White Horse Theater Company Presents

Moderated discussion with Williams scholars Dr. Annette J. Saddik and Thomas Keith led by Dramaturg Vanessa R.

Bombardieri following the 1/31 performance

The PlayersGreat Hall

16 Gramercy Park South, New York CityJanuary 30th, 31st, & February 4th, 2014 at 8pm

I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York on behalf of

the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

*Member Actors’ Equity/Equity Approved Showcase**Member SDC

Show Graphic by Lupo Blue/Program designed by Leslie Feffer

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VANESSA R. BOMBARDIERI (Dramaturg/Managing Director) Most recently she worked as Dramaturg on WHTC's  'NIGHT, MOTHER, FREEZER DREAMS, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL and SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS. Other WHTC credits include the Lab production of her one-act play EVERYBODY DIES IN FEBRUARY, Director for the staged reading of THE WITCHES' AVENUE (A EULOGY) by Greg Lemoine and Assistant Director on HALF, also by Greg Lemoine. Vanessa worked as Assistant Director on Cyndy A. Marion's productions of MINA (a new play by Obie-winner Leslie Lee at LaMaMa, E.T.C.) and PB&J (NYC Fringe Festival). She also worked as an Associate Producer for Crossing Jamaica Avenue's production of Thousand Years Waiting at PS 122. Directing credits include: Eugene Ionesco's The Painting and her own adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. Regional and Summer stock credits include: The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival and The New Repertory Theatre. Vanessa holds a BA in Theatre Directing from Bard College.

KATIE W. CHEW (Production Stage Manager) White Horse: 'night, Mother. Broadway: Golden Boy. Off-Broadway: On the Head of a Pin. Regional: The Threepenny Opera (Atlantic Theater Company), Jubilee (B&R Productions). This past summer, Katie worked with We Happy Few Productions at the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC. Katie has a B.A. in English and Theater & Performance Studies from Georgetown University.

BROOKE HARBAUGH (Assistant Director) is happy to be working again with The White Horse Theater Company after assistant directing for 'night, Mother. She has studied acting at HB Studio in New York City and directing and puppetry performance at Marymount Manhattan College, where she currently works as an Administrative Assistant for the Theater Office. She directed children's theater from 2000-2010. After graduating in 2006 from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, Brooke worked abroad in Changzhou, China for a year and in Bariloche, Argentina for ten months through the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship program. In both countries, she taught English as a second language and instated afterschool English-speaking theater programs.

Directed by Cyndy A. Marion**Featuring: Nancy Wolfe* & Joseph Cassese*

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This program has been made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field and with funding provided by WHTC Sponsors.

the workshop productions of FREEZER DREAMS and HALF; and costume design for A LIE OF THE MIND. Debra is also a freelance designer who has designed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Bradley Playhouse, Windham Theatre Guild, Eastern Connecticut Ballet, Wings Theatre Company, Michael Chekhov Theater Company, Mansfield Council for the Arts, Hackmatack Playhouse, and the Harry Hope Theatre. She holds an M.F.A. in Lighting Design with a concentration in Costume Design from the University of Connecticut. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lincoln College of New England and Three Rivers Community College. She also designs for dance, puppetry, and opera.  

DAVID B. THOMPSON - (Resident Costume Designer) David holds a MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Virginia Tech. David designed the costumes for WHTC's SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL, and the workshop production of HALF. Returning to New York after "running away to join the circus" as the Wardrobe Manager for a two year North American tour of CIRQUE DREAMS ILLUMINATION, a European-style circus, David enjoyed 10 months as an ensemble dresser on Broadway's PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT, immediately followed by 6 weeks with CIRQUE DREAMS JUNGLE FANTASY in Cancun, Mexico.  David ended the year of adventure by spending 4 months on the road with the 1st National Tour of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES as George Hamilton's dresser/personal assistant. Past designs have been seen at The Looking Glass Theatre's production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE, THE LARAMIE PROJECT, and AS YOU LIKE IT for the Gallery Players, and numerous Off Broadway houses.  He is currently playing with another circus as a Principal Dresser on Broadway's Tony Winning Revival of Pippin.

