After the Revolution

March 18–May 17

After the Revolution
By Amy Herzog
Directed by Lila Neugebauer

Emma Joseph is young, ambitious, talented, and about to put the ideals of her politically leftist, New York family into action. But a long-buried secret about her much-loved blacklisted grandfather threatens her work and throws her principles—and loyalties—into question. As the family, including grandmother Vera, wrestle with their legacy, Emma must chart her own course forward.

The Amy Herzog Festival: 4000 Miles and After the Revolution

Center Stage introduces Baltimore to playwright Amy Herzog, one of the most exciting voices in American theater, through two of her hit plays—staged in repertory for the first time ever. Featuring three generations of one New York family, After the Revolution and 4000 Miles are gripping and surprising examinations of the unending power of family to shape our identities and our lives.

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Cast

Arye Gross*
Ben Joseph

Ashton Heyl*
Emma

Lois Markle*
Vera

Kelly McCrann*
Jess

Alejandro Rodriguez*
Miguel

Susan Rome*
Mel

Peter Van Wagner*
Morty

Mark Zeisler*
Leo Joseph

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution. Broadway—MTC/SCR: Brooklyn Boy. Regional—Pasadena Playhouse: Above the Fold; The Wallis: Parfumerie (Inaugural Production); Geffen Playhouse: Coney Island Christmas; South Coast Rep: Circle Mirror Transformation, Our Mother’s Brief Affair,Brooklyn Boy. Los Angeles—productions at CTG, East/West Players, LA Theatre Center, Grove Shakespeare, El Teatro Campesino, The Antaeus Company (where he is a member of the Ensemble), Stages Theatre Center (where he served as Managing Artistic Director 2000–03), and Theatre@Boston Court in The Winchester House and most recently in Stupid Fucking Bird. Film/TV—Soul Man, Tequila Sunrise, The Couch Trip, For the Boys, A Midnight Clear, Minority Report, Big Eden, Harvest, Grey Gardens, The Practice, Ellen, Friends, The L&O’S, The CSI’s, Six-Feet-Under, The Riches, Criminal Minds, the soon-to-be-released independent feature Commencement and the recurring role of Sidney Perlmutter, M.E., on ABC’s Castle.

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution. Off-Broadway—Theatre Row: Belles (Aneece). Regional—Virginia Stage: The Book Club Play (Ana); Berkshire Theatre Group: A Little Night Music (Mrs. Anderssen), The Cat & The Canary (Annabelle); Williamstown: After the Revolution (Fellowship Workshop, Mel), Golden Gate (Diane/Mom); Texas Shakespeare: 1776 (Abigail),Twelfth Night (Maria); Yale School of Drama: Hedda Gabler (Hedda), Lottie in the Late Afternoon (Clara), Sunday in the Park with George (Yvonne/Naomi), Fen(Boy/Angela/Deb); Yale Cabaret: Tartuffe (Dorine), Chamber Music (Woman with Gavel). Carnegie Mellon: As You Like It (Rosalind). Education—Yale School of Drama, Jerome L. Greene Scholarship Recipient. CMU undergrad. Many thanks to Lila, Amy, and Stephanie Klapper. Love always to my super friends and dear family.

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution/4000 Miles, Old Times, Toys in the Attic. Partial Lists: Broadway—Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Grapes of Wrath; Roundabout: Hedda Gabler,True West. Off-Broadway—The American Dream/The Sandbox (written and directed by Edward Albee); Lincoln Center: Measure for Measure; Circle in the Square: Camino Real; Soho Rep: Two Orphans. Tours—Three Tall Women, After the Fall, Present Laughter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Summer (world premiere, Kennedy Center). Regional—The Old Globe: August: Osage County (Violet, Best Actress Award); Albee’s Women; Trinity Square Rep: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Martha); Arizona Theatre Company: A Delicate Balance (Claire); Capital Rep: Driving Miss Daisy (Daisy). Film/TV—The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, After the Revolution. Off Broadway—Classic Stage Company: Twelfth Night (dir. Tony Speciale); Much Ado About Nothing (Open Rehearsal w/ Mandy Patinkin, Laila Robins, Brian Kulick); New York Classical Theater: The Rover. Regional—P.S. 122: The Blind Date Project (dir. Scott Rodgers); Dixon Place: Look Back In (dir. Kathryn Hamilton); East 13th Street Rep: Henry VI Part III (dir. Adam Marple); HomeStretch; Woodstock Arts Festival (Actor/Co-Creator); Columbia Stages: Phoenician Women (dir. Karin Coonrod). Film/TV—Louie (opposite Louis C.K.); St. James Place (Steven Spielberg); The Deal(James Berry). Education—Columbia, Shubert Scholarship; UNC Chapel Hill; Andy Griffith Scholarship. Special thanks and love to my Home Team!

