Bus Stop

November 21–December 23

Bus Stop
By William Inge
Directed by David Schweizer

In William Inge’s (Picnic) 1955 romantic classic, a diner-full of snowbound strangers spend a long Kansas night chasing their slice of the American Dream, and someone to share it with.

Digitial Dramaturgy

Cast

Malachy Cleary*
Carl

Kayla Ferguson*
Elma Duckworth

Patrick Husted*
Dr. Gerald Lyman

Larry Tobias*
Virgil Blessing

Jack Fellows*
Bo Decker

Susannah Hoffman*
Cherie

Michael D. Nichols*
Will Masters

Pilar Witherspoon*
Grace Hoylard

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop.Broadway—Our Town (w/ Paul Newman), Larry Gelbart’s Mastergate. Off Broadway—Negro Ensemble: The Picture Box; Irish Rep: The Field; Working Theatre: Belmont Ave Social Club; New Georges; Rattlestick Productions; South Street Theater; Columbia U; Manhattan Theater Club. Regional—World’s End Theatre: The Way of the World (Mirabell), The Seagull (Trigorin); Kirby Center/Wilkes Barre: The Molly MaGuires (Fr. O’Connor); Theatreworks Hartford: Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Syracuse Stage: Born Yesterday (Ed Devery); Virginia Stage; Actor’s Theatre of Louisville; Dallas Theater Center; The Olney; Seattle Rep; Asolo; Player’s Theatre-Columbus; Fleetwood Stage; Long Wharf; American Stage Company; TheaterFest New Jersey. Film/TV—Taking Woodstock, Whirlygirl, The Day After, Heartbreak Hospital, A Dog Year, 666 Park Ave., Unforgettable, White Collar, Boardwalk Empire (Warren Harding), Onion News Network (David Barrodale), Rescue Me, Cashmere Mafia, PBS’ Novel Reflections: Seize the Day (Tommy Wilhelm), One Life to Live, The Sopranos, Day Zero, Law and Order, numerous commercials.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, Galileo, Blythe Spirit. Off Broadway—The Mint Theater: Dr. Knock; New World Stages: Bill W. and Dr. Bob (Dr.Bob); the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit (Dr. Kelekian); Signature Theater: Arthur Miller’s The American Clock. Regional—over 150 plays in theaters across the country. Film—upcoming roles in Low Life with Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix, The Place Beyond the Pines with Bradley Cooper, Gods Behaving Badly with Oliver Plat and Sharon Stone, Clutter with Carol Kane; others, including Blow with Ray Liota, Cradle Will Rock written and directed by Tim Robbins. TV—recently in Mildred Piece with Kate Winslet; numerous guest star appearances on episodic shows including LA Law, Law and Order, L&O:SVU, L&O:CI, Sopranos, Third Watch, Sisters.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop. New York—York Theatre: Almost Blue; UBU Rep: Alexander; Metropolitan Museum of Art/Cloisters: The Death of Pilate Pilate. National Tours—Stand By Your Man, Big River, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Adventures of Lewis & Clark. Regional— Flat Rock Playhouse: Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming; Charlotte Rep: All My Sons; Thalian Association: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (w/ Pat Hingle); Studio Tenn: Our Town; GMT Regional Tour: Julius Caesar; Richmond Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth; Cape Fear Regional Theater: Twelfth Night, Hamlet; Mountain Playhouse: Keep On The Sunny Side, Boeing Boeing, The Foreigner, Greater Tuna; Fireside Theater: Ring of Fire; Tennessee Rep: Big River; Virginia Musical Theater: Pump Boys and Dinettes; Theatre at Lime Kiln: Smoke on the Mountain. Film/TV—The Angel Doll, Ball of Wax, Ding-A-Ling-Less, Donnie Brasco, Private Parts, Duncan’s World, A Gift of Love, NY Undercover, America’s Most Wanted.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop. New York—… But the Next Morning (Celine); Romeo & Juliet (Juliet, Mercutio, Prince). Regional—ART: The Donkey Show, Best of Both Worlds, Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Deb), Paradise Lost (Pearl, u/s); ART Institute: Hamletmachine (Ophelia), Skin of Our Teeth, The Little Tragedies. Film/TV—Lament for the Artist. Education—MFA, ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University; BA Psychology, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Professional—member, Dangerous Ground Productions; member, Empirical Rogue. Extra heaps of love and gratitude to DG, DGP, J&K, and my DP.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop. Broadway—November (World Premiere with Nathan Lane), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony, Best Revival; with Gary Sinese). Off Broadway—The Pearl Theatre: Exit the King, Iphigenia at Aulis; New Victory Theatre: Tom Sawyer. Regional— Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, Alley Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Goodspeed Opera House, Barrington Stage, Studio, Arena Stage, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, and Round House Theatre. TV—All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital. Education—MFA from the Old Globe Theatre. Professional—Mr. Nichols is a Veteran of the U.S. Army.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop. International/Touring—Rezo Gabriadze’s acclaimed production of The Doctor and the Patient, opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov. New York—credits include Lincoln Center, Clubbed Thumb, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Drama League, New Dramatists, the Mint Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout Theatre, Second Stage Theatre. Regional—Guthrie Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Sundance Theatre Lab, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Barrington Stage Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, among many others. Film/TV—The Big C, Law and Order, L&O: SVU, Third Watch, Ten Stories Tall, The Taking of Beslan. Awards—Fox Fellowship recipient. Training—The Juilliard School. Other Professional—narrator for Recorded Books in New York City.

