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The Skin Gameby John Galsworthy

CASTin order of appearance

HILLCRIST..................................................................................................John C. VennemaJILL (his daughter).................................................................................Nicole LowranceFELLOWS (his butler)/SOLICITOR..............................................Richard WaddinghamMR. JACKMAN (his tenant)/STRANGER....................................................Carl PalmerMRS. JACKMAN/ANNA (Chloe’s maid).........................................................Pat NesbitDAWKER (his agent)..................................................................................Stephen RoweAMY HILLCRIST (his wife)...................................................................Monique FowlerHORNBLOWER (a man newly rich)..............................................................James GaleCHARLES HORNBLOWER (his elder son)....................................................Leo KittayCHLOE (wife to Charles)..............................................................................Diana LaMarROLF HORNBLOWER (his younger son)...................................................Denis ButkusAUCTIONEER/STRANGER.................................................................Nick Berg Barnes

Act I, Scene 1 -Hillcrist’s study.Act I, Scene 2 -A month later. An auction room.

IntermissionAct II, Scene 1 - The evening of the auction. Chloe’s boudoir.Act II, Scene 2 - The following day. Hillcrist’s study. Morning.

Act II, Scene 3 - The same. Evening.

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Biography of John Galsworthy (1867 -1933)

English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literaturein 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British uppermiddle class and for his social satire. His most famous work is TheForsyte Saga (1906-1921). Galsworthy was a representative of the literarytradition which has regarded the novel as an instrument of social debate.He believed that it was the duty of an artist to examine a problem, but notto provide a solution.

He was born in Kingston Hill, Surrey, into an upper-middle-class family. He studied law atHarrow and New College, Oxford. In 1890 he was called to the bar. However, he never settledinto practice, but chose to travel - partly to forget an unlucky love affair. In 1893 Galsworty metthe writer Joseph Conrad while on a South Sea voyage. This meeting convinced Galsworthy togive up law and become a writer instead. Later Galsworthy helped Conrad financially.

Galsworthy's first four books were published at his own expense under the pseudonym JohnSinjohn. He considered these early efforts, written under the influence of Kipling and Russiannovelists, heavy and exaggerated. After reading Maupassant and Turgenev, Galsworthy pub-lished Villa Rubein (1900) in which he started to find his own voice. The Island Pharisees(1904) was the first book which came out under his own name. In 1905 he married Ada PersonCooper with whom he had lived in secret for ten years, because his father had disapproved of therelationship. Ms. Cooper had formerly been married to Galsworthy’s cousin.

Although Galsworthy chronicled changes in the middle-class family in England, he stated in thepreface of The White Monkey that the English character had changed very little since the time ofVictoria. Galsworthy also gained recognition as a dramatist with his plays that dealt directly withthe unequal division of wealth and the unfair treatment of poor people. The Silver Box (1906)stated that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, Strife (1909), depicted a miningstrike, and Justice (1910) encouraged Winston Churchill in his program for prison reform. Laterplays include The Skin Game (1920), filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1931, Loyalties (1922),dealing with the theme of anti-Semitism, and Escape (1926).

During World War I Galsworthy tried to enlist in the army but he was rejected due to his short-sightedness. In France he worked for the Red Cross, and helped refugees in Belgium.Galsworthy refused knighthood in 1917 in the belief that writers should not accept titles. He alsogave away at least half of his income to humanitarian causes. In 1924 Galsworthy founded withCatherine Dawson Scott PEN, an international organization of writers. The trust fund wasfinanced by his Nobel Prize money. The organization was named PEN when someone pointedout at the first meeting that the initial letters on poet, essayist and novelist were the same in mostEuropean languages.

John Galsworthy died on January 31, 1933. He produced 20 novels, 27 plays, 3 collections ofpoetry, 173 short stories, 5 collections of essays, 700 letters, and many sketches and miscella-neous works.

