Sweat

LYNN NOTTAGE

Playwright

LYNN NOTTAGE (Playwright) is a Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced widely in the U.S. and throughout the world. They include By the Way Meet Vera Stark; Ruined; Intimate Apparel; Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine; and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Lynn is the recipient of numerous honors including a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, Steinberg “Mimi” Distinguished Playwright Award, Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, inaugural Horton Foote Prize, Helen Hayes Award, Lee Reynolds Award and a PEN/Laura Pels Award. She is the co-founder of the production company Market Road Films. Special thanks to Oregon Shakespeare Festival and American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle, The Lark, McCarter Theatre, Travis Ballenger, Alison Carey, Bill Rauch, Jill Dubiner, Mica Cole, Santo Mirabella, the folks of Reading, Tony Gerber and my family.

KATE WHORISKEY

Director

KATE WHORISKEY (Director)’s New York credits include Dear Elizabeth (Women’s Project Theatre), Public Studio shows Ping Pong and Manahatta (The Public), Tales From Red Vienna and Ruined (Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel Award nominations), The Miracle Worker (Broadway’s Circle in the Square), How I Learned to Drive (Second Stage Theatre), The Piano Teacher (Vineyard Theatre), Oroonoko (Theatre for a New Audience), the world premieres of Fabulation and Inked Baby (Playwrights Horizons) and Massacre (Labyrinth Theater Company). International credits include Magdalena at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris and Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo. Regional credits include Goodman Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, American Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Center Stage, Sundance Theatre Lab and New York Stage and Film, among others.

JOHN LEE BEATTY

Set Designer

JOHN LEE BEATTY (Set Designer) previously designed for Arena Stage’s The Tot Family (1976) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1978). His Broadway credits include Disgraced, The Heidi Chronicles, Chicago, The Nance, Outside Mullingar, Venus in Fur, Other Desert Cities, Good People, Rabbit Hole, After Midnight, The Color Purple, Doubt, Proof, The Sisters Rosensweig, Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Off-Broadway credits include Dada Woof Papa Hot, Shows for Days, The City of Conversation, and Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear in Central Park. Designer of more than 100 Broadway shows, he is the recipient of multiple Tony, Obie, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, and is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame.

JENNIFER MOELLER

Costume Designer

JENNIFER MOELLER (Costume Designer) recently designed costumes for Sweat at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Additional credits include La Bohéme (Washington National Opera); The Bachelorette and Venus in Fur (Studio Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Tamburlaine (Helen Hayes Award nomination) and Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park); The Last Goodbye (The Old Globe); Candide (Glimmerglass); The Dance and the Railroad (Signature Theatre); The How and the Why (McCarter Theatre Center); The Winter’s Tale and Dance of the Holy Ghost (Yale Repertory Theatre); Mud Blue Sky (Center Stage); and Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown Theatre Festival).

PETER KACZOROWSKI

Lighting Designer

PETER KACZOROWSKI (Lighting Designer) makes his Arena Stage debut. Broadway credits include The Country House; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; No Man’s Land and Waiting for Godot; Venus in Fur; Anything Goes; Grey Gardens; A View From The Bridge; The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; She Loves Me; and Steel Pier. He has additional credits with Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public, The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Signature Theatre, Vineyard Theatre and 20 Encores! concerts at New York City Center. Opera credits include The Met, San Francisco, Houston Grand, LAMCO, Santa Fe, Seattle, Saint Louis, The Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Maggio Florence, L’Arena di Verona, La Fenice, Bonn and Lisbon. He is the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama-Logue, Ovation and Henry Hewes Design Awards.

ROB MILBURN & MICHAEL BODEEN

Original Music and Sound Design

ROB MILBURN & MICHAEL BODEEN (Original Music and Sound Design)’s Broadway credits include music composition and sound for No Man’s Land, Waiting for Godot, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Miracle Worker, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Speed of Darkness; music for My Thing of Love; and sound for Larry David’s Fish in the Dark, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Superior Donuts, Reasons to be Pretty, A Year with Frog and Toad, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. They have also created music and sound Off-Broadway, at many of America’s resident theaters (often with Steppenwolf Theatre) and at several international venues. www.milbomusic.com

JEFF SUGG

Projection Designer

JEFF SUGG (Projection Designer) is a Brooklyn based designer and multi-award winner. Arena Stage credits include Camp David, Five Guys Named Moe, The Mountaintop and 33 Variations. Broadway credits include Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater), A Time to Kill, Bring It On: The Musical, Magic/Bird and 33 Variations. Off-Broadway credits include Fortress of Solitude, An Octoroon, This Clement World, Tribes, Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island and The Accidental Trilogy. Regionally, he worked on Marie Antoinette (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) and Five Guys Named Moe (Cleveland Play House). His music credits include Anthracite Fields (Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning composition) and Prince’s appearance on SNL. Jeff has received a Lucille Lortel, Obie, Bessie and two Henry Hewes Design Awards.

