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company bios.Really Trying (Broadway); The AcademyAwards (‘13, ‘15); The Tony Awards (’11’13); Kennedy Center Honors (tributes toJerry Herman, Meryl Streep, Barbara Cookand Shirley MacLaine; NBC’s Peter Pan Live!and The Sound of Music Live!; and Ted 2.Choreographed benefits for BroadwayCares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Fire IslandDance Festival. s Distler(Scenic Design) Recent credits includeToast (The Public Theater), Three Sisters(Playmakers Theatre), Intimate Apparel(Chautauqua Theater Company), Il Turcoin Italia (Juilliard Opera), Trouble In Mind(Playmakers Theatre), Nora (DelawareTheatre Company), Autumn’s Harvest(Lincoln Center Education), Water By theSpoonful (The Arden Theatre Company),Year of the Rooster (Ensemble StudioTheatre), Seven Guitars (People’s Lightand Theatre Company), The Marriage ofFigaro (Juilliard Opera), Winner of theBarrymore Award for In the Next Roomor the vibrator play (The Wilma Theater).MFA:NYU. www.alexisdistler.comEsther Arroyo(Costume Designer) is the residentCostume Designer and Costume Directorat George Street Playhouse. Her recentdesign credits include Clever Little Lies offBroadway at the Westside Theatre, GuildHall and at George Street Playhouse; Noraat the Delaware Theatre Company; TheFabulous Lipitones; One of Your BiggestFans; Twelve Angry Men; The SubjectWas Roses; and Come Back, Come BackWherever You Are by Arthur Laurents.She is a graduate from Rutgers University,Mason Gross School of the Arts.Christopher J. Bailey(Lighting Designer) This season marks Mr.Bailey’s 18th at George Street Playhouseand 12th as Production Manager, havingpreviously served the Playhouse as TechnicalCoordinator and Sound and LightingManager. He was recently Lighting Designerfor GSP’s production of Clever Little Liesthat moved to the Guild Hall Theatre in EastHampton and then off-Broadway to theWestside Theatre. He was Sound Designerfor off-Broadway productions of TheFourth Wall at Primary Stages and Downthe Garden Paths at the Minetta LaneTheatre. His work includes 6 scenic designsand 9 sound designs for GSPs’ EducationalTouring productions and 21 lighting designsand 39 sound designs for GSP’s mainstageproductions. He has also designed for:French Institute Alliance Française, ThePearl Theatre, Barrington Stage Company,Premiere Stages, The Bickford Theatre,Abingdon Theatre, Strand Theatre, TheBerkshire Theatre Festival, Two RiverTheater Company, Ashlawn Highland OperaFestival, LKB Dance, Randy James Dance,The Rand Theater, The Irish RepertoryTheatre, Westport Country Playhouse, LongWharf Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company,Jacob’s Pillow, and more.Scott Killian(Original Music and Sound Design)Nureyev’s Eyes marks Scott’s 14thproduction at George Street. OffBroadway: Clever Little Lies (originatedGSP); Sarah, Sarah; Five by Tenn; APicasso (Lortel Award nomination),The Other Side (Manhattan TheatreClub); Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi,Edward the Second, Women BewareWomen (Red Bull Theater); SideEffects (MCC); Steve and Idi, Miss Julie(Rattlestick Theater). Regional: ResidentComposer/Sound Designer, BerkshireTheatre Festival (35-plus productions);Westport Country Playhouse; AmericanConservatory Theatre; Seattle RepertoryTheatre; Cleveland Playhouse; CincinnatiPlayhouse; Shakespeare Theatre, DC;Shakespeare & Company; Theatre Calgaryand Vancouver Playhouse. Music fordance includes Zvi Gotheiner (ZviDance),Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, Shapiro andSmith Dance, Alvin Ailey, Nikolais LouisDance, and The Jose Limon Company.

