The Glass Menagerie
An American Masterpiece
by Tennessee Williams
directed by Preston Lane
September 5 – 26, 2010
Handle with care.
Memories as fragile as glass are tossed into the air in Tennessee Williams’ first great masterpiece. Dreams meet reality and love becomes desperate in a shimmering drama of a family on the edge. Tom struggles in a modern day world while his mother holds tight to a fantasy of Southern gentility and his sister hides amongst the glistening crystalline creatures she collects. With an edge as sharp as broken glass, the play cuts deep into the longing of human hearts.
"The trip and the ticket in this case are fully justified by what must be called a singularly remarkable new vision of one of the classics in the American theater...The result is the strongest and most memorable theater—and film—experience I've ever had in the same room at the same time. This Glass Menagerie is not to be missed."
–Byron Woods, Independent Weekly
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"It is an homage, of sorts, to the master. It is a glittering, glowing, glamorous tribute."
–Lynn Jessup, Classical Voice of North Carolina
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“It presents a gorgeous and insightful work that leaves the audience in awe.”
–Lenise Willis, Jamestown News
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“The Triad Stage production brings it to a whole new glittering life. This sensational production twists and warps the classic in a truly amazing way.”
–Susie Potter, Triangle Arts and Entertainment
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Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one fifteen-minute intermission.
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CastThe Mother
Her Daughter
Her Son
The Gentleman Caller
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Creative TeamDirector
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Projection Designer
Dramaturg
Resident Vocal Coach
Resident Movement Director
Resident Fight Director
Casting Director
Stage Manager
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Biographies
Cast
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Kate Goehring* (The Mother) Triad Stage: The Little Foxes; The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead. National Tour: Harper in Michael Mayer’s production of Angels in America (LA Pride Award, Carbonel Award, and Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination). Other credits include: Heartbreak House (Intiman); Orpheus Descending (Arena Stage); How I Learned to Drive and The Clean House (Arizona Theatre Company); the world premiere of Tony Kushner’s Slavs! (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival); Emily Mann’s adaptation of The Cherry Orchard (McCarter Theatre); Carrie: A Period Piece (PS 122 – Basil Twist); The Rover and Dancing at Lughnasa (Goodman Theatre); My Mother Said I Never Should, Aristocrats, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Huntington Theatre); Collected Stories (A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Footlights Award); The Syringa Tree, Saint Joan, and Machinal (Kansas City Repertory); Measure for Measure and Othello (Court Theatre); and Laughing Wild (Bailiwick – After Dark Award and Joseph Jefferson Citation). Some Film/Television credits: Swimmers with Cherry Jones; March in Windy City (BBC); Stella (Comedy Central); and co-stars on ER, The Early Edition, The Untouchables, and Law & Order (SVU, CI, and the original). Member of the Actors Equity Association. |
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Cheryl Koski (Her Daughter) Triad Stage: Picnic. Regional/Local: Balm in Gilead and The Revenger’s Tragedy (UNCG); Eleemosynary (GTCC). Film/TV: 3 Teeth (University of North Carolina School of the Arts); The 12 Trials of My Patience. Education: Junior in the BFA Acting program at UNCG. |
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Matthew Carlson* (Her Son) Triad Stage: Picnic. New York: Roadshow by Stephen Sondheim and Hamlet (The Public), DR.C: Or How I Learned to Act in 8 Steps (Mitu/3 Legged Dog). Regional: My Ohio (Vermont Stage), The Miracle Worker (St. Louis Rep), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), Singing Forest (Long Wharf), The Just and Much Ado About Nothing (Chautauqua). As a writer/composer, he is the author of the play home, sweet (finalist for the 2010 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center), and the song cycle We Outran the Sun (Studio Tisch). Education: BS, Northwestern; MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program. |
