Sets Vicki R. Davis
Costumes Andrea Varga
LIGHTs Jeff Nellis
SOUND Jane Shaw
PROPS Joshua Yocum
DRAMATURG Heather J. Violanti
Dialects & Dramaturgy Amy Stoller
Production STAGE MANAGER Lisa McGinn
ASSt. STAGE MANAGERs Andrea Jo Martin, Lauren McArthur
Asst. to the Director Natalia Schwien
ILLUSTRATION Stefano Imbert
GRAPHICS hey jude design, INC
PRESS David Gersten & Associates
CASTING Stuart Howard, Amy SchecteR & Paul Hardt
ROSIE BENTON (Min Donovan) The Mint: Wife to James Whelan. Broadway: Accent on Youth (MTC), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Roundabout Theatre Company). Off-Broadway: Saturn Returns (Lincoln Center Theatre), Howard Katz (Roundabout). Regional: A Time To Kill (Arena Stage), Stick Fly (Huntington Theatre), Dissonance, The Night Season (Bay Street Theatre), Spike Heels (Syracuse Stage), Betrayal (Hangar Theatre) The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare on the Sound), Film: “Return”, “A Bridge to Bourne”. TV: “Law & Order: SVU”, “All My Children”. MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program.
PAUL CARLIN (Jim Slattery) NY Stage: Long Day’s Journey into Night at Irish Repertory Theatre (Jamie), director Charlotte Moore; After the Ball, Irish Rep (Lord Windermere), director Tony Walton; Apple Cove, Julia Miles Theatre (Gary), dir. Gio Sardelli; Woyzeck, Ensemble Studio Theatre (Woyzeck); Bella, Lincoln Center (Jacob); The Milk of Paradise, The Women’s Project (Billy), dir. Joan Vail Thorne; Twelfth Night, Phoenix Theatre Co. (Orsino), dir. John Barton, RSC; Paint Your Wagon, Musicals Tonight (Ben Rumson); Salvation, Hudson Stage (Jack). Regional Stage: The Boyfriend, Goodspeed Opera House (Percy Browne), dir. Julie Andrews; Where’s Charley? Goodspeed (Sir Francis), dir. Tony Walton; Shenandoah, W.V. Public Theatre (Charlie Anderson); On the 20th Century, Goodspeed, (Max Jacobs); Brigadoon, Goodspeed (MacLaren); 1776, Goodspeed (Chase); Hamlet, N.J. Shakespeare Fest. (Laertes); Song of Singapore, Piper’s Alley, Chi. (Hans); A Christmas Carol, Indiana Repertory Theatre (Scrooge x 2); The Herbal Bed, Indiana Rep (Goche). TV: “30 Rock”; “Law & Order”; “Ryan’s Hope” 1980-82; other soaps.
ROBERTSON CARRICART (Father O’Brien) - Returns to the Mint after his performance as John Ferguson in John Ferguson. Broadway credits include On The Waterfront, Zoya’s Apartment, Marriage Of Figaro (with Christopher Reeve), Design For Living (directed by George C. Scott) and Oklahoma!. Among his favorite roles Off-Broadway and regionally are: Billy Budd, Last Night Of Ballyhoo, A Touch Of The Poet, Treasure Island, Our Town, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Moon For The Misbegotten, Sleuth, Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream. Most recently on television he has been seen in 3 episodes of “Law and Order”. He has worked with Lauren Bacall, Anthony Quinn, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Bill Cosby, James Gandolfini, and Robin Williams and been directed by George C. Scott, Andrei Serban, Michael Blakemore, Adrian Hall and Michael Kahn.