company bios.Stephen Gabis(Dialect Coach) George Street Playhouse:Outside Mullingar, The Seafarer andUnderneath the Lintel. Selected Broadway/off-Broadway: An American in Paris,Beautiful, Of Mice and Men (for JimNorton and Chris O’Dowd), Hedwigand the Angry Inch, Outside Mullingar,The Winslow Boy, Once, Man and Boy,The Book of Mormon, A View From theBridge, The 39 Steps, The Lieutenant ofInishmore, Jersey Boys and Doubt. YaleRep: Arcadia, These Paper Bullets andStones in His Pockets. The Irish Rep: PortAuthority, Sea Marks, The Weir, andJuno and the Paycock. Film/TV: Spotlight,Boardwalk Empire, Across the Universeand Bernard and Doris.include the acclaimed original NewYork productions of Hit the Wall andTribes (Barrow Street), Falling, Our Town(Barrow Street), The Toxic Avenger,Almost Maine, Freud’s Last Session,Ears On A Beatle, Killer Joe, Mrs. Kleinand Driving Miss Daisy. A partial list offeature film projects include PremiumRush, Ghost Town, Secret Window,Tony and Tina’s Wedding, Basic, TheThomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior,Madeline, Die Hard with a Vengeance,School Ties, etc. For television, humansfor Sesame Street (CTW), Californication(Emmy nomination), Max Bickford(CBS), Hack (CBS) Strangers with Candy,Barbershop, Chapelle’s Show amongseveral others. www.mccorklecasting.comThomas Clewell(Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway:The Spitfire Grill, The Last Session, SmokeOn the Mountain, The Film Society withNathan Lane and Anne Meara’s Downthe Garden Paths with Anne Jackson andEli Wallach. Westport Country Playhouse:Don’t Make Me Laugh with Gene Wilderand Carol Kane. Regional: Asolo RepertoryTheatre, Kennedy Center, HuntingtonTheatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre andArena Stage. Celebrating his 24th year asresident Stage Manager for George StreetPlayhouse, where he has stage managedover 60 productions with directors suchas Arthur Laurents, David Saint and DavidHyde Pierce, and with performers suchas Chita Rivera, Jack Klugman, RosemaryHarris, Marlo Thomas and Tyne Daly.David Saint(Artistic Director) is in his 18th seasonas Artistic Director of George StreetPlayhouse. In that time, he has directed33 mainstage productions, most recentlyBuyer & Cellar, Outside Mullingar,Clever Little Lies (which opened at theWestside Theater in New York October2015), Good People, Twelve Angry Men,God of Carnage, Creating Claire andSylvia. His time here has been marked bycollaborations with such artists as KeithCarradine, Tyne Daly, Rachel Dratch,Sandy Duncan, Boyd Gaines, A.R. Gurney,Uta Hagen, Jack Klugman, Dan Lauria,Kathleen Marshall, Elaine May, AnneMeara, David Hyde Pierce, Chita Rivera,Paul Rudd, Stephen Sondheim, MarloThomas, Eli Wallach and many others,including a remarkable partnership withArthur Laurents. In addition, many newaward-winning works have begun theirlife here during his tenure, such as TheToxic Avenger, Proof, The Spitfire Grill,Clever Little Lies and It Shoulda Been You.He most recently directed Clever LittleLies at Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y.,and the National Tour of West Side Story.He also has directed on Broadway, offBroadway and regionally at PlaywrightsHorizons, Manhattan Theatre Club,Primary Stages, McCarter, Williamstown,McCorkle Casting, Ltd.Pat McCorkle, Casting Director, KatjaZarolinski, Associate. Pat McCorkle,(C.S.A.) has, for over 30 years, castmemorable Broadway productions ofEnd of the Rainbow, The LieutenantOf Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie,Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, One Flew OverThe Cuckoo’s Nest, The Ride Down Mt.Morgan, Amadeus, She Loves Me, BloodBrothers, A Few Good Men among manyothers. Notable off-Broadway projects

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company bios.Seattle Rep, Pasadena Playhouse,Pittsburgh Public, Long Wharf and manyothers on premieres by writers such as AaronSorkin, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter Parnell,Jonathan Marc Sherman, Joe DiPietro andJonathan Larson. He is the recipient of theAlan Schneider Award, Helen Hayes Award,L.A. Drama Critics Award, several DramaLogue Awards and is the President of TheLaurents/Hatcher Foundation.Kelly Ryman(Managing Director) was appointedManaging Director in July of 2013. Sheserved as Director of Marketing and PublicRelations at George Street Playhouse since2000, spearheading promotional effortsresulting in the top 10-highest grossingproductions in the Playhouse’s history,including the hit musical It Shoulda BeenYou, which ran on Broadway in early 2015.Off-Broadway, Kelly was a member of themarketing team for The Toxic Avenger,which won the 2009 Outer Critics’Circle Award for Best New Musical.She serves on the Board of Directors ofNew Brunswick City Market as well theAdvisory Board of Elijah’s Promise, andthe marketing committee of the NewJersey Theatre Alliance. Prior to hertenure at George Street Playhouse, Ms.Ryman worked at McCarter Theatre, andThe Wilma Theatre. She is an adjunctprofessor of Arts and EntertainmentBusiness at Mercer County CommunityCollege, and was recognized in 2012 byArtPride NJ with their Arts LeadershipAward for her service to the theatre andarts communities. Kelly is proud to be arecipient of a Boy Scouts of America 2015Tribute to Women Award.