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Tyler Hollinger* (The Gentleman Caller) Triad Stage debut. Off-Broadway: Fools in Love (BAM & Manhattan Ensemble Theater); Committed (Theater 80); Kaboom (Cherry Lane, directed by BT McNichol); Sex & Violence (Mint) and over 30 Off-Off Broadway credits including Dreams of Home by Migdalia Cruz, Spam (WaxFactory @ NYTW), the international tour of Wild Animus (WaxFactory), and Anthony’s 30th Birthday (Manhattan Theater Source). Regional: As You Like It (Orlando Shakespeare), Last Sunday in June (Speakeasy Stage Co.). Film: Over Da’ Rainbow, The Witches of Oz (with Christopher Lloyd), Colors (directed by J. Shumacher), Mama Would Be Proud, Easy Panzy, Long Shadows, This is Madness, Shack Nasty, Family 3000. Television: Cast member on ABC’s What Would You Do? (4 seasons), Effections (pilot), All My Children. Tyler is the recipient of two IRNE awards and a Mustache Award for best actor. Training: Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institute and Royal Shakespeare Company. www.TylerHollinger.com |
Creative Team
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Preston Lane (Director) is in his 10th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 30 productions. Preston is the recipient of the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is in his third year as the Artistic Partner for Theatre for An Appalachian Summer Festival. He was formerly Artistic Associate at the Dallas Theater Center, where his productions included the US premiere of Inexpressible Island (Dallas Observer Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Morning News:2002 Top Ten Theatre List). As a playwright, his adaptations have been produced at Triad Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Sonoma Rep. His work with musician Laurelyn Dossett includes Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, The Human Race Theatre Company and St. Olaf College), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap. Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star and Ghosts are published by Playscripts Inc. He has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, UNCSA, Greensboro College, SMU, and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York’s Director’s Project. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his BFA from NCSA and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He blogs about theater at http://thislittleworld-triadstage.typepad.com/this-little-world/ |
| Anya Klepikov (Scenic Designer) was born in the former USSR, and immigrated to Boston at the age of eleven. Having designed sets and costumes for The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead at Triad Stage last year, Anya is honored to come back for The Glass Menagerie. Based in New York City, Anya is a frequent collaborator of director Mike Donahue for whom she most recently production designed Big Love at The Studio/New York Conservatory and a staging of the electro pop concert album The Animals at Club Oberon of ART, Boston. Anya’s set and costume designs for a production proposal of Osvaldo Golijov’s opera AINADAMAR were selected for Opera America’s Inaugural Director/Designer Showcase in Houston, TX. Regionally, her costumes for A Woman of No Importance at the Yale Repertory Theatre won the Connecticut Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design, 2008. By invitation of production designer Wendall Harrington, Anya created original artwork for the children’s opera BRUNDIBÁR at Opera Theatre of St Louis. She is currently production designing Philip Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox at Fort Worth Opera, TX. A frequent guest designer at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, Anya is also a collaborator of director Tea Alagic – Zero Hour, The Donny Hathaway Story (Yale), The Babbel Project (NYU). In 2008, Anya received the Leo Lerman Graduate Fellowship in Design. BA, University of Chicago; MFA, Yale School of Drama. www.anyaproductiondesign.com | |
| Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is in her 6th season as Resident Designer at Triad Stage. Favorite past productions include: Ghosts (USITT-SE Design Expo ‘09 award winner); The Night of the Iguana, Tobacco Road, Brother Wolf; and A Streetcar Named Desire (honorable mention, best production design, Independent Weekly). She has worked with UNCG Theatre, Peace College, Glimmerglass Opera, Firebrand Theory Theatre Co., The Lortel Theatre and Lisa Zinni of Broadway’s Rent. Kelsey is a founding member of Hand in The Fire Theater Company which recently presented a production of One Flea Spare at Elsewhere Collaborative. | |
| Norman Coates(Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: Around the World in 80 Days; The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; The Caretaker; “Master Harold”…and the boys; A Moon for the Misbegotten. Broadway: The News and Prince of Central Park. Off Broadway: Here Are Ladies, Diversions and Delights, Blood Knot and Limbo Tales (Villager Award). Tours: The Who’s Tommy, Camelot with Richard Harris and Encounter 500. Regional: Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, American Stage Festival, NC Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory, Burt Reynolds’ Jupiter Theatre, The Hirschfield Theatre, North Carolina Theatre, Greensboro Opera, Opera Carolina, Piedmont Opera. He is the Director of Lighting at the UNC School of the Arts and a member of United Scenic Artists. | |
