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  All Hail Heidi: Beyond Feminism but Still a Dream

  An op-ed from The New York Times by playwright Gina Gionfriddo about feminism and the legacy of Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles.

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  How To Be a Feminist and Still Get Laid

  An interview with playwright Gina Gionfriddo from The Brooklyn Rail, including excerpts from the script.

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  Everything You Wanted To Know About Post-Post Feminism But Were Afraid To Ask

  In Rapture, Blister, Burn, Gina Gionfriddo grapples with the realities of women’s lives and pulls off a popular comedy about feminism.

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  It's Good To Make A Writer Squeamish

  It’s no surprise that playwright Gina Gionfriddo and director Peter DuBois are collaborating again. They’ve been trading ideas since the Clinton administration.

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  The Gina Chronicles

  When Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn opens in May 2013, three years will have passed since her Becky Shaw appeared on the Huntington stage.

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  On Women and the 'F'-Word (Feminism)

  Recently, Lisa Timmel, the Huntington’s director of new work, exchanged emails with playwright Gina Gionfriddo about her play Rapture, Blister, Burn. Their conversation centered around feminism and the eternal bonds and conflicts of mother/daughter relationships.

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  Feminists (and Anti-Feminists) In Their Own Words

  In Rapture, Blister, Burn, playwright Gina Gionfriddo explores provocative ideas about the relationship between women and men. Consider these constrasting points of view, through offered in quotes from thinkers, writers, and activists mentioned in the play.

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Artists

• Nancy E. CarrollAlice Croll
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  Nancy E. Carroll

  Alice Croll

  Nancy E. Carroll returns to the Huntington where she appeared in Good People, The Luck of the Irish, Prelude to a Kiss, Brendan, The Rose Tattoo, and Dead End. She reprised her Huntington role of Miss Erickson in Present Laughter on Broadway for the Roundabout Theatre Company. 

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• Shannon EsperAvery Willard
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  Shannon Esper

  Avery Willard

  Shannon Esper appeared Off Broadway in The Talls (Second Stage Theatre, Uptown). Her film and television credits include David Chase’s Not Fade Away, Coming Up Roses (opposite Bernadette Peters), and more.

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• Annie McNamaraGwen Harper
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  Annie McNamara

  Gwen Harper

  Annie McNamara has Off Broadway credits that include Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz (The Public Theater); The Sound and the Fury: (April Seventh, 1928) (New York Theatre Workshop); and multiple productions with Clubbed Thumb, where she's an affiliated artist.

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• Kate ShindleCatherine Croll
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  Kate Shindle

  Catherine Croll

  Kate Shindle has appeared on Broadway as the Mad Hatter in Wonderland, Vivienne in Legally Blonde The Musical, Sally Bowles in Cabaret, and Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde. She has sung everywhere from Carnegie Hall to Birdland to a dive bar in Portland, Oregon, and is a graduate of Northwestern University.

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• Timothy John SmithDon Harper
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  Timothy John Smith

  Don Harper

  Timothy John Smith appeared at the Huntington as the Policeman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the Governor in Candide, and Taylor in Prelude to a Kiss. He is a graduate of Saint Anselm College and the Trinity Rep Conservatory.

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• Peter DuBoisDirector
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  Peter DuBois

  Director

  Peter DuBois is in his fifth season as Artistic Director at the Huntington where his directing credits include the world premieres of Evan M. Wiener's Captors, Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, Bob Glaudini's Vengeance is the Lord's, and David Grimm's The Miracle at Naples, the reional premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, and Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss.

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• Gina GionfriddoPlaywright
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  Gina Gionfriddo

  Playwright

  Gina Gionfriddo was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Rapture, Blister, Burn (commissioned by and premiered at Playwrights Horizons) and a 2009 finalist for Becky Shaw, which the Huntington produced in 2010. She is currently working on a new play commission from Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.

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• Alexander DodgeScenic Design
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  Alexander Dodge

  Scenic Design

  Alexander Dodge returns to the Huntington having previously designed The Miracle at Naples, Boleros for the Disenchanted, Brendan, Present Laughter, and many others. 

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• Mimi O’DonnellCostume Design
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  Mimi O’Donnell

  Costume Design

  Ms. O’Donnell is a co-artistic director and member of LAByrinth Theater Company where her credits include Unconditional, A View from 151st Street, Jack Goes Boating, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, and Jesus Hopped the “A” Train (also at the Donmar Warehouse and The Arts on the West End). 

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• Jeff CroiterLighting Design
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  Jeff Croiter

  Lighting Design

  Jeff Croiter returns to the Huntington having previously designed Pirates! (or, Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder'd), A Month in the Country, Brendan, Trumbo, Kiki and Herb, and Streamers. On Broadway he has designed Newsies The Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award), Jekyll and Hyde, and more.

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• M. L. DoggSound Design
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  M. L. Dogg

  Sound Design

  M.L. Dogg returns to the Huntington having previously designed Captors and Sons of the Prophet. He was an Innovative Theatre Award nominee in 2011 for The Land Whale Murders and a Drama Desk Award nominee in 2002 for Cressida Among the Greeks.
  

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• Jake DeGrootAssociate Lighting Design
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  Jake DeGroot

  Associate Lighting Design

  Jake DeGroot has Off Broadway credits that include Standby (New York Musical Theatre Festival), The Crucible (New Ohio Theatre), disOriented (theatre C), Neither Heaven Nor Earth (PoliglotTheater), Emilie’s Voltaire (LIA, The Samuel Beckett Theatre), and The Erpingham Camp (WorkShop Theater Company). He was the co-lighting supervisor at Williamstown Theatre Festival durring their 2008-2009 season, and he is the programmer for Blue Man Group.

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• Marti McIntoshProduction Stage Manager
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  Marti McIntosh

  Production Stage Manager

  Marti McIntosh previously worked on Betrayal, Good People, The Luck of the Irish, Captors, Observe the Sons of Ulster..., The Blue Demon, and Ten Unknowns for the Huntington.

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• Kathryn MostStage Manager
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  Kathryn Most

  Stage Manager

  Kathryn Most previously served as stage manager for the Huntington’s productions of Good People, Candide, Sons of the Prophet, Circle Mirror Transformation, Stick Fly, and Maureen McGovern’s A Long and Winding Road, which she toured to Arena Stage in Washington, DC.

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