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Capturing Nureyev:James Wyeth paints the dancer“Wyeth was well known for hisportraits of animals as well as forhis portraits of celebrities andhe found the perfect melding ofboth in Nureyev. The dancer hada dangerous, feral quality abouthim, and an infamous temperthat could flare, and then just asquickly disappear. Yet there wasalso a sweet, childlike aspect tothe dancer that was evident tothose who knew him well.Although Nureyev was one of themost photographed dancers of thetime, Wyeth felt there were aspectsof the dancer that had not beenseen and could not be captured withphotography. Wyeth commented,‘I spent hours just watching Nureyevpractice, and did hundreds ofstudies of him, purely because I wasdying to record him. He was enigmatic, a very complex individual.’Nureyev was Wyeth’s most difficultmodel. Although Nureyev hadagreed to pose for the portrait,Wyeth found it nearly impossibleto get the busy dancer to interrupthis schedule for the sittings.Wyeth recalled, in desperation,asking another dancer with a similarframe to stand in for the initialstudies. Nuryev was highly sensitiveabout the way his body was portrayed. He was enraged when hefound about the substitute modeland he began regularly scheduledsittings immediately. Wyeth noted,‘If I did a drawing of his toe, hewanted to see if it was correct.Finally we had this great argumentand I had to explain, “Rudolf,you’re interpretive in your danceand many of these drawings areinterpretive too.”’Although temperamentally verydifferent, Wyeth and Nureyev foundcommon ground; each was obsessedwith his craft. Both artists startedwith traditional training beforefinding their own, more interpretivemethods of expression. It would takeseveral years for the busy dancer toagree to pose for the painter, butthe series of portraits that Wyethcreated of Nureyev is an in-depthphysical and psychological studyof this intriguing personality.”Smith, Lauren R. 2002. Nureyev Revisited.In Pamela Bolinger (Ed.), Capturing Nureyev.

Inspirers’ Circle members are individual donors who provide core financialsupport for George Street Playhouse’s Education Department. Their generoussupport helps to provide exceptional theatre arts education experiencesfor children and adults throughout New Jersey.Members of the Inspirers’ CircleAnonymousLaura BaronLois and Ron BleichPatrick and Mary CallanDr. Richard DeLisiAlice DeVoeSuzanne B. EngelJoAnn and Kenneth Fisher, Jr.James and Judy HancockJames N. HestonCarol HilaSteve K. and Barbara JonesSuzanne and Steve KalaferSharon KarmazinMindy and Phil KirsteinDr. Penelope E. LattimerJocelyn SchwartzmanVikki SchwartzmanRozann and George ShackletonDr. Frances StromslandDavid SaintCuyler and Lexine TremayneLora and Bill TremayneAnthony and Marlene Volpephoto by Brad Resnick

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Our sincere thanks to those who have contributed toour 40th Anniversary Celebration Campaign —setting the stage for the next 40 years of George Street Playhousewith generous contributions in the areas ofArtistic Enhancement, Equipment Replacement, and Patron Experience.40th Anniversary Celebration Campaign ContributorsThankyou!AnonymousJohnson & JohnsonCarol AntonacciJ. Seward Johnson, Sr. Charitable TrustEsta AranoffKarma FoundationSilvia AscarelliSharon KarmazinEsther BarcunPhilip L. KirsteinElaine BerlingerJudy KlotzkinDorothy BitettoSusan MarchandThe Blanche and Irving Laurie FoundationJoanne MieszkowskiJackie BradyNew Brunswick Development CorporationBristol-Myers SquibbPatricia ObaraTed and Ellen CohenMorton and Barbara PanzerGraham CoxJacob H. PasterJerome and Brenda A. DeenerIrene PearseDeener, Feingold & Stern PcJim and Barbara PetrosiniHelene DorseyArlene PosnerE.J. Grassmann TrustRosemary RiccardiMartin and Shirley EngelJudy RichmanStanley & Arlene FermanElaine RutmanStanley and Lisa FischerKelly Ryman and Peter deMetsBarbara FleitDavid SaintFe FranciscoGil and Marcia SaltzmanBruce and Geri FrankEugene and Catherine SavinFund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc.Charlie A. SchembriLarry and Julie GelbBarbara SchrobLewis and Natalie GoetzNorman and Bobbie SchwingerDavid M. GreeneRobert and Evelyn SelingerThe Gordon and Llura Gund FoundationRobert and Carol ShapiroPhilip and Terryle HackmeyerMarvin and Marsha ShindelmanMurray and Gayle HalbfishThe John Ben Snow Memorial TrustFrank and Joyce HallSheldon and Eileen SofferJane HanburyLeila & Martin SulkesGeorge HeinzeMichelle SweifachJames N. HestonAda TuckerMichael and Janice S. HoffmanUnion FoundationWilliam G. and Helen C. Hoffman FoundationAlan Voorhees and Lisa MoroThe Hyde & Watson FoundationWe PayAllen JacowitzGeorge WolanskyThe John Ben Snow Memorial TrustMartin and Zina WolinFor more information on how you can participate, please contactDirector of Development Jacqueline Brendel, 732-846-2895 x141or jbrendel@georgestplayhouse.org.