BAIRBRE DOWLING (Maggie Cooney) The MINT. Is Life Worth Living? by Lennox Robinson. BROADWAY: Da with Brian Keith. .…and a Nightingale Sang, Lincoln Center. OFF-BROADWAY: Flying Blind, Clurman Theater; Early Irish Poetry Public Theatre w/ Siobhan Mc Kenna and Barnard Hughes. REGIONAL: Great Lakes Theatre Festival (roles include Ophelia, Beatrice, Mrs. Page, Laura, Glass Menagerie, Peg Peg o’ My Heart, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, A Childs Christmas in Wales) Mark Taper, Asolo Theater, Laguna Playhouse, Studio Arena Buffalo, Dancing at Lughnasa, South Coast Rep, Secret Rapture, David Grimm’s Sheridan, La Jolla Playhouse (Mrs. Pope) director Mark Brokaw. Amanda Private Lives; Mrs. Patrick Campbell Dear Liar; Honey, Gravity of Honey; Esther Franz, The Price; Lady Macbeth, A Macbeth; Athena, Wanderings of Odysseus GETTY; Penny, You Can’t Take it with You; Vi, Memory of Water, director Jenny Sullivan. Over twenty plays with California Artists Radio Theatre . TV: “Crossing Jordan”, “Murder She Wrote”, “ER”, “Star Trek: Voyager” and John Huston’s last film, “The Dead”. Bairbre has two stories in Monday Morning Memoirs, women in the second half of life.
CON HORGAN (Ned Coonery) Riders to the Sea (Fountain Theater LA and The Cornelia Connely Theater NY) Dir. Tony Torn. Twenty Five; Arrah Na Pogue, Shaughraun (Storm Theater) Dir. Peter Dobbins. The Plough and The Stars (The Irish Repretory) Dir. Charlotte Moore. Translations (Irish Arts Center) Dir. Brian Doyle. Moon of The Carribes (The Bat Theater) Dir. Simon Hammerstein. The Personal Equation (Province Town Playhouse) Dir. Stephen Kennedy Murphy. Rocking the Bronx (Lehman Center for Performing Arts) Dir. Ray Yates. Macaire (Theater for The New City) Dir. Thomas G. Waites and Mary Fassino. Portia Coughlin (Show World NY); In the Boom Boom Room (Show World NY, Dir. Aaron Bell. The Passion Play (Park Theater Performing Arts Center, directors Eric Hafen and Daniel Quinn). The Beauty Queen of Leenane (The Actor’s Theater of Louisville) Dir. Bill McNulty. Under Milkwood (Irish Arts Center LA) Dir. See Glassman. The Shattering (Cherry Lane Theater) Dir. Olympia Dukakis, Anna Christie (Actors Studio East and West) Dir. Wilson Milam. A Reed in the Wind (Blueberry Pond Arts Center) Dir. Ernie Martin. Film credits include: “Pizza” Dir. Donald Gregory; “God And Generals”, “Gettysburg” Dir. Ron Maxwell; “Crimson Tide” Dir. Tony Scott; “Batman” Dir. Christopher Nolan; “Beyond the Pale” Dir. George Bazala; “AKA Chinatown” Dir. David Michaels III; “Luminous Motion” Dir. Bette Gordon; “Some Fish Can Fly” Dir. Robert Kane Pappas. Television: “New York Under Cover”, “One Life To Live”, “Law & Order: SVU”.
ELI JAMES (Moses Barron) is making his Mint debut. His solo play William and the Tradesmen has been performed at numerous venues around the city, including Ars Nova, La Mama, and The Drilling Company. Stage credits include the original Broadway production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Four of Us at Manhattan Theatre Club, Becky Shaw at Boston’s Huntington Theater, and the world premiere of Jason Grote’s Maria/Stuart. Further regional credits include the East Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love at The Wilma Theater, Gross Indecency with Philadelphia Theater Company, and Howie the Rookie with Brat Productions; TV credits include “Lights Out” on FX and “Mercy” on NBC. His essay “Finding the Beat” was published in the Random House anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, a Boston Globe bestseller. He co-founded, wrote and performed with the comedy group Quiet Library at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and People’s Improv Theater. www.eli-james.com.
