Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

September 12–October 11

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Adapted by Christopher Baker
Directed by Hana S. Sharif

A WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION

Jane Austen’s mastery of manners and morals will be on full display in Center Stage’s new production of her beloved masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice. In the Bennet sisters’ 19th-century English world, marriage is the prize, but for second-eldest, Lizzy, companionship trumps blind courtship. Enter Mr. Darcy, and one of literature’s most iconic and tempestuous romances takes flight. Journey through a world quite unlike—and yet perhaps not so different from—our own, as Lizzy and Darcy learn that first impressions aren’t all they seem, and that second chances can lead to answers that have been there the entire time.

“As fresh and relevant as the day it was written.”—The Independent (UK)

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Cast

Kate Abbruzzese*
Elizabeth Bennet

Chris Bolan*
Mr. Collins

Julia Brandeberry
Mrs. Gardiner

Maya Brettell
Mary Bennett

Ali Rose Dachis
Lydia Bennett

Victoria Frings*
Miss Caroline Bingley

Asher Grodman*
Mr. Wickham

Patricia Hodges*
Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Travis Hudson
1st Soldier

Greg Joubert
2nd Soldier

Carolyn Kashner
Young Woman #1

Sarah Rose Kearns
Young Woman #2

Ed Klein
3rd Soldier

Hillary Mazer
Mrs. Reynolds

Kelly McCrann*
Charlotte Lucas

Mary Jo Mecca*
Mrs. Bennett

Erin Neufer*
Jane Bennett

Anthony Newfield*
Mr. Bennett

Josh Salt*
Mr. Bingley

David Sedgwick*
Mr. Gardiner

A.J. Shively*
Mr. Darcy

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Off Broadway—Scotty (Ann Weis); My Favorite Character Was the Talking Vase (Carl Linnaeus). Regional—Chautauqua Theatre Company: The Tempest (Miranda), Dairyland (Allie); Shakespeare & Co: Julius Caesar (Portia, Casca), Hamlet (title role), Parasite Drag (Susie); Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale (Perdita); Florida Studio Theatre: Sylvia (title role); Tennessee Shakespeare Festival: Othello (Desdemona). Education—BA in drama and psychology from Vassar College, MFA in NYU Graduate Acting (Class of 2015). Awards—Recipient of the Molly Thatcher Kazan Memorial Award and the Olympia Dukakis Scholarship.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Broadway/Nat’l Tour—Mamma Mia! (Sky). NYC Theater—The Public Lab: The Tempest (Prospero); New World Stages: Oh Hell No! (Soloist); The Skirball Center: Shakespeare in Progress: Queen Margaret (Henry VI); The Lark: Oneida (Frank); Metropolitan Playhouse: A Room in the Middle (Daniel Shays); The PIT: Jester’s Dead (Slider/Cougar); The Shubert: Dear Penthouse (Tom). Regional Theater—Engeman Theater: Other Desert Cities (Trip Wyeth); St. Louis Rep: Macbeth (Lennox); Mountain Playhouse: Joseph…Dreamcoat (Joseph); Carousel Theater: My Game (Jeff); Bard on the Beach: Antony & Cleopatra (Ventidius); The Taming Of The Shrew (Curtis); Firehall: Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt). Film/TV—Ice: Beyond Cool (CBC); Winter Kill (CBC); The Unprofessionals (Comedy Network); Beyond Human Limits (Discovery); Naked Frailties (Showcase). Chris is currently in production directing his first documentary feature film, with Beech Hill Films and is a Jerome Foundation recipient. Education—MFA, NYU. Love to Megan and Jackson.

Baltimore Center Stage: As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice . International—International Theatre Vienna: Children of a Lesser God (Sarah). Regional—Everyman Theatre: Blithe Spirit (Edith), The Beaux Stratagem (The Country Girl/The Fat Lady), Our Town (Mrs. Soames); Shakespeare Theatre DC: Henry IV Part 1 and 2 (Lady Northumberland/Ensemble); Taffety Punk: Pericles (Dionyza), Romeo and Juliet (Paris); Profile Theatre: A Lesson From Aloes (Gladys); Source Theatre: Extremes (Celeste); Here Theatre: Stars of the Sweet Decline (Starla); Stark Raving Theatre: Pizza Man (Julie); Theatre Vertigo: Lion in The Streets (Christine/Sherry); Impulsive Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (Ursula). Film/TV—Leverage (TNT); Unsolved Mysteries (Fox TV); Anoosh of the Airways (Front Pocket Films).