For further reading: The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy by H.V. Marrot (1935); JohnGalsworthy by V. Dupont (1942); John Galsworthy by R.H. Mottram (1953); The Man ofPrincipal by D. Baker (1963); John Galsworthy by N. Croman (1970); John Galsworthy by C.Dupré (1976); John Galsworthy as Dramatic Artist by R.H. Cotes (1978); John Galsworthy byA. Frechet (1982); The Language and Style of John Galsworthy by F.A. Mooty (1982); JohnGalsworthy's Life and Art by J. Gindin (1987); John Galsworthy by S.V. Sternlicht (1987)

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Been Here Before (Pearl Theatre Company); theDrama League DirectorFest (third season);Ezekiel's Revelation, a film by Katherine Sharp.Coming soon: Doctor Dolittle national tour forTroika Entertainment. For more information,please visit www.stollersystem.com.

Amber Wedin (Production Stage Manager) Amberis pleased to be working with Mint TheaterCompany for the first time on The Skin Game.New York Credits include Embedded (The PublicTheater, Writer/Director Tim Robbins); SpinMoves (Summer Play Festival); Rose and Walsh(MTC/Geffen Playhouse; pre-production);Requiem for William, Fetching Water (TransportGroup); Taming of the Shrew (HamptonsShakespeare Festival). Regional and Tour: BurnThe Floor (International); Dinner With Friends(Geffen Playhouse and national tour); My FairLady, Twelfth Night, Blur, and The Front Page(Dallas Theater Center); Julies Dance (TriadStage), The Vagina Monologues (The CannonTheater); and five seasons with ShakespeareFestival/LA.

Mandy Berry (Asst. Stage Manager) After toilingaway for 4 long years at East Carolina University,Mandy walked away with her BFA and the worldat her fingertips. She proceeded on a tour of someof the countries great opera houses including Yale,Indianapolis, and Santa Fe. Making her way to theonly city able to keep her attention, she beganworking with the likes of The Invictous TheaterCompany, Women Seeking…, Theater Faction andThe Juilliard School. She has since made NewYork her home, having just bought her first apart-ment.

Denise R. Zeiler (Asst. Stage Manager) is delight-ed to be working on this production. Favorite Off-Broadway credits include Henry V, ThreepennyOpera, Arms and the Man and Dames at Sea.Credits also include national tours and regionalwork. Thank you to the cast, crew and staff of MintTheater, also to my parents and friends for theirlove and support.

Jonathan Bank (Artistic Director) Under Bank'sleadership, Mint has been awarded both an Obieand a Drama Desk in the last three years. Bank hasunearthed and produced more than two dozen wor-thy but neglected plays including Echoes of theWar by J.M. Barrie, The Daughter-In-Law by D. H.Lawrence and Arthur Schnitzler's Far and Wideand The Lonely Way which he adapted and direct-ed. He is the editor of Worthy But Neglected: Plays

of the Mint Theater Company which includes hisadaptations of Thomas Wolfe's Welcome to OurCity and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, bothof which he directed at Mint, along with five otherMint rediscoveries. He also edited Mint's latestvolume: Arthur Schnitzler Reclaimed. Bankdirected Ivanov and Othello for the National AsianAmerican Theater Company, John Brown's Body,The Double Bass and Three Days of Rain for theMiniature Theater of Chester and Candida and Mr.Pim Passes By for the Peterborough Players. Heearned his M.F.A. from Case Western ReserveUniversity in his hometown of Cleveland, OH.

Ted Altschuler (Associate Director) Directing:operas: at New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera,Rode Hoode (Amsterdam), and Juilliard where hetaught for nine years Plays include: the long-run-ning, award-winning Virginia (Cloud 42, Chicago),On the Verge, The Road to the Graveyard, HotFudge, Icarus's Mother, Play with Repeats and TheGlass Menagerie. Former Artistic Director ofClavis Theater Ensemble, Milwaukee. Recentprojects include: an opera of Poe's A Tell TaleHeart, Georgia O'Keefe x Catherine Rogers.

Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter & Paul Hardt(Casting) have cast hundreds of shows over thepast 25 years. Among their favorites are:Broadway: Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Chicago (BebeNeuwirth, Ann Reinking), Sly Fox (RichardDreyfuss), Fortune's Fool (Alan Bates, FrankLangella) & the original La Cage Aux Folles. OffBroadway: I Love You, You're Perfect, NowChange & The Normal Heart. Currently: OnGolden Pond starring James Earl Jones.Upcoming: the Broadway revival of The CaineMutiny Court Martial.