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution. Off Broadway—Rattlestick: Juárez: A Documentary Mythology; 59E59: Ghetto Babylon; Theater for the New City: Bird in the Hand; Center for Innovation in the Arts: Base Track; EPBB: King Lear (Edgar) w/ Billy Porter. Tours—The Acting Company: Romeo and Juliet (title role), Comedy of Errors. Regional—Guthrie: R&J, Comedy of Errors; Denver Center: Grace, or the Art of Climbing; LATC: Juárez: A Documentary Mythology; Shakespeare Center of LA: R&J; Kitchen Theater: First Day. Film/TV—Nurse Jackie, Dates from Hell, Emoticon. Music/Opera—Bowdoin Int’l Music Festival: L’Histoire du Soldat (title role). Writer/Director—LaGuardia Performing Arts Center: Rare & Dangerous & Necessary. Education—Juilliard: Michel and Suria St. Denis Prize. Professional—Associate Director of Programs, Artists Striving to End Poverty (astep.org); co-founder, Shook Ones. For mom and dad.

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution, Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, An Enemy of the People, Mud Blue Sky (world premiere). Regional— Rep Stage: The Whale, Las Meninas, A Shayna Maidel; Theater J: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…, The Argument, After the Revolution (HH nominee), The Moscows of Nantucket, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Seder, Spring Forward/Fall Back, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (upcoming); Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: Richard III, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well; Mark Taper Forum: The Substance of Fire; Seattle Center Stage: The Legacy. TV—credits include NYPD Blue and four seasons as DA Ilene Nathan on The Wire. Films—include John Waters’ A Dirty Shame; My One and Only.

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution, Ah, Wilderness. New York—Roundabout: A Thousand Clowns; Lortel: So Help Me God!; The Public: The Chimes; 2nd Stage: The Notebook; Signature: Letters From Cuba. Regional—Yale Rep: The Cherry Orchard; Goodman: Huckleberry Finn; Huntington: Two Men Of Florence; Alliance: Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Rep. of St Louis: Twelve Angry Men; Long Wharf: Hearts. International—La Scala-Milan: West Side Story; Germany: Phantom (tour). Films—Annie, Tower Heist, Arthur, Hollywood Ending, Purple Violets. TV—He has guest starred on episodes of all the Law & Orders, The Good Wife, Unforgettable, Rescue Me, Third Watch and All My Children. Peter received a SAG Award for Outstanding Ensemble for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution, Romeo and Juliet. Broadway—Roundabout: A View from the Bridge, The Big Knife; MTC: Brooklyn Boy. Off Broadway—Signature Theatre: Piece of my Heart; Second Stage: Eurydice, The Sex Lives of our Parents; The New Group: The Accomplices; Playwrights Horizons: Circle Mirror Transformation. Regional—American Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Merrimack Rep, The Goodman, The McCarter, Elm Shakespeare, Maltz Jupiter, Asolo Rep, Wilma Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, and The BAM Next Wave Festival.TV—The Blacklist, House of Cards, Elementary, The Good Wife, Rescue Me, Blue Bloods, Unforgettable, Pan Am, The Americans, all three Law and Orders. Film—Random Hearts, Shaft, The Thomas Crown Affair, Two Week Notice, Head of State, After School. Mark is a native New Yorker and a graduate of SUNY Purchase.

Creative Team

Amy Herzog
Playwright

Lila Neugebauer
Director

Daniel Zimmerman
Set Designer

Ásta Hostetter
Costume Designer

Eric Southern
Lighting Designer

Brandon Wolcott
Sound Designer

Gavin Witt
Dramaturg

Stephanie Klapper
Casting Director

Laura Smith*
Stage Manager

Amy Herzog’s plays include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theater Festival; Playwrights Horizons; Lilly Award), 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center; Obie Award for the Best New American Play, Pulitzer Prize Finalist), The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons), and Belleville (Yale Rep; New York Theatre Workshop; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist; Drama Desk Nomination). Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity, and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at NYTW and an alumna of Youngblood, Play Group at Ars Nova, and the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Baltimore Center Stage: Director. After the Revolution/4000 Miles. Recent directing work includes AR Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theatre), Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love (South Coast Rep), Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo (Studio Theatre, DC), Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker (Berkeley Rep), Mallery Avidon’s O guru guru guru and Dorothy Fortenberry’s Partners (2013, 2014 Humana Festivals), Annie Baker’s The Aliens (SF Playhouse; Studio Theatre),The Valley of Fear and Mad Forest(Williamstown), Angels in America and Circle Mirror Transformation (Juilliard), Eliza Clark’s Edgewise (Cherry Lane Studio), and associate directing Karen O’s Stop The Virgens (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Sydney Opera House). As co-Artistic Director of The Mad Ones, Neugebauer conceives/directs ensemble-devised work, including Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (Ars Nova, New Ohio Theatre) and The Essential Straight and Narrow (New Ohio Theatre). Drama League alumna; Ensemble Studio Theatre member; New Georges Affiliated Artist; Princess Grace Award recipient. Upcoming: Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention (Williamstown), Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor (Lincoln Center Theatre), Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking(South Coast Rep), Maria Irene Fornes’ Drowning, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro (billed together, Signature Theatre).