Creative Team

David Schweizer
Director

James Noone
Set Designer

James F. Ingalls
Lighting Designer

Lindsay Jones
Sound Designer

Clint Ramos
Costume Designer

Lewis Shaw
Fight Director

Ashley Smith
Voice and Text Director

Susanna Gellert
Production Dramaturg

Pat McCorkle
Casting Director

Laura Smith*
Stage Manager

Captain Kate Murphy*
Assistant Stage Manager

Baltimore Center Stage: Next to Normal; Bus Stop; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Caroline, or Change; These Shining Lives; The Boys From Syracuse; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Permanent Collection; The Miser; And God Created Great Whales. Broadway—Lincoln Center: Troilus and Cressida. Off Broadway—The Junket, I’m A Stranger Here Myself, And God Created Great Whales (OBIE), Horizon, Songs from an Unmade Bed, White Chocolate, Wintertime, My Price Point, Getting Home, Cologne, It’s a Man’s World, Bad Sex with Bud Kemp, All for You, The Waiting Room, Booth, You Could Be Home Now, Kingfish, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador, Gogol, Earthworms, The Last Days of British Honduras. International Tours/Residencies—Warsaw; Prague; Lisbon; Hamburg; London; Stockholm; Oslo; Toga Village, Japan. Regional—La Jolla Playhouse; Kansas City Rep; McCarter; Seattle Rep; Arena Stage; Mark Taper; LATC; Pasadena Playhouse; Williamstown; Yale Rep; Trinity Rep; Geffen Playhouse; Magic Theater; Opera—NYCO: The Mines of Sulfur; Glimmerglass: The Greater Good (world premiere); Boston Lyric Opera: The Emperor of Atlantis, Macbeth; Gotham Chamber Opera: Albert Herring; Long Beach: La Indian Queen, Elegy for Young Lovers, Powder Her Face, La Perichole, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Soldier’s Tale/Fiddler’s Tale; Houston Grand Opera: Abduction from the Seraglio; Chicago Opera: Giovanna D’Arco; Washington Arts Society: Nytrate Hymnal. Education—Yale School of Drama.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, Ah, Wilderness; Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Broadway—Match; Urban Cowboy; Jekyll & Hyde; A Class Act; Judgment at Nuremberg; The Rainmaker; Night Must Fall; The Sunshine Boys; The Gin Game; Inherit the Wind; Getting and Spending. Off Broadway—Fully Committed; Full Gallop; Three Tall Women; The Boys in the Band; Cowgirls; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Breaking Legs; Lincoln Center; Playwrights Horizons; Second Stage; Vineyard. Regional—Guthrie; Shakespeare (DC); Chicago Shakespeare; Pittsburgh Public; Huntington; Old Globe; Long Wharf; Goodspeed; Ravinia. Opera—HGO; NYCO; LA; Washington National; Portland; Canadian Opera Company. Awards—American Theatre Wing; Drama Desk; Helen Hayes.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, The Voysey Inheritance, Mary Stuart, Les Blancs, The Taming of the Shrew, Happy End, Ghosts, The Baltimore Waltz, Police Boys, The Broken Pitcher, Fool for Love, Buried Child, Who They Are and How It Is With Them, Native Speech, On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning, Execution of Justice, Our Town. Tours—Kafka Fragments (dir. Peter Sellars, w/ Dawn Upshaw and Geoff Nutall) at Lincoln Center, LA Philharmonic, Cal Performances/Berkeley; La Passion de Simone at Lincoln Center, Helsinki Festival, New Crowned Hope, Vienna. Regional—Steppenwolf: Kafka on the Shore (dir. Frank Galati). Opera—Paris Opera/Bastille: Tristan und Isolde; Santa Fe Opera: Adriana Mater; Festival D’Aix-en-Provence: Zaide. Dance—Mark Morris Dance Group: Romeo and Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare, Mozart Dances, King Arthur, The Hard Nut; Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Split Sides, Fluid Canvas. He often collaborates with Saint Joseph Ballet, Santa Ana, CA.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Bus Stop, Let There Be Love, Intimate Apparel. Off Broadway—Public Theatre: Wild With Happy, The Brother/Sister Plays; Playwrights Horizons: The Burnt Part Boys; Primary Stages: Rx; New York Theatre Workshop: Top Secret; many others. International—Austria, Royal Shakespeare Company (England), Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada), and productions in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Scotland, and Austria. Regional—McCarter; South Coast Repertory; Arena Stage; Goodman; Old Globe; Steppenwolf; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Guthrie; Hartford Stage; Chicago Shakespeare; Lookingglass Theatre Company; Yale Repertory; many others. Film/TV scoring work—The Brass Teapot for Magnolia Pictures; A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary Short Subject) for HBO Films. Awards—Six Joseph Jefferson Awards and 16 nominations; two Ovation Awards and three nominations; LA and SD Drama Critics Circle Award; two ASCAP Plus Awards; nominations for Drama Desk, Barrymore, Henry Hewes Design, and AUDELCO Awards; and was the first sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award.