Baltimore Center Stage: Price and Prejudice. Regional—New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF): Coming of Age (Girl); Arena Stage: Fiddler on the Roof (Bielke); Signature Theatre: Beaches (Teen Bertie); Olney Theatre Center: Carousel (Louise); Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Appropriate (Cassie); Studio Theatre: The Big Meal (Girl); Synetic Theatre: Macbeth (MacDuff’s daughter); Toby’s: Annie (Annie); Lean & Hungry: Alice In Wonderland (Alice); Compass Rose Theater: Eleemosynary (Echo); ATMTC: Good Night Moon (Mouse, Dish); Little House Christmas (Mary); Big, the Musical. Film—Museum of Tolerance: Anne (Anne Frank). Training—NASL, Pace University Summer Scholars/Musical Theatre Major. Upcoming—Woolly Mammoth: The Nether (Iris). mayabrettell.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Broadway—Fish in the Dark (Natalie/Jessica). Off-Broadway—The Awesome 80s Prom (Missy); New York—Slant Theater: The Classroom (Daria); Sanguine Theatre: Exit 27 (The Outsider). Regional—The Guthrie: The Edge of our Bodies (Bernadette), Circle Mirror Transformation (Lauren), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Nina), A Christmas Carol (Deidre/ Sally), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia u/s); Cincinnati Playhouse: Leveling Up (Originated the role of Jeannie); Southwest Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet); Arizona Theatre Co.: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Nina). Film/TV—Fatal Encounters (Discovery Channel). Training—University of Minnesota/Guthrie Actor Training Program. Ali is a proud member of Artists Striving to End Poverty.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Broadway—An Enemy of the People. Off-Broadway—MTC: Tales from Red Vienna. Regional—The Kennedy Center, Wilma Theater, Arden Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre. Film/New Media—Sleeping with Other People, Lucy 4:57 PM, After Ever After The Web Series. Frings is the proud founder of To-By-For Productions, which just spear-headed the world premiere of Stitches at TheaterLab in NYC. This fall she will also direct her screenwriting debut short, An Out. Education—Frings is an alumni of the Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab, ACT’s Summer Training Congress and the University of Pennsylvania. victoriafrings.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Off-Broadway—Daryl Roth 2 Theater/Theater for a New City: Art***kers; NYC Fringe: The Disappearance of Jonah. Regional—American Conservatory Theater: A Christmas Carol, Napoli; Santa Rosa Rep Theater: Stones in His Pockets, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Shrek the Musical. Film/TV—Law and Order (NBC); As the World Turns (CBS); Handsome Harry (Worldview Entertainment); Mo (Dendron Motion Pictures); BuzzKill (Indican Pictures). Asher Grodman is the writer/director/producer of The Train, starring Academy Award Winner Eli Wallach. The Train is playing in film festivals this year: trainshortfilm.com, @trainshortfilm. Education—Asher holds a BA in Film and English from Columbia University in New York and an MFA in Acting from The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Thank you to my wonderful family, friends, agents and manager for your support. ashergrodman.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, The Lover, Three Tall Women. Broadway—Born Yesterday; A Man for All Seasons; Dancing at Lughnasa; Six Degrees of Separation. Off-Broadway—MTC: Rose’s Dilemma (Rose); Variety: Communicating Doors (Ruella); John Houseman Theatre: On the Verge (Fanny); NYSF/Public: The Normal Heart (Emma). Nat’l Tour—Carousel (Mrs. Mullins). Regional—Guthrie/ACT: The Night of the Iguana (Maxine); Dallas: The Seagull (Arkadina); Indiana Rep: The Cherry Orchard, Much Ado About Nothing, The House That Jack Built; Alliance: Betrayal, Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Syracuse Stage: Blithe Spirit (Madame Arcati). Film/TV—Odd Mom Out, Royal Pains, Law & Order, Another World.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. NYC Fringe—Exiles from the Sun (Jill); The Fall of the House of Usher (Annabel Lee). Regional—Olney Theatre Center: Witness for the Prosecution (Greta/Stenographer); Signature Theatre: Kid Victory (Mom/Gail/Emily u/s); The Hub Theatre: Failure: A Love Story (Gerty, 2015 Helen Hayes Nomination), Leto Legend (Nike/Hera); Theatre Alliance: The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Britney); The Keegan Theatre: National Pastime (Carla), Man of La Mancha (Antonia); 1st Stage: The Last 5 Years (Cathy); Scena Theatre: The Plague (Radio Newscaster), The Balcony (The Slave). Education—Carolyn is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington’s Department of Theatre and Dance and Studio Theatre’s Professional Acting Conservatory.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, Amadeus , An Enemy of the People . Regional—Spotlighters Theatre: On Golden Pond (Ethel), The Hot l Baltimore (Millie), London Suite (Mrs. Semple); Bowie Players: The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Frieda—WATCH nominated for best supporting Comedic Actress); Laurel Mill Playhouse: I Never Sang for My Father (Alice). Film/TV—House of Cards (Netflix, season 4); Ghosting (Third Child Productions); The Rosens (Steve Yeager Productions); Diary of an Ex-Child Star (First Star Media Productions). Education—BA Dramatic Art, University of Maryland, College Park. Many thanks to all my family and friends for their continued belief and support. Feeling like the poster child for “never giving up on your dreams…please, always follow your dreams…never, ever give up! xoxo