David Gersten (Press Representatives) is proud tocontinue our relationship with Mint. DGA current-ly represents the off-Broadway hits Altar Boyz andThe Awesome 80s Prom as well as the upcomingDr. Sex, the musical comedy about Alfred Kinsey,opening this fall. Other current clients includeVictoria & Michael Imperioli's Studio Dante, JeanCocteau Repertory, Ensemble Studio Theatre,Storm Theatre, Edge Theatre Company, TheLucille Lortel Foundation, and The League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers' annual LortelAwards (10th year!), which David also writes andco-produces. David serves on the Board ofGovernors of ATPAM, the Association ofTheatrical Press Agents & Managers

The Press Quotes John Galsworthy

from Galsworthy in the Theatre -The New York Times, Feb. 5, 1933

from Our Civilization is “Permanent Indigestion”-The New York Times, Feb. 23, 1919

from Galsworthy’s Record In America-The New York Times, Nov. 26, 1927

from Galsworthy Denies That He is a Reformer-The New York Times, March 10, 1912

“I hope I am an artist, but I do not set up to be areformer by any means. I have not made the nec-essary, scientific study of society; so I must writeabout what I see and feel just as I see and feel it...

The difference between novels and plays is thatone knows a novel will be read as it is written,whereas a writer is by no means certain that a playwill be produced as it has left the author’s hand. Idon’t believe in preaching from the stage, but I dobelieve that art must be inspired by sincerity ofmood. One really must say something - not mere-ly throw out that which may serve to satisfymomentary taste.”

It has been proposed to the authorthat “The Forsyte Sage” be dram-atized, either by himself of someone else. Having conceived thework as a novel, however, he isunable to see it in the differentframe of the theatre...

As Galsworthy was born with asilver spoon in his mouth, henever has had to consider themoney return from his work. Hiscontracts with producers are sim-ple affairs. Unlike Bernard Shaw,he will consider, and oftentimesaccept, suggestions for the cuttingof lines or scenes. He attendsrehearsals of his plays religiouslyif he happens to be in the samecountry. Actors who have workedwith him express a high regard notonly for his knowledge of actingand direction but for the manner inwhich he makes his wishesknown.

“I feel very strongly,” he said, “that the moderntrend of civilization proceeds far too much on amachine-made footing. There seems to be a contin-ual game of producing fresh means to satisfy mate-rial appetities, which all the time are increasing withthe satsifaction they are receiving, so as to force usto an increased rate of speed. So we go on a con-tinual wild-goose chase. And we don’t seem to getany nearer to happiness in life.”

“... If it occurs to the artist to deal with the English landowner, and if he sees the Englishlandowner from a different angle and makes a faithful picture of what he sees, the picture willappear destructive and satiric. Most people will talk about its ‘purpose.’ Yet the artist had noconscious purpose. He has simply written what he has seen and felt. It is only that he had adifferent point of view. He has painted the picture and colored it with his own tempera-ment...His work is art....It is not, you see, the business of the artist to work for a practical end.And the nearer a writer gets to the manner of the pulpit - and I use the word pulpit in no slight-ing sense - the farther he gets from art and therefore from effectiveness. The moment hebegins to work with a definite practical end, he runs grave danger of bad art.”

Research by Amy Stoller and Jonathan Bank, edited by Ted Altschuler. For moreinformation on John Galsworthy go to:www.minttheater.org/onstage/notes.html

Wishful Thinking (2000 Dorothy Silver PlaywrightAward). Thicker Than Water (New Play Festival atCleveland Play House, Fringe Festival at StamfordCenter for the Arts). Artistic director of theFolksbiene Theatre from 1998-2002. An actress onand off-Broadway, most recently her one womanshow: Hip, Heymish and Hot (John HousemanTheatre) Recordings: Songs in the Key of Yiddish;Going Home - Gems of Yiddish Song.

