The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
presents
Chaim Potok’s
THE CHOSEN
Adapted by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok
From the novel by Chaim Potok
October 19 – November 17, 2012
Performances begin Friday, October 19, 8pm
“An engrossing and intelligent adaptation. A rich, satisfying, and thought provoking entertainment.”
– Talkin’ Broadway
CREATIVE TEAM:
Directed by Daniel Gidron
Scenic Design, Brynna Bloomfield
Costume Design, Mallory Frers
Lighting Design, John Malinowski
Sound Design, Dewey Dellay
Floor Projections, Martin Mendelsberg
FEATURING:
Charles Linshaw* Reuven Malter
Zachary Eisenstat Young Reuven
Joel Colodner* Reb Saunders
Will McGarrahan* David Malter
Luke Murtha Danny Saunders
*Member of Actors Equity Association (AEA) ** United Scenic Artists (USA-Local 829)
WHEN: October 19 – November 17, 2012
Wednesdays, Thursdays – 7:30pm
Wednesday matinees – 2pm, October 24, November 14
Fridays – 8pm
Saturdays – 3pm & 8pm
Sundays – 3pm
Post-show talkbacks: Sundays, October 21, November 4 after 3pm performance
Press opening: Sunday, October 21, 3pm
VIP Opening: Wednesday, October 24 – 7:30pm (post-show reception with cast and crew — open to all ticket holders)
WHERE: The Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon Street, Copley Square, Boston, MA 02116
TICKETS: $25 – $58.
Seniors – $5 off regular price.
Student rush – $10.
Group rates available.
Box Office: 617-585-5678
website: lyricstage.com
ABOUT THE CAST:
Joel Colodner* (Reb Saunders) last appeared at The Lyric Stage in My Name Is Asher Lev. In the Boston area he has appeared in Three Viewings (New Rep), Mrs.Whitney (Merrimack Rep), Light in the Piazza, The Wrestling Patient (SpeakEasy Stage), Henry I, parts 1 & 2, The Duchess of Malfi, King John, Titus Andronicus, The Winter’s Tale (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Regional: How I Learned to Drive (off-Broadway), The Rainmaker (The Guthrie), Streamers, Comedians, Hamlet (Arena Stage), and The Seagull (Pittsburgh Public Theatre). He was in the original cast of the musical Is There Life After High School? (Hartford Stage) and was in the revival of Arthur Miller’s An American Clock (Mark Taper Forum). He has guest starred in numerous series including LA Law, Moonlighting, St. Elsewhere, and Remington Steele, and played a host of doctors and lawyers (mostly) in TV movies. He played Bart Walker, a psycho-cardio-interno-gynecologist on the daytime serial Texas.
Zachary Eisenstat (Young Reuven) returns to The Lyric Stage after appearing in Superior Donuts and Big River last season. After earning a degree in Engineering from M.I.T., he spent a few years working on Wall St. and watching theatre. Now, he works in theatre. Recent area credits include Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), The Play about the Baby (Exquisite Corps) and Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Now!). He also performed in Matchmaker, Matchmaker I’m Willing to Settle (2011 NY Musical Festival) and took the stage for a reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
Charles Linshaw* (Reuven Malter) is making his Lyric Stage debut. Previous Boston credits include Experiment America 2012 (A.R.T/Huntington/ICA), work at The Nora Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Gloucester Stage, The Publick Theatre, Matilda Productions/Factory Theatre, and the Boston Theatre Marathon, and staged readings and workshops for the A.R.T., Huntington Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, The Nora Theatre, and Fresh Ink Theatre. New York credits: Classic Stage Company, Twilight Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival, HERE Arts Center, PS 122, Gene Frankel Underground, and many readings. M.F.A. from Columbia University. Dialect/vocal coach for Photograph 51 (Nora Theatre). Part-time faculty at Northeastern University. Previously, guest lecturer at Brandeis University. Voiceover work for Frontline on PBS, including A Death in Tehran, The Confessions, and Rules of Engagement. Recent on-camera work includes several indie films and a Bruins commercial. Proud, long-time member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Charles dedicates his performance to the memory of his father, Michael A. Linshaw and Rabbi Emil Hager.
Will McGarrahan* (David Malter) returns to The Lyric Stage where he performed in The Temperamentals, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Grey Gardens, November, Souvenir, and Dirty Blonde. Other local credits include Next Fall, The Drowsy Chaperone, Reckless, Some Men, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Five By Tenn, Company, The Last Sunday in June, Elegies: A Song Cycle, Ruthless!, A Class Act, A New Brain (SpeakEasy Stage), The Wind in the Willows. Happy Days (Gloucester Stage), Nine Circles (Publick Theatre and Gloucester Stage), A Moon for the Misbegotten, Buried Child (Nora Theater), and The Wrestling Patient (SpeakEasy Stage/Boston Playwrights/40 Magnolias). Will worked as an actor, singer and pianist for many years in Seattle before moving to Boston’s South End in 2001.