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: Pride & Prejudice (Mrs. Bennet). Regional—Farmers Alley: Gypsy (Rose); Portland Stage: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Kate); Geva Theatre: Superior Donuts (Randy Osteen); Active Theatre, NYC: Body Language, Bridgeboy; NYMF: Tess; Music Circus: Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Big River, Hello Dolly, Damn Yankees, Sister Act; Casa Manana: Sweeney Todd; Syracuse Stage: White Christmas; Guthrie Theatre: Little House on the Prairie; Westport Playhouse: A Christmas Carol; Interact Theatre: Death of a Salesman, Sganarelle, The Jealous Husband, As Bees in Honey Drown; Alabama Shakespeare: Man of La Mancha; Goodspeed: Amour; Seven Angels: Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Alley Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde; Odyssey Theatre: Stand-up Shakespeare; Pasadena Playhouse: Jerry Herman’s Showtune; Connecticut Rep: Into the Woods; Westbeth Theatre: Jonathan Larson’s Blocks; UMT Funny Girl. Film—Holes. TV—The Tap, Law & Order, L&O: Trial by Jury, Frasier, Guiding Light, Oh Baby! Recordings—Easter Mysteries, Mr. Confidential.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Broadway—The Winslow Boy, The Columnist, The Royal Family, Waiting for Godot, Tartuffe. Off-Broadway—Ivanov with Ethan Hawke and Joely Richardson (Classic Stage Company), The Explorers Club (Manhattan Theatre Club), Susan and God (Mint). Regional—An Enemy of the People, To Kill a Mockingbird, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Arcadia, The Play About the Baby, Bent (Carbonell Award), Orson’s Shadow, Antony and Cleopatra, A Woman of No Importance, The Father, Gross Indecency, Charley’s Aunt. Theaters: Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company (D.C.), Alliance, Huntington, Coconut Grove, others. International—Ireland: The Normal Heart (The Machine/Project Art Centre), Tom and Viv (Rough Magic), Peer Gynt (Gate); Russia: The Grapes of Wrath (Moscow Art Studio Theatre). TV/Film—includes I Melt with You, Diminished Chords, Miss Bertram’s Awakening, All My Children, One Life to Live, Diagnosis Murder. Other—Solo: Beowulf, Steinbeck and the Land. Poetry for Peace: Gilgamesh, The Iliad. Education—Carnegie Mellon, MFA.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Broadway—The Cripple of Inishmaan (U/S to Daniel Radcliffe. U/S Billy/Bartley). Regional—Northlight: 4000 Miles (Leo); Writers: Yellow Moon (Stag Lee); Goodman: Teddy Ferrara (Tim); Steep: Making Noise Quietly (Eric); Redtwist: The Cripple of Inishmaan (Billy); Griffin: Spring Awakening (Melchior). Film/TV—Person of Interest (CBS); Chicago Fire (NBC/Universal). Education—Holds a BA in Theatre from Columbia College Chicago. Co-Founder of Stag Entertainment Company stagentertainment.co. He is represented by Gray Talent Group. Thanks to Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, Emily, Georgia, Teddy, Charlie, and every single one of my incredible friends.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Off-Broadway— Pearl Theatre: Hamlet (Voltemand; u/s Claudius). Other New York—Seeing Place: Three Sisters (Vershinin), Twelfth Night (Orsino); Retro Productions: Dear Ruth (Harry Wilkins); Gallery Players: What the Butler Saw (Dr. Prentice); New York Classical Theatre: Misalliance (Percival). International— New National Theatre, Tokyo: Macbeth (Macduff); Tokyo International Players: Arcadia (Bernard), A Doll’s House (Torvald). Regional— Shakespeare & Company: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Pato Dooley); Luna Stage: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Jim Tyrone); Shadow Lawn Stage: Shining City (Ian); 12 Miles West: Darkness to Light (originated lead role of Beethoven); Stageworks/Hudson: A Wedding Story (Robin). Film/TV—The Knick (Cinemax); Orange is the New Black (Netflix); The Blacklist (NBC); One Life to Live, All My Children (ABC); As the World Turns (CBS). The Way of Justice; Gertrude Stein’s ‘Brewsie and Willie’. Education— BFA, Theatre Nepean, Sydney. All my love to Jennifer and Astrid. davidsedgwick.com.