Tracy Christensen (Costume Designer)) Recentdesign projects include Regina at The KennedyCenter, Candide at Avery Fisher Hall with the NewYork Philharmonic, Sunday in the Park withGeorge at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, (all starringPatti LuPone), Souvenir, starring Judy Kaye at theYork Theater, Macbeth for the ShakespeareFestival of St. Louis, a ballet of The Sorcerer'sApprentice for ABT's Studio Company, BlueHorizons, the new 2005 whale and dolphin showfor Sea World in Orlando, Florida. and the offBroadway revue, Jerry Herman's Showtunes.Represented on Broadway as a design associatewith Beauty and the Beast and Fiddler on the Roof

Vicki R. Davis (Set Designer) Mint: The LonelyWay, Echoes of the War, Far and Wide, Welcome toOur City, The Voysey Inheritance, Miss Lulu Bett,August Snow & Night Dance, The House of Mirth,The Time of Your Life, and costumes for Pericles.NYC-Scenery: A Novel Romance, Songs ofParadise, An American Family, and YoshkeMuzicant (Folksbiene Yiddish Theater). 'Til TheRapture Comes (WPA). Richard III, Black Mask(The Ontological). Costumes: Adobe's Meanwhileon the Other Side of Mt. Vesuvious, AndreSerbans's Caucasian Chalk Circle at LaMama,American Silents (dir. Anne Bogart), O'Neill (BlueHeron). Off-Broadway: The Occupation, Slasher,Out to Lunch, Relative Values. Regional: ArenaStage, Alliance Theatre, Dallas Theater Center,Madison Repertory Theater, Milwaukee RepertoryTheater, Utah Opera Co, Lyric Opera of KansasCity,Starlight in Kansas City, Georgia ShakespeareFestival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, BarterTheatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, The MiniatureTheatre of Chester, Music Theatre North, Passages,Theatre of the Stars, Boston Lyric Opera, LakeGeorge Opera Festival. TCG/NEA Design Fellow.Member USA Local 829.

Bruce Ellman (Sound Designer) New York creditsinclude Echoes of the War at Mint and Iron, Rose'sDilemma, Bad Dates, Last Dance, Polish Joke,Kimberly Akimbo, The Tale of The Allergist's Wife(Broadway), Runt of the Litter, Ctrl+Alt+Delete,

Fully Committed (LA Drama Critics Circle nomi-nation), The Waverly Gallery, Full Bloom, YardGal, Comic Potential (Drama Desk nomination),House and Garden, Fuddy Meers, Full Gallop,Three Viewings, The Radical Mystique, CurrentEvents, Four Dogs and a Bone, Beggars in theHouse of Plenty, Tea, Wolf-Man, Jenny KeepsTalking, Pretty Fire, Mambo Mouth, PoliticalAnimal, Beauty's Daughter, The Old Boy, and ToGillian on Her 37th Birthday.

Judi Guralnick (Prop Designer) is the Prop ShopSupervisor for the Conservatory of Theater Artsand Film at Purchase College, and freelances in theNY and Connecticut areas. She spent five years asProp Designer at the Walnut Street Theatre inPhiladelphia, and many summers at Maine StateMusic Theater. Some favorite props she has creat-ed: the fruit for a Fruit of the Loom commercial,carousel animals for a production of Joseph…, amacramé ass's head for A Midsummer's NightDream and a lamb for Winter's Tale. Judi has alsodesigned sets for small theaters from Maine toWashington, DC and in Israel. She was part of theArad Arts Project in Israel, where she had a one-woman exhibition of her drawings, sculpture andmacramé hangings. She is the resident PropDesigner at Mint.

