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by Ron Reed
The National Premiere
directed by Steve Day
September 12th-28th
Lion Theatre, Theatre Row
Starring Richard Mawe (Boston Theatre Award), Lorraine Serabian (Tony Nominee)
Ron Reed has eloquently crafted a non-linear drama about the complexity of grace.
- Theatreonline.com
Rudi Vanderwaal, a gentle, "good," elderly man living in Canada is hunted down by a Jewish reporter who insists Rudi is living a lie. Rudi's haunting past as a Nazi collaborator now demands justice. Will he have the courage to face the crimes of his youth, or flee, once again, behind a promise of grace? This Hitchock-esque thriller is based on a true event.
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FBT and the Fairfield Theatre had a reading on May 21st that impacted the play. The reading featured an award-winning cast including Keir Dullea (Golden Globe Winner), Mia Dillon (Tony Nominee), Brian Delate (Truman Show, Shawshank Redmp), Joanna Gleason (3x Tony Nom.), Chris Ceraso, Frank Mihelich, Libby Skala. We are grateful to everyone that participated.
"Mawe makes Rudi's turmoil palpable and his suffering painful. Serabian is heartrending as a good woman in love with a man who is not quite what she thought him to be." - Curtainup.com
"The two-and-a-half-hour play does not drag and causes a person to answer for themselves whether a person is always accountable for their actions or if you can be washed of your sins." - NYtheatre.com
"Richard Mawe as Rudi and Lorraine Serabian as his wife, drive their roles with commendable fervor" - Backstage Magazine
"Rudi's relationship with any one of (the play's) characters is filled with enough tension to comprise a play in itself." Curtainup.com
"The supporting ensemble carry the momentum of the play on their shoulders, as they execute the almost dance-like transitions." - Theatreonline.com
"Entertaining, engaging, and argumentative, the dramatic work forces the audience to address another perspective of holocaust survival and what personal and familial integrity means in one's own life." - Theatreonline.com
DEDICATED PERFORMANCES
Sept. 20 HB Studios
Sept. 26 The Simon Wiesenthal Center NYC
Sept. 27 The Armenian Genocide
The portrait of the play's character was made by Maria Byerley. Maria received her masters in portraiture at the
Rebecca Ferguson (Set Designer) Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Set Design Assistant for two 11 show rotating repertory seasons, assisting distinguished designers such as Richard L. Hay, Christopher Acebo, William Bloodgood, Robert Brill, and Rachel Hauck. Film: Winesburg, Ohio (Production Designer). Education: MFA in Scenography from Ohio University, Central Saint Martins Art and Design School of London under Michael Spencer and Guy Gutman and performed in the 2007 Prague Quadrennial.
Josh Liebert (Original Score and Sound Design) credits include: Broadway - Irena's Vow (Assist. Sound Design) Off-Broadway: Sessions (The Algonquin), Unrelated People (The Wild Project, Upright Citezen’s Brigade); Every Girl Gets Her Man (Jouissance Theatre) The Distance From Here (Montclair State University); Ice Glen, King John, The Taming of the Shrew, Martha Mitchell Calling, Kerfol (Shakespeare & Company); The Storm (Walking the Dog Theatre); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Veronica’s Room (Studio Players); Beauty and the Beast, Phantom, Noises Off, Always Patsy Cline; (Cumberland County Playhouse); He holds an MFA from CCM (the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati).
Michael Jarett (Lighting Designer) received his MFA from Brandeis University. Lighting Designs include: World Premieres of The Two Orphans by Theresa Rebeck (Brandeis Theater Company); Sex! Drugs! & Ukuleles! by Uke Jackson and Terry Waldo (Theater for the New City); and the New England Premieres of tick, tick… BOOM! and Sisters of Swing: The Andrews Sisters Story (Arundel Barn Playhouse); also the Baltimore Theater Project, Berkshire Theater Festival, Cape Rep Theatre, Firehouse Theater Project, Reagle Players, and the University of Richmond. Last year, Mr. Jarett completed the Gilbert Hemsley Lighting Internship at Lincoln Center.
Marina Reti (Costume Designer) received her MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and BA cum laude from Amherst College. Recent Costume Designs include: La Cenerentola, Hansel & Gretel, Cendrillon, all directed by Edward Berkeley/Aspen Opera Theatre Center 2008, La Doriclea, directed by Edward Berkeley/Juilliard Opera Workshop; Impresario/The Mozart Project (Sets and Costumes), directed by Robin Guarino/Juilliard Opera Theater; Manifesto, directed by Todd Wiseman/Wiseman Productions; The Tempest, directed by Aimee Michel/Bard College at Simon’s Rock; Upcoming: Set Design for Athol Fugard’s Sorrows and Rejoicings, directed by Ken Washington/NYU Graduate Acting.
THE CAST
Drew Dix (as Simon) co-founded the repertory company Theater In Action, developing and building two theatres in lower Manhattan from 1981-1991. Following TIA, regional highlights include a two year stint at the NC Shakespeare Festival, and the role of Lenin in an early HDTV production (Steps, directed by Zbig Rybchinski). Stage roles include Isaac Newton (Strings, with Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon), Tartuffe (Tartuffe), Gaev (The Cherry Orchard), Dr. Dorn (The Seagull), Johan (Scenes From A Marriage), Creon (Antigone), Juno (G.B. Shaw's Overruled), and Poprischin in Gogol's Diary of a Madman (one man show). He co-founded Avenue Theatre in Maplewood NJ.