Baltimore Center Stage: One Night in Miami…(Costume Designer), Bus Stop, Ah! Wilderness, And God Created Whales. Broadway (Sets and/or costumes)—The Elephant Man and Violet. Other New York—Here Lies Love (Public Theater, NY & National Theatre, London); Punk Rock (MCC), Appropriate (Signature Theatre Company); Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons). Regional—Five Guys Named Moe (Arena Stage & Cleveland Playhouse). He has over 100 regional and international design credits. Awards—2013 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, three Lucille Lortel Awards, TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, two American Theater Wing Henry Hewes Awards and a Helen Hayes Award. Upcoming: Kid Victory (Signature Theatre), The Colored Museum (Huntington Theater Company), Buzzer (Public Theater) and Blood Quilt (Arena Stage).

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, A Skull in Connemara, Gleam, The Rivals, Crime & Punishment, Snow Falling on Cedars. Broadway—Addams Family, Life in Theatre, Shrek, Pirate Queen, Aida, Scarlet Pimpernel, Tarzan. International—West End: Royal Family. Regional—Ben-Hur Live, Metropolitan Opera, Baltimore Opera, Washington Opera, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre. Fight Direction—Everyman Theatre: Private Lives, All My Sons, Mystery of Irma Vep, Filthy Rich, Much Ado About Nothing. Baltimore Opera—Romeo et Juliette, Otello, Elektra, Aida; Studio Theatre: Frozen, Mojo; Rep Stage: Bach at Leipzig, Lonesome West, Swan; Globe Theatre, London (Workshop Season); Shakespeare Theatre: Taming of the Shrew; over 40 episodes of America’s Most Wanted. Film/TV—Killer Joe, Death Games. Other Professional—Weapons and Specialty Prop Design; Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and on faculty for the Opera Studio at University of Maryland, College Park.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, The Rivals. Regional—Studio Theatre: Sucker Punch; Victory Gardens Theatre: My Children! My Africa!; American Players Theatre: Exits and Entrances, The Circle; Dallas Theater Center: The Good Negro, Pride and Prejudice, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, My Fair Lady. Regional (acting)—Shakespeare Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well That Ends Well; Great Lakes Theatre Festival: Arms and the Man; Utah Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Our Town; Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing; Dallas Theater Center: Pride and Prejudice, The Misanthrope, The Glass Menagerie. Education—University of Delaware. Professional—Assistant Professor of Voice and Acting, University of Maryland: School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, Mud Blue Sky. Susanna Gellert joined Baltimore Center Stage in January 2012. Prior to joining Baltimore Center Stage, she received a Masters from the subcommittee on Theater Studies at the English Department of Columbia University. Recent directing projects include Bus Stop by William Inge, Mud Blue Sky by Marisa Wegrzyn, Bar Joke by Sam Allingham (Old American Can Factory), Open the Dark Door by David Nugent (New York Music Theater Festival), Visiting Day by Andy Bragen (Sewanee Writers’ Conference), Fugue States (PS 122), You Can’t Take It With You (University of Rochester), The Boss in the Satin Kimono (New York International Fringe Festival), The Duchess of Malfi (FSU/Asolo Conservatory), and Marat/Sade (The Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College). Additional New York directing credits include The Lacy Project (Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory ’07, the Ohio Theater), adaptations of Tamburlaine the Great and Valkyrie (Target Margin Theater’s Laboratory), Match and L’Interieur (American Living Room), as well as workshops at the Lark, EST, and NYU. Susanna has taught at the University of Rochester, Bard College, Columbia University, and NYU. Susanna was the founding Artistic Director of Chicago’s I-80 Drama Co. and an associate artist at Target Margin Theater. Currently, she is a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design Group and the Women’s Project Directors’ Lab. A recipient of SDCF’s Sir John Gielgud Fellowship and the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize, Susanna is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and The University of Chicago.