Center Stage: debut. Broadway —Cage Aux Folles (JeanMichel); Brigadoon (Charlie, Benefit Concert). Off Broadway—The Public: February House; The Duke: Unlock’d; Cherry Lane: A Contemporary American’s Guide to a Successful Marriage; Second Stage: Things to Ruin; Ensemble Studio Theatre: Little Airplanes of the Heart. National Tour—The Sound of Music. Regional—George Street Playhouse, Long Wharf, Gulfshore Playhouse. Readings/Workshops— DreamWorks, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, NYMF, Fringe NYC, Center Theatre Group, TheatreWorks– Palo Alto. Film/TV— Syrup, HairBrained (upcoming), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Education— BFA, University of Michigan.

Creative Team

Christopher Baker
Adapter

Hana S. Sharif
Director

Scott Bradley
Scenic Designer

Ilona Somogyi
Costume Designer

Colin D. Young
Lighting Designer

Broken Chord
Original Music & Sound Design

Alex Basco Koch
Projection Designer

Paloma McGregor
Choreographer

Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Production Dramaturg

Lynn Watson
Dialects

Maya Brettell
Dance Captain

Pat McCorkle
Casting Director

Brandon Rashad Butts
Assistant to the Director

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. Plays include Calliope Jam and Lincoln: An American Vaudeville (upcoming). He has been a dramaturg on over 80 productions, including The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore and The Orphans’ Home Cycle Off-Broadway and productions at Hartford Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, PlayMakers and the Alley Theatre. For 14 years at Hartford Stage he served in various capacities, including Associate Artistic Director and Associate Producer. He has directed productions at the Alley Theater, PlayMakers, and Hartford Opera Theater. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, he has also taught at the University of North Carolina, the Hartt School, and the Moscow Art Theatre School. Author of the books Shakespeare in an Hour and Molière in an Hour, he is also a contributor to The Production Notebooks, African American Connecticut Explored and The Lively ART. Education—Northwestern University, A.R.T Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre School.

