beautiful. Nat’l/Int’l Tours: Wick-ed (Elphaba Standby) & American Idiot (Heather). Regional: Paradise Square (Berkley Rep), & Mary Pop-pins (Mary), TV/Film: The Outlier (Katya) & Law & Order: SVU. Elon BFA. You can catch her this fall in Chicago in the Broadway-bound musical Paradise Square. Love to Tim, Fam, the K’s, and DGRW, for believing in me! Twitter/Insta: @KennedyCaughell. www.Kennedy-Caughell.com. Psalms 9:1

RODRIGO IGNACIO CRUZ is thrilled to be making his Barnstorm-ers debut with Far From Canter-bury. Most recently he performed the role of Juan Perón for the sec-ond time with the Gulf Coast Sym-phony. Favorite credits include: The 25th Anniversary National Tour of CATS , Juan Perón (Evita) The Beast (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) The Baker (Into the Woods) and Wait-er/Man #3 in the Chicago regional premiere of First Date, the musical. Regionally he has been seen on the stages of Orlando Shakes, the New York Musical Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook, The Utah Shakespear-ean Festival, and The Repertory

Theatre of St. Louis. Rodrigo has BFA in Musical Theatre from Millikin University. Many thanks to everyone at Eisen Associates and to Ann Mc-Mann and Cynthia Oeck for always believing in him. As always, much love to Mom, Dad, and Matthew. Gracias por tu fe y amor. Proud AEA member! www.RodrigoIgnaci-oCruz.com

ELLIS GAGE, New England native, began at age 10 in the out-of-town premiere of Pasek/Paul’s James & the Giant Peach (Goodspeed Mu-sicals), subsequently appearing in Kooman/Dimond’s Dani Girl (Cher-ry Lane Theatre), Phyllis Newman’s Peter Pan adaptation & Glen Rov-en’s Anderson’s Solo (American Opera Projects), winning an IRNE for his performance in The King & I (North Shore Music Theatre). Grow-ing up, he was known as “the kid with the big belt” on Sirius XM’s Seth Speaks & a vocalist for the Metropolitan Opera’s featured con-temporary works. In recent years, he’s received praise for performanc-es in the developing Imaginary Boy for Tourette Association of America, “Happily” (NYMF), & Poupelle of ChimneyTown (CTUSA/Japan). He’s been seen in NYC and regionally at Prospect Theatre, Broadway Unit-ed, WorkShop Theatre, Hunting-ton Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera, Wheelock Family Theatre, Passage Theatre, Carriage House Theatre, & on tour. Ellis is an experienced Jazz singer/arranger & voiceover artist. www.ellisgage.com @ellis_gage

ALYSSA GIANNETTI is a classically trained singer and actor based out of New York City! She is a graduate of Northwestern University where she received a BM in Voice & Opera Performance, as well as, a minor in Choral Music Education and a certificate in Musical Theatre Performance. Originally from Bloomfield Hills, MI, Alyssa made her professional debut while touring with the 1st National Tour of Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of Opera, as the

Christine Daaé Understudy and En-semble Swing. She most recently was seen singing more Lloyd Web-ber hits in the World Premiere of Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Paper Mill Play-house!

TAUREN HAGANS is thrilled to be back on stage and to be making her Barnstormers debut! Some of her favorite credits include Mamma Mia (Rosie), 9 to 5 the Musical (Roz) and The Dixie Swim Club (JeriNe-al) all at Flat Rock Playhouse, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Ms. Jones) at Maltz Jupiter Theater and In the Heights (Daniela) in the National Tour. She also sang in the vocal ensemble of the movie version in theaters now. Proud PANK (Professional Aunt No Kids) to Jaimie, Kori, Bea, Beck, Miles and Baxter. @itstauren

DARIUS HARPER is head over his heels to be back in NH for the sum-mer. As a Nashua native he grew up performing with the Peacock Play-ers and The Seacoast Repertory Theatre! Credits include: The Book of Mormon, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and Kinky Boots (Lola)! Before the pandemic Darius was most recently on the road with Cirque Du Soleil’s VOLTA as the vocalist/emcee. Thank you to The Barnstormers and Lori Tishfield for allowing me to oc-cupy space as my true self! xoxo @dariusharius