NEXT @GSPsexycomedyfor grown-ups.”“A– The Washington PostEthan is a hot young writer whose online accounts of his sexualescapades have garnered him likes and acclaim – as well as a moviedeal. Olivia is an attractive teacher and erstwhile writer. Trapped bya snowstorm in a Bed and Breakfast, opposites attract, undeniablechemistry ignites and sex—possibly more – is inevitable.Recommended for mature audiences due to adult themes and nudity.Sex with Strangersby Laura Easondirected by David SaintMarch 8 – 27

For Your InformationGSP is located at 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901Box Office: 732-246-7717 www.GSPonline.orgAUDIO-DESCRIBED PERFORMANCESThe audio-described performances forpatrons with visual impairments are at8pm on:Nureyev’s Eyes, February 18Sex With Strangers, March 24My Name is Asher Lev, April 28Please call the Box Office, 732-246-7717,for further information. Large print andBraille brochures and programs are availableupon request. Audio-described performancesare made possible by support from the Fundfor the New Jersey Blind.OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCESThe open-captioned performances forpatrons with hearing impairments are at2pm on:Nureyev’s Eyes, February 20Sex With Strangers, March 26My Name is Asher Lev, April 30Please inform the Box Office that youwish to use this service so that you may beseated appropriately.George Street Playhouse accessible programming is made possible in part by the Fundfor the NJ Blind, Inc., the Hyde and WatsonFoundation, the Union Foundation andthe E.J. Grassmann Trust.ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEMFor patrons who have a hearing impairment, light-weight, comfortable, paddedearbuds and receivers are available in thelobby at the bar.George Street Playhouse offers all peopleequal access and opportunities to participatein its services, programs and activities. If anyindividual requires special assistance or assistive technology, please contact the PatronServices Manager at 732-246-7717 as far inadvance of the program as possible.IN CASE OF EMERGENCYIf necessary, patrons are asked to leavepagers and cellular phones with thebartender or House Manager, along withtheir seat location.FIRE NOTICEThe exit indicated by the red light andsign nearest to the seat you occupy is theshortest route to the street. In the eventof a fire or other emergency, please donot run, WALK TO THE EXIT.INCLEMENT WEATHERGeorge Street Playhouse maintains a policyof not cancelling performances due toinclement weather, except in the event aState of Emergency has been declared bythe State or Local Government.LATE SEATING POLICYThe theatre is open to the public one halfhour prior to the performance. In consideration of all patrons, latecomers will be seatedat the discretion of House Management.Late patrons will be seated in the bestavailable seating at an appropriate breakor interval during the performance.RECORDING EQUIPMENTDue to copyright and union regulations andrestrictions, still cameras, video camerasor any type of recording equipment is notpermitted at any time in the theatre andwill be confiscated.SMOKINGThe Playhouse is a smoke-free environment.There is no smoking in the building. If youwish to smoke, you may do so outside wherethere are ashtrays available.

Contributors as of December 31, 2015George Street Playhouse gratefully acknowledges the generosity of themany individuals, corporations,foundations, organizations and governmentagencies whose gifts play a significant role in our mission to produce worldclass theatre and to bring the power of theatre education programs to over40,000 students each year.Corporations, Foundations & Government ContributorsExecutive Producers( 100,000 and Above)The Blanche and Irving LaurieFoundationThe Horizon Foundation forNew JerseyJohnson & JohnsonThe Laurents/Hatcher FoundationNew Jersey State Council on the ArtsProducers( 50,000 - 99,999)The Geraldine R. Dodge FoundationThe Karma Foundati

the Garden Paths at the Minetta Lane Theatre. His work includes 6 scenic designs and 9 sound designs for GSPs’ Educational Touring productions and 21 lighting designs and 39 sound designs for GSP’s mainstage productions. He has also designed for: French Institute Alliance Française, The