Baltimore Center Stage: A Wonder in My Soul, King of the Yees, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, SOUL The Stax Musical, Mobile Unit Twelfth Night, Animal Farm, Skeleton Crew, Lookingglass Alice, The Christians, Jazz, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Detroit ’67, As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, Amadeus, Wild with Happy, Twelfth Night, A Civil War Christmas. Broadway—Amazing Grace, On the Town, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good Men, etc. Off-Broadway—Clever Little Lies, Dr. Ruth, Stalking the Bogeyman, Freud’s Last Session, Tribes, Our Town, Almost Maine and Driving Miss Daisy. Over 50 regional theaters—Guthrie, George Street Theatre, Connecticut Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Barrington Stage. Over 60 films—Senior Moment, Year by the Sea, Child of Grace, Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard III, School Ties. TV/Web—Planned Parenthood series Talkin’ About, Twisted, Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nom), Max Bickford, Hack, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, Chappelle’s Show. mccorklecasting.com

Baltimore Center Stage: Detroit ’67, As You Like It; 4000 Miles; After the Revolution; It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Amadeus; Wild with Happy; Twelfth Night; Stones in His Pockets; dance of the holy ghosts; Clybourne Park; Beneatha’s Place; The Mountaintop; Bus Stop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; Gleam; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Working it Out; Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional—Shakespeare Theater Company: Salome; Contemporary American Theater Festival: World Builders; Everyman: Pygmalion, Shipwrecked, The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Yellowman; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley; Folger: Measure for Measure, Olney Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater Alliance: Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea.

Baltimore Center Stage: One Night in Miami…, Next to Normal, Animal Crackers, Mud Blue Sky, The Mountaintop, …Edgar Allan Poe, A Skull in Connemara, American Buffalo, Crime & Punishment, Let There Be Love, The Santaland Diaries, The Importance of Being Earnest, Things of Dry Hours, Trouble in Mind, Three Sisters, Radio Golf, The Murder of Isaac, Once on This Island, King Lear. Regional—Trinity Rep: Boeing-Boeing; Actors Theatre of Louisville: All Hail Hurricane Gordo*, The Clean House, Moot the Messenger*, Dracula, The Ruby Sunrise*, Tall Grass Gothic*, The Drawer Boy, Amadeus, As You Like It (*premieres at the Humana Festival of New American Plays); Contemporary American Theater Festival: The Overwhelming, Pig Farm; Totem Pole Playhouse: Over 75 productions through 13 summer stock seasons. Film/TV—Route 30, Route 30 Too!, The Father and the Bear, Next Food Network Star. Professional—Director of Stage Management at Virginia Tech University. Proud Actors Equity and ASCAP Member. For Whitney – with love and gratitude.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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“Extraordinary theater... a revival worth pulling over for.”— The Baltimore Sun

“The thermostat is set at ‘cozy’...”— The Washington Post

“Pitch-perfect for the holiday season.”— MD Theatre Guide

“Family friendly and warms the heart.”— Chesapeake Taste

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12.05.12: The Washington Post—Center Stage’s ‘Bus Stop’ a cozy place in the storm
11.30.12: The Baltimore Sun—'Bus Stop' at Center Stage a revival worth pulling over for
12.05.12: City Paper—Bus Stop amplifies the deep undercurrents beneath the surface of the 1950s Midwest
11.29.12: DC Metro Theatre Arts—'Bus Stop' at CENTERSTAGE

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