HENNESSY WINKLER is Hawaii raised, NYC trained. Icelandic Academy Award winner; ‘Best Ac-tor Overall’ - NYCfringe; Original co-host of CBS’s Kill Me Now with Judy Gold. Trained at Marymount Manhattan, BTG and ESPA. Proud AEA member. @hennessyhaole - Hennessy.NYC. Managed by Trans Talent & ATB Talent. Grateful to be part of this life and show.

AMBER HURST MARTIN is delight-ed to be making her Barnstormers debut! Classically trained in music & theater at Fordham College Lincoln

Center, Amber began her performance career singing in Manhattan jazz clubs like Birdland & Dizzy’s. Soon after, she was cast in the national tour of one of her favorite musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar. Since then, her musical career has taken her to 49 of the 50 states (Vermont!), to the Caribbean with Disney Cruise Lines, as far as the Daegu Opera House in South Korea and on a second national tour with the It Gets Better mu-sical - a unique opportunity for her to truly fulfill her passions for performance, travel & effecting change. She recently premiered her solo cabaret, You Can’t Act A Color in Los Angeles. Love to my beautiful family - thank you for being here. www.amberhurstmartin.com @tamberine716

SETH TUCKER is grateful to return to live performance in his Barnstormers Theatre debut. Seth is an Arizona based Latino artist, producer and proud member of Ac-tor’s Equity. Seth studied Music Theatre and Business Marketing at ASU. Favorite credits: Parade (Leo Frank, AriZoni nomination) Arizona Regional Theatre, I Am My Own Wife (Charlotte) BLK BOX PHX Pageant (Miss West Coast, Original Cast Recording) Off Broadway, The Producers (Carmen Ghia) Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Avenue Q (Rod) Mixed Blood Theatre, and Cabaret (Emcee) FUSE Productions, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Coneybear, AriZoni Award) Phoe-nix Theatre Company & Beef and Board Theatre. www.SethATucker.com

Addenda

Page 1 - Cast photo caption should read: HENNESSY WINKLER

Page 1 - Arrangements by Jeff Cox

JACKSON ALEXANDER (they/he) is a Brooklyn based Sound Designer and overall Audio Nerd. If it makes a sound, or is supposed to make a sound, Jackson is all over it. Some of Jackson’s New York credits in-clude: Oscar at the Crown, One November Yankee, Emojiland, Clueth: An Unauthorized Parody in Verse and Jannifer’s Body. Jackson is overjoyed to be back in a theatre again and they are extremely grateful to be working with The Barnstormers team.

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5 pm August 15 at The Preserve

JAZZ AND SWINGJAZZ AND SWINGJAZZ AND SWINGDANCEDANCEDANCE

featuring

The Barnstormers Theatre Presents

cash beer and wine bar, hors d'oeuvres

$35 Reserved Tent Seats$20 Lawn Seating

Tickets: 603-323-8500 or barnstormerstheatre.org

COMING UP:WAITRESS - August 27-29Music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, Book by Jessie NelsonThe musical is based on the 2007 film of the same name, written by Adrienne Shelly. It tells the story of Jenna Hunterson, a baker and waitress in an abusive relationship with her husband, Earl. After Jenna unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she begins an affair with her doctor, Dr. Jim Pomatter. Looking for ways out of her trou-bles, she sees a pie baking contest and its grand prize as her chance.August 27: 2 shows at ROSIE’S RESTAURANT. 5 and 7 pm, limited seating. August 28 on the TAMWORTH HISTORY CENTER lawn, 2 pmAugust 29: CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS. Tickets available soon at castleintheclouds.org

This Sunday! Come have fun, listen to great music and dance under the spacious tent. Support

The Barnstormers Theatre in style!

The Sailcloth tent at The Preserve