Baltimore Center Stage Associate Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif is a director, playwright, and producer. She served as Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Development, and Artistic Producer at Hartford Stage; recently as Program Manager of the ArtsEmerson Ambassador Program; and as Developmental Producer/Tour Manager of Progress Theatre’s musical The Burnin’. Hana also served as co-founder and Artistic Director of Nasir Productions, which brings theater to underserved communities. Her directing credits include: Baltimore Center Stage: The Christians, Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Pride & Prejudice (DCArts: Best Director/Best New Play); Regional: Sense & Sensibility, The Whipping Man, Gem of the Ocean (six CCC nominations), Gee’s Bend (CCC Award Best Ensemble, two nominations), Next Stop Africa, Cassie, The Drum, and IFdentity. Hana has directed numerous developmental workshops, including Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s The Chat and Chew Supper Club, Janine Nabers’ A Swell in the Ground, and Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand. Her plays include All the Women I Used to Be, The Rise and Fall of Day, and The Sprott Cycle Trilogy. Hana is the recipient of the 2009–10 Aetna New Voices Fellowship and Theatre Communications Group (TCG) New Generations Fellowship. She serves on the board of directors for the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and the Sprott Foundation.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, The Rainmaker, Picnic. Broadway—premieres of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars (Tony nom. and Drama Desk Award for best set design), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Drama Desk Award for best Set Design). Recent openings—Virginia Repertory Theater: West Side Story; Portland Stage, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co: Loves Labors Lost; Cleveland Playhouse: Dark at the Top of the Stairs; Seattle Rep: A View from the Bridge; Cleveland Playhouse: The Crucible; Long Wharf Theater: Brownsville Song; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing. Notable productions—Seattle Rep: Samuel D. Hunter’s A Great Wilderness (world premiere); Second Stage: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl and The Notebooks Of Leonardo Da Vinci by Mary Zimmerman (both Lucille Lortel noms.). TV—Late Night with David Letterman (NBC). Film—Production designer for Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands. Education—Graduate of The Yale School of Drama 1986. Head of Scene Design program Virginia Commonwealth University.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth. Broadway—Clybourne Park. Off-Broadway/New York—Grey Gardens (Bay Street Theater) Gloria, Satchmo at the Waldorf, Dinner With Friends, My Name is Asher Lev; The World is Round (Ripe Time), A Soldier’s Tale (Zankel Hall), The Seagull (Culture Project), The Lying Lesson, Almost an Evening, Scarcity (Atlantic), Maple and Vine, A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons), Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall), Wit. Regional—King Hedley II, Smokey Joe’s Café (Arena), Richard III (OSF,) Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike, Nice Fish, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Guthrie,) 4000 Miles (Long Wharf), Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare), Good People (Huntington), The Crucible, Gem of the Ocean, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage) Three Sisters, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Passion Play (Yale Rep) Tartuffe, Suddenly Last Summer (Westport Country Playhouse.) Novelties—Disney on Ice: Princess Wishes, Norwegian National Ballet, and a Dutch production of Saturday Night Fever. Training & Faculty—Yale School of Drama.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, One Night in Miami…. Off Broadway—Public Theatre/NBT: Detroit ’67; Signature: Fragments by Edward Albee, Talking Pictures; Primary Stages/Perry Street: In the Continuum; Classical Theatre of Harlem: Native Son, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Blacks: A Clown Show, Crazy Locomotive, Henry V, Seed; 59E59 Theatres: The Jazz Age, Havana Bourgeois, Rearviewmirror, Widows; Reverie Productions: Fatboy, Mephisto, Beowulf; New Victory/World Science Festival: Spooky Action; Regional—Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Goodman, Philadelphia Theatre Co. and Cincinnati Playhouse. Awards—4 Audelco noms., 2003 Audelco Award for Crazy Locomotive. Education—Yale School of Drama. Professional/Other—Senior Design Partner for LDNY; Co-founder & Artistic Director: Reverie Productions; Founding Festival Tech Director: New York International Fringe Festival; Playwright/Translator: Beowulf.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, American Buffalo. New York—Atlantic Theater: The Jammer, The Lying Lesson; The Incubator Arts Project: OZET; Labyrinth Theater: The Insurgents; Manhattan Theatre Club: Spirit Control, When We Were Young and Unafraid; Primary Stages: A Lifetime Burning, Harrison TX, Informed Consent; The Public Theater: The Good Negro; Rattlestick: Stay, Massacre; Second Stage Theatre: The Other Thing; Signature Theatre: The Dance and the Railroad, Appropriate; Women’s Project: Lascivious Something, Row After Row. Regional—Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Berkeley Rep: Party People; Dallas Theater Center: The Tempest, King Lear, The Odd Couple; Hartford Stage: Whipping Man, Snow Falling on Cedars; Huntington Theatre: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, A Raisin in the Sun; La Jolla Playhouse: Ruined; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Ruined, Party People; People’s Light: End Days; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet; Trinity Rep: Steel Magnolias, The Glass Menagerie; Yale Rep: Eclipsed, These Paper Bullets!. brokenchordcollective.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: SOUL The Stax Musical, Detroit ’67, Pride and Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, The Mountaintop, An Enemy of the People, ReEntry. Concert Design—The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir. Broadway—Be More Chill (opening 2019); Irena’s Vow. Off-Broadway—The Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, Ars Nova, Primary Stages, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regional and Touring—The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theater, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Alliance Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Studio Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Two River Theater. London—Menier Chocolate Factory. Film—Miles Ahead; Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You. alexbascokoch.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, Marley, Amadeus, A Civil War Christmas. Other recent choreography credits include Hamlet (The Public Mobile Unit), Building a Better Fishtrap (Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance), Brownsville Song (LCT3), The House that Will Not Stand (Berkeley Repertory and Yale Repertory), A Winter’s Tale and Spunk (California Shakespeare Theatre), Four Electric Ghosts (The Kitchen), Children of Killers (Castillo Theater), Indomitable: James Brown (SummerStage), For a Barbarian Woman (Fordham University) and Blood Dazzler (Harlem Stage). A Harlem-based artist, she co-founded Angela’s Pulse with her sister, director Patricia McGregor. She is currently developing a performance work to premiere on the Bronx River in Summer 2018. Paloma toured internationally for six years as a dancer with Urban Bush Women and has danced with Takoma Park-based Dance Exchange.