AIDAN REDMOND (Michael Donovan) Aidan is thrilled to be back at The Mint and to be a part of Temporal Powers. Previous New York theater engagements include, Wife To James Whelan (Mint), Blood Guilty (The Bronx Co./Wholeinthewall), Sive, (IRT), Anna Christie (Boomerang), Dirty Works and The Pitchfork Disney (Stiff Upper Lip). His work in film includes the recently released “Daylight” by David Barker, “I Sell The Dead” by Glenn McQuaid, and “79 Parts”, directed by Ari Taub.
WRENN SCHMIDT (Lizzie Brennan) most recently appeared in the world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s critically acclaimed Be a Good Little Widow at Ars Nova. Broadway: Come Back, Little Sheba (Manhattan Theatre Club). National tour: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? With Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner. Off-Broadway: Jailbait (Cherry Lane Theater), Sive (Irish Repertory Theatre), Phantom Killer (Abingdon Theatre Company), Caesar & Cleopatra (Resonance Ensemble), Crazy for the Dog (Jean Cocteau Repertory), The Dudleys! (Dream Up Festival, Theatre for a New City). Regional: Proof (Cape May Stage) and Heaven (Kitchen Dog Theater). Film & TV: “Client 9”, “Our Idiot Brother”, “Body of Proof”, “Mercy”, “The Necklace”, “Javelina”, “Law & Order”. Training: BFA, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. Proud member of AEA.
FIANA TOIBIN (Daisy Barron) The Mint: The Glass Cage. BROADWAY: Long Day’s Journey into Night (with Vanessa Redgrave), The Weir (Royal Court) and Shining City (MTC). OFF-BROADWAY: Sive, The Yeats Project, My Scandalous Life (Irish Repertory Theatre), The Boys (Outhouse), The Ginger Man (IAC), Fire Eater (CSV), Lovers (Abingdon). REGIONAL: Mrs. Packard (McCarter), Conversations on a Homecoming (Druid/Donmar Warehouse), Cyrano (Shakespeare Theatre DC), The Weir (Pittsburgh Public, Geffen Playhouse), A Streetcar Named Desire, Fen (Ovation Nomination Open Fist LA), After Miss Julie (Purple Heart), Hamlet, The Witches, A Doll’s House. FILM: “Twelve” (Joel Schumacher), “The Boxer”. TV: “Boardwalk Empire” (recurring), “The Sopranos”, all three “Law & Order” shows, “All My Children”, “Fair City”. Fiana was chosen by Backstage for their Best Performances of The Year for her performance as Olive in Crestfall (Origin/59E59) and recently had the pleasure of recording the radio play “I’m with Ya’ Duke” with Jerry Stiller.
VICKI R. DAVIS (Scenic Designer) Previous productions at the Mint: Wife to James Whelan, The Fifth Column, The Skin Game, The Lonely Way, Echoes of the War, Far and Wide, Rutherford & Son, The Voysey Inheritance, Miss Lulu Bett, Welcome to our City, August Snow & Night Dance, The House of Mirth, and The Time of Your Life. Off Broadway: Shpiel, Shpiel, Shpiel, Pirates of Penzance, A Novel Romance, Songs of Paradise, An American Family, Yoshke Muzicant (Folksbiene), Meanwhile, On...Mount Vesuvius (Adobe), Caucasian Chalk Circle (LaMaMa), ‘Til The Rapture Comes (WPA), The Occupation, Slasher, Out To Lunch and Relative Values. Regional: Arena Stage, The Alliance, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Laguna Playhouse, Starlight Kansas City, Madison Rep., The Barter, Capital Rep., Passages, Georgia Shakespeare, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Utah Opera, Kansas City Opera, Omaha Opera, Theater of the Stars, Boston Lyric Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Chester Theatre, and Music Theater North. Ms. Davis received a TCG/NEA Design Fellowship and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
ANDREA VARGA (Costume Designer) works as both a freelance costume designer in NYC and a faculty member in the Theatre Arts Department at SUNY New Paltz. Most recently she designed costumes for Next, a new play directed by Michael LoPorto at HERE. Last summer she designed Annie Get Your Gun at The Park Playhouse in Albany, NY. At the same time she designed costumes for a new musical I’ll Be Damned produced by Jaradoa Theater Company at The Vineyard Theatre and worked on a new independent film Small of Her Back by Russell Sharman. She is a member of United Scenic Artists and a proud alumna of Florida State University where she met her scenic designer husband, Nathan Heverin.