Baltimore Center Stage: Set Designer. After the Revolution/4000 Miles. Off-Broadway—Roundabout Theater Company: Suicide, Incorporated; The Play Company: Call My Brothers; The Pearl Theatre Company: Henry IV, Part 1; Ars Nova: Be a Good Little Widow; Page 73 Productions: You Got Older; The Mint: Fashions For Men. Other New York—Projects with The Woodshed Collective, Colt Coeur, Lesser America, and Slant Theatre Project. Regional—Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Dallas Theatre Center, Trinity Repertory Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Theatreworks Palo Alto, Portland Stage Company, Pioneer Theater Company. Daniel is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb. Education—MFA: NYU Tisch.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lighting Designer. After the Revolution/4000 Miles. Recent Projects—Playwright’s Horizon: Pocatello; Rattlestick Theater: The Few, Buyer and Cellar; Barrow Street Theater: Buyer and Cellar; Carnegie Hall: collected stories: memoir (with David Lang); BAM Next Wave Festival: Play/Pause (with Susan Marshall and David Lang); Prototype Festival: Paul’s Case; 600 Highwaymen: Employee of the Year, The Record, Empire City, This Great Country, Everyone is Chanting Your Name. Recent Opera—Avignon Opera House, Armel International Opera Festival: The Secret Agent; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: The Messiah (fully staged). Others—The Guthrie Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Atlantic Theater Company, Asolo Rep, Virginia Opera, Portland Center Stage, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Arden Theater, Magic Theater, Kansas City Rep, Oregon Shakespeare, Kennedy Center, Asolo Rep, Westport Country Playhouse, UCLA Live Arts, Juilliard School, University of Rochester, Bard College, Colaboration Town, Lesser America, Studio 42, Ohio Theater. Education—BFA, MFA: NYU. Awards—2014 OBIE Award for The Correspondent.

Baltimore Center Stage: Original Music and Sound Design. After the Revolution/4000 Miles. Recent/Notable: The Nether (MCC); Kansas City Choir Boy (Prototype/HERE); The Seagull (Lake Lucille); The Record by 600 Highwaymen (original score); The Good Person of Szechwan and Titus Andronicus at The Public Theater; Kiss the Air (Park Avenue Armory); The Mystery of Irma Vep and The Maids with Red Bull Theater; The Tenant and Confidence Man with Woodshed Collective; So Much Mad in Me (Faye Driscoll). New York—MTC, The Joyce, LaMama, DTW, PS122, 3LD, New Ohio, Clubbed Thumb, and many more. Regional—Two River, Great Lakes, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, The Magic.

Director of Dramaturgy and Associate Director Gavin Witt came to Baltimore Center Stage in 2003, after nearly 15 years in Chicago as an actor, director, dramaturg, translator, and teacher—and co-founder of the classically based greasy joan & co theater. Among his translations and adaptations are a half-dozen Shakespeare plays, including a Jeff-nominated version of Pericles and the BCS production of As You Like It; Jeff-nominated translations of Beaumarchais’ The Barber of Seville and Ionesco’s Macbett; and the BCS adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago, he is currently on the Humanities faculty at Peabody Conservatory, having previously taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul, and Towson; has served on the advisory boards of several theaters; and spent more than a decade as a regional vice president of LMDA, the national association of dramaturgs, before recently joining its board.

Baltimore Center Stage: That Face, The White Snake, The Secret Garden, Herzog Festival (4000 Miles and After the Revolution), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Next to Normal, Vanya and Sonia…, Stones in His Pockets, dance of the holy ghosts, …Poe, The Whipping Man, A Skull in Connemara. Selected credits include: Broadway—Bronx Bombers; A Christmas Story, The Musical; Dividing the Estate; Bells Are Ringing; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. Off Broadway—Daniel’s Husband; That Golden Girls Show!; Fade; Exit Strategy; The Roads to Home; Informed Consent; The Winter’s Tale; The Glass Menagerie; Billy Porter’s While I Yet Live; The Model Apartment; Emotional Creature; Karen O’s Stop the Virgens!. Regional—Many theaters including: Asolo, Canadian Stage Company; Cincinnati Playhouse, Capital Rep, Ford’s Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Kansas City Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Berkeley Rep, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Company, Old Globe Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Film/TV—Another Dance With Death; Poor Behavior; Stag; Alice Jacobs is Dead, Roberta, Feast of the Goat; Sidewalk Stories. TV—Lazytown. Member—Casting Society of America and League of Professional Theatre Women.

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.

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“Fascinating… Finely acted and directed.”— The Baltimore Sun

“Spectacular cast.”— City Paper

“Riveting”— BroadWay World

“Dexterous direction.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“Each cast member skillfully and whole-heartedly embraced each role.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“DIRECTOR LILA NEUGEBAUER INTELLIGENTLY HANDLES THE ALMOST CHEKHOVIAN FRAILTIES AND STRENGTHS OF A CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY COMPLETELY INVESTED IN THEIR STORIES.”— DC THEATRE SCENE

“CENTER STAGE’S FIRST-RATE CAST APPEARS TO BE NOT AN ENSEMBLE BUT A FLESH-AND-BLOOD FAMILY. ”— THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“DIRECTOR LILA NEUGEBAUER ELICITS TOP FLIGHT PERFORMANCES OUT OF THE CAST. ”— BROADWAYWORLD

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