Luke Murtha (Danny Saunders) is making his Lyric Stage debut. Recent area credits include The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), Gross Indecency, Arcadia (Bad Habit Productions), Polaroid Stories (Heart and Dagger/Boston Actor’s Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Stoneham Theatre), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Happy Medium Theatre), and A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Nora Theatre Company). He appeared in the film Fresh Water, which was screened at Rhode Island International Film Festival, and The Sounds of Blades in Rotation, which was screened at Woods Hole Film Festival and Big Apple Festival. He received a B.A. in English with a concentration in Theatre Performance from Fitchburg State University in 2011. He hails from Westminster, MA and currently lives in Jamaica Plain.
Daniel Gidron (Director) returns to The Lyric Stage where he previously directed Or, Communicating Doors, The Complete History of America (abridged), The Underpants, Dying City, November, and Groundswell. He was born in Israel to a theatrical family and acted at the Habimah National Theatre, and in many radio plays. In Israel, he directed Peace Peace and There Is No Peace (Habimah National Theatre); his adaptation of Amos Oz’s Late Love (Haifa Municipal Theatre); The Good Soldier Schweik (Idan Theatre); Endgame featuring a cast of Arabs and Jews (Beit Lessin); The Zoo Story and The Dumb Waiter in Arabic (HaGeffen Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and the world premiere ofAnton Shammas’ Wash Your Face, O Moon(Al-Midan Arab Theatre);and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Beersheva Municipal Theatre). Directing credits in the U.S. include Absurd Person Singular, The Fantasticks, (Peterborough Players); Broadway Bound, Cantorial, Beau Jest, The Sisters Rosensweig, Social Security, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Old Wicked Songs (Jewish Theatre of New England); Camping with Henry and Tom(Worcester Foothills Theatre); Amsterdam(La Mama ETC); City Preacher (ACT Roxbury/Boston Center for the Arts); The Loman Family Picnic (Gloucester Stage Company); Visiting Mr. Green (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); The Underpants, The Foreigner, Unnecessary Farce, Stonewall’s Bust (Mountain Playhouse, Jennerstown, PA); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (New Repertory Theatre); Julius Caesar, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Now!). He directed Menotti’s The Consul (Opera Boston), Michel Tremblay’s Bonjour la, Bonjour (Brandeis University, U.S .premiere) and Albertine, in Five Times(Nora Theatre Company). Daniel directed Annette Miller in the world premiere of William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony (Shakespeare & Company and Tremont Theatre; IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards, Best Solo Performance). He is Associate Director of the Nora Theatre Company, where he has directed over 20 productions including Bed and Sofa, Mere Mortals, The Unexpected Man, Smelling a Rat, the world premiere of Richard McElvain’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, How I Got That Story, Full Gallop (also for Shakespeare & Company), Buried Child, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, The Cherry Orchard, The Caretaker, The Lady with All the Answers, Hysteria, and Silver Spoon. Upcoming projects include Arabian Nights and Photograph 51.A Fulbright scholar, he earned a B.A. and an M.F.A. (Acting/Directing) from Brandeis University where he also taught for 18 years. He currently teaches at UMass Boston.
Brynna Bloomfield (Set and Projection Design) returns to The Lyric Stage where she designed The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Goat, The Lisbon Traviata, and Never the Sinner. Elsewhere in the Boston area, Brynna has designed productions for the Nora Theater, SpeakEasy Stage, Act Roxbury, Emerson College, and Shakespeare and Company. She is also a professional mask maker, and is on the faculty at Emerson College, where she teaches mask making and design. Brynna is a founding member of Israeli Stage. She received her M.F.A. from Brandeis University and is a member of USA Local 829. She wishes to thank her community in Sharon for generously offering use of their personal shtenders in this play.
Martin Mendelsberg (Floor Projections) is an artist, graphic designer, and typographer who has exhibited internationally in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, and the United States. His work is represented in permanent collections at Yale University, The New Zealand National Gallery, The Victoria University School of Architecture, The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersberg, FL, The Mizel Museum in Denver, CO, and the Govett–Brewster Contemporary Art Museum in New Zealand. His next major exhibit opens April, 2014 at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, MI. Holocaust Portfolio. Martin’s Hebrew typefaces are distributed by Masterfont, Ltd. In Tel Aviv, Israel. www.HolocaustPortfolio.org/
Mallory Frers (Costume Design) returns to The Lyric Stage after designing Superior Donuts, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Broke-ology, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Shipwrecked!, Speech and Debate, and The Year of Magical Thinking. as well as this past summer’s Lyric First Stage productions of Coriolanus and As Thousands Cheer. Her recent credits include Hounds of the Baskervilles (Central Square Theatre), and Measure for Measure (UMASS Lowell). She has also had the pleasure of designing for the last three seasons for the A.R.T/MXAT Institute at the American Repertory Theatre. She has served as the wardrobe supervisor for Emerson Stage and is a graduate of Emerson College where she earned her B.F.A. in Design Technology.
Dewey Dellay (Composer/Sound Design) returns to The Lyric Stage having designed for My Name Is Asher Lev, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Fully Committed. Dewey won Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Design for his music and design on The Women (SpeakEasy Stage), 9 Parts of Desire and Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage), and an IRNE Award for Best Sound Design on Five by Tenn (SpeakEasy Stage). For television he has composed music for National Geographic’s China’s Mystery Mummies; Discovery Channel’s Miami Jail, and his music is heard on America’s Spookiest Places, Date Patrol, and national commercials. Dew