Traci Klainer (Lighting Deisgner) New Yorkcredits include: Echoes of the War at Mint, direct-ed by Eleanor Reissa; Five By Tenn, directed byMichael Kahn (Manhattan Theatre Club); theBroadway production of Prune Danish starringJackie Mason; Christopher Shinn's Four atManhattan Theatre Club (Lucille Lortel nomina-tion); Dragapella, Upstairs at Studio 54, directedby Glenn Casale; Betty Buckley in Concert atMaxim's; and BC/EFA's Nothing Like a Dame2001-2004. Regional credits include: TopDog/Underdog directed by Leah Gardner atPhiladelphia Theatre Company; Cowgirls directedby Eleanor Reissa at Capital Rep; Gypsy starringAndrea McArdle, directed by Jason Eagan; Bingodirected by Glenn Casale; the 20th Anniversaryproduction of Pump Boys and Dinettes (MetrolinaTheatre Award Nomination) and Let Me Sing, bothdirected by Michael Bush. Ms. Klainer is a partnerin the design firm Luce Group.

Amy Stoller (Dialects/Dramaturg) With EleanorReissa at the Mint: Echoes of the War; Diana ofDobson's. Other Mint: Milne at the Mint, TheDaughter-in-Law, The Charity That Began atHome, Rutherford & Son, The Voysey Inheritance,and Mr. Pim Passes By. Also this season: I Have

The 6 towns of Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Longton, Tunstall and Fenton are collectively knownas the Potteries. The area of Stoke-on-Trent is also confusingly known as the 'Five Towns'as a result of Arnold Bennet's novels. Industry has made Stoke-on-Trent the successful cityit is today and pottery has been produced in the area since the 14th century.

Landscape with Chimneys taken in the Potteries with the caption "20th Century Hell"

"...from the north of the county right down to the south, they stand alone for civilisation,applied science, organised manufacture.... you cannot drink tea out of a teacup without theaid of the Five Towns; because you cannot eat a meal with decency without the aid of theFive Towns.

For this the architecture of the Five Towns is an architecture of ovens and chimneys; forthis its atmosphere is as black as mud; for this it burns and smokes all night so thatLongshaw (Longton) has been compared to Hell."

-The Old Wives' Tale, (1908) Arnold Bennett (whose face you see center rear of image)

Poverty in the Potteries from a mural in the Potteries Shopping Centre

Nick Berg Barnes (Auctioneer/Stranger) A nativeLondoner, Nick has appeared in numerous projectson both sides of the Atlantic. US theatre: SomeoneWho'll Watch Over Me (The Tank), Twelfth Nightand The Invisible Man (Aquila). London theatreincludes: Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential,Guiteau in Assassins, Possible Worlds, Incest &Plastic Surgery (Royal Court), Romeo & Juliet(RSC), & Charlton Heston's production of TheCaine Mutiny Court Martial; other UK andInternational theatre includes Elyot in PrivateLives, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, AsYou Like It, The Tempest, Ivanov, Antigone,Candida, Saint Joan, and Little Women. TV andRadio: Anna Karenina, My Hero, Chambers,Casualty (BBC), The Bretts (Central), AdrianMole: The Wilderness Years (BBC Radio) andmany others. Films include: Outland, Ball-Trap OnThe Côte Sauvage, Scoop and The Guys. Nick'sfirst play: A Celebrity Chef Ate My Hamster! wasproduced at London's Bridewell Theatre in 2003.

Denis Butkus (Rolf Hornblower) is an actor andmusician. NY theater includes: The Seven(Workshop, NYTW), directed by Jo Bonney;Prometheus Bound (Lincoln Center TheaterDirector's Lab), Greater Messapia (QueensTheater in the Park), St. Crispin's Day(Rattlestick), Three-Cornered Moon (KeenCompany). Regionally: Spuyten Duyvil (SevenDevils Playwrights Conference), Arcadia(Sacramento Theater Company). ArtisticAssociate of Rising Phoenix Repertory and a grad-uate of Juilliard.

Monique Fowler (Amy Hillcrist) Broadway: YouCan't Take It With You. Off-Broadway: LondonSuite, Tamara, Dandy Dick, The Girl of the GoldenWest, Mary Barnes. Regional includes: Vincent inBrixton (Virginia Stage Company), Loves andHours, Vita and Virginia, Things We Do For Love,and many others (The Old Globe Theatre), MuchAdo About Nothing (Dramalogue Award -La JollaPlayhouse), Night of the Iguana (Dallas TheatreCenter), Hay Fever (Alley Theatre). International:Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, Ouro Preto, Brazil.Film: Celebrity, Mind the Gap. Television: Lawand Order, Criminal Intent, The Skin of Out Teeth.Monique is an Associate Artist of The Old GlobeTheatre.