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice, Twelfth Night, The Whipping Man, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fabulation, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional—Mosaic Theater Company: Queens Girl in Africa; Kennedy Center: The Wings of Ikarus Jackson, Locomotion, New Voices/New Visions; African Continuum: The Amen Corner, Fresh Flavas New Play Development program; TheatreWorks: Fences; Crossroads: Former Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Spirit North (world premiere); Arena Stage: Holiday Heart, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Odyssey (American premiere). Professional— Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. Education— BA: Spelman College; MA; Washington College; Stanford University

Baltimore Center Stage: Pride and Prejudice. She has worked extensively as a voice, speech, and dialects specialist. Regional—Arena Stage: Moon for the Misbegotten, The Misanthrope, M. Butterfly, A Time to Kill, many others; Kennedy Center: The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Ford’s Theatre; Signature Theatre. Other credits include critically acclaimed productions of A Streetcar Named Desire at A.C.T.-San Francisco and Skylight at the Mark Taper Forum in LA, and four seasons with South Coast Rep. In 2009, she founded a project to revive public domain plays by women. The first production was a podcast of Susanna Centlivre’s Restoration play, The Basset Table. Directing—also includes Tina Howe’s short play Milk and Water (world premiere). Professional—Professor of Theatre at UMBC.

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: Les Liaisons Dangereuses., Marley , Pride and Prejudice, X’s and O’s, 4000 Miles, After the Revolution, Amadeus. Regional—Director: Silver Spring Stage: Animals Out of Paper, Nu Sass: Left/Right, Source Theatre: Manus Dei, Allergy; Shafer Street Playhouse: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, The Little Dog Laughed, Poof!. Film—Imaginerapy. Upcoming—Gene Frankel Theatre: Between Us, Iron Crow Theatre: Bootycandy. Brandon is an Associate Artist at Baltimore Center Stage, SDC Observer, and Directing Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club. Education—Virginia Commonwealth University

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“A charming love story.”— WYPR

“Appealing cast, fluid direction, and stylish production.”— The Baltimore Sun

“An entertaining work of theater.”— The Baltimore Sun

“Fresh and flamboyant.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“Stunning… Hilarious”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“ENOUGH SCENE-STEALING CHARACTERS IN THIS PRODUCTION TO KEEP ONE CAPTIVATED.”— DC METRO THEATER ARTS

“ELEGANT AND WITTY PRODUCTION.”— BROADWAY WORLD

“SEAMLESSLY TIGHTENED WITHOUT LOSING THE ESSENCE THAT HAS ENCHANTED GENERATIONS OF AUSTENITES THROUGH MULTIPLE INTERPRETATIONS.”— BROADWAY WORLD

“MY THEATER COMPANION, WHO IS AVERSE TO CHICK FLICKS AND COSTUME DRAMAS, THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE PRODUCTION.”— BROADWAY WORLD

“AESTHETICALLY STUNNING.”— THEATRE BLOOM

“A GREAT MANY BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS AND PRODUCTION CONCEPTS”— THEATRE BLOOM

“YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”— MD THEATRE GUIDE

“[BAKER] HAS KEPT THE HEART, ROMANCE, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, AUSTEN'S KEEN WIT.”— MD THEATRE GUIDE

“A GREAT OPENING TO THE NEW SEASON AND A WONDERFUL INTRODUCTION—AND REINTRODUCTION—TO THIS CLASSIC.”— MD THEATRE GUIDE

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