U. JONATHAN TOPPO

Fight Director

U. JONATHAN TOPPO (Fight Director)’s previous credits as fight director include Pericles at Folger Theatre, Guys and Dolls at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, The Great Society at Seattle Repertory Theatre and The Pirates of Penzance at Portland Opera. He is the resident fight director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

REBECCA WEAR

Associate Director

REBECCA WEAR (Associate Director)’s previous credits include If the Saints (Metro Baptist), Obedient Steel (HERE) and I Run with You (Women Center Stage). She has previously assisted Jerry Ruiz, Stew and Kate Whoriskey. Rebecca has worked with Under the Radar, is an associate artist with The Orchard Project, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara.

MOLLY HOULAHAN

Assistant Director

MOLLY HOULAHAN (Assistant Director) is currently the Bret C. Harte directing fellow and assistant to the artistic director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. As the directing fellow, Molly has assisted Sean Graney on The Hypocrites’ The Pirates of Penzance and will assist Daniel Sullivan on Macbeth starring Frances McDormand, Mary Zimmerman on Treasure Island and Les Waters on Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday. She previously worked with The Public and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Her directing work has been featured in FringeNYC, TinyRhino Short Play Festival and New York Theatre Workshop’s Jonathan Larson Lab. Molly is a graduate of Yale University where she won the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing and Creative Arts. She is thrilled to return to Sweat after working on it at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

KURT HALL

Stage Manager

KURT HALL (Stage Manager)’s favorite Arena Stage credits include Destiny of Desire, The Blood Quilt, Our War, The Shoplifters, Smokey Joe’s Café, Mother Courage and Her Children starring Kathleen Turner, Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life, Good People, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins starring Kathleen Turner, The Normal Heart, Red, Ruined, every tongue confess starring Phylicia Rashad, Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, Looped starring Valerie Harper, Next to Normal starring Alice Ripley, Awake and Sing! and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Additional regional credits at the Kennedy Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company and Signature Theatre. Thanks to his family for all their support.

JANA LLYNN

Assistant Stage Manager

JANA LLYNN (Assistant Stage Manager) is delighted to return to Arena Stage and her hometown area. Recent credits include Round House Theatre’s The Night Alive, starring Edward Gero. Broadway credits include The Drowsy Chaperone, Bridge & Tunnel, Company and The Moliere Comedies. Off-Broadway credits include SILENCE! The Musical, SHOUT! The Mod Musical, Blind Lemon Blues, Matt & Ben (starring Mindy Kaling), The Shawl (director Sidney Lumet, starring Dianne Wiest), Beau Jest (three years Off-Broadway, director for Boston production) and Carnegie Hall. Regional credits include The Taming of the Shrew (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Southern Writers’ Project), Henry V, Avenue Q (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Buses, Cookin’ at the Cookery, Sheila’s Day, The Last 5 Years (Crossroads Theatre Company), Having Our Say (La Jolla Playhouse) and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Studio Theatre). PSM for Pfizer-Brazil’s Viagra launch.

JOY DICKSON

Casting Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

JOY DICKSON (Casting Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival) has worked with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum (including Taper Too, Taper New Works, Juneteenth, P.L.A.Y.), Ojai Playwrights Conference, Geffen Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Ahmanson Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, Intiman Theatre and A.S.K. Theatre Projects. Film/TV credits include Terri (Sundance Film Festival), Easier with Practice (Cinevegas, Edinburgh Film Festivals), Stephanie Daley (Sundance, Deauville Film Festival), The Business of Strangers (Sundance, Deauville), Interview with the Assassin (Tribeca Film Festival), The Tao of Steve (Sundance), Lush (Sundance), The Independent (HBO/U.S Comedy Arts Festival), Perdita Durango (Toronto Film Festival), Quarterlife (Bedford Falls Productions/NBC), The Men’ Room (NBC), Off Centre (The WB) and The Mullets (UPN). She is an adjunct professor at California Institute of the Arts.

TARA RUBIN CASTING

New York Casting Director

TARA RUBIN CASTING (New York Casting Director)’s Arena Stage credits include Dear Evan Hansen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Other Desert Cities, Ruined and A Time to Kill. Selected Broadway/national tour credits include Dr. Zhivago; School of Rock; Gigi; It Shoulda Been You; Aladdin; Bullets over Broadway; Mothers and Sons; Les Misérables; Big Fish; The Heiress; Ghost; One Man, Two Guvnors (U.S. Casting); How to Succeed..; Promises, Promises; A Little Night Music; Billy Elliot; Shrek; Guys and Dolls; The Farnsworth Invention; Young Frankenstein; The Little Mermaid; Mary Poppins; My Fair Lady; Pirate Queen; Spamalot; Jersey Boys; …Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; The Phantom of the Opera and Contact. Off-Broadway credits include Here Lies Love, Old Jews Telling Jokes and Love, Loss and What I Wore. Regional credits include work with Sundance Theatre Lab, Yale Repertory, Kennedy Center, Paper Mill Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse and The Old Globe.