James Gale (Hornblower) has appeared in produc-tions both on and off Broadway including: MajorBarbara (Roundabout) Playboy of The WesternWorld (Irish Rep) Engaged (Theater For A NewAudience) The Beard Of Avon (NYTW) among

others. He is a member of The Athens ST. Co whoperform regularly at the 92nd St "Y". He mostrecently performed as William in DaelOrlandersmith's latest play Raw Boys (WilmaTheatre, Philadelphia). Among the many roles hehas played in regional theaters all over the U.S. are,Macbeth, Henry, in Lion In Winter, Robert, in BlueOrange, Titus Andronicus, Benedick, in Much AdoAbout Nothing, George, in Who's Afraid OfVirginia Woolf, Alberto Barcos in The Magic Fire,and Shylock in The Merchant Of Venice. James isa long time member of Actors Equity and trained atWebber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art inLondon.

Leo Kittay (Charles Hornblower) Broadway:Impossible Marriage. New York: Demon Baby,Belle’s Strategem, the Poetry/Playwright Projectwith the Vinyard Theater. Regional: Mrs.Warren's Profession (Frank) at The Guthrie, Picnic(Hal) at Baltimore Centerstage, Importance ofBeing Earnest (Algernon) at Actors' Theater ofLouisville. Also Hay Fever at Playmakers, as wellas works by Jane Martin and Arthur Kopit at TheHumana Festival. Television: Law & Order, Law& Order SVU, 100 Centre Street, Education of MaxBickford, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, All MyChildren.

Diana LaMar (Chloe) This is Ms. LaMar's firstproduction for Mint Theatre Company. OnBroadway, she appeared in Leonard Foglia's pro-duction of Wait Until Dark. Other New York cred-its include several productions at Ensemble StudioTheatre including The Observatory directed by JimSimpson. As a member of The Acting Company,she performed in Romeo & Juliet and The TwoGentlemen of Verona. Her regional credits include:Charlotte in The Real Thing (ACT); Rosalind in AsYou Like It, Desdemona in Othello, and Beatrice inServant of Two Masters (Center Stage); Miriam inMeshugah (Trinity Repertory Theatre); Mary Annin Escape from Happiness, Denise in ProblemChild, and Harper in Angels In America(Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Queen Elizabethin Richard III (The Shakespeare Theatre);Celimene in The Misanthrope (The Long Wharf);Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (The Alliance);Lemon in Aunt Dan and Lemon (The EmptySpace); and Nina in The Seagull (Dallas TheatreCenter). Ms. LaMar's film and television creditsinclude: Ten Hundred Kings, Law & Order, All MyChildren, One Life To Live, and the CBS mini-series American Tragedy.

Nicole Lowrance (Jill Hillcrist) New York:Engaged (Minnie, Dir. Doug Hughes), Tatjana inColor (Antonia, dir. Will Pomerantz), Don Juan(Charolette, dir. Bartlett Sher), Measure forMeasure (u/s Isabella, dir. Mary Zimmerman).Washington DC: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet, TheFolger Theater), The Little Foxes (Alexandra) andHamlet (Ophelia, both at Shakespeare Theater ofD.C. where she earned her Equity Card).Television: Guiding Light, Whoopi, AmericanMasters: Miller/Kazan. Education: The JuilliardSchool, BFA 2001. www.nicolelowrance.com

Pat Nesbit (Mrs. Jackman/Anna) is very happy tobe returning to Mint Theater where she appearedlast summer with Frances Sternhagen in The OldLady Shows Her Medals. Broadway creditsinclude: The Young Man From Atlanta, The LastNight of Ballyhoo, the National Tours ofCopenhagen and Biloxi Blues. She has done vari-ous productions with Manhattan Class Company.Regional Theater includes: The Little Foxes (SanJose Repertory), The Last Night of Ballyhoo(Coconut Grove Theater), Blithe Spirit (AsoloTheater), The Young Man From Atlanta (GoodmanTheatre), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Alliance Theatre),Eleemosynary (The Spoleto Festival), CollectedStories (Caldwell Theatre) and Copenhagen (GevaTheatre).