JOE GIANONO (Resident Composer/Arranger) Credits include: Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, BBC, Cleveland, Virginia, Juilliard Symphony Orchestras, among others, Paul Taylor Dance Company, NBA, The British Rock Symphony, Radio City Music Hall, over 30 Broadway & regional musicals, Backstreet Boys, Roger Daltrey, Philip Bailey, Michael Feinstein, Bryn Terfel, Robert Merrill, PM Dawn, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Thelma Houston, Ana Belen, Leslie Uggams, Ann Reinking, Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, Lesley Gore, Chita Rivera, Wynton Marsalis, Michel Camilo, Gene Bertoncini, Bucky Pizzarelli. Film & Television: Booty Call, Two Much, Chip'n Dale's Rescue Rangers, Kite, Dora The Explorer, others. His music can be heard on, The Soup and Chelsea Lately  and on the E -Entertainment television network. Joe composed incidental music for The Rose Tatoo, Little Eyolf, Savannah Black & Blue, Cyndy Marion's production of Leslie Lee's The Book of Lambert and WHTC's SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and 'NIGHT MOTHER. The main themes composed for Small Craft Warnings (Tennessee Williams) and The Book of Lambert (Leslie Lee) were featured on Exploring Music hosted by Bill McGlaughlin on WQXR (105.9 FM). Recent and up coming publications include Trois Jimnopedies for Flute and Guitar, TNT for Chorus and Piano, and Elegy for a Solo Cello and String Orchestra. He is an ASCAP member and is published by Subito Music and ACM Records.  His new single, "SILLY GIRL" recorded in Nashville by Brandon Maddox and the Reba McEntire Band will be released next summer.   www.joegianono.com.

Andy Evan Cohen (Sound Designer) has designed sound and written music for numerous NYC-area shows, including Off-Broadway productions Black Milk and She’s of a Certain Age. Other recent credits include WHTC's production of 'night, Mother, Incendiary Agents, Listen! The River at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and several shows at T. Schreiber studios, including the NYIT Award-winning Balm in Gilead. Andy holds degrees from Oberlin and the Manhattan School of Music; for more information, visit www.andycomusic.com.

COMPANY BIOSNANCY WOLFE (ONE) is thrilled to be working with the estimable White Horse Theater Company and the extraordinary Cyndy A. Marion. A student of Sanford Meisner, Nancy Wolfe is best known for her star turn as the psychotic Susan Atkins in Tom Gries’s 1976 TV special Helter Skelter.  She’s guest-starred in, among other things, two Hallmark Hall of Fame specials, The Ordeal of Patty Hearst and 70s TV series Baretta and Barnaby Jones. Film credits include: Another, Patrick Cavanaugh’s Hope in the Fog, Aphoria, The Intruders and Attic Expeditions. Her stage career includes leading roles in Come Back Little Sheba and The Gin Game, which won the ADA Award for Best Revival, and she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for 4318 Clarendon Road.

JOSEPH CASSESE (TWO) received his BFA from Seton Hall University in Fine Arts and Criminal Justice. He has studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, with renowned acting coach Michael Howard, The Acting Studio and at the Atlantic Theatre Company with Karen Kohlhaas. He has collaborated with Chelsea Repertory and LAB in several productions, recently performed on stage in Odets’ Waiting For Lefty at Theatre Nuance (NYC) and will appear next month in the Strawberry One Act Festival in Anthony Marinelli’s Acoustic Space. Off-Off Broadway stage credits include Shepard’s Fool For Love and McNally’s Frankie and Johnny In the Claire de Lune.  Independent feature films include A Better Place produced by Kevin Smith’s View Askew Productions, as well as studio films including a role in Penny Marshall’s Riding In Cars With Boys and most recently a web series titled Eat The Rabbit directed by Gwen Butler and also in a feature film, Ghosts In Our Hearts, written and directed by Joe Mileto. He has appeared in most of Anthony Marinelli’s short films, including Walt Whitman Never Paid for It (in the role he originated on stage), written by Angelo Berkowitz. Joe is very pleased to have this opportunity to contribute to the White Horse Theater Company’s effort to bring Mr. Williams’ work to life in this storied venue. He would like to express his heartfelt gratitude for all of the love and support he receives from his family and loved ones as he pursues his work in the arts.

CYNDY A. MARION — (Director/Producing Artistic Director) A native New Yorker, Cyndy was named one of nytheatre.com's “People of the Year” for 2007. Her directing credits with WHTC include: 'NIGHT, MOTHER, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL, BURIED CHILD, THE LATE HENRY MOSS, STATES OF SHOCK, A LIE OF THE MIND, TRUE WEST and the Workshop productions of HALF and FREEZER DREAMS. Other directing credits include: the world premieres of THE BOOK OF LAMBERT and MINA by Obie-winner Leslie Lee (La MaMa E.T.C.), PB&J (NYC International Fringe Festival), LA TURISTA and RED CROSS (Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.), TWISTER WITH AN OCTOPUS and ARTHUR MURRAY TAUGHT ME DANCING IN A HURRY (The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre), FOOL FOR LOVE and MUD (Brooklyn College), LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC (American Theatre of Actors), 12 ANGRY MEN and FIGHTING THE GORILLA (Riant Theatre) and THE MANDALA (The White Heron Inc.). She has directed readings of new plays for WHTC, La MaMa E.T.C., New Dramatists, The Players, and PRTT. She trained with The SITI Company, La MaMa Umbria, Fordham in Italy, T. Schreiber Studio, The Acting Studio Inc., and NYU. Cyndy holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College where she was the 2001 recipient of the Joel Zwick Scholarship in directing. She is a member of The Players and The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

DEBRA LEIGH SIEGEL (Resident Lighting Designer) Deb has been working with White Horse since its beginning in 2002. WHTC credits include: lighting and costume design for BURIED CHILD, THE LATE HENRY MOSS, and STATES OF SHOCK; lighting design for ‘NIGHT, MOTHER, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL, TRUE WEST and

SCHOLAR BIOS

DR. ANNETTE J. SADDIK is Professor of Theatre and English at CUNY, teaching in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and the English department at New York City College of Technology. Her area of specialization is twentieth- and twenty-first-century drama and performance, particularly the work of Tennessee Williams. She is the author of Contemporary American Drama (2007), a history of the postmodern performance of American identity on the stage since World War Two, and The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays (1999), and has edited and introduced a collection of Williams' previously unpublished later plays, The Traveling Companion and Other Plays (2008). In addition, she has published essays on theater in journals such as Modern Drama, The Drama Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Études Théâtrales, South Atlantic Review, Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and Valley Voices, as well as critical anthologies and encyclopedias of theater history. Dr. Saddik is completing a new book on Williams, Tennessee Williams and the Theater of Excess: The Strange, The Crazed, The Queer, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.  She also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Theatre Topics and The Tennessee Williams Annual Review.

THOMAS KEITH has edited over a dozen titles by Tennessee Williams for New Directions Publishing, including three collections of previously unpublished one-act plays as well as Williams’s last full-length play, A House Not Meant to Stand, for which he also wrote the introduction. Keith worked as an actor for many years, Off-Broadway, regionally, and on television, he recently edited a collection of essays, Love, Christopher Street, and has written and lectured widely on the influence of Scottish poet Robert Burns. An advisor to the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, he has written articles and essays for American Theater Magazine, Tenn at One Hundred, Tennessee Williams Annual Review, The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams, and Tennessee Williams in Europe, among others. He and Peggy Fox are co-editing The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin for publication by W.W. Norton in 2015. Keith has taught acting and theater at The Lee Strasberg Institute and Ohio University, currently at Pace University in New York, and has served as a dramaturge for the Sundance Institute Theater Lab.

SCHOLAR BIOS

DR. ANNETTE J. SADDIK is Professor of Theatre and English at CUNY, teaching in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and the English department at New York City College of Technology. Her area of specialization is twentieth- and twenty-first-century drama and performance, particularly the work of Tennessee Williams. She is the author of Contemporary American Drama (2007), a history of the postmodern performance of American identity on the stage since World War Two, and The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays (1999), and has edited and introduced a collection of Williams' previously unpublished later plays, The Traveling Companion and Other Plays (2008). In addition, she has published essays on theater in journals such as Modern Drama, The Drama Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Études Théâtrales, South Atlantic Review, Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and Valley Voices, as well as critical anthologies and encyclopedias of theater history. Dr. Saddik is completing a new book on Williams, Tennessee Williams and the Theater of Excess: The Strange, The Crazed, The Queer, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.  She also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Theatre Topics and The Tennessee Williams Annual Review.

THOMAS KEITH has edited over a dozen titles by Tennessee Williams for New Directions Publishing, including three collections of previously unpublished one-act plays as well as Williams’s last full-length play, A House Not Meant to Stand, for which he also wrote the introduction. Keith worked as an actor for many years, Off-Broadway, regionally, and on television, he recently edited a collection of essays, Love, Christopher Street, and has written and lectured widely on the influence of Scottish poet Robert Burns. An advisor to the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, he has written articles and essays for American Theater Magazine, Tenn at One Hundred, Tennessee Williams Annual Review, The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams, and Tennessee Williams in Europe, among others. He and Peggy Fox are co-editing The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin for publication by W.W. Norton in 2015. Keith has taught acting and theater at The Lee Strasberg Institute and Ohio University, currently at Pace University in New York, and has served as a dramaturge for the Sundance Institute Theater Lab.