JEFF NELLIS (Lighting Designer) At the Mint: The Daughter-In-Law, John Ferguson, Fifth Column, Power of Darkness, Rutherford and Son, and others. Other designs include Broadway’s Prymate, Off-Broadway’s Tryst (New York Outer Critics Circle Nomination), The Milliner, Zanna Don’t!, From Door to Door, One Shot One Kill, Our Sinatra, Cobb, 2 ½ Jews, Coyote on a Fence, Men on the Verge of an Hispanic Breakdown, My Italy Story, The IT Girl, and others. Jeff has worked around the country at theatres including Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Centerstage, Alley Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Bay Street Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Hartford Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, North Shore Musical Theatre, Los Angeles Opera, Trinity Repertory Company, Florida Stage, and others.
JANE SHAW (Sound Designer) At the Mint: A Little Journey, Wife to James Whelan, Dr. Knock, Return of the Prodigal, Susan and God, Fifth Column, Walking Down Broadway, Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Off Broadway: Hamlet, Merchant of Venice (TFANA/RSC/National Tour), The Coward (Lincoln Center 3), The Sneeze (The Pearl), Liberty City (NYTW), among others. Off-off Broadway: En el tiempo de las Mariposas (Repertorio Espanol), The Wonder (Queen’s Company), Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Theater Row), CROOKED (Women’s Project), Sounding (HERE), Septimus and Clarissa (Ripe Time). Dance: Big Dance Theater (collaboration for over 12 years, Bessie Award, 2010), Susan Marshall, David Dorfman. Regional theater includes: Denver Center Theatre Company, City Theater (Pittsburgh), Williamstown Theater Festival, Capital Rep (Albany), Yale Repertory, Dorset Theater Festival, Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Recipient: NEA-TCG Career Development Grant, Meet the Composer. Nominations: Lortel, Eliot Norton, Henry Award, Connecticut Critics Circle. Graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Drama.
HEATHER J. VIOLANTI (Dramaturg) also worked on A Little Journey and Susan And God at the Mint. Other dramaturgy: Pearl’s Gone Blue by Leslie Kramer (NY Fringe Festival), The Odyssey Project: Which Direction Home? (The Internationalists), and Valiant adapted by Lanna Joffrey (Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret). She is a reader for the O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights and Music Theater Conferences. MFA, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama.
AMY STOLLER (Dialect Design, Additional Dramaturgy) celebrates 15 happy years as resident dialect designer/coach (and occasional dramaturg) at the Mint, most recently on Teresa Deevy’s Wife to James Whelan. Other Mint highlights include Is Life Worth Living?, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Fifth Column, The Daughter-in-Law, The Madras House, Echoes of the War, Milne at the Mint, and The Voysey Inheritance. Other New York credits include Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy at Second Stage (and the subsequent national tour), and shows at the Pearl, Keen, and Origin, among many others. Regional credits include world premieres by Athol Fugard, Paula Vogel, Anna Deavere Smith, and Aditi Brennan Kapil at the Long Wharf, plus productions at Arena Stage, A.R.T., People’s Light & Theatre, and Peterborough Players. Television work includes animated series, commercials and a documentary. Amy is Associate Editor for NYC at International Dialects of English Archive, and an officer of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. Learn more at www.stollersystem.com and find Stoller System on Facebook.