Carl Palmer (Mr. Jackman/Stranger) Carl is veryhappy to be returning to the Mint where he previ-ously played St. Clare in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Off-Broadway theater includes: the Culture Project,Abingdon Theatre, Transport Group, and theEnsemble Studio. Regional theater includes: TheHudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, MilwaukeeRep, Barrington Stage, the Schoolhouse Theatre,Swine Palace, PCPA Theatrefest, and ArkansasRep. Recent favorite roles include Al in The BabyDance (Schoolhouse) and Dr. Cecil Bonner inTexas Homos (Abingdon Workshop). Carl's Filmand TV credits include The Sopranos, Law &Order: Criminal Intent, Special Victims Unit, Ed,Third Watch, The Pelican Brief, and As The WorldTurns.

Stephen Rowe (Dawker) Broadway: The Goat,Some Americans Abroad, Serious Money, TheNerd. Off-Broadway: A Picasso (ManhattanTheater Club): Big Bill (Lincoln Center Theater);Tiny Alice (Second Stage); O Jerusalem (FleaTheater); Coming of Age in Soho, The NormalHeart (NY Shakespeare Festival); Regional:Romeo and Juliet, School for Scandal (McCarterTheater); The Crucible (A Contemporary Theater);

So Many Words: DramaLogue Award (South CoastRep); Sight Unseen (World Premiere, South CoastRep; Berkeley Rep; Bay Area Critics Award).Founding Member, American Repertory Theater (7seasons). Albee's Men (ART), Albee Directs Albee(International Tour); The Zoo Story, Who's Afraidof Virginia Woolf? (Vienna English Theater). Film:The Pink Panther, Basic Instinct, ImaginaryHeroes, Red Doors ('05 Tribeca Film Festival: BestNarrative Film, NYC). Queens College TheaterFaculty.

John C. Vennema (Hillcrist) Mr. Vennema playedTom in the Off-Broadway and Broadway produc-tions of The Ride Down Mt. Morgan by ArthurMiller. He has also been seen on Broadway in TheRoyal Family, Otherwise Engaged, The ElephantMan, and Racing Demon. Recent Off-Broadwayincludes Bud in The Secret Narrative of the PhoneBook, Hugo in Good Morning, Bill, and GavinRyng-Mayne in House and Garden at theManhattan Theatre Club. Film principal roles: TheCat's Meow, City Hall, Subway Stories, Sabrina,Die Hard with a Vengeance, Kiss of Death,Basketball Diaries, and Separate But Equal. Hestudied Politics at Princeton, and trained at theLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Richard Waddingham (Fellows/Solicitor) anative of Titusville, Pennsylvania and a graduate ofRutgers University (MFA) can next be seen in TheImportance of Being Ernest at the ShakespeareTheatre of New Jersey. A member of The DroveTheatre Company, he recently appeared in theirNYC premiere of Tracks Beneath the Wheels byGreg Scot Mihalik and The DTC's TribecaScreenplay Reading Series. He is currently devel-oping Lincoln Logues, a one-man show portrayingthe life of Abraham Lincoln. Thanks to JonathanBank and Eleanor Reissa for this great opportunityand to Patty and his family for their continued loveand encouragement.

Eleanor Reissa (Director) Broadway: Those Werethe Days (Tony Nomination), Nothing Like a Dame(Marquis Theatre); Mint Theater: Echoes of TheWar (with Frances Sternhagen and RichardEaston), Diana of Dobson’s. Off-Broadway:Cowgirls (Minetta Lane); Songs of Paradise (NYShakespeare Festival); Sweet Dreams, A Klezmer'sTale, An American Family (Folksbiene Theatre),Out of Sterno (Cherry Lane Alternative) Regional:Avenue X, Syncopation, Somewhere Over TheRainbow: Yip Harburg's America. As a play-wright: The Last Survivor (Northlight Theatre,Chicago; Taper Too, LA, dir. Gordon Davidson),