Joanne Joseph (as Hanni) actor/poet/Shakespeare maven/ comedian. Many appearances OOB and on the road. In Season Five of " The Sopranos", in the film "Beer League" as Seymour Cassel's wife. Poetry published in "The New York Quarterly," "The Dirty Goat," "Literary New York," “Global City Review.” and "Thirteen." Joanne appears with her poetry in performances at Fringes, Watering Holes, and also at colleges and organizations with her one-person eighteen character show "Shakespeare's Mums." She was a Holocaust victim in the play "The Wall" in San Franciso at the Actors Workshop under Herbert Blau and Jules Irving. Her award winning unpublished novel "The Sound of One Hand," her masters' thesis in Creative Writing at San Francisco State College, also dealt with Holocaust survivors. She is pleased to appear in this impressive undertaking, at this time and in this universe. Peace.
John Knauss (as Jake) most recently performed in "Three Little Words" at Turtle Shell Productions' Summer Shorties...Summar Not Play Festival. Before relocating to NYC this past Spring, John performed at the PA & TX Shakespeare Festivals (Pericles, Banquo, Le Bret, Clown in Winter's Tale) as well as the Roman Odeon in Cyprus (Messenger in The Persians.) Holding a BFA in Studio Art, John recently travelled to China to paint children's murals for a government-run orphanage outside of Shanghai. John holds an MFA in Acting from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware where he worked with Mark Lamos (Peter Pan) and Adrian Hall (Savages, Christians & Other Homo Sapiens). He is very happy to join this wonderful cast and crew.
Richard Mawe (as Rudi) most recently appeared as Danforth in Capital Repertory's production of The Crucible where he also appeared in Inherit the Wind, Proof, and You Can't Take It With You. Mawe also appeared in the Boston premieres of Valley Song at New Repertory Theatre and Molly Sweeney at the Nora Theatre, where he was also seen in Spoon River Anthology and as Willy Loman in the Boston Theatre Award-winning production of Death of a Salesman. Among the twenty productions he has done in New York are Richard II at the Eleventh Hour Theatre Company, Rush's Dream at the Here Theatre, Made in Heaven at the American Jewish Theatre, Orphans at Julliard's Open Stage, The One Big Shot at Naked Angels and Horton Foote's Habitation of Dragons at the HB Playwrights. Mr. Mawe's film appearances include The Human Stain, Nobody's Fool, Bird, Excessive Force, Conspiracy Theory, Rounders, and Woody Allen's Alice, Small Time Crooks, and Celebrity. Mr. Mawe teaches at HB Studios in NYC, where he also studied with Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen.
Arthur Pellman (as Conrad) has been an actor, director, and teacher of theater and acting for 45 years since graduating from Yale University School of Drama. He has acted in plays, films and TV in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York. Among the roles he performed are Falstaff, Henry IV, Part 1; Antigonous, The Winters Tale; Gus, The Dumbwaiter; Tessman, Hedda Gabbler. Most recently he appeared as Holofeneres, Love’s Labour’s Lost in Riverside Park; Mr. Fishbein, Idiots First, an adaptation Bernard Malumud short story, Jacques, The Miser, Bank Street Theater. He is awaiting the release of two independent films, The Devil’s Tail, and The Day the Bread Turned Green. Mr. Pellman’s voice was heard as Detective Paul Dawson in Web Game on Second Life in conjunction with CSI NY; also, as several characters in MBA courses produced by VLC and as a narrator for Avent Distance Learning.
Lorraine Serabian (as Netty) Broadway: Tony Nomination and winner of the Outer Circle Critics Award for "Zorba!" (original cast recording);"The Flowering Peach"(National Actors Theater); "Cabaret" and "Carmelina". Starred as Maria Callas in the NYSTI Tour of "Master Class", PBS Special "A Tale of Cinderella" in the role of LaStella (original cast cd and dvd); "Zorba!" revival (Barrymore Award Nomination), winner of The Helen Hayes Award for "Show Me Where The Good Times Are". International debut: "Forty-Second Street", Berlin, Germany, "The Snow Queen", London. Off-Broadway: "Ruthless", "A My Name is Alice", "The Trojan Women" (Circle in the Square), "Electra", "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (original cast recording),"American Gothics" (Roundabout). Recording artist for Capitol Records. Television: LAW & ORDER:SVU, ALL MY CHILDREN,etc. B.A. in Theater Arts, Hofstra University. George M. Estabrook Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts accompanied by a special citation from the Congress of the United States. Ms. Serabian is currently on the faculty of the H.B. Studio in NYC where she studied with theater legend Uta Hagen.
Libby Skala (as Rachel) has performed her one-woman show LILIA! across North America, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the GIFT Festival in Tbilisi, Rep. of Georgia, and in Germany at the U. of Dresden and Theater im Greenhouse in Berlin. In New York, it was produced by Mirror Repertory Co. and in Vancouver by Pacific Theatre. Libby's second show A TIME TO DANCE was presented by The St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in Canada; in NYC by Artistic New Directions, and as part of Emerging Artists Theatre’s One-Woman Standing Series. It won “Best Solo Performer” award at the London Fringe Theatre Festival, and will have a three-week run in Vancouver at Pacific Theatre in Spring 2009. Non-solo work includes an appearance at The Jewish Museum in NYC reading from books published by The Feminist Press, Viola in the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival's production of TWELFE NIGHT, Jeffrey Sweet’s VALUE OF NAMES at Theatre J. Film work includes Jonathan Glazer’s Birth, starring Nicole Kidman.