| David E. Smith (Sound Designer) is director of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts theatre sound design program. David spent eight years with the Royal National Theatre in London, England. Triad Stage: Providence Gap, Picnic, Oleanna, Tartuffe, Ghosts, The Night of the Iguana, Bloody Blackbeard, The Little Foxes, Tobacco Road, Beautiful Star, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Streetcar Named Desire and Dracula. Regional: Arena Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre. Local: Paper Lantern Theatre Company and Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. | |
| Nicholas Hussong (Projection Designer) Triad Stage: Artistic Associate of Design; Mainstage: Providence Gap (2010), Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow (2010), and Around the World in 80 Days (2010). UpStage Cabaret: The Santaland Diaries (2008-2009) and Mad at Miles (2009). Chicago Regional: Production Manager for three Joseph Jefferson nominated productions at American Theatre Company: The People’s Temple, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, and Speech and Debate. | |
| Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is Triad Stage’s Artistic Associate of Dramaturgy and Literary Management, and a former Theater and Advanced Placement English teacher. Regional: Assistant to the Director of five shows at Triad Stage, Assistant Director of Oleanna at An Appalachian Summer Festival, Director of One Flea Spare, the first play by the Hand in Fire Theater Company produced at Elsewhere Collaborative. Education: UNC Greensboro, BFA Theater Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, England and an Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theater History. | |
| Christine Morris (Resident Vocal Coach) is resident voice and dialect coach for Triad Stage and an associate professor of theatre at UNCG, where she teaches voice/speech and acting. As an actor, she most recently appeared at Triad Stage as Cordie Grindstaff in Providence Gap. Her professional memberships include Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). | |
| Denise Gabriel (Resident Movement Director) Triad Stage: Providence Gap. She was the Resident Movement Director with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for six seasons where her credits include: Coriolanus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Christmas Carol, Gee’s Bend, Crowns, Steel Magnolias and The Count of Monte Cristo. Regional credits: The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe); King Lear (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Romeo and Juliet (Clarence Brown Theater); and The Working Theater, NY. International credits: Shanghai Theatre Academy (China); Salzburg Seminar at Schloss Leoploidron (Austria); and Artscape Theatre Centre and Dance for All (Cape Town, South Africa). Ms. Gabriel has taught in numerous universities across the country for over 25 years, is a Founding Board Member of American Theatre for Movement Educators and is presently a faculty member of the UNCG Theatre Department. | |
| Jim Wren (Resident Fight Director) has staged the violence for over a dozen Triad Stage productions including the battles in Bloody Blackbeard, the fantastical fights in Brother Wolf, and the general behavior of the Lesters in Tobacco Road. Education: MFA, University of Florida. Jim is Performance Program Coordinator for the UNCG Department of Theatre, and is a two time recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence. | |
| Cindi Rush (Casting Director) New York: Rooms; Jacques Brel; Six Dance Lessons; The Thing About Men; Showtune; I Sing; Urinetown; Say Goodnight, Gracie; The Bilbao Effect; The Crow Mill; Lost and Found. Regional: Penguin Rep, Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humanafest. Film: The Woman, In the Family, Offspring, Made for Each Other, Home Movie, Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, Headspace. Other: Hats. Tours: “Barney”, “Curious George”, “Kidz Bop”. Consultant for National Alliance for Musical Theatre (2004-08), Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing. | |
| Chris "Waffles" Wathen* (Stage Manager) Regional: Something Intangible (Circle Theatre); reasons to be pretty; Fat Pig; The Shape of Things; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Sarah, Plain and Tall; In the Beginning; The Who’s Tommy; The Misanthrope; Pride and Prejudice; and A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); The Comedy of Errors (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Barefoot in the Park (ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre). Education: B.S. Theatre Design and Technology, emphasis in stage management, Ball State University. |
*Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