LISA McGINN (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be joining the Mint Theater for this production. NYC credits include How to Build a Forest (PearlDamour + Shawn Hall), Sing Sing and Stay With Us as part of NYU’s grad program Freeplay Festival, Next! (Abraxas Stage Company); In Quietness (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Ivanov (Chekhov at Lake Lucille); Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (Prospect Theater); Shakespeare’s Richard II…on Trapeze! (Matchbook Productions/Sonnet Rep); Limonade Tous Les Jours (New Voice Project/the cell theatre, starring Austin Pendleton); A Question of Mercy and Therese Raquin (PTP/NYC); Or, and Smudge (Women’s Project), Complete (2009 NYC Fringe Festival); The Shanghai Gesture (Mirror Rep); Elephant in the Room! (Stage 13); A Stone Carver (Soho Playhouse); Lisa has also worked regionally at Trinity Repertory Company, Two River Theater Company, Passage Theatre Company, Playwrights Theatre of NJ, The Old Globe, Charlotte Rep, NJPAC, Berkshire Theatre Festival.
ANDREA JO MARTIN (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to be back at The Mint! Credits include: Broadway: Rent (sub); Broadway Backwards 3, 4, 5 and 6. Off-Broadway: A Little Journey, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The Glass Cage, The Madras House (Mint); Busker Alley, Fanny Hill, A Fine and Private Place, and 10 different Musicals in Mufti (The York Theatre); with various companies: White’s Lies; Love Child; Signs of Life; De Novo; Beauty on the Vine; WASPs In Bed; A Dangerous Personality. Festivals: at NYMF: Judas & Me; Fringe Festival: Dancing With Abandon, and Trouble in Shameland. Andrea is also a sub at Naked Boys Singing! and NEWSical, Full Spin Ahead.
LAUREN MCARTHUR (Assistant Stage Manager) Lauren is exited to be working with the Mint team again! Previous Mint productions include: What the Public Wants, The Wife to James Whelan, So Help Me God! and Is Life Worth Living? Other NYC credits: This Side of Paradise (Culture Project); Life in a Marital Institution (59E59 Theaters & SoHo Playhouse); American Jornalero (Working Theater); Widows (59E59/Reverie); The Kids Left, The Dog Died, Now What? (NYMF); Savage in Limbo (The Process Group); The Program (NY Fringe Festival). Regional/Tour: The Wild Duck (Bard Summerscape); The Laramie Project & The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later Tour (Tectonic Theater Project). Film: Production Designer - ‘’Wunderkind’ (Dir: Lauren Rosen). She would like to thank her parents for their love and continued support. Proud member of AEA.
DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Press Representatives) also represents the Off-Broadway hits, Black Angels Over Tuskegee, Girl’s Night the Musical, and its sequel, Girl Talk, and Naked Boys Singing, as well as INTAR, Keen Company, Woodie King’s New Federal Theater, New World Stages, Red Bull Theater, and Stage Entertainment US. David serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, The Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers. www.davidgersten.com
STUART HOWARD, AMY SCHECTER & PAUL HARDT (Casting) have cast hundreds of shows over the past 25 years. Happily casting for The Mint since 2004.
SHERRI KOTIMSKY (General Manager/ Production Manager) Produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape, Shyster, 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 Festivals, River to River Festival and the Carol Tambor Awards 2005 productions, amongst many others. Currently working with several theater companies as business consultant, including Theater Breaking through Barriers and Premieres.
JONATHAN BANK (Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint since 1996 where he has unearthed and produced dozens of lost or neglected plays, many of which he has also directed. Most recently for the Mint, Bank directed Wife to James Whelan by Teresa Deevy. Other Mint credits include: Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me God! at the Lucille Lortel, which received four Drama Desk nominations, including Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director; Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living?, the American Professional Premiere of The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway, The Return of the Prodigal by St. John Hankin (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revival) and Susan and God by Rachel Crothers. Bank both adapted and directed Arthur Schnitzler’s Far and Wide and The Lonely Way which he also co-translated (with Margaret Schaefer). These two plays were published in a volume entitled Arthur Schnitzler Reclaimed which Bank edited. He is also the editor of two additional volumes in the “Reclaimed” series (Harley Granville Barker and St. John Hankin) as well as Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company.
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