ARTISTIC DIRECTORJosh Short

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COSTUME DESIGNDIRECTED BY

SCENIC DESIGNAbigail Dufresne

Fred Sullivan†

Luke SutherlandSOUND & LIGHTING DESIGN STAGE MANAGEMENT

Andy Russ Maxine Wolfson

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WAITING FOR GODOT

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AKNOWLEDGEMENTSMilly Massey, Sara Jablon Roberts, Providence College, CCRI Theatre Department,

University of Rhode Island, and Trinity Repertory Company

Estragon / GogoVladimir / Didi

Pozzo

Lucky

Boy

Richard Donelly*Tom Gleadow*Brandon Whitehead*Zachary GibbPaige Barlow, Hayley Pezza

This play is performed with one ten-minute intermission.

*Actor appears courtesy of Actors’’ Equity Association (AEA).

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ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION: Art and Healing Exhibit October 1-31 2019

Gallery Night Reception October 17th 5-9pmThe exhibit features art work in all media focusing on art as healing and an expression of the impact of anxiety and depression, featuring drawings from the Anxiety Project by Performance Artist William Doan. Dr. Doan is the Theatre Professor and Artist Laureate of the College of Nursing from Penn State University. It will also include the work by a group of dynamic area artists in all media.FROZEN IN THE TOILET PAPER AISLE OF LIFE October 18th at 7:30 A Solo Performance by Professor Bill Doan Theatre Professor and Artist Laureate of the College of Nursing from Penn State University from the Anxiety Project.

ABOUT THE CAST

Richard Donelly, Estragon / Gogo Previous Wilbury Group: The Caretaker; Other theatres (select): Trinity Rep, The Gamm, Playwrights Horizons, The Charles Playhouse, the old 2nd Story Theatre. Television appearances include "Law & Order", "Body of Proof", "Brotherhood", "Providence" and, for you seniors, "Captain Kangaroo". Movie appearances: "Mystic River", "American Hustle", "Black Mass", "Manchester by the Sea" and a few independent films

Tom Gleadow, Vladimir / Didi Previous Wilbury Group: The Threepenny Opera, Cabaret; Other theatres (select): Theatre By The Sea ( The Music Man, La Cage Aux Folles, Spamalot, My Fair Lady, Sister Act, The Wizard of Oz, Young Frankenstein); Trinity Repertory Company (Oklahoma!, Oliver!, A Christmas Carol); The Gamm Theatre (The Importance of Being Earnest, Awake and Sing, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Arcadia, Romeo and Juliet); Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Cymbeline, As You Like It), The Burbage Theatre (Twelfth Night), Greater Boston Stage Company (She Loves Me), and North Shore Music Theatre (Young Frankenstein, Anything Goes).

Brandon Whitehead, Pozzo Previous Wilbury Group: Debut; Other theaters (select): Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (Matha's Vineyard Playhouse);Night of the Iguana, As You Like It, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arcadia (Gamm); Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost, King Lear (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Inherit the Wind, Breaking Legs (Ocean State Theater); A Christmas Carol, Joe Egg, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (ACT); Twelfth Night, The Imaginary Invalid (Seattle Repertory Theater); Paradise Lost (Intiman) Film/Television (select): 21 and Over; Castle Rock (Hulu); Leverage (TNT).

Zachary Gibb, Lucky Previous Wilbury Group: Debut; Other theaters (select): Cymbeline, Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Inherit the Wind (Ocean State Theatre Company). He lives in Providence.

ABOUT THE CAST

Hayley Pezza, Boy Previous Wilbury Group: Fun Home (John); Other theaters (select): Once On This Island (Little Ti Moune); Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Jane); Mary Poppins (Jane Banks); 42nd Street (waitress); Into The Woods (Florida). Hayley has performed throughout New England in theater competitions such as Access Broadway, Onstage NY and Turn It Around, achieving multiple platinum awards. Since 2011, she has been training and performing at The Talent Factory in North Kingstown, RI. She made her professional debut at The Wilbury Theater last spring and is very excited to return!

Paige Barlow, Boy Previous Wilbury Group: Fun Home (Small Alison), 2019 Motif Theatre Award for Supporting Female in a Musical - Professional; The Talent Factory: Into the Woods, Bugsy Malone, Jr. Paige is a member of The Talent Factory's Elite Theatre Company in North Kingstown, RI, and is a seasoned competitive musical theatre performer with platinum achievements and outstanding recognition. She lives with her parents and sister in southern Rhode Island where she attends middle school.

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ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM Fred Sullivan Jr., Director; Previous Wilbury Group: Debut. Other theatres (select): Fred has directed previously as a resident artist at the Gamm Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Trinity Rep Company and Conservatory, The Barnstable Summer Family Theatre and for RISD, Harwich Theatre Co, and Cape Rep. Since 1996, Fred has directed 30 productions for the Gamm. His staging of Odets’ Awake and Sing won the Boston critics Norton award for outstanding production. Fred has worked on 28 of the 37 plays by Shakespeare, most of those in numerous productions. Fred played Malvolio (Norton and IRNE nominations), Bottom, Gloucester, Capulet, Parolles, Menenius, Holoferness and Buckingham on the Common, the First Gangster in Kiss Me, Kate at the Hatch Shell and received an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actor for his Jaques in CSC’s As You Like It. He is a 35 season veteran actor/director at Trinity Rep where he appeared in 128 plays and received Norton and IRNE awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in Blithe Spirit and His Girl Friday. Trinity roles include Falstaff, Bottom, Oscar Madison, James Tyrone, Jr, Joe Pitt, Captain Hook, Scrooge and Harold Hill. Fred’s Gamm productions include Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, King Lear, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Dresser, Boom, The House of Blue Leaves, Arcadia, The Real Thing, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iguana, A Doll’s House and A Doll’s House part 2. Fred has acted for NJ Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Ocean State Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. He teaches acting at Gamm and RISD, and is extremely happy to direct his first production with The Wilbury Group.

Abigail Dufresne, Costume Designer; Previous Wilbury Group: Debut; Other theaters (select): Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (The Barker Players); Polaroid Stories, The Great Gatsby, Galileo (Burbage Theatre Company); co-designer Measure for Measure (The University of Rhode Island). Abigail is a graduate of The University of Rhode Island, now living in Providence and working as a costume designer, actress, and spoken word poet.

Andy Russ, Lighting/Sound Designer; Previous Wilbury Group: Fun Home (lights/sound); Constellations (projections/sound); Red Bike (lights/sound); The Burn (lights/sound/projections); Hype Man (lights/sound); How I Learned to Drive (lights/sound/projections); The Pirates of Penzance (lights/sound); The Skin of Our Teeth (lights); New & Dangerous Ideas (lights/sound/projections); The Caretaker (lights/sound); Spring Awakening (lights); Mr. Burns (lights/sound); Betrayal (lights/sound); Andy is the Artistic Director of Passive Aggressive Novelty Company, based in Providence, RI.

Luke Sutherland, Scenic Designer; Previous Wilbury Group: Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play; Spring Awakening: Other theatres (select): Theatre on Fire; Bridge Rep of Boston; Argos Productions; Huntington Theatre Company's Education Department; Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble; Arcadia Repertory Theatre. Mr. Sutherland is an Associate Professor of Theatre Design and Technology at the Community College of Rhode Island. He is also former KCACTF Regional 1 Co-Chair of Design, Technology and Management and the winner of six Motif Magazine Awards for College/University Scenic Design. He is active in film with IATSE Local 481.

Maxine Wolfson, Stage Manager; Previous Wilbury Group: Futurity; Other theatres (select): The Tempest, Hamlet (The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater); Accidental Incest (Daydream Theater); I Hate Hamlet, Christmas Carol-- a Radio Play, Lost in Yonkers (JMG Productions); God of Vengeance (HeadTrick Theater); One-Act Play Festival (Artist Exchange); 3C (Epic Theater Company); Jungle Book (ACTSA); Give My Regards to Broadway (All Children’s Theater); Legends in the Mist, Merchant of Venice, Colorways (Mixed Magic Theater); Sound Engineer: PVD Fringe Festival 2018; NEFFA; Eisteddfod.

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LEADERSHIP

Josh Short, Artistic Director Josh Short is the Founder and Artistic Director of Providence's award-winning Wilbury Theatre Group, where he’s directed and produced dozens of workshop and full-scale productions of work by local and world-renown artists with a commitment to artistic excellence and community engagement. In addition to his work as Founder and Artistic Director with the Group, Josh has directed more than a dozen productions for the group, including; Fun Home; The Pleiades; The Pirates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty; The Skin of Out Teeth; New and Dangerous Ideas; Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Blasted, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, This Beautiful City, Detroit, Ui [oo-ey], and The Threepenny Opera. As an actor with the Wilbury Group he appeared in Gruesome Playground Injuries, Straight White Men, Ui [oo-ey], and the group's inaugural production, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 2014 Josh founded FRINGEPVD The Providence Fringe Festival. Featuring 50 handpicked artists in just 5 venues throughout downtown Providence that first year, today FRINGEPVD is a voting member of the United States Association of Fringe Festivals and the World Fringe Congress and has grown to become the largest fringe theatre festival in New England. In addition to his work with The Wilbury Group and FRINGEPVD, Josh has worked with Gloucester Stage Company, Perishable Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, The LaJolla Playhouse, The Gaslamp Quarter Drama Department, The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and The Providence Black Repertory Company, where he served as Associate Producer from 2008-2010. A proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union, he serves as a member of Congressman Jim Langevin's Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, and as a mentor with the Rhode Island Foundation's Emerging Leaders program. A native Rhode Islander and graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Josh lives in southern R.I. with his wife Christine and their three children: Olivia, Raegan, and Jackson.

Max Ponticelli, General Manager Max Ponticelli is proud to serve as the General Manager for Providence’s award-winning Wilbury Theatre Group, having previously worked as one of their resident designer, technical director, and consultants on such productions as Fun Home, Constellations, Hype Man: a break-beat play, How I Learned to Drive and at the WaterFire Arts Center for FRINGEPVD, where he's served as the festival’s on-site Technical Director since 2016. In addition to his work with The Wilbury Group, Max is also a Full-time Lecturer and Designer for the University of Rhode Island Theatre Department, instructing introductory, technical, and design courses, in addition to his student mentor responsibilities and a Part-time Faculty Member for the Clark University Theatre Department, where he also instructs a variety of classes, including the ever-popular Stage Combat course. He is also working towards his Master of Business Administration at URI. Previous to URI, Max was the Operations Manager at 2nd Story Theatre for over 9 years covering approximately 90 productions. He served as the organization’s jack-of-all-trades, having job responsibilities in one or multiple areas over the course of a production: stage manager, designer, technical director, production manager, administration, IT, facilities, front-of-house, and generally anything that needed doing including acting onstage (albeit not well). Max is a Board Member for Friends of the State Theatre, a non-profit focused on the preservation and revitalization of the historic State Theatre in Downtown Stoughton, Massachusetts. Through their work, they hope to restore and operate this regionally one-of-a-kind, atmospheric, Vaudeville theatre to serve and benefit the surrounding community. This centrally located diamond-in-the-rough would be an entertainment destination for affordable music, dance, theatre, and movies, while creating opportunities for local artists, providing educational services, and more. A proud alumnus of the University of Rhode Island, he lives in Massachusetts with his amazing wife, Amy.

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THE WILBURY THEATRE GROUP

LEADERSHIP Artistic Director ...................................................Josh ShortGeneral Manager... .............................................Max PonticelliFront-of-House Manager Christine Treglia .....................................Assistant House Manager Renee Bessette...................................Interim Director of New Works ............................Brien LangPlaywright-in-Residence Darcie Dennigan .....................................Resident Artists Shannon Hartman, Daraja Hinds, ...................................................

Jeff Hodge, Keri King, Brien Lang, Sarah Leach, Matt Requintina, Andy Russ, Monica Shinn, Phoenyx Williams

BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Gene Spector.............................................................Vice President Milly Massey.....................................................Secretary James Tackach.............................................................Treasurer Tom Roberts .............................................................Directors Seth Finkle ..............................................................

Avishek Ganguly Jo-Án Peralta Daniel Procaccini Josh Short, ex officio Christine Treglia Joseph Zappala

ABOUT US Founded in 2010, The Wilbury Theatre Group is an award-winning* professional, not-for-profit theatre company committed to engaging our community in thought-provoking conversation through new works, re-imagined classics, and adventurous playmaking. We are idealistic, ambitious, and stubborn in our resolve to create theatre that entertains, enlightens, and inspires. We are committed to the pursuit of Creative Excellence and the highest level of Artistic Expression, welcoming multiple modes of performance and collaboration with a diverse group of ground-breaking artists. We provide a platform for Diverse Voices and Perspectives, with performances that tackle a wide range of contemporary themes and incubate new ideas through clear storytelling and artistic innovation. We accept that Personal Integrity and Fiscal Accountability are essential to our Sustainability, continually reviewing, reflecting on, and revising our approach toward creating an environment in which we can create our best work. We embrace Partnership and Collaboration, with our Resident and Visiting Artists, with our Olneyville and Providence neighbors, and with the Rhode Island, New England, and National arts and education communities. And we are Courageous, Fearless, Provocative, in our pursuit of staging boundary-pushing productions that are consistently edgy, always intimate